Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses  


From Counter Punch JASON HIRTHLER Summoning the Humanitarian Pretext The arch pragmatist Machiavelli once wrote that, “If you watch the ways of men, you will see that those who obtain great wealth …

Source: Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses  

Failed EU Design – The Great Divide West v East


EU Parliament

QUESTION: I saw you at your presentation in Dresden last year. Things in the East are rather different from the West in Europe. Do you have any comments on this great divide?

Thank you for coming to Dresden.

KMV

ANSWER: There is a great divide in Europe between East and West that is rarely, if ever, talked about. A tremendous disparity has emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Euroland is not one happy place. Indeed, some countries are members of all European integration levels (EU, Eurozone, Schengen), such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. This stands in contrast as other countries are members of the EU and of the Schengen area, but not the Eurozone such as Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Some others are just EU members, forming a second-class member status, including Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania as well as Britain even before BREXIT. There remains a reluctance to provide these countries with the privilege of the freedom of movement within Europe (Schengen area). To this chaos, we add the candidate states who were promised to be taken into consideration for immediate membership, but remain in political limbo such as Georgia, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Consequently, we have a hodgepodge of combinations with varying degrees of integration that embed different rights from one member to another. This creates real inequalities of treatment within the Euroland experiment. Eurozone member countries (those who use the euro) try to appear lofty and superior. Romania was actually the first country to apply for EU membership back in 1995. Nonetheless, Bulgaria and Romania are at risk of being left on the other side of the new Euro Wall being constructed by Brussels. Such a development would politically exclude these two countries and leave the risk that the Balkan region could end back within the Russia sphere when the economy turns down harder.

This great divide between East and West is a critical issue that threatens the stability of the entire EU plan. The refugee crisis has agitated the situation as the Schengen agreement begins to crumble. Furthermore, within Western Europe Eurozone, the cultural differences remain and all the attempts to force the federalization upon them has failed as evidenced by BREXIT impacting separatist movements.

Then we have Central and Eastern Europe who are not one homogeneous culture and they are at a great disparity economically. Average wages in Central and Eastern Europe range between €350 in Bulgaria and about €1100 Slovenia, which is only on par with the poorest countries in Western Europe such as Greece and Portugal. Wages in Bulgaria are about €330, which is even less than the Chinese earn.

Therefore, the entire idea of federalizing Europe has utterly failed. Adopting a single currency becomes highly deflationary because of these great disparities.

9/11 Suspects: Philip Zelikow – YouTube


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Source: 9/11 Suspects: Philip Zelikow – YouTube

Germany Prepares For Domestic Troop Deployments As “Catastrophic” Terrorist Attack Deemed “Conceivable, Even Probable”


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Source: Germany Prepares For Domestic Troop Deployments As “Catastrophic” Terrorist Attack Deemed “Conceivable, Even Probable”

NKorea closer to being able to hit America…


And guess who put the North Koreans on this path Bill and Hillary Clinton along with Madeleine Albright another wacko Secretary of State.

North Korea Confirms Successful Test Of Fifth And Largest Nuclear Warhead – Possibly Larger Than Hiroshima


Just what we needed right now a total mad man with nukes and who is connected with the other insane group the Islamist’s.

Famous Pic of Refugees Exposed as Massive Fraud… Look What They Cut Out


The system is rigged and in politics is you are shown pictures of kids you can almost bet it not as presented.

WORLD TURNS ON OBAMA…


Well at least someone has the guts to call Obama out. Good job President Duterte.

Britain to End Freedom on Movement with EU Citizens


Theresa May
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has made it clear that Britain will not accept retaining the EU free movement of EU citizens after the exit. Even traveling from Brussels to London, before BREXIT, they did not recognize Schengen Agreement for free travel. People fron Eastern Europe with a Shengen visa did not have access to Britain automatically. With the EU ruling that Apple has to pay more taxes that its deal with Ireland, BREXIT is indeed the only way to save Britain.

Within the United States, the member states compete to get companies to set up in their states and routinely off tax breaks to create local jobs. The is precisely what the European Commission is trying to stop in Europe. As they are desperate for taxes, they do not want companies to relocate getting better deals in Ireland or Greece against France and Germany. The entire objective is to create a virtual communist type state with 100% central planning in Brussels and the people have no means of voting whatsoever to alter any policy.

May will continue to try to negotiate for a single market economically, but Europe is dying rapidly. The bureaucrats are desperate to control everything to retain their jobs and purpose. They are destroying the future of Europe no less the very core of a capitalist system of a free market.

WHY 2017 is The Threshold to Chaos


2017 Countdown

Merkel-HollandeI have been warning that 2017 was the Year of Political Hell with four major referendums/elections that would undermine the confidence in government – BREXIT, US Presidential Elections, French Elections, and Germany Elections. These four events hold the potential to overturn the expectations of the future. Whatever the general public felt about government would flip. The key to a shift from Public confidence to Private lies within the scope of these four elections. This is what our computer has been forecasting – political instability on the rise. This is the age of anti-establishment (3rd party) rising globally.

However, I have also warned that Social Security and Medicare go NEGATIVE next year in the United States, which of course mainstream media is not bothering to report for fear that would add fuel to the bonfire of political corruption. But what is also not explained by mainstream media, is that Obamacare is crumbling from within. The entire structural design of Obamacare was the perpetual Ponzi Scheme they used for Social Security.

The theory behind Obamacare was to force the youth to buy health insurance and since they rarely need it as a group, they would be paying-in more than they received. Thus, the idea would be Obamacare would exploit the youth to pay for those who could not afford healthcare because of preconditions. The theory failed because the youth did not buy the insurance.

For tax year 2015, the penalty for not buying healthcare was 2% of your total household adjusted gross income, or $325 per adult and $162.50 per child, to a maximum of $975.

For tax year 2016, the penalty jumped to 2.5% of your total household adjusted gross income, or $695 per adult and $347.50 per child, to a maximum of $2,085.

The penalties are still less than insurance, which is often charged at $300 per month+. Even at $695, this is less than $58 per month, which is impossible to find health insurance that cheap. Because the scheme has utterly failed, insurers are abandoning Obamacare. There was not a significant enrollment among the youth they could charge premiums to with no expense so they really saw more money go out than in. The Kaiser Family Foundation issued a study on Obamacare, which reveal it is collapsing by its own weight. They noted: “the number of counties with a single marketplace insurer is likely to increase, from 225 (7% of counties) in 2016 to 974 (31% of counties) in 2017.”

Indeed, UnitedHealthcare left most of the 34 state markets and Aetna is following. The Guardian reported that Obamacare is nearing collapse. The entire structure was based upon the same scheme as Social Security that has been predicated upon exploiting one generation for the next. But with rising unemployment among the youth, and more than 30% of the youth remain living with their parents into their thirties now combined with the collapse in birth rates, this entire scheme is just a scheme that is unsustainable.

Come 2017, we are likely to see Obamacare also collapse. Of course, if Hillary is in, that means higher taxes to try to keep it afloat since the Democrats will never admit a mistake of this magnitude. The only way to deal with the heathcare crisis is to STOP subsidizing healthcare. If the government simply passed a law that hospitals will receive a flat fee per type of care and prohibit charging anything more to the individual, then we will see some competition for the first time. Hospitals have been trying to put private practices out of business as well. The entire scheme has been to run healthcare as a giant corporate entity eliminating choice and with not restraint on fees.

House of cardsThe healthcare business has been the ONLY industry, aside from politicians in Washington, who are not subject to the business cycle. Government also needs to stop the lawsuits that are driving up costs insanely by also capping award per injury on a flat basis. But to get that type of reform we have to clean-house in Washington since 45% of public officials are lawyers compared to just 6% of the work force are lawyers. Hence, the legal profession is disproportionately represented and prevent tort reform since that is their bread & butter.

So buckle up. The whole house of cards is starting to come down. Hello – Phase Transition! Confidence is always the key.