thelibertybeacon--2020-04-15--Here’s ‘Anonymous,’ And Here’s How They Outed Her.

Here ’ s ‘ Anonymous , ’ Trump Aides Say .
And Here ’ s How They Outed Her .
Ever since a “ senior official in the Trump administration ” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office , Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit .
After an exhaustive investigation , the White House believes it ’ s cracked the case , identifying Trump ’ s turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser , Victoria Coates , according to people familiar with the internal probe .
Rather than fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transferred her to the Department of Energy , where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia — far from the president .
Trump effectively demoted Coates just four months after promoting her last fall to the No .
2 spot on his National Security Council .
The move was made amid a whisper campaign , started in January , that identified Coates as “ Anonymous , ” the person who wrote the Times Op-Ed and a subsequent book , “ A Warning , ” claiming to be part of a cabal of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policies from inside the administration .
The Washington press corps has for the most part been uninterested in learning the author ’ s identity .
But the sources said the identification of Coates was based on circumstantial evidence generated from a months-long White House investigation led by sleuths within the NSC .
Top White House adviser Peter Navarro , who works with the NSC on trade and other issues , also was heavily involved in the probe of Coates .
She declined to discuss the matter on the record with RealClearInvestigations and has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ although several colleagues have rushed to her defense , insisting the White House has the wrong person .
But a source involved in the NSC probe who asked not to be identified said there was little doubt .
“ It ’ s her , ” the source said of Coates .
“ That ’ s why she was shown the door.
” The multiple sources interviewed by RealClearInvestigations either participated in the investigation of Coates or have direct knowledge of it .
They spoke only on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coates includes the following : • Computer textual analyses revealing strikingly similar language , turns of phrase and historical references by both Coates and Anonymous .
• Firsthand accounts by Anonymous of events witnessed only by Coates and a small number of others , the latter of whom were ruled out as suspects .
• Hawkish foreign policy views held by Anonymous , many of which have been rejected by Trump .
• The fact that Coates and Anonymous share a high-profile Washington literary agent with an author roster of disaffected ex-Trump officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are consistent with Coates ’ biography .
For political reasons , the White House decided against officially unmasking Coates and firing her , at least not before the Nov. 3 election , the sources said .
Publicly outing her would merely create an unwelcome distraction ahead of the election .
Coates is a well-connected conservative , who has a staunch ally in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas .
White House political operatives want to avoid the divisions that marked the 2016 race , and are focused on unifying the party ahead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convention .
Illustrating the sensitivity of the internecine GOP affair is the insistence of some ex-Trump White House officials that Coates is wrongly accused .
“ The suggestion that Victoria is ‘ Anonymous ’ is preposterous , ” said K.T .
McFarland , Trump ’ s first deputy national security adviser , who helped recruit Coates to the NSC and then supervised her for much of 2017 .
She said Coates was a committed member of the Trump team .
McFarland added that Coates denied being the author not only to her , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who include FBI agents .
“ Victoria herself has denied being ‘ Anonymous ’ during her routine security clearance review , ” she told RCI .
“ Anyone familiar with the security clearance process knows that it would have been a criminal offense , punishable by jail time , for her to lie about this.
” Although “ A Warning ” opens with a preemptive denial that it discloses any classified information , the Justice Department has been looking into a potential violation of a federal regulation requiring officials with access to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publishing books about their roles in the government .
Coates signed a federal non-disclosure agreement , or NDA , when she joined the White House in 2017 .
The probe has exposed a less prominent faction secretly undermining Trump inside the White House , sources say : not just Democratic holdovers from the Obama White House , but disloyal “ Never-Trump ” Republicans , who , as Anonymous complained in the book , don ’ t believe the president can be trusted to uphold “ conservative principles.
” The author admitted conspiring with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obstruct Trump and his policies and directives from the inside .
White House investigators say they are looking into at least four other White House staffers whom they suspect were part of the “ resistance ” with Coates .
The behind-the-scenes story of how the White House fixed on Coates as the anti-Trump mole is told here for the first time .
In September 2018 , the New York Times agreed to hide the identity of a senior administration official bashing Trump in an opinion piece headlined “ I Am Part of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ author claimed to be one of several “ like-minded ” officials “ thwarting ” the president ’ s agenda and even plotting to try to remove him from office .
Incensed , Trump declared the screed an act of “ treason ” and ordered an investigation to unmask the “ gutless ” official .
The White House drew up a short list of suspects , but the search soon fizzled out for lack of leads .
The mystery went unsolved for more than a year , as the White House continued to spring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the NSC , including some that led to his impeachment .
The major break came in November 2019 , when the same anonymous official doubled down on anti-Trump grievances with the release of “ A Warning.
” The best-selling expose leaked details of the president ’ s private conversations and trashed him as “ unjust ” and a “ nasty man , ” as well as a “ misogynist ” and “ grifter in chief.
” “ He should be fired , ” wrote the disgruntled insider in the book ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an unmitigated catastrophe.
” The book dared the president to try to unmask the nameless author , boasting the text had been “ carefully written to prevent any inadvertent disclosure.
” But to White House sleuths , the 260-page book offered a wealth of clues , and the author ’ s challenge only intensified the desire to track down and unmask the rogue aide .
At first , the 51-year-old Coates was not an obvious suspect because she was not known to clash with the president and seemed to go along with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a longtime and loyal operative of Cruz , once a leading critic of Trump .
Over the course of the months-long investigation , more than 30 other suspects were considered and abandoned before the focus settled on Coates .
Unlike other widely rumored suspects who eventually were ruled out — including former NSC official Fiona Hill and former Pentagon speechwriter Guy Snodgrass — Coates checked virtually all the boxes .
After a careful deconstruction of details in the book , the White House investigators found that Coates ’ s profile , as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moralist , matched up with that of the clandestine Trump official .
Anonymous is a woman , the investigators deduced , noting the author ’ s disapproving remarks alleging a Trump habit of addressing accomplished female professionals as “ sweetie ” and “ honey.
” The official ’ s area of responsibility was , like Coates ’ , national security and foreign policy — with expertise on Syria , Iraq , Iran , Israel and other Mideast hot spots .
The book ’ s author claims to have been present , as Coates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including with the president .
The author shows an insider ’ s understanding of the workings of the NSC and , most telling , started work during Trump ’ s presidential transition , as Coates did .
“ That gave her away , ” another source involved in the investigation said .
“ She was in those early meetings and briefings .
That put her high on the suspect list.
” By January , Coates was the prime suspect .
The sources said that to crack the identity of the rogue Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authored by Coates through forensic author identification programs , and they matched the prose style of Anonymous .
Investigators were able to profile the author of the op-ed and book by sentence structure , grammar , punctuation and syntax .
They then compared that writing profile to Coates ’ .
The stylistic traits synced up , sources said .
Researchers have found that authorship recognition tools can identify an author with a high level of accuracy when there are several thousand words of available content to analyze , as was the case with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Coates ’ own body of written work spans two decades and includes several books and dozens of columns , as well as policy papers , speeches and a doctoral thesis .
In short , the authors share the same punchy but at times breezy writing style , with pithy sentences punctuating a fluid narrative .
What ’ s more , the same manners of expression and phrases , such as “ like-minded ” and “ clear-eyed , ” kept turning up in the writings of both Coates and the secret Trump betrayer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — such as the uncommon “ sextant ” — another linguistic fingerprint that pointed to the same authorship .
Deepening suspicions , both Anonymous and Coates boast of being “ students of history , ” and tend to cite the same historical periods .
With a Ph.D.in art history , Coates has written extensively about the rise and fall of Athens .
She did so in her book “ David ’ s Sling : A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art , ” and a 2012 column for the conservative blog @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claimed classical Athens as an ideological ancestor.
” Anonymous spends no fewer than five pages of the book lecturing readers about the fall of Athens , calling it a “ cautionary tale of how self-government could go wrong ” and descend into mob rule , even in America .
“ Like Athens , we also have a Cleon in our midst , a foul-mouthed populist politician who uses rhetoric as a loaded gun , ” the author writes , comparing Trump to the boorish Athenian representative .
Anonymous and Coates are obsessed with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Cicero .
They also share an affection for Alexis de Tocqueville .
As in “ David ’ s Sling , ” the anonymous author invokes the French historian , writing that Americans have a duty as citizens to get involved to preserve democracy .
They can start , Anonymous says , “ by firing Donald Trump ” this November .
Other figures whom both write or talk about admiringly : British-Austrian free market economist F.A .
Hayek , the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , former President Ronald Reagan , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2012 , FEC records reveal , Coates personally donated at least $ 1,500 to Romney ’ s campaign for president .
“ Those who know Mitt believed he would have been a capable leader , ” Anonymous wrote on page 114 .
Coates previously wrote speeches for Cruz about the importance of reestablishing the “ first principles ” advanced by America ’ s founders .
Anonymous also cares deeply about these “ first principles.
” In the Times piece , the author complained , “ Anyone who works with [ Trump ] knows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first principles that guide his decision making.
” Anonymous hits that concept in the book , warning against straying from “ first principles ” while citing the “ Founding Fathers.
” In addition , whoever wrote “ A Warning ” evidently worked with Trump ’ s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the White House .
Kushner is the president ’ s point man on the Middle East .
Coates was promoted in 2017 to work directly with Kushner on Israel and has met with him to help hammer out a Middle East peace plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cut from the same cloth .
Both are committed to stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons in order to protect Israel .
Both champion free trade and oppose Trump ’ s “ America First ” brand of “ protectionism ” and “ isolationism , ” as Coates made plain during the Cruz campaign .
Like Coates , Anonymous supported the Iraq War and still defends George W. Bush and his administration for acting on what proved to be flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction .
The 2003 invasion was justified because , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least based on real information collected at the time , backed by intelligence community analysts , and accepted by bipartisan majorities in Congress.
” A protégé of Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , Coates embedded with the U.S. military to cover the Iraq War for RedState.com , a blog run by Erick Erickson , an early critic of Trump but who has since modulated his opposition .
She filed positive reports from Baghdad , while knocking down criticism that the war was a debacle .
NSC investigators put stock in the fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her identity in her writings .
For years she blogged anonymously for RedState.com .
The site eventually revealed that Coates was the blogger writing under the pseudonym “ Academic Elephant.
” In February 2018 , several months before the anonymous Times opinion piece appeared , a Reddit user posted an unusual question using the same “ Academic Elephant ” pseudonym Coates employed .
“ Could I be sued by the company I work for if I write an anonymous opinion piece for the local newspaper , if everything I say is true ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I ’ m reasonably certain that I ’ ll have support from my coworkers.
” Anonymous expressed a similar concern in the opening pages of “ A Warning , ” noting that Trump has a habit of suing critics “ to intimidate and silence them.
” Fear of such a lawsuit is one of the reasons offered by the author for choosing to remain anonymous .
Anonymous also used Reddit to promote the book , hosting a Q & A on Nov. 26 , 2019 .
Further , both share an affinity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passage in her book , Anonymous makes a point to remind readers that Philadelphia was the birthplace of American liberty .
When she ’ s not in Washington , Coates lives with her family in a renovated Victorian mansion in a tony neighborhood of Philadelphia called Chestnut Hill .
In her blog bio , moreover , she proudly described herself as a “ Philadelphian.
” Her family has deep roots in the area dating back to 1709 .
Coates is descended from Andrew Curtin , Pennsylvania ’ s governor during the Civil War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : On page 230 , Anonymous quotes from a lesser-known Founding Father — John Dickinson — to further support her preoccupation with following “ first principles.
” Dickinson is well-known within Coates ’ home state as the author of “ Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
” Anonymous quotes another figure who ’ s not exactly a household name : American historian Bernard Bailyn .
But Coates would know him from her days earning her masters in art history from Williams College – Bailyn ’ s alma mater .
His writings are required @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Anonymous and Coates also share a passion for Thomas Paine , whose pamphlet “ Common Sense ” was required reading at their prep school .
Anonymous waxed nostalgically about a war veteran teaching her about Paine .
Coates has counted among her “ mentors ” a war veteran who taught history at her Pennsylvania boarding school .
In 2016 , Urbahn helped Coates secure a three-book deal with Encounter Books focusing on political culture .
Coates knocked out the first manuscript , “ David ’ s Sling , ” while still working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The second book , tentatively titled “ Seeing the Light : A History of Christianity in Twelve Works of Art , ” was due for release last year , but was delayed for undisclosed reasons .
Industry sources confirmed that Coates is late delivering the manuscript .
Investigators believe she was tied up writing “ A Warning , ” published in November .
Urbahn happened to help broker that book deal , too .
But Javelin denied in a statement that Coates is the author in question , brushing aside the fact it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ bizarre ” coincidence .
“ To be very clear , so there is no chance of any misunderstanding : Dr. Coates is not Anonymous , ” Javelin said .
“ She did not write it , edit it , see it in advance , know anything about it , or as far [ as ] we know ever read it.
” That ’ s an utterly unambiguous denial .
But here ’ s the problem : That ’ s exactly what Anonymous said would be the response to any such attempt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Introduction : “ If asked , I will strenuously deny I am the author of this book.
” Javelin maintains a full stable of anti-Trump authors , including former National Security Adviser John Bolton and fired FBI Director James Comey .
The agency just signed Marie Yovanovitch , the ousted State Department official who testified against Trump during his impeachment .
Since landing a $ 3 million advance for Comey , Javelin has become “ a popular destination for Trump administration officials , especially those contemplating an exit , ” The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profile of Urbahn and his partner , Matt Latimer , who also worked for Rumsfeld and is chummy with Coates .
Yet other Coates defenders insist that she is a loyal member of Team Trump and that they never heard her say anything disparaging about the president .
“ The rumors are absolutely false and I ’ m ashamed of those pushing this B.S.
, ” said Fred Fleitz , who worked closely with Coates while serving as chief of staff to Bolton .
Former NSC spokesman Michael Anton , who worked alongside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump administration , said he doubts she was involved in any skullduggery .
“ I don ’ t believe it , ” he said .
Added K.T .
McFarland : “ ‘ Anonymous ’ sanctimonious , elitist tone , and [ the writer ’ s ] implication that Trump is an immoral idiot doesn ’ t match up with the Victoria Coates I have known for years.
” “ She went out on a limb to support Trump when few in the Republican foreign policy community did , ” she added .
While @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not Anonymous , some co-workers said she was careful to hide her opposition to Trump and his agenda during meetings with principals .
“ She was very anti-Trump in private , ” said a former NSC official who worked with Coates on the Mideast desk .
“ She even defended Obama holdovers to me .
They ’ re all fighting Trump.
” If Coates supports Trump , she has not been vocal about it .
There are no examples of her publicly praising the president , based on a search of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and interviews , though she has expressed support for some of his policies .
A review of Coates ’ Twitter feed going back to the November 2016 election turns up no tweets in which she supports Trump directly , though she remarked in a March 2017 tweet that she was “ proud ” to have joined the NSC team .
On the other hand , Coates reportedly was furious that Cruz decided several weeks before the election to throw his support behind Trump , after famously snubbing him at the GOP convention .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Republican endorsed Trump and cited national security as one of his reasons for supporting the Republican nominee , ” according to a Politico.com article citing people familiar with her alleged meltdown over her boss ’ about-face .
Supporters struggled , moreover , to explain why Coates would accept what effectively was a demotion — just four months after being promoted to deputy national security — if she were innocent of the accusations .
Fleitz , who says he has not read “ A Warning , ” speculated that Coates was ready to move @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years there , and that her reassignment to the Energy Department had been in the works for a while .
But her failure to appear at the Hudson Institute for a recent speech on the White House ’ s “ plan for peace in the Middle East ” made it look more like a shake-up .
The event ’ s moderator was clearly taken off guard .
“ I feel a little bit like Clint Eastwood talking to the empty chair , ” the moderator nervously quipped , motioning to a seat the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the stage with an unopened bottle of water beside it .
Just two days before Coates was officially reassigned on Feb. 20 , Trump told reporters he knew the identity of the anonymous official , but he would not divulge the person ’ s identity .
“ Can ’ t tell you that , but I know who it is , ” he said .
“ I know all about ‘ Anonymous.
’ ” ( TLB ) published this article with permission of Real Clear Investigations with our appreciation for the research and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ in the West Wing Meant Cruz Control Related : Coates ’ ‘ Linguistic Fingerprints ’ Appear to Match ‘ Anonymous ’

Here’s ‘Anonymous,’ Trump Aides Say. And Here’s How They Outed Her.
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit.
After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump’s turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.
The Sept. 5, 2018 op-ed in the New York Times by an unnamed writer now identified by White House sources as Victoria Coates, top photo. Once No. 2 in the National Security Council, the ally of GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has been kept on for political reasons and awaits posting to Saudi Arabia — far from Trump. New York Times
Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia — far from the president.
Trump effectively demoted Coates just four months after promoting her last fall to the No. 2 spot on his National Security Council. The move was made amid a whisper campaign, started in January, that identified Coates as “Anonymous,” the person who wrote the Times Op-Ed and a subsequent book, “A Warning,” claiming to be part of a cabal of “fellow Republicans” resisting Trump and his policies from inside the administration.
The Washington press corps has for the most part been uninterested in learning the author’s identity. But the sources said the identification of Coates was based on circumstantial evidence generated from a months-long White House investigation led by sleuths within the NSC. Top White House adviser Peter Navarro, who works with the NSC on trade and other issues, also was heavily involved in the probe of Coates.
She declined to discuss the matter on the record with RealClearInvestigations and has retained an attorney, friends say, although several colleagues have rushed to her defense, insisting the White House has the wrong person. But a source involved in the NSC probe who asked not to be identified said there was little doubt. “It’s her,” the source said of Coates. “That’s why she was shown the door.”
. Published last year, “A Warning” dared the president to try to unmask the author. White House sleuths took up the dare, and found the 260-page book offered a wealth of clues.
The multiple sources interviewed by RealClearInvestigations either participated in the investigation of Coates or have direct knowledge of it. They spoke only on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. They say their evidence exposing Coates includes the following:
Computer textual analyses revealing strikingly similar language, turns of phrase and historical references by both Coates and Anonymous.
Firsthand accounts by Anonymous of events witnessed only by Coates and a small number of others, the latter of whom were ruled out as suspects.
Hawkish foreign policy views held by Anonymous, many of which have been rejected by Trump.
The fact that Coates and Anonymous share a high-profile Washington literary agent with an author roster of disaffected ex-Trump officials.
Coates’ long history of writing anonymously, and
Personal details revealed by Anonymous that are consistent with Coates’ biography.
For political reasons, the White House decided against officially unmasking Coates and firing her, at least not before the Nov. 3 election, the sources said. Publicly outing her would merely create an unwelcome distraction ahead of the election. Coates is a well-connected conservative, who has a staunch ally in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. White House political operatives want to avoid the divisions that marked the 2016 race, and are focused on unifying the party ahead of this summer’s GOP presidential convention.
Former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland: “The suggestion that Victoria is ‘Anonymous’ is preposterous.”
Illustrating the sensitivity of the internecine GOP affair is the insistence of some ex-Trump White House officials that Coates is wrongly accused. “The suggestion that Victoria is ‘Anonymous’ is preposterous,” said K.T. McFarland, Trump’s first deputy national security adviser, who helped recruit Coates to the NSC and then supervised her for much of 2017. She said Coates was a committed member of the Trump team.
McFarland added that Coates denied being the author not only to her, but also to White House security officials, who include FBI agents.
“Victoria herself has denied being ‘Anonymous’ during her routine security clearance review,” she told RCI. “Anyone familiar with the security clearance process knows that it would have been a criminal offense, punishable by jail time, for her to lie about this.”
Although “A Warning” opens with a preemptive denial that it discloses any classified information, the Justice Department has been looking into a potential violation of a federal regulation requiring officials with access to classified information to get prior approval before publishing books about their roles in the government. Coates signed a federal non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, when she joined the White House in 2017.
The probe has exposed a less prominent faction secretly undermining Trump inside the White House, sources say: not just Democratic holdovers from the Obama White House, but disloyal “Never-Trump” Republicans, who, as Anonymous complained in the book, don’t believe the president can be trusted to uphold “conservative principles.” The author admitted conspiring with several other “like-minded” officials to obstruct Trump and his policies and directives from the inside.
White House investigators say they are looking into at least four other White House staffers whom they suspect were part of the “resistance” with Coates. The behind-the-scenes story of how the White House fixed on Coates as the anti-Trump mole is told here for the first time.
The Hunt for ‘Anonymous’
In September 2018, the New York Times agreed to hide the identity of a senior administration official bashing Trump in an opinion piece headlined “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” The author claimed to be one of several “like-minded” officials “thwarting” the president’s agenda and even plotting to try to remove him from office.
Incensed, Trump declared the screed an act of “treason” and ordered an investigation to unmask the “gutless” official. The White House drew up a short list of suspects, but the search soon fizzled out for lack of leads. The mystery went unsolved for more than a year, as the White House continued to spring leaks compromising the president, mostly from within the NSC, including some that led to his impeachment.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro: Heavily involved in the hunt for “Anonymous.”
The major break came in November 2019, when the same anonymous official doubled down on anti-Trump grievances with the release of “A Warning.” The best-selling expose leaked details of the president’s private conversations and trashed him as “unjust” and a “nasty man,” as well as a “misogynist” and “grifter in chief.”
“He should be fired,” wrote the disgruntled insider in the book’s final chapter. “The Trump administration is an unmitigated catastrophe.”
The book dared the president to try to unmask the nameless author, boasting the text had been “carefully written to prevent any inadvertent disclosure.” But to White House sleuths, the 260-page book offered a wealth of clues, and the author’s challenge only intensified the desire to track down and unmask the rogue aide.
At first, the 51-year-old Coates was not an obvious suspect because she was not known to clash with the president and seemed to go along with his policies, even though she was a longtime and loyal operative of Cruz, once a leading critic of Trump. Over the course of the months-long investigation, more than 30 other suspects were considered and abandoned before the focus settled on Coates. Unlike other widely rumored suspects who eventually were ruled out — including former NSC official Fiona Hill and former Pentagon speechwriter Guy Snodgrass — Coates checked virtually all the boxes.
They were bitter rivals sparring for the Republican nomination in 2016, but Sen. Ted Cruz managed a rapprochement with the President that helped place one of his allies, Victoria Coates, in the White House. For a while anyway.
After a careful deconstruction of details in the book, the White House investigators found that Coates’s profile, as well as her persona as a highly opinionated moralist, matched up with that of the clandestine Trump official.
Anonymous is a woman, the investigators deduced, noting the author’s disapproving remarks alleging a Trump habit of addressing accomplished female professionals as “sweetie” and “honey.” The official’s area of responsibility was, like Coates’, national security and foreign policy — with expertise on Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel and other Mideast hot spots. The book’s author claims to have been present, as Coates was, at many White House meetings, including with the president. The author shows an insider’s understanding of the workings of the NSC and, most telling, started work during Trump’s presidential transition, as Coates did.
“That gave her away,” another source involved in the investigation said. “She was in those early meetings and briefings. That put her high on the suspect list.”
By January, Coates was the prime suspect.
Authorship Recognition Tools
The sources said that to crack the identity of the rogue Trump official, investigators ran previously published works authored by Coates through forensic author identification programs, and they matched the prose style of Anonymous.
Investigators were able to profile the author of the op-ed and book by sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and syntax. They then compared that writing profile to Coates’. The stylistic traits synced up, sources said.
Linguistic déjà vu: Both “Anonymous” and Victoria Coates, in her book, wrote extensively about the rise and fall of Athens. (Amazon.com)
Researchers have found that authorship recognition tools can identify an author with a high level of accuracy when there are several thousand words of available content to analyze, as was the case with the sample size the White House analyzed. Coates’ own body of written work spans two decades and includes several books and dozens of columns, as well as policy papers, speeches and a doctoral thesis.
In short, the authors share the same punchy but at times breezy writing style, with pithy sentences punctuating a fluid narrative.
What’s more, the same manners of expression and phrases, such as “like-minded” and “clear-eyed,” kept turning up in the writings of both Coates and the secret Trump betrayer. The two also shared distinct vocabulary — such as the uncommon “sextant” — another linguistic fingerprint that pointed to the same authorship.
Deepening suspicions, both Anonymous and Coates boast of being “students of history,” and tend to cite the same historical periods. With a Ph.D.in art history, Coates has written extensively about the rise and fall of Athens. She did so in her book “David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art,” and a 2012 column for the conservative blog RedState.com about how the U.S. has “claimed classical Athens as an ideological ancestor.”
Anonymous spends no fewer than five pages of the book lecturing readers about the fall of Athens, calling it a “cautionary tale of how self-government could go wrong” and descend into mob rule, even in America. “Like Athens, we also have a Cleon in our midst, a foul-mouthed populist politician who uses rhetoric as a loaded gun,” the author writes, comparing Trump to the boorish Athenian representative.
Anonymous and Coates are obsessed with the same political figure from ancient Rome: Cicero. They also share an affection for Alexis de Tocqueville. As in “David’s Sling,” the anonymous author invokes the French historian, writing that Americans have a duty as citizens to get involved to preserve democracy. They can start, Anonymous says, “by firing Donald Trump” this November.
Other figures whom both write or talk about admiringly: British-Austrian free market economist F.A. Hayek, the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former President Ronald Reagan, and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah. In 2012, FEC records reveal, Coates personally donated at least $1,500 to Romney’s campaign for president. “Those who know Mitt believed he would have been a capable leader,” Anonymous wrote on page 114.
‘First Principles’
Coates previously wrote speeches for Cruz about the importance of reestablishing the “first principles” advanced by America’s founders. Anonymous also cares deeply about these “first principles.” In the Times piece, the author complained, “Anyone who works with [Trump] knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making.” Anonymous hits that concept in the book, warning against straying from “first principles” while citing the “Founding Fathers.”
In addition, whoever wrote “A Warning” evidently worked with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the White House. Kushner is the president’s point man on the Middle East. Coates was promoted in 2017 to work directly with Kushner on Israel and has met with him to help hammer out a Middle East peace plan.
Ideologically, Coates and Anonymous are cut from the same cloth. Both are committed to stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons in order to protect Israel. Both champion free trade and oppose Trump’s “America First” brand of “protectionism” and “isolationism,” as Coates made plain during the Cruz campaign.
Like Coates, Anonymous supported the Iraq War and still defends George W. Bush and his administration for acting on what proved to be flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. The 2003 invasion was justified because, Anonymous writes, it was “at least based on real information collected at the time, backed by intelligence community analysts, and accepted by bipartisan majorities in Congress.”
Victoria Coates was a protégé of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, above, and worked on a Rumsfeld book project for years with his ex-chief of staff, who would later broker book deals for both her and “Anonymous.” AP Photo/Grand Rapids, Emily Zoladz
A protégé of Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Coates embedded with the U.S. military to cover the Iraq War for RedState.com, a blog run by Erick Erickson, an early critic of Trump but who has since modulated his opposition. She filed positive reports from Baghdad, while knocking down criticism that the war was a debacle.
NSC investigators put stock in the fact that Coates has a history of concealing her identity in her writings. For years she blogged anonymously for RedState.com. The site eventually revealed that Coates was the blogger writing under the pseudonym “Academic Elephant.” In February 2018, several months before the anonymous Times opinion piece appeared, a Reddit user posted an unusual question using the same “Academic Elephant” pseudonym Coates employed. “Could I be sued by the company I work for if I write an anonymous opinion piece for the local newspaper, if everything I say is true?” the poster asked, adding that “I’m reasonably certain that I’ll have support from my coworkers.” Anonymous expressed a similar concern in the opening pages of “A Warning,” noting that Trump has a habit of suing critics “to intimidate and silence them.” Fear of such a lawsuit is one of the reasons offered by the author for choosing to remain anonymous.
Anonymous also used Reddit to promote the book, hosting a Q&A on Nov. 26, 2019.
Further, both share an affinity for Philadelphia. In more than one passage in her book, Anonymous makes a point to remind readers that Philadelphia was the birthplace of American liberty. When she’s not in Washington, Coates lives with her family in a renovated Victorian mansion in a tony neighborhood of Philadelphia called Chestnut Hill. In her blog bio, moreover, she proudly described herself as a “Philadelphian.” Her family has deep roots in the area dating back to 1709. Coates is descended from Andrew Curtin, Pennsylvania’s governor during the Civil War.
There’s another Pennsylvania connection: On page 230, Anonymous quotes from a lesser-known Founding Father — John Dickinson — to further support her preoccupation with following “first principles.” Dickinson is well-known within Coates’ home state as the author of “Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania.”
Anonymous quotes another figure who’s not exactly a household name: American historian Bernard Bailyn. But Coates would know him from her days earning her masters in art history from Williams College – Bailyn’s alma mater. His writings are required reading there for early American history courses.
Anonymous and Coates also share a passion for Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet “Common Sense” was required reading at their prep school. Anonymous waxed nostalgically about a war veteran teaching her about Paine. Coates has counted among her “mentors” a war veteran who taught history at her Pennsylvania boarding school.
Keith Urbahn: The Javelin book agent who helped put together deals for both Coates and “Anonymous.” Because Coates was late delivering one manuscript, investigators believe she was tied up writing “A Warning.”
In 2016, Urbahn helped Coates secure a three-book deal with Encounter Books focusing on political culture. Coates knocked out the first manuscript, “David’s Sling,” while still working on the Cruz campaign that year. The second book, tentatively titled “Seeing the Light: A History of Christianity in Twelve Works of Art,” was due for release last year, but was delayed for undisclosed reasons. Industry sources confirmed that Coates is late delivering the manuscript. Investigators believe she was tied up writing “A Warning,” published in November. Urbahn happened to help broker that book deal, too.
But Javelin denied in a statement that Coates is the author in question, brushing aside the fact it counts Coates as a client as just a “bizarre” coincidence.
“To be very clear, so there is no chance of any misunderstanding: Dr. Coates is not Anonymous,” Javelin said. “She did not write it, edit it, see it in advance, know anything about it, or as far [as] we know ever read it.”
That’s an utterly unambiguous denial. But here’s the problem: That’s exactly what Anonymous said would be the response to any such attempt to out her in the book’s Introduction: “If asked, I will strenuously deny I am the author of this book.”
Javelin maintains a full stable of anti-Trump authors, including former National Security Adviser John Bolton and fired FBI Director James Comey. The agency just signed Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted State Department official who testified against Trump during his impeachment. Since landing a $3 million advance for Comey, Javelin has become “a popular destination for Trump administration officials, especially those contemplating an exit,” The New York Times recently reported in a lengthy profile of Urbahn and his partner, Matt Latimer, who also worked for Rumsfeld and is chummy with Coates.
Yet other Coates defenders insist that she is a loyal member of Team Trump and that they never heard her say anything disparaging about the president. “The rumors are absolutely false and I’m ashamed of those pushing this B.S.,” said Fred Fleitz, who worked closely with Coates while serving as chief of staff to Bolton.
Former NSC spokesman Michael Anton, who worked alongside Coates in the early days of the Trump administration, said he doubts she was involved in any skullduggery. “I don’t believe it,” he said.
Added K.T. McFarland: “‘Anonymous’ sanctimonious, elitist tone, and [the writer’s] implication that Trump is an immoral idiot doesn’t match up with the Victoria Coates I have known for years.”
“She went out on a limb to support Trump when few in the Republican foreign policy community did,” she added.
‘Very Anti-Trump in Private’
While Coates’ supporters are adamant that she is not Anonymous, some co-workers said she was careful to hide her opposition to Trump and his agenda during meetings with principals.
“She was very anti-Trump in private,” said a former NSC official who worked with Coates on the Mideast desk. “She even defended Obama holdovers to me. They’re all fighting Trump.”
If Coates supports Trump, she has not been vocal about it. There are no examples of her publicly praising the president, based on a search of the Lexis-Nexis database of her speeches, articles and interviews, though she has expressed support for some of his policies.
A review of Coates’ Twitter feed going back to the November 2016 election turns up no tweets in which she supports Trump directly, though she remarked in a March 2017 tweet that she was “proud” to have joined the NSC team.
On the other hand, Coates reportedly was furious that Cruz decided several weeks before the election to throw his support behind Trump, after famously snubbing him at the GOP convention.
“She was livid when the Texas Republican endorsed Trump and cited national security as one of his reasons for supporting the Republican nominee,” according to a Politico.com article citing people familiar with her alleged meltdown over her boss’ about-face.
Supporters struggled, moreover, to explain why Coates would accept what effectively was a demotion — just four months after being promoted to deputy national security — if she were innocent of the accusations.
Fleitz, who says he has not read “A Warning,” speculated that Coates was ready to move on from the NSC after serving three years there, and that her reassignment to the Energy Department had been in the works for a while. But her failure to appear at the Hudson Institute for a recent speech on the White House’s “plan for peace in the Middle East” made it look more like a shake-up.
The event’s moderator was clearly taken off guard. “I feel a little bit like Clint Eastwood talking to the empty chair,” the moderator nervously quipped, motioning to a seat the think tank had reserved for Coates on the stage with an unopened bottle of water beside it.
Just two days before Coates was officially reassigned on Feb. 20, Trump told reporters he knew the identity of the anonymous official, but he would not divulge the person’s identity.
“Can’t tell you that, but I know who it is,” he said. “I know all about ‘Anonymous.’”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-04-15--Democrat governors colluding to end Covid-19 lockdowns

As California and New York said they ’ d coordinate reopenings with neighboring states , mainstream US media suddenly rediscovered the virtue of federalism , while some online activists even cheered the notion of separatism .
California Governor Gavin Newsom got the ball rolling Monday , by announcing his state would coordinate ending the coronavirus shutdown with the neighboring Oregon and Washington further north – both run by Democrats as well – and not follow the lead of President Donald Trump and the federal government in Washington , DC .
The West Coast is ahead of the curve on COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure that stays true .
WA , OR and CA will work together on a shared approach for reopening our economies .
# WeGotThisWA Such theories were further fueled by Newsom ’ s comments last week , when he described California as a “ nation-state.
” Asked about it on Monday , he defended it as a “ choice of words that gives you a sense of the scale and scope , ” for a state that ’ s “ larger than 21+ states combined , the world ’ s 5th largest economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That was enough for some liberal activists to hear a dog-whistle for separatism , getting “ Cascadia ” – a term for an independent Pacific Northwest polity – trending on social media .
I ’ ve never really wanted a tattoo , but hot damn if I don ’ t want a billboard sized “ CASCADIA FOREVER ” tat inked across my sweater puppies after seeing news of the Western States Pact .
So thrilled to join forces with our Washington state & California neighbors !
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West Coast LOVE !
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pic.twitter.com/yAvWOFEusc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York governor Andrew Cuomo said he would work together with five other states in the region to coordinate their reopenings as well .
This would involve New Jersey , Connecticut , Pennsylvania , Delaware and Rhode Island – all run by Democrats .
Later in the day the bloc achieved bipartisanship of sorts , when Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker , a NeverTrump Republican , reportedly joined up .
Unlike “ Cascadia , ” this seven-state bloc has not yet come up with a catchy label , though there have been suggestions along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the passenger train corridor running through them .
These two regional agglomerations prompted hopeful speculation about how “ the US federal government is losing operative control of its two primary economic centers ” and “ things might be done that aren ’ t easily undone.
” The greater New York area is setting up to make regional decisions as well .
This is going to gain steam over the coming weeks , and things might be done that aren ’ t easily undone .
When asked about this at the White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , insisting that the federal government had “ total ” authority but that he chose not to exercise it .
He did not ask the governors about ending the lockdowns , he said , “ because I don ’ t have to.
” and just like that the leftist suddenly discover states rights… The reality when a national disaster was declared , the rules changed a little But go-ahead to the states that don ’ t want to open back up .
See how that works out as the people revolt All this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twitter # Resistance obsessing about federalism , with “ 10th amendment ” trending all of a sudden .
That tail end of the Bill of Rights says the US states reserve all the power not explicitly delegated to the federal government .
It has long been neglected by the unchecked expansion of federal power .
The same people now swearing by the Tenth bemoaned Trump ’ s reluctance to declare a nationwide lockdown just last week .
Meanwhile , it remains unclear whether either of these regional groupings intend to end their lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have in mind .
That detail seems to matter to them less than their determination to bypass the White House .
That anyone is even entertaining the thoughts of separatism in 2020 is a bit… problematic .
The last time there had been a dispute over the primacy between the federal government and the states in the US was 155 years ago .
Admittedly , that also involved Democrat states rebelling against a Republican president whose election they considered illegitimate .
That particular conundrum , in case some people forgot , was “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cost of more than 600,000 lives ; the United States became a singular noun , and the Tenth Amendment tacitly became a quaint relic of the antebellum age .
Fiction writers have long assumed that any modern separatism in the US would involve conservatives seeking to resist the overreaching central government dominated by coastal liberals – rather than the Democrats irritated that the Bad Orange Man in the White House refused to be dictatorial enough for their taste .
But here we are .
( TLB ) published this article from RT-USA News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist , blogger and translator , who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015 , and is now senior writer at RT .
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Democrat governors colluding to end Covid-19 lockdowns spark talk of secession
Here comes ‘Cascadia’?
by Nebojsa Malic
As California and New York said they’d coordinate reopenings with neighboring states, mainstream US media suddenly rediscovered the virtue of federalism, while some online activists even cheered the notion of separatism.
California Governor Gavin Newsom got the ball rolling Monday, by announcing his state would coordinate ending the coronavirus shutdown with the neighboring Oregon and Washington further north – both run by Democrats as well – and not follow the lead of President Donald Trump and the federal government in Washington, DC. The West Coast is ahead of the curve on COVID-19. We’re going to make sure that stays true. WA, OR and CA will work together on a shared approach for reopening our economies. #WeGotThisWA — Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) April 13, 2020 Such theories were further fueled by Newsom’s comments last week, when he described California as a “nation-state.” Asked about it on Monday, he defended it as a “choice of words that gives you a sense of the scale and scope,” for a state that’s “larger than 21+ states combined, the world’s 5th largest economy, most diverse state and democracy.” That was enough for some liberal activists to hear a dog-whistle for separatism, getting “Cascadia” – a term for an independent Pacific Northwest polity – trending on social media. Chase Cross @chaseacross Soft launch of Cascadia. https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1249786091353169920 … I’ve never really wanted a tattoo, but hot damn if I don’t want a billboard sized “CASCADIA FOREVER” tat inked across my sweater puppies after seeing news of the Western States Pact. So thrilled to join forces with our Washington state & California neighbors!! West Coast LOVE!! pic.twitter.com/yAvWOFEusc — PurpleGimp (@PurpleGimp) April 13, 2020 Meanwhile, on the East Coast, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said he would work together with five other states in the region to coordinate their reopenings as well. This would involve New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island – all run by Democrats. Later in the day the bloc achieved bipartisanship of sorts, when Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a NeverTrump Republican, reportedly joined up. Unlike “Cascadia,” this seven-state bloc has not yet come up with a catchy label, though there have been suggestions along the lines of “Acela Territories” after the passenger train corridor running through them. These two regional agglomerations prompted hopeful speculation about how “the US federal government is losing operative control of its two primary economic centers” and “things might be done that aren’t easily undone.” #MaskUp Matt Parlmer#MaskUp @mattparlmer The greater New York area is setting up to make regional decisions as well. This is going to gain steam over the coming weeks, and things might be done that aren’t easily undone.
When asked about this at the White House press conference, Trump brushed it off, insisting that the federal government had “total” authority but that he chose not to exercise it. He did not ask the governors about ending the lockdowns, he said, “because I don’t have to.”
Wrong. It is not the president’s decision. 95% of the country is under some form of lockdown. The reason it’s not 100% is because it’s a state-level decision and some governors decided not to go with full, statewide lockdowns. Trump has limited power here due to 10th Amendment. https://t.co/e3V16c62rx — John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) April 13, 2020
Texas @angler_texas
and just like that the leftist suddenly discover states rights… The reality when a national disaster was declared, the rules changed a little But go-ahead to the states that don’t want to open back up. See how that works out as the people revolt
All this chatter quickly got the mainstream media and Twitter #Resistance obsessing about federalism, with “10th amendment” trending all of a sudden. That tail end of the Bill of Rights says the US states reserve all the power not explicitly delegated to the federal government. It has long been neglected by the unchecked expansion of federal power. The same people now swearing by the Tenth bemoaned Trump’s reluctance to declare a nationwide lockdown just last week.
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Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether either of these regional groupings intend to end their lockdowns sooner or later than what Trump might have in mind. That detail seems to matter to them less than their determination to bypass the White House.
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That anyone is even entertaining the thoughts of separatism in 2020 is a bit… problematic. The last time there had been a dispute over the primacy between the federal government and the states in the US was 155 years ago. Admittedly, that also involved Democrat states rebelling against a Republican president whose election they considered illegitimate. That particular conundrum, in case some people forgot, was “resolved” by war and at the cost of more than 600,000 lives; the United States became a singular noun, and the Tenth Amendment tacitly became a quaint relic of the antebellum age. Fiction writers have long assumed that any modern separatism in the US would involve conservatives seeking to resist the overreaching central government dominated by coastal liberals – rather than the Democrats irritated that the Bad Orange Man in the White House refused to be dictatorial enough for their taste. But here we are. ********* (TLB) published this article from RT-USA News with our appreciation for this perspective. About the writer Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Follow him on Twitter @NebojsaMalic . •••• •••• Stay tuned to …
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thelibertybeacon--2020-04-15--Imagine Your Own New World Order!

Imagine Your Own New World Order!

Imagine Your Own New World Order !
Did you know the notorious criminal , Bugsy Siegel , created the Flamingo , the first hotel in Las Vegas ?
Why did I open with this piece of data ?
When I typed the heading , the first fact that came to mind was Bugsy who had a vision to open that hotel .
It was so strong , it persisted through his gang telling him how crazy it was .
Nobody would come to a desert town , they warned him .
But they did .
And , as you know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Of course , he came to a bad end but that doesn ’ t deny his initial inspiration .
Far from suggesting you need to be a criminal to have vision or you should create a world of gambling and corruption , I was simply very impressed with this power of imagination .
It says to me that , even with a nasty , criminal mind and bad intentions , one can have vision which transcends the aberrated mind .
It ’ s an entity in itself .
Quite amazing and the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t mean ordinary thinking and calculating that figures out your budget or how to get somewhere , etc .
It ’ s the creepy , crawly kind that talks to you from its home in your mind ’ s file of bad experiences or people telling you – or you telling yourself – why you shouldn ’ t do things you dream of .
Here ’ s some typical comments : • What about your job ?
• Didn ’ t you try something like that before ?
It didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parents ?
• I don ’ t want you to get hurt .
You went to them with starry-eyed enthusiasm and left deflated , your imagination put out to pasture .
Not saying they all don ’ t mean well .
They ’ re just expressing their own failures and lack of guts to go by their inner intuition or take a risk when it ’ s needed .
How many millionaires have you heard of who went broke time and time and never failed to try again and ended up richer than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , you may think starting a new business or creating anything new is not quite the same magnitude as defeating the New World Order .
But the same rules apply .
It ’ s just a bigger game .
Along with imagining a new house or a business taking off and making a fortune , we create – preferably with others for much greater power – a true land of freedom and happiness with all the added details you like .
What ’ s the real difference between mocking up a car @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s just your own belief that one is easy and the other too daunting .
Well , remember , you are much bigger than you ever dreamed .
We just need to start , keep moving – especially with our friends .
We ’ ll never make it alone .
And trash the self doubts .
I ’ ve written about imagination on other of my articles so I hope this is still somewhat fresh .
There ’ s always different angles to the same concept .
Not only that , writing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to practice what I preach !
In hard times with our lives and survival level at stake , it ’ s not easy to create otherwise .
But must be done .
What these globalists do is try to wear down our spirit with fear and anxiety , threats of death from a virus , crashed economy , etc .
Then when we are sufficiently upset and malleable , they offer their “ solution ” which is socialism so they can take care of all those nasty problems which they , of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In fact , they imply it was all caused by our own stupidity .
If you ever thought that , just nix it .
The biggest , fattest lie in the universe !
Nice plan but we need to simply perceive the evil which prompts it and know it is not us .
The only way it could be our own doing is to cower and agree to it all .
Is it worth it to even be alive if you are considered , treated and suppressed down to the level of useless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be useful as laborers and other mindless activities .
OK , enough of mocking up the worst case scenario .
We CAN create a new world and just leave out the parts about controlling , cheating , frightening , demoralizing and killing the rest of our planet mates .
It doesn ’ t have to continue to be a prison planet .
Of course , that ’ s not ALL we need to do .
Otherwise , I might sound like miss goody two shoes .
No , there ’ s plenty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Plenty of fear to conquer .
But what I perceive recently is a much greater rising up ; people are getting damn fed up !
For example , you have probably seen the massive outcry against Bill Gates and his murderous agenda .
In that light , I want to urge everyone to attend this event on May 2nd – all over the world !
Find your state and sign up .
A big step in creating our new world !
The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grateful and excited !
But we must also be practical .
For 7 years we have not asked for any donations , and have built this project with our own funds as we grew .
We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent .
So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them .
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We thank you for all your support and your considerations … ( @ @

Imagine Your Own New World Order!
Commentary by: TLB Staff Writer Lucille Femine
Did you know the notorious criminal, Bugsy Siegel, created the Flamingo, the first hotel in Las Vegas? Why did I open with this piece of data?
When I typed the heading, the first fact that came to mind was Bugsy who had a vision to open that hotel. It was so strong, it persisted through his gang telling him how crazy it was. Nobody would come to a desert town, they warned him. But they did. And, as you know, it went on from there.
Of course, he came to a bad end but that doesn’t deny his initial inspiration.
Far from suggesting you need to be a criminal to have vision or you should create a world of gambling and corruption, I was simply very impressed with this power of imagination. It says to me that, even with a nasty, criminal mind and bad intentions, one can have vision which transcends the aberrated mind. It’s an entity in itself. Quite amazing and the most powerful ability we have.
What kills it? Thinking.
I don’t mean ordinary thinking and calculating that figures out your budget or how to get somewhere, etc. It’s the creepy, crawly kind that talks to you from its home in your mind’s file of bad experiences or people telling you – or you telling yourself – why you shouldn’t do things you dream of. Here’s some typical comments:
Won’t that cost money?
What about your job?
Sounds risky.
You might fail.
Didn’t you try something like that before? It didn’t work.
Did you ask your parents?
I don’t want you to get hurt.
Wait till next year.
You went to them with starry-eyed enthusiasm and left deflated, your imagination put out to pasture. Not saying they all don’t mean well. They’re just expressing their own failures and lack of guts to go by their inner intuition or take a risk when it’s needed. How many millionaires have you heard of who went broke time and time and never failed to try again and ended up richer than before? What was the difference?
They didn’t listen to naysayers.
However, you may think starting a new business or creating anything new is not quite the same magnitude as defeating the New World Order. But the same rules apply. It’s just a bigger game. Along with imagining a new house or a business taking off and making a fortune, we create – preferably with others for much greater power – a true land of freedom and happiness with all the added details you like.
What’s the real difference between mocking up a car and a whole new planet? It’s just your own belief that one is easy and the other too daunting. Well, remember, you are much bigger than you ever dreamed. We just need to start, keep moving – especially with our friends. We’ll never make it alone. And trash the self doubts.
I’ve written about imagination on other of my articles so I hope this is still somewhat fresh. There’s always different angles to the same concept. Not only that, writing about something over and over encourages me to practice what I preach! In hard times with our lives and survival level at stake, it’s not easy to create otherwise. But must be done.
What these globalists do is try to wear down our spirit with fear and anxiety, threats of death from a virus, crashed economy, etc. Then when we are sufficiently upset and malleable, they offer their “solution” which is socialism so they can take care of all those nasty problems which they, of course, had nothing to do with. In fact, they imply it was all caused by our own stupidity. If you ever thought that, just nix it. The biggest, fattest lie in the universe!
Nice plan but we need to simply perceive the evil which prompts it and know it is not us. The only way it could be our own doing is to cower and agree to it all. Is it worth it to even be alive if you are considered, treated and suppressed down to the level of useless animals? Well, some of us would be useful as laborers and other mindless activities.
OK, enough of mocking up the worst case scenario.
We CAN create a new world and just leave out the parts about controlling, cheating, frightening, demoralizing and killing the rest of our planet mates. It doesn’t have to continue to be a prison planet. Of course, that’s not ALL we need to do. Otherwise, I might sound like miss goody two shoes. No, there’s plenty of confront we need to muster up. Plenty of fear to conquer.
But what I perceive recently is a much greater rising up; people are getting damn fed up! For example, you have probably seen the massive outcry against Bill Gates and his murderous agenda.
In that light, I want to urge everyone to attend this event on May 2nd – all over the world! Find your state and sign up.
“If lockdowns etc… are not addressed by May First … We’re gathering together to stand up against the unconstitutional laws and mandates, starting with the Executive Orders for lockdowns” on May Second.
A big step in creating our new world!
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thelibertybeacon--2020-04-15--Hunter Biden Still Listed As Board Member Of Chinese Company

Why Is Hunter Biden Still Listed As Board Member Of Chinese Company He Vowed To Resign From ?
( ZeroHedge ) Hunter Biden is many things .
Ukrainian energy expert , artist , stripper impregnator , crack aficionado .
Oh , and he ’ s still a board member of a Chinese private equity firm he said he ’ d resign from last October , according to Chinese business records reported by the Daily Caller .
Hunter Biden ’ s lawyer , George Mesires , told the Daily Caller News Foundation in early November that his client had resigned from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did not provide any evidence of his departure from the Chinese private equity firm at the time .
Chinese business records the DCNF accessed Tuesday still name Hunter Biden as a director of BHR .
He also retains a 10 % equity stake in BHR through his company , Skaneateles LLC , business records for the Chinese private equity firm show .
–Daily Caller In October , Biden pledged to leave the company , BHR Partners , a private equity fund backed by some of China ’ s largest state banks , local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the end of that month .
According to BHR ’ s website , they manage $ 2.1 billion in assets .
Biden , who remained an unpaid board member since its founding in 2013 , obtained his equity stake in the firm in October , 2017 valued at $ 420,000 according to his attorney , Mesires .
‘ Hunter Biden had arranged for then-Vice President Joe Biden to shake hands with the CEO of BHR in December 2013 , a meeting that caused some White House advisors to worry whether the younger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , The New Yorker reported .
In a statement issued Oct. 13 by his lawyer , Hunter Biden pledged to resign his position on BHR ’ s board “ on or by October 31.
” The statement did not say whether Hunter Biden intended to relinquish his ownership stake in the Chinese private equity firm .
–Daily Caller “ The statement my son put out today , which I saw when he put it out — I was told it was going to be put out , I did not consult with him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — in fact represents the kind of man of integrity he is , ” said Hunter ’ s father , Joe Biden , last October .
Yet , according to independent data provider Qixinbao , Hunter is still listed as a BHR board member as of Tuesday .
The Caller notes that Biden ’ s continued presence on the list couldn ’ t be due too a processing delay in China ’ s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System ( NECIPS ) , as a March 24 submission to reflect the resignation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scherwin , as the company ’ s supervisor , was reflected .
Scherwin and Biden served together as loobbyists for Oldaker , Biden & Belair as far back as 2008 .
Finally – guess what address is listed for Biden ’ s firm – Skaneatles ?
Why , his $ 12,000 per month Los Angeles rental house valued at $ 3.8 million – which he resided in while desperately trying to avoid paying child support to the former Arkansas stripper he impregnated .
( TLB ) published this article from ZeroHedge as compiled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pictorial content and some emphasis by ( TLB ) More about Hunter Biden from The Liberty Beacon : Hunter Biden Self-Quarantines Himself .
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Why Is Hunter Biden Still Listed As Board Member Of Chinese Company He Vowed To Resign From?
(ZeroHedge) Hunter Biden is many things. Ukrainian energy expert, artist, stripper impregnator, crack aficionado. Oh, and he’s still a board member of a Chinese private equity firm he said he’d resign from last October, according to Chinese business records reported by the Daily Caller.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in early November that his client had resigned from BHR’s board, but he did not provide any evidence of his departure from the Chinese private equity firm at the time. Chinese business records the DCNF accessed Tuesday still name Hunter Biden as a director of BHR. He also retains a 10% equity stake in BHR through his company, Skaneateles LLC, business records for the Chinese private equity firm show. –Daily Caller
In October, Biden pledged to leave the company, BHR Partners, a private equity fund backed by some of China’s largest state banks, local government and the national pension fund, by the end of that month.
According to BHR’s website, they manage $2.1 billion in assets. Biden, who remained an unpaid board member since its founding in 2013, obtained his equity stake in the firm in October, 2017 valued at $420,000 according to his attorney, Mesires. ‘
Hunter Biden had arranged for then-Vice President Joe Biden to shake hands with the CEO of BHR in December 2013, a meeting that caused some White House advisors to worry whether the younger Biden was exposing his father to criticism, The New Yorker reported. In a statement issued Oct. 13 by his lawyer, Hunter Biden pledged to resign his position on BHR’s board “on or by October 31.” The statement did not say whether Hunter Biden intended to relinquish his ownership stake in the Chinese private equity firm. –Daily Caller
“The statement my son put out today, which I saw when he put it out — I was told it was going to be put out, I did not consult with him about what’s being put out — in fact represents the kind of man of integrity he is,” said Hunter’s father, Joe Biden, last October.
Yet, according to independent data provider Qixinbao, Hunter is still listed as a BHR board member as of Tuesday.
The Caller notes that Biden’s continued presence on the list couldn’t be due too a processing delay in China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (NECIPS), as a March 24 submission to reflect the resignation of Biden’s business partner, Eric Scherwin, as the company’s supervisor, was reflected. Scherwin and Biden served together as loobbyists for Oldaker, Biden & Belair as far back as 2008.
Finally – guess what address is listed for Biden’s firm – Skaneatles? Why, his $12,000 per month Los Angeles rental house valued at $3.8 million – which he resided in while desperately trying to avoid paying child support to the former Arkansas stripper he impregnated.
“Man of integrity,” indeed.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-04-15--WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE FUTURE?

WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE FUTURE?

WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE FUTURE ?
With the coronavirus putting Americans on a physical and economic lockdown , the government has enacted several plans to try to ward off financial devastation .
The most prominent has been the “ Coronavirus Aid , Relief and Economic Security Act , ” or CARES Act .
But National Center President David A. Ridenour says both sides of the aisle in Congress should be ashamed of what they sent to the White House .
Instead of helping stave off further crisis , David warns in a commentary syndicated by InsideSources that “ it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s because “ the package also includes hundreds of billions in spending that will do little to lessen the economic crisis.
” David suggests that “ both parties have apparently heeded ” the advice of Rahm Emanuel , the former Obama Administration chief of staff who infamously told a Wall Street Journal Forum audience in 2008 that “ you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
” The CARES Act , David notes , “ included an enormous amount of spending having little to do with addressing the coronavirus or its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aspects of the bill , such as emergency loans to businesses and governments and forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans to encourage businesses to retain their employees , there are also blanket unemployment payments that might encourage some people to remain out of the workforce and stimulus payments that are not targeted based on who needs help the most .
Then there is the simple fact that this may not be the right time for this sort of aid altogether .
David explains : And what about the superfluous spending , including $ 25 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington , D.C. to largely pay salaries ( despite laying off the National Symphony Orchestra ) and $ 345 million to the Labor Department for training and employment services during a work shutdown ?
David lists eight others , which he calls the “ dumbest spending in the CARES Act.
” When America gets back to normal – hopefully sooner rather than later in spite of the follies of the CARES Act – David suggests taking a cue from Representative Thomas Massie .
When the CARES Act came before Congress , Massie sought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the record in their support for massive and oftentimes wasteful spending in the name of coronavirus relief .
Leadership prevailed with a simple voice vote .
On its first day of publication , David ’ s piece appeared in newspapers such as the Duluth News Tribune and Waco Tribune .
To read all of David ’ s commentary — “ Both Parties Responsible for Dubious Spending in Bloated Stimulus Bill ” – click here .
InsideSources syndicates to almost 300 newspapers nationwide with a readership of over 25 million people .
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WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE FUTURE?
By: David Almasi
With the coronavirus putting Americans on a physical and economic lockdown, the government has enacted several plans to try to ward off financial devastation. The most prominent has been the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act,” or CARES Act. But National Center President David A. Ridenour says both sides of the aisle in Congress should be ashamed of what they sent to the White House.
Instead of helping stave off further crisis, David warns in a commentary syndicated by InsideSources that “it could even exacerbate it.” That’s because “the package also includes hundreds of billions in spending that will do little to lessen the economic crisis.”
David suggests that “both parties have apparently heeded” the advice of Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama Administration chief of staff who infamously told a Wall Street Journal Forum audience in 2008 that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” The CARES Act, David notes, “included an enormous amount of spending having little to do with addressing the coronavirus or its economic fallout.”
While there are good aspects of the bill, such as emergency loans to businesses and governments and forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans to encourage businesses to retain their employees, there are also blanket unemployment payments that might encourage some people to remain out of the workforce and stimulus payments that are not targeted based on who needs help the most.
Then there is the simple fact that this may not be the right time for this sort of aid altogether. David explains:
The thought behind the cash payment plan is that it will help stimulate the economy. However, you can’t stimulate an economy that’s been mandated closed. With little more than grocery and hardware stores open, the only thing the funding is likely to stimulate is more hoarding.
There may be a time for government stimulus, but this is not that time.
And what about the superfluous spending, including $25 million to the the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to largely pay salaries (despite laying off the National Symphony Orchestra) and $345 million to the Labor Department for training and employment services during a work shutdown? David lists eight others, which he calls the “dumbest spending in the CARES Act.”
When America gets back to normal – hopefully sooner rather than later in spite of the follies of the CARES Act – David suggests taking a cue from Representative Thomas Massie. When the CARES Act came before Congress, Massie sought a roll-call vote to get members on the record in their support for massive and oftentimes wasteful spending in the name of coronavirus relief. Leadership prevailed with a simple voice vote.
“[A]ll Americans must pick up where Massie left off,” David advises, “by holding accountable all of those responsible for the absurdities in the CARES Act.”
On its first day of publication, David’s piece appeared in newspapers such as the Duluth News Tribune and Waco Tribune. To read all of David’s commentary — “Both Parties Responsible for Dubious Spending in Bloated Stimulus Bill” – click here.
InsideSources syndicates to almost 300 newspapers nationwide with a readership of over 25 million people.
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