Still Report #479 - New Star Wars Movie and the Budget
Good morning. I’m still reporting on the movie economy. Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened in North America last night at 7pm in the east. By this morning at 4 am, initial box office receipts have crushed previous records - $60 million by morning.
The previous champ was Harry Potter, Part 2, the final film in the franchise, which earned $43.5 million in Thursday previews in July 2011. The Dark Knight Rises took in $30.6 million in 2012. Reviews are very good. Rotten Tomatoes users have given it a 95% fresh rating and Rentrack fans gave it an unheard of 94% rating. Force Awakens is the most expensive film of all time – costing Disney studios upwards of $200 million to make. However, experts now believe that it will become a profitable venture for Disney by the end of its first weekend. Estimates are that “Force Awakens” may become the top grossing film of all time, exceeding Avatar 2009 total of $2.8 billion and Titanic’s 1997 total of $2.2 billion. By New Years day, “Force Awakens” has a good shot at exceeding 2014s disappointing 10.3 billion dollar gross for the entire movie industry -- pushing that up to around $10.5 billion dollars for 2015. Now, let’s put this number in perspective to make it useful. In the big picture, the movie industry’s 10 billion per year take is small potatoes compared with the staggering $1.1 trillion budget deal which Congress will vote on later today. The new deal, complete with full funding for President Obama’s suicidal foreign refugee resettlement program will add over $500 billion to the deficit – all financed by selling additional interest bearing bonds. Just the new interest on this new addition to the national debt will cost taxpayers around an additional $15 billion dollars per year – 50% more than the entire movie industry will take in all year.
The truth is that NONE of this money needs to be borrowed. The government can simply create it without borrowing without any debt. But, you say, “that’s printing and printing would cause runaway inflation”! Well, yes, it would! But the inflation is felt faster by the voters than the nearly invisible, but far more damaging effects of the borrowing. Taxpayers would get angry at politicians quicker if inflation set in, and elect new politicians. That’s the secret that both politicians and bankers don’t want you to know - about the U.S. economy. Politicians will talk all day about cutting spending, but it never happens. What their main donors – the bankers -- would much prefer is that you keep thinking borrowing is an acceptable alternative as they blame each other time and time again for the over spending. That helps both the politicians and the bankers stay rich. But it is a totally bad solution for you. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Good evening, I’m still reporting on the Greatest.
Muhammad Ali – know as “The Greatest” – is near death and currently relying on medical help to breathe.
According to Associated Press the respiratory problems of the former heavyweight champion boxer result from complications of his Parkinson’s disease – an ailment he was diagnosed with in the 1980s.
The 74-year-old boxing legend was hospitalized in Scottsdale, Arizona yesterday and loved ones are rushing to be at his side as his condition worsens.
Ali has suffered from Parkinson’s for three decades. He lit the 1996 Olympic torch in Atlanta as he shook visibly.
Doctors say that the Parkinson’s likely was caused by the thousands of punches Ali took to his head during his globetrotting career.
At one point, Ali was perhaps the most recognized person in the world, but he has lived quietly in the Phoenix area with his 4th wife, Lonnie, whom he married in 1986.
I always admired Ali. He completely recreated boxing in his own image. His mantra “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” allowed him to dodge opponents punches without even having his boxing gloved up to deflect punches. This not only caused opponents to punch themselves out, but frustrated them causing them to eventually open themselves to a deadly counter-attack.
For me he was a model because of his creativity. He taught me that you could figure out a better way to do anything if you just tried, despite conventional wisdom.
For that alone, Ali – aka Cassius Clay - you made the world a better place and inspired guys like me to go after my dreams, even though they too were in opposition to conventional wisdom.
Here is a 1964 reading by Cassius Clay of his poem, “I am the Greatest”. Notice how his first words have the same vocal power that Donald Trump uses. Maybe Ali was an inspiration for our next president too.
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Very important article on Breitbart yesterday written by Julia Hahn.
It shows that FoxNews owner Rupert Murdoch is the co-chair of the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), one of the most powerful open borders lobbying firms in the country.
Yesterday, on Bret Baier’s evening news show, Trump cryptically said he didn’t like the games Fox was playing. Could this be what Trump was referring to?
As Julia Hahn of Breitbart put it:
“Trump has shined a spotlight on one of Washington’s best kept secrets: namely, Fox’s role via its founder Rupert Murdoch in pushing an open borders agenda. The Trump campaign is a direct threat to Murdoch’s efforts to open America’s borders.”
According to Hahn, FoxNews may have played a key role in not shining their shiney new news spotlight on Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2013 Gang of 8 Immigration bill, which :
“ … would have granted immediate amnesty and eventual citizenship to millions of illegal aliens, it would have doubled the annual admission of foreign workers, and it would have dispensed 33 million green cards to foreign nationals in the span of a single decade despite current record immigration levels.”
Remember back to Republican debate #1? Megyn Kelly peppered Donald Trump with not questions about his proposals and policies, but with sensational trash talk “gotcha questions”.
Was the same questioning ferver directed at pretty boy Marco Rubio? I’m not going to go back and check two-and-a-half hours of video, but if memory serves, there were no tough questions about his scheming with the Gang of 8.
Another interesting fact, reporter Julie Hahn dug up: Bill Sammon, FoxNews vice president and Washington managing editor, is the father of Brooke Sammon, Marco Rubio’s press secretary.
In fact, the only reason the Gang of 8 open immigration plan failed in Congress was not Fox coverage, but that opponents flooded the Senate with calls, shutting down the switchboard.
Rupert Murdoch’s support for open borders is not exactly a state secret. In 2014, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch wrote a piece entitled “Immigration Reform Can’t Wait” in which he called opponents of the Gang of 8 plan:
“… nativists who scream about amnesty…”
Well, No, Rupert! We call ourselves nationalists or patriots, and yes, we believe national sovereignty is important – very important – in fact, the last bastion of world freedom -- and we don’t believe in open borders or a wonderful, idyllic New World Order of unelected technocrats running everything and the social contract being shredded.
So Fox manipulates their coverage on the immigration issue to suit Rupert’s idyllic dreams. Mickey Kaus, a veteran analyst on immigration issues says that Fox blocks out coverage of key immigration fights in Washington, D.C. in a subtle way he calls an:
“immigration tamp-down”
As reporter Julia Hahn put it:
“As any casual viewer of Fox News would observe, one sees scant … coverage … on the record-setting, foreign-born population inside the United States;”
“…nor coverage of census findings that immigration is about to surpass all historical records;”
In other words, the Mexican border is still wide open – the undocumented aliens are still flooding in at record numbers; it’s just that Fox is no longer reporting on it.
“…nor stories on the total number of immigrants allowed into the country each year and the strain this number puts on education, the economy, the welfare states and the profound changes to U.S. culture.”
“By not covering these issues in any real depth, it helps clear the way for the enactment of the Murdoch-backed immigration agenda — bringing in the New American Century hoped for by Rupert Murdoch, Marco Rubio, and Barack Obama.”
And, I might add, Ted Cruz.
No, only Donald Trump’s strong stand against illegal immigration has shown a light of truth on this issue sufficient for the rest of us to be able to catch the scent and catch up to him.
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Tucker Carlson – It’s the Clinton Globalist Cabal vs the Middle Class
Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on what real news could look like.
Tucker Carlson is hopefully the future of the news business.
This finally is the end of the Clinton era. By the next presidential cycle we hope it will be seen for what it was – an era of unprecedented political corruption which feeds on racial and philosophical divisiveness to maintain their political power. And today the entire illicit, immoral castle of sand begins to crumble.
Carlson breaks the Trump phenomenon down to its basics – a battle between the globalists and the American middle class - In just 2 minutes.
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Carlson takes over for Brit Hume at 7pm on Fox starting next Monday.
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Well this is a nasty development. Hungary has declared a state of emergency nation wide and mobilized 1500 soldiers and an unknown number of police to stop an attack on their fence.
Approximately 10,000 migrants are now stuck along the border with Macedonia and Bulgaria and have broken through fences along the Greece/Macedonian border.
The unprecedented move resulted from European “No Borders” activists arming migrants with bolt cutters and other tools to breach fences and some fences have been breached as a result.
According to Hungary today, about 100 individuals get through the Hungarian fence per week, but with all borders sealed blocking the migrants path from Greece to Germany, migrant populations are rapidly building up and no one knows what the outcome will be.
The emergency order has seen no criticism inside of Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the move is necessary because no one knows the reaction the migrants will have to plugging holes in the Hungarian fence and pushing the migrants back out of the country. According to Orban:
“We have recognized this risk and will take any action against it”.
A week ago in his fortnightly radio address to the nation, Orban vowed that in Hungary, civilization will not be destroyed by the migrant invasion and women will be safe:
“… gangs will not be hunting our wives and daughters.”
In our next report see how Orban’s strong stance is already paying big dividends for Hungary and its Central European neighbors.
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Good morning, I’m still reporting on Berlin Truck Terrorist Killed in Italy
Good morning, I’m still reporting on the invasion.
Suspected Berlin truck terrorist Anis Amri, was shot and killed this morning by an Italian police trainee near Milan, Italy.
Amri, who had evaded a 4-day European manhunt was stopped by a two-man patrol in a piazza around 3 am on suspicion of burglary.
When the officers asked for his identification, Amry pulled a gun and shot one officer in the shoulder. The second officer, police trainee, Luca Scatà, shot and killed Amri.
According to Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti:
“There is absolutely no doubt that the person killed is Anis Amri.”
German security officials confirmed that the fingerprints of the dead man match Amri’s prints.
Amri hijacked a truck on Monday evening – probably in Germany – driven by Polish truck driver who fought him and was finally shot and stabbed by Amri. He then drove the truck into a Berlin Christmas Market, killing 12 and injuring dozens more.
Amri evaded police by zigzagging his way by train, first into France, and then returning to Italy – where he had spent several years – mostly in prison – after migrating across the Mediterranean.
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The Obama administration and the State Department announced this afternoon that they are withholding 18 emails between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama because they are too highly classified for the public to see.
The State Department is releasing another group of emails – many of them highly classified – this evening, but these 18 will not be part of that release because they are “too damaging”. Damaging to whom???
CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller broke the story this afternoon in a tweet:
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Withholding these 18 emails under the Presidential Records Act means that the President can keep these 18 emails secret for up to 12 years.
Unbelievably, a White House spokesman today even denied that Hillary Clinton is the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation into her email practices.
However, according to the Washington Examiner and NewsMax, former Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Daryll Issa says the FBI will recommend indictments for both Hillary Clinton and her aide, Huma Abedin for what other experts are calling “multiple felonies”.
Earlier this week, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay of Texas said the FBI is going to recommend indictment. Delay told NewsMax:
“They also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they’re going public,” implying a Constitutional crisis not seen in the United States since the Watergate scandal.
FoxNews Chief Intelligence correspondent, Catherine Herridge, reported on live TV this evening that top intelligence officials are “pissed off” that the White House is trying to make this seem like a political witch hunt - the idea of which would be to help Clinton get through at least the Iowa Caucuses before the worst of this comes out.
Herridge also reported that top Democrats to whom she has spoken are growing very concerned that protecting Clinton could bring massive, widespread election repercussions in November’s elections.
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Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on the invasion.
Press TV – the state television of Iran – just called and asked me to be on their morning news show starting at 20:00 Eastern Time, which is 01:00 hours GMT, and 04:30 hours Tehran time.
As I remember, this news show is live, but I’m not sure. I’ll try to record it since it’s a Skype interview.
I have refused interviews with Press TV for at least a year now – ever since their Parliament chanted “Death to America” and “Death to America”.
However, I was intrigued by the topic. Here is what I was sent.
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the UK's decision to leave the European Union meant a break in the development of the EU.
“But she said the UK would remain a close partner of the EU, with close economic and security ties.
“Merkel said the UK had to outline what kind of relationship it wanted with the European Union in the future, and then the remaining 27 member states would have to decide to what extent they could accommodate that.
“The chancellor was speaking in Potsdam on Saturday when she met Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer at a CSU/CDU party strategy meeting.”
If you have any suggestions for how I should respond, please let me know in “Comments” to this report by 19:00 hours Eastern. Please make your suggestions brief. Longer suggestions tend to set aside and dealt with only if time permits.
I do not plan on pulling any punches with this interview.
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Good evening, I’m still reporting on new social media offerings coming in 2017.
The result of the MSM’s attempts over the last year to centralize and propagandize the entire televised political discourse in the U.S. will give birth to significant consequences coming as soon as early this year. Dozens of tech-heavy start-ups will be rolling out alternatives that decentralize the DC-to-New York media monopoly. If any of these initiatives catch fire, it could completely change the way America engages in the next presidential election.
We have been asked to be one of the prime beta testers for at least two new promising social media startup concepts. One I can talk about - a little – right now - the other, not yet.
Coming in mid-January will be the first implementation of something called Live-stream, interactive, parallel television – or LIPT.
The idea is that we – probably Beth and I - will be live-stream commentators of any nationally-syndicated TV show of our choice. But the viewer experience will not be merely static – that is, non-participatory. It will be fully interactive.
As I understand it, viewers will be able to text in comments or questions for the moderators through a patented software interface. An audio interface – or even a Skype vid interface? Possibly, but I’m guessing, but that would also have to involve a 7-second delay to screen out the crazies.
I won’t name the company yet because we are getting our first live demo tomorrow.
For example, we may stream during Megyn Kelly’s Show at 9 pm Eastern, and punch holes – and allow you to do so as well – in her spin-laden offering.
We may come on earlier - at 6pm and critique Bret Baier’s show. How would you like to provide an instant rebuttal to George Will? It’s all something that has to be worked out – a trial-and-error sort of thing.
But in addition, we may be able to offer this technology to others as well. Yes, there may be a way for you to host your own LIPT channel, build an audience and get paid to do it.
We’ll know more tomorrow evening. Stay tuned.
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Good evening, we are still reporting on a Tucker Carlson on Fox News segment tonight.
Beth and I had to do a practice session for our new show coming out on “The Couch”, premiering in April, 2017.
It is a new something called “parallel broadcasting” here we comment on a news show that you and us watch simultaneously. It’s interactive too. You can text your questions in directly to us over The Couch’s exclusive software, which you will be able to download for free.
So, this is pretty much what it’s going to look like, 5 days a week from 6 to 7 pm eastern.
There will be an alpha test next week with a limited number of friends invited to participate as we test our fully-integrated system because we don’t want to have it be a load test at the same time.
Then the second week in March will be our beta test, where we will open it up to a wider audience, then we’ll take 2 weeks of final prep, that probably early in April, we’ll be going live – and so will you on your own couches.
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