Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Trust The Government’s Rosy New Economic Figures

The latest GDP and jobs reports are out, and they paint a pretty rosy picture of the U.S. economy just days before the election. Surprise, surprise. 

The economy expanded by 2.8% from July to September, according to Commerce Department figures. The growth is said to be driven by consumer spending, also up 3.7% during this time. Job gains actually slowed to the lowest point since 2020, a sharp decline from 254,000 in September to just 12,000 in October, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Yet the regime has plenty of excuses — storms and strikes — and touts how the unemployment rate remains unchanged at 4.1%. Meanwhile the inflation rate is approaching the Federal Reserve’s target, meaning it could lower interest rates as soon as next week. All told, things are looking alright — at least on the surface.

“Consumers are spending. Inflation is cooling. And the U.S. economy looks as strong as ever,” The New York Times giddily leads with.

When the corporate media and financial regulators are on the same page, there’s always an instinctual reason to be distrustful. During the Biden-Harris administration, all the Very Smart People running the U.S. economy have made a habit of quietly revising their optimistic numbers after they come out. After all, it’s only the initial headlines that count.

Dig a little deeper, and the broader metrics are not as good as the top line figures make it seem; even the Times has to admit it.

“It’s not like we’re going back to 3 percent mortgage rates anytime soon,” Jay Bryson, chief economist for Wells Fargo, told The Times 10 paragraphs in. “Single-family housing is going to stay out of reach for many Americans.”

Plus, there’s reason to think the growth is somewhat artificial. It was lifted by “businesses accelerating investments” to preemptively buffer against the “expected strike” on East Coast ports that wound up only lasting a few days. Given this, “most forecasters expect growth to slow in the fourth quarter.” Due to the “headwinds” coming later this year, “few [forecasters] would offer a confident prediction about next year.”

Furthermore, while inflation might be cooling from its post-COVD highs, it’s still “hotter-than-expected,” Axios notes, meaning the Fed might not cut rates as soon as it planned to. The American middle class can kiss home ownership goodbye.

This all follows the common pattern we’ve seen regulators follow during the Biden administration. As one fed up economist, E.J. Antoni of The Heritage Foundation, noted after last quarter’s labor figures were released, “For month after month, this administration has released overly optimistic jobs figures, which are later revised down. The labor market is nowhere near as strong as is being portrayed.”

This might even be an understatement; the downward revisions on jobs numbers have been nothing short of egregious this year. The revised figures between Q1 2023 and Q1 2024 showed there were 818,000 fewer jobs added than initially reported. But the new figures did not trickle out until August 2024, at which point it was safe for CNN to admit that job growth was “far weaker” than many thought. The pattern has continued throughout the year as well, with the last two months’ figures being revised significantly downward after their initial release. August figures were revised down by more than half, from a gain of 159,000 to just 78,000. September was less drastic, but still dropped by 31,000 jobs after revision. With just a measly 12,000 jobs added last month, there’s hardly any room to revise without the figure turning negative. Only time will tell.

Downward revisions are also an issue in growth figures, albeit to a lesser degree. Already poor Q1 2024 growth rates of 1.6% were quietly revised to a sluggish 1.3% at the end of May.

It’s an undeniable pattern. We get these awesome economic releases, a barrage of friendly headlines and then months later quiet updates that dramatically alter the actual, final number. Either all the Very Smart People are much worse at this than they used to be, or there’s some shady politicking at play. With the numbers coming days before an extremely tight election, skepticism toward the latter is certainly warranted. Either way, there’s good reason to think these new economic numbers will go down. It’s only a matter of when.

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CONRAD BLACK: Election looks like a blowout for Trump

NY Sun: Far From Being a Toss Up, Polls Suggest the Coming Election Looks Like a Blowout for Trump 

t now appears that the 45th president will take more than 300 electoral votes, all or almost all of the swing states, and both houses of the Congress.

It has become an annoying and an obsolescent truism to claim that the presidential election is a toss up, a coin toss. This is the opinion of the Democrats still desperately clinging to the possibility of electoral deliverance from a fate so horrible that they had banished it from their imaginations for most of the last four years: the reelection of Donald Trump.

It is also the last refuge of the Never Trumpers, a group that persists and festers in the Republican establishment and a few related elite grips, but amongst the electorate, the Never Trumpers are almost extinct. 

Almost none of his comments, unlike four or eight years ago, need to be walked back; instead of the vintage Ugly American bully that his opponents represented him as throughout his first term as president, we now have the author of what could be the greatest comeback in American political history, surpassing even Richard Nixon.

The Harris campaign for president has finally reminded the American voters that two thirds of them thought she was an incompetent vice president: The border tsar who provided over the illegal entry of over 10 million people, including scores of thousands of violent criminals, and who caused the American government virtually to go into business with the most violent criminal gangs in the world.

Imagining that the chief grievance of voters with the Biden administration was the outgoing president’s age and generally befuddled condition, Vice President Harris, co-captain of the most incompetent administration since before the Civil War, was unable to find any point of difference with President Biden. The country was not prepared to reelect such an inept government, and it was not really prepared to elect such an inadequate vice president either.

Donald Trump, who is the alternative, is the man who governed successfully, almost without inflation, who ended illegal migration, unemployment, and oil imports, and presided over peace in the world.

He is also a man who has been more harassed and oppressed by corrupt perversions of the intelligence agencies and the justice department than any president in American history, and he is, with Gerald Ford, the only president to be the survivor of two known assassination attempts within a few days, neither of which, in Trump’s case, would have occurred if the Secret Service had been competently directed.

As we entered the last week of this long and  nasty campaign, the polls which are not conducted by left-wing universities or media outlets give Trump a two to three percent lead in the national vote, and even most of those that show the contest to be even, show President Trump winning all seven of the swing states, albeit most of them narrowly, but these are averages of polls, most of which habitually and deliberately underestimate Trump’s support.

This is not what a tossup election looks like. Trump is not dependent upon show business people to get the crowds out for him; he is the draw, and no president since Franklin D. Roosevelt has pulled such large crowds, though Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan had their moments. Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Obamas, like a team of spavined fire-horses, have been sent out to help Ms. Harris, but it has been a fiasco.

President Clinton criticized the Biden-Harris border policy, Secretary Clinton got into her nonsense about Hitler, a gaunt and white-haired Mr. Obama attacked “the brothers” for being unappreciative of Ms. Harris. Trump found le mot juste in saying the former president was acting like “a jerk.”

The exhausted and defeated forces of Never Trumpism are going to their bunkers to prepare for the results. Some reassure themselves that the country is strong and can endure anything and merely hope that at least one of the houses of Congress is not in the same hands as the White House so that we can have four years of ineffective government. Some are going down with the myth that this is a desperately close election.

At the end of the great imposture of the Clinton-Obama-Biden years, and their chief interruption, the unforgettable failure of the George W. Bush presidency; all of the leading spokesmen of those presidents are trying to put on a bold face of a tight race to the end. The Democrats, unable to defend the Biden record, and unable to produce a new program which the country could take seriously, are reduced to describing Trump as a fascist or a Nazi.

It would be difficult to conceive a more asinine and implausible argument. Mrs. Clinton implies that the fact that he would be  holding a rally in Madison Square Garden replicates the Deutsche Amerika Bund of 1939. Yet almost every successful candidate for president since before FDR has held big rallies at Madison Square Garden. No one who has the remotest grasp that the Nazis unleashed an aggressive war that killed 60 million people, and gassed and burned twelve million innocent people in death camps could think of Donald Trump in this context.

In the desperation of their inability to defend or repudiate the Biden administration, the Harris campaign has gone down-market to take refuge in the rubbish about fascists and Nazis. Even the first lady, Jill Biden, if asked, would have come up with a more original charge than that. Ms. Harris appears to have no idea what a fascist is. General John Kelly and General Mark Milley have disgraced themselves with their disloyalty and ingratitude.

The Republican Never Trumpers are reduced to a tired and bedraggled gang, sulking that neither candidate is adequate, and whichever loses will have him- or herself to blame. The Biden administration and to some extent the Obama administration and even the Clintons also are about to be repudiated.

It now appears that Trump will take more than 300 electoral votes, all or almost all of the swing states, and both houses of the Congress. America will get through another Trump term a great deal more comfortably than it has limped and floundered through the Gong Show of the Biden-Harris years. Much better days are immediately ahead.

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Wall Street Journal Warns Americans That Harris Victory Will Be Disaster For America

In reality, it’s not a contest. Trump is a singular force for good. Kamala is a vassal for America’s most destructive ideologues. He’s smart. She’s not. He loves our country, she is a far left hater. Like I said, not even a contest. The idea that it is speaks more to the failures of us as a nation than a mere contest between two radically different ideas. Good vs. evil.

A Harris Victory Means a Fourth Obama Term

At home, she’s no centrist. Abroad, she seems unprepared for the dangers ahead.

By: Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2024

Ms. Harris has presented herself as new based largely on her biography. But as far as policies and coalition go, she represents more of the same, and not merely of the last four years. Her candidacy is best understood as an attempt to continue the progressive political wave that began in 2006 with the GOP defeat in Congress and rolled ashore as a tsunami amid the financial panic of 2008. She is running for what essentially would be Barack Obama’s fourth progressive term.

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But we have been searching in vain for signs that she would break from, or even temper, the progressive excess that defines the current Democratic Party. Her endorsement by anti-Trump Republicans isn’t that sign because it’s based solely on loathing for Mr. Trump. A token GOP appointment to her cabinet would mean little unless it’s a major post.

On domestic policy, she is offering more Bidenomics without the label. She wants to expand the entitlement state beyond even what Mr. Biden has—for elder and child care, housing, a larger Affordable Care Act, and more. Her proposed tax increases are nearly as extensive as Mr. Biden’s, running past $4 trillion over 10 years. She shows every sign of wanting to expand and accelerate the climate corporate welfare and mandates that distort investment at enormous taxpayer cost but no benefit to global temperatures.

This might be tolerable if Ms. Harris showed evidence on foreign affairs that she understands the world’s current dangerous moment. Yet she defends the last four years as a security success, despite two wars, adversaries on the march, and the U.S. Navy playing whack-a-missile in the Red Sea.

She talks about having a strong military but has failed to propose anything to rebuild it as threats proliferate. If she nurtures an inner Harry Truman that would explain to the public the need for better defenses, we haven’t seen the evidence. If she does win, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will quickly test her mettle. She seems unprepared for those tests.

All of this reflects the progressive advisers and the coalition she’d bring to the Oval Office. We wrote last week about her climate adviser’s desire to eliminate all fossil fuels, and her foreign policy aides are on board for appeasing Iran and putting restraints on Israel.

There are no Scoop Jacksons or Joe Liebermans in today’s Democratic Party. Ms. Harris would have to reach out to GOP hawks the way FDR made Republicans Henry Stimson and Frank Knox his Secretary of War and the Navy, respectively, in 1940. She has shown no such historical memory or the political courage to do it.

A Harris Presidency with a GOP Senate would check some of her worst policy instincts, at least until 2026 when the Senate map favors Democrats. But most Democrats would read her victory as a political vindication of the last four years. The Sanders-Warren wing of the party would pressure her for more.

The worst result would be a Harris victory with a Democratic sweep of Congress. Then it’s Kamala bar the door. She is on record as wanting to break the 60-vote Senate filibuster rule and to restructure the Supreme Court. This would make for an unbridled progressive agenda that would rig voting rules, augment union power, control more of the private economy, and add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states.

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Kamala Harris—an Accomplished Student of Socialism and Fascism. America Beware!

Kamala Harris was sure that Trump is a fascist. That was her strong answer to Anderson Cooper, who interviewed her on CNN. Watching the show, I expected him to ask Kamala her definition of fascism. He didn’t. He didn’t know that Judge Joe Brown CA called Harris a fascist. Yet, the Radical left picked it up Trump-Fascist and the Nazis’ accusation of Trump besmirched America. I think Cooper was wrong not to continue asking Kamala the definition of fascism. I am not sure she would have answered correctly, but the discussion would’ve helped Americans to learn very important definitions of ideologies that threaten our nation today. Yes, today, as the Democrat party has been playing the race card trying to change the American political system for the last thirty years.

​Fear mongering is a famous action of the Soviet fascism, ideology, which I have been writing for decades—ideology of a smear machine. “There has been considerable disagreement among historians and political scientists about the nature of fascism” , Britannica. However, the Mark Levin Show on Fox News, October 27, 2024 has brought a scary history of Hitler’s crime against humanity to our homes. The horror of the fascist history, the mass-graves with thousands of bodies of Jews, reminded us of the Holocaust of six million innocent people killed because of their religion. The horrifying scenes were a result of the unhuman fascist ideology. Regrettably, nobody is showing Stalin’s crime in Russia. Putin’s Russia is covering-up his crime—Stalin officially announced as a Great Leader of Russia. That is the reason I have been writing about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism for forty-three years…

​I love America and I don’t want the dreadful regime I escaped emigrating to America to be restored here on the soil of this wonderful nation. I am not an academician, yet, living under Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism and being a lawyer, I learned a lot and would risk to tell you my understanding of several ideological isms. I have been writing and warning you about the danger of Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America since 2021. Please, read my book: Socialist Revolution in America XLIBRIS, 2021. My same warning has been expressed in all my seven books and about 200 columns and that fact gave me some rights to introduce my ideas publicly.

Fascism and Socialism

​​Fascism and Socialism are two sides of the same coin of totalitarian regime. “Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom. Traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed…”  Unfortunately, Americans don’t know either fascism or socialism. Yet, they do know the term Nazis, which is an abbreviation of National-Socialism. Do you see an incredible connection between the two???

There is a difference in economy, but it is the only difference. Fascism accepts a free market economy; under socialism all means of production belongs to the government. For your information, after the Collapse of the Socialist economy in the Soviet Union in 1991, Putin established Crony Capitalism with the group of the Oligarchs loyal to him. The Soviet System with the weaponized KGB stayed the same. If you analyze the first day actions of the Biden-Harris White House you will be stunned by their tireless destruction of our free market and the political system designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers. They want to implement Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. Read my columns for detail…

So, in practice, the system and the main structural features of fascism and socialism are similar: a one-party system with subordinated media, overwhelming censorship, and weaponized Law Enforcement. There is a good example of weaponized Law Enforcement in fascist Germany and Soviet Russia. Some of you, who perhaps don’t know the definition of fascism, nevertheless, are familiar with the term Gestapo—an agency of weaponized Law Enforcement. The horrified scene in fascist Germany presented by Mark Levin above had been a result of the actions primarily done by the Gestapo. I gave you this example deliberately. The Soviet people called the KGB—the Soviet Gestapo. That is the reason, the main subject of my writings has been the significance of the KGB growing to the global KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. Read my columns for free to learn the culprit.

Don’t waste time waiting for another attempt to assassinate Trump. It will come! And only awareness of the enemy can prevent it, awareness of the KGB’s Mafia/Army. As a former Soviet attorney, I have been writing about Russia’s Intel for four decades. To prevent you from reading my book, the FBI made me a Foreign Agent in 2002 and consequently sabotaged and banned my book What is Happening to America? three times. On August 31 2024, I submitted the book to Amazon.com for the fourth time. You can learn about the KGB’s Mafia-Army that runs the Democrat party and the Biden/Harris White House today. Please Click Here

Kamala is economically clueless; she didn’t answer any questions about the economy in her only one-solo interview. The entire Harris campaign is based on one thing: positioning herself as the opposite of President Trump. Nothing else, no substance, only buzz words. Kamala is Putin’s protege, I told you that years ago. “Kamala finally released a policy and it’s Bolshevik” Elise Stefanik. Elise Stefanik is right by identifying Russia. I can add more, as I’ve been writing about Russia and its Intel for four decades. I was calling the Dems’ actors many different names: Socialist Charlatans, Socialist thugs, the Con men and women and so on. Finally, I came to the conclusion that we are dealing with organized crime and called a spade a spade—America’s Socialist Mafia. Read my column: The Democrat Party: A Party of Disinformation and Fraud,  May 21, 2023.

This is not the threat to Trump from Iran, it is the Global Elites, led by Globalist Vladimir Putin and Socialist-Communist Cabal that hates Trump—he is an existential threat to them. The core of the issue is the terrorist State of Russia—Iran is its proxy. Those are not the Global Snobs; they are real enemies of Trump, combating him constantly-brutally trying to take him out under Putin’s leadership for the last nine years. You all have seen it during those years. American pundits don’t often use the term “Mafia,” but the world is changing fast and there is a necessity to learn new changes. I am not the first person to use the term “Mafia.“ A brilliant, savvy woman Georgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy increases Italy’s defense spending and use the term in her speech in front of the world:

“Meloni said she alerted the national anti-Mafia prosecutor and vowed to pass new measures to curb the practice” www.reuters.com › world › Europe Italy’s Meloni blames organized crime for ‘alarming’ migrant …”

“Jun 4, 2024 · Criminal gangs are exploiting loopholes in Italy’s legal visa system for foreign workers to smuggle in illegal immigrants, a problem the anti-Mafia prosecutor should investigate”

A very respected Meloni however has not identified the country and political system responsible for spreading organized crime across the globe, I have been doing that for four decades—the system of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. The system has been developed by Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, making Law enforcement an Apparatus of politics, by weaponizing Law Enforcement to secure Socialist economy in the 20th century. Read my column: Putin’s Soviet Socialism is Claiming Over the World: The Middle East, The Democrat Party, and White HouseAugust 12, 2024. We are not able to win the 2024 election without this information. Read every paragraph of it.

In the falsehood of intellectual dishonesty, Democrats’ administrations have been weaponizing our justice and criminal systems, like they destroy our border defense system, our educational system and the courts, all courts including the FISA Court that unlawfully made me a Foreign Agent and prevented you from learning the truth. The FBI submitted my name to the FISA Court and the Court made me a Foreign Agent with consequential banning and sabotaging my writings in 2002. In my opinion, it was a criminal act against me and against Americans. As a result, America’s Socialist Mafia is not known by Americans. Moreover, Biden-Harris team is not alone, the FBI is also a part of America’s Socialist Mafia and please, remember Socialist Mafia runs by the KGB’s Mafia-Army—Evil Doer…

…I have to stop writing; Kamala is speaking a week before the election…

…Listening to her, I was afraid to get a heart attack… I was horrified. I knew her friendship with the Soros family and suspect Socialist deceit, but it was more. Kamala vowed to repair the border she had destroyed, she lied straight to your face, like Soviet apparatchiks did in the Soviet Union. Trump was the main target. She was aggressive and rude against the U.S. Supreme Court, revealing a long-term Democrats’ desire to destroy the U.S. the Supreme Court as a democratic institution. A disturbing feeling of vomiting visited me, but I had to listen to her lying, cheating, deceiving, fabricating and fraud; it was the entire demonstration of Socialist modus operandi by a woman, who wants to be the U.S. President. She is not Bolshevik, she is a Soviet fascist with a desire to implement Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism in America … And… she is using the Republican narratives! What a Shame!!! I was disgusted…

It is Soviet fascism killing innocent Ukrainians! My heart is bleeding by watching Russia killing citizens and destroying the cities of Ukraine. But… Ukraine can’t win the war against Russia. Period. The war should’ve been stopped many months ago. The Biden-Kamala team has prolonged the war for very wrong reasons. However, President Zelenskyy is right: “Those are Russian Drones coming from Iran.” Read my columns about Putin, he personally supervised the building of the Drone factory in Iran. Yes, those are Russian Drones coming to Israel, too. Russia has infiltrated the Middle East since the 1960-70s. The expansionist addressor is everywhere. Read my column: Struggling America and World Chaos—The Products of the Biden-Harris Regime, October, 7, 2024

My fellow Americans!

The future of our wonderful country is in your hands.

Reject Soviet fascism and save the American Constitutional republic,

designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers.

Read my books and columns, educate yourself by learning the truth. We are in a dramatic chaos in America due to the Dems’ treason!

Vote them out!

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An Open Letter from over 200 Homeland Security Professionals

Please read the below Open Letter to America signed by over 200 retired Homeland Security Professionals.

The majority of those who signed this letter were in senior leadership positions prior to their retirement. The first-hand experience and years of service for each signer is remarkable. None of these signers were invited to come onto the open letter by any PAC (Political Action Committee) political organization or the Trump Campaign.

The extreme concern for the welfare of our nation, our national sovereignty, and the welfare and future of Americans led these professionals to come together.

The United States is under active assault both across our once far more secure borders (north and southern) as well as from within by those holding public office at various levels and degrees of influence and power. The signers on this open letter have placed love for country and their fellow American above worry over being politically correct or the feedback and fallout that could follow. Much like those in the 13 colonies back in 1775, these patriots chose to stand and be counted no matter the cost.

I pray this demonstration of 200 names at least speaks to your heart a bit if not much. I pray you are able to find your voice like these fellow Americans who signed a letter for all to see.

We truly are at war to preserve this exceptional nation.


United States Homeland Security Professionals Open Letter to America

October 2024

Dear America,

On November 5th you will select a new president to lead us. The single most important factor when evaluating the candidates should be ensuring the safety and security of the United States. Of the countless issues to consider, every one of them is dependent upon our national security. National
security has many facets, but it does not exist without enforceable international borders. In this election, there is no need to speculate what each candidate might do. When reviewing their records you can see both candidates have very clear, but distinctly different track records.

The Biden/Harris administration enacted policies that systematically dismantled a proven 27-year bi-partisan border security strategy that prevented crime, both at the border and in towns across America, through deterrence and consequences. The appalling results were immediate and will have lasting consequences. US Customs and Border Protection, the frontline of America’s defense against cartels and Human trafficking syndicates, was forced to pull law enforcement personnel from critical enforcement duties protecting the borders to cope with over 10 million illegal aliens. This record setting illegal immigration overwhelmed every aspect of border security.

Unfortunately, with the majority of our borders left unprotected, approximately two million illegal aliens and narcotics smugglers were observed but evaded apprehension, disappearing unchecked into your neighborhoods. Even more frightening are the unknown numbers that made it through in areas of the border completely unpatrolled. Additionally, millions of aliens were intentionally released into the United States with a simple paper giving them a notice to appear in court at some future date, many years from now.

Pundits and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum continue to overcomplicate border
security. Border security is simply the ability, and willingness, to know and control who and what enters our homeland. Similar to our personal homes, if we cannot control who and what enters our home then we have zero real security. Our nation is no different; border security is national security.

Immigration policy is not synonymous with border security. However, immigration policy and
immigration law directly affect border security. Immigration policy can enable or destroy border security.

Bottom line, as we have seen in the last three and a half years, immigration policy encouraging fraud and illegal entry, decimates our nation’s ability to know and control who, or what enters our homeland.

Illegal immigration also erodes our legal immigration system and forces legal immigrants to the back of the line. Families with relatives here in the United States, doctors, engineers, even legal migrant workers, are all negatively impacted by unfettered illegal aliens who were allowed to jump to the front of the line. Additionally, when illegal aliens are released in significant numbers into the US, the incentivized follow-on illegal immigration will always exceed our nation’s ability to control it. Finally, consider the fact when discussing immigration policy, if we cannot, or will not control who is allowed to enter our homeland then any policy discussion becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore, transnational criminal organizations (TCO), commonly known as cartels, control illegal immigration to strategically distract and overwhelm US law enforcement. This tactic has been very successful over the last several years, as you have seen in the news reports highlighting the terrorists, murderers, rapists, violent gangs and record levels of fentanyl that made it into the US. The TCOs have been able to operate with minimal risk of being apprehended while increasing their profits by billions of dollars, all courtesy of policies implemented by the Biden/Harris administration.

President Trump respected the experience of career border security professionals and listened to our advice. When border security experts explained to President Trump how illegal immigration empowers the cartels to control who and what enters our home, he listened and acted. The Trump administration supported policies and programs that reduced illegal immigration, instilled integrity into our legal immigration system and ensured that the US government was doing all we could to control who and what entered our homeland. The borders of the US were never more secure than they were during the Trump administration.

This same expert information, evidence, and advice was offered to the Biden/Harris administration. However, they chose to ignore the career border security experts and instead, under VP Harris’ watch, idealist political appointees with zero border security experience were empowered to implement disastrous and deadly border security policy for the United States. The devastating results have handed complete control of our border to the cartels, provided them with astronomical record profits, ballooned legal immigration backlogs, and have l0 millions of illegal aliens in the country.

The men and women whose signatures appear below, each an honorably retired career civil servant that specialized in border security, dedicated their careers to the protection of this great nation. Most are not interested in engaging in any political actions other than voting but realized after witnessing the unravelling of the rule of law at our borders and the horrific impacts on our local communities with heinous central and south American gang crimes, and the terrible loss of life from the fentanyl crisis that this election is too important to stand on the sidelines. Campaign ads can portray anything. We encourage every American to take a lesson from law enforcement and simply follow the evidence of the last eight years. The first four resulted in the most secure border in history and the other has resulted in significant increases in the loss of life and record illegal immigration.

Assuming you care about border security as much as we do, the choice is clear. President Trump is the only candidate that we can trust to secure our nation’s borders.

Rodney Scott, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
R.P. Buck Brandemuehl, Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Homan, Director, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mark Morgan, Former Acting Commissioner CBP, Former Chief, US Border Patrol
Mathew Hudak, Deputy Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ronald S. Colburn, Deputy Chief-Retired, DHS/CBP, US Border Patrol
Aaron Heikte, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael S. Williams, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired U.S. Border Patrol
Chris Clem, Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Kelly Good, Deputy Executive Director- Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Sheehy, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, Miami Sector, Retired
Joel Martinez, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mark Haynes, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Roseborough, Senior Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian S. Hastings, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Bell, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Matthew J. Roggow, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Martin, Directorate Chief – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Joseph Banco, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent, New Orleans Sector, Retired
John Smietana Jr, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara E. Matthews, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alan F. Zeitvogel, (A) Division Chief LE Ops-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hector M. Regalado, Special Operation Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael J. Clark, Operations Officer – Retired, US Border Patrol
Irvin Ray Harris, Special Agent-Retired, USINS (former Border Patrol)
David J. McElheran, Border Patrol Agent-Retired US Border Patrol
Steven J. Anderson, Supervisory Air & Marine Agent-Retired, Air & Marine Operations
Victor J. Mancini, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Genaro F. Miranda, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Dennis W. Harmon, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Derrall Brown, Sector Intelligence Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion S. Byrum, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer- ICE-Retired
Kevin L. Nix, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bruce H. Roberts, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jose R. Martinez, Special Operations Supervisor U.S. Border Patrol
Patrick T. Murray, Assistant Field Office Director (Retired) ICE/ERO Seattle
Raul R. Valadez, Field Operations Supervisor (Retired) US Border Patrol
Jimmy F. Vance, Watch Commander-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Hann II, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired), U.S. Border Patrol
David Espino, Operations Officer (Retired). U.S. Border Patrol
Darrel Walraven, Patrol Agent in Charge (Retired) U.S. Border Patrol
Jeffery Abrams, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brent Johnson, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roger Kemp, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Daniel D. Doty, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge – Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Ball, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thomas Jenkins, Assistant Chief – Retired, US Border Patrol
Ashley Taylor, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Blanca Flanagan, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jeff Snavely, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
M.G. Boone, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary Viens, Deputy Division Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael I Cano, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Barbara Kermzner, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jennie Marquez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, CBP/OTD Artesia
Steve R. Martinez, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent –Retired, El Centro Sector
Kai Libby, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick M. Seeley, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Paisley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gilbertina Paisley, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Zimmer, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kimberly Young, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Travis Darling, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose M. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Jason A. Feldman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, U.S, Border Patrol
Michael E. Powell, Director – NBCC – CBP/USBP – Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Tom McKenney, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dean Williams, Supervisory Air Interdiction Agent- Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Matthew Whittaker, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (Ret), US Border Patrol
Dorian LaPaglia, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny M. Meadors, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol-Headquarters
Jim Pilkington, Chief of Staff -Retired, DHS/ICE/ERO Targeting Operations Division
Fernando Grijalva, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Johnson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edward Harper, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Heckler, Special Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Fogle, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Arvin E Sepulveda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jerry Knight, Branch Chief-Retired ICE, Homeland Security Investigation
Rafael Castañeda, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Lambrix, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Shawn Palmer, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Roy Dan Cason, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Cruz, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Leo Ayala, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joseph W Mason, Filed Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Todd Bryant, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Glenn Fouty, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Chuck Huthmaker, Chief Officer-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Anthony M. Fiorita, Senior Patrol Agent/ National Recruiter- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
Brent Wies, Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer-Retired, USICE
Hugo Ruthling, Special Agent, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Raul G. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Rafael Castaneda, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wallace, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Jaime X. Garza, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
J.P. Mansell, Director, CBP Firearms and Tactics- Retired, US Border Patrol
Arturo Torrez, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Johnny Garcia, Watch Commander- Retired, US Border Patrol
Lino Giulio Mescia, Border Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
William G. Justice, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent- Retired, US Border Patrol
Mike Lawler, Associate Chief- Retired, US Border Patrol
David Burke, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent K-9- Retired, US Border Patrol
Elias Herrera Jr., Field Operations Supervisor- Retired, US Border Patrol
Christopher I Ewing, Special Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Senorina Ewing, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Strauch, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
David Spear, Special Agent-Retired ICE,
Homeland Security Investigations
Stephen Henesy, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John W. Krause, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jared Browne, Special Agent-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Peter J. Forcelli, Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
William E. Seward, Commander, USCG (Retired)
Robert Vazquez, Border Patrol Agent -Intelligence-Retired, US Border Patrol
Craig Olson, Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Kevin Wiley, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Steve Gulotta, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Esquivel, (A)Chief Patrol Agent -Retired, US Border Patrol
Marco Saltarelli , Special Agent-Retired, ICE/Homeland Security Investigations
Hilario Leal, Assistant Field Office Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Kyle Hobart, (A)Deputy Assistant Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Rene Dorantes, Senior Federal Air Marshal-Retired, Transportation and Security Administration
Thomas Feeley, Field Officer Director-Retired, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Christopher Short, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Duke Conchola, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Brian Shawler, Supervisory Air and Marine Agent-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Frank Carrillo, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
ScoƩ Moore, Director-investigations-Retired, Office of Air and Marine, CBP
ScoƩ M Plasse, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent–Intelligence (Retired), US Border Patrol
David Krohn, Supervisory Borer Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Joe Vaiasuso, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Dick Graham Jr. Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert V. Argento, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gary L. Tharpe, Deputy Chief-Retired, Northern and Coastal Operations, US Border Patrol
Brian R. Armstrong, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Raymond V. Russell, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael Meshirer,
William C Doggess, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Harry Beall, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Edgar J. Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Louie Wayne Collins Jr. Division Chief -Retired, US Border Patrol
Michele Albertson, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lance E. Martin, Special Operations Supervisor -Retired, US Border Patrol
Anthony R. Pool, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Thaddeus Cleveland, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol, Sheriff -Terrell Ct. TX
Christopher S. Myhra, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Michael L. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Lynne M. Underdown, Chief Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
James M. Obert, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent – Retired, US Border Patrol
Larry Blakemore, Senior Patrol Agent/Supervisory CBP Officer-Retired, US CBP
Mark Lieberman, Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
George W. Gale, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Mary Olivares, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Bart Swindle, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hunter Davis, Director-Retired, Air Marine Operations, US Customs and Border Protection
Martin Aguilar Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Retired, U.S Border Patrol
James Parker, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John M. Sisk II, Special Agent/DHS Attaché-Retired, Homeland Security Investigations
Martha Irwin, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kenneth Burton, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard K. Moody, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Wagner, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kurt R. Weismantel, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Arlin Kaul, Patrol Agent in Charge-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lizdelia Lerma, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Herman Tiger Hunt Jr. Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert C Gilson, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Alex van Gils, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Patrick Straub, , Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rosendo Hinojosa, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Marion Leon Stroud Jr. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
James R. Herrick, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David M. Shipley, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Clark Messer, Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Logan Wayne Snider, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Haynes, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Scott Gill, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Hermann Rivera, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
JoAnne Federico, Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
John Scott Tedford, Senior Patrol Agent, USBP. Brown Field
Greg N. Terrones, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-retired, US Border Patrol.
Arthur Contreras, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Rowel Smith, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Tedford, Field Operations Supervisor-Retired, US Border Patrol
Tony Ortiz, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Kevin Orr. Assistant Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Gil Maza, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Robert J Carney, Supervisor-Retired, Air and Marine Operations, US/CBP
Bruce Busby, HSI Criminal Investigator, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Carlos Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Chris Wells, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Charles McLoughlin, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
John A. Lopez, Watch Commander-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jason Hallmark, Deportation Officer-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Jorge Arcinienga, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Eloisa L. Bejarano, Senior Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
William Kirkman, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard F. Lopez, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Ted Stark, Supervisory Special Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesus Hernandez, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent, US Border Patrol
Terrence M. Donnelly, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Jose Del Campo Martin, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Freddy Medina, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Retired, US Border Patrol
Jesse Shaw, Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
David P Ward, Resident Agent in Charge- Retired, DHS/Homeland Security Investigations
Bob Hood, Assistant Port Director-Retired, US Customs and Border Protection
Dana E. Graydon, Associate Chief-Retired, US Border Patrol
Paul Moran, Assistant Chief Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Richard Fisher, Border Patrol Agent-Retired, US Border Patrol
Lisa Hoechst, Chief of Staff-Retired, US Customs and Immigration Enforcement
Cliff Timmons, Deportation Officer, US Immigration and Enforcement
John G. Derrah, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol
David Maibaum, Supervisory Border Patrol Agent- Retired, U.S. Border Patrol

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Hurricane Helene and Potential Federal Land Grabs

“If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.” — I.F. Stone, investigative journalist.

“It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.” — Lysander Spooner

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” —  James Madison


What is underground in northwest North Carolina?  Lithium.

And with the climate change enthusiasts, lithium is a desired quantity, not only for their electric cars, which no one wants, but because lithium is also used in nuclear devices.

Leo Hohmann’s recent article, tells us that China is a top producer of lithium, but China and US relations are not the best.  The federal government is pressuring Kings Mountain, NC, to reopen a lithium mine which was closed in 1988.  The feds awarded
$240 million to restart the mine.

The city manager says the people don’t want it, but he and the Kings Mountain City Council are under state and federal pressure to reopen the mine.

“In mid-September, just two weeks before Hurricane Helene blasted this area of North Carolina, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Albemarle Corporation of Charlotte, NC, a $90 million grant to restart mining operations in Cleveland County.”

Climate change is true, every year it changes four times, spring, summer, fall and winter.  That’s it!  As for the environmental impact of these stupid lithium batteries being forced down our throats with electric vehicles, they are toxic to the environment and cannot be recycled.

Kings Mountain may get off the hook as a new giant lithium source was just found in Arkansas.  Suspended in the relic of an ancient sea beneath southern Arkansas, there may be enough lithium for nine times the expected global demand for the element in car batteries in 2030.

Albemarle, Lithium, and Quartz

There’s more to this than meets the eye however, and it isn’t pretty.

Albemarle Corporation’s website states, “Our Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the proposed Kings Mountain Mine is underway.

“The Kings Mountain site has one of the world’s richest lithium depositions, representing an essential part of the global clean energy transformation. Albemarle is seeking approval to resume open pit mining and expand the mine footprint of the Kings Mountain Mine which was idled in the early 1990s. Lithium from Albemarle’s proposed project is expected to be a crucial building block for the transition to clean energy and sustainable transportation and continue to support the manufacture a lot of products used every day.”

Albemarle’s top institutional stockholders are Vanguard, BlackRock, Capital Research Global Investors and State Street.

Kings Mountain is sitting on a huge lithium deposit. The people are opposed. No people, no problem.  Blackrock has invested in the area and has a multi hundred-million-dollar contract to mine. Will the government use eminent domain to get people off their land? Maybe they will declare the land useless and pay a fraction of the cost.

Interestingly enough, Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, has retirement investments in companies like BlackRock, Vanguard and Charles Schwab.  These firms are heavily involved in resource extraction, including lithium mining.  Emhoff’s connections to these companies have raised ethical questions about potential conflicts of interest, especially as the Biden administration promotes policies supporting clean energy and domestic lithium production. The intersection of Emhoff’s financial interests and his wife’s role in public office has sparked debate about transparency and ethics in government, particularly concerning the mining industry’s environmental impact​.  Yet, without seeing Emhoff’s investment holdings, there is no documented proof he is invested in lithium production.

Emhoff’s family is connected to the largest producer of puberty blockers for children – AbbVie Inc.  Douglas Emhoff, husband of the U.S. presidential candidate (who advocates for affordable gender-affirming surgeries for children) has a financial interest in ensuring that all children from 8 years old have unrestricted access to puberty blockers, which essentially make people sterile.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) to AbbVie Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as part of an investigation to determine whether these manufacturers of puberty-blocking drugs deceptively advertised and promoted hormone blockers for unapproved uses without disclosing the potential risks to children and their parents.

Kamala Harris’ Connection to the Largest Elections Tech Firm, reveals that Emhoff’s former law firm is involved with election tech firms.

“Kamala Harris failed to disclose her relationship to Sir Nigel G. Knowles, her husband former boss at DLA Piper PLC of London, UK.

“Sir Nigel is co-director of SGO Smartmatic with Lord George Mark Malloch-Brown who controls Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin voting machines from Dominion, Smartmatic, ES&S, Sequoia, Premier, Diebold and Optech machines responsible for the alleged 2020 voting fraud.”

In 2016, when Kamala Harris was running for Barbara Boxer’s former Senate seat, Emhoff got rid of several stockholdings in companies that could become a conflict like Caterpillar, Dominion Resources, Monsanto and Medtronic, opting to reinvest the proceeds in mutual funds and ETFs.

The joint wealth of Douglas Emhoff and Kamala Harris is reportedly $13 million. Before Harris took over as vice president, Emhoff announced he would be leaving his law firm and took up a job at Georgetown University‘s law school, where he reportedly makes $200,000.  Legal Insurrection Through Lawfare is about what is being planned at Georgetown University’s law school should Trump win the election.

US Sun reported that last year, the couple gave $23,026 to charity. Their largest gifts went to Howard University and two colleges in California. They also contributed to nonprofit and religious organizations.  If you haven’t read Manning Johnson’s 1958 booklet, Color, Communism and Common Sense, he writes that back then, Howard University’s president was charged with being a communist.  This is the same university Judge Emmett Sullivan graduated from.  He was the judge who refused to release Gen. Michael Flynn despite the proof the FBI had set him up.

Spruce Pine, NC Quartz

The Spruce Pine community of NC was hit hard and it could have spelled disaster for the global automotive industry.  Spruce Pine is the world’s main source of high quality fused quartz, a material with unparalleled optical, mechanical and thermal properties that make it indispensable in the manufacture of high-tech products such as semiconductors, solar photovoltaic cells, optical fibre and quartz lighting.

Hurricane Helene ravaged Spruce Pine last week, inundating the tiny town with over two feet of water, which may have seriously hamper the production of those conductors.

The high-purity quartz is used in the production of silicon wafers for semiconductors and solar panels, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. The town only has 2,200 residents, but is one of the most important (if not the most important) sources of the critical mineral in the world. Sibelco, a private Belgium mineral company, has a virtual monopoly. It also just happens to be the largest employer in Mitchell County, North Carolina.

Those who have studied United Nations Agenda 21/30 know the globalists want us living in 15-minute cities and using only bicycles or our feet for transportation. The loss of the quartz would have helped their efforts.

Sibelco, one of the two companies that mine quartz in Spruce Pine, is back in operation. The Quartz Company is also nearing operation. They survived 140 mph winds, tornados and land slides.

Helene Disaster

Northwest North Carolina has been declared a disaster area by the federal government, yet DHS Director Mayorkas told us they have run out of money because they’ve spent $1.4 billion on illegal aliens.  Harris has said she is giving $750.00 to the survivors.  In July, Mayorkas said that FEMA was “tremendously prepared” for hurricane season. “This is what we do. This is what they do.”

The problem with this is that foreign illegals are receiving the tax-dollar funds which should go to our own people in times of disasters. There is enough money backlogged in FEMA, approximately $8 billion, but it is not being released.

Biden/Harris administration is pushing back against the allegation, saying that the alien resettlement funding—provided through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP)—is congressionally appropriated, specifically allocated for that purpose, and “completely separate” from disaster relief funds.  But a DHS spokesperson told Fox News, “That these claims are completely false, a completely separate, appropriated grant program was authorized and funded by Congress and is not associated in any way with FEMA’s disaster-related authorities or funding streams.”

FEMA money has been spent on housing, travel and care of illegal aliens released from federal custody and awaiting immigration court proceedings.  This fiscal year alone, the DHS pledged $640.9 million tax dollars toward these “humanitarian” services assisting illegals.  The previous year, the DHS doled out $363.8 million.

Mia Cathell’s article in Townhall gives full insight as to where our money is going.

The death toll is huge, and is not being reported.  A three-minute video on X.com shows men on horseback in Chimney Rock which Helene literally flattened. These are the first outsiders the survivors have seen after 22 days.  A resident told the fellow bringing aid that only a YouTuber had been there to check on them.  With the horror and devastation in these mountains, no one else has been there to help them until now.

In early October, Elon Musk reported that SpaceX engineers told him there were people helping in the disaster areas that were being blocked by FEMA. 10-News also reported that FEMA was blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away and stating they are their own.

On October 15th, Grindstone Ministries reported that the deaths and destruction were far worse than people know.  He said there were thousands dead. The mud is polluted with cadavers and animals, sewage and lithium, and he could not allow his people to become contaminated in certain areas.

The Grindstone leader tells about Little Germany and Bumpus Cove, TN where the water is polluted from heavy metals in the soil and the river that washes past Little Germany and into Bumpus Cove, TN, has chemical plants washed into it, cadavers, dead animals, PVC manufacturing plant contaminants and nuclear fuels.  At least one person from the area was admitted to the hospital for radiation sickness.

He reports that the land underneath these TN towns and in portions of NC are owned by lithium mining companies and the lithium underneath these towns seems to be the predicate for federal land grabs. That is not confirmed, but appears to be the goal.

Here is a two-minute video of NC Governor Roy Cooper confirming that government is buying out entire communities affected by “climate change.”

We have been losing assets to South African minerals, so we are desperate to find those minerals here, even if they are on private land.

FEMA

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA) has built a massive new FEMA camp in Candler, NC.  Locals raised concern about how it just popped up when the agency’s personnel have not been extending them assistance and appeared to have already left them without help after the disastrous aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Over a month and these folks are still hurting but FEMA built themselves a comfortable base camp.

Zelenko Freedom Foundation’s Ann Vandersteel went to the area to check the massive installation camp that popped up in just a matter of days. She decided to check on the property because they had seen drone footage but their team was surveilled by the personnel of the camp.

Here is the 21-minute video on X.com of Ann’s interview with the people outside this new FEMA camp.  It is worth watching because of the worthless answers they gave Ann.

Ann saw huge climate-controlled trucks and trailers coming in and observed that the installation had just one entrance and exit. She also mentioned that locals have told her that the said FEMA property allegedly belonged to a trucking company that was leased to the federal government. Upon checking, her team found that the land was owned by Smoky Park LLC.

Followers on X lauded her efforts to go and clarify with the FEMA personnel herself. One person even commented, “Why are they building a FEMA camp for 700 ‘rescue workers’ and not helping the residents who lost everything and many dying or dead? Something evil is going on in those mountains.”

FEMA is more concerned with “equity” than with helping our people.

One citizen group is on a mountaintop in Little Switzerland collecting and distributing necessities, but what they really need is medicines.  FEMA sent three pallets of electric chain saws to an area with no power. They need generators and fuel.

Kamala tells them to go on the internet and fill out the paperwork for your $750.00 check, which you have to pay back, when they have no internet, no power, and no home.

Every year, the U.S. Congress begins work on a federal budget for the next fiscal year. The federal government’s fiscal year runs from October 1 of one calendar year through September 30 of the next.

FEMA just received their annual funding at the beginning of October and Mayorkas said FEMA was out of money.  They spent it all in less than one month on illegal aliens?  Or maybe that’s where Harris got $157 million for Lebanon.

Conclusion

Biden/Harris and DHS have abandoned our people, but not former President Trump.  He started a Go-Fund-Me for the victims of Helene, and has raised $8 million in relief.  Of the $8 million raised, $7 million has already been distributed to charities that are actively helping to clean up and rebuild the impacted areas.  Trump has often worked with Samaritan’s Purse who also has an excellent reputation.

Political strategist James Carville calls on Democrats to take up arms against Trump regime if Kamala loses.

This is what we’re fighting.  It is a battle between good and evil, life and death.

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Critically Thinking about American’s Health. One of Several Key Issues to Consider when Voting

In an ideal world, competing Presidential candidates would present two different sets of proposed policies, and citizens would make an informed choice. There would be no mud-slinging, no using of the judicial system to cast aspersions on a candidate, no behind-the-scenes undemocratic selection of a candidate, etc., etc.

Democrat RFK, Jr. penned a fine piece (below) about one important aspect of modern society: American Health policies, a matter near and dear to him. My main improvement is that RFK, Jr. said nothing about reforming the FDA — a major obstacle to the health of Americans.

WATCH: RFK. Jr.: How Democrats are poisoning our kids and making them sick

The takeaway here is that critically thinking citizens should compare the two Presidential candidates on their Health-related policies.

RFK, Jr. wrote:

In my speech endorsing Donald Trump, I said we need to love our kids more than we hate each other. That means coming together to address common problems, and few are more urgent than the chronic-disease crisis. Americans are becoming sicker, beset by illnesses that our medical system isn’t addressing effectively. These trends harm us, our economy and our global standing.

Among American teens, close to 30% are prediabetic. More than 18% of young adults have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. More than 40% of adults 22 to 44 are obese, according to a 2023 study. In 2020, 77% of young adults didn’t qualify for the military based on their health scores, forcing the military to lower its standards.

Six out of 10 adults in America are living with a chronic illness. Seventy-four percent of American adults are overweight or obese. Rates of kidney disease and autoimmune conditions are going up. Cancer rates among young people are rising. This is despite Americans spending more and more to treat many of these conditions. U.S. life expectancy is markedly lower than in every other developed country, with wide disparities between income classes.

This crisis is the product of broken incentives. There is nothing more profitable for much of the healthcare system than a sick child. Americans with chronic conditions are often put on medications or treatments for the rest of their lives. Nearly 30% of teens have reportedly used prescription drugs in the past 30 days, according to data from the prescription discount service SingleCare.

Mr. Trump has made reforming broken institutions a cornerstone of his political life. He has become the voice of countless Americans who have been let down by our elites. He could unite the country by making it his priority to make America healthy again. Here are some specific policy ideas:

  1. Reform the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. Pharmaceutical companies pay a fee every time they apply for a new drug approval, and this money makes up about 75% of the budget of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug division. That creates a barrier to entry to smaller firms and puts bureaucrats’ purse strings in the hands of the pharmaceutical industry.
  2. Prohibit members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee from making money from food or drug companies. Ninety-five percent of the members of a USDA panel charged with most recently updating nutrition guidelines had conflicts of interest. This is from the same government that brought you a National Institutes of Health research finding that Lucky Charms are healthier than ground beef.
  3. Review direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ad guidelines. The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to the public. News channels are filled with drug commercials, and reasonable viewers may question whether their dependence on these ads influences their coverage of health issues.
  4. Change federal regulation so that NIH funds can’t go to researchers with conflicts of interest. A 2019 ProPublica analysis of disclosures going back to 2012 found that over 8,000 federally funded health researchers reported significant financial conflicts of interest.
  5. Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs. Today in Germany, Ozempic costs less than a tenth of what it does in the U.S. because while Berlin negotiates prices on behalf of all Germans, Washington can’t do the same. Legislators should cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay.
  6. Stop allowing beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to use their food stamps to buy soda or processed foods. Nine percent of all SNAP funding goes to sweetened drinks, according to 2011 data. It’s nonsensical for U.S. taxpayers to spend tens of billions of dollars subsidizing junk that harms the health of low-income Americans.
  7. Revisit pesticide and other chemical-use standards. As of 2019, the U.S. allowed 72 pesticides that the European Union bans. We also allow chemicals in food and skin care that the bloc doesn’t. Some of these chemicals are quite common to our daily lives. Though glyphosate isn’t currently banned EU-wide due to disagreement between member states, it’s approved for use only through the end of 2033, when the issue will be revisited. Meanwhile in the U.S. the University of California, San Francisco, in 2015 found the chemical in 93% of the urine samples it studied.
  8. Require nutrition classes and functional medicine in federally funded medical schools. Today, 7 out of 10 of the leading killers of Americans are chronic diseases that are preventable, sometimes through improved eating habits. Yet about 80% of medical schools don’t require a course in nutrition.
  9. Reform crop subsidies. They make corn, soybeans and wheat artificially cheap, so those crops end up in many processed forms. Soybean oil in the 1990s became a major source of American calories, and high-fructose corn syrup is everywhere. Our subsidy program is so backward that less than 2% of farm subsidies go to fruits and vegetables.
  10. Issue new presidential fitness standards. My uncle John F. Kennedy was right in 1960 when he wrote, “The physical vigor of our citizens is one of America’s most precious resources.” The Presidential Fitness Test that President Obama ditched should be reinstated.
  11. Devote half of research budgets from the NIH toward preventive, alternative and holistic approaches to health. In the current system, researchers don’t have enough incentive to study generic drugs and root-cause therapies that look at things like diet.
  12. Increase patient choice by giving every American a health savings account. HSAs are a bipartisan healthcare policy that saves Americans money and gives them financial support in healthcare outside insurance. In many cases, food and exercise interventions are clinically the best medicine. With an HSA, a pre-diabetic can choose with his doctor whether to devote medical dollars to a drug like metformin or a root-cause intervention like a gym membership.

Mr. Trump has told me he wants to make ending this chronic-disease calamity a key part of his legacy, while Kamala Harris has expressed no interest in this issue. His political courage and moral clarity about the danger of our compromised institutions give us the best opportunity in our lifetimes to revive America’s health.

Mr. Kennedy is an environmental lawyer and public health advocate.

©2024 John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.


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“The Blue-Collar Presidency”

“Wages rose, inequality fell, and the unemployment rate plunged to a 50-year low.” 

In a recent Biden speech, he asked the audience to name one thing Trump did for the American people. This led me to revisit what life was like under the Trump administration.

A publication titled “The Blue-Collar Presidency ” outlines an incredible list of accomplishments that highlight how “Wages rose, inequality fell, and the unemployment rate plunged to a 50-year low.”

The priority blue-collar, middle-class agenda paid off, despite the pandemic and many natural disasters that occurred during Trump’s first term, including:

  • Wage growth for workers has outpaced wage growth for managers.
  • Wage growth for those without a bachelor’s degree has outpaced wage growth for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
  • Wage growth for lower-income people—those at the 10th percentile of the income distribution—has outpaced wage growth for wealthier Americans.
  • Average real household income hit a record high in 2019, while poverty rates hit a record low, including for African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

These achievements were not accidental.

The report notes, “President Trump’s economic agenda is tailor-made to rebuild our great American middle class, transferring power from affluent white-collar professionals and activists to workers, small businesses, manufacturers, and others once left behind by globalization’s failures.”

“It’s about more than cutting taxes and growing our economy—although both are important. It’s about eliminating unnecessary degree requirements that help the privileged but hurt skilled workers. It’s about ending overregulation that creates jobs for lawyers and consultants but kills jobs for manufacturers and energy producers. It’s about fixing trade deals that boosted multinational corporations but shipped our jobs to China and Mexico.”

“President Trump is fighting for the forgotten Americans once sidelined by our country’s own politicians, both Democrat and Republican.”

At the time, the Trump administration was leading a “Great American Comeback that has seen over 1.4 million manufacturing and construction jobs return in just the past 5 months alone. All told, the U.S. economy has added over 11 million jobs since May.”

“Today, our political class spends too much time trying to impress one another and too little time working for you.”  

I remember what life was like for my family, including my adult children. I recall the hope and optimism we felt to build a great future, and I remember my neighbors and community at large doing better than ever. We can have that again!


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The Political Landscape of the Ted Cruz-Colin Allred Race

The race for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas is heating up as incumbent Senator Ted Cruz faces off against Democrat Colin Allred. Texas, a state known for its conservative values and robust economy, has long leaned Republican. Significant achievements and unwavering support from the electorate have marked Cruz’s political career. In contrast, Allred, a former NFL linebacker turned politician, presents a starkly different vision for Texas, raising questions about his experience and alignment with the state’s values.

Ted Cruz, first elected to the Senate in 2012, has built a formidable political career committed to conservative principles and strong advocacy for Texas interests. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz’s intellectual prowess matches his oratory skills, making him a prominent figure in national politics.

Cruz has consistently championed tax cuts, border security, and religious freedom, resonating deeply with Texas voters. His role in spearheading the fight against the Affordable Care Act and advocating for the Second Amendment has solidified his reputation as a staunch defender of conservative values.

Cruz’s political career is marked by significant accomplishments, including:

  • Legislative Achievements: He has played a pivotal role in bipartisan efforts, such as the CHIPS and Science Act and tax relief initiatives for hurricane victims. His ability to navigate complex legislative landscapes has earned him respect among his peers and constituents.
  • Popularity in Texas: Despite criticism for specific actions—such as his controversial trip to Cancun during a winter storm in 2021—Cruz maintains a strong support base among Texas Republicans. Polling data shows he consistently leads Allred by margins ranging from 2% to 5% in recent surveys, indicating that many Texans still view him as their representative in Washington.

Cruz has also been instrumental in shaping Republican strategies on a national level, positioning himself as a critical player in the fight against big government and for individual liberties. His influence extends beyond Texas, as he is often called upon to provide insight into the Republican Party’s direction.

As for Colin Allred, one of the most significant drawbacks is his limited experience in national politics. While Cruz has spent over a decade navigating the complexities of Senate legislation and building a national profile, Allred’s tenure in Congress has been marked by just one term. This lack of experience raises concerns about his ability to effectively represent Texas at a time when critical national issues are at stake.

In a state as large and diverse as Texas, voters often look for candidates with proven track records in leadership and governance. Allred’s relatively short political career could hinder his ability to connect with seasoned voters who prioritize experience when electing their representatives.

Allred’s policy positions present another challenge as he seeks to unseat Cruz. Many of his stances, including support for expanded government healthcare programs and strict gun control measures, diverge significantly from the values held by many Texans. According to a recent Texas Public Policy Foundation survey, 68% of Texans oppose new gun control measures (Texas Public Policy Foundation, 2024), making Allred’s advocacy on this issue potentially unpopular.

Furthermore, Allred’s proposed increase in taxation and regulation is at odds with Cruz’s focus on economic growth through lower taxes and deregulation. In a state that has experienced significant economic expansion, particularly in the energy sector, voters may be reluctant to support a candidate who advocates for policies perceived as detrimental to job creation and financial stability.

Allred’s several other policy positions may also alienate some voters in Texas. He has advocated for progressive policies that may not resonate with the state’s conservative electorate, such as Abortion Rights. Allred has been vocal about protecting abortion rights, opposing Texas’s stringent regulations. While this stance may appeal to specific demographics, it risks alienating conservative voters who prioritize pro-life policies.

These policy differences highlight how Allred’s positions contrast sharply with Cruz’s conservative platform, which emphasizes individual freedoms and limited government intervention.

Public perception plays a crucial role in any political campaign, and Allred has faced scrutiny regarding his background and affiliations. While he positions himself as a candidate for change, his association with more progressive elements of the Democratic Party has raised eyebrows among conservative voters.

Any past controversies or missteps could impact voter trust:

  • Lack of Transparency: Critics have pointed out that Allred’s campaign has not always been transparent regarding funding sources and endorsements. This lack of clarity may raise questions among voters about his integrity and motivations.
  • Association with Controversial Figures: While seeking endorsements from former Republican representatives like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney may seem strategic, it could backfire by alienating core Democratic supporters who view these figures unfavorably due to their opposition to Trump.

Additionally, there have been reports of ethical concerns regarding some of his campaign financing, which could further complicate his efforts to build trust with voters.

In contrast, Cruz has navigated controversies with political acumen, allowing him to maintain his support base. His ability to confront challenges head-on, including those posed by his opponents, has only solidified his reputation as a resilient leader.

These factors contribute to an image that may not resonate with all voters, particularly those prioritizing transparency and accountability.

As the race progresses, concerns about Allred’s electability become increasingly prominent. Polling data indicates that while he has garnered some support, particularly among urban voters, Cruz still maintains a commanding lead in statewide surveys.

  • Polling Data: Recent polls show Cruz leading by approximately 2% to 5%, with around 5% of respondents still undecided.
  • Voter Sentiment: Analysts have noted that despite demographic shifts in Texas favoring Democrats, many voters still identify strongly with Cruz’s conservative values. Allred’s challenge will be mobilizing enough support from moderate Republicans and independents while retaining Democratic voters.

The race between Ted Cruz and Colin Allred is emblematic of broader trends within Texas politics – a state grappling with shifting demographics and political ideologies. While Allred presents himself as a moderate alternative to Cruz, several negative aspects associated with his candidacy raise questions about his viability as a challenger.
In summary:

  • Experience: Allred’s limited political experience compared to Cruz raises concerns about his readiness for Senate responsibilities.
  • Policy Positions: His progressive stances may not align with the values of many Texas voters.
  • Public Perception: Issues related to transparency and past associations could undermine voter trust.
  • Electability: Although polling data suggests he is within reach, doubts remain about his ability to defeat an established incumbent like Cruz.

As Texans prepare to vote on November 5th, they must weigh these considerations carefully. Their choices will shape the future of Texas and influence the balance of power within the U.S. Senate.
With Cruz’s track record of fighting for conservative principles and advocating for Texas’s interests, the stakes have never been higher. In a time when leadership matters more than ever, the choice between experience and inexperience, conservatism and progressivism, could define the Senate seat and the future trajectory of Texas politics.

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References:

1. Emerson College Polling Results on Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred.
2. Analysis from The Hill on polling trends.
3. Coverage from AP News regarding debates and public perceptions.<
4. Insights from Politico on campaign strategies.
5. Background info.rmation on Ted Cruz’s political career is from Wikipedia.<
6 Sen. Ted Cruz’s Leadership Secured Approval for Four International Bridges
7. Cruz’s legislative accomplishments touted
8. Ted Cruz, Colin Allred clash on abortion, border, transgender rights in US Senate debate

October AEI Housing Finance Watch Indicates an Unhealthy Market

Housing Finance Watch: Active Listings Continue to Trend Higher But Remain Below their 2018-2019 Levels, Indicating an Unhealthy Market

By Edward J. Pinto | Tobias Peter | Sissi Li

October 23, 2024

Key takeaways:

  • The median purchase rate increased from 6.25% to 6.38% in week 41, 2024.
  • According to Mortgage News Daily, the avg. 30-year rate was 6.85% on Oct. 22nd.
  • Purchase volume was down 43% from the same week in 2019, and up 4% YoY, with volume slowing somewhat with increasing rates.
  • Preliminary YoY HPA was 4.2% in September 2024. It is projected to be 4.4% and 4.6% for Oct. 2024 and the first three weeks of Nov. 2024, respectively.
  • Despite subdued purchase activity and relatively high rates, YoY HPA remains strong, largely due to buyers being well-qualified.
  • Our base HPA projection calls for y-o-y HPA of +5% and +5.5% by year-end 2024 and 2025 respectively.

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©2024. Edward Pinto. All rights reserved.

PODCAST: 56% Of Americans Say Taxes Are Too High and The Submerged Trump Vote

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GROVER NORQUIST

Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.

TOPIC: 56% of all Americans say taxes are too high!

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George Parry is a Contributor to The American Spectator, The Federalist, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. George is a former federal and state prosecutor. George served as: Special Attorney for the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, U.S. Department of Justice; Unit Chief, Investigations Division, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office; Special Organized Crime Prosecutor, Blair and Cambria counties (central Pennsylvania); and was a Legal Analyst for KYW-TV in Philadelphia.

TOPIC: The Submerged Trump Vote!

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Trump Media Announces Release of Truth+ Streaming on iOS and Apple TV

SARASOTA, FL.,  GLOBE NEWSWIRE — Trump Media & Technology Group (Nasdaq: DJT) (“TMTG” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, announced today that it has successfully launched an app for iOS mobile devices and for Apple TVs to access the Truth+ streaming platform.

Now available in the Apple App Store for iOS and the App Store on Apple TV, Truth+ offers TV programming focusing on news, entertainment, faith-based content, weather, documentaries, children’s content, and more, featuring both linear TV channels and Video on Demand (VOD).

Previously released in the Google Play Store and on the Web, Truth+ enhances the limited streaming option now available on the Truth Social platform by adding additional content and numerous new features including VOD, live TV rewind with visual thumbnails, catch-up TV for up to seven days, network DVR, and a Spanish language interface option.

The iOS app has native support for both phone and tablet (iPad). Additionally, like its Android and Web counterparts, the iOS app supports casting to a TV screen simply by clicking the cast icon in the video player’s top menu. This handy feature enables users to watch videos from a mobile phone directly on an at-home TV set.

Apple TV owners can now download the Truth+ app directly to their TV sets from the App Store on Apple TV, then sign in by using their mobile phones to scan a QR code from their TV sets or by using a passcode.

iOS device users can download the Truth+ app from the Apple App Store and sign in with a single tap by securely synchronizing their Truth Social accounts on-device.

Users without a Truth Social account can create one during the sign in process on both the iOS app and the Apple TV app.

“We’re pleased to announce that Truth+ is now available on iOS and Apple TV,” said TMTG CEO Devin Nunes. “Meanwhile, we are continuing to fill out our TV streaming programming, most recently by adding PureFlixTV and Great American Adventures TV channels as well as new options for Video on Demand. Users can expect much more new content and more streaming-related apps in the future, all delivered through TMTG’s own Content Delivery Network.”

In the near future, TMTG plans to introduce Truth+ native apps for additional connected TV platforms including Samsung, LG, Android TV, Amazon Fire, and Roku devices.

TMTG anticipates that, as the rollout progresses, the Company will continue to stress and beta test the streaming technology while collecting input from users and to announce when testing is finished and the rollout is complete.

TMTG’s ultra-fast streaming technology is powered through its custom-designed, multi-site Content Delivery Network (CDN) using the Company’s own servers, routers, and software stack, created with the goal of rendering the service uncancellable by Big Tech.

About TMTG

The mission of TMTG is to end Big Tech’s assault on free speech by opening up the Internet and giving people their voices back. TMTG operates Truth Social, a social media platform established as a safe harbor for free expression amid increasingly harsh censorship by Big Tech corporations.

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Shannon Devine (MZ Group | Managing Director – MZ North America) Email: shannon.devine@mzgroup.us

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This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, the plans, strategies, and prospects, both business and financial, of TMTG. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events, including the future plans and potential success of the streaming services under the CDN. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions, or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events, or results of operations, are forward-looking statements. These statements may be preceded by, followed by, or include the words “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “anticipates,” “soon,” “goal,” “intends,” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations that we describe in our forward-looking statements. There may be events in the future that we are not accurately able to predict, or over which we have no control.

©2024. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

What Did Communist Cuba Have Before Candles? Electricity!

Question: What did Communist Cuba used to have before their tyrannical government just issued a quota of 2 candles per family after the power grid at the Antonio Guiteras thermo power plant failed.

Answer: They used to have electricity.

Since October 18th, 2024 the good citizens of Communist controlled Cuba have been without electricity. Even the 258 Mega Watts of installed solar power panels completed at end of 2022 is not sufficient to power the island.

Communist Cuba needs oil, diesel and refined petroleum products to operate its electrical grid because solar energy is not sufficient, but like all Communists they despise the profits made from the sale of such fossil fuels yet they love the control they have over the people by controlling their energy.

So the Communist Cuban government is dependent on oil shipments from Communist Venezuela and the dictatorship of the Russian Federation. Both of these countries though have significantly reduced the importation of fossil fuels to Cuba due to their own internal political problems.

So now the Communist government of Cuba is blaming the United States for its 4th day of zero electricity because of our sanctions.

You would think they would he praising the Democrats in the United States government for implementing zero shipments of oil and fossil fuels for Cuba’s electricity generation. Got to save the planet right from rising water levels due to climate change. Let’s do our part and ban fossil fuels. Cuba is definitely lowering its carbon footprint.

Communist ran California is no different, the Newsom dictatorship and the California Democrat Marxist legislators running their anti fossil fuel schemes from Sacramento will no doubt soon be issuing a government quota of candles to the good citizens of this once free state including the millions of illegal immigrants and homeless people living there.

Unlike California where oil companies are pulling out and or closing down due to massive political interference in free markets and moving to Texas, Communist Cuba is keeping its eight state ran oil – fired power plants.

Cuba gets 81% of its electricity generation from oil imports, 14% from natural gas, 4% from biofuels and 1% from the solar power plant and Wind turbines which also do not work properly. Maybe the Cuban government should install millions of hamster wheels as dynamos to supplement electricity supplies.

We Americans must pay close attention to the problems in Cuba because these good people are experiencing what California will soon be experiencing with the current Marxist system operating out of Sacramento and other Democrat ran states.

At least Communist Cuba has not banned the sale of gasoline powered vehicles like Newsom did so at least wedding parties can still continue in Havana with the bride and groom still able to ride in the back of 1952 Chevrolet’s. It would be impossible to drive an electric car in a country without electric right ?

California is a great state ran by evil bottom feeding maggot Marxist’s. Cuba is a wonderful country ran by the same corrupt bunch of Marxist liberals as California and New York and Colorado etc.

One day the citizens of Cuba will rise up and fight and remove this corrupt Communist Cuban government from power and restore the nation to prosperity and free market capitalism.

Then once free, the United States will be able to return to trading with Cuba and flood this nation with dollars lifting the people out of poverty and tyranny.

This will be only possible when Trump is reelected and back in the White House. Kamala Harris supports the Communist regime in Cuba as did Obama.

Nothing will change under a Harris presidency other than more inflation, the disarming of law abiding Americans, the banning of gas stations, less freedom and $10 a gallon gasoline prices.

The Communists running Cuba, Venezuela and the Communists currently in the White House will hide under their desks begging the people not to jail them for their years of brutal aggression and tyranny but only when Trump is back in office and global stability is restored.

Trump will save America and save the world.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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Trump v Kamala — NOT a Popularity Contest

Have you ever known someone seeking public office so frustrating, controversial but very much listened to, annoying with some of their actions not to mention blunt statements as Donald Trump? Remember his tweeting years ago? Trump speaks his mind, does not even appear to be concerned about being politically correct, and talks like the multibillion-dollar businessman he is when addressing economic issues facing America. Straight forward and strong in his convictions and assessments, he is like a boss you fear but secretly admire, and maybe even try to emulate in some ways.

You may not like Trump but the election underway is not a mere popularity contest it is a selection of the person you want to lead our nation away from going over the cliff and securing a future for our children and grandchildren.

All previous presidents were financially well off and I do not hold that against them; after all we are supposed to be a capitalist nation. What president in your memory served four years without taking a salary as Trump did? This one act speaks to his level of dedication putting his money where his mouth is to “Make America Great Again!” Those choosing to vote for Donald Trump as President are choosing between his views and ideologies supporting and honoring America versus those of the other candidate who has a provable record of Marxist ideologies and views. Allow me to state several other massive differences of ideology.

Trump believes in, speaks openly about, and demonstrates freedom of speech and the protection of the First Amendment. The other candidate and her advocates talk about removing the First Amendment from our society. Trump proved he believes in secure borders, national sovereignty and legal immigration while the other candidate chooses to ramble about the entire subject. Trump bluntly speaks about protecting the Second Amendment, the other side speaks about abolishing the Second Amendment. Trump proved over four years in office that American military forces were not meant to be loaned at others’ discretion but were to be the elite fighting forces we once were known for in the protection of our national sovereignty and that of our truest allies.

This election is not about voting for the most “likeable” person but the most trusted who will place America First and not their own ego and position, who will bring America back to her foundational beliefs and principles as given to us by our founders, and not sell-out to the global elites and their plan for a One-World Order. Donald Trump clearly intends to bring business and manufacturing (he did this before) promoting jobs and economic stability back to America versus Kamala who sees China as the center for world economics. Trump extinguishing the hundreds of billions of dollars to 20+million illegals in our nation versus the other candidate who speaks brazenly about not seeing anything wrong loading America with the needy and less fortunate – even if they were released from prisons for heinous crimes in their home nations.

Trump versus the Marxist candidate running for president is not a popularity contest but a fight to not have out-of-control liberal policies and Marxist ideologies continue to weaken and lead toward the destruction of America. Trump can be most blunt and not politically smooth in speech or actions (Trump dancing at public rallies), but Donald Trump is absolutely brisk about ending child trafficking, protecting Freedom of Religion, the Rule of Law versus the gestapo tactics already underway (January 6 defendants in prison four years now without formal charges or being released pending trial like murder, rape and other atrocious crimes committed by illegals). Trump proclaimed the abolishment of the Department of Education returning the administration of educating our children to the states. He stated clearly the FBI and Department of Justice have become weaponized and no longer place protection of American citizens as a priority over crushing any and all political speech and disagreement with the ruling elite.

I sincerely pray you will distribute my remarks here to all on your lists. I pray you do not view this election as a popularity contest but a urgent need to radically change the direction America is quickly heading, and to which our founders would be aghast to see if they were here.

DO NOT vote for a candidate, but VOTE TO KEEP AMERICA the unique country we have been and still can be if our candle of freedom is not snuffed out.

©2024. Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

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3 Biblical Reasons Conservative Christians Should Vote in This Election

New research finds that approximately 41 million evangelical Christians won’t vote in the Nov. 5 presidential election, but that pastors can persuade approximately 5 million to vote just by urging them to fulfill their civic duty.

As an evangelical Christian myself, I’d like to encourage my fellow believers to cast their ballots. I also ask pastors to tell their flocks to vote, without endorsing one candidate over another.

First, however, let’s explain the research.

George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, conducted two in-depth surveys in August and September. Online and by phone, Barna surveyed 2,000 adults who self-identified as Christians and said they attended church services at least once a month. He also did an online survey of 1,000 adults in the overall U.S. population.

The surveys found that only 51% of “people of faith”—those who describe themselves as affiliated with a recognized religious faith or as “a person of religious faith”—indicate they are likely to vote in the upcoming election. The U.S. voting-age population is about 268 million, and the survey estimated that about 212 million adults qualify as being in the “people of faith” category. Since 49% of “people of faith” in the survey indicated they would not be likely to vote, that amounts to approximately 104 million Americans “of faith” who are unlikely to vote.

Barna broke down these nonvoters into a few (sometimes overlapping) groups: born-again Christians, identified by their stated beliefs regarding sin and salvation (41 million nonvoters); self-identified Christians who regularly attend church services (32 million); voting-age adults who regularly attend an evangelical church (14 million); adults who attend Protestant churches (46 million); and adults who attend Catholic churches (19 million).

Likely nonvoters gave a variety of reasons for not voting: a lack of interest in politics and elections (68%), disliking all the major candidates (57%), feeling that no candidate reflects their most important views (55%), believing that their one vote won’t make a difference (52%), and saying that the election has become too controversial for their liking (50%).

Yet Barna’s research also found that these nonvoters may reconsider their apathy if their pastors encourage them to vote.

“This research underscores the fact that simply encouraging people to vote in order to fulfill their biblical responsibility would not only be seen as doing their job while helping the community, but an estimated 5 million regular churchgoers would be likely to vote as a result of that simple exhortation,” Barna said in a press release on the findings. “That, in itself, could change the outcome of the election.”

He also noted that the results of the 2020 presidential election, which were contested, came down to a combined total of 587,000 votes in nine battleground states.

“In that context, the 32 million Christians sitting in the pews each week who refuse to vote are a game-changer,” the researcher added. “It’s low-hanging fruit for pastors as they try to motivate those congregants to carry out their civic duty and honor God through their influence for things that matter in our culture.”

So, should conservative Christians vote in the 2024 election? Whether our votes will make a difference or not, what does the Bible say?

1. Honor the Ruling Authorities

Christians look with hope for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come, when Jesus will reign and wipe away every tear. In the meantime, however, both the Bible and Christian tradition are clear: We should honor the ruling authorities.

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God,” the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 13:1. (I’m using the translation known as the English Standard Version for all Bible citations.)

Jesus proclaimed that he was the messiah at a time when the Jews expected a messiah to rise against Roman oppression, just like the Maccabees did against Greek oppression under Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Jesus repeatedly told his disciples and the Roman authorities that he didn’t come to usher in political change, for “my kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36).

So, in modern America, who are the “governing authorities?” The three branches established by the Constitution—the executive under the president, the legislative under Congress, and the judicial under the Supreme Court—certainly qualify. But each derives its own authority from the people, who exercise their sovereign will through voting.

I would argue that in modern America, if you are a citizen with the right to vote, honoring the governing authorities entails educating yourself on the major issues and casting a ballot in your local, state, and federal elections.

Paul also lays out the basic function of government: The ruler, he writes, “is God’s servant for your good,” to reward the good and punish the evil. Paul adds: “He is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer” (Romans 13:3-5).

At the most basic level, following the Apostle Paul’s directive here involves casting a ballot in the way that will best help the government be a servant of God’s ultimate justice while acknowledging that human justice is limited.

2. Seek the Peace of the City

Some Christians might object that casting a ballot represents an endorsement of flawed candidates or a flawed system, and therefore they should protect their consciences by not implicating themselves in a broken political system.

To these people I would point to Jeremiah 29, the letter that the prophet Jeremiah wrote to the Jewish exiles in Babylon. Although God inspired Jeremiah to write that letter to the Jewish exiles at the time, not to modern Christians today, Christians may look to Jeremiah’s advice for inspiration and guidance—especially as Christians find themselves in what feels like a hostile and post-Christian American culture.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce,” Jeremiah wrote. “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (Jeremiah 29: 4-7).

Christians live in a sort of exile on earth, as citizens of heaven. As St. Augustine wrote in his magnificent book “The City of God,” Christians should work for the peace and prosperity of the earthly city in which we live, while longing for the heavenly city where our true citizenship and fulfillment reside.

This means voting in elections, sometimes for the lesser of what may seem to be two evils, because our votes will make a difference and can help the health of the earthly city where we currently dwell.

3. Instruments of God

Ultimately, God decides whether nations rise or fall, and whether he will give them prosperity or judgment.

This should come as great encouragement to American Christians who fear for our country. It is not up to us to determine whether the Constitution endures, whether the deep state will be defeated, or whether an immoral person takes the reins of the U.S. government.

Our votes can make an impact, but God determines the course of history, and he inspired Paul to write to the Romans, “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28).

This “good” does not always mean earthly prosperity—all things ultimately worked together for good for Stephen when he got stoned for preaching the good news about Jesus (Acts 7-8). It does mean, however, that we can put our ultimate hope in God, and look at the struggles in this world as a testing ground, a “vale of tears” before we reach the summit of everlasting joy.

“The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will,” Solomon writes in Proverbs 21.

The prophets ring with the message that God sometimes chooses judgment for his people, the Jews, and he used both the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian King Cyrus to accomplish his will. The first served God by delivering judgment on the Jews—destroying Jerusalem and carrying the Jews off into exile. The second served God by returning the Jews to Jerusalem, paying to rebuild the temple and the walls of the holy city.

When we vote, prayerfully and wisely, we are taking our own small part in God’s ultimate governance of human affairs. We won’t always get it right, but he will.

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Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: .

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