Soros and the lies of a Socialist. Part 4.

Elites are in a panic.

As the failure of Social Democracy (i.e. democratic Socialism) becomes clearer every day, people try to move away from it. The movement away from the EU varies from State to State, depending on their circumstances and background. "Austerity" (the reduction of government benefits) is hard to swallow, especially when private enterprise is discouraged by red tape.

Someone like George Soros will always think of an excuse of why Socialism fails. It is not the lack of even more integration of Europe (as Soros claims) that is plaguing the EU, but the reduced productivity of Socialism and the debilitating effect of mountains of debt.  So, Soros and cronies set up bogymen to frighten the populace to stay in the EU. The current bogyman is Russia. You might wonder why Leftists like Soros scream about Russia now when they thought Stalin was a great guy. The reason is that Putin is a religious man and the Elite abhor religion.

Soros bemoans of inequality, but it does not stop him from enlarging his investments.

I hope that Trump's AG will have Soros arrested and turned over to the Russians.

Soros and the lies of a Socialist. Part 3.

The basic flaw of the European Union.

The EU has been set up as a Soros dream. The Elites have gone to the right school where they have been indoctrinated by Professors who are Socialists. People's opinions are shaped by a Media that leans way Felt. While it is theoretically possible to oppose the Elites, such opposition is kept under a barrage of verbal attacks as "extremists," and when all else fails their activities and speech is labeled "hate crimes" and may even be hailed into Court. The Elites do not take a chance and the EU leadership in an unelected cabal in Brussels.

The economic philosophy of the EU has caused great hardship. Governments borrow money to make up for budgetary shortfall. The loans are never paid back, ensuring eventual bankruptcy. The debt load ensures that economic growth is very slow. Democratic Socialists in Europe do not believe in growth and are the followers of Malthus, who wanted to reduce the population.  To make up for the imploding population, the Elites import third worlders who can not be absorbed into the general population. To someone like George Soros, there is a moral equivalence between peoples and as long as they are not Christians, they are OK. The  Soros animosity against religion extends to Judaism as well. You might wonder as how that can be since Soros labels himself as a Jew. Remember that the principle authors of Socialism (Marx and Engels) also had Jewish roots, but were profoundly anti-Jewish.

The EU is in the process of disintegration. Soros is worried. For centuries Europeans fought the encroachment of Islam as incompatible with Western ways. They do it today while some European govts betray their constituents. The worst is Germany. But, the cozying up to Islamists is not the only sin of Merkel's Germany. When Communism lost its grip on Eastern Europe, Germany bought up some factories for pennies then shut them and imported items made in Germany. This kind of mercantilist imperialism is partly offset by the fact that many East Europeans work in the West.

Soros and the lies of a Socialist. Part 2.

What Soros is really after.

Soros tries to camouflage his ideas by calling his favorite system an "open society." It is one, he writes " in which people elected their leaders, who were then supposed to look after the interests of the electorate" as opposed to a society in which "the rulers sought to manipulate their subjects to serve the rulers’ interests."

In reality, the 'open society' of Soros is an elite that governs against the traditions of the society aided by an upper crust of Media, Academy and Artists who deceive the people. All the while, sharpshooters like Soros rob the people by manipulating the currency and the banking system. The elites pick winners in the economy and try to move around people so native populations are overwhelmed by the influx of third worlders, eager and desperate to sell their rights for a bowl of pottage .

Soros and the lies of a Socialist. Part 1.

Telling the truth about who George Soros is.

George Soros was born in Hungary, that is true. But he is no Jew. Dragging out the Holocast and Jewishness is often used as a cover to shield nefarious activities. He is not a religious person and believes himself to be a kind of god. Mr Soros is a currency pirate that took the Bank of England for a Billion and damaged the Russian Ruble.  In fact he is wanted in Russia for currency fraud. He has interfered in the politics of the Ukraine and bankrolled the overthrow of an elected government in the Ukraine, which led to the bloodshed in Eastern Ukraine. He sponsors Leftist movements in the US, including the anti-cop murders by Black Lives Matter. A Champion of Democracy he isn't.

George Soros: his attack on the incoming Administration.

Open Society Needs Defending

Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states – are on the rise. Because elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate expectations and aspirations, electorates have become disenchanted with the prevailing versions of democracy and capitalism.

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NEW YORK – Well before Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I sent a holiday greeting to my friends that read: “These times are not business as usual. Wishing you the best in a troubled world.” Now I feel the need to share this message with the rest of the world. But before I do, I must tell you who I am and what I stand for.

I am an 86-year-old Hungarian Jew who became a US citizen after the end of World War II. I learned at an early age how important it is what kind of political regime prevails. The formative experience of my life was the occupation of Hungary by Hitler’s Germany in 1944. I probably would have perished had my father not understood the gravity of the situation. He arranged false identities for his family and for many other Jews; with his help, most survived.

In 1947, I escaped from Hungary, by then under Communist rule, to England. As a student at the London School of Economics, I came under the influence of the philosopher Karl Popper, and I developed my own philosophy, built on the twin pillars of fallibility and reflexivity. I distinguished between two kinds of political regimes: those in which people elected their leaders, who were then supposed to look after the interests of the electorate, and others where the rulers sought to manipulate their subjects to serve the rulers’ interests. Under Popper’s influence, I called the first kind of society open, the second, closed.

The classification is too simplistic. There are many degrees and variations throughout history, from well-functioning models to failed states, and many different levels of government in any particular situation. Even so, I find the distinction between the two regime types useful. I became an active promoter of the former and opponent of the latter.

I find the current moment in history very painful. Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of closed societies – from fascist dictatorships to mafia states – are on the rise. How could this happen? The only explanation I can find is that elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate expectations and aspirations and that this failure led electorates to become disenchanted with the prevailing versions of democracy and capitalism. Quite simply, many people felt that the elites had stolen their democracy.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US emerged as the sole remaining superpower, equally committed to the principles of democracy and free markets. The major development since then has been the globalization of financial markets, spearheaded by advocates who argued that globalization increases total wealth. After all, if the winners compensated the losers, they would still have something left over.

The argument was misleading, because it ignored the fact that the winners seldom, if ever, compensate the losers. But the potential winners spent enough money promoting the argument that it prevailed. It was a victory for believers in untrammeled free enterprise, or “market fundamentalists,” as I call them. Because financial capital is an indispensable ingredient of economic development, and few countries in the developing world could generate enough capital on their own, globalization spread like wildfire. Financial capital could move around freely and avoid taxation and regulation.

Globalization has had far-reaching economic and political consequences. It has brought about some economic convergence between poor and rich countries; but it increased inequality within both poor and rich countries. In the developed world, the benefits accrued mainly to large owners of financial capital, who constitute less than 1% of the population. The lack of redistributive policies is the main source of the dissatisfaction that democracy’s opponents have exploited. But there were other contributing factors as well, particularly in Europe.

I was an avid supporter of the European Union from its inception. I regarded it as the embodiment of the idea of an open society: an association of democratic states willing to sacrifice part of their sovereignty for the common good. It started out at as a bold experiment in what Popper called “piecemeal social engineering.” The leaders set an attainable objective and a fixed timeline and mobilized the political will needed to meet it, knowing full well that each step would necessitate a further step forward. That is how the European Coal and Steel Community developed into the EU.

But then something went woefully wrong. After the Crash of 2008, a voluntary association of equals was transformed into a relationship between creditors and debtors, where the debtors had difficulties in meeting their obligations and the creditors set the conditions the debtors had to obey. That relationship has been neither voluntary nor equal.

Germany emerged as the hegemonic power in Europe, but it failed to live up to the obligations that successful hegemons must fulfill, namely looking beyond their narrow self-interest to the interests of the people who depend on them. Compare the behavior of the US after WWII with Germany’s behavior after the Crash of 2008: the US launched the Marshall Plan, which led to the development of the EU; Germany imposed an austerity program that served its narrow self-interest.

Before its reunification, Germany was the main force driving European integration: it was always willing to contribute a little bit extra to accommodate those putting up resistance. Remember Germany’s contribution to meeting Margaret Thatcher’s demands regarding the EU budget?

But reuniting Germany on a 1:1 basis turned out to be very expensive. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, Germany did not feel rich enough to take on any additional obligations. When European finance ministers declared that no other systemically important financial institution would be allowed to fail, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, correctly reading the wishes of her electorate, declared that each member state should look after its own institutions. That was the start of a process of disintegration.

After the Crash of 2008, the EU and the eurozone became increasingly dysfunctional. Prevailing conditions became far removed from those prescribed by the Maastricht Treaty, but treaty change became progressively more difficult, and eventually impossible, because it couldn’t be ratified. The eurozone became the victim of antiquated laws; much-needed reforms could be enacted only by finding loopholes in them. That is how institutions became increasingly complicated, and electorates became alienated.

The rise of anti-EU movements further impeded the functioning of institutions. And these forces of disintegration received a powerful boost in 2016, first from Brexit, then from the election of Trump in the US, and on December 4 from Italian voters’ rejection, by a wide margin, of constitutional reforms.

Democracy is now in crisis. Even the US, the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president. Although Trump has toned down his rhetoric since he was elected, he has changed neither his behavior nor his advisers. His cabinet comprises incompetent extremists and retired generals.

What lies ahead?

I am confident that democracy will prove resilient in the US. Its Constitution and institutions, including the fourth estate, are strong enough to resist the excesses of the executive branch, thus preventing a would-be dictator from becoming an actual one.

           

But the US will be preoccupied with internal struggles in the near future, and targeted minorities will suffer. The US will be unable to protect and promote democracy in the rest of the world. On the contrary, Trump will have greater affinity with dictators. That will allow some of them to reach an accommodation with the US, and others to carry on without interference. Trump will prefer making deals to defending principles. Unfortunately, that will be popular with his core constituency.

I am particularly worried about the fate of the EU, which is in danger of coming under the influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose concept of government is irreconcilable with that of open society. Putin is not a passive beneficiary of recent developments; he worked hard to bring them about. He recognized his regime’s weakness: it can exploit natural resources but cannot generate economic growth. He felt threatened by “color revolutions” in Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere. At first, he tried to control social media. Then, in a brilliant move, he exploited social media companies’ business model to spread misinformation and fake news, disorienting electorates and destabilizing democracies. That is how he helped Trump get elected.

The same is likely to happen in the European election season in 2017 in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. In France, the two leading contenders are close to Putin and eager to appease him. If either wins, Putin’s dominance of Europe will become a fait accompli.

I hope that Europe’s leaders and citizens alike will realize that this endangers their way of life and the values on which the EU was founded. The trouble is that the method Putin has used to destabilize democracy cannot be used to restore respect for facts and a balanced view of reality.

With economic growth lagging and the refugee crisis out of control, the EU is on the verge of breakdown and is set to undergo an experience similar to that of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Those who believe that the EU needs to be saved in order to be reinvented must do whatever they can to bring about a better outcome.

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A seizmic economic/financial event is in the making.

The IMF is an international body that is acting like a bank. The IMF had created a special currency called SDR (special drawing rights) that is already functioning. While, the SDR includes the US Dollar, the SDR is in fact a rival to the US Dollar. To be precise, members of the IMF intend to replace the USD with the SDR as the reserve currency of the world.

At present this is difficult because the US has 25% of the voting rights of the IMF and the BRICS can not outvote the US. However, come January 1, the membership of the IMF will be rebalanced and the US is scheduled to have its voting rights reduced. THE scuttlebutt is that the Obama regime will be open to the changes so as to usher in a Stock Market and financial collapse that can be blamed on Trump.

BE WATCHING!!!!

The battle is shaping up.

The Dems are girding up to sabotage Trump's economic plans, leave him with foreign policy landmines that O'Bungle can criticize (while the Media cheers and echoes his lies) and prepare for a time when they can try to drive him from office.

Key to the Democrats' plans are the weak sisters of the Republicans in the Senate (McCain and Graham). Thus, McCain and Graham are already carrying water for the Dems in echoing their fake story that  Russian hackers caused Hillary to lose. Obama is trying to poison the well of Russian-American relations. Then there is the question of how reliable these two Senators will be when it comes to votes on taxes. The Dems do not want tax cuts for business, because they would improve the economy.Those tax cuts are already being labeled as 'tax cuts for the rich.'

Obama and his cronies are trying to sell the idea that what Obama now engineers are simply irreversible and can not be undone by Trump. This is especially true of the anti-Israel moves being made by O'Bungle and Kerry now

The Dems are also preparing an assault on Trump via New York State's Attorney General. The NY AG is 'investigating' the Trump Foundation and won't allow the Foundation to be shut down so he can make all kinds of bogus claims later .

A Marine's last message to his commanders.

http://conservativetribune.com/marine-vets-deathbed-message/

It used to be that I waited impatiently for Christmas but this year I am waiting for Jan 21. It is when the Nation's No #1 enemy, that public disgrace Barack Obama, returns to being a private citizen (of Indonesia?) and the harm he caused the Country can start to be repaired.

Summerizing the Trump prophecies.

I have always been interested in prophecies. And in this case, I am reading the people who were right about Trump winning. What do they say will happen after Trump is inaugurated?

1. One prophecy is that members of the Media will wither under the conditions of their employment and God will raise new members who will be truthful. A nice change I think.

2. A second prophecy foretells that America's borders and history will be recovered. To recover the history the rotten professors will have to be swept away.

3. A Bible code sequence predicts that Trump will be shot in the streets.

Cowboys back into NFL home team.

By virtue of the NY Giants losing to the Iggles last night, the Giants(10-5)  can now no longer overtake the Cowboys (12-2) no matter what happens during the last two games the Cowboys still have to play in the regular season. Cowboys coaching staff denies that this will make them slacken up during their Monday night game against Detroit.

New York peppers blame Giants QB for the loss, but I saw the game and it was inspired football by the Iggles that made the difference. Just as it was inspired coaching and play by New York that beat the Cowboys. It happens.

How hateful are the Hillary voters?

Plenty. One of their way of showing their hate is to make "Revenge Christmas gifts." It is money donated to Leftist causes in the name of a relative known (or suspected) to have voted for Trump:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/23/donald-trump-voters-revenge-giving-holidays-christmas-gifts-donations

And NOW - what can we expect?

1. The Obama residue.

a) Obama is NOT going to disappear, retire or retreat. On the contrary! He will squat in Washington DC and try to act as a government in waiting. He really does believe that he is  what the Country is waiting for and if he just waits he will be President again. I am not a friend of the Democrat Party, so I will be delighted to have him represent the Democrat Party.

b) The Republicans should start an investigation of Obama as soon as Trump is inaugurated. If Obama became an Indonesian citizen when his stepfather moved him to Indonesia, then his presidency was illegal and all the acts he signed and all his appointments are null and void. Do the Republicans have the stones to proceed? No, but Trump does.

c) Just as a curiosity, I would like to now if Moochelle Obama is a man or a trans gender. Many of her measurements are that of a man.

2. Trying to fix the fiscal mess.

a) The country is broke. No need to document this here and now. The Trump programs will need sound money to succeed. How?

b) A third of Trump appointees are hard money men. One way of rescuing the US Dollar is to make it convertible into gold: 10,000 USD=1 oz of gold (oro puro). Is there enough gold?

c) Trump and appointees want fiscal power to gravitate toward Treasury away from the FED. The FED's assumed power to pursue Keynesian economics will be cut. Expect whining from Obama and his friends in the Media.

3. Foreign affairs.

a) Trump's policies will be friendly to Israel.  He has already persuaded the Arab League to drop a resolution re the settlements. Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem will be awesome.

b) Tump's biggest problems will be with the Chinese. Trade, money owed, currency manipulation, Taiwan and the islands China is building (and their militarization) will all be on the table. Trump has an ace; his Sec of State is a great negotiator.

c) Japan is in a death spiral because of Keynesian economics. Japan is also a US Creditor. Difficult days are ahead for Japan.

d) ISIS will be hard pressed. When the Islam-friendly US President will be gone ISIS will receive Russian, American and Turkish attacks. Lots of martyrdom opportunities.

e) The EU will be under further strain. Let's hope that Merkel will be too without Germany fallen into extreme ways. Merkel had the choice of getting workers from Eastern Europe; people who are WESTERNERS, BUT SHE CHOSE THE Muslims, much to the regret of her countrymen.

f) Russia will be a key surprise development. Don't be fooled by Putin calling for enlarging Russia's nuclear force. First, Russia does not need a larger nuke force and second, they can not afford it. Also, do not be fooled by Trump's response for to do the same. We can's afford it either. Nor do we need it. View these steps as preliminary negotiating points that will be given away. Also, they are to mollify idiots like McCain and Graham until serious negotiations can be done. The Russians want NATO to stand down on the Russian border and withdraw from the 'near beyond'. Europeans want Russia to mend fences with Ukraine. The Russians will not give up control of Sebastopol and large parts of the Crimea. That is not negotiable. But, there is not much difference between Eastern Ukraine and Russia, no matter what some people claim in Kiev. There will be a genuine cease fire in Ukraine. The big stumbling block will be the language rights of the Russians who settled in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Sending 800 troops there is designed to make Putin laugh himself to death. It's not working though he is appreciative of the joke.

3. US prospects.

a) The big news will be about the California secession. It may have to be occupied and the populace re-educated.

b) The goal of the Left in the wake of the Clinton defeat is to establish a permanent state of insurrection. Demonstrations, riots and cop killings. It will begin with moves to do away with 'sanctuary cities.'

c) Expect the Media to go to war with Trump. Actually, continue their war that began during the campaign for the election.

THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL BE FULL OF ADVENTURE Chinese curse.

Deranged Democrats keep losing.

In spite of the campaign to get Electors to switch, there has been no mass defection and Trump won as expected. The vote by Texas put Trump over the 270 required number.

India's repressive govt strikes citizens.

  Gold Bullion Is Now Effectively Illegal in India

 

As previously reported in separate posts, here is a consolidated recap of the events as they have unfolded thus far in India. We also take a look at previous (more) disturbing actions PM Modi has engaged in trying to understand the end game in India- Soren K.

• Cash is being outlawed
• Gold is being taxed higher
• Modi believes he is India's Saviour

There are clear signs that in a very convoluted way, possession of gold for investment purposes will be made illegal" 

"The situation is getting worse by the day... people are desperate"-Jayant Bhandari

[Editor's​Note: As we are correcting our picture rendering module, pic usage will be at a minimum until the new system is implemented.]

Article Contents

0) Summary

1) The Ban is Implemented and Banks are Closed

2) Banks Open and Chaos Ensues

3) Enter the Police State 

4) Gold Bullion Is Now Effectively Illegal

 

Jayant Bhandari, advisor to institutional investors worldwide and founder of “Capitalism and Morality" recently interviewed with Maurice Jackson to update and elaborate on the situation in India. Jayant provides the clearest explanation of where India is (and where it is going) in the brief interview with ProvenAndProbable.com's Maurice Jackson

Here is a summary of his multiple articles and interview excerpts sprinkled with our old and new observations

Summary:

What Modi Did

1. India Banned 500 and 1000 Rs announcing they could be exchanged for different denominations at banks
2. India then makes exchange of the notes impossible, accepting them only for deposit.
3. Police State measures are now being used to “re-stabilize” the citizenry
4. Gov’t will tax Gold Jewelry over 500 grams owned by citizens

What the Result Was

1. Those who find themselves stuck with high denomination bills,must accept as little as Rs 700 in usable currency for every Rs 1000 of banned currency.
2. Banks are closed for the first 2 days post announcement
3. Riots begin as businesses cannot remain operative
4. Corruption goes deeper underground
5. People die from misallocated resources and rampant looting

What is Likely to Happen Next

1. Gold is now all but illegal
2. Modi has murdered Muslims for Indian nationalism in the past
3. Not assimilating in the system will result in taxes, punishment, illegal search and seizures , imprisonment and  brutality

The Stated Reason for the Recall  

The government believes that doing this will help eradicate corruption and push counterfeit money out of circulation. According to the Indian government, the counterfeit money tends to come from Pakistan and helps finance terrorism. This is not unreasonable. The idea is to flush out the black market money.  But Gresham's Law tells us: “Bad money drives out good money.”

As previously stated:The "Stop Crime" Pretext

Simultaneously it will be sold to government as a way to close criminal operations and black markets. Remember the war on Iraq that neocons were itching for was justified after Saudi bombers hit the USA. Ken Rogoff is one such Cash Neo-Con.

"Paper money fuels corruption, terrorism, tax evasion and illegal immigration—so the U.S. should get rid of the $100 bill and other large notes" Ken Rogoff

 

Modi's Ends Justify His Means

When considering Modi’s actions one can look at his thought process 2 ways assuming he was doing what he thought was best for India.

1. He knew of the collateral damage risk and thought the eventual good would outweigh the chaos initially created.
2. Or he overestimated the power of centralizing the sheep and underestimated the reaction of an irrational populace.

Modi Will Kill if He Thinks He is Right

Based on precedent we believe that Modi does what he thinks is best. And eradication of what he deems is not good is something he would kill to accomplish. Modi was allegedly behind the massacre and rapes of thousands of Muslims in 2002 when he was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat. As a result of this, Modi was banned from entering most Western countries. Modi has no family. He left his wife soon after he married. He hs no loose ends to morally tether him from any action pursuant to his goals.

In this case, Modi is killing cash because he feels it is a vehicle for evil, if not evil itself.  His previous eradication was much more direct and telling. The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions, especially when ego and false messiah complexes obscure truth. 

How It Went Down:

 1) The Ban is Implemented and Banks are Closed

 

Market Forces Intervene

At least theoretically, people could still use the otherwise banned bills at hospitals, gas stations, pharmaceutical shops, and train stations. As one would expect in India, these places have been converted into corrupt currency-exchange shops as of today. Some well-connected people are prepaying for their medical treatment.

But for most legitimate uses, none of these organizations are accepting the otherwise banned instruments. Why should they, when they can force customers to pay in the still-legal currency and then buy the banned instruments for Rs 700 for every Rs 1000 in face value, making a neat 43% extra profit without doing anything?

Those who find themselves stuck with high denomination bills today, must accept as little as Rs 700 in usable currency for every Rs 1000 of banned currency.

Contrary to what the World Bank and IMF are saying, India is suffering economically. Its institutions are crumbling. And India is on the path to becoming another banana republic.

Gold’s Initial Reaction to India’s Ban

Any import of gold is subject to a cumulative tax of about 11%. The retail price of gold should be around 111% of the international price. Ironically, it mostly sells for 105% of the international price. Putting it simply, any law-abiding businessman must lose this 6% differential, ensuring his bankruptcy.

In reality most of the gold entering India is brought in by smugglers. These smugglers are happy to pass on almost half of their profit to consumers, while at the same time paying bribes to the Indian army, customs officials, other bureaucrats and politicians. If one wants to run a gold business, one must use smuggled gold if one wants to be competitive.

Crime Finds a Way

The problem is central planners believe criminals will all of a sudden follow the rules. We will show that the crime finds a way. And that the law abiding citizens of India suffer.

Those who look deeper, understand that corruption in public life comes from ingrained corruption in India’s society and culture. If one had to make an effort to remove corruption this is where one should start. The problem is endemic, and to succeed a bottom-up approach needed also to be combined with a top-down attack. In this way, the corruption would press down on the heads of state involved while squeezing the grass roots level of criminals simultaneously. That did not happen.  

The Democratic Primary as Example

An example in the U.S. is the failure of the Bernie Sanders campaign. He was representative of grass roots move to eradicate corruption and was more popular than Hillary. But without a top-down flank, Hillary’s operatives undermined him. When the whole system is the problem, swamp draining has to happen from the top down AND the bottom up simultaneously.

 

2) Banks Open and Chaos Ensues

 

Unintended Consequences?

Day 1 of the banks opening. Poor, desperate people, whom the government treats like slaves or perhaps insects line up to get limited exchanges of currency. Somehow these people have been brainwashed into thinking they live in a free country. Does this sound familiar to you?

Small businesses are in shambles, and many will probably never recover. The Hindu wedding season has just started and people are left with unusable banknotes. Their personal and family lives are now an utter disaster. Our coverage here

 

3) Enter the Police State 

Habeus Corpus Suspended

Police now reserve the right to randomly search people’s possessions without a warrant. Those who live in India — in an economy in which 97% of all consumer transactions are in cash, most salaries are paid in cash, and most revenues are collected in cash — routinely transport and carry large amounts of cash on their person.

A regular sight outside of bank branch offices, where poor desperate people laid off from work because of the monetary crisis must bear insults and physical harm from the police, all for the “greater good” and a “corruption-free” India

Legitimate Gold Demand Dies

Fear has gripped the bullion market, for one is deemed to be guilty until proven otherwise. People with perfectly legal cash are afraid of cameras recording their purchases and having to pay outrageous bribes. After an adjustment period people will buy more — not less — gold. For now, the gold market has gone mostly underground with the gold price hovering around US$1,700 per ounce. Did Modi want to boost the informal economy?

4) Gold Bullion Is Now Effectively Illegal

Assaults on people’s private property and the integrity of their homes through tax-raids continue.  In a recent notification, government has made it clear that any ownership of jewelry above 500 grams of gold per married woman will be put under the microscopic scrutiny of tax authorities.

As Jayant detailed previously, expect a continuation of new social engineering notifications, each sabotaging wealth-creation, confiscating people’s wealth, and tyrannizing those who refuse to be a part of the herd, in the process destroying the very backbone of the economy and civilization.There are clear signs that in a very convoluted way, possession of gold for investment purposes will be made illegal. Expect capital controls to follow.

Steep taxes and penalties will be imposed on those who cannot prove the source of their gold. In India’s Orwellian new-speak this means that because bullion has not been explicitly mentioned, its ownership will be deemed to be illegal. Courts will do what Modi wants. Huge bribes will have to be paid.

Read More from Jayant Bhandari

Conclusion

It is happening globally. The tactics may be different, but the strategy is the same. Individual economic freedom will be exchanged for the promise of safety by well intentioned and not so well intentioned centrists, fascists, and institutions most concerned with preserving themselves. Some examples previously posted here. 

Bankers wage war on customers.

There is a bank in Basel called the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and it has become a major culprit in overstepping its authority. Every two weeks representatives from Central Banks gather to plot their dastardly deeds to fleece the customers. This is like a secret society that we know of only after they have acted.

Currently, the BIS is waging war on cash and precious metals. The test case was India. The country had withdrawn the two largest denomination bills, causing chaos in India. The excuse was that the large bills are used by criminals. This had the predictable effect of driving even more Indians to purchase gold. So, the Indian government froze the accounts of the largest gold importers, so they could not import gold. What do you think happens when the govt bans a commodity people want to buy? Yes. Indians have to buy gold on the black market that puts a $300 premium on one oz of gold. Smugglers are raking it in.

Of course the real reason why the govts war on cash is that they want to herd us into using electronic cash so they can keep tabs on all our activities so they can tax it. Along with these two activities, gold price was dropped again by selling paper gold (contract). The Chinese are buying gold at a discount. What the paper shorts are doing is compressing the supply so when the price suppression has run its course, we will see a str rally.

Long shot bid to block Trump presidency.

Long-Shot Bid to Block Trump Arrives at Electoral College Monday

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John McCormick

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‎December‎ ‎15‎, ‎2016‎ ‎4‎:‎00‎ ‎AM

• Meetings will be held in all 50 states to formalize election
• Fifty-six electors have asked for briefing on Russian hacking

The Electoral College’s 538 members gather Monday at 50 state capitols to cast the ballots that matter the most when it comes to electing a U.S. president.

Normally sedate affairs that pass with little notice, this year’s proceedings have been injected with a bit of drama and a dash of uncertainty with an unprecedented campaign by a small group of electors to overturn the results of Election Day.

The attempt to deny Donald Trump the presidency by trying to convince Democratic and Republican peers to back someone else is almost sure to fail. But it injects still more rancor in what already has been a divisive political season and serves as a capstone for a 2016 presidential election that will go down as one of the oddest in U.S. history.

Behind the drive is a group calling itself Hamilton Electors, led by two Democratic electors from western states. The name is a nod to Alexander Hamilton and his explanation of the need for the Electoral College, an entity the first U.S. Treasury secretary said existed to make sure that “the office of the president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

37 Electors

Bret Chiafalo, an Electoral College member from Washington state who is a Hamilton Electors organizer, calls the institution the nation’s “emergency brake” in a video that outlines the group’s goals. “If only 37 Republican electors change their vote, Donald Trump will not have the 270 electoral votes he needs to be president,” he says. “Thirty-seven patriots can save this country.”

Chiafalo and others who have joined the effort want the Electoral College returned to what they say is its original concept: a deliberative body that uses the popular vote as a guide.

The turmoil among electors was stirred last week after President Barack Obama directed U.S. intelligence agencies to deliver a report on Russian hacking of Democratic Party e-mails, and the Washington Post reported that the CIA concluded the meddling was intended to benefit Trump.

Those developments have prompted 56 electors -- all but one of them Democrats in states Democrat Hillary Clinton won -- to sign onto a letter requesting a briefing about the hacking. Some Democrats have also called for the Electoral College voting to be pushed back until more is known, something that would take an act of Congress.

Alternative Names

None of the 56 -- almost a quarter of the Democrats forming this year’s Electoral College -- have necessarily joined in the call for Republican electors to back a consensus candidate that Republican and Democratic electors might support.

That doesn’t have to be Clinton. Members of the Hamilton Electors have mentioned former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and Ohio Governor John Kasich as potential alternatives.

Yet another effort to persuade electors is playing out in full-page newspaper ads this week in states that voted for Trump. Paid for by an online fundraising drive started by a California man opposed to Trump, the ads call for electors to reject Trump because he would “present a grave and continual threat to the Constitution, to the domestic tranquility, and to international stability."

There’s no constitutional requirement that binds electors to the candidates who won their state, but most are required to do so under state laws. That’s never mattered or been seriously tested because there have been few cases of so-called “faithless electors” -- the last occurrence was in 2004.

Never Happened

“That’s never happened for a live candidate ever before,” said George Edwards III, a Texas A&M University political science professor who has studied the Electoral College. “It’s very much a long shot.”

Edwards said he stressed “live candidate” because in 1872 Democratic candidate Horace Greeley died after a landslide election loss to incumbent Ulysses S. Grant, before the Electoral College met. Three electors who still voted for Greeley had their ballots invalidated because their candidate, obviously, could not serve in office.

If the effort to flip 37 Republican electors were to succeed, it could send the final decision to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Trump supporters and Republican establishment figures say it’s all an academic conversation because there’s zero chance of success and is being pushed by Democrats as a way to undermine the billionaire businessman’s legitimacy for the office.

‘Fruitless Effort’

“There are some people who will just not let go,” said John Hammond, a Republican National Committee member from Indiana. “It will be a fruitless effort.”

The goal of trying to block Trump at the Electoral College has some similarities to a failed bid to persuade enough delegates to the Republican National Convention in July to block his nomination as the party’s standard-bearer. Unlike at the convention, the electors are spread across the country.

“I know people are getting a plethora of calls,” said Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. “I also suspect many people are going to be pushing as much bad news as possible about Trump this week.”

While calling the lobbying effort “massive,” House also predicts total failure. “There may be a few defectors, maybe six or seven, who are bound to Donald Trump who may not vote for him, but I don’t think it will alter the outcome,” he said.

Courtroom Loss

House was one of those in a Denver courtroom Monday where two Colorado electors lost their bid to be free from a state requirement that they cast their ballots for presidential and vice-presidential candidates based on the results of the general election. The two Democratic electors, in a state Clinton won, have said they think Trump is unfit for office and have sought to encourage his electors in other states to vote their conscience.

The quirky institution was created by the nation’s founders as a compromise between those who favored a direct popular vote and those who wanted lawmakers to pick the president. This year, Trump won the popular vote in 30 states that have 306 electoral votes, 36 more than the 270 needed to win. Clinton carried 20 states and the District of Columbia with 232 electors.

                                  

One of the drivers for the attempt to negate the Electoral College result is that by running up big margins in populous states like California and New York, Clinton beat Trump by at least 2.8 million ballots in the nationwide popular vote. That’s the largest gap for a candidate who didn’t win the White House. Clinton is only the fifth presidential candidate in U.S. history to win the popular vote and finish second in electoral votes, joining Andrew Jackson in 1824, Samuel Tilden in 1876, Grover Cleveland in 1888 and Al Gore in 2000.

The Electoral College is more popular with Republicans than Democrats. A Bloomberg National Poll earlier this month found that 54 percent of American adults say the president should be picked by the popular vote, a number that jumps to 80 percent among Democrats and those who lean that way. Among Republicans and those who lean that way, 68 percent back the Electoral College.

 

AJ adds.

The Dems push the narrative that Trump's election was due to Russian influence, i.e. the hacking. Isn't it interesting that Democrats who thought Stalin and Khruschev were just fine now seath and scream at Putin? Do you remember when it was disclosed that Teddy Kennedy wrote a letter to Andropov that they (the Dems) needed help in getting rid of Reagan? Why the hatred of Putin by the Dems? One possible reason is that Putin promotes the Russian Orthodox Church. And many Democrats like Podesta are Satanists.

Inflation forecast.

Doug Casey has an interesting article on bond prices and inflation. He is quoting various experts that bond prices topped out this Summer as yields began to rise. Yields and prices vary reciprocally. As the FED is starting to end its financial repression, prices are rising. Add to this the two major promises of the Trump administration: 1. make things in America and 2. infrastructure building. Both of these sound good, but if our goods will be made in America, they will be made by American workers whose wages are much higher that the wages of Asians or Mexicans. Prices will go up. And the buildout of infrastructure will require a lot of money. Where will it come from? Still, having low prices did little for those with no jobs and little income. The Liberals liked that, because no jobs meant more government assistance, more votes for them.

 

Another contributing factor of inflation is the rise in commodity prices. Here is an illustration of commodities:

 

In accordance with these new realities, the FED hiked interest rates and promised three more for the coming year and four more for the year after. Gold and Silver took a big tumble. Fret not, those prices will come up. When? After the big traders forced everyone out of these things.

Road to Super Bowl goes through Dallas.

Much is made of the Cowboys loss to the Giants. Why did it happen? Will the Cowboys activate Romo and bench Prescott?

There are three more games left in the regular schedule and the Cowboys have the best record in the NFC: 11-2, followed by the Giants at 9-4. The Cowboys play Tampa Bay next then Detroit. Both are home games. If the Cowboys win both then they will be the winners of the NFC East even if the Giants win all their remaining 3. The Cowboys are favored against TB But if they lose against Detroit then they must beat the Eagles in Philly - never easy, especially if it is cold. The Lions are leading their division by one game but their next two opponents are the Giants and then Dallas. The Vikings and Green Bay are two games behind Detroit. If Dallas beats Tampa Bay and the Giants lose to Detroit then the Giants have to make it as a wild card.

So, the Cowboys can be regarded as favorites to win the NFC East.

I believe that the Giants are the next best team in the NFC and that either they or the Cowboys will be in the Super Bowl against New England.

Now then what happened in the last game? First and foremost, the Giants were really playing well. They defeated the Cowboys blocking schemes so the running game was limping. Not only were the Giants defeating the blocking schemes but were pass rushing very well. Prescott was hurried in his throws. Then Dez Bryant let two balls thrown to him fall into the hands of the Giants and when he caught a pass he lost it on a fumble.

The Cowboys defense did really well and the Giants won on a long pass play. Finally, the Cowboys coaching staff was unable to make changes to counter the Giants pass rush.

I have no doubt that the Giants and Cowboys will meet again in the playoffs. As for benching Prescott, forget it. He does what Management asks him to do, so it is up to the coaches to develop a winning strategy. Tony Romo? He should retire to prevent serious injury. He has done his part.

The Empire Strikes Back.

Imagine yourself to be a fly on the wall as enemies of our country strategize on how to wrest power from the people to prevent Trump from carrying out his campaign promises. Their deliberations might proceed as such:

Here is the arch villain summarizing the plans:

The goal proceeds at several levels which are interactive. Some of the effort (especially the early ones) may not succeed, however they will contribute to later attacks and ultimate victory. That is to say, even though the effort to prevent Trump from taking office might fail, it will serve the effort to delegitimatize him and eventually drive him from office.

1.  Immediate plans.

a) Ask for recounts in MI, WI and PA. Do the 'found votes' routine to increase Hillary votes. This ploy may not succeed in overturning the votes, but it will delay/prevent the Electoral College vote. The goal is to force the House to vote for President. That way we can claim that Trump was not legitimately elected by the voters.

b) Launch vitriolic attacks on Vladimir Putin of Russia and make claims that Trump won because of the cyber attacks on the DNC and Hillary ordered by Putin. Weak sisters of the GOP ( i.e. Senators McCain and Graham) will jump in to 'investigate'. It matters not that such intrusions can not be proven or disproven. What matters is that they will serve the effort to de-legitimize Trump's victory.

2. Later plans.

a) Sabotage Trump's plans. Republican leaders need little persuasion to claim that Trump's infrastructure plans must be balanced by cuts in welfare programs. (Like they did that with Obama!). Pay for the agitators working to create disturbances in the cities.

b) Encourage the FED to raise interest rates. This will dampen the revival of the economy.

c) Defeat Trump's efforts to reduce taxes. Make the argument that reducing taxes will increase the deficit. Deny the supply side claim that tax reduction increases revenues by greatly stimulating the economy.

d) File court efforts to stop Trump reining in the EPA. We don't have to win these cases just prevent Trump from reducing the regulatory burden via judicial delays.
 The delay is important. We can claim that Trump's efforts have failed.

e) Create the impression that Trump is guilty of a conflict of interest. This is how we might remove him from office (rely on useful idiots in the Senate (i.e. McCain and Graham).

3. Anyone who figures out what we are doing must be labeled a 'CONSPIRACY NUT' that way we do not have to answer counter arguments and the Media will ignore everything but our script.

Sen (the Dunce) McCain is a security risk.

LEAKED EVIDENCE: Sen. John McCain Involved In Major Islamic Conspiracy To Establish Islamic State

Walid Shoebat — February 5, 2015

 

Recently revealed conversations between the Pentagon and the Gadhafi regime in 2011 show that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was serving the Muslim Brotherhood by pushing a false narrative to justify the removal of Muammar Gadhafi, as Shoebat.com has reported. With the help of corroborating evidence, we're closer to proving that Republican Senator John McCain was likely just as invested in facilitating the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya as Hillary was. Before getting to the evidence that implicates McCain, let's work backward from the Benghazi attacks.

Any discussion about what happened in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks usually includes the topic of weapons shipments to Syrian rebels via Turkey. According to a book written by a former Navy SEAL and Green Beret, the man who would eventually become CIA Director oversaw that operation from the White House:

(Deputy National Security Advisor) John Brennan also ran a highly compartmentalized program out of the White House in regard to weapons transfers, and Stevens would not have been trusted with that type of information. Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them, at which point Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict.

According to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report completed last August and then released the Friday before Thanksgiving, the mission in Benghazi didn't involve physically collecting and shipping weapons to Syria but the CIA clearly knew who was. As Shoebat.com reported, this amounted to a distinction without a difference:

…From the Annex in Benghazi, the CIA was collecting intelligence about foreign entities that were themselves collecting weapons in Libya and facilitating their passage to Syria. The Benghazi Annex was not itself collecting weapons.

One thing that can be certain is that after the removal of Muammar Gadhafi in 2011, weapons in Libya were being rounded up and shipped to Syria's rebels. These logistics constitute transitioning from the end of one operation – regime change in Libya – and the beginning of another – regime change in Syria.

Thanks to an explosive three-part series published by the Washington Times, replete with substantiated audio recordings, readers get to see how the weapons got into Libya in the first place and who supported it.

The third installment serves as a stand-alone piece in this regard and even references a lengthy document / manifest of weapons being shipped into Libya:

Libyan officials were deeply concerned in 2011, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, that weapons were being funneled to NATO-backed rebels with ties to al Qaeda, fearing that well-armed insurgents could create a safe haven for terrorists, according to secret intelligence reports obtained by The Washington Times.

The reports included a 16-page list of weapons that Libyans supposedly tracked to the rebels from Western sources or their allies in the region. The memos were corroborated by a U.S. intelligence asset familiar with the documents as well as former top Gadhafi regime official Mohammed Ismael.

"NATO has given permission to a number of weapons-loaded aircraft to land at Benghazi airport and some Tunisian airports," the intelligence report said, identifying masses of weapons including tanks and surface-to-air missiles.

A major player when it came to the weapons shipments into Libya in 2011 has been revealed as a major supporter of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. Once again, we see that regime change in Libya in 2011 served the Muslim Brotherhood agenda:

In a separate conversation with Dennis J. Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat serving in the House, Gadhafi's eldest son, Seif, told the congressman that Libyan intelligence had observed Qatar, a major U.S. ally in the region, facilitating weapons shipments. Qatar has steadfastly and repeatedly denied arming the rebels.

"The Qataris have spent more than $100 million on this, and they have an agreement with the rebels that the moment you rule Libya you pay us back," Seif Gadhafi told Mr. Kucinich in a conversation recorded in May 2011.

Here is an excerpt of a phone conversation between Rep. Kucinich and Seif Gadhafi in 2011, via the Washington Times:

 

 

Such a stance by Kucinich – who resisted calls for regime change in Libya – was both welcome and rare. In 2003, he rubbed elbows with Bassam Estwani, chairman of the notorious hornets' nest for Muslim Brotherhood-inspired terrorism, the Dar al-Hijrah mosque, as Shoebat.com reported. Estwani sits on the Board of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), which seeks the removal of Bashar al-Assad. The Executive Director of SETF is a man named Mouaz Moustafa, who previously served in the same capacity on the Libyan Emergency Task Force (LETF), as Shoebat.com also reported.

Moustafa and McCain are quite familiar with one another, as are Estwani and Moustafa.

Perhaps the most explosive paragraph in the article involves a Libyan intelligence report showing Qatar sending "…tanks, missiles, truck and military advisers to the rebels". When coupled with where McCain was and what he was promoting at the time, we see a Senator whose behaviors and words reflected almost exactly, an agenda shared by Hillary Clinton (note the dates in bold):

"On 15th of March the ship loaded with arm[s] arrived to the seaport of Tobruk. On 4th April 2011 two Qatari aircraft laden with a number of tanks, [ground-attack] missiles and heavy trucks was arranged. On 11th April 2011 a number of boats departed Benghazi for Misrata, the shipment comprised assistance including SAM-7 [anti-aircraft] missiles. On 22nd April 2011,800 rifles were sent from Benghazi to Misrata," the report said.

That year, the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum (US-IWF) – an event co-sponsored by the nation of Qatar and the Brookings Institute – was held in the U.S. for the first time, from April 12-14. Prior to that, it had been held in Doha, Qatar. McCain attended the 2011 edition and was part of a panel. In this bizarre excerpt, McCain referred to the Arab Spring as a "seismic event" he was thrilled to be a part of and said he hoped it would spread to Russia and China:

Keep in mind the aforementioned paragraph from the Times article. Note that on April 22, 2011, hundreds of rifles were "sent from Benghazi to Misrata," according to the report. Something else happened on that day. McCain was in Benghazi – with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and told an Al-Jazeera reporter that the Libyan (Muslim Brotherhood) rebels were his "heroes" on the same day they were receiving weapons:

Little more than one year later and just 90 days before the Benghazi attacks, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sent a letter to the Inspector's General office of the State Department. In that letter, Bachmann raised legitimate concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood connections of very close Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. It was John McCain who further implicated himself in the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood by defending Abedin and denouncing Bachmann, as Shoebat.com has reported.

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The biggest danger Republicans face.

I am sure you have seen the trick: Lucy telling Linus that this time she will hold the ball so Linus can kick it - only she pulls the ball away and Linus falls on his keister. Well, the Democrats have their own version of this trick.

This is how the trick is worked. The Dems suggest that the they and the Republicans pass bills that they all agree upon. They push the Republicans as mush as they can and they (the Republicans) think they can get the media on their side if they "compromise." Pretty soon, the Republicans pass the Democrats agenda. Then cooperation stops and the Republican priorities never get done.

Let's reverse the process. Let's pass Republican priorities first.

For Algore

Winter Storm Algore.

 

You have heard the story, Friend, so let me tell you more

Of rampaging global warmth and a Winter Storm Algore.

You see the way it’s working out, heat makes all the snow

And the more the planet’s heating up, the lower the temp will go.

 

Two weeks before the Winter’s here the Midwest bears the brunt

Of a horrific winter storm, a monumental dump

Of snow and ice across the plains as rampaging Algore

Is blowing fifty mile gusts and closing all the roads.

 

Even in Wisconsin, where they invented such things

The snow plows went idle in the fifty mile winds.

Some places in the Middle West the drifts are fifteen feet

As Winter Storm Algore heads East to repeat this here feat.

 

I am hoping the trees survive the onslaught of the ice

To thrive next year when people deal the climate frauds their prize.

The trees need  grow a sturdy branch to bear the weight and more

As the Greenies are strung up with climate fraud Algore.

 

 

Dec 10, 2009. Mount Vernon, Texas.

News that's fake.

BHO in Tampa: “We should take great pride in the progress we’ve made over the last eight years. No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.”

This is for collectots.

Politico's anti-Trump crusade.

Politico continues the anti-Trump offensive as if the election did not take place:

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-north-korea-nuclear-crises-214457

 

The allegations that Trump is unstable, ignorant, belligerent etc is old hat that Politico continues to wave as if it had any validity. To be sure, we had seen the Democrats run around that the sky is falling when Reagan became President. Reagan had proven that the strategy of peace through strength was the right one. In fact, it is the Democrats led by Barak Hussein and Hillary who have undermined the peace.

 

First, Obama and Hillary had weakened our military. Second, these Leftist Democrat  leaders have set the Middle East on fire. There would be no Russian planes bombing Aleppo and no Iranian troops in Syria if it was not for the ineffectual meddling of Obama and his people. There would be no ISIS if Obama did not follow a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq and decided to arm the  Syrian opposition (the nucleus of ISIS). Fourth, after promising the Soviet Union that the West would not extend NATO toward the East, NATO had expended all the way to the Russian border. Is it a wonder that the Russians are belligerent? And fifth, the US allowed the arch Provocateur George Soros to organize the overthrow of the Ukrainian govt then stood idly by as Ukraine decided to evict Russia from their rented base at Sevastopol. It took people willfully ignorant who believed that Russia would give up its warm water port in the Crimea without a fight.

 

After the Democrats set the Middle East on fire, they countenanced the invasion of Europe by Muslims who do not believe in becoming part of Europe (or the US for that matter), but want to impose Sharia law on their hosts. Did I mention that a Leftist Democrat (Hillary) was not even competent to defend the American consulate in Benghazi?

 

It will take someone with skills at making deals to defuse the situation in Europe. And it will take someone with a backbone to force China to deal with N Korea. And it will take some hard work to undo the harm Obama has done in granting Iran a path to nuclear weapons.

 

Is Donald Trump the man to do this job? I certainly hope so.