Monthly Archives: February 2016

U.S. Voters: Does Anyone Really Know the What in the Why They’re Voting?

There’s a great deal of air-time given to the publics contempt for Congress and the Presidency. The general dysfunction of government being the driving force behind the “insurgent” candidates and a grass-roots movement bent on overturning the Statist-Elite.

It would seem, given the ruling cabal apoplectic fits, there must be some truth to the observation however by dissecting the public’s response to the various candidates, excising the element of anger and its influences, it’s becoming clear that although the voting public understands that government is out of control it is also the case they’ve lost one critical distinction: what exactly is sound government?

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Iran Welcomes the E.U. & Repudiates U.S. Dollar

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani returned to Tehran with a smile. The release of international sanctions has brought a bounty all its own to both the E.U. and Iran; 40 Billion Dollars’ worth.

Conspicuous as these events may be, there remain a few that reveal much more about the Obama Administration’s handling of both the Nuclear Agreement and Iraq/Syria. It continues to be my contention that the President deliberately avoided taking aggressive actions in either Syria or Iraq and for one very good reason. A pipeline from Iran to either the Black Sea and/or thru Syria to the Med (there is also a planned pipeline from Iran to the terminal hub in Turkey just west of Istanbul.)

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U.S. Government Negotiating Away Your Privacy Rights

The government’s continuous assault on a person’s Fourth Amendment rights continues; while the hunt for the fleeting illusion of State Security blunders forward, Privacy Rights continue to suffer.

The U.S. Government is now, believe it or not, working on an agreement with the U.K. that would allow their authorities to serve wiretap orders directly on U.S. communications companies. This agreement would open, to non-U.S. jurisdiction and outside the domestic due-process regiment, all manner of data including, but not limited to, emails (including archived), live communications, GPS data etc.

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Trans Pacific Partnership: Signed but thankfully not yet sealed!

With a deliberate absence of fanfare, the Obama Administration placed the U.S. Signature, along with 11 other Nations, upon the TPP document. The Administration is so committed to the strength of their outstanding performance that they wanted to be certain that you were unaware of it.

We’ve studied the agreement as it made its way through the process and it is my opinion, as with each of the Trade Agreements since the GATT/WTO, that these agreements are without question diametrically opposed to the sovereign economic interests of the American People; period!

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Silencing the Debt Load of Consumerized-Canabalism

The only thing worse than the mounting Federal Debt (and Unfunded Mandates) is that none of the candidates, save for the occasional comment by Trump, can even begin to grasp the overwhelming problem that it represents or how to approach solving it.

Gone, it would seem, is any semblance of interest in or the crushing effect of this burden – now nearing $179 Trillion- as their silence has only given way to the lunacy of the many programs typified by the offerings of Sanders, Clinton and most of the GOP.

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