An old photo of former President Donald Trump, sitting with his head bowed, is being shared anew on social media and presented as evidence that he was caught sleeping at a 2017 NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was seated next to Trump, is turned toward the then-president in the image.
“Remember that time when Trump fell asleep at the 2017 NATO summit? That was embarrassing,” an Aug. 6 Threads post said.
But the official caption of the photo, taken by photographer Robert Ghement, tells a different story.
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Ghement took the photo in May 2017 at what was then the new NATO headquarters in Belgium.
The photo’s caption says Stoltenberg “chats with US President Donald J. Trump … who looks down during the inauguration ceremony of the new NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.”
We reviewed video footage of the ceremony, during which Stoltenberg gave a speech, and saw no evidence that Trump fell asleep. Trump was recorded looking at his phone, sitting as he appears in Ghement’s photo and with his arms crossed. But not snoozing.
We looked for but found no credible evidence, such as news stories or footage, showing Trump asleep.
We rate claims this photo shows Trump sleeping at the 2017 NATO summit False.
Following are criminal motion cases to be heard at the Covington County Courthouse on August 12, 2024, at 9 a.m. with Judge Charles A. Short presiding.
Jason Ronad McLeod, revocation hearing, Attorney Riley Powell (R)
Johnathon S. Clements, revocation hearing, Attorney Trey Burgess
Udonis Jamal Carthen, revocation hearing, Attorney David Baker
Corneliuse T. Marshall, immunity hearing, Attorney Carlton Taylor (R)
Tracy Nicole Wilson Rushing, revocation hearing, Attorney Manish Patel
— The above criminal motion cases were filed by the clerk’s office on August 6, 2024.
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There was no counterbalance to the rest of Monday’s idiocy on financial news. ~QTR
QTR’s Fringe Finance
Wharton Professor Emeritus Jeremy Siegel, who has a longstanding presence as an economic commentator and author laying chalk on the modern monetary system and reliably “predicting” the heavy favorite that the market would always continue to go up, humiliated himself this week on national television.
However, in the process, he offered important perspectives on how truly dopesick our stock market and its participants have become.
On Monday, which as of Thursday night has turned out to be the only day with serious volatility to the downside this week, Siegel was on CNBC before the market opened clamoring for 150 basis points in rate cuts.
You can watch the video of him, where it sounds like he’s about to cry, making his case for “emergency cuts” here:
There was no counterbalance to the rest of Monday’s idiocy on financial news, however Fast Money’s Guy Adami did a great job cancelling out Siegel’s white noise after the trading day by making a couple very simple points about Jeremy Siegel’s protest – namely: “There’s no emergency. The stock market can go down, too.”
And by Thursday night, once the piss stain on his Dockers from watching Sunday night’s Japanese index futures had time to dry, Siegel had already gone on the record with CNBC to back off of his position from Monday.
He told CNBC: “I no longer certainly think it’s necessary. But I want [Powell] to move down to 4% as fast as possible. Would it be bad? No. But would it be necessary? No, not at this time.”
In other words, Siegel changed his mind in less than 3 trading days and tipped his hand that he was reacting, almost tick-by-tick, to moves in the stock market — something that any economist knows should not be driving decisions on monetary policy and is not part of the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability (pause for laughter) and maximum employment.
Siegel’s appearance, and his imploring of the Fed to cut rates, was a perfect cross-section of how addicted to total euphoria market participants have become. This “emergency” not only displayed our massive dopamine deficit with regards to market performance, but also took a page directly out of the impotent political and central banking playbook in the sense it was completely reactionary and incredibly hastily put together.
Make no mistake about it: Siegel was likely booked in that slot, that morning, on CNBC because everybody knew Sunday night that the market was going to be in for a rough ride. And while Japan crashed 12% the night prior, the NASDAQ was still only indicated to be down about 5% in the morning and never once tripped a circuit breaker in trading all day Monday. And so, it would have been an uncomfortable day and the market would have gone down, but that’s the nature of markets and prices: they go up…and down.
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Even if you think the market is headed lower in the short to medium term, as I do, I can’t help but sit back and laugh this week as the market has stabilized, volatility has fallen, and panic—both in the U.S. and Japan—has subsided for the time being.
Guy Adami said it brilliantly on Monday when he proclaimed that rate cuts weren’t some magic salve for the market. For a man who holds court at Wharton and is probably just a couple of feet away from classrooms where they’re holding game theory classes, I’m stunned that Siegel didn’t appear to even consider the idea that an emergency rate cut could inject even more panic into the market and, as Guy Adami noted, would make the Yen carry trade causing this shit show to begin with, worse.
At least for the week, it was a lesson that markets sometimes have to shake out and will stabilize on their own.
When you watch Siegel’s appearance on CNBC, the panic dripping off him is palpable. He looks like me, mid-filling, in a dentist chair: squirming, uncomfortable, likely perspiring heavily. And as anybody who has traded before knows, when you panic, you overtrade. And when you overtrade, you make things worse and you lose money. The Fed is already forecasting its rate cut for September and has taken great care to do so, which is why an emergency cut on Monday would have been “overtrading” and likely just would have made things worse.
I give credit to Jerome Powell for remaining quiet on Monday and keeping a steady hand — though if markets had gotten ugly Tuesday, who knows what would have happened.
Regardless, it always stuns me to see PhD economists and often times financial news anchors who are supposed to be the voices of reason and understand the nuances of the bowels of the economy better than anybody, slip into visible panic.
If you want to claim that Austrian economists and people who don’t believe in modern monetary theory are “wrong” all the time because the market is going up, that is a fair criticism that we have to take. But at least when the proverbial shit starts to hit the fan a little bit, we are geared up and prepared, as well as informed, instead of defecating ourselves and then trying to fulfill the impossible task of wresting control of a multi-trillion dollar market system from the hands of free market participants — all in the name of capitalism.
On Monday, in a mid-day note, I wrote that I was starting to take off some of my volatility long that I had mentioned weeks prior. I also mentioned that “I think the Fed is doing the right thing not riding the rescue right away this morning, but also think markets need to come in further. I don’t think this is going to be a one day issue.” I still believe this, and I continue to think more volatility will be ahead. I don’t think this week’s rebound will hold, and I believe market sentiment and psychology has shifted legitimately from the “soft landing” narrative to more of a “cover your ass” narrative.
This week, the United States had two extremely ugly bond auctions: a 10-year auction on Wednesday and a 30-year auction on Thursday, both of which tailed by more than three basis points.
If you don’t know what that means, you can check this article out for a primer on how Treasury auctions work for people with short attention spans.
Rates up, rates down, rates the same—it all doesn’t matter. The gears of the economy have run out of oil and will soon be grinding to a serious halt, in my opinion. I expect home prices to continue to fall and asset prices to be not too far behind, all as a result of 5.5% rates on the largest debt bubble in history. I still believe that the Fed will be put in a position where they do act in an emergency manner, even though this week wasn’t it.
I still think the market is going to see more volatility ahead and force the hand of central bankers to hastily lower rates and quantitative easing, despite the fact that they will be far too late to make a difference and a deflationary avalanche will already be rolling down the economic hill. Is this the absolute most asinine way to do things? Yes, it is. But at least when it happens, us Austrians will have expected it, as opposed to taking to national television to prove to the world that not only are we incapable of thinking outside of the box we were educated in, but we are constantly, every day, in need of a “fix” of low volatility and picture-perfect markets, the same way a gambler at the horse track needs his last ten cent superfecta ticket to come in.
I think it’s a fair trade: we’ll let them be “right” by calling us a broken clock that is right twice a day, and in exchange, we will be prepared for when the markets are “working” and “not working” with our dignity intact — which is more than I can say for some “experts” that took to television on Monday morning.
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MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (TCN) — A 25-year-old mother and her 32-year-old boyfriend face charges after allegedly confining a 6-year-old boy to a pen and causing blunt force injuries to his abdomen, ultimately leading to his death.
According to Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, on July 30, Elaina Jennings called 911 and said her young son, Giovanni “Chulo” Jennings, was unconscious. Responders rushed the 6-year-old boy to the hospital via ambulance, and he ultimately died from his injuries around midnight on July 31.
McDonald said Jennings lied to police, claiming she had left her son with his biological father and that he was uninjured before he was with him. Authorities arrested the biological father but later learned he was not near the victim that day. Investigators did not find any evidence indicating that the child’s father was involved with the boy’s injuries or death.
According to McDonald, officials recovered “disturbing” videos, photos, and messages detailing the “horrific things that happened” to the boy.
An autopsy revealed Giovanni Jennings died from blunt force trauma to his abdomen and a perforated bowel “after a lengthy period of confinement and abuse.” The child’s death was ruled a homicide.
The victim sustained bruising and cuts all over his body, including on his head, shoulder, forearms, fingers, thumbs, back, buttocks, inner thighs, knees, and shins. The child also reportedly suffered bruising to his abdominal area and had a BB gun injury on his shin.
McDonald said a “pattern of abuse” led to Giovanni Jennings’ death.
The victim’s siblings were reportedly present and witnessed his alleged abuse.
Elaina Jennings and her boyfriend, Daniel Giacchina, allegedly kept the child confined to a pen in their bedroom and beat him. McDonald alleges that as punishment for looking out the window, Giacchina allegedly stapled the boy to the corner of the room with his face toward the wall. Afterward, he reportedly texted a photo to Jennings of the victim stapled to the wall, explaining that he solved the problem.
McDonald said investigators learned the boy was left in his pen to sleep on a wooden slab, and the suspects monitored him with a security camera. Jennings and her boyfriend allegedly watched video clips of the child misbehaving, which included him trying to urinate, drink, or leave the corner.
Jennings reportedly failed to take her son to a medical facility because she feared they would uncover the abuse. Cellphone evidence revealed that Jennings knew about the abuse and even encouraged her boyfriend to beat him.
Giacchina reportedly watched the victim often while Jennings was at work. He also typically cared for the 6-year-old’s siblings and a 5-year-old child.
Police recovered a BB gun, a ghost gun, and rounds of ammunition in the home. According to the prosecutor’s office, authorities also noticed marks in the wall consistent with a staple gun, as well as holes with BBs still in them.
McDonald said investigators found a photo of Giacchina with two children handling the ghost gun and the BB gun. They also reportedly found a photo on Jennings’ phone of two children pointing a gun at another child with his hands up, and the laser from the ghost gun illuminating his hand.
According to McDonald, authorities interviewed a 4-year-old sibling at a child advocacy center. He reportedly said Giacchina had shot him in the leg with a BB gun and showed the wound. On the day of Giovanni Jennings’ death, the 4-year-old allegedly said the victim “died all day.” The 4-year-old alleged that Jennings punched the child, and he began vomiting before his condition worsened.
McDonald said her office charged Giacchina last week with firearm possession by a prohibited person, ammunition possession by a felon, felony firearm, and lying to a peace officer. Jennings was charged with lying to a peace officer. They now also face charges of murder and first-degree child abuse.
In a statement, McDonald said, “All children have a right to grow up in a home free of fear.”
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alluded to a lewd fake claim about Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance after Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Walz as her 2024 presidential running mate.
Now, Walz is the target of another crass allegation: that nearly 30 years ago his stomach was pumped after “an unusual overingestion incident.”
“Local man’s stomach pumped after ‘neigh’-borhood dare goes wrong,” reads what looks like a headline in a newspaper called the West Point Daily News.
Local man, in this case, is “Tim Walz, a local resident of West Point, Nebraska.” The story says he was rushed to West Point General Hospital in August 1995 “after reportedly overingesting horse semen.”
The purported article quotes “Dr. Amanda Thompson, the attending physician at West Point General” and a “close friend who wished to remain anonymous.” It also features a photo of Walz when he was younger.
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This is a fabricated story.
Although there is a West Point News in West Point, Nebraska, we didn’t find a West Point Daily News.
We also found no West Point General Hospital in West Point, Nebraska, or evidence of a Dr. Amanda Thompson who worked there. Searching on Nebraska’s Health and Human Services Department website for Amanda Thompson’s with medical licenses, we found six entries for medication aides, nurse aides, pharmacist interns and pharmacy technicians, but no doctors.
The timeline also doesn’t track with reality.
Walz was born in West Point, Nebraska, but moved several times during his childhood, The New York Times reported. He spent some of his childhood in Valentine, Nebraska, and moved to Butte, Nebraska, when he was in high school. After graduating in 1989 from Chadron State College in a Nebraska town with the same name, he spent a year teaching in China before returning to teach high school.
In 1995, when this story says he lived in West Point, he was actually a resident of Alliance, Nebraska, more than 500 miles away. In 1996, he moved to Mankato, Minnesota. The photo that appears in the purported stomach-pumping story has been used in connection with his time teaching there at Mankato West High School. It appears in an Aug. 6 KSTP-TV news story about “a look back on Tim Walz’s early life in Minnesota,” for example. (The high school didn’t immediately respond to PolitiFact’s questions about the photo.)
The stomach-pumping story also shares space in the image with a story by “Bob O’Bobston” about an “international moose count underway.” This story appears to have been created with a tool designed to make fake news clippings — the moose article appears in multiple other purported news clippings. Another, for example, featured a fake headline about former President Donald Trump: “Donald Trump states that he doesn’t even know Donald Trump.”
We rate claims Walz had his stomach pumped for ingesting horse semen Pants on Fire!
PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
COLUMN: ‘News from Our Boys in the Armed Forces’ – June 29, 1944
Published 1:00 pm Friday, August 9, 2024
SSGT. James F. Meredith, U.S. Army Air Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Meredith, Rt. 1, Dozier, AL., has just returned to West Palm Beach, FL., after a 15-day furlough visiting his parents. Meredith has been stationed there for two years as Chief Clerk of the Publications Department. He expects orders to a new base soon.
Corporal Darrel A. Lowry, U.S. Army Air Corps, husband of Mrs. Hazel L. Lowry, and son of Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lowry, South Fifth St., Florala, Alabama, has recently been promoted to Sergeant. His promotion was announced by the Commanding General, AAF Eighth Fighter Command, “somewhere in England.”
Corporal George E. Anderson, U.S. Army Air Corps, was recently promoted to Sergeant by the Commanding General, AAF Eighth Fighter Command, “somewhere in England.” SGT. Anderson’s wife, Mrs. Frances L. Anderson, resides on Williams St., Andalusia. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Anderson, reside at Rt. 3, Andalusia. SGT. Anderson attended Straughn School and was an aircraft welder in the Civil Service before entering the Army on April 3, 1943.
Seaman Robert Brawner, U.S. Navy, is spending a well-earned leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Brawner. He has been in the Navy for three and a half years, and has sailed the seven seas including accompanying President Roosevelt to one of his Atlantic conferences with Prime Minister Churchill.
Lt. Gordon Bradley, U.S. Army, is spending a short furlough with his family at Gantt. Lt. Bradley, who is called “Sleepy” by his friends, joined the Army when the local National Guard unit was called up. He was a popular mail carrier for route six , Andalusia, in civilian life. He will be reporting to his new duty station at Ft. Bragg, N.C., after his leave.
PVT Donald Southwell, U.S. Army, arrived this week to spend a 10-day furlough with his wife and family here.
This is Bryan Schott, a soy boy, communist, mask-wearing, radical leftwing “journalist” who is now a former employee of The Salt Lake Tribune.
We first reported on Bryan after he was exposed for going after the donors of the Canadian Freedom Truckers, a tweet that he later deleted.
But his antics didn’t stop there…
Last week, Bryan posted on X about his displeasure that pornographic books were being banned from Utah school libraries. Because of this, he then offered to purchase pornographic books for children.
Just so you have an idea of what kind of books he wanted to buy for children, here is a page from the book Blankets, depicting a naked man with his genitals out.
Caving to an intense online backlash, Bryan deleted the tweet in an attempt to hide predatory behavior. But it was too late.
Just a few days after my initial exposé, the Salt Lake Tribune fired Bryan Schott. Of course, like all radical leftists held accountable for their actions, he decided to demonize his critics and blame his firing on “the far-right and wannabe fascists.”
Bryan Schott is the perfect example of the left-wing extremism that has infected our media. “Journalists” like Bryan use their position to harass freedom-loving patriots, groom children with gender ideology and pornographic material, and then demonize anyone who disagrees with them.
Because of your support in helping share this story, another vile journalist has been outed for the creep he truly is. Bryan is not the first I have exposed and he won’t be the last. Our children need to be protected from individuals who seek to do them irreversible harm. With your support, we can make a difference!
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President Of Voting Machine Giant Smartmatic Indicted: $1 Million Bribery, Money Laundering
The voting machines and software are ‘trusted’ around the world to provide secure elections
(Tyler Durden Reports) – The founder and president of Smartmatic – the company whose voting machines and software are ‘trusted’ around the world to provide secure elections – was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday along with two other company officials on charges involving a bribery and money-laundering scheme used to secure elections contracts in the Philippines.
Roger Piñate, 49, of Boca Ratón Florida, along with Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, of Davie, were among those charged over the alleged payment of $1 million in bribes to the former chairman of the Philippines Commission on Elections, Juan Andres Donato Bautista.
“These bribes were allegedly paid to obtain and retain business related to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the contracts, including the release of value added tax payments,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice.
According to the indictment, the alleged co-conspirators financed the bribes by over-invoicing the cost per voting machine used in the elections. To hide their crime, prosecutors say they used coded language to refer to a slush fund used to make the illicit payments – causing the creation of fraudulent contracts and fake loan agreements to make the transfers appear legitimate.
The defendants then allegedly laundered the funds related to the bribery scheme via a constellation of international bank accounts in Asia, Europe and the United States – including in the Southern District of Florida.
Bautista, Piñate, Vasquez, and Elie Moreno, 44, a dual citizen of Venezuela and Israel, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of international laundering of monetary instruments.
If convicted, Bautista, Pinate, Vasquez and Moreno each face a maximum penalty of 20 years for each count of international laundering of monetary instruments and conspiracy to commit money laundering. -Miami Herald
Smartmatic was founded in 2000 by Piñate, Antonio Mugica and Alfredo José Anzola – making international headlines after Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez chose the company to replace the country’s voting machines in 2004. In 2006, they acquired Sequoia Voting Systems – though later divested its stake.
According to Smartmatic’s website, Piñate “played a critical role in planning and executing the world’s largest election using optical scanners (in the Philippines) and in Smartmatic winning the largest election contract in US history (in Los Angeles).”
The company responded to the indictment Thursday night, saying in a statement “Smartmatic has learned that two of our employees have been indicted for alleged violations of the FCPA in the Philippines almost 10 years ago. Regardless of the veracity of the allegations and while our accused employees remain innocent until proven guilty, we have placed both employees on leaves of absence, effective immediately.
“No voter fraud has been alleged and Smartmatic is not indicted. Voters worldwide must be assured that the elections they participate in are conducted with the utmost integrity and transparency. These are the values that Smartmatic lives by.”
Smartmatic has learned that two of our employees have been indicted for alleged violations of the FCPA in the Philippines almost 10 years ago. Regardless of the veracity of the allegations and while our accused employees remain innocent until proven guilty, we have placed both… pic.twitter.com/ZGFVXgh5XX
Smartmatic, in the Philippine house, admits that electronic election data could be deleted in the middle of the night, and nobody would even know.
When Smartmatic was forced to sell in the US over its Venezuela links, it retained the Intellectual Property of its software. This… pic.twitter.com/EAs0yaA4cg
Flashback to 2020, when the Trump Campaign accused Smartmatic of providing hackable software to Dominion Voting Systems, which they claimed compromised the 2020 Presidential election.
Today Smartmatic’s founder has been indicted for bribery & money laundering.
Trump was right.
— The Intangible Truth (@LukeMor19529310) August 9, 2024
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