Category Corrupt Congress

Oct 21 2022

Iranian Drones


Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re-Posted Oct 21, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The western alliance is not the only one providing military training. Iran has sent military members to Crimea to train Russian troops. Specifically, they are training them to use Iranian drones. There were reports of Russian troops visiting Iran in August to learn how to operate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Since then, there have been numerous reports of UAVs failing, but the successfully deployed UAVs are capable of causing serious damage.

Shaheds, also known as kamikaze or suicide drones, explode on impact and are capable of also carrying missiles. This drone is less expensive to develop, but it can travel up to 1,000 miles and leave a range of destruction in its path. Mohajer-6 UAVs can be used for spying purposes and can, of course, also hold a missile. Ukraine claims that they have shot down at least 200 drones and have the capability to jam radars.

Both Russia and Iran have denied trading weapons, but what do they have to lose now that all the cards are on the table? Russia has violated the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 by transferring arms from Iran. The West has already sanctioned Russia in every way possible. Numerous nations are placing sanctions on Iran now, but again, they are not too concerned. Tehran and Moscow, two nuclear powers, are strengthening their relationship and seem prepared to face any Western consequences while resuming trade.

Oct 21 2022

CDC Votes Unanimously to Include Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine in Their Recommended Pediatric Immunization Schedule


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 20, 2022 | Sundance 

Unbelievable and infuriating at the same time.  The CDC voted unanimously today (15-0) to include the emergency use authorized mRNA vaccine as part of the childhood immunization schedule, effectively forcing most school aged children to undergo a COVID shot as part of the state requirement to attend school.

(Via Politico) The CDC’s independent vaccine advisers voted 15-0 Thursday to add most Covid-19 vaccines offered in the U.S. to the childhood, adolescent and adult immunization schedules.

The immunization schedules, which are updated every fall before going into effect the following year, consolidate all of the CDC’s vaccine recommendations in one document for states that use them as guidance for school entry requirements and busy physicians. The additions formalize recommendations the CDC has already made on Covid vaccination in individuals ages 6 months and older for shots that the FDA has approved or has authorized for emergency use.

Covid vaccines’ inclusion on the schedules don’t constitute mandates, particularly for schoolchildren, which are the purview of states, localities or jurisdictions, depending on local laws. Still, the committee’s vote sparked controversy and debate on social media about what the additions mean for vaccine requirements after Fox News’ Tucker Carlson asserted Tuesday that the CDC would trigger mandates for students.

“This doesn’t represent new recommendations. This represents sort of a summary of existing recommendations,” said advisory panel member Matthew Daley, a senior investigator at the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. “But I will acknowledge … there is symbolism in adding Covid-19 to the childhood immunization schedule, and that symbolism is that we view this as routine and that we view this as Covid is here to stay.”

The FDA has approved two messenger-RNA vaccines targeting Covid: The Pfizer-BioNTech primary series vaccine for people 12 and older and the Moderna primary series for adults 18 and older. They’re each authorized for emergency use for children as young as 6 months, and all booster doses — including new formulations designed to target the original coronavirus strain and two Omicron subvariants — are authorized for emergency use. (read more)

Oct 21 2022

Another Appeals Court Finds Progressive Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Unconstitutional


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 20, 2022 | Sundance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB) was originally created by congress (Elizabeth Warren lead) as a quasi-constitutional watchdog agency to reach into the banking and financial system, under the guise of oversight, and extract money by fining entities for CFPB defined regulatory and/or compliance violations.

Essentially, the CFPB is a congressionally authorized far-left extortion scheme in the banking sector.  The CFPB levies fines; the fines generate income; however, unlike traditional fines that go to the U.S. treasury, the CFBP fines are then redistributed to left-wing organizations to help fund their political activism.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was the brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren as an outcome of the Dodd-Frank legislation. Within the CFPB Warren tried to set up the head of the agency, the Director, in a manner that that he/she would operate without oversight. Unfortunately, her dictatorial-fiat-design collapsed when challenged in court.  Backstory #1 – Backstory #2

Previously, a federal court found the CFPB Director position held too much power and deemed it unconstitutional. The court decision noted that giving the President power to fire the Director would fix the constitutional problem.  However, a second set of legal challenges targeted the core of the CFPB scheme, the financing.

WASHINGTON DC – An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional, in a victory for lenders that have targeted the agency’s structure in a years-long bid to tamp down regulation.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the design of the CFPB violated the Constitution because it receives funding through the Federal Reserve, rather than appropriations legislation passed by Congress. Democrats established the structure when they created the CFPB in the 2010 Dodd-Frank law as a way to shield the bureau from political pressures that could impact its oversight of the finance industry.

The judges also vacated a 2017 small-dollar lending rule targeted by the payday lending advocates who brought the case — the Community Financial Services Association of America and the Consumer Service Alliance of Texas.

“Congress’s decision to abdicate its appropriations power under the Constitution, i.e., to cede its power of the purse to the Bureau, violates the Constitution’s structural separation of powers,” the judges wrote.

The appeals court ruling marked the latest victory for the finance industry, which has fought for years in Congress and the courts to blunt the CFPB’s reach and limit its ability to police financial services. Republican lawmakers have also worked for years to stifle the CFPB and revamp its structure, arguing the agency lacks accountability.

“Even among self-funded agencies, the Bureau is unique,” Judge Cory Wilson wrote Wednesday. “The Bureau’s perpetual self-directed, double-insulated funding structure goes a significant step further than that enjoyed by the other agencies on offer.”

The CFPB Wednesday declined to say whether it would appeal the decision to the full 5th Circuit. CFPB spokesperson Sam Gilford said “there is nothing novel or unusual about Congress’s decision to fund the CFPB outside of annual spending bills.” (read more)

Here’s where we remind everyone of the importance of regular budget appropriations. There hasn’t been a standard federal budgetary spending process in place since 2008. Every budget since Obama’s first term has been a series of continuous resolutions, omnibus spending bills and appropriations without regular order.

This has not been an accidental outcome.

Oct 20 2022

U.S. Military Rated ‘Weak’ For First Time



Newsmax TV Published originally on Rumble on October 19, 2022

James Carafano and Tony Shaffer join us to discuss the new Heritage Foundation report, which suggests America’s military is weak and will struggle to win a war.

Oct 20 2022

Ballot Harvesting in Arizona


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Oct 20, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Biden received more votes than any president in US history, but not legally. There is documented evidence of people voting numerous times, and the documentary “2000 Mules” shows exactly how people swung the vote in Biden’s favor. Mail-in ballots changed the 2020 US Presidential Election. No ID was required to vote, forms were sent to deceased Americans, and countless forms mysteriously disappeared in transit.

Arizona was a swing state battleground during the last election. The Office of the Arizona Attorney General is now calling upon the compromised FBI and IRS to investigate the damning documentary as they want it to be labeled a conspiracy theory. They do not want the people to know that our elections were rigged.

Elsewhere in Arizona, a sensible judge is cracking down on ballot harvesting. For the first time in the state’s history, a person has been sentenced for ballot harvesting. Again, no one in the state of Arizona has EVER been charged with this serious act. Guillermina Fuentes, former mayor of the city of San Luis, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation.

Yuma County Superior Court Judge Roger Nelson does not believe Fuentes is remorseful. “The defendant acknowledged responsibility for carrying ballots for someone else however, she stated, ‘I’m not a criminal.’ Well, you are a criminal,” Nelson declared. “You committed a criminal offense. I don’t think you recognize that as a criminal offense. That’s the problem that I have.”

We need more judges like Roger Nelson who are willing to rule in favor of the people. Finally, someone is experiencing the consequences for rigging the 2020 US Presidential Election.

Oct 20 2022

Biden Has Ensured the Fall of the USA


Armstrong Economics Blog/Energy

Posted Oct 19, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

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QUESTION: Marty, do you think that electric cars should be avoided? What do you see for the future? Biden looks like he has undermined Israel all over pleading for low gasoline prices.

thank you

FG

ANSWER: The goal of energy independence was achieved under Trump. Now, under Biden, he had depleted the oil reserves all to save the Democrats from their own policies of ending fossil fuels. Worse still, the Biden Administration has now opened the door to the decline and fall of the United States for another oil embargo would be devastating to the US economy and the people are totally unaware of how vulnerable their livelihood now stands thanks to the Democrats.

I’m sure the Democrats will be writing in as always. All I can say is PLEASE look at this objectively and do not vote simply because of party politics. Depleting the strategic oil reserves to just try to bullshit everyone for the midterm election and then afterward, screw you and your family, shows that they are counting on your stupidity and your bias.

I have studied military tactics. All they need do is cut off all oil again, the US will crumble, and your very job will be at risk if companies can no longer function. This is all total bullshit. It should be a crime for any president to take the strategic reserves for personal political gain. This is no different than robbing money from the Treasury.

I have warned, Beware of oil prices in 2023. Biden has completely undermined the security of the United States into 2032. The Arabs know see the crisis that they face. They would be insane to do anything that benefits the Biden Administration or the EU. Forcing prices to skyrocket will be the only thing to force political change from this climate insanity.

Electric cars are not practical. They may be ok as a second car for around town. But I would look at hybrids for we do not have the power grid to support electric cars. In addition, the first think you do in war is take down the power grid. With electric cars and digital currency, you complete shut down an opponent. Brain dead – just brain dead.

Oct 20 2022

CDC Holds Meeting on Whether or Not to Include COVID-19 Vaccinations in Their Recommended Pediatric Immunization Schedule


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 19, 2022 | Sundance

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is scheduled to decide Thursday whether or not to include COVID-19 vaccinations in their pediatric immunization schedule.  For most parents this quietly organized committee meeting is coming as a surprise.  [ACIP Agenda Here]

Many states require following the CDC guidance as part of their school vaccine requirements.  The substantively untested mRNA vaccine for children is quite controversial; however, as noted by some alternative media sources there is a benefit to Big Pharma in the approval.  Mandated immunizations provide liability protection for the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture them, and the CDC is essentially a government arm of those same companies.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson used his widely watched broadcast to raise awareness of the meeting. {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:

Clark County Today – Armed with information from dissenting health scientists, parents in a number of states convinced their health board to reject bids to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required shots for public schoolchildren.

And parents across the nation are demonstrating their lack of trust in the experimental mRNA vaccines issued under emergency use authorization, with only about 2% of children under 5 and less than one-third ages 5 to 11 having been fully immunized.

Nevertheless, the CDC is poised to address the “vaccine hesitancy” and the pharmaceutical companies’ lack of permanent liability with one vote.

On Thursday, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is scheduled to decide whether or not to include COVID-19 vaccinations in their pediatric immunization schedule.

Approval not only would make it more likely that states will mandate COVID-19 shots to attend public school, it could grant permanent legal immunity to vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna along with another profit windfall, health scientists are warning. (read more)

While the CDC guidelines for pediatric vaccination schedules doesn’t technically force states to follow the federal guidance, many states defer to the CDC and require their school districts to follow the guidelines.   As a result, adding the mRNA COVID vaccine to the federal immunization schedule would mean many parents would have to give their child the vaccine in order to comply with state requirements.

There are several studies and a growing number of pediatric doctors who are concerned about the safety of the mRNA vaccine in a childhood group who are not at high risk from the virus itself.    For children and young adults, the benefit of the vaccination is potentially outweighed by the harm it may cause.   Mandating the COVID-19 vaccine in children is extremely concerning, albeit beneficial to Big Pharma.

Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was asked about the issue on Wednesday and responded that she would not support adding the mRNA vaccination to the state requirement. {Direct Rumble Link} – WATCH:

https://rumble.com/embed/v1m6dj6/?pub=4#?secret=WI9r4z1dxk

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Oct 20 2022

Gaetz on Durham, The FBI are the Perpetrators Not the Victims


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 19, 2022 | Sundance

Last night, Congressman Matt Gaetz joined “Prime News with Jenn Pellegrino” on Newsmax to share his reaction to Igor Danchenko’s acquittal, and how the Durham investigation failed to bring accountability to the FBI. {Direct Rumble Link}

The evidence to prove Matt Gaetz perspective is brutally obvious.  John Durham never brought any issue to the surface that would indict the people within government. Durham focused exclusively on those outside government.   As Gaetz notes, the Durham investigation was structured to present the FBI as victims to outside forces.  WATCH:

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