FEMA Worker Who Told Staff to Skip Hurricane Damaged Homes with Trump Signs Claims it Was Common Practice: ‘This Is not Isolated’
November 12th, 2024Via: New York Post:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor accused of telling staff to skip hurricane-ravaged homes that had Trump campaign signs claims it wasn’t an “isolated” incident — and that she’s been hung out to dry.
Marn’i Washington, who was fired last week over the saga, broke her silence in an interview with YouTube podcaster Roland Martin Monday, arguing she had just been following FEMA protocol.
Does Warren Buffett Know Something That We Don’t?
November 12th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal:
When the world’s most-followed investor doesn’t feel comfortable investing, should the rest of us be worried?
Warren Buffett, who has quipped that his favorite holding period for a stock is “forever,” continues to have substantial money at work in American companies. But he has never taken this much off the table either—a whopping $325 billion in cash and equivalents, mostly in the form of Treasury bills.
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Then there is the even simpler “Buffett Indicator,” which the Oracle of Omaha once called “probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment.” There are variants on the theme, but it is basically a ratio of all listed stocks to the size of the U.S. economy. Taking the Wilshire 5000 Index as a proxy it is now around 200%, which would leave it more stretched than at the peak of the tech bubble.
With T-bills now yielding more than the prospective return on stocks, it might seem that Buffett has taken as many chips off of the table as possible since there is no upside in risky stocks.
So Much for Keeping Out the War Hawks
November 12th, 2024Via: Reason:
So much for keeping out the war hawks. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.) to be his national security adviser and Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) to be his secretary of state. Rubio is a longtime regime change and war enthusiast, although he’s recently pivoted to Trump’s position that the war in Ukraine has to end diplomatically.
Waltz, on the other hand, doesn’t even have a pretense of wanting to stay out of wars. He’s been passionately in favor of escalating conflicts that Trump wants out of, including in Afghanistan and Ukraine. And he supports not only threatening to attack Iran but also militarily confronting Russia, which Waltz calls a “gas station with nukes.”
If last week was a bad time to be a member of the Cheney family, this week is shaping up to be a good one. After working as a Department of Defense policy planner for the Bush administration, Waltz served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s counterterrorism adviser. And it shows.
MYSTERY: FEMA Staging 350 Semi-Trailers at Decommissioned Air Force Base in Oscoda
November 11th, 2024Via: The Midwesterner:
Reports have surfaced of Federal Emergency Management Agency staging trucks across north central Michigan, including at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, sparking speculation and fears about the agency’s doings and prompting elected representatives to seek clarification from FEMA officials.
In the wake of the concerns, FEMA and Oscoda officials finally issued statements saying the site was merely being considered for material staging, according to independent reporter Dave Bondy.
According to the Iosco News last week, “the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA) will station a hub for emergency services. Three hundred and fifty semi-trailers with equipment to serve a six-county region will be stored at the airport.”
“RFK Jr.’s New Bully Pulpit Sends Public Health Shock Waves”
November 11th, 2024Good.
Via: The Hill:
President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.
Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them.
But with Trump’s victory, Kennedy could soon be in charge of those same agencies.
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote on social media shortly before the election, referring to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
During a victory speech early Wednesday morning, Trump declared the country had delivered him and Republicans an “unprecedented mandate.”
That will mean big changes to health, starting with Kennedy.
ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi 6 GT-AX6000 Router
November 10th, 2024ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 Dual-band WiFi 6 Gaming Router
Note: I have a client who is buying this. Pardon the distraction. But… If you need very fast and stable wifi, this thing feels like a wired connection. Made in Taiwan = quality. Could easily run a branch office. Dual 2.5G ports. QoS. Wifi scheduling. Monitoring. etc. etc. Asuswrt-Merlin works great on this.
“Sources Reveal”: CIA and DoD Engaged in Decades-Long Retrieval, Tracking and Exploitation of UFOs
November 10th, 2024Lue, is that you?
Via: Liberation Times:
With a potentially explosive Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) hearing set to take place in the House of Representatives next week, sources connected with the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD) have disclosed new and controversial details to Liberation Times.
These sources allege that retrieval missions and covert legacy operations—stretching back as far as World War Two—were reportedly conducted by the CIA in collaboration with key elements of the U.S. Defense establishment.
The sources, who spoke under strict conditions of anonymity, describe a shadowy history of missions dedicated to recovering exotic materials of non-human origin under the utmost secrecy.
The revelations are expected to add weight to an already intense debate over U.S. government transparency regarding UAP, as officials and the public grapple with the implications of alleged, long-standing retrieval missions.
Liberation Times spoke with sources who stated that retrieval missions involving materials of non-human origin are hidden within legitimate retrieval programs.
Do “Karens on TikTok” Want to Murder Trump Voters with Poison?
November 10th, 2024HOLY SH*T, Karens lost their fvcking minds over Trump’s win and launched MATGA—short for Make Aqua Tofana Great Again.
Aqua Tofana was a powerful poison in 17th-century Sicily, sold by women to other women seeking to escape abusive relationships by discreetly poisoning their… pic.twitter.com/KvHK8ZXWz4
— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) November 10, 2024
CNN: “PENTAGON OFFICIALS DISCUSSING HOW TO RESPOND IF TRUMP ISSUES CONTROVERSIAL ORDERS”
November 9th, 2024I have written multiple warnings to be out of U.S. cities starting from before the election. People are asking me if the situation is ok now.
No, the situation is not ok now.
If Donald Trump does 5% of what he has said he is going to do, it would be the largest shakeup of the U.S. Government since JFK was assassinated. The secret team that took control in the wake of the JFK assassination, which sits atop a mountain of skulls and trillions of stolen dollars, is not going to willingly change course.
I have no idea what’s going to happen, but even if everything goes smoothly with the inauguration, watch out.
And, after it’s all over, if Americans wind up with a national ID card, perhaps provided by Vance’s friend and Palantir founder and chairman, Peter Thiel, well… Mission Accomplished.
Via: CNN:
Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.
Trump has suggested he would be open to using active-duty forces for domestic law enforcement and mass deportations and has indicated he wants to stack the federal government with loyalists and “clean out corrupt actors” in the US national security establishment.
Trump in his last term had a fraught relationship with much of his senior military leadership, including now-retired Gen. Mark Milley who took steps to limit Trump’s ability to use nuclear weapons while he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The president-elect, meanwhile, has repeatedly called US military generals “woke,” “weak” and “ineffective leaders.”
Officials are now gaming out various scenarios as they prepare for an overhaul of the Pentagon.
“We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.
Bill Gates Congratulates Trump After $50M Harris Donation, “I Hope We Can Work Together Now to Build a Brighter Future for Everyone”
November 9th, 2024Mmm hmm.
Via: The Hill:
Billionaire Bill Gates, who reportedly gave $50 million to a PAC backing Vice President Harris in this year’s election, congratulated President-elect Trump on Thursday afternoon following his decisive win.
“Congratulations to President Trump and VP-elect Vance,” Gates said in a post on the social platform X. “America is at its strongest when we use ingenuity and innovation to improve lives here in the U.S. and around the world.”
“I hope we can work together now to build a brighter future for everyone,” he added.
