Tag Archives: Professional Idiots

Aug 7 2018

InfoWars Banned for Hate Speech?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy

Re-Posted Aug 7, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

The new European regulations are actually having an impact globally. Alex Jones’ InfoWars has been banned by Apple’s decision to remove five podcasts by Jones and his Infowars website. Other companies have rushed to join including Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify. The general reason is Jones’s podcasts are viewed as “hate content” which can subject them to heavy fines in Europe.

While I have appeared one time on his InfoWars, I do not create conspiracy scenarios nor do I agree with many. I look deeper than just the surface. I have stated bluntly that the forecasts made at Davos and the Bilderberg Meetings are ALWAYS wrong! Even the BBC asked why do economists get it so wrong? These meetings are often used as proof of some world order that creates everything intentionally be it a boom or a bust. I have stated countless times that if there really was some giant conspiracy that controlled the world, they would NEVER call me in for help or even explanations. The far more scary reality is the powers that be are clueless and are ruling by the seat of their pants.

It just seems as if those in power are often the people who have little experience in the real world and could not make it there so they gravitate toward government and power. Sure, you can pretend to connect dots. However, you have to actually peek behind the curtain and then you are faced with a frightening reality – nobody is in charge and there is no long-term grand plan other than hiding their incompetence. This is no different than when the dog pulls back the curtain in the Wizard of Oz and you see the fraud.

I know there is a general conspiracy about some new world order. That is exactly what was behind creating the EU and the Euro. It is failing because one-size does NOT fit all cultures and economies. Some are export driven and others are domestic consumption driven. This is the great difference between Germany (Export driven) and the United States (DOMESTIC consumption driven). I cannot see some new world order of one government EVER happening without war. You cannot get the Democrats and Republicans to agree in Congress and that is just in the USA. You really expect all world governments to ever agree to a SINGLE POWER?

Even the refugee crisis is nuts. In Britain, they call you a racist to disagree. But Muslim is not a race. The reality of this is rather simple. You offer free welfare handouts with guaranteed income, healthcare, and paid vacations just to show up, and it is HUMAN NATURE to take advantage. This knows no race, gender, or creed limitation. Historically, this ALWAYS takes place around the world. The great migration from Europe to America attracted people who wanted a new future, but they did not come to America expecting welfare and socialism. They came to work and assimilate to the culture and adopted the new language of English. They did not come and demand that America change its culture to accommodate them.

I have worked around the world. Politicians are the same everywhere. They will act ONLY out of their own self-interest. Adam Smith’s invisible hand remains supreme. There is no point in demonizing any race, creed, or gender. We are all human and humans all have the same basic traits at their core which have never changed. A mother still cries for he son who dies in war today as she did in ancient times. Technology may change, but we remain the same on a human emotional level. That is why cycles even work in all cultures.

Aug 5 2018

Beware of Social Justice


Dear Friends:

An interesting matter has arisen in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, but be assured that this idea could well surface in your hometown. (ADDED by Centinel2012: This could happen any where in this country and is totally against the US Constitution so you are now warned.)

Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County Executive, has suggested that there be a Human Rights Council in Cuyahoga County for a specialty group, specifically, and at this time, for the LGBTQ community (as though the Human Rights Council of the United Nations is so ethical and trustworthy).  Budish seeks a form of justice, but not the justice referenced in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag, but a form of “social justice.”  However, the moment we divide Americans into groups and treat one group differently from the others, it is no longer true justice.  Rather, it is meant as boost or benefit for one select group at the expense of another.    

The commission would conduct investigations on gender issues and enforce and issue subpoenas as a quasi-judicial appointed attorney.  No one so titled should be able to levy monetary penalties, especially for undecided social, moral issues. 

Under the proposed law, the plaintiff (one who sues) would be financially supported by the commission, which opens up the proverbial can of worms because he/she has no “skin in the game.”  Unless the plaintiff bears the risk or consequences for his/her actions, the suit could be frivolous or malicious, and the victim harmed, whether reputationally or financially.    

Above all, this type of lawsuit is a kind of censorship system.  In our country, under our laws, the Bill of Rights guarantees the Freedom of Speech, but a legal threat creates an atmosphere of fear of consequence. This is not unlike the accusations of Islamophobia, when one might want to say something that is perfectly within his/her right but fears a penalty that could do him great harm.  This is unjust.

I ask the members of the Cuyahoga County Council to not vote to oblige your fellow council members, and not to vote because of the request made by the county executive, but to vote your conscience.  Put yourselves in the position of saying something, perhaps a little untoward or not meeting the “standards” of self-appointed morality police, but perfectly within your rights, and imagine someone deciding to sue you and being reimbursed so that the only one to bear the brunt of consequences is you, the unwitting defendant.   

 

Tabitha Korol

https://tinyurl.com/y7e6z63d

 

 

Aug 4 2018

Lady Liberty Protester, Patricia Okoumou, Holds a Courthouse Press Conference To Scream Against America…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 4, 2018 by

The activist who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day, Therese Patricia Okoumou, held a press conference yesterday outside a New York Courthouse in front of an adoring crowd of Democrat supporters.

Ms. Okoumou is a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She lives in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, and took the opportunity yesterday to spew an anti-America chant during a news conference.  WATCH:

Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, the woman from the Congo who climbed the Statue of Liberty, was in front of the federal court begging for leniency. Then she went in front of the Courthouse and began screaming a vulgar anti-American chant while her Democrat activist supporters cheered her on.

Aug 4 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says We Live in Hyper-Capitalism & Socialism Will Conquer the World?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Aug 4, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

The Democrats are counting on a new generation of Socialists who know even less about how things work than just about anyone else perhaps in history. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had a viral campaign video that has pushed her into stardom. Clearly, she won because of the Trump Revolution which is all about just throw the career politicians out the door. But there is a lot more to representing people. It would be nice to at least have someone who understands the subject matter.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez created a huge backlash over her description of Israel as an occupier of Palestinian land. She describes herself as a socialist, which enthralled the Democrats who love the idea of living off of other people’s money. She calls our economic system “hyper-capitalism” and says that capitalism has not always existed and will collapse. Equality to Democrats ends with race and gender. If you make more than them, that is “unfair” and you have no right to the fruits of your own labor. And for working hard your whole life and you want to retire, well you still have to pay property and income taxes. And of course, you saved to help your children, that’s not fair that they should inherit anything they do not have so they put in inheritance taxes.

So if Ocasio-Cortez has not lost the Jewish vote by saying that the Jews occupy Jerusalem, then in an attempt to explain why unemployment levels have dropped to lows of 3.9% and below under the Trump administration, Alexandria, who was an economics and international relations major, explained, “Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs.” Obviously, she may have majored in economics and international relations, but there is clearly a reason she could not find a job and was still a waitress/bartender. It looks like she failed in both subjects.

The “Firing Line” host Margaret Hoover asked Ocasio-Cortez directly if she still thinks that capitalism is not the best system for promoting the middle class. Her response was astonishing:

“I think the [unemployment] numbers that you just talked about is part of the problem,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “Because we look at these figures and we say that unemployment is low and everything is fine, right? Well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their kids.”

If everyone is working 60 to 80 hours and that is why unemployment is low, I do not see where she is capable of basic logic. That would mean there is a shortage of labor and room for a lot more jobs so people can work just 40 hours.

Her comment that America’s economic system is “hyper-capitalism” is really strange. She defined her term: “So I do think right now we have this no holds barred, wild west hyper-capitalism. What that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.” Those are words right out of Marx and Lenin. They said socialism/communism would be the new world order and capitalism would collapse. In her world, what is yours is hers, and what is hers, is hers. Former workers speak out about how she was anything but fair in splitting tips. Preach what people should do, but never do it yourself.

Aug 3 2018

REPARATIONS


Published on Aug 2, 2018

In the first of a new series of SIXTY SECOND SMACKDOWNS, Bill has a few things to say about REPARATIONS.
Aug 3 2018

Not QUITE as barking mad as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Still…


Published on Aug 2, 2018

75% of Democrats polled said they are having anxiety attacks, linked directly to… guess who?

Jul 29 2018

Watch The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes


Published on Jul 21, 2018

It’s our position that you have to be A Special Kind of Stupid to believe in socialism… and Democratic Party Rising Star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proves it beyond all doubt.
Jul 28 2018

Federal Appeals Court: Trump Supporters Lawsuit Against San Jose California Will Proceed…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on July 27, 2018 by

In June of 2016 the Mayor and Police Chief of San Jose California made an intentional decision to allow candidate Trump supporters to be violently attacked by a coordinated mob of radical leftists. {See Here}  In the days and weeks that followed it was discovered that an actual plan was put into place by city officials to assist the mob {See Here}

Undercover police officers admitted they were given stand-down orders and watched as hundreds of Trump supporters were beaten and brutalized {See Here} A lawsuit was filed against the city of San Jose {See Here} and the officials who coordinated the planned response.   City lawyers have been trying to get the lawsuit dismissed:

CALIFORNIA – Supporters of Donald Trump attacked during a presidential campaign rally in 2016 won a ruling allowing them to proceed with a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, California, over claims that police failed to protect them from violence.

Protests in June 2016 in downtown San Jose quickly devolved into a bloody scene when demonstrators outside the rally venue attacked the president’s supporters, pelting them with eggs and water balloons before punching them and snatching their “Make America Great Again” caps and setting them ablaze.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday upheld a lower-court ruling rejecting the city’s claim of immunity to allegations that officers blocked Trump supporters from escaping an area where anti-Trump protesters became violent.

The Trump supporters are represented by Harmeet Dhillon, a committeewoman on California’s Republican National Committee who was considered by Trump to lead the U.S Justice Department’s civil rights division.  (link)

Jul 27 2018

Facebook Drops $120 Billion – Largest Single Private Business Drop in Value in History….


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on July 26, 2018 by

(Via CNBC) On Thursday Facebook posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report.

The social media giant’s market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday’s close, Facebook’s market cap had totaled nearly $630 billion, according to FactSet.

No company in the history of the U.S. stock market has ever lost $100 billion in market value in just one day. (read more)

Jul 14 2018

Divorce & Collapse of Socialism


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics

Re-Posted Jul 14, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Your article about the IRS invalidating your passport is correct….and more. I was working contract for our US DOS as an advisor a few years back in Colombia (2006-2009). My best friend and work with was summoned to the Bogata Embassy and his passport was confiscated, employment terminated and he was given a US DOS one time entry papers into the US because his ex-wife living in California falsely filed child support nonpayment papers with the State of California. He lost his job and his US Passport. He hired a lawyer ( $8,000) and showed them he was paying his support monthly by check on time. He still does not have his US passport back, but his ex-wife drug overdosed and he finally got his boy back….

Still no passport.

RG

REPLY: That actually makes sense because child support is a court order rather than a private dispute. It is also one of the reasons why marriage is on the decline. The financial burden becomes insane and the lawyers make a killing. The decline in marriages because of such horror stories is unbelievable. In 2016, only 9% of 18-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. were married, compared to 45% in 1960. Adding to this trend is that the census shows an alarming increase in adult children in their 30s still living at home. The US census showed that one-third of children over 30 were still living with their parents. This is also taking place in Britain. There are greater odds of your children living with you until they are 35. The real shocking number is that 40% of millennials are still dependent on mom and dad. The excuses seem endless. This is what I mean that the high cost of socialism is destroying everything. Government employees milk pensions, thereby raising taxes to pay them. On top of that they are replaced, causing the price of government to rise exponentially.

If you end up divorced and have a revengeful or hateful spouse, it can turn life into a living hell. In fact, divorce or thinking about divorce places people at a much greater risk for suicide. I have had friends who felt trapped and financially harassed to the point they would talk about suicide. Society has changed remarkably.  It’s going to be hard to put it all back together. Even in Russia, they are paying people to have children. Japan has also joined in paying people to have children. China is considering to now pay people to have two children after the one-child policy seriously disrupted the gender mix. In fact, some Chinese are paying American girls to be a surrogate mother offering $200,000. It previously was typical for Americans to go to China to adopt girls – I know a couple who adopted two. Things have changed with the global economy.