Governments Keep Their Fingers-Crossed


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We must face the fact that we are in a slowing global economy and government simply have their fingers-crossed hoping thius nightmare just corrects itself. There is massive slowing of real income in Europe and the OECD has commented that this is creating a serious political problem for governments moving forward. Central Banks cannot stimulate because at the same time, we face a major crisis in government where their pensions are crowding out all private sector growth. The after-effects of BREXIT, then the USA Presidential election, and the elections in France and then Germany, are just the tip of the Iceberg so to speak because we face a future that is anything but stable. Interestingly, now six countries are looking at potential referendums in addition to the potential resurrection of Scottish Independence as well as Ireland. The response of Brussels has been to usher in revisions to cut off any right for other countries to hold referendums to leave the EU.

Why Comey Would Not Present the Case against Hillary to a Grand Jury


US Supreme Court

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Why did Comey not present this matter to the grand jury? Isn’t it the role of the grand jury to decide to indict or not?

ANSWER: The rules for a Grand Jury have been so altered, they really have been reduced to a rubber stamp. Nevertheless, James Comey had to punt and take one for the government especially in light of the Inspector General’s report on Hillary, who BTW, was independent under Roman law and was suppose to indict government officials which under US law was stripped of such power. Today, effectively, the Grand Jury has been stripped of all safeguards and this demonstrates that we live in a system where all the protections created by the American Revolution have been wiped out. Still, Comey could not risk allowing this matter to go to the people to decide because the Grand Jury comes under the Judiciary and not the Executive branch. There remains a wildcard he cannot control in such a high profile case where the jurors will know who Hillary is and what this is about. The prosecutor cannot 100% control the outcome in this type of case. Hence, no way would Comey allow a real investigation to take place and nobody in mainstream media would dare even explain the truth in this matter.

The idea of a Grand Jury was to PREVENT political legal persecution. The Supreme Court over the years has virtually destroyed the grand jury system claiming that you have the Petit Jury in a public trial to hear both sides. The prosecutor can even KNOW of evidence that proves someone is innocent and it is routine now that he is under NO OBLIGATION to present any evidence whatsoever to show he might be wrong. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in NYC wrote: “Despite recent movements for revision of grand jury procedure, a prosecutor is not presently obligated to search for and submit to a grand jury evidence favorable to the defense or negating guilt…” US v Ciambrone, 1001 F2d 616, 622-623 (2d Cir 1979). This allows the Justice Department to engage in legal persecution or, as Comey has just done, not to evfen conduct any investigation to prove guilt or innocence.

Now, that said, the U.S. Attorneys Manual states that prosecutors “must recognize that the grand jury is an independent body, whose functions include not only the investigation of crime and the initiation of criminal prosecution but also the protection of the citizenry from unfounded criminal charges” and that targets of investigations have the right to, and can, “request or demand the opportunity to tell the grand jury their side of the story.” This pretend right is rarely afforded if at all to anyone who is a target. However, in the case of Hillary, she would have demanded it. On top of that, she is too well known so the Grand Jury may have subpoenaed without restriction others to testify. Comey would NEVER present the case to a Grand Jury for in the matter of Hillary, some may have been politically motivated to really investigate. The Grand Jury comes under the Judiciary and not the Executive Branch/Department of Justice. Normally, they just rubber stamp whatever the prosecutor recommends but in this case, they know the controversy and might really investigate and call witnesses.

The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Grand Jury to remove any barrier to government who wants to engage in political legal persecution. They can destroy anyone at any time. They can throw you in prison, deny bail, and postpone a trial indefinitely while stripping you of any lawyer and imposing on you a court appointed lawyer who routinely loses 99% of all cases to get the job of working for the court. It was John Stuart Mills (1806-1873) who wrote in his classic work, On Liberty: “let us not flatter ourselves that we are yet free from the stain of legal persecution.” id/Oxford World’s Classics 1998, p34. Yet, the Grand Jury can investigate on its own. That is the risk which Comey would not take.

3FeloniesADayMost people do not know, but there are so many laws, the average person commits three felonies every day. There are people in federal prison for paying off one credit card with another (money laundering), withdrawing cash from your account three times at $9,900 each (structuring), to shooting a moose out of season or driving without a license in your immediate possession on federal property. The statue Comey was using for Hillary was just one of many under which she could have been charged:

44 U.S.C. Chapter 31

§ 3101. Records management by agency heads; general duties

The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities.

Then we have  18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally, which Hillary violated, carries a 3 year term of imprisonment and/or fine. Section B also states: “and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.” This wording is very clear. She should not be allowed to even run for president. Then we have yet another:

18 USC §793 reads

(f)

Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Here are just three statutes and you will find people prosecuted under them who have done far less than Hillary. There is no doubt Hillary SHOULD BE charged. There is also no question Hillary WILL NEVER BE CHARGED. As I have stated, it is not the Department of Justice – it is the Department of “Just Us”. There was no possible way Comey would have allowed this to even go to a Grand Jury for they could have done a real investigation. Once upon a time, the Grand Jury was a fundamental part of our liberty – those days are gone:

“In the secrecy of the investigations by grand juries, the weak and helpless-proscribed, perhaps, because of their race, or pursued by an unreasoning public clamor – have found, and will continue to find, security against official oppression, the cruelty of mobs, the machinations of falsehood, and the malevolence of private persons who would use the machinery of the law to bring run upon their personal enemies.”

Hurtado v California, 110 US 516, 554-555 (1884)(dissent of Justice Harlan)

With all the legal machinations, Comey could not risk a grand jury (people) to fulfill their constitutional duty to investigate Hillary. They might have indicted. OMG! What then?

Mainstream Media is Dying — Facebook Recognizes Trend


Facebook

Mainstream media is dying. Their biased coverage of the election will go down in history. Facebook’s latest announcement demonstrates how the younger generation (1) is not into party politics, and (2) does not trust mainstream media. Facebook will modify its News Feed algorithm to favor content posted by a user’s friends and family over content posted by media outlets.

Facebook explained the move is not about privileging certain sources over others, but about better “connecting people and ideas.” This move will allow online sources to be given favored status above the mainstream media, which confirms the trend is changing. This is the democratic revolution that is silently taking over, which is great news because it diminishes the control of the state and media over the average person. The majority of older people over 45 will still cling to the mainstream media and vote Democrat or Republican rather than think for themselves. The polls generally show about 10% of the over-45 crowd are independent, and the trend is rising with the under-45 crowd.

Man Commits EXACT Same Crime as Hillary, FBI Does THIS to Him…


The reason that Hillary isn’t charged is that she is a politician and they are immune to prosecution for anything if they are in the progressive wing of the uni-party.

“Grubering” Leverage and Commonalities – Clinton, Obama and James Comey….


A plausible scenario is presented here but Comey could have been in on the fix from the get go.

Just like Trey Gowdy who could have done more in the Benghazi hearing but instead said it could have been General Carter F. Ham that didn’t send the relief forces to Benghazi; and I would find that equally unlikely being a formal Army Officer — but that was back in the day when we had a REAL military.

So we have two situation showing that everyone in DC wants Hillary to be the next president which is why we need to get Trump in there!

Comey Delivers Scathing Rebuke of Hillary But Says No Indictment


Comey-James FBI-Portrait

To indict someone, the criteria is supposed to be “intent.” Comey has used that to pretend there is no evidence that Hillary “intentionally” erased anything. Comey also stated that Hillary’s lawyers erased her emails using a keyword search program and they did not “read” the emails. He added that he would not recommend charges against Hillary or her aides.

“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey declared.

It was Comey who indicted Frank Quattrone for claiming he instructed his people to erase emails in his technology-industry banking group at Credit Suisse Group’s Credit Suisse First Boston, based upon a single email that read “clean up those files” in December 2000. That was more than enough for his “intent” requirement to obstruct justice. This further illustrates the double standard of justice for them vs. us.

Comey has said that he could not find anyone else who had been prosecuted for such a thing, but then added after clearing Hillary that this is not to say everyone in the government can do this or that they would not prosecute someone else for the same thing. Comey said,“[O]ur judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

Comey presented a scathing rebuke of Hillary’s conduct that anyone else would have certainly been indicted for. For Obama to have announced in advance he would campaign for Hillary, it was clear that this was a cover-up and he knew the results before today. For Comey to say, “Although we did not find clear evidence [of any intentional misconduct] there is evidence that they were extremely careless of very sensitive, highly classified information.” It is the jury’s role to determine if there is any evidence and the case should have been presented for a Grand Jury to decide if she should have been indicted. That, of course, is off limits as well.

Comey went on to all but acknowledge that Russia hacked Hillary’s emails:

“With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent. She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.”

For Comey to claim neither the Department of Justice nor the White House knew what he was going to announce, seriously undermines his trustworthiness in this matter. Of course, Obama knew or he would not have scheduled to campaign for Hillary since, if indicted, she would have had to be on bail to stay out of jail to even campaign. This is by no means credible. But nobody would have expected Hillary to be indicted when the Democrats control the executive branch. Had Hillary been indicted, she could not have run for office, for even that statute says such a person would be disqualified for such an office. The entire election would have been a fiasco and the Democratic Party would have collapsed. This is what Bernie was holding out for and why he had his talk with Obama who informed him forget it — there would be no indictment for Hillary.

“From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent,” Comey said.

Then, Comey contradicted Lynch in making it clear that the final decision was her’s: “As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.”

TR01072002 - No Criminal Description
 James Comey was the chief prosecutor in the Southern District of New York between 2003 and 2005. He had no problem keeping me in Federal Prison on contempt of court without any charges, indictment, or a civil complaint describing any crime whatsoever that they even admitted openly in court. There were never any charges or complaint filed, and they publicly stated, “[T]here is no description of criminal liability.” Yet, Comey allowed me to be held in prison, entirely arbitrarily, with absolutely nothing whatsoever; Comey completely violated my civil rights, those of my family, and all 240 employees. So he is not someone who upholds the Constitution when it goes against government or the banks. As they say, the Department of Justice is really “Just Us” in reality. He has proven that once again.

HSBC Gag Cover

Comey also allowed a LIFETIME GAG ORDER on me to prevent me from providing any assistance to my clients in Japan to sue the bankers. Now the State Department has asked for a two-year stay in turning over any of Hillary’s emails. Why  would they do that if there is nothing criminal? This only proves that this is a cover-up, as always, because the Democratic Party cannot allow Hillary to go down for they would lose everything. Sorry, but Comey has a track record of defending the banks even when they stole $1 billion and pleaded criminally guilty before having to pay them back. He kept me in prison on contempt to turn over assets for a “possible” restitution, but when I got into the Supreme Court, I was released and no such charges were ever filed nor did I ever have any restitution. They then tried to prevent “The Forecaster” from being shown in the USA.

So much for any honesty from the Department of Justice. It is the Department of “Just Us,” as they say.

Nigel Farage Resigns as Head of UKIP


Farage Vote to Leave

It is a shame, but Nigel Farage is standing down as leader of the UK Independence Party. Nigel came from the real world and never had a desire to be a career politician. He has stated that he had done his “bit” following the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU. “The victory for the ‘Leave’ side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved.” He said that leading the UKIP was “tough at times” but “all worth it.” He added that Britain now needs a “Brexit prime minister.” He continued: “I have never been, and I have never wanted to be, a career politician. My aim in being in politics was to get Britain out of the European Union.”  He added: “So I feel it’s right that I should now stand aside as leader of UKIP”.

Meanwhile, Tony Blair, the ultimate anti-democratic politician, keep saying that more than 1 million people have changed their minds and Britain should not go through with BREXIT. He would even surrender the Queen. He is living the Euro dream would would surrender the pound and all independence to enslave the British to a new government they could never have a right to vote in to ever change. People like him just assume to know what’s best that career politicians should rule and the people are too stupid to have any influence.

Nigel will be sorely missed. It is a personal battle, absolutely. But with people like Blair hanging around in the wings, the job may not be done to save Britain. It is the people who love telling every one else what they will be allowed to do who want power, and will never resign it. These career politicians are no different than any monarch who also abused the people – let them eat cake!

George Carlin Was Right: “The Big Club”…


Carlin is right the country is owned but sometimes the people wake up and realize what has been done and there are a lot of us and only a few of them! That is why they are in a panic about our guns — don’t ever give them up for if you do you will very shortly be one of their slaves!

Happy 4th July – The King is Dead – Long Live Career Politicians Also for Life


4th July

(Note: Not so sure we actually won something. We are right back to taxation with no representation the same as it was 240 years ago)

Declining Pound Savior of Britain


IBBPVA-W 7-3-2016

QUESTION: Marty
It looks like Carney and Osborne are talking the pound down in order to frighten people.

Only one of their prophesies have come true – the lower value of sterling.
But it is unhelpful that they continue to be negative – even though they’ve proved to have been wrong on all the other things [cost of borrowing, asset prices, the UK deficit, cancellation of investments].

I fear [being a Brit] that too much unwarranted negativity from their position of power will take the pound down too far. Do you agree that can achieve that and that they, representing the establishment, are trying to win back some of the lost ground? I would say that is treason [not to carney as he’s a Canadian. I’d tell him to go home].

Thanks
JF, Manchester

ANSWER: The reason “value” investing and “fair value” theories fail is because markets ALWAYS over shoot and under shoot. Our next real zone for the pound is in the mid 120 level. However, ironically, European concepts of currency value is SERIOUSLY WRONG. Post-World War II, European politicians used the rise in their currencies as proof that they did a good job. That installed this concept that a strong currency was good for the economy which in fact if you are concerned about trade, you want a weak currency. The entire reason the Swiss put a peg on to the euro was because the rise in the franc was reducing exports and major companies threatened to leave.

Mother-MerkelThe decline in the pound will BOOST British exports and have exactly the opposite effect helping the British economy. The EU is doomed. Over taxes, over regulated and it has no meaningful democratic process. Worse still, just as Merkel by herself tried to help her negative image because of her harsh dealings with Greece wanted to appear reasonable, she invited the refugees in without any right of other countries to object. She made a decision as Germany, but it automatically impacts all of Europe. Under the EU, no such power should be allowed if all governments must suffer because of one leader.

The pound will drop to penetrate the $1 par level probably no later than 2018. With the political chaos of French and German elections next year, that decline can take place sooner than later. But this is what will force a monetary reform as early as 2018. The rise in the dollar will reduce US exports and that will put political pressure in the States for reform not to mention a debt crisis in emerging markets.

The peak in bonds appears to be in place. We are seeing the rates rise already in the peripheral markets. This will spread from the peripherals in toward the core. So Southern European rates will rise faster than German but when capital figures out the crisis is the EU, then German rates will rise. The Federal rates in the USA will be the LAST to rise because the initial shock will be foreign capital fleeing to the States.

The remarks of British politicians are to be seen in their context of this false perception that a strong currency is good. You hear Trump criticizing China as a “currency manipulator” implying they lower the value of their currency to increase trade. As the pound declines, this will save British jobs – it’s a good thing; not bad.