In their “hottest year ever” press briefing, NOAA …stated that they have a 58 year long temperature record, but they only showed the last 37 years. The prior years showed temperature decline. Examining that full record, NOAA’s best data, shows no warming for 60 years.
More on this story here: http://realclimatescience.com/2016/03/noaa-radiosonde-data-shows-no-warming-for-58-years/
https://budbromley.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/obama-is-dead-wrong-on-climate-change/
√ Independent Ukraine’s government was overthrown by a fascist-leaning government supported by Obama and Clinton’s State Department, and perhaps covert U.S. supported military. Deadly riots in the streets. Russia invaded Ukraine. Crimea voted to join Russia rather than stay with Ukraine. An Indonesian passenger airliner was shot down over Ukraine. Who did it? Where is the info from dense network of ultra high def intelligence U.S. satellites monitoring Ukraine’s border with Russia? U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, standing in front of Chevron and Exxon Mobil signs, announces U.S. provided $5 billion to Ukraine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y0y-JUsPTU#t=456
√ “NATO is going to quadruple its military power around Russia.” “The new Cold War has become much hotter because of a decision taken in Washington” and is “more dangerous than the preceding Cold War”. Saying the new Cold War is “solely due to Putin’s ‘aggression’” is “simply not true.” ~ Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus scholar of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44163.htm
√ “We came, we saw, he died,” said Hillary. Libya’s leader Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in the streets by forces backed by U.S. military (including bombing) and on the ground intelligence as well as NATO. The U.S. and NATO claimed it was installing a ‘no-fly zone’ over the country for humanitarian reasons, but instead used that as a pretext for bombing, which was a violation of the UN resolution and not authorized by congress. Chaos now reigns in Libya, which has become a stronghold of ISIS. Before the bombing, Libya was financially independent, the richest country in Africa. According to The New York Times, the deciding push to commit aggression against Libya came from Hillary Clinton. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
√ Four Americans that we know of, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, are slaughtered in an American consular compound and CIA compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 because the Secretary of State Clinton denied repeated requests for additional security and then did not send forces to help them when they were attacked. Thousands of surface-to- air missiles capable of bringing down airliners have gone missing. Then Hillary and the rest of the Obama administration tried to cover this up during the closing of the 2012 U.S. presidential election season with a story about a movie in order to protect Obama’s re-electability.
√ Syria crossed Obama’s red line and never looked back. Under Hillary’s management, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Stevens was involved in arming Libyan rebels including al Qaeda and similar radical Islamists and then transshipping arms from Libya to radical Islamists in Syria who are attempting to overthrow the Syrian regime. Under Clinton and Obama, the U.S. has armed, trained and funded militants in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian regime with the assistance of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
√ Beginning during Clinton’s watch, a massive refugee crisis was started and is still underway with millions of refugees flooding from Syria and elsewhere in the middle east into Europe and America. Obama has committed to accept 300,000 refugees, most of those are Muslims who the DHS and FBI say cannot be vetted. According to Syrian human rights organizations quoted by the Hillary-friendly Council of Foreign Relations, most of the deaths in Syria are not caused by Syria’s Assad regime, but instead by U.S. /NATO-backed actions. “She pressed Obama to arm the Syrian rebels, and later endorsed air strikes against the Assad regime”, while the US lied, saying it knew Assad had carried out chemical attacks. She also supported US bombing of the Syrian government, “apparently undaunted by polling that showed more than 70 percent of Americans opposed to military action.” (Quote from Time) http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/politics/syria-poll-main/
√ Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown by Egyptians backed by the U.S. government and media and replaced by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Muhamad Morsi, the new Egyptian President immediately removed Egypt’s military and political leadership and began setting up a suppressive Islamic fundamentalist government. The Obama administration promised him F-16’s. Egyptians massively demonstrate again and overthrow President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cronies, replacing him with a former Egyptian military leader Al Sissi. The former President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood cronies are arrested, brought to trial and sentenced by Egyptian court.
√ SOS Clinton guaranteed US government backing for Chevron to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. Obama sent his own personal letter to the president of Turkmenistan, backing Chevron and “emphasizing a common interest in helping develop Afghanistan and expressing his support for the TAPI pipeline and his desire for a major U.S. firm to construct it. ”As Secretary of State, Clinton backed a major escalation of the US invasion of Afghanistan, ramping U.S. forces 30,000 to 100,000 soldiers or more and then Obama announced the date of their departure. Of the 2,300 American soldiers who have died in the 13-year-old Afghan War, about 1,670 (or more than 70 percent) have died since Obama took office. http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324576304579072761923326266
√ Iran contentedly works away at developing the nuclear bomb, and backing terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas with the assistance of over $100 billion of money “returned” to Iran.
√ China disrupts its neighbors, builds man made islands in disputed seas with military runways seas and arms them.
√ North Korea threatens South Korea and Japan. U.S. flies B52 over Korea and the under Kerry sends new U.S. jet fighters to South Korea.
√ Venezuela cracked down on democracy protestors attempting to reverse the wrongs of corrupt tyrant Hugo Chávez. Russia arms to Venezuela. “Bread and circuses populism has a long history in Venezuela, as does statism and authoritarianism. But Chávez took these things to new heights. Now after 11 years of Chávez, and one year of Maduro who is doubling down on Chávez’s policies, Venezuela is sliding toward basket case status. It has one of the world’s worst murder rates. Shortages of basic goods — including milk, medicines, and toilet paper — are common due to currency exchange and price controls that have made it unprofitable for business to import goods.” http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/honoring_a_venezuelan_tyrant_amid_bloody_protests_.html#ixzz41t66c0hy
√ al Qaeda and ISIS Islamic fundamentalism characterized by ‘death to infidels’ and death to the Great Satan U.S. spreads its reach from Asia to Africa to the Far East (oh, but at least bin Laden is dead).
√ Iraq is battling for survival against ISIS after U.S. pulls out leaving modern U.S. arms to fall into the hands of ISIS. (a culmination of foreign policy under Ms. Clinton’s tenure).
√ In June 2009, the U.S. State Department and Congress and Pentagon trained, schooled, commanded, funded and armed forces in Honduras in a military coup that overthrew country’s left-of-center President Mel Zelaya, the democratically elected government of Honduras. Those U.S.-backed forces are repressing the people of Honduras by force. “Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State… displayed a record of carrying out the policies that were being promoted by her lobbyist friends, when she did everything possible, early in President Obama’s first term, to support U.S. funding for the fascist junta in Honduras that perpetrated a coup d’etat on 28 June 2009 overthrowing that nation’s popular progressive democratically elected President, and who then installed their own regime, and promptly placed their country into a continuing violent terror that caused Honduras ever since to be the nation with the highest murder rate in the world. Hillary’s lobbyist friend in that particular matter was Lanny Davis, who also is an occasional Fox News contributor.” “Many commentators have mentioned that Hillary Clinton left behind no major achievement as the U.S. Secretary of State, but that isn’t true: the reality is that she did, several – and all of them are harms to the U.S., especially regarding two countries. They are Honduras and Afghanistan.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/hillary-clintons-two-fore_1_b_3714765.html
√ “In their annual End of Year survey, in the year Hillary Clinton left the office of U.S. Secretary of State, a poll by Win/Gallup International in 65 countries found that the United States is considered the number one “greatest threat to peace in the world today” by people across the globe.”
√ U.S. allies like Germany and Poland are driven away from America after decades of friendship.
√ But wait, there’s a lot more, The Atlantic reports:
Do you really want more of Hillary Clinton?
Hat tip and references:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/12/violent-crimes-shady-dealings-hillary-clinton.html
Tom Quiner
“Well, we happen to know him quite well. And we know that the vast majority of these characterizations are completely false; that Senator Cruz is an honest and decent man; that the negative portrayals of him are purposeful and a direct consequence of his willingness to fight for the American people against the massive power of the ruling class that our founding fathers predicted would occur; and that it would be an incredible disservice for you not to take a serious look at him as the only nominee who will lead this country away from its current path and toward the American promise of freedom, security and prosperity our children deserve.”
“Here’s why we believe this.”
http://theresurgent.com/why-we-believe-in-ted-cruz-we-were-there/
More than one third (1/3) of the federal government’s assets are student loans according to the 2015 audited financial statements of the federal government. Hidden in Obamacare, the federal government took over student loans from banks and private lending institutions. Previously, banks loaned students or families money for education and the federal government guaranteed the loans made by the banks. Now banks service loans, but the federal government owns them. Total assets of the federal government are $3.2 trillion and two categories of student loans ($880.6 billion+134.7 billion) total $1,015.3 billion. Due to the Obamacare change, this category of loans has grown over 300% since 2007. At least 4 key points to make here:
(1) The cost for the federal government to service these 17 million student loans was $864 million as of fiscal 2012, the latest data I could find.
(2) Student and education loans are the largest category of assets, larger than all government and military lands and buildings. Balance sheet net worth is assets minus liabilities. This $1 trillion in loans along with $2 trillion in other assets has the effect of reducing the negative net worth, i.e. the official national debt, of the federal government to negative $17 trillion. (The net worth of the U.S. government is negative $17,000,000,000,000.)
“Total liabilities ($21.5 trillion) consist mostly of: (1) $13.2 trillion in federal debt securities held by the public and accrued interest and (2) $6.7 trillion in federal employee and veteran benefits payable.”
“The “public” consists of individuals, corporations, state and local governments, Federal Reserve Banks, foreign governments, and other entities outside the federal government.”
Total liabilities does NOT include liabilities that are not yet funded, that is, commitments to pay which have already been made by the government but which so far are not recorded as liabilities on the balance sheet nor have a source of funding. That number is unknown but could be 3 to 10 times higher than the $21.5 trillion. We can’t know the total until the Federal Reserve is audited, among other agencies.
http://www.forbes.com/…/the-feds-16-trillion-bailouts-und…/…
(3) The Economist reported in June 2014 that over 7 million of these student loans were in default. That is a 41% default rate.
(4) The government has taken over a failing business and made it worse. As a result of Obamacare, the government now has about $1.2 trillion in student loans on its balance sheet, costing over $864 million per year to service the loans and 41% of those loans are in default.
Meanwhile, education is becoming more expensive and lower quality due to a variety of factors, especially artificial, excessive demand. According to BestValueSchools.com, the cost of a college education has increased 4.5 times (450%) in the last 30 years. In comparison medical costs have jumped more than 286% while the consumer price index has jumped 121%. But, larger numbers of college graduates are not landing jobs in their area of study.
Now, at least one candidate for president, Bernie Sanders, is campaigning on promises to make college “free.” The expectation was already out there that college education should be free due to statements by president Obama. Providing “free” college would cost taxpayers more than $1.2 trillion to forgive the outstanding student loans, an amount equal to one fourth of the annual tax revenue taken by the government, plus at least $595 billion per year ($35K per year X 17 million) in additional operating expenses because even the people who today pay for their education would demand it for free. And, those student loans would probably not be classified as assets, meaning the quality of the nation’s balance sheet would take a negative slam from the point of view of creditors and bond ratings agencies. What’s the next step? Nationalize universities to install price controls and capture their endowment funds?
But, over and above all of the above, it appears that the Obama administration used Obamacare in a sleight-of-hand shell game to bail out the banks once again. The government removed seriously non-performing loans from the bank’s balance sheets, and it is now paying the banks hundred of millions of dollars to service those loans. And at least sometimes it is using the IRS as a collection agency.
For their part, the auditors of the federal government financial statements point out yet again that the government is not on a sustainable path.
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/…/15…/02242016_FR(Final).pdf
http://www.bestvalueschools.com/understanding-the-rising-costs-of-higher-education/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/27/37-of-us-gov-assets-are-student-loans/
“The campus wars aren’t really about race. Race and the rest of the identity politics roster are the engine for transforming an academic environment into an activist environment.” …
“Imagine if physics majors rioted and demanded that every single area of study on campus had to incorporate theoretical physics and hire physics majors. That is exactly what is happening with identity politics studies. It’s a naked power grab that has the potential to redefine academia as we know it.” …
“They’re not academics; they’re activists with a mandate to impose their filter on everyone.”
“When we talk about political correctness, it isn’t just about banning certain jokes. That’s the smallest part of it. Political correctness is about making the political filter, the left’s lens, mandatory for all.” ~ Daniel Greenfield, February 29, 2016
Thoughts on negative interest rates: Fed Chairman Janet Yellen said negative interest rates are still on the table. If the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve go to negative interest rates on deposits, they would be penalizing saving. The results in America could be disaster. Savers are already penalized by artificially low interest rates. But imagine if you had to PAY interest on the money you have saved in your bank account, in your money market fund, on the money in your ATM account, on the cash in your brokerage account, on your T-bills.
Already, if truth be know, our deposits are legally a loan from you to your bank or broker, for which the bank or broker normally pays interest to you. If instead, you have to pay the banks to hold your money, that alone could cause a major run on the banks, as it has done in America before, and in Greece recently. People would be incented to withdraw their money and hold it or spend it. The government, as it always does, would call a bank “holiday” and close the banks to stop the run, as it has done before in America and as was recently done in Greece.
Can’t happen you say? Yes it could. Cash dollar bills could be eliminated, as already proposed elsewhere. All transactions could be required to occur by credit or debit card. There is already a move afoot to do that. The governments use the excuse that this is required to prevent money laundering and illegal drug cartels. A fee could be charged on ALL financial transactions on your debt and credit cards. Many cards already charge fees on international transactions. And, most already charge an annual fee for use of the card. The institutional processes are already in place. If these fees exceed the amount of interest earned on your deposit, then you would be loaning them money and paying them to borrow your money, i.e. negative interest rates.
Think of it like a Costco membership card. Today, you can buy an annual executive membership card from Costco that gives you the privilege of shopping at Costco stores, and that card pays you annually more than the cost of the annual executive membership card IF you spend more than about $700 per year. Essentially, this little card game gives you a discount for shopping at Costco if you spend over a certain amount. But, what if the discount became a fee instead? Would you still buy the Costco executive membership card if Costco sent you a big bill each year instead of a check? I think not.
In the larger national budget context, investors in the U.S. Treasury’s T-bills, notes and bonds would be paying interest TO the U.S. Treasury instead of the U.S. Treasury paying interest to its investors (e.g. your money market funds, your bank, ETFs, China and rest of the world). In that case, the U.S. government would have incentive to go further and further into debt, for example to roll over or recall bonds currently paying about 2.6% TO bond holders and instead issue in their place Treasury bonds which require by law that the bond-holder pays the government 1%. Reminder, at this moment, U.S. T-bills pay investors near zero% interest.
But it gets worse. The U.S. dollar is the world’s most widely held reserve currency. There are trillions upon trillions of U.S. dollars in the central banks of all nations. If negative interest rates on U.S. dollar deposits are allowed, it would cause a rapid Weimar-Republic-like run on the dollar (not only on the banks). There would be a rapid and massive inflation (loss of value) spiral downward on the value of the dollar in international foreign exchange markets. Imagine a banana from Costa Rica or a loaf of bread costing $100, a barrel of oil costing $10,000, gasoline costing $100 a gallon.
Negative interest rates would also crash the prices of all U.S. dollar denominated bonds, not only Treasury securities. What price would you pay for a security that guaranteed that you must pay by law 2% per year to the buyer of that security?
Help me out. I can think of only three events that would prevent this negative interest rate scenario from occurring:
First, of course, if negative interest rates are prohibited.
Second, the U.S. dollar (or an alternative the U.S. dollar) becomes instantly and by surprise the new world currency, that is, the ONLY reserve currency on the planet, with availability only for a limited time for pre-determined exchange rates for old U.S. dollars and all other old currency. Countries have done this before, but only within single countries.
Third is a major war, which would drive more money into U.S. dollars, a so-called flight to safety.
Can anyone think of other alternatives?
If we have negative interest rates, we would be paying the government to push us further into debt. How is that not slavery? And, if you refuse to pay your share, there is debtors prison for impeding a federal officer in the prosecution of official business.
TED CRUZ ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Graduated valedictorian in 1988 from Second Baptist High School
* Graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1992
* Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995
* 1992 U.S. National Debate Champion representing Princeton
* 1995 World Debating Championship semi-finalist representing Harvard
* Served a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, making him the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
* Served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008, making him the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country and the longest tenure in Texas history
* Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice
* Authored over 80 SCOTUS briefs and presented over 40 oral arguments before The Court
* In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms
* Presented oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
* Defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds,
* Defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools
* Defended the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States
* Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
* Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign
* Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
* Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas, defeating Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst who was heavily favored and backed by the DC old-guard GOP
* Defeated Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election
* Endorsed by The Tea Party and the Republican Liberty Caucus
* AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
* On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
* Unlike Obama, Cruz didn’t seat in the U.S. Senate and vote “present.”
He has sponsored 97 bills. Here are a few crucial pieces of legislation sponsored by Cruz:
* ObamaCare Repeal Act
* Prohibit use of drones from killing citizens of the United States within the United States
* Disarm Criminals and Protect Communities Act
* Firearm Straw Purchasing and Trafficking Prevention Act
* Defund Obamacare Act of 2013
* A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to permit States to require proof of citizenship for registration to vote in elections for Federal office
* A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse
* A bill to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards of up to $5,000,000 for information regarding the attacks on the United States diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya that began on September 11, 2012
* State Marriage Defense Act of 2014
* A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the intentional discrimination of a person or organization by an employee of the Internal Revenue Service
* A bill to prohibit the Department of the Treasury from assigning tax statuses to organizations based on their political beliefs and activities
* American Energy Renaissance Act of 2014
* A bill to deny admission to the United States to any representative to the United Nations who has been found to have been engaged in espionage activities or a terrorist activity against the United States and poses a threat to United States national security interests
* SuperPAC Elimination Act of 2014
* Free All Speech Act of 2014
* Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Suspension Act of 2014
* A bill to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards totaling up to $5,000,000 for information on the kidnapping and murder of Naftali Fraenkel, a dual United States-Israeli citizen, that began on June 12, 2014
* A bill to prevent the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawfully created by Executive memorandum on August 15, 2012
* Sanction Iran, Safeguard America Act of 2014
* Expatriate Terrorists Act
* Operation United Assistance Tax Exclusion Act of 2014
Helping Americans vet and choose candidates in the primaries may be the highest and best use of social media.
Long before the first debate, I was an original “Run Ben Run” supporter who helped and donated to get Dr. Carson to run. I think he is a very good man. And so is Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, good men are not often good political leaders. I don’t know why that is.
This primary election process, including the usually excellent discussions hosted by Hank, is very healthy for us and the country. In my almost 67 years, Americans lost the general election in the primaries. People did not pay attention to the primaries. Not many people anyway. The pollsters, the media, pundits and the operators of the two political parties chose a Democrat and a Republican. Then, in the general election, whether the Dem or the GOP candidate were elected, it did not matter much to the people on the street. Romney is not very different from Obama. McCain is not very different from Obama.
Government just grows and grows and becomes more expensive with more and more regulations, more laws and always more wars and more debt. Meanwhile, freedom for citizens continues to erode. It became more and more difficult to save any money to take care of your family. You had to take more and more risk to get ahead, or not, except of course if you worked for the government or in banking.
Thousands of years ago, the philosopher-teacher Aristotle said, “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” And that is still true today. So, these vigorous discussions during the primaries are very healthy for individuals as well as society; these open discussions in social media expose the information that all of us gather on the candidates so that we the people have a chance to vet and choose the candidates for the general election instead of the wealthy and the powerful.
G.K. Chesterton has been one of my heroes of thought. In “The Blunders of Our Parties”, Illustrated London News, 1924-04-19, he said, “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” He also said, “Tolerance is a virtue of a man with no convictions,” which is opposite the teachings of high schools and colleges of at least the last 30 years.
Speak up young folk. If you try, you can learn more online than anywhere else. And the price is right.
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