Swamp Gatekeeper Chris Wallace Leaving Fox News Effective Immediately for New Position at CNN


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 12, 2021 | Sundance | 359 Comments

It was always Chris Wallace’s job to protect the DC interests by tamping down any sunlight upon corrupt UniParty politics.  That’s the reason why CTH called Wallace the deep swamp ‘gatekeeper‘ for a decade.

Wallace, the top player amid many such players at Fox News, was always a narrative platform provider to distribute media points that supported the institutional administrative state in DC.    However, thanks to the rise of pragmatic conservatism, a movement created by Donald Trump and commonly identified as MAGA, in recent years more people have caught on to how this insufferable media game is played.

Chris Wallace was increasingly becoming naked to his audience, and as a direct outcome, increasingly useless for propaganda distribution.  Today, the functionally obsolescent gatekeeper announced, effective immediately, he was leaving Fox News.  Moments later, CNN announced Chris Wallace was joining them.  In essence, Wallace moves from controlled opposition to direct opposition. WATCH:

The CNN welcome announcement is AVAILABLE HERE.

Wallace was not the first departure.  The increased public awareness of the manipulative construct that is Fox News (writ large) is the same reason why Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg were released.  That is also the same motive for Fox hiring Dan Bongino.

Although it is yet to be announced, the Fox News contracts for Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham also will not be renewed after their current terms expire.   With more people finding more places where genuine source material facts are cited with sunlight, the ability for controlled opposition pundits to thrive is demonstrably lessened.

Traditional cable news is modifying itself accordingly with subscription based services.

If you want to avoid uncomfortable truth, if you want to be fed propaganda, if you want to get talking points just to support your skewed and ideologically flawed world view, and if you want to avoid confronting your own preconceptions, the subscriber services from both Fox News and CNN will now provide the direct injection of propaganda and misinformation you need to retain the status quo.  This is the new business model for cable news platforms.

An entirely new media infrastructure has assembled outside the influence of corporations.  Understanding current events, real news and information based on fact, is no longer dependent on corporations.  Independent researchers and information providers are giving the raw material citations directly to audiences on a variety of platforms.

In the bigger picture, these are the consequences from identifying “fake news” publicly, and yes, we can thank Donald J. Trump for that.  This is the biggest gift that Donald Trump created outside of his America First political agenda.  Donald J. Trump was/is a walking red pill; a “touchstone”: a visible, empirical test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of anything political.

Without Trump, the business models of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the alphabet broadcasters would never have collapsed as quickly.  He alone accomplished that.

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New Zealand’s Tobacco Industry to Become Obsolete


Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Dec 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

New Zealand plans to make the tobacco industry obsolete among future generations. Associate Health Minister Dr. Ayesha Verrall announced plans to pass the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan, with the goal of eliminating tobacco in the country in the next four years. As a result, cigarette companies will be prohibited from advertising in New Zealand. When the law goes into effect, teenagers under the age of 14 will never have the ability to purchase legal tobacco in their lifetimes. In addition, the majority of controversial flavored e-cigarettes aside from mint, menthol, and tobacco were banned in August as they are said to appeal to the youth.

The government is also taking measures to help older generations quit by gradually reducing nicotine content in cigarettes and removing filters. Currently, 8,000 retailers have the ability to sell tobacco products in the nation, but that will be reduced to only 500 locations. In four years, the only cigarettes available will contain a very low level of nicotine before they are phased out completely.

Verrall claims the move will save New Zealand $5 billion in healthcare costs. According to estimates, the average smoker in New Zealand spends $238 per week on cigarettes, amounting to $12,400 annually. The move will make New Zealand’s tobacco industry the most restricted in the world, behind Bhutan where cigarette products are prohibited entirely. However, tobacco sales compose around 40% of total convenience retail revenue in the nation. Opponents say that prohibition has never worked, and the ban will lead to an unregulated black market. Small dairies (i.e., grocery stores) are upset over the law as it will deplete much of their revenue, and the government has said it will not step in to bail out businesses affected by the mandate.

The COVER-UP?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While everyone still argues over the virus and which lab did what, they seem to gloss over the real question — Is this a diversion to hide the true motive?  This is why nobody in the Biden Administration will ever investigate Fauci. There is plenty to warrant an investigation, but it might uncover something much larger.

Top Cardiologist Warns of Deadly Vaccine Induced Myocarditis in Children


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Dr. Peter McCullough, a top cardiologist in his field, has warned that myocarditis due to the vaccine is “way more serious” than myocarditis contracted from the virus itself. Myocarditis, or heart muscle inflammation, is a side effect of both COVID and the mRNA vaccine. The difference is that the ailment produced by the natural infection tends to elevate troponin levels, according to Dr. McCullough, which is a protein found in cardiac and skeletal muscle. “[T]he myocarditis in COVID-19 is mild, it’s inconsequential, and it’s largely a component of election [of troponin].”

In contrast, contracting the ailment through the vaccine may cause lipid nanoparticles to go directly to the heart, the doctor stated. “The heart expresses the spike protein, the body attacks the heart. There are dramatic EKG changes. I don’t want anybody to think that the myocarditis of a natural infection is anything like what we’re seeing with the vaccines,” the top cardiologist warned.

Dr. McCullough said the heart injury due to the vaccine is around 10-100 times higher than the troponin seen in natural infection. Worsening matters, the doctor states that when kids develop myocarditis after the vaccine, 90% require immediate hospitalization to prevent heart failure. “Vaccine-induced myocarditis is a big deal, and in children, it’s way more serious and more prominent than a post-COVID myocarditis.”

AstraZeneca Vaccination Side Effects


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Dec 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: I am one of the people who has suffered at the hands of the Astra Zeneca Vaccine BUT no one really believes me!
I live in Botswana and all of 2020 we kept free of this virus. then april 2021 we had our first JAB and i was really ill with malaria like symptoms five day. Decided not to have 2nd Jab but then not having done research at this stage i went for 2nd on 23 June – what a disaster – 6 hours later i could hardly walk. Anyway Ive slowly got through it but still battling muscular inflammation. Its a disaster.
please please continue telling people about this jab –  and thanks for the truth.

REPLY: I am sorry to hear about the adverse reaction you had to the AstraZeneca vaccination. It is understandable why people have taken the vaccine due to a lack of transparent information. The public at large only knows the vaccines as being a “safe and effective” method against COVID. In addition to being afraid of losing employment or being banned from travel and entering businesses, this moral spin has caused many to feel a false sense of guilt as if they will infect others if they do not comply. We now know the truth.

In your country, the Botswanan Covid Task Force recently admitted that new omicron cases are primarily found among the vaccinated. In the US, we have the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) where government agencies allegedly track vaccination complications. Yet, the people behind VAERS have admitted that fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse reactions are reported. Unfortunately, the risks involved may become more apparent as vaccination efforts increase and more people experience the potential consequences.

About That Yahoo Article on Ali Watkins and James Wolfe


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 12, 2021 | Sundance | 27 Comments

Several people have emailed asking for opinion on the Yahoo News article [READ HERE] outlining Ali Watkins as a victim of the horrible investigative apparatus that targets journalists who are involved in leaking and denying leaking, “Top Secret, Classified Information” from their narrative engineering positions.  {{Insert Eyeroll Here}}

Having read the lengthy article a few times, there are some interesting aspects and also a lot of nonsense in the grand scheme of things.  The motive for the article appears to be a defense against government investigating journalists, and a sub-sector of one of the intelligence agencies (Customs and Border Patrol) having a semi-rogue actor named Jeffrey Rambo. Ali Watkins was contacted by Rambo in 2017 based on his discovery of her connection to Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe.

You have to read the article [HERE] to see where the author, Jana Winter, is coming from.   Overall, the article is a little weird and defensive, and frames a position that secretive U.S. government agencies should not be conducting surveillance on U.S. journalists.   Much of the article is not too interesting to anyone who is not a journalist. However, there are a few parts worth noting. One paragraph specifically, which I’ll get to.

First… The author Mrs. Jana Winter and Ali Watkins are lying about a very key point.  Watkins claims James Wolfe never leaked any classified information to her, and Jana Winter makes that point repeatedly.  This is a lie, they are liars – [sue me].    James Wolfe did leak classified information to Ali Watkins, who was writing for Buzzfeed at the time, which Watkins then shared with her friends and peers in the media.   One specific classified leak was the Carter Page FISA application, which Wolfe leaked to Watkins in March of 2017.

Second… When Jeffrey Rambo enters the picture to question Watkins, neither of them knew at the time that Watkins was already under FBI investigation.  The timeline is outlined in the original James Wolfe indictment.   After Watkins wrote an article in early April 2017, using the Wolfe and the FISA leak as her anonymous source, she became a target for investigation.

Watkins was notified on February 13, 2018 about her electronic communication being retrieved by the DOJ/FBI per a previous court order.  One set of her phone records that were used in evidence covered a period from Feb 1 to July 31, 2017.  [LETTER HERE]

Third…  We know from the indictment itself the investigation of James Wolfe was completed by December 15, 2017, when he was fired from his position.  Wolfe’s indictment did not surface for another six months – until June 08, 2018.   Wolfe was indicted for lying to the FBI investigators.  However, Wolfe was not indicted for leaking the FISA application despite the FBI having direct evidence of the leak; which was then sworn and affirmed in Wolfe’s December 2018 sentencing memo when the U.S. Attorney Office in DC requested an upward departure for longer term sentencing, specifically because Wolfe leaked top secret classified information.  He leaked the FISA application.

Wolfe leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins.   Despite Wolfe’s lawyer denials; and despite Ali Watkins denials; and despite Yahoo denials; and despite The Washington Post denials; and despite the New York Times denials; Wolfe DID leak the FISA application.

The reason the media needs to deny the leak is because these same media outlets were falsely reporting everything about the FISA application.  The biggest names in U.S. media (WaPo and NYT) had the full and unredacted FISA application in March of 2017, and spent the next 15 months lying about the content to support the fraudulent Trump-Russia narrative.   Heck, Ali Watkins was likely hired by the New York Times -from Buzzfeed- specifically because she had the FISA application.

[SIDEBAR – James Wolfe did not respond to Yahoo News about their latest article on Ali Watkins.  Smartly he’s keeping his mouth shut, because he was saved from having to face repercussions from the classified information leak by a 2018 DC cover-up operation organized by Andrew Weissmann and the Robert Mueller special counsel team.]

The media had the full and unredacted FISA application in March 2017, two months before the Robert Mueller special counsel even started.  The FISA application was made public by the special counsel on July 21, 2018, partly because the media already had the FISA in circulation.   The media had the application for sixteen months before it was made public, by the special counsel, one month after James Wolfe was indicted.

The last interesting point I would note is this paragraph in the Yahoo article:

“On June 12, 2018, just a week after Wolfe was indictedthe Washington Post published an article about Rambo’s meeting with Watkins, identifying him by his real name. Rambo, who never realized she had learned his name, was blindsided.

Rambo, the article reported, had told Watkins that “the administration was eager to investigate journalists and learn the identity of their confidential sources to stanch leaks of classified information.

It’s obvious now that Ali Watkins was the source for that Washington Post article.  Media friends in the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative helping each other.

Obviously Watkins knew in December 2017 that her source in the SSCI was busted.  Then Watkins finds out in February 2018 her records with Wolfe were in the hands of the FBI/DOJ.  Watkins then finds out in June 2018 that Wolfe was indicted.  Watkins then reaches out for help to her team at New York Times and Washington Post allies.

The wagon-circling media quickly throw the dirt of Jeffrey Rambo into the mix as chaff and countermeasures.  A month later their fellow Lawfare travelers in the Mueller special counsel then release the FISA application to the public; more chaff and countermeasures.  A never before seen, top secret classified FISA application, illegally in the hands of the media for the past 16 months, was now…. ipso facto… lawful to possess.

Funny how that happens.

The sequence is critical:

1.  Adam Waldman text messages. (release date Feb 9, 2018)

2. Justice Dept. Letter to journalist Ali Watkins (release date Feb 13, 2018)

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4498451-Justice-Department-Records-Seizure.html

3.  James Wolfe indictment (release date June 8, 2018)

4.  FISC / Senate Judiciary Letter (public release April, 2020 – event date July 12, 2018) The letter from DOJ-NSD (Mueller Special Proseuctors) to the FISC is important.

5.  Carter Page FISA application (release date July 21, 2018)  Only need the first application section. 83 pages of original application.

6.  Government Sentencing Wolfe Case memo and recommendation for upward departure and/or variance. Filed December 11, 2018

7.  Govt. Reply to Defendant (Wolfe) sentencing memo (date Dec 14, 2018)  Govt. Exhibit #13 (two page attestation is critical).

Misc:

July 27, 2018,  – Wall Street Journal  – Wolfe lawyers threaten SSCI subpoenas.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-intelligence-committee-aides-lawyers-want-testimony-from-senators-1532692801?mod=e2tw

Dec 11, 2018 – Politico – Senators seek Leniency –

Biden Warns of Autocracy One Day After He Promised to Veto Democratic Vote to Remove His Unilateral Vaccine Mandate


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 11, 2021 | Sundance | 126 Comments

I’m only posting this brief video from Joe Biden’s statement yesterday as yet another example of how ideological Democrats espouse support for democracy yet take action to nullify democracy they don’t like.

When the majority of American people articulate positions leftists support, democrats call that democracy. However, when the majority of American people articulate positions that leftists do not support, democrats call that extremism.

When questioned about what Joe Biden would do if the Senate passed legislation to remove his vaccine mandate passes the house of representatives, the White House said Thursday Biden would veto the bill and ignore it.  Less than 24 hours later, Joe Biden was warning his audience about autocrats undermining democracy.

Nobody, and I mean n.o.b.o.d.y, ever calls out these people, specifically Democrats in leadership like Joe Biden for this hypocrisy.

I would remind everyone of another example given by Joe Biden in September.

In this next semi-coherent 90 second soundbite; the content of which flies over the head of the provider, Politico; Joe Biden is telling the media about his conversations with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Biden says that both Xi and Putin are “autocrats” who dictate to the citizens of their nations, and in conversation with them – those leaders have questioned the viability of ‘western democracy‘ in an era where polarization of the electorate is so extreme.   Biden is calling them “autocrats” and trying to defend “democracy”…. ok, you with me? Now, WATCH:

These actual statements were muttered on September 11, by the same guy who just 36 hours earlier told the entire American population that he “has lost patience” with half the nation, and as an outcome, was going to FORCE a mandatory injection (COVID “vaccine”) into the arms of every citizen who wants to work in the United States.

Biden is literally decrying “autocratic governance”, while being the biggest autocratic executive this nation has ever seen.  And not a single friggin’ journalist would challenge him to reconcile his position?

Neil Oliver Says Enough is Enough – The U.K. Elite Created COVID Propaganda and Fear While they Danced and Partied at Christmas


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 11, 2021 | Sundance | 184 Comments

This Neil Oliver monologue hits on many key aspects to the propaganda around COVID.  As Oliver notes, while the elites were selling fear as a tool for their control over the proles, those same elites were partying, dancing and gathering last Christmas.

Looking forward, Oliver implies a resounding “f**k you” for Christmas 2021 as everyone should enjoy this holiday in the traditional spirit of the season, while dispatching the insufferable fear the elites attempt again.   Stay with it, because these words get better as Mr. Oliver piles on the common sense, and cuts through the lies. WATCH:

Neil Oliver is correct.  Hope and joy are the necessary human elements beyond all other facets of life. Give the gift of hope and joy to those you love by first reminding yourself of the gift that a loving God has given us all. It is too easy in our human sense to forget the biggest gift we have been granted, the gift of life. The ability to live and choose how we engage in the lives of others.

No politics or false sense of security can overwhelm the message of HOPE that a loving God has provided. No effort of man nor human disposition can surmount the greatest love of all. The message of Christ’s birth is bigger and greater than any legislative battle. “No power of hell, nor scheme of man” can come close to the purpose of God’s intent and love for you as a unique person qualified to receive that love.

Wrap yourself in the secure blanket of that unconditional love, and rejoice in the celebration of this Christmas with purpose.  YOU are worth it.

Christ’s birth was the truest and purest proof of our value. Rejoice! 

He left a throne to be born into a manger as a baby, to grow into a Man willing to lay down His everything for us. Rejoice!

Is Stupidity Now a Requirement to be a Politician?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ordered that indoor public places statewide, including restaurants and shops, must order all staff and customers to either show proof of vaccination or wear masks. If getting vaccinated neither prevents you from getting COVID nor spreading it, her decree makes no sense whatsoever that only the UNVACCINATED must wear masks. She is continuing the process of punishing people for not getting a vaccine that does not prevent you from getting COVID or spreading it. This has been admitted even by Bill Gates.

I seriously doubt that she is intelligent enough to understand that she is being manipulated. Oh, the good old days when the Founding Fathers were intelligent. I guess it comes down to those who are smart work in the private sector. Those who lack intelligence but still want to feel important choose the government.

Britsh Court Claims US Will Treat Assange Humanely


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Dec 10, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

In perhaps the most absurd ruling of any court, a British Appeals Court ruled that the US assurance that Assange will be treated with humanity is a joke. He will be tortured and treated with absolute contempt for exposing all the illegal activity that the United States’ uncontrolled bureaucrats have done. The US regards treason as not against the nation or the people but against the bureaucrats and politicians.

Assange will be lucky if he somehow does not figure out how to turn off the cameras so he can commit suicide. Epstein was a genius at that and probably learned the secrets of the FORCE from Star Wars to be able to turn off the cameras outside his cell using his mind so he could commit suicide in private.

They routinely will torture you mentally and physically without ever leaving a mark. They will dump you in a cell at 120 degrees and turn off the air and then throw you into a cell so cold you can see your breath. The more you know, the less likely you will ever be treated fairly or see a trial.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a tortured individualyet the government now tries to deny he was waterboarded 183 times, claiming they only poured water over him 183 times to simulate drowning.

Dr. Antony Fauci approved torturing dogs and had them eaten alive by bugs. And so these government agents did not have to listen to the dogs screaming in pain, they cut their vocal cords so they could not make a sound.

This is the treatment you will receive. They will try their best to mentally destroy people all to make sure they maintain their 99% conviction rate. Adolf Hitler was fairer. His notorious court that would determine if you had any Jewish blood that everyone said was an affront to justice, had a 90% conviction rate. Federal Judges no longer supervise prosecutors but do what they are told by the Department of Just Us.

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Remember how the US got caught torturing people in Abu Ghraib? Obama even admitted that the US engaged in such practices. That’s why the government keeps Guantanamo Bay for it is their position that as long as the facility is not in the United States, then the rule of law does not apply and they can imprison those people for life without a trial because they never had the evidence. So they feed them until they die, so they never have to admit they ever make a mistake.

Outside the territory of the US is like Fauci cutting the vocal cords of dogs. They have no right to be heard in any court in the world. They are treated like animals, for there is no human compassion, morals, or anything civilized among these people who enjoyed torturing cats and dogs when they were kids – just practicing for when they grew up. Look directly into their eyes. You will not see any soul.

Judge Rakoff, one of the rare real judges in New York, saw it all. His book “Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free” features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren’t prosecuted, why you won’t get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power. This is an excellent book from a judge who was offended by the corruption in the Department of Just Us.

Julian Assange stands ZERO chance of a fair trial. He stands a ZERO chance of being treated humanely. Death is preferable to living in the world these people have created.