The Durham Report Indicts the Deep State and Media

By Ben Weingarten at Newsweek

Our ruling class will use any means necessary—no matter how lawless, vicious, or brazen—to preserve its power and privilege. And it will seemingly never pay a price for its corruption and criminality. That is the ultimate lesson conveyed in the more than three hundred pages of gory details about the republic-eroding scandal that is Russiagate, comprising Special Counsel John Durham's final report.

Russiagate's aim from the jump was to delegitimize, destabilize, and destroy Donald Trump's presidency. Hatched by the Hillary Clinton campaign, this would be her revenge for losing to Trump—an attempt to make his victory a Pyrrhic one. This would be the deep state's way to sabotage and subvert a commander in chief who threatened to upend its agenda, and that of the entire political establishment.

Neither fidelity to the law and truth, nor any sense of shame, nor any fear of consequences could temper the zealous would-be vanquishers of the "bad orange man." We know this because, as Durham's report spells out, and as even casual observers have long been aware, the story of Trump-Russia collusion was a farce from the very beginning and in virtually every respect.

It was born of hearsay, ludicrous innuendo, and laughable inferences. Its sources were biased, unscrupulous, and shady. The investigators acted corruptly, lawlessly, and violated basic practices and time-honored norms in pursuing a probe of the highest stakes. They could not corroborate the key pillars on which they "built" their "case" and covered their eyes and ears in the face of exculpatory evidence at every turn. The lack of due diligence and carelessness is staggering—if you were to assume the FBI and Justice Department were operating in good faith. Despite the glaring deficiencies in their case and the blatant violation of the rights of innocent Americans, including among them true patriots, nothing would slow them down.

It did not have to be this way.

Were American journalists at our nation's most storied publications adversaries of the ruling class rather than its stenographers—had they even a modicum of skepticism, curiosity, or intellectual honesty, they could have stepped in to defend our republic.

They could have exposed one of the greatest scandals in American history: that our national security and law enforcement apparatus effectively sought to halt the transfer of power to a president they feared and loathed by pursuing him as a traitor, based on crackpot conspiracy theories borne of his political opponent's research.

Consider Gen. Michael Flynn's purported Logan Act violations; George Papadopoulos' comments to an Australian diplomat; Carter Page's supposed Russian ties; the contents of the Steele dossier; Sergei Millian's significance; the secret Alfa Bank back channel to Russia. The list of shoddy stories pertaining to purported Russian collusion is virtually endless, and as the Durham Report shows—as did reporting from independent, contrarian journalists at the time—such stories would fall apart under the slightest scrutiny.

Instead, the press served as a willing co-conspirator in this information and lawfare operation. It credulously ran with the lines the Clinton camp, and then the national security and law enforcement apparatus, fed to it.

More than one Pulitzer prize was handed out for fraudulent Russia collusion stories. The Washington Post would eventually retract and remove portions of certain Pulitzer-winning stories. But many glaring errors remain uncorrected, and never apologized for.

As Tom Kuntz, a former longtime New York Times editor who helped edit the Gray Lady's Pulitzer submissions in several years (and my editor at RealClearInvestigations) detailed back in 2019 amid the release of the Robert Mueller special counsel report showing no Trump-Russia collusion, the award-winning Russiagate "journalism" suffered from major deficiencies.

For one, as he noted, much of the award-winning work, in a parallel to the FBI and DOJ's efforts, relied on anonymous sources "with insufficient skepticism and a lack of caveats in the service of a credulous and disingenuous journalism of innuendo."

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: Special Counsel John Durham, who then-United States Attorney General William Barr appointed in 2019 after the release of the Mueller report to probe the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, arrives for his trial at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC.RON SACHS/CONSOLIDATED NEWS PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES

As Kuntz wrote, these stories did little to establish the credibility and objectivity of their anonymous sources:

Rereading the stories, I searched mostly in vain for answers to these questions: Which government departments did the sources work for? What were their motivations? Were any of them seeking to deflect attention from their own failure to prevent Russian meddling in the 2016 election? How many were current and how many former (i.e. Obama administration) officials? Were any of them connected to former high-ranking officials who publicly—and profitably—turned against Trump?... For that matter, were those high-profile men also serving as anonymous sources? And—a problem little discussed in journalism—could the same people have been sources for multiple stories, creating a distorted, snowballing impression of major wrongdoing?

Just as important, apart from White House denials of allegations, I usually searched in vain for voices both inside and outside the government who dissented from the dark interpretations that were offered.

Former New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth, in an expansive Columbia Journalism Review exposè in large part focused on the media's coverage of Trump-Russia collusion, points out that Russian collusion-mongering publications failed to print countervailing facts, seek comment from those being scrutinized, and often cited as "government officials" or other purportedly neutral authorities partisan congressional leakers.

Dozens of journalists also refused Gerth's requests for an interview.

Gerth concluded that "journalism's primary missions, informing the public and holding powerful interests accountable, have been undermined by the erosion of journalistic norms and the media's own lack of transparency about its work."

The parallels between the deep state and its media co-conspirators in foisting Trump-Russian collusion on America are striking.

Both failed at their missions to expose the truth in defense of our republic, but self-evidently defined success differently.

Both wanted to get Trump. With the deep state doing the "investigating" and corporate media serving as its communications arm, they got millions of Americans to believe the president was working with Russia, cast a pall over the entire presidency, and undermined it.

While the deep state has brushed off its corruption as "missteps" and made reforms largely around the edges to "address" it, the media has continued to downplay its own errors or even double down on its work.

Durham's report stands as a direct indictment of the FBI and Justice Department, and an indirect indictment of the media that carried the agencies' water. But as with the former, the latter will not face indictments. No one responsible for printing stories filled with gaping errors in major publications has been disciplined, let alone fired.

The deep state and media remain unchastened.

The very agencies we can least afford to be hyper-politicized and weaponized remain hopelessly so, and the institution of journalism that might help expose and hold them to account remains co-opted by them.

We the people suffer it.

Concise Timeline of the US March To War With Russia

TIMELINE Taken from Reuters and Metro UK

1990 – U.S. assures Russia that NATO will not expand towards its border “…there would be no extension of…NATO one inch to the east,” says US Secretary of State James Baker.

1996 – U.S. weapons manufacturers form the Committee to Expand NATO, spending over $51 million lobbying Congress.

1997 – 50 foreign policy experts including former senators, retired military officers and diplomats sign an open letter stating NATO expansion to be “a policy error of historic proportions.”

1999 – NATO admits Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to NATO. U.S. and NATO bombs Russia’s ally, Serbia.

2001 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

2004 – Seven more Eastern European nations join NATO. NATO troops are now directly on Russia’s border.

2004 – Russia’s parliament passed a resolution denouncing NATO’s expansion. Putin responded by saying that Russia would “build our defense and security policy correspondingly.”

2004 November —The Orange Revolution in Ukraine. The presidential election between pro-West Viktor Yushchenko and pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych created a massive controversy. Yushchenko was mysteriously poisoned before the election – but made a full recovery – and so victory was declared in favour of Yanukovych.

2004 December - Ukrainians took to the street wearing orange, which was Yushchenko’s campaign colour. Protestors triggered a re-vote, resulting in a victory for Pro-RussiaYushchenko. Pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovich is declared president but allegations of vote-rigging trigger protests, known as the Orange Revolution, forcing a re-run of the vote. Pro-Western former prime minister, Viktor Yushchenko, is elected president.

2008 – NATO leaders announced plans to bring Ukraine and Georgia, also on Russia’s borders, into NATO. Putin made his opposition to Ukrainian membership known to NATO leaders, at one point allegedly telling US President George W. Bush that Ukraine is ‘not even a real nation-state.’

2009 – U.S. announced plans to put missile systems into Poland and Romania.

2010: Yanukovich wins a presidential election.

2013 - Minsk Accord I Fails -Ukraine and Russian separatists agreed to a 12-part cease-fire deal in the Belarus capital of Minsk.

2013 December Viktor Yanukovych, suspended all trade and talks with the EU in an attempt to revive a relationship with Moscow. This began months of protests in Kyiv, which included bloodshed.

2014 February 20— Crimea annexed —Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the state of Ukraine.

2014 February 22 — Legally elected Ukrainian president, Yanukovych Ousted after Hillary/Obama/Victoria Nuland intervened and arranged a Coup d’Etat against Yanukovych, who fled the violence to Moscow. Russia correctly views ouster as a coup by U.S. and NATO nations.

2014 February — armed men seize parliament in the Ukrainian region of Crimea and raise the Russian flag. Moscow later annexes the territory.Russia Annexes Crimea

2014 April — Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern region of Donbass declare independence. Some 15,000 people were reported to have been killed since in fighting between the separatists and the Ukrainian army, according to the Kyiv government.

2015 - Minsk Accord II Fails - called for an immediate cease-fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, OSCE monitoring, amnesty for those involved in fighting, hostage and prisoner exchanges, full control of Ukraine’s state border, withdrawal of foreign troops, elections in the disputed areas, offered regions where pro-Russian separatists hold sway a measure of autonomy that could impact central government decision-making.

2016 – U.S. begins troop buildup in Europe.

2017 —An association agreement between Ukraine and the EU opens markets for free trade of goods and services, and visa-free travel to the EU for Ukrainians.

2019 April 29 — Former comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky elected president of Ukraine.

2019 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.

2020 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from Open Skies Treaty.

2021 January — Zelenskiy appeals to U.S. president Joe Biden to let Ukraine join NATO. In February, his government freezes the assets of opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin's most prominent ally in Ukraine.

2021 February—First sanctions Against Russia. The UK, US, and their allies sanctioned Russian parliament members, banks and other assets. Germany halted the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

2021 February — Zelensky’s government froze the assets of opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin’s most prominent ally in Ukraine.

2021 February —In a TV address, Putin says Ukraine is an integral part of Russian history and has a puppet regime managed by foreign (Western) powers. Putin orders what he called peacekeeping forces into two breakaway regions in the Donbas, after recognising them as independent.

2021 – December —Russia submits negotiation proposals while sending more forces to the border with Ukraine. U.S. and NATO officials reject the Russian proposals immediately, thereby snubbing Russia and Putin.

2021 December 17 — Russia presents security demands including that NATO pull back troops and weapons from eastern Europe and bar Ukraine from ever joining.

2022 January 24 — NATO puts forces on standby and reinforces eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets.

2022 January 26 — Washington responds to Russia's security demands, repeating a commitment to NATO's "open-door" policy while offering a "pragmatic evaluation" of Moscow's concerns. Two days later Russia says its demands not addressed.

2022 February 24 — The U.S., Britain and their allies sanction Russian parliament members, banks and other assets in response to Putin's troop order. Germany halts the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

2022 February— the United States says it will send 3,000 extra troops to NATO members Poland and Romania. Washington and allies say they will not send troops to Ukraine, but warn of severe economic sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin takes military action.

2023 February 23 Russian-backed separatist leaders ask Russia for help repelling aggression from the Ukrainian army.

2022 February 24 – Russia invades Ukraine, starting the Russia-Ukraine War.

2022 February 28 —First Ceasefire Talks Fail. After days of fighting, Russia and Ukraine held their first ceasefire talk at the Belarusian border. This ended without an agreement after five hours.

2023 April 4 — Finland joins NATO, adds 800 miles of NATO encroachment on Russian border.

Who Is the Hostile Party Here?

Project Veritas Exposes NYC Migrant Crisis

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Emergency Money Printing Continues to Paper-Over Bank, Loan, Gov't and Societal Failures

For decades after 1971, when Nixon cancelled the US dollar’s link to gold, the dollar’s plunge caused energy prices to skyrocket. Eventually an oil embargo rocked the US by 1973. Inflation soared for the rest of the decade until Paul Volker raised interest rates up to 20% to shock the economy in 1981. Inflation dropped to 4%. The post 1971 period began the 50 year period where the US economy stagnated and debt grew faster than the economy. It still is.

Five decades of trade and budget deficits ballooned thanks to unsound money. All financial markets eventually soared thanks to more easy money but economic and wage growth slowed further leaving more people behind. 

Eventually, even that wasn't enough. Interest rates were lowered to zero to further “stimulate” the economy (with more debt) after the financial panic and banking crisis in 2008/09.

Further extremes of debt spending after 2009 and especially during and after Covid triggered inflation that forced the Federal Reserve to finally raise interest rates to 5% which, after 12 years at zero, is today causing yet another banking crisis.

The Financial Panic of 2008

 

The first banking crisis in 2008, the financial system had a near-death experience when the Great Mortgage Debt Fraud of MBS unraveled and the entire world financial system came to a standstill along with world trade.

Thereafter, in the developed countries, the emergency measures of zero, negative or extremely low interest rates, and "quantitative easing" have been the norm across the world since then—until last year.

Simultaneously, China was in a position to “save” the world economy by embarking on the most extreme debt-fueled spending spree in world history. They spent like drunken sailors; erecting entire cities with millions of high-rise apartments that remain entirely empty—even today. Building ghost cities and countless other useless and/or uneconomic stuff “saved”the world for a time by stimulating demand for commodities. Chinese debt soared from low levels to “crisis” levels in less than a decade. Unsurprisingly, even they are now struggling financially similar to Japan’s bust.

The decade and more of zero or negative rates in the EU and US eroded of the very foundations of capitalism itself; hurting pension plans, the banking system, savers, insurers and retirees all the while creating stock and bond market bubbles which enriched the already-wealthy and perpetuating an increasing number of "zombie" companies—or those that should have failed. Untold leverage and liquidity built-up throughout all the financial markets due to “free money.”

The rich got fabulously rich as the top 1% and 0.1% who have made trillions in the fraudulent, manipulated and bubbly markets, huge capital gains in housing giving the illusion of economic health in the gov’t statistics. But this masked the economic stagnation for the bottom 80 to 90% of US citizens. Poverty is expanding rapidly in most countries and in the USA. Wealth inequality is back to 1929 levels.

Social unrest is expanding.

Financial Crises Re-Emerge in 2019, Then The Covid Plandemic

 

Despite the loosest financial conditions in world history, crises re-emerged.

Fast forward to the Repo Crisis of September 2019, when multiple financial entities were failing here and/or abroad and were secretly bailed-out/rescued through a vast expansion Central Bank Repos or short term loan money of at least 1/2 Trillion dollars. Read about it in my posts:  Rising Risk of Financial and Economic Chaos Part 1 and Rising Risk of Financial and Economic Chaos Part 2. 

Then came Covid and disastrous lockdowns. Some $6T of money was created out of thin air and SHOWERED on the population and businesses. Stocks and bonds soared and the rich got richer (of course). MOAR (FAKE) MONEY! Inflation has now soared.

The next generation’s future has been COMPLETLY RUINED. Young people entering the workforce are now unable to afford their own apartment or a house, a car and it’s insurance, a college degree or their own health insurance based on $10 or $15 or even $20 per hour pay.  Hell, the only thing they can look forward to is an Uber ride and an I-Phone.

Don’t expect these people to establish homes and have any kids. How can they? There is no future!

Simultaneously, the “Biden Regime” has opened the floodgates of sad-sack brown/black invasion into the US. They’re flooding in with nothing and with nothing to offer. This is just more societal destruction and ruin. Marginalizing the White population is the goal.

The Latest Financial Crisis: Widespread Bank Failures and 'Whack-a-Mole” Bank Rescues

Once it was clear that the US was provoking war with Russia in the Ukraine, Jay Powell raised short term interest rates very quickly as inflation soared. Today short term interest rates are 5% or so. Mortgage rates are 6.5 to 7% and credit card rates are 20+%.

I never thought it would happen, that someone would try to establish sound money like Jay Powell has done. (I’m defining sound money is when the shortest term money earns close to, or at, the rate of inflation.) Maybe Jay Powell is an American hero—after being a zero? From zero to hero?? I don’t know. Or will it be hero back to zero?

Now money market accounts at brokerages yields nearly 5% while checking accounts at banks offer 0.2%. Yes, CDs are offered at higher rates. This has lead to a stampede of money out of bank checking accounts and into brokerage and higher yield accounts. Also, rapidly rising interest rates made the value of existing loans at banks drop, hurting the banks assets. Suddenly banks are going belly-up.

It’s hard to see how The Fed can continue. Most people are assuming that it’ll be back to zero rates soon. I also think so; except inflation is still high and may move higher with all the bank rescue money.

Already, the size of the few outright bank failures exceeds the 2008 bank failures. From Newsmax:

First Republic held $213 billion in assets under management, SVB had $209 billion, and Signature Bank had $110 billion at the end of last year.

By comparison, the 25 banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) that imploded in 2008, had a total of $526 in assets, adjusted for inflation.

That includes Washington Mutual, which held an excessive amount of subprime mortgages.

Of note, the 2008 figure doesn’t include the investment banking giants that crashed, including Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. To put the figures in further context, the U.S. banking system had $22.9 trillion in total assets in April 2023, double the $10.8 trillion in total assets in January 2008, Federal Reserve data shows.

Still, the fact that just three failed regional banks held as much as 25 of the biggest banking giants of 2008 underlines the brutal hit the U.S. banking sector has taken this year.

More failures are coming. And the TBTF Wall Street banks are getting bigger and bigger as more small and medium-sized banks fail. The rich are getting even richer.

Mopping up bank failures is just the latest excuse to create even MOAR money. Doug Nolan explains in his 5/20 post “Too Loose” all the various emergency money rescues:

Acute fragility ensures rapid central bank crisis management operations, including the Bank of England in September 2022 and the Fed’s $400 billion liquidity support in March 2023. And let’s not forget the herculean FHLB crisis response. In the year up to March 31, 2023, FHLB Total Assets surged $802 billion, or 105%, to a record $1.564 TN. Advances (loans to member institutions) jumped $670 billion y-o-y, or 179%, to $1.045 TN.

But FHLB liquidity measures went beyond advances. “Repo” assets gained $56.5 billion, or 83%, to $124 billion. “Federal Funds Sold” jumped 52% y-o-y to $87 billion.

This is extraordinary, systemically impactful liquidity creation.

Even I wasn’t aware of some of these measures. The result is that financial conditions are too loose. Inflation and asset inflation will very likely revive. Rates are not tight enough in Europe at 3.75% when inflation is 7%. Even in the US, 5% money is probably not tight enough given the printing pressses are going hard.

In other words, US financial conditions are TOO LOOSE. Inflation will not come down unless markets collapse, then it’ll REALLY BE MOAR MONEY to the moon!!

Investors are confident of being rescued. They are probably right. Buy US Equities (with a stop loss)? Buy Gold? Buy Everything?

World Debt Rapidly Expands Until……

Meanwhile world debt continues to surge. From the same post by Doug Nolan this morning:

“Total debt of emerging markets hit a fresh record high of over $100 trillion (or 250% of GDP) – up from $75 trillion in 2019.”

“At close to $305 trillion, global debt is now $45 trillion higher than its pre-pandemic level and is expected to continue increasing rapidly.”

In their efforts to “save” the world economy, central banks have created a monster: a dysfunctional, extremely-speculative and highly-leveraged financial sector.  Higher interest rates in the US is already causing large dislocations and bank failures.

The European banks, including all of their biggest banks, are teetering on the edge (and have been for a long time). A financial crisis has already been underway there and Governments keep propping up their bank zombies like Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Whack-a-Mole.

When does the Whack-a-Mole “can-kicking” come to an endpoint?

UK Sends Long-Range Cruise Missles to Ukraine: Does the UK Have a Death Wish?

From The Times of Israel

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says that the UK is sending Ukraine long-range cruise missiles to help push back Russian forces.

Wallace told lawmakers in the House of Commons that Britain is donating Storm Shadow missiles. He didn’t say how many are being sent.

UK Storm Shadow Cruise Missles

Wallace said the missiles “are now going into or are in the country itself.”

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged in February that Britain would be the first country to give Ukraine the longer-range weapons that it has sought from Western allies.

The missiles give Ukraine capacity to strike well behind the front lines, including in Russia-occupied Crimea. UK media reported that Ukraine has pledged not to use the missiles to attack Russia itself.

Wallace said the missiles would be used to push back Russian forces in “Ukrainian sovereign territory.” He said UK support for Ukraine is “responsible, calibrated, coordinated and agile.”

Black Students At Howard U. Erupt in Applause When Biden Says "White Supremacy Is the Greatest Threat to Our Nation"

 What's More Sad? Biden Spouting That Crap, or That All The Graduating Students Believe That Crap?

From Steadfast Loyalty

During the commencement ceremony at Howard University, President Joe Biden stirred the flames of societal discourse by boldly declaring that “white supremacy” stands as the gravest threat to the nation.

Speaking at the prestigious HBCU’s graduation event, held at the resplendent Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Biden cast a pessimistic shadow over America’s ongoing struggle against racism, remarking that it is a perpetual battle, one that remains eternally unfinished.

In a cautionary tone, the president addressed the fresh-faced graduates, urging them to remain vigilant against what he perceives as the most menacing peril plaguing the United States today.

When Biden resolutely proclaimed, “White supremacy is the most pernicious terrorist threat our homeland faces,” the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. And let me emphasize, I don’t say this merely because I stand before you at this historically black college or university. This is a truth I have long championed.

Indirectly, the Democratic president castigated the preceding Republican administration of Donald Trump, insinuating that there are those who fail to acknowledge the worth and potential of the graduates, and others who actively seek to sow division and conquer by demonizing their adversaries. He further underscored the desperate and morally bankrupt measures some are willing to employ to cling onto power, acknowledging that the fight against such forces shall never be straightforward.

President Biden sought to inspire the graduating class, much like his predecessor, President Obama, who extolled the strength derived from diversity, claiming it as the core essence of American life. However, according to POLITICO, a group of Howard students within the audience displayed their discontent, feeling that the Biden administration had not adequately supported African Americans.

One placard raised high read, “A black child was lynched yesterday!” in reference to the tragic demise of Jordan Neely, a young black man whose life was abruptly extinguished on a New York City subway earlier this month. [Doug here: Neely was another unbelievably pathetic scumbag dude who had a rap sheet a mile long; some violent assaults too. All the pathetic and unworthy black martyrs. They really need to look in the mirror.]

Concluding his address, President Biden held the Howard graduates up as paragons of the nation’s finest attributes, embodying the very essence of what makes America great.

"Summit on American Democracy," Held Behind Closed Doors and Only Pre-Approved Press; Soros and Zuckerberg Funded

From ZeroHedge and The Epoch Times

An elections group with ties to Democrat mega-donor George Soros and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered in Washington this week for a meeting that was closed to the public.

The Epoch Times was denied entry to the event, called a “Summit on American Democracy” and hosted by the Center for Election Integrity & Research (CEIR). Organizers said that the event was invite-only. Only preapproved press and other guests were permitted to attend the summit.

Though the event was live-streamed, the closed nature of the event deprived independent media of access to the laundry list of high-ranking officials attending the summit, including a litany of Secretaries of State, who oversee elections, and other election officials. Among those attending the conference were Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Bill Gates, county supervisor for Maricopa County, Arizona.

The group describes itself as “committed to a fiercely nonpartisan approach.” But partisan allegations against its founder, funding by Zuckerberg, and indirect ties to the left-wing Soros challenge that description.

During the livestream of the event, the group’s founder, David Becker, set the tone for the conference in his opening remarks, repeating contested claims about the security of the 2020 election, and dismissing concerns about election fraud as unfounded.

“The 2020 election was, simply put, the most secure, transparent, and verifiable election in American history and it’s not close,” Becker claimed.

At least one journalist who challenged this narrative was allegedly removed from the conference.

Laura Loomer, an outspoken ally of President Donald Trump and proponent of theories about widespread election fraud in 2020, reported that she was thrown out of the conference for confronting election officials from Arizona and Georgia. The organizers later called the police on Loomer.

Becker founded CEIR in 2016. He has also been instrumental in several other electoral organizations and efforts across his career.

Partisan Accusations

During the summit, Becker sought to present himself as nonpartisan and unbiased.

He claimed that he was one of the few election officials who was willing to acclaim Trump’s 2016 victory as legitimate, even as others considered claims that voter fraud and election tampering had deprived Hillary Clinton of a victory.

However, Becker founded CEIR in response to concerns about “foreign interference” in elections, an oft-repeated claim that Trump won in 2016 due to widespread Russian interference. But later multimillion-dollar federal investigations into Trump’s victory turned up no evidence of these claims.

And the founder’s track record is splotched with claims of political biases against conservatives.

…snip…

He added that Becker was “a hard-core leftist” and someone who “couldn’t stand conservatives.”

As recently as last year, Becker portrayed Trump as a liar and a danger to democratic norms in comments to The Washington Post.

“We have a significant percentage of the American electorate right now who have been lied to about the integrity of our elections, who believe that elections … are rigged unless their candidate wins,” Becker said. “Yet it’s nowhere close to 50 percent of America overall. But if Trump were to win a narrow victory again, I could see [election denial] ideas … infecting a larger percentage of the electorate. And if a large segment of a democracy’s electorate loses confidence in elections, that democracy probably is unsustainable.”

CEIR did not respond to an Epoch Times request for comment about these allegations.

However, in past comments to another media outlet, Becker addressed some of the allegations, but left others unanswered: “This complaint was made over 15 years ago, if memory serves, and was dismissed. There was no action taken against me by the Department of Justice as a result of this complaint. As you know, anyone can make a complaint for any reason, with or without basis.

“I served faithfully at the DOJ for seven years, from 1998 to 2005, during which time I received a Special Commendation of Merit from the Attorney General in 2002, during the Bush administration,” he added.

Almost $70 Million from Zuckerberg

In August 2020, Becker’s organization received a staggering $69.5 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Under the appearance of COVID-19 safety precautions, this funding was used to furnish key swing states with more mail-in drop boxes.

Zuckerberg’s donation to CEIR came as part of a series of purportedly nonpartisan donations by the Facebook creator.

NO MORE DEBT: Destroy Washington DC Before It Destroys Us

We Need a Massive Reset; No More Debt Ceiling Extensions. EVER. This is War!

What if the Republicans instead started chanting in unison, "No More Debt," "No More Debt" and really meant it?  It would be the most significant rallying cry since Paul Revere and his associates cried-out "the King's men are coming!" [Ok, you know I’m dreaming, but bear with me.]

At this precise moment in US History, real patriots DO have that power if they hang together and lead this movement. Tell the other corrupt and criminal big-spenders to raise taxes to balance the budget. (Good luck finding any more tax revenue).

And tell the Democrats to quit lying when they call a frozen debt ceiling a “default.” The US Government is hauling-in $4T per annum (and spending $6T) but the interest on our debt is only about $500 million; so debt default is a flat-out lie and scare tactic.

With no Debt Ceiling increases, I'm calling for a 60 to 80% reduction of Federal employees and eliminating and/or outsourcing and/or downsizing and/or privatizing nearly every department including defense. Hell, Elon Musk let go of 80% of Twitter employees and end-users didn’t notice a damned thing.

Jeffrey Tucker at Epoch Times said:

Let go of the idea that these agencies can be cut. They need to be abolished. When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he didn’t reduce the hours of the employees who were just taking up space. No, he immediately sent them packing. That day. No more email access. No more Slack access. Gone. Now. The new Congress needs to do this to, let’s say, half of the 434 agencies. Bring down the number to 200. That should be the goal.

THIS WOULD BE EXACTLY THE SAME RESULT FOR AN 80% REDUCTION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT—including military and the ~175 foreign US military installations. “THE PEOPLE” WOULD NEVER NOTICE (but of course Democrats will make sure to create the most disruption and chaos, so be warned).

See my posts The Second American Revolution Pt 2: The Massive Reset That We Need from 2016 and Time For A New American Revolution: Burn Down Our Bloated, Failing Central Planning Bureaucracy! from 2015. Yes, I’ve been planning a revolution for a long time. And the time has arrived! If not now, when? If not you, who?

A Big US Government is the Source of All Our Big Problems.

So, why do this? Simply because the US government is ruining our economy and our society. And the US Government is threat to world peace and unnecessarily risking nuclear war with Russia and China. The US War Machine Must Stop.

The US government is now entirely criminal; abandoning our laws; allowing mass migration of illegals at our southern border, fighting a war against 1/2, and the best portion of, our own population. Intolerable!

The latest Twitter revelations show how compromised Big Tech and Big Media corporations have become. The HUGE US government and nearly all HUGE Corporations are now a Mafia of sorts. They are basically aligned as criminal enterprises. That's called Fascism. Nearly all major media outlets are also substantially compliant with the "government." Welcome to the new Pravda. Welcome to the USSA, where Fascism now rules. Intolerable!

Our Censorship-Industrial Complex From The Racket News. Click to Enlarge

We also have to kill our traitorous government and their “woke” agenda, their crazy climate change hysteria, their foolish attack on our fossil fuel industry and their crazy totalitarian plan to electrify our transportation (that’s impossible anyway). And we need to halt government/corporate tyranny. Intolerable!

And we also need to stop lionizing the US Black population as somehow the “saviours” of our country, when the reality is that US Blacks remain a HUGE BURDEN to our country. Intolerable!

A Massive Reset Is Coming Anyway; Let’s Get It Over With

This defunding will cause violent market and political convulsions. But what we have is unsustainable.  We were going to have a depression one way or another. In some respects we've been in a prolonged "depression" for over 15 years already. A reset was already coming eventually. Let’s tear off the bandages.

Freezing the debt limit is a“prescription” for massive depression and a massive deflation of medical prices, rents, house prices, college tuition and everything else. In other words, it would be the massive reset needed to bring prices back to levels that people can afford. It's pretty obvious that a massive reset is needed since the bottom 90% of worker's wages will never catch up to gov't and Fed Reserve -induced inflation---which is what we've been seeing for decades now.  

The government-funded tuition bubble has already priced-out the next generation. It's also loaded-up millions of young people with unsustainable debt that is already collapsing. This should have ended years ago. Shame!

All The Government-Influenced Inflations

Rising rents, with the help of giant Blackrock, were also caused by zero interest rates engineered by the insanely stupid Federal Reserve, who have created serial housing bubbles that has priced-out the new generation of buyers. If you can't buy, you must rent. But even the price of renting is a severe hardship to many, many people. It's really a catastrophe.

“Government” is CAUSING ALL OF THIS! The US Government is the Source of all our big problems.

We Must Strip This Traitorous “Joe Biden” Regime Of Money and Power

Furthermore we must strip the entirely traitorous “Joe Biden” Regime and the “3rd Term of Obama” of the money and ability to make war ANYWHERE. Defunding the government would stop the war in Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia or against China. It would stop “the regime’s” funding a war against our own nation and people, force a huge existential crisis to stop them from overturning our Euro-centric heritage and culture. ANY funding the neo-Nazis in Ukraine also must stop. We’re in a civilizational battle that can be won NOW by defunding much of the government.

We can’t have a 4th Obama Term! Far worse, We can’t let these fools destroy the entire country if nuclear war erupts, which they seem to be begging for.

WE NEED THIS CATASTROPHE. It would be the massive reset needed to bring prices back to levels that people can afford.

The US government going ‘broke’ is EXACTLY what is required to kill our US War Machine, reset the welfare rot, toughen our ignorant, lazy, entitled population, end the money center ‘hedge fund’ banking cartels, cut down the drastically bloated government bureaucracy, and to create a massive deflation in medical, tuition, defense procurement, housing, rents and all other costs to levels that the people and the nation can afford. This becomes more clearly true when you realize that average incomes are never going to catch up with all the inflated prices if we continue our current path.

Inflated prices need a drastic depressionary reduction with NO FURTHER FEDERAL RESERVE “MONEY PRINTING.”

And We Must Remove the Biden Bolshevik Traitors

May 6: New Posts at Substack

Real Journalist Confronts Fake NYT, LAT and WaPo "Journalists"at Columbia Journalism School Event

An Epic Takedown

 

Hungary's PM Orbán: Progresssive Liberals Have Launched A "Nation-Destroying Virus" Against Western Nations

 

The Hungarian Prime Minister said that his country can act as an incubator for shaping the future of conservatism

 

Wind and Solar Power Contributes Just 6% Of Germany's Total Energy Requirements

Just 6% Penetration After Decades and $100s of Billions of Subsidies and Climate Hysteria? Now Zero-Carbon Nuclear is Shut Down. What Are You Doing, Germany?

 

 

Short Takes #8 Heavily Advertised Drugs and Costs

 

Pharmaceutical Advertisements Are Taking Over Cable/Network TV, Especially at "News" Rooms Like Fox

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Gulfcoastcommentary Posts at Substack: May 3rd

 New Gulfcoastcommentary Posts at Substack

1913 Income Tax and "Federal" Reserve Acts Were Immediately and Massively Destructive

By 1920, After Massive Inflation, A Pandemic and a World War, An Economic Depression Engulfed the US for 2 Years

 

The EU Still Receiving Russian Oil and Refined Products From India

What Sanctions? Is EVERYTHING for "Show" These Days?