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I had never heard of the “autopen” before this. My first thought was, why not? It makes sense. The President is on Air Force One right now and if we don’t get this silly thing signed everything will be mucked up, right? Call his secretary for approval. And so on.
Clever scoundrels quickly saw the autopen writing on the wall and the power was theirs. PT is right, this is a crime that cannot go unpunished:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/historic-scandal-bidens-deep-state-presidency/
WATCH: Rep. Burchett Alleges Biden Staffers Used Autopen to Sell Pardons
by Cassandra MacDonald May. 21, 2025 12:00 pm81 Comments
Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett has alleged that staffers in Joe Biden’s administration engaged in a “cash for clemency” scheme, using an autopen to issue pardons in exchange for financial payoffs.
An autopen is a device that mechanically reproduces signatures.
On Tuesday, Rep. Burchett appeared on “The Benny Johnson Show” and stated, “You are gonna find staffers that were able to take forms, get them and run them through some sort of bogus legal system, then they auto-penned them.”
Burchett said he believes there was a pay-for-pardon scheme happening, and pointed to a historical scandal involving former Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, who was implicated in selling pardons in the 1970s.
“Tennessee has had a history of this; we had a governor … he sold pardons,” Burchett said. “You can look it up. His name is Ray Blanton. It made national news.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1924929203142533625
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/watch-rep-burchett-alleges-biden-staffers-used-autopen/
Speaking of clever scoundrels, it can be argued John Maynard Keynes impacted the world like few others did by helping to solidify the concept that debt is money. This is as much high-level socialist sophistry as any Orwellian-like slogan: slavery is freedom, or a fan favorite–some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
Keynes paved the way to a debt-based ponzi society that has decayed two-percent annually. This is the target inflation rate of central banks around the world. It’s like the minute hand on a clock. People can’t see their currency devaluing on an annual basis because it is too slow, but over years it is fast enough, and devastating.
Clever scoundrels close to the printing press and power will always see their opportunities. Corrupt officials plunder what they can get away with. Scoundrels beget scoundrels, until that rarest bird (Vlad get a shot of a Phoenix rising from the ashes!), integrity, reappears.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/14/tulsi-on-faucis-role-in-funding-covid-pandemic-is-it-any-wonder-he-sought-a-preemptive-pardon/
arbeit macht frei
I often wonder how much of a miracle it will take to undo the damage Keynesian economics has done to the world.
An EMP attack.
Maybe.
The ECB says fiat gold (not real gold) may be a threat to financial stability. Is this a shot across the bow to private ownership?
https://youtu.be/yxX6qOJ8HCM?si=_mpeF8U2GrzUupGm
‘Worse than Greece’: The debt crisis threatening to blow up the global economy
When Lisa Nandy attends the World Expo in Osaka on Thursday, she will launch an initiative aimed at increasing ties between Britain and Japan.
However, there is a potential link between the two countries that the Culture Secretary and her ministerial colleagues will be much less keen on.
A dramatic lurch in the Japanese bond market has heightened fears that debt-heavy Western governments such as the UK and even the US could be in line for a budget-busting financial crunch.
Limp demand for government-issued 20-year bonds at an auction in Japan on Tuesday sent tremors through the debt markets, pushing long-term Japanese yields – the government’s cost of borrowing – to the highest in decades.
Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s prime minister, warned the country’s parliament on Monday that his debt-strapped government’s position was “worse than Greece”, signalling just how vulnerable the world’s third-largest economy could be to a meltdown if markets lost confidence.
The wider fear is that Japan is a canary in the coal mine. In a world of Donald Trump-induced volatility and uncertainty, bond market investors could quickly lose faith in any one of the debt-dependent governments of the West.
“The pressure on both Japanese and US bonds this week is a sign bond traders are willing to punish high-debt nations with large deficits,” says Kathleen Brooks, an analyst at XTB.
“This is an issue that has hurt the UK in the past, it is weighing on the US right now, and Japan is also coming under the spotlight.”
Jittery investors are demanding more reward for the growing risk of holding long-term government debt by marking down the price of bonds and driving up their yields.
If the yields rise consistently, governments in countries such as Britain will have to spend even more taxpayer money on interest payments.
Since the post-pandemic inflation crisis sent interest rates surging around the world, the door has been slammed on a decade of cheap money that encouraged governments to rack up borrowing rather than cut spending or raise taxes. It has also left finance ministers such as Rachel Reeves in a painful political bind.
The Tokyo tremor began on Tuesday, when the government tried to sell 1 trillion yen (£5.2bn) of March 2045 bonds and encountered lacklustre demand.
The average bid-to-cover ratio, which measures investor appetite, dropped to 2.5 – the lowest since 2012. The 1.14-point gap between the average and lowest-accepted prices, known as the “tail”, was the longest since 1987.
Investors responded by pushing the Japanese government 20-year yield to the highest this century, and the 30-year yield to a record. The benchmark 10-year yield also surged.
The ever-increasing cost of borrowing will make life difficult for Ishiba, whose minority government faces an upper house election in July – and with it, the temptation to promise tax cuts or spending largesse.
He tried to temper those expectations on Monday, reminding MPs that Japan’s long era of anti-deflationary zero interest rates was over.
“The government is not in a position to comment on interest rates, but the reality is we are facing a world with them. Our country’s fiscal situation is undoubtedly extremely poor, worse than Greece’s,” he said.
International Monetary Fund data puts Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio at 235pc, well above the 142pc rate in Greece, the epicentre of the 2009 eurozone crisis.
Katsunobu Kato, Japan’s finance minister, was even more stark, warning of the damage that could flow from the market ructions. “A loss of market trust in our finances could lead to sharp rises in interest rates, a weak yen and excessive inflation that would have a severe impact on the economy,” he said.
Japan’s economy already looks shaky, having contracted 0.2pc in the first three months of this year from the previous quarter, as timid consumers kept their wallets shut.
Inflation is running at 3.6pc, pushing the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to last year impose a positive interest rate for the first time since 2008.
For decades Japan’s bond market has seemed relatively relaxed about the country’s economy and public finances. But this was because the BoJ was buying up bonds to help boost the economy, owning about half the outstanding stock of bonds and creating a balance sheet bigger than Japan’s GDP.
Now the BoJ is trying to unwind this untenable position: it is spending 400bn yen less on bonds per quarter as part of its fight against inflation.
But the bonds are struggling to find alternative buyers, even among other traditional stalwarts like the big Japanese life insurers and managed funds.
The BoJ will next month decide whether to stay the course on this sell-down from next year, which would still leave it buying 2.9 trillion yen every month.
On Tuesday the bank released a summary of the views it has collected from economists and traders, which varied from one extreme to the other: some urged the central bank to keep buying anything from 1 trillion to 3 trillion yen a month; others said it was time to stop buying altogether.
Some market participants hope the BoJ’s gradual withdrawal will help the Japanese bond market function more normally, even if the process of resetting prices is painful.
But even if this normalisation process is necessary or desirable, it is being side-swiped by the broader ructions in the global economy.
Trump’s tariff tirade has clouded every crystal ball, putting markets on a hair trigger. Behind that, there are mounting worries about the sustainability of the American and other Western governments’ fiscal positions.
With few exceptions, these are mired deep in deficit and debt. The US government is heavily funded by the BoJ, owner of more than $1 trillion (£750bn) of US Treasury bonds, adding to the uncertainty.
Fred Neumann, the chief Asia economist at HSBC in Hong Kong, said: “Rising debt levels in developed markets have become a growing concern in recent years, and the seeming lack of urgency about fiscal consolidation is leaving government bond investors increasingly jittery.
“After years of generous spending and tax cuts, fiscal constraints are starting to bite. Japan is not alone in facing the need for budget consolidation, but volatility in other developed economies’ bond markets adds an extra layer of urgency to put the fiscal house in order.”
British and Japanese bond yields are related because the two are substitutes for each other, according to Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics. But he says the big risk to the UK comes from the US.
“The UK bond market is regularly buffeted by events in the US,” he said. “Uncertainty and tighter monetary policy in the US can be imported into the UK.”
The US, which suffered a downgrade from credit agency Moody’s last week, has a government debt-to-GDP ratio of 123pc and is rated by BNP Paribas as the most fiscally vulnerable developed economy.
An American “Liz Truss moment” is “a non-trivial possibility in current conditions”, the bank said on Tuesday. BNP Paribas expects Congress to tap the brake on the US deficit, but “perception can be reality in markets”.
The ray of hope in Japan is that the markets will calm down and volatility will ease, even if yields never return to the level of previous decades.
Some investors, such as Vanguard and RBC BlueBay Asset Management, are doing some contrarian buying of 30-year Japanese bonds according to Bloomberg.
But that might not be enough to ease the squeeze, unless big Japanese money also starts to crowd in.
The next test of the Japanese litmus paper is barely a week away, when the government will hold an auction of 40-year bonds. Investors are already nervous: the 40-year yield was up more than 10 basis points on Tuesday.
Will Japan blow up the world economy, including Britain’s public finances?
There are so many tripwires: the risk appetite of Japanese investment managers; the deliberations of the Bank of Japan; the election promises of Japanese political parties; and the continuing emanations on tariffs and tax cuts from the White House and Capitol Hill.
And those are only the biggest threads.
It’s a hard knot to unpick. Reeves will just have to soak up BNP Paribas’s pithy observation: “In the short term, concerns about debt sustainability provide just one more reason to predict unpredictability.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/worse-greece-debt-crisis-threatening-050000111.html
On the effects of importing sub-prime human capital:
https://rmx.news/article/we-have-imported-knife-violence-wave-of-knife-attacks-shakes-germany-once-again/
Here is another one from Holland
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/deadly-knife-attack-rocks-dutch-town-killing-2/
In most states we can carry arms and fight back.
Sharpened knitting needles. The steel kind.
(Be sure to carry a little ball of yarn.)
Just make sure you know how to knit.
I notice that they are going to try knife free zones, which will fail just as the gun free zones fail. The collectivist politicians and governments all seem to think that we should submit to every type of physical attack by submitting and dying instead of being allowed to defend ourselves.
– A Zelenskyi opponent murdered today in Madrid –
In Madrid, our close friend—lawyer and human rights defender Andriy Portnov—was brutally murdered.
Andriy was a long-time opponent of the Zelensky regime and its dictatorship.
He always stood up for human rights, fought against injustice, lies, and repression—not only in Ukraine but also tried to act beyond its borders.
Andriy was killed in the same way they tried to kill me in Spain. In broad daylight.
I see only one beneficiary—the Office of the President.
The Office of the President is eliminating its dangerous enemies.
Tragically, Andriy’s heart stopped before he could release the compromising evidence he had gathered on Zelensky and his criminal circle.
We mourn his loss.?
https://x.com/anatoliisharii/status/1925144073205137643
Zelenskyi is as evil as Putin but the western media will never admit this.
Putin is way, way smarter. With supreme self-control. There’s just no comparison.
In the old days the KGB hired by IQ. His skill set has been shaped by a lifetime of martial arts and decades of experience in the most complicated of regions.
The MSM draws cartoon figures. That’s true everywhere. They opine – easy-pease. To counter a strawman Dugin, call up a Trevor Louden or Jeffrey Nyquist. None of it is real, however engaging it may be.
Please flesh that out Yucki. I am under the impression that Dugin is the dialectical engineer, launching various mass lines at the West.
Is this not correct? Please detail that statement if you would, Make it as long as you like and as long as you need to. I would be very interested in both reading it and putting it on the front page with your permission.
Most media types aren’t that smart, and that applies to both sides of the isle, they think in black and white, good guys and bad guys. They have trouble in thinking of bad guys and badder guys
They are afraid of Putin because they know he is much smarter then them, just as they fear Donald Trump for the same reason.
FIREWORKS! “Kill the Boer, The Farmer!” -Trump Plays Video of South Africans Calling for Death of White Farmers After South African President Denies Genocide, Demands President Trump “Listen” to South Africans (VIDEO)
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fireworks-kill-boer-farmer-trump-plays-video-south/
May. 21, 2025 12:40 pm
President Trump on Wednesday held a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa amid the genocide of White Afrikaner farmers.
During the meeting, Trump played a compilation of Africans calling for the genocide of White Afrikaners after Ramaphosa told reporters that President Trump is wrong about the genocide and needs to “listen” to South Africans. .
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on the White genocide in South Africa.
South Africa: Attackers Chant “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” Before Stabbing Woman with Spear
Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, Julius Malema, has infamously led chants and songs calling for White farmers to be murdered. The video that Trump played featured a compilation of Malema, calling to “shoot to kill” and “kill the boer, the farmer,” and others calling for White farmer genocide in South Africa.
The South African Equality Court found that “Kill the Boer” is “not hate speech” in 2022.
Because of this hostility and danger, thousands of White Afrikaners have applied for asylum in the United States, as Black South Africans endanger them and the government steals their land.
Trump also showed reporters the burial sites for over a thousand White farmers who were killed. The South African President feigned ignorance, stating, “I’d like to know where that is because this, I have never seen.”
Watch the explosive clip from their meeting below:
Reporter: What will it take for you to be convinced that there’s no White genocide in South Africa?
Ramaphosa: It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here. When we have talks… it will take President Trump to listen to them. I’m not going to be repeating what I’ve been saying. I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. He would not be with me. So, it’ll take him, President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspective.
Trump: Mr. President, I must say, we have thousands of stories talking about it, and we have documentaries, we have news stories… I could show you a couple of things, and it has to be responded to. Let me see the articles please and turn the lights down…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fireworks-kill-boer-farmer-trump-plays-video-south/
Russia has been importing So. Africans for years. It’s a desperately needed demographic boost.
I am glad they are finding places that will take them in, I wish we were taking more.
Riots in LAx2 were targeted Whites and Korean Americans, pulling White people from their cars and shooting at store-owners.
Riots in Crown Heights, NY targeted Jews, leading to the murder of random people kn the street.
At what point is this genocide? When the Governor delays calling the Nari9nal Guard to restore order?
Genocide is an attempt to kill off one specific genetic group, I WWII it was Jews, in South Africa it is all whites. I have heard left wing blacks in the us call for a genocide of all whites in the US so you aren’t far off in your question.
As if we needed a confirmation
https://www.facebook.com/reel/9683139271782841
Israeli PM Netanyahu holds first presser in 5 months
Turkey’s Threat to Israel & an Israeli Attack on Iran?
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Israel reportedly preparing for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear program, according to CNN, which also says the decision could depend on how the US nuclear talks go with Iran; a potential new threat to Israel:
–how Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is moving to possibly revive the Ottoman Empire, beginning in Syria – and why those ambitions could mean trouble for Israel;
–Congressional Republicans working to reach compromises on divisive issues in order the finalize and pass President Trump’s tax cut and budget bill,
–and the President announces the Golden Dome missile defense system for the US…
Member of anti-Israel band Kneecap charged with terror offence over Hezbollah flag clip
Liam O’Hanna, stage name Mo Chara, came under scrutiny after a video emerged of him allegedly yelling ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah’ at a 2024 gig in London
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/kneecap-charged-terror-offence-hezbollah-flag-liam-ohanna-pfzlvl83
A member of the anti-Israel rap ban Kneecap has been charged with a terror offence in relation to a video allegedly showing him draped in a Hezbollah flag.
Liam O’Hanna, stage name Mo Chara, is accused of displaying a flag in support of a proscribed organisation during a 2024 gig in London.
The band, which hit the headlines after projecting the slogan “f*** Israel, free Palestine” above its set at Coachella last month, came under scrutiny after a pair of contentious clips resurfaced online.
One showed a member of the band shout “the only good Tory is a dead Tory” and “kill your local MP”.
In the other, one of the performers – alleged to be O’Hanna – could be seen apparently wearing a Hezbollah flag while shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”.
Both videos are currently under investigation by the Counter-Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police.
Kneecap have insisted they do not support proscribed terror organistions and do not advocated for violence against anyone.
However, authorities have now confirmed that O’Hanna has been charged in relation to the latter recording.
The 27-year-old, from Belfast, will attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 18 June to face charges of displaying a flag in support of a proscribed organisation.
Kneecap member charged with terror offence
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2qq2n3800o
A member of Irish language hip-hop group Kneecap has been charged with a terror offence after allegedly displaying a flag in support of proscribed organisation Hezbollah at a London gig.
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, 27, has been charged by the Metropolitan Police after an incident on 21 November 2024 at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, London.
Mr Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the name Mo Chara, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 18 June.
Officers from the Met’s counter terrorism command were made aware on 22 April of an online video from the event.
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