Obama paid-off Joe w/ VP position (knowing he would use it for $$$) as a pay-back for Joe's work covering the passport issue in '07/08. Biden was Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee with jurisdiction over the State Dept. breech. [By John Brennan]
John Brennan, then Obama’s top terrorism and intel adviser was the owner of The Analysis Corp., the firm cited in March 2008 for penetrating the files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, H Clinton, and J McCain via State Dept. passport office.
“This individual’s actions were taken without the knowledge or direction of anyone at The Analysis Corp. and are wholly inconsistent with our professional and ethical standards,” Brennan’s company said in a statement sent to reporters after the passport breach was made public.
People would have you believe after 25 years within the CIA, and after being the Chief of Staff to the Director, and after being the person who set up the counter terrorism center, and after being the CIA approved contractor for the State dept....
...well, Brennan just didn’t know someone from his firm was penetrating the passport files within the State Dept. on three occasions in Jan and Feb to look at information of the candidate who he was specifically working for.
Well, that was the story, & they stuck to it in '08
After the initial inquiry, federal investigators maintained the target of the illegal activity was Obama’s passport file. It does not take a stretch to come to the conclusion this was for the sole purpose of cleansing records of information adverse to Obama’s candidacy.
Brennan was, at the time, an unpaid advisor working with Obama’s campaign.
Passport files include an applicant’s name, social security number, date/place of birth and passport number. Information may include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S. born persons who adopted citizenship of foreign country as minors.
It is important to remember the legislative oversight group who would be investigating the breach – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee oversees the State Department.
Senator Joe Biden was the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time the breach would be investigated.
In mid February 2010, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs alerted WH reporters who regularly cover daily events that certain questions about Obama’s job with Business International Corporation (BIC) would not be subject to discussion.
BIC was well-known in Washington DC to be a front company for the CIA, hence many speculated the State Department passport records were scrubbed to erase any mention of Obama’s CIA activity.
How long has the DC administrative state, the Deep State and the larger intelligence community, been selecting U.S. candidates for the office of the presidency?
It's a much bigger question than most consider normally...
... and now, those same entities... have a better tool than having to break into offices, hack into computers, and extract the information they need.
What tool is that?
This tool.... 👇
Making sense now?...
Making sense now?
Making sense now?...
"This is not simply another 4-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not 'We The People' reclaim control over our government."
"The political establishment that is trying everything to stop us, is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled this country dry."
"The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs, as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries throughout the world."
"It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities."
"Let’s be clear on one thing: the corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda."
"And their agenda is to elect the [Bidens] at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy."
"This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. This election will determine whether we are a free nation, or whether we have only the illusion of Democracy but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system."
"This is not just conspiracy but reality. You know it, and I know it."
"The establishment and their media enablers wield control over this nation through means that are well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed."
"They will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and reputation. And they will lie, lie and lie even more. And they will do worse than that."
"People who are capable of such crimes against our nation are capable of anything."
"But I take all of these slings and arrows for you. I take them for our movement, so that we can have our country back. Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world, has come upon a moment of reckoning."
"We’ve seen it in the United Kingdom, where they voted to liberate themselves from global government and global trade deals and global immigration deals that have destroyed their sovereignty."
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"Their financial resources are unlimited. Their political resources are unlimited. Their media resources are unlimited. And, most importantly, the depths of their immorality is unlimited."
"The only thing that can stop the Corrupt [Biden] Machine is you. The only force strong enough to save this country is you. The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American People."
"They control the Department of Justice" ... "Likewise, they have corrupted the Director of the FBI to the point at which stories are already saying the great men and women who work for the FBI are embarrassed and ashamed to what he’s done to one of our great institutions."
"This is a conspiracy against you, the American people.
This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization."
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"In my former life, I was an insider as much as anybody else – and I know what’s like to be an insider. Now I am being punished for leaving their special club and revealing to you their great scam. Because I used to be part of the club, I’m the only one who can fix it."
" I’m doing this for the people, and this movement, and we will take back this country for you and Make America Great Again."
"The corrupt establishment knows that we are an existential threat to their criminal enterprise. They know, that if we win, their power is gone and returned to you. The clouds hanging over our government can be lifted, and replaced with a bright future"...
..."but it all depends on whether we let the New York Times decide our future, or whether we let the American people decide our future."
"I will not lie to you. These false attacks hurt. To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly and before your family, is painful."
"But I also know, it’s not about me – it’s about all of you. It’s about all of us, together, as a country."
"It’s about the Veterans who need medical care, the mothers who’ve lost children to terrorism and crime, it’s about the inner cities and the border towns who desperately need our help, it’s about the millions of jobless Americans."
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We will rise above the lies, the smears, and the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous reporters."
"We will vote for the country we want.
We will vote for the future we want.
We will vote for the politics we want."
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1. The absolute key to the first quarter GDP result is to remember that ‘imports‘ are a deduction in the economic equation of Gross Domestic Product. The GDP is the valuation of all goods and services produced in the USA *minus* the value of imports.
2. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases the results of the first quarter GDP. The overall economic growth seems low at 0.3% until you look at how U.S. companies responded in February and March to the tariff announcement.
Companies proactively purchased massive amounts of products in advance of the tariffs leading to an overall increase in imports of 41.3%. Which results in a 5.3% deduction to GDP. Every dollar of those imports is a deduction to the GDP equation, giving the false appearance of lower domestic production.
3. There was a massive surge in import goods purchases of 50.9% versus the prior period [Table 1, line 20]. That’s the largest periodic increase in import purchases I have ever seen. Simultaneously, fixed asset investment in equipment for domestic production surged 22.5% [Table 1, line 11].
Put both of these metrics together and what you see are U.S. companies building consumer inventory from overseas (imports) while simultaneously preparing themselves to shift production into the USA.
The massive import purchases are a bridge to cover the time needed to shift the manufacturing from overseas to the USA. This is exactly what we want to see.
1. I'm getting hit with a lot of newly awakened people wondering about AG Pam Bondi; wondering if the stuff from her old days surfacing is accurate.
I will try to encapsulate and provide receipts. The issues with Pam Bondi are much more serious than most understand.
Pam Bondi was the Florida Attorney General during the incident when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.
“When I worked with Governor Scott to appoint State Attorney Angela Corey to the case involving Trayvon Martin, I did so with the full confidence that a swift and thorough investigation would be conducted."
2. On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford Florida, George Zimmerman fired one shot into the heart of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, fatally killing him.
The Sanford Police lead investigator into the shooting was Chris Serino; the Police Chief was Bill Lee, and the local prosecutor was Norm Wolfinger.
Detective Chris Serino questioned and investigated George Zimmerman, who used a traditional “self-defense” justification for the shooting. Eventually the case went to trial and the same “self-defense” justification was used in court. Despite what you might have heard in the media, it was never a “stand your ground” defense. It simply was not needed.
In addition to questioning Zimmerman, Serino documented two eye-witnesses to the shooting. One woman in an apartment who saw the initial encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and another eye-witness, a man in an adjacent apartment who saw and partially recorded, the entire confrontation as it unfolded on the pathway approximately 20 feet from him.
The second witness called 911 and described in real time what he was seeing. Trayvon was straddling George in an “MMA style” position and slamming Zimmerman’s head into the sidewalk. During the 911 recording you can hear Zimmerman calling out, “help me; somebody help me.” [NOTE: Both of those witnesses as well as the recording were later buried but came out at trial.]
After a thorough investigation, all of the statements by George Zimmerman were corroborated by the eye-witnesses, the forensic evidence, the audio recording, and all the physical evidence found at the scene. Detective Chris Serino gave his investigative report to Police Chief Lee along with the recommendation that Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense was valid and justified. Serino and Lee then consulted with prosecutor Norm Wolfinger who reviewed the evidence and agreed.
3. Trayvon's father, Tracy Martin, was in a new relationship with his girlfriend Brandy Greene. Ms. Greene was a corrections officer.
Ms. Brandy Greene was eventually put into contact with a Florida “civil rights lawyer” named Benjamin Crump. After some back-and-forth positioning and discussion, Crump decided to champion a wrongful death case for the Martin family against George Zimmerman, the City of Sanford and the Sanford Police Department.
Benjamin Crump hired a PR firm run by Ryan Julison to create media pressure. Using his civil rights contacts, Crump requested support from groups like Al Sharpton, Dream Defenders, and allies in the DOJ. That approach led to AG Eric Holder and eventually President Barack Obama.
Additionally, having worked previously (2007) with Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi in the Martin Lee Anderson case, Benjamin Crump called the now Florida Attorney General Bondi for support.
The detective (Serino) sided with George Zimmerman. The Police Chief, Bill Lee, agreed with Serino and the evidence. The local Sanford prosecutor (Norm Wolfinger) refused to bring a case against Zimmerman based on the evidence.
…. Enter Florida AG Pam Bondi, who told Florida Governor Rick Scott a special prosecutor was needed for her friend Ben Crump.
2. 40 FBI agents investigated Trump for two years, knowing there was nothing to investigate.
"mistakes were made?"
3. “If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.”
1) **ahem** Also, every argument for retention of 702 is a false premise. Americans either have a 4th Amendment, or we do not. It really is that simple.
Want to conduct electronic surveillance on an American; want to read their "private papers," GET A WARRANT!
This is my hill!
2) Why is this my hill?
Because every downstream action for the surveillance state is predicated on the legal arguments behind FISA 702.
Real ID, facial recognition surveillance, metadata collection, AI enhanced trace and tracking, etc, all of it is contingent upon the arguments within the FISA 702 issue as it relates to the 4th amendment.
If FISA 702 is not a violation of the 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure, then all domestic downstream DHS surveillance, collection and exploitation is similarly not a violation.
If FISA 702 is determined to be a violation of privacy, a violation of the 4th amendment to be secure in your papers and effects (which it is), then all approaches to conduct domestic electronic surveillance through the network of DHS data assembly is also a violation of privacy.
This is a privacy argument that has not reached SCOTUS. It is still being fought with success at state level.
If you are being monitored without a warrant, you have no privacy. The core argument behind 702 authorizes warrantless monitoring.
3) This is why the DC system supports FISA 702 with such severity. It is essentially the path through which the U.S. Govt is authorizing itself to conduct surveillance.
This is why the SSCI will not confirm a nominee without them supporting 702. Congress demands every member of the national security apparatus approve domestic surveillance, on behalf of the Intelligence Community who create and operate the systems.
Remove 702 authority and Palantir stock drops overnight. Why? Because the predicate of their domestic product intents, the surveillance software, are dependent on the legal arguments behind it.
Billions of dollars of German auto manufacturing (assembly) investment in Mexico were just vaporized by President Trump.
This is a very big kick in the teeth to Germany. Previously in a long-term strategy to avoid U.S. tariffs, German automakers invested billions in auto assembly plants in Mexico. Ex. the BMW parts were shipped from Germany and the cars assembled in Mexico. Now that investment is worthless as the vehicle will be taxed at a rate of 25% regardless of whether it is assembled in Germany or Mexico.
It cannot be overstated how big a hit this will be to the German economy specifically. That’s why EU President Ursula von der Leyen is couching her words very carefully.
Germany drives the economic engine of the EU, and the Germans care about their money far more than they care about the security of Ukraine.
“As I have said before, tariffs are taxes – bad for businesses, worse for consumers equally in the US and the European Union,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. “We will now assess this announcement, together with other measures the US is envisaging in the next days.”
The EU outlook, specifically financial support, toward the EU/NATO Ukraine strategy will change in 3.... 2....1....