Posted originally on the CTH on January 9, 2025 | Sundance
A long list of Republican governors travelled to Mar-a-Lago for a roundtable discussion with President Trump on a variety of topics. At the start of the meeting President Trump took questions from media. WATCH:
JPosted originally on the CTH on anuary 8, 2025 | Sundance
Following a meeting with Leader John Thune and republican senators, President Trump pauses to answer questions from the assembled DC press pool. Topics included the legislative agenda, border security, deportation of illegal aliens, Liz Cheney, the California fires, Greenland and the Panama Canal.
It’s a little humorous when you consider this is what a short ‘press conference’ with a President looks like. President Trump delivers rapid fire remarks in big contrast to the four years of Joe Biden. WATCH:
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Left to Right: Vice President JD Vance, Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR), Assistant Majority Leader, also called the Republican “whip” John Barrasso (R-WY), [PRESIDENT TRUMP], Republican Policy Committee Chair Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Remember, the Senate is a silo -by design- isolated from influence of the American public.
If we want to change the dynamic, we must repeal the 17th amendment and return to the original constitutional construct: Senators appointed to represent the interests of each state, by State Legislature.
The Senate was designed to represent the interests of the State, not ‘the people’; that’s the job of the House of Representatives.
Machiavelli said, “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.
The House of Representatives was created to be the voice of the people, ie, “The Peoples’ House.” However, the U.S. Senate was structurally created to be the place where state government had representation in the federal government decision-making. The 17th amendment completely removed state representation, and we have been in an escalating battle over state’s rights ever since.
Overlay that DC structural issue with the fact that almost all of the bureaucracy created by this skewed DC system is now in place to defend itself from any outside effort to change it, and you get this UniParty problem that Donald Trump fully exposed.
Repeal the 17th amendment and we would see the most significant restoration of freedom, liberty and social balance in our lifetime.
Posted originally on the CTH on January 8, 2025 | Sundance
Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of attempting to stage a coup to remain in office. Similar to the lawfare attacks against President Trump in 2020, Bolsonaro stands accused of fomenting a coup in 2023; his passport was taken to stop him from leaving the country.
Bolsonaro wants to attend President Trump’s inauguration. The two leaders have a lot in common, including the fact that both survived assassination attempts.
(Via Politico) – President-elect Donald Trump has invited Jair Bolsonaro to his upcoming inauguration, but the former Brazilian president may not be able to attend — he surrendered his passport to authorities while under investigation for allegedly helping plan and participate in a 2023 coup attempt in an effort to remain in office.
“My lawyer, Dr. Paulo Bueno, has already forwarded a request to Minister Alexandre de Moraes for me to have my passport returned so that I can attend this honorable and important historical event,” Bolsonaro wrote on X in Portuguese Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 8 coup attempt. (read more)
Posted originally on the CTH on January 7, 2025 | Sundance
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that his platforms of Facebook, Instagram and Treads are going to change policies to permit free speech to reemerge on the social media networks.
According to the announcement, Zuckerberg admits his tech platforms have gone too far in their effort to control content, and censorship has been the outcome. While providing no apology for the intentional control mechanisms that have created censorship, Zuckerberg notes he has met with Donald Trump and sees a “new opportunity” to reset his social media control to allow free speech to return. WATCH:
Simultaneous to this announcement, Zuckerberg has offered Dana White a position on the board of directors. Apparently, White has accepted. Dana White is a strong supporter of President Trump and the position by Zuckerberg is clearly an effort to open a channel of communication with the Trump administration.
CALIFORNIA – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk’s X.
Zuckerberg cited the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election as underlying the decision, calling it a “cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.” Zuckerberg made the announcement in a video. “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.” (Read More)
Posted originally on the CTH on January 7, 2025 | Sundance
President Trump announced that billionaire founder of DAMAC Properties, Hussain Sajwani, will be investing $20 billion in new U.S. datacenters that will be used to operate high speed artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Noting, “at least $20 billion over a very short period of time.” Trump suggested that number could double, and that the company’s founder was inspired by his election victory.
The data centers will be used for AI, and the initial phase will be in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Mr Sajwani confirmed during the press remarks that it was the election of President Trump that cemented the idea to build the massive data centers.
This investment appears to align with the AI interests of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were big boosters in the final weeks of the campaign. Following the announcement President Trump took questions from the press pool. WATCH:
Hussain Sajwani, has long-standing ties to President Donald Trump. His business, DAMAC Properties, worked with the Trump Organization on a Trump golf course in Dubai. Mr Sajwani and Elon Musk joined President Trump for the New Year celebration in Mar-a-Lago.
Asked by a reporter whether he can assure the public that he will not use military or economic coercion to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, Trump flatly said “no.”
“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But I can say this. We need them for economic security,” Trump said.
Steve Witkoff, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, made a brief appearance alongside Trump and said that he is making “good progress” on a deal to release Israeli hostages.
Witkoff, who said he is “on the verge” of a deal, said he is likely to return to the region by Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump also said he will be “making major pardons” for defendants who have faced charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
RELATED CONTEXT – The database that is currently being scanned by the Palantir AI product is NSA level captures.
Real ID (Driver’s License and Passport pictures) combined with full spectrum social media (FB, Insta, Google, and every cell phone camera picture/selfie you take) that identifies your personage (plus more, like images from airports, point of sale, ATM machines, tolls, APLR captures, etc).
That combined massive meta-database is the library (govt and private sector combined) that is subsequently searched by the Palantir AI software to return results on facial recognition.
Everyone gets ID’d. Take a football stadium high-resolution picture and with AI assisting, 99% of the crowd is identified in moments with links to their electronic and digital fingerprints.
The issue I note is that a few faces are NOT identified during the search result. When queried, the “ghost walkers” appear to be classified identities that require escalating levels of authorization to open up the ID.
That’s the system we have now. It is being refined.
Even if it is used in the deportation operation, I still do not like this level of surveillance capability by government. I guess I’m just paranoid about what government can do with a system like this if they choose to weaponize it.
Posted originally on the CTH on January 7, 2025 | Sundance
President Trump’s lawyers were allowed to view a preliminary draft of Jack Smith’s report from the documents case in Florida, under strict rules. After a review, the lawyers wrote to the DOJ demanding the political lawfare report not be released [PDF HERE].
Obviously, the report is a political hit job intended to target the transition process.
Because there are still two codefendants in the case, Judge Aileen Cannon has issued an injunction blocking the release of the report until after an appellate court can hear arguments.
FLORIDA – […] Cannon’s order, issued at the request of two Trump allies who were co-defendants in the classified documents case, bars the Justice Department from releasing the report or any portion of it until three days after a federal appeals court rules on the issue.
The order bars Garland, the Justice Department, Smith and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” from “releasing, sharing, or transmitting the Final Report or any drafts of such Report outside the Department of Justice.”
Cannon’s order does not apply to Trump or his co-defendants, even though Smith contends they inappropriately revealed aspects of the report — which they have reviewed in recent days — in a Monday court filing. In that filing, Trump revealed Smith described him as “engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort,” as “the head of the criminal conspiracies” and said he harbored a “criminal design.” (read more)
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