Posted originally on the CTH on August 11, 2024 | Sundance
Be thankful that God has allowed you to see what is unfolding. Others that remain asleep are not as lucky as you. Ask yourself in prayer, why you. Why now? Then, think about this daily. Affirm your spirit and allow this sense of fortunate knowledge to elevate your faith and confidence in a loving and purposeful God. You have the gift of discernment. Ultimately, you have been chosen. Be thankful.
POLITICO – Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday. (read more)
Susan Wojcicki, 56, was killed by rapid onset of lung cancer after being fully vaccinated and boosted. It was during her tenure that Google blocked any information about COVID-19, vaccinations or the virus origin that ran counter to the expressed opinions of those who run Google.
Susan Wojcicki, wife of Marco Troper, was a leading fellow traveler in the leftist control system. The modern system of digital control exists in large measure because of Susan Wojcicki and the small group of people around her life. She’s dead at 56, which is coincidentally the exact same age as Steve Jobs when he died.
YOUTUBE FMR CEO DIES SUDDENLY
Susan Wojcicki, 56, was killed by rapid onset of lung cancer after being fully vaxxed. Her body was found in the same Menlo-Park Garage where Google was founded.
Under her leadership, YouTube censored over 1 million videos on v*ccine safety… pic.twitter.com/zM3QQzCJCG
Earlier this year, Susan Wojcicki’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, killed himself using a drug overdose.
Susan Wojcicki’s sister, Anne Wojcicki, co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe which benefits from the COVID-19 testing database.
Susan Wojcicki’s husband is Dennis Troper, an ADL board member and key voice in the Google censorship complex. If you want to identify the key figure behind the demonetization of conservative content online, it would be Dennis Troper.
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Be thankful that God has allowed you to see what is unfolding. Others that remain asleep are not as lucky as you. Ask yourself in prayer, why you. Why now? Then, think about this daily in your quiet time. Affirm your spirit and allow this sense of fortunate knowledge to elevate your faith and confidence in a loving and purposeful God. You have the unique gift of discernment. Ultimately, you have been chosen.
Be thankful. Remember, Romans 13:12
Live a positive, affirming, purposeful and incredible life.
Within every battle, challenge and contest we encounter, always remember to be thankful and continue living your best life.
COMMENT: Marty, it is always obvious why you were named Economist of the Decade, Hedge Fund Manager of the Year, and FX Analyst of the Year for the Swiss Peg break. As you said on the private blog;
“Let’s see but it appears that we could have a bear trap forming with a plunge into Monday but then a bounce. Monday would be a 3-day reaction plunge. There remains the risk of a bounce and then a more serious pattern forming in September.”
Your skills are renowned, but your motive is to help society. People need to know that governments and central bankers go to you because you do not charge them and have no conflicts of interest. You could keep Socrates, trade only for yourself, and make a fortune. But you care. While others claim the Fed should pull an emergency 0.25% base cut, only you point out that theory never works.
Many are concerned that you have no one to pass Socrates on, and you have toyed with the idea of going public for its survival. There are those among us who share your view and would help.
Please comment on that for society.
Paul
REPLY: Look, 99% of the analysis you hear on TV is nonsense. These are people who repeat the same stupid theories that everyone else does, and not a single one ever takes the time to investigate whether their statements are true or false. Be it FOX or CNN; they only allow analysts who speak the same fake analysis. They would never dare to put me on TV because I would contradict what they say and all their guests.
This is typical of what the Daily Mail just published: “Economist issues dire warning about the US economy.”
He places the blame on the Fed for keeping its main interest rate at a two-decade high since 2022 in its zeal to stifle inflation.
Those hikes are now hitting the economy hard, he said, suggesting the Fed should have lowered rates earlier.
‘I really do worry that we may lose US economic exceptionalism because of a policy mistake,’ he told Bloomberg TV, as worldwide markets continued to plummet.
Here is the last Emergency Rate Cut, which was on March 4th, 2020, in the middle of that plunge. Three days later, the market made new lows and continued to fall. NOBODY ever seems to review past actions and simply ask, did that work?
YES, I can walk into any central bank. They all know (1) I refuse ever to accept any money from any government because there will ALWAYS be strings attached. (2) I am NOT allowed to invest in any shares, for I cannot have a CONFLICT OF INTEREST when I must comply with the laws of every country because we are GLOBAL – not domestic. Normally, when the government falsely charges you, they will charge you with something else like insider trading or tax fraud. I could not have any such personal account, and instead of saying I ran a clean shop, they said, “You are one smart MF”because they could not find anything despite advising on numerous takeovers. Even after the HSBC takeover of Republic National Bank, the former head of HSBC came to my London office to ask my opinion on buying that bank.
It is impossible to deal with all the different laws internationally. In some jurisdictions, if you asked me about IBM and I had just one share, I would be required by law to reveal everything I own to the client. You cannot be an international adviser with anything that can be seen as a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
They came to me in 1985 when they were creating G5 and the Euro. I was the first Western Analyst to be called into the Bank of China. I have had a front-row seat to the world. I have made more than I could spend. Money does not define a person; it defines character. Contracts are WORTHLESS, for if the person on the other is not trustworthy, the contract means nothing. I grew up when your word was your bond. Before recorded phone lines, you had to honor your word, or nobody would deal with you.
It is always difficult to choose a successor. I must also consider their character. I would never take in someone from the NY bankers or Bill Gates. Money is not the issue. I like the character of Elon Musk, but this is a very difficult proposition. I have traded billions and advised on trillions. Then you finish for the day and go out to dinner, and it costs you $300. Billions are just phone numbers, as we used to say. That kind of money is only suitable for bribing others to do what you want – i.e.Gates and Soros. It cannot be spent on living expenses. It is monopoly money. It’s not “real” at that point. Accomplishment makes a man – not money.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 6, 2024 | Sundance
After two years of pre-trial litigation, and a year of trial in front of U.S. District Judge Amit Mehtata, the court has determined that Google is factually a monopoly operation in the business of online search engine use and advertising. Google is violating section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by running a monopoly business model.
COURT RULING pdf – […] “Google has not achieved market dominance by happenstance. It has hired thousands of highly skilled engineers, innovated consistently, and made shrewd business decisions. The result is the industry’s highest quality search engine, which has earned Google the trust of hundreds of millions of daily users.
But Google also has a major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals: default distribution. Most users access a general search engine through a browser (like Apple’s Safari) or a search widget that comes preloaded on a mobile device. Those search access points are preset with a “default” search engine. The default is extremely valuable real estate.
Because many users simply stick to searching with the default, Google receives billions of queries every day through those access points. Google derives extraordinary volumes of user data from such searches. It then uses that information to improve search quality. Google so values such data that, absent a user-initiated change, it stores 18 months-worth of a user’s search history and activity.
The distribution agreements benefit Google in another important way. More users mean more advertisers, and more advertisers mean more revenues. As queries on Google have grown, so too has the amount it earns in advertising dollars. In 2014, Google booked nearly $47 billion in advertising revenue. By 2021, that number had increased more than three-fold to over $146 billion. Bing, by comparison, generated only a fraction of that amount—less than $12 billion in 2022.
For years, Google has secured default placements through distribution contracts. It has entered into such agreements with browser developers, mobile device manufacturers, and wireless carriers. These partners agree to install Google as the search engine that is delivered to the user right out of the box at key search access points.
Google pays huge sums to secure these preloaded defaults. Usually, the amount is calculated as a percentage of the advertising revenue that Google generates from queries run through the default search access points. This is known as “revenue share.” In 2021, those payments totaled more than $26 billion. That is nearly four times more than all of Google’s other search-specific costs combined.
In exchange for revenue share, Google not only receives default placement at the key search access points, but its partners also agree not to preload any other general search engine on the device. Thus, most devices in the United States come preloaded exclusively with Google. These distribution deals have forced Google’s rivals to find other ways to reach users.
Google’s dominance eventually attracted the attention of antitrust enforcers—the U.S. Department of Justice and nearly every state’s Attorney General. They homed in on Google’s distribution agreements and in late 2020 filed two separate lawsuits alleging that the agreements and certain other conduct violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act. According to their complaints, Google has unlawfully used the distribution agreements to thwart competition and maintain its monopoly in the market for general search services and in various online advertising markets.
The proceedings that followed have been remarkable. Discovery began in December 2020 and concluded in March 2023.
[…] After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
Specifically, the court holds that (1) there are relevant product markets for general search services and general search text ads; (2) Google has monopoly power in those markets; (3) Google’s distribution agreements are exclusive and have anticompetitive effects; and (4) Google has not offered valid procompetitive justifications for those agreements. Importantly, the court also finds that Google has exercised its monopoly power by charging supracompetitive prices for general search text ads. That conduct has allowed Google to earn monopoly profits.” (read more)
This is only one facet to the Google monopoly enterprise. There are other lawsuits challenging the Advertising rules and regulations enforced by Google that block funds from online content providers. Google is a leftist control operation, with comprehensive totalitarian alignment.
Don’t think that our U.S. Government is against this monopoly just because they were forced to respond to it with a lawsuit. DHS and the IC love having a single control point they can exploit and compromise. Monopolies are useful for the interests of the government who corrupts and utilizes them.
Within the Public/Private Technocracy system that Barack Obama helped to build between Big Tech and Government, they both collaborate on the benefits of singular power structures. A pox on all of them!
MSM – Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said the company intends to appeal Mehta’s findings.
“This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,” Walker said.
For now, the decision vindicates antitrust regulators at the Justice Department, which filed its lawsuit nearly four years ago while Donald Trump was still president, and has been escalating it efforts to rein in Big Tech’s power during President Joe Biden’s administration.
“This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.”
The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically has thwarted competition to protect a search engine that has become the centerpiece of a digital advertising machine that generated nearly $240 billion in revenue last year. Justice Department lawyers argued that Google’s monopoly enabled it to charge advertisers artificially high prices while also enjoying the luxury of not having to invest more time and money into improving the quality of its search engine — a lax approach that hurt consumers. (MORE)
Posted originally on Aug 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Americans are preparing for a prolonged inflationary period, based on new data from the New York Fed. The New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that Americans are still pessimistic about inflation waning, with no one now believing it is transitory. The median expectation is that inflation will remain at the 3% level in 2025.
The public does not anticipate inflation tapering off in a meaningful way in the years to come. The Federal Reserve is still honing in on that 2% target but the people have lost confidence in its ability to do so. Most Americans see inflation sitting at 2.9% in three years from now, up from the 2.4% estimate in January 2024. Even in five year’s time, the average consumer believes inflation will be above target at 2.6%.
The central bank believes they can meet that 2% target. Policymakers believe inflation will fall to 2.1% by 2025 before finally reaching 2% in 2026. Amid the sell off this week, Chicago Fed President Goolsbee came out and said that the central bank will simply “fix it” if the economy continues to deteriorate.
“The Fed’s job is very straightforward, maximize employment, stabilize prices and maintain financial stability. That’s what we’re going to do,” Goolsbee told CNBC. “We’re forward-looking about it. So if the conditions collectively start coming in like that on the through line, there’s deterioration on any of those parts, we’re going to fix it.”
Unfortunately, there is not much that the central bank can do to offset government’s suicidal fiscal policy. Remember, inflation was only 1.4% when Joe Biden took office – far beneath the Fed’s target. Inflation has risen as a direct result of fiscal policies under Bidenomics.
The Fed was unable to prevent policies that ended America’s energy independence. They were unable to stop the supply chain issues exacerbated by the pandemic. They cannot alter the weak jobs reports that are propped up by multiplying the public sector, which only detracts from overall GDP. The Federal Reserve cannot maintain diplomatic relations with America’s trade partners or prevent the likes of Japan and China from selling off US government debt. The millions of immigrants now subsidized by the taxpayers cannot be curtailed by Jerome Powell or the FOMC. Worst of all, war is the most powerful driver of inflation. The Federal Reserve can do absolutely nothing to prevent America from steering NATO into three potential battles. Our Treasury Secretary says we can afford numerous wars. The $35 trillion in government debt rises every day and those in the central bank simply KNOW that the government has no intention on paying it off – how could they?
Americans are rightfully pessimistic about the future of the economy. All the talking heads insist that the economy is thriving under Bidenomics, but we the people are living in a different reality. This is what happens when people lose trust in the government entirely.
US Treasury Secretary and establishment puppet Janet Yellen has denied the advice of her own advisors to encourage debanking practices. Twenty Republican Attorney Generals have reached out to Yellen to remind her that she is not permitted to impede with state laws to weaponize her department against the Democrat’s political opponents.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody declared US Treasury has “forsaken its statutory role and instead chosen to intervene on behalf of activists seeking to hijack the financial system for their political ends.”
This has been happening across the world, and instances of debanking for political purposes have reached new heights in 2024. In April, 15 AGs attempted to reach out to Bank of America over a “troubling financial pattern” of debanking Christian organizations. “Bank of America has a track record of de-banking religious organizations,”the letter states, followed by examples of banks suddenly freezing funds of Christians and churches without warning. Why? National security, of course.
Banks were instructed by government to search transactions for keywords such as “Trump” and “MAGA” to look for “domestic terrorists.” They asked banks to look for people who had purchased certain books such as religious texts. Purchased a gun? You’re a potential terrorist and threat to the government.
“The Treasury Department has once again forsaken its statutory role and instead chosen to intervene on behalf of activists seeking to hijack the financial system for their political ends. It is even more disappointing that the Treasury Department would use “national security” as cover for large banks’ abuse of power to achieve those ends,” the most recent letter claims.
All of our freedoms are revoked under the premise of “national security.” This would be akin to permitting the government to rob your house to protect you from intruders. There are state laws in place to protect the people but the federal government believes they can deny these protections in the name of national security. Florida’s HB 989, for example, is intended to protect consumers from discrimination. That law aims to protect gun manufacturers, the fossil fuel sector, religious organizations, and others who do not adhere with the BUILD BACK BETTER agenda from being denied the right to operate in America’s financial system. “No consumer or business should be denied services based on political beliefs or religious views or because of some arbitrary social credit score derived from ideological agendas,” the AGs added in their latest letter.
Again, this is a worldwide phenomenon of governments weaponizing banking institutions. The UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance aims to jeopardize anyone not adhering to the climate change agenda financially. Over 144 banks have signed on board. I reported last year that abullion dealer I personally know suddenly had his credit lines revoked. Governments genuinely believe the people are underpaying taxes by at least 35%. They want to eliminate all financial hedges against government and financially cripple those who do not abide by the agenda.
Yet another reason why all governments must go digital. CBDCs will permit governments not only to track every sale and purchase, but it will give them the POWER to prevent purchases instantaneously.
Posted originally on Aug 5, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Our computer model warns that we are headed into tremendous civil unrest because those behind the curtain are NOT about to let Trump thwart their agenda of World War III. I warned that they would attempt to assassinate Trump, for it was on the 13-year Assassination Cycle. The last non-Deep State assassination attempt was on Obama in 2011. On top of this, the Civil War Cycle turns up in a few weeks – 2024.679 (September 4/5th). On November 11, 2011 (2011.863), seven shots were fired and hit the White House, but nobody was injured. About 13 years later, it brings us to 2024 as well with the attempted assassination of Trump.
This 2024 election, I have warned that NOBODY will accept it regardless of who wins. The Neocon Deep State has NO INTENTION of allowing Trump to dismantle their power. I have warned that the military will most likely eventually split and take sides as they did numerous times throughout the Roman Empire. Following the death of Nero in 68AD, various Roman generals made their power play. Thus, 68-69AD became the Civil War of Five Emperors and one champion of liberty – Gaius Julius Vindex (c. 25–68AD), who was a Roman governor of a noble Gallic family of Aquitania. It was Vindex who began the revolt against Nero in either late 67 or early 68AD. According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex “was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition.” His coinage never depicted his own image. It was most often Liberty or Augustus who died in 14AD. As with most such domestic upheavals, they tend to be concluded within 2 to 3 years.
I know Bill Kristol. He even spoke at one of our conferences back in the Nineties. I would say we are friends, at the least. Bill was Chief of Staff in the White House for Dan Qual. But Kristol is no Republican – he is a Neocon and will flip sides to whoever wants to wage war, especially against Russia.
I used to take his magazine’s back cover, helping him launch it when I believed he was an economic conservative. I was wrong. He turned his magazine into an anti-Trump propaganda venture because Trump was anti-war. In the process, he alienated his financial support, and his magazine collapsed over his Neocon agenda. He has not given up. He will do whatever he can to defeat Trump, and that says it all.
The last time Trump was in office, they created the fake Russia Gate scandal to distract Trump from draining the swamp, and that derailed more than half of his term. The “establishment” stuffed his cabinet with the Deep State cronies, and he discovered there were pros at derailing his agenda and stabbing him in the back. This is the same agenda that they are planning for this time. As I have said, even a Trump victory will not prevent the recession into 2028.
According to our computer, the risk of civil unrest will begin no matter who wins. These Neocons are already scheming to disrupt a Trump Administration and are already pitching to the military to be prepared to remove him on any conspiracy theory they concoct. RFK would not listen to me. I proposed that he take the Attorney General position, which has ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY. Only then would he be able to help drain the swamp! But this is more likely to become a civil war because these people are NOT about to let their power go. They are so close to bringing about the destruction of Russia, which has been their dream for decades.
We may go into civil war for perhaps two years into 2026. This is a fight for the soul of the nation against those who have usurped the power of the United States for personal vendettas. By this thirst for power, they may yet attempt to assassinate Trump again or poison him and claim it is bird flu. There is just way too much at stake, and these people will NOT walk away.
Robert Kagan wrote for the Washington Port and said Trump would be a dictator. His response that he would be a dictator for one day was concerning this article, so now the press, which is also anti-American, always supporting the Neocons and the Deep State, say, see – Trump admits he will be a dictator.
What the LEFT/Neocons are doing is seeking to flood the nation with illegal aliens who will then vote against native Americans to retain absolute dictatorial power. Throughout history, whenever such concentrations of power occur, this sparks civil wars. Internally, it weakens the nation-state and inevitably leads to coups and rebellions. Just read the history of the Byzantine Empire. The military split and various provincial armies rise up against that central power and claim their own. In this way, emperors such as Nikephoros II Phokas (r. 963–969) and Heraclius (r. 610–641) achieved royal power for themselves.
Nobody will accept this election in the United States, and our computer warns that this may be the LASTelection ever. We are looking at violence in Venezuela, France, and now even in the United Kingdom.
Despite the fact that Hillary raised 40 times more money than Trump, money does not buy the Presidency. Our computer projected a Trump victory against every poll that handed it to Hillary. In Britain, our computer projected BREXIT would win against every poll that said it would lose. Our computer does NOT care who are the candidates. People will ultimately vote based upon economic conditions and their confidence in government.
Confidence in Government is Collapsing Worldwide. The trend is merely whoever is in power, throw the bums out, be they left or right.
The NYC region, Chicago, California, and Washington, DC, are places you should look to vacate.
Japanese Scientist found that the IPCC is using Cess’s equation to formulate their work and that equation has since been replaced by a modern energy budget of the earth. What does that mean? It “…means the upper troposphere temperature Tu is increased as much as ~1°C with CO2 doubling instead of the surface temperature Ts… “
Posted originally on Aug 2, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
With each passing day, our Nation is declining into a state of where civilization is no longer sustainable. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has introduced legislation seeking to strip Donald Trump of any immunity for his definition of a criminal action, in a blatant usurpation of power where he seeks to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Trump’s Immunity calling this the “No Kings Act” where he has asserted the unconstitutional attempt to strip[ the Supreme Court completely stating that ONLY Congress, not the Supreme Court, determines to whom federal criminal law is applied.
Schumer had better study law if he wants to pretend to be outraged over the Supreme Court’s Immunity decision regarding Trump. He would NEVER say a word if it was concerning Biden. People like Schumer are destroying the United States with their Marxist agenda. He should look at the immunity that senators and representatives have as laid out in Article I that they are “privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.” The Founding Fathers put that in the Constitution, for they knew that people like Schumer would pull every trick to manipulate the country back then. Yet, all we hear is that Trump should be prosecuted for his speech on January 6th.
Schumer is a complete hypocrite, and I find it really offensive the antics he constantly pulls that are dividing the country. He should also look at the fact that the Attorney General is ABSOLUTELY IMMUNE even if he recklessly indicts Trump or if a prosecutor brings charges against you, even for personal reasons. The Supreme Court previously held
“A state prosecuting attorney who, as here, acted within the scope of his duties in initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution and in presenting the State’s case, is absolutely immune from a civil suit for damages under § 1983 for alleged deprivations of the accused’s constitutional rights.”
On top of the question of Immunity, the very foundation of Due Process of Law is NOTICE: They cannot pass a law after you did something to make then it a crime. This rhetoric coming from Schumer is so damaging to the country; he is driving our nation into civil war because he is out of control and believes himself to be a demigod, pushing his political vendetta against every principle of law and the building blocks that were the foundation of our country. He is a vile supporter of the DEEP STATE. To even come out like this shows that he should honestly be arrested for what he is doing to our country. He supported the denial of any right to vote for a candidate, keeping RFK off the ballot because this entire candidacy of Harris was a back-room deal. He should look in the mirror to see what he is doing with this NO KINGS ACT.
Schumer’s acts are so anti-American and UNCONSTITUTIONAL that she should not be representing anyone – EVER!
Tripartite Government – Executive – Congress – Supreme Court
The Separation of Powers
Chuck Schumer has violated his oath of office, and this latest bill is a usurpation of power even worse than the Democrat’s exaggeration of January 6th. He should be taken out of the Senate in Chains, for he has sought to destroy everything that the United States was built upon. They have conspired against Trump and RFK because they NEVER want anyone from outside of their little club on Capital Hill.
Obviously, Chuck Schumer is a complete idiot and should not be representing even a stray dog on Capital Hill. If he understood the Constitution, he would know that the bill he has just introduced is so outrageous it borders on not just partisanship but outright Treason against the United States. The leading case that every law student knows is Marbury v. Madison, which is the seminal case on this very subject of the separation of powers.
It began in January 1801, when then-President John Adama had been defeated in his reelection bid. There was a vacant seat, and Adams sought to fill the position of Chief Justice at the U.S. Supreme Court before he left office. Adams initially asked former Chief Justice John Jay to return to take the position. However, John Jay turned down the offer. Adams then nominated his Secretary of State and close advisor, John Marshall, who had been a lawyer but never a judge, to take the position on the Supreme Court. Senate unanimously confirmed him for the top spot on the court.
With two months left in his term, Adams also asked Marshall to remain simultaneously as his Secretary of State and Chief Justice. Obviously, that was a huge conflict of interest, as he was serving in both the Executive and the Court at the same time. Adams was a Federalist who had just lost the election to his political enemy, Thomas Jefferson. In a partisan move, Adams rushed to fill as many other judicial positions as possible before his political enemy took power. The hatred of Adams toward Jefferson was famous. They both died on July 4, 1826, with Adams at the age of 90 and Jefferson at 83. On his deathbed, Adams spoke his last words: “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” He was mistaken: Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello that same day. Nonetheless, this shows how our nation was also deeply polarized over this issue of centralized Federal absolute control over individual states.
On the day before Adams’ term ended, he nominated 42 men to serve as justices of the peace, who were the lowest judges for minor legal cases, but they were Federalists. After the Senate approved his choices the next day, Marshall was assigned to finalize the paperwork and deliver the commissions. It was a mad rush, and he never got to four of them, including one belonging to a Virginia politician named William Marbury.
Jefferson Retaliates & Withholds the Four Commissions and Marbury Petitions Court
When Thomas Jefferson took the White House, he was somewhat perturbed at Adams’ unethical antic in a desperate attempt to pack the federal courts with political allies. Jefferson told his own Secretary of State, James Madison, to withhold the four undelivered commissions. Marbury sued to get his job. Marbury could have gone to the U.S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, where he might have prevailed. However, Marbury went directly to the Supreme Court and petitioned for a Writ of Mandamus, an order to command Madison to give them their commissions.
On February 10th, 1803, the Supreme Court convened to hear the case – Marbury vs Madison. The case centered on three issues. First, did Marbury and the other appointees have a right to their commissions? Second, if they did have a right that had been violated, did federal law provide a remedy? Finally, was an order from the U.S. Supreme Court the proper remedy to solve the problem?
The Marbury v. Madison Decision
Chief Justice Marshall, Adam’s buddy and former Secretary of State, presided over the case. He should have recused himself under today’s ethics since he played a role in the very events in question. The Supreme Court found in Marbury’s favor. However, it wasn’t clear whether Jefferson would obey the Court’s decision or simply ignore it. If Jefferson ignored the Supreme Court, that would have placed the Supreme Court seriously in a position of being irrelevant. If the court ruled in favor of the Jefferson Administration, it would appear like it had given in to political pressure.
Marshall was undoubtedly in a difficult position, and he wrote the decision. He found that Jefferson had violated Marbury’s and the other appointees’ rights when he blocked their commissions since they had already been confirmed and affixed with seals. He further held that Marbury was entitled to sue and seek a legal remedy, and a federal judge could issue a writ ordering Jefferson to comply. This was a very tall order.
Was an order from the U.S. Supreme Court the proper remedy to solve the problem?
However, on the third question, things were very complicated. The Supreme Court’s ability to hear Marbury’s case directly was based upon a portion of the Judicial Act of 1789. This Act gave the court the power to issue writs directly to federal officeholders without a plaintiff going through a lower court. But as Marshall wrote, Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution already specified that the court had original jurisdiction in limited types of cases involving “ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party,” and could only act as an appeals court in all others. Therefore, Congress’s enlargement of the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction was unconstitutional. In a landmark decision that has defined the separation of these three branches of government that Chuck Schumer has ignored, Marshall wrote:
“The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written.”
As a result, Marshall concluded, “the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.”
Marshall Establishes the Supreme Court’s Authority
The decision in Marbury v. Madison was immediately recognized across the nation as the profound definition of our nation. The idea that the Supreme Court could overrule an act of Congress actually predated Marbury v. Madison— when Alexander Hamilton argued that very point in The Federalist Papers in 1788—where we find this principle now was firmly established in law. Thus, this case made clear that the ruling established the power of the federal courts over other branches of government to interpret the nation’s laws. Marshall wrote:
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
“Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.”
Today, thanks to Marbury v. Madison, the federal courts’ authority is undisputed. Chuck Schumer has absolutely no justification to be in the Senate. He has rejected the law of the land all for partisan politics. Schumer should be IMPEACHED and removed from office. He is polarizing the country, and it is one thing if his argument is even lawful, but when he seeks to strip the Supreme Court of the very role of deciding what the law is, he has gone too far and should be removed for violating his oath of office and is a disgrace to our nation.
As Thrasymachus said some 2500 years ago, JUSTICE is only the self-interest of those in power. Schumer has proven that mixing politics and law is the death sentence for any society. We are rapidly approaching 2032, when it will be time to turn out the lights on the experiment called a Republic. Franklin understood the cycles of time and circumstance.
originally on the CTH on August 1, 2024 | Sundance
Tech CEO Amjad Masad talks to Tucker Carlson about the cults of Silicon Valley. Indeed, I think we can all see a modern Technocratic shift taking place.
Chapters:
00:00 Artificial Intelligence 10:01 Bitcoin 22:30 The Extropians Cult 29:15 Transhumanism 34:04 Longtermism 40:24 Are Machines Capable of Thinking? 43:11 The Two Conflicting Theories of Physics 49:46 The Difference Between Mind and Computer 1:04:24 The Abuse of Technology 1:12:36 Virtual Companionship 1:15:12 Do Silicon Valley Elites Acknowledge the Existence of God? 1:26:37 Silicon Valley Turning to Donald Trump 1:40:20 Elon Musk and Free Speech
♦ BIG PICTURE – Are the newest group of billionaire Silicon Valley tech leaders currently supporting MAGA Trump/Vance, really a modern assembly of the Green Dragon rebels in Boston, plotting the next Tea Party rebellion. Or are they simply just the other side of a new modern Technocratic control system, aligned with and dependent on government?
The Obama-era ‘Technocracy‘ was based on public-private partnerships with social media. This was the origin of the surveillance state that now scours, controls, filters, censors and ultimately monetizes your social media data profile. The operational and business model is cemented into the process now. Everyone accepts it. Terms and conditions apply, and if you don’t agree, you can’t use.
Is the pending Trump-era ‘Technocracy‘ a rebrand, pushing social media off to the side (that part is done) and bringing data processing control agents, artificial intelligence software designers, big money venture capitalists, banks and those who are creating digital id systems. Does Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, now occupy the empty chairs around the table of Technocracy?
Was the 5/10-year business model in the mind of tech billionaire Peter Thiel what led him to recruit JD Vance in 2013. Was it a financial decision blended with ideology to guide, finance and support JD Vance all the way to 2022 and 2024? Was JD Vance an investment?
Truly, I suspect our gut knows the answer.
That’s why my approach is to say, “here’s the factual data – trust your instincts.”
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