9/11

Inside Job!

U.S. General: Military should round up ‘disloyal’ Americans, ‘radicals’ in internment camps

In a stunning interview, General Wesley Clark (U.S. Army, Retired) called for the revival of military internment camps in the United States as a solution for peace and security for the duration of the “War on Terror.” 

The interview took place on MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts Show.  Gen. Clark related the current conflict to World War 2, and said that the U.S. Government should work to determine which citizens might be “likely to be radicalized,” and detain them before they have the opportunity to act.  Clark’s disturbing proposal even included using unemployment and relationship break-ups as an indicator of radicalization potential.

ROBERTS: So, how do we fix self-radicalized lone wolves, domestically? 

CLARK:  Well, we’ve got to identify the people who are most likely to be radicalized. We’ve got to cut this off at the beginning.  There are always a certain number of young people who are alienated — they don’t get a job; they lost a girlfriend; their family doesn’t feel happy here — and we can watch the signs of that and there are members of the community who can reach out and bring them back in and encourage them to look at their blessings here. 

  But I do think on a national policy level, we need to look at what self-radicalization means, because we are at war with this group of terrorists.  They do have an ideology.  In World War 2, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put them in a camp.  They were prisoners of war.  

So, if these people are radicalized, and they don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine, that’s their right. 

  Its our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict. 

  And I think we’re going to have to get increasingly tough on this; not only in the United States but our allied nations like Britain and Germany and France are going to have to look at their domestic law procedures.

DYI:  General Wesley Clark U.S. Army (retired) this is Kenneth E. Royer purveyor of this blog and ex U.S. Army.  9/11 was an inside job by rogue elements of our government with many of the tasks outsourced to the Israeli Mossad.  This was for the bidding of Israel’s control of the Middle East and for the U.S. to completely dominate oil/gas, drugs (Afghanistan) and for endless revenues/profits for the military industrial complex.  In a word General the war on terror is all based upon a massive LIE!

Are you going to send me to an internment camp for the duration of this never ending war on terror?

 DYI

9/11

Inside Job!

A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story

The media has NEVER EXAMINED the evidence or explained the analysis provided by scientists, architects, engineers, pilots, and the first responders who experienced the explosions of the World Trade Center twin towers. The media has never asked for the release of the multiple videos that recorded whatever struck the Pentagon. The media has never investigated whether cell phones worked in 2001 from the altitudes at which the official story claims calls were made. 

Instead two-bit punk presstitutes, such as the BBC’s Chris Bell and the Huffington Post’s Jess Brammer and Chris York, label experts with knowledge and integrity “conspiracy theorists.” These presstitutes knowingly use a cover-up term that the CIA put into use via its media assets to discredit the expert skeptics of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy. 

The fact that the carefully presented evidence is NEVER ENGAGED EXCEPT WITH NAME-CALLING is a strong indication that the evidence is true and cannot be refuted. 

Obviously, Washington expects the Justice (sic) Department to escape from the bind into which it has been put by the Lawyer’s Committee, an escape that the presstitute media will aid and abet. Nevertheless, the escape will likely reinforce the public’s view that the government is afraid of the evidence and is no more likely to follow it than in the case of President Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy’s assassination, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and a large number of other officially covered up crimes.

 DYI

DYI:  Whether State or Federal prisons one method to maintain vigilance over the inmate population is with an intense [cameras everywhere] CCTV Network looped back to multi-screen TV’s monitored by the command and control center’s facility.  Any suspicious activity is immediately met with stop and searched for contraband such as drugs and especially anything that can be used as a weapon.  This extra step is alongside routine checkpoints within the facility that have metal detectors/scanners with systematic pat downs.  Every piece of snail mail is opened, searched and read by prison guards along with every telephone call – including conversation with a lawyer – is monitored and recorded.  When the prison routine is disturbed the warden will immediately order a lockdown.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Surveillance cameras are popping faster than mushrooms.  Stores, government buildings, street corners all alongside with police cars outfitted with license plate readers capable of reading and cataloging 1,800 plates per hour tied in with a GPS locator determining location.  Police roadblocks/checkpoints perform searches for contraband despite motorist objections is now almost routine.  The Fed’s – Border Patrol – has determined that the border extents 100 miles inland over the past 25 years permanent checkpoints.  The NSA [National Security Agency] stores, catalogues, every e-mail, phone call, cell or landline conversation in the U.S. [including many other countries.  The U.S. Post office when mail is being processed goes through an optical scanner that photographs the address that is stored in a database available to police and other government agencies.  The Fed’s – think of this as the warden – wanting to do a test run lockdown with the staged faked Boston bombing.

American Police State?

The only difference is bars on the doors and windows for the inmates after that everything else is the same.

DYI

Trends

How Medicaid Recovers the Cost of Long-Term Care From Your Estate After You Die

If Medicaid pays for nursing home care, the state can try to collect reimbursement for these costs from the person's assets after he or she dies.

The federal government has an established policy requiring that all states must try to recover the costs paid on behalf of those who received certain types of Medicaid coverage during their lifetime. All states attempt to recover long-term care costs, including home health services and hospitalizations while in long-term care, and some try to recover regular Medicaid costs as well (though they can generally only recover costs paid for those who were 55 or older or institutionalized when they received Medicaid benefits). 

While individual state laws on estate recovery vary, they all boil down to two different ways to recover costs paid: recovering from the deceased person's estate and putting liens on the person's property.

 DYI:  As we approach the 2020’s here is one of the trends that will accelerate as one under funded government program after another comes under intense scrutiny.  Bottom line taxes will go up and benefits will be decreased.  Placing liens against individuals who receive benefits is simply a different form of taxation.  Anticipate State governments through the 2020’s all the way to 2040 to aggressively collect additional taxes.  Only until the huge Boomer generation is firmly planted in their graves [This blogger is one of them (age 64)] is when the financial pressure will subside.

 DYI

Medical

Industrial Complex

Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye

Matt Stoller warned back in 2012 that insurers would increasingly induce, then force, customers to agree to surveillance. 

But a Wall Street Journal story tonight describes how insurers and medical providers, meaning your doctor’s employers, are actively cooperating, so as among other things, 

to help Big Pharma peddle more drugs to you. 

Stoller warned that over time, insurance companies would make it prohibitive and eventually impossible to refuse to agree to intensive monitoring: 

But the Wall Street Journal describes what amounts to a full bore war on individual medical privacy, including linking medical histories to credit records. And the author puts a big smiley face on this effort by depicting it as breaking down silos. “Silos” is a dog-whistle word in Corporate America. Silos are bad! Sharing is good! 

DYI:  Here we go again with big pharma in bed with insurance companies, testing laboratories, along with a litany of data collection points up to and including grocery stores all to determine a medical profile profit potential.  No doubt privacy is now a thing of the past.

DYI

Arriving

Bear Market?

Opinion: Stock-market investors, it’s time to hear the ugly truth

For years critics of U.S. central-bank policy have been dismissed as Negative Nellies, but the ugly truth is staring us in the face: 

Stock-market advances remain a game of artificial liquidity and central-bank jawboning, is not organic growth. 

And now the jig is up.

What’s the larger message here? Free-market price discovery would require a full accounting of market bubbles and the realities of structural problems, which remain unresolved. Central banks exist to prevent the consequences of excess to come to fruition and give license to politicians to avoid addressing structural problems. And by preventing these market forces from playing out at each sign of trouble, the can gets kicked further and further down the road. Each successive recovery keeps the illusion alive, but “accommodation” requires ever-lower rates before the monsters return. In the meantime, debt keeps expanding, while each recovery produces less and less organically driven growth, and ever-higher wealth inequality. This is what this system produces. 

And that’s the ugly truth. But you won’t hear it from the Fed.

DYI:  If this is the beginning of the long awaited bear market a drop of 60% to 75% is in the making.  How long this will take is anyone’s guess; 3 to 8 years if history is any sort of guide.  Stocks based on dividend yield are trading at 109% above their average or mean yield of 4.34% [23 times dividends] a compounding drought for the long term investor.  Anything above 100% DYI’s averaging formula kicks us out of the market – and rightfully so – for at that point the market as a whole is devoid of value hence minuscule returns or outright losses averaged over a 10 year holding period.

The Great Wait may soon be replaced with the Great Bear!     

DYI

American

Propaganda

Sandy Hook Hoax

Revisited

Photo Shopped

 Demonic

Make Believe Killer

1.)  We are to believe that an emaciated, totally underweight 6'2 112lb adult was able to even walk not to mention drive!? You know that if that was real, he would be very ill and hospitalized with a feeding tube inserted into him.

His so called psychiatrist Dr. Fox who only saw him 2x alongside an assigned psychologist who saw him all of 4x diagnosed him with Asperger's and PDD. Asperger's being a very high functioning, articulate, intelligent person on the Autism Spectrum who will likely suffer from being clumsy (many tend to walk with the step taken from the ball of their foot as if to have a hop like appearance to their walk) making them trip easier than a typical person would but nonetheless are for the most part very successful in life due to their high intelligence.

Take into consideration that it is stated that Adam was 6'2" 112lbs and wore a size 8 shoe! This disproportionate body would surely make him even more uncoordinated. Asperger's has also be labeled "social awkwardness" for decades because of they tend to be more shy, timid, and obviously not great at speaking or feeling comfortable in social settings yet PDD which is Pervasive Developmental Disorder being on the opposite end of the Autism spectrum causes one to have sever anxiety, fear of being out in public (angora phobia) severe reactions to BRIGHT LIGHTS and LOUD NOISES, reclusive and not very verbal or intelligent. I like the shills to explain intelligently how it was possible for Adam to drive to the school, pack 50 lbs. of gear and shoot all those 26 bodies Rambo style in 10 minutes.

2.)  We are to believe that an active elementary school has no LEGAL ADA compliant handicap markings? Can't be a real school in operation, if so, unless it's merely a spook agency prop (considering what went on at the nearby Lima school...).

3.)  We are to believe that ALL the parents of kindergarteners were in their 40's, with the exception of one family. That is statistically impossible for 19 out of 20 parents of kindergarteners to be THAT OLD...

4.)  We are to believe Gene Rosen's bullshit story of an imaginary bus driver dropping 6 kids off to a complete strangers home after a school massacre to take care of them with stuffed animals he had laying around!??

5.)  We are to believe that 'glamour girl', Kaitlyn-Roig DeBullshit fits herself, and 15 first graders into a 3' x 4' x 6' toilet, which even she admitted was so small, that she felt uncomfortable using it as it was too small for her alone?? At least now she is admitting that the door opened inward. So now she has to say that she couldn't close the door without "rearranging" the children. Were they lying on floor stacked like a wood pile? All standing up? Even giving her the leeway of three on top of the tank (oh, and one on the TP dispenser so she had to hold that one on), It is impossible to fit that many people in that space.

BTW, first graders are bigger than you think, especially since so many now are overweight. How did they last 45 minutes? Pretty tough to get enough oxygen when hyperventilating in a small sardine can. Common sense would tell you they would have been crying (all too varying extents), trying to breathe and not suffocate, rolling over up down however she says she placed them to stretch out. You've heard of stampedes? People don't all die from trauma but because they were pushed down so hard they’re smothered. Oh!! Don't forget having to open the door (squash everyone behind it?) and grab that ineffective book case to barricade a door that opens inward. And she sure did this in record time. 

6.)  We are to believe that a trained FBI sniper, who bares very strong resemblance to David Wheeler, carries and assault rifle by the magazine pointing backwards!?

This event was so absurd and unreal that I tend to believe the CIA staged it sloppy on purpose to evaluate who believes the official narrative and who doesn't.

7.)  We are asked to believe that Shannon Hicks and John Voket could not produce more images of 450 kids and 70 adult staffers fleeing in masse? Only two conga lines of 15 kids?  (Oh that's right, Hick's did a video slide show of the event bearing metadata info of 12/13/12 and she was caught uploading it on the eve. BUSTED!  Of course, the Newtown Bee deleted then re-uploaded Hicks' masterwork since the revelation to cover their asses.)

8.)  We are asked to believe that ALL the parents give smiling, giggling interviews after their child was gunned down in a school massacre, exhibiting absolutely no grief and sorrow!??

The Alleged Sandy Hook Tragedy

Sandy Hook and the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948: Legalization of Propaganda

DYI

A Texas school employee has sued her school district because it fired her after she refused to sign a loyalty oath to Israel, as Marjorie Cohn reports.

Fired School Employee Sues Over Israel Loyalty Oath

In a return to the bad old days of McCarthyism, Bahia Amawi, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent, lost her Texas elementary school job after refusing to pledge in writing that she would not participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Earlier this month, Amawi sued the school district that fired her. 

Twenty-six U.S. states have anti-BDS laws and 13 others are pending. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which would have to be reintroduced when the new Congress convenes in January, was supported by Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed the bill.

Demonstrating the incongruity of allowing Amawi to boycott any entity but Israel, Greenwald noted, “In order to continue to work, Amawi would be perfectly free to engage in any political activism against her own country, participate in an economic boycott of any state or city within the US, or work against the policies of any other government in the world — except Israel.”

DYI:  A loyalty oath??  A loyalty oath of any kind is an injury to the sensibilities of Americans.  A loyalty oath to a foreign government is not just an insult but outrageous.  This nonsense legislation has been passed in 26 States and pending in many others.  Most folks don’t think about Israel one way or the other but when they are hit with this insanity that lack of an opinion will soon developed and highly likely in a negative light!  Hopefully this will soon be struck down in one court after another as clearly unconstitutional but in the meantime Israel is going to suffer much bad press.

 DYI

2019

Recession?

Gary Shilling's talks about the slowdown in commodities on Bloomberg

Any way you measure it, the market for commodities is suffering. The Bloomberg Commodity Index of 22 key raw materials ranging from oil to copper to soybeans has dropped about 10 per cent since reaching an almost three-year high in May. I've identified 10 forces that explain the weakness and why it will persist.

1. Slowing economic growth globally and a possible recession in the next year. 

Commodity producers seldom moderate supply to match weakness in demand, and commodity prices drop in recessionary climates.

Harbingers of a recession: 

Universally falling stocks, tighter Federal Reserve monetary policy, the soon-to-invert yield curve, weakening housing activity as mortgage rates rise, unsustainable corporate profit growth and soaring consumer confidence combined with lower savings rates. 

Globally, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's index of leading indicators is falling. 

Copper is an excellent gauge of worldwide economic activity since it's used in almost all manufactured goods and has no price-constraining cartel on the supply side or legal restrictions on demand. Copper prices are down about 16 per cent since June.

2. The strengthening [US] dollar is increasing the local currency cost of commodity imports in developing as well as advanced economies, and I forecast the greenback, the world's primary reserve currency, will continue to appreciate. Of my broad list of 45 commodities, 42 trade in US dollars. High costs cut commodity demand and prices.

3. Chronic excess capacity exists among commodity producers. Fixed costs are high but variable costs low. A major new copper mine costs $US5 billion to $US10 billion to develop, but the variable costs of mining another ton of copper are small. So profits leap after demand and prices are high enough to cover fixed costs. This spurs investment and expansion since miners seem oblivious to the resulting excess capacity and falling prices it spawns.

4. Slowing growth in China is curbing commodity usage as GDP advances drop from double digits before 2007 to 5.8 per cent in the third quarter. China's planned shift from goods exports and infrastructure spending to domestic consumer spending is disruptive. Furthermore, 53 per cent of GDP last year came from low commodity-intensive services, up from 34 per cent in 1995.

China's growth will slow further since its unemployed labour force is nearing exhaustion and because its emulation of Western technology, enhanced by stealing American technology or requiring tech transfers as the price of doing business in China, is over. China, like South Korea before it, is entering the "middle income trap". Furthermore, China's labour pool will shrink in future years as a result of her earlier one child-per-couple policy. The 15-to-64 year-old age group is set to fall from 1 billion in 2015 to 717 million in 2060.

5. As economies grow, proportionally less is spent on commodity-intensive goods and more on services. You can drive only car one at a time, but spend almost unlimited funds on travel, recreation, education and other services. This is true for developed counties like the US where outlays on services climbed from 39 per cent in 1947 to 69 per cent in 2017. It's also true for emerging markets like China, where the services component of GDP rose from 34 per cent in 1995 to 52 per cent in 2017.

6. Globalisation disrupts economic growth in the West to the detriment of commodities. In the last three decades, US manufacturing employment plunged from 17 per cent of total payrolls to 8.5 per cent. Many of those displaced are flipping hamburgers, driving for Uber and employed in other low-paid jobs. The resulting stagnation of real wages has spawned disruptive populism as voters throw out centrist politicians in favour of the far right and extreme left. Furthermore, the deflationary climate sired by globalisation has trained consumers to resist price increases, forcing many sellers to eat rising labour costs and pressure commodity producers.

7. The escalating trade wars disrupt economic growth and commodity demand as uncertain business people postpone capital outlays. Supply chains are also disrupted. Many American companies don't export to China but depend on intermediate goods from that country. In President Donald Trump's initial $US50 billion round of tariffs, 53 per cent were on intermediate imports from China and 50 per cent of the impending $US200 billion second round.

8. Mounting inventories depress commodity prices. Producers can't be sure initially whether weakening demand is momentary or serious and don't want to disrupt production. So inventories climb. After Trump's tariffs curtailed exports of soybeans, stockpiles soared. Lack of pipelines to move oil has created a $US6.75 per barrel discount for oil in Texas' Permian Basin compared to West Texas Intermediate crude at $US52 per barrel and excess inventories. Similarly, Western Canada Select oil from oil sands in Alberta is discounted $US34 to WTI.

9. The realisation that a peak in oil demand, not supply, is in the cards as rising supplies of natural gas and LNG as well as renewables replace oil. Renewables such as hydro, wind and solar accounted for only 12.1 per cent of electricity generation last year, but the IEA forecasts them to account for 56 per cent of new generating capacity through 2025.

Due to conservation including more efficient vehicles, energy conservation per dollar of economic activity since 2017 declined by 43 per cent in Canada, 61 per cent in the US, 48 per cent in Japan and 70 per cent in the UK. Mushrooming electric vehicle sales will slash crude demand since transportation accounts for about half of oil use and autos are around half of that, or 25 per cent of the total.

10. Real commodity prices, or those after taking inflation into account, fall steadily in the long run as efficiency, substitute and human ingenuity consistently beat temporary shortages. Major wars cause only temporary spikes.

DYI:  The possibility of recession as this year unfolds is growing by the day.  So far only credit spreads between high quality corporate bonds and high yielding bonds of the same maturity have widened signaling a slowdown in the economy.  However yield inversion between the 2 year T-note and the 10 year bond grows closer adding fuel to the possible 2019 recession.

So hold onto your hats and cash better values lie ahead!

DYI

More

Bubble

Trouble!

"I See No Way Out": 

Countless Americans Still Living Paycheck To Paycheck

A recent Philly.com article noted that, despite the supposed economic "boom", professionals like real estate agents, farmers, business executives and even computer programmers are all still living paycheck to paycheck. Responding to a Washington Post inquiry on Twitter, millennials, Generation Xers and baby boomers that work in a range of geographic areas claim that they have simply been unable to save as rent, childcare and student loans have all gotten in the way. 

Americans living paycheck to paycheck were highlighted in a recent report from the Federal Reserve that showed: 

 Four in ten adults say they couldn’t produce $400 in an emergency without going into debt or selling something.

The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis

Those of us who closely follow the credit cycle should not be surprised by the current slide in equity markets. It was going to happen anyway. The timing had recently become apparent as well, and in early August I was able to write the following: 

“The timing for the onset of the credit crisis looks like being any time from during the last quarter of 2018, only a few months away, to no later than mid-2019.” ^[i]

 DYI