It (PMs) was just your typical friday knockdown.

Regarding section 3…If I recall correctly, Peter Schiff argued that if entitlements were taken away along with the welfare state and taxes lowered correspondingly (providing burdensome employment regulation brought down) than Americans would have no trouble finding a meaningful job who are seeking one.

Consider that benefits and health and safety/vacation time etc. probably add another 50% onto the cost of employing a person…in effect a tax on production. I again challenge you to view fairtax.org and consider taxing consumption only…perhaps via a value added tax as is done in most other nations of the world…that would allow a scrapping of employment taxes, income taxes of all kinds, capital gains taxes from productive investments…while saving 100’s of billions on courts, lawyers and the IRS…which would be abolished, as would the national 73000 page tax code. America would open for business!

We need only look to Margaret thatcher’s Britain and Reagan’s USA to see that when markets are respected as an organism, and regulation is looked at from the producer’s point of view in terms of cost of compliance ( Thatcher abolished minimum wage)…while also keeping in perspective that there are now fewer people working as a % of the population (and that those earning and producing should both be able to earn a reasonable, barrier free living) than the USA would become a country that is again the nation of opportunity, prosperity and hopefully freedom and self reliance.

On Lord Haw-Haw: “William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. … Unusual for Irish Roman Catholics, both Joyce and his father were strongly Unionist. Joyce later said that he had aided the Black and Tans [notorious for their brutality] during the Irish War for Independence.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

Presumably there were contemporary critics of ‘The Money Trust’ with less abhorrent political views that Mr Temple could have referred to…

Peter Grandich puts things in prospective in a way the common man can easily grasp. I very much look forward to his appearances here.

seg 4. Interesting Chris mentions a gold standard would not be beneficial and is not likely to happen.

Maybe the east has a role for PMs.

Ive agreed with Bill Still ever sinse I heard his points on gold standards, a fallacy they restrict printing in some way.

Chris makes the point the government can produce currency in required quantities without interest.
Currency is mearly to facilitate business, require it for taxes and people will use it.
I just agree that currency printing shouldn’t be at interest or in private hands.
Is that a little “anti capitilist”? I guess Rothchild and the banks might think so.

Many congratulations Cory on your engagement. For us ol’ timers Al, PG and myself, all hovering around the Ruby wedding stage we’d have it no different. Behind every great man and here I only speak for the other two, there is invariably a great woman!! Best, A

One of the issues that this program has not addressed although I have spoken about this a number of times is the overproduction of goods. I have witnessed this revolution going on for the last forty years while working primarily as an industrial electrician.

One of the main causes of the 1930’s Great Depression was the mechanization of industry primarily due to the advancement of electrification which allowed industry to produce on a huge scale more than ever before. The banks along with the government introduced installment buying to increase the spending power of the American people. With a booming stock market bank credit and industry became inflated. When stock profits vanished installment buyers become harder to find as people worry about how to make their next payment. Now you have over productive factories operating on an unprofitable basis waiting for consumer buying power to return.

Fast forward to today our factories require very few people to churn out millions of goods and we have had installment buying for almost one hundred years. What is the government to do to stimulate the economy at this junction in history they have only two option’s either you let the system correct or you lower the interest rate. Rather than face default they picked the latter of the two and it worked wonderfully until the debt became the primary problem as people worry about their finances. Now we are left with a society that needs to be fed and taken care of by the government. The evolution is complete the only option left is the one behind door #1.

I will say it again what industry that was unprofitable in the 1960’s began an exodus to low wage paying countries and what is left is being transformed by artificial intelligence that leaves no jobs for the middle class, and a government with it’s back against the wall until the market decides a direction. I wonder what that might be?

Good point about overproduction. Again, a problem we would not have with social credit or some other form of interest-free, state-issued money (or much more barter, private trade, etc.) The fractional reserve system requires ever-expanding “economic activity” – not because we need all the crap we buy, big houses, one car for every family member, etc. – but the banking system needs us to do this, or it will collapse.

Great post, DT. It is issue I have been the thinking about myself. We are also starting to see automation happening in lower-wage jobs as well. Look at Japan for example. Some restaurants have robot waiters. Closer to home, banks have been cutting teller positions and replacing them with online banking.
I believe countries are aware of this problem, that is why they are thinking of giving everyone a check. I posted a link a few weeks back mentioning that several academics were thinking that the Canadian government should give everyone $20,000 a year. The Swiss have been thinking the same thing.

So is the tragedy of that MH17 airliner a gruesome metaphor for that ultimate black swan preparing to tip us into world war 3? The BUK missile responsible for the attack was almost for sure launched inside Ukraine by, drunk or otherwise, Russian separatists, and from where a missile truck was photographed minus one of its missiles hurrying back to Russia. But whether or not the tragedy wos a vodka induced mistake by which a commercial airliner got confused for an Antonov military transporter won’t make much difference. Putin will go into denial. Obama will take the high moral ground, insisting that Europe impose sanctions it cannot afford to levy, and the noose tightens. Right across the Middle East from Libya back through to Ukraine we’ve got the various combatants lining up.

Lord have mercy!

July 17, 2014 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: Malaysian airliner, Noyer, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, | Print This Article Print This Article

Sanctions and Airliners

Paul Craig Roberts

NOTE: Photos are now available of the wreckage from the Malaysian airliner crash. Notice the extensive debris and the large section of fuselage. You are observing remains of an airliner that was hit with a missile at 33,000 feet and fell to impact land. Remember, no such debris was present at the site where the airliner is alleged to have hit the Pentagon and at the alleged crash site in Pennsylvania of the 4th 9/11 hijacked airliner. Give that some thought. No doubt but that the 9/11 Commission will conclude that only Malaysian airliners leave debris.

I think the powers that be understand exactly what they can get away with, they have an excellent grasp of just how uneducated, gullible and maybe just how plain stupid people really are.

The unilateral US sanctions announced by Obama on July 16 blocking Russian weapons and energy companies access to US bank loans demonstrate Washington’s impotence. The rest of the world, including America’s two largest business organizations, turned their backs on Obama. The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers placed ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post protesting US sanctions. NAM said that the manufacturer’s association is “disappointed that the US is extending sanctions in increasingly unilateral ways that will undermine US commercial engagement.” Bloomberg reported that “meeting in Brussels, leaders of the European Union refused to match the US measures.”

In attempting to isolate Russia, the White House Fool has isolated Washington.

The sanctions will have no effect on the Russian companies. The Russian companies can get more bank loans than they need from China, or from France and Germany.

The three traits that define Washington–arrogance, hubris, and corruption–make Washington a slow learner. Arrogant people wallowing in hubris are incapable of learning. When they encounter resistance they respond with bribes, threats, and coercion. Diplomacy requires learning ability, but Washington left diplomacy years ago and relies on force.

Consequently, with its sanctions Washington is undermining its own power and influence. Sanctions are encouraging countries to withdraw from the dollar payments system that is the foundation of US power. Christian Noyer, Governor of the Bank of France and a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, said that Washington’s sanctions are driving companies and countries out of the dollar payments system. The huge sum extorted from the French bank, BNP Paribas, for doing business with countries disapproved by Washington makes clear the increased legal risks that arise from using the dollar when Washington makes the rules.

Washington’s attack on the French bank was the occasion for many to remember the numerous past sanctions and to contemplate future sanctions, such as those that loom for Germany’s Commerzbank. A movement to diversify the currencies used in international trade is inevitable. Noyer pointed out that trade between Europe and China does not need to use the dollar and can be fully paid in Euros or Renminbi.

The phenomenon of US rules expanding to all US dollar-denominated transactions around the world is accelerating the movement away from the dollar payment system. Some countries have already arranged bilateral agreements with trading partners to make their trade payments in their own currencies. The BRICS are establishing new payment methods independently of the dollar and are setting up their own International Monetary Fund to finance trade imbalances.

The US dollar’s exchange value depends on its role in the international payments system. As this role shrivels, so will demand for dollars and the dollar’s exchange value. Inflation will enter the US economy via import prices, and already hard-pressed Americans will experience more compression of their living standards.

In the 21st century distrust has been growing of Washington. Washington’s lies, such as Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” and “Iranian nukes” are recognized as lies by other governments. The lies were used by Washington to destroy countries and to threaten others with destruction, keeping the world in constant turmoil. Washington delivers no benefit that offsets the turmoil that Washington inflicts on everyone else. Washington’s friendship requires complying with Washington’s demands, and governments are concluding that Washington’s friendship is not worth the high cost.

The NSA spy scandal and Washington’s refusal to apologize and desist has deepened the distrust of Washington by its own allies. World polls show that other countries regard the US as the greatest threat to peace. The American people themselves have no confidence in their government. Polls show that a large majority of Americans believe that politicians, the presstitute media, and private interest groups such as Wall Street and the military/security complex rig the system to serve themselves at the expense of the American people.

Washington’s empire is beginning to crack, a circumstances that will bring desperate action from Washington. Today (July 17) I heard a BBC news report on National Public Radio about a Malaysian airliner being shot down in Ukraine. The reporting might have been honest, but it sounded like a frame-up of Russia and the Ukrainian “separatists.” As the BBC solicited more biased opinions, the broadcast ended with a report from social media that separatists had brought down the airliner with a Russian weapon system.

No one on the program wondered what the separatists had to gain by shooting down an airliner. Instead, the discussion was whether once Russian responsibility was established, would this force the EU to endorse tougher US sanctions against Russia. The BBC was following Washington’s script and heading the story where Washington wanted it to go.

The appearance of a Washington operation is present. All the warmongers were ready on cue. US Vice President Joe Biden declared that the airliner was “blown out of the sky.” It was “not an accident.” Why would a person without an agenda be so declarative prior to having any information? Clearly, Biden was not implying that it was Kiev that blew the airliner out of the sky. Biden was at work in advance of the evidence blaming Russia. Indeed, the way Washington operates, it will pile on blame until it needs no evidence.

Senator John McCain jumped on the supposition that there were US citizens aboard to call for punitive actions against Russia before the passenger list and the cause of the airliner’s fate are known.

The “investigation” is being conducted by Washington’s puppet regime in Kiev. I think we already know what the conclusion will be.

The probability is high that we are going to have more fabricated evidence, such as the fabricated evidence presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN “proving” the existence of the non-existent Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction.” Washington has succeeded with so many lies, deceptions and crimes that it believes that it can always succeed again.

At this time as I write, we have no reliable information about the airliner, but the Roman question always pertains: “Who benefits?” There is no conceivable motive for separatists to shoot down an airliner, but Washington did have a motive–to frame-up Russia–and possibly a second motive. Among the reports or rumors there is one that says Putin’s presidential plane flew a similar route to that of the Malaysian airliner within 37 minutes of one another. This report has led to speculation that Washington decided to rid itself of Putin and mistook the Malaysian airliner for Putin’s jet. RT reports that the two airplanes are similar in appearance. http://rt.com/news/173672-malaysia-plane-crash-putin/

Before you say Washington is too sophisticated to mistake one airliner for another, keep in mind that when Washington shot down an Iranian airliner over Iranian air space, the US Navy claimed that it thought the 290 civilians that it murdered were in an Iranian fighter jet, a F-14 Tomcat fighter, a US-made fighter that was a mainstay of the US Navy. If the US Navy cannot tell its own workhorse fighter aircraft from an Iranian airliner, clearly the US can confuse two airliners that the RT report shows appear very similar.

During the entire BBC frame-up of Russia, no one mentioned the Iranian passenger airliner that the US “blew out of the sky.” No one put sanctions on Washington.

Whatever the outcome of the Malaysian airliner incident, it demonstrates a danger in Putin’s soft policy toward Washington’s ongoing hard intervention in Ukraine. Putin’s decision to respond with diplomacy instead of with military means to Washington’s provocations in Ukraine gave Putin a winning hand, as evidenced by the opposition to Obama’s sanctions by the EU and US business interests. However, by not bringing a quick forceable end to the Washington-sponsored conflict in Ukraine, Putin has left the door open for the devious machinations in which Washington specializes.

If Putin had accepted the requests of the former Russian territories in eastern and southern Ukraine to rejoin Mother Russia, the Ukrainian imbroglio would have come to an end months ago, and Russia would not be running risks of being framed-up.

Putin did not get the full benefit of refusing to send troops into the former Russian territories, because Washington’s official position is that Russian troops are operating in Ukraine. When facts do not support Washington’s agenda, Washington disposes of the facts. The US media blames Putin as the perpetrator of violence in Ukraine. It is Washington’s accusation, not any known facts, that is the basis for the sanctions.

As there is no act too dastardly for Washington to undertake, Putin and Russia could become victims of a devious machination.

Russia seems hypnotized by the West and motivated to be included as a part of the West. This desire for acceptance plays into Washington’s hands. Russia does not need the West, but Europe needs Russia. One option for Russia is to tend to Russian interests and wait for Europe to come courting.

The Russian government should not forget that Washington’s attitude toward Russia is formed by the Wolfowitz Doctrine which states:

“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power

Unrest in foreign countries will deepen the malaise felt by people here as well as jeopardizing American investments abroad. When hard times set in so does the psychological reaction it causes. The chickens of the Iraq War and other hotspots are coming home to roost.

IS AMERICA READY? U.S. VETS FREAKING OUT AT THE PROSPECT OF MARTIAL LAW ACROSS THE NATION.
See Alex Jones below – approx. 16 mins into programme.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel

About local and individual economic power and living off the grid in an urban area (great example brought up by local TV):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM

Unfortunately, it seems that our Western Socialist Governments are determined to punish anyone who dares to challenge the Status Quo and aspires to self-sufficiency by removing from individuals the right to exercise and own their individual means of production:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/front-yard-food-gardens-defying.html

About local and individual economic power and living off the grid in an urban area (great example brought up by local TV):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM

Unfortunately, it seems that our Western Socialist Governments are determined to punish anyone who dares to challenge the Status Quo and aspires to self-sufficiency by removing from individuals the right to exercise and own their individual means of production:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/front-yard-food-gardens-defying.html

There is no more time to post this weekend but I just wanted to say to Al, Cory and the guests that I thought this weeks show was quite thoughtful. Well done guys.

Its the 20th, isn’t the world supposed to end today? clues were the numerology speech.
Except I don’t see anything out of the ordinary, riots, wars, rumours of wars, same ol stuff.

No, we already got our answer on the sevens, bb. That was when a 777 got shot down I thought and it is going to be confirmed when the death toll of the Malaysian airliner combined with the death toll in Gaza also equals 777. We were only at 723 last time I checked. Keep up man!

My mistake Bird, I will pay closer attention.

So now we wait and watch. Will oats bottom at 300? (another 28 dollar decline). Will rice reverse off of 12 dollars (just a dollars distance from here)…..will corn break out at 350 or is the lower floor at 300 in the cards? The former is just a hop, skip and jump from this mornings 366.60. Meanwhile, wheat is nearing 5 year lows along with soybean meal and oils. Cotton is just 8 bucks away from its 2009 low showing and if sugar touches down at 15 dollars again it looks to be a great bet. I encourage everyone to take special note of what is happening in the bigger picture of the commodity space. How about heating oil which generally starts rising in the second half of the year or natural gas that looks like it wants to see 3.50 before turning around again? In my scenario we could see key reversals in many of these during August and that suggests a decline in stocks is in the works. It is just a theory of course as each market has its own rhythm. But bottoms in resources and commodities indicate interim tops in equities are also evolving.