A Brief Note on the Seth Rich / Kim Dotcom Story : Is He Just Looking for Political Asylum?

by Scott Creighton

When the Seth Rich/Rod Wheeler story broke, I covered it but I also made mention of the fact that the timing was quite suspect (right as a new fake leak came out about Trump) as was the source.

Rod Wheeler has a less-than stellar background when it comes to news items having once gone on Fox News to alert their viewers that 150 lesbian gangs were raging through D.C. with pink handguns, kidnapping and raping your children in hopes it would turn them gay.

Needless too say, I don’t put a great deal of stock in his journalism.

But, if it is the case that the Metro Police and the FBI confiscated a laptop they have not returned, that is an issue that must be resolved. The fact that Rod never claimed to see these emails himself is also troubling to me just as the New York Times making claims about James Comey memos they have never seen is also troubling. To me, it’s hard to take either claim seriously.

Far too many so-called “alternative” journalists are out there attacking the Wheeler claim and anyone who reports on it. They call them “charlatans” because CNN supposedly has an email from Rod Wheeler… which of course, CNN isn’t making public.

I covered the story briefly when it first broke and have left it alone ever since and I did that for a number of reasons, but primarily because of what I just wrote. Wheeler’s history and the fact that he claims to have “sources” and has never seen the emails he reported on as fact. Way too many variables in that for me to take seriously… but again… those who condemn this story while for those reasons while reporting on the validity of the Comey farce are worse than hypocrites… and I am talking to you Young Turks and especially you Michael Tracy… you should damn well know better.

Turns out Rod Wheeler was paid for his contract by another Fox News personality. Some republican business guy who does reports for their business channel (though he now claims he didn’t pay him)

And, as it turns out, the family’s spokesperson who initially denied the Wheeler story, is a DNC public relations contractor who has worked with various candidates of theirs for years. And on top of that, his original denial was worded in such a way as too say “even if there were emails between Seth and Wikileaks, that doesn’t prove anything and they could be fakes”

That led me to believe someone figured there certainly could be some surfacing in the future… which led me to believe that someone was worried the laptop may actually exist.

Why does the family of a random murder victim need a spokesperson in the first place and why did they just happen to pick a spin doctor associated with the DNC?

Why did a republican businessman hire a hack like Rod Wheeler to “investigate” Seth’s death and why the curious timing of this “news” release?

It all seems very contrived to me.

And speaking of contrived…

Now Kim Dotcom has thrown his hat in the ring saying he knew Seth Rich and has evidence that will prove Seth was in contact with Wikileaks. CNN is currently attacking Dotcom while the purveyors of Rod Wheeler’s “breaking news” are trumpeting this latest development as if it’s some kind of huge deal.

Let me say this to the H.A. Goodmans out there: a retweet from Julian Assange is not proof of anything. Nor is Wikileaks’ reward offer. This is meaningless drivel. Had Wikileaks been in direct contact with Seth Rich, they would have released the emails by now. Don’t you think?

Just like if there had been real evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians, we would have seen that by now as well. This is WWE shit. Nothing more.

And you guys are part of it.

Kim Dotcom is the Barnum and Bailey of the internet. He’s an opportunist showman who once claimed he hacked Citibank and gave 20 million bucks to GreenPeace… only.. he didn’t.

Kim Dotcom is a sleazebag self promoter. This is the kind of shit he’s done:

You want to see this family of whores at the inauguration next year?[/caption]

A whore is someone who gets paid to do what anyone could do but most wont because they have a moral center.

• Bill Clinton – hired Robert Rubin for his economic council and then as his Sec. of Treasury – 26 years at Goldman Sachs
• Hillary Clinton – paid $675,000  for highly secretive speaking engagements at Goldman Sachs
• Chelsea Clinton – married Marc Mezvinsky, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs

Though she is certainly trying to adopt a more populist spin to her campaign rhetoric, Hillary Clinton is bought and paid for by Wall Street, Walmart and the Military Industrial Complex. We know that. We’ve know it for a while. Here’s a list of fundraisers that have been held for Hillary this election cycle by Big Banking and Big Finance.

When recently asked by a reporter to release the transcripts of the talks she gave at Goldman Sachs (for a reported amount of $675,000), she laughed that fake little “how dare you, peasant” laugh of hers and simply turned away.

“During one of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Clinton reportedly reassured the crowd and told them that banker-bashing was unproductive and foolish, according to a Politico report based on accounts offered by several attendees.” Lee Fang

The other day at a rally in Iowa, she railed against the republicans for the deregulation of the derivatives market and empowering Big Banking to create the sub-prime mortgage bubble (via the end of Glass-Steagall) so they could crash the economy while in fact, both of those critical elements of what brought us the crash of 2008 were brought to us by her phony progressive husband Bill Clinton along with Larry Sanders, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan.. all of the Clinton administration. If you don’t believe me, just look up Brooksley Born. Here’s a start. Or here.

While in office, Hillary illegally used a private email server while serving as Secretary of State for the sole purpose of hiding her illegal activities and arranging various favors from the State Department to authoritarian foreign nations based on contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative.

“Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing — the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 — contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.

The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found…

American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements…

The State Department formally approved these arms sales even as many of the deals enhanced the military power of countries ruled by authoritarian regimes whose human rights abuses had been criticized by the department. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.” David Sirota and Andrew Perez

If a union leader takes a kick-back to approve a labor deal with a business owner, he’s arrested and fired from the union.

If a Clinton does the same thing only with weapons of mass destruction and brutal dictators, she cashes the checks and is made the front-runner of the next presidential election cycle to the roaring applause of the “progressives” in her fan-base.

Welcome to the “left” in America.

George Soros is an unusually frank billionaire when it comes to chatting off the record with various insiders. Why shouldn’t he be? Like Hillary, he’s above the law or reproach when it comes to his ethics and the media.

He’s too rich to flail.

That’s why when he was chatting with an associate of Hillary Clinton in 2012, he made it clear why it was he has ended up donating so much to her campaign this time around: because, like the MIC and various dictators know, he knows he can buy her influence.

He knows she and her husband are political whores who will do whatever it is the monied elites ask of them just so long as they get a piece of the action.

And when you consider the fact that Hillary pushed the color revolution in Ukraine and the fact that Soros wanted it, financed it and now profits from it, it’s clear to see what his money buys whenever a Clinton is in a position of authority: death, destruction and the various neo-liberal free-market business opportunities that crisis of chaos creates.

“George Soros in December donated $6 million to the leading super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, marking the return of the billionaire financier as among the biggest givers in all of American politics.

The massive check brings to $8 million the Hungarian-born investor’s total 2015 giving to pro-Clinton groups.” Politico

“Billionaire liberal donor George Soros told a close Hillary Clinton ally in 2012 that he regretted supporting Barack Obama over her in the 2008 primaries and praised Clinton for giving him an open door to discuss policy, according to emails released Thursday by the State Department.” Politico

But George Soros wasn’t the only oligarch to pay the Clintons to destroy Ukraine. Like any other whore, Hillary services all sorts of Johns. And once again, the Clinton Global(ist) Initiative got involved:

“From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted, the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a new report claims.

In 2008, Viktor Pinchuk, who made a fortune in the pipe-building business, pledged a five-year, $29-million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative, a program that works to train future Ukrainian leaders “to modernize Ukraine.” The Wall Street Journal revealed the donations the fund received from foreigners abroad between 2009-2014 in their report published earlier this week .

Several alumni of the program have already graduated into the ranks of Ukraine’s parliament, while a former Clinton pollster went to work as a lobbyist for Pinchuk at the same time Clinton was working in government.

Between 2009 and 2013, the very period when Hillary Clinton was serving as US secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation appears to have received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.” RT, 2015

The Clinton foundation ran afoul of some bad PR a couple years ago when the Times did an evaluation of their business practices. But they are so well connected, and have become just so damn rich selling themselves on the open market, reporters tempered their criticism considerably and the issue was quickly swept under the forgetting rug.

“The cynical might infer from the NYT piece that the Clintons are willing to sell themselves, their image, and even their Foundation’s reputation in exchange for money to finance their personal projects. In Bill’s case, saving the world. In Hillary’s case, maybe, running for president.” Telegraph

The CGI is a massive slush-fund which provides charitable cover for the Clintons globalist, greedy ambitions. Like the private server fiasco, the fact that she openly runs and profits from such a thing should spell the end of her political ambitions be they presidential or as that of local dog-catcher. But it doesn’t. Instead it makes her rich and therefore untouchable, even in the minds of the hypnotized fake left, petite bourgeoisie following she still enjoys.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the land of Mammon, the whore is king because the only measure of value that matters is wealth. How one attains it is simply immaterial.

It doesn’t matter that she lies about Glass-Steagall or derivatives or what happened in Benghazi. It doesn’t matter that her husband stole billions from the Haiti relief fund or that she helped rig an election in the aftermath of the disaster. It doesn’t matter that she lobbied for the destruction of an entire, functioning nation like Libya for her own profit. It doesn’t matter that she took money for the demolition of Ukraine and all the suffering that came of that. It doesn’t matter that she kept her communications secret so all of this could be denied later. It doesn’t matter that she spouted Cheney talking points about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction on the Senate floor while begging dems to vote to attack that country back in 2003. It doesn’t matter that she sold access to the State Department and set foreign policy to benefit donors like Soros and Pinchuk. It doesn’t matter that her entire family whores themselves out to a massive financial institution like Goldman Sachs for fun and profit.

As the middle class dwindles and you work more hours for less pay, paying more for mandated healthcare that provides less and less for you each year and the rich are getting richer exponentially, Hillary Clinton reverberates a message uttered by George W. Bush back when it was time to bailout the banksters that wrecked our economy when he said “We have to protect the system!!!” She said:

“We are on the right path, my friends. We just have to stay on it.” Hillary Clinton

It doesn’t matter to the petite bourgeoisie how Hillary Clinton has worked her way to where she is just so long as she got rich along the way. That’s all that matters.

You can be a whore in America these days without losing respect, just don’t be a cheap one.

For all of you Iowans set to caucus this evening for the dems, I want you to keep that in mind. And if you are going there with plans to cheer and root and raise your hands for Hillary Clinton and her nuclear cabal of Goldman Sachs whores, I think maybe that last message is the one you should leave your kids with before you say goodnight to the baby sitter and make your way via your Prius to the event.

You can be a whore in America these days without losing respect, just don’t be a cheap one.

That’s the last and most important lesson you can teach your kids about life in America if you intend to raise your hand for the likes of Hillary Clinton. You live your life by it. They should do the same.

Personally, I don’t want a whore as my president any more than I want a billionaire neo-liberal clown. “None of the above” used to work. Or just don’t go.

Maybe stay at home, order a pizza for the baby-sitter and read The Little Prince to your kids… or is that too socialist these days?

What happens tonight in Iowa is nothing short of a referendum on the morality of America’s tattered left. Don’t wait until Jeb is ushered into the White House to rekindle your moral outrage. At that point it will not only be too late, but it will also be clearly hypocritical and hollow.

That flame of indignation that burned inside you when Bush and Cheney ran things has been reduced to a left-cover ember, I know that. But it’s still there and if you choose to, if you want to, you can relight it and you don’t have to wait. Not anymore.

Or you can let your eyes gloss over and go stand with the rest of your Mammon worshiping fellow “progressives” and sing the songs and chant the chants and lose yourselves in the partisan oblivion that is the current, dishonest Clinton campaign.

This is the last chance to stand for something. I don’t care what it is so long as it isn’t to make a proven whore the president of our nation. I don’t care how well paid she is. And neither should you.

And that is all the advice I can give you because the thing about morality is, you either still have it or you don’t.

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Donald Trump immediately came out and said all his people told him to forget about Iowa from the start because “they told me I couldn’t win it” so of course, he’s touting this loss as a major Trump Victory even after the polls had him way out in front just prior to the opening of the caucuses. Cruz was actually trending down in the weeks leading up to last night’s voting.

In spite of the large turnout and Trump’s leading in the polls by a considerable margin over the past few weeks, the New York Times has already come out with an explanation of why Trump lost Iowa. It’s not hard to imagine the increase in voter turnout was largely due to Trumpmania, yet somehow he came closer to finishing third than he did winning. Much closer.

There was even talk about a number of people crossing the artificial political divide to vote for Trump. Yet here we are.

In the loss, Trump turned into Mr. Nice Guy:

“We finished second, and I want to tell you something: I’m just honored. I’m really honored. And I want to congratulate Ted, and I want to congratulate all of the incredible candidates, including Mike Huckabee, who has become a really good friend of mine, so congratulations to everyone.” Trump said to his supporters Monday night, with some of the kindest words about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) he’s uttered in weeks. Huffington Post

Mocrosoft’s BING program said that Trump and Hillary would win. It takes the internet of things and predicts the outcome. So far it’s batting .500

I wonder how BING predicted the coin-flips because without them, BING is 0 and 2.

My guess is you are going to start hearing some websites start talking about vote rigging on the Republican side in the next few hours. Trump is hailed as the first anti-establishment multi-billionaire in the history of mankind, so expect “shenanigans!” to become the call to action very soon.

I don’t doubt they rigged it. Trump was never supposed to be the leader at this point, just the court jester. He himself has made that perfectly clear. Trumpmania is an unintended consequence of the right-cover he is providing the “responsible” republican candidates throughout this long primary season.

For that matter, Trump didn’t sound much like Trump last night when he conceded his loss. In fact, he sounded like one would expect someone to sound who was just there to serve as cannon fodder for the next anointed president.

In the Republican caucus, the distance between 3rd and 4th place is huge with Ben Carson receiving less than half the votes of Rubio.

Mike Huckabee officially suspended his campaign late last night after receiving 2% of the vote. Christie and Kasich will probably drop out after New Hampshire.

Jeb Bush spent 14 million dollars in Iowa which turned into a 6th place finish. That’s roughly $2,800 per vote. You could triple his votes and Ben Carson still beat him and Carson’s could be doubled and he would still have lost to Rubio. Bush has been focusing on Iowa for the past month or so, practically conceding the state to the Moral Majority candidates. He’s already done twice as many campaign stops in the state as he did in Iowa. Perhaps that’s because it’s the first to utilize electronic voting machines to tally the votes and we all know how much those things love the Bush clan.

Rubio is spinning his 3rd place finish as some kind of anti-establishment victory. So is Cruz. So is Trump. So is Bernie. So is Hillary (somehow)

In short, this is all much ado about nothing. The delegate divides between 1st and 2nd place finishers on both sides are nominal at best. Barely a blip on the radar compared to what they need to win the nomination.

The pleasant distraction these primaries serve as is over for the time being and the people of Iowa get to get back to living their lives without a bunch of overly made-up talking heads sticking microphones in their faces every-time they step out of their homes.

The circus is leaving town and the rest of the country can get back to not giving a shit about what happens in Iowa for another 4 years until the next freak-show rolls into town.

You would think with the massive increase in turnout Trump and Sanders would have won handily in both caucuses. The fact that they didn’t may just fuel some speculation about Microsoft tampering with the results.

I don’t know about all of that but I do know for an hour leading up to the opening of the caucuses last night, MSNBC (Microsoft) and CNN both spent almost the entire time explaining why the election results would not match entrance polls or the other polls that were held leading up to the caucus. It seemed like getting out ahead of the story with their spin was of an unusual level of importance last night, way before a single vote was cast.

Hmmm.

There you have it. The first official “election” results of 2016.

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He’s a scumbag who ran a number of internet start-up schemes and was busted for insider trading on them. Kinda like the plot of the Wolf of Wall Street. Then he set up a pyramid scheme to sucker in wanna-be movers and shakers. He called it Kimpire.

He’s a sleazebag like Wheeler is. The only difference is, Kim Dotcom is facing extradition to the United States and would appear to be willing to do anything to avoid jail time.

I will say this though… he is right on this count:

All that said, he is promising a “big reveal” on Tuesday and I will be interested in seeing what he produces. And there is good reason for that but it has nothing to do with this guy’s credibility, which is nil in my opinion.

There is a war going on inside the Deep State. Would they feed this clown something tasty that could distract from real stories taking place right now? Did one of them feed something to Rod Wheeler to use him to distract from the Trump destabilization campaign last week? I don’t know.

I kinda doubt it. But it seems odd that Dotcom would make up something baseless right now as he is trying to appeal his extradition to the U.S…. unless of course he figures it could be used to garner him some kind of asylum due to his fear of political prosecution as reprisal for his Seth Rich story (which seems pretty plausible for a Kim Dotcom move)

So it could be someone fed him something in order to stir the pot with this Clinton/Rich story.

Could be he’s just trying to add to his diminishing online brand as he has a long history of doing.

And it could be he figures if he gets himself intertwined in this situation, he might be able to parlay it into some kind of “get out of a U.S. jail for free” card.

We will have to wait and see.

I am not going to hold my breath or stake my reputation on it either way. Seth was certainly killed for a reason and we know the Russians didn’t hack the DNC, those files were leaked by someone.

In all honesty, Wikileaks and Assange could very easily be using the Seth Rich story to protect a real leaker and in so doing, they offered up the reward to further the speculation and as a kind of apology to the family of Rich.

We know Assange and Wikileaks are Deep State assets themselves so it’s kind of difficult to make any assumptions about their motives. But if Seth had been in direct contact with them or if the 3rd party guy (who also just happens to be dead now) ever mentioned Seth by name as the source to Wikileaks, you can bet your bottom dollar we would have seen those emails leaked at this point.

What happened to Seth Rich was horrible and I for one believe there is a motive that goes way beyond a failed robbery.

One thing that is certainly possible is he was about to leak proof of election fraud. After all, analyzing election data was his job at the DNC.

Regardless of that there is one other interesting aspect to his case which I just discovered: out of 67 unsolved murders in the Metro D.C. area last year… Seth Rich was the only Caucasian who’s death remains unsolved.

I don’t’ mean for that to be racist, but it is an interesting statistic, is it not? There are a lot of white folks running around D.C. and I’m sure a number of them get murdered every year. Yet Seth is the only one of all of them who’s murder is still unsolved? And it was a botched robbery in a well-off neighborhood with lots of street-side security cameras? At 4am when hardly no one other than the shooter(s) would be leaving the scene?

Anyway you look at it, Seth is but one of 67 un-avenged murders in that city in 2016 and that’s a lot in my opinion. Lot of families without closure. Seth’s is but one.

I wonder how many of the others have DNC spin doctors serving as their spokesman.

You can check out Seth’s flyer here. If you have information please contact the police.. not Kim Dotcom or Wikileaks.

I don’t know what this Kim Dotcom thing is. Probably nothing more than a publicity stunt or some opportunistic move on his part to keep his fat ass out of jail. Guess we will see on Tuesday.