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Jul 10 2016

State Department Intentionally Deleted Parts of Press Briefing to Mislead the Press Over the Iran Nuclear Deal


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Re-Posted Jul 10, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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The State Department blew everyone away after admitting that they officially and intentionally deleted several minutes of video footage from a 2013 press briefing to mislead the press over the Iranian nuclear deal.  Those in power are all about just them. They are constantly showing that they cannot be trusted on anything. Yet, we are risking the lives of our children with wars that are manufactured for political gain all so they can in their mind rule the world.

In school, we were taught that the Germans ruthlessly sunk a passenger ship, the Lusitania, to justify World War I. The problem was that the US was secretly putting arms shipments in passenger boats to get them to Europe. So they lied about that as well. However, Germany actually took out an advertisement in the New York Times to warn people not to travel on the Lusitania, but that was omitted from history books.

They knew about the pending attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. They moved the big ships out and allowed the attack to happen so they could get into the war.

With Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson admitted that perhaps the sailors were shooting at whales. The Vietnamese never attacked the US navy in the Tonkin Gulf incident.

There were no weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq.

The government proposed Operation Northwoods to justify an invasion of Cuba whereby they would kill Americans and call it a terrorist attack. This was later rejected by President Kennedy.

Why does anyone believe government about anything?

Jul 10 2016

Australia Creates Domestic Violence Tax


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Re-Posted Jul 10, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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The politicians in Australia know how to shove a tax through that they can flip on anyone who opposes it. Australia is now implementing a “domestic violence tax” whereby they will charge every household $30 annually to create a fund to help victims of domestic violence.

There were about 124.6 million households in the United States in 2015 according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (a household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit). According to the Department of Justice, there are about 960,000 domestic violence incidents annually. That means that on a household basis, the percentage is 0.77%. It is curious that you would propose a tax of $30 per household to claim you are helping less than 1% of households. They then say if you oppose this tax, you must support domestic violence. This would raise taxes in the States by $3.7 billion. Very clever. One must wonder how much would really trickle down to help victims.

Jul 9 2016

Just Shut up & Pay a TV Tax — So What if You Don’t Have One!


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Re-Posted Jul 9, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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Franklin-TaxesWhen it comes to taxes, just shut up and pay. It does not matter what the “intent” is — just pay. The German High Court upheld a broadcasting tax that requires everyone to pay for TV and radio. It seemed logical to question why someone should pay the tax if they do not own a TV or radio. Makes sense, but not to the German High Court. Everyone has to pay the tax even if you protest, do not own a TV or radio, and get everything from the internet. Hey, who ever said taxes were logical?

Of course, this brings to mind the words of Benjamin Franklin that the two things which are always certain are death and taxes.

Jul 9 2016

POLL: Support For Paul Ryan Plummets In Wisconsin, Challenger Paul Nehlen Surging…


If you are in Wisconsin and a Republican go to the polls and vote for Paul Nehlen in the primary Paul Ryan is a not for the common man and needs to be voted out.

Jul 8 2016

Rasmussen National Poll of Independents: Trump 44%, Clinton 24%, Undecided 33%…


Rasmussen is one of the few honest pollsters and so I would be lieve this to be true especially from my talking with the average American that I encounter on the street on a daily basis. Hillary has no chance to win this and they know it — what they do between now and November will be to circumvent a real election!

Jul 8 2016

Overnight Dallas Police Ambush Updates (Press Conference) – 11 Police Officers Shot, 5 Dead – Four Suspects, 3 in Custody…


Obama and Black Life’s Matter aka BLM and the Muslim Brotherhood aka ISIS are out to get us into civil disobedience and preferable a Civil War. The kickoff for the push to war will be the Republican National Convention in Cleveland which will be starting in 10 days on July 18th.

THIS WILL NOT BE A GOOD SUMMER

Jul 8 2016

Senate & State Department Begin Their Own Investigations into Hillary


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Re-Posted Jul 8, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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It really is rather outrageous that the Democrats put forth Hillary as their candidate. They should have put in Joe Biden. Now both the Senate and the State Department are beginning investigations and Hillary will not be as protected as she was by Comey at the direction of Obama. Surely, the Democrats could have found someone better than Hillary. In the Republican camp, at least there were 17 people who tried to beat Trump. In the Democratic camp, it was only Bernie and there it appears the vote was stolen from him in New Jersey and California. It was strange to see Bernie’s rallies with thousands of people attending and Hillary was luck to get a couple hundred. Strange, how nobody seems to question how Hillary won when few people showed up at her rallies.

Jul 8 2016

Even Death May Not Forgive Student Loans


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Re-Posted Jul 8, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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The student loan situation has gone from bad to worse. Marcia DeOliveira-Longinetti’s son was killed, and after death, the remaining balance of his federal student loans were written off, but not by the state of  New Jersey. The state told his mother, “Your request does not meet the threshold for loan forgiveness.”

The press treats Hillary as a coronation and refuses to ask her any questions regarding student loans when it was the Clintons who gave the bankers their dream – student loans are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. What they will also not tell the American public, that a parent co-signing for a student means they too cannot discharge that debt ever in bankruptcy. Thye bankers got the ultimate dream. The Clintons agreed the students had no collateral so they made the loans non-discharageable. However, insisting a parent co-signs for the loan means it is not collateralized and the entire student loan problem turns into a massive crisis. That you Hillary.

On top of that, the press will not tell the truth that the Clintons signed the mandatory minimums that put more blacks in prison than any president in history. They are the administration that set the police loose on the black community. Not, there are 65 million people who have been charged for something. The total population of the United States is 321,418,820, of which 77.1% are over 18. That means that 26.3% of the adult population nationally has been charged with some crime. Either Americans are the most criminal group, or the rule of law is completely broke.

Jul 8 2016

US Government Preparing for Massive Civil Unrest


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Re-Posted Jul 8, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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The Federal government is arming every agency from the IRS to the State Department for domestic purposes. This is clearly a response to what they know is coming. There is no question that they are preparing for an uprising. They know that socialism is collapsing. Rather than reform the political economy, they are digging in their heels and getting ready to fight the civilian population. Many are starting to investigate this very unusual trend. This is very alarming. They are watching Europe and know any trend that starts there, always come here — not just fashion.

The non-prosecution of police is resulting in widespread civil unrest where merely people in uniform are seen not as “pigs” as in the 1960s, but the enemy no different from an invading army. Now 5 officers are dead and 6 were injured in a Dallas protest. The police involved in Baton Rouge had four previous “use of force” complaints filed against them. As long as police are not prosecuted, then the bad ones will risk the lives of all because they will all be seen as the enemy. It is time to beginning prosecuting police who act abusively or we will risk civil war.

Jul 7 2016

Banks Trying to Figure Out What Lies Ahead


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Re-Posted Jul 7, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

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The big US banks — JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley — have large operations employing tens of thousands of people in the UK. They have historically set up their regulated businesses in Britain and then used its right to “passport” into the rest of the 28-member bloc. Lawyers are warning that after BREXIT, they would likely need a new legal home base, so they are preparing to shift at least some work to cities such as Dublin, Paris and Frankfurt.

Meanwhile, Continental banks in Europe are in trouble. The bad loans continue to pile up and the economy simply cannot recover with negative interest rates. What is ironic here is that UK banks are not in the euro so their reserves are not falling off the cliff as those banks using the euro as its base currency. The UK banks are safer than those in Continental Europe – the ultimate irony.