Turkey – NATO – Russia and the Middle East


Posted originall on Jul 28, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, You say you are not clairvoyant. However, you know more things than anyone geopolitically from there might be an assassination of Trump to Turkey will see to resurrect the Ottoman Empire. Some of us would like to know how you get so many things right when people think they are off the wall when you say them. It would be enlightening to listen to your response.

Thank you for all you do

Rob

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ANSWER: Look, I think the difference is that people do not understand history and think that the past has no bearing on the future. History repeats because human nature never changes. In addition to a fast recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the macroeconomic policies in Turkey and high commodity prices have contributed to surging inflation even on a nominal basis, but then there has been significant currency inflation, and the US greenback has soared against the Turkish lira. This lethal combination has caused growing external imbalances that are intermixed with implicit liabilities.

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As we can see, the US greenback has soared against the Turkish lira. Erdogan’s dream was to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, which ended when it was defeated and dissolved in 1908—1922. Now, with the economic conditions being deplorable, Erdogan needs an external enemy. The Arab nation-states are sympathetic toward Russia since they see that Israel is a protectorate of the United States. Erdogan is playing to the Arab world, and since Turkey has the most significant military force in the Middle East, he hopes to be seen as the savior and resurrect the Ottoman Empire, which just so happened to have included Israel.

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If you have never been to Greece or Turkey, you are unaware that the hatred between these two nations dates back to Alexander the Great’s time. For Greece to even come out and make a statement that they can attack Turkey by surprise does not help the crisis.

Turkey will defend the Arabs against Israel, and the tensions between Greece and Turkey, both NATO countries, will lead to Turkey exiting this NATO alliance. They will join with Russia, which most of the Arab world supports. This is nothing new. This is merely how nation-states will always respond without exception.

So stay tuned for more fun and games. But when a country is in economic crisis, it needs an external enemy, and NATO offers nothing in return for their loyalty.

Supreme Court Term Limits?


Posted Jul 29, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Joe Biden declared that implementing term limits would be one of his last acts before vanishing from Washington. No, he is not demanding that Congress heed to term limits. Biden himself is a career politician who profited from a lifetime of rubbing elbows with the establishment at the expense of the people. He would not dare to implement laws that would hurt his remaining allies in Washington. The real reason that the establishment want justices to have term limits is because they fear a Trump majority SCOTUS.

The Supreme Court of the United States was created over 233 years ago in 1789 and there have been 116 serving Justices. Justices are appointed for life, with the average Justice serving for around 16 years. Cyclically, a new judge enters the SCOTUS every two to three years.

“The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees. Two more. He’s already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of rights of individuals,” Biden commented. Trump named three justices during his term – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanagh and Amy Coney Barrett – cementing the conservative majority on the bench.”

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The Democrats are using abortion, Roe v. Wade, as their reasoning behind abolishing the current structure of the highest court. These politicians do not care about human rights. They are angered that the SCOTUS has ruled against the establishment time and time again. The court denied the establishment the opportunity to force Trump off the ballot. Even the liberal Justices unanimously agreed that states do not have the authority to enforce Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Supreme Court has overturned Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which permitted government agencies to implement the rule of law, bypassing the federal judicial system. Absolutely every facet of American life is partially controlled by unelected government agencies who need not abide by a uniform rule of law before implementing regulations. Revoking the Chevron doctrine took away tools of the deep state such as forcing the EPA to carry out climate imitative or permitting the FDA to advocate government-approved COVID-19 treatments. Even the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has lost power in controlling America’s financial markets as a result of this ruling.

There is no place for constitutional law in an increasingly tyrannical justice system.

Biden could only implement term limits through an amendment to the Constitution itself or pushing legislation through congress. A proposed constitutional amendment must receive two-thirds of support by state legislations. Thirty-eight of the 50 members must agree to ratification. This option would leave less room for interpretation or continued legal review.

The second method would be implementing legislation through Congress, and it would be of no surprise if a bill is currently being drafted. The House and Senate would need to agree on such term limits without overtly abandoning Article III of the Constitution that outlines the power of the judicial branch.

All politicians should have term limits to prevent careers that lead to corruption and tyranny. The American justice system was based upon the Roman Republic, which collapsed because of pervasive internal corruption by career politicians. A Roman dictator was a magistrate of the Roman Republic, to whom they entrusted the full authority of the state to deal with some emergency or to undertake a specific duty. Every other magistrate was subordinate to his rule. Even the right of the plebeian tribunes, which no one could touch and had the power to charge politicians, could not veto his actions, and any right to appeal was extremely limited. We see a similar aspect in the US Congress because each side will oppose the other to deprive them of any credit. However, at least a dictator could not be bribed.

A Roman dictation could never roam freely and charge people with crimes outside of his appointed purpose. We see special prosecutors like Mueller violate his authority in this manner. Additionally, a Roman dictator was obligated to resign his office once his appointed task had been completed.

If the SCOTUS faces term limits, then all public officials should be held to the same standard. We are watching the likes of Joe Biden preferring to waste away in office than to step down. We witness them profiting through insider trading, and even the “big man” in the highest office was coerced into bringing the entire nation into a war to protect his special interests. The power to indict must be taken away from the Department of Justice and that decision should be also presented to a panel of independent lawyers who make that decision, not a prosecutor. There should also be no prosecutorial immunity. America must be restored to a system that is FOR THE PEOPLE.

Pentagon Misplaces Billions in Aid to Ukraine AGAIN


Posted originally on Jul 29, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The US Defense Department quietly admitted to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has misplaced an additional $2 billion in military funding to Ukraine. Not so coincidentally, the Pentagon also misplaced an alarming $6.2 billion in military funding for Ukraine in June 2023 “due to accounting errors.”

The Pentagon has NEVER ONCE passed an audit. America’s favorite money laundering service is paid for by the taxpayers, who have no say in how the money is spent or laundered, for that matter. Did the money go to contractors? Politicians? Ukraine? The government refuses to say. The latest $2 trillion is a drop in the bucket as the agency has managed to “misplace” TRILLIONS in funds over the years.

Yet, this same agency is always calling on Congress to approve more funding to Ukraine. The president has the ability to allocate funding from US stockpiles to Ukraine under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The Government Accountability Office has said that the Foreign Assistance Act is vague, preventing them from dutifully carrying out an audit. The DoD also approved an additional $150 million in military aid for Ukraine at the beginning of the month. Biden continues to approve funding to these agencies despite the ongoing “accounting errors.”

The government allegedly attempted to audit the Pentagon in 2023, spending $187 million to carry out the investigation through 1,600 auditors. Only 7 of the 29 sub-audits passed, and half of the claimed assets were unrecoverable. It has been a long-known issue that the Pentagon conveniently misplaces money and is never held accountable for its actions that amount to THEFT against the American people.

This is a HUGE SUM OF MONEY that could easily end hunger, homelessness, water shortages, improve education, and fix America’s broken infrastructure. Instead, those at the top approve endless billions to pass through the Pentagon where it mysteriously vanishes. WHY IS NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE? The government is openly permitting the Pentagon to launder money at this point.

Way Beyond Sketchy – Local Butler County SWAT Team Says Trump Secret Service Detail Did Not Communicate with Them Before Shooting


Posted originally on the CTH on July 28, 2024 | Sundance

There are a growing number of voices pointing very specifically at the U.S. Secret Service and saying the level of incompetency in Butler County, Pennsylvania, was not accidental.

Indeed, as the fact pattern emerges, despite -and perhaps because of- the lack of public press briefings by DHS and the Secret Service leadership, a strong argument is now gaining momentum that USSS intentionally set President Trump up to be assassinated.  In this horrifically possible scenario, ‘willful blindness’ is the best alternative.

Putting further fuel on the possibility of an intended collapse of security, the local Butler County SWAT team is now telling the public that Secret Service officials never met with them, nor provided secure communications channels between the SWAT members and the Secret Service.  The SWAT team had no way to tell the USSS of the threat they saw moving toward President Trump. This detailed revelation is very troubling.  WATCH:

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I am not at all surprised that First Lady Melania Trump now wants to keep Barron Trump as far away from American politics as possible.

The absence of specific government press conferences remains ‘the dog that didn’t bark’.

Sunday Talks – Senator Ron Johnson Provides Information About Trump Assassination Attempt from Govt Officials


Ron Johnson Provides Information About Trump Assassination Attempt

Posted originally on the CTH on July 28, 2024 | Sundance

Senator Ron Johnson is the former chair of the Homeland Security Committee.  Johnson’s staff have been sending letters to various agencies responsible for presidential security, in an effort to find out as much information as possible about the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

It has only been two weeks since an assassin attempted to kill President Trump, while murdering a rally attendee and critically injuring two others.  However, most of the corporate media have dropped the subject and quickly rushed to the coronation of Kamala “brat” Harris.   In an attempt to diminish the issue, Google has even removed search qualifiers for the Trump assassination attempt.  Google doesn’t do this without active participation with DHS and the Intelligence Community.

Ron Johnson talks to Fox News about the briefings he and his staff have received from DHS and Secret Service officials. WATCH:

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It All Tracks – Hersch Reports Barack Obama Threatened Biden with 25th Amendment Removal


Posted originally on the CTH on July 28, 2024 | Sundance 

In popular lingo young people simply say, “that tracks.”  It’s a quick way of saying, new information makes sense with pre-existing information.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersch writes on his substack [SEE HERE], an article outlying how his sources in Washington DC and the White House have confirmed to him that former President Barack Obama was the impetus to push Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.

Seymour Hersh says President Obama was “deeply involved” with the alleged coup and called Joe Biden after his “incident” in Las Vegas, which, from all outward appearances, looks like a major slip and fall – with a significant hit to the head.

“I went over [reports] this week with a senior official in Washington who helped me fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said.

“Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,’” a senior Washington official told Hersh. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries were reportedly directly involved.

Obama’s plan was to not to immediately endorse Kamala, but it was clear that she would “get the nod.” “[Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.” (Hersch article encapsulated)

Not only does this outline track with every datapoint known about events leading up to the Biden announcement, it also aligns with the entire background of the Obama team operating inside the Biden administration.  Team Obama have always been in control.  Heck, the Obamas never even left Washington DC after their term in office.

The bigger understanding is in the final quote cited.  “[Team Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.”  This is the part where people forget the risk to Team Obama that has never gone away.

The Obama “fundamental change” was a construct of malicious intent.  Much of it fraught with unlawful activity only possible by weaponizing the various agencies and bureaus of the U.S. government.  Going all the way back to 2007 through 2017, that decade is filled with unlawful action by Barack Obama and the people behind him.  This is the core of their ongoing need for control, likely for a generation or more.

President Obama and his likeminded ideological foot-soldiers weaponized the federal system of government.  In every action from the moment he left office, Obama’s team have been working one long continuum of control in order to keep all of their prior activity hidden.  The need for Kamala ‘brat’ Harris is simply another step in this long process to hide the activity.

The NSA Database was weaponized to conduct political surveillance.

The Dept of Justice was weaponized to target their political opposition.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was weaponized to act as the police investigative units for those targets.

The Dept of Homeland Security was weaponized to control the evidence and information about their political targeting and surveillance.

The IRS was weaponized against Obama’s political opposition.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was weaponized to allow the targeting radar to sweep internally against American citizens under the guise of national security and domestic terror threats.

The Central Intelligence Agency was weaponized allowing and permitting their “foreign surveillance” mandate to merge with the DHS internal surveillance mandate, while simultaneously the CIA conducted overseas political operations against the interests of sovereign countries.  All of their activity in ideological alignment.

The Defense Department was purged of patriotism, intentionally weakened through diversity equity and inclusion, and then boiled down to a flag corps of general willing to go along with the policy of Obama.

Main Justice through the National Security Division used FARA violations to target anyone who was determined a threat to the fundamental change, and Main Justice began wholesale Lawfare operations against Donald Trump and any entity who would dare align with him.

Hundreds of millions, likely billions, were funneled through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Green New Deal, The Inflation Reduction Act, and various legislative expenditures to foreign governments; those funds went directly into the bank accounts of Democrat donors and political activist groups.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, the part the awakened American public can look into and see for themselves. Underneath the waterline, there’s tens of thousands of vested interests, inside and outside of Washington DC, operating to maintain the fundamental change that Obama created.  However, their defenses are weak and shallow, fraught with vulnerability and the endless need to avoid sunlight.

All of that scheming, rot, corruption and unlawful activity makes them vulnerable.  The need for control is a reaction to fear.  The ‘fundamental change’ group are fraught with fear.  That is why they consider the current political landscape as a zero-sum contest.

It tracks, it all tracks.

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7.25.24: Destruction of the OLD Guard, NC speech, Kamala dismantled, FINISH line in view, Pray!


Posted originally on Rumble By And We Know on: July 25, 2024 at 11:55 pm EST

Ep. 3412b – The Old Guard Is Being Exposed & Forced To Destroy Itself, Nothing Can Stop This


Posted originally on Rumble By X 22 Report on: July 26, 2024 at 7:18 pm EST

Sean Parnell Highlights Clear Security Risks USSS Allowed While Guarding President Trump


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: July 27, 2024 at 01:00 pm EST

Never Trust the Secret Service since Elite Bodyguards have a History of Assassinating Heads of State?


Posted originally on Jul 26, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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I have reported how President Richard Nixon had threatened the head of the CIA, saying: “I know who killed JFK.” When he was driven out of office, Nixon refused the protection of the Secret Service. This recent attempted assassination was according to their proven playbook. Use a claimed lone shoot, kill him to make sure there is never a trial, and the problem is eliminated. I have often said that history is merely a map to the future, for human nature never changes.

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There were assassinations and attempted assassinations of Roman emperors by rivals and sometimes bureaucrats who were trying to weasel in to grab power, like the story of Sejanus, who had the emperor’s son poisoned by his wife so he could marry her and then take out Tiberius to take the throne. His plot was discovered and terminated with him. There was also the equivalent of the Secret Service in Roman times – the Praetorian Guard, and they were not always trustworthy.

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During the Republican period, the equivalent of the Praetorian Guard were generally just bodyguards for elite politicians. It was not until 27 BC that the Senate bestowed the title “Augustus” upon him, and he became the first emperor of Rome. From then on, the Praetorian Guard was established, and they became the emperor’s personal security escort—the ancient version of the Secret Service.

Nixon refused the protection of the Secret Service because he was also a student of history. John O’Hurley is coming out this August with a documentary on Watergate, which he hopes will rehabilitate Nixon’s legacy. I met Nixon on the beach on Long Beach Island years ago after he left the White House. I don’t recall the conversation, but I did get the sense he knew his history. I also recall he did not seem to have Secret Service at the time.

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What the Deep State did to Nixon was to discredit him and his legacy to cover up the dark side of their anti-Democratic thirst for power. This, Nixon’s history, is problematic, for it certainly distorts their accomplishments and his fight against the left and the rising trend of communism, where he honed the style of red-baiting, where he would denounce an opponent as an anarchist, communist, Marxist, socialist, or Stalinist. His famous 1959 Kitchen Debate with Khrushchev established his belief in freedom and capitalism.

There is undoubtedly precedent for fearing the Secret Service. Historically, 13 Roman Emperors were assassinated by their Praetorian Guard – the very elite group who were to guard the emperor. There was roughly a 20.5-year interval on average between these assassinations. It is three such intervals since Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 – 61 years to 2024, before interestingly the next target was Trump.

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