APING IT TO REALITY

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Teach them young, then let them spread their wings and fly.

No matter the race or neighborhood this should be happening

Why aren't their fathers showing them this?

Scandal Rocks Biden's Labor Dept For Lying About Sharing Non-Public Inflation Data With Secret Group Of Wall Street "Super Users" | ZeroHedge

In retrospect, it appears the BLS really did have something to hide, because in a follow up from both the NYT and Bloomberg, we now learn that an economist from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was corresponding on data related the monthly CPI print with major firms like JPMorgan and BlackRock, in what Bloomberg said "raised questions about equitable access to economic information."

Extending on the report from February, records requested by Bloomberg revealed that the unnamed BLS economist answered numerous inquiries about details within the CPI in recent months, mostly related to computations in key categories within shelter as well as used cars, according to

The back and forth between the financial firms and the economist "who has been with the BLS for many years" was first reported by the New York Times;  as discussed previously, the government bureaucrat sent several emails to a broader group, which he called “my super users” in one of the emails obtained by Bloomberg. The BLS previously lied when it said it doesn’t maintain a list of “super users.”

In mid-February, one user asked if they could be added to the “super user email list,” to which the BLS economist replied minutes later, “Yes I can add you to the list.” The move was an attempt by the lowly paid government worker to curry favor with his much better paid peers on the sell- and buyside so that he could, one day, trade the preferential data access for a cushier job in some hedge fund or Wall Street firm.

As Bloomberg details, while the recipients’ names were redacted from the request, email signature details or disclosures from their employers were visible in some of the provided records. And in addition to BlackRock and JPMorgan, other banks, hedge funds and research firms — Brevan Howard, Millennium Capital Partners LLP, Citadel, Moore Capital Management, High Frequency Economics, Nomura Securities International and BNP Paribas — appeared in the exchanges and declined to comment. Pharo Management and Wolfe Research also came up in the emails but didn’t provide comment.

Understandably, economists - at least those who were not important enough to be on the "super user" list - have been clamoring to find out more about these “super users” are after the BLS staffer addressed an email to those people in February, suggesting that a change to the weights of underlying data within a key measure of rental inflation was behind its surge in January’s CPI. As we reported at the time, the BLS told recipients to disregard its contents, and subsequently tried to clear the confusion with a notice on its website. The agency also said that the email was “a mistake.”

But, as noted above, we now know that this was merely the latest lie by a Biden agency; and so this latest revelation "is likely to prompt a deeper look at the dissemination of economic information that has implications for how major assets trade as well as Federal Reserve policy."

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has some explaining to do as it was revealed that 53 of her state’s 83 counties have more registered voters than eligible voting residents. An additional 23 counties have a “suspiciously high” voter registration rate of 90%, which is far higher than the national average. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Benson and is demanding answers.

The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) holds states accountable for maintaining accurate voter information. States are responsible for removing ineligible voters in the case of death, address changes, or lawsuits, and must report accurate figures to maintain fair elections.

Voter fraud in Michigan has been a prevalent problem. “This is not the first time Michigan has failed to abide by the NVRA’s requirements. In 2020, Michigan election officials were sued in this Court for violating the NVRA. See Daunt v. Benson, Doc. 1, No. 1:20-cv-522 (W.D. Mich. June 9, 2020),” the lawsuit revealed. At the time, Michigan had one county with registration rates in excess of 100% of the voting-age population, and 15 counties with rates above 90%. The state defendants moved to dismiss the case, but this Court denied the motions.” The Secretary of State publicly canceled the registration of 177,000 voters and no one was held accountable and the situation worsened.

Another lawsuit from 2020 found that Benson failed to disqualify 26,000 voters from registering, despite the fact that they were DEAD. Now these people did not simply pass prior to the election. In one instance, as reported by the Federalist, a person who passed away in 1990 was registered to vote blue in 2020. US District Court Judge Jane Beckering of the Western District of Michigan dismissed the lawsuit, siding with Benson, claiming, “the record demonstrates that deceased voters are removed from Michigan’s voter rolls on a regular and ongoing basis.”

This is blatant voter fraud happening at the state level. Michigan attempted to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 US Presidential Election ballot but the Supreme Court rejected that decision in December 2023. The establishment does not plan to fight a fair battle this November and plots are already in place to alter the election, removing our fundamental right to vote for our elected officials.

I suspect the same issue would apply when, hopefully when, the RNC investigates other states with suspiciously high voter registration rates.

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