Sketchy Business – Ben Sasse Under Investigation for Financial Issues During University Tenure, DeSantis Calls for Inquiry


Posted originally on the CTH on August 18, 2024 | Sundance

A few weeks ago, former Senator Benn Sasse quit his job as President at University of Florida.  The claimed reason given by Sasse was to care for his wife who has epilepsy, but the timing of things now looks very sketchy.

I’m going to outline the details in real time because this is going to become more critical as Ron DeSantis positions his future ambitions for the White House, again in 2028.

CTH noted a few years ago that Ron DeSantis was positioning for 2024 presidency.  One of the supportive datapoints was a $20 million donation by the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) to Ron DeSantis {LINK}.  At the time of the donation to DeSantis, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was the RGA chairman.

After the donation was made, Ron DeSantis then used the influence of his office to support Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse for the position of President of University of Florida {LINK}.  As noted by Politico: “Sasse’s sherpa through the university search process was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff James Uthmeier, who was put in contact with Sasse several months ago after he quietly expressed interest in becoming UF president.“ (link)

After Ben Sasse accepted the position as UF President, former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts then became Senator {LINK}. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced Thursday that former Gov. Pete Ricketts will fill the Senate seat of Ben Sasse, who officially resigned from Congress this week to return to academia as president of the University of Florida.  Ricketts, a Republican, like Pillen and Sasse, will serve two years ahead of a 2024 special Senate election.

The quid-pro-quo was complete.  DeSantis took the $20 million from Chairman Ricketts, then opened the path for Ricketts to move to the Senate by using his office to support the movement of Senator Sasse.  Despite the activity taking place over 2 years, the sequence of it was transparent to those who paid attention.   However, now comes the problem.

Apparently, Ben Sasse knew there was going to be a serious problem with his first-year conduct in office as UF President.  Ben Sasse announced he was quitting the job a few weeks ago {LINK}, and now comes the background issue:

WASHINGTON DC – Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has called for an inquiry into former University of Florida President Ben Sasse’s expenses following a report from the school’s student newspaper about spending tripling under his leadership.

Sasse reportedly spent $17.3 million in his first year as president of the university, which was up from the $5.6 million his predecessor, Kent Fuchs, spent in his last year. A majority of the spending came from big contracts with consulting firms and high-salaried remote positions for former staffers of Sasse while he was a senator.

Bryan Griffin, a communications director for DeSantis, said in a statement that discussions with the university and the Florida Board of Governors are underway.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said the “reports of UF’s exorbitant spending by Ben Sasse’s office are concerning,” and that his agency, the Florida Department of Financial Services, will “offer auditing services” to assist in the inquiry. (read more)

This entire story is so brutally Republican it’s almost laughable.

DeSantis moves from congress to FL Governor in 2018 with intent to run for White House in ’24.  Everyone denied it.

DeSantis took $20 million from RGA in 2022 as seed money for his White House run in ’24.  Everyone denied it.

DeSantis announced ’24 run, then uses legislature to rewrite rules allowing him to put $20 million into ‘2024 SuperPAC.  Everyone denied it.

In the middle of all this, DeSantis shifts Sasse to UF President, RGA head who gave DeSantis $20 million replaces Sasse.  Sasse then loots UF, quits and then DeSantis tries to back away from Sasse toward the exits.

After Sasse resigned due to his wife’s epilepsy diagnosis, DeSantis said he wasn’t “involved necessarily” in the selection of Sasse.  He made clear that he would not be involved in the selection process for the new president. (more)

But Ron DeSantis is not a professional republican and sketchy, they say…  lolol 

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You’re A Wage Slave To The Whole World. Your Wages Prop Up The Whole World In The Name Of Security


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The Second Great Depression?


Posted originally on Aug 16, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The coming economic collapse will not resemble the Great Depression. Yes, we are in a recession – but it will not be reminiscent of the Great Depression that began in 1929.

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For you see, the landscape is entirely different now. America was transitioning from an economy based on agriculture to industrialization. About 40% of the economy was agriculture-based at the time. Outside factors like the Dust Bowl provided those is the agriculture sector with no alternative for work, hence the US experiences unemployment rates around 25% because farmers were out of work.

The economy cannot be properly analyzed from a domestic lens. By 1931, all of Europe defaulted on its debt, and Britain went into a moratorium. Mom and pops who invested in foreign debt were paying high interest in high denominations that the likes of Goldman Sachs were selling at the time. They lost all their money. It was a different time as it was a major transition.

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The economic collapse on the horizon will be more reminiscent of the 1970s, when we entered a period of stagflation – inflation rises, but economic growth declines.

The Federal Reserve is in a tough place. Keynesian economics was created at a time when the US had a balanced budget, and the government was not the largest borrower. Emergency rate cuts will do nothing as this is a confidence game. Central banks throughout the world understand that they are helpless. Governments are now the biggest borrower of national debt and in the US we have interest expenditures exceeding $1 trillion. The Fed and central banks in general can do nothing to prevent runaway inflation or curb government spending.

We face difficult times ahead. Japan will perhaps be the first to default before the contagion spreads to Europe. My aim was to create a system like Socrates that could help people navigate the inevitable ups and downs of the economy. We know what is to come so we can stay prepared. Again, we are not entering a second Great Depression by any means, but dark days are upon us.

The UN Takes Step Forward to Create a ONE WORLD Government


Posted originally on Aug 15, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |  

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The United Nations is a SERIOUS threat to our future, and not only should the United States withdraw from the UN, it should be thrown out of New York City. The Biden Administration REFUSES to seek peace with Russia and has NO INTENTION of negotiating with Russia. That effectively says the United Nations is just a dog and pony show with no purpose other than to expand its own power as well as its World Health Organization to create its long-term dream of ruling the entire world.

From the very beginning, the United Nations has indulged in self-aggrandizement to elevate itself to the de facto world government. They have been a proponent of tyranny, even using climate change and health that they alone should be in charge. This treaty they just proposed is called the Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes, pretending this is about cybercrime. Still, it is not – it is about censorship. The UN claims this is the only way to create peace by putting them in charge of the world – unelected, of course. They encouraged this war between the West and Russia because they believed that they could emerge as the Great Peacemaker, which would finally justify their assumption of dominion over the entire world.

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This power-hungry United Nations approved its first International Cybercrime Treaty despite significant objections from all the tech companies and human rights groups. This Treaty is HIGHLY DANGEROUS and will tear the world apart and further suppress human rights, which is the objective of the United Nations, just as we are witnessing with all of these hate speech crimes and imprisonment for merely criticizing a government as in Britain and Ireland. This has been part of the World Economic Forum’s 2030 Agenda of world domination. Schwab is a control freak not unlike Joseph Stalin, who launched his great Purge to silence all his critics.

This Treaty will authorize electronic surveillance worldwide in the name of criminal investigations. It abandons every fundamental principle of global human rights, including freedom of speech and expression. It seeks to establish the most expansive jurisdiction for a crime, just as Britain is seeking to extradite an American for criticizing the new Labour Government in Britain.

The United Nations, which is totally UNELECTED, is creating this Treaty as oppression, fully knowing that the clauses it contains are vague and subject to wide interpretation, allowing countries to come up with their own self-serving interpretations to prosecute anything they call a crime that takes place on a computer system internationally. This is intended to silence podcasts worldwide.

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Governments know they are losing power. I have warned that historically, they will ALWAYS become authoritarian and tyrannical. Instead of asking why people are becoming angry, they seek to punish them and think that they can intimidate people into being silent economic slaves. A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post. Free speech is dead. It is only a matter of time before this United National initiative transforms the world into a prison of economic slaves denying any right to express an opinion.

This cybercrime convention is a deliberate effort to silence the entire world. It is most ironic that China and Russia are the two countries that will refuse to honor this tyrannical decree. What does that say for Western culture and values? This treaty will now go to the General Assembly’s 193 member states. If this UNELECTED body of anti-democratic people accepts it by a mere majority, then it will move to the ratification process, in which individual country governments must sign on. Any American representative that agrees to this Treay should be charged with Treason for it violates everything in the Constitution, and there is NO authority to surrender the sovereignty to the United Nations and allow foreign countries to extradite for crimes in their country that violate Constitutional rights in the United States. Britain is hopeless, for the actions of the police under this new Labour government have sealed the fate of Great Britain to be anything but Great.

This Treaty is truly intended to provide a global legal framework to remove territorial jurisdiction for anything done on a computer. They pretend to be concerned about cyberattacks when it is about collecting and sharing electronic evidence for serious crimes worldwide that will be fining or imprisoning you because you said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is short or she parts her hair on the right instead of the left or perhaps that she is attractive and that is perhaps a lustful statement warning you would like to rape her. This Treaty is so vague it can be twisted into whatever they want.

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No doubt, those in the Biden Administration would love this to become law and to surrender our sovereignty to the UN and its World Health Organization (WHO), run by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is not even a medical doctor. Tedros just declared MokeyPoxy in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. I’m sure Bill Gates has his patent vaccines all lined up for a COVID-19 sequel. Biden would love to push the blame on the World Health Organization’s declared lockdowns for the election to justify mail-in ballots all over again.

Just read the text of this Treaty. There are ZERO such safeguards for a free Internet. They will expand this to prosecute any criticism of the LGBTQ+ community anyone dares to express along with migrants as we have just witnessed in Britain. The plain, vague text allows governments to pass domestic laws that criminalize a broad range of conduct, and as long as it is committed involving a computer, they will point to this treaty to justify the enforcement of tyrannical measures. This Treaty will extinguish free speech and basic human rights for this would even overrule the American Constitution.

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In the United States, we have the Sixth Amendment because the king would charge you with a crime and ship you back to England to be put on trial, where an English jury would always find you guilty. Because the alleged crime took place in America, putting you on trial in London meant you could not call a witness for your defense. This is the very same injury to human rights that the United Nations is seeking to reestablish for what the American Revolution took place.

Due Process Notice

This Treaty’s adopted text defers to domestic law for human rights safeguards on every level. Under this treaty, due process of law necessitates a fair notice, meaning you MUST be informed of the law to be guilty since guilt is an intentional violation of the law. You will be denied Due Process, for you will be criminally charged, extradited to some foreign land, and put on trial, which could even be the death penalty for a law you have never heard of in a faraway land.

Ex Post Facto

The Constitution also prohibits Ex Post Facto laws. In other words, I make a left turn on main street and then pass an illegal law and come after me for that left turn I did a month before you enacted that law.

NOTHING in this Treaty would be deemed constitutional under ANY foundation of law. The scheme here is to prosecute you for mere speech violating some law in a distant land that would NOT be a crime in the United States.

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Welcome to the ONE-WORLD government of absolute tyranny. The United Nations should be terminated and thrown out of New York City for it is seeking to overrule our Constitution. Any American who participated in this committee and agrees with this in the General Assembly is guilty of treason, violating the very oath of office they have assumed that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land – not this terrorist organization masquerading as the champion of human rights worldwide.

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Body Cameras for Food and Retail Workers?


Posted originally on Aug 14, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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Crime in the UK has become so insane that employees at coffee shops and grocery stores are now wearing body cameras for their own safety. The government wonders why average citizens are taking to the streets to protest. What has changed among the demographic of the UL to cause violence toward these workers to increase by 50% in the past year?

Grocery chain Lidl has invested £2 million on body cameras. Employees in every store will be required to wear a body camera as a safety precaution. Popular coffee chain Pret A Manger has also begun asking their employees to wear a camera that will be turned on in “specific circumstances.”

Shoplifting across the UK has doubled from last year, with 16.7 million recorded incidents, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The BRC believes that thieves have looted over £2bn so far this year. More alarming, the BRC has reported 1,300 cases of violence and abuse against retail workers DAILY.

News reports cite that shoplifting and violence have simply increased since COVID. Who is assaulting food and retail workers? The UK was once considered a developed nation where people could go to work or shop at the store without the fear of violence. The UK, America, Canada, and every nation that has seen the demographics of their population drastically change in a short amount of time are experiencing a massive uptick in violent crime. Open border policies are turning modern societies into second-world nations with low-trust societies.