Posted originally on CTH on March 2, 2025 | Sundance
Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump. [RULING pdf HERE]
This ruling stems from the same mindset as former AG Bill Barr, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy AG Sally Yates, former IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson, and the entire organization of professional Lawfare activists that includes Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen. The collective belief is that in the modern “continuity of government” framework, the bureaucracy of government controls things, not the elected and plenary President.
Basic constitutional civics has been destroyed in the modern era by progressive advocacy saying the executive branch is an omnipotent organism that is not controlled by the duly elected President of the United States. Current Lawfare activists and activist judges seek to retain this bastardized view of constitutional government.
Let us hope the Supreme Court finally puts an end to decades of this ridiculous nonsense. The earlier ruling in the Presidential Immunity decision indicates SCOTUS is positioned to do exactly that.
(Via POLITICO) – A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Donald Trump’s firing of a federal workforce watchdog was illegal — teeing up a Supreme Court showdown over the president’s claim to nearly absolute control of the executive branch.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that Hampton Dellinger — confirmed last year as head of the Office of Special Counsel — may continue to serve his five-year term despite Trump’s effort to remove him from the post via a brusque email last month.
Jackson ruled that Dellinger’s duties, which include holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints, were meant to be independent from the president, making the position a rare exception to the president’s generally vast domain over the executive branch.
Dellinger’s “independence is inextricably intertwined with the performance of his duties,” Jackson wrote in a 67-page opinion. “The elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence. The Court concludes that they must stand.”
[…] Less than an hour after Jackson ruled, the Justice Department appealed her decision to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. (more)
It’s worth remembering, the basic construct of Lawfare is not necessarily to win the final legal challenges – Lawfare is designed to shape public opinion, impede the target and advance an adversarial narrative.
Posted originally on Feb 24, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chastised the practice of DEI initiatives while speaking to the DNC Chair. That’s correct – the same forum that blamed Kamala’s loss on racism and misogyny. Buttigieg recently moved to Michiga,n where he is expected to run for state governor. The Democrats are turning on the very policies they aggressively pushed after realizing the people will no longer vote for woke insanity.
Pete Buttigieg said: “What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people’s different experiences and making sure no one is mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how, it is how Trump Republicans are made if that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions, but doesn’t actually get at what actually matters here.”
Apparently, DEI initiatives create “Trump Republicans” as people want to be judged on their character and qualifications rather than their race or sex. Pete Buttigieg is the DEFINITION of a DEI hire. He had absolutely no qualifications to lead the nation’s transportation sector. Biden cheered that Pete would become the nation’s first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position. Biden said he was appointing Pete to be in his “Cabinet of barrier-breakers” and openly said he was there “BUILD BACK BETTER.”
What qualifications did he have other than diversity? Some say that he helped handle some transportation issues while acting as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Certainly, that could not be the BEST American for the job.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently lashed out at DEI quotas, partially blaming the program for the recent Delta plane crash. “You couldn’t fill the role rather than us just simply saying, we need the best and brightest individuals, and we’re going to hire you specifically on merit. We’re going to train you specifically on merit,” Senator Markwayne Mullin stated. As a result, class sizes shrank to 80% to 70% of capacity to maintain DEI required ratios. “So Pete Buttigieg carries no credibility. The only reason why he was there was probably because of DEI to begin with,” Mullin said.
Now, Buttigieg is pivoting his stance completely. Yet, as Transportation Secretary, he established the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE) to force employees to undergo civil rights and equity training; he repeatedly apologized for having too many White people in his office. During his 2020 campaign for president, he openly stated that he wanted minorities to vote for him. “I need help, so the black voters who know me best, the people of South Bend, helped return me to the office by an overwhelming margin,” Buttigieg begged.
Following more of his speech at the DNC Chair:
“If we were more serious about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project. Actually if we thought about it a little bit differently, things like diversity would be actually an example of how we reach out beyond our traditional coalition.”
Politicians will claim to support any agenda that garners votes. Pete Buttigieg moved up the political ranks as a direct result of DEI hiring practices and now he is criticizing his own party for becoming “caught up in vocabularies” and not focusing on “actual values.” Expect more “progressives” to switch their stance and pretend they never supported the woke madness.
Posted originally on Feb 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Yes, there are far more “eligible” Social Security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history. What a fool I have been. I could have been collecting Social Security for my ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. Looking at this, perhaps my relatives who fought in the English Civil War could also have been collecting Social Security.
I have said many times that history repeats because human nature never changes. Elon Must is fulfilling the same role that Julius Caesar did when he crossed the Rubicon. The corrupt fake news of the day of Cicero painted Caesar as this ruthless dictator. However, when he crossed the Rubicon, the people cheered, and he did NOT have to fight his way to Rome. The Senate was as corrupt as our government, and they fled to Asia because the people despised them. There was a major debt crisis which we are soon to experience as well.
However, Caesar conducted a census in a novel way, just as Musk is going through the corruption of the Deep State. Caesar made landlords help him complete the list of people who were fraudulently claiming welfare. Caesar went street by street and reduced the duplicate fake recipients from 320,000 to 150,00 – the number of householders who might draw free grain.
By making the landlords account for their properties, Caesar eliminated the hoax of creating fake residences and names to collect free grain and resell it. The reduction of more than 50% by just forcing a census exposed the corruption that infiltrated even this expenditure.
Caesar did away with the nuisance of summoning everyone periodically for enrolment in the register, where people could show up claiming several identities. Caesar made the praetors keep it up to date, replacing the names of dead men with those of others not yet listed.
Suetonius also tells us, “Caesar dissolved all workers’ guilds except the ancient ones.” (Id./42,3). Caesar put an end to the proliferation of unions (trade guilds) that were raising prices, as they still do today.
Elizabeth Warren threw a temper tantrum at RFK defending Big Pharma. Then, she is against Musk and DOGE. Exactly where do these Democrats stand? With the Deep State pretending to care about the people while filling their own pockets? Perhaps Warren is trying to catch up to her mentor, Nancy Pelosi, who perhaps wanted to make it to billionaire status but had to leave with just $202 million. Why get an MBA? Just practice lying in the mirror with a straight face, and you, too, can become amazingly rich.
Posted originally on Feb 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-chief at the Economist, began her rant: “Well, the world changed yesterday.” The anti-Americanism is percolating to a boil. She continued: “Ukraine’s future, European security and transatlantic relations were all thrown into the air by a torrent of announcements and attacks from the new administration.”
This refusal by Europe to seek peace has given new meaning to our computer, which has been warning about war and has projected a Panic Cycle in the Euro for 2026. Smart money is moving out of Europe, and that even amounts to the gold supply in London moving to New York, strangely as it did for World Wars I and II. This old hatred of Russia and their thirst to conquer it for its wealth linger and seem unrelenting.
I cannot express the conversations I have had, and it certainly appears that the entrenched anti-democratic political establishment denies the European people even to vote for who is the head of Europe or any of these people making decisions that are all pointing to war. Kaja Kallas, who is now the Vice-President of the European Commission and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is NOT elected by the European people yet has pronounced that any peace deal Trump hammer out with Putin will be ignored by the EU. Does anyone ask the European people if they want to go to war with Russia and risk their way of life, all for a territorial grab by Ukraine?
Zanny Minton Beddoes continued: “J.D. Vance , used his Munich address to deliver a blistering critique of European democracy, excoriating what he saw as unwarranted constraints on free speech, the failure to address mass migration and misguided attempts to marginalise populist parties. In effect, he backed the far-right Alternative for Deutschland, a week before the German election. I was sitting in the hall watching him speak, and the shock was astonishing. “Putin could have given that speech,” someone near me pointed out.”
She added: this“Trump quake may be the catalyst Europe needs to take greater responsibility for its own security. That security requires a credibly defended and Westward-focused Ukraine. And it means much more investment in defence. Even in Munich everyone understood spending needed to rise a lot, and fast. “We got the message,” said Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.”
When FDR went to Boston and wanted to send troops to Europe, the people said no way! In Boston, they said that he expected the Irish to go defend the English after what they did to Ireland. Congress rejected a Declaration of War. It took FDR scheming to provoke Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, and that was the only way to get the US involved in World War II. I fear now that the Neocons control Europe and the European press, they will start this war and then try to invoke Article 5 to force Trump in, but if he stands his ground, I will not put it beyond them to try to assassinate Trump and even Vance to fulfill their dream of World War III.
Posted originally on Feb 17, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT #1: Hello Mr Armstrong, I just read your article about the situation in Europe and how the EU fools seek to fight Russia. What can I say? Fools stay fools. They got to this situation of fiscal chaos because they are fools and they will continue down the road of fools because fools can’t turn wise just like that.
One more thing I want to say. I have been reading your articles and following your work for a long time. In my opinion you are NOT antisemitic. I think I can say that, as I was born in Israel, coming from a Jewish family with very long roots and cherish our long tradition.
Please don’t take to heart whatever those idiots tell or write about you. I embrace you, brother, take care, Ronnie Belgium. (P.S. I am so happy Trump is back in power, and JD Vance and all of Trump’s team members are simply great, doing God’s job)
REPLY #1: Thank you. We have even staff of every race, gender, and religion. We have always been international. You cannot forecast the world from the ignorance of a myopic view.
COMMENT #2: Hi Martin
I have been watching Socrates daily comex silver futures. It was showing a double direction change Friday followed by a panic Monday. The political events on that day fell into place!. I am so fortunate to have met you.
Socrates is giving me hope for humanity’s future.
D Morris
REPLY #2: I have been amazed at how the seemingly random events take place on the computer’s forecasts. Perhaps there is an invisible hand that compels events to unfold in the direction of the markets. It is fascinating to watch.
QUESTION #1: Marty, you have said at your WEC that you have tried your best to defeat your model but you always lose. You have been a lone voice in the wilderness against this war from the very outset. Do you advocate, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth implied, that the U.S. might ignore NATO’s Article 5 if Europe were to take military action against Russia?
PH
ANSWER #1: Look. European leaders are outright lying to their people. They are the real war criminals that history will remember. They think because they control the press that, they can exonerate themselves from the death and destruction and blame Russia. Article 5 is not mandatory. I would not come to the aid of Europe this time. Since they seem to think a third time to conquer Russia will be the charm, let then self-destruct. China will come to the aid of Russia. The West will lose.
QUESTION #2: Your comparison to Yugoslavia is spot on. Why will RFK and Western European leaders refuse to listen to you?
Jake
ANSWER #2: I do not know. All I can assume is that my purpose in life is only to inform and perhaps point the way after the crash and burn of Western society. I have studied the rise and fall of nations. I cannot prevent the cycle. It is merely our destiny. I hope we can start fresh and these Western European leaders will be remembered for their war crimes. Thanks to these decisions, this will probably also fulfill the computer warning about a 50% reduction in the world population.
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