Dec 19 2025

Sam Tanenhaus on How William F. Buckley Jr. Met Joe McCarthy and Went on to Found National Review


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: December 18, 2025

Dec 19 2025

Sam Tanenhaus on Barry Goldwater’s Frustration with Media Bias and Buckley’s Brilliant Dismantling of Robert Welch


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: December 18, 2025

Dec 19 2025

NAVARRO: We Are Working 24/7 On The Various Aspects Of Inflation. 1 Million Illegals = 1% Increase In Housing Costs For The American People. We Have 20 Million… That’s A 20% Increase!


Posted originally on Rumble on Bannon War Room on: December 18, 2025

Dec 19 2025

US Government Spending Soared 10,000% in Past Century


Posted originally on Dec 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

Sovereign Debt Crisis Begins

Government spending per person in the United States has soared nearly 10,000 percent over the last century, as reported by the Federalist. The number is staggering, but the true question isn’t how much has been spent but what was bought and why the US government needs to spend at such a level.

Woodrow Wilson secured his second term in 1916 with the slogan: “He Kept Us Out of War.” America entered World War I give months later. I have repeatedly warned that nothing is more inflationary than war. Woodrow’s Administration multiplied spending to fund the Great War and the pattern continued. The national debt rose by over 700% under Wilson from $2.9 billion to $23.97 billion. Now, the national debt rises by $70,000 per second.

A century ago, federal functions were minimal. There was no widespread welfare state, no Medicare/Medicaid, no Social Security, no massive national defense commitments, no Federal Reserve-backed interventions, and a much smaller economy. It is unfair to compare 1916 to today, even when adjusted for inflation, due to the rising population, technology, and role of government.

The end of World War II marked the dawn of the welfare state. Roosevelt’s New Deal offered endless promises and programs to help the public. This was the beginning of a new wave of public confidence—America secured global victory after World War II and became the financial capital of the world. The tab on those programs was allowed to accumulate for years, a century perhaps, but that bill is coming due soon.

2020 Sovereign Debt Crisis

Once a spending program is in place, it will remain in place. Taxes are never revised downward. Defense and retiree benefits are obligations that must be repaid. As we saw with the recent government shutdown, a staggering 40% of Americans rely on some form of government aid and are unable to provide for themselves.

Government spending has exploded in recent years. President Barack Obama spent $700 billion under TARP and later signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the tune of $800 billion. Spending spiked during the pandemic. Over $800 billion was allotted to the Paycheck Protection Program, and an additional $800 billion was provided in Economic Impact Payments. A total of $670 billion was spend on unemployment due to lockdowns. States and local governments were provided $634 billion in pandemic aid. Then there was the stimulus package under Donald Trump that dolled out $835 billion.

No president spent as much as Joe Biden. The Inflation Reduction Act was the most expensive federal package in American history that surpassed $1 trillion. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen came out and admitted the truth – the act’s entire premise is to push the climate change agenda forward. “The Inflation Reduction Act is, at its core, about turning the climate crisis into an economic opportunity,” Yellen admitted. The US saw inflation levels surpass 9%, and the final bill will be distributed to generations of Americans.

The US spent $7.035 trillion in FY2025, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which amounts to $20,474.19 per citizen. The recent government shutdown was the result of the Democrats insisting on raising federal spending as if it were possible to spend in perpetuity without repayment. The phenomenon is not isolated to the US as global debt reached 326% of GDP in January 2025. Failed policies and government spending have resulted in the current sovereign debt crisis. Governments have been borrowing since World War II with absolutely no intention of paying anything off. This is now all coming to a head, which is why we see governments becoming increasingly authoritarian, raising taxes, creating wars, and considering capital controls. A cycle in motion cannot be halted or altered. The bill is due, and the world must readjust to a new norm. We will see the massive changes on a global scale and into 2032 when the sovereign debt crisis implodes.

Dec 19 2025

Education Secretary Demands Tim Walz Resigns – Somalian Crime Ring Expands


Posted originally on Dec 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Fraudsters found every angle to syphon money away from taxpayers under Tim Walz’s failed leadership. Education Secretary Linda McMahon is now urging Walz to resign after it emerged that criminals in Minnesota stole over $12 million from the US Department of Education.

“At the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Education became aware that fraudulent college applicants, especially concentrated in Minnesota, were gaming the federal postsecondary education system to collect money that was intended for young Americans to help them afford college,” wrote McMahon.

These bad actors used the same ploy to extort money through programs intended to feed poor children and filed applications on behalf of “ghost students” who never existed. These individuals did not need to verify their ID. Some applicants did not even live in the United States if they existed at all. There were 1,834 approved “ghost students” in Minnesota who received a total of $12.5 million in grants and loans.

A teacher at Century College in Minnesota revealed that 15% of his students were “basically an organized crime ring.” Minnesota State College Southeast experienced a spike in new applicants driven by 84 ghost students, who were primarily Somalian. Some of these students enroll in online courses and attend class for the 10 required days to receive financial aid.

“They collected checks from the federal government, shared a small portion of the money with the college, and pocketed the rest — without attending the college at all,” said McMahon. “Our new fraud prevention system has now blocked more than $1 billion in attempted financial aid theft by fraudsters, including coordinated international fraud rings and AI bots pretending to be students.”

Somalian crime organizations have found methods to steal from taxpayers through programs for education, food stamps, COVID, small businesses, childhood disability assistance, and elderly care. The welfare state has become their personal piggy bank. What has Walz done to curtail crime? Absolutely nothing. Over $1 billion has gone missing under Walz, which is far too high to be considered a mere oversight.

Walz plans to seek a third term in 2026, as Minnesota has no term limits for governors. He says that he will take accountability but has not taken any steps to curtail fraud. He refuses to accept that these crime rings are connected to Somalian crime organizations. Walz has every intention of expanding the unregulated welfare state and will not hesitate to raise taxes on the very people these programs are designed to assist.

Dec 19 2025

Did Rep. Omar Really Marry her Brother?


Posted Dec 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  
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Rep. Ilhan Omar did, in fact, marry her brother. This is not a rumor but a documented fact.

Ahmed Nur Said Elmi came to the US from London in 2002. He was living as an openly gay man and his Islamic family did not support his lifestyle. A journalist at Free Beacon ran Ilhan Omar’s name through the Minnesota Official Marriage System and found two marriage certificates. One was to her public husband, Ahmed Aden, who later changed his name to Ahmed Hirsi. They applied for a marriage license in 2002, but never legalized the marriage. There is a second certificate dated 2009 for Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Despite being a devout Muslim, her marriage certificate was signed by Christian pastor Wilecia Harris.

Omar’s campaign and lawyers insist she is married to Ahmed Ade,n but there is no official court documentation to show that the couple ever wed. They say that he is the biological father of her three children. However, voter registration records do show Hirsi and Omar living at the same address. Omar and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 despite not being legally married. The paperwork shows that, under US law, her legal husband is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi—her biological brother.

“Like a lot of families, she and Hirsi, the father of their three children, have had ups and downs, have weathered some storms, but what matters is that they came out of it together,” [campaign spokesman Ben] Goldfarb said. He declined to offer more details.

Omar’s campaign has deemed any questioning [Donald] Trump-style misogyny, racism, anti-immigration rhetoric and Islamophobic division.”

Omar first came to the US in 1995 under hazy circumstances. Historian Dominic Green closely reviewed her story and memoir to learn more. Green concluded:

“The persistent and credibly sourced claim that Omar committed immigration and education fraud with one Ahmed Said Elmi who, it is also claimed, may be her brother, is simply ignored. She doesn’t even name Elmi, and calls the man that she was married to for [eight] years someone ‘whom I spent little time with that I wouldn’t even make him a footnote in my story if it weren’t for the fact that this event turned into the main headline later on’. In fact, address records show that Omar was living with her first husband (‘Islamically married’) while still married to her second (civil marriage). In 2017, when she filed for divorce from her second husband, she claimed under penalty of perjury not to have been in contact with her first husband since 2011. Dozens of now-deleted social-media posts, photos and a 2016 interview suggest that she may have lied.”

The Minnesota House of Representatives’ own website paints a murky story dated October 7, 2019: “On Friday, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar filed for divorce from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi. In 2017, Rep. Omar filed for divorce from her first husband, Ahmed Elmi. In 2018, Rep. Omar legally married Ahmed Hirsi. Now in 2019, Rep. Omar is filing for divorce from Mr. Hirsi.  Representative Steve Drazkowski reacted to the most recent news, saying, “This is the most recent development in an attempt by Rep. Omar to subvert the truth regarding her multiple violations of the law which include perjury and tax fraud.”” Then there are claims that Rep. Omar paid her boyfriend Tim Mynett $250,000 from her public campaign account.

Omar once admitted marriage to Elmi but said he was not her brother. She refuses to provide any documentation to prove otherwise. She claims that she cannot produce a birth certificate for herself or Elmi due to the civil war in Somalia. Elmi was granted citizenship through his marriage to Omar—that much is clear. Her own immigration story may be ingenuine, but the fraud is rampant.

The chronology of all this, briefly, follows:

  • 1982 — Born in Somalia;
  • 1991 — Went to refugee camp in Kenya;
  • 1995 — Came to United States as a refugee, becoming a citizen at some later point;
  • 2002 — Took out a marriage license to marry Ahmed Hirsi (AKA Ahmed Aden), but did not marry him except in a Muslim ceremony; they had two kids;
  • 2008 — Parted from Hirsi; a Muslim divorce, not recorded, took place;
  • 2009 — Married Ahmed Elmi; a marriage certificate exists;
  • 2011 — Parted from Elmi, with a Muslim divorce;
  • 2012 — Reunited with Hirsi and had a third child;
  • 2017 — Formally divorced Elmi (after being elected to the legislature);
  • 2018 — Married (re-married?) Hirsi and was nominated for Congress.

Omar may not have been intimate with her brother but she did marry him to bypass US immigration laws. This is illegal and grounds for revocation of naturalization. Marriage fraud is a federal crime under (8 U.S.C. § 1325(c)) and punishable by five year in prison and/or a $250,000 fine. Omar repeatedly flaunts her allegiance to Somalia, states openly that she represents the interests of a foreign nation, and has manipulated US law to her benefit. She does not represent US interests and has violated US law on numerous accounts. So yes—Omar did technically marry her brother.

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Dec 19 2025

Armstrong Code – Sold Out on Amazon


Posted originally on Dec 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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It has come to our attention that “The Armstrong Economic Code” and “The World According to Martin Armstrong: Conversations with the Master Forecaster,” written by Kerry Lutz, have sold out on Amazon. These books are still available at Barnes & Noble. Our team is not handling inventory or delivery of these products and Amazon is working on restocking the books ASAP but the demand has been more than their fulfillment centers can handle.

Click here to purchase “The Armstrong Economic Code”

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“The Plot to Seize Russia” and “Mark Antony and Cleopatra,” both personally penned by me, are also available for purchase at Barnes & Noble.

Dec 19 2025

Rhode Island Arrest Affidavit Gives Details on How Brown Shooting Suspect Was Identified – Full Affidavit pdf


Posted originally on CTH on December 19, 2025 | Sundance 

Public Press Release – HERE / Affidavit Available – HERE

Rhode Island – […] “On December 18, 2025, a Rhode Island state court, based on an affidavit from a Providence Police Detective, issued a state arrest warrant for Neves Valente charging him with two counts of murder and 23 felony counts of assault and felony firearms offenses.

Earlier this evening, law enforcement tracked Neves Valente to a Salem, New Hampshire storage unit. After obtaining a federal search warrant for the unit, authorities entered and found Neves Valente deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Neves Valente (age 48) was born in Torres Novas, Santarem, Portugal and was a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States. Neves Valente arrived in the United States in August 2000 as an F-1 student at Brown University and subsequently obtained U.S. lawful permanent residency in April 2017. While at Brown University, he was enrolled in a doctoral program but subsequently withdrew from the university.”  – Affidavit Here

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There is no motive being outlined by law enforcement or FBI investigators.  However, the level of planning outlined within the affidavit itself would indicate specific targeting.

♦ Valente first arrived in the USA on a student visa August 23, 2000.  Valente would have been 23 years old.

♦ Valente was only at Brown University for two semesters (Sept 1, 2000, to May 21, 2001).

♦ Sixteen years later Valente was granted a diversity visa. May 10, 2017.

♦ On Sept 14, 2017, Valente became a legal permanent resident (green card holder).  Valente would have been 40 years old.

♦ On December 13, 2025, Valente returns to Brown University approximately 24 years after he dropped out and begins shooting people.

I’m sure much more will come out.

Dec 19 2025

Brown University Shooter Identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, Dead from Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound in New Hampshire


Posted originally on CTH on December 18, 2025 | Sundance

The Brown University shooter has been identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente (48) a Portuguese national, green card holder, and former Brown University student.   Claudio Valente was identified and found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage facility in New Hampshire.

Claudio Valente was a student at Brown University physics PhD program from the fall of 2000 until taking a leave of absence in April of 2001, Brown University President Christina Paxson said. He formally withdrew from the university in 2003; she told reporters Thursday night.

There is no known motive being discussed, however Valante is also accused of killing MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, who was fatally shot in his Brookline home on Monday December 15th.

The killer, Valante, and the victim, Professor Loureiro, attended the same university in Portugal.

Before killing MIT Professor Louriero in Massachusetts on Monday, Claudio Valente entered a Brown University study session in the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building and fired 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun on Saturday (Rhode Island). Two Brown University students, Ella Cook (Alabama) and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov (Uzbekistan) were killed, nine others were injured.

Valante was a resident of Miami Florida; however, in late November he travelled to Boston Massachusetts, rented a vehicle and then traveled to Rhode Island in early December.  He was seen in/around the campus of Brown University for around a week before he carried out his mass shooting (Sat).  Valante then traveled back to Boston and reportedly killed MIT Professor Louriero (Mon).  The rental vehicle was found in a New Hampshire storage facility along with Valante’s body and the weapons used in the targeted killings.   No motive yet identified.

The full press conference from Rhode Island officials is below.

Dec 19 2025

EU Desperate to Find a Way to Use Frozen Russian Assets to Fund Ukraine


Posted originally on CTH on December 18, 2025 | Sundance 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is huddled with European Leaders at the European Council meeting in Brussels.  The key effort by the assembly is how to use frozen Russian assets to give money to Ukraine.

The EU itself does not want to lend Ukraine money directly because people within each nation of the EU assembly do not support giving Ukraine more money.  The issue reflects a political disconnect where the EU leaders want to give money that the EU citizens do not support giving.

As a result, the only viable option is for the EU to find a mechanism where seized Russian assets can be disbursed or used as collateral for payments to Ukraine.  However, some member states like Hungary, Italy and Belgium are refusing to cooperate with the seizure of the Russian sovereign wealth fund.  The problem for Zelenskyy and his friends is simply that without money wars cannot continue.

As noted by Decentralized Media: “What is unfolding in Europe reads less like miscalculation and more like controlled demolition operation. The freezing—and now effective seizure—of Russian-linked assets at Euroclear is not simply a sanction gone too far. It is a deliberate trigger in a broader effort to collapse the European Union’s existing financial architecture and, with it, the London-centered banking cartel that has dominated global capital flows for decades.

That process accelerates the moment Donald Trump removes the United States as the EU’s financial backstop.

Trump’s decision to defund and condition U.S. support for Ukraine did not merely pressure Kyiv. More importantly, his insistence on pursuing a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia threatened to end the war on terms that would devastate European interests. It forced Europe to confront a war it could not afford and a system it could no longer sustain. Without Washington underwriting the conflict, Brussels faced a stark choice: accept a negotiated peace and a financial reckoning or prolong the war long enough to extract what value it could from the system before collapse.

Europe chose the latter.

The Russian assets frozen in 2022 were never meant to be spent. They were never supposed to survive a peace deal. They were leverage—political theater designed to signal resolve while assuming eventual American rescue. But when Trump pulled the plug, those frozen funds became the only available war chest. The moment Europe reached for them; the collapse became inevitable. (read more)

President Trump has told the EU the frozen Russian assets should be used as part of the negotiation for a ceasefire.  If the EU announces permanent confiscation of the assets the leverage is lost.

The EU could borrow the needed money against the security of the EU budget and then lend the money to Ukraine.  However, such a move requires unanimity among the 27 EU countries, Hungary and Italy already said they would veto it.

If the EU is not going to accept peace, the only option they have left is to collateralize the Russian assets and loan the money to Ukraine.