When the wagons leave the city
For the forest and further on
Painted wagons of the morning
Dusty roads where they have gone
Sometimes travelin' through the darkness
Met the summer comin' home
Fallen faces by the wayside
Looked as if they might have known
Mountain Theme From An Imaginary Western
Closer Everyday
‘Blow-up’ event could COLLAPSE US DOLLAR as America's debt mounts, ex-IMF official warns
The US dollar’s status as the dominant global currency is at risk of being eroded because of mounting government debt, according to Zhu Min, former senior executive with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
His warning comes as the United States is expected to double down on its fiscal stimulus measures to soothe the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Congress is considering a new round of relief that is likely to cost at least $1 trillion on top of the more than $2 trillion passed earlier this year.
With the US Federal Reserve continuing its aggressive monetary policy of quantitative easing, there is a rising risk of a sudden loss of confidence in the dollar, said Zhu, who was deputy managing director of the IMF from 2011 to 2016. He is currently the head of the National Financial Research Institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
“The concern isn’t whether the US dollar will see an accumulated decline of 30 percent in the future, but whether there will be a blow-up event that causes a sudden loss of confidence in the US dollar, and its market to collapse,” Zhu told the South China Morning Post.
https://www.rt.com/business/495726-dollar-collapse-debt-imf/
THIS IS HUGE! Black and Minority Voter Approval for President Trump At Record Highs
More great news for the Trump campaign. Blacks and Minority voters are at record highs for President Trump.
Rasmussen Reports released their latest polling of likely black voters of President Trump’s job approval is now over 40%:
Some say if President Trump wins more than 20% of the black vote, he will win the election in a landslide. Per Townhall:
No, Donald Trump is not going to win anything close to a majority of the black vote in 2020, but he doesn’t have to. If he just wins 20% of the black vote he is guaranteed to win the White House, and if he wins 25% of the black vote (which is within his reach) he wins in both an electoral and a popular vote landslide. In fact, a recent Rasmussen poll of likely black voters shows that support for Trump by Black Americans has surged after the recent rioting by the left to 40%! While it is unlikely that Trump will win 40% of the black vote, it shows that his support from the black community continues to build even after the tragic murder of George Floyd.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/huge-black-minority-voter-approval-president-trump-record-highs/
Military bases named after Confederate officers WILL NOT be rechristened, despite veto-proof vote – Trump
Despite passing the Senate with a veto-proof majority, a bill removing the names of Confederate officers from military bases will not take effect, President Donald Trump has tweeted, hinting at Senate opposition to the measure.
Senate Armed Services Committee chair Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) “WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts,” Trump tweeted triumphantly on Friday, adding that the GOP senator shared his antipathy toward “Cancel Culture.”
I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator @JimInhofe, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!). Like me, Jim is not a believer in “Cancel Culture”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2020
https://www.rt.com/usa/495771-trump-confederate-military-bases-rename/
Exactly…..IF memory Serves As Trump said right now its 0% interest….So the increase in the debt is pretty much Meaningless.. ..UNless they raise the rates…..But even if they did…So What.. its too late … was over When Obama doubled our debt from 10 Trillion to 20….So some Serious Chit is going to hit the proverbial fan
Banks Continue War Against Gun Industry
In recent years, the financial industry has seemingly been at war with the firearm industry. This war has involved banks and other financial institutions severing all ties with various gun companies, not because these companies did anything wrong, illegal, unethical, or against their policies. No, their only crime is being in the wrong business.
To be fair, the war isn’t a very fair fight. The financial industry is massive and globe-spanning. The gun industry, by comparison, is tiny.
And yet, the battles continue.
It’s a slow and steady form of gun control that gradually gains momentum with limited public fanfare: if guns can’t be taken directly from the hands of citizens, the next best target is banks and financial institutions that allow transactions or loans for the industry.
Vining posted a call between himself and the California-based company on YouTube and told Fox News that they are no longer using PayPal for anything, personal or commercial, and that they do not intend to return.
https://bearingarms.com/tomk/2020/07/23/banks-continue-war-gun-industry/
NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. On Wednesday, regulators in New York announced that First American was the target of their first ever cybersecurity enforcement action in connection with the incident, charges that could bring steep financial penalties.
Santa Ana, Calif.-based First American [NYSE:FAF] is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2 billion in 2019.
As first reported here last year, First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images.
The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.
According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years.
Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018.
“Remarkably, Respondent instead allowed unfettered access to the personal and financial data of millions of its customers for six more months until the breach and its serious ramifications were widely publicized by a nationally recognized cybersecurity industry journalist,” the DFS explained in a statement on the charges
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/ny-charges-first-american-financial-for-massive-data-leak/
HUGE! — President Trump: If Schools Do not Reopen Their Funding Should Go to the Parents (VIDEO)
Most US schools have been closed since March due to the Wuhan Coronavirus.
Democrats want to keep the schools closed.
They say its because of coronavirus.
But it’s only because of politics.
So far this year, via the CDC— since February, there have been 226 deaths of children and young adults under age 24 in the United States caused by coronavirus or possibly linked to coronavirus. The last full flu season from 2018-2019, via the CDC, saw 477 deaths of children and young adults under age 17 in the United States from the seasonal flu.
That means nearly twice as many children died from the seasonal flu last year as from the China Coronavirus this year.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/huge-president-trump-schools-not-reopen-funding-go-parents-video/
In major victory over Pentagon, CIA is authorized to expand offensive cyber operations
The United States Central Intelligence Agency was secretly authorized by the White House in 2018 to drastically expand its offensive cyber operation program —a development that some experts describe as a significant development for the secretive spy agency. However, the move has reportedly not pleased the Department of Defense, which sees itself as the primary conduit of American offensive operations in cyberspace.
The two-year-old authorization was disclosed by Yahoo News, which cited “former US officials with direct knowledge of the matter” in its report. The website said the authorization came in the form of a presidential finding. A presidential finding, also known as a Memorandum of Notification, refers to a directive, which is authored by the president of the US and is given to the intelligence committees of Congress. Its purpose is to explain the reasoning behind a covert operation that is to be carried out abroad. Following that disclosure by the president, government funds can be appropriated for use in that operation or series of operations.
According to Yahoo News, the 2018 presidential finding provides the CIA with “more freedom in both the kinds of operations it conducts and who it targets”, when it comes to covert action carried out online. The goal of the White House was to enable the CIA to unleash a series of offensive measures against “a handful of adversarial countries”, which include North Korea, Iran, China and Russia, according to the report. Such offensive operations differ substantially from those typically carried out by CIA personnel on cyberspace, which focus on clandestine information collection. In contrast, offensive operations aim to disrupt, sabotage or even destroy targeted systems.
https://intelnews.org/2020/07/16/01-2833/
‘WHAT A PHONY’: Fauci Blasted For Taking Off Mask At Ballpark After Terrible First Pitch
Dr. Anthony Fauci threw out the first pitch on Thursday at the Nationals ballpark in Washington, D.C., then got to hang out in the stands, so special is he.
But the immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves on the White House Coronavirus Task Force — who has been telling Americans to wear a mask after he told Americans not to wear a mask — apparently doesn’t know how to wear a mask.
Here’s a snap of the doc sitting in the stands with a few people — with his mask down.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/phony-fauci-blasted-taking-off-mask-ballpark-terrible-first-pitch/
If Memory serves…Q said they won't be able to walk down the street…kewkekekekekke
British SAS commandos kill 100 ISIS Jihadists in silent campaign
The British SAS have been conducting several operations in the hilly, remote part of northern Iraq. They have been targeting ISIS leadership in an attempt to stop the terrorist group’s resurgence. ISIS has been largely, but not completely eradicated from Iraq.
The U.K. special operators have been working closely with Kurdish resistance fighters who have done the lion’s share of the fighting. The Kurds pushed most of ISIS out of Iraq after its self-styled “caliphate” arose in 2014. At the time, the Iraqi government was weakened by the departure of U.S. and coalition troops; and the Syrian government was in the midst of a bloody civil war. They were thus unable to nip them in the bud. ISIS, it turned out, was far from “the JV Team” that the Obama administration characterized them at the time.
Now, the SAS and Kurdish fighters are conducting what has been characterized as a “secret war” to prevent a an ISIS resurgence as the central Iraqi government is weakened by internal power struggles.
Several different U.K. news sources have quoted an unnamed British military source stating that the SAS has conducted at least 10 operations in northern Iraq and Syria since mid-April and have killed at least 100 ISIS fighters, including many leaders and British citizens who joined ISIS’s ranks. DNA tests conducted on the killed jihadists confirmed their identity.
https://sofrep.com/news/british-sas-commandos-kill-100-isis-jihadists-in-silent-campaign/
China’s 770-ship naval force & a potential war in the Pacific
If war were to break out in the Pacific between China and the United States, the U.S. Navy would find itself in an extremely difficult predicament. While America does maintain the largest and most powerful navy in the world, its security obligations are similarly far-reaching. The U.S. Navy serves as more than a defensive force for the nation; it is a means of force projection to back American foreign policy. The United States Navy also serves as a stabilizing presence in shipping lanes the world over, ensuring the free trade of goods over heavily trafficked waterways that could otherwise be susceptible to the whims of bad state actors or even smaller pirate or terrorist regimes.
As a result of these obligations, the United States Navy cannot actually leverage the entirety of its sea-power in any one region without that leaving security and stability operations elsewhere in the world compromised. And therein lies the source of a great deal of confusion when it comes to comparing military strengths on a global scale. Many Americans are quick to point out that the U.S. has the most powerful military force, and therefore, should be able to exact quick and definitive victory over less technologically advanced forces like the People’s Liberation Army-Navy China. While a comparison of aircraft carriers suggests a rapid American victory, a comparison of forces that could actually be leveraged in such a conflict does not paint quite as rosy a picture for American analysts.
The truth is, despite America’s naval power, China could actually devote far more combatant resources to a fight in the Pacific than America likely could. This is in part because of the aforementioned limitations on America’s defense apparatus, and also because China’s Navy is not the only force Americans would find themselves squaring off against. China would almost certainly also leverage their Coast Guard and even Maritime Militia in such a conflict, in addition to the nation’s massive stockpile of ballistic missiles, including hypersonic anti-ship missiles that America currently lacks any means of reliable defense against.
https://sofrep.com/news/chinas-770-ship-naval-force-a-potential-war-in-the-pacific/
SOURCE: A Copy Of Hillary Clinton’s Server Exists In Ukraine…It Can Be Acquired For The Right Amount Of Money
As you know CDMedia has been integral in the process of outlining the Biden family/DNC/State Department corruption in Ukraine. For instance, we were the first to report the actual Hunter Biden wires from Burisma in the West, and our editor-in-chief was the first to declare the Paul Manafort ‘black ledger’ to be fake in 2016, long before Trump was elected president. This ledger was later revealed to have been released by the Deep State-controlled National Anti-Corruption Bureau Of Ukraine (NABU), whose leader Artem Sytnyk was later caught on tape bragging about helping Clinton against Trump during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
However, the mother of all questions relating to DNC/Clinton corruption during the 2016 presidential poll is – where is Hillary’s server? The whole ‘Russiagate’ fake conspiracy was based on this question…supposedly the Russians hacked it according to the Deep State. Other people believe it was DNC employee Seth Rich who leaked to Wikileaks. Crowdstrike infamously testified that it had no proof Russia stole Clinton’s emails in documents later declassified by interim DNI Richard Grenell.
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/07/22/source-a-copy-of-hillary-clintons-server-exists-in-ukraine-it-can-be-acquired-for-the-right-amount-of-money/
Hurts…don't it ….Not a good time when the shoe is on the other foot ..is it