Natalie Winters: “We’ve Never Had A Pardon Like This In American History”


2Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on Dec 01, 2024 at 06:00 pm EST

Russia Raises Military Budget for Next Three Years


Posted originally on Dec 3, 2024 by Martin Armstrong 

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What began as a special military operation has turned into the start of the next world war, and Russia is paying heavily. Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a new budget over the weekend that will allocate 32.5% of the total budget (13.5 trillion rubles) for FY25 to defense spending, which accounts for 6.2% of total GDP.

The amount in proportion to the total budget spent on defense in FY24 was 28.3%. Notably, the budget is factoring in military costs for the next three years – this war will not simply end with Trump. Russia’s pre-war military expenditure was only 3.6 trillion rubles, rising to 5.5 trillion at the beginning of the war from 5.5 trillion rubles in 2022 to 6.4 trillion rubles in 2023.

Russia must find a way to finance this war. The Kremlin estimates GDP for 2024 to come in at 195.8 trillion rubles, although last year’s GDP was 172.1 trillion rubles. The GDP for 2025 is anticipated to be 214.6 trillion rubles. The nation is confident it will continue earning but that is not enough to fund the growing war.

Putin has already raised taxes for the first time in nearly 25 years. The corporate tax rate will rise by 5% from 20% to 25%. The government expects to generate an additional 2.6 trillion rubles in revenue once the tax is implemented in 2025. Russia’s Finance Ministry believes that 2 million people, 3.2% of the working population, will see a rise in their taxes. Taxes on investments will not change. “The changes are aimed at building a fair and balanced tax system,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said, adding that the additional funds would bolster Russia’s “economic well-being.”

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The flat tax rate of 13% that Putin implemented when he took over for Yeltsin in 2001 accounted for much of his popularity. Still, the people overwhelmingly have a sense of patriotism and support Russia as well as Putin. Even with the ongoing war, Russia still only spends about one-fourth of what America and China do on defense. Even India spends more than Russia on its military. We can obviously see where these nations believe the war effort is heading when looking at future budget forecasts. Three years from now brings us to the pivotal year of 2027/2028, where all bets are off, and it would come as zero surprise if/when Russia raises its military spending budget projections.

Denver Spent $356 Million on Migrants – Mayor Will Fight Deportation Efforts


Posted originally on Dec 3, 2024 by Martin Armstrong 

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has said he would do everything in his power to prevent Trump from deporting migrants. One must question why Johnston is eagerly putting the taxpaying citizens of Denver last. The city may be a sanctuary for illegal trespassers but has become a nightmare for residents. The latest reports reveal that the city spent $356 in taxpayer funds, 8% of its budget, on migrants.

Roughly 45,000 migrants made their way to Denver since 2022, according to the Common Sense Institute (CSI). The city has spent $256 million educating 16,000 migrant children. The local healthcare system cannot accommodate the large influx but the city has spent $49 million on migrant healthcare after 8,000 migrants recorded around 20,000 visits to Denver Health alone last year. Doctors are calling the strain on the system a “humanitarian crisis” that has pushed the state hospital system to a breaking point. The hospital was forced to remove 15 beds in 2023 after finishing FY2022 $22 million above budget.

Surrounding suburbs have attempted to sue the city to no avail. Tren de Aragua, the violent Venezuelan gang, has taken over numerous apartment complexes as they terrorize citizens with no repercussions. Yet, Johnston and others in the far-left camp will not admit that open borders have ruined their cities. Instead, they focus on the “human rights” that should be awarded to everyone but American citizens.

Johnston said that he would prevent all measures to deport the migrants syphoning resources from his city AND he will encourage the people to protest. “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston told reporters. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.” He is inciting civil unrest with this political rhetoric. Johnston believes he can offer himself as some sort of martyr to the Trump Administration as new border czar, Tom Homan, said he would happily arrest the mayor for interfering with federal law.

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The Democrats are planning mass protests on January 20 when Trump is sworn into office, with the hope that he will be perceived as a dictator for calling in the National Guard. These sanctuary city leaders are playing the same dirty game as they are eager to see the National Guard arrive to spin it into a “Tiananmen Square moment.”

Harris Campaign Continues to Beg for Funding


Posted ginally on Dec 3, 2024 by Martin Armstrong 

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Kamala Harris’ campaign may very well be remembered as the WORST in election history. Installed but not elected, the Democrat nominee blew through close to $1.5 billion attempting to make Harris relevant. Top political strategist James Carville believes the Harris campaign has done  “almost unfathomable damage” to the Democratic Party who will be met with “resistance” when attempting to raise money in the future.

More people associated with the Harris-Walz failed campaign are beginning to speak out. The campaign managed to dig itself into $20 million worth of debt, and employees and vendors are now concerned that they will not be paid. “The resistance is going to have trouble raising money. These fundraisers are burnt,” Democratic strategist James Carville told Politics War Room. “They’re really pissed now.”

Carville continued:

“I have people that are contacting me to run for DNC chair — promise you I’m not going to to get in the middle of that … But I would say the policy, number one, is we’re going to audit everything. We’re going to audit the campaign. We’re going to audit Future Forward. We’re going to audit the DNC so people can know,” he added. “But I’m telling you, without complete transparency, the campaign — we think — raised a billion and a half dollars. Okay, we know that Future Forward, the last we saw, was $900 million, so we can assume that they got to a billion before election. That’s two and a half freaking billion dollars.”

The strategist who always speaks extremely favorably of the Dems said the number of lobbyists involved in the campaign is “staggering.” Worse, Kamala Harris is now asking her supporters to cover the $20 million in debt. Democrats and political strategists are again warning Harris to STOP sending out requests for funding her failed campaign. Mike Nellis, founder of the Democratic digital firm Authentic, has said that expecting supporters to continue donating money “erodes trust,” to say the least.

“The fight that fueled our campaign, a fight for freedom and opportunity, that did not end on Nov. 5. A fight for the dignity of all people? That did not end on Nov. 5,” Harris said after her Hawaii defeat vacation. She ran into hiding after her loss and re-emerged disheveled in her first public message. “A fight for the future, a future in which all people receive the promise of America? No,” she continued. “A fight that is about a fight for the ideals of our nation, the ideals that reflect the promise of America? That fight’s not over.” It is interesting that there have been fewer protests since the election ended. Perhaps the DNC can no longer fund these orchestrated civil unrest spectacles. What exactly is Harris “fighting” for when the people have chosen the path of this nation with their vote? Her campaign is now emailing supporters to ask for $50 donations to continue the fight.

She blew through all of the donated money yet has the audacity to request more. This is how she would have operated if elected. Harris and Walz underestimated the intelligence of the American people. She appeared on the scene without any firm policies or platform to run on aside from abortion. All of her hand-selected interviews were disastrous. President Joe Biden did not support Kamala Harris, and Harris refused to acknowledge any mistakes of the current administration while chanting WE CANNOT GO BACK. Why anyone would continue to donate to the Democrats or Harris campaign is beyond comprehension.

Ukraine the Largest Money Laundering Scam in Modern History


Posted originally on Dec 2, 2024 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The pardon Biden gave his son identified these two cases and any offenses that Hunter Biden “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024. However, reliable sources suggest that Hunter was involved with the bio-labs in Ukraine before 2014 to the extent that Putin wanted to discuss Hunter’s involvement with Papa Biden. You cannot accept money from a foreign government without registering as an agent of that government. Ukraine has been the largest money laundering scam in modern history.

Truth Tellers -vs- Truth Managers: POTUS Declassification Examples


Posted originally on the CTH on December 2, 2024 | Sundance 

Laying the groundwork for uncomfortable discussions is never easy. However, sometimes the best approach is to cite examples and then expand. Here’s two factual examples.

♦ EXAMPLE FACT #1 – In December 2017, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes asked the White House, specifically President Trump, to declassify the “Nunes Memo.” President Trump did not declassify the memo because President Trump was told by the concentric lawyers within the office that he should not. So, he didn’t.

[We eventually did see the memo, albeit with negotiated redactions, because Nunes (and Kash Patel) played by the Silo rules and entered a period of negotiations with the Intelligence Community. Nunes leveraged reauthorization of FISA-702 authority, predicated on declassifying his memo. We The People subsequently saw the memo, but we were screwed by the FISA reauthorization.]

♦ EXAMPLE FACT #2 – In January 2020, as he exited the White House, President Trump, using his office, played by the Silo rules and asked for the Russiagate documents to be made public. They never were.

This is such a great example of “Truth Management.”

Y’all are probably familiar with this declassification letter written by Mark Meadows. But what you didn’t see before is how it was designed to fail.

This approach is following the DC rules of the Intelligence Community (IC) Silos.

Mark Meadows, a Truth Manager, intentionally – with purpose and intent – followed this approach because he knew it would fail.

Meadows didn’t make a mistake; he was not mistaken in his approach; he didn’t make an error. This is purposeful.

In January 2020, breathing a sigh of relief, the people around President Donald Trump, were managing his exit and defending the system as they exited power.

They requested the IC Silos to release information, knowing full well the information would never be released.

The only way this information would be guaranteed to be released to the public, is if President Trump took those file boxes personally into the Brady Room, and using his full plenary power and authority, gave them to the media and said, “I hereby designate under my official act power, that this information is of priority to the American people.”…. and literally handed it to the media.

Giving the information to the Silo operators and saying please release this; a process that follows the rules of the IC system that is designed to protect itself; only ensures it will never reach sunlight.

Meadows and everyone else around this moment, knew this to be true. They knew this would fail.

Understanding these two examples is the first step in understanding how the DC Silo system works.

♦ In research projects about detailed granular events attached to corruption in Washington DC, eventually you reach a point where you have identified the specific people involved.

That’s when things get sketchy.

When doing these research projects, you discover that certain DC “insiders,” media people and current/former silo staff, names most of you know very well, are also aware of the information you are discovering.

The “insiders” are generally positioned in such a manner as most of the information-aware public consider them “Truth Tellers.”

Alternative media now gives the Truth Tellers a larger influence voice. This is where it gets interesting.

When you have nailed down the story with direct, irrefutable evidence against the bad actors, you start to notice a pattern emerge about how the Truth Teller media types consistently stay away from certain names.

If you do this long enough, and find the same outcome frequently enough, you realize most of these “Truth Tellers” are not that at all; they are, instead, Truth Managers.

The DC Truth Managers are willfully blind to the activity of certain people they have identified as what can only be reasonably assumed to be CIA operators.

Having spent thousands of hours on this subject, no other reasonable explanation make sense.  There are bad actors in DC that I can only believe are “CIA operators.” Why? Because earnestly after years of doing this, I cannot think of any other reason why they would be protected.

Why is CIA operative Nellie Ohr openly discussed, yet the stronger and more important name, Mary McCord, purposefully avoided.  I have reached the conclusion that Mary McCord is factually a CIA operator.  Nothing else makes sense.

♦ Be careful about assigning the label “Truth Teller” toward any alternative media DC insider who is a “reformed journalist” or “former staff member” of the machine.

There are well known voices from inside the system, that exit the corporate media world, and enter the alternative media world, only to carry on the same purpose.

I see the information managers frequently now and identify them easily by who they *do not* talk about.

Truth Tellers have no vested financial interest in the information, or control thereof; Truth Managers always do.

When a current or former information manager comes across a story of corruption that involves a “CIA designated bad actor,” they never discuss that person in their information reveal. They continue the protection.

A good rule of thumb is never to think of anyone from inside the DC information system, regardless of their disposition, as a Truth Teller.

Every Information Manager was matriculated, and are compromised, by the system around them that is entirely based on corrupt activity.

Hang around a one-legged tribe long enough, and inherently you begin limping.

• Truth Teller Examples: Patel Durov, Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Matt Taibbi.  Pavel Durov (arrested in France) now lives in Dubai. Glenn Greenwald now lives in Brazil. Edward Snowden now lives in Russia.

• Truth Manager Examples: John Solomon, Sean Hannity, Sara Carter, Catherine Herridge, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel, Glenn Beck, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and the entire Fox News lineup.  There are many more, but the financial aspect runs consistent.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had to agree to stop being a Truth Teller and become a Truth Manager in order to be released from prison.  As he readily admits, part of the agreement was to give the Western Intelligence Community first right of review for any information WikiLeaks would release.  This shifts Julian Assange from Truth telling to Truth managing.  In this unique case, I don’t fault him a bit.

♦ In our larger discussion of information, how does Information Management surface:

Let me give you a great example using this video shared yesterday.

Listen carefully to what Kash Patel says at the 01:23 moment about the “Russiagate report” that was written, and how the “ICA” (Intelligence Community Assessment) was constructed with fraudulent information from the CIA.

As Patel notes, “Gina buried it.” That’s Gina Haspel, the Trump CIA Director who replaced Mike Pompeo.

Now, you might think that Patel is a Truth Teller in this segment but stand back and think about it with fresh eyes, non-pretending eyes.

Patel knows, because he (with others) created a report that highlights a fraudulent CIA operation. A report that was absorbed by the CIA and buried.

Put another way, Patel is talking about a body that he knows is buried. Ergo, people might say, “Patel knows where the body is buried,” right?

But ask yourself, with the known stakes to the nation as an outcome of horrific fraud, why didn’t this self-identified “#2 in the Intelligence Community” bring this information forward regardless of outcome?

Is Patel a “Truth Teller,” or is he a “Truth Manager,” obeying the Silo rules out of self-interest?

New Eyes – Use them.

What is the difference between Edward Snowden and Kash Patel?

One is a Truth Teller the other is a “buy my books” Truth Manager.

Of course, Kash Patel defenders will justify by saying he was just waiting to release the information he alluded to, until he was in a better position.  So, his plan to reveal the truth was to: (1) hope Trump won the election, (2) hope he would be appointed to an administration position, and then (3) hope to be able to reach into the CIA silo and somehow retrieve his work product.  Please. Just stop.

As a “confirmed”, not “acting” FBI Director, Kash Patel *could* declassify information or documents that is the exclusive equity of the FBI Silo, but only the FBI Silo.

If there was a joint silo operation, he cannot.

If the information was from a source outside the FBI silo, he cannot.

If the information is not 100% exclusive to the FBI silo, he cannot.

Modify your outlook accordingly.

♦ The “continuing central power” that Patel talks about already exists.

This is part of the problem with people who come from inside the system; and it is a problem for those who cannot spend thousands of hours understanding it.

The IC Silo rules, are followed by people who matriculate surrounded by the IC Silo rules.

The “central power” needed to fracture the system is the physical person of the President of the United States.

The President is, well, Snowden-proof. The President, not the office, the actual physical person, is the power of the system. The epicenter of the system where the atom splits, is the physical President.

Acting in his “official duty,” the President of the United States can take a document (any document) and walk into the Brady Room, hand it to a journalist and that document is automatically declassified.

He doesn’t need a stamp on it. He doesn’t need anyone else’s approval or permission. He, the physical person, the President, can simply say, “I view this in my official capacity as President of the United States to be a vital interest to the American public,” and hand it to anyone he chooses. That’s the central power.

Knowing this, knowing the factual reality of it, is exactly why the concentric circles around the President, intentionally and forcefully stop him from doing it. The silo system self-protects.

If it can be done this way, then why wasn’t it done this way?

Kash Patel, Devin Nunes, Ric Grenell, John Ratcliffe etcetera. all know this to be true. So why wasn’t it done?

Go ask Edward Snowden.

♦ Impeachment is the political backstop that protects the IC Silo business model.

Impeachment origins are amorphous by definition.

Declassify something the IC Silo operators don’t like, and it’s a national security breach worthy of impeachment.

These are the warnings to President Trump built into the Silo rules.   This is why the White House Counsel is so important. This is why the Nunes Memo was never declassified.  This is why President Trump relied on Mark Meadows, which ultimately culminated in an FBI retrieval operation in Mar-a-Lago.

See the political backstop?

Wait, are you saying there’s no point in declassifying then?

No. Exactly the opposite.

Strike now. The House is still in GOP hands.

Force the Legislative Branch to impeach President Trump in the first year as the only way to stop him.

Draw out the enemy. However, don’t YOU be so naïve that you do not take the time to understand exactly, in granular detail, what will be needed to do the actual declassifying.

If the Legislative Branch prioritizes retention of the system and takes down Trump via impeachment, JD Vance has to be willing to continue it… And so on, and so on…

BEST OF BANNON SPEECHES | Steve Bannon Speaks To Council Of National Policy


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Biden Pardons his Son – Conflict of Interest


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Posted originally on Dec 1, 2024 by Martin Armstrong 

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Well, as expected, Biden pardoned his son. I suppose Trump could pardon himself, but he does not have a federal conviction. What difference does it make when you are always remembered for the last thing you do? The NEOCONs are trying really hard to create World War III, so Biden may be remembered for that just as Bush Jr. was remembered for Iraq when he, too, was the patsy for the NEOCONs led by Dick Cheney.

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So, when history is written, Biden will be remembered as the most incompetent president in American history, and if Antony Blinken has his way, he may be the one remembered for World War III. So, in the scheme of things, he should just pardon Obama and all the Democrats. History will be concerned about war more than corruption.