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Federal Judge Denies Hillary Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann’s Motion to Dismiss Durham Case – Trial Begins May 16
By Cristina Laila
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s motion to dismiss Durham’s case was denied by a federal judge on Wednesday.
Sussmann was indicted last September for lying to the FBI
According to the indictment, Sussmann falsely told James Baker he wasn’t doing work “for any client” when he asked for a meeting with the FBI where he presented bogus evidence the Trump Tower was secretly communicating with Kremlin-tied Alfa Bank.
The attorneys for Michael Sussmann in February requested the courts dismiss Durham’s case against him.
Sussmann’s lawyers absurdly argued that his false statement to the feds is protected under the First Amendment and made no impact on the FBI’s probe.
Durham blasted Sussmann in a new filing last month and revealed Hillary’s lawyer actually alleged Trump and his associates were using Russian-made phones in the vicinity of the White House.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, agreed with John Durham and denied Sussmann’s motion to dismiss.
“Specifically, Sussmann allegedly told Baker that he was not attending the meeting on behalf of any client when, in fact, he had assembled and was conveying the information on behalf of two specific clients: (1) a technology-industry executive named Rodney Joffe and (2) the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign,” Cooper wrote in a 6-page opinion.
“The FBI opened an investigation based on the information Sussmann provided, but ultimately determined that there was insufficient evidence to support the existence of a communication channel between the Trump campaign and the Russian bank. Sussmann has pled not guilty to the charge and denies lying to the FBI,” the judge added.
“The court will deny the motion,” Cooper wrote.
Trial begins May 16.
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We are now at the point that explains why Congress established The Federal Reserve. Having spent like drunken sailors, blame The Fed now becomes Congress' fall back. The tools The Fed has available are not adequate and their timing must be exquisite. The only thing they can do is raise interest rates and bring the economy to a halt. The recession they must cause will either be short or long, shallow or severe.
Manchin is correct in what he is saying but he is also grandstanding.
When the pitcher throws the wrong ball and the batter hits it beyond the reach of the outfielder, blaming the latter is "grandstanding."
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Joe Manchin Puts the White House on Blast Due to Inflation
In 2022, inflation is eating the middle class and working class alive. With consumer prices soaring to new heights, the wallets of everyday Americans are getting leaner and leaner.
Gas prices, elevated interest rates, and the White House’s repeated pushes for more spending packages aren’t doing anything to take the load off Americans’ plates.
Over the past several months, even Democratic strategists have warned the party about the adverse impacts of inflation. Yet, this still hasn’t prompted the White House to reverse its fiscal policies for the good of the country.
Just yesterday, inflation in America reached the tragic milestone of a 40-year high. This prompted Sen. Joe Manchin to come out swinging against the Biden administration in a new statement, as documented by Fox Business.
Manchin’s Message to the Biden Administration
The West Virginia senator said the current 8.5% rate of inflation is unacceptable and unfeasible for the United States going forward.
After noting the devastating impacts that price rises are having on the American public, Manchin called out the White House and the Federal Reserve for failing to employ the necessary measures to prevent inflation from reaching a 40-year high
The Democrat next pointed out that America isn’t going to be able to spend its way out of the current economic mess. This was followed by Manchin endorsing a return to American energy independence and reduced spending.
Finally, the West Virginia lawmaker concluded his statement by warning the latest inflation milestone is only the beginning of America’s economic difficulties if some changes don’t happen very soon.
Similar Criticism From Republicans
Most Democrats have chosen to turn the other cheek to inflation, making Manchin an outlier in his party amid his latest statement.
Meanwhile, the Senate Democrat’s remarks are in alignment with many Republicans who reacted to the new inflation milestone.
Conservatives laid the blame for inflation at Biden’s feet, stating that he could prevent these problems by ending reckless borrowing, bringing back the domestic production of energy, and ceasing to print large amounts of funds in access.
Sadly, the Biden administration has consistently taken a cavalier approach to inflation and its adverse impacts on the American public.
The White House has been repeatedly alerted about the consequences of its fiscal policies; yet, this hasn’t led to any real policy shifts.
Given that the White House is already putting pressure on US lawmakers to approve more spending packages, it’s safe to say inflation may get even worse soon enough.
What do you think of Joe Manchin’s message about inflation in the United States? How accountable do you think the Biden administration is for what’s happening today? In the area for comments below, you’re invited to leave your thoughts about the matter.
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Simple fixes to our economic problems that establishment elites won't allow
By Brandon Smith
.I think one of the great misconceptions about the economic crisis is that solutions are always dependent on centralized government action. In truth, most financial disasters are actually caused by too much government action and involvement. This is not to overlook the fact that central banks like the Federal Reserve are also primer culprits; their machinations which are independent of government oversight fall into the category of deliberate sabotage, as I outlined in last week's article. Basically, the Fed bankrolls the corruption through fiat money creation while government officials and corporations utilize the money to wreak havoc on our living standards.
Ending the Fed would solve the fiat money problem, but there's still a host of agenda-driven politicians and bureaucrats to deal with before our nation can right the ship.
Really, the best way to fix our system would be to first force the government to interfere less. As a point of reference, consider the common media narratives surrounding the COVID pandemic. Along with the White House, the media has been the premier driver of irrational fear over the spread of COVID, which ended up being a minor threat compared to the hype as the median Infection Fatality Rate was no more than 0.27 percent. Yet, in response to this nothing-burger bureaucrats declared a national emergency requiring insane and unconstitutional lockdowns.
The lockdowns damaged the economy in ways people are only now beginning to comprehend, with hundreds of thousands of small businesses lost across the country. Not only that, but in response to the economic implosion the elites created, they then created over $6 trillion in new money through the Fed in a single year. This helicopter money or UBI (Universal Basic Income) has expedited a stagflationary disaster and helped to push prices on necessities to 40-year highs.
The media claims it was "COVID that caused the crash," but this is a lie. It was the response to COVID that caused the crash. The virus was merely incidental to the economic sabotage by governments and central banks. As we saw in conservative red states that defied the lockdowns and the vax mandates, economic activity thrived while leftists blue states suffered. And what did these blue states get in return for their economic sacrifices? Nothing. COVID infections continued to rage in blue states and deaths often outpaced red states with similar-sized populations.
The Quiet "Scam" Being Played on the American Public
We're all being scammed. For the past few months, the American public has been sold a giant lie... It's not the "fact" that the market is fine and that stocks will only keep going up (although that's a lie too). The exposure of this lie could take the entire market down with it. Most investors will be completely blindsided. Only the prepared will emerge from this unscathed.
Go here to learn everything about this "scam."
In other words, the lockdowns, the mask mandates and the attempts to force vaccinations through medical tyranny saved zero lives and possibly made things worse. This is the legacy of government micro-management (And yes, let's not forget that Trump went along with these lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic also. Biden is just the dirt-bag that continued the measures despite the massive amount of evidence that they don't work).
While the COVID event illustrates my point in a big way, there are a lot of more subtle problems that government intervention has caused that add up to one big fiscal calamity. Many of these threats require relatively simple solutions that government elites will rarely address and will try to stop at all costs. Here are just a few examples...
Inflation and stagflation? Back the dollar with hard commodities
The Federal Reserve and their minions have spent the better part of a century trying to convince the public that a gold standard for our currency is what caused the Great Depression and what could cause future depressions. They claim that limitations on money printing strangle liquidity and disrupt velocity. This is a lie.
Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke openly admitted in 2002 in a speech in honor of Milton Friedman that it was the central bank that actually caused the deflationary collapse of the 1930s, not the existence of the gold standard. This rare moment of truth from a fed official was perhaps due to the sheer amount of evidence that Friedman often cited that contradicted the original anti-gold propaganda. Or maybe it happened because the banking elites did not see Friedman as a particular threat and figured no one among the public would read Bernanke's speech anyway.
In fact, a commodities foundation held the U.S. economy together for centuries until the Fed came along and the government slowly began removing gold from the picture. All subsequent economic crisis events have been exponentially worse ever since. When a commodities standard is employed, stability always follows. Just look at what has happened in Russia recently; their currency was on a downward spiral due to international sanctions, yet, when they reopened markets this past week the Ruble skyrocketed back to normal. Why? Because Putin had the currency coupled with gold. It's really that simple.
The U.S. and parts of Europe are facing their own inflationary disasters, and this is largely due to the unchecked avarice of central bank stimulus and government spending. The only way to secure the dollar's existence as a stable store of wealth would be to back it with hard commodities like precious metals (among others). This might kill the dollar's world reserve status because fiat printing would be impossible from that point on, but I got a news flash for those that hate the idea of grounding the dollar in commodities: We're going to lose world reserve status anyway, and it's going to happen soon.
One third of the world's population including Russia, China and India are already breaking from the dollar in bilateral trade. The U.S. might as well accept this as the reality and prepare to mitigate the coming currency collapse by supporting the dollar with commodities.
Oil shortages and energy inflation? Stop interfering with oil exploration
In early February of this year, the Biden administration made legal filings that halted new oil and gas leases including exploration due to conflicts over "climate costs." This interference with America's oil independence is only one of many instances starting with Biden's sabotage of the Keystone Pipeline in 2021. Interestingly, with gas prices doubling ever since Biden entered office, the White House now claims that they have nothing to do with energy inflation and are not preventing drilling in the U.S.
During the same period, Russia was establishing a 30-year oil and gas contract with China and laying the groundwork for a major pipeline to be finished by 2025. Russia was planning ahead while the U.S. was shifting from energy independence and a net exporter of oil, to once again becoming dependent on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. Why?
Biden's excuse is usually climate alarmism. The Earth's temperature has only risen by 1 DEGREE CELCIUS in the past 100 years according to the NOAA, so the main argument against oil production in the U.S. is based on the fallacy that man-made carbon has any bearing whatsoever on climate changes. But maybe the carbon fraud is just a distraction from something else?
To fix any supply and demand issues in the U.S., we only need to start producing once again at levels that were easily obtainable in 2020. But what if the issue of supply contraction is not the main cause of oil inflation? I would note that the dollar is not only the world reserve currency but also the global petro-currency. Until recently, almost all oil was traded internationally using dollars. The decline or collapse of the dollar's buying power due to money printing and runaway inflation is more likely the direct cause of rising oil prices, and supply issues are secondary.
If the dollar was to collapse due to inflation, oil would be one of the first early indicators. With the establishment blocking new oil production and hindering the most cost-effective method for oil transport (pipelines), an engineered decline in supply becomes a very effective smokescreen for the death of the dollar. The crisis caused by the government and the Federal Reserve's currency destruction could then be blamed on supply chain issues and climate "peril." This is the reason why the establishment will not allow any future growth in U.S. oil production. They cannot allow the public to realize the precarious position our currency is in.
Debt and liquidity crisis? Let states establish their own banks and currencies
The state of North Dakota has an interesting model for economic independence, which utilizes a state-sponsored bank designed specifically to help businesses in North Dakota. I would say it's bizarre that this idea has not become popular across the nation, but I understand that if it did, the federal government and the central bankers would be very unhappy.
Here's the thing, while it is true that the Constitution explicitly states that the U.S. Treasury becomes the only issuer of U.S. currency, this was done at a time when our currency was backed by gold and silver and there was no corrupt middleman in the form of a central bank. In truth, the Treasury is now second fiddle to the Federal Reserve, and the constitutional regulations on money have already been broken. It's time for a new currency model and banking model.
An official bank in each state could decentralize power away from the Federal Reserve in terms of how debt and interest rates are handled, creating something closer to free-market discovery of interest rates rather than a rate dictatorship controlled by the Fed. By extension, each state could also issue currency scrip legal for use only within the borders of those states. This would create a secondary safety net against inflation in the dollar.
In other words, we decentralize the banking system, and we offer state alternatives that function not so much as competing currencies but as parallel or complementary currencies backed by and exchangeable in certain commodities. I believe very strongly that this model (along with a couple of dozen other measures I don't have space to cover here) could save our country from decades of economic mismanagement and bring us back from the brink of catastrophe.
States could do this without the permission of the federal government or the Federal Reserve, but I have little doubt that the elites would be in an uproar. Make no mistake, states will have to move to decouple from the national financial system and build alternatives as soon as they realize that the dollar is tanking, and stagflation is here to stay. And when they do, the establishment will declare such actions on par with "insurrection."
In the meantime, there are numerous preparations, and each individual can make in their local communities to insulate themselves from economic dangers. There are those that will say that local measures are only a stopgap and more national action needs to be taken. They are partially correct; in the long run, there needs to be wider organization toward free markets once again, along with redundancies in state economies. In the short term, we must do what we can.
Ultimately, the clearest solutions to our fiscal fate are not pursued because the elites do not want to save the economy, at least not in a way that ends up with them having less power. They want even more power and centralization that extends beyond national boundaries into the realm of a single global currency and a single globally managed market. Fixing the system can't happen because they won't let it happen.
This means that the only fix that truly matters will be the one that allows all other others to progress, and that fix is to remove these people from positions of influence and authority. You can't really repair the body in the wake of an illness until the offending disease is first eliminated.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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One of my regrets is that I am unlikely to be around to see an America without Hillary
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Hillary Clinton Breaks Her Own “Treason Rule”
There’s something extremely sad about an American politician who isn’t particularly relevant to the American public, but won’t let go.
Rather than resting on her laurels and quietly enjoying her grandchildren and the many millions of dollars she has made exploiting her time in government, Hillary Clinton persists in thrusting herself into the public eye. She’s a 74-year-old grandmother who has lost multiple presidential races.
Recently, Clinton spoke at an event in Inglewood, CA. The details aren’t significant since they’re all over the place, i.e., a slew of career bureaucrats and politicians preaching to the choir while saying the same phrases over and over. It’s a circular back-slap meeting.
Anyway, at this event, Clinton made a scary comment about the 2016 election.
Whoa, whoa, whoa… Hold up just a second. Is it true that Hillary is refusing to accept the outcome of a fair election done under our sacred, never-to-be-questioned system? I’ve been told – with much hysterics from the left, as I’m sure you can imagine – that such a thing is a threat to our democracy!
Jake Tapper banned people from his program who repeat the so-called “Big Lie,” which is that the election was stolen. Will he allow Clinton the same treatment now that she has made her bias against Trump known?
Obviously, I’m joking at this point. Of course, he won’t ban Clinton from his program. Heck, the rest of the CNN crew could give her a round of applause, as well as the rest of the left. Why? Because they’re massive hypocrites, that’s why.
When it came to the 2016 election, Democrat officials were justified in opposing the confirmation. But when Republicans did it in January 2021, everything became criminal and “insurrection.” Keep in mind that there are people who believe that Ted Cruz and others should be disqualified from public office for executing the identical act as Jamie Raskin of Maryland did in 2017.
Democrats will never stop being complete hypocrites when it comes to elections. Their paranoia has only increased as time goes on and it’s time that their evil stranglehold on America be undone. Hopefully that will happen in 2024.
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Perhaps you will find this interesting since the mass media no longer is trust worthy. Getting your news from the likes of me is not the way The Founding Fathers intended:
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Holy Cow: Poll Shows Biden is Failing Tremendously with HispanicsBy Rebecca Downs
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