White House Special Event – Promises Made, Promises Kept – 4:45pm ET Livestream


Posted originally on CTH on May 2, 2025 | Sundance

I’m not exactly sure what this event is all about; however, at 4:45pm the White House says tune in.  Livestream Links Below:

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Lo-Fi MAGA Video to Relax/Study To 

German Intelligence Agencies Label AfD, the Largest Political Group in the Country, as an “Extremist Organization”


Posted originally on CTH on May 2, 2025 | Sundance

In the USA we have the example of “Russiagate” where the FBI, CIA and DOJ-NSD intel community weaponized against candidate Donald Trump.

In Romania, we have the example of the EU intel community nullifying –through the court– the election win of Călin Georgescu; and disqualifying the winning candidate.

Now, in Germany, the intelligence community produces a report labeling the largest political party as an “extremist” group, taking new power to conduct political surveillance and control the election outcome.

…. What is the common denominator?

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Hope is not a strategy. That said, I hope Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the former Chair of the SSCI, has awakened to the reality of the intelligence services controlling western govt.

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned a decision Friday from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” calling the move “tyranny in disguise” and advising the country to “reverse course.”

“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,” Rubio wrote in a post on X in the hours following the decision.

The decision, announced Friday by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, gives German authorities increased oversight and surveillance over AfD. While some AfD branches at the state level have received the label — such as in Saxony and Thuringia — this is the first time in modern German history that a party with nationwide representation on the federal level has been classified as extremist.

The party won a record 152 parliament seats in the February federal elections and now holds 20.8 percent of the vote.

After conducting a three-year-long investigation into the party, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution released a 1,000 page report, citing violations of core constitutional principles including human dignity and the rule of law. (read more)

If you want to understand what is happening in Germany, WATCH THIS:

We cannot look at the splinter in the eye of the EU, without considering the plank in our own….

The modern iteration of this IC power originated during the ‘Arab Spring’ and was triggered by President Obama.  That is over a decade ago and we have tracked and documented every step of the growth therein.  The research is the core of our series on The Fourth Branch of Government.

Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.  When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus.  However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology.  The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution.  Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.

We were not sleeping when this happened, we were wide awake.  However, we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design.  By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was shifting, but we can only see exactly what shifted in the aftermath.  The four pillars were put into place, and a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created.

As time passed, and the system operators became familiar with their new tools, technology allowed the tentacles of the system to reach out and touch us. That is when we first started to notice that something very disconcerting was happening.  Those four pillars are the root of it, and if we take the time to understand how the Fourth Branch originated, questions about this current state of perpetual angst will start to make sense. (read more)

REPORT: Stephen Miller a Top Contender for National Security Advisor Role


Posted originally on CTH on May 2, 2025 | Sundance

The report is coming from Axios, so take it with a grain of salt.  It could also be the White House testing the waters for DC reaction to the possibility.  The outlet is saying White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller is a top candidate for consideration to fill the National Security Advisor role to President Trump [SEE HERE].

Stephen Miller already runs the White House Homeland Security group, inside the executive office.  He has been an excellent organizer and spokesperson for DHS deportation operations, and the Homeland Security Council runs very smooth under his direction.

That said, from my perspective, the key qualification for Stephen Miller is that he DOES NOT carry the infection of time spent inside the Intelligence Community silos.  Miller’s autonomic outlook is not contextualized to believe everything the IC says. This is critical.

An effective National Security Advisor in the modern era (post Patriot Act) needs to look at all intelligence with cynicism, accepting that weaponized political perspective permeates the entire silo that might be providing the information.  The NSA cannot trust anyone in the IC, yet the NSA must be trustworthy to President Trump.

Remember, the Director of National Intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard) is an assembler of pre-existing intelligence, the DNI does not create intelligence.  The Director of the National Security Agency is under the DNI and operates as the librarian for data, from which other silos gather intelligence.  The Director of the NSA does not create intelligence.

It is the Pentagon, the State Dept., the FBI, the DOJ-NSD and the CIA who create most of the intelligence that flows to the President.  The National Security Advisor needs to be the filter between manipulated DoD, DoS, FBI and CIA information.

The Nat Sec Advisor needs to be able to question the assembled briefing material, review the raw data if needed, hop on a plane and go to the source of the intelligence to discover if it is real or false.  The Nat Sec Advisor then engages with his/her peers (foreign directors of intelligence), evaluates against the information from U.S. officials, and then informs the President of the best determined facts available.  The Nat Sec Advisor is incredibly important.

The policy of the President is framed, in part, by the information he receives from the National Security Advisor.  Unfortunately, in the game of political silos, this is also why the IC manipulate the information given to the Nat Sec Advisor in order to shape the policy of the President.  This is why the discernment skill is so important for the position.

Stephen Miller has that discernment skill and likely the right about of skepticism to be a very useful National Security Advisor; plus, Miller has the added benefit of also being trustworthy as he is currently trusted by President Trump.

If the report is accurate, Stephen Miller would be a great move.

President Trump has NEVER had a genuine, authentic and trustworthy National Security Advisor.

Miller would likely be the first, and the only NSA who would carry a MAGA perspective.  However, that said, this is also the reason why the Intelligence Community would be structurally aligned against Miller assuming the role (including both HPSCI and SSCI adversaries).   Stephen Miller would be the first NSA to exist outside their traditional control mechanisms.

The people deep inside the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and State Dept. silos would likely not appreciate Stephen Miller; however, President Trump would likely benefit greatly.

I think Stephen Miller is a great choice.

April Jobs Report Reflects 177,000 New Jobs Beating Expectations, Federal Employment Drops 9,000


Posted originally on CTH on May 2, 2025 | Sundance 

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the jobs and employment data for April [SEE HERE].  Within the data we see 177,000 jobs were gained, beating expectations of 133,000.   The unemployment rate remains unchanged at 4.2%.

Federal government employment declined by 9,000 in April [BLS, Table B-1]  Health care added 51,000 jobs: consisting of hospitals (+22,000) and ambulatory health care services (+21,000). Transportation and warehousing increased by 29,000 jobs in April: with warehousing and storage (+10,000), couriers and messengers (+8,000), and air transportation (+3,000).

(Via Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. economy continued to add jobs at a steady clip in April, although the pace of gains slowed slightly during a month that saw changing tariff announcements and market turmoil.

The U.S. added 177,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, above the gain of 133,000 jobs economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected to see.

The unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey from the jobs figures, held steady at 4.2%.

The jobs number was less than the 185,000 jobs added in March. The job gains for February and March were revised down by a combined 58,000 jobs.

Federal-government layoffs were a drag on payrolls. Federal government employment declined by 9,000 in April.

Stocks opened higher. All three major U.S. indexes were up 1% or more in early trading. (more)

Fox News Highlights DOGE Weekly Recap Meeting – Billions in Government Waste


Posted originally on CTH on May 2, 2025 | Sundance 

Apparently, each week the Dept of Govt Efficiency (DOGE) team gets together for a weekly debriefing and recap session of what is happening in the various agencies under review.  Fox News host Jesse Watters accompanied Elon Musk to this week’s meeting.

Fox News has shared the discussion to help people understand a little bit more about what is happening behind the scenes with the DOGE review team. It is an interesting discussion.  WATCH:

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Part Two is below.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Discusses Status of Globe with Geopolitical Consequence


Posted originally on CTH on May 1, 2025 | Sundance 

I’m not sure why they choose Hannity but given that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now also the interim National Security Advisor, it’s worth quickly visiting his perspectives in this new dual role. WATCH (prompted):

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National Security Advisors


Posted originally on CTH on May 1, 2025 | Sundance

The question can be asked, has President Trump ever had a National Security Advisor who was not compromised?

Unfortunately, some people are rushing to the Mike Flynn redo. As a consequence, some context for why Flynn can never be in the administration again is needed. In brief, he’s a fibber.

In November of 2016 CTH first warned of the issue when it was rumored that Flynn would be selected as Trump’s NSA. [SEE HERE] We knew even before the election this could be a problem.  As far as we could surmise at the time – the Trump Campaign and subsequent President-Elect transition team, had no idea that campaign advocate and campaign adviser Michael Flynn was also being paid to lobby in DC on behalf of the government of Turkey, and ultimately put a positive perspective on Recep Erdogan.

The Flynn lobbying arrangement, a corporate lobbyist, then a foreign agent lobbyist, was beyond sketchy.  Before the 2016 election Flynn penned an op-ed advocating heavily for Recep Erdogan –SEE HERE–  The content was entirely disconnected from the assembled foreign policy outlook of Candidate Donald Trump. The Flynn Op-Ed was actually counter to candidate Trump’s policy views.

If you go read the Op-Ed now, you will notice a very specific editors note: “On March 8, 2017, four months after this article was published, General Flynn filed documents with the Federal government indicating that he earned $530,000 last fall for consulting work that might have aided the government of Turkey. In the filings, Flynn disclosed that he had received payments from Inovo BV, a Dutch company owned by a Turkish businessman with ties to Turkey’s president and that Inovo reviewed the draft before it was submitted to The Hill. Neither General Flynn nor his representatives disclosed this information when the essay was submitted.”

Earlier this evening, Mike Flynn once again denied he was a registered foreign lobbyist.

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“Never had a lobbying gig”?

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President Donald Trump Delivers Commencement Speech at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa – 7:00pm ET Livestream


Posted originally on CTH on May 1, 2025 | Sundance

Tonight, President Donald Trump delivers the commencement speech at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.  The anticipated start time is 7:00pm ET, with Livestream Links Below:

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A Remarkable Seven Minutes with Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – Why Anthony Fauci Wanted a Pardon


Posted originally on CTH on May 1, 2025 | Sundance 

In this segment of a remarkable interview by MeAgain Kelly, DNI Tulsi Gabbard discusses the current intelligence community research into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (aka COVID-19).   Gabbard talks about the U.S. government funding of ‘gain of function’ research which is a soft sounding phrase to describe the weaponization of biological agents.

Gabbard notes the gain of function research taking place in the Wuhan lab, was coordinated and funded by the United States Government, and the Intelligence Community is close to making a direct link between the research and the release of the COVID-19 virus.  Additionally, DNI Gabbard explains the concern of other biolabs around the world and then gets very close to the line of admitting the IC itself is politically weaponized (which it is but would be stunning to admit).  WATCH:

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President Trump Announces Move of Mike Waltz to U.N Ambassador


Posted originally on CTH on May 1, 2025 | Sundance

The move and shift in National Security Advisor responsibility makes sense on a couple of different levels.  First the U.N position carries “prestige” softening the ouster of Waltz; second, with the foreign policy run from the White House, a dual Secretary of State/NSA role works under currently assigned responsibilities.

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Mike Waltz becomes the Nikki Haley of term-2.

Optimal solution.