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Trump To Launch New Social Media Platform In Next Couple Of Months After Meetings With Companies: Report

Daily Wire: Former President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to launch his own social media platform in the next couple of months after hosting numerous meetings with companies at Mar-a-Lago.

An adviser to Trump made the revelation on Sunday during an interview on Fox News’s “MediaBuzz” with host Howard Kurtz.

“The fact the president’s been off of social media for a while because his press releases, his statements have actually been getting almost more play than he ever did on Twitter before,” adviser Jason Miller claimed. “I’m not sure if that’s because the length of them are a bit longer. [We] even had one reporter say that she thought it was much more elegant, the way that the president was able to communicate his thoughts and very much looked more presidential in that longer form.”

“But I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform,” he continued. “And this is something that I think will be the the hottest ticket in social media. Read More

On Eve of Elections Saudis Signal Israel There’s No Normalization without Palestinian State

Jewish Press: One day ahead of the Israeli election, Riyadh sent a signal to Jerusalem through an unusual article in the popular, Jerusalem-based newspaper Al-Quds, that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman will not agree to normalize relations with Israel until a full-fledged Palestinian state is established, and that Israel’s current policy under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership toward the PA and Gaza Arabs does not allow for normalization between the two countries.

“I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.” Joshua 3:1-2

One day ahead of the Israeli election, Riyadh sent a signal to Jerusalem through an unusual article in the popular, Jerusalem-based newspaper Al-Quds, that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman will not agree to normalize relations with Israel until a full-fledged Palestinian state is established, and that Israel’s current policy under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership toward the PA and Gaza Arabs does not allow for normalization between the two countries.

Obaid’s answer to the question posed by his title is a resounding no.

Obaid claims that Crown Prince Ben Salman has invested a great deal of effort that may change the face of the Palestinian issue and has kept in touch with both sides, but for the moment he prefers not to move forward with his efforts in that direction.

This message clashes head-on with Netanyahu’s promises this week to operate a direct flight between Tel Aviv and Mecca for Israeli Muslim pilgrims participating in the annual Hajj. Read More

Summers Sees Worst U.S. Macroeconomic Policy in 40 Years

Bloomberg: Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the U.S. is suffering from the “least responsible” macroeconomic policy in four decades, pointing the finger at both Democrats and Republicans for creating “enormous” risks.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.” Revelation 6:5 

In his latest attack on the recent rush of stimulus, Summers told David Westin on Bloomberg Television’s “Wall Street Week” that “what was kindling, is now igniting” given the recovery from Covid will stoke demand pressure at the same time as fiscal policy has been aggressively eased and the Federal Reserve has “stuck to its guns” in committing to loose monetary policy.

“These are the least responsible fiscal macroeconomic policy we’ve have had for the last 40 years,” Summers said. “It’s fundamentally driven by intransigence on the Democratic left and intransigence and the completely irresponsible behavior in the whole of the Republican Party.”

Summers, a top official in the past two Democratic administrations, has emerged as one of the leading critics among Democrat-leaning economists of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic plan. Summers warned in the interview the U.S. was facing a “pretty dramatic fiscal-monetary collision.”

He said there is a one-in-three chance that inflation will accelerate in the coming years and the U.S. could face stagflation. He also saw the same chance of no inflation because the Fed would hit the brakes hard and push the economy toward recession. The final possibility is that the Fed and Treasury will get rapid growth without inflation. Read More 

Trump Was Right: Michigan Judge Rules State’s 2020 Almost-Anything-Goes Ballot Signature Rule Was ‘Invalid’

PJ Media: After the media called him out for complaining about a Michigan elections worker not checking mail-in ballot signatures, it turns out that President Trump was absolutely right to be concerned about the practice.

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come” 2 Timothy 3:1

A judge has ruled that the supposedly COVID-induced switch in Michigan election law loosening absentee voter signature verification was “invalid.”

One month before the November 2020 election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ordered elections offices to presume that the signatures on ballots were valid.

Republicans and elections clerks brought a lawsuit. Just the News reports the ruling directs elections officials to ignore the October 2020 directive in future elections.

Benson had instructed local election clerks a month before the Nov. 3 election to start with a “presumption” that all signatures on absentee ballots were valid and only reject those that had “multiple significant and obvious” inconsistencies. Republicans and one election clerk challenged her instructions in court.

Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray wrote in his ruling that the secretary of state was supposed to have held months of hearings on the efficacy of such a rule change, issued public notices, and received comments before enacting the rule change.

The presumption is found nowhere in state law. Read More

Former Middle East envoy Greenblatt: Saudi Arabia on ‘path to peace’ with Israel

JNS: Saudi Arabia is on a path to peace with Israel, but it needs to be given space to move at its own pace, former White House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told JNS in an exclusive interview.

“For they have consulted together with one consent;
They form a confederacy against You:
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites” Psalm 83:5-6

“These deals are complex and take a great deal of time, but any one thing could spark the right opportunity for a deal to actually be announced and quickly consummated, as we have seen,” said Greenblatt.

How Much Longer Do We Palestinians Have To Put Up With These Clowns? | by Sam Bahour | Medium

The New York-born son of Hungarian Jewish refugees, Greenblatt is a father of six who lives in Teaneck, N.J. He worked as a top lawyer for the Trump organization before becoming former President Donald Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations in January 2017, one of the few Trump officials charged with the Middle East file.

Greenblatt weighed in on his experiences negotiating on behalf of the Trump administration’s efforts towards Israeli-Palestinian peace and the Abraham Accords, as well as his thoughts on the Biden administration reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA ) and its critical approach vis-à-vis the Saudis.

He noted that in its first months, the Biden administration seems to be giving too much credence to the European position, even though the European Union was a main force behind what he called the “disastrous” Iran nuclear deal.

VP Kamala Harris: ‘Racism Is Real in America, and It Has Always Been’

Breitbart: Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the U.S. as racist, xenophobic, and sexist in remarks at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she and President Joe Biden traveled Friday to show solidarity with the Asian American community.

“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” Acts 17:26 NIV

“Racism is real in America and it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America and always has been. Sexism, too,” Harris said.

Eight people were murdered this week at three massage parlors in Atlanta. Six of the victims were Asian.

8 killed in shootings at 3 metro Atlanta spas. Police have 1 suspect in custody - CNN

Though police said that there was no evidence of a racial motive, advocates have claimed that the event is only the latest in a wave of anti-Asian-American hate crimes.

Democrats have also blamed former President Donald Trump, who took a tough stance against China and often referred to the coronavirus as the “China virus” (though he also praised and defended Asian-Americans.)

In her remarks, Harris hinted that Trump was to blame for attacks on Asian Americans: “For the last year, we’ve had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian Americans, people with the biggest pulpits, spreading this kind of hate.”

When she was running for president, Harris touted herself as the first future Asian American president. Her mother is Indian-American. Read More …

The Fed could be a source of market volatility as Powell and others speak in the week ahead

CNBC:

  • Fed Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before Congress twice this week, and a dozen other Fed speeches are slated for next week.
  • Personal consumption expenditures inflation data will be released at the end of the week. It’s important as the market is focused on inflation and contending with the Fed’s willingness to let it run.
  • The direction of bond yields could continue to drive stocks, after the 10-year reached a high of 1.75% this past week, its highest in 14 months. Read More

New questions about Biden’s physical and mental health ignored by the press

New York Press: The national media were ready to have a 25th Amendment party when a sloppy book by Michael Wolff came out with a bunch of ditzy rumors about President Trump’s mental acuity.

By contrast, we just watched the current president literally collapse and there’s not a peep of concern from the press.

Joe Biden on Friday was climbing up to board Air Force One when, even with his hand on the rail for support, he tripped over one of the steps. He pushed himself up only to see the same thing happen a second time. Finally, gravity got the best of his 78-year-old ankles and he fell to his knees.

Biden eventually got up and made the rest of the journey to the cabin, but are we all going to pretend that we weren’t feeling the urge to rush to his side like a Boy Scout offering his arm to an elderly.

One of Biden’s press secretaries was sure to tell reporters that it was very windy outside during Biden’s adventure up the steps.

Is no one in the major news media concerned?

It would be easier to overlook the incident if it didn’t come in addition to a slew of other episodes with Biden.

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On Thursday, he referred to Kamala Harris as “President Harris.” Back in December, before he was sworn in as the real president, Biden called Harris “president-elect.”

Things Are Out Of Control” – There Is A Shortage Of Everything And Prices Are Soaring: What Happens Next

Zero Hedge: In Wednesday’s press conference, Jay Powell confirmed that the Fed is setting off on a historic experiment: welcoming a conflagration of red-hot inflation for an indefinite period of time in an overheating economy, with the underlying assumption that it’s all “transitory” and that inflation will return to normal in a few years, and certainly before 2023 when the Fed’s rates will still be at zero.

When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.” Revelation 6:5-6 NKJV

There is a big problem with that assumption: while FOMC members, most of whom are independently wealthy and can just charge their Fed card for any day to day purchases of “non-core” CPI basket items, the vast majority of the population does not have the luxury of having someone else pay for their purchases or looking beyond the current period of runaway inflation, which will certainly crush the purchasing power of the American consumer, especially once producers of intermediate goods start hiking prices even more and passing through inflation.

Many readers may not recall, but one such instance of “transitory” inflation that proved to be anything but and led to the infamous Volcker Fed and its double digit rate hikes, was the price of oil which took off in the Arab oil embargo and then refused to come back for over a decade.

The Powell Fed, however, is eager to brush aside any analogues to previous episodes of runaway inflation which it sees as having a demand component, and merely ascribes what is taking place to unprecedented supply chain disruptions – i.e., collapse in supply – as a result of both the trade war with China and, more recently, the covid pandemic, which have unleashed chaos among traditional supply-chain intermediaries.

To be sure, the Fed is certainly right that there has been turmoil within virtually all supply chains: one needs to only read what the respondents to the most recent mfg ISM said to get a sense of how bad it truly is:

  • “Things are now out of control. Everything is a mess, and we are seeing wide-scale shortages.” (Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components)