Supplemental Poverty Measure on the Rise


Posted originally on Sep 19, 2024 By Martin Armstrong 

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The latest Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPMfound that at 12.9% of American households currently rely on government assistance, up from 12.4% one year prior. The figure was at 11.8% in 2019 and has risen every year under Biden-Harris. The data only factors in US households and not the tens of millions of illegal aliens who also rely on US government handouts.

Around 42.8 million Americans were in poverty in 2023, up from pre-pandemic levels of 38.3 million. We saw poverty levels decreased during 2020 and 2021 when the US government was providing nearly everyone with some sort of assistance to combat wages lost from COVID lockdowns. Those measures simply contributed to inflation and made it harder for those in poverty to move on without government aid.

The SPM factors in tax credits, noncash benefits, social insurance, and market income minus nontax expenses. If only factoring in market income net of necessary expenses, the number of Americans in poverty swiftly rises to 77.8 million. Social insurance programs are now factored into these resources so the data has declined by 28 million, and the addition of SNAP and noncash benefits reduced the figure by another 6.6 million. This certainly does not mean there are less impoverished people living in the wealthiest nation in the world.

Data can be manipulated easily to portray a strong economy. Simply put, more Americans have fallen into economic decline in recent years under Bidenomics. The data would be unbelievable if they actually took into account the migrants who are also living on government aid, and receiving more in aid than Americans citizens who paid into the system.

Professional Political Gaslighting from the White House Press Secretary


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

This short video segment highlights exactly what professional gaslighting looks like.   The White House staff, Joe Biden and the White House press secretary have repeatedly called President Trump “a threat to democracy.”  And now, following the second assassination attempt on President Trump’s life, the White House press secretary is appalled that anyone would say their rhetoric and calling President Trump a “threat” was any form of incitement.

In fact, asking the White House about their own language choices is akin to attacking them.  Within the clip the Press Secretary immediately claims victim status, and then decries the effort to ask her questions about her statements.  WATCH:

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Countries Grow Weary of United Nations


Posted originally on Sep 17, 2024 by Martin Armstrong

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The majority has always accepted the United Nations as a world governing force. Sentiment may be changing according to a new Pew Research Center survey that found support for this global conglomerate waning across the globe.

Of the 35 countries surveyed, 58% still have positive sentiments about the organization, but 31% see it as a negative power. Unsurprisingly, nations in the Middle East, like Israel, no longer support the alliance, but we are seeing declining confidence everywhere. Israel has long held unfavorable views, with 72% holding unfavorable views of the UN; 82% of Jewish Israelis now harbor resentment for the UN compared to 53% of Arab Israelis. Support among Israelis has fallen by 21% in the past year, and of course, the reason goes without saying.

Yet, this phenomenon has expanded everywhere, with over half the people in Japan, Greece, Tunisia, and Turkey falling out of favor with the organization. Support for the United Nations fell by 10 points in the United Kingdom, with 62% of Brits seeing the organization favorably compared to 72% one year ago. Mexico, South Africa, and France all experienced a 9% drop in confidence, with Germany down by 8% and South Korea, America, and Australia all reporting a 5% drop. Only Hungary (15%) and Argentina (6%) expressed increasingly positive views.

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Perhaps the people no longer see the United Nations as a neutral entity meant to play peacekeeper among nations. The world is waking up and realizing that this organization is rapidly growing in power and attempting to form a one-world government. The majority of those in the West have seen their leaders heed domestic policy in favor of international at the insistence of the United Nations, which partners with other global conglomerates like NATO to impose laws on citizens in nations where they simply have no jurisdiction.

The United Nations displayed the extent of their power during the COVID pandemic, and now are championing climate change initiatives and continually calling for governments to submit to their direction. This organization is pushing for the Great Reset with its Agenda 2030.

The International Monetary Foundation (IMF) has been spearheading the push to replace the sovereignty of individual states with a UN-backed global authority that will control everything from our digital identities to the direction nations take in war and trade. Then, they argue that nation-states should begin paying taxes to this entity over individual governments. According to our models, the United Nations, as we know it, will come to an end by 2031 following the old League of Nations.

Putin Forgive All Debts of Soldiers Wounded or Given Medals of Honor


Posted originally on Sep 16, 2024 by Martin Armstrong |

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The Russian government is completely writing off all debt, mortgages, and loans for their soldiers who were wounded or received awards for service in Russia’s Special Military Operations. American soldiers get assistance but not an exoneration of mortgages and debts. Putin also ordered the country’s military to expand to 1.5 million active troops, bringing the total military personnel to nearly 2.4 million. The growing prospect for World War III continue to unfold.

Szynkowicz Exposes How States Are Registering College Voters With ONLY Their Student Information


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Sep 14, 2024 at 08:00 pm EST

Ben Harnwell Responds To The Pope Calling The Pro-Abortion Democrats As “The Lesser Of Two Evils”


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: Sep 14, 2024 at 08:00 pm EST

Essex Police Employs Biometric AI Data!


Posted originally on Sep 13, 2024 by Martin Armstrong |

Those in Essex, England, may have recently seen facial recognition trucks driving through the streets discreetly compiling data. England has long employed CCT cameras to capture criminal activity, but police in Essex are now using advanced biometric data to track each and every citizen.

Essex is using Corsight AI biometric software for its civilian monitoring program. The company has expanded its services across the world. “Our mission is to radically enhance the world of facial recognition technologies while holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards in personal privacy protection,” the Israel-based company states on its website. They can embed their software within existing cameras and track down individuals based on their biometric data.

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The ethics behind such measures present a challenge. Who has access to this wealth of data? Individual organizations in the UK must obtain permission and be transparent about their policies, but no such restrictions exist for the government. We have seen countless data breaches in recent years, with independent hacker groups infiltrating every supposedly secure data center. Civil liberties groups believe the government is infringing upon human rights by spying on their every move, but governments no longer permit individual freedoms.

The last significant law that was passed surrounding these measures was in 2018 when the UK put forth the Data Protection Act that details how personal data may be collected, processed, and protected by law. Naturally, the government claims that they are only collecting data for public safety and will not misuse the technology. The law remains vague and technology has certainly advanced since 2018.

Yet, the UK is calling Corsight AI a victory and citing clean-cut arrests made using the technology. “In Southend, there were also five positive alerts, which resulted in two arrests—one for harassment and one for sexual assault,” police stated. Police claim that Corsight AI is primarily monitoring known offenders, people on watchlists, and “protected vulnerable individuals at risk of harm.” The program claims it “almost instantly” deletes user data if they do not meet the aforementioned criteria.

“Our live facial recognition technology is used to locate people we want to speak to in connection with ongoing investigations and to manage people with court orders or conditions. Criminals cannot think they can walk around our communities without being caught,” claimed Assistant Chief Constable Andy Pritchard calls Essex Police.

UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner Fraser Sampson admits that private companies will have access to user data. “We, the people, are now using sophisticated surveillance tools once the preserve of state intelligence agencies, routinely and at minimal financial cost,” he writes. “We freely share personal datasets – including our facial images – with private companies and government on our smart devices for access control, identity verification and threat mitigation. From this societal vantage point it seems reasonable for the police to infer that many citizens not only support them using new remote biometric technology but also expect them to do so, to protect communities, prevent serious harm and detect dangerous offenders.”

All of this is based on the premise that the government is there to protect citizens rather than treating everyone like a potential criminal.

Other nations will soon adopt this technology that was once reserved for warzones. Israel is using the program in its hospitals to identify deceased victims from the war with Hamas. The Mall of America has employed the service to deter shoplifting but public surveillance measures in the US have been met with a pushback. Paris used the AI service to monitor the crowds at the Olympic games.

The government must tighten its grip on the public as we move into 2032. We have seen the government take tyrannical measures to restrict freedom of speech both in person and online. Now, governments want to track their citizens’ movements, and the public has no say in the matter.

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Fading Industry in the West as Energy Policy Consequences Surface – The Grey Zone Surge Begins


Posted originally on the CTH on September 10, 2024 | Sundance

For those who have followed my travels, research and granular reviews into the background motives of the multinationals, an article within Politico catches my attention and I hope it may be of value for an enlarged conversation.

At the beginning of my post-COVID economic research, I noted all of the proactive investments by the big multinationals would benefit from a diminishment “western” economic dominance.

Specifically, I noted that if you look at the investment footprint -where the multinational corporations actually put all of that money they have been extracting from the Western consumers, you will see they have spent the past generation investing heavily in the “GREY Zone” within the map below.  With that reality as the backdrop, would the multinationals lose or benefit from the “Build Back Better” agenda that pushed the YELLOW zone into a system of forced drops in the standards of living?

What you will note from the post-COVID “build back better” pushers, also not coincidentally the same interests who pushed the Russian sanction regime, is their investments in the grey zone act as offsets for the current collateral damage.

In essence the multinationals created a win/win.  Their BBB policy within the yellow zone intentionally drives prices higher, while their investments were hedged creating low ‘total cost of goods’ (TCG) manufacturing systems outside the West.  I previously said we should watch this supply chain carefully because from an economic standpoint we (nationalists) would suffer, the multinationals (globalists) would not.

Now, I want us to look at the first indicators of this dynamic – shared through the prism of the Politico article [excerpt below]:

POLITICO – […] Before the [Russia v Ukraine] war, the annual electricity bill was about €80,000. It’s nearly doubled since then, said managing director Christoph Keim, son of the company’s founder, a chemist who got his start after World War II with a company making disinfectants. Prices for customers rose, while profit margins shrank. 

Eventually, costs receded. Relief came. But things didn’t return to their pre-war level. Instead, Keim entered a troubling new normal, where energy prices are double those of overseas rivals.

That reality is slowly eroding thousands of similar companies across Europe’s industrial heartland. Germany, Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, has fallen into a recession expected to extend through the year’s end. Even global German stalwarts like Volkswagen, a name almost synonymous with the mighty Das Auto itself, are staring at unprecedented plant closures.

More broadly across the EU, output from key energy-intensive sectors like chemicals and steel is declining. Plants are shutting down. Industrial champions are announcing layoffs. (read more)

I hope everyone takes the time to read the full article.  While the context is specifically focused on Europe, the BBB consequences apply to the USA also via Joe Biden and Kamama Harris energy policy.

In essence, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy; one you might note is exactly the preferred outcome of the Barack Obama worldview.  The West spreads the wealth to the Grey zone, then the 3rd world (non west) starts to replace the economic strength of the West because they are not restrained by the insufferable policies of the climate control/energy policy group.

The West ends up in a position where we cannot compete not only on the issue of ‘cheap labor’, the historic problem, but also on the issue of cheap reliable and abundant energy production.

On the financial side, the citizens within the Western Build Back Better zone suffer through inflation and massive losses in stand of living, while the alternative areas gain the benefit of better competitive manufacturing prices.  The multinationals simply shift the area from which they make money.

The “exfiltration of wealth” we have previously discussed, ends up as investment into manufacturing systems we cannot compete with.

The attendees of the World Economic Forum benefit because the multinationals who make up the WEF assembly have prepositioned their assets and investments.  This is being done by design.  None of the downsides to this energy policy affect the WEF bank accounts, the only people who suffer are the citizens forced to pay higher prices and fewer jobs.

This dynamic is not going to stop unless the West immediately reverses course on energy production.

In the biggest of big pictures, as the collective governments of the world are increasingly under the influence of the WEF corporatism model, now you can better understand why so many people are watching the 2024 election and hoping for President Trump to achieve victory.

This reality also underlines our catchphrase, “there are trillions at stake,” while simultaneously emphasizing why this globalist cabal wants to see him eliminated.

Please keep this geopolitical and economic shift in your psyche as you look at all of the machinations taking place within the world of USA politics.  What would the WEF assembly do to retain their intention.  Nothing should be considered “off the table” if you can draw a line from the visible action you can see toward the benefit they would assume.

Why Putin Says He Prefers Kamala Over Trump: Michael Tracey Explains


Published originally on Rumble By Gen Greenwald on Sep 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST

Sunday Talks – CNN’s Dana Bash Attempts to Resuscitate the “Russia, Russia, Russia” Election Year Narrative


Posted originally on the CTH on September 8, 2024 | Sundance

Senator Tom Cotton appears on the CNN show State of The Union with Dana Bash.  Apparently, the joint U.S. State Dept./CNN production team in control of setting election year objectives have decided to resuscitate the “Russia, Russia, Russia” election conspiracy.

After an initial question about Liz and Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris, CNN host Dana Bash then spent the next several minutes questioning Tom Cotton about reports that Russia is funding various alternative information podcasters and pundits.

Perhaps by now everyone should know the Russian government laugh at how the U.S. media push the ridiculous accusations about Russian interference.  The Russians know how to snark toward the U.S. government as controlled by Democrats.  This insufferable election interference narrative gives the Moscow gremlins a lot of smiles, as they look upon the proverbial western media selling a story that to them is quite funny.

Senator Cotton does a good job refuting the claims by CNN; however, it is worthwhile remembering that outside of the USA the majority of the world look upon CNN as the “state news” distribution for Washington DC.  The propagandists questioning Senator Cotton about propaganda is a case study in gaslighting and the manipulation of information.  WATCH:

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