Posted originally on Aug 8, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
The United States has once again willingly abandoned weapons and ammunition in a foreign nation. Niger has been in a state of upheaval due to economic conditions and a corrupt government. The incoming regime has asked the US military to evacuate, and likely to their surprise, the US government has agreed to abandon Niger’s Air Base 201.
The Pentagon spent $110 million to build the base in 2019 and has been spending about $30 million per year on operations. The strategic position helped the US fight terror networks that have migrated from the Middle East. Somehow, this new incoming regime is holding more power than the established US government, and the Pentagon was unable to successfully negotiate keeping this base. “This does make safeguarding U.S. security interests in the Sahel that much harder,” Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Ekman of the Air Force, tasked with overseeing the withdrawal, told the Times in July. “The threats from ISIS and Al Qaeda in the region are getting worse every day.”
The Biden Administration is absent. No one is in charge. Kamala may be parading around as the new elect, but she has yet to hold an official conference. And where is Joe? He’s still technically the president of the United States but has been MIA. Everyone simply accepts he is “in a basement in Delaware,” while the government breaks into fractions that are utterly incompetent. The US government did not even give its own military the opportunity to collect the materials left behind. Biden’s foreign policy is simply to abandon ship and deal with the consequences later when our own weapons are used against our troops.
Posted originally on Aug 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Kamala has a plan to conquer inflation – increase government spending and raise taxes! She has been avoiding the topic in recent speeches, but her past comments can give us some insight.
Before the government passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest government spending package in our nation’s history, Harris praised the Build Back Better agenda for working to lower costs for the average American. The Inflation Reduction Act was originally the Build Back Better Act and the Democrats were seeking $2.2 trillion in funding. “And, Build Back Better is not going to cost anything — we’re paying for it.So when we can get Build Back Better passed, and we are optimistic that we will, the American people will see costs actually reduced around some of the most essential services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities, including issues like child care and elder care, and also preschool,” Harris said.
Harris clearly does not understand how these social programs are funded. “We” are paying for the act, as in we the people. The Inflation Reduction Act not only added to the national deficit but contributed to overall inflation. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted the proposal was a trojan horse to push through the climate change agenda, and Harris has selected a climate zealot as her VP pick.
Harris sponsored the Green New Deal when in the Senate. She originally supported a ban on fracking before backtracking. As attorney general for California, Harris sued major oil companies for climate change disinformation. She has pledged her allegiance to the Paris climate agreement that aims to reduce emissions by 2035. Again, this all ties into the Build Back Better agenda put forth under the Great Reset. Spending endlessly on saving the planet is merely a rouse for needless government spending and reducing our freedoms by citing something that cannot be questioned in today’s political climate.
Harris has already sought for a corporate tax rate of 35%, higher than Biden’s 28% and far beyond any other developed nation. She does not seem to grasp international business or trade. She has focused on price gouging, insisting the corporations are somehow immune from inflation and passing those costs along to the consumer.
The migrant crisis has certainly put America in dire conditions. We simply cannot afford millions of new residents who live on taxpayer subsidies. I suppose it is pointless mentioning Kamala’s run as the border tzar as she completely ignored our nation being invaded.
War is the primary driver of inflation, and no establishment install would be complete unless they supported foreign wars that in no way involved America. Zelensky and Harris have met half a dozen times, and she will continue to provide him blank checks. Harris would like to involve the US in Israel’s war as well, providing vague statements to the public since half of her voter base is pro-Hamas. She skipped out on Bibi’s speech in the US Congress for a sorority event.
Inflation and the entire cost of living crisis is the number one issue that American voters want resolved. Kamala Harris has no plan to combat inflation. She would like to back climate change initiatives and fund foreign wars, which all but guarantees inflation would rise under a Kamala presidency, followed by our taxes rising as those with no basic concept of economics believe the people should pay for government’s fiscal irresponsibility.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 6, 2024 | Sundance
Remember, in this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices. This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.
The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Here is the weird part. The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar. The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent. This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.
The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009. They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.
Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.
The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI. Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.
The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent.
No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub. If you think I’m joking about the intent of Obama and John Brennan using the DNI watch this video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place.
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For the intents of this outline the takeaway is how the DNI office has never been used for good. In a strategic way, that can be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.
Example: The DNI can assemble material from any silo. Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want. Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists. So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.
In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office. Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI. This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.
The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.
Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos. The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.” That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.
Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it. Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant. This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.
To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA), would be the person who tells the DNI exactly what they are looking for.
How does the NSA know what to look for? Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Now you see why I say put the strategic scruffy people like Mike Flynn, Kash Patel, etc etc in a stripped down NSC.
Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor with details on what appears to be happening and where. With the approval of the President, the NSA then turns to the DNI and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”
Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information. The silo administrators end up in a fight with the ODNI, not the office of President Trump. President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of the DNI.
Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.
Unfortunately, the DNI needs to be confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee – so, this factors into who could achieve the position. [NOTE: Ric Grenell is too valuable in another position.] John Ratcliffe might be a possibility, but I’m not sure he would be strong enough to go up against the system he knows well (and on a character issue he’s bff’s with Trey Gowdy).
Preferably we really want an outsider in this role, yet any true outsider is going to face massive scrutiny getting through the nomination filter. My gut tells me that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey might be a strong candidate, and as DNI he can build on his reputation for confronting DHS manipulation.
AG Andrew Bailey exposed the DHS manipulation of social media and has pushed the envelope against the Deep State/Lawfare attacks against Donald Trump. Bailey has used the power of his office for good purposes, and that provides me with cautious optimism he could do the same at a federal level in the position of Director of National Intelligence.
[The next position to outline be a combination. The Secretary of State and the CIA Director. The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys. Ukraine is a big tipper.]
The professional elements within the top floors of the Democrat apparatus, I’m specifically mentioning the people very close to Obama, genuinely do not believe Kamala Harris stands a chance at winning. FYI, I’ll have more on this later.
Raskin is an angry bitter man of intemperate disposition, the archetype nihilist. As hate consumes him, his physical persona changes with the manifestation of evil enterprise. While his cancer is in reported remission, I would anticipate it to resurface in early 2025, after Baal has finished using him.
All of that said, Raskin is pledging to purposefully trigger a civil war within the United States if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. {Direct Rumble Link Here} Raskin is prepared to work with Democrats and block any certification of any vote that has President Trump declared the winner.
The basic auspices of this nonsensical 14th Amendment, Section 3, argument is that congress can block any person from office who was a federal officer and previously swore an oath to the constitution, then engaged in rebellion and insurrection. It’s the same lawfare argument used by Colorado, Maine and Illinois in an attempt to keep President Trump off the ballot.
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” ~ [Citation]
Raskin sat on the House Select Jan. 6 Committee, and also served as an impeachment manager during the second impeachment effort against President Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “The House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it,” Raskin previously said.
Watch this guy. Raskin throws around “civil war” like it’s a willy-nilly disposable line without the major consequences he would trigger.
Posted originally on Aug 4, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The Neocon Republicans have no problem sending Americans to their death for their personal hatreds and vendettas. The fact that they are coming out and claiming to be Republicans for Harris confirms this election is really all about World War III. Former US Rep. Adam Kinzinger announced via X, writing: “There is nothing ‘conservative’ about Donald Trump. Conservatives believe in the Constitution, not a ‘man’s’ ego. Endorsing American democracy and the future today and leaving the past in the dust. I’m endorsing @KamalaHarris.”
It was Adam Kinzinger who was thrown out of the House by voters because he is a vile Neocon who belongs in prison under the hate crimes laws. This is the guy who claimed that we can destroy Russia and conquer that country in just 3 days. These are the people who our computer-warned years ago that the United States would be defeated and the financial capital of the world would migrate to China. God help us – these are really evil people.
This election is all about World War III. This is not an election between two people. This is an election between the Neocons vs the American People. Harris is just another Biden who will do as commanded. Her performance at the Munich Security Conference confirmed that when she repeated what she was told to say – Ukraine should join NATO, violating every treaty since 1991. The sad part is that she was clueless about the significance of what she said. It should have been the Secretary of State at that conference. They sent Kamala so she would say things even Blinkin could not say.
Bill Kristol, whose father started the Neocon movement from inside the Democrats, turned his magazine into an anti-Trump propaganda piece and lost all his support and now plays out scenarios of how to defeat Trump even if he wins. This is the guy who advocated invading Iraq within his book, which has proven to be utter nonsense.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 4, 2024 | Sundance
I’m just catching up on some events that I have missed. The first press conference by the U.S. Secret Service about the Trump assassination attempt was alarming. This is the first time the media had to question USSS since the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Fox News host Jesse Watters does a good job summarizing the event and encapsulating the largest takeaways from the briefing.
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