Council of Worlds at WAR re Announcement Delays

[Nancy Lieder]

Note the location of “Planet 9” and the inbound path for Nibiru provided by the Zetas in 1997. Nibiru arrived, right on schedule in 2003, and right where predicted a full 7 years earlier. Where the Zetas provided the location of the gravity draw represented by the Sun’s dark unlit binary and the inbound Nibiru in 1983, when the IRAS team lofted its infra-red balloon in search of the inbound Nibiru, this location was not provided to the public. All articles in print at that time only referring to the location as the “western edge of the constellation Orion”, quite vague, and the “western edge” is vast. Yet the Zetas pinpointed the location as being just outside the lower bow of Orion. Such is the accuracy of ZetaTalk. How would the public eventually become “aware of the history and accuracy of ZetaTalk predictions” as predicted by the Zetas on April 16, 2016? ? It would seem this is already in process.

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SOZT March 19, 2016

So what happened to the announcement? Obama lacked the courage. As a result of this colossal failure,  having to disband the Jade Helm structure, the US military reacted. Obama is no longer running the country. Chief of Staff General Dunford is. Ben Fulford has for months been referring to Obama as the US “spokesperson”. Is this true, and how does this work? In that the Middle East, under the direction and press from Israel, Turkey, the Jewish bankers of the Federal Reserve, and the Saudis were supporting ISIS and this threatened to create a force that would not only invade Europe but also create an endless terrorism threat to the US, the military did indeed effect a silent coup. Russia needed to enter the fray, and Dunford, but not Obama, agreed. This will never be admitted, publicly, nor do the parties want this.
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SOZT October 1, 2015
The three major social media outlets in use around the globe all had significant, and simultaneous outages between September 20-24, 2015. Skype had complaints from the UK, Australia, and Japan. Twitter received reports from the US, Australia, and Singapore. FaceBook had the loudest howls, primarily from the US and Europe. Notably these downtimes, some lasting for hours or even days, got no attention in the major media, and there was no real explanation for the outages.  Every Skype user has an account and a password, as do their contacts. Every Skype user can broadcast messages to their contacts, even if these contacts are not presently online. Every twitter use likewise has an account and a password, and by sending a tweet passes information along to subscribers, who can retweet the info in the future. FaceBook users likewise have an account and a password, with many friends who pick up info from each other and pass it along on their FaceBook accounts.  In all of this, the networks themselves are AWARE of the accounts and passwords, and could do a broadcast to all in the event of an announcement. Check your user agreements. This is legal!
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SOZT April 25, 2015
When we announced that the Council of Worlds would be going to war with the elite over their blockage of the announcement, the tools available to the Council were not immediately apparent. Early in the campaign the Sony hack showed one such mechanism, whereby an anonymous hacker revealed embarrassing information about Sony executives. Similarly exposing pedophile activities by Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton and blatant lies by self-promoting media talking heads such as Brian Williams and Bill O’Reilly required nothing more than encouraging contactees to step forward.  In many, many cases a financial loss sufficient to trigger a clash among the elite is a result of an electronic delay during trades. 
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SOZT July 4, 2015
What is the message here? As with other failed launches, this most recent failure is a definitive message from the Council of Worlds. Space X has had success in resupplying the ISS, though has flounded on landing on a floating ocean platform.  Resupply of the ISS is OK, reuse of their launch equipment so as to help the elite escape, not OK. The message now is that the elite should not expect to get into space at all. No escape. The message here is to take all hope away from such plans among the elite. They are to remain on Earth with the common man. We expect the battle to shift from attempts to block the announcement, or deny its meaning, to attempts to enslave the common man in some way. That is another fight, on another day.
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SOZT November 1, 2014
The elite – the wealthy and politically powerful in the world – have continued in their attempts to thwart the announcement by Obama and his partners admitting that Nibiru, aka Planet X exists. We have long stated that the announcement date was set by Obama and Xi at their June 7-8, 2013 meeting in Santa Monica. The flustered slip given by the French Foreign Minister on May 13, 2014 re “500 days
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/17ma2014.htm
until climate chaos” was in reference to this, as the date set was to be 500 days from the 2013 meeting, ie October 20, 2014.
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SOZT November 8, 2014
Relying solely on Russia or China to proceed would get the truth out BUT since the block had always been on the US end, via Reagan’s national security directive, without a confirmation from Obama this is awkward and subject to being countered. If true, where is the confirmation from Obama? It would be packaged as some odd communist attack against Obama going into the elections, to make him seem weak, almost comical. So where is this going now? For us to comment would be to empower the enemy, which of course we will not do. Your curiosity is not as important as having the announcement succeed.
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SOZT December 10, 2014
We have stated that the public will see only the flash and parry of swords from a distance during the Council of Worlds war with the cover-up crowd. Meanwhile, periodic tests of the Emergency Broadcast System in the US are done, to see if the channels are open. As of this writing, they are not yet open. The war is still on, full press. Meanwhile, during the flash and parry of swords, one can see resistance, pleading, panic, and capitulation.
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[Stanislav]

Crude Mystery: Where Did 800,000 Barrels of Oil Go? 17 March, 2016.

Tally of unaccounted-for oil hit highest level in 17 years in 2015; oil data is ‘an imperfect science’

There is mystery at the heart of the oversupplied global oil market: missing barrels of crude.

Last year, there were 800,000 barrels of oil a day unaccounted for by the International Energy Agency, the energy monitor that puts together data on crude supply and demand. Where these barrels ended up, or if they even existed, is key to an oil market that remains under pressure from the glut in crude.

Some analysts say the barrels may be in China. Others believe the barrels were created by flawed accounting and they don’t actually exist. If they don’t exist, then the oversupply that has driven crude prices to decade lows could be much smaller than estimated and prices could rebound faster.

Whatever the answer, the discrepancy underscores how oil prices flip around based on data that investors are often unsure of.

Barrels have gone missing before, but last year the tally of unaccounted-for oil grew to its highest level in 17 years. At a time when the issue of oversupply dominates the oil industry, this matters.

“If the market is tighter than assumed due to the missing barrels, prices could spike quicker,” said David Pursell, managing director at energy-focused investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.

Here’s how a barrel of crude goes “missing” in the data. Last year, the IEA estimated that on average the world produced around 1.9 million barrels a day more crude than there was demand for. Of that crude, 770,000 barrels went into onshore storage while roughly 300,000 barrels were in transit on the seas or through pipelines. That left roughly 800,000 barrels a day unaccounted for in the data. Global oil supply is about 96 million barrels a day.

In the fourth quarter, the number of missing barrels reached as high as 1.1 million barrels a day, or 43% of the estimated oversupply during that period.

The IEA collates production and demand data from around the world, and its monthly reports often move prices. Other major market monitors, like the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, don’t break down their data to show the number of missing barrels.

In 1998, the last time the number of missing barrels was so high, concern over the discrepancy reached the U.S. Congress. A U.S. senator asked the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency working for Congress, to examine the IEA data. The agency found that “[statistical] limitations can introduce errors into the data, although the magnitude and direction of these errors are not clear.”

That is what most analysts think.

“The most likely explanation for the majority of the missing barrels is simply that they do not exist,” said Paul Horsnell, an oil analyst at Standard Chartered.
Standard Chartered projects U.S. crude averaging $63 a barrel in the fourth quarter, an above-consensus forecast that has been shaped partly by the bank’s belief that the glut is smaller than it seems. The average forecast among 13 investment banks surveyed by The Wall Street Journal last month was oil at $45 a barrel by the end of the year.

West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, rose $1.74 a barrel, or 4.5%, to $40.20 on Thursday, giving it a two-day gain of 11%. Brent, the international gauge, rose $1.21 a barrel, or 3%, to $41.54.

A spokesman for the IEA referred to the agency’s website, which says that the barrels’ “miscellaneous to balance” could be explained by overstated supply, understated demand or stockpile changes in countries outside the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

While the IEA estimates supply and demand from global data, its numbers on where the oversupply is being stockpiled come only from members of the OECD. That means that some of those barrels might be found in non-OECD countries like China.

Some analysts disagree. The missing barrels have become such a large proportion of the oversupply that this would imply that stockpiles are building up in non-OECD countries at a much faster pace than those in the organization, something that they question.

Analysts also point out that collecting data on oil is hard.

Demand data is derived from models rather than from real measured consumption and is often substantially revised, investment bank DNB Markets said in a research note. More than half of global oil demand also now comes from non-OECD nations where statistical gathering isn’t as well developed, the bank said.

“We hence suspect that demand in non-OECD in reality is meaningfully larger than what is reported by the IEA,” they said.

Given this, some investors look at trends in oil data rather than the precise numbers they throw up.

Oil data is “an imperfect science,” said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, which oversees $125 billion in assets.

Still, Mr. Haworth said that whether these barrels are missing or not, the global glut of crude is still far from over.

“The market could be a little tighter, but the barrels we do know about—it’s still a lot of them,” he said. Source: wsj.com

800,000 Barrels of Oil got missed, 43% of the oversupply seemed not exist. 17 March, 2016. Source: financialbuzz.com

[SongStar101]

Enter Anonymous, another group working behind the scenes with the Council of Worlds, the Puppet Master, and Trump!

After Brussels, Anonymous to tackle ISIS and bigotry

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/24/after-brussels-anonymous-to-tackle-i...|finance|headline|headline|story&par=yahoo&doc=103494263

Activist hacker group Anonymous is calling for people to stand up against discrimination as part of its fight against Islamic State in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks.

In a video posted to YouTube following Tuesday's bombings, an Anonymous member donned a Guy Fawkes mask to condemn the deadly attacks which were launched by a network tied to the terrorist group known as Islamic State (IS).

Thirty one people were left dead in Brussels on after terror attacks targeting the city's main airport and metro on Tuesday.

While the group is best known for hacking its targets, this time Anonymous is also calling for compassion.

"You don't have to hack them. If you stand up against discrimination in your country, you harm them much more than by hacking their websites," the video said.

"The Islamic State cannot recruit Muslims in Europe if they are accepted and included in the society. So we want all of you to stand together against discrimination."

It comes amid criticism over the black of integration in Belgium and the isolation of its Muslim communities, like those located in Brussels' Molenbeek — a neighborhood that has gained a reputation for its link to Islamic extremism after ties were found with the Paris attackers.

Anonymous trolls ISIS with #Daeshbags hashtag

Anonymous originally declared "war" on Islamic State following the tragic events in Paris which saw 130 people killed in coordinated attacks throughout the city last November, and later that month claimed to have taken down 20,000 IS-linked Twitter accounts. .

U.S. intelligence officials are now increasingly convinced that the same terrorist network that carried out the Paris attacks were involved in Tuesday's bombings in Brussels, according to NBC News sources.

"We will not rest as long as terrorists continue their actions around the world. We will strike back against them. We will keep hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their bitcoins. We defend the rights of freedom and tolerance," the video stated.

"When they kill innocent civilians in Belgium they hit everybody in Europe. We have to fight back," the video stated.

[SongStar101]

Toshiba confirms SEC investigation as accounting woes spread to US

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/18/toshiba-confirms-se...

Securities commission and justice department examining ‘accounting problem’ at US units, says Japanese corporation, amid profit-padding crisis

Kato / Reuters/Reuters

Thursday 17 March 2016 23.28 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 22 March 2016 11.43 EDT

Toshiba has announced its US businesses are cooperating with authorities over alleged accounting irregularities and is to cut a further 3,000 jobs.

Toshiba boss quits over £780m accounting scandal

The company has been shaken by a profit-padding scandal in which senior management for years systematically pushed subordinates to cover up weak financial figures.

Toshiba, a pillar of Japan’s industrial establishment, is expecting a huge loss of about 710bn yen (US$6.4bn or £4.4bn) for the year to March, with declining global demand exacerbating financial woes.

The group said in a statement: “Several of our US subsidiaries have been requested to provide information by the US Department of Justice and [the] Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], and they are cooperating with the request.” It referred to what it called an “accounting problem”, although it refrained from naming any companies.

The statement came after Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that the US justice department and the SEC were investigating if any fraud occurred over a loss booked by Toshiba’s US-based nuclear business division, Westinghouse.

The loss could be up to 200bn yen, the Asahi Shimbun daily newspaper reported.

Toshiba shares fell nearly 8% in Tokyo on Thursday following the reports, but rebounded on Friday, closing up 4.2% – the second biggest riser on the Nikkei, the Japanese stock market.

Toshiba said at a press conference held after the market closed on Friday that it would slash a further 3,000 jobs, taking total job losses to 14,000.

The company said it expected to return to the black in the year starting in April, when it is forecasting an operating profit of 120bn yen.

Toshiba also said it it was conducting a stress test on its Westinghouse division to assess whether it needs a writedown. It added that goodwill at Westinghouse was estimated to fall to 351.3bn yen by the end of March, from 385.2bn yen at the end of December.

Nuclear power has become less popular since Toshiba’s acquisition in 2006, especially following the Fukushima disaster which prompted many countries to freeze nuclear energy expansion.

The 152bn yen (£780m) accounting scandal led to the departure of Toshiba’s boss Hisao Tanaka last summer. An independent panel of accountants and lawyers found that Toshiba overstated its operating profits over several years in accounting irregularities involving top management.

In December, Japan’s Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission imposed a record 7.37bn yen fine on the company over the accounting scandal which has hammered its reputation.

In the wake of the scandal Toshiba – a vast conglomerate that makes everything from TVs, PCs and rice cookers to nuclear plants – has cut thousands of jobs and moved to sell some divisions to streamline the business.

Toshiba has just sold its medical equipment division to Canon for almost $6bn. It also announced a basic agreement to sell a majority interest in its home appliance business to China’s Midea.

[Nancy Lieder]

What does this news about General Dunford being in charge in the US mean for the announcement? Time will tell. But it is clear that Obama failed in this regard. Remember that this is in the hands of man, who has free will. The important thing is that something happen, by whatever means. Remember, there is more here than human actions. There are a billion visitors, in various life forms, working during the Earth's Transformation. Over half the human population are already contactees, hearing the truth from their contacts. Nibiru visibility is increasing daily. The Earth wobble is increasing and undeniable. The Council of Worlds can inform the people of Earth in a number of ways we are not even aware of. Stay tuned, this drama has hardly reacted its last chapter!

[SongStar101]

Ex-oil CEO going 89 miles per hour before crash

Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon was driving at 89 miles per hour just seconds before his Chevy Tahoe slammed into an overpass wall and erupted into flames, police said on Monday.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/news/aubrey-mcclendon-crash-89-mile...

Aubrey McClendon-Reuters

McClendon wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was driving alone in a 50-mile-per-hour zone prior to the March 2 crash that killed the U.S. shale pioneer, according to an update from Oklahoma City police.

Authorities said McClendon, 56, was positively identified by the medical examiner days later through his dental records. The fiery crash took place one day after the founder of Chesapeake Energy (CHK) was indicted by a federal grand jury.

McClendon's brakes appeared to be working and there were no signs of a medical emergency before the fiery crash, police said.

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Snippets of the Reuters report...

Special Report: The final days and deals of Aubrey McClendon

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-aubrey-mcclendon-specialreport-id...

By fighting the U.S. criminal indictment, he faced a potential public airing of his business tactics. McClendon’s own emails were expected to represent the bulk of the government’s evidence against him, say two people familiar with the matter.

HIGH-LEVEL JUSTICE MEETINGS

McClendon knew he was under criminal investigation: AEP disclosed in a filing last year with U.S. securities regulators that the Justice Department was investigating him over the potential antitrust violations. His former company, Chesapeake, has been cooperating with authorities in return for "conditional leniency" from the Justice Department. As a result, Chesapeake has said, the company did not expect to face prosecution or penalties.

But the indictment caught McClendon off guard, according to people familiar with the matter.

His legal team had met with senior Justice Department prosecutors three times in late 2015 to try to persuade them not to indict McClendon, a person familiar with the matter said. McClendon had been expecting a response; instead, he was indicted without warning, the person said.

Temple’s view was echoed by others in the industry. But emails published by Reuters in 2012 showed that McClendon had indeed tried to suppress land prices elsewhere. In one, McClendon wrote to a rival energy executive that it was time "to smoke a peace pipe" together "if we are bidding each other up." In another, he wrote: “Should we throw in 50/50 together here rather than trying to bash each other’s brains out on lease buying?”

When the Justice Department announced the indictment March 1, it also issued a statement strongly critical of McClendon.

“Executives who abuse their positions as leaders of major corporations to organize criminal activity must be held accountable for their actions,” wrote Baer, the Assistant Attorney General.

[SongStar101]

Suspended U.N. diplomat pleads guilty in U.S. bribery case

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-corruption-idUSKCN0WI2HI

A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe a former U.N. General Assembly president.

Francis Lorenzo, 48, admitted in federal court in Manhattan that he engaged in conspiracies to commit bribery and money laundering, as part of an agreement to cooperate in the U.S. investigation.

Lorenzo admitted he facilitated bribe payments from Ng Lap Seng, a billionaire real estate developer in Macau, to John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda and who served as General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014.

Those bribes, Lorenzo admitted, were paid to Ashe to seek U.N. support of a U.N.-sponsored conference center in Macau. Lorenzo, who prosecutors said received bribes himself from Ng, said payments were also made to other unnamed foreign officials.

"I understand what I was doing, as I described it, was wrong," he said in court.

Lorenzo is the third defendant to plead guilty to charges arising out of a case U.S. prosecutors announced in October involving a scheme starting in 2011 to pay more than $1.3 million in bribes to Ashe.

Prosecutors said those bribes included more than $500,000 that Ng, who made the payment through intermediaries including Lorenzo and Jeff Yin, Ng's assistant.

Ashe also received more than $800,000 from Chinese businessmen to support their interests within the United Nations and Antigua, prosecutors said.

Those bribes were arranged through Sheri Yan, who was the Global Sustainability Foundation's chief executive, and Heidi Hong Piao, the foundation's finance director, prosecutors said. Both women pleaded guilty in January.

Ashe, Ng and Yin have pleaded not guilty. Benjamin Brafman, Ng's lawyer, said outside of court that Lorenzo's plea would not affect the billionaire' s determination to go to trial, saying he "maintains he is personally innocent."

[SongStar101]

Georgian PM orders inquiry into videos allegedly showing cheating politicians

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/14/georgia-pm-inquiry-vid...

Abdaladze/AP

Andrew North in Tbilisi

Monday 14 March 2016

Georgia has been shaken by the release of two covertly filmed sex tapes apparently showing prominent opposition and ruling party politicians involved in adulterous encounters, in what is being seen as a campaign of intimidation before elections due in October.

The government has asked for help from the FBI in tracing the source of the tapes after the latest video was posted on YouTube on Monday showing a series of sexual encounters, including one involving a woman believed to be a member of the governing Georgian Dream coalition.

The anonymous post was accompanied by threats to release more compromising footage unless two coalition members, an opposition politician and a well-known journalist resign by the end of March.

The videos have since been taken down and some Georgian internet users reported YouTube being briefly blocked.

Georgia has a history of covertly filmed videos being released to tar political opponents before elections, and leaders pledged to investigate the latest incident.

The prime minister, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, condemned the videos as an attempt to “blackmail” the country, and ordered the security services to track down those responsible.

Hundreds of people protested outside government offices in Tbilisi last Friday following the release of the first video, which apparently showed an opposition politician in an intimate encounter with a partner who was not her spouse.

The opposition accused government supporters of being behind the videos, in particular the billionaire former prime minister and Georgian Dream founder, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who still exerts a strong hold over the coalition.

“None of this could have happened without his personal OK,” claimed Giorgi Kandelaki, an MP with the pro-western United National Movement (UNM), which ruled Georgia until 2012 under the former president Mikhail Saakashvili.

Georgia’s justice minister, Tea Tsulukiani, rejected such claims as “complete nonsense”, saying all the videos had been recorded during the UNM’s time in power. “Anyone who knows Mr Ivanishvili knows he respects people’s private lives and would never do anything like this,” she told the Guardian, adding that the government had now asked for help from the FBI and a neighbouring country that she would not name in tracking down the source of the videos.

The videos are the latest in a long line of such releases. Last year the director of Georgia’s largest TV channel Rustavi 2, seen as close to the opposition, said he had been threatened with the release of compromising videos if he did not step down. Nika Gvaramia pre-empted the release by admitting he had not always been a faithful husband.

The previous Saakashvili administration was voted out in 2012 after the release of secretly filmed videos of prison guards purportedly showing inmates being tortured.

Saakashvili’s government was itself accused of building up a library of compromising videos of opponents to use against them, some of which was destroyed by the current government when it took power.

Many opposition figures also see Russia’s hands in the scandal. “It’s not so much Videogate as a reflection of Russian-style political tactics becoming more common here,” said Kandelaki.

The UNM accuses Georgian Dream of being covertly pro-Russia despite its public pro-western stance. The ruling politicians in the videos were in effect “being sacrificed”, Kandelaki said.

With Russia still occupying nearly 20% of Georgian territory eight years after they fought a brief war, fear of the Kremlin’s intentions dominates Georgian politics.

Both main parties are struggling in the polls, and some predict more avowedly pro-Russia factions could gain ground in the elections.

The journalist threatened in the latest video has resorted to pre-emptive action, naming herself on her TV programme on Monday and vowing not to be intimidated. “I am Ingra Grigolia,” she said, “woman, daughter, mother and friend. I have a wonderful boyfriend and I have sex.”

[SongStar101]

Chris Matthews at center of NBC’s latest news scandal

http://nypost.com/2016/03/11/chris-matthews-at-center-of-nbcs-lates...

MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews isn’t much for keeping his promises of transparency when it involves political contributions to his wife’s congressional campaign.

Last June, the blabbermouth commentator insisted on his show that he would be “transparent and fair in our coverage” after his wife, Kathleen, announced that she was running as a Democrat for the open seat in Maryland’s 8th District.

Since then, Kathleen Matthews, a former news anchor and Marriott exec, has received a total of $79,050 in campaign contributions from prominent former and current politicians featured on her husband’s long-running cable-news show.

“As a journalist, I also know how important it is to respect certain boundaries on my support for her both in my public role and here on MSNBC,” her husband said on his program.

“And while most of you know that our show doesn’t typically cover congressional races, I will continue to fully disclose my relationship with her as part of MSNBC’s commitment to being transparent and fair in our coverage,” added Matthews.

But Matthews, who has made glowing references to Kathleen on his show without mentioning her campaign, hasn’t uttered a word about the contributions his 62-year-old wife has received from his TV guests.

The revelation is another black eye for NBC, which bounced Brian Williams as anchor of the network news last year and dispatched him to MSNBC after he fabricated details of stories he covered.

The Intercept, which broke the story of the “Hardball” campaign connection Friday, compiled a laundry list of questionable donations. It showed some political heavyweights making contributions just ­before or after their appearances on the show.

The political action committee for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) gave $10,000 to Kathleen’s campaign on June 20, 2015 — two days before Gillibrand appeared on “Hardball.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) contributed $1,000 on Jan. 11, 2016, one day before she was interviewed on the program.

Chris Matthews’ guests, their spouses or their PACs donated $79,050 as of Dec. 31 — about 5 percent of the $1.5 million Kathleen had raised as of then.

At least 11 of the donations came from guests after they ­appeared on Matthews’ show.

Paul Pelosi, husband of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), put $1,000 into Kathleen’s coffers.

Jackie Clegg-Dodd, wife of Chris Dodd, a former Connecticut senator and president of the Motion Picture Association of America, gave $500. Dick Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), maxed out with a $2,700 donation.

MSNBC issued a statement saying it “does not book guests on the basis of political contributions. That would violate not only our ethical obligation as journalists, but also violate the standards of NBC News.”

Chris Matthews did not return calls for comment.

“Working women know it is possible to have their own career and not depend on their spouse for success,” said Kathleen Matthews’ campaign manager, Ethan Susseles.

[Ecosikh]

I am note sure about the timing of this interview, but it was UL recently showing Trump talking about 911 - perhaps a shot across the bows?

Trump on Fox

[SongStar101]

Ants in disarray now regrouping? A secluded meeting about Apple encryption,  GOP, Trump and the White House?  

http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/19sp2015.htm

Who will win this war for control of the White House with its influence over the banking establishment and the media? Trump’s backer is none other than the Puppet Master, who has more wealth and influence than can be imagined, albeit so carefully fronted by others that it cannot be discerned.

At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us...

Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), political guru Karl Rove, House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he "cannot support Donald Trump." 

Along with Ryan, the House was represented by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (Mich.), Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas) and almost-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), sources said, along with leadership figure Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) and Diane Black (Tenn.).

Philip Anschutz, the billionaire GOP donor whose company owns a stake in Sea Island, was also there, along with Democratic Rep. John Delaney, who represents Maryland. Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, was there, too, a Times spokeswoman confirmed. 

"A specter was haunting the World Forum--the specter of Donald Trump," Kristol wrote in an emailed report from the conference, borrowing the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto. "There was much unhappiness about his emergence, a good deal of talk, some of it insightful and thoughtful, about why he's done so well, and many expressions of hope that he would be defeated."

"The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him," Kristol wrote. "In general, there's a little too much hand-wringing, brow-furrowing, and fatalism out there and not quite enough resolving to save the party from nominating or the country electing someone who simply shouldn't be president."

A highlight of the gathering was a presentation by Rove about focus group findings on Trump. The business mogul's greatest weakness, according to Rove, was that voters have a very hard time envisioning him as "presidential" and as somebody their children should look up to. They also see him as somebody who can be erratic and shouldn't have his (small) fingers anywhere near a nuclear trigger.

Sources familiar with the meeting -- who requested anonymity because the forum is off the record -- said that much of the conversation around Trump centered on "how this happened, rather than how are we going to stop him," as one person put it.

Trump, who already has nearly one-third of the delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination, faces major tests in the Florida and Ohio primaries next week. If he wins both those states, he will need to win just half of the remaining delegates to secure the nomination.

He wasn't the only topic of the wide-ranging conference, however. At one point, Cotton and Apple's Cook fiercely debated cell phone encryption, a source familiar with the exchange told HuffPost. "Cotton was pretty harsh on Cook," the source said, and "everyone was a little uncomfortable about how hostile Cotton was." (Apple is in the midst of a battle with the Justice Department and the FBI over an encrypted iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters.) Cook did not attend the Rove session, or otherwise take part in any political organizing, emphasized a source close to Cook.

AEI has held the annual forum on Sea Island for years. It's so secret that in 2015, Bloomberg News complained that no one would even say whether it had snowed. 

Federal Aviation Administration records available on FlightAware.com show that a fleet of private jets flew into and out of two small airports near Sea Island this weekend. Fifty-four planes flew out of the airport on St. Simons Island, Georgia, on Sunday -- nearly four times as many as departed from the airport the previous Sunday. 

Well, I guess the main part is over. large loud jets are taking off one right after the other https://t.co/04fV5mMlr7

— Darlene Bearden (@darlenebearden) March 6, 2016

Many of the planes are registered to jet-sharing companies such as NetJets and Flexjet or private jet services companies such as Jetsetter. At least two of them flew directly to San Jose, California, home of many tech giants, on Sunday.

Another plane, which arrived from Eaton, Colorado, on Wednesday and flew back there on Sunday, is registered to Monfort Aviation, LLC, a private, tax-exempt trust. FAA records don't indicate who controls Monfort Aviation, but it shares a name with Dick and Charlie Monfort, the Colorado-based heirs to a meatpacking fortune who now own the Colorado Rockies baseball team. The plane, a Raytheon Hawker 800XP, seats 15 people. Anschutz, the billionaire whose company part owns Sea Island, is also from Colorado. 

Another private plane, a Canadair Challenger, flew cross-country from St. Simons to Van Nuys Airport in Southern California on Friday. Van Nuys Airport is so associated with millionaires and billionaires that their disputes over space at the field occasionally spill into the news media.

Another plane, a tri-jet Dassault Falcon 900, flew into St. Simons on Thursday from Westchester County, New York, and returned on Sunday. It's registered to Northwood Investors LLC, which is run by John Kukral, whose official bio notes he's been involved in real estate deals worth over $40 billion.

"The event is private and off-the record, therefore we do not comment further on the content or attendees," said Judy Stecker, a spokeswoman for AEI. She described the forum as "an informal gathering of leading thinkers from all ideological backgrounds to discuss challenges that the United States and the free world face in economics, security and social welfare."

Sea Island Resort -- which boasts three golf courses and a spa and fitness center that, at 65,000 square feet, would fill nearly two-thirds of a Home Depot -- is famous for its isolation. It's surrounded by marshes and some distance from the nearest large commercial airports. In 2004, when President George W. Bush hosted the annual G-8 summit on the island, the press center for the event was located 80 miles away in Savannah, Georgia.

The Anschutz Corp., Starwood Capital Group Global, Avenue Capital Group, and Oaktree Capital Management bought the then-bankrupt resort -- which covers the entire island -- in 2010 for $212.4 million.

"It is not much of a place to experience average America," The New York Times wrote of Sea Island in 2004. "But it is a fine locale to shut out the rest of the world, view conspicuous architectural consumption and walk beaches that have little or no public access."

In 2015, AEI's Sea Island gala drew most of the men who would become the Republican party's presidential candidates, according to an agenda Bloomberg obtained at the time. Scheduled speakers included former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. (Some scheduled speakers may not have attended; a snowstorm snarled transportation up and down the East Coast that weekend.)

AEI paid $32,490.97 for 11 members of Congress to attend the conference in 2015 alone, according to disclosure records available on Legistorm.com.

Democratic officials, including Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jason Furman, the chair of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Gene Sperling, another top Obama economic adviser, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, were listed as 2015 attendees, Bloomberg reported at the time.

Christie was scheduled to deliver the opening remarks at the conference that year.

A few weeks ago, he endorsed Trump.