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Mar 28 2024

$600,000 For 20 Minutes Work – Ronna McDaniel Likely to Have Significant Payday After NBC Firing


Posted originally on the CTH on March 27, 2024 | Sundance

As we noted yesterday, assuming the general termination clause in any employment contract exists, Ronna McDaniel is likely to get fully paid the terms of her 2-year previously signed contract amount as her firing was simply a breech by the hiring company, NBC.

Politico is reporting the former RNC chair is likely to receive exactly that.  Her two-year contract was for $300,000/yr totaling $600,000.

McDaniel was fired after one Meet the Press interview less than 20 minutes in duration.  Now she will likely get the full contract payment.

Politico – […] The ramifications of NBC’s decision yesterday to part ways with former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel just two days after her paid network debut on “Meet the Press” are just starting to shake out. But they could be expensive.

McDaniel expects to be fully paid out for her contract — two years at $300,000 annually — since she did not breach its terms, according to a person close to McDaniel. That means that her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost NBC more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second.

That might be just the beginning of the fallout following yesterday’s announcement from NBCUniversal News Group Chair Cesar Conde that the deal, first announced on Friday, would be canceled. McDaniel spoke yesterday with Bryan Freedman, renowned lawyer to the estranged cable-news stars, to discuss legal options even beyond recouping the dollar value of her contract.

While no arrangement is final, the person close to McDaniel said, Freedman would be an obvious choice: He represented Megyn Kelly in her own acrimonious parting with NBC, as well as ousted anchors Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson in disputes with their respective former networks.

McDaniel, the person said, is exploring potential defamation and hostile work environment torts after MSNBC’s top talent — momentarily her colleagues — took turns Monday blasting her on air.

NBC declined to comment about the $600,000 figure or her potential claims. (read more)

It’s enough to make you wonder if this entire NBC fiasco was just a purposeful laundering of money for previous services rendered.

Instead of going the book deal route, McDaniel gets hired by NBC then fired without cause a few days later.

Cha-ching, $600k, and NBC gets all the eyeballs and clicks that go with the hot mess story.

Intentional?

You decide.

Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious…

Mar 27 2024

Facing Backlash NBC Has Fired Recently Hired Ronna McDaniel


Posted originally on the CTH on March 26, 2024 | Sundance

Last Friday, NBC announced they had hired former RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.  Today, after much backlash over her hiring, they fired her.

Assuming there is an ordinary and/or reasonable termination clause in her contract, Ronna likely just became one of the highest paid political/media personalities for 3-days of work.  Sheesh, what a hot mess.

WASHINGTON – NBC and Ronna McDaniel have severed ties following unprecedented internal backlash over the network’s decision to hire her as a political analyst, including top NBC personalities denouncing the move on-air.

“After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” NBCUniversal News Group Chair Cesar Conde wrote in a message to employees. (read more)

Unrelated/Semi-Related story I forgot to mention earlier.  When I was recently flying out of Washington DC, I happened to be on a flight with dozens of former and current Intelligence Community bureaucrats – all from DC, and all heading to some kind of symposium.   On this flight you could watch television on your monitor, pick the channel and watch it (not a very long flight).

Every single one of the IC people from DC, including former Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell (see below), chose to watch MSNBC on their monitor.

I thought to myself, ‘this should indicate something.’  lolol But, I kept quiet and just read their emails, text messages, and whatever else I could see on their laptops 

Mar 26 2024

Beware the Ides of May


Posted originally on Mar 26, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

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The Western Press continues to report only the propaganda from the NEOCON mouthpiece, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law runs. I have warned that they were trying to start war BEFORE the election, and the two main targets in time were May and July. Be very careful of any media that uses the ISW as its source. It was Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, who wrote the Washington Post piece calling Trump a dictator because his wife has been in every administration EXCEPT Trump’s.

Victoria Nuland is really of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her family changed their name to try to hide their Jewish ethnic background. She really would be Nudelman, not Nuland. She is actually the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, who changed his surname from Nudelman to Nuland. She has retained her family name Nuland to perhaps further hide her Jewish connection by being married to Robert Kagan. Victoria speaks Russian, French, and some Chinese. Hiding her Jewish background is critical. Her father was raised by parents who were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Hence, her grandparents were Jewish Meyer Nudelman (1889-1958) and Vitsche Lutsky (1893-1941). This explains why Nuland has been a public proponent for Ukraine to wage war against Russia.

Neocon Couple Kagan Nuland

Her husband, Robert Kagan, authored the “real Iraq Study Group” report of the American Enterprise Institute. This was the Neocon view of regime change. Kagan was said to have convinced President George W. Bush, to order the “surge” plan for changing the course of the Iraq War. It was Kagan who co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol, who has a track record of usually being wrong. This has been the legacy of the Neocons in general.

Ron Paul plainly wrote: “Victoria Nuland exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. “ It is indeed time that we examine their Neocons who constantly usurp American foreign policy and will drive us straight into World War III. This may indeed be a family feud with Russia given both the Jewish and Ukrainian backgrounds.

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Her Husband and Kristol used PNAC, from 1998 onward, to further the Neocon wars and their quest for Regime Change. Kagan was an early and strong advocate of military action in Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan as well as to “remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power”. Kristol and Kagan teamed up and wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times where they put forth what is now known as fake news: They actually wrote:

“It is clear that Mr. Hussein wants his weapons of mass destruction more than he wants oil revenue or relief for hungry Iraqi children.”

They put forth their idea that the United States had the right to engage in regime change in other countries. They also wrote in the New York Times:

“And Iraq’s Arab neighbors are more likely to support a military effort to remove him than an ineffectual bombing raid that leaves a dangerous man in power.”

What I know from sources was that there was an intelligence report dated September 21st, 2001, that stated bluntly that there was NO evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. Later, in the 2004 9/11 Commission report, they too concluded that there was NO “collaborative relationship” between Iraq and al-Qaeda.

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The objective here is once again to bring about a REGIME CHANGE this time in Russia. I was in the middle of all of that back in 1999 when they wanted me to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital. I refused. I am very concerned about MAY for the computer has targeted that month as a monumental turning point with a Directional Change and rising volatility after that. These people are DESPERATE to keep their hand-puppet Joe Biden in office, for they can do whatever they want. The proposition is to create war BEFORE the election, banking on the prospect that no incumbent president has ever lost during a war. Of course, LBJ refused to run after he realized he had been lied to to get involved in Vietnam.

Churchill on Truth

Nobody believes this attack in Moscow was Islamic Terrorists. They die in such events that they go to heaven, and all sins are forgiven in a holy war. These four guys fled back to Ukraine. Anyone can pick up a phone and take credit for something. If this were a terror attack, you would expect it to have been in the USA since Putin supports Iran. It just does not make any sense, and as Churchill warned, during the war, TRUTH is so precious she has a bodyguard of lies to protect her and keep her neatly hidden. Like the Weapons of Mass Destruction that never existed, the truth will surface in the history books.

Mar 26 2024

NY Supreme Court Lowers Trump’s Bond to $175m


Posted originally on Mar 25, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

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COMMENT: Marty, you are one hell of a strategic lawyer. The NY Supreme Court either reads you or realizes that this AG will bankrupt the city if she starts seizing property and Trump wins in the appellate courts. It’s just brilliant. Let them sell his properties that will collapse in price and then sue for the original value.

You should be on our board.

All the best

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ANSWER: The New York State Supreme Court is probably getting negative feedback from the major banks and companies in NYC. I can confirm that people are exiting NYC because of this case. I would have preferred that they seized the property, sold it for $1, and then I would own NYC for a song. It was the perfect hedge. They would become liable for the maximum value so that it would have been selling at the top, and the government would have been the buyer.

As they say, you must be VERY careful about what you wish for.

They were trying to consume all of his cash to drain his ability to run in the 2024 election

Mar 26 2024

President Trump Full Press Conference During Lawfare Case #7


Posted originally on the CTH on March 25, 2024 | Sundance

President Trump delivered remarks and took questions from the narrative engineers following a day in court defending against another Lawfare case.

Each case is intended to bleed the candidate of financial resources, overwhelm the psyche of his supporters and keep the target under attack.  Sound familiar? It should.  This is Alinsky tactics right from the rulebook, Rules for Radicals.  Isolate, ridicule, marginalize.

Rule #13  “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”

Do you see it now? WATCH: 

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Rules for Radicals

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.

2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.

3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing and will even suggest better ones.

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.

8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.

10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.

11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.

13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Mar 26 2024

New York Appeals Court Intervenes at Last Minute to Lower Trump Appellate Bond and Remove AG Letitia James Restrictions on Trump Family Organization


Posted originally on the CTH on March 25, 2024 | Sundance

The New York State appeals court waited until the last minute to intervene and rule substantial modifications to the lower court ruling. [SEE pdf Here]

The timing here is transparently political.  The court could have intervened earlier with this decision but appears to have preferred to allow the Lawfare narrative the maximum amount of time to permeate the anti-Trump news cycle.  However, faced with the reality of a full appellate review later this year collapsing and reversing the underlying case, the NY court had few options other than timing their intervention.

The appeals court lowered the bond amount to the maximum possible in real terms.  Meaning the demand for a $454 million bond was never sustainable, explainable, or legally comprehensible under all precedent.  In reality it was an impossible bond for any organization to obtain, and ultimately that issue was going to lead to massive legal consequences within the New York state legal system.  They might hate Trump, but without intervention New York would be collapsing their corporate business structure.

The lower court ruling was stayed, and the bond was lowered to an obtainable $175 million for the appeal.  The lower court ruling against Trump organization officers was also stayed, allowing the corporate leadership of the various Trump organization LLCs to remain as they are.  All of the substantive elements of Judge Engoron’s verdict were stayed, pending appeal.

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Attorney General Letitia James was left only with a public relations narrative to sell, saying in part, “the $464 million judgment — plus interest — against Donald Trump and the other defendants still stands.” Duh, pending appeal – which is transparently obvious and the point therein.

Once again, Lawfare at its root is a narrative weapon used primarily to sway public opinion.  AG James statement in response to the appeals court intervention is essentially an affirmation of this reality.

Appearing in New York to defend against another Lawfare operation, President Trump spoke briefly to the media after the ruling was made public.

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The hardline leftists always end up with a case of the ‘outcome sads’, because they do not accept the nature of Lawfare intent.  However, the non-sheeple democrats and independents are eyes-wide-open to how this Lawfare nonsense works.  Hence, President Trump climbing in the polling.

“It’s the beginning of the end.” or “The walls are closing in.” or, “__ fill in the blank __.”

Politico – […] The ruling — issued by a panel of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court — means the civil fraud case could remain effectively frozen through the November election. The panel told Trump’s lawyers to prepare his case to be presented at the court’s September term, and any decision on the merits of the appeal could take weeks or months. (More)

Mar 25 2024

The West will get a lesson for memory that it is bad to fight with Russia


Posted Mar 25, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

War Devastation

It would be nice to think that all we have to do is get out and vote to rid ourselves of these warmongers. But they control the elections, and they are in their glory. I do not see how we can avoid this war. They are doing everything in their power to prevent RFK from being on the ballot and to destroy Donald Trump, all so they retain their power with their hand puppet, Joe Biden. Before Biden was Vice President, I was at some dinner many years ago and I was not impressed with him back then. In fact, the rumor was that he would not pay his bills and stiffed many local businessmen. So much so that he applied to be a member at the Willmington Country Clud and was rejected because he stiffed so many local people; now they want Biden in office for they can do as they please, and he will never defend the people or our nation. Between the climate change nuts who are happy to reduce the world population to save the planet from the CO2 we breathe out by just existing and the NEOCONs who just hate Russians, Chinese, or anybody else that crosses their path, we are headed into what our computer has been forecast all along for 2032.

Any mainstream press that starts off calling the Russian election a “sham” or that the Russian invasion to protect the Donbas was “unprovoked” is cheering the end of our world as we know it. They are disgusting journalists who, as the old saying goes, if they were on fire, nobody should dare urinate on them until they are dead. They are the promoters of World War III and will have so much blood on their hands that it will be impossible to ever wash it off like Punius Pilot.

Nuclear War

Once upon a time, we were told that nuclear weapons were a deterrent against World War III. Now, they no longer serve that purpose and instead seem to be weapons of first choice. Even Putin himself has come out warning: is this where you really want to go? People are stepping up in Russia, calling for Russia to give Ukrainians 24 hours to get out of town and then just nuke Ukraine as the ONLY way to stop World War III and demonstrate to the world what will happen if we continue down this path.

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Putin has been seeking peace, but the US refuses to allow any peace negotiations to take place. When there was a deal, the NEOCONs sent in Boris Johnson to instruct Zelensky there would be no peace deals – this was about destroying Russia.

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The NEOCON Robert S. McNamara, before he died, came out and admitted they were wrong about Vietnam. They had convinced themselves that Russia was behind that one as well. He admitted it was just a civil war. Yet, nearly 60,000 American soldiers died in that war. Today, nearly 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers are dead for this war the NEOCONs created to get Russia.

During World War I, the civilian casualty ratio was about 59%. During World War II, it was 60% to 67%. This is why the Climate Change people are BEHIND THE CURTAIN cheering nuclear war. They see it as the next way to “thin the herd,” for they see that the Earth repairs itself quickly. We are the problem.

Viktor Orban of Hungary is the ONLY sound leader in Europe. He has come out and said bluntly, which is why NATO and Brussels hate him:

“It’s a strange feeling when you come from Hungary to Brussels. Hungary looks like a completely normal country. We have a calm and rational mindset, and if you come to Brussels and talk to politicians, you will be surprised. There is a military mood, military language, and military logic. The leaders talk as if they are waging their own war against Russia. And now they are saying that soldiers should be stationed in Ukraine.

It is not clear exactly what they mean, where they should be stationed, with what weapons and for what purposes. But they have already begun to prepare for the fact that in this situation it will be quite natural if Western European countries deploy military posts on the territory of Ukraine, which shocks Hungarians.

Therefore, I felt as if I had entered another galaxy, and we must be careful not to fall into the psychosis of these twenty or so state leaders. [How far are Western leaders willing to go in terms of supporting Ukraine? The most disturbing thing about this whole story is that two or three months ago it was unthinkable, now, two or three months later, it becomes an ordinary event.”

That’s what I said – the worse, the better. Ukraine attacked the Belgorod region. Where is Ukraine’s energy sector now? Russia has always needed a good kick in the ass for it to act. So, let NATO troops enter Ukraine. The war will end much faster then. And the West will get a lesson for memory that it is bad to fight with Russia.

Mar 25 2024

Sunday Talks – Trump Organization VP Eric Trump Discusses the New York “Lawfare” Targeting of His Family


Posted originally on the CTH on March 24, 2024 | Sundance

Eric Trump runs the day-to-day operations of the Trump organization.  Today Eric Trump appeared with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the ongoing battle with the state of New York as Attorney General Letitia James threatens to seize Trump assets.  WATCH: 

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Mar 25 2024

Sunday Talks – Senator Marco Rubio Says ISIS-K Behind Moscow Terrorist Attack


Posted originally on the CTH on March 24, 2024 | Sundance

The United States Intelligence Community (USIC) has claimed that ISIS-K is behind the terrorist attack in Moscow.  Florida Senator Marco Rubio affirmed his agreement with that assessment during an appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl.

Other than the larger issue of Islamic jihadists carrying hatred for the renewed Christian values, as expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin – which, conveniently can be considered a cover for those who may have organized an attack under the auspices of Islamic jihad – there are no datapoints in the known fact-pattern that align with ISIS-K as the originator.  Additionally, the four suspects were captured by mostly Muslim Chechan security forces in the Bryansk Region of Russia.

That said, the largest datapoint, pointing away from the ISIS-K origin, is the USIC so quickly identifying ISIS-K as the perpetrators.

Remember, this is the same USIC who claimed in the December 2016 Joint Analysis Report on the election that Russia had interfered (via Greezy Bear and Macadonian bot farms).  The same USIC who claimed in their January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, with a “high degree of confidence,” that Russia influenced the 2016 election (by spending $1,300 on FaceBook ads).  And the same USIC that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation (it wasn’t).  So, take SSCI Marco Rubio’s confidence in the USIC with that backdrop.  WATCH:

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NEW: 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Fayzov wheeled into court unconscious directly from the hospital for allegedly carrying out the Moscow concert hall massacre.

Three of the four suspects pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack that killed over 130.

All four suspects are from… pic.twitter.com/BVXGL074vG

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 25, 2024

All four terrorists that attacked Moscow, Russia on 03/22 have confessed to their crimes and all have pleaded guilty.

You can tell by their physical appearance that Russia does not mess around. pic.twitter.com/FCXV6iTnTm

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) March 24, 2024

The more he spoke of the IC’s honor, the faster we counted our spoons…

Mar 24 2024

Jack Posobiec: Ukraine Is Moving Into A “New Phase Of The War – The Insurgency Phase”


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Mar 23, 2024 at 01:00 pm EST