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The 2024 presidential already has an asterisk beside its results, whatever they may be.
It's because of an election system process in the state of Colorado, which has turned reliably to the extreme left following a strategic scheme to take over the state legislature with key donations from several billionaires a few years ago, is compromised.
A lawsuit triggered by the decision by Colorado's Democrat secretary of state, Jena Griswold, to post passwords for election computers online is calling for her removal from the entire 2024 election process, hand-counting of all ballots in the state, and the decommissioning of the possibly corrupted machines.
The case was filed by the Libertarian Party of Colorado and calls for Griswold, and her office, to be recused from the election entirely, that the vote system components that were compromised be decommissioned and that ballots be hand counted.
Griswold has denied responsibility for the election security fail, and fired an employee after the catastrophe was documented. She claims now that a "special rule" was adopted that allowed the passwords to be changed, and so all is good.
The lawsuit, however, charges, "Colorado law requires the revocation of the secretary's access to the state's voting system for causing these passwords to be published, and is punishable by a presumptive sentence of one to three years in the Department of Corrections."
Griswold's office published, online, a spreadsheet named "Voting Systems Inventory" months ago. That contained 600 partial passwords on a hidden tab for elections systems in 63 of Colorado's 64 counties.
Interestingly, it was the activist Griswold, and the state's Democrat-majority Supreme Court, that earlier tried to fabricate claims against President Donald Trump and remove him from the 2024 ballot, only to be soundly excoriated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The new case against Griswold, on behalf of the party and 3rd Congressional District candidate James Wiley, charges that Griswold's actions put the presidential election in the state at risk.
It is that 3rd District that is home to Mesa County, where Tina Peters was clerk during the 2020 election. She recently was sentenced to nine years in prison for actions related to leaking voting machine passwords in 2021.
The case points out that the state's Internal Election Security Measures Act, adopted two years after the suspicious events of the 2020 presidential election, makes it a crime to expose voting machine passwords. The penalty is up to three years in jail.
The plaintiffs are represented by Denver lawyer Gary Fielder, and are asking the court for an immediate hearing to remove Griswold and her office from the election.
The legal filing explains Griswold posted the documentation online and the passwords "were not encrypted or otherwise protected."
In fact, BIOS passwords "allow a person to access and gain control over Colorado's voting systems, which includes the ability to manipulate those systems and election results. Such access would allow that person to remove any trace of use by overwriting the system logs necessary for a subsequent audit. In allowing these passwords to be available to the public, the secretary has breached her duty to ensure that Colorado's upcoming general election is fair and accurate."
The documentation explained state law "requires the revocation of the secretary's access to the state's voting system for causing these passwords to be published, and is punishable by a presumptive sentence of one to three years in the Department of Corrections."
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A shocking video was posted to social media Thursday showing a Kentucky voter in Laurel County unable to choose former President Donald Trump on the voting machine he was using to cast his ballot.
The video shows the man repeatedly trying to select Trump, and every time he does, it switches to Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris.
An update from Laurel County Clerk Tom Brown stated the "malfunctioning" machine had been taken out of action but officials were unable to recreate the issue experienced by the voter.
We've had an incident today with someone reporting one of the ballot marking devices malfunctioning. We checked it and couldn't make it recreate the incident reported. The machine has been taken out of service and are waiting for the Attorney General's Office representative to arrive. We had no complaints prior to or after the complaint. We have left the machine in full view and are awaiting further directions.
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WASHINGTON – Billionaire Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of e-tailing giant Overstock.com, has been relentless – risking his life to expose the "shadow government's" ongoing "soft-coup" against America and the Deep State's elaborate and ongoing scheme to frame, incarcerate and eliminate GOP presidential nominee former President Donald Trump.
In his explosive memoir published earlier this year, titled "Danger Close: Domestic Extremist #1 Comes Clean," Byrne reveals how he, the son of former GEICO chairman John J. Byrne, went from being one of the wealthiest men on the planet as Overstock's CEO to being deemed by the Department of Homeland Security to be "Domestic Extremist #1."
The whistleblower played an integral role in the "Russian collusion hoax," a seditious scheme devised by a politically weaponized FBI to frame a sitting president, Donald Trump. The fictitious "Russia, Russia, Russia" scandal would go on to plague the Trump presidency with the wrongful indictment and incarceration of numerous members of his administration.
The federal government has given Byrne numerous ultimatums, warning him that speaking out about the seditious operation he was tasked to execute by the FBI would become a death sentence.
On top of that, Byrne is reportedly in hiding as he faces off in a legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems and a defamation suit filed by Hunter Biden. Byrne insists he has irrefutable proof of widespread voter fraud implemented to rig the 2020 election, some of which he presented in the Oval Office to Trump. His allegations prompted Dominion to slap him with a $1.7 billion lawsuit.
In September, the Venezuelan government put a $25 million bounty on Byrne, who subsequently "fled to Dubai," reports Newsweek.
'The Russia probe – I set it up'
Last summer, Byrne called this reporter, who had previously interviewed him, with an astounding admission. The wind blared through the phone's speaker as if he were traveling at high speed in a car, or about to take flight in a helicopter.
"General Flynn says that the following story is the hypersonic missile," Byrne wrote in a September 2023 text message to this reporter, accompanying a link to the 99-page report. "[Flynn] says the single most important thing for the country is getting this story digested… This is all true."
Byrne summarizes his years-long involvements with the FBI, top law enforcement officials and Senate Judiciary dating back to 2005 in an extensive Q&A featured in the magazine, providing the most comprehensive insight in print of the James Bond-esque clandestine web in which he has been entangled.
Since the release of the Capitol Times Magazine report, the former Overstock CEO, once hailed as the "Messiah of Bitcoin," has spoon-fed the public parts of his story, incrementally, through a series of interviews with various journalists as he reveals what he knows about the FBI's attempt to seize control of the U.S. electoral system.
Excerpts of a video compilation of Byrne's interviews, in which he discusses the ins and outs of "Operation Snow Globe" – a one-time Deep State plan to control Hillary Clinton had she become U.S. president – is an expedient medium through which the public can "digest" Byrne's perilous crusade with the FBI, spanning more than a decade.
The hour-long video is now viral, but only on SpaceX founder Elon Musk's X platform, since Big Tech continues to employ outright censorship on speech damaging to the permanent government.
'Operation Snow Globe'
Like many Americans, Byrne grew up revering the FBI as the nation's premiere law enforcement agency, traditionally one of the federal government's most highly regarded institutions – at least, before it became increasingly clear that the Bureau had been "captured" at its highest levels by so-called leaders with a subversive and unconstitutional intent.
In 2005, Byrne began his first encounter with the FBI when he blew the whistle on Wall Street and the "mass crack in the financial system."
"Hedge funds were looting hundreds of billions and probably trillions out of the system," he told Capitol Times Magazine's "Deep Capture" feature.
After his highly effective exposure of fraud on Wall Street, which had led to the 2008 banking crisis, the feds pursued Byrne to undertake another mission, and then another.
Willing to serve, the next assignment federal agents would present to Byrne was risky, but a relatively simple task that would turn his life upside down and, ironically, incite the Department of Homeland Security to designate him "domestic extremist #1."
In December 2015, Byrne was assigned by FBI agents in New York to initiate "Operation Snow Globe." The mission consisted of facilitating a sting of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via entrapping her in a series of bribes.
Byrne was told he was to bribe Clinton with millions of dollars to keep the scandal-plagued former secretary of state on a "Bunsen burner."
"They don't want any attention brought to me," Byrne states in the video that has been viewed 7.5 million times on X. "I bribed Hillary Clinton $18 million dollars."
"I caused Hillary Clinton to be offered to take a bribe in mid-July of 2016 by the FBI. The FBI had me bribe – had me facilitate a bribe for Hillary Clinton, which I accomplished," he explains.
"They also told me she had already taken one bribe for $20 million – and I got an $18 million bribe in her face and she took it. I've been shown the why – the bank records that show that she took it.
"So, they don't want me – any attention being brought to me. That is probably why they omitted my name when they leaked the story."
Byrne contends that when the FBI tasked him with bribing Clinton in late 2015, federal agents informed him that the Democratic presidential contender had already been compromised by accepting a bribe for millions of dollars from Turkey in a bid to entrap the former U.S. senator.
The Overstock CEO was to carry out the next step and facilitate the bribe with a "bagman" from Azerbaijan.
"I know what's in the Durham report," Byrne insists. "I facilitated a bribe for Hillary Clinton on Jan. 14, 2016, right here in this town on behalf of the FBI.
"They came to me on Dec. 1st, 2015, and they told me that Hillary Clinton had accepted a bribe from Turkey for $21 million. They told me that I would be working for a group in New York [with] FBI agents who had authorization to set Hillary Clinton up in a sting.
"The bagman from that other government was, I was to befriend and I was to get that person 10 minutes alone in a room with Hillary Clinton.
"I did," said Byrne.
"On January 16, Hillary Clinton was in this town and she met in a way that was kept off her schedule and she accepted an $18 million bribe. General Barr knows this – Durham – they know. This is what's behind it all."
'Scrubbed from the highest level'
Days after Clinton accepted the bribe from Byrne and met with the bagman, the FBI gave Byrne an ultimatum, recalls Byrne. There had evidently been a change of plans.
The "highest of levels" terminated the scheme to entrap Clinton with bribes, a ploy that could crush her electoral prospects. Instead, Clinton was to be installed as commander-in-chief, as long as she would abide by certain conditions.
"They came to me three days later and told me I 'had to forget about it' and 'forget that ever happened,'" Byrne admonished. "\I said, 'What are you talking about?'
"They gave me one excuse. They said – 'Hillary is going to win – they decided upstairs and there's nothing – nothing is going to be able to stop that now. She's going to win and she's going to send her people up to the FBI and they will ask who is part of investigating Hillary, and any of us who are part of it are going to be destroyed and that includes you too, Patrick.' And so, this mission has been scrubbed from the highest level.
"I thought about that, and I said, 'Yes, sir.'"
But the FBI was not done with Byrne – not yet. Hillary was scandal-plagued: In addition to the bribes Byrne has blown the whistle on, it was Clinton, not Trump, who had actually "colluded with the Russians," as Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained in a video interview with WND.
"Two or three weeks later, I was back with three federal agents [in Salt Lake City, Utah]," Byrne said, noting, "I let them know, 'This was not sitting well with me and I'd like to know why they had changed course.'
"We had almost a year before the election," he continued. "They could have me and another person in front of a grand jury in a week and gotten her indicted."
Bottom line: Clinton was going to be placed in the executive office only if she agreed to act as an arm of the shadow government, Byrne explained.
"They told me word for word, 'Patrick, what's really going on is this: President Obama has his people across the federal bureaucracy at this point, but especially the Department of Justice," said Byrne.
"Hillary Clinton is going to be president for eight years, and nothing's going to change that but think of there being a 'Bunsen burner' within the Department of Justice,'" Byrne says the federal agents told him, verbatim. "That evidence about the two bribes you were part of gathering is going to be sitting on the Bunsen burner, and the hand on the Bunsen burner is going to be one of Barack Obama's people.
"If Hillary is a good girl and defends Obamacare, that flame stays low. If she's a bad girl and thinks for herself, it's going to get turned up high that way. Barack Obama's going to manage Hillary Clinton for the eight years she's president, then she's going to step down, and Michelle's going to run, and, Patrick, that's the plan.
"I was later to learn that this plan was called 'Operation Snow Globe.' Snow Globe we had, you know, Christmas kids get a little glass ball like a shake. And this was a snow globe they wanted Hillary Clinton, and a snow globe that Clinton, that Obama and Brennan and Comey could shake up anytime they wanted while she's president. My bribe was the lure, it was the bait to lure her to step into that snow globe."
The government continues to attempt to squeeze Byrne into compliance as he blows the whistle on foreign election interference.
In a video interview conducted in July 2022, Byrne revealed to this reporter that that he, Gen. Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell met with Trump in December 2020 for an emergency meeting. In the Oval office, Byrne presented the president with advisories issued by the Department of Justice and DHS, showcasing how U.S. electoral system had been hacked by Iran, which allowed Trump to invoke emergency powers.
In September 2023, five convicted Proud Boys leaders, four of whom were found guilty of seditious conspiracy, were sentenced to 22, 18, 17, 15 and 10 years in prison for their alleged roles in the U.S. Capitol demonstration on Jan. 6, 2021.
Byrne donated over $200,000 to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio's legal fund and continues to assist with legal fees of January 6 defendants. In fact, Byrne has offered to pay the $350,000 of damages the Capitol building sustained. Along with whatever other charges J6 defendants typically face, assessments for the damages to the building left behind after the riot are often added.
In addition, as "Deep Capture" reports, "Byrne has publicly offered to face all non-violent charges from that day: those accused can say they did it because they listened to Byrne, and Byrne will agree to stipulate to this, on the condition he can defend himself in televised proceedings."
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Businessman and conservative firebrand Steve Bannon, caught in the bull's-eye of the Democrats' lawfare campaigns against President Donald Trump and jailed for refusing to comply with the partisan agenda of ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's special committee on Jan. 6, 2021, has returned to his "War Room" broadcasts on fire.
According to comments transcribed by the Gateway Pundit, he promised Pelosi, "Nancy Pelosi sent me to a federal prison. She sent me to a federal prison as a political prisoner to do two things, to make sure that she tried to tamp down the power of this show, right? Tamp down the power of the show and also to break me. Nancy Pelosi, take out your No. 2 (pencil) and write this down. This show has never been more powerful. … The audiences behind it have never been more powerful. The audience has never been more powerful. And we're going to deliver a knockout blow to your progressive insanity on 5th of November, and then we're going to secure the deal after that."
He said, "It's Tuesday, the 29th of October in the Year of Our Lord 2024. We're, what, six and a wake up away from one of the most important political days in the history of this country. But I want to make sure everybody understands something."
"We have two things we're going to talk about today, the get out to vote effort, focused on our first phase, which is November 5th. …I have never heard, and I think most people would agree, the rhetoric that's come out about American citizens calling this audience, not just Donald Trump, and not the people around Donald Trump. That's bad enough. Calling us fascists, but calling you fascists. Saying that that fantastic, that amazing rally in Madison Square Garden that could never be pulled off by Kamala Harris or the Democrats. With that energy and people from Tulsi Gabbard to Elon Musk, just the broad cross-section you had of American entrepreneurs, Vivek Ramiswami, you had these powerhouses up there. They're trying to smirch that with one influencer's throw away, not funny line.
"I can tell you in coming from and being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African-American and Hispanic detest Kamala Harris. They detest her."
And he continued, "Look, Elon Musk is one of the smartest guys in the world, if not the smartest practical engineer in the world. Charlie Kirk is incredibly smart. Look where they've put their efforts over the last couple of months. Look where Elon Musk wrote $150 million worth of checks the last couple of months. It is flat out, get out the vote. And that's this audience comes in. Your efforts have been magnificent. The co-hosts that have done this for four hours a day and a couple of hours on Saturday, and then plus other streaming we've done with Grace and Mo, the incredible thing of these people stepping up is everything to motivate you to make sure that you get out and vote…"
He said the second part is that four months in prison "empowered me. I am more energized and more focused than I've ever been in my entire life. I can see clearly, just like in 2016 and in 2020, exactly what's going on here and what we have to do to defeat it. I want to go back through the three phases. Number one is 5 November. All that matters right now in places like Pennsylvania, and in Michigan, and in Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, obviously other states, but these seven battleground states, is to deliver something that takes us to where Ohio and Florida are today…"
He said Kamala Harris simply can't generate "any enthusiasm."
"So No. 1, on November 5th, we have to crush them at the ballot box. There's only one way to do that. The commercials aren't going to do it. The only thing that's going to do it is you're putting your shoulder to the wheel. The hard work of walking precincts, the hard work of working phone banks, the hard work of texting nonstop. We have to put in superhuman efforts to support the Elon Musk of the world, to support the Charlie Kirk of the world, to support the other organizations that are out there doing this.
Bannon, a former Trump adviser, had refused demands from Pelosi's partisans to turn over confidential communications between himself and Trump around the time of the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Congress demanded his records, but he explained they were protected by presidential privilege and Congress was not qualified to demand them. Eventually, President Trump released his hold on the information and Bannon said he would comply, but partisans in Congress pressed charges anyway.
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Israel/Middle East Morning Brief
Egypt proposes two-day ceasefire for release of 4 hostages
JERUSALEM – Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a Cairo press conference on Sunday that his country had proposed a two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for some Palestinian prisoners.
Khamanei's one-day old Hebrew X account suspended over threats against Israel
The account was suspended after Ayatollah Khamenei posted a message warning that "The Zionist regime made a mistake" when it decided to retaliate for the Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack carried out by Tehran.
Iran seemingly ambiguous about retaliation to IAF attack, despite bellicose noises coming from IRGC; Israel expects response
Israel's Channel 13 reported Iranian missiles were being prepared for launch while the Israel Air Force's attack was under way and their planes were flying over Iranian airspace. Tehran is still taking stock of the damage wrought, which indeed seems to be extensive.
Report: Does a wave of desertions mean Hezbollah is beginning to crack?
Sources have apparently relayed to the independent Arabic independent online newspaper Elaph that Israel's campaign against Hezbollah, which has included the pager explosions, eliminating almost all of the terrorist group's top leaders, as well as a ground incursion is causing a number of Islamist combatants to flee their posts.
Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a leaked confidential letter Sunday that the country's stated war aims are not keeping pace with the evolving threats against the Jewish state.
Sen. John Fetterman defends Israel's exploding beeper operation
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., defended his statement that he loved Israel's attack on Hezbollah pagers in a recent interview with the New York Times, saying it was targeted for the terrorist organization's members.
Was THAAD delivery used as a bargaining tool to ensure IAF only hit Iranian military sites?
A Wall Street Journal report claims Secretary of State Anthony Blinken advised President Joe Biden to acquiesce to Israel's request for the THAAD missile defense system to be deployed to the country, in return for Jerusalem agreeing to strike Iranian military sites only.
Iranian FM: 'U.S. was complicit in Israel's attack on Iran'
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi accused the United States of complicity in providing Israel with defensive equipment ahead of the latter's significant attack against the Islamic Republic early Saturday.
Knesset to vote on two separate bills concerning UNRWA
The Knesset (Israel Parliament) is set to vote on two bills on Monday, both of which concern the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The first would make it illegal for Israeli officials to cooperate with the organization, while the second would determine whether it should be expelled entirely from Jerusalem.
WATCH: Einat Wilf at the International Summit for a Future Beyond UNRWA
Israel to develop high-powered laser beam missile interception system, dubbed Iron Beam
Israel's in-development high-powered laser interception system, dubbed Iron Beam, is expected to be operational within a year, the director general of the Defense Ministry says.
"The first capability of the ground laser system… is expected to enter operational service in a year from today," Eyal Zamir said during the signing of a NIS 2 billion ($535 million) contract with the manufacturers Rafael and Elbit.
Israel's cabinet moves meetings underground amid war threats
Following Hezbollah's drone strike on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private home in Caesarea, the Israeli government took the extraordinary step Monday of convening its weekly cabinet meeting in a fortified underground facility in Jerusalem, marking what security officials called a "new reality" in protecting the country's senior leadership.
U.S. Defense Dept. promotes Iranian-descent bureaucrat linked to Pentagon intel leak
Ariane Tabatabai is now a deputy assistant secretary of defense within Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's office, where she will lead its force education and training division.
Argentina to request Interpol warrant against Hezbollah kingpin, who planned 1994 Jewish community center bombing
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For years already Democrats have tried to tarnish President Donald Trump by calling him a threat to democracy.
They contend that his challenges to the 2020 election results, which were the result of a voting process that raised multiple integrity questions, meant he was trying, and would continue to try, to overthrow the government.
Their rhetoric for the 2024 campaign has gone to extremes: They claim he's "Hitler," he'll use the military to go after those he dislikes, he'd use the power of government to jail them, they say.
In fact, polling shows that, "Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a 'save democracy' platform. The poll sampled 5,016 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. When asked whether Trump or Harris 'would do a better job' of "defending against threats to democracy," 43% picked Trump while 40% picked Harris," reported Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage."
He explained, "The result was crushing for not just many in the Harris campaign but the press and pundits who have been unrelenting in announcing the end of democracy if Harris is not elected."
He said there is a "growing hysteria among press and pundits proclaiming the imminent end of democracy if Kamala Harris is not elected. The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world."
He noted that those who agree democracy is being threatened disagree with the Democrats' claims on the source of that threat.
"While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44%) more than Biden (33%) in protecting democracy," Turley reported.
He cited ex-Rep. Liz Cheney, represented Wyoming in Congress until voters tossed her from office following her alignment with Democrats who wanted to impeach and remove President Trump, and then blame him for the all factors of the January 6, 2021, riot in Washington.
She alleges that if Americans don't vote for Harris, 2024 "may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast."
Turley responded, "I have long criticized the apocalyptic, democracy-ending predictions of Biden, Harris, and others as ignoring the safeguards in our system against authoritarian power. Nevertheless, Harris supporters have ratcheted up the rhetoric to a level of pure hysteria. Recently, Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump's disbarred former lawyer, told MSNBC that if Trump wins the election, he will 'get rid of the judiciary and get rid of the Congress.'"
Television hosts have been talking about an enemy's "list."
Even in Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed, "I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail."
Turley noted that Congress, in fact, did make Biden president following that 2021 riot, and judges did rule against challenges.
"Our system was put through a Cat 5 stress test and did not even sway for a moment," he said.
He noted the Democrats still trot out their well-known claims that democracy will die without Harris in the White House.
But, he said, "The public is not buying it."
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While global tensions continue to escalate, Russia is hosting the BRICS Summit in Kazan Tuesday, where some of the world's largest economies will be meeting to entrench a new global order, namely undoing the U.S. dollar.
BRICS is made up of several different nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. According to Statista, combined BRICS nations make up over 45% of the world's population and 35% of the global GDP.
Undoubtedly, one of the most powerful of the alliance is China, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the bloc's exports and over half of the bloc's 35% GDP. With the joining of oil-rich nations such as the United Arab Emirates and Iran, the bloc controls almost 30% of all global oil output.
The alliance between these nations has sent alarm bells off, as the U.S. dollar is threatened with losing its leading spot in global finance. The de-dollarization of the U.S. would lead to a shift in global power, largely affecting the U.S. and its financial markets, especially given the rising debt of the U.S. economy which is currently far outspending revenue.
According to a report from Fortune, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a scientific adviser at Mark Spitznagel's Universa Investments and author of "The Black Swan," a book about unpredictable events, there are grave concerns about the future of the U.S. dollar.
"So I'm really afraid of a progressive loss of the role of the dollar … People nominally conduct transactions in dollars, but they don't store it in dollars, and that is what the problem is," Taleb told Bloomberg TV.
Taleb noted he was worried about the actions of the Biden-Harris administration in 2022, which resulted in freezing Russian assets after Russia invaded Ukraine. Taleb called it a "confiscation," and pointed out it will not boost confidence in investors.
"It may make sense from a justice standpoint, but you've got to remember, it's not going to encourage people to invest in the system," Taleb said.
"If the Biden administration were intentionally trying to destroy the dollar, I'm not sure what they'd do differently … His spendthrift agenda has resulted in the dollar losing one-fifth of its value in less than four years, and his international policies have done even more harm by eroding the dollar's reserve currency status. By freezing and then eventually stealing dollars owned by foreigners, Biden sent a clear message to the world that the dollar is no longer a safe asset," Antoni said.
Nevertheless, former President Donald Trump said during a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin in early September that – assuming he is re-elected president – the U.S. dollar will remain the world's currency, promising to punish countries who go the route of de-dollarization.
"We will keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, and it is currently under major siege, many countries are leaving the dollar. They're not gonna leave the dollar with me. I'll say, 'You leave the dollar, you're not doing business with the United States, because we're gonna put 100% tariffs on your goods,'" Trump said.
Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar said during an interview with New Rules Podcast that the process of complete de-dollarization could take decades to happen; however, alternative payment systems are very close right now.
"Alternative payment systems, we are closer than ever. Full de-dollarization, it's a long process and if you talk to the best economists from BRICS countries they say this is a process that could last decades … Because it implies you have to build a post-Bretton Woods system. Can you imagine a system that lasted almost eight decades, then you have to start from scratch with an alternative system? So you have to convince not only governments inside BRICS, governments outside BRICS, and big companies of BRICS nations and outside BRICS as well," Escobar said.
Escobar noted it would be an enormous task to convince multinational companies that BRICS can offer a better system, when the one they already use works for them.
"In terms of alternative payment systems, it is already very developed because the BRICS are already trading among themselves in their own national currencies, and this will expand to multilateral trade inside BRICS with national currencies, and expand to what we call BRICS Plus," he said.
The dethroning of the U.S. dollar will come over time, rather than come to a dramatic sudden end, according to Escobar.
"Just look at the trade balance between Russia and China, it's already bypassing the U.S. dollar in practice, and this is something that happened for the past two years or so. So it can be done," Escobar said.
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It's now JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee for 2024, who has responded to a crowd shout that "Jesus is King."
The issue came to be part of the 2024 presidential campaign just days ago when, during a Kamala Harris rally, someone in the crowd shouted 'Jesus is Lord."
She promptly instructed they were at the wrong rally, and they were subsequently ejected.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk posted Vance's comment online:
Vance was commenting on the times that Harris is discounted or disregarded, even belittled, faith.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Jesus is King," and he responded, "That's right. Jesus is King."
An editorial at Twitchy explained, "As Twitchy readers know, Kamala Harris had Christians kicked out of her rally for daring to yell, 'Jesus is Lord'. She went so far as to mock them, claiming there were at the wrong rally for bringing up Jesus, as her dozens of supporters sneered and even shoved the two young students out."
While that was "not a great look for the broad already struggling to connect with normal, everyday Americans," it was Vance who "was good enough to show her how you REALLY react when someone in your crowd brings up Jesus."
WND reported when Harris reacted to a similar situation, in the opposite way.
Harris, hand-picked after the party's elite threw Joe Biden under the bus and chose her as a substitute this year, took the opportunity of a rally attendee who shouted 'Jesus is Lord" to mock Christianity.
The social media opinion included, "Mock Jesus at you're (sic) own peril," and, "Nobody stand too close to her."
Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit headlined a report on the comment, and reaction, "EVIL: Kamala Harris and her supporters mock Christian attendee…"
Harris was promoting America's industry of killing unborn children at the time, saying, "We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade and they did as he intended.'
Actually, the Supreme Court ruled that the Roe decision was faulty from its outset and not based on the Constitution, so it was overturned, and the result returned regulation of the abortion industry to states.
The report said the Christian "bravely stood up and proclaimed, 'Jesus is Lord.'"
Only to be mocked by Harris: "I think you're at the wrong rally." She added. "Try the smaller one down the street."
The documentation came from Jennifer McKinney, a Wisconsin resident who attended both the Trump rally in late August and the Harris event.
She explained the "smaller" Trump rally had about 7,000 attending, while Harris had perhaps a reported 2,500.
Social media commenters included one who was looking at not just 2024, but perhaps 2028, with the comment, "Vance is a smart man who will be a great president."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Israel/Middle East Morning Brief
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Telegram account linked to Iran publishes U.S. intel docs about Israel's plans to attack
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The state of Florida has sued the Biden-Harris administration for refusing to fulfill its obligations under federal law and verify immigration records.
That means that state officials cannot determine who is, and who is not, qualified to vote, leaving the integrity of election results unknown.
"Voting is a right granted to American citizens – not illegal immigrants or other noncitizens. The Biden-Harris administration has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country, and we must ensure that only citizens are on our voter rolls," explained Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. "I am taking legal action against the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Mayorkas to ensure Florida can maintain the integrity of our state's voter rolls."
Cord Byrd, Florida's secretary of state, added, "The Florida Constitution is clear that only citizens can vote in our elections. Florida is calling on the federal government to dismantle the barriers blocking the states from obtaining critical information needed to prevent non-citizens from voting in our elections. We are going to prevail in our effort to uphold the law and uphold the Constitution's guarantee of one citizen, one vote."
A report from Fox News explained the state contends the Department of Homeland Security is mandated to respond to inquiries from state and local governments seeking to verify the immigration status of anyone in their jurisdiction.
"Because the federal government is refusing to comply with these obligations and frustrating Florida's ability to maintain the integrity of its elections, Florida files this suit," the legal action charges.
The state explains it has "an obligation to maintain accurate and current voter registration records" and then cites the millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, that have come across America's southern border under the Biden-Harris open borders agenda.
The program at issue is called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, and is supposed to allow states to confirm the status of aliens.
"According to the lawsuit, DHS and Florida have an agreement to allow the state to use SAVE to verify immigration and citizenship status for people on the voter registration rolls. The lawsuit claims that Florida's Department of State identified several individuals for whom it had evidence that they were not citizens, but couldn't run a search via SAVE as it doesn't have unique identifiers," the report said.
And the feds refused to provide that necessary information, it charges.
"Thus, Florida has identified a subset of individuals for whom it cannot verify citizenship or immigration status through SAVE and for whom DHS refuses to verify citizenship or immigration status through other means," the state charges.
The action seeks a court ruling that the feds, to be within the law, must provide Florida with responses.
The same issue already is in the courts, as a similar action by the state of Ohio seeks access to DHS databases that now are closed off to states.
The Biden-Harris White House is so dedicated to concealing the presence of noncitizens on voter rolls, that it has sued both Alabama and Virginia over those states' efforts to clean their voter lists of noncitizens.