wow it works! wj

Since when did the US care about International law or the Geneva Conventions?

Sun, 02/28/2016 – 21:40 | 7249494 Chris Dakota

Trump is going to be elected by the white working class, who has been hung out to dry.

First by outsourcing, secondly by importing cheap third world labor.

Jews fear the working class, it is always the working class that chases them down.

It will be so again, they are asking for it, begging.

facebook Zuckerberg in Germany praising Merkel for importing migrants, hopes America

will follow her lead.

Really?

No wonder he has 8 bodyguards to to jogging.

Trump gave another shout-out to white nationalists.

“It is better to live one day as a Lion than 100 yrs as a sheep”

Benito Mussolini

media sneered at him and Trump said “I know who the quote is from, I have 14 million followers on twitter, we do interesting things.”

Media “How do you feel about being associated with a fascist?”

Trump: “It got your attention”

end of interview

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:29 | 7249689 waterwitch

Trump needs to select Ron Paul as his VP running mate if he’s nominated by the GOP. What a ticket!

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:36 | 7249707 Frankie Carbone

That would be like running James Madison as the VP candidate to Augusto Pinochet. Jesus, is this an ignorant comment.

 

According to Ron Paul, current Republican primary surger Donald Trump is not just a “dangerous person,” but an “authoritarian” who likes bossing other people around.

Appearing on Alan Colmes‘ Fox News radio show, the former Republican congressman indicated he isn’t concerned with whether Trump is a force for good or bad within the party. However, he added, “I think he’s is a dangerous person. And a lot of people find him sort of funny, and love him, even libertarian types.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ron-paul-donald-trump-a-dangerous-person/

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:42 | 7249716 strannick

but they didn’t revolt against Obama as he gutted constitution loving ofgicers?

banana republic making mofos

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:47 | 7249734 Chris Dakota

Note to Ron Paul:

Trump will stop immigration.

Gay man in Sweden beaten to death by two migrants, after dead they wrapped a dead snake around his neck.

Both charge with hate crimes.

Sentanced to 4 yrs in prison.

Trump the right man for this time Ron.

 

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:56 | 7249755 Four chan

as if the military hating the clintons or obama would be better for them than trump. you should just delete this whole bullshit premise thread.

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Mon, 02/29/2016 – 01:26 | 7249994 the kings whore

Trump’s a great candidate. He’s loved by capitalists. He’s loved by fascists. He’s loved by socialists. He’s loved by communists. He’s loved by me. He’s loved by my mother. And he’s loved by God. He’s the man.

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Mon, 02/29/2016 – 05:22 | 7250149 VinceFostersGhost

 

 

One more thing…..screw the Koch’s, Marco, Jeb……and Romney.

 

Welcome to the revolution bitchez.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:42 | 7249719 forexskin

i get that the ‘electorate’ middle class is pissed, but it is time to look past that and ask some strategic questions.

Anyone who can read this article and not be concerned about the bigger gears turning does not deserve to pull a voting lever. i want this mess ‘fixed’ and i want the fix based on principles as codified in the constitution.

frankie, don’t let the downs dissuade you, the points you want to raise are valid. anyone who wants to willfully ignore facts and then claim to understand the situation is deluded.

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/three_simple_questions_f…

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 23:02 | 7249771 Frankie Carbone

I just can’t believe how incredibly ignorant, gullible, and stupid these people are. It seems like they are clawing, scratching for anything, anyone, that will save them from their plight. Either humanity has now been competely lost in mass programming, with ZH having been the last bastion to succumb, or the consumers have invaded ZH and diluted our ranks with the morons of the Idiocracy. The question remains though: Did they immigrate into here or were they turned? If the former then we can just bash them the hell out of here. If the later, well then, we’re fucked.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 23:54 | 7249880 forexskin

we’re not fracked at all – principles and truth are final and their own justification.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:49 | 7249006 DownWithYogaPants

This guy is former head of the NSA right?  The entity recording all our phone calls without warrants?

For all I know these comments on ZH ?

N1gga please!

This guy has been a party to steam rolling vast amounts of civil rights.  And Mahr thinks he can have him on and credibly talk about Trump???  WTF?

 

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:55 | 7249049 Mike in GA

As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, “metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment “absolutely correct,” and raised him one, asserting, “We kill people based on metadata.” 

Yep, Hayden’s a real freedom lover and liberty defender.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 21:42 | 7249498 Uchtdorf

Thank you for sharing that link. A pox on the NSA.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 22:21 | 7249664 Cheka_Mate

My favorite Bill Maher interview was with Jeff Gannon, who told him “Usually people become reporters before they prostitute themselves.”

This coming from a guy working as an after hours reporter under Bush, while pimping himself out online.

The whole interaction was so staged and creepy, including the laugh track and constant blinking.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2T6_8S3g8Q

Hes a soulless fuck, thats for sure

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:25 | 7248875 Frankie Carbone

I absolutely agree with this. BTW, I didn’t know that there were this many brain-dead Trump sheep on this site, did you?

People, please! There are no good choices in this election, period. Show some inner courage and find a way to face that.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:39 | 7248961 Ace006

Assuming we can muster this inner courage of which you speak, then what do we do?

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:55 | 7249055 decon

Gary Johnson

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 20:37 | 7249178 Frankie Carbone

Stop voting for President. You legitimize this circus everytime you go to the polls and choose. Plus, if the MSM really wanted to destroy Trump, they’d have Ron Paul’ed him 6 months ago. Think about THAT. Do you REALLY think that Trump is teflon? I don’t think so and here’s why: The MSM keeps TELLING YOU TO THINK THAT.

That alone should have sent your great big “WTF meter” deep into the red. But noo….. some of you desperately desperately need a hero.

Yes, you guys are afraid. I am afraid. We all are afraid. But buying into some bullshit meme peddled to you to give you a sense of empowerment is nothing more than burying your heads neck deep in your asses, all the while pretending that the their does exist a “man with a cape that will come to save all of us”.

Ain’t gonna happen I tell you. No one gets to Trumps position unless he or she has been chosen to be there. Have you all forgotten everything that you have learned over the years? Everything?

The last election I voted while skipping the vote for Pres and most .gov candidates. I threw out all of the judges, voted on some local amendments and voted to legalize medical cannibas. If everyone would just stop plugging their goddamn noses and walk away from the shit instead (pun intended) we could collectively de-legitimize the elections.

But NO! The mentally weak Charlie Browns of the community are running once again at the football, cept’ this time The Donald is Lucy.

Chump, sucker, pigeon, mark. I don’t care what you call it. People that are falling for this gag are fools. Yes, I am pissing some of you off. Tough shit. Cowards need to get smacked. It’s a time-honored tradition among men.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 20:38 | 7249256 jcaz

…And yet, here you are, hiding behind some GoodFellas mime-  classic…..

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 20:48 | 7249289 Frankie Carbone

As is the entire Zerohedge staff, and for damn good reason in today’s modern age of information harvesting, and as are you and everyone else. Sorry, but the moniker of “ballless sheep” is quite fitting. This guy Trump is no different than any other politician/pied piper who sings sweet music to the rats (you yellow-bellied so-called “men”) that cannot face the harsh, grim, facts of reality that they truly are disenfranchised voters.  And that reality is this: Trump’s record is nothing BUT that of an establishment actor. You don’t become a billionaire go bankrupt, and then regain your billionaire status without being well connected. This man is NOT an outsider and you all are falling for Kabuki Theater all over again.

Psst. Here’s one for you. Did you ever think that Trump may be in the running to provide a mechanism for Hillary to get elected? Because let’s face it. There is no other way in hell, other than a miracle, that a President Hillary happens without some boogey-man like Trump to scare the shit out of the masses and into the running arms of President Cankles.  Jesus. I cannot believe that people are THIS gullible.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 23:22 | 7249819 conscious being

More Hope and Change. The system is too far gone to fix itself. Only real hope is to make something better out of the ashes.

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Mon, 02/29/2016 – 05:09 | 7250142 Frankie Carbone

Yep. Smoking Trump Brand hopium isn’t going to do a damn thing.

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Mon, 02/29/2016 – 01:19 | 7249985 Rhett72

Your heart is in the right place Frankie, and so is your head.  But you’re wasting time trying to reach the Trump crowd.  They will follow their Messiah into the trap, just like the Obamabots did.

 

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Mon, 02/29/2016 – 03:00 | 7250066 Techpriest of Mars

i think that he is right my freind, we have the same politico-oligarchic system here in Algeria (worst than you) and expecting that a system rotten to the core will produce a solution is like expecting that your diabetes will cure itself while continuing to eat Mcdo and drink Shit-cola, there is no miracle in politic my freind, you cant have realestate buisness in manhattan (the capital of the Zionist Empire) without being part of the clan, he even threatened a hero like snowden with death.

if the media really wanted to harm trump, they would have done the same thing as they did to ron paul, a complete blackout on him, not featuring him on every news outlet.

this is not some hollyjew fairytale where the savior appear in the nick of time to charge the ugly trolls in their back, as long as you continue to feed the parasitic beast by your ignorance and compliance your situation will get worse, cheering in trump meetings like littles pussies wont do you any good.

unless you start waking up, protesting, rioting and restore by force what have been taken from you, you are just deluding youreselves 🙁

 

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 21:22 | 7249410 jm

Thanks, Bernie.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 19:59 | 7249076 BeanusCountus

Never good choices in any election.  But let’s set it straight.  Nothing wrong with saying we are “at war” with ISIS.  When at war, you kill innocent people all the time.  Considered “collateral damage”.  Perfectly acceptable to military.  Trump not brain dead to many.  Not a favorite of mine, but hell, Hillary?  Pantsuit nightmare.  I say we all vote for Tyler Durden.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 21:00 | 7249320 Frankie Carbone

I’ll take issue with this. There are a lot of things wrong with saying we are “at war” with ISIS if we, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, NATO, and others did indeed create ISIS to be used as a geopolitical wedge.

I’ve always thought that we have had the most lethal military in history, and still do. But in a year we could not make a dent in ISIS and then the Russians step in, and in 6 months have them on the ropes. Now add to that, irrefutable evidence that Turkey, a NATO ally, has been supplying them and buying oil from them. That doesn’t raise your bullshit meter level even a little?

Why’s that?

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 20:20 | 7249176 adanata

Frankie.. stop.. you’re killing me….. I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. “Good choices” among this line up of egomaniacal freaks working for the BIS? This “election” you say?

Like this isn’t the center ring of the Greatest Show on Earth? Back under the bridge you go… no soup for you…

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 20:54 | 7249304 The best Sun

I don’t think you read his comments.

Or you read them, and still failed to understand them.

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Sun, 02/28/2016 – 21:32 | 7249457 Sam Clemons

And this is why Obozo will find the courage to stay for a third term.  Been saying that for years.  This pile of losers just sets it up even more.

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part of crummy f words so I deleted it instead of censor. click on the hyperlink if inclined and read for the personal sentiment of the posters. trump is the big winner! wj

“Trump Must Be Stopped” Plead ‘The Economist’ And CFR As Financial Establishment Panics

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It’s one thing for the republican establishment to throw up all over the candidacy of Donald Trump: frankly, the GOP has not been relevant as a political power ever since Boehner started folding like a lawn chair to Obama’s every demand just around the time of the first US downgrade, and as such what the Republican party – torn apart and very much irrelevant as the best of the “establishment” GOP candidates demonstrate – thinks is largely irrelevant.

However, when such stalwart titans of financial establishmentarianism as the Council of Foreign Relations and “The Economist”, who until now had been largely ignoring Trump’s ascent in the political hierarchy finally unleash an all out assault and go after Trump on the very same day, you know that the flamboyant, hyperbolic billionaire has finally gotten on the nerves of some very high net worth individuals.

Below are excerpts from the panicked lamentations of the Economist as written down this weekend in “Time to fire Trump”

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The front-runner is unfit to lead a great political party, let alone America

 

 

IN A week’s time, the race for the Republican nomination could be all but over. Donald Trump has already won three of the first four contests. On March 1st, Super Tuesday, 12 more states will vote. Mr Trump has a polling lead in all but three of them. Were these polls to translate into results, as they have so far, Mr Trump would not quite be unbeatable. It would still be possible for another candidate to win enough delegates to overtake him. But that would require the front-runner to have a late, spectacular electoral collapse of a kind that has not been seen before. Right now the Republican nomination is his to lose.

 

When pollsters ask voters to choose in a face-off between Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner wins by less than three percentage points. Mr Trump would have plenty of time to try to close that gap. An economy that falls back into recession or an indictment for Mrs Clinton might do it for him.

 

That is an appalling prospect. The things Mr Trump has said in this campaign make him unworthy of leading one of the world’s great political parties, let alone America. One way to judge politicians is by whether they appeal to our better natures: Mr Trump has prospered by inciting hatred and violence. He is so unpredictable that the thought of him anywhere near high office is terrifying. He must be stopped.

… just in case there was any confusion what The Economist thinks.

If the field remains split as it is now, it is possible for Mr Trump to win with just a plurality of votes. To prevent that, others must drop out. Although we are yet to be convinced by Mr Rubio, he stands a better chance of beating Mr Trump than anyone else. All the other candidates—including Mr Cruz, who wrongly sees himself as the likeliest challenger—should get out of his way. If they decline to do so, it could soon be too late to prevent the party of Abraham Lincoln from being led into a presidential election by Donald Trump.

And then there is the Council of Foreign Relations’ Benn Steil with “Selling America Short” of which sections have been excerpted below:

The country would cease to be great under a President Trump

 

Following his primary victories in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, Donald Trump has established himself as the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. He has done so offering grandiose slogans — He’ll Make America Great Again! He’ll have us win so much we’ll get bored with winning! — and precious little in specifics. He has said, for example, that he would repeal Obamacare, without saying a word about what would replace it — beyond promising that his health program would be “terrific” and “take care of everyone.”

 

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If Trump were to order the U.S. military to act as he suggests, the likely result would be a crisis in civil-military relations. Many military personnel would refuse to carry out orders so blatantly at odds with the laws of war; soldiers know that they could face prosecution under a future administration. If soldiers were to do as President Trump ordered, moreover, terrorist organizations would have a new recruiting pitch with the world’s Muslims — the need to counter American barbarism.

 

* * *

The radical changes that Trump proposes are all the more dangerous because he is so singularly ill-equipped to manage the resulting turmoil. This is a candidate, after all, who doesn’t know the difference between the Kurds and the Quds Force or have any idea what the “nuclear triad” is. Nor has Trump so far made good on his pledge to attract “top top people” to help him run things; he has still not unveiled a campaign foreign policy team in spite of months of pledges to do so. In any case, advisers cannot make up for a president’s ignorance and prejudice; presidents always get conflicting advice, and it is their job, and their job alone, to make the most difficult judgment calls in the world.

 

Trump has already done considerable damage to America’s reputation with his crude, bombastic, and often ugly rhetoric. American standing, as measured both in “soft power” and more traditional realpolitik terms, would suffer far more if he were to become commander in chief. A Trump presidency threatens the post-World War II liberal international order that American presidents of both parties have so laboriously built up — an order based on free trade and alliances with other democracies.

 

His policies would not make America “great.” Just the opposite. A Trump presidency would represent the death knell of America as a great power.

So just whose nerves has Trump gotten on?

Here is a summary of the current and honorary directors of the CFR, who basically double down as a ‘who is who’ list of everyone relevant in modern finance:

• Carla A. Hills
• Robert E. Rubin
• David M. Rubenstein
• Richard N. Haass
• John P. Abizaid
• Zoë Baird
• Alan S. Blinder
• Mary Boies
• David G. Bradley
• Nicholas Burns
• Steven A. Denning
• Blair Effron
• Laurence D. Fink
• Stephen Friedman
• Ann M. Fudge
• Timothy F. Geithner
• Thomas H. Glocer
• Stephen J. Hadley
• Peter B. Henry
• J. Tomilson Hill
• Susan Hockfield
• Donna J. Hrinak
• Shirley Ann Jackson
• James Manyika
• Jami Miscik
• Eduardo J. Padrón
• John A. Paulson
• Richard L. Plepler
• Ruth Porat
• Colin L. Powell
• Richard E. Salomon
• James G. Stavridis
• Margaret Warner
• Vin Weber
• Christine Todd Whitman
• Daniel H. Yergin
• Madeleine K. Albright
• Martin S. Feldstein
• Leslie H. Gelb
• Maurice R. Greenberg
• Peter G. Peterson
• David Rockefeller

And here are the Trustees and the Board of The Economist:

• Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone PC, DL
• Tim Clark
• Lord O’Donnell CB, KCB, GCB
• Bryan Sanderson
• Rupert Pennant-Rea
• Chris Stibbs
•  Sir David Bell
• John Elkann
• Brent Hoberman
• Suzanne Heywood
• Zanny Minton Beddoes
• Baroness Jowell
• Sir Simon Robertson
• Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

It is the fact that practically every member of the ultra high net worth establishment and “0.01%” loathes Trump with a passion, that he may be just a few months from claiming the US presidency.

Scalia, the Constitution and the court

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This was previously published on The Abbeville Blog and is reprinted with permission.

With the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, folks are writhing in fear over the prospect of President Obama appointing a new Supreme Court justice. “This,” they say, “could be the most monumental appointment in history and could drastically change our political landscape” and this “is especially true with regards to how the 2nd Amendment is interpreted.”

This is all true, if you buy into the erroneous notion that the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of constitutionality, and if the States do not adhere to their duty, as Madison said, to “interpose for arresting the progress of evil” when a branch of the general government assumes powers never consented to it.

Scalia’s death has exposed what many who have studied the Constitution’s history have said for years: That the court has assumed too much power in anointing itself — through “case law” and “court precedent”, rather than actual “constitutionalism” — as “the final say” on what the Constitution means. This is not what the Founders intended, and it is not what the Constitution allows.

The states are the parties to the compact (Constitution) which formed the union, the states created the general government, and it is the states who thus created and determined the limits of the federal court. There is no indication whatever that the states intended the Supreme Court to have the final decision on constitutionality or that their word is the end of discussion. The very fact that “a balance of power” has existed on the court is itself clear evidence that the system is not operating according to original intent, and that, rather than acting as a guardian of the Constitution, it has instead become politicized.

If the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of constitutionality, said Thomas Jefferson, then “The Constitution… is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they may please.” The last 100 years of federal jurisprudence has proven Jefferson correct well beyond anything he could ever have imagined, and worse it is now assumed that the states created a “national” government and then allowed it, through the court system, the authority to determine the limitations of its own power.

There is ample evidence from the Philadelphia Convention, the state ratifying conventions and post-ratification discussion that this simply was never the intent of the states. Such circumstances have come about by means of the Courts “granting” themselves this authority, and the states allowing them to get away with it. In Federalist 47, for example, James Madison wrote that “The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Were the federal constitution therefore really chargeable with this accumulation of power or with a mixture of powers having a dangerous tendency to such an accumulation, no further arguments would be necessary to inspire a universal reprobation of the system.”

Over time, and especially since the “progressive” era, the federal courts have assumed the role of a super legislature, deciding “constitutionality” based on legal precedent, sociological studies and even foreign law. They have unilaterally “found” unlimited powers for themselves that are nowhere apparent in the constitution. This has allowed them to intrude into state jurisdiction by “incorporating” the Bill of Rights against the states and striking down laws in matters that the Constitution itself, in its original form, clearly “reserved to the States”. Moreover, the court has routinely rubber stamped all manner of unconstitutional actions by the President and Congress. As Kevin Gutzman pointed out in his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution between 1937 and 1995, not a single “law” passed by congress was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Even Madison, who in convention fought for a federal “negative” over state laws, as well as the application of the Bill of Rights against the states (he lost in both proposals) would regard such power being centered in an unelected body of nine people to be “the very definition of tyranny.” In the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, Jefferson wrote that, “the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.” Jefferson pointed out “that to this compact each State acceded as a State.”

A “State” was a sovereign “Nation” in the vernacular of the pre-Lincolnian era, and few disputed this. Jefferson pointed out that each state as such “is an integral part” of the “compact” and thus the union, and that “the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself” as doing so “would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.” “As in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge” said Jefferson “each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.”

The Founders, in adopting the Constitution, instituted a union of sovereign republics and created a general government that was charged with specific, enumerated powers. This government was to be of “a republican form”, which means that, unlike a democracy, its actions are not conducted on the “will of the majority,” but by a “rule of law.” On the other hand, an oligarchy is defined as “a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.” If the Supreme Court, made up of nine politically connected lawyers who are appointed, not elected, with life tenure are the “final say” on what the rule of law is, then it must be admitted that we’ve lapsed from republicanism to an oligarchical form of government.

This has occurred due to fact that the history of the formation of the union, the proper role of the Supreme Court and the separation of powers between the states and the general government are lost on the overwhelming majority of Americans today. We cannot enforce what we do not understand. Were this not the case, a “balance of power” on the Court would not exist, and every presidential election would not be “the most important in our lifetime” to “preserve our rights”… by a margin of one vote.

— Carl Jones

Carl Jones is a native of Alabama, a former active duty U.S. Marine and a small business owner. He is a member of the Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and The Society of Independent Southern Historians. He is proudly descended from two 5th Great Grandfathers, John Swords and Major William Skinner, who served the State of South Carolina in America’s War for Independence.

http://personalliberty.com/scalia-the-constitution-and-the-court/
wj

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-28/trump-must-be-stopped-plead-economist-and-cfr-financial-establishment-panics

The Economist may as well be written by ex Pravda journo’s from the USSR days……Economist Board member Baroness Jowell aka Tessa Jowell…….=…..hard left UK labour politician.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We’ve gone from Bond mkt stress to Short Term mkts……they better get it sorted or the next crisis has started.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-28/kurodas-nirp-backlash-japanese-interbank-lending-crashes

Which is why Gold is bid.

GOLD          DOLLAR

feb29   up                  down

mar1   up                  down

mar2   up                 down

mar3    up                   down

mar4   up                 down

mar7   up                 down

mar8   up                 down

mar9  up                  down

mar10   up              down

Ok, for practice, below, short term predictions. 1-3 days.

Dow 16,585, lower tomorrow.

U.S. Dollar Index at 98, lower tomorrow.

Gold, $1226, higher tomorrow.

Crude Oil, a tough one, $33 now, as a shear guess, lower tomorrow.

“To me the story is the crowd,” Fox & Friends host and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth said Saturday. “This guy stands up (and) said ‘I’m a Marine. I’ve done two tours in Iraq’ — You go to a Republican rally, tell it like it is, the crowd erupts in applause for the Marine and says ‘thank you for your service this is fantastic,’ instead silence, crickets (at the Clinton rally).”

“It shows you we’ve got two very different electorates that look very differently towards that service.”

Watch the encounter below.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/shocking-video-us-marine-booed-removed-from-clinton-rally-for-asking-legitimate-question.html

They asked Trump “did you know David DUKE endorsed you “? His quick answer was I disavow it…..He was on to them  ….

Next day… you didnt disavow him today does that mean you welcome  him !   Here it comes…… the Republicans have decided that if they cant beat Trump that its in their interest to see Hillary win !    THat way then its  back to Club members only  .establish members only !

Thats why Romney brought up this TAX return business  …What the hell does Romney care  whats in Trumps TAX return ?He’s a Republican too aint he ?  Apparently Romney dosent think of Trump as a Republican ..and that LIBERAL BOSTON GANG has decided to do a Number on Trump because they think they are losing  control of the Republican Party.    Sombody got to DAVID DUKE and must have offered him a LOT OF MONEY to PUBLICLY endorse Trump…   YEAH its a FALSE FLAG   operation !

http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/7468/show-me-note-california-supreme-court-update-yvanova-v-new-century-mortgage

Thanks for pointing that out. I will dig up Silverngold’s video. The whole Hitler history is a lie that’s been fed to us by the MSM and Hollywood here in the west. Every last bit of it.

I’d love to see a movie about the slaughter of 500K Germans in Dresden, or the slaughter of 10’s of millions of Russian Christians in the early 1900’s, OR the present day slaughter and open air imprisonment of Palestinians.

You’ll never hear those stories told here in the west. EVER.

Contraction Of Credit… Central Bankers Greatest Fear!

By Bill Holter

Just a short comment on a VERY BIG problem! The below chart shows “margin” balance on the NYSE with an inverted chart of the S+P 500 laid over it.

continues http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1456672380.php

How This Man Converted “Underground Shelter Using a 20 Ft. Shipping Container”

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/how-this-man-converted-underground-shelter-using-a-20-ft-shipping-container_02242016

a paper paper paper ‘clip’ no no no not 3 paper clips just 1….and not a large one either wj

WHERE’S the plan to pay back what they borrowed?!?!?! Yes even Armstrong mentions that here which is behind the outsourcing. It doesn’t negate the fact like everything else from these play it by ear hand to mouth clueless politicians faking the fact that they know what their doing have been mismanaging and stealing ” borrowing” from SS as well. WHERE WAS THE PLAN TO PAY BACK WHAT WAS BORROWED AND WITH INTEREST??!!?? With no plan to pay it back its THEFT then have the audacity to say it’s going broke. GDP declines with Gov expansion. Armstrong The OECD has done studies but nobody ever pays attention. Any way you cut it, the larger the share of the economy consumed by the government, the lower the economic growth. So the sublime fool never looks at the data and simply regurgitates the same socialist propaganda into infinity. They live in a state of total denial simply because the core of their position is sheer material jealousy. They justify robbing other people because they lack the wealth they wish they had. It is just a question of greed. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/basic-concepts/gdp-declines-when-govt-grows-this-is-basic-common-sense/ Regan: Instead of being a proud day for America, April 20, 1983, has become a day of shame. The Social Security Amendments of 1983 laid the foundation for 30-years of federal embezzlement of Social Security money in order to use the money to pay for wars, tax cuts and other government programs. The payroll tax hike of 1983 generated a total of $2.7 trillion in surplus Social Security revenue. This surplus revenue was supposed to be saved and invested in marketable U.S. Treasury bonds that would be held in the trust fund until the baby boomers began to retire in about 2010. But not one dime of that money went to Social Security. The 1983 legislation was sold to the public, and to the Congress, as a long-term fix for Social Security. The payroll tax hike was designed to generate large Social Security surpluses for 30 years, which would be set aside to cover the increased cost of paying benefits when the boomers retired. Let’s have a look at the events leading up to this proposal. Reagan and the government had big financial problems. Supply-side economics was not working like Reagan had promised. Instead of the lower tax rates generating more revenue as the supply-siders claimed would happen, there was a dramatic drop in revenue. Something had to be done, so Ronald Reagan set for himself a new mission. He would have to figure out a way to get the additional revenue he needed from another source. The mechanism, which allowed the government to transfer $2.7 trillion from the Social Security fund to the general fund over a 30-year period, was the brainchild of President Ronald Reagan and his advisers, especially Alan Greenspan. Greenspan played a key role in convincing Congress and the public to support a hike in the payroll tax. A few years later, Reagan appointed Greenspan to become Chairman of the Federal Reserve System. Since Greenspan’s new job was one of the most coveted positions in Washington, many observers have wondered whether or not this appointment represented, at least in part, payback for the role Greenspan had played in making vast sums of new revenue available to the government. more http://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/#sthash.WJ9lXwjo.dpuf

George Bush SPENT EVERY DIME OF SS surplus! Did George W. Bush ‘borrow’ from Social Security to fund the war in Iraq and tax cuts? By Linda Qiu on Monday, August 3rd, 2015 at 1:27 p.m. Evoke George W. Bush, his income tax cuts and the war in Iraq, and you’re sure to arouse some liberal ire. Suggest that Bush financed those projects by plundering Social Security’s retirement coffers, and you’ve got yourself a popular meme. “Next time a Republican tells you that ‘Social Security is broke,’ remind them that Pres. Bush ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back,” reads one version of the meme, which appeared on the Facebook pages of Occupy Democrats and Americans Against the Republican Party. A number of readers asked us to check out the claim, so we decided to take a look. The meme seems to extrapolate a point made in a 2009 newsletter post by Allen W. Smith, a professor of economics emeritus from Eastern Illinois University. “Bush spent every dime of Social Security surplus revenue that came in during his presidency. He used it to fund his big tax cuts for the rich, and much of it was spent on wars,” Smith wrote. The meme’s claim and Smith’s argument circle back to how Social Security funds are managed. Experts say words like “borrow” and “raid” don’t really capture how the system works. Bonds, ‘borrowing,’ and Bush For about 50 years, Social Security was a “pay-as-you-go” system, meaning annual payroll taxes pretty much covered that year’s benefits checks. Then in 1982, President Ronald Reagan enacted a payroll tax hike to prepare for the impending surge of retiring baby boomers, and a surplus began to build. By law, the U.S. Treasury is required to take the surplus and, in exchange, issue interest-accruing bonds to the Social Security trust funds. The Treasury, meanwhile, uses the cash to fund government expenses, though it has to repay the bonds whenever the Social Security commissioner wants to redeem them. More http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/03/facebook-posts/did-george-w-bush-borrow-social-security-fund-war-/

One sticking point for conservatives in the latest budget deal is that it effectively robs money from an already ailing Social Security to make up for shortages in an all-but-broke and failing Disability Insurance program. The problem begins here, as pointed out by Gail Buckner at Fox Business in July of this year. Fast-forward to today and Congress is doing precisely what it has done in the past: using accounting gimmicks to transfer dollars without solving, in the case, the real problems behind disability funding. Instead of doing its job and being financially responsible, presumably, some later generation will be left holding that bag. Disability Fund is Hurting The Trustees did not change their outlook for the Social Security fund that pays Disability Insurance benefits, which has been on life support for years. The DI Trust Fund will run out of money sometime next year. Given the fact that this would result in an immediate 20% cut in benefits, this is one aspect of the report that might actually spur Congress to act. Oh they acted all right, unfortunately, the same way as they have in the past. None-the less, when this situation has arisen in the past, Congress simply ordered the Social Security Administration to shift money out of the Retirement Trust Fund and into the Disability fund. That above is precisely what Congress and the White House are about to do again, as Daniel Horowitz notes at Conservative Review: Now, with the DI program expected to face a 19% shortfall next year, Obama and Republicans plan to “borrow” the needed funds from the main Social Security program to make up for the shortfall. After all, the old-age benefits trust fund will only face insolvency in 2033 so there is time to kick the can down the road. I guess they figure that once we are diverting $141 billion from the original purpose of the program, why not throw in an extra $30 billion? Who will be harmed most by these policies? As Mark Levin noted in his book, Plunder and Deceit (p.44), “the rising generation and generations unborn are harmed most by these practices, particularly with massive generational transfer payments and debt accumulation.” Additional information on this precise problem with the latest D.C. backroom deal that fails to resolve genuine problems facing America, merely kicking the can down the road so Congress and Obama can go play golf on the taxpayer’s dime, can be found here via The Daily Signal. Budget Deal Kicks the Can on Disability Insurance, Robs $150 Billion from Social Security More http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/27/budget-deal-robs-social-security-pay-disability/

Has a two Trillion dollar surplus…but since LBJ, it is in the form of Gov’t IOU’s.  To make it even worse, in the old days each dollar was worth a silver dollar which today is worth 20x a paper dollar.

Would you be in favor of means testing for Social Security? i.e. someone with retirement income of say $500K or more? to shore up the broken program?

I mean why should Wanka with his talking parrot and millions get SS? Just kidding Wanks, if there’s anyone that worked their ass off and who deserves SS it’s YOU.

Maybe we should lower the means testing on Gov’t employees like firemen and lifeguards in CA. that retire at 45 with $250K a year in retirement and healthcare benefits, and then continue working? Or what about the congress critters?

There’s a lot of low hanging fruit that could help shore up the SS system. Just sayin’

Don’t disagree with you about the import/export failures but that’s why we want Trump right?

Quebec’s bid to create a provincial long-gun registry — seemingly a given not long ago — is being met by grassroots opposition from those who want the government to abandon the initiative.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-long-gun-registry-gun-lobby-fight-1.3468180

The country is going broke so adjust Sos Sec?? What idiotic nonsense that is. The problem of going broke needs to be addressed. We have gone broke gradually because we IMPORT more than we EXPORT.

All those foreign made products we stare at every day? Especially cars? Picture or imagine the dollar value. That’s how much money left the country. $500 billion each year goes to China…And someone (bozo) recommends we bite the bullet?? And accept less?

Bad number.  They bury you  6 feet deep in a coffin that’s 8 feet long.

Because absolutely no one knows when they will drop dead? Or depart. You graduate high school, and immediately retire on Social Security for 20 years.

After 20 years assuming you are still alive, you work until you can’t anymore, like we have already. At least that way, you don’t get cheated out of retirement. I heard most people only collect about one year of Sos Sec benefits before dying.

The Gov Chronies won’t like this about Trump either if he picks Christy which looks like he might. To save the retired from being their debt slaves and turning SS into a Ponzi schene. This might allow those who get back pay to giving their jobs they can’t quit to ones looking for one.

Per Armstrong Trumps pick Chisty wants to lower social security back down to 50 instead of 70-80 the WH hoping you never live to draw.
Christie was the only one saying the country is going broke and Social Security has to be overhauled. He proposed drawing the line in the sand at 50. Let the younger people actually have a retirement plan while the over 50 crowd will just have to be paid out. That is the first honest proposal I have heard from anyone. So a Christie VP would make very good sense.

Christie Endorses Trump – Why the Shock?

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