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Kamala's affair: Sleeping her way to the top

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:43 UTC
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© APVice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris dated San Francisco's first black mayor Wilile Brown in the 1990s, while he was still married but separated from his wife. Pictured together a dinner in 1995
Since the media is shining a light on Trump's affair, it is only fair to point out similar actions taken by those on the other side of the aisle. Kamala Harris is not a particularly intelligent or charismatic individual, but she managed to work her way to the top by dating men in positions of power. In the 1990s, 29-year-old Kamala Harris dated married 60-year-old San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Harris was 31 years younger than Brown, who was married with a family at home.

Harris accompanied Brown on his campaign trail and made connections along the way. She cannot deny the affair and claims that it is now "an albatross hanging around my neck." Clinton used to call Brown "the real Slick Willie" for his playboy ways, which is saying something coming from blue dress Bill. "The measure of his flamboyance is he'll go to a party with his wife on one arm and his girlfriend on the other," James Richardson, a reporter for the Sacramento Bee told People Magazine in 1996.
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Rockefeller Foundation's new focus on climate change signals the next phase of the Great Reset

Derrick Broze
Last American Vagabond
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Climate Change activists
Should the public ignore the history of the Rockefeller Foundation as they shift resources towards promoting Agenda 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals?

In late July 2022, Rockefeller Foundation (RF) president, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, released a public letter detailing the organization's plan to increase their resources and attention to addressing climate change. Shah noted that the RF had a hand in shaping "the American and global responses to the pandemic's crises" as they funded projects like the CommonPass, helping promote the concept of vaccine passports.

Established in 1913, the foundation used the Rockefeller family wealth to ostensibly promote "public health" by funding mass vaccination campaigns and the founding of public health authorities around the world. To continue their mission today, Shah says the RF must "directly confront climate change".

"Climate change poses a singular threat to humanity," Shah wrote. "We have decided The Rockefeller Foundation will take specific actions to transform how humanity farms and eats, powers its communities and homes, prevents and protects against disease, and lives and works. That is how we will make opportunity universal and sustainable."
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How the FDIC and SEC's war on crypto triggered a banking crisis

Ellen Brown
Web of Debt
Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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According to an article in American Banker titled "SEC's Gensler Directly Links Crypto and Bank Failures," SEC Chair Gary Gensler has asked for more financial resources to police the crypto market. Gensler testified at an April 18 House Financial Services Committee hearing:
[Crypto companies] have chosen to be noncompliant and not provide investors with confidence and protections, and it undermines the $100 trillion capital markets ...

Silvergate and Signature [banks] were engaged in the crypto business — I mean some would say that they were crypto-​backed ...

Silicon Valley Bank, actually when it failed, saw the country's — the world's — second-leading stable coin had $3 billion involved there, depegged, so it's interesting just how this was all part of this crypto narrative as well.
Cryptocurrency experts Caitlin Long and Nic Carter take the opposite view. They acknowledge the link between crypto and the recent wave of bank failures and the runs and threatened runs they triggered, but Carter and Long make a compelling case that it was the FDIC, the SEC and the Federal Reserve that brought the banks down, by a coordinated, extrajudicial "war on crypto" that blocked that otherwise-legal industry from acquiring the banking services it needs.
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All 9 Supreme Court justices issue rare statement after leftist attacks on conservative justices

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Mon, 01 May 2023 00:01 UTC
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All nine Supreme Court Justices issued a statement late last week pushing back on attempts from Senate Democrats to implement new ethics oversight measures over the nation's highest court which comes after the political Left has tried to generate controversy surrounding three conservative justices in recent weeks.

The statement from the justices also included a letter from Chief Justice John Roberts to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) saying that he will not attend a hearing that Senate Democrats want to hold.

"Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence," Roberts said.

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CIA veteran reveals why he didn't sign Hunter Biden laptop letter

Daniel Chaitin
The Daily Wire
Mon, 01 May 2023 00:01 UTC
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A retired CIA official is opening up about why he did not sign a letter that suggested the Hunter Biden laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation just weeks before the 2020 election.

Dan Hoffman, the CIA's former Moscow station chief, told Fox News he was "surprised" that no one requested his Russia expertise in discussing the letter before it went public and explained why he did not want his signature attached to it.

"I remember I got the letter, October 18, 2020, and at first glance, it seemed natural to lay the blame at the Kremlin's doorstep. Remember, Vladimir Putin is in the Kremlin and he's well known for cloak-and-dagger espionage operations," Hoffman said. "But at the same time, there was no evidence and the letter noted there was no evidence. And I just felt like we needed to do the forensics. It was a very convoluted story."

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Biden CIA chief met with Epstein several times after financier convicted of child sex crime

Madeleine Hubbard
Just the News
Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:58 UTC
jeffrey epstein
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns had three meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014, when the top spy official was deputy secretary of state and after Epstein was convicted of child sex exploitation, documents indicate.

Epstein's "black book" of contacts and flight logs shows that Burns first met with Epstein in Washington before Burns visited the convicted sex offender in his Manhattan townhouse, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Burns, who became CIA director under Joe Biden in 2021, met with Epstein while he was preparing to leave his position in the government, CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp said.

Comment: Since Epsteins 'little black book' was released back in 2015, why is this just coming to light now? Who did Burns piss off?

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Briefcase

The leaked plan to attack Russians in Syria revealed

Steven Sahiounie
The Duran
Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:01 UTC
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Rallies taking place in support of Russia in Syria
The war in Ukraine was planned to extend to Syria. Leaked secret documents revealed the Ukrainian military were planning to attack Russian troops stationed in Syria in an effort to distract Russia and cause losses and casualties far from the battlefield in eastern Europe.

Jack Teixeira, a young member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested by the FBI in the investigation of leaked classified military intelligence which were viewed on the Discord chat platform.

Among the documents were details of the planning and assessment of attacks on Russian military capabilities in Syria, to be carried out by the US military partner there, the SDF.
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Iran retaliates to US seizure of oil vessel with capture of Chevron tanker carrying Kuwaiti crude


Financial Times
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:52 UTC
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© U.S. Coast Guard/APA US Navy drone boat and US coast guard cutter John Scheuerman in the Strait of Hormuz, where about a third of all seaborne oil cargoes pass through the channel each day
US authorities ordered a tanker of Iranian crude oil to redirect towards the US in recent days, in a move officials believe was the trigger for Iran's decision to capture a US-bound tanker on Thursday.

Three people briefed on the situation said the US had intervened to summon a ship loaded with Iranian crude, originally destined for China, as Washington looks to step up enforcement of sanctions on Tehran.

Iran's navy unsuccessfully tried to pursue the tanker after it began its latest journey. The people said the US Department of Justice seized the tanker, the Suez Rajan, under a court order with co-operation from at least one company involved with the vessel.
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Ukrainian Finance Minister calls for at least 18 billion euros from EU


Al Mayadeen
Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:42 UTC
Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko
Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko speaks at an interview after attending a series of meetings with finance officials from around the world at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., US, 15 April 2023.
Ukrainian Finance Minister asks for at least 18 billion euros of aid from the European Union in 2024 to make up for he Ukrainian government's budget deficits.

Ukraine needs at least 18 billion euros of aid from the European Union (EU) in 2024, Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko announced on Saturday.

"Of course, it depends on the military campaign, but I think it could be no less than the €18 billion as we (received) for this year," Marchenko stated prior to an unofficial meeting with EU Finance Ministers in Sweden.

Comment: See also: Wave of top Ukrainian officials resign, huge corruption scandal reveals Western aid embezzled

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Attention

The insider outsider

Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher's Diary
Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Carlson
© 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'Tucker Carlson's first post-'Tucker Carlson Tonight' appearance
The meaning of Tucker Carlson for the present and future of US politics...

I know at least some of y'all must be wo' slap out from my focus on Tucker Carlson this week, but I really do think this is a moment of serious symbolic importance — even if you are no fan of Carlson's. Let me explain.

First, have a look at the 2 min, 15 sec video message Tucker put out on Twitter a day or so ago. In just over 24 hours, as I write this, it has been viewed by over 21 million people. As usual these days, Twitter won't let me embed in Substack, but if you follow the link, you can see it. In it, Tucker doesn't mention Fox, but he points out that the Cathedral includes both progressives and conservatives. That is to say, the commoners may strongly disagree, but the elites are more united than people think. Here's Mollie Hemingway trying to enlighten:
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