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Oct 3 2018

American Politics Has Crossed the Rubicon – There’s no Going Back


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

RE-Posted Oct 3, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Thanks for commenting on this! I was watching the proceedings and to me the circus on Capitol Hill only made sense to those who are too deep into American politics to see the big picture.

I’m not from the USA, luckily.

From the outside, it looks like infighting. What it looks like is the seat of the Empire is filled with corrupt bureaucrats fighting for dominance. By the time one faction wins, the Empire’s foundation is so undermined it only takes a breeze to bring the entire house of cards crashing down.

Isn’t this what truly happened in the days of Rome? Was it the Barbarians, or was it the internal struggles between the established factions within Rome that undermined it to the point where the whole thing became vulnerable to an outside force?

In the end, the Empire was divided, and only the East carried on the legacy. The West sank into a thousand year long Dark Age.

Would you say we’re at a similar time? Some of us are wondering if there is a fix to this… If things will ever go back to normal…

Thanks!

REPLY: Yes a lot of emails have been pouring in from overseas since this entire appointment of a judge has captured the attention of the entire world. A friend from Canada could not believe how it is dominating even their TV.

I fully respect if these women were really sexually assaulted. The problem is bringing something up 36 years later when memories are distorted. This has turned into a Circus and it reflects how anything goes today. It is really sad because it exposes how deep the hatred goes. You are correct, we have crossed the Rubicon. There is no putting this back together. The November elections will NEVER be accepted by either side. This is the Array on the Democrats. We are plagued by Directional Changes and Panic Cycles showing up in 2029 and 2021. This is all coming to a MAJOR head by 2020.

I sincerely fear that Trump will be the very last democratically elected president. They will from here on out alter the actual voting counts to support their desired outcome. This is game over! Turn out the lights! As they said of Rome: they will still laughing when the lights went out.

Oct 2 2018

Senator Lindsey Graham Discusses Kavanaugh Nomination – Outlines Political Standard for Nomination Withdrawal…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on October 1, 2018 by

Senator Lindsey Graham discusses the current status of the Kavanaugh nomination with Fox News host Sean Hannity. Senator Graham says he feels confident that Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed. Senator Mitch McConnell is confident there will be a vote by the end of the week.

However, Mr. Hannity ponders what happens if two of the GOPe votes withdraw. If 49 yea votes are forecast, Graham does the infamous triple-lindsey…

Senator Graham outlines his advice to President Trump if two-of-three Senators (Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins) do not support the nomination at the end of the week. Graham would advise President Trump to pull the nomination and campaign in the 2018 mid-term election with Kavanaugh as the primary issue. Oddly enough, that’s the same goal held by the Democrat wing of the UniParty.

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Whenever there is deep contention -actual risk of political exposure- the UniParty always maneuvers back into the shadows and away from actually taking a vote.

If the GOPe pull the vote, republican voters will be angry/disappointed. If the GOPe vote and cannot confirm the nominee, republican voters will be angry/disappointed. Oddly enough, when the UniParty is successful, it always seems to be republican voters that are angry/disappointed.  [See: budgets, shut-downs, Obamacare, Omnibus, Go8 Amnesty]

Oct 2 2018

Kavanaugh Smear Campaign – Anticipating Mid-Week Shift To Phase #4


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on October 1, 2018 by

The highly predictable strategy by Democrats, far-left activists and compliant ideological media to smear/destroy Judge Brett Kavanaugh is solidly in phase three:

  • √ Phase 1 – Activate last minute delay chaos (prior “Me Too” investment).
  • √ Phase 2 – Use sex assault claims to demand investigation, further delay. Use republicans, not democrats, to establish/frame the delay.
  • √ Phase 3 – Use investigation to frame validity narrative; further delay.  Use republican fear (leverage Jeff Flake) not democrats, to continue the delay. Manipulate FBI. Shift investigation goalposts.   <=WE ARE HERE
  • Phase 4 – Use “deeply flawed investigation” narrative (witnesses ignored); to isolate Murkowski/Collins and keep Flake in position.  Drum mid-term “Let the voters decide”.
  • Phase 5 – The mid-term election.

So far, the DC UniParty is executing this flawlessly.  The shift to Phase 4 should be anticipated for Thursday’s media-cycle.   On/Around October 15th the mid-term gravitational field will take over.

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Senator Jeff Flake informs his progressive audience that he will almost assuredly vote against Judge Brett Kavanaugh; despite the delay happening *ONLY* because he demanded the investigation.   Flake duped the Senate.

This entire scheme has been a carefully manufactured process from the outset.  That’s why Mrs. Blasey-Ford social media was scrubbed in advance.  All of this was tightly coordinated and loosely framed.

They won’t stop.

It’s going to get worse.

Delay only enables them.

Oct 2 2018

Guantanamo Bay & Covering Up Mistakes


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law

RE-Posted Oct 2, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: You once mentioned that Guantanamo Bay was a violation of human rights and Obama had pledged to close it when he ran for office the first time. Yet it is still open. Why is America acting in a manner it condemns others?

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ANSWER: The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base they call GTMO. It is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Since the inmates have been detained indefinitely without trial and several detainees have allegedly been tortured, the operations of this camp are considered to be a major breach of human rights by Amnesty International. I fully agree. I have some actual Washington sources on this subject. They tried to release some quietly and sent them back in jeans and T-Shirts. They were killed back home because (1) these people are not terrorists, and (2) they assumed they were now working for the CIA.

These people have NEVER been given a trial because there is no evidence. If they were terrorists, they would have put them on trial and paraded them as a huge victory. You must ask – Why have they not done that? The famous Guantanamo prisoner, the only one put on trial, and he was acquitted by a New York jury of 223 counts out of 224, and found him guilty of conspiracy of which anyone can be convicted, since it is just an agreement or claim that someone knew about something yet did not participate in the crime. This loss is why they will not put anyone else on trial for he was their BEST case! Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was convicted by a federal jury on ONLY a single charge of conspiracy to destroy buildings and U.S. property in connection with his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. The Jury found him not guilty of 223 counts.  Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was the best case they had. Obama reiterated his first campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay and end torture back in 2008. Why has nobody else been placed on trial? Because they have no case. When they tried to secretly release some prisoners, they sent them back in jeans and t-shirts. They were killed because others assumed that they had been brainwashed by the Americans.

Just recently, Mr. Khattala was convicted last year of four charges but acquitted of 14 other serious counts after a seven-week trial. Judge Christopher R. Cooper was criticized for giving him only 22 years in prison instead of life. He pointed out that Mr. Khattala was essentially convicted of property crimes and that his actions did not warrant a life sentence. Judge Cooper praised the government for its professionalism which is covering up their usual casual approach always exaggerating everything and then asking always for life or death sentences.

Yet the United States passes the Magnitsky Act on the pretense that a Russian citizen was treated badly in a Russian prison. The track record at GTMO is a national disgrace and proves we live under a veil of propaganda. Waterboarding is torture the same as throwing you into freezing cold cell and then into a hot one which is what they were doing to me. Then they were torturing people with electrodes and stripping them naked in violation of their religion. We can twist the words and pretend it is not torture but America is no different from any other state they pretend violates human rights.

I do not understand why these people feel they have to bend every principle of law just to win at all costs.

Oct 1 2018

Kavanaugh is the Tipping Point for Decline & Fall of the United States


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Oct 1, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

Kavanaugh’s hearing exposed the serious fact that the US Congress has become too polarized to even govern. What has been done to Kavanaugh is a serious disgrace for if the allegations of Ford are true, then she is at fault for not bringing charges back then and claiming it has defined her life. NOBODY should be allowed to bring any allegations against anyone decades after with no proof. They call them a Cold Case when they cannot solve a murder and Chicago’s track record is that they solve less than even one in six such murders and that is current incidents.

The Kavanaugh vote was strictly down the party line and that demonstrates the problem. The hatred and degree to which a person is attacked goes beyond that person but seriously harms his entire family. This is now becoming a serious deterrent to anyone in the future looking at taking such a post. Will they find someone in your past you just hates you for some reason who now thinks it is pay-back time? The Congress is now far too disconnected from the notion of God, truth, and justice for all. There is a complete breakdown of anything civilized in the country they are supposed to serve. The judiciary, which is traditionally distant from partisan bickering, is now smack in the middle of it. This nonsense that those appointed to the court vote only partisan means that we should simply replace the court with an artificial intelligence system that decides cases based strictly upon the Constitution.

This Congress would NEVER be capable of even writing a Constitution. If they existed in 1776, there would be NO United States. If they would have ever agreed to have a revolution against the King, they would have then turned on each other. Very few would have survived such an event. I personally am fed up with politics. My cousin has the musket that our family used in the American Revolution. If my family, who has fought in every war from the American Revolution onward were alive today, they would seriously wonder what they even fought for.

There is no doubt that historians will look back on the hearing as a turning point in this country when the Decline and Fall of the United States was at least exposed and some will make this event as the tipping point. This has exposed that hatred that is brewing beneath the surface. The computer will no doubt be correct. We have gone way too far to ever return to normality

Oct 1 2018

Sunday Talks: Tom Cotton -vs- John Dickerson on Kavanaugh…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on September 30, 2018 by

My favorite part is when John Dickerson tells Tom Cotton he needs to stop reciting all the facts about the way the judiciary committee works or there won’t be enough time to get in the needed CBS production narrative.

Oct 1 2018

Phase #3 – Dianne Feinstein Demands Details of FBI Investigation….


RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on September 30, 2018 by

*Important note* Dianne Feinstein should not be considered an individual senator in this ongoing scheme. Many political observers forget it is the position, not the person, that determines who is used in their corrupt processes. In the Kavanaugh Scheme, the position of “ranking member of the Judiciary Committee” is the value to the resistance, not the individual person.

  • Phase 1 – Activate last minute delay chaos (prior “Me Too” investment).
  • Phase 2 – Use sex assault claims to demand investigation, further delay. Use republicans, not democrats, to establish/frame the delay.
  • Phase 3 – Use investigation to frame validity narrative; further delay.  Use republican fear, not democrats, to continue the delay. Manipulate FBI.
  • Phase 4 – Use “deeply flawed” investigation narrative to penetrate mid-term membrane…. “Let the voters decide”.
  • Phase 5 – The mid-term election.

So far, the DC UniParty is executing this flawlessly.

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“Just Sign Here”…

Maggie Haberman

F.B.I. investigators looking into sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh will conduct interviews with only four people, at least initially.

Democrats Denounce Limits on F.B.I.’s Kavanaugh Inquiry as a ‘Farce’

Even Democratic senators who knew the investigation would be limited expressed disappointment as investigators planned to interview only four witnesses, at least initially.

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New York Times – […] Democrats in Washington reacted with anger on Sunday as the narrow scope of the new F.B.I. background inquiry became clear, warning that it threatened to become a sham.

Senator Mazie K. Hirono, a Hawaii Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week” that any investigation that limits whom the F.B.I. can interview and which leads agents can follow would be a “farce.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is also on the committee, described what she said was micromanaging from the White House: “You can’t interview this person, you can’t look at this time period, you can only look at these people from one side of the street from when they were growing up.”

I mean, come on,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The White House agreed on Friday to order the F.B.I. to conduct a “limited” one-week supplemental background check of Judge Kavanaugh after a small number of Republicans joined Democrats in demanding an investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct.

White House officials have asked the F.B.I. to interview four witnesses, a typical request in a background check. No evidence has emerged that the White House has forbidden any investigative steps, and President Trump has said he wants agents “to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion.”

In a tweet on Sunday, Mr. Trump accused Democrats of playing politics and said they would never be satisfied with any inquiry.

“Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the ‘time’ and ‘scope’ of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough,” he wrote. “Hello! For them, it will never be enough.”

Democrats have cast the initial list of those to be interviewed as falling short of a full examination of the allegations. The four witnesses are Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth, high school friends of Judge Kavanaugh’s; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of one of Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers, Christine Blasey Ford; and Deborah Ramirez, another of the judge’s accusers.

A lawyer for Dr. Blasey, who riveted the nation on Thursday as she recounted before the Judiciary Committee what she said was a rape attempt by a drunken Judge Kavanaugh when they were in high school, said on Sunday that she had not been contacted by the F.B.I.

“We have not heard from the F.B.I. despite repeated efforts to speak with them,” Debra S. Katz, the lawyer, said in a brief telephone interview Sunday morning.  (read more)

Oct 1 2018

Government Are Just Going Broke


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics

Re-Posted Oct 1, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

The events in the Senate concerning the nomination of  Brett Kavanaugh’s illustrates that career politicians are destroying our way of life because they are so intent on just beating the opposite party that nobody is paying attention to the real problems we are staring at straight in its eyes. We face a very dark future because there is nobody home in government. They are indeed like the old Pink Floyd song – Comfortably Numb! Is there anyone in there? Is anyone home?

In Canada, a report has come out and made it clear that the “wolf is truly at provinces’ doors”, which is warning that the Canadian provinces’ fiscal position, collectively, is not sustainable over the long-term. They will raise taxes further and desperately punish all of use for their mismanagement and failures. They have destroyed our future and they will NEVER prevent a crisis because they ignore everything that is common sense.

I have tried very hard over the years to address the issue and show them this is a disaster that a 4-year-old with a pocket calculator can forecast. There is NO WILL to change and the parties are at each other’s throats so there can never be any bipartisan cooperation to save our future. We just have to Crash & Burn. The political system is simply incapable of actually managing the economy with career politicians for they are more interested in defeating the opposition to retain their jobs. We come last on the list of considerations.

As interest rates continue to rise, we are facing the crisis of all time. The central banks must “normalize” interest rates for the entire pension system is going belly-up. This is pitting fiscal policy against central bank policy. Government around the global have enjoyed the lowest interest rates in 5,000 years. They never reformed but spent even more. These two policies are now going to confront each other going into 2021

Oct 1 2018

Sunday Talks: Trey Gowdy Discusses Upcoming Meeting With Rod Rosenstein…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on September 30, 2018 by

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Trey Gowdy appears on Sunday Morning with Maria Bartiromo to discuss his upcoming meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Oct 1 2018

Tripwire Crossed – James Comey: “It is idiotic” to rush the FBI…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on September 30, 2018 by

Consider this the official triggering of phase #3 in a well planned, thoughtful, well mapped-out process by professional Democrats and their media allies.

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…”We live in a world where the president is an accused serial abuser of women” … “In that world, the F.B.I. is now being asked to investigate, on a seven-day clock” … “If truth were the only goal, there would be no clock” …”It is idiotic to put a shot clock on the F.B.I.” … “the process is deeply flawed, and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process” …

See where this is going?  Note the message.  Note the distribution venue.  Follow the strategy:

  • Phase 1 – Activate last minute delay chaos (prior “Me Too” investment).
  • Phase 2 – Use sex assault claims to demand investigation, further delay. Use republicans, not democrats, to establish/frame the delay.
  • Phase 3 – Use investigation to frame validity narrative; further delay.  Use republican fear, not democrats, to continue the delay.
  • Phase 4 – Use “deeply flawed” investigation narrative to penetrate mid-term membrane…. “Let the voters decide”.
  • Phase 5 – The mid-term election.

So far, the DC UniParty is executing this flawlessly.