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I’m not so sure about bombing Dresden needlessly. I got from a great aunt who escaped Hungary to US with her parents and siblings a Deseden bowl from that time before ” the Germans thrashed the place and broke all or most the molds of the Dresden art.ps the bombings didn’t help either. War sucks.

re your…
“It is obvious that we, The American People, out of a false sense of “equality and fair play” have allowed a gang of foreign communist conspirators opportunities in seizing control of Our Country without firing a shot. I never thought we would become so careless, by permitting a loss of our freedom happening, especially in a manner like this!!”

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That statement would be timely in 1913, then again in 1929, 1934, and or Dec 8th 1941. “We” didn’t want any part of many things that happened to the USA. “We” wanted to be a neutral isolationist country, but “they” Foreigners I assume, wanted to “tap” into our tax dollars and bodies. Think about it.

The way I see it…”They” took so much from the USA gradually that we had that final tipping point meltdown in ’08, and ….

Now “they” (foreign influence) can’t take so much anymore, and things are naturally going against them, things trying to right themselves. REVERSE GEAR. The only REALLY good years we had was 1945 to 1975, and THAT was NOT intended.

I woke up decades ago when “THEIR” media said…
“We don’t want or need the smoke stack industries” and we don’t want the rust belt” And
“we” are going to be a service economy” and …..
“Foreign competition is good” and
“The US consumer is going to get higher quality cheaper products” and
“We are winning the Vietnam war, we just need more time”

“He” is not “he”. “He” is them. “They” are always unknown. Never come up for vote. Pull strings behind the scenes. For DECADES thru both democrats and republicans. No mater who gets elected….Nothing ever changes. Things get worse and worse.

The time to start complaining and resisting was 1975, by avoiding imported products. It was the ONLY way to short circuit the global agenda. “He” is a representative of “them”.

So by looking at that long post of fired military men, my conclusion is the 100 year old world gov’t, that supersedes our local gov’t, has some agenda that requires it.

If my reversal predictions of the past 1913 to 2008 is in tact, we may assume there will NEVER be another world war again, making the huge military (modern day pyramid or monument) redundant, not needed. Wars are fought differently lately, like 9/11 for example.

On top of that, our military was constantly used for other countries benefit, at US taxpayer costs. The US taxpayer can’t afford the things they used to because their chump change paychecks don’t go as far because of exporting jobs.

Hiring foreigners instead of hiring Americans to do simple jobs Americans can do right here. We have people right here that can make can openers screwdrivers, coffee mugs, hand tools, machinery etc etc. What are we stupid?

We all loved Ronald Reagan, but even “he” could not stop out sourcing and globalization. In fact, after “he” got elected, “he” allegedly started the “Reagan Defence Industry Build Up”.

I was THERE. I watched all the tax paying jobs go off shore and replaced with jobs paid by tax PAYERS to a bigger crowd of tax ABSORBERS. And for MORE insult during those days…..

To stimulate the Japanese and S. Korean economy, and FOOL the US economy, “He” (really they) created tax incentives in the 1980s for domestic businesses to buy foreign made machinery. 5 year write off deductions rather than 10 year write off.

I saw LOADS of brand new Japanese and Korean made machinery in every machine shop and sheet metal shop. I got sick listening to the owners that gleefully bought those machines, boasting how high quality they were and how happy they were.

I warned them, and most of them went bankrupt afterward.

Officers “relieved of duty” under Obama  

It is obvious that we, The American People, out of a false sense of “equality and fair play” have allowed a gang of foreign communist conspirators opportunities in seizing control of Our Country without firing a shot. I never thought we would become so careless, by permitting a loss of our freedom happening, especially in a manner like this!!   Art Legge.

Below is a list of Generals, Admirals and Navy officers who have been fired under the Obama administration because they disagreed with his policies and handling of the armed forces.

 Commanding Generals fired:
  • General John R. Allen – U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
• Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star) – U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
• Major General Michael Carey (2 Star) – U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
• Colonel James Christmas – U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
• Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
• Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus – U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
• General Carter F. Ham – U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
• Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr. – U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point , NY (2013)
• Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan – U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
• General James Mattis – U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
• Colonel Daren Margolin – U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico ‘s Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
• General Stanley McChrystal – U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
• General David D. McKiernan – U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
• General David Petraeus – Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012
• Brigadier General Bryan Roberts – U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
• Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant – U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command
• Colonel Eric Tilley – U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
• Brigadier General Bryan Wampler – U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)

Commanding Admirals fired:
    • Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette – U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
•Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star) – U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10    (Oct 2013)

  Naval Officers fired:   (All in 2011)
    • Captain David Geisler – U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
• Commander Laredo Bell – U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs , NY (Aug 2011)
• Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch – Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
• Commander Nathan Borchers – U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011)
• Commander Robert Brown – U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story , VA (Aug 2011)
• Commander Andrew Crowe – Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011)
• Captain Robert Gamberg – Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011)
• Captain Rex Guinn – U.S. Navy Commander Navy Legal Service office Japan (Feb 2011)
• Commander Kevin Harms – U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 137 aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (Mar 2011)
• Lieutenant Commander Martin Holguin – U.S. Navy Commander mine countermeasures Fearless (Oct 2011)
• Captain Owen Honors – U.S. Navy Commander aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (Jan 2011)
• Captain Donald Hornbeck – U.S. Navy Commander Destroyer Squadron 1 San Diego (Apr 2011)
• Rear Admiral Ron Horton – U.S. Navy Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific (Mar 2011)
• Commander Etta Jones – U.S. Navy Commander amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
• Commander Ralph Jones – Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Green Bay (Jul 2011)
• Commander Jonathan Jackson – U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 134, deployed aboard carrier Carl Vinson (Dec 2011)
• Captain Eric Merrill – U.S. Navy Commander submarine Emory S. Land (Jul 2011)
• Captain William Mosk  -U.S. Navy Commander Naval Station Rota , U.S. Navy Commander Naval Activities Spain (Apr 2011)
• Commander Timothy Murphy – U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA (Apr 2011)
• Commander Joseph Nosse – U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky (Oct 2011)
• Commander Mark Olson – U.S. Navy Commander destroyer The Sullivans FL (Sep 2011)
• Commander John Pethel – Executive Officer amphibious transport dock New York (Dec 2011)
• Commander Karl Pugh – U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 141 Whidbey Island, WA (Jul 2011)
• Commander Jason Strength – U.S. Navy Commander of Navy Recruiting District Nashville, TN (Jul 2011)
• Captain Greg Thomas – U.S. Navy Commander Norfolk Naval Shipyard (May 2011)
• Commander Mike Varney – U.S. Navy Commander attack submarine Connecticut (Jun 2011)
• Commander Jay Wylie – U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Momsen (Apr 2011)

  NavalqQ Officers fired  (All in 2012):
    • Commander Alan C. Aber – Executive Officer Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 71 (July 2012)
• Commander Derick Armstrong – U.S. Navy Commander missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (May 2012)
• Commander Martin Arriola – U.S. Navy Commander destroyer USS Porter (Aug2012)
• Captain Antonio Cardoso – U.S. Navy Commander Training Support Center San Diego (Sep 2012)
• Captain James CoBell – U.S. Navy Commander Oceana Naval Air Station’s Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (Sep 2012)
• Captain Joseph E. Darlak – U.S. Navy Commander frigate USS Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
• Captain Daniel Dusek – U.S. Navy Commander USS Bonhomme
• Commander David Faught – Executive Officer destroyer Chung-Hoon (Sep 2012)
• Commander Franklin Fernandez – U.S. Navy Commander Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Aug 2012)
• Commander Ray Hartman – U.S. Navy Commander Amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry (Nov 2012)
• Commander Shelly Hakspiel – Executive Officer Navy Drug Screening Lab San Diego (May 2012)
• Commander Jon Haydel – U.S. Navy Commander USS San Diego (Mar 2012)
• Commander Diego Hernandez – U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (Feb 2012)
• Commander Lee Hoey – U.S. Navy Commander Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego (May 2012)
• Commander Ivan Jimenez – Executive Officer frigate Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
• Commander Dennis Klein – U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Columbia (May 2012)
• Captain Chuck Litchfield – U.S. Navy Commander assault ship USS Essex (Jun 2012)
• Captain Marcia Kim Lyons – U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic New England (Apr 2012)
• Captain Robert Marin – U.S. Navy Commander cruiser USS Cowpens (Feb 2012)
• Captain Sean McDonell – U.S. Navy Commander Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 FL (Nov 2012)
• Commander Corrine Parker – U.S. Navy Commander Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (Apr 2012)
• Captain Liza Raimondo – U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River , MD (Jun 2012)
• Captain Jeffrey Riedel – Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program (Jan 2012)
• Commander Sara Santoski – U.S. Navy Commander Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (Sep 2012)
• Commander Kyle G. Strudthoff – Executive Officer Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (Sep 2012)
• Commander Sheryl Tannahill – U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Nashville , TN (Sep 2012)
• Commander Michael Ward – U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Pittsburgh (Aug 2012)
• Captain Michael Wiegand – U.S. Navy Commander Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (Nov 2012)
• Captain Ted Williams – U.S. Navy Commander amphibious command ship Mount Whitney (Nov 2012)
• Commander Jeffrey Wissel – U.S. Navy Commander of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (Feb 2012)

   Naval Officers fired  (All in 2013):
    • Lieutenant Commander Lauren Allen – Executive Officer submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
• Reserve Captain Jay Bowman – U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Fort Dix , NJ (Mar 2013)
• Captain William Cogar – U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Mercy’s medical treatment facility (Sept 2013)
• Commander Steve Fuller – Executive Officer frigate Kauffman (Mar 2013)
• Captain Shawn Hendricks – Program Manager for naval enterprise IT networks (June 2013)
• Captain David Hunter – U.S. Navy Commander of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 12
• Captain Eric Johnson – U.S. Navy Chief of Military Entrance Processing Command at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL (2013)
• Captain Devon Jones – U.S. Navy Commander Naval Air Facility El Centro , CA (July 2013)
• Captain Kevin Knoop – U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Comfort’s medical treatment facility (Aug 2013)
• Lieutenant Commander Jack O’Neill – U.S. Navy Commander Operational Support Center Rock Island , IL (Mar 2013)
• Commander Allen Maestas – Executive Officer Beachmaster Unit 1 (May 2013)
• Commander Luis Molina – U.S. Navy Commander submarine Pasadena (Jan 2013)
• Commander James Pickens – Executive Officer frigate Gary (Feb 2013)
• Lieutenant Commander Mark Rice – U.S. Navy Commander Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
• Commander Michael Runkle – U.S. Navy Commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 (May 2013)
• Commander Jason Stapleton – Executive Office Patrol Squadron 4 in Hawaii (Mar 2013)
• Commander Nathan Sukols – U.S. Navy Commander submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
• Lieutenant Daniel Tyler – Executive Officer Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
• Commander Edward White – U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (Aug 2013)
• Captain Jeffrey Winter – U.S. Navy Commander of Carrier Air Wing 17 (Sept 2013)
• Commander Thomas Winter – U.S. Navy Commander submarine Montpelier (Jan 2013)
• Commander Corey Wofford – U.S. Navy Commander frigate Kauffman (Feb 2013)

 (Note): This trend continues in 2014 !

    Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented.

Things have gotten so bad that a number of retired generals are publicly speaking out about the ‘purge’ of the U.S. military that they believe is taking place.  As you will see below, dozens of highly decorated military leaders have been dismissed from their positions over the past few years.

So why is this happening?   What is going on right now is absolutely crazy especially during a time of peace.   Is there a deliberate attempt to reshape the military and remove those who don’t adhere to the proper ‘viewpoints’ ?   Does someone out there feel a need to get officers that won’t cooperate out of the way?

Throughout world history, whatever comes next after a military purge is never good.   Perhaps you are reading this and you think that ‘purge’ is too strong a word for what is taking place.

If this continues, what is the U.S. military going to look like in a few years?

Just consider the following quotes from some very highly decorated retired officers:

– Retired Army Major General Paul Vallely: “The White House protects their own.  That’s why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and Obamacare.  He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”

– Retired Army Major General Patrick Brady:  “There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him.”

– Retired Army Lt. General William G. Jerry Boykin:  “Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause.”

– Retired Navy Captain Joseph John:  “I believe there are more than 137 officers who have been forced out or given bad evaluation reports so they will never make Flag (officer), because of their failure to comply to certain views.”

A Pentagon official, who asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak on the matter, said “even young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House.   They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job just keep your mouth shut.   Now this trend appears to be accelerating.”

General Vallely’s comment: “Absolutely every communist regime on the planet did this as soon as they got in power.”

Yes, there are lots of things only recently come to light, including Eisenhower’s inhumane treatment and murder of the POWs.

You know what scares me? To read of these atrocities committed against civilians, and then to imagine how American civilians would be treated if foreign armies ever overran the U.S. I can only think we would suffer a similar fate, based upon how much enmity we have earned in the world.

The whole world hates us, and who can blame them?

Of course Americans think such a thing could never happen.

“Reporters from the west (new york times) who were wined and dined by the stalinists, never went into the countryside, but went back home and said everything was wonderful!”

Shocking, just shocking! Who would’ve thought the NYT would be involved in propaganda? I heard somewhere that they were the most respected news organization in the US.

What a joke. We here in the US have no clue what the truth has been for the last 100 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqXVYTKKMec

A famous reporter and author of the time , Malcom Muggeridge, wrote extensively about how Stalin blamed  famine on the genocide, however world records of the time show that Stalin exported record amounts of wheat out of the Ukraine. Reporters from the west (new york times) who were wined and dined by the stalinists, never went into the countryside, but went back home and said everything was wonderful! It is only recently that the extent of the mass killings has come to light.

Holodomor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, “Extermination by hunger” or “Hunger-extermination”;[2] derived from ‘морити голодом’, “to kill by starvation” [3][4][5]) was a famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed estimated 2.5-7.5 million Ukrainians. During the famine, which is also known as the “Terror-Famine in Ukraine” and “Famine-Genocide in Ukraine”,[6][7][8] millions of citizens of the Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.[9] Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and many other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people by Soviet Union ruled by Stalin.[10]

Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials varied greatly; anywhere from 1.8[11] to 12 million[12] ethnic Ukrainians were said to have perished as a result of the famine. Recent research has since narrowed the estimates to between 2.4[13] and 7.5[14] million. The exact number of deaths is hard to determine, due to a lack of records,[15][16] but the number increases significantly when the deaths inside heavily Ukrainian-populated Kuban are included.[17] Older estimates are still often cited in political commentary.[18] According to the decision of Kyiv Appellation Court, the demographic losses due to the famine amounted to 10 million, with 3.9 million famine deaths, and a 6.1 million birth deficit.[15]

Scholars disagree on the relative importance of natural factors and bad economic policies as causes of the famine but believe it was long term plan of Joseph Stalin, an attempt to eliminate Ukrainian independence movement.[9][19][20][21] Using Holodomor in reference to the famine emphasizes its man-made aspects, arguing that actions such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs, and restriction of population movement confer intent, defining the famine as genocide; the loss of life has been compared to the Holocaust.

Nowhere did I write that Hitler was a “nice guy.”

“Things too horrible to mention” happened on both sides of the war. Millions of German civilians were bombed needlessly in Dresden, and thousands more raped and murdered by the Russian and Mongol troops. Millions of German POWs were reclassified by Eisenhower to “disarmed enemy combatants” so that he could continue to starve them in brutal conditions long after the war was concluded. To think that the Allies were noble and upright is delusion.

If you want to know the other side of the story read Hellstorm.

She isn’t a doctor but is certified to do the procedure. If you will pardon the pun, I don’t know all the ins and outs of it butt it has significantly improved the quality of life for several peeps in my area.

Huge ick factor the donors and recipients need to overcome. I think it was a minimum of three treatments and wa la, cured.

edit, the reason why it cures depression is that after not having to recieve multiple reverse enemas anymore, the patient is filled with glee!

Dow Jones today Dec 19th
Posted by Martin Armstrong

The Dow elected only the Daily Bearish on Monday not last Friday which was also a Weekly. Therefore, no Weekly Bearish has been elected leaving 17235 intact. Hence, a closing today above 17,758 today will be an indicator that higher highs are yet to be made. A closing above 17970 will signal a breakout to upside.

We can see that the technical overhead resistance still remain in the 18300 level. It still appears we are headed higher into 2015. The key in the mid 18000 range. Exceeding that opens the door to the 23,000 level and exceed that could lead to a major Phase Transition into the 2017-2018 period as capital flees government debt everywhere and runs to the private asset sector.

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thanks for your replies.  i made two mistakes in my life (LOL….) :in ’95 i asked my local broker to open a futures account in oil ( @$30/bl),  she said i needed a $300,000

margin account to get started…..lol, lol ……..later oil went to $120/bl.      second:  in 2000+_,  i followed a  “guru” that said QQQ was going down,down down, so i told everyone to short the market………..QQQ went from 22 to 70 and is still going…………BUT in 95 i also put retirement fund into au and ag   and i have been sleeping like a baby ever since; but i still have not been able to make that trip to Belize  yet.       one of these days……..

Judge Rules Obama’s Abuse Of Executive Orders Is “Unconstitutional”

Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2014 12:04 -0500

Martin Armstrong

Submitted by Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics,

A federal judge, Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania, used a deportation decision to probe the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive order on amnesty, declaring it “unconstitutional.”

It is about time that Executive Orders are challenged in court for they are absolutely unconstitutional since they smack of a dictatorial abuse of power that denies the people the right to decide the fate of their nation.

Indeed, Texas and other states have already initiated lawsuits challenging the order. Nonetheless, the key here is that ANY such Executive Order is unconstitutional violating the entire concept of a Republic where it is at least a pretense that it is a government by the people rather than a king acting on a personal whim. This is what the law should be – not because of the subject-matter, but any issue.

Obama could just as easily order that the IRS increase taxes to 85% without Congress. Anything would be possible. This is the immigration issue, but the act of an Executive Order is everything. Obama just issued such an unconstitutional order to the FCC directing them to regulate and license the Internet. There is nothing any President could do without a vote from the people

Consequently, Judge Schwab wrote:

“President Obama’s unilateral legislative action violates the separation of powers provided for in the United States Constitution as well as the Take Care Clause, and therefore, is unconstitutional.”

more http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-20/judge-rules-obamas-abuse-executive-orders-unconstitutional

Yes we’re not getting the proper bacteria or diets anymore less you can live off the land then have to worry what their dropping on us and polluting us with heavy metals and illegal dumping pesticide runoff oil spills and now radiation. Where ever man congregates wild life dies. Eagles again are in danger as many other species and fish one from ocean one from man and dams destroying their spawning grounds either because they can’t get through or it destroys the rivers.

The use of fluoridation in water also who knows what it’s doing to the digestive systems. That one I heard one one of Hitlers projects in hopes for mind control and world domination as well as population control.

http://www.rense.com/general79/hd3.htm

goldcountry Hitler was not a nice guy he was a opportunists and a sociopath. I hope you don’t think that all those people he murdered esp. Jews he blamed for their troubles  never happened. I doubt after pillaging the Jews his idea of a prosperous economy would of lasted. I talked to soldiers who were not Jewish who saw it. Things too horrible to mention. Only to mention one was how some of these soldiers who caught some of the German soldiers behind it took them out executed them and said they tried to escape.what they found angered and even nauseated them so much they shot them on the spot.

Last night I was thinking that I have bee through a currency reset of sorts. When I was in Viet Nam we were paid in military payment certificates, (mpc). The vietnamese accepted mpc as real money for goods and services rendered. About half way through my tour the army changed the color of the mpc saying the old colored mpc was now worthless. We had less than 24 hours to exchange our old mpc for new mpc. It didn’t affect me but it sure affected the vitnamese who had been paid in mpc as they didn’t have access to exchange their old mpc for new mpc.

This is a very stirring song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfgoAPxSfFc

US In A Sweet Spot!
Puru Saxena

December 19, 2014

Big Picture – The world’s prominent central banks are pursuing an accommodative monetary policy and this bodes well for the stock market. Remember, when it comes to investing, monetary policy trumps everything else and the risk free rate of return determines the value of every asset. When interest rates are low and credit is cheap and plentiful, asset prices tend to inflate. Conversely, when interest rates are high and credit is tight, asset prices tend to deflate.

At present, the world’s largest economy is healing and its central bank is maintaining the Fed Funds Rate at a historic low. After several years of deleveraging, American households are borrowing again (Figure 1) and this is stimulating business activity. Although the US unemployment rate has fallen significantly over the past year, inflationary pressures are well contained and this implies that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates anytime soon.

If our assessment is correct, the US economy is currently in a sweet spot (just enough growth and lack of inflationary pressures) and if its housing market continues to appreciate, it will unleash tremendous pent-up demand. After all, American households have deleveraged for several years and by doing so, they have postponed the purchase of big ticket items. However, it appears as though they are now beginning to open up their wallets again and this shift in sentiment is benefiting the cyclical industries. For instance, it was recently reported that America’s auto sales have now jumped to levels not seen since 2003! In addition to buying new vehicles, Americans are refurbishing their homes, upgrading their properties, travelling more and spending more money on discretionary items.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/saxena/saxena122014.html

“People in general are so ignorant of what constitutes a healthy diet or lifestyle that I am amazed that the US hasn’t experienced a huge die off of people after they reach their 50′s.”

We probably are experiencing just such a die off, but along with everything else that’s important, it’s just not being reported.

I think your take on health is right on. I’ve gone paleo. Though I miss grains sometimes–I feel great. And no pharma for me, thanks. I use herbs and pure foods for medicine.

Banks Win Again – They Have Delayed (Repealed) the Volcker Rule

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Martin Armstrong

Signing of Dodd-Frank – Now Virtually Repealed/Gutted

The NY money center Banks won again in Washington, the second time in a single month. They succeeded in repealing Dodd-Frank and have now succeeded in repealing the Volcker Rule, which it is officially put on “delay” that will be permanent. The Federal Reserve has repealed the Volcker Rule that will let the highly speculative banks hold onto billions of dollars in private-equity and hedge-fund investments for at least two more years until it is delayed again if not just forgotten about silently.

The Fed granted the delay yesterday after banks argued selling their vast positions quickly might force them to accept discount prices. The irony in this is that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has $11.4 billion in private-equity funds, hedge funds and similar investments, while Morgan Stanley has $5 billion, securities current filings show. But Goldman became a “bank” only to get in line for bailouts. They are not a real bank with branch offices taking deposits from little old ladies. They became a “bank” to accept a bailout. Now as a bank, they are altering the entire banking system because they are traders – not bankers. JP Morgan want to be more and more like Goldman Sachs. This is destroying the entire banking system.

Speculating is NOT what a bank was supposed to do. Banks were to lend money to build the economy – not speculate for profit. Goldman Sachs should be returned to an investment bank and JP Morgan should be told to choose – sell all its branches and stop taking deposits becoming an Investment Bank or stop the speculation and be a damn bank.

These politicians are up for sale and that is the entire problem. Indeed, the banks virtually rent space on the floor of Congress. They own the building and almost everyone inside. Nobody gives a damn about the future of the economy and the nation just how much will the banks give them to keep office.

We are headed into another crisis of greater proportions because NY money center banks are no longer about “RELATIONSHIPS” but a free-for-all based solely on TRANSACTIONoriented business. One deal to the next without any long-term strategy. We are headed into a vortex that may kill the dollar as the reserve currency on the next decline because the banks will blow up big time on this next round.

Hitler was no sociopath. He was dedicated to traditional, hierarchical ideas that no longer find favor in our modern world. Hindus in India today consider him an Avatar, because he fought against the forces of disintegration and decay. He was against anything that harmed the German people, including the international bankers and usury. His social programs brought Germany out of the Depression years before any other country. He created a thriving barter-type economy. Of course the Bankers were not pleased.

Let me quote from Irmin Vinson’s excellent book, Some Thoughts on Hitler and other Essays:

“The truth is that the maniacal Hitler of popular demonology is a World War II propaganda fiction, and the principal purpose of the fiction’s incessant repetition more than fifty years after the war is to stigmatize any nationalist movement.

The crucial facts about World War II are uncomplicated and readily available in mainstream sources. NS Germany had limited war aims: the recovery of territory taken from Germany at Versailles, the acquisition of living space for the German people in the East, and the destruction of the Marxist Soviet Union, history’s most brutal regime. Insofar as the United States had any stake at all in the outcome of the war, it would have been to help Germany and her Axis allies, including thousands of Russian patriots, accomplish the latter. Absent the campaign conducted by the Western democracies to save Stalinism by defeating Hitler, the Soviet union would have collapsed.

Since America had no national interests in the conflict in Europe, our government deliberately lied about German war aims, claiming that Hitler had global territorial ambitions.

The predictable result of the Allied victory and the German defeat was Stalin’s occupation of half of Europe. . . And in quite concrete terms no American would have died in Vietnam if Hitler had destroyed Soviet Communism, arguably the central objective of his political career; American soldiers fought in Europe so that their sons could die in Southeast Asia.

Never in human history has a single man received such sustained vilification, the basic effect and purpose of which has been to inhibit Whites from thinking racially and acting in their own racial self-interest, as all other racial/ethnic groups do. “

Pat Buchanan also has a good book out on this subject, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost its Empire and the West Lost the World. Buchanan believes that the West is in such decline as a result of this war that we simply may not recover. There is a good interview with Buchanan about this here: