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CNN, 8-17-2017
" Portland protests wind down after 13 arrested and six injured "
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" Saturday morning, before events in Portland had gotten underway, President Donald Trump said "major consideration" was being given to designating Antifa an "organization of domestic terror." He added, "Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job." "
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/17/us/portland-protests-saturday/index.html
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...trump and republicans are backing their right-wing, racist, white supremist, neo-nazi supporters by attacking patriotic freedom-loving Americans and Mayor with threats of branding them all as an, "..organization of domestic terror.."....
...ironically, it's the republicans and their fascist comrades which are being the obvious "terrorists" in Portland...
"Portland is being watched very closely."
...fascist republicans should be watched even closer...
...May God Bless our defending Patriots and all Americans...
...when did the republican party turn openly fascist?
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Meadowoak
(5,560 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)By Bill Hare
opednews.com
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Iran had just elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, that nation's most popular political figure.
The fact that Mossadegh was elected by the will of Iran's citizens did not deter the efforts of an invigorated CIA that used the Cold War as a pretext to move away from the fact finding agency conceived of by President Harry Truman to an aggressive international political body willing to overthrow nations in contravention of popular national will.
Mossadegh immediately angered the international power cartel with which the CIA actively interlinked. British Petroleum had been garnering the lion's share of profits from Iran's wealthy oil deposits.
Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil as a means of obtaining what he deemed to be a fairer portion of that important asset. The nationalization law was passed unanimously by the Iranian Parliament.
Despite the fact that BP was offered considerable compensation by Mossadegh his days were numbered after the nationalization bill was passed.
Richard Helms, who would later become CIA Director, was prepared to act with a close Iranian friend becoming political beneficiary. A plan was launched to overthrow Iran in a coup and hand over the reins of power to a reliable figure who would accede to the international power elite's interests on behalf of British Petroleum.
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https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=When-the-CIA-Overthrew-Ira-by-Bill-Hare-100511-809.html
Richard Milhaus Nixon, CIA Action Officer
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)A few decades later, Nixon, Reagan, & Bush took us ever deeper into "covert fascism." Then, eventually an idiot named tRump came along and started blabbing the quiet parts out loud!
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war--the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a (text missing)
May 1, 2001 | Martin A. Lee
Excerpt...
The Gehen Org
The key figure on the German side of the CIA-Nazi tryst was General Reinhard Gehlen, who had served as Adolf Hitlers top anti-Soviet spy. During World War II, Gehlen oversaw all German military-intelligence operations in Eastern Europe and the USSR.
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Gehlen returned to West Germany in the summer of 1946 with a mandate to rebuild his espionage organization and resume spying on the East at the behest of American intelligence. The date is significant as it preceded the onset of the cold war, which, according to standard U.S. historical accounts, did not begin until a year later. The early courtship of Gehlen by American intelligence suggests that Washington was in a cold war mode sooner than most people realize. The Gehlen gambit also belies the prevalent Western notion that aggressive Soviet policies were primarily to blame for triggering the cold war.
Based near Munich, Gehlen proceeded to enlist thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and SS veterans. Even the vilest of the vilethe senior bureaucrats who ran the central administrative apparatus of the Holocaustwere welcome in the Gehlen Org, as it was calledincluding Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmanns chief deputy. SS major Emil Augsburg and gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, otherwise known as the Butcher of Lyon, were among those who did double duty for Gehlen and U.S. intelligence. It seems that in the Gehlen headquarters, one SS man paved the way for the next and Himmlers elite were having happy reunion ceremonies, the Frankfurter Rundschau reported in the early 1950s.
Bolted lock, stock, and barrel into the CIA, Gehlens Nazi-infested spy apparatus functioned as Americas secret eyes and ears in central Europe. The Org would go on to play a major role within NATO, supplying two-thirds of raw intelligence on the Warsaw Pact countries. Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service until he retired in 1968, Gehlen exerted considerable influence on U.S. policy toward the Soviet bloc. When U.S. spy chiefs desired an off-the-shelf style of nation tampering, they turned to the readily available Org, which served as a subcontracting syndicate for a series of ill-fated guerrilla air drops behind the Iron Curtain and other harebrained CIA rollback schemes.
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https://ips-dc.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/
pecosbob
(7,544 posts)1798...we've always been a closeted fascist state.
Voltaire2
(13,194 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)But it wasn't until Ronnie that the fascist policies really started to be implemented.
librechik
(30,676 posts)Re-enactors for both his terms. Republicans did everything in their tiny black hearts to deny democratically elected Obama a chance to actually be president--right down to the Merrick Garland appointment and the refusal to investigate the Russian invasion.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Like his 'legacy' is not destroyed enough he just likes to SELF PILE ON. It's unbelievable.