Posted originally on Oct 10, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has warned that it has run out of funding at the beginning of America’s hurricane season. Last month, the agency testified before Congress that it still has $4 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund, then claimed that Hurricane Helene wiped through the budget. The agency has been begging Congress to approve additional funding, but a new report found that FEMA has at least $8.3 billion in unused funds.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what is imminent,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on October 2. Joe Biden warned that the federal government has already provided the victims, 600 who are still missing, with all the aid he was willing to provide. Where has all the money gone?
“They stole the FEMA money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season,” former President Donald Trump said. FEMA was indeed tasked with providing money to Customs and Border Protection back in 2022 to help communities overrun with illegal migrants. In fact, FEMA provided $640 million in grants to Customs and Border Protection in 2024 alone, and spent $364 on the migrant crisis in 2023. This is merely one of countless programs misusing federal funds on non-citizens.
Yet, Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General issued a report that reveals FEMA still has billions in unused aid. “As of October 2022, FEMA estimated that 847 disaster declarations with approximately $73 billion in unliquidated funds remained open,” the report noted.
The agency is simply corrupt. FEMA still has $4.5 billion in frozen unused funds from Hurricane Sandy that hit 12 years ago, yet the deadline for this project was extended into 2026. Officials continue to extend deadlines and freeze funds with no clear indication as to why. Jeremy Portnoy of OpenTheBooks, a nonpartisan watchdog of government spending, claims that “all the money is just sitting there.” He has stated that FEMA is freezing “unliquidated obligations” at a time when it could easily reappoint those funds for immediate disaster relief. A separate DHS report believes “the potential risk for fraud, waste, and abuse increases the longer a program remains open.”
The agency has allegedly run out of funds from its Disaster Relief Fund on nine occasions since 2001. We are seeing countless reports on the ground of FEMA selectively distributing supplies. Private contractors who secured lucrative government deals are earning big while the government actively prevents individual citizens from assisting in rescuing efforts and delivering aid. The media is now claiming that the GOP simply does not want to grant FEMA additional funding, but why should we provide this agency with additional funding that could potentially go missing or become wrapped up in red tape? FEMA is certainly not a philanthropist organization as it operate just as any other public government entity where budgets are forged and the people at the top are profiting on the backs of taxpayers.
Posted originally on the CTH on October 8, 2024 | Sundance
Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk sat down for a conversation about current political events. The almost two-hour discussion was carried live on Twitter and is available on the platform HERE. Also Embedded below:
Elon Musk is all in.
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(0:00) Elon Musk Is All in on Donald Trump (6:35) Providing Starlink to Victims of Hurricane Helene (9:22) If Trump Loses, This Is the Last Election (21:49) The Epstein and Diddy Client List (33:38) Vaccines (35:49) The Movement to Decriminalize Crime (50:22) Gavin Newsom (53:11) Europe’s Declining Birthrate (57:02) We Need Religion (1:08:04) Why Is There So Much Anti-Human Messaging? (1:19:33) AI and the Woke Mind Virus (1:43:01) Musk’s Role in a Trump Administration
Posted originally on Oct 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
I have said numerous times that your personal belongings are at risk in safety deposit boxes. The Fourth Amendment was intended to protect Americans from illegal search and seizures, but as we have seen in recent years, the government does not respect the Constitution or our freedoms. Governments will become increasingly tyrannical as we move into 2032, and every government believes that their citizens are to blame for large deficits. If only we paid our fair share then our politicians could fund their endless spending.
The government makes the rules. The Constitution has become a rough guideline that they simply do not follow. There are countless examples of the US government raiding safety deposit boxes under the pretense of restoring law and order. In March 2021, the FBI held a full-scale raid on US Private Vaults, a storage facility located in Beverly Hills, California. The government claimed that they needed to raid safety deposit boxes and confiscate the contents since they were purchased through illegal money laundering.
Up to 1,400 safety deposit boxes were seized, containing $86 million in cash, not including gold, jewelry, coins, and other valuables. The government said that they planned to keep all stolen items until a group of victims filed a class-action lawsuit. US District Judge R. Gary Klausner initially deemed that the FBI was within the scope of the warrant when it confiscated belongings from citizens who had absolutely no ties to criminal activity. A three-judge appeals panel later found that the FBI abused its authority as the warrant only permitted the department to open boxes of individuals under investigation. It took many years for the victims to receive a portion of their belongings, but not everyone was made whole.
This is a worldwide issue and is not limited to the United States. In 2016, for example, UK-based HSBC came after safe deposit boxes in Hong Kong to assist the government in looking for cash from citizens. In 2015, when Greece was suffering from its decision to join the European Union, Deputy Minister of Finance, Olga Valavani, announced that safe deposit boxes were restricted. There are COUNTLESS examples of governments throughout the world confiscating assets and banks are forced to comply.
The grey area that is allowing this seizure of assets is multidimensional. First there is the assumption it is the illegal proceeds from drugs. Second, there is the presumption it is money laundering and that is very broad for it can be drug money to hiding money from the government to avoid taxes, which they also call money laundering. Third, there is the ambiguous Internal Revenue Service regulation that basically states. “Consumers should never conceal cash from the United States government and not pay income tax on it.” They could argue that cash in a safety deposit box is hidden from the government. They can also now argue that this is money laundering and that cash should be confiscated. It becomes your burden to prove them wrong.
We heard what happened when FDR signed Executive Order 6102 in April 1933, prohibiting US citizens from owning gold. Penalties for disobeying were up to $10,000 and/or 10 years imprisonment. That was mostly fixed through voluntary transfer as the population was regaining confidence in government. What happens when the government moves digital and wants cash off the grid? There are NO guarantees. The government has the ability to accuse anyone of committing a crime and use that as a means to seize assets. We have seen it happen time and time again with debanking practices.
So no, I do not recommend keeping everything in a safe deposit box. There is no precise law against storing metal or cash in a safe deposit box, but the law is malleable in the hands of any judge. A judge can seize the money or gold under the pretense of money laundering or use the same facility as someone accused of the offense.
Posted originally on the CTH October 6, 2024 | Sundance
There is a certain level of media bias that exceeds even what is sickeningly visible amid expected media bias. That level of bias should be called Welker-level.
Seriously, in this Meet the Press segment Ms. Welker takes antagonistic questioning to new levels of insufferable falsehood. Tom Cotton swats away the effort, but good grief she doesn’t stop trying. WATCH:
Posted originally on Oct 4, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Thousands have been displaced and entire towns have been swept away after Hurricane Helene. Countless people remain missing. I have heard reports that they are sending refrigerated trucks to the beach areas by me to collect bodies but the news does not want anyone to know the true devastation of the storm. North Carolina, in particular, has not recovered and people are continuing to perish as federal assistance has not arrived. It appears the majority of the heavily impacted towns in North Carolina happen to be predominately conservative, and our liberal government is allowing these citizens to die. Experts have deemed Helene the most devastating storm in US history since Hurricane Katrina but it is receiving minimal attention by the US government.
Kamala Harris was campaigning for personal gain when Hurricane Helene hit, while Joe Biden was enjoying an extended weekend trip at the beach. Biden immediately told the press that Americans should not expect any additional aid as the rescue efforts were ongoing. Kamala Harris then announced that the government would provide a mere $750 to victims in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. How will the people rebuild with $750? That is not even enough to cover a week’s stay at a hotel. It’s $50 more than they provided to the victims of Maui and BILLIONS less than they provided to those in Ukraine.
Kamala Harris initially said that she believed resources should be distributed based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. This is completely unconstitutional and outright prejudiced. Harris believes that non-whites are impacted “by issues not of their own making,” as if straight white males are somehow better prepared to deal with a natural disaster. The hurricane is not woke or discriminating on which lives it will take based on DEI scores.
Ukraine has received over $175 billion in aid since the beginning of the war, with Congress approving new multi-billion dollar packages every few months. The United States federal government is funding the government of Ukraine, using US civilian tax dollars to pay for civil servants who receive free benefits like health care and pensions. America has spent billions repairing Ukraine’s infrastructure while abandoning its own. Biden and Harris have also approved of aid for Israel and Taiwan that is far more than they are providing to their own citizens who are in the midst of a severe crisis.
Let’s not forget that migrants are receiving thousands per month for simply existing. Again, that money has been taken from US taxpayers and provided to migrants. Would Harris focus on states like North Carolina if they voted blue? Some may recall that George W. Bush came under fire for not doing enough in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Celebrities with large platforms, like Kanye West, accused him of allowing people in predominantly black communities to die. Bush said that accusations of racism in the aftermath of Katrina were the WORST MOMENTS of his ENTIRE presidency, even surpassing the terrorist attack of 9/11 or the beginning of America’s involvement in the Middle East.
FEMA needs to be investigated. I would urge people to donate to churches or private groups over FEMA as there are numerous reports that the organization is confiscating supplies. The delayed response to the catastrophe seems deliberate. The government is also actively preventing private citizens and corporations from providing rescue efforts because they want their cut. What a shame it would be if the people realized that the private sector and individuals were more efficient than the federal government.
A pilot from South Carolina, who also works as a volunteer firefighter, rescues several people trapped in homes in North Carolina. “They only had one day of supplies, which was gone by Saturday. They didn’t have any food, water, no running water, no power.And we were coming back this direction anyway, so we actually took them to Charlotte-Douglas Airport and they were able to fly home from there,” the pilot said. Upon safely landing, authorities told him that he would be arrested if he attempted to rescue the other hurricane victims in the home. As Bobby Kennedy said, every time the government claims to be imposing rules to protect citizens, it is merely a ploy to usurp power.
What will it take for people to open their eyes and realize that the government simply hates them. American citizens are the LAST priority under Biden-Harris and that will remain under Harris-Walz.
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