Month: November 2017

Saudi Arabia Evacuating Lebanon!

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YEMEN continues to be a target for the Saudi’s. Bombed to oblivion, starvation is rampant, thousands have died, casualties escalate, and 3.1 million people are displaced as there is no end to the incessant destruction. Like Syria, like Ukraine, it began when an external force decided they didn’t like the internal shifts. In this case, the Saudi’s took insult when their Sharia Sunni implant, Hadi, was ousted and replaced with a Shia, Salah.

The fact that Hadi was even elected President of Yemen may have had something to do with the fact that he was the only candidate running… while Salah was in the hospital recovering from an attempted assassination…   And like Bashar Assad, the fact that Salah was previously working with the US to fight terrorism and provide intelligence, makes the flip-flop more confusing.

Except for the fact that the flip came about during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State when the Clinton Foundation was a recipient of $$$$millions from the Saudi’s.   And since that ‘flip’, al Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen have gained considerable control.

Prior to Hadi assuming the Presidency, the government under Salah had been in an all out crack-down against al Qaeda and ISIS, keeping them on the defensive, and making progress in their battle for Yemen. The parallels to Syria can not be dismissed. It is a genocidal war in which the Shia population is the ultimate target for eradication.

With Iran entering in defense of Yemen, the war has become a religious battle ground initiated by Saudi Arabia, embraced by the Obama administration, and cultivated by Europe. Al Qaeda has offered to make a truce with Hadi while vowing to annihilate the Shia Houthi’s under Salah.

So whose side is the US on?

Well, we initially supported the Saudi’s and Hadi. The Houthi’s were the bad guys. But Al Qaeda is now fighting alongside the Saudi’s. And ISIS has moved in. So the US is fighting al Qaeda and supporting the Yemeni forces under Hadi while the Saudi’s, ISIS and al Qaeda are killing everyone, and ultimately planning to work with – Hadi. So basically we are making a deal to let ISIS and al Qaeda take over Yemen alongside Hadi.

In the midst of the riff, the Saudi government has ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon following increased tensions with Iran’s assistance in Yemen. In addition, the Lebanese Prime Minister who is Sunni and pro Saudi Arabia abruptly resigned from office at the same time.

Lebanon is roughly 40% to 50% Christian, 27% Shia, and 27% Sunni. The President of Lebanon is Shite.

The Saudi’s have also declared that Qatar is aiding al Qaeda and ISIS and instituted sanctions. Qatar is predominantly Salafi Muslim, which is a sect within Sunni. But that is misleading because of Qatar’s 2.6 million residents, only 300,000 are Qatari, the remainder are called ‘Expatriots’, or slaves. The Emir of Qatar has been a supporter of the West, Europe (having been schooled in Great Britain), Syria and Yemen. Most recently, he has stated his support of Iran.

This allegiance to Iran has emboldened Saudi Arabia to what could easily implode into an unprecedented Middle Eastern war, not unlike WWI and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Given the recent Saudi proclamation demanding the evacuation and return of Sunni’s from Lebanon, it may be that a strike on that country is imminent.

The question then being – who do we support?   Because it would appear that we have made some rather bad choices lately…

Paradise Paper Caper – Who’s Who

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The Paradise Papers have unraveled a web of offshore dealings far more intricate, complex and massive than the Panama Paper Caper. Comprised of over 13 million documents, the magnitude would appear to leave no one immune, but oddly, the headlines continually show Trump at the forefront as though he is the leader of the pack, when in reality, to date, he is not personally implicated at all…

In addition, headlines would tout the “massive dollars offshore accounts contributed to the Trump election”  through private means, ie, $60 million, while truly failing to headline that the actual leaders within the disclosures include; Credit Suisse, Soros, Apple, Facebook, Nike, Siemens, Google, Trudeau’s closest friend and Liberal Party fundraiser, Maciel, a Catholic Priest, Madonna, Bono, Chuck Schumer, and a host of Democrat mega-conglomerates.

It is interesting that despite the fact that Soros is a major donor and supporter of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) credited with releasing the trove, Soros and The Open Society were quite prolific in their offshoring…and have declined comment on their role.

Obviously plastering Trump’s picture on the trove is media deflection to protect the true sullied faces of Zuckerberg, Soros, and Urs Rohner, Chairman of Credit Suisse. Lest we forget, in 2014 Credit Suisse pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud and paid a $2.6 billion fine.   And Soros companies are mainly non-profits, therefore the true offshore evasion would potentially indicate that charities are not the recipients of his funds at all, but perhaps the money is funneled through intricate webs back to it’s source – Soros.

One of the more fiendish finds was the fact that numerous US universities have been hiding hordes of cash in offshore accounts all the while demanding huge subsidies from the federal government, raking students with increased tuition and fees, and defrauding their true financial picture.

Bush’s brother is named, The Queen of England is named, as well as Warren Stephens a conservative presidential donor who is behind massive ‘anti-Trump’ campaigns.

Putting Trump on the face of this leak is an obvious fraud and a rather lame intent to defraud, deflect and hide.

Guilt By Association is a collective concept that declares that members of a group can be held responsible for the actions of one. If we were to apply this same theory to Soros, that would imply that Obama, Clinton, McCain and a host of others should be heralded with their pictures splashed across headlines – as the offshore perpetrators.

While the actual use of offshore accounts is not illegal, sometimes they are used to circumvent the law and to launder money. It’s a black market of sorts in which organized crime finds a legal means to invest illegally obtained funds. They are used to hide assets and to evade taxes. Insurance and reinsurance companies are notorious for utilizing these havens, not just for their companies, but their executives as well make use of the advantage to avoid taxes.

Trump’s new tax reform addresses this evasion by offering a one time reprieve at a significantly lower tax rate for reclaiming into the US monetary system the trillions that are floating.

It would see that the same individuals advocating against Trump’s tax reform are the exact same ones who utilize this offshore evasion loophole. Because bringing that money back into the system will have an enormous positive effect on the economy – which would not boost the Democrat agenda.

So how do they defeat the revelations? Manipulation. The media is claiming that over 120 US politicians are implicated in the release and yet they reveal mostly those who have some relationship with Trump or the GOP Party.

While the journalists pour over the trove of 13 million documents, what is actually released to the public will most likely lean toward the agenda of the journalist’s media conglomerate… and not the agenda of Truth.

At least, that is what they are doing now…

 

Trump TAXES – and the Naysayers of Doom

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The complainers are coming out of the woodwork like termites wondering why their particular agenda hasn’t been fulfilled yet like a society of entitlement soothsayers…  “What about what I want?  Me! Me!”  Without considering what  is required in order to get anything actually – done:

 

TRUMP ON TAXES – nutshell

  1. Double the standard itemized deduction value for single taxpayers – $12,000 and married taxpayers – $24,000
  2. Standardize tax rates to 12%, 25% and 35% – the income levels have not yet been released.
  3. Curb the itemized deduction for home interest to $500,000 vs $1 million, which effects homeowners who currently write-off on home asset values of $22 million…
  4. Repeal and curb itemized deductions for taxes, tax prep fees, moving expenses, medical expenses, and theft and personal losses
  5. Repeal deduction for alimony (not taxable deduction or expense)
  6. Eliminate recharacterization of IRA’s between traditional and Roth
  7. provide a one time incentive to bring offshore money home for a 10% tax bill – current estimates state that offshore money worldwide is valued at about $40 trillion.
  8. Flat tax the corporate rate at 20%.
  9. Repeal certain depreciable assets and enable 100% of cost as write-off
  10. Allow businesses a $25 million threshold for cash vs accrual accounting and inventory
  11. Remove limitations on interest deductions for small businesses
  12. NOL would be capped at 90% of current year taxable income
  13. Increase estate tax exclusion to $10 million until 2023 when repealed and gift tax rate lowered to 35%
  14. Cap small business tax rate at 25%, LLC filers and Sub S Corporations
  15. Increase child tax credit
  16. Repeal Alternative Minimum Tax
  17. Elimination of certain business tax credits, except; research and development, investment and low income housing credits
  18. Elimination of tax free bonds used to fund the construction of Sports Stadiums
  19. Simplify and streamline Education credits

Apparently, the plan has drawn criticism… surprise! Ann Coulter thinks it isn’t even an issue with anyone, and instead Trump should be prioritizing building the wall. Paul Ryan doesn’t like it, but few people like Paul Ryan, so his opinion is a non-issue. The complainers have come out of the woodwork and don’t realize that complaining is why nothing gets done!   Their complaining is Swampish.

According to Gallup, the biggest issue American’s identify is government corruption. Yet, as Trump slashes the Swamp, everyone complains. Why? Americans have become so paralyzed by party definition that we fail to recognize that Trump is doing exactly what we claim to want. He is tackling the Swamp, and it is far deeper than anyone can imagine crossing party lines, gender lines, and judicial lines.

Issue #2 – The Economy. Ann Coulter seems to have forgotten that one of the prime ways to stimulate the economy is through a reduction in taxes. But Trump has actually gone a step further and is offering to bring back into the US potentially trillions of dollars in offshore accounts!  Investable money. Money to ‘stimulate the economy’!

Issue #3 –  Immigration. A work in progress, sanctuary cities are the battle ground. The border is the battle ground, and el Salvadoran gangs, etc…are the battle ground.  Trump has meticulously attacked each area, and still the sky is falling Chicken Littles – complain. But the race is not won by the Hare who acts impatiently, but by the Tortoise who acts with ingenuity.  The immigration problem has been manifested over a 40 year time frame with each successive president prodding its continued growth. It’s like giving birth; the weight gain occurred over nine months, you don’t lose it in one day.

And lastly, Healthcare, which for me is a personal issue that literally takes my breath away at an annual cost of $16,000 including deductible! That’s $8 per working hour, which is about equal to the minimum wage…

UPDATE:  My nephew in Arizona was just issued a statement that his private health insurance premiums will increase by 80% in 2018.  Thus the premium for him and his wife will be $23,000 with an $11,000 deductible!  He ‘was’ retired…

You Can’t Please All Of The People All Of The Time!  

But apparently, everyone would like to think that their ‘pleasing’ is most important, and to sit back and complain loudly about everything is their call to action – bonbons and all. There is no such thing as a Bill that will appease everyone, but if we are so self centered that a Bill that has tremendous potential for solving Economic issues through Tax Reform is tabled, then how can we possibly move on to the next issue with any confidence or hope?

If both sides of the media raucously wag gnarly fingers of doom, then that is ultimately exactly what we deserve.  Which is to say – NOTHING.

Lets get this done!  NEXT!

Where ANTIFA Goes, Hate and Destruction Follows

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Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and other Liberals laugh and shrug at the idiocy of right thinking conservatives regarding the Antifa protests scheduled for tomorrow. Absurd! They claim. Silly hyper- ventilating idiots, they infer. They cite the ever ridiculous ‘snopes’ as proof positive; 2 liberals who sit on the couch and eat potatoes.   All the while acknowledging that the protests are organized by a ’political action group, Refuse Fascism, whose goal is unseating Trump and Pence’. Huh?

Their Facebook page is riddled with hate and anger and screaming for the treasonous Trump to be removed.   Gee, how sweet. I wasn’t aware that threats against the US President were sweet tolerance… kind and loving words.

The fact that they choose to hide their identities behind black clothing, black masks, and black beenies is more reminiscent of Klansmen, than school kids out for a lark.   The fact that in previous events they have amassed with weapons, started fires, destroyed property and engaged in physical violence- well that’s of no consequence, because it happened before – and won’t happen ‘this time’?  Right Time Magazine!

Oh right – THAT ANTIFA.

They openly declare “they’re willing to physically attack anyone who employs violence against them or who condones racism — as long as force is used in the name of eradicating hatred.”  

Of course the ‘condoning racism’ meme would in their minds mean anyone who isn’t ‘them’.  And thus they will use force indiscriminately against everyone who isn’t them, because their hatred is good hatred, and everyone else’s is – bad.

A majority portion of members include; undocumented illegals, uneducated and low income youth who are bitter, angry, and deserving of all that capital that capitalists hoard, (As In – Gimme), and Black Lives Matter.

In Berkeley, they smashed windows and started fires to protest Milo, a gay white man, from speaking on campus.   Ditto for Ann Coulter, a white woman. It would seem that racism/sexism was their motive given these instances involved a gay and a woman.  And therefore it reveals the true agenda is political – not social.

Antifa isn’t just in the US, their roots are derived from Germany where they are originally credited to “Antifaschistische Aktion”, a Communist party formed in the 1930’s.   Ultimately, Antifa was absorbed into the Stalinist regime, the most prolific murderer of all history.   Not exactly a regime of peace and loving kindness.  Their tactics then are the same as now, violence. So basically it was the communists fighting the fascists. And today, Antifa would have us believe that everyone that is NOT Antifa – is a Fascist, aka, Trump and all the Deplorables.

So, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, New York Times, and the liberals of short term memory regarding even Charlottesville, would have us believe that the protests scheduled for tomorrow are simply nice sweet kind anti-fascists who have freedom of speech to hate, incite violence and destroy property.

If I was a business owner, if I was a car owner, I would NOT feel especially safe and secure… For where they go – hate and destruction follows.

Hollywood’s Sexual Predators

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It has long become an accepted part and parcel of the world of Hollywood that morality, ethics, and integrity are non-existent. While it is nothing new, the perversity has flourished quite brazenly. Errol Flynn and his entourage were known sexual predators. Then the mafia came in with Frank Sinatra. It’s easy to spot today, all we need do is look at the unraveling of Brittany Spears or Miley Cyrus to know that their behavior is reactive to the darkness that others spurred.

But I fear, that the darkness, the pedophilia, is far worse than we can imagine. It is thought that these stars have been subjected to such perversity that they can never come forward lest the entire cadre of insects are unleashed from Pandora’s Box. It is a form of blackmail. And it has been cited in nearly every large sexual scandal in history

The Franklin Sandal of the 1980’s that implicated the Bush’s was later determined to be simply lies by wayward children. The UK sexual scandal that is still unraveling from the 1980’s involving the Savile ring 37 years later and nothing. It implicates Hollywood, Entertainers, Sports Figures, Politicians, and just about every person within the elite of uber wealth. But no one goes to jail.

As one pundit suggested, it isn’t about money, it is about Power. But it is also about boredom, the boredom of normalcy and boundaries.

Hollywooders make their living ‘pretending’, and in this reality of perversity, they pretend it is okay.  Jennifer Lawrence recently made an impassioned speech in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal to an audience of feminists about how she was treated like meat having to pose naked for a producer and told to lose weight. However, she failed to add that she voluntarily went on to pose nude for Playboy. And that was okay?  She has no boundaries and doesn’t see the hypocrisy.

I have witnessed people who used to be close fall into this spiral of boundary boredom. Ultimately, it has the power to eat the very soul of a person. I had a friend in high school who decided to get into modeling and later described playing Russian Roulette at parties…

The suicide rate of porn actresses, of Actor’s children, of Actors in general far exceeds any national average. They aren’t victims of war, but they are victims of sexual perversity. And yet, no one is punished. Ever. Roman Polanski is banished from the US but actors and actresses continue to laud his ‘genius’. And so they protect and enable the behavior, the non-consequence of perverse deeds.

In the world outside of Hollywood, the hypocrisy is the fact that a woman only needs to point a finger and ‘j’accuse’ and the man is immediately arrested and put in jail. It is probably the only crime wherein the man is guilty until proven innocent – except – in Hollywood.

Bill Clinton’s escapades with Epstein. Epstein flew in planeloads of girls and boys for pleasure slaves. This is ‘their normal life’. There are no boundaries. It has become a free-for-all wherein victims don’t want to say anything because the victims will be the ones punished.   That is how the Franklin scandal was resolved. And it is the blackmail used to hush scores of women and men still today.

Too often men and women don’t realize or simply don’t care that the ‘simple pornography’ they witness may involve a child, 14, 15… Its reality is Hollywood. It’s like watching a war ‘movie’, it isn’t really real, so therefore no one is really hurt. At least that’s the argument. Even therapists are aboard the ‘little porn’ concept, “What harm does it do…?”

Oddly, the same therapist might make the statement that marijuana leads to hard drugs, while negating the effects of porn claiming that a little porn is healthy. Logic is upside down and topsy-turvy and when a therapist approves, it is a green light to anything goes.

Mental deception. If a physician prescribes a person opiates ongoing for 2-3 years, then it is okay because it was approved by – a physician, and he’s not a dealer. I’ve heard that justification for all kinds of drugs including speed and watched people I know implode.

Hollywood has become it’s own country. They have their own set of rules, morality and ethics. They have their own laws, and police and justice. Meaning – they have – none. And out system allowed this to evolve from the muck and mire of the proverbial Swamp.   Because, in ‘reality’,

Hollywood is a part of The Swamp. They feed it. They support it. And they feel entitled to it. There is no remorse or guilt or shame, there is only arrogant justification. How can there be anything else if there are no boundaries and no consequence?

Hillary’s Uranium One Deal – 101

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Heather Digby Parton, a blogger for Salon, has taken it upon herself to post a meme in which she ‘soundly’ exonerates Hillary Clinton’s role in the Uranium One Scandal.   She incorrectly states that the entire deal had nothing to do with governments because it was and is a ‘private company, ruled by private board members and that ‘other committee members within the US government’ could have intervened, but didn’t, including:   “the secretaries of the Treasury, homeland security, energy and defense; the White House budget director; the attorney general; and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.”

By default, is Digby actually opening a Pandora’s Box in implicating accomplices?

Those other people would include; Timothy Geithner; worked under Bill Clinton, involved in numerous questionable decisions during the subprime mortgage crisis and a member of Bilderberg Group and Council on Foreign Relations. Janet Napolitano; whose resume is a plethora of critcisms and empty apologies after making incorrect statements, targeted statements, right wing attack statements, etc…   Peter Orszag; also a Bilderberger, also served under Billy, and Austan Goolsbee who was instrumental in Obama’s Senatorial run in 2004…

Hillary became Secretary of State in 2009. Uranium One’s deals were subject to anti-trust regulations and required approval and clearance by the US Committee on Foreign Investments. The State Department was a voting member of the Committee, the others included Geithner, Napolitano, Steven Chu, Robert Gates who had according to Times Magazine, “formed a formidable partnership with Hillary Clinton”, – and Eric Holder… need I say more.

This is the Committee that approved the Uranium One deal.

Back-tracking:  In 2005, Billy and Frank Giustra traveled to Kazakhstan after which Giustra’s company, UrAsia Energy, bought rich uranium interests there. In 2007, Uranium One acquired controlling interest in UrAsia Energy from Frank Giustra. Substantial contributions to the Clinton Foundation followed ultimately leading to the creation of the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative in which he contributed $100 million and pledged 50% of all future earnings from ‘mining’.

As of 2013, the Russian company ARMZ had complete control of Uranium One, and shortly thereafter, that interest was extinguished and transferred to Rosatom, which is Russia’s state owned uranium monopoly. At this point, Hillary had resigned to establish her run for Presidency, and John Kerry was the acting Secretary of State.

It was during this time that revenue from the Clinton Foundation and the Giustra Initiative would rocket in the moola in the realm of $340 million annually with a piddling 6% actual charitable payout. It was later revealed that the returns had been falsely prepared and were required to be restated. No charges were filed for these discrepancies.

It is estimated that Hillary’s failed presidential run cost between $1.2 and $1.7 billion, more than any Democrat in history.

In addition to mining, Giustra has quite a background making billions in a variety of industries including entertainment, via Thunderbird Films, Lionsgate Reunion Pictures and UK based Soda Pictures.

In addition, he established the Radcliffe Foundation which also contributed to the Clinton Initiative – $30 million. Radcliffe also supports the International Crisis Group, where Giustra sits on the executive committee. ICG was funded/founded by George Soros.   The ICG provides ‘advice’ to the United Nations, European Union and the World Bank.

Giustra is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Foundation.

So. It would appear that Mz. Heather Digby Partom has NOT done much homework in her Salon appointment as defender of Hillary, and may have opened an even greater swamp of insects to swat…