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Jun 27 2018

Red Hen Restaurant Owner Resigns as Director of Main Street Lexington Business Group…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree house on June 26, 2018 by

Stephanie Wilkinson and family, owners of Red Hen restaurant.

Ms. Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of The Red Hen restaurant who kicked out White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders – then followed her family into another restaurant to continue the harassment, has resigned from her role with Main Street Lexington, a local business organization.

As anticipated, Ms. Wilkinson was/is facing massive backlash from local Lexington, VA business leaders, and a very upset surrounding community, for her short-sighted political bigotry and rabid anti-Trump bias. Video Below:

LEXINGTON, Va. – Stephanie Wilkinson has resigned from her role with Main Street Lexington, a volunteer-based organization.  Elizabeth Outland Branner, the president of the organization, accepted Wilkinson’s resignation Tuesday morning.

“Considering the events of the past weekend, Stephanie felt it best that for the continued success of Main Street Lexington, she should step aside,” Branner wrote in an email.  (link)

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Jun 26 2018

NSA Contractor Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Stealing and Leaking Classified Documents…


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26-year-old Ms. Reality Winner (what a goofy name),  “Reality Leigh Winner“, aka “Reality Winner” aka “Sara Winner“, aka “Sara Winners“,was an NSA contractor in June 2017 when she was arrested and charged under the Espionage Act for stealing classified documents and leaking them to the media.  Today she pleads guilty to one count of unlawful retention and dissemination of national defense information.

GEORGIA – Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking classified information to journalists, pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a deal with prosecutors.

Winner, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful retention and dissemination of national defense information.

Her plea agreement, signed June 19, says she’s facing a possible sentence of 63 months in jail and three years of supervised release. No date has been set yet for a sentencing hearing.

Winner was arrested in June 2017 for allegedly feeding a classified report with information on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election to a news outlet.

“I misused my clearance to print out the report…I did so of my own free will,” Winner said during Tuesday’s court hearing.

Winner was charged, under the Espionage Act, with removing classified material from a government facility and leaking it. According to court documents, Winner snuck the document out of a secure NSA facility by folding it and putting it in her pantyhose.

During Tuesday’s hearing, the judge asked Winner questions about her mental state. Winner disclosed she is taking antidepressant Zoloft and battling an eating disorder as well as depression.  She has been held at the Lincoln County Jail near Augusta, Ga.  (read more)

 

Jun 26 2018

Democracy – Trump – Issues To Support or Not Support – Is that the Question?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Jun 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Do you agree that a democracy will never last because the people will vote themselves other people’s money? Do you support Trump or are you against him? Sometimes to agree and others you disagree. Or are you just between the two extremes?

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ANSWER: First, a democracy has been always temporary in nature, this is very true. Any form of government simply cannot exist as a permanent establishment for there will always be forces to usurp it as long as it claims a power to tax and legislate. A democracy will continue to exist not until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. That is a questionable quote attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747 – 1813). History does not support that. The Greek Democracy was overthrown not by the people but by the oligarchs. It is easy to say that the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. But there is no absolute 100% empirical evidence of that. This view is purely post-Marxism and does not hold up historically. We are reaching a point that we cannot expect the truth from left or right. The worst form of government is always a Republican form which pretends to be democratic but is always in the hands of the oligarchy – just behind the curtain.

I believe the only type of government which may last cyclically longer is a Direct Democracy with a strict Constitutional Restraint, a Private Supreme Court which MUST hear every case and the Constitutionality of any legislation MUST be tested BEFORE enforced. If we can buy online from Amazon securely, then we can vote online securely as well and reduce the potential to rig elections as they have always done. The PEOPLE should have control of the legislature NEVER pretend “representatives” of the people who are career politicians. We can have “representatives” but that should be a term that is limited to ONE YEAR and never a career. They MUST be subject to the very laws they authorize. We should all be able to vote on every law at home and each law MUST be a stand-alone issue as they do in Switzerland. To change the Constitution, it should NOT be the majority of states, it should require 100% uniformity. Difficult – yes! That is the point. This just touches the surface. A lot more needs to be done.

You must separate Trump the person from the trend. These people who bash Trump focus on him personally. That is NOT THE TREND!!!!!!!! He is the symptom – NOT THE CAUSE!!!!!! He was elected for the simple reason he was against CAREER politicians. He beat 17 of them. If you remove California, he also won the majority of the popular vote throughout the rest of the nation and there were countless claims that California was rigged. That is why Bernie went to the White House to talk to Obama BEFORE he agreed to concede to Hillary. Bernie really won California. Even with all the rigging in California, the establishment still lost.

Trump is by no means the best person for the job. However, he is the ONLY person. He has bashed Canada on trade but keep in mind he is by far not being different there. All politicians say the same thing behind the curtain. I disagree with this nonsense because trade is HIGHLY distorted by currency. Canadians are NOT going to buy shoes in the USA, scuff them up, and sneak them back into Canada. First of all, most shoes are made in Asia anyhow. Secondly, the US dollar is TOO HIGH to make it worthwhile for Canadians to travel to the USA to buy things for they will NOT be cheaper. When it comes to trade, Trump is displaying the same nonsense that has been the prevailing view since World War II. I have stated plenty of times, NOBODY knows what is the balance of trade because it is measured under the old fixed exchange rate system.

I have CONSISTENTLY argued against this stupidity even when the politicians start bashing other countries accusing them of manipulating their currencies for trade. So do I fault Trump? No. This has been the prevailing view of ALL politicians for they are prejudiced by the failed economic theories that we were taught in school and are STILL being taught to this very day even in the top 10 universities around the world!!!! Hello! Welcome to the floating exchange rate system since economics continues to ignore the simply fact the monetary system changed back in 1971.

 

This is the response of Tim Geithner for Rubin. You will recall that Geithner later became Secretary of the Treasury.

There have been a few politicians over the years that understood what I was arguing about is this currency manipulation all for trade. However, they are far and few between.

So do I support Trump? On some things yes, on others no. I am by the issue, not the political party. Republican and Democrats are the same when it comes to money. They just push everyone’s buttons on social issues. John McCain voted to enforce state sales taxes federally. He justified that by claiming he was not “raising” taxes but voted to enforce what taxes already existed. That is what I mean in politics – it’s; just show me the money. So no, I will defend Trump on economic issues that are valid and disagree when he has it wrong. I just ignore the person and deal with the issues not the gutter bashing that ignores the subject matter which is the entire purpose of bashing Trump so we do not look at the issues.

Jun 26 2018

Trump Revolution Hits Mexico – Is This Becoming Trump v Soros?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Jun 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

Some people think that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is leading the polls in Mexico, is their answer to Trump. This is once again the constant trend of trying to blame Trump for everything. In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power and Mao Zedong rose in China. At the same time, we saw Franklin Roosevelt take office after beating Herbert Hoover. The PROPER way to view politics is rather simple. The people in Mexico are sick and tired of career politicians and they too are demanding REAL CHANGE. The key to understanding the political trend is very clear and distinct — whoever is in power is thrown out without a particular political view be it left or right.

This is a generational shift. That is what these 51.6-year waves in the Economic Confidence Model truly represent when we are looking at societal changes. Nearly half of all eligible voters in Mexico are now under 40, and of that, 20% will be voting for the very first time! We are watching the younger generation coming to power and the old ideas are falling rapidly. The younger generation is an age group that is profoundly disenchanted with the political “establishment” and are DEMANDING a moral leader to bring about real change, not just in Mexico, but around the entire world.

The change in government over corruption in Malaysia was profound. Now we see thousands of anti-corruption protesters are demonstrating in cities across Romania for the fifth day after a court sentenced the country’s most powerful politician for official misconduct. There have been far more than 10,000 demonstrators waving Romanian and European Union flags outside the government offices in Bucharest on this past weekend. They were singing the national anthem and using their smartphone torches to illuminate the night sky. They were yelling: “We don’t want to be a nation of thieves!” and “Down with the Social Democratic Party!”

If you listen to CNN, Washington Post, and the New York Times, they are all combining to fight for the “establishment” against Trump. They feel their power is slipping and they are fighting back, but they will lose in the end and may send the nation into a storm of bloodshed. People are demanding CHANGE and the “establishment” is fighting back. In many circles, the face of that establishment is George Soros who has been funding things like the anti-BREXIT position in Britain, the Democrats in the USA, and the effort to federalize Europe under Brussels.

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Many are starting to see this as a confrontation between Trump and Soros. One German press report, Epoch Times, ran the headline: Soros fears for his liberal-globalist world order – Trump’s “revolution in world politics” is becoming successful. Soros has been funding the anti-Trump agenda. What comes out of this mess is going to be nothing but civil unrest.

Soros did admit that he helped confiscate property from Jews for the Nazis. Soros views that he was a child of 14, and if he did not help his adopted father do that, then someone else would so he has no sense of guilt. This is a window into his character for he assumes that whatever happened would have happened anyway if he were not funding it today. Interesting perspective.

 

If you want to see the REAL trend, stop looking at Trump — look around the world and connect the dots. Then you will see we are headed into a major period of global civil unrest for politicians have rigged the game for themselves since World War II. Trump was not a fluke, and he certainly was not the cause. He too is simply a symptom of the trend in motion.

Those in power deliberately seek to make any issue complex and show so many facets that this seeds the crop of disunity and debate. This is a DELIBERATE strategy! They know people want a single cause and effect. Given the people many potential causes, they will argue among themselves. Keeping the people divided is the key to retaining power. As long as the establishment is obfuscating the global trend by picking on things Trump says or does in a desperate attempt to discredit him, there is no possible way getting rid of Trump. They will not manage to put the genie back in the bottle. This is a GLOBAL TREND — just open your eyes and you will see it absolutely rising EVERYWHERE!!!!!

Jun 26 2018

The Next American Civil War – Thank You Mueller


Armstrong Economics Blog/War

Re-Posted Jun 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

The Mueller investigation is all about removing Trump from office, which has been cheered by CNN, New York Times, and The Washington Post among many others. They are intent on overturning the results of a Democratic election to ensure this is no longer a government of the people for the people. They see this as intolerable and those who voted for Trump are too stupid to vote anyway. I have actually heard that argument. So we all know what the objective here really is – Mueller is to overthrow the presidency. Yet, history may one day write that this is the very man who created the Second American Civil War.

Mueller is hell-bent on charging Trump to get him out of office. The bureaucracy then will take back the government and suppresses the people, grinding us into the dirt. What they overlook is that the resentment from both sides is turning into sheer unbridled hatred and this is the foundation needed for a Civil War. This is by no means the first time a president was elected this century and many said he didn’t really win. Of course, the election of Abraham Lincoln led to the secession of several states who also rejected the election because they lost. The South rose up against the North and the Civil War began. The Supreme Court gave George Bush the election and that began to stir the discontent among the people.

The Presidential election of 1824 was really the start of the Civil War. This followed the Missouri Compromise which was legislation passed on May 9th, 1820, and provided for the admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state. This maintained the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate. It was showing that the tension was rising when the presidential election followed four years later.

John Quincy Adams won the election and served as president from March 4, 1825 — March 4, 1829, but he actually lost in electoral votes and in popular votes to Andrew Jackson. The 12th Amendment specified if no candidate for president has a majority of the total votes in the Electoral College, then the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the quorum was to consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. The 12th Amendment requires the House to choose from the three highest receivers of electoral votes, compared to five under the original procedure. Henry Clay was thus eliminated and he threw his support to Adams. In the contingent election decided in Congress, Clay’s backing gave the Presidency to Adams on the first ballot. Jackson accused Clay and Adams of having agreed to a “corrupt bargain” in which Clay supported Adams in return for his appointment to the most prestigious Cabinet position. This was the event that split the Democratic-Republican Party into the National Republican Party and Jackson forming the Democratic Party.

The hatred that is brewing is really out of control. We have the actor Peter Fonda calling to kidnap Trump’s son and put him in a cage. To advocate kidnapping, anyone in the president’s family is just insane. This is showing there is no longer any civility left. The Hollywood industry is simply out of control. Kathy Griffin thought it was funny to show a bloody severed head of the president on TV. There is ZERO respect for the office of the presidency. I was not a fan of Obama, but you do not cross the line and propose violence against him and then in another breath protest gun violence and call for all guns to be banned.

The left is historically always the violent side. The right argues to be left alone. The left cannot sleep at night because they worry the right is not submitting to their control. The revolutions in Russia and China came from the left. The French Revolution was also a leftist movement and that is where they began with the “Commune” project. It was the French who convinced Marx about Communism.

In 1848, territory won from Mexico was to become a state. This upset the balance of power and it illustrated that tensions were rising between the North and South. The True Issue or “That’s What’s the Matter” is a Currier & Ives print showing General George McCellan preaching a peaceful end to the Civil War standing between Lincoln and Jeff Davis trying to support the union. An American Civil War certainly becomes possible between 2024 and 2026 if tensions continue to rise. Interestingly enough our volatility models on the prospect of a civil war bottomed in 2008.

Based upon our model, assuming Trump remains in office and is even re-elected in 2020, that brings us to 2024 and that is where we see a serious risk of rising tensions that could bring about a Second American Civil War. This is what I mean when I ask, “What comes after Trump

Jun 25 2018

No It Won’t, You Miserable Commie Bastard


Published on Jun 21, 2018

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Jun 25 2018

Red Hen Restaurant Owner Followed Sanders Family To Next Restaurant to Continue Harassment…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 25, 2018 by

Stephanie Wilkinson and family, owners of Red Hen restaurant.

Back Story Here –  The story of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being kicked out of a Virginia restaurant by the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, takes on more context today as Mike Huckabee explained during a radio interview.

According to Mr. Huckabee the owner of the Red Hen restaurant not only kicked out Sarah Sanders and her in-laws, but she followed them to another restaurant, organized a group of people to assist her efforts, and then led the mob in continued harassment of the Sanders family.

Mike Huckabee was interviewed by Laura Ingraham for her radio show:

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For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he/she knows she has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the liberal, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve.

A progressive liberals’ happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.  One holds herself accountable; the other holds anyone and everyone accountable except herself.

And there it is. There’s where the origin of hate comes from.

The liberal ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” She constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, toxic and blame-casting existence.

 

Jun 25 2018

IG Report: Footnote #124, Page 164 – Clinton Email Investigation: “The Fix Was In”…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 25, 2018 by

Within the Inspector General report into how the DOJ and FBI handled the Clinton email investigation, on Page #164, footnote #124 the outline is laid bare for all to witness. The Clinton classified email investigation was structured to deliver a predetermined outcome.

John Spiropoulos delivers the first video in a series of reports on the Department of Justice Inspector General’s review into the investigation of Hillary Clinton. This segment focuses on DOJ’s legal interpretation that virtually assured Clinton would not be prosecuted. And that, as the IG reports states, the FBI and DOJ knew that “by September 2015″…

…”The Fix Was In”

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/381806566/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-4WfKaOih0Xm7EA7gdK93

Jun 25 2018

Chairman Devin Nunes Discusses The Massive Ramifications of “Spygate”…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on June 25, 2018 by

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes appears on Fox New morning broadcast to outline the latest developments surrounding “Spygate”.

In addition to FISA abuse and fraud upon the FISA court, there is an increased likelihood the Obama CIA, DOJ and FBI ran agents and operatives into the Trump campaign.

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Jun 25 2018

Ill-legal migration is invasion


Don’t believe for a second that the leadership of the Democratic Party gives a damn about the children crossing our border illegally. These are not principled people and they have two objectives – amnesty for illegals and open borders. The survival of their party requires voters who are dependent on government. To them illegal aliens are nothing more than future votes. Democrats will never support legislation that secures our border or doesn’t grant amnesty to illegals.

Pardon me if I reserve my sympathy for the American families whose lives have been destroyed by the animals belonging to the brutal MS-13 gangs.

I refuse to be lectured by those who support the slaughter that takes place behind the walls of Planned Parenthood. These are the babies being separated from life, not their parents.

Jeff