About The Economy

This note deals with the real status of our nation's economy.  It is in stark contrast to what Obama and his fawning media tell us.  The first 10 items will give you a feel for things.  The reality is, though, they only touch on the many issues we face.  The balance add to the first 10 items so pick and choose those that strike your interests. 

1)  The government is lying to us about the economy.  But then you already knew that...but check this out anyway.  Quote: "This week we are told by the government that monthly retail sales were up 1.3% in April overall and .6% excluding autos, gas, and food. I have trouble making sense of this number considering that stores of all economic levels have reported decreasing sales for February through April. This includes Kohls, Macy’s, the Gap, Nordstroms, and Penneys. Sports Authority and American Apparel sales were so weak they are liquidating. Sears and K Mart are excep[tionally weak and Walmart is flat at best. We have to remember that although Amazon’s sales and total online sales are going up they are still a very small percentage of the overall economy.  The government said that part of the reason first quarter growth was so slow -- ½% -- was because the American people were saving more. Yet we are told in other reports that 63% of people live paycheck to paycheck and don’t even have $1,000 saved. Where are all these savings going? With  the savings rate so high and economic growth so slow you would think that people would be paying down debt or not borrowing much, yet consumer credit is rising rapidly."       http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/do_government_economic_numbers_make_sense.html

2)  Things are not well in either our economy or the global economy.   Failed Keynesian economic policies and the rise of socialistic control of nation states is a good bet to be the culprit. Quote: "Anyone that believes that things are “just fine” is in a massive state of denial.  Consuming far more wealth than we produce is not a formula for a sustainable economy, and it is just a matter of time before we find this out the hard way."  Our once vaunted economy has long been in decline due to the above cited reasons and now (communist) China is following suit.  http://patriotpowerednews.com/plunging-manufacturing-numbers-mean-that-it-is-time-to-hit-the-panic-button-for-the-global-economy/

3)  Obama claims his proudest achievement as president is, " "I'm proud of saving the American economy."  When one examines the facts there is no doubt that his economic policies have been a total failure.  Quote:"Just days ago, in Argentina, Obama explained that the debate between communism and capitalism was merely an "interesting intellectual argument." He suggested that each state simply "choose from what works."  By that standard, Obamanomics -- compared to the Reagan-style policy of reducing taxes, slowing down government spending, and decreasing regulation -- simply ... hasn't ... worked."      http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2016/03/31/why-the-anger-obamanomics-has-failed-n2141324/page/full   Read this and ask yourself what Obama is talking about.  Saved the economy????  Obama is incapable of telling the truth.  Quote: "The U.S. economy added the fewest number of jobs in seven months in April and Americans dropped out of the labor force in droves, signs of weakness that cast doubts on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates before the end of the year.  Nonfarm payrolls increased by 160,000 jobs last month as construction employment barely rose and the retail sector shed jobs, the Labor Department said on Friday. That was the smallest gain since September and below the first-quarter average job growth of 200,000.  Employers added 19,000 fewer jobs in February and March than previously reported. While the unemployment rate held at 5.0 percent that was because people dropped out of the labor force."  https://ca.news.yahoo.com/good-u-payrolls-gains-seen-swelling-labor-force-051124975--business.html  

4)  He is either ignorant, misinformed or outright lying when Obama says our economy is improving as are the jobs numbers.  Wrong... Quote: "To listen to President Barack Obama, Americans live in a liberal paradise: a robust economy, 75 consecutive months of jobs growth and a government aggressively promoting social justice..Sadly, it’s not so. Family incomes are down about $1,600 on Obama’s watch, whereas they rose by $4,800 during the Reagan years. For African-American families, income losses are greater, their children trail further in school achievement, poverty is tougher to escape, and the wealth gap with whites has widened.  The recent Labor Department jobs report tells the sad story why.  The economy added a paltry 38,000 new positions in May. The liberal media will apologize that the Verizon strike cut about 35,000 but monthly job gains have been trending down since 2014 and 2015. That’s frustrating a stronger recovery in wages, especially for minorities."        http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/PeterMorici/obama-jobs-liberal-failures/2016/06/03/id/732113/?   Piling on... Quote: "May jobs report worst in 5 years: Only 38,000 jobs added, labor force declines 458K."   http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/03/may-jobs-report-worst-in-5-years-only-38000-jobs-added-labor-force-declines-458k/?

   Quote: "I have been discussing downward revisions for some time. If they come, revisions are likely to show the US is in recession already.  More and more things simply do not add up.  I have a report tomorrow listing 10 reasons the May jobs report was not an outlier. If you prefer to believe cheerleaders, I have another answer."     http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2016/06/10/bls-says-jobs-openings-up-actually-openings-falling-fast-n2176180/page/full    

5) Does this sound good to you?  Quote: "The Markit U.S. Services PMI™ final data shows a weaker rise in service sector business activity in May.The Composite PMI (manufacturing plus services) flirts with contraction.  Key Points

• Service providers indicated slower activity and new business growth
• Weakest rise in payroll numbers since January 2015
• Business optimism eases to a post-crisis low in May"    http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2016/06/06/composite-pmi-flirts-with-contraction-markit-chief-economist-estimates-gdp-0708-n2173344? 

6) This is the Obama and progressive left's economy.  Quote: "It is hard to live the American Dream when the deck is stacked against you.  Our politicians stood idly by as millions of good paying jobs were shipped overseas, our economic infrastructure was absolutely gutted and multitudes of small businesses were choked to death by miles of red tape.  Now, we are reaping the consequences.  In America today, nobody has a job in one out of every five families, and there are more than 100 million working age Americans that are currency not working.  And thanks to our transition to a “service economy," many of those that are actually working are deeply struggling too.  According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.  And the Federal Reserve says that 47 percent of all Americans could not pay an unexpected $400 emergency room bill without borrowing the money from somewhere or selling something.  That means that about half the country is flat broke, and things get even more precarious for working families with each passing day."   http://freedomoutpost.com/the-startling-truth-about-how-working-families-are-truly-faring-in-this-economy/   I repeat. This is the Obama and the progressive left's economy.

7) This is for those that think socialism is a good thing.  Thomas Sowell lays out the facts.   http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the-uninformed-n2171042?

8)  Past items discussing the Federal Reserve System have made the points in this link.  This discussion, however, provides additional support.  Quote: "I don’t agree with Paul Krugman on many things, but he’s right when he says that the Fed is culpable for causing the ups and downs of the business cycle in the United States. Milton Friedman argued the same thing. In this sense, both Krugman and Friedman — political opposites — are monetarists."  And, "What is the Fed up to now? Based on the chart, the Fed still has adopted an easy-money policy. Not only are interest rates low, but the Fed seems to have backed up raising rates. Moreover, the supply of money is gushing, with M2 growing at a 9% clip. The Fed is still fighting a slowing economy (largely caused by the Obama administration’s anti-business attitude, higher taxes and more regulations)."   While the discussion closes detailing an upcoming conference which will cover the issue in more detail, it would certainly be interesting but I will, of course, not be attending. http://humanevents.com/2016/05/26/does-the-federal-reserve-create-recessions/?   This is a solid indicator that the economy is not in good shape.   Quote: "Volatility in financial markets has left an air of uncertainty across the globe. So much so, says Civelli, that many of the investors he talks to on a regular basis are just as concerned about the unknown as the Fed, with many either sitting in large cash positions, making risky stock market bets in an effort to generate some yield on their investments, or willing to pay governments to keep their money “safe.”    http://patriotpowerednews.com/venture-capitalist-says-investors-are-terrified-of-market-volatility-and-weak-economy-they-are-scared-and-dont-know-what-to-do/

    The mess at the Federal Reserve.   http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/charlespayne/2016/03/25/revolt-at-the-fed-n2138518/page/full   I completely agree with the author's last sentence.  Quote: " I would like the Fed to go away; until that happens, stop blowing it!  Both our government and the Fed lie to us regarding the true state of our economy.  Read this to see what I mean.  Quote: "Peter Schiff was on Tuesday’s edition of PreMarket Prep, where he reiterated his bearish thesis for the market in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision not to raise interest rates last week.  Schiff wasn’t convinced by the positive market talk coming out of the Fed.  “I knew that it was all talk, and when Janet Yellen actually spoke she validated what I said,” Schiff said. “She basically came out and said ‘We’re not raising rates and it’s not because we think the economy is weak, it’s because we decided that lower interest rates are appropriate.’ Which is all B.S, because it’s all about the economy. The economy is a disaster. I think Yellen probably realizes we’re in a recession.”     https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/no_author/fed-talk-pure-baloney/

     And get this!  In partnership with the Federal Reserve the federal government (Congress and Administration) are screwing our kids, grand kids, great grand kids and beyond.  The headline for this link says it all. "Auditor: Government Will Owe More Money Than Entire Economy Produces".    http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-owe-money-entire-economy/ 
    
     Quote: "It’s obvious China is hiding behind a basket of lies. China can weight its alleged currency basket however it wants.  However, don’t point a finger just at China. All the central banks are liars."    http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2016/03/01/g20-lies-and-admissions-n2126587/page/full

     Far too many Americans do not know or understand how the Federal Reserve came to be.  This item provides insight.   http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/federal-reserve-private/

9)  About that minimum wage rage.   Add to the kind of leadership cited in the  previous items along with the leadership cited in this link we need no enemies. We will, as Lenin said, destroy ourselves or at least these elitists at the top will.  These two socialist governors admit that the $15.00 minimum wage may not be the best thing for the economy but both signed it into law in their respective states.   Quote: "California Gov. Jerry Brown and other advocates of hiking the minimum wage to $15 per hour have conceded that the pay increase might not be the best way to help workers, causing questions about the sincerity of the “Fight for 15” movement.  “Economically, minimum wages may not make sense,” Brown told the Sacramento Bee before signing the wage increase for his state. The governor followed suit with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who did the same last week."  And, "However, even progressive voices are warning that such a steep increase would have economic consequences. The Washington Post editorialized on Tuesday:  Moderate minimum wage increases in the past have not produced disastrous short-term employment consequences, at least not sharp enough to outweigh the perceived benefits of protecting workers from a race to the bottom of the labor market. Yet $15 per hour would represent a quantum leap in the U.S. minimum wage, from its present level of about 35 percent of the median full-time hourly wage to nearly 75 percent of it, based on our reading of figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. No other industrialized country’s statutory minimum wage even comes close." http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/07/advocates-admit-15-minimum-wage-may-not-make-sense-but-offer-a-glimpse-of-motivation-for-hike/   Government officials obviously have no idea how the economy works.  They think by their magic tricks good things will happen.

     Continuing the theme from the previous item the liberals can say what they want but this is what is really going on.  Quote: "Chris Rossini brilliantly explains what so many liberals seem to have such a hard time understanding. Namely, that government is forcing employers to automate their businesses instead of hiring low-skilled workers.  What’s that, you say? ‘But I thought government was trying to help poor people by raising the minimum wage?’ This is precisely the problem. When liberals use the government to step in and force employers to raise the minimum wage, the costs of doing business rise prohibitively for employers, forcing them to think outside the box for solutions to staying in business. If minimum wage goes up, perhaps the business will be forced to fire employees in order to pay the bills. The problem is that this solution means that service will suffer. If the business decides to keep everyone on the payroll, then the likely solution is that prices will necessarily rise, meaning that the business may lose customers who can no longer afford the prices. In either scenario, the business suffers, the employees suffer, and the customers suffer. Raising the minimum wage is a lose-lose-lose proposition… unless the employer can ‘think outside the box." http://eaglerising.com/32156/liberals-are-using-the-minimum-wage-to-make-the-poor-poorer/

     In follow-up to the previous item here is a discussion that tries to make sense of the ongoing nonsense minimum wage rage.   https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/andrew-p-napolitano/damaging-minimum-wage/   Here's more evidence of the consequences of incoherent government mandated minimum wage laws.  http://patriotupdate.com/liberal-minimum-wage-argument-destroyed-guess-working-mcdonalds-now/?  Want more?   http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-garment-manufacturing-la-20160416-story.html      Here is how Wendy's is handling the problem.  It spells even worse unemployment figures.  http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/05/13/wendys-to-replace-workers-with-selfserve-kiosks-due-to-minimum-wage-increases-n2162487?   Thanks progressive leftists/Democrats.  Your solutions to problems "always" eventually hurt the very people you claim to help.

     This progressive/liberal government sound good but irresponsible mandate is a bad economic decision.  History tells us that over and over again.  As usual feel good trumps do good.  Quote: "There is a single thought that unites the political parties of the left all over the world (from welfare state liberals to socialists and communists) and it is this: incentives don’t matter. And since prices are the mechanism that coordinates incentives and clears markets, it follows that prices don’t matter either." And, "Given these developments, what could be more irrational or less humane than imposing a $15 minimum wage, effectively making low-skilled workers increasingly unattractive vis-a-vis their robot competitors?" And, "The “gig economy” is only a small part of a much larger development: alterative work arrangements, including independent contractors, on-call workers, temp workers and workers employed by contract firms. By one estimate, these workers are now 11 percent of the workforce in manufacturing and 16 percent in health care and education.  Amazingly, virtually all the job growth in the past 10 years is due to the growth of alternative labor!  So why is the loony left willing to leave all these people alone? In the world of “barnyard Marxism,” the economy consists of the oppressors (employers) and the oppressed (employees). If there are no oppressors, there is no oppression. If there is no oppression, there is nothing for government to do."    http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2016/04/02/15-an-hour-why-not-30-why-not-100-n2142044/page/full

     More regarding the disaster of government imposed minimum wage mandates.  Quote: "The saddest aspect of the minimum wage story is the damage it does to human beings. The current hourly wage for a fast-food restaurant cashier is $7.25 to $9 per hour. That produces a yearly salary of $15,000 to $20,000, plus fringes. That’s no great shakes, but it is honest work and a start in life. It might be the very best some people could do. Enter the arrogance and callousness of the elite. Their vision of what a person should earn, expressed by higher minimum wages, destroys people’s best alternative without offering a superior one in its place. Maybe the elite believe that welfare, unemployment compensation and possibly engaging in illegal activities are a superior alternative to earning an honest and respectable living on a cashier’s salary. That is a despicable vision."    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/06/walter-e-williams/arrogant-elite/

10)   Readers will recall that Glass-Steagall was passed by Congress in the wake of the collapse that led to the Great Depression.  However during President Clinton's tenure he along with our esteemed Congress felt that that was old fashioned and needed to be repealed.  So they did repeal it... The rest of the story is the history of financial disaster that soon followed.  Quote: "During the 1990’s the conventional economic wisdom supported the repeal of Glass-Steagall. However, “10 years later, the end of Glass-Steagall has been blamed by some for many of the problems that led to last fall’s (2008) financial crisis. While the majority of problems that occurred centered mostly on the pure-play investment banks like Lehman Brothers, the huge banks born out of the revocation of Glass-Steagall, especially Citigroup, and the insurance companies that were allowed to deal in securities, like the American International Group, would not have run into trouble had the law still been in place.”    http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/repeal-glass-steagall-big-fail-culture/   Bear in mind that Hillary has declared that she will have Bill tackle economic solutions during her administration.  That would be a disaster - the good economic times he enjoyed were not of his making.  History tell us that they were the concentrated results of the previous administration and the happy happenstance of the .dot com" explosion, among a few other actions forced on him by the Republican's Contract with America.  Lately, we have seen leftist Democrat governance lead the way for Puerto Rico's default of "$370 million worth of bonds."   Do we want a continuation of flawed economic policies of the current president and a return to bad decisions made during Bill's term in office? 

The Rest Of The Story

This item is most interesting but enormously disingenuous.  Quote: "Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal, took to CNN television to send a clear message about Donald Trump that included this subtle warning: He must be stopped at all costs and his supporters must be schooled in what’s good for the party.  His words, as captured by Breitbart: “I most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump. I will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald Trump and I want to make a vote to make sure that he has – that he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don’t know, Alf Landon or going back further.”  The last time I checked the Democrats are running two complete losers against Trump.  One is a compulsive liar, cheater, money hungry monger, unethical, callous, insufferable blow-hard and potential felon running for president.  Not to be outdone she is being chased by a decrepit committed socialist.  But according to this WSJ nut we got to really make sure that Trump does not get elected. He is dangerous. That may be but I submit no more so, and probably less so, than the two abysmal Democrat candidates.  Stephens has a huge amount of hutzpah to launch this attack against Trump.  Who does he think the "least left wing candidate" with any credibility is?  Going after Trump reflects his obvious preference being progressive, ultra liberal, Democrats that have nearly destroyed the country giving us the unquestionably worst president in history in Barrack Obama.  Their record of indecency, lawlessness, lack of ethics,  dishonesty, immorality, uncivility and really bad governance has been without question an unqualified failure. And the claim that Trump is an embarrassment?  What?  Does that mean the two Democrats are not? I am ashamed that either could be the Democrat nominee.  Winning the presidency?  Now that would be a real embarrassment.    http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/wall-street-journal-editor-says-gop-voters-need-lesson/    You may disagree with my assessment and that is certainly your right.  But I am convinced that either of the two Democrat candidates would be unmitigated disasters.  The fact is that Trump might be, too.  But, my guess is that risk is less with Trump than the alternatives. 

I concur completely with Dr. Dobson's discussion of the faux fad imposed on the country by amoral progressives/leftists with President Obama at the head of the class.  Read this sensible discussion and tell me it does not make 100% more sense than Obama's foolish dictatorial decree.  Quote: "We must fight to protect our homes and families from politically correct politicians who would create new entitlements that take away our liberties. There is no time to lose. Our children hang in the balance."
http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/protect-your-kids-from-tyrant-obama/ 

 

The man and his administration are increasing their dictatorial demands/oppressive actions.  Now they are telling colleges and universities they cannot discriminate against students with criminal records.  Quote: "The Obama administration has ordered the nation’s colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. Institutions are also being asked to offer those with criminal records special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid once enrolled. The government’s official term for these perspective students is “justice-involved individuals” and the new directive aims to remove barriers to higher education for the overwhelmingly minority population that’s had encounters with the law or disciplinary issues through high school."   The tyranny is growing uncontrollably.  Schools are being told to toss their entry standards to protect potentially bad guys and accept the potential harm to the good guys in order to conform to the government's self anointed  moral authority in all things and their determination of what true justice really is.  Independent entities can no longer do anything unless the government in all its self appointed glory and all knowing righteousness and wisdom permits them to do so. http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/05/feds-order-colleges-stop-checking-criminalschool-discipline-history-discriminates-minorities/? 

 

There is considerable evidence of extensive corruption in the legal system in the Department of Justice, prosecutors and court system.  The apparent intent is to impose progressive rules, be what they may, by moral relativists a largely unsuspecting public.  This is a clear example of collusion between law enforcement/prosecutors supporting leftist enterprise, planned parenthood, against the people that exposed their illegal activities. This is a case of gross government corruption that has extended over a good period of time.  It is pure illegality on the part of those who are suppose to enforce the law. Quote: "Explosive new evidence has surfed today showing the Houston district attorney behind the bogus charges against pro-life advocate David Daleiden colluded with attorneys for Planned Parenthood."  Note that the planned parenthood attorneys are a part of the corrupt system.   http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/24/explosive-new-evidence-da-that-indicted-david-daleiden-colluded-with-planned-parenthood/ 

Quote: "The most fiscally sound states are heavily Republican, says a new study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. While Kentucky didn’t fare so well in their analysis, the reports focused on a state’s ability to pay it bills, manage long-term budget commitments, and whether they can adapt to sudden increase of spending in instances of emergency. Republicans dominate most of the states that ranked the best (via Investors Business Daily).   http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/06/02/friendly-reminder-republican-states-are-the-best-run-n2172090?

The Justice Department is more unjust every day.  Obama, as president, and Holder and now Lynch of the Justice department are as unlawful as any group of lawyers can be.   http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hillary-Clinton-email-testify/2016/05/29/id/731312/?  

To confirm the above item read this item.  It is a federal court's judge's crack down on Obama's Justice Department deceptivel/unethical/inappropriate behavior.   http://aclj.org/executive-power/federal-court-throws-rulebook-at-obamas-intentionally-deceptive-doj-in-scorching-smackdown   It gets worse.  The DOJ is apparently defying the court order.  Here is evidence that at least some within the DOJ are unethical.  Quote: Regarding DOJ abiding ethical standards required of lawyers, "We have set actions that are expected and actions that are forbidden. Recently the Department of Justice (DOJ) was caught violating these rules by a judge in Texas."  The DOJ appears to be rejecting the court order.  Despite their claim that the costs to comply is excessive, the more likely reason is that DOJ apparently believes the judges order is an affront to them because they are the law.  So, they must feel they are above the law. Normal people could not make such a claim no matter the cost.   http://constitution.com/justice-department-refuses-judges-order-mandatory-ethics-training/  and  http://eaglerising.com/33887/lawless-doj-defies-federal-court-order-in-effort-to-protect-obamas-amnesty/   

Staying on the DOJ theme. Quote: "This is the story of a whistleblower, imprisoned by one federal agency, but rewarded by another beyond his wildest dreams. Brad Birkenfeld's incredible tale begins in 2007 when he turned evidence against one of the biggest and most secretive banks in the world. Still, he insists the real scandal isn't what happened to him. It's what happened to U.S. taxpayers.  Birkenfeld: My government, the Department of Justice, put me in jail, and my government, the Internal Revenue Service, paid me the largest reward in U.S. history."     http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/the-whistleblower-05-23-2016

If this was not so pathetic it would be laughable.  This black Louisiana state representative claims the Declaration of Independence is a racist document.  Some people have absolutely no sense of reality or understanding of history.  I would like to ask her about the blacks in Africa who even today hold other blacks as slaves.  It is troubling how our public school system turns out people so uneducated but well versed in maligning our nation's founders who laid the foundation for eliminating the dastardly practice which ultimately happened.  I call that educating the nation's whites to believe we are racist while giving blacks cover to conduct their own form of racism.    http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/louisiana-lawmaker-declaration-of-independence-is-racist/

By now everyone has heard of the story where a 3-year old boy fell into a gorilla display at the Cincinnati Zoo.  What some may be surprised to learn that the political left has taken offense at the decision to kill the gorilla in order to save the life of the kid.  Then again this comports with the left's total embrace of abortion.  To them what difference does it make if a gorilla kills the kid on purpose or by accident? - their cry is why did they have to kill the gorilla?  My question to them is why do they have to kill babies?  http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/31/while-people-complain-about-harambe-the-gorillas-death-thousands-of-babies-are-aborted/ 

 

Being nice to Obama's illegal immigrants is an expensive venture for American taxpayers.  But then he cares more about the illegals than the citizens who foot the bill for his illegal pontifications/illegal actions. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/healthcare_for_illegals_185_billion_per_year.html

If you think Islam is a safe haven for women, read this.  Quote: "A group of Muslim leaders who wield the power of law in Pakistan have just proposed a new piece of legislation that would give husbands the right to “lightly beat” their wives, if the wife declines their sexual advances or refuses to wear the clothing that their husbands prefer. The legislation is 160 pages long and also provides the freedom for husbands to use “limited violence” when their wives choose not to bathe after sex or while they are menstruating."    http://eaglerising.com/33813/powerful-muslim-legal-body-says-husbands-can-lightly-beat-their-wives-for-refusing-sex/

Facebook has sunk to a new low.  This is totally unacceptable.   Quote: "Female genital mutilation (FGM) or clitoridectomy is an Islamic tradition, rampant in the Muslim world.  Dissemblers and deceivers claim that FGM is cultural phenomenon, not religious. FGM is an Islamic cultural phenomenon. FGM is found only within and adjacent to Muslim communities (source: Gerry Mackie, “Ending Footbinding and Infibulation: A Convention Account”, American Sociological Review, 61(6), December 1996, pp. 1004–1005). This Facebook page by Muslimas proudly supports it."   http://freedomoutpost.com/facebook-page-promotes-sexual-benefits-of-islamic-female-genital-mutilation/

Quote: "Since 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has united the Left against the Koch boogeymen and other conservative political money. But as the evidence shows, the Kochs and their work for economic liberty, criminal justice reform, and other freedom-minded policies can’t hold a candle to the foundation funding machine on the Left, which largely operates outside of political disclosure rules and without much media scrutiny.  The latter disparity — the lack of media scrutiny — is the most troubling. Given how much time and energy Politico, the Washington Post, NPR, and much of the mainstream media spend on “Koch funding,” you would think the Koch brothers were uniquely large political players. In reality, on a 2013 list of the top 100 U.S. foundations (by asset size), the Ford Foundation was #2, with 38 times more assets than the combined Koch groups. In fact, none of the Koch groups was even in the top 100 foundations by asset size or the top 100 foundations by annual giving. And yet, a recent Google News search showed almost three times more results for “Koch brothers” than for “Ford Foundation."    http://spectator.org/foundations-and-politics-how-left-wing-foundations-dominate-the-game/

Those in love with socialism need to read this. Headline: "Venezuela: how the socialist paradise turned into debt and hyperinflation hell."  Remember, the American political left applauded when Hugo Chavez with his socialistic ideas took over a prosperous capitalistic nation.  He subsequently turned it into a socialist nation. Now it is ruined.  If you like that outcome then vote for Bernie.  Second best is Hillary.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/21/venezuela-how-the-socialist-paradise-turned-into-debt-and-hyperi/   The moral relativism of the self appointed all superior intellect of the political left renders them unable to learn any lessons from history.

The EPA has long been out of control.  The Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling agree that the EPA's multiple irresponsible and oppressive water rights demands of private citizens are unconstitutional.    http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/02/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-easier-to-challenge-government-environmental-overreach/? 

This is a sad commentary but true in its message.  A worthwhile read.  Quote: "The left is all about peace and love, as everybody knows.  But the reality is somewhat different.  The American and British left actively colluded with Stalin's Soviet Communism at the very time Stalin was killing millions of peasants and dissidents in the Soviet Empire.  Malcolm Muggeridge wrote a brilliant autobiography of that time, because he was present at the genocides as the Moscow correspondent for The Guardian – still the Holy Scripture of the left in Britain.  Media lie factories like the New York Times and the British Guardian are the worst enablers of evil.  In traditional religion, the criminals could always make repentance, but I'm less optimistic.  Tradition gives the comfort of believing that truly evil human beings will get their just deserts in the afterlife, and vir justus – the just man, who plays such a central role in religion – will be spared eternal punishment."    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/collusion_with_genocide_is_evil_incarnate.html

 

This is truly incredible.  During a recent hearing on Capital Hill the Obama appointee, Stephen Mull, to serve as Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation demonstrates incomprehensible lack of understanding of the Middle East politics.  So an incompetent president appoints an incompetent overseer of Iranian compliance with an agreement they have already violated.  What's new?  Mull did not do well before the committee.  Details here.  http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/obamas-iran-expert-never-heard-of-anti-israel-bds-movement/

Regarding Obama's Immigration policy, this is a must read.  Quote: "According to new data released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the government expanded its Muslim immigration program by nearly one-third in 2014.  Green cards were given to 103,901 migrants from countries in the Middle East in fiscal 2014 – 32 percent more than the 78,917 it issued in 2013, and 56 percent more than the 66,415 than it issued in 2001. Although DHS has not yet published statistics for fiscal 2015, the 103,901 green cards issued in 2014 brings the total number issued to migrants from the Middle East from 2001 through 2014 to an astounding 1,114,453. Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton wants to increase the influx of Syrian refugees from 10,000 to 65,000, an increase of more than 500 percent. Donald Trump, the presumed GOP nominee, has said he wants to temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. but has showed signs of softening that stance recently.  
http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/green-cards-to-mideast-muslims-out-of-control/

Those on the left need to read this item.  A bit of history weaves together and touches today.    http://spectator.org/the-progressives-deportation-u-turn/

An excellent summary of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's illegal email activities.  Quote: "The facts known about Secretary Hillary Clinton’s actions surrounding the use of an unsecure private email server for conducting State Department business, show that she acted with reckless disregard of the security interests of the United States and violated some ten federal statutes. Several are national security-related felonies, just three of which include: 1) disclosure of classified information (22 of which documents were Top Secret); 2) unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents; and 3) destruction of evidence (erasure of the hard drive and deletion of some 30,000 emails by Secretary Clinton), after a government investigation had commenced (Benghazi hearings began October 10, 2012).  Mr. Comey can’t give Secretary Clinton a pass without trouble because a related, but lesser violation in handling classified material by General David Petraeus was recently adjudicated, resulting in a $100,000 fine  a two years’ probation. Petraeus merely gave his personal notebooks, which contained classified information to his biographer, who never disclosed any secrets. Hillary Clinton showed reckless disregard for the nation’s security; her email server -- hosting voluminous classified and Top Secret information -- was repeatedly breached and exposed by notorious Romanian hacker “Guccifer” and by the Russians (who have 20,000 Clinton server emails in their possession)."    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/james_comey_enforcing_the_law_requires_indicting_hillary_clinton.html 

This is the way people like Obama and his leftist henchmen treat people who disagree with him/them.  Childish behavior.   http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/feds-pouring-muslim-migrants-into-rand-pauls-hometown/

Remember the Fast and Furious debacle?  Well the only thing this administration is good at, obstructing justice, has thus far been successful in this case, too. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/new_fast_and_furious_emails_show_obama_administration_obstructing_congress.html

This should make liberals feel good about their causes and the people who enforce them.   http://www.lifenews.com/2016/05/25/liberal-protesters-assault-disabled-donald-trump-supporter-attending-rally-in-a-wheelchair/

Several past items have provided insight into the nefarious leftist promotional activities in which billionaire George Soros has been/is engaged.  This is a revelation of one more of many unethical acts he has committed against America's constitutional republic in support of Obama/leftist/socialistic interests.    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/05/23/soros-backed-group-funded-the-white-houses-media-echo-chamber-on-iran-nuclear-deal/  

Anyone who worships the largely immoral Hollywood "entertainment" empire, its leaders and star actors needs to read and ponder this item.  They may well conclude that the trash being produced is not worth the damage these reprobates are putting out as entertainment, much of which likely is a reflection of their own demented personal lifestyles.  Quote: "Hollywood is in the grip a child sexual abuse scandal similar to that of Jimmy Savile in Britain, Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed.  The 35-year-old former child actor said paedophiles had been protected by powerful figures in the movie business and that abuse was probably still taking place.  People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey Elijah Wood.  In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood said he had been protected from abuse as he was growing up, but that other child actors had been regularly “preyed upon” at parties by industry figures."   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/22/hollywood-in-the-grip-of-child-abuse-scandal-similar-to-jimmy-sa/    

And some among us think these people are idols to be worshiped, treated as American royalty.  What a disaster. Many, if not most, are unworthy of a second thought.  Quote: "From runways to red carpets to Instagram and Snapchat, celebrity overexposure is inescapable. We're drowning in underboob. Bombarded with sideboob. Nip slips. Crotch slips. Bare-bottom flashes. All of the above, all at once.  The problem, my fellow Americans, is not that we live in an age of wardrobe malfunctions. It's that we live in an age of dignity malfunctions.  It's one thing for the notorious Kim Kardashian, sex-tape celebrity-turned-sex-tape celebrity, to trounce into the Rome Opera House flashing her cartoon cleavage and industrial-strength Spanx for the cameras as she did last weekend.  The trouble is that the Kardashian deviancy is now the norm among female entertainers who consider themselves trailblazing feminists." They have signed up to participate in Obama's and progressive left's goal of debasing morality and civil culture and replacing them with unconstrained sexual permissiveness.  You will recall that that was the very path traveled by the long gone Roman empire.   http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2016/05/25/enough-with-hollywoods-pendulous-boobery-n2168341?

The left has heaped much praise for the current Catholic pope.  However, to sane people he is not deserving of praise.  He espouses socialistic political positions and, incredibly, supports ongoing Islamitization across Europe and presumably the world.  Don't believe me?  Read this.  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/22/pope-celebrates-mass-muslim-migration/   Here's more.  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/pope-francis-attacks-free-market/

Quote: "Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates, and professionals support Hillary Clinton’s quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes the next president, whether it’s a Democrat or Republican, will mean little or nothing in terms of solutions to major problems that confront many black people. We’ve already seen that even a black president means little or nothing. Politics and political power cannot significantly improve the lives of most black people and may even be impediments."    https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/05/walter-e-williams/blacks-dominate-politics-philadelphia-detroit-baltimore/

This may seem to be a radical solution to a big problem.  It is.  But, the bloated bureaucracy that is our government is way off base from what the Founders intended.  Sytematically ridding our federal government of oppressive bureaus is the right solution to downsizing the government and would force states to resume their Constitutionally assigned roles.  Read the piece with care and you will understand why eliminating many of them and downsizing and consolidating others is what needs to happen.   https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2016/05/17/to-reclaim-america-abolish-the-federal-agencies/?singlepage=true

This type of incident is on the rise.  The leftist mantra that blacks are always the victims set the stage for these occurrences.   Quote: "Whites have catered to black people for decades. Now blacks reject any responsibility for their actions or lives.  End this foolishness. Stop coddling pretend “victims,” and start telling the truth. Political correctness brings out the worst in blacks. I’m calling on those in authority to hold these false accusers accountable for their lies and actions."     http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/racial-hoaxes-whos-really-the-victim/

This is what is slowly happening to our country whether you believe it or not. The tell-tell signs are all around us.    http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/signs-slave-nation-humiliation-socialism-dependency-managed-media/

This is at least a large part of how we came to be in the corrupt, unethical, political correctness, misguided condition we are in.   http://www.afa.net/the-stand/the-culture-war/2016/05/absolutely-no-absolutes-in-the-new-america/   We need to embrace the suggestion at the end to the piece if we ever want to recover from the hedonistic, immoral, corrupt, anything goes, environment being imposed on us by elitist progressives/socialists.

George Burns

A few items regarding socialism.

Here is a stark example of the consequences of leftist/socialistic policies/practices.  Quote: "Sen. Bernie Sanders, the first openly socialist U.S. presidential candidate, won't become the Democratic Party's nominee, no matter how much his supporters kick and scream about the unfair advantages awarded his chief rival for the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton.  But sometimes dreams don't come true, and for a reason: Some entity somewhere is trying to spare Sanders supporters (and the rest of the American public) the pain and agony and despair that socialism would bring to the United States.  That entity is even providing a modern-day example, if anyone at Sanders' rallies cares to take an honest look: Venezuela, a once-successful capitalistic country that has descended into an economic death spiral, thanks to more than a decade of bad, socialist government.  A pictorial report of conditions in the South American nation recently by the UK's Daily Mail should make any real fan of socialism not simply take pause, but run away as fast as they can from anyone advocating that form of government."      http://www.naturalnews.com/054177_Venezuela_healthcare_collapse_socialism.html

More consideration of the lack of wisdom when considering that socialism is the solution to all ills. Quote: "Bernie Sanders’ appeal among young people has increasingly focused on delivering the supposed benefits a socialist society can give them; free education, free health care, and a government-mandated ‘living wage.’ But his vision for a socialist utopia flies in the face of reason – and the saddening saga of socialism in Europe."    http://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2016/05/31/bernies-utopian-nightmare-n2171011? 

This extends the above items regarding the failures of socialism and the political left's incessant drift in that direction.  Quote: "There’s a dark cloud hanging over the progressive push to turn America into a collectivist paradise.  Things are so bad in socialist Venezuela, whose economy is cratering, that even the liberal news media have taken notice.  Day after day, stories emerge from the oil-rich South American nation about power outages, bankruptcies, long lines for toilet paper, urban unrest, and now even food shortages.  Millions of Venezuelans, no longer smitten by the kind of envy-laden appeals that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton dish up on a daily basis, are having big-time buyers’ remorse since approving Hugo Chavez’s socialist uprising back in 1998. Revolution is in the air, which is why the government of Mr. Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro, is in crackdown mode. It’s what you do when you’ve lost the people after systematically looting them." http://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2016/05/31/envy-the-roadmap-to-ruin-n2171277?

When presidential candidate and socialist Bernie Sanders was asked a legitimate question he either could not or more likely did not want to answer it.  The reason is obvious, however.  Quote: "When asked to explain the failure of socialist governments in Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil, Sanders completely clammed up, saying he has an opinion on the subject, but was unwilling to share it, as he is “focused on my campaign.”   As an avowed socialist who wants it implemented in our country he obviously would blow all of his support if he we to answer truthfully.  Socialism never works.    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/bernie_sanders_refuses_to_answer_questions_about_socialisms_failure_in_venezuela.html 

If you don't believe Obama is a progressive/socialist, read this item.  He intends to implement one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto: Seize control of private lands.  Quote: "When property is owned by the state, it is referred to as public property. Public property serves important purposes in today's society; however, it can also be used to serve the interests of the powerful. When property is federalized and concentrated into the hands of the powerful, the individual ambitions of the people become stifled. When property is federalized and used for monopolistic purposes, individuals are herded and turned into serfs who must do as they are told. When property is concentrated into the control of powerful central planners, they decide what they think is best for everyone.  Today, an overwhelming amount of property in the Western United States is now owned and mismanaged by the federal government of the U.S., and is being used for international and secretive purposes (e.g. United Nations global sustainability programs, and large scale mining operations). According to statistics from TaxFoundation.org, the federal government now owns more than half of the land in the states of Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. The federal government owns over a third of the land in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and California. This is not good use of public property. This is power unchecked – a federal government accountable to no one."      http://www.naturalnews.com/054106_Bureau_of_Land_Management_seizures_liberty.html

The nation's move to a full-on socialistic welfare state has been led by the progressive left (which includes members of both the Democrat and Republican parties).  The entire scheme is really a political one, not a rational one - pandering to government dependents at election times - espousing promises of what the welfare government will do.  The consequences are dire.  Quote: ""More 18 to 34 year-olds are living at home than any other living arrangement" because the government has supplanted the husband in the American nuclear family.  Wednesday's AT featured a blog by Rick Moran titled "More 18 to 34-year-olds are living at home than any other living arrangement," which speculated attribution of the phenomenon to later marriages in the demographic, a poor economy, and few available jobs.  But the later marriages are not a cause;  they are an effect.  The cause of the later marriages is the War on Poverty, as amply illustrated in a report by The Heritage Foundation titled "How Welfare Undermines Marriage and What to Do About It."      http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/welfare_the_handbasket_road_of_good_intentions.html  

Bingo!!!  http://spectator.org/great-moments-of-the-welfare-state/

Progressive liberal Democrats and cooperative Republicans have enslaved a huge swath of Americans by their government give away programs rather than focusing on creating jobs and opportunities for working and advancing their living standards.  Welfare states are entirely government sponsored and controlled.  That is nothing short of socialism.  Their subtle intent is to create dependent subjects for political purposes.  Throughout history all such efforts always result in economic failure. Argentina is the latest example.  Instead of creating state supported dependents, here is what our government should be doing.     http://townhall.com/columnists/congressmancharlesboustany/2016/05/26/promoting-employment-for-welfare-recipients-is-true-compassion-n2169390? 

More on the Argentina socialism tragedy.   http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/05/31/venezuela-feels-bern-runs-everything-businesses-leaving/?

   

This follows-up the previous items.  It is a brief tutorial on socialism.  Those in love with socialism do not know history or the facts.    http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the- 

This former liberal Democrat speaks out to his former colleagues.  Quote: "I came to see a dark side to the Democratic Party that had always been there, but which I had refused to acknowledge.  Their leadership was no different than the Neo-Cons that I despised.  On top of this, many supporters of the Democratic establishment had no values and no principles.  Their only desire was to “win” at any cost.  They would get their “perfect society” at any price, even if they had to chain us all together to do it.

There was no doubt in my mind that if the Democrats reoccupied the White House or any other political power structure one day, they would immediately adopt the same exact policies and attitudes of the Neo-Conservatives, and become just as power-mad, if not more so.  In 2008 my theory was proven unequivocally correct."     http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/message-left-right-wing-extremist/

Should Read Items

This note includes items likely new to many readers.  There is a lot here.  Please take the time to read those that strike your fancy.  Please focus on the section immediately following and the section dealing with socialism.  They cover items the mainstream media either refuses to report or chooses to ignore.  They are factual and are anathema to the left wing media and its progressive laden agenda.  

This sets the stage for all that follows.  Quote: "An insidious police state is stealing over America today. We as a country have become like a freezing man slipping off to sleep in a blizzard, incapable of recognizing the demise of the liberty and honor on which we were formed. Our liberal-neocon intelligentsia are responsible for this. Their perfidy is comprised of five elements:

1) Collectivist ideologues in the schools teaching moral relativism.
2) Hubristic politicians and bureaucrats in Washington ignoring basic rights.
3) Government monopolization of the banking system that debases the currency.
4) Increasing militarization of federal, state, and local police.
5) A media that plays the role of lap dogs for statism.

These five elements almost always close ranks to support each other. They are of one mind – that capitalism (i.e., freedom) is dangerous. Leaving people alone is dangerous. The marketplace is dangerous. Thus society must be regimented from the top down via ever-increasing “arbitrary law” and “police state controls.”    http://afr.org/police-state-and-moral-relativism/

This is a logical follow-on to the previous item.  Quote: "Our government Leviathan is very real and has grown to previously unimaginable proportions. Its ever-increasing reach seems to know no bounds. And what was once perceived to be Leviathan's mostly fiscal threat to the health and well-being of our nation is now a monstrous moral threat. Leviathan's vast bureaucracies are now its foot soldiers, who have busied themselves with weaponizing executive edicts, errant court rulings and out-of-control regulatory powers against all who disagree with our Ruling Elites never-ending social/moral engineering experimentation. When will a critical mass of Americans of every race, creed, and color wake up and recognize Leviathan’s hot breath on the napes of all our necks, and finally exclaim, once and for all, “Enough is enough?”       http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/a_monstrous_moral_leviathan_.html

This is an excellent discussion about nonsense of political correctness penned by a former liberal.  Quote: "Look at where we are today because of the PC nightmare! We have a Nation on the verge of industrial and economic collapse, partly because companies are forced by law or persuaded by government subsidies to hire people with victim group status, even if they are unqualified, while ignoring highly qualified people who just happen to have lighter skin. We have children not even old enough to discover their own inherent character being clinically diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” by a psychiatric community of quacks, which conjured most PC terminology out of thin air. We have boys who are told that they are stunted for acting out their natural male impulses and girls who are told that true femininity is weakness and that they should act more masculine. We have a mainstream culture that coddles and infantilizes young adults, young  girls who think promiscuity is the key to womanhood and that motherhood is disgusting (which I find rather ironic), and young men who have no testicular fortitude and no clue how to take charge of their own lives.  The American family unit has been completely destroyed. We have women who are ashamed to set aside careers to raise children because feminism frowns upon “breeders” who bring down the whole gender. We have men who abandon their children and refuse to take responsibility. And we have a weak-minded population addicted to collective affirmation and unwilling to think outside the box for fear of being shunned and shamed. Honestly, I can’t see a single redeeming quality to political correctness other than the fact that those people who espouse it do so loudly and obnoxiously, making it easier for me to identify and avoid them or to take special note of them as an obvious zombie threat in an America swiftly declining into mundane oblivion."    http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/twisted-motives-behind-political-correctness/ 

This item charges that Congress is corrupt to the core.  Given its performance over the years that charge seems more true than not.  Quote: According to McGehee, "There's an enormous amount of pressure on the K Street-type lobbyists to deliver, and if you don't your clients get hurt."  So, money moves from the hands of clients to lobbyists to help put a particular representative into office and even help that person secure seats of power. I honestly think that LaTourette is either not being honest in his assessment or deceptive at worst.  According to Open Secrets, "The relationship between lobbyists and lawmakers is complicated. On one hand, lobbyists pursue relationships with lawmakers in order to shape legislation so that it benefits clients who would be affected by new laws or regulations. On the other hand, lobbyists are frequently targeted by lawmakers as sources of campaign money, which the lobbyists feel beholden to give to improve their clients' prospects of success." Should you ever wonder just how corrupt lobbyists can be, check out this interview with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who claimed to have 100 politicians in his pocket at any given time. The is the kind of corrupt power that is being used to enslave us all in this nation."     http://freedomoutpost.com/congressman-on-lobbyist-who-tried-to-buy-him-it-was-one-of-the-scummiest-meetings-ive-ever-been-in/

The United Nations (UN) is a danger to human life, except for the elite.  They now claim that we all need to become vegans because farming is a dangerous contributor to climate change.  Global elitists are working overtime to scare people into believing that not only humans cause climate change but also all those farm animals who fart and all the efforts necessary to conduct farming operations are a danger to their beloved "Mother Earth."  My take: They pontificate their nonsense because they want to eliminate as many people as possible from the planet.  Remember, the UN is in charge of the Climate Change scare tactics rolled out over the past 20 years which even UN elites say is not about Climate Change but instead is a move to impose socialism across the globe, redistribute global wealth and eliminate capitalism.  This is what they are about - centralizing global socialistic power in their hands.   Quote: "Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says.  A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.  As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.  It says: “Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth increasing consumption of animal products. Unlike fossil fuels, it is difficult to look for alternatives: people have to eat. A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products.”  Professor Edgar Hertwich, the lead author of the report, said: “Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."   http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet?    Do not believe anything the UN says. Break, Break:  Consider what seems to be trending.  The UN is filled with socialists/elitists. Many members are from countries ruled by dictators, tyrants, Muslims and nations that do not like the democratic nations of the west.  It is a fact that the democracies of the west are outnumbered.  UN tactics include  threatening the masses into yielding to their self appointed  "superior" thinking and requiring nations to yield to their demands.  Their self serving intent will result in disaster for the masses but turn out well for global elitists. As is often noted socialism is for the socialists; not the people.  Remember, too, the UN is in charge of redistributing Muslims across the Western World.  For what purpose?  It can't be for the good of the West.  Nonetheless compliant western leaders/elites are not resisting.  Are they complicit in this redistribution scheme?  Is the intent to destabilize the western world?  Could one conclude that they have changed their mission to "lets take control of the planet?"  Could they believe that they could then "impose" their will on everybody, everywhere.  Could they be purposely scaring the sheeple into compliance?  Could they be thinking that when things get really, really bad that the desperate masses will clamor for them to take charge and save them from disaster?  I don't know the future but this scenario seems plausible.  What do you think?  Ponder the contents of the next item before answering.

Quote: "Politicians, environmentalists, alarmist scientists and renewable energy industrialists have built a $1.5-trillion-per-year Climate Crisis industry that gives them research grants, campaign cash, mandates, huge subsidies – and vast regulatory power to eliminate conventional energy; make electricity rates skyrocket; fundamentally transform economic systems; control lives, livelihoods, living standards and liberties; and redistribute the world’s wealth. Poor, minority and working class families will suffer most.  The ruling elites don’t care. They will do well, travel often, keep their pensions and get still wealthier. Climate rules, deprivation and “sustainability” are for the Little People. This entire system is based on the unproven bald assertion that fossil fuels are causing dangerous and unprecedented weather and climate disruption … carbon dioxide has replaced the complex natural forces that drove drive climate change in previous centuries … there is no longer any room for debate over these “facts” … and the only issue still open to discussion is what to do to avert “imminent catastrophe.”    https://deweesereport.com/2016/05/05/smelling-blood-in-the-political-water/?