I’m only posting this because there are so many voices that keep talking about Donald Trump needing some version of Steve Bannon to assist him in the election or White House.
This screengrab is from Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast. Do you guys know who Chip Roy and Steve Deace are?
Chip Roy (left) – Steve Deace (right)
These two represent the opinions, sentiments, thoughts, perspectives and insights of all the people with alligator emojis in their bios. These are the Cruz Crew members in 2016, who turned into the knuckleheads for Ron DeSantis in 2024.
Maybe, just maybe, Steve Bannon doesn’t have any idea what the alligator emojis are doing to his brand . Or, maybe he does, and this is just another blazing alert flare warning that people will reconcile away – because retention of a false belief is easier than acceptance of a reality that makes us uncomfortable.
I have been asked numerous times if a Donald Trump victory would equate to eliminating our computer’s projection for war. No. No one can alter a cycle once in motion. We can change the velocity at best but everyone and anyone who has tried to alter a cycle, be it war or business, has failed.
Yes, Donald Trump has said that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war before his first day in office. It is true that Donald Trump could delay the onsetof the growing global conflict BUT he cannot alter the cycle. Our computer shows that war could break out by 2027, and the financial implications will be fully felt by 2028.
Where will the war break out? All of these conflicts are connected. In the Middle East you have most of the Arab countries as pro-Russian. They see the United States as Israel’s protector.
Then North Korea became bolder with new alliances, creating panic in South Korea and Japan. Taiwan is growing bolder as well under new leadership and promises of protection from wealthy nations. China is on hyper-alert to prevent the neocons from interfering in its One China policy with Taiwan. There is a group of countries that are being excommunicated by the West, driving those nations to form their own necessary trade alliances. This is similar to 1914 where you are dividing the world up and alliances are forming out of the self-interest of each individual nation.
Trump cannot change anything since the cycle is already in place. War is inevitable.
Posted originally on Aug 9, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
America has lost 1,544,700 trucking jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. There are 30,000 less truckers on the road now compared to July 2023. Demand has not waned and this will undoubtedly contribute to supply chain slowdowns.
The trucking transportation sector has been declining steadily for the past four months, based on data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We saw how terribly governments treated truckers amid the pandemic, deeming them essential employees but forcing them to forego their medical autonomy. The average age for a driver is between 46 to 60 and there is a prominent age gap within the industry.
The New York Times released a piece in 2022 claiming that the issue is based on the truck driver lifestyle that entails long weeks or months on the road and often sleeping in your truck. I have a friend who is a trucker who often calls his truck a prison on wheels. As one driver told the New York Times: ““The lifestyle probably is the first thing that smacks people in the face,” he says. “You know what it does to you. You’re thinking about it all the time. We’re tired. Our bodies are starting to go. Our bladders have been put to the test. And no exercise. We end up with all types of heart and other health ailments. You can’t truly fathom what it’s done to you.”
Regulations have caused an increasingly challenging environment for drivers. These regulations also differ by state, with many drivers wishing to avoid certain states altogether. Trucking is lumped in with warehousing in most government data. Warehousing jobs rose 10,700 last month to 1,794,900. However, that was the largest spike in employment since March 2022. Transportation and Warehousing as a collective now has an unemployment rate of 5.7%, up from 4.8% the month prior.
Around 72% of American freight is moved via trucks. The US Census Bureau states that there are 3.5 million truckers, with 8.4 million people employed in trucking related positions suck as laborers, operators, and sales workers.
Simply put – people no longer wish to begin careers in the trucking industry. This presents a major problem as the median aged driver is not far off from retirement, but people are leaving the industry in droves beforehand.
Posted originally on Aug 8, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
The United States has once again willingly abandoned weapons and ammunition in a foreign nation. Niger has been in a state of upheaval due to economic conditions and a corrupt government. The incoming regime has asked the US military to evacuate, and likely to their surprise, the US government has agreed to abandon Niger’s Air Base 201.
The Pentagon spent $110 million to build the base in 2019 and has been spending about $30 million per year on operations. The strategic position helped the US fight terror networks that have migrated from the Middle East. Somehow, this new incoming regime is holding more power than the established US government, and the Pentagon was unable to successfully negotiate keeping this base. “This does make safeguarding U.S. security interests in the Sahel that much harder,” Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Ekman of the Air Force, tasked with overseeing the withdrawal, told the Times in July. “The threats from ISIS and Al Qaeda in the region are getting worse every day.”
The Biden Administration is absent. No one is in charge. Kamala may be parading around as the new elect, but she has yet to hold an official conference. And where is Joe? He’s still technically the president of the United States but has been MIA. Everyone simply accepts he is “in a basement in Delaware,” while the government breaks into fractions that are utterly incompetent. The US government did not even give its own military the opportunity to collect the materials left behind. Biden’s foreign policy is simply to abandon ship and deal with the consequences later when our own weapons are used against our troops.
Posted originally on Aug 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Kamala has a plan to conquer inflation – increase government spending and raise taxes! She has been avoiding the topic in recent speeches, but her past comments can give us some insight.
Before the government passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest government spending package in our nation’s history, Harris praised the Build Back Better agenda for working to lower costs for the average American. The Inflation Reduction Act was originally the Build Back Better Act and the Democrats were seeking $2.2 trillion in funding. “And, Build Back Better is not going to cost anything — we’re paying for it.So when we can get Build Back Better passed, and we are optimistic that we will, the American people will see costs actually reduced around some of the most essential services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities, including issues like child care and elder care, and also preschool,” Harris said.
Harris clearly does not understand how these social programs are funded. “We” are paying for the act, as in we the people. The Inflation Reduction Act not only added to the national deficit but contributed to overall inflation. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted the proposal was a trojan horse to push through the climate change agenda, and Harris has selected a climate zealot as her VP pick.
Harris sponsored the Green New Deal when in the Senate. She originally supported a ban on fracking before backtracking. As attorney general for California, Harris sued major oil companies for climate change disinformation. She has pledged her allegiance to the Paris climate agreement that aims to reduce emissions by 2035. Again, this all ties into the Build Back Better agenda put forth under the Great Reset. Spending endlessly on saving the planet is merely a rouse for needless government spending and reducing our freedoms by citing something that cannot be questioned in today’s political climate.
Harris has already sought for a corporate tax rate of 35%, higher than Biden’s 28% and far beyond any other developed nation. She does not seem to grasp international business or trade. She has focused on price gouging, insisting the corporations are somehow immune from inflation and passing those costs along to the consumer.
The migrant crisis has certainly put America in dire conditions. We simply cannot afford millions of new residents who live on taxpayer subsidies. I suppose it is pointless mentioning Kamala’s run as the border tzar as she completely ignored our nation being invaded.
War is the primary driver of inflation, and no establishment install would be complete unless they supported foreign wars that in no way involved America. Zelensky and Harris have met half a dozen times, and she will continue to provide him blank checks. Harris would like to involve the US in Israel’s war as well, providing vague statements to the public since half of her voter base is pro-Hamas. She skipped out on Bibi’s speech in the US Congress for a sorority event.
Inflation and the entire cost of living crisis is the number one issue that American voters want resolved. Kamala Harris has no plan to combat inflation. She would like to back climate change initiatives and fund foreign wars, which all but guarantees inflation would rise under a Kamala presidency, followed by our taxes rising as those with no basic concept of economics believe the people should pay for government’s fiscal irresponsibility.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 6, 2024 | Sundance
Remember, in this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices. This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.
The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Here is the weird part. The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar. The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again. However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent. This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.
The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009. They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.
Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.
The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI. Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.
The weird part is that because the DNI was immediately weaponized, the office has never functioned to the purpose of its intent.
No one truly knows what the office possibilities consist of because no one has ever seen anyone try to functionally control the hub. If you think I’m joking about the intent of Obama and John Brennan using the DNI watch this video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place.
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For the intents of this outline the takeaway is how the DNI office has never been used for good. In a strategic way, that can be used to our advantage if you are talking about leveraging silos against each other.
Example: The DNI can assemble material from any silo. Meaning the DNI can reach into any IC silo and extract anything they want. Under the original authorities given to the DNI, this authority exists. So, let’s spread the wings on this office and do exactly what it is permitted to do, only this time extract for the purpose of showing the President what is happening in every silo.
In essence, the DNI *CAN BE* deployed like a super strong cross-silo inspector general’s office. Force the other IC silos to comply with the demands of the DNI. This has never been done. But the DNI has this unique power.
The DNI can make the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, DoD, DoS and CIA provide anything and everything they demand. Instead of the other silos using blocks and threats against the office of the President, use the authority of the DNI to get them without confrontation. Then use the DNI to declassify the documents (if requested by potus), instead of the originating silo.
Can you see how the DNI office can be repurposed to be a seriously strong weapon in the toolbox of the President, against the schemes of those inside the various IC silos. The DNI becomes much more important than the CIA Director, NSA Director, FBI Director, Attorney General, etc, because the DNI can just show up and say, “give me this.” That’s the whole functional purpose of the DNI office that has never been exerted; let’s flippin’ use it.
Let’s use the office of the DNI as the central information hub that takes information from inside the corrupt silos, then provides that information to the President who puts sunlight upon it. Each corrupt silo penetrated with disinfectant. This could begin a process to pull down the shadow operations and let the American public see what has been happening inside our IC apparatus.
To accomplish this approach the National Security Advisor to the President (NSA), would be the person who tells the DNI exactly what they are looking for.
How does the NSA know what to look for? Because the National Security Advisor is the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Now you see why I say put the strategic scruffy people like Mike Flynn, Kash Patel, etc etc in a stripped down NSC.
Let the NSC monitor the silos with specific intent, then provide Trump’s NatSec Advisor with details on what appears to be happening and where. With the approval of the President, the NSA then turns to the DNI and says, “POTUS wants this, go get this.”
Raw, unfiltered, unredacted information. The silo administrators end up in a fight with the ODNI, not the office of President Trump. President Trump then uses the power of his office to support the demands of the DNI.
Under this approach the DNI has a lot more power; yet funnily, it’s power they already have – yet have never utilized.
Unfortunately, the DNI needs to be confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee – so, this factors into who could achieve the position. [NOTE: Ric Grenell is too valuable in another position.] John Ratcliffe might be a possibility, but I’m not sure he would be strong enough to go up against the system he knows well (and on a character issue he’s bff’s with Trey Gowdy).
Preferably we really want an outsider in this role, yet any true outsider is going to face massive scrutiny getting through the nomination filter. My gut tells me that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey might be a strong candidate, and as DNI he can build on his reputation for confronting DHS manipulation.
AG Andrew Bailey exposed the DHS manipulation of social media and has pushed the envelope against the Deep State/Lawfare attacks against Donald Trump. Bailey has used the power of his office for good purposes, and that provides me with cautious optimism he could do the same at a federal level in the position of Director of National Intelligence.
[The next position to outline be a combination. The Secretary of State and the CIA Director. The U.S State Dept and CIA operation is like a restaurant. The Dept of State is the front of the restaurant, with the Secretary as the Maitre D’. The CIA is the back of the restaurant, the kitchen. The Director is the Chef. The consulates are the wait staff. USAID are the food runners. The Dept of Defense are the bus boys. Ukraine is a big tipper.]
The professional elements within the top floors of the Democrat apparatus, I’m specifically mentioning the people very close to Obama, genuinely do not believe Kamala Harris stands a chance at winning. FYI, I’ll have more on this later.
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