Oct 16 2024

Rich Baris Maps Out Trump’s Path to Victory This November


Posted originally on Rumble By Charlie Kirk show on: Oct 15, 2024 at 5:00 pm EST

Oct 16 2024

Natalie Winters: “In a World Full Of Rachel Maddows, Be A Stephen K. Bannon”


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Oct 15, 2024 at 6:00 am EST

Oct 16 2024

The 2024 Election – Are Democratic Judges Trying to Rig the Election?


Posted originally on Oct 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Lanham Krissa M Judge

Joe Biden appointed Judge Krissa Marie Lanham, who received her judicial commission on June 3, 2024. She naturally just ruled against verifying that voters in Arizona had to prove they were citizens. As a federal judge, she ruled against an Arizona group’s legal effort to force county officials to investigate whether more than 40,000 registered voters are U.S. citizens ahead of the upcoming general election. She had her clear draft the 22-page order issued on Oct. 11, denying a motion by Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction that would have compelled country recorders to immediately verify the citizenship status of individuals registered to vote only in federal elections.

Anyone with just 10% of brain function should know that we are dealing with an election that is going to erupt in major violence. Decisions like this are going to tear our country apart. The Democrats fear a Trump victory, and they are staging hoards of illegals to vote against citizens to retain power, bribing them with even free healthcare that the average American is not entitled to. Such a decision clearly illustrates that they DO NOT GIVE-A-SHIT how they win; this is simply a political war. This election should be as Ronal Reagan said about dealing with Russia:

Oct 16 2024

The Deep Very Dark State


Posted originally on Oct 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Ross Perot Exit

QUESTION: What do you think of this independent journalist _____ who claims Trump is not what people think and is pointing to people in his first cabinet?

FLA

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ANSWER: Pure propaganda. I question what her motive is or if she is just ignorant of what is taking place in the Biden Administration. There is a serious lack of any inside knowledge of how things truly work behind the curtain. I strongly urge you to watch the new documentary of General Mike Flynn. Trump did not pick his own cabinet in 2016. The Deep State did and stuffed in people like John Bolton. Obama warned Trump not to give General Flynn a position because Obama was all about protecting the Deep State. Even Flynn states in his documentary that Trump was unaware of the dark corridors of Washington.

As I said before, I was part of the vetting process for people who wanted to be president. They would send me in to advise on how the world economy really worked. I was in Tokyo and asked to go to Texas on my way back to meet with Ross Perot that weekend when he suddenly withdrew, claiming nonsense over his daughter’s wedding.

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Perot later blamed Bush for threatening him. But Ross did not know how the Deep State really controlled the country. They took out JFK and RFK both because they were a threat to the intelligence community. Like Trump, Ross was an outsider, which would not be allowed. Ross pulled out of the race, and the TRUE reason was they threatened to indict him and shut down his industrial airport under claims that drugs were being flown into that facility. Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport is about 14 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. The airport is mainly focused on cargo operations. It provides no major commercial passenger airline service. It was the world’s first purely industrial airport. That was at stake.

Pittman Letter

I know I was flying back from Tokyo for an urgent meeting with Ross, but it was canceled because he was threatened by force his withdrawal. This is the same MO they did to Flynn and eventually to me. Mark Pitman of Bloomberg News had just written a story about our operations. I was NOT managing money for the Japanese but buying their portfolios. I met Mark at the Hyatt Hotel by Grand Central Station. He vowed we are mot going to allow them to do this to you. Bloomberg pulled him off my case and would not allow him to write anything. They handed to David Glovin, who always supported the government. Bloomberg followed the order of the Justice Department and was by no means reporting the facts.

People make up conspiracy theories based on clips they might read. Unless you have actually been behind the curtain – you do not have any idea of what is really running this country.

Blinken Anthony

A vote for Kamala is not for her. She will run nothing. The real president in the Biden Administration is Antony Bliken, just as Dick Cheney was the real President in Bush Jr.’s administration. And BTW, I was asked to be Chief Economic Adviser in that Administration and turned it down. So I know who even picks the cabinets.

Bush Cheney

I know for a fact that Bush Jr. did NOT pick Cheney – they picked Cheney. I was told that they needed qualified people to fill the cabinet because Bush Jr. was “stupid,” and you really do not see him out and about giving statements or speeches. This is not BS, nor is it speculation – I was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oct 16 2024

Crude Oil & War


Posted originally on Oct 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

Crude Cash Y 10 14 24

QUESTION: With all the chaos on the war front, do you see oil ever making new highs?

DD

ANSWER: Just about all the key markets are showing important shifts in trend. Cash crude oil has important overhead resistance at the 8840 level in 2025. Next year is a Panic Cycle. We just have the world’s worst crop of leaders ever. If they actually believe the BS they are spouting, this we are truly looking at World War III. You have Poland threatening to annihilate St Petersburg in Russia. The West has instigated this entire confrontation and you are looking at Europe being reduced to ashes this time and the great monuments will not survive. What is there no leader even interested in peace?

Oct 16 2024

President Trump MAGA Rally – Atlanta, Georgia – 7:30pm EDT Livestream


Posted originally on the CTH on October 15, 2024 | Sundance 

Tonight, President Trump heads to Atlanta, Georgia, for a MAGA rally at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center.  The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30pm EDT, with speakers ahead of Donald Trump remarks.  Livestream Links Below:

RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN Rumble Livestream

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Oct 16 2024

President Trump Battles Bloomberg, Wall Street Multinationals and WEF Economists During Chicago Business Townhall


Posted originally on the CTH on October 15, 2024 | Sundance 

President Donald Trump sits down with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait for an extended interview. The interview is in partnership with the Economic Club of Chicago and is structurally President Trump facing down the globalists who sell Wall Street policy.

The interview was at times very combative as the interviewer, John Micklethwait, pushes a Wall Street ideology in alignment with the World Economic Forum. However, President Trump has already proven that his economic policies work.

President Trump stared down every WEF talking point and totally destroyed it.  This interview is brilliant and a perfect juxtaposition for Economic Nationalism vs Multinational Globalism.  President Trump tore the talking points apart.  AWESOME! 

Notice in the conversation about Tariffs, not a single word made by the “economists” on the value of the dollar and how pertinent it is in the equation.

When China and the EU devalue their currency to offset the impact of tariffs, the dollar value increases. This means it costs less dollars to import goods that come to the USA at a lower price (due to subsidies). Essentially, the diminished tariff impact is doubled.

Inflation is party a component of this dynamic as it unfolded in 2021, when China stopped subsidizing at the same time Biden devalued the dollar. Imports increased in direct price and that pressure amplified real import inflation.

The multinational economists are punching at Trump shadows, filled with lies and falsehoods as they keep trying to sell the policies that destroyed U.S. manufacturing.

Inflation:
1. printing money
2. raising energy costs
3. lower dollar value

Deflation:
1. conservative monetary policy
2. lowered energy costs
3. stronger dollar value.

Trump policies, America-First economic nationalism, create deflation. This is what we saw in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Those same Trump policies increase revenue to govt, increase domestic manufacturing, increase employment, and expand the GDP.

It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..

Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later, despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them said Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation – it just wasn’t happening!

Overall, year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate.  The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent.   [See Below]  The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable, and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.

A couple of important points.  First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers, and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America First MAGAnomic initiative.  Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.

Which brings us to the second important point.  Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation – 0.5 percent.  That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag’s hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:

(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)

For the previous twenty years, food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand.   The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.

President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process.  As farm products were less exported, the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle.  Food prices dropped, and our pantry costs were lowered.

The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year.   These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.

The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July 2019, when Amazon held its two-day blowout Prime Day sale. (link)

Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits.   Likely that’s because blue collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong.  Yes, MAGAnomics was working.

Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?

Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:

[Table 1 – BLS report link]

This was a really interesting dynamic that no one in the professional punditry would dare explain.

Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products.  [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.]  However, when the EU and China responded by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.

Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper.   Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere.   All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.

This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.

This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.

Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:

[…]  Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.

[…]  Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.

[Page #4 – BLS Report, pdf] – BLS press release.

So yes, we know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy.  We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality.  Yes folks, we have the receipts.

This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle class MAGA coalition.  No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook, because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.

America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump, because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.

That’s just the reality of the situation.  They hate him for it… 

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Oct 16 2024

CBS Busted Again, This Time by Speaker Mike Johnson, For Deceptive Edits and Manufacturing Responses During Interviews


Posted originally on the CTH on October 15, 2024 | Sundance

One of the most blatant examples of media manipulation was recently discovered when CBS 60-Minutes deceptively edited a response from Kamala Harris, replacing her ‘word salad’ answer with a completely different answer to an entirely different question. [SEE HERE]

This past Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on CBS Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan and the editing and manufacturing was done again before broadcast.  Unbeknownst to CBS, Speaker Johnson’s staff were recording the interview from his side of the camera.  Johnson released a series of video segments today (via Twitter) showing how CBS intentionally took out the important elements of his responses.

The segments are embedded below for review.  You can see how CBS chose to edit the answers to cut out the important components and citations for Speaker Johnson’s responses.  The manipulation is very clear.  WATCH:

Segment #1: “I recently traveled to NC and victims of Hurricane Helene told me nearly two weeks after landfall, the Biden-Harris Administration had STILL not provided them with all the resources they desperately needed. But CBS selectively edited OUT ENTIRELY this first-hand perspective.”

Segment #2: “Apparently, CBS also doesn’t want you to hear about Virginia Gov. Youngkin, who is trying to clean the state’s voter rolls so non-American citizens can’t vote there. We need more states doing this, but the Biden-Harris Administration is SUING VIRGINIA and trying to STOP it.”

Segment #3: “The Biden-Harris Admin let millions of illegal aliens in our country. So, the House passed the SAVE Act to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections. CBS edited that out and focused on 2020 instead of immediate threats to election integrity.”

Oct 16 2024

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin Discusses DOJ Lawsuit Against State Clean Voter Rolls


Posted originally on the CTH on October 15, 2024 | Sundance 

Appearing on CNN, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin discusses a lawsuit filed last week by the DOJ against the State of Virginia for an effort to remove illegal alien voters from their voter rolls. Within the interview, what Youngkin describes is what Eric Holder set up as a test in CA then rolled out nationally through various sos offices.

Software was created that permits Drivers Licenses to cross reference with Secretary of State offices, or what is known colloquially as “Moter Voter” system.

However, what Holder did was modify the system so that unchecked affirmations [I am legally eligible to vote] would advance to the SoS office. Regardless of whether the affirmation was made, the Driver’s License applicant is registered to vote.

Eric Holder did this first as a legal advisor to California (’17), then tested in the 2018 midterms, then then process was rolled out state by state through 2020 and beyond. WATCH:

Transcript – “Do you think that non-citizens, when they’ve self-identified as a non-citizen, should stay on the voter roll and therefore be in a position to potentially vote in a presidential election?”

“They actually tick a box that says I am a non-citizen, or they do not answer the question, that they are a citizen and therefore they self-identify, that they are not a citizen in the United States of America. And this is why this is so out of bounds in my mind from the Justice Department.”

“They fully understand this. They understand the process starts with a person self-identifying as a non-citizen. And then there is a match with that person’s name on the voter rolls. And they are given not just one, but up to three times in order to try to cure it. And this is why I find this to be a very, very unreal moment.”

“It’s stunning that they filed this suit 25 days before a presidential election, when in fact, this has been going on in accordance with our Constitution, the federal Constitution and state law since 2006.”

REFERENCE and CONTEXT is critical to understanding.

After Eric Holder left the Obama administration as Attorney General, he was hired by the State of California to defend against the Trump administration in early January 2017 (LINK).

Why?

When Eric Holder left the Obama administration, his firm was contracted by California during a process of linking the motor vehicle registration files to the Secretary of State voter registration system.  Holder was advising on part of a technology system being constructed to bridge the DMV and SoS offices.  You might know this as a “Motor/Voter” process.  However, former AG Eric Holder had a very specific function in the construction of this technology bridge.

The process of adding voters to the registration rolls when they receive or update their driver’s license was seen as an opportunity to expand the voter rolls.  Making the voter rolls as big as possible is the key to the utilization of mass mail-out balloting.  I will skip the part where California started giving illegal aliens drivers licenses for a moment – you can obviously see how that would play with motor/voter rolls – instead I am choosing just to focus on the specifics of the Holder aspect.

The DMV needed to connect to the SoS office.  This was simply a part of a tech system that needed to be built.  CTH has previously spoken with the lead engineer, a member of a very small technology group, who worked in the California information technology (IT) unit that was tasked with building the system that connected the DMV to the SOS. [NOTE: I invite the state of California to sue me as they will likely claim what you are about to read is not true.]

In the process of connecting the two state networks together, there needed to be a “flag”, essentially a check box, where the applicant to the DMV would attest to being legally authorized to vote.  It is a positive affirmation, a check box, that says the Driver’s License holder affirms they are legally eligible to vote. That affirmation (the technical flag in the process), when affirmed, then transmits the information to the SoS office with the DL operator identity, and the California driver is automatically added to the SoS rolls and registered to vote.

During the time when Eric Holder was the legal counsel for the California Secretary of State, the technology team was constructing the internal data processing systems.

The lead engineer in the unit was instructed to code the data transfer in such a way that even if the “check box” was left unchecked, the registration data would transmit from the DMV to the SoS office.

Essentially, instead of only those who affirmed their legal eligibility by checking the box, everyone -including those who did not check the box- would get a DL and would automatically have their information transmitted to the SoS office.  Everyone who received a driver’s license or state issued id was automatically going to be registered to vote, regardless of their legally authorized status.   That request led the engineer to contact me.

I wrote about it, published the details, then the engineer freaked out as he/she realized there was only a very limited number of people who could expose the issue.  He/She was worried about his/her safety and family and asked me to remove the article.  This background is how I know the details of who, what, when and why the California mass mailing ballot process was being constructed.

In the 2018 midterm elections we all watched the outcome of that process surface in the weeks following election day.  As each day passed more and more California mail-in ballots were being counted and day-by-day Republicans who won on election day 2018 watched their lead evaporate.

What happened in the California 2018 midterm election surrounding state-wide ballot distribution, collection (harvesting) and eventual presentation to the counting and tabulation facilities, was the BETA test for the 2020 covid-inspired national ballot mailing process.

The outcome we saw from the 2022 midterm ballot collection program was not just similar to the 2020 general election ballot collection program, it was a direct outcome of the refined BETA test from 2018.  Now we have multiple states following the California mass distribution of ballots approach.  Washington state, California, Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, there’s a long list.

In many states mass mailing of ballots is now codified in election law.  Activist election lawyer Marc Elias now coming in behind the construction team of Eric Holder with the legal arguments to support the ballot collection programs.

The Importance of Election Rolls – As you can see from the California initiation point (Motor/Voter), in order to most effectively use the mass distribution of ballots as an electioneering process you first need a massive state secretary voter file in order to generate, then mail, the physical ballots.

Remember, votes require people – ballots require systems.

Any institutional system that can link people into the SoS system to generate a larger registration file for ballot distribution is a net positive.  The key point is not to generate voters, the key is to generate ballots – the more the better.  Mass printing of ballots is the origin of the electioneering process.

Any state or federal system that links a physical identity to the secretary of state voter rolls is good.  Any system, like the USPS postal change of address system, that would remove physical identities from the state voter rolls is not useful.  The goal is to maximize the number of systems that generate registration, that eventually generates ballots.

Beyond the Driver’s License issue, it’s everything.  Sign up for public assistance, get registered to vote.  Sign up for state benefits, get registered to vote. Sign up for a state id, get registered to vote. Sign up for state college, get registered to vote. Sign up for a grant, get registered to vote. Sign up for unemployment, get registered to vote. Sign up for any state system and get registered to vote.  Get married, change names, change addresses, etc, that’s how the voter rolls expand and that’s how the massive distribution of ballots is created.

The states, with support from the DOJ, then fight against anything, any effort, any process, that would purge voter rolls or fix incorrect voting rolls.  To use the new electioneering system, the system operators need ballots created, they no longer need votes.  They need ballots.

Downstream from this process that’s where you find the “ballot submission assistance” programs.  This is where the local community networks, regional activist groups and widespread community organizers come into play.  Instead of advertising or the previous electioneering systems around candidate promotion and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts, the majority of donations to the DNC are now used in the ballot assistance programs.

We have been in full combat against these systems for several months with some remarkable success.  Multiple ballot printing operations have been disrupted in Michigan and Pennsylvania.  This is causing the DNC, Obama and Clyburn network to become very concerned.

Keep living your best life and maintain a steadfast and optimistic approach as we confront those who need fear to prevail.

Oct 16 2024

Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee and West Coastal Florida Check-in


Posted originally on the CTH on October 15, 2024 | Sundance 

UPDATE: We will continue bumping this thread to keep the communication lines available.

As the areas in Eastern Tennessee, Western North Carolina and the Western gulf coast of Florida continue recovery operations from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, today my thoughts are with those who are still impacted and dealing with the long-term recovery process.

If you have stability and the ability to communicate, I am wondering how you guys are doing.

Working with several ground groups, we have sent toolboxes and resources into the area for the arduous tasks that remain.  There are many who feel overwhelmed; just know our thoughts and deepest prayers remain with you. It will get a little better every day.

Resourceful teams (mostly electrical restoration experts) who learned quickly after they helped the Puerto Rico Mountain areas in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria are doing amazing work reaching some of the more isolated areas.  These are good friends with a git-r-done approach.

Eastern Tennessee power has mostly returned; however, approximately 23,500 of the 1.5 million customers that lost power, just in the Western North Carolina area still lack electricity as of today, according to Poweroutage.us.  Additionally, there are still about 365,000 Floridians without power.

The power restoration in the dense mountain forests of WNC is slow going, some roads and bridges are completely washed away.  According to the Associated Press report, “The crews aren’t doing what they typically do, which is a repair effort. They’re rebuilding from the ground up,” said Kristie Aldridge, vice president of communications at North Carolina Electric Cooperatives {link}.

There are widespread rumors and disparate reports of the overall death toll, at last count was well over 200.  Anecdotal reports from people in the WNC region put the death toll much higher but are difficult to confirm.  We do not want to spread rumors, yet we simultaneously accept this close to the election there is an unfortunate incentive for both federal and state emergency management officials to keep the death toll numbers hidden.

The bottom line is a concern for everyone in the impact areas.  Therefore, ground reports are the most valuable.  How are y’all doing?

Dear God of grace and strength, in the midst of uncertainty, fear and change we turn to You for stability and strength. Please grant us the wisdom and fortitude to navigate the unknown, the courage to face challenges, and the faith to trust Your divine plan.

Heavenly Father, let Your unwavering presence be our anchor in the aftermath of these storms. Grant us the resilience to face the challenges of recovery with grace and hearts filled with purpose.  May we continue to find, patience, stability and fellowship in Your eternal love.

Thank You for guiding us through these uncertain times.  In Jesus blessed and loving name we pray.  ~ Amen.