May 2 2019

The Magnitsky Act & the Thirst for War

Armstrong Economics Blog/Russia

Re-Posted May 2, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

Andrei Nekrasov has put out an article on the fake news that was behind the Magnitsky Case. He documents how there was never any evidence behind Bill Browder’s claims. Nevertheless, we are left with a question. Was all of this created fraud by Bill Browder or was there those in power who could care less if the story was true, they have been able to use it to create isolation of Russia and paint Putin as an evil warlord.

Western powers immediate moved nukes into place and pushed up against the borders of Russia. The neocons hate Trump and for whatever reason, they simply want war without purpose other than they seem to want to dominate the world and they accuse others. Every president before Trump strived for world peace. Here they are desperate to tie Trump to Putin to maintain a cold war if not turn it hot.

The Magnitsky Case is a great film. It has been banned and that is why it is the real story. If it was fake, they would let it air. But they are desperate to ban the Magnitsky Case as they were with our movie the Forecaster. There is something sinister behind the curtain and you can bet it is more than the Democrats – it involved the neocons as well.

Categories: Russia

May 1 2019

California Collapse Approaching Despite Silicon Valley’s Huge Supply of Tax Dollars

Conservative Resurgence

Published on Mar 1, 2019

Now more then ever we need your help keeping this channel producing REAL content for REAL people https://www.paypal.me/ConservativeRes… The Day California Died Even as the 2018 midterms were a rather mixed bag for the GOP nationwide, it’s only natural that one of the few bright areas for the Democratic Party was in the progressive utopia of California. Despite some hype over internal polls suggesting a close race for governor, or a contentious push to repeal a recently enacted gas tax, the California Republican Party once again fell short, even of its own meager expectations. One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward Whatever small consolations California Republicans can take away from election night were overwhelmed by more losses, as the Democratic tide inevitably engulfed them. There is currently only one undecided race that the California GOP was hoping to flip. In the State Assembly’s 60th District, located in Riverside, Republican Bill Essayli was hoping to oust Democratic incumbent Sabrina Cervantes. With a lot of votes still left to be counted over the next few days, the race is a literal dead heat: At the time of writing this, Cervantes leads by just three votes—26,731 to Essayli’s 26,728. Unfortunately, other hotly contested races in the lower chamber (Districts 32, 44, 65, and 66) were all tenaciously defended by their Democratic incumbents. In addition, the Democrats made two flips of their own, taking seats from outgoing moderate Republicans Marc Steinorth in San Bernardino’s 40th District and Rocky Chavez in Orange County’s 76th District. Thus, the overall net change in the Assembly is D+1, slightly expanding their supermajority. The state senate was even worse, with both losses for the GOP coming from the San Joaquin Valley. In the 12th District, Democrat Anna Caballero managed narrowly to defeat Republican Rob Poythress for the seat being vacated by another moderate Republican, Anthony Cannella, and in the process won the seat that she narrowly lost to Cannella in 2010. But in a more shocking result, the neighboring 14th District saw a sizeable Democratic upset against the popular incumbent Republican Andy Vidak, who was defeated by Democrat Melissa Hurtado. With these two flips, the Democrats erased the minimal gain made by the Republicans’ successful recall of Democrat Josh Newman in Orange County in June, and once again brought this year’s net change to D+1. This gives the Democrats another supermajority in the upper chamber after it was briefly taken from them with Newman’s loss. While Republicans managed to defend most of the open U.S. House races, there were still three devastating losses, two in neighboring Orange County districts and one in Los Angeles. In the 48th, the senior-most Republican congressman in the state of California, Dana Rohrabacher, narrowly lost his re-election bid to radical Democrat Harley Rouda. In the race to succeed outgoing Republican Darrell Issa in the 49th District, Bernie Sanders-endorsed progressive Mike Levin handily defeated Republican Diane Harkey. And in the Los Angeles-based 25th, incumbent Steve Knight was defeated by Democratic challenger Katie Hill. Not only did the Republican delegation to Congress shrink by three, but it did so by losing two of the longest-serving Republicans in the state. Dominant Democrats The poor performance in local races was a clear result of the Democrats’ usual routing of Republicans at the statewide level. In state races, every single office was won by Democrats in the double digits, with some margins easily as high as 20 percent. This included the top race of governor, with ultra-liberal Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom besting former Illinois businessman John Cox by almost the same margin of victory by which his predecessor Jerry Brown beat his Republican challenger, Neel Kashkari. Even in the unusual race for insurance commissioner, despite strong support for Republican-turned-Independent Steve Poizner, Democrat Ricardo Lara apparently managed to eke out a narrow win. This is by far the closest Democrats have come to losing a statewide contest since 2006, yet it is still telling that in order to get that close, the popular Poizner had to change his registration to “no party preference,” Republican being too toxic a word in California. Link to Article: https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/27/ca… https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/08/th…

Apr 29 2019

Victor Davis Hanson – Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

TJ Singh

Published on Feb 15, 2017

September 15, 2001 – Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times–from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive–Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.

Apr 29 2019

The Ancient Greeks and Western Civilization: Then and Now, Pt 1

CTI @ UT Austin

Published on Dec 21, 2017

Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fresno February 15, 2007

Apr 28 2019

Trump’s not the problem. He’s a symbol of 4 bigger issues. | Ian Bremmer

Big Think

Published on Aug 1, 2018

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Apr 28 2019

Heather Mac Donald On How The Delusion of Diversity Destroys Our Common Humanity

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Apr 28 2019

Heather MacDonald warns US colleges are breeding hate

Fox News

Published on Dec 2, 2018

Author of ‘The Diversity Delusion’ breaks down the rise of intolerance on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.

Apr 28 2019

Synagogue Shooting Poway, California, Last Day of Passover…

Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on April 27, 2019 by sundance

A shooting at at synagogue in Poway, California, has left one woman dead and three others wounded on the last day of Passover. Four people -a young girl, two adult men, and an older woman- were injured. [AP News]

A 19-year-old man armed with an “AR-type assault weapon” opened fire at Chabad of Poway shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Saturday according to San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore. Saturday is Shabbat, or the Jewish Sabbath. An off-duty border patrol agent fired shots at the suspect’s car as he fled the scene but did not injure him.

San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said the suspect called authorities to let them know he’d been involved in the shooting and to provide his location. The suspect, described only as a 19-year-old white man from San Diego, then pulled his car over and was arrested by a police canine officer who was on the way to the scene.

“[The officer] clearly saw a rifle sitting on the front passenger seat of the suspect’s vehicle,” Nisleit said. (link)

Apr 27 2019

Banning Films & Government Corruption

Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption

Re-Posted Apr 27, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT:

Dear Mr. Armstrong,

Like many of your readers, I have been unable to watch “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes” for months because of its ban here in the US. Today, I was finally able to watch it at the following link. Not sure how long it will be up but I thought I would share it with your readers –

https://swprs.org/the-magnitsky-act/

A very good film, I am glad to finally learn the truth in this matter. It is unbelievable how deep the corruption and cover-up is in the US and Europe. One day soon I hope Bill Browder and his many partners in crime go to jail for a very long time for this.

Kind Regards,

REPLY: Both the Magnitsky Act film and my Film were banned in the USA. The reason is clear. Both films touched on the fact that there were at least the Bankers conniving rig the Russian elections. I do not believe that Putin killed Madnitsky, for he would have been a witness against the bankers. Browder runs around calling himself the number one enemy of Putin. Just look at Hermitage Capital on Wikipedia. It states the founders were Edmond Safra and Bill Browder. Edmond NEVER allowed Browder to control anything. Edmond was the mover and shaker. It was Republic National Bank that was soliciting me to bring over $10 billion to invest in Hermitage Capital Management that I rejected.

Safra was killed in Monaco I believe by Putin for interfering in the Russian elections to blackmail President Yeltsin to install his buddy Berezovsky. I knew DOMINICK DUNNE and he told me he received threats for trying to investigate Safra’s death even when sitting in a restaurant in Paris.

All of this focus of Putin interfering into the US elections and Putin offering Mueller to allow him to interrogate Russians if he could do the same in America was unanimously rejected by the Senate. Why?

Categories: Corruption

Apr 26 2019

Federal Agents Raid Homes and Office of Corrupt Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh…

Political “space to destroy” leadership, particularly mayors in Baltimore Maryland, have an inherent disposition toward transparently corrupt behavior. Remember Sheila Dixon in ’08, or Stephanie Rawlings Blake in ’15… It’s a perpetual cycle. I digress…

Into the recent corrupt landscape comes current Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who takes bribes and graft through a pay-to-play bribery scandal for books she “authored” called “Healthy Holly”. Want a city contract?…. buy some books, easy peasy.

(Baltimore) Hauling out boxes of “Healthy Holly” books and documents, dozens of federal law enforcement agents Thursday struck businesses, homes and government buildings across Baltimore as an investigation into Mayor Catherine Pugh’s business dealings widened.

FBI agents and IRS officials executed search warrants at her City Hall office, Pugh’s two houses, and offices of the mayor’s allies, as the growing scandal consumed the city’s attention, generated national headlines and provoked fresh calls for the embattled Democratic mayor’s resignation.

“This is too much for our city,” Democratic City Councilman Zeke Cohen said. “It puts all of us under a tremendous strain, and again it is not fair either to the people that live here, or the people that work here.”

Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman, confirmed agents from the Baltimore FBI office and the Washington IRS office searched at least six addresses. The U.S. attorney’s office confirmed the location of a seventh search. The actions were the first confirmation that federal authorities, as well as state officials, were investigating the mayor’s activities. (read more)