Showing posts with label big crash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big crash. Show all posts
Monday, 18 December 2017
Thursday, 16 November 2017
How skewed - hammer a dole recipient, and ignore Apple....
The Paradise Papers
have once again revealed the ingenuity and energy the super-rich are
willing to deploy to keep their money away from the taxman. By
illuminating the scale of this injustice, journalists have provided an
invaluable service. And yet the revelations do not seem to have generated the level of public outrage that might have been expected.
At a time of staggering global inequality, it is perhaps surprising that people are not more animated by the determination of the ultra-rich to avoid their obligations to support our roads, hospitals, soldiers and schools – when regular citizens are unable to take advantage of such arrangements. However, this relative lack of concern is consistent with research on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance.
Last year’s British Social Attitudes survey asked Britons about their feelings on this issue. Our analysis of this data (with Ben Baumberg Geiger of the University of Kent) revealed that the British public believes tax avoidance to be commonplace (around one third of taxpayers are assumed to have exploited a tax loophole). In moral terms, people seem rather ambivalent; less than half (48%) thought that legal tax avoidance was “usually or always wrong”.
By contrast, more than 60% of Britons believe it is “usually or always wrong” for poorer people to use legal loopholes to claim more benefits. In other words, people are significantly more likely to condemn poor people for using legal means to obtain more benefits than they are to condemn rich people for avoiding tax. This is a consistent finding across many different studies. For example, detailed interviews conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis found that people “tended to be far more exercised by the prospect of low-income groups exploiting the system than they were about high-income groups doing the same”.
This discrepancy is reflected in government priorities. Deep public antipathy towards benefit “scroungers” has been the rock upon which successive Conservative-led parliaments have built the case for austerity. Throughout his premiership, David Cameron, along with his chancellor, George Osborne, kept the opposition between “hardworking people” and lazy benefit claimants right at the centre of their messaging on spending cuts. Though gestures have been made towards addressing widespread tax avoidance by the wealthy, very little has actually been achieved. This stands in stark contrast to the scale and speed with which changes have been made to welfare legislation.
Will
the Paradise Papers shift the public’s focus? The leaks alone are
seemingly not enough. The 2016 British Social Attitudes survey was
conducted just four months after the release of the Panama Papers. Even then, the British public remained more concerned about benefit claimants than tax avoiders.
Fundamentally, the Paradise Papers are about numbers – vast sums of money disappearing offshore that could be spent on public services here in the UK. However, as the former chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Andrew Dilnot, has often pointed out, people are bad at dealing with numbers on this scale. Unless you are an economist or a statistician, numbers in the millions and billions are just not particularly meaningful.
The key is to link these numbers to their consequences. The money we lose because people like Lewis Hamilton don’t pay some VAT on their private jet means thousands more visits to food banks. The budget cuts leading to rising homelessness might not have been necessary if Apple had paid more tax. Fewer people might have killed themselves after a work-capability assessment if companies like Alphabet (Google) had not registered their offices in Bermuda, and the downward pressure on benefits payments was not so intense.
The causal chains connecting these events are complex and often opaque, but that does not make their consequences any less real, especially for those who have felt the hard edge of austerity.
The Paradise Papers have dragged the murky world of offshore finance into the spotlight. However, calls for change may founder against the British public’s persistent focus on the perceived crimes of the poor. That is, unless we – as academics, politicians, journalists and others – can articulate how the decisions of the very rich contribute to the expulsion of the vulnerable from the protection of state-funded public services. Quite simply, people get hurt when the rich don’t pay their taxes.
• Robert de Vries is a lecturer at the University of Kent; Aaron Reeves is a research fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute
At a time of staggering global inequality, it is perhaps surprising that people are not more animated by the determination of the ultra-rich to avoid their obligations to support our roads, hospitals, soldiers and schools – when regular citizens are unable to take advantage of such arrangements. However, this relative lack of concern is consistent with research on people’s attitudes towards tax avoidance.
Last year’s British Social Attitudes survey asked Britons about their feelings on this issue. Our analysis of this data (with Ben Baumberg Geiger of the University of Kent) revealed that the British public believes tax avoidance to be commonplace (around one third of taxpayers are assumed to have exploited a tax loophole). In moral terms, people seem rather ambivalent; less than half (48%) thought that legal tax avoidance was “usually or always wrong”.
By contrast, more than 60% of Britons believe it is “usually or always wrong” for poorer people to use legal loopholes to claim more benefits. In other words, people are significantly more likely to condemn poor people for using legal means to obtain more benefits than they are to condemn rich people for avoiding tax. This is a consistent finding across many different studies. For example, detailed interviews conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis found that people “tended to be far more exercised by the prospect of low-income groups exploiting the system than they were about high-income groups doing the same”.
This discrepancy is reflected in government priorities. Deep public antipathy towards benefit “scroungers” has been the rock upon which successive Conservative-led parliaments have built the case for austerity. Throughout his premiership, David Cameron, along with his chancellor, George Osborne, kept the opposition between “hardworking people” and lazy benefit claimants right at the centre of their messaging on spending cuts. Though gestures have been made towards addressing widespread tax avoidance by the wealthy, very little has actually been achieved. This stands in stark contrast to the scale and speed with which changes have been made to welfare legislation.
Fundamentally, the Paradise Papers are about numbers – vast sums of money disappearing offshore that could be spent on public services here in the UK. However, as the former chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Andrew Dilnot, has often pointed out, people are bad at dealing with numbers on this scale. Unless you are an economist or a statistician, numbers in the millions and billions are just not particularly meaningful.
The key is to link these numbers to their consequences. The money we lose because people like Lewis Hamilton don’t pay some VAT on their private jet means thousands more visits to food banks. The budget cuts leading to rising homelessness might not have been necessary if Apple had paid more tax. Fewer people might have killed themselves after a work-capability assessment if companies like Alphabet (Google) had not registered their offices in Bermuda, and the downward pressure on benefits payments was not so intense.
The causal chains connecting these events are complex and often opaque, but that does not make their consequences any less real, especially for those who have felt the hard edge of austerity.
The Paradise Papers have dragged the murky world of offshore finance into the spotlight. However, calls for change may founder against the British public’s persistent focus on the perceived crimes of the poor. That is, unless we – as academics, politicians, journalists and others – can articulate how the decisions of the very rich contribute to the expulsion of the vulnerable from the protection of state-funded public services. Quite simply, people get hurt when the rich don’t pay their taxes.
• Robert de Vries is a lecturer at the University of Kent; Aaron Reeves is a research fellow at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute
Saturday, 11 November 2017
Painful mirror time.....very soon.....
With so much corruption and sheer evil surfacing daily, we are rapidly getting to the point where the pitchforks and nooses will come out.
After all, it's far easier to find someone to blame than to look hard at yourself.
What do I mean???? How can I even SAY that when what has been done by others is horrendous????
Simple. We put those people there. Or allowed them to put themselves there.
When we sit back in the hope that "someone else" will do all the work and hard yards for us - we shouldn't be surprised at what they do. When we vote someone in for their' good looks, or their' charisma rather than their' ability to get the job done truthfully.... what do we expect??
And of course, giving those positions of power and authority mainly to psychopaths and narcissists is just asking for trouble.
Then, when these few have feathered their' nests, made their' billions - then naturally they will look down on us, as we are not as smart because we haven't done the same, and..... we are not part of the club.
I have always believed that the best person to run our bureaucracy is the one who least wants to.
Like the ex-President of Uruguay, who got things done so he could get back to the small farm he loved with his chickens and flowers. OMG..... a man of integrity !!! How refreshing.
Instead we have myriads of snout-troughers to deal with..... when will we ever learn??
You know, I think the RSL got it right with their' motto - "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance".
If you are not investing the effort to be vigilant - then you are not free.
Monday, 11 September 2017
Why we need psychopaths to govern us.....
Eh??
Did I just read that right, you say??
Yes....sadly, yes.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and will always seek to fill it - sometimes very creatively!!
So too, if we abdicate our sovereignty and leave a vacuum, there are any number of loonies who will be only too happy to fill the space by telling us what to do. Victims require Persecutors to learn their lessons.
It was once said that people get the government they deserve - truer words never spoken.
When we allow others to make our decisions for us, to do what we are unwilling/unable to do.....then we shouldn't be the least bit surprised at the results.
If our sport, entertainment or the latest gossip on
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Get used to it.
The rewards are huge !!
Monday, 4 September 2017
Great article - perhaps it might open an eye or two??
https://renegadeinc.com/socialism-best-us-capitalism-rest-us/
.....finally someone tells it like it really is.....
Sunday, 3 September 2017
Monday, 28 August 2017
Friday, 25 August 2017
Interesting map.....
After looking at the map, then add the ones that have been brainwashed into the American Way of Life, such as Australia, Canada etc..... and it's one heck of a telling picture globally.
Still think Americans are the Heroes???
https://www.indy100.com/article/usa-american-army-invasions-police-actions-overseas-dod-defense-war-troops-deployment-marines-7908611
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Maybe this article will open a few eyes.....
CONSPIRACY OR CHAOS?
“The main thing that I learned
about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists believe in a
conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is
that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati,
or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is
far more frightening – Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.” –
Alan Moore
Alan Moore, the renowned graphic novel writer, and author of the dystopian classic V for Vendetta, politically identifies as an anarchist. His view that all political states are an outgrowth of anarchy, with the biggest gang taking control and dictating how things will be run, is manifested in V for Vendetta. As an anarchist, you can understand why he is doubtful of conspiracy theories and an all-powerful entity controlling the world. He believes in a chaotic world competing gangs position themselves to gain power and control.
“We live in a badly developed
anarchist situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have
declared that it is not an anarchist situation – that it is a capitalist
or a communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most
natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice.”- Alan Moore
The Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta
has been adopted by anarchist groups around the world, including:
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, and the Occupy protestors. Moore’s positive view
of the Occupy movement was based on his belief ordinary people had the
right to reclaim what had been taken from them by criminal bankers. The
initial impetus for the Occupy protests was the destruction of Main
Street USA by Wall Street sociopaths, who not only escaped prosecution
for their crimes, but were bailed out by the taxpayers they had pillaged
and further enriched as captured politicians enabled them to get even
bigger.Millions were evicted from their homes and lost their jobs. Middle class families have seen their real income continue to stagnate, while bankers, corporate executives, and politicians have reaped billions in bonuses, stock gains, and payoffs, provided by central bankers in their back pocket.
“I can’t think of any reason why as a
population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction
in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for
generations, when the people who have got us into this have been
rewarded for it – they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because
they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one
sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s
too big to fail. As an anarchist, I believe that power should be given
to the people whose lives this is actually affecting.” – Alan Moore
For those of us who visited Zuccotti Park during the early stages of
the Occupy Movement, you understood this was a true populist protest
with Ron Paul
libertarians alongside liberal college students, old time hippies,
middle aged men and women put out of work by the massive Wall Street
fraud, and a myriad of citizens supporting varied causes and exercising
their First Amendment rights. They were primarily focused on the true
enemy – sociopathic Wall Street bankers and corrupt captured
politicians. Sadly, the movement was co-opted in short order by Soros
and his minions, just as the Tea Party had been co-opted by neo-cons
earlier. Supposedly liberal mayors in NYC and across the country
eventually unleashed their police state thugs on the protestors and
wiped it out. Was this an example of chaos or conspiracy?There isn’t an easy answer to this question. I have to lean towards Alan Moore’s view of the world. There are certainly conspiratorial schemes plotted by powerful men in smoke filled rooms, but there are other gangs of men conspiring to push their competing agendas. Conspiracy theorists who think there is one massive conspiracy controlling every aspect of the world have an extremely tough case to make. People who believe everything is part of a grand conspiracy are seeking an easy solution to our problems, rather than dealing with the complexity and chaos which is the true nature of our world. V’s speech to London after blowing up the Old Bailey explains who is really to blame for allowing Deep State actors to gain control of our government, creating an Orwellian surveillance state.
Good evening, London. Allow me first
to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate
the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the
tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the
spirit of commemoration – whereby those important events of the past,
usually associated with someone’s death or the end of some awful bloody
struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday – I thought we could mark
this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by
taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little
chat.
There are, of course, those who do
not want us to speak. I suspect even now orders are being shouted into
telephones and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because
while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will
always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for
those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there
is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?
Cruelty and injustice…intolerance and
oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and
speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance,
coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this
happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more
responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again,
truth be told…if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a
mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you
were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad
of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your
common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic, you turned to
the now High Chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order. He promised
you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient
consent.
Last night, I sought to end that
silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country
of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great
citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His
hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are
more than words – they are perspectives. So if you’ve seen nothing, if
the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would
suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if
you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I
seek…then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside
the gates of Parliament. And together, we shall give them a fifth of
November that shall never, ever, be forgot!
We have no one to blame but ourselves for our current state of
affairs. Blaming it on some shadowy group makes us feel somehow
comforted. If an all-powerful entity is controlling the world, then we
can easily convince ourselves anything we do to try and change the
course of history would be fruitless. Therefore, we just bitch on
internet forums. The truth is fear rules the actions of the majority.Those who constitute the Deep State are not conspiring directly by working together to rule the world and control the people. What they are doing is taking advantage of a dumbed down fearful populace by using the chaos, incompetence of institutions, and confusion spread by the propaganda press to institute their agendas. The Deep State consists of shadowy billionaires, mega-corporations, the military industrial complex, surveillance state agencies, crooked bought off politicians and their mass media mouthpieces.
Those with the financial means and access to the power of the media have embraced the Edward Bernays worldview that an invisible government of the rich and powerful is necessary to manipulate the opinions of the masses through propaganda in order for society to function smoothly. Is this truly a conspiracy or just competing gangs of rich and connected men utilizing their wealth to mold the minds of the masses in a way that continues to benefit and enrich them?
These Deep State players don’t meet every other Saturday to conspire and plot ways to pillage and enslave the masses. But they do know each other and silently agree to never rock the boat, whether they are Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives, socialists, corporate executives, academics, or journalists. Money, control and power are at stake.
Those currently pulling the wires behind the scenes are conspiratorial in nature. It has become crystal clear since the election of Trump the farce of competing political parties is just a smoke screen used by the Deep State players to maintain their control. Trump’s shocking upset and seeming disregard for bowing down to the status quo has forced politicians of all persuasions to reveal their true masters. Both parties favor bloated government control of healthcare, with a medical industrial complex controlling the show, writing the rules, reaping riches, and buying off politicians. “Free” healthcare buys votes.
The flogging of the false Russian narrative by the corporate media has been used by neo-cons and ultra-libs to force Trump into the military interventionist camp – guaranteeing increased wealth for the military industrial complex. Neither party has any interest in cutting spending. The debt ceiling will be raised. The $4 trillion in annual spending will ratchet ever higher. Both sides are perfectly fine with $1 trillion deficits and $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities, as long as their gravy train keeps being fueled by the Deep State. They will spend your money until it all collapses under the mountains of debt.
Donald Jeffries explains why it is vital to the vested interests they scorn and ridicule anyone who uses factual data to prove conspiratorial intent by the government or its cancerous corporate outgrowths.
“I can remember when believing in
conspiracies wasn’t cool. Now, in the second decade of the twenty-first
century, more people are starting to sense that things may not be as
they appear to be. The truth in Lord Acton’s classic axiom that “Power
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” becomes more
self-evident every day. Politicians from the only two parties we have to
choose from break promises, are unresponsive to the will of the people,
and opt for war, austerity measures, and state control over and over
again. Gary Allen, author of the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy,
defined things perfectly when he wrote, “It must be remembered that the
first job of any conspiracy, whether it be in politics, crime or within a
business office, is to convince everyone else that no conspiracy
exists.” – Donald Jeffries – Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
It ultimately comes down to power and control over the key mechanisms
of finance, taxation, legislation and the media. There isn’t one
specific group of conspirators working together to rule the world. Is
George Soros attempting to influence and control what happens in the
U.S. and Europe to benefit his interests? Yes. Are the Koch brothers
attempting to do the same with a different end goal? Yes. Are Pelosi and
Schumer conspiring to push their left wing agenda? Yes. Are McConnell
and Ryan conspiring to implement their establishment vision? Yes.They have competing agendas, but they want the status quo to remain intact. No one within the establishment wants to change anything of substance. The current system benefits their personal interests, while destroying the lives of hard working American citizens. The country is currently run by same party with slightly different rhetoric and policies put forth by the Republican side and Democrat side. Promises are made to voters and then reneged on in short order. Therefore, no significant change ever occurs. Meanwhile, the anger and frustration build among the deplorables.
What Trump has realized quickly is how powerful the vested interests are and how ruthless they will act to retain their power. During the campaign Trump ran on a non-interventionist platform, looking to repair our relationship with Russia, scorning NATO, and lessening our involvement in the Middle East. He know rattles his saber on a daily basis, threatening war with North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Syria and anyone else who doesn’t toe the American Empire line.
He provokes Russia and China on a regular basis. He has sent more troops to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, while expanding spending on the military. Neo-cons and neo-libs don’t think Trump is being aggressive enough in policing the world. They won’t be happy until middle class boys across the land are sacrificed as cannon fodder for our welfare warfare surveillance state.
Trump bloviated about the stock market being in a bubble during the campaign when it was trading at 18,000. He now pronounces the record highs of 22,000 as proof of his brilliant economic leadership. Meanwhile, the economy has grown at less than 2% during his first six months, retailers are going bankrupt and closing stores at a record pace, consumer spending and real wages are barely growing, and consumer debt has reached all-time highs. Best time to buy, according to the Prez.
A critical thinking individual might wonder how a market could be in a bubble at 18,000 but not be in a bubble at 22,000 ten months later. During the campaign Trump accused Obama and his BLS minions of manipulating the data to make horrible jobs numbers appear strong. Now he bellows about the strong jobs market as if we’re now supposed to believe the hysterically absurd 4.3% reported rate when 101 million out of 255 million working age Americans aren’t working. And a vast majority of the jobs are either part-time and/or low paying service jobs with shitty pay and benefits.
Trump is playing the status quo Deep State game in an attempt to fend off a coup currently in progress by lying to the masses. Jobs are plentiful, consumers are confident, the economy is booming, the stock market is always right. Ignore those vacant crumbling malls, your declining disposable income as health care cost increases outpace your salary increases by a factor of five, and your ever increasing credit card balance.
Trump wouldn’t be using the tried and true method of distracting from domestic failure by starting a foreign conflict because he understands how easily manipulated the ignorant American masses can be moved by fear? Rather than draining the swamp, Trump has been forced to swim with the gators. And his own people hired a Deep State alligator hunter named Mueller who will stop at nothing to mount Trump as a trophy or force him to depart the DC swamp for the friendly environs of Manhattan Island.
Trump belittled the troll-like Yellen during the campaign, declaring her low interest policy was geared to help Obama/Clinton. He talked tough about replacing Yellen and increasing rates. He evidently got the talk from the banker cabal and he suddenly loves low interest rates and believes Yellen is doing a bang up job. He has filled his cabinet with vampire squid and other Wall Street scum. He is as beholden to the Fed and their Wall Street puppeteers as his predecessors. Wall Street remains in control, while Main Street will continue to get screwed. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s about powerful special interests capturing the levers of government.
Our government doesn’t in any way resemble its original concept of a republic. It doesn’t even resemble a democracy at this point. Since FDR and specifically since LBJ, we’ve become a welfare/warfare state. Since Bush II we’ve devolved into a corporate fascist surveillance socialist state. Despite rhetoric about free market capitalism, both parties have embraced socialism. The super-rich, bankers, corporate executives, liberals and conservatives came to the realization socialism disguised as capitalism fills their coffers at a much higher rate than true free market capitalism.
They have bought off the poor with unfunded welfare benefits, the old and poor with unfunded “free” healthcare, government union workers with unfunded pension benefits and all with unfunded social security payments. Trillion dollar annual deficits and $200 trillion in unfunded welfare promises, enabled by Federal Reserve easy money policies, does wonders for the bank accounts of Deep State players and their acolytes. Spending money you don’t have is the ultimate confidence game, but the payback will be a bitch.
“Why are the super-rich for
socialism? Don’t they have the most to lose? I take a look at my bank
account and compare it with Nelson Rockefeller’s and it seems funny that
I’m against socialism and he’s out promoting it.” Or is it funny? In
reality, there is a vast difference between what the promoters define as
socialism and what it is in actual practice. The idea that socialism is
a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get the
people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collectivist
government. While the Insiders tell us we are building a paradise on
earth, we are actually constructing a jail for ourselves.” – Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy
The Deep State
thrives on chaos, confusion, and complexity. Our financial system,
healthcare system, entitlement systems, military, and government
agencies are too big and complex to fix. Those pulling the strings don’t
want the public to understand how anything operates. Supposed “experts”
are put forth on the corporate propaganda networks to further confuse
the masses. The purpose of government run public education is to
matriculate non-thinking socially engineered consumers into the world.The vast majority of iGadget distracted, math challenged, functionally illiterate morons will believe anything the propaganda media peddles because they are incapable of critical thinking. They have an infinite capacity for rationalizing how spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need is actually making their lives better. This same mindset keeps them from questioning how their government can run up a $20 trillion national debt (with $15 trillion added since 2000), with no adverse consequences. These debts are the ultimate threat to our survival as a nation.
Based on everything that has happened in the last twelve months, to believe this is part of some well-planned conspiracy is a reach of epic proportions. The Deep State/status quo were sure their hand-picked candidate Hillary Clinton was a shoe in. Since November the country has been roiled in election result challenges, chaotic antifa violence, fake news stories, silent coups, thousands of tweets, congressional investigations, assassination attempts on congressmen, special prosecutors, increasing odds of civil and foreign wars, and deteriorating economic conditions for the majority. Just when you thought the chaos couldn’t get more pronounced, we experienced a week of sheer turmoil and tumult. Even the stock market stopped rising for a day or two.
I’ve been observing the goings on this week with a jaundiced eye. As the rhetoric between President Cheeto and Kim Jung Nutjob has ramped up to nuclear proportions I’ve been reminded of the rhetoric and fake news leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Suddenly, confidential reports are released saying the midget dictator has miniaturized a nuclear warhead to go on top of his ICBMs that now supposedly can kill everyone in the U.S. The exaggeration of this country’s nuclear capabilities is on par with Hussein’s WMD and killing of babies in Kuwaiti hospitals.
The neo-cons smell blood and more money for their beloved arms peddlers. The propagandists have two thirds of Americans fearful of this rotund midget with an IQ of 85. Trump then set in motion his backup plan – attack Venezuela, which poses absolutely zero risk to America or our interests. But it does have the largest oil reserves on earth.
Now this weekend’s escapades in Charlottesville have worked the propaganda media into a tizzy. It’s these types of stories that reveal all the corporate media to be peddling the same narrative. Fox News was peddling the same white hate narrative as CNN and MSNBC. Because protestors with proper permits included some white supremacists, nazi sympathizers, and KKK members, all participants were branded as racists. Their right to protest regarding the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue was guaranteed by the First Amendment.
It was the violent Soros funded antifa SJWs who were bussed in to create a violent confrontation, while government officials told police to stand down and let the clashes happen. The Deep State is desirous of a race war and their media mouthpieces are busy spreading misinformation and falsehoods to further rile up the masses. Their job is to portray all flyover country whites who elected Trump as rednecks, racists and white supremacists. And at least half the country believes this fake news.
“The militia experts accuse
anti-government agitants of paranoia, yet they spin around and claim
that militias speak in coded phrases, have underground bunkers, and are
secretly conspiring to take over the world and enslave minorities. They
say it`s lunacy that men at the pentagon can conspire, yet they`re
certain that farmers out on the plain are plotting as we speak. They
depict the United Nations as weak and ineffectual, yet they portray
raggedy-ass backwoodsmen as the world`s biggest organized military
threat.” – Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America’s Scapegoats
I don’t believe what is happening in this country and around the world is some vast conspiracy. But I do believe the Deep State thrives on chaos and fear. They used 9/11 to pass the Patriot Act, creating an Orwellian
surveillance state. They used the Wall Street created 2008 global
financial implosion to rig the financial systems in their favor, while
issuing mind boggling levels of government debt and artificially
suppressing interest rates to create the largest financial bubble in
world history.I do believe we are in the midst of a Fourth Turning where the mood of the masses has turned unequivocally dark. As we approach the ninth year of this Crisis period, the intensification and potential for enormous levels of domestic and foreign bloodshed ramps up by the day. With a decade or so remaining in this period of turmoil, chaos and war, the existing social order will be swept away and replaced by something new. But not necessarily better.
Whatever Deep State conspiracies are being plotted by various gangs seeking power during this Fourth Turning, they will all rot from within. Human nature never changes. Hubris and greed will lead to miscalculations and missteps which will result in another financial crash, civil chaos, and world war. Blood will be spilled in vast quantities if the wrong people make the wrong decisions. Chaos will rein for the next decade and the outcome is very much in doubt. Get prepared mentally and physically for the trials ahead.
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“The risk of catastrophe will be very
high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack
up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war,
it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a
total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the
technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
Friday, 11 August 2017
And the winner is....... none of us.
The US has 800 military bases in 63 countries worldwide, and military personnel presently active in 156 countries.
The US has been at war or in a military conflict for 224 of its 241 years in existence.
The US defense budget is over $610 billion yearly, which is higher than the defense budgets of the next 8 countries combined: China (215), Russia (69), Saudi Arabia (63), UK (48), France (55), India (55), Japan (46), and Germany (41).
The US is the only country that has ever dropped a nuclear bomb on a population, killing about 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A December 2013 WIN/Gallup poll asked 67,806 respondents from 65 countries, "Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?" 24% of respondents said the US. The next highest perceived threat was Pakistan at 8%. 5% believed North Korea was the greatest threat.
The US has 6,800 nuclear armaments.
North Korea has less than 10.
The US has overthrown or attempted to overthrow 57 foreign governments since WW2.
North Korea has overthrown or attempted to overthrow 0 foreign governments since 1953.
About sums up the "conflict."
The US has been at war or in a military conflict for 224 of its 241 years in existence.
The US defense budget is over $610 billion yearly, which is higher than the defense budgets of the next 8 countries combined: China (215), Russia (69), Saudi Arabia (63), UK (48), France (55), India (55), Japan (46), and Germany (41).
The US is the only country that has ever dropped a nuclear bomb on a population, killing about 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A December 2013 WIN/Gallup poll asked 67,806 respondents from 65 countries, "Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?" 24% of respondents said the US. The next highest perceived threat was Pakistan at 8%. 5% believed North Korea was the greatest threat.
The US has 6,800 nuclear armaments.
North Korea has less than 10.
The US has overthrown or attempted to overthrow 57 foreign governments since WW2.
North Korea has overthrown or attempted to overthrow 0 foreign governments since 1953.
About sums up the "conflict."
Friday, 4 August 2017
Wonderful insightful article.....
This cuts right to the heart of the matter..... been saying for the longest time that we need to get back to a local level.....
http://lithub.com/we-got-too-big-for-the-world/
Friday, 28 July 2017
Monday, 12 June 2017
Yep..... from the MSM (MainStreamMedia) no less..... amazing !!!
Households' share of national economic pie nears 50-year low
It’s not just small by Australian standards but also lies towards the bottom of the international ladder, economist warns
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The Labor party is developing a position on the negative economic consequences from persistently low wages growth. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Gareth Hutchens
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Saturday 10 June 2017 08.07 AEST
The share of national income going to Australian households is close to a 50-year low, and now “lies towards the bottom of the international ladder”, an economist has warned.
Bureau of Statistics data show labour’s share of gross domestic product has fallen to 51.5%, down from 54.2% in the third quarter of last year. At the same time, the profit share of GDP has risen from 24.5% to a five-year high of 27.5%.
Paul Dales from Capital Economics said Australian households had not seen “one cent” of the extra income generated by recent soaring commodity prices because “it’s all gone into the pocket of business”.
He said the share of national income going to households was now “within a whisker” of a 50-year low and a meaningful cyclical or structural upturn in that share of income was “very unlikely” if jobs growth and wages growth remained so low.
Australian wages growing more slowly than cost of living
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“The share of the economic pie that households currently enjoy isn’t just small by Australia’s own standards, it’s also small by international standards,” Dales wrote in a note to clients.
“As a share of GDP, the compensation of Australian employees lies towards the bottom of the international ladder. That’s not always been the case.
“Back in 1975, Australia households received a bigger share of the economic pie than households in the US, France and New Zealand. Only in the UK did the compensation of employees account for a larger share of GDP.
“But the downward trend in labour’s share of GDP over the past 40 years has been more marked in Australia than in those other economies, apart from New Zealand.”
This trend in most economies was mainlybecause of structural changes that had reduced the bargaining power of employees, including globalisation, the increased flexibility of the labour market and technical innovation, which had flattened firms’ cost curves, Dales said.
Labor says it's 'too easy' for bosses to drop pay deals
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“But the larger decline in Australia may be partly because of the rise in the importance of the mining sector, which tends to generate relatively large profits while employing relatively few workers,” he said.
The news comes as the British Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says the face of British politics has changed after Theresa May’s snap general election leaves Britain with a hung parliament 11 days before Brexit talks begin.
“People have said they’ve had quite enough of austerity politics, they’ve had quite enough of cuts in public expenditure, under-funding our health service, under-funding our schools, our education service, and not giving our young people the chance they deserve in our society,” Corbyn said.
In Australia, the Labor party is developing a position on the negative economic consequences from persistently low wages growth, with broader policies to crack down on worker exploitation.
The party’s deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, signalled plans on Thursday to strengthen the bargaining power of workers and unions in an attempt to revitalise stagnant wages.
Her intervention in the low-wages debate followed a speech last month by Brendan O’Connor, Labor’s employment and workplace relations spokesman, in which he Labor’s intention to make it harder for employers to terminate enterprise agreements.
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017
After reading this.........
After reading this, there is little more to say......
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-18/great-western-economic-depression
Friday, 31 March 2017
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
So how out-of-whack is this??????
Have a look at this chart, and see things in a more complete perspective.
Then scroll to the bottom and see the Derivative "Sword of Damocles" hanging over our heads....
It's also worth remembering that a derivative is usually a bet on a bet..... not one ounce of real value in it.
Wild ride, eh??
https://www.ainsliebullion.com.au/gold-silver-bullion-news/buffett-e2-80-99s-e2-80-9cfinancial-weapons-of-mass-destruction-e2-80-9d/tabid/88/a/1465/default.aspx
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