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Dec 26 2018

Geographical Morality versus Universal Morality


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law

Re-Posted Dec 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

There has always been a question in law that was originally argued as the conflict of laws known as “geographical morality” versus “universal morality” that emerged in one of the longest running trials in British history. The case involved an East India Company corruption which was brought against Warren Hastings (1732-1818)between 1787 and 1795. Hastings had been governor of the company which, by the late 18th century, ruled large parts of India in Bengal. One of the charges against him was that he had received “considerable presents, for brokerage and bribes for the sale of office”, which Lord Chancellor Edward Thurlow, the judge, described as “the most odious and disgraceful species of corruption that could be charged”.

Nevertheless, Thurlow also objected to what he saw as a new doctrine introduced by Hastings’ chief prosecutor, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). Indeed, Burke argued that if a gift passed from an inferior to his superior in office, that was sufficient to be counted as a bribe. I mention this because the charges against Michael Cohen are similar whereby nobody has ever been prosecuted under such a theory before that the payment to someone to remain silent exceeds the $2700 limit on campaign contributions. In the case of Hastings, Thurlowthought a corrupt motive still had to be shown and Hastings was acquitted.

The most interesting aspect of this trial was a question never reached. Hastings’ trial raised the fascinating question about what Burke called “geographical morality” meaning a morality that was place-specific rather than universal. Hastings had argued that “actions in Asia do not bear the same moral qualities which the same actions would bear in Europe”. He could not, therefore, be judged on the same moral standards imposed in England. His acquittal thus left the idea of universal moralityup in the air.

Today, most countries respect the rule of law, except that of the United States because prosecutors and judges have absolute immunity even if they falsely accuse someone and demand the death penalty. They are the only people who can kill someone and remain above the law. The case of Mark Rich who fled to Switzerland could not be extradited to the USA because the crimes he was changed within New York were not recognized as crimes in Switzerland. This was the classic example of “geographical morality” versus “universal morality” where you cannot be charged with a crime in one country because you are a citizen when the act was not a crime where it took place.

Categories: Rule of Law
Dec 24 2018

The Political Night Before Christmas


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion

Re-Posted Dec 24, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Capitol Hill
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung for lobbyists to fill with care,
In hopes that bankers soon would be there;

The politicians were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of Global Warming Taxes danced in their heads;
And Trump in his tux, and Melania in her gown,
Had just wished the nation a Merry Christmas as the CNN criticized the dress she wore,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
Trump sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window he flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of Global Cooling for you know,
When, what to his wondering eyes should appear,
Mueller in a sleigh, with Nancy Pelosi and eight potential candidates with cheer,

With a Mueller the driver, who was so lively and quick,
Trump knew in a moment it must be Impeachment as a new trick.
More rapid than eagles his accusers came,
And they chanted, and shouted, Trump’s not my president is the game;

“Now, Pelosi! now, Schumer! now, Warren and Biden!
On, Booker! on Bloomberg! on, Hillary and Avenatti!
To the top of the polls! to the top of the news!
Now impeach away! disrupt away! and fake news away al

Dec 24 2018

Santa & Socialism


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion

Re-Posted Dec 24, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

Dec 23 2018

Slaving Private Ryan


“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ” — Ariel Durant, Russian-born American researcher and writer, co-author of The Story of Civilization, Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction. (1898-1981)

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While the United Nations agreed to flood Western nations with thousands of strong, able-bodied young men to overwhelm our security forces, our healthcare system, and our finances to feed, clothe and house them, there is yet another way to reduce our ability to deal with the invasion.  The system began some time ago, and although we cannot be certain that this was their end game, it is certainly another method of realizing the left’s aspiration of globalism.   It is time to gather the many components.

The Women’s movement began with the right to vote in the 19th and 20th centuries, evolving into every facet of their lives in the ‘60s,– sexuality, family, and work.  The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), established in 1977, focused on social transformation,  rethinking gender, bio-politics of humanity, post-capitalism, revolutions and utopian projects, environmental justice, climate change, and more.  Often repackaged, we see these concepts increasingly governing our schools today, disturbing trends for today’s students.

Beginning with kindergarten, many American and European schools have implemented programs to discourage “best friends,” to keep the youngsters more isolated and lonely, including relinquishing human interaction for computer hours.  Common Core’s standards redefine the teachers as facilitators who are less involved with actual instruction, and disdain objective truth for the subjective opinions of the students.  Students despair through the lack of a solid foundation of academic and personal skills.

Common Core standards owes its implementation to its architect, David Coleman, who has no background in academia; Barack Hussein Obama; Bill Ayers, leader of the ‘60s counterculture movement, domestic terrorist and elementary education theorist; and Arne Duncan, later US Secretary of Education.  Their philosophy was education for a revolution.  Simple math emerged as extensive, frustrating mathematical problems.  Classical literature, considered responsible for improving vocabulary, creative thought and expression, was replaced with dystopian writings and corporate texts, peppered with leftist ideology and resulting in contempt for reading.  World religion became historical revisionism, omissions, and bias devoted to Islam with intrinsic Judeophobia.  Texts and schoolbooks depict Americans as colonialists, conquerors, and slavers, and the presentation of our founding fathers, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation, leave our children humiliated about their heritage, angry and eager to destroy historic statuary and monuments.  The result is an intense anxiety in our children, fear of school, anger, sleeplessness, bed-wetting, and even self-mutilation.

The blind acceptance of a foreign element that rejects our American values is yet another threat to our students.  The implementation of the concept of diversity actually divided the children who were once only American students striving for an education.  Rather, the mirage of diversity has separated the students by race, heritage, gender; assimilation has been replaced by confrontation. No longer are they judged by achievements and grades, but by skin color and ethnicity.    The buzz word, ”equality,” is now applied to outcome, rather than to opportunity, so that standards must be lowered to provide all with an equal comfort level.  Thus, leading universities began to establish a quota system based on group identity instead of on individual ability, encouraging diversity but using it to separate one from another, pit one against the other, and diminish the importance of the camaraderie and commonality of the school experience and Americanism.  This is social engineering – denying this generation the aptitude and intellect to discern fact from fiction, right from wrong.

Another injustice ensued when young women were blaming chauvinism for the jobs they did not land, forcing companies to make the necessary hiring accommodations by gender and ethnicity, rather than talent and ability, a palpable problem in medicine and other fields.  Such was the case of the Obama-era FAA hiring rules that placed air traffic controller diversity ahead of safety.

Men were now not succeeding as their fathers had, not able to support their families if they married, and often not marrying because the young women are managing well enough with socialist welfare checks.  The fathers are pushed to abandon what should have been their new family.

Many young women in school have been imbued with a disrespect, even contempt, for men, particularly white men, which vilifies our history and suppresses a flourishing civilization.  It was certainly evident with the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, when women were seen screaming and pounding on locked doors, willingly charging him with unproven crimes.  Further, the assault on free speech gives credence to silencing anyone with the accusation of “hate speech,” or “behavioral transgressions.”  Boys and young men who, through the ages, have been the ones to initiate courtship are now deterred because of potential accusations of offensive speech or aggression.  Many universities now employ a Bias Hotline, where anyone may report any conduct or speech seen as offensive, intimidating, demeaning, degrading, marginalizing, victimizing or threatening to another individual.  The victim could be fined, suspended, or even dismissed from the school.

Another depreciating and seriously damaging influence is the schools’ indoctrinating young children to accept transgenderism, replacing our pronouns for two genders with an appalling variety of choices, so that teachers may be fired if they accidentally lapse into the God-given two.  Nontraditional families and cross-dressing are also approved.  Boys who have always been acclaimed for healthy masculine traits that enable them to succeed in our military and police forces may now be subjected to ridicule, harassment and shame by the teacher.  Is it any wonder that the suicide rate for boys is four times higher than that of girls?

And finally (or is it?), citing evidence that boys have become maladjusted, low achievers, truants and delinquents, inattentive and rebellious, depressed and desperate, with a shorter life expectancy, Brown University has implemented a program to “unlearn toxic masculinity,” which can only further emasculate boys.  Rather than analyze society’s role in weakening and devaluing them, robbing them of their natural maleness and function, this university has chosen to  hasten the process.  And can I even find the words to discuss the leftist assault on our sanity, as they declare that boys can menstruate?  We recognize the strategies, but what lies behind this war against our male population?

The power hungry who seek to rule the globe as one governing entity, globalists, (including our own Shadow Government) or caliphates, do not have the manpower and defense technology to overcome our population, our citizens’ abilities and spirit, so that other means would have to be found.  The only course open to globalists is to overwhelm Americans with an alien population; hence, we are being beset by the migrant masses and determined opposition to the border wall for protection.  Another would be to weaken America as  President Obama depleted our military by spending down and sending ~$33.6 billion to Iran, reducing our armed services and allowing equipment to age without replacement, and denigrating our police.

The strategy of weakening America’s manpower is being implemented in order to ensure that our youth, our future military, remain uninspired, untrained, and emasculated.  It would appear that they are being converted into a non-reasoning, obedient, slave sect, a modern-day form of Pharoah’s eunuchs.  Then, should enemy forces advance, there would be few true men left to do battle for our existence.

 

by Tabitha Korol

https://tinyurl.com/y7e6z63d

Dec 20 2018

An Education on Political Islam with Bill Warner: The Crusades and Jihad


Published on Dec 5, 2018

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Dec 19 2018

Misogyny on 34th Street


I can still remember the many happy occasions I spent shopping at Macy’s on 34th, as a child, my pockets filled with hot chestnuts; later, as a new fashion designer fresh out of the Fashion Institute of Technology, either killing time between job interviews or checking out the new styles;  and then as a newlywed, shopping for our first apartment.  It is very difficult to fathom  how this company, that produces the world-renowned Macy’s Parade; the magnificent Christmas windows, with incomparable set designs and moving figures that mesmerized crowds of eager spectators, would one day turn on its customers – when Macy’s owners, its board of directors and staff would consent to introduce a line of oppressive clothing to their female clientele.  Known as the veil or hijab and forcibly imposed in tyrannical, misogynistic Islamic regimes, these alone were selected by Macy’s from the world’s many kinds of fashion.

Macy’s headquarters have fallen for the leftist line, that it is prudent to strive for multiculturalism in a country that has long been a thriving melting pot that elicited the envy of the world.  America’s past success has clearly been due to the immigrants’ fervor to live and let live, whereas Islam, by stark contrast, is mandated in their Koran to dominate and subdue all other cultures by any means necessary.  Multiculturalism is repulsive to Islam.

In addition to the denigration of Western religions, the re-writing of our history, the destruction of our statuary, and the attack on gender identity, the public is now being conditioned to accept the appearance of these oppressed, shrouded forms on city streets.

Introducing  Islamic styles to the American public is yet another way of attacking America’s culture and femininity, as the full niqab, burqa and abaya are a means of dehumanizing women, enforcing the devalued female to cede control to the male in the Islamic shame-honor society, and denying her any societal interactions.  The garment serves as an isolation chamber, causing sensory deprivation problems and disrupting bonding with her infant, even if she removes the shroud at home.  There is also a high physical price to pay, for the wearer is deprived of absorbing Vitamin D in northern climes, thereby causing pelvic fractures during childbirth, and triggering iron deficiencies and hypocalcaemic seizures in the child.

The cost of naively introducing these sheathes into American society will eventually destroy the thriving fashion industry as we know it, eliminate the entertainment industry, and affect all other related businesses, in creativity and in employment, until our country is transformed into another backward Islamic country.   Conquest is achieved, not only through war, but also through stealth, slowly, through government, business, schools, and now the shopping sector.  But there will be blood on the hands of those who acquiesce – their own and the blood of their loved ones.

Could it be that Macy’s was visited by CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) and made compliant, or that they never considered that “multi” would mean the influx of many whose intent it is to destroy the host culture, or that the concept of jihad may apply to race and religion, but never to culture?  Was Macy’s coerced into accepting “diversity and inclusivity” to accommodate an oppressive ideology that itself rejects both diversity and inclusivity?  How long before the Macy’s parade, begun in 1924, with its colorful, imaginative merriment, costumes, music, and introduction to a heartwarming holiday season, will be considered an offense to Islam and halted?

We must learn from history, particularly from the history that is playing out now in real time, in much of Europe, that once a substantial number of Muslim women begins to wear these coverings, those who do not accept the veil become fair game, the quarry, for the terrorist, including kidnapping for sexual slavery, and mass rape on the streets (taharrush), an horrific assault when as many as 20 men will rape one young victim repeatedly.  Sweden’s acceptance of multiculturalism has led to the title, Rape Capital of Europe.   Rape is the method by which Islamic terrorists, jihadi, force the women to discard western clothing for the “safety” provided by the confining veils, and the native men to acquiesce politically.  Rape is also indirectly abetted by our socialist school system’s introduction of techniques that are emasculating our boys, diminishing their importance in studies and for courtship, and eliminating man’s instinctive protectiveness toward family and property.

As with academia, Macy’s personnel have elected to speak of diversity and inclusivity out of a mistaken sense of morality, while choosing to endanger their own fellow-Americans, themselves, their families.  The seventh century ideology of Islam is patient and persistent, and this misplaced tolerance will be a stepping stone to further surrender, one store at a time, one city at a time.  Is this how the company functions, without thought to consequences of its decisions?

While the West speaks inanely of reforming Islam, the clerics emphatically insist that it was perfect from its inception and can never be changed.  In light of this, consider that Islamic intolerance has resulted in 690+ million people killed worldwide over 1400 years (600 million Hindus), that the  centuries-long Islamic invasions into India left mountains of skulls.  Most virulent of all is the undying hatred and persecution of Jews long before Israel’s statehood in 1948, and the constant barrage of rockets and fire bombs into Israel since that date.  The wanton destruction and sexual crimes in Sweden, Berlin and Paris are a mere prelude to total control, and once Islam has been established, no country has ever returned to freedom.  Even Spain, conquered by the Muslims in 711 and reconquered by the Spanish in 1492, is once again succumbing to Islamic oppression.

The Muslim Brotherhood has announced its goal: “to get in and impose sharia law to establish an Islamic state.”  Yusaf al-Qaradawi promises conquest, but assures it can be done peacefully – to get all the women to wear the veil and all the men to wear the beard.  If not by war, “it will do so through predication (pronouncement) and ideology.”  Is Macy’s listening?

Macy’s is deceived, and its accommodation of Islam’s lifestyle is foolhardy, for with Islam, there can be only one lifestyle, and it will consume all others.  We ask Macy’s to reconsider their actions and return to being American.

Tabitha Korol

https://tinyurl.com/y7e6z63d

Dec 14 2018

Reporting Muslim Blasphemy: There’s an App for That


Published on Dec 13, 2018

Muslims in Indonesia can use a smartphone app to report insults to the Prophet Mohammed and Islam. Does the U.S. Constitution protect the individual’s right to use an app like that? Bill Whittle Now considers the impact of 21st century technology to enforce 7th century law.
Dec 12 2018

The Republican congress persons and senator persons must all be gender neutral nothing between their legs. Well Trump does speak out and take the heat, so be a man for a change.


The corrupt main stream media is seeking to interview as many Congressional Republicans as possible, and who could blame them. Most being interviewed are gutless and refuse to boldly support the campaign pledge that largely got Donald Trump elected. A wall to help secure our southern border. Senator Rob Portman was one of those disturbing interviews. If proper funding is not provided the president has threatened to partially close down the government, a display of political courage rarely seen in Washington these days. He must have the support of Congressional Republicans.

Donald Trump’s presidency and the future of the Republican Party are at crossroads. This lame duck session is the last opportunity for Republicans to prevail and they must unite. I will be letting Senator Portman and the rest of my representatives know that my future votes are at stake – it’s now or never! I urge those who agree with me to do the same.

Jeff Longo

Dec 12 2018

Known Wolfe: Terrorist Attacks Christmas Market in Strasbourg France – Two Dead, 11 Injured, Gunman on the Loose…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 11, 2018 by

A known individual on a “terror watch list” opened fire at a Christmas Market in Strasbourg France.

[Via NBC] Two people are dead and at least 11 injured in a shooting Tuesday night in the French city of Strasbourg, with police searching for a suspect who is on a terrorist watch list.

The shooting took place around 8 p.m. near a Christmas market in the French-German border city of Strasbourg that attracts millions of tourists every year.

As of about 10:45 p.m. local time, the suspect was still at large, and police were engaged in a firefight in the neighborhood of Neudorf in Strasbourg. It wasn’t immediately clear if the firefight was connected to the deadly shooting, officials said.

Of the 11 wounded in the incident, seven had serious injuries and four had minor injuries, officials said. (read more)

Dec 8 2018

Denmark to Banish the Worst Problem Refugees on a Tiny Island


Armstrong Economics Blog/Refugees

Re-Posted Dec 8, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

Denmark plans to house the country’s most unwelcome foreign refugee who has caused problems in a most unwelcoming place they could find – Lindholm Island. It is a tiny, hard-to-reach island that now holds the laboratories, stables, and crematory of a center for researching contagious animal diseases. They are planning to house up to 100 people there. Perhaps the real incentive is to leave and go home or at least to Germany.