Visit our website now: http://www.billstill.com - considered by informed insiders’ as THE ultimate resource for fixing the National Debt problem and surviving Economic or Financial Collapse/Crash and attaining the unvarnished truth about Washington and today’s United States Political Climate. Good morning, I’m still reporting on John Bolton – Secretary of State? Yesterday, John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, met with President-Elect Donald Trump regarding the position of Secretary of State. I think the general notion of Ambassador Bolton in the MSM is that he is hawkish neocon. I’ve always liked Bolton. He never follows the herd because the depth of his knowledge of international affairs is so deep. His views always take a very nuanced approach. Here’s an example. I came down in support of taking out Saddam Hussein, despite the fact that I knew it would unbalance the entire Middle East. For those of you who weren’t old enough to have followed this on a day-by-day basis, here is a very important perspective that is completely lost from the MSM’s overview of the roots of the war in Iraq. This from Saddam Hussein’s Wikipedia entry: “Saddam was notable for using terror against his own people. The Economist described Saddam as "one of the last of the 20th century's great dictators, but not the least in terms of egotism, or cruelty, or morbid will to power". “Saddam's regime brought about the deaths of at least 250,000 Iraqis and committed war crimes in Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued regular reports of widespread imprisonment and torture.” Beyond that, I had met a nurse and a doctor whom had served in Iraq during Saddam’s reign who discovered that Saddam had a very advanced chemical and bio-weapons capability and Saddam was spending lots of money for R&D in this area. The nurse’s name was Joyce Riley – who later went on to host a very successful radio show out of Versailles, Missouri. The doctor’s name was Garth Nicholsen who ended up teaching at a university in San Diego. They documented Saddam’s chemical and bio-weapons capabilities as clearly WMD (weapons of mass destruction). However, the MSM was strangely silent about Riley and Nicholson’s attempts to inform the American public on dangers of this issue. It’s like they were supporting Saddam. As the US Army entered Baghdad, it was clearly reported on Fox by Hannity -- for only one day -- that a convoy of trucks was spotted heading northwest into Syria. The theory is that this was Saddam’s bio-weapons R&D team. This convoy was further supported by Iraqi general Georges Sada in his post-war book, Saddam’s Secrets. General Sada was Vice-Air Marshall of Saddam’s Air Force and made several appearances on Fox talking about an air convoy as well of some 50 sorties taking some sort of heavy equipment into Syria. This, too, is now completely ignored as the narrative is now that there was little justification for invading Iraq in the first place. Interestingly, Gen. Sada was a devout Christian in a Muslim country. So although I was not a huge fan of U.S. intervention, I have always been mystified why this important piece of the puzzle is now totally ignored – and even denied by the MSM. Although it seems clear today that involvement in Iraq was a mistake, what were we supposed to do; support a dictator who ruled by throwing his opponents into trash shredding machines? Here is a picture of the jacket of General Sada’s excellent book; published in 2006 by Integrity Publishers – a small Christian publisher in Brentwood, Tennessee. I apologize for going on about this for two minutes, but it is so rare that I get the opportunity to expose this totally-ignored part of the history of the genesis of the Iraq war. My point is that John Bolton’s support for the Iraq War had significant justification that has been denied over and over again in the MSM as fictitious. Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington. Connect with Bill Still: https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3 https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BillStill http://billstills.blogspot.in/ https://twitter.com/billstill https://www.facebook.com/BillStillOfficial https://www.pinterest.com/billstills/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/billstill http://billstills.tumblr.com/ https://billstills.wordpress.com/ https://www.diigo.com/profile/billstill https://www.reddit.com/user/billstills/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/billstillss Consider becoming a cherished sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3204630 https://youtu.be/HUkamRC1gG0

Good Morning, I’m still reporting from Washington. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner will resign not only his post as Speaker of the House, but his seat in Congress at the end of October. Mr. Boehner has been under attack by the right wing of the Republican Party as we reported in Still Report #425 on Sept. 7. Apparently Boehner saw that there was now sufficient votes to oust him, so he is choosing to get out all together. He was criticized for selling his vote on Fast Track Trade legislation for $5.3 million dollars. He, by his own admission, has long been at the core of the Congressional vote buying scandal – politely known as lobbying – which in recent years has grown completely out of control. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.

Yesterday, on ABC’s “This Week”, former Speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich said – to the complete shock and horror of his Democrat panelist colleagues -- that Donald Trump would not hurt the Republican party, and not only could win the Republican nomination, but could become the next president of the United States. When Gingrich was asked if Trump would hurt the Republican party, he said: “I doubt it.” Then Gingrich was asked if Trump could be the nominee. He said flatly: [insert] Gingrich speaks the truth. The Democrat so-called “journalists” on the ABC panel were horrified by Gingrich’s assessment. Why do Democrats hate Trump even more than the Republican establishment? Because Trump is the only candidate who really can threaten the system – not the Republican or Democrat system – but the vote buying system that has become rampant in the last few years. It has not escaped the attention of we, the American people, that on important legislation now, there is a literal silent auction underway on every key vote. Last week it was uncovered that the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner was paid by lobbyists $5.2 million to vote to give Obama Fast-Track authority. He was given over a million to vote NO, but 5.3 million to vote YES. It’s now the same for all the key legislators in Congress facing key votes. It’s nothing but an auction. The uber-rich are now hell-bent on ramming thru some of THE most dangerous legislation ever put before Congress – legislation which strikes at the heart of the sovereignty of the United States and thereby strikes at the heart of human kind’s 2500 year march towards freedom. Trump – at this juncture – seems like the only possible shot the average American have at breaking this strangle-hold that the money monopoly has over both parties. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.

to become Partner #426: www.billstill.com, then Click "Subscribe". Bitcoin address: 15Ucde9jSR7UezG8w4Lgk3jMhiCebc4veG After much fanfare and threats of draconian executive orders against second-amendment ownership of guns -- in the end, President Obama decided to go quietly into the night rather than suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of legions of state governments and 2nd amendment rights organizations. After court losses on Obamacare and immigration, and increasing calls for impeachment, Obama couldn’t stand another sure loser in the inevitable wave of pro-2nd amendment lawsuits. Yesterday, the White House issued none of the expected executive orders, only a presidential memorandum asking federal agencies to study “smart gun” technology. Delegate Bob Marshall, Virginia’s most respected legislator had already planned to go head-to-head with the White House. He planned to urge other Virginia legislators to simply ignore any anti-gun executive orders from the White House.- “Virginia is under no Constitutional obligation to enforce Barack Obama’s executive efforts at restricting Second Amendment Rights.” “In 1992, the US Supreme Court ruled that’ ‘Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative process of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program. (New York vs. United States, 488 U.S. 1041).“ “The Court has ruled that way since 1842.” Even the National Rifle Association was underwhelmed by the “guidance” issued by the White House. It said that although the new guidance was “ripe for abuse” no immediate lawsuit is likely because there are few actual changes to challenge. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day