Tax Reform and Political Decision Making
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Thanks OOTB. I am spending more and more time doing KER Politics and I always look for ways to improve it.
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May I draw people’s attention to the Balkans – considering that WW1 started there – and what is going on there today.
It is being quietly ignored by Western Media. The EU, which claims to want the Balkan states inside the EU, is just prentending that nothing is going on there.
For most of my life Albania was the poor relation of the Warsaw Pact – feudal, no industry, poor agriculture and a clan-like people who took blood feuds from one generation to another. Today the country is officially 60% muslim.
In recent months Albanian paramilitaries have moved into Kosovo to support the Albanian minority there. The Christian Kosovan Serbs being now petrified of their country becoming another Syria. Afraid of being massacred.
Today – Saturday – it has been reported that 3,000 Albanian paramilitiaries have crossed the border into Macedonian. The population of Macedonia is 25% Albanian. Earlier this week ethnic Macedonians marched on their own Parliament and took it over. They were protesting at the islamification of their country and their political leaders appeasing Albania at the detriment of their own people.
Suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, the Albanians have not only found the political will for foreign involvement but also the money for weapons.
Around the area the Serbs, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Romanians have been fortifying their borders.
Rumours persist that Turkey’s Erdogan is involved in all of this and is looking upon a new Ottoman Empire that will include Albanian, Kosovo, Macedonia and…. and Greece. Yes, it looks as if Greece has been thrown to the wolves economically by the EU Cartel and is now about to be handed over to the Turks by the EU also.
The name Soros keeps cropping up as well.
Folks, we are heading backwards towards the 19th. Century and then further still.
Merkel and her cronies seem to think that Europe has no power to protect itself. In fact, they appear to want to bend both knees to Turkey and to Islam. Frightening things are going. The fates of millions of people decided with no thought or concern as to what they want.
You get the idea that there is some complex conspiracy behind all of this. I feel that it is just the cancer of political correctness and cultural marxism – which the likes of Merkel grew up on – which hates everything Western and which wishes to submit to Islam.
The pot is on the stove. The pressure is building up.
The name Soros keeps cropping up as well.
Exactly. Whether it’s Tramp or Shillary, you can bet Sor(r)o(ws) is pulling their strings. For instance, Munchkin, Tramp’s treasury secretary, is a Sor(r)o(ws) boy from way back, not to mention a Goldman Sucks white shoe boy.
Trump has yet to nominate people for over 80% of the upper positions normally changed with the Presidency. And he wonders why the deep state is opposing some of his moves!
He was totally unprepared to win the election.
Trump has not even chosen significant advisers. It is only people not being able to guess what he might do that is keeping his administration in a partly favorable view.
God help America.
I am still of the mind that under his administration things will go well. At this point, the chickens have not come home to roost.
I would guess that at this point President Trump is not seriously listening to Mr. Soros.
fwiw some background
Russian Propaganda Exploits Ethnic Tensions To Keep Macedonia Looking Inward, Not Westward
https://codastory.com/disinformation-crisis/information-war/russian-propaganda-exploits-ethnic-tensions-to-keep-macedonia-looking-inward-not-westward
I get the feeling that political correctness and cultural marxism are part of a complex conspiracy behind all this.
Soros is probably just fronting for a larger group of interests behind him, and assuming the role of the bad guy for all of them.
It absolutely is a conspiracy – an old one at that.
Suspect that you are right GH.
You bet, Bob UK, “the pressure is building up”!
Kim Jong-un The Kid Whose Father Never Spanked – Why 2017 Is The Crisis Year For Korea
QUESTION: Kim Jong-un is clearly a mad-kid, not even a man. You have said the danger with him is he thinks he could actually win against the United States and South Korea. Now Trump want’s South Korea to pay $1 billion for a missile defense system. That does not seem to be a lot of money these days. Would it have any impact on this kid who seems to have never been spanked?
ANSWER: I agree. Kim Jong-un is just insane. He is far more dangerous than Syria or Putin. You have to understand 2017 is the start of an increased volatility with Korea – 72 years from the birth of North Korea. Kim Jong-un is very desperate to maintain control of his country for the economics internally are going against him all the way into 2020. The only way for him to maintain his rule right now is by relying on his development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. But this is the external paranoia. The danger he faces is internal.
The Fat Boy lived and was educated in Switzerland. He had many years of Western living and full access to all the media, information and benefits of the West.
He knows full well that he could never win. He has seen the West and he knows what Noth Korea is like compared to the West.
This is all about him propping up his lifestyle and his life. He wants to keep living in the incredible luxury that he inherited from his dad and grand-dad. That means the finest foods, wines and cognac flown in from all over the world. The latest gadgets and, of course, women of his choice as and when he wants them.
His top generals no doubt get similar benefits.
He just wants to keep the ball spinning for another 50 years until he snuffs it. He thinks a nuke or two will protect him.
It would have been cheaper financially, and of course in lives, to have paid both Saddam and Gadaffi off. But that would not have made vast sums for the arm dealers, the politicians who promote them and the oil barons.
Great comment, BobUK!
Bob..he knows he has a good thing going. If Armstrong’s cycles are correct, they will soon flip on him. His top generals will be toast along with him, unless the grow a pair.
The Ohio-class submarines are armed with twenty-four Trident II D5 ballistic missiles. These weapons have a range of 7,000 miles and are capable of very accurate strikes, which means they can be a first-strike weapon. These twenty-four Trident II ballistic missiles can be fired from underwater. As this missile reenters the atmosphere at speeds of up to Mach 24, it then splits into up to eight independent reentry vehicles each with a separate nuclear warhead. In other words, firing off all 24 missiles which can be launched in less than one minute, would unleash up to 192 nuclear warheads. Just one Ohio-class sub can wipe out twenty-four cities and North Korea is gone. This is a real weapon of the apocalypse.
Kim is no big deal……except to the deep state……..which wants to cash….
They do not even need to go Trident , just lace some gum with super glue and his big trap will be shut….
If you fire just one nuke at NK the fallout alone is going to kill vast numbers of innocent people in NK, SK, Japan, China and Russia – and wherever else the fallout spreads to.
Bearing in mind the trade winds then a big chunk of Western USA would lie in its path. You probably would ultimately end up killing more Americans than North Koreans.
Rather than dropping bombs it would be easier to drop food, drink, clothing, magazines, gadgets on North Korea. Give the enslaved people a glimpse of life outside of NK and let them rise up against the regime.
Ditto BobUK…….give um some gmo……….just as lethal …..Kim needs to sample it first. 🙂
Kim just wants DENNIS RODMAN, to come back and play some BBall with him, and give him a tattoo …….
Depends on what the magnitude of his control really is at this point.
He was the hereditary dictator of an hereditary dictator of a dictator created by Stalin.
What an indictment against Hereditary positioning….. you might note that, Canada.
Haha good one CFS…whenever I try to talk down Golden Boy Justin..my Canadian friends want to lynch me….Trudeau has them drinking the Marxist koolaid…at least he is not as dangerous as Kim Jong Fat Boy…at least not yet
Has he made it illegal to criticise islam yet?
Mr. Big Al Korelin,
Whether it’s Tramp or Shillary at the top of the steaming pile known as the US government, the fact remains that the US government is a government of the criminals, by the criminals and for the criminals, and is the greatest criminal enterprise the world has ever known.
So now Trumpy is saying he’s a nationalist AND a globalist…
Trump: “I’m a Nationalist and a Globalist”
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56661
A “Nationalist and still a Globalist” Eddie?
Seems like a contradiction of a couple of very basic terms!
Says it all…the truth hurts…
RE: Taxes
Trump clearly lied when he said all Americans would get a tax cut.
Many will wind up paying more. For instance Trump’s original tax plan got rid of all deductions except charity and home property taxes. In the original plan some got shifted into HIGHER brackets. For instance, the 33% tax bracket went all the way down to 112k. Now it looks like that will be 35% (vs 28% now). And there’s talk of getting rid of the tax deferral on 401ks and IRAs. If Trump gets this through it will mean massive tax increases for many hard working people.
Fortunately, Trump has proven incompetent in getting anything through the House of Criminals and the Imperial Senate even with the RepubloClowns having control of both chambers.
But there’s no reason why Trump couldn’t buy off enough Congress critters to get what he wants. That’s what every president before him has done to some extent.
There were a few people in this blog who could see through Trump from the very beginning. They can correct me if I’m wrong but I believe Matthew and Vortex had no illusions that Trump would change things for the better. They knew trump was a fraud all along.
I shamefully admit I held out hope but that hope was erased election night. When it was clear Trump would win, one of the first things he said was that the Clintons were good people. At that point I knew he wasn’t going to bring them to justice and it would be business as usual in the District of Criminals.
Drain the swamp, my ass.
Eddie, I still believe that the “chickens have not come home to roost”!
Ebo……..well the 100 days is UP……Time is UP……The Trojan Horse is in the building..
Even if Trump ever had good intentions, which is more than a little questionable, he can’t make the needed changes without strong support from a significant block of the population. No one could do it without that.
Instead, we got millions of far-left zombies attacking him on every b.s. issue the intelligence agencies and propaganda organs (mainstream media) could throw at him. Meanwhile very little noise about the legitimate concerns about Trump–his appointees, the overwhelming presence of the Goldman Sachs crowd, his inappropriate closeness to Israel, his belligerence toward Iran…Until he bombed Syria he was getting clobbered non-stop.
And frankly, there still isn’t, as far as I’ve seen, a sufficient block of people who have done their homework to understand what is going on, and make an effective counterattack.
Private control of central banking is the root problem. Control of media and education is another. Control of the political process is another. Without those, the corrupt/criminal have lost. But there is nothing they won’t do to prevent such an outcome, including trying to start WWIII. They’ve done it before…which of course leads to the question, how do we resolve this problematic situation without mass destruction?
GH……ditto……CENTRAL BANKING….the root problem , which needs to be sprayed with ROUNDUP
Drain the swamp……..problem solved.
The “Taxation Is Theft” Meme Has Officially Gone Mainstream
The month of April is a nightmare for anyone with a conscience, as we only have until “tax day” – which usually falls on April 15 – to give the taxman what he says he deserves. So if you pay taxes to Uncle Sam and you’re also aware you’re paying for mass murder in the Middle East and in U.S. streets due to the drug war, you should also feel sick to your stomach as you write that check.
To a restaurant customer, this may have served as enough incentive to remind his server that taxation is always immoral — but he didn’t stop there.
Last week, a customer at a Missouri restaurant gave the waitress a “personal gift” instead of a tip, writing the now popular line “Taxation is theft” in the tip section of the receipt.
In a second note, the fiscally conscious customer added:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-29/taxation-theft-meme-has-officially-gone-mainstream
Great idea! Thanks for the info!
Considering the expenditures in both the Middle East and, to an extent in the U.S.,you have an interesting point, Markedtofuture.
By the great Judge Napolitano…
Taxation is Theft
https://mises.org/blog/taxation-theft
This is off topic but Bill Nye, the Marxist’s moron’s guy, has hit a new low…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzidprHbNUs
Two-Thirds Of Americans Think The Democratic Party Has Lost Touch With The Nation
If you listen to mainstream media for more than 30 seconds, you would think President Trump is in a world of his own as the entire nation turns its back on him. However, that would be ‘fake’ news as WaPo reports, in fact, the Democratic Party is viewed as more out of touch than either Trump or the party’s political opponents.
Interesting comments yesterday on “Meet the Press” regarding the Democratic Party, Markedtofure considering many came from Chris Mathews.
Trump knows more science than Bill Nye.
Trump could get rid of Bammycare tomorrow if he wanted.
And look how Bammycare has been funded
Infowars.com has proved through an analysis of the Treasury Department balance sheets that the Obama administration
Government-Sponsored Entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the “Net Worth Sweep” (NWS), could be diverted to pay the ACA low-income insurance subsidies.
The record contained in the Treasury Department balance sheets shows through 2013 a direct diversion of the NWS into line items used to fund Obamacare.
After 2013, the Obama administration continued the NWS (ultimately confiscating some $260 billion from Fannie and Freddie), but the one-for-one diversion of the Fannie and Freddie funds going into line items used to fund Obamacare is less clear, suggesting Treasury grew more clever after 2013 in hiding the diversion within the Treasury general account used as a slush fund.
The House of Representatives filed a federal district court case against then Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell to stop the Obamacare from diverting federal funds to pay the ACA low-income subsidies.
Never read that in lamestream media.
Though, since the purpose of this welfare program was to enrich insurance, pharma, and hospital companies, the GOP will never repeal it, though it might chance its name
https://lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/obamacares-funding-crisis/
Ebolan, you are so one dimensional that reading your posts is futile. DT
How is pointing out that funding Obammycare by illegally confiscating the earnings from the Government-Sponsored Entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that Trump could put an end to this but won’t, one dimensional?
This just adds more instability to the giant moral hazards known as Freddie and Fannie and is just another example of how broken government is. Trump should end this immediately. He should shut down Bammycare then work to get rid of Fannie and Freddie but of course he will do none of this. But it does look like he is trying to revive the proposed Ryancare which is Bammycare 2.0. What kind of a solution is that?
great post…….on the NWS……..
Keep em coming, Ebolan 😉
All the Plenary’s Men
Published on Apr 28, 2017
“The King can do no wrong.”
—William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
—Ex-President Richard Nixon, interview with David Frost
The question at bar is why the U.S. Department of Justice has failed to prosecute any too-big-to-fail banks or—more importantly—their bankers, even for admitted crimes.
It’s a crucial question, because after eight straight years of unremitting prosecutorial failure, it looks very much as if a select group of top banks can, in fact, do no wrong. If that’s the case, then our constitutional republic isn’t merely in trouble. It’s dead.
A person or group of people who satisfy Blackstone’s criterion for ultimate sovereign power—the power to commit crimes with impunity—can’t exist in a nation where the law reigns supreme. And yet here we are a decade after the financial crisis began in earnest, and not one TBTF bank executive has gone to jail.
Legally, the TBTF banks are indistinguishable from the King, since the power to commit crimes with impunity swallows all other sovereign powers; such a power isn’t even supposed to exist in the U.S., and yet it does.
Moreover, since there can’t be two kings in a kingdom, the entire U.S. government, from the president on down, is just one of the King’s men under this formulation of power. The real job of the U.S. government, then, isn’t to represent the will of the people at all, it’s to do the King’s bidding. A nation that isn’t governed by law is governed by instead by a king—it’s one or the other—and the president’s inferiority to such an above-the-law sovereign was confirmed over 40 years ago with Nixon’s ouster. The president, unlike the King, answers to the law (despite Nixon’s opinion).
Now, you may say that while the TBTF banks might arguably have the de facto power of the King, that’s a far cry from wielding such power formally (i.e., having de jure criminal immunity).
The reply to that objection is set forth in this film, “All the Plenary’s Men,” which is a sequel to “The Veneer of Justice in a Kingdom of Crime.”
Another objection, raised by the DOJ itself, is that it HAS prosecuted TBTF bankers, citing cases like that of Raj Rajaratnam. These cases, however, in fact reveal the DOJ acting on behalf of the criminal global banking cartel.
On that score, the DOJ’s abysmal track record is by now so extensive and so thorough that it’s possible to spot legal patterns in the DOJ’s protracted miscarriage of justice, and, as you’re about to see, those patterns are very deeply disturbing indeed. What’s been going on cuts right past a garden variety constitutional crisis like Watergate straight to a crisis of sovereignty.
The backdrop for all of this is HSBC’s exoneration in December of 2012 for laundering money for drug dealers and terrorists, about which the House Financial Services Committee issued a report in July of 2016. Whether it was due to the political circus in town at the time, or to the Republican authorship of that report (albeit without dissent), it didn’t get nearly the scrutiny it deserved.
You see, prosecutors working on the HSBC case were actually going to indict the bank, but they got overruled, and HSBC and its team of criminals skated. The story of how exactly that reversal came about reveals, if not the King himself, then certainly many of the King’s top men.
Make the coffee extra strong before viewing. Lots of ground gets covered, quickly.
And don’t mothball those pitchforks and torches just yet.
David St0ckman on Syria and the deep state
Bob Moriarty on Silver Bugs, Chemical Weapons, and Precious Metals Corrections
by Ceo Technician – April 29, 2017
* CEO Technician: “Do you think Trump is posturing or do you think he’s crazy enough to actually do something?”
** Bob Moriarty: “He’s crazy enough. He’s batshit crazy.”
Trump and Truman……..might have something in common…….
EX, trump will do something, he has said repeatedly that he won’t say when but North Korea has been playing brinkmanship with the US for years, now they will find out what happens when the US plays their game. DT
Bob Moriarty isn’t the disciple he likes to think he is, Bob got sucked in by the propaganda 50 years ago and he fought in Vietnam. If he would have been as smart as he pretends to be he would have left his country and gone to Canada or become a conscientious objector and stayed out of that war. I wonder how many people he could have killed after over 800 flight missions. It’s always good to be a born again Christian but there were over 200,000 Americans that came to Canada to avoid an unjust war, Bob should have been there in the beginning not after the fact. I’m sorry I just think Americans don’t see how wrong they are, the wars have never stopped.
By the way, I like what Bob M is doing now but it is all done in hindsight and if you want real change it must be made before it becomes history.
DT, it would be nice if everyone could see through the propaganda from the outset, but that’s just not the way it is. It’s never too late to start doing some good.
Those of us who never fell for the military scam, good for us. Still, it is very valuable to have former military speaking up. They have credibility with many that those of us who sidestepped the military from the outset will never have. The goal is to end the senseless wars, not to be petty about who was more right.
Apalling Pedostagate/Pizzagate/Pedogate info but we must be away of the depravity of our ruling elite…
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1271-new-world-next-week-with-james-evan-pilato/
thanks for the update………
Operation Freedom Podcast…. Sunday, April 30, 2017
Catherine Austin Fitts ›
President of Solari, Inc. and the managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC.
Podcast – http://www.davejanda.com/guests/catherine-austin-fitts/sunday-april-30-2017
Owl….I like your new MUSIC in the intro……