March 2018

Cambridge Analytica  (CA), hired by the Trump campaign (Kushner, Manafort and Parscale) hacked into over 50 million Facebook accounts and exploited user’s personal information for the Trump campaign’s nefarious purposes.  Before the “old fogeys”, who can barely even text, start bashing us social-media users for being so gullible, let me remind y’all that “yesterday’s” bombshell was: Russia has “infiltrated the energy, nuclear, commercial, water, aviation and manufacturing sectors in our country (as well as having hacked 7 state’s electoral systems).  Russia supposedly can create significant havoc and possibly even shut down services in our nation.  CA started in 2014 as a voter-profiling company, funded with $15M by Robert Mercer, with “vice-prez” Steve Bannon, spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway — first worked to elect Ted Cruz, then switched to Donald Trump.  Mr. Nix, a Brit, heading up CA, was warned about involvement in U.S. political campaigns, he started up a British affiliate — SCL group; he boasted (we saw under-cover footage) of employing front companies and former spies on behalf of political clients around the world, and even suggested ways to entrap politicians (sending friendly Ukrainian girls to them) in compromising situations.  CA didn’t have the data to make its “product claims” work, so they “harvested” millions of profiles from Facebook to begin their “Psycho-graphics platform”.  The vast system of wide-scale corruption by CA/SCL group is being “investigated in Britain by Parliament and government regulators into allegations that it performed illegal work on the Brexit campaign”.  Meanwhile, Trump congratulated Putin on his re-election to his 4th, six-year term as Russia’s leader, the most popular since Stalin.  Putin recently told his people that “Russia has tested an array of new nuclear weapons that are impossible to intercept”.  Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State was fired; H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor was fired, replaced by “Hawk Neocon” John Bolton, who “was part of the effort to mislead the US into the disastrous Iraq war, supports military actions against North Korea”, and thinks we need to instigate a regime change in Iran.  John Dowd, one Trump lawyer resigned, replaced by Joseph diGenova  (believer in the Deep State conspiracy).  Ex-CIA Chief, John Brennan said on 3/17/18 to Donald Trump, “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history.  You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America — America will triumph over you!

Trish Forsyth Voss

A Trump-Kim Summit?  A BIG deal or a BIG disaster?  What could come of the “maniac” and the “mentally-deranged dotard” duking it out over the negotiation table?  On the evening of March 8th at the White House, South Korea’s head of National Security office, Chung Eui-yong, was given the honor and precedence, by Donald Trump, to break the news and read out the announcement: an invitation from North Korea’s, Kim Jong Un, to President Trump to meet with him by May, and he would begin Denuclearization.  President Trump readily agreed to meet with “Little-Rocketman”.   That would be unprecedented!   No U.S. president has met with the rogue, pariah “state”, who has wanted U.S. validation for decades.  Dictator Un is responsible for Otto Warmbier’s death, and currently holds three jailed Americans, and is starving his own people.  North Korea has tried to “play us” for decades; they have previously entered into agreements with us and have reneged.   Trump’s narcissistic ego makes him a prime player for this “summit”, which normally takes several months to set up.  On Friday, the White House walked-back the news saying that, “No time or place has been set for a meeting, which will not occur until concrete and verifiable actions have been taken on the ‘promised issues’.  The Dictator wants to remove international sanctions, which were stepped-up by Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign”;  they are feeling “the burn”.  They need aid, resources and fuel supplies, and he wants troops moved off the peninsula.  North Korea agreed in 2005 to denuclearize, but didn’t.   Who believes that Kim Jong Un  plans to denuclearize the missile system that he just succeeded in ramping up to this current state of capability?  He just wants to play and buy time.  “The State Department is in shambles …we have no American ambassador to South Korea and no under-secretary for arms control and international security”.  Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said Thursday, “We are a long way from negotiations with North Korea”.  Trump tweeted out Friday that his agreement to meet with Kim still stands, and later tweeted out the he “is tired of being reined in!”  Trump is notorious for not listening to his advisors.  In fact, the news today 3/9/18 is that Trump is planning for Spring Cleaning … to fire Chief of Staff, John Kelly, National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, and “advisors” Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner soon.  No worries.. Trump gets the best people!

Trish Forsyth Voss

There is a Shift of Consciousness upon us NOW!  The Revolution is becoming increasingly apparent!  I love that young activists are rising across our country, and they aren’t accepting that change can’t begin with them.  I love that CEOs and companies are making changes that Congress can’t bring themselves to legislate.  Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO, Ed Stack, made the announcement last week that Dick’s will no longer sell firearms to buyers under age 21, and that they are permanently banning assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines”.   Walmart followed suit, reporting they will also stop firearms sales to buyers under age 21, and reported that they stopped selling ‘assault-style’ rifles back in 2015.   To date, March 6th, eight  companies have dropped endorsing the NRA and promoting discount programs for NRA members; Symantec, First Bank of Omaha, MetLife, Simplisafe, Enterprise, Hertz & Avis, and Chubb Limited.  Only FedEx, as of this date, has not dropped their discount program to NRA members.  Veterans, staunch supporters of the 2nd Amendment and gun owners are coming out to force the issue of:  WE THE PEOPLE want Universal Background checks, mental-health episodes and domestic abusers reported with tighter gun regulations,  and the majority are willing to give up rights to own assault-style weapons for the safety of our children and communities.  Gun-nuts can argue all they want about what constitutes an “assault rifle” and who is trying to mislead whom, but in the coming years we are going to see real changes enacted to protect our society.   Many cannot “see the writing on the wall”; they are blinded by fake news and its proponents, but taking more guns off the streets is what will ultimately make us safer.   The Florida Senate just passed a bill to raise the age to 21 for gun-buyers, to ban bump-stocks, and to arm some teachers.  Marjorie Stoneman Douglas students are raising consciousness among the youth, nudging others to get involved, run for office and make a difference; and the liars who promote bogus stories about these students should be ashamed of themselves, if they had any sense of shame or honor left.  Mark Thiessen wrote, “The NRA represents everyday Americans — we all want to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people”.  That’s NOT true!  DJT revoked Obama-era law on gun-checks for severely mentally-ill.  And his televised meeting with Senators discussing gun-control measures — all for show — just like the DACA meeting.

Trish Forsyth Voss

Everything we take in is filtered through the perceptions and beliefs we each hold.  We give the meaning to every single thing we witness, think and hear.  It’s interesting … for instance, one person can hear the lyrics, “if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”, and think that John “Lennon was saying that if the parties start an argument with no recognition of any common ground, any effort to reach a real solution is doomed”.  I don’t get that message.  Especially after meditating with Maharishi, John wanted to usher in a peaceful Revolution.  Mao Zedong was a violent revolutionary, who is believed to have caused the deaths of between 40 and 70 million of his own people in China, through mass-slaughters, starvation, torture, political purges, etc.  The two major communist powers were Russia and China, and were both allies of North Vietnam, supporting their fight and supplying many of the weapons that ultimately killed 58,220 of our U.S. military loved ones.  Russia’s Stalin and China’s (Chairman of the Communist Party) Mao contributed substantially to the Vietnam War victory.  John Lennon and Yoko Ono were staging peaceful, public protests against the war.  So if anyone had been carrying pics of Mao or Stalin (or Putin today) — meaning you liked them or resonated with them — you were most likely a treasonist, and weren’t going to “get on well” with anyone of value in our society, anyhow.  Though there was a message about intolerance in there somewhere, it wasn’t about — we should try to have a meeting of the minds with Chairman Mao or his supporters.  It was about STOP WAGING WAR, murder and mayhem!  STOP sending our people off to fight your bogus wars!  My take-away is:  ‘Don’t hang with Treasonists, pun intended.  We must save our country and restore our democracy!  That means bringing down autocrats, treasonous politicians or citizens, and their corrupt supporters; and promulgating peaceful relations here and abroad.  There is no good reason to keep wasting our life-blood to satisfy an insatiable military machine.  “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché, that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem; Love and Peace are eternal”, mused John Lennon.   I invite everyone to Google: ‘Tedtalks, Revolutionary Love’ and really listen to the message.    I recently saw the movie, HOSTILES, and I thought about revolutionary love.

Trish Forsyth Voss