Tag Archives: Congressional committees

Jun 1 2022

American Confidence in the Economy Drops to Lowest Level Since 2009, Oil Prices Climb, Gas Prices Break Records, Main Street in Serious Trouble


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 31, 2022 | Sundance

…..Quit Pretending

Joe Biden is not running this economy.  Joe Biden’s economic advisors are not running this economy.  Joe Biden’s cabinet members are not running the economy. The people running this economy are the climate change activists behind the scenes who have been elevated into positions in all economic cabinet offices throughout the administration.  This was the deal in 2020 that led to Biden’s installation.

Professional political activists, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders types, within the Interior Dept., Energy Dept., EPA and other regulatory agencies related to the energy economy are in control. Not a single operator within the system looks to the White House or executive office for guidance.  They knew they had a short window to carry out the unilateral agenda regardless of damage it does.

This is a full-throated assault on the energy industry under the auspices of the climate change agenda. And that is what is collapsing Main Street and pushing massive costs onto consumers via inflation.  That’s it. That’s the background. No one in/around the White House has any control over the consequences. That was the 2020 deal made, and the reason why Biden was selected as the nameplate.

Oil prices have shot up to $120/barrel.  Russia and Ukraine are being used as a smokescreen for the ‘Build Back Better’, or domestically, the “Green New Deal’, agenda.  The same climate agenda supported by the entire Western government alliance who bow to the altar of the World Economic Forum.

Damn the consequences, full speed ahead. Main Street citizens are collateral damage.  They don’t care. In the view of the operators, their urgent goals are bigger than our needs; and their high-minded, filled with superiority justification is, they are trying to save us from ourselves.

US NEWS – The jump of more than 50% for oil prices so far this year has been a big contributor to the very high inflation sweeping the world. Earlier Tuesday, a report showed inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit 8.1% in May, the highest level since records began in 1997. (more)

Of course, every American can feel the impact, even if they cannot identify the reasons outlined above.

WASHINGTON – Americans’ confidence in the economy has plummeted to a new low, hitting likely the lowest confidence since the end of the Great Recession in early 2009, according to a new Gallup poll released on Tuesday.

Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index (ECI) measured -45 in May, which is down from -39 in each of the past two months. (more) 

The only thing we know with absolute certainty, is that things are going to get worse.  They know how bad it is going to be, that’s why they are working to mitigate any risks to the centralized power.  That risk mitigation includes the need to consider armed citizens as a threat to the process.

There will be electricity shortages.  There will be even more “necessarily skyrocketing” increases in energy costs, both cooling and heating.  There are going to be more, even larger, food price increases and potentially some shortages.

As each unavoidable item like housing, energy, gas and food costs more, there are less dollars available for non-essentials.   Inventories on durable goods will climb as consumers hunker down with priority spending on the most essential items.  If the demand is gone, employment layoffs in the goods sector will take place.

This process, a very predictable yet unnatural outcome from the consequence of completely restructuring the energy sector which underpins the economy, is not going to get better.  There is far more downside yet to travel.

We are entering the ‘you will have nothing, and you will be happy phase.’

The sanctimonious and pontificating elite class are justifying all of this pain by saying they are trying to save the planet.

I will not eat the bugs.

Jun 1 2022

Jury Verdict, Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann Found Not Guilty of Lying to FBI


Posted originally on the conservative tree house May 31, 2022 | Sundance

All media reporting of this case will be done through the prism of their own cooperation in the perpetration of the fraud. The MSM knew along with everyone else inside and outside of government, that their efforts to create the Trump-Russia conspiracy and collusion narrative were based on fraudulent pretext manufactured by the Clinton campaign. They all knew it. They all acted collaboratively, and they all engaged purposefully.

Michael Sussmann was accused of lying to the FBI about working for Hillary Clinton at the time he took fraudulent information to the FBI about Donald Trump.  A Washington DC jury has found Sussmann NOT GUILTY.

While Sussmann was pushing fraudulent information into the open hands of FBI Legal Counsel James Baker, another Clinton campaign contractor, Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, was pushing similarly constructed fraudulent information -including the Christopher Steele dossier- into the media and DOJ via Bruce Ohr.

The not guilty verdict simply means the FBI knew, or should have known, Michael Sussmann was delivering the fraudulent Trump-Russia collusion nonsense directly from the Hillary Clinton team.   The FBI claims they didn’t know, the jury by finding Sussmann not guilty, says the FBI did know.

The BIGGER question is, what’s next?

Durham constructed this case around the premise the FBI and DOJ was duped or tricked by Hillary Clinton operatives, specifically including Michael Sussmann.  It would be very weird if Durham now flipped the premise and began targeting DOJ or FBI officials around the premise they were “not duped.”

Therefore, I still think Durham stays exclusively focused on the outside actors and ignores all of the corrupt internal DOJ and FBI activity.

The prosecutorial approach by John Durham positioned all of the corruption outside the institutions of government, thereby protecting them.

The bad guys, the corrupt lawbreakers, are the people directly connected to the Clinton Campaign and all of the political and legal agents in/around the Clinton political machine.

As the Durham narrative unfolded, the brave and honorable institutions of government were victims to the horrible, terrible activity by the Clinton outsiders.

Pay no attention to the aligned politics and weaponization of the White House, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, FBI main, FBI-CoIntel, CIA, Senate Intelligence Committee, or memberships therein.  The entire apparatus of the most robust, capable, excellent and diligent intelligence apparatus in the history of all mankind, along with all the oversight mechanisms that exist to support that apparatus, was duped by Hillary Clinton’s team.

Bill Barr was the bondo, John Durham is the spray paint.

May 31 2022

Newsom Hopeful for a Harris Presidency


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted May 31, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Governor Newsom is promising Californians everything under the sun if they vote for him. Most recently, Newsom stated that he would not run for president if elected before his next term would end in 2027. “Yeah, I mean, I have sub-zero interest. It’s not even on my radar,” he self-proclaimed. Newsom then slipped and said that he believes Kamala Harris will be America’s next president.

Harris has done absolutely nothing as vice president. A Trafalgar poll stated that only 28% of respondents approved of how Harris is handling her job. Harris has a notoriously high staff turnover rate as well, and there are reports of Biden and Harris often in disagreement behind the curtain. Harris could technically split from Biden and run for the candidacy in 2024. The list of qualifications to become a US president are less than what is required of an entry-level fast-food worker.

US presidential requirements:

  • A presidential candidate must be a natural-born citizen of the United States
  • They must be a resident for 14 years
  • They must be 35-years-old or older

Only 15 vice presidents in US history, including Joe Biden, have won the presidency out of 46 who applied. President Biden confirmed in January that he would select Kamala Harris as his running mate if he runs for reelection in 2024. Before Biden’s announcement in January, Harris told every press outlet willing to listen that she was not sure if Biden would select her for reelection.

Biden will be 81 by the next election but has stated he plans to run despite his obvious mental health decline. The Democrats would be wise to choose a different candidate, but not Kamala who is even less popular and competent than Joe.

May 31 2022

Canadian Politician Urges Optimism Amid Energy Crisis


Armstrong Economics Blog/Energy Re-Posted May 31, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Since politicians are incapable of easing the energy crisis, they gaslight the public to believe that high prices are a good thing. Ontario Liberal candidate Granville Anderson is urging Canadians to see the “silver lining” in higher gas prices. “Maybe that’s a silver lining and that may allow people to think outside the box and say maybe I better look at seeing if I can ride a bike to work or buy an electric car,” Anderson said. “I think the price could be a lot lower than it currently is. But again, I said that may allow us to think twice and probably find another mode of transportation.”

Interestingly, he made these comments shortly after Ontario experienced a disastrous storm that left 150,000 people without power. I am sure people would be thrilled to drop their kids off at school via bike or trek through a storm to arrive at a job that pays only enough to make ends meet with sky-high inflation. The common suggestion of politicians to buy an electric vehicle is insulting to the majority of the population who cannot afford that luxury. According to Scotia Bank, the average cost for an EV in Canada is between C$32,000 and C$160,000. The average maintenance cost is C$1,150 annually, not including charging or unexpected fees.

There is no silver lining to the energy crisis; there is no alternative option to gas at this point in history.

May 31 2022

DHS and Intel Community Media Outlets Proactively Move to Defend Dominion Voting Systems Ahead of Report on Electronic Election Hardware Issues Coming This Week


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 30, 2022 | Sundance 

The timing is not coincidental.  A 100-page report on electronic voting systems, by University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman, remains under seal in a federal court in Atlanta as an outcome of election integrity lawsuits surrounding the Dominion voting system.  That report is rumored to be released soon, perhaps as early as this week.

In what appears to be a proactive move to get out ahead of identified voting system irregularities specific to the electronic voting systems, the Dept of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS-CISA), updated the election page on their website [SEE HERE] under the “Rumor Control” section.  DHS made the update on May 27, 2022, last week.

The very next day, May 28, 2022, The Washington Post produces an article [SEE HERE] describing an upcoming DHS-CISA 5-page memorandum that is in the process of being sent to the states ahead of a public release.

With the WaPo being the outlet of choice for the intelligence community & security state, it appears they received an advanced copy to help establish an early response effort.

Within The Post article, “there are nine flaws affecting versions of the machine called the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X, according to a copy of an advisory prepared by CISA and obtained by The Washington Post.”  The article then goes immediately to downplay the problems. “The flaws, many of which are highly technical and which mostly stem from machine design as opposed to coding errors, generally require an attacker to have physical access to the devices or other equipment used to manage the election, CISA said.”

[…] CISA’s five-page advisory is based in part on Halderman’s 100-page report, which remains under seal in a federal court in Atlanta. The advisory is expected to be released next week after officials in all 50 states are notified.

The WaPo article is filled with ‘nothing to see here, move along – move along,’ verbal engineering.

CNN then picks up the baton from the Washington Post, and they too tell their audience not to worry about any pesky evidence of election system vulnerabilities.  The professionals in charge of things have assured us there’s no problems and everything is fine.   After all, it would be far too difficult, and too many people would be involved, for there to be actual tampering and fraud in the use of the electronic systems.

(Via CNN) – Federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems, discovered during a controversial Georgia court case, which could in theory allow a malicious actor to tamper with the devices, according to a draft analysis reviewed by CNN.

The vulnerabilities have never been exploited in an election and doing so would require physical access to voting equipment or other extraordinary criteria standard election security practices prevent, according to the analysis from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

But because the subject is Dominion voting equipment, which has been the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim there was large-scale fraud in the 2020 election, federal and state and local officials are bracing for election deniers to try to weaponize news of the vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections.

“While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be promptly mitigated, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections,” reads the draft CISA advisory, which the agency shared in a briefing with state and local officials on Friday. (read more)

For a group of government bureaucrats that are so confident there’s no ‘there, there‘, they sure are putting a lot of energy into delivering all the talking points ahead of the actual election reports and state advisories.

Meanwhile, Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious…

May 30 2022

Paul Pelosi Arrested for Driving Under the Influence


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022 | Sundance

According to multiple media reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband of 59 years, Paul Pelosi, was arrested for driving under the influence last night.  It’s the driving part that’s no ok.  The need for Paul Pelosi to be under the influence of something numbing, is, well, somewhat understandable.

(VIA MSM) – Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, has been arrested after allegedly driving under the influence late Saturday night. Paul Pelosi was arrested in Napa County, California at 11:44 p.m. on Saturday night, and was charged with driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher as well as driving under the influence of alcohol.

The arrest was first reported by TMZ. He was booked into jail at 04:13 a.m. on Sunday, and released at 7:26 a.m. according to Napa County records. Those records indicate his bail was set at $5,000.

Paul Pelosi, 82, has been married to Nancy since 1963. A spokesperson for Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she would not be commenting on the “private” matter.

“The Speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast,” the spokesperson said. (link)

May 30 2022

Sunday Talks, Sparks Fly During FOX Interview Between Senator Mo Brooks and Regime Stenographer Sandra Smith – Theme, “Something Must Be Done”


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022 | Sundance 

Alabama Senator Mo Brooks appeared on Fox News Sunday for his trip through the media spin cycle set on “something must be done” mode.”

The interview gets more and more contentious as the conversation takes a turn toward election integrity, and Sandra Smith is bound by contractual obligation with the corporate instructions to dispatch any claims of 2020 election fraud.  WATCH:

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We all know what lies at the end of the emotionally driven “something must be done” narrative.  The most obvious example is the Patriot Act.  We are reminded every time we are forced to take off our shoes, undergo a pat-down and complete the required full body scan to board an airplane.   The lesser obvious data collection and electronic surveillance methods not withstanding….

TSA Agent avoiding jihad from a potential terror threat

May 30 2022

Sunday Talks, CBS Margaret Brennan Begins Interview with False Claim Framework About Ulvalde School Shooting


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022 

The Uvalde school shooting is the lead on every Sunday news talk show. We know the corporate media apparatus is filled with “journalists” who narrate events from a false premise, but still, they need to be called out when the baseline for conversation is important.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson appears on CBS with dramatic narrative engineer, Margaret Brennan, to discuss the Ulvalde, Texas school shooting and the aftermath.  In the very first sentence of her lead-in context, Brennan makes three remarkably false assertions to frame the basis of a manipulated interview. [Transcript Here]

Notice the lead, “There was an armed officer assigned to the elementary school in Uvalde [FALSE]. And then you had a police force response [FALSE], where they did not confront the shooter who was carrying an AR-15 [FALSE].” There was no armed officer present, there was no police force response, and the shooter was not carrying an AR-15.  From there the dramatic acting of Margaret Breann begins.

Notice Brennan later shifts to “AR-15 styled” weapon after making the false initial claim.  Then uses the term “semi-automatic”, as if that is some description of a more deadly firearm, rather than describing a singular bullet from each pull of the trigger.  …”But then there’s this AR-15 style weapon, semi automatic not that good for hunting. The bullets travel three times the speed of sound, they literally blow bodies apart. […] Why not raise the minimum age of purchase to 21 from 18?”

[Transcript of Interview Here]

May 30 2022

Deeper in the Coverup, Early 2018 Andrew Weissmann Instructed Everyone on Special Counsel Team to Wipe Their Cell Phones


Posted originally on the conservative house on May 29, 2022 | Sundance 

In the aftermath of the late summer 2017 Page/Strzok cell phone text messages, which started to identify the DOJ and FBI targeting operation against Donald Trump, the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) decided he better look at the communications inside the rest of the Mueller-Weissmann team.  Early in 2018 IG Horowitz asked for all of the special counsel cell phones.

Andrew Weissmann knew there would be trouble, the special counsel operation was at a critical juncture {GO DEEP} so he instructed the team to wipe them clean, quickly.

Eventually records were released in 2020 [SEE HERE] showing how the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel team “accidentally” wiped 15 iPhones of all data early in 2018 after the phones were requested by the OIG office for review.

Mueller’s lead investigator Andrew Weissmann said he “accidentally” wiped two phones himself; through a lengthy process of entering the wrong passcode several times over a period of three hours; removing data to show his activity during the special counsel.

Weissmann claimed to have entered the wrong password (takes ten attempts) and that erased all the data.  Greg Andre, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, made the same claim.

Wiping your phone to hide damaging information only works if the other phone you are communicating with wipes the same data.  Guess what happened?  Yup, exactly that, all of the cell phones connected to the key participants in the Muller operation deleted their phone content rendering a review impossible.

James Quarles III, who worked with Mueller in private practice at the Washington office of Wilmer-Hale, claimed his iPhone magically erased itself.

Before joining the special counsel team, Mr. Rush Atkinson worked under Andrew Weissmann in the DOJ’s criminal fraud section where he specialized in financial fraud.  Atkinson claims he too entered the wrong password ten times and accidentally erased all the data.

At least twelve other people assigned to the special counsel investigation had similar “phone wiped/erased” issues which blocked the inspector general from his review.

One “accidental” method used repeatedly was to place the iPhone in airplane mode and then lock it without providing the password.

Retrieval attempts then erased all data and returned to factory settings after unsuccessful passcode entries.

[PDF Link Available Here]

As we have previously mentioned the two-year Weissmann/Mueller special counsel, May 2017 through April 2019, was a continuum of the corrupt DOJ and FBI efforts that originated prior to the 2016 election.  Most of the internal FBI and DOJ officials just transferred from the Clinton email investigation, into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and then into the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel investigation.

The corrupt activity within the special counsel tenure was actually worse than the corrupt activity that preceded it.  In early 2018 the Special Counsel operation was at the apex. The special counsel team had just discovered the investigation of Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe, from the FBI investigative file turned over to them for review before the criminal grand jury was seated. {Go Deep}

DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu, in charge of the criminal case against Wolfe, had just notified journalist Ali Watkins (New York Times) of the search warrant that was used to look at her communications with senate security officer.  There was a confluence of events swirling around the Weissmann team that needed to be handled very carefully if their cover-up operation was to continue.

There were also concerns in the early spring of 2018 the special counsel could be shut down if all of these issues were not handled carefully.  Thankfully, the special counsel team had full control over Main Justice and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was giving them free rein to preserve the institutions under the auspices of the Trump-Russia investigation.

It was in the early spring of 2018 when a great deal of activity was needed in order to tamp-down and cover-up the DOJ and FBI conduct.   The Office of the Inspector General asking to review their communications was problematic.  So, the special counsel team scrubbed all the phone information, reset their priorities and got back on mission.  To give you an idea how difficult it is to wipe an iPhone, watch this video.

This was not done “accidentally”:

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The gateway to expose the corrupt DOJ and FBI officials does not lie at the end of the path where you find Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie, Fusion-GPS or any of their cohorts and corrupt political/media allies.  Following that trail leads to obfuscation, ‘mistakes were made’ justification and institutional preservation.

Instead, the way to expose the corrupt DOJ and FBI officials, lies at the end of the path walked by the Mueller-Weissmann special counsel.

Follow that Weissmann trail and you walk right in the front door of Main Justice and the central Washington DC FBI office.

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May 29 2022

Support for Liz Cheney Collapses in Wyoming as President Trump Comes to Rally for Her Primary Opponent


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 28, 2022 | Sundance

A recent republican poll in the state of Wyoming [DATA HERE] shows Representative Liz Cheney trailing her primary Trump-endorsed opponent, Harriet Hageman, by 30 points.  Liz Cheney has 26% republican support, and her challenger has 56%.   The Wyoming primary is August 26, 2022, this year (general election November 8).

President Trump is going to be holding a rally later today in Casper, Wyoming, to assist in defeating the horrible DeceptiCon Liz Cheney.  However, do not get overconfident looking at Cheney’s terrible poll numbers, Wyoming is an open primary state and Democrat voters can vote for Liz Cheney on the republican ticket.  There is only one congressional district in Wyoming and there are considerable pockets of Moonbats in/around the fancy rich places like Jackson Hole.

(Politico) – […] The race for Wyoming’s lone congressional district is one where the Club for Growth and Trump, who have quickly turned from allies to foils, are aligned, though the Club has not formally endorsed Hageman. The poll, shared first with POLITICO, was conducted this week by WPA Intelligence, a Republican firm, ahead of Friday’s candidate filing deadline.

Trump has taken intense interest in the race because Cheney has been such a prominent critic of his attempts to subvert the 2020 election results. After her impeachment vote, she became one of just two Republicans, along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), to sit on the commission investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that Speaker Nancy Pelosi created.

Kinzinger chose to retire rather than remain a stop on Trump’s 2022 midterm revenge campaign. Cheney, however, has said she plans to seek reelection — even if her odds look tough. And Trump will travel to Casper, Wyo. on Saturday to rally for Hageman, a trial lawyer who placed third in the GOP primary for governor in 2018.

The polling reinforces another piece of data the Club for Growth released a year ago, which showed that 52 percent of Wyoming GOP primary voters were planning to vote against Cheney regardless of who challenges her. (read more)

Because Wyoming only has one House congressional district (CD), the congressional seat is a statewide race. This allows activist Democrats to activate their political operation in order to protect their ally, Liz Cheney.

The open primary states are the states the RNC wing of the UniParty has targeted to turn into Democrat States.  It is a long-term strategy within the republican wing of the club system to turn control of the state offices to democrats in order to protect the power structures in Washington DC.

UniParty State Governors and Decepticon Senators benefit from the open primary format as it allows Democrats to select the weakest republican candidate for the general election contests.   The most recent example of the strategy in action is in Georgia.  Thousands of democrats took republican ballots so they could control the November 2022 ticket challenges.  In November Democrats will likely take the governors’ office with Stacey Abrams and a very organized black voting bloc.

Ohio and Texas are two key target states for the professional republican club to turn the keys over to democrats.  They are making a lot of progress there.