The PLA: Rising or Breaking?

I take a snapshot look at the main media arm of the anti-Dem Progressive-Libertarian Alliance, which tells a much larger story... the whole story in fact

Via the usual vehicle of random occurrence I find myself taking a dive into the independent media operation that best personifies (?) the Progressive-Libertarian Alliance (PLA). That alliance had largely grown out of the defeats of Bernie Sanders on the Dem side and the left oppositionalists’ desire to find allies on the right as a means to achieve a critical mass they could not find within the Democratic Party. The primary linkage in that alliance being an anti-war posture.

That was not the purpose of this operation in question at its origin, however, which wasn’t within the alt media world at all, rather within the bowels of corporate media. That of course was the conservative Hill and its stab at internet media with the news show Rising. The intent of that show, in my humble opinion, was to pair a mainstream oppositional lefty with a mainstream oppositional righty with the unstated intent to attack the center, that mostly comprised of Democrats but also trad Republicans, for the ultimate benefit of the rebel Trumpian Republicans.

That show was a commercial success by all indications, and so the pair that made that happen, Krystal Balls and Cigaar Enjeti, got too big for their corporate britches and decided to strike out on their own. But by taking that model out of that corporate structure what they did as a consequence was to strip it of its original intentions, which only remained in its DNA by force of habit. So now we have Breaking Points, which I refer to as Rising Points in an acknowledgement of its corporate pedigree, run by its Bernie-loving progressive Democrat and its non-Trumptard libertarian Republican. Whose primary purpose is to make money, I assume, and then secondarily to sell something political, which is where it gets complicated given the differences in the owners’/performers’ politics.

Complicating that on the right this year is that right oppositionalism during the period of the show’s rise (as it were) and fall was mainly represented by Trump, who won the election last year and so became the president from the now-Trumpian Republican Party. The right oppositionalism chosen for the show was libertarianism, because that had political commonalities with the Berniecrats (anti-war or really anti-neoconservatism, and pro-cultural or pro-civil libertarianism) and because they weren’t Trumptards. But once freed of their corporate shackles, the massive differences, mainly with regard to economics and the fundamentals of governance, surely would rise to the surface. Unless the desire to make money overrode the desire to fully express the individual political intentions. That and the spirit of the PLA, I suppose.

I can only assume that that has been the case, but I don’t know since I don’t watch the show with anything approaching the regularity needed to fairly determine that. And this snapshot is likewise inadequate for that purpose, only in part because founder Enjeti is MIA, doing the baby thing from what I understand. I will get to the other reasons that I chose to take this snapshot in the first place.

On with the show, and easing into it, here is part of a discussion on Trump’s recent minerals deal with Ukraine, involving Balls and show Team B regulars Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky, both poached from Rising:

There are a couple aspects to this to address. The first one is the nature of the dirt deal and what that means with regard to Trump ending the war within 24 hours of inauguration. 😂 What they say there is that Trump was convinced to go down this road by Miss Lindsey Graham, who succeeded John McCain as the leading goy neocon warmonger on the GOP side in the senate, and that the Jew Zelensky is coming out of this looking rather golden.

It’s just another indication that the peace candidate in last year’s election is still a little confused about what direction leads to peace, apparently not listening to his acquired talent RFK Jr, who also claimed to know how to end it on day one. Maybe he’s busy with managing loss-of-function, who knows.

The other aspect of this relates to what Rising Points is conceptually. Krystal and Ryan are the progressive lefty regulars on the show, and Emily is the designated libertarianish conservative paired up with Ryan. In this clip she doesn’t say much, but she does try to give the narrative a little rightward spin when she brings up the Great Laptop Hunter as pure corruption in Ukraine (trashing the Bidens is just fine in their anti-centrist show model) and then tries to claim this deal is part of some sort of overall peace initiative. Ryan gently slaps her slip into Trumptardianism right back into her face by saying it’s exactly the opposite.

Elsewhere in this segment Grim says this is institutional corruption orders of magnitude worst than Hunter’s measly 50 thou a month stipend. That all comes down to how this would work on a detailed level and how much of the profits for Trump’s “raw earths” would actually land in the US Treasury, as opposed to in the coffers of the US corporations involved. My guess is not much. I mean, how much has the Treasury been enriched by Trump’s seizing of the Syrian oil fields in his first term, do you know? US doesn’t mean us, not in Trumpspeak.

The second clip is Krystal and Emily on the 2028 Dem nomination race and possible candidates already maneuvering, with guest expert Dave Weigel:

They start with Big Boy Pritz the funder of Holocaust propaganda, and Weigel, who used to look like Charlie Sheen before he also became a big boy, raises the question of his status as an oligarch, which ends up with him framed as a watered-down populist kinda-oligarch. In fact JB & Co were major donors to Killary in 2016, number two on this Open Secrets list of her largest donors in the ‘15-’16 cycle.

A big chunk of that was contributed prior to the Clinton nomination race being finalized and progressive Sanders being defeated, which you can see here in a Forbes article in May 2016 - JB shown with Bill is #4 at the bottom, then at $6.5M, behind only Saban, Soros and the late Jim Simons. Not a Sanders guy is right.

In fact I think one could rightly claim that JB is the biggest source of money behind the Chicago Jewish political mafia, the faction of the deep state operating darkly in the heartland who pushed Obama and then Mayor Pete, the latter who is also covered as a ‘28 aspirant in this discussion. His sister Penny was a huge contributor to Obama early on, and she also played a big role in Claudine Gay’s firing at Harvard. Now they’re apparently dumping the black/gay frontman shit and stepping out of JB’s enormous shadow. As it were.

After briefly referring to the Jewish shadow president Stephen Miller, Weigel mentions fellow Jewish liberal candidate-to-be Josh Shapiro, also a critic of “something” regarding Israel - I guess we should all stand up and applaud! That’s where the Dems want to be, critical of “something” regarding Israel.

After doing the JB-Bernie Hora dance on oligarchy he mentions the two billionaire oligarchs who ran in 2020, Bloomberg and Steyer, who of course are also Jews and also massive donors to the party. By this point it should be obvious that there’s an underlying story here on the Dem side that’s simply being ignored.

Btw, note who wrote that WaPo article - the dualie Batya Ungar-Sargon of mass rape and beheaded babies fame. Maybe someone (besides me and a few others) should have cared.

Coming across these discussions was the bait that initially drew me into what has become this piece, but then I heard who was guest-hosting the show on Monday, and I just couldn’t say no:

I included that first part because it points out that Glenn was there to replace Cigaar as the libertarian righty on the show, which he embraces rather than objects to as someone who mocks people for saying he’s moved to the right. But he also says he’s acting, which no doubt would be his excuse if anyone criticized him for the right-wing views expressed here, such as they might be. Also note how pleased Krystal is to have this slippery shape-shifter on her show. Imagine Sam Seder having him on his progressive Dem show to fill in for Emma V - not gonna happen. If Glenn showed up on Sam’s show he’d have to be ready to explain some things, Jew to Jew.

In the course of soft-pedalling Trump the fascist dictator, Glenn also refers to the Jewish shadow president Miller openly stage-managing the ignoramus-in-chief. After that he talks about how “they” came in prepared to eliminate any impediments to Trump this time, unlike 2017, which begs the question, who are “they”? Are you aware of a Trump inner circle that has remained at all consistent since 2017? 🤔 Let’s see, there’s Tucker, I guess… and there’s Jared lurking somewhere…

That RP discussion was largely about civil liberties and that mainly freedom of speech, and Greenwald is an openly-declared free speech absolutist. Connecting dots going back ten years now and their contentious debate conducted via Balls’ now-husband Kyle Kulinski, here is Sam Harris, who back then said Greenwald “doesn’t have a journalistic bone in his body”, on free speech absolutism in a recent post-Smith/Murray/Rogan interview:

What is clear there is the principal tension between free speech and censorship, voluntary or involuntary, which of course is the Jews - Samuel starts with Holocaust denial and ends with the current explosion in antisemitism. Anyone who has observed internet censorship evolve over the last 10-15 years from the inside knows this to be true, “antisemitism” in all its forms has been the tip of that spear.

Here Greenwald gets as close to that as he got on Monday, in a discussion about the defeat of the anti-BDS legislation:

After self-debating the matter of open immigration, Greenie gets to the roots of America First and the antisemite Lindbergh, forgetting that ol’ Charlie also blamed the Roosevelt administration and the British, which might make it sound less bigoted if included.

Then he says opposition to the war in Ukraine suggests antisemitism isn’t involved. But isn’t that a neocon war, Glenn, didn’t your somewhat-regular guest Jeffrey Sachs call it that in 2022 and then name ten leading neocons, every one of them a Jew?

Would things be different regarding these wars and the domestic consequences if everyone knew they’re both Ashkenazi Jewish wars against hated ethnic enemies, Muslim Arabs and Orthodox Slavs?

Let’s look deeper into RP and its ability to handle the JQ, here on the subject of Nick Fuentes and Nazi-level antisemitism:

This goes a long way toward defining RP’s position on the greatest issue of our day, which of course is at its heart Jewish influence/control over the US government and the society more broadly. That has been put front and center by 10/7, so now everyone simply has to deal with it in some manner.

For Balls the leftish Jew-sucker it’s not nuanced at all - Fuentes is simply a Nazi and even Jones the wacky conspiracy theorist really shouldn’t be interacting with him at all, nor should anyone else. So anyone who blames “da Jooz” for genocide in Gaza is simply an antisemite. That would be like blaming white people for slavery, which Krystal would never… uh… hmm…

Jabotinsky’s take is more interesting. She starts out with a classic Bircherism when she refers to Canadian PM Carney as a “central banker”, revealing the shadowy JBS-libertard connection embodied in libertarian elder statesman Ron Paul.

What Carney is more specifically was a Goldman Sachs guy before getting into central banking, was chairman of the board of Bloomberg LP, and he was the chair of the G30, which I will get to below, right before he recently decided to go full political and become PM. He’s now PM quite likely because of Trump, and I won’t go all conspiratorial on that.

Then she gets into hand-holding between Nazi antisemites and civil libertarians, in the need to explain away Fuentes taking the PLA position on Israel and speech abuse by Trump. But he’s doing that because he’s an antisemite on Gaza, actually connecting Jews to the actions of the Jewish state. Boo.

Jones is almost as bad, because he trusts in Trump and instead is concerned with US citizens being deported to Central American hellholes, which hasn’t actually happened. “Civil libertarians” are a critical link in the PLA, because that philosophy exists on both the progressive left and the libertarian right, although with material differences.

In there she also hints at the difference between Catholics and Protestant Judaizers regarding Israel, closing in on eMike territory, and the evolution of (Alex) Jones’ audience related to 9/11 truth. I never watched Jones in my conspiracy theory evolution more than a decade ago, but I do remember his “Giraldo moment” regarding inside job and how that seemed to be a minor advancement in possible mainstream awareness. I also have been somewhat aware of his waffling around on the Jewish Question, sometimes dabbling in it and sometimes calling out the antisemites.

The second half of this segment was all about the Jones position in the conspiratorial alt mediaverse going back more than 20 years, and one can tell that Balls has nothing good to say about him and his followers, while Jabo seems to have a certain respect for his contribution to right-wing oppositionalism.

You have to give her some credit for not going all simple-minded condemnational on antisemites and conspiracy theorists like Ms Balls. But that’s the nature of left vs right in today’s America.

There was an interesting moment later on in that first Greenwald segment, on his feelings about Trump 2.0 so far:

The first couple times I listened to that I thought Greenie had said Bolso “ended up being a very good president”; in fact he says he was “a very weak president”. He compares that to Trump 1.0, suggesting that Trump was weak then but strong now. “Weak” is of course a negative characterization, but is “strong” always a positive one? It is typically, but think “strongman” in the fascism lexicon. It’s not entirely clear how Greenwald feels about US institutions’ ability to reign in this version of Trump, if he really wants that or not.

I wanted to refresh myself on how Greenwald felt about Bolsonaro at that time, so I went back to the source, Ashkenocracy Now:

It sure sounds like he was right with all the other “hair on fire” types on the left panicking about the rise of fascism, much like he was the year before when Trump first took power. The Trump problem perceived was his alt-right base, but the Bolso problem was that he’d go after the leftists (disproportionately Jewish) like it’s cold war McCarthyism. And Glenn the Jew did go to war with the Bolsonaro government; he was very glad those institutions held.

It’s also interesting to see the changes in his stylistic method acting, then playing the serious journalist and now much more of a prancy old queen.

Another recent Jewish attempt to explain this growing fascistic authoritarianism also comes from ANow, and guest Naomi Wolf… er, Klein:

There’s a whole lot packed into less than four minutes.

- When she talks about the good scholarship on this, surely at the top of that list stands deep state operative Timothy Snyder, now safely Canadian like Klein, who has done several books on it since 2017, who is America’s principal source on Ukrainian history leading up to that war, and is also the author of a couple of books on the exterminationists’ version of the Holocaust.

- She then goes into extraction and the Tech Bro thing, which gets to the Silicon Valley oligarchs, the sponsors of Shady Vance, in particular Peter Thiel who we see in one of the images with Trump. Emphasized is AI, and unmentioned is the Jew Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who arranged for Vance’s intro dinner with the billionaire T-Bros club.

- She forces a blend of black-helicopter survivalism with Tech Bro billionaire science fiction, to create a narrative that really doesn’t have much credibility. The only real linkage I see between Trump’s 2016 alt-righters and his flip to Valley oligarchy in mid-2024 is Musk’s X platform and it's brand of truthing.

- Then she moves on to the Christian rapturists, a spin on the need to blame American Zionism on Judaized Christian fundamentalists as a way of relieving the dual-loyalty Jews of that burden.

I threw in that last bit from Amy because she’s subtly pushing the flip side of that last one, that it's the Jews who are leading the charge against murderous Zionism. One hears that a lot these days; Jewish Voice for Peace has never had it so good.

Finally, Naomi mentioned the gold adverts in there, and I have said that if you see an ad for gold you know you’re watching a right-wing channel. This has been the case forever, it’s nothing Trumpian, and it really goes back to 1913 and the matter of the Fed and central banking, fiat currencies and more specifically the hard uncoupling of gold from the US dollar that took place under Nixon in 1971, That subject was also covered on RP this week, in a discussion with guest Yanis Varoufakis on the Trump terrorist tariffs:

What is interesting to me about this outline of the Nixon elimination of the fixed rate gold standard are the players involved - Connally who was an LBJ guy and took the magic bullet like a champ on 11/22/63, had no background in monetary economics and would only accept the position if Nixon also gave one to George Bush Sr (he became UN ambassador, which then led to director of the CIA in 1975), Rockefellerist Jew Kissinger who initiated the neoliberal experiment in Chile in 1973 and essentially created the petrodollar in the same period, and Paul Volcker.

Volcker rose up at the Federal Reserve of NY, and there his mentor was Robert Roosa, who hired Volcker to join him at Treasury in the JFK administration. Here is part of his wiki, on what he did after that:

Roosa joined the Wall Street firm Brown Brothers Harriman as a partner, in 1965. In 1966, he was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was a director at the Council on Foreign Relations between 1966 and 1981, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. He also became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty in 1979. He was also a member of the Trilateral Commission, a non-governmental organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between North America, Western Europe, and Japan. From 1975 to 1986, he was chairman of the Brookings Institution. Roosa retired from Brown Brothers in 1991.

So you can see lots of Rockefeller institutions involved in his post-government career. The G30 was formed by the Rockefeller Foundation out of the Bellagio Group, formed by Fritz Machlup, who was an Austrian economist who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation; Machlup was a Jew who had early involvement with Ludwig von Mises, one of the most important Austrian School economists and also a Jew. Von Mises connects you to the Jew Murray Rothbard who then connects you to right-wing American libertarianism.

Volcker took Roosa’s position in Treasury under Nixon, where he played this key role in undoing Bretton Woods, then returned to the NY Fed until he was made Fed chair in 1979 by Carter. Reagan reappointed him in 1983, then chose to appoint Alan Greenspan in 1987, apparently because Volcker wasn’t viewed as enough of a neoliberal; Greenspan was the first of three Jewish Fed chairs who ran the Fed for more than thirty years (the others being Bernanke and Yellen), until Trump appointed the current chair Powell in 2018. Biden tried to replace him in 2022 with the Jewess Sarah Bloom Raskin but failed, Powell’s term ends next year and Trump has already tried to drive him out early. Will it be Howard Lutnick’s reward? Jamie Dimon? Laura Loomer?? 😱

The connection between Jewish neoliberalism and the Rockefellers may well be further explained in the introduction to Mel Rockefeller’s (and Jeff Gates’) perpetual draft of Hidden Tax on Humanity, here.

Moving on to a couple of cases of the retention of the core mission of Rising remaining in Breaking, the criticism of the Clintonite centrist Dems, the first where they’re talking about Mexico’s Jewish leftist president Sheinbaum:

We see Glenn framing Trump as an echo of Bush the Lesser, the middle piece in that 24-year Judeo-compliant center-right run of Clinton/Bush/Obama that cemented Jewish control over the country regarding their political philosophies of neoconservatism, neoliberalism and cultural Marxism, that resulting in growing unrest and leading up to the Trump/Sanders oppositional moment in 2016.

Krystal asks him about the Never-Trumpers, which here clearly means especially those Jewish neocons who abandoned the GOP to support Killary/Biden/Kamala against triple-threat Trump, Frum being Greenie’s example. This had me connecting that to this bit from Larry Wilkerson’s recent visit to Sabby Sabs’ pod:

This is a long-standing Republican tradition that one rightly can say goes back the better part of a century, the popular frontman puppet. Eisenhower the war hero was the first one, whose cold war foreign policy was run by the Dulli, core operatives of the WASP Rockefellerist deep state faction, and his post-presidency reaction was the military-industrial complex, the bane of alternative thinking on war to this day. Reagan was the most obvious one, an actual actor taking the lead role, and opening the door to neoconservatism in government. He didn’t react post-presidency, perhaps because his brain had by then shriveled up like a prune. Then Bush the Lesser, a legacy Skull ‘n’ Bones fratboy simpleton with a drinking problem cured by God, naively, idiotically and completely turned over foreign policy to the neocons.

And according to Larry probably regretted that in the end. But Larry only mentions neocon frontman Cheney as one of those who have displayed no contrition on the matter of Iraq, and of course we all should know who the others are.

Note that the ten J-cons in this image includes four repeaters from Sachs’ list of ten - Irving Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams and Robert Kagan. It’s a powerful club, and you ain’t in it.

Ike, Ronnie and W were all two-term presidents, and that leaves only Nixon and Bush the Elder on the GOP side as (elected) presidents since the 1920s, and their presidencies ended prematurely under the cloud of deep state intrigue. Now we have Trump the aging billionaire showman, and will he play out his entire second term? 🤔

Next up is a clip from a discussion on Fetterman’s broken brain:

Two things. First, don’t we all know that Fetterman’s brain went south a long time ago, is that actually some kind of secret? In the same way we all knew Biden’s brain had gone Reagan before he was even elected. Second, isn’t this Pennsylvania's problem and not the Dems in DC, isn’t he their representative in the senate?

Note that Symone tweet mentions the chair of the PA party but Krystal doesn’t talk about that after reading that tweet. They trash Big Symone as a Dem rep in the corporate media, but do they trash BJ Gray as a Berniecrat rep in the independent media? She held the very same position in his 2020 campaign as Symone held in his 2016 campaign. And went on to replace Krystal at Rising, and not long ago substituted for Glenn on his show. Is there one set of rules or two?

Krystal claims that MSNBC is the worst nest of offenders, more than Fox, but isn’t the Trump inner circle basically a retirement home for the Red Foxes, hosts and guests? Who was the MSNBC/Dem version of Pistol Pete Hegseth, who spent ten years at Fox before going into government?

And it all comes back to Biden, the whole point in going off on Fetterman is to recycle centrist Dem Biden once again. But not about his minyan, which was his greatest offense as president. This from people who still embrace 83-year-old Sanders as the era’s true savior. The problem with embracing aging-out politicians is hardly a secret, folks, and we shouldn’t listen to anyone on either side who isn’t talking about the need for age limits on these fossil presidents. Anyone who voted for Biden, Trump or Sanders in this decade should be stripped of their right to vote.

But back to Fetterman, he’s Pennsylvania's problem and they should be working on recalling him. For being a Zio-loon, no matter the medical status of his broken brain.

They shoot horses, don’t they?

This snapshot was intended to explore what Rising Points really is as an independent media source of information and opinions. It’s hard for me to say they’ve abandoned their corporate media roots and evolved into something more valuable to the public needing a greater understanding of what has happened to America politically in this century.

But of course my other intention was to use that exploration to again show what in fact has happened to America, is still happening, and who is largely responsible, and how and why. That’s my purpose, and not to create, in Naomi’s Doppelganger terms, a mirror-world image of corporate media in the alternative space, with so many of the same problems.

My intention was to conclude this with something on RP’s interview of ethno-Trumptard Laura Looner that was announced by Grim last week in the segment clipped above on the dirt (raw earth) deal. But it hasn’t happened yet, and I’m wondering if that was just a Grim inside joke that elicited no laughter. As I said, I don’t spend much time up in here.

I’m going to end this with a couple links of videos I clipped above, where there’s a lengthy segment that I found interesting. The first is that Harris interview, at the start where Samuel is talking about the impact of the combination of social media and the covid pandemic, and that goes on for about 15 minutes before it reaches the segment I clipped on free speech absolutism:

What surprised me was how much of that I essentially agree with. I mean, I call the covid pandemic the Great Distraction for a reason, and I call the internet alternative mediaverse the Disinformation-Industrial Complex for a reason. I also have never written a single tweet, for thought-out reasons, and am proud of that fact. Samuel may be a covert Jewish operative always playing the blues, but he’s not stupid.

Then again, it took him a decade to figure out what I understood right out of the box. By that standard he’ll figure out that Russiagate was bullshit sometime next year…

There’s also a moment at 26 minutes in where he’s talking about Rogan and then he flips to the Holocaust, telling a denier story that I’ve never heard any revisionist come close to claiming. So either he doesn’t know what revisionists have been saying on any sort of detailed basis, or he’s fabricating for some unknown reason. Perhaps he thinks by telling the story of an actual revisionist claim he might get some of his audience interested in looking into it. 😅

The second is the Sabs interview of Larry Wilkerson, the last 8-9 minutes at the end, where there are a few interesting things:

He starts with the power of “the Israel lobby” over the media, which of course is a ridiculous notion - commentators don’t get primary’ed - and one that undermines that notion with regard to politicians. It’s the power of Jews within media, and also the power of Jews within politics.

Sabby comes back with books bashing Biden, and mentions author Jake “the Snake” Tapper, one of the leading Jews within mainstream media, so we’re right back to the same thing. Larry says the Dems are in disarray, and I think it’s the opposite - the control has been complete and the party has largely been operating like a well-oiled machine. The problem is that its functioning lies within a democratic system, and so it’s not supposed to be a well-oiled machine run from the top (its Jewish ownership) down, it's supposed to be chaotically run from the bottom (its constituency) up. It’s absolutely over-managed, and the Biden-Harris switcheroo showed that in spades.

The Obama Oval story is about the power of the neoconservatives in DC, which again means the Jews. And Kerry is a Jew. Obama wasn’t just talking to the people in that room, he was talking to history, because that story wouldn’t stay in that room. Of course the problem here is people like Sabby, who is sitting there thinking military-industrial complex. In part because of people like Larry, who can tell that story and not the one that really counts.

The Libya story of being trapped by two women is the same thing - Killary is the wife of the guy who sold the Dems out to the Jews over 30 years ago, and Sam Power is the wife of one of those Jews, Cass Sunstein. In fact Sunstein’s concept of “the Nudge” may well be responsible for the very way Obama framed that comment, the use of “bias” - see Sunstein’s book, which we know Obama read and liked. But the woman Larry does‘t mention is BettyLu Saltzman, who would take us right back to the Chicago Jewish political mafia and the grooming of Barack the puppeted politician.

Note that Larry completely dodges Sabby’s question on who sends America to war, providing a very technical non-answer instead. Which perhaps suggests he knows the real answer to her real question is simply unacceptable to say out loud.

When Larry tells the story of Powell weeping, Sabby, the hater of fake black Dem centrists who fed him the Obama bait, completely misses what he’s saying, which obviously was about him being black. Instead she’s thinking Powell knew Obama would be a disaster, because that’s how she frames him now. It may all go back to the Clintons, but she has a special place for fake black Dems like Obama and Harris in her black heart. My guess is Sabby teared up that day as well, having no idea that her Obama-Sanders-Stein path to political oblivion over the next decade and a half was being set.

Back to the subject of women, Killary’s “we came, we saw, he died” belongs with Madeleine Albright’s “we think it was worth it” and Condi Rice’s “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” in the Secretary of State hall of shame. A trio who all philosophically lead back to 20th century central Europe and the Czech Jew Josef Korbel, Albright’s father and Rice’s college mentor.

Then back to the beginning, the eastward expansion of NATO decision under Clinton. An idea that was pushed by Russia-hating neocons not yet in full sight, apparently including Victoria Nuland in her earliest days. But that’s another story…

At the end Larry generously praises Sabby and her ilk for their fine work, for “telling the truth”. When in fact they tell only what truth the market will bare, if that. Which gets us back to the new media commercial operation that is Rising Points, the kind of pressure-valve operation that helps keep the whole giant machine whirring along.