Nasal Passages Cleared

That this article ran in the Financial Times must have been painful for their editorial board..

It's a rare jester of journalistic objectivity from a media source drowning in Keynesian dogma. We don't know what happened. Maybe a little too much ale at the pub last night or whatever.

Keep your stinking monkey paws off my economy, you dirty ape. That goes for [liberal economist Paul] Krugman, that goes for Yellen, that goes for all of these would-be dictators of the economy Arthur Laffer.

Laffer's characterization of Janet Yellen and Paul Krugman is--and this is just for the FT--spot on, mate.



 Laffer was a member of the Ronald Reagan administration, perhaps best known for his Laffer Curve connecting tax cuts to tax revenue. It's pretty simple but you can bet the FT hates it. Lower taxes and tax revenues go up because it simplifies a humongous tax code no human being has ever read in its entirety because that would make most people give up their first born just to avoid so painful an experience.Can anyone here say hello to  Brussels?

Forget waterboarding at Guantanamo. Just threaten those detainees with the prospect of reading every single word that code. It's something that should be required of every politician from both of these pathetic political parties if they want to run for re-election. That would clear out some nasal passages.

ft.com/content/8cb63288-bc85-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080#comments 

Neocons

Senator Lindsey Graham is a dangerous neocon. No less dangerous than neocon Hillary would've been.
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Having dropped out of the primary race almost exactly a year ago, prominent foreign policy hawk, Republic Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN during an interview today that he plans to launch two separate probes (from both of his subcommittees) into Russia's "hacking" and demand that President-elect Trump "take a much tougher tone towards Russia... or they will break up our alliances."

In intente, GRAHAM announces plans for two new investigations into Russia hack, calls on Trump to toughen tone. Graham is the first Republican to call for an investigation into Russia after constant demands from the Democrats, and noted that he and John McCain support further sanctions on Putin.

He and his sidekick McCain are both neocons controlled by their globalists friends. McCain thinks he is above reproach because of his admirable war stint. He isn't. It got him out of the Keating scandal and has carried him for years.
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What taxpayers need with the national debt soaring is two more phony investigations into the alleged Russian hacking bullshit, especially one headed up by Lindsey. The last thing Trump should do is take a tougher stance with Russia. As Lincoln once noted the real enemies aren't outside the borders of this country; they're inside. Beware of neocons in neocon dresses.

zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-07/lindsey-graham-launches-2-russian-hacking-probes-demands-trump-toughen-tone

The Face Of Hypocrisy

Here is the face of hypocrisy.

Barry Diller taking about concerns that Trump would not "manhandle people" or "do one-off thing, is laughable. Does he mean like the previous administration routinely did or what would've happened if the Hillary tribe took over?

Diller was just down right hateful toward Trump before he got elected. And let's emphasize something here. He got elected. Like this previous White House mess wasn't a grand experiment. Another elitist, Mr. Diller needs to review those votes. Fifty-five million voted one way and 55 million another. You aren't running the lives of one of those groups, sir. So just run your own damn businesses because most likely half the damn country doesn't give a damn what your opinions are. The fact that you have to go to CNBC to express them speaks volumes.

Media executive Barry Diller said a Donald Trump administration is kind of like a "grand experiment."

"Every day, we see things we've never seen before," Diller said Tuesday on CNBC's "Fast Money."
While he remains skeptical of Trump, Diller, chairman of IAC, said he's interested to see what this development will bring.

"Look, 50 percent of the country wanted things to continue as they were, 50 percent wanted change. The 50 percent that wanted change has gotten the chance for it. As far as I'm concerned, bring it on," he said.


Diller said it appears the president-elect will bring about "almost undiluted change."
One of the changes the United States will see is that Trump "is a better negotiator than someone who has trained in government," Diller said. He added that he's hopeful that Trump will actually be "really good across the table" and not "manhandle people" or "do one-off things that just sound good."
As Trump pressures companies to keep jobs in America while threatening to slap them with tariffs for moving jobs, Diller said he has a feeling he won't be getting one of those calls. When asked about his opinions on Trump's recent dealings with Boeing and United Technologies, Diller said that "it's interesting stuff" and that "it's never happened before."

cnbc.com/2016/12/06/trump-administration-a-grand-experiment-says-barry-diller.

You Had To Know

You had to know that this was underway for a longtime.

A recent columnist for Time magazine suggested that Hillary supporters protest that she won the popular vote but lost owing to the electoral college rules by not paying their 2016 federal taxes.

That's interesting. You have the female czarist Janet Napolitano in California who runs the University of California system ordering campus police not to cooperate with either federal or local authorities if the new administration comes after all the illegal immigrant students currently in the system being paid by California taxpayer funds, many who fervently disagree with their taxes being used to support such illegal programs and blatant confiscation of tax dollars without an input from those who pay those taxes.

We have heard from some who intend to request for the state a complete breakdown of where their tax dollars are spent and if any are going to support this program intend to deduct that amount from the taxes in the upcoming tax season. These places in the system are being given to illegals at the expense of native born citizens who are not only qualified but in many cases more qualified for those seats. Those students' parents have been paying taxes to the state for in many cases years. More important Nepolitano is forcing public employees to possibly violate the law to keep their jobs. Is there any doubt given a PC zealot like Napolitano anything other would result?

If you or I urged people to violate federal laws you know what would happen. So why hasn't anyone filed a suite against Nepolitano and the university system?

Now we could call that Times columnist stupid, ignorant, rolling out one of their hateful epithets, but that would be pulling a page from their hateful tactic book. We actually support his motion and hope those disgruntled Hillary supporters do withhold their tax payments.We've felt overtaxed for years as we know millions of others have and that much of our tax receipts are going to support programs as we find just as egregious as they claim the election  results are. So lets get this party started.
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There have been murmurs about it all along.
Someday, they simply wouldn’t allow certain things to remain on the Internet any longer. The potential to reach a global audience with important information, and the idea that it could be in the hands of anyone is just too big.

So it is no surprise that many corporate giants from Silicon Valley are now putting forward a unified front to silence free speech on social media.
Hashtags, keywords and flagged accounts, logged in various databases, will be shared and enforced across the web. Shutting down content identified as unacceptable will now be streamlined, and leave unpopular posters with fewer places to peddle their extremist, outside views.



Many current incidents are being used to push the idea that a new online policing – and a pulling of the weeds – is now necessary.

The “fake news” purging campaign has reached across the blogosphere and alternative media and punished websites that have dared to report on such taboo topics as Pizzagate, Wikileaks email dumps, any controversial aspects of the Syrian war and many other serious topics which these agenda-driven companies have opted to suppress.

While these platforms offer the opportunity to reach a wide audience, the centrality of ubiquitous platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter is, obviously, that they have the power to delete accounts and drive down audience response by tweaking the algorithm.
They can make you invisible.

That is the state of free speech in 2016. It can be eradicated at a moment’s notice, and perhaps for reasons you aren’t even aware of.

shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/this-is-the-purge-we-all-knew-was-coming-shutting-down-extremist-content

Evil Incarnate

If you don't like billionaire George Soros, then you shouldn't like Kellogg's Corn Flakes. And you most likely shouldn't be eating them either, including your children.

Nor should you like other billionaires who have more money than they can spend and in their self-righteous boredom

consequently turn to trying to run the world by telling the rest of us what we ought to eat, drink and think, not to mention whom to vote for.

According to reports, Kellogg is giving funds to a Soros-based political activity group and leftist hate groups. Kellogg's also one of the 10 giant corporations that monopolize nearly everything sold in supermarkets around the globe for the most part. That's how you spell globalization, line the pockets of the elites and destroy free choice and competition.

naturalnews.com/2016-12-02-kelloggs-found-to-have-financial-ties-to-the-money-man-for-cop-killing-left-wing-hate-groups-george-soros.

Vigilance

It's about time someone high up in the MSM stepped froward and unleashed the truth.

But don't look for it to come from Henry Blodgett, the former Wall Street analyst who was barred from working on Wall Street for purposely pushing what became known after the TMT crash in the early part of the first decade of this century his pieces of  high tech dung.

This is just one of many attempts to circumvent the truth and enchain your freedom of movement and speech. All  the more  reason for constant vigilance when it comes to government and politicians, especially big government.
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told Business Insider's Henry Blodget on Tuesday that the "real threat" to the First Amendment did not come from President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, but rather from the Democratic Party.

Bewkes was speaking at Business Insider's annual IGNITION conference, during which he was asked about Trump's frequent campaign threats to open up libel laws.
Trump has also set his sights on Bewkes' own media property, CNN, which he consistently ridiculed along the campaign trail and even after Election Day.
"Do you worry about that at all?" Blodget asked.

Bewkes said he didn't "think that's a serious thing," adding that "we should all worry" if someone were seeking to change the First Amendment. He suggested that came from the Democratic Party, which "had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform."

"And that was worrying me more," Bewkes said. "The press tends to miss that because they tend to lean that way, and therefore they were supporting what they were viewing — I think overly charitably — as something in cleaning up money in politics when in fact what it would do is restrain multiple voices."

Democrats, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, vowed to engage in campaign finance reform following the election — a cause that has been bolstered in recent years by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The 2010 ruling deemed that corporations and labor unions were people who could flex First Amendment rights in contributing to campaigns, and it led to the advent of so-called super PACs.

"So I thought the real threat to the First Amendment came from the Democrats' side more," Bewkes said. "There's not going to be a serious effort on the Republican side
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bewkes-time-warner-first-amendment-democrats-trump-2016-12

Turn Around

The link below leads to an interesting article about a very appropriate and important subject, especially today. If your interest is there, take a look at it. We've touched on it, do-you-really-want-all-that-C12H22O11.
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One important sentence--and there are many--Kellogg's wants to be a part of their army -- fine. They are now Enemies and to be treated as such. 

I want to be left alone. And if a corporation is siding with the fascists who won't leave me alone, I have no obligation to keep peace with them. If they want Peace, then they shall have Peace,
But if they want #War, let them have more #War than they can bare.
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There is nothing evil or strident or mean spirited about identifying enemies. It's all fact. If something or someone is an enemy to your way of life it is an enemy. Never feel bad or apologize for defending your beliefs. 

These are people who think nothing of using their money, muscle and political clout to get what they want. Even in a so-call democracy--fake as it appears--turnaround is not only fair play it's appropriate  and often necessary. 


ace.mu.nu/archives/367133.php

One Man's View

It's just one man's opinion but one you might want to consider, Jeffery Gundlach.
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Despite dipping to multi-month lows, one Wall Streeter – known to most as the “Bond King” – isn’t giving up on gold just yet.

Jeffrey Gundlach, founder of the more than $100 billion L.A.-based investment firm DoubleLine Capital, told reporters he expects financial markets to reverse course and that means, gold would move higher.

“The dollar is going to go down, yields have peaked and will move sideways, stocks have peaked as well and gold is going to go up in the short term," he said.

Gold continues to trade at 10-month lows as the U.S. dollar and bond yields creep higher since President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory last month. U.S. stock markets have also hit record highs since the election results came out, which have taken funds away from hard assets like gold. February Comex gold futures settled the day down 0.33% at $1,169.40 an ounce.

Gold continues to trade at 10-month lows as the U.S. dollar and bond yields creep higher since President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory last month. U.S. stock markets have also hit record highs since the election results came out, which have taken funds away from hard assets like gold. February Comex gold futures settled the day down 0.33% at $1,169.40 an ounce.

However, Gundlach said the so-called Trump Rally seen in U.S. stock markets, treasury yields and the greenback may be “losing steam.”

"It is so late to be buying the Trump Trade," he said.

According to the billionaire fund manager, investors are now looking for harder assets, telling reporters, “No more on this 'man behind the curtain' stuff. Industrials, materials ... people are tired of tweets. They want cement."

Gundlach’s outlook on gold is a stark contrast to another billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who after the presidential election, said he sold all his gold holdings on election night.

“All the reasons I owned [gold] for the last couple years, it seems to me they may be ending," he said in an interview with CNBC.

kitco.com/news/2016-12-01/Too-Late-To-Be-Buying-Trump-Trade-Gold-Moving-Higher-Gundlach.

Overnight

It was give back time overnight as several markets gave up some of their recent gains following unexciting sessions in the U.S. and Europe as the MSCI, the. Road east index of non-Japanese shares in the Asian-Pacific shed 0.6% while the Nikkei 225 lost a similar amount. The Hang Send dropped nearly 1.0%; the Kospi fell 0.7%; the Shanghai Composite was off 0.69%; the Shenzhen Composite shed 1.19% and the ASX 200 down 1.02%. U.S. 10-year Treasuries didn't help matters as they dropped from Thursday yield of 2.492 to 2.439%.

In Korea concerns about impeachment took a step back as President Geun-hey remains embroiled in a political scandal as the revised third-quater GDP came in up 0.6% from the previous quarter. An earlier estimate expected 0.7%. Crude oil slipped overnight but held above $50 a barrel. U.S. futures retreated slightly at  $50.89 a barrel with Brent at $53.58, off 0.67% and the dollar softened ahead of the U.S. jobs report due out later Friday. The dollare index traded at 100.88 down from the previous session at 101.59. The yen weakened also falling below the 114 level to 113.95 against the buck. Gold continues under pressure as it traded at $1,173.20 an ounce, still above around the $1,060 level it began at the beginning of this year.

The Line In The Sand

Anyone who doesn't already think or know money--big money--and politics are inseparable might what to consider getting a head examination soon. If you read this article you'll understand just how much it plays a role in your life.

The other thing you need to understand is a term used in the story, war. The people who lost want to stymie and defeat those who won. And they will do whatever they have to do to accomplish that. Fifty-five million voted one way, fifty-five million the other. Very few minds, if any, left to be convinced. That's about as clear a line in the sand or warning as you're going to get. You should also note if you have not stuck your head up somewhere only a scope ever shines how underground so-called safe spaces or shelters the elites are building.

Dante talked about the hottest places in hell being preserved for those who stay neutral in a crisis. When you try to justify money and democracy, you'll soon learn they're about as mixable as oil and water. This is not a democracy and never was one. If you think so, find out how much influence your vote has compared to what the big money mentioned in this article buys.

If you think otherwise, try to get in touch with your elected representative sometime. If you think some physician telling you to take two aspirins, go to bed and call him next year is distant, indifferent and cold, you have not tried to speak with your elected official anytime in this century.

The Russians are always a convenient foil just as we are for them. Even if the Russians were behind all the hacking--and they weren't--U.S. administrations have been spying on everyone including you and me. And they've used that spying to swing elections in other sovereign countries for years. And short of that, they use another common tool--assassinations.
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The feeling I get from big donors out here in California is that... they’re shell-shocked," warns investor Marc Nathanson, who spent big in 2016, adding that he has no interest in participating in the party’s rebuilding efforts. As The Hill reports, many Democratic donors still feel burned by the party’s 2016 election losses and what they see as dysfunction in the DNC. "They’re tired," said one DNC official fingering the blame elsewhere, "they’re upset about the election, and there was significant trauma surrounding the Russians."

 

As The Hill's Jonathan Easley writes, Democratic donors stung by Hillary Clinton’s upset loss in the presidential race feel like they just set their money on fire.

The sore feelings are a huge problem for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which is trying to rebuild its image and reinvigorate a defeated party in time for challenging midterm elections in 2018.

It’s also a worry for top liberal activists as they prepare for war with President-elect Donald Trump and a GOP Congress that is hell-bent on rolling back President Obama’s accomplishments.

Adding insult to the injury: The names of many donors were released in the WikiLeaks hack of Democratic emails, believed to have come at the hands of Russian intelligence. It was a mortifying development that has rattled some of the party’s big-money men and women.

Democratic investors went in on Clinton to the tune of more than $550 million, believing she would dispatch Trump, deliver Democrats the Senate and help the party make inroads into the GOP’s House majority. More:

zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-01/shell-shocked-democrat-donors-concerned-rudderless-dnc-i-may-well-be-done-political-