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Mar 29 2017

Left Wing Death Camps I Mike Cernovich and Stefan Molyneux


Published on Mar 24, 2017

The history of left-wing violence, forced labor camps and mass murder is often obscured by traditional media and modern academia. The body-count left in the wake of Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong illustrated the dangers of communism, socialism and totalitarian leftist ideology overall. Mike Cernovich joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago and the important historical lessons which much be learned to prevent the spread of violence in modern times.

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Mar 29 2017

KOMMONSENTSJANE – Russia Is Pissed: Threatens To Spill Obama Admin Secrets If US Intel Doesn’t Stop Leaking — Arlin Report


I thinks its time that we find out what the hell has been going on since 9/11 with our government.

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Source: Russia Is Pissed: Threatens To Spill Obama Admin Secrets If US Intel Doesn’t Stop Leaking So how do we the people learn of these secrets if/when released? Liberal news media? Not likely……… Fox News …….mostly likely. Independent news definitely!

via Russia Is Pissed: Threatens To Spill Obama Admin Secrets If US Intel Doesn’t Stop Leaking — Arlin Report

Reblogged on kommonsentsjane/blogkommonsents.

Russia is pissed – love it – that is good – BRING IT ON.  The American people would love to know what the back allies of Obama’s politics promised Russia.

By the way, it is not a secret if more than one person knows the secret!

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Mar 29 2017

Nation Building Gone Wrong


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics

Re-Posted Mar 29, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

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Economic events have the most interesting way of exposing economic theories and orthodoxies and how seriously flawed they truly are these days. The fixed-exchange rate system and the Gold Standard imposed by Bretton Woods collapsed simply because they never fixed the supply of dollars, yet gold and other currencies were fixed to dollars. Only an idiot would assume you could fix currencies and gold to the dollar and expect that to be maintained while creating dollars with no limit.

Carving Up China_imperialismJohn F. Kennedy in his debate with Richard Nixon during 1960, made it perfectly clear that Bretton Woods was in trouble indirectly and created the first gold panic postwar. He said the USA could stop the decline in the dollar at any moment – stop expanding military bases worldwide. For every dollar spent on creating an overseas bases and then hiring locals for staff and paying US soldiers to live there was the perfect way to export dollars with nothing in return. In trade, you received something back. Through trying to control the world, the military just squandered American wealth with nothing to show for it but their power games of national building that have never worked even once. Government’s have been engaged in national building for centuries. The Romans, Charlemagne, British, Napoleon, Hitler, Genghis Khan, Japan and others have sought to engage in national building by invasion. None of their empires have survived intact to this very day.

The comedy movie, the Mouse that Roared, was a take how the USA did not seek to occupy foreign governments, they sought to turn them into vassal states. In this manner, this movie rightly showed how a bankrupt small state could become economically sufficient by declaring war on the United States and losing.

Effectively, the USA did not lose to trade, it really lost due to the lost cause of nation building. The USA version was not to occupy other countries, for that would bring back the idea of imperialism. Instead, they poured dollars outward to subjugate other countries, turning them into vassal states. This was not “imperialism” in the classic sense – economic stupidity that cost far too much and undermined the economy in a similar manner to imperialism.

Mar 29 2017

Scotland Wants a Second Referendum to Exit UK


Armstrong Economics Blog/BRITAIN

Re-Posted Mar 29, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

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The Scottish government wants a second referendum on independence from the UK. The Parliament in Edinburgh will decide as soon as next week, as the Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said. The referendum could take place between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. Of course, this would really be a brain-dead action if Scotland believes it should remain inside the EU. That would be trading one benevolent union to a totalitarian one.

Mar 28 2017

Withdrawal From the UN Gains Logic as a Reform In the Era of Trump


The UN has been a bad idea from the get go cut all the funding.

Mar 28 2017

Border searches of electronic devices prompt FOIA lawsuit against Trump administration


Who cares about the inconvenience its our country theirs.

Mar 28 2017

‘AP’s malicious lie’: Russian tycoon denies dealing with Trump’s ex-aide to ‘benefit Putin’


Trumps ties are speculative at best while Hillary’s are well known and documented.

Mar 28 2017

Protests from USA to Russia


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest

Re-Posted Mar 28, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

California Trump Supporter hit by Obama Supporter March 2017

Civil Unrest is rising around the world. In the USA, demonstrations have been organized to support Donald Trump in a counter-demonstration move against the Obama/Soros uprising. In Los Angeles, Trump supporters were confronted by opponents of Trump and the two groups ended in violence. The Obama/Soros supporters were partially traditionally masked.

The Trump supporters were trying to organize marches in about 40 US cities for Sunday. However, many cities were denying the Trump supporters the right to even assemble. In Philadelphia, the police stopped such an event they alleged for safety, as the news page Philly.com reported.

Russian Protests 3-26-2017

I wanted to see how RT would report the Russian protests. They reported that about 600 people were arrested and some 8,000 people protested. As the rally continued, RT reported that the “police used loudspeakers to call on the protesters to disperse.”

The protest was against corruption, and they accused Minister President Dmitry Medvedev of corruption, demanding his resignation. A few days ago, six officials had been arrested for embezzlement of public funds, which were actually intended for construction work on the estate of President Vladimir Putin. As the Russian investigative committee reported on Wednesday, at least 225 million rubles (around 3.6 million euros) were devoted to the construction of “public buildings”. 

According to Russian media reports, money was spent on building several buildings on Putin’s property in Novo-Ogarevo near Moscow. Kaminow and its partners were supposed to build a reception building, a hotel, and a garage there between 2012 and 2015, as the newspaper Kommersant reported. The contract amounted to a total of 5.7 billion rubles, of which 45 per cent went to Ateks without the works being completed.

Navalny had been arrested in Moscow by security forces and taken to a police station. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the bus to stop them from leaving. Navalny is mainly known for his blogs in Russia. A court sentenced him to a suspended sentence of five years in February for embezzlement. Navalny, on the other hand, wants to appeal. He plans to compete in the 2018 presidential election against Vladimir Putin. According to surveys, however, the liberal opposition has few chances. However, the anti-corruption protests are hoping for more popularity among the population.

“I am very glad that so many people from the east of the country go to Moscow,” said Navalny shortly before his arrest. He called for the protests after he had made allegations against Medvedev, after which he had accumulated a wealth far above his income. A spokesman for the Prime Minister called the allegations “propagandistic attacks”.

At a demonstration in Vladivostok on the Japanese Sea Reuters, reporters counted atleast 30 attacks. People unrolled a banner with the words “The Minister President must answer”. A 17-year-old student said that in many other countries, governments would have to step down after such accusations. According to eyewitnesses, there have also been arrests in Yekaterinburg in the Ural industrial region. Media also reported arrests in other cities, including St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk.

Mar 28 2017

Leaving The EU’s Customs Union Is The Only Logical Step For A Truly “Global Britain”


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by Tyler Durden
Re-Posted From ZERO HEDGE Mar 28, 2017 5:00 AM

Authored by Vincenzo Scarpetta via Open Europe,

As UK Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to trigger the Article 50 EU exit mechanism on Wednesday, Open Europe has published a new report, entitled, ‘Nothing to declare: A plan for UK-EU trade outside the Customs Union.’

The study concludes that leaving the EU’s Customs Union is the only logical step for the UK to pursue an independent trade policy and achieve a truly ‘Global Britain’ outside the EU. Open Europe assesses different models of collaboration outside a customs union, and argues that the UK and the EU should aim for full cooperation on the practicalities and administration of customs as part of a comprehensive UK-EU free trade deal.

A dozen key points on customs

  • The UK should leave the EU’s Customs Union (EUCU). The UK Government has stated its intention to leave key parts of EUCU (the Common External Tariff and the Common Commercial Policy). Open Europe’s assessment is that leaving these and EUCU overall is correct. Brexit means the UK must be able to shape its own trade policy. It can only do so outside of EUCU.
  • The UK should not seek a ‘half-in, half-out’ arrangement, which would be the worst of all worlds. The UK should leave EUCU entirely to maximise opportunities. Prime Minister Theresa May has suggested that she is open to being an “associate member” of EUCU or remaining a signatory to elements of it. Open Europe believes that, while it is sensible to keep an open mind, no ‘half-in’ option is better than being fully out. Nonetheless, the UK should consider retaining membership of some relevant conventions.
  • It is in both the UK’s and EU’s interest quickly to secure full cooperation on the practicalities and administration of customs as part of a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Such an agreement could be a chapter in a UK-EU FTA or an accompanying, discrete customs facilitation agreement. The EU already has agreements on customs facilitation with non-members, including Switzerland and Canada. A comprehensive UK-EU FTA will ensure the continuation of tariff-free UK-EU trade and minimise customs delays.
  • There will inevitably be a degree of cost to the UK economy associated with leaving EUCU.Some costs will be one-off adaptation costs (e.g. technology investment which may have benefited the UK anyway); other costs will be on-going frictional costs to UK-EU trade. These costs can be minimised and may be offset by trade liberalisation with non-EU partners.
  • The UK must take action now to minimise costs and seize new opportunities. Some steps are unilateral, domestic reforms; others are bilateral with specific EU members (above all Ireland); other negotiations need to happen at EU level, or indeed more broadly.
  • There will also be costs to the EU economy and these costs will be much greater if full customs cooperation with the UK is not secured. The costs to the EU economy will be greatest in those countries and industries which export the most to the UK. If comprehensive customs cooperation and an FTA are secured, these costs will be minimised.
  • There are challenges and opportunities from leaving EUCU but these vary from sector to sector, and even between companies in the same industry. Individual companies will need to look carefully at their supply chains and consider making adjustments where appropriate.
  • Free trade does not require a customs union and over half of UK trade happens without it.Most UK trade (51.5% in 2015) is not with the EU. Non-EU trade takes place without a customs union and is growing faster than trade with the EU. In 2015, the US was the largest recipient of UK goods exports (16.6%). There is no EU-US FTA, let alone a customs union.
  • Companies with complex supply chains can trade without a customs union. For example, automotive supply chains cross the US-Canada border. Both countries are North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) members, but are not in a customs union. Nonetheless, leaving EUCU will challenge companies with complex supply chains. To address challenges, the UK and EU need an FTA to eliminate tariffs, to agree liberal cumulation so more products transformed in either the UK or EU can be considered as originating anywhere else in the UK or EU, and to cooperate and use technology to minimise bureaucratic delays and costs.
  • The UK should ‘grandfather’ – i.e. replicate – the FTAs that the EU has concluded with third countries. The UK, as an EU member, is currently party to over 30 FTAs with over 60 non-EU countries. The Canada-EU FTA, CETA, is one example. Discussions on how to ‘grandfather’ these agreements should be underway bilaterally between the UK and third countries but also need to engage the EU. Protecting these agreements will secure the freest possible trade, safeguarding existing global supply chains, and supporting growth in global trade.
  • There is an extremely strong economic case for full UK-EU customs cooperation; the question of whether it is achieved or not is primarily political as much as practical.Reaching a comprehensive UK-EU customs agreement will be technically easier than other trade agreements. As an EU member, the UK’s customs systems are already fully recognised by EU members and the UK already applies EU product standards. Businesses across the EU are used to tariff-free trade – so there will be less pressure to defend specific industries.
  • The UK and EU should consider a transition period to extend the UK’s EUCU membership for one or even two years. Theresa May has suggested “phased implementation” for new arrangements on customs systems. The two-year Article 50 timetable is a challenging limit for negotiations. A transitional period would increase chances of a favourable deal for both sides, and minimise potential disruption to UK and EU business. It would also give governments and business time to adapt, including by upgrading customs procedures and IT. Agreement on a transition period is most useful early in the Brexit negotiations to reduce the risk of companies making rushed decisions on changes.

The extended version of the executive summary is available here.

To read the full report, click here.

Mar 28 2017

California’s Congresswoman Maxine Waters Calls for Trump Impeachment Because Putin Invaded Korea?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 28, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

The long list of reasons Maxine Waters says Trump should be impeached simply reflect why she is totally incapable of being anyone’s representative in Congress. She said Putin supplied the bombs for Aleppo that killed children. First of all, that took place under Obama before the election, and it is plainly documented that it was the USA supplying arms to al-Qaida and the Obama Administration tried to distance itself when mass graves were discovered where the rebels were killing numerous people with US supplied arms. How can you impeach Trump for something that took place before the election? The mass graves were discovered December 26th, 2016.

Then, Waters says Trump should be impeached because Russia hacked the DNC and exposed all the lies the Democrats were fostering. Obama himself said Russia did not hack the voting machines. Obama  plainly said: “We stand behind our election results, which accurately reflect the will of the American people.” Assuming Russia did the hacking of the DNC, no Democrat ever said all the emails exposing the lies were false. The hack simply showed the truth. If the Democrats keep talking about Russia hacking the DNC enough without admitting there was no hack of voting machines, they hope to make people think Russia actually changed the vote.

But the most insane part is she then said Trump should be impeached because Putin invaded Korea. Sorry, Putin did not invade Korea and if he did, the West would probably cheer if it was the North. She is just totally incompetent to serve in Congress. You cannot impeach a president for something he may have done prior to office. She confuses her timelines and obviously has no sense of geography. This is the quality of people California sends to Washington along with Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi.