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The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has reached a tentative agreement with port owners and representatives of USMX, for a reported 62% contract increase in wages over six years.  As a result, the dockworker strike is suspended as negotiations on other aspects of the contract are extended through January 15, 2025.

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According to the New York Times – […] A 62 percent increase would raise the top longshoremen’s wage to just over $63 per hour at the end of a new six-year contract, from today’s $39 per hour. And at $63 an hour, the wages of East and Gulf Coast longshoremen would slightly exceed those that will be earned by West Coast longshoremen, who belong to a different union, at the end of their contract in 2027.

In the resumed talks, the issue of how much automation can occur at the ports could divide the sides. The union has also been pressing for improved retirement benefits. (more)

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Lee Smith follows the pattern of FBI setups, and notes how the Iran assassination plot was established:

The day before Thomas Matthew Crooks sprayed gunfire at President Trump, the FBI arrested Asif Merchant, a Pakistani national who was admitted into the U.S. via parole for “significant public benefit.” The Dallas office of the FBI sponsored Merchant’s parole for the purposes of “security interests.” {READ ABOUT IT}

From that origination arrest, an action that supports and evidences the DNI warning of an Iranian assassination effort against President Trump, a purposeful narrative is established.

The IC then says Iran is threatening to kill President Trump, and the FBI arrest evidence is cited. With narrative established, and they’re off to the races.

President Trump’s travel and campaigning is subsequently scrutinized by a proactively cautious Secret Service, then comes another threat – perhaps the bigger one.  Only this time when Ryan Wesley Routh is moved into position (luckily intercepted), the same DNI and FBI who previously fingered Iran as the origin, mysteriously avoid pointing out Routh’s connections to another foreign nation, Ukraine.  Why is that?

If you think of IC tradecraft as a series of sequential activities, the Iran threat would have been good cover for Ukraine success.

After all, it’s not like President Trump carries a policy perspective toward Ukraine that is diametrically opposed by financial beneficiaries in Washington DC and the USA government. No, wait…

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Today, President Donald J. Trump travels to Saginaw, Michigan for a MAGA rally at 3:00 pm ET.  Michigan represents one of the key battleground states in the 2024 election.  Livestream Links Below:

RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN Rumble Livestream – Donald Trump Campaign Rumble Livestream

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The overall prosecution attempt by Jack Smith was fundamentally deconstructed when the Supreme Court ruled mostly in favor of President Trump carrying ‘presidential immunity’ for officials acts while in office.  The ruling meant Smith had to go back to Judge Tanya Chutkan’s court and work through a process of outlining what is and is not an ‘official act’ according to the DOJ.

The result of that approach was made public yesterday, when Judge Chutkan revealed a new 165-page indictment [SEE HERE], essentially a list of evidence the DOJ claims as proof of “unofficial acts” allowing them to jump the hurdle of “official acts.”  However, the reality of Jack Smith’s filing is a story without much legal value. Instead, it is a 165-page Lawfare story created for media promotion.

Many followers have accepted that Jack Smith is not necessarily the person constructing the legal filings. There is a solid argument to be made that Andrew Weissmann, Norm Eisen and Mary McCord are the Lawfare allies tasked with writing the material.  When you read the filing, the manipulation of legalese to shape a narrative story is clear.

As former DOJ Asst AG Jeffrey Clark has noted, the filing attempts to obfuscate the legal requirements of “state of mind” by projecting what President Trump must have thought, as expressed by the opinion of unknown advisors.  Jack Smith says President Trump thought this, without actually providing any evidence of what President Trump thought. Additionally, this Lawfare approach toward including redacted quotes amounts to written testimony, which would never pass muster in any court.

The accused has a right to confront witnesses; however, in written text that questioning becomes impossible.  In essence, Jack Smith violates the principle and stated purpose of the sixth amendment.  This is one of the ways you can tell the filing itself is not intended to outline evidence, but rather to outline a story.  The claimed “evidence” is simply a story the Lawfare team want to deliver in October of an election year.

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I want to start the Day seven conversation with something I am very familiar with.  This is the phase when shock, turns to frustration, turns to a sense of being simply overwhelmed.  This is the phase when critical fellowship is THE MOST important aspect to recovery operations.

As the adrenalin subsides, there will likely be a great deal of despondency, as people succumb to dark imaginings, get angry psychologically, and with empty reserves of hope begin to express thoughts on the anger side of their mental ledger.

Try not to focus on the whispers that want you to look at the impossible horizon. Instead, with a heart of God filled fortitude, force your gaze at the 2 feet around you and work that problem… then the next two feet… then the next two feet, etc. etc.

If you are a relief worker, GIVE GRACE, and an ear, to every voice that is shouting despair. Let them cry through the apex of their desperation, until they can pause to encounter your shoulder. Then GIVE HOPE. At the core, this is what makes Samaritans Purse so effective. They live this creed as they elevate much more than just crushed stuff.  Day #7 is a day to remember the focus on soul food and the nutrition of fellowship.

GOD is all around YOU!  WATCH:

If you have 5 minutes, PLEASE watch this.

This woman loaded her family up to go help the flood victims in TN and NC.

This is such an amazing story.

When things get tough, Patriots show up!!!

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— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) October 2, 2024

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Just keep going. Sometimes the knights in shining armor appear wearing jeans, overalls and boots. It doesn’t take an emergency beacon to activate them, just a need… and they come.  Purposefully, without condition, ready to move, activate and respond.

Look and see them.  This is the army that matters, the Christian America we know well.

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President Trump sat down with Dave Ramsey to discuss specific economic drivers that will jump start the U.S. economy in 2025.

Beginning with an immediate shift in energy policy, President Trump sets the aggregate goal to reduce overall energy prices by 50% in the first year. The drop in energy price then begins to reverberate throughout all facets of the economy as the cost of goods sold, distributed and warehoused immediately lowers.  This directly starts to lower the end price of goods.

President Trump then proposes a drop of the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent. However, in order for corporations and manufacturers to get the lowered rate, they MUST produce their product INSIDE the USA.  The tax drop will only apply to companies who produce goods domestically from USA origins.  This approach further bolsters employment and wages as the companies shift operations to the USA to gain the favorable rate.

Dropping overall energy prices, targeting tariffs on strategic sectors, decreasing regulations, increasing domestic production, creating jobs, becoming less reliant on foreign goods and enhancing the Gross Domestic Product, directly expands the economy and provides more revenue for government operations.  This is the MAGAnomic success formula that allows Social Security to survive without change.

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Around 13:30 of the interview, Ramsey talks about the culture of excellence that exists within the Trump organization.  President Trump notes that Eric Trump currently runs the organization and talks about one of the key secrets to their success, ‘promotion from within’.

Many Main Street titans will agree. Selecting excellence within the organization for direct advancement to leadership is the single biggest commonality of organizations who maintain excellent operations.  In an era where people jump jobs, in a privately owned company – the ability to promote the best from within ensures long-term employment.

At 20:42, Dave Ramsey asks about President Trump returning to Butler, Pennsylvania to continue the rally interrupted by an assassination attempt. The Butler rally is scheduled for Saturday, October 5th.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Anyone who has ever worked in long-term disaster recovery and response well knows what Day #6 and Day #7 bring to the psyche.  As the crisis in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina is now understood, the rescue and recovery work continue.

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While rescue workers still attempt to find access points into some of the most devastated towns and communities of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina, Joe Biden was in Greenville, South Carolina today for a briefing [SEE HERE].  There remains a worrisome absence of overall federal action when overlaid to the scale of the problem.

Day #6 and 7 are generally fraught with anxiety and the sense of being overwhelmed when contrast against the tasks at hand. It is understandable that PTSD would begin to settle in the psyche of those in the hardest hit areas.  We have many friends in the region and send our deepest prayers of support and assistance to those in need.  You are not alone.

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