The 45th President of the United States: Donald Trump

Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon Tells It Like It Is

"Americans are brought up to believe all sorts of myths about the country we call home. We’re told our economy is a free market meritocracy governed by the rule of law. We’re told our civil liberties, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, are inviolable and protected by the most powerful military in the world. A fighting force entrusted with the admirable and monumental task of defending freedoms at home, and democracy and human rights abroad. We’re told we exist in a system of self-government, in which our votes matter and our voices heard. In practice, none of this is true.
The fact of the matter is American citizens in 2018 are just a nuisance for the real power players. Useful as consumers, but increasingly problematic as larger numbers start to ask questions about how things really work. For far too long, we’ve been ignorant and willing accomplices in our own bondage. This allowed the concentrated and unaccountable power that really calls the shots to go for broke in recent decades, with unsurprisingly tragic results..."

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Freaked Out New World Order vs. We the People – Alex Newman

   "...The debt will not be forgiven willingly..."

January 17, 2019

"...The US is the most indebted country in the world, but debt is a global disease. In China, total debt has grown from $2 trillion in 2000 to $40 trillion today. Japan is just as bad. Japan with government debt at $1 trillion (250% of GDP) would default if rates increased by 0.5%. In Europe, the Mediterranean countries, with Italy the worst, are borrowing heavily, mainly financed by the ECB and German banks. But we only need to look at the balance sheet and share price of Deutsche Bank to realise that the German banking system is on the verge of collapse too. And so it goes on, with most emerging markets heavily indebted and unable to ever repay their debts.
If we then add derivatives at $1.5 quadrillion, we know that global debt and liabilities will implode into a black hole and cause asset prices to collapse..." HERE

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Gregory Mannarino

"...There has been no recovery since 2008. We have been in a factual economic recession since and the "recovery" since 2000 was essentially non-existent as well. Period. Likewise the "employment" numbers are gamed; they do not count you as "unemployed" if you're not actively looking for work. In 2007 there were 78 million people "not in the labor force" and thus not counted. Last month there were nearly 96 million such people and not one of them counts as being "unemployed"; the employment:population ratio remains two full percent below 2007 levels and four percent below the levels of 2000.
So-called "economists" all know this. So do all the bankers. So does every member of the Fed. So does Cramer. So do the rest of CNBS' guests. So does Donald Trump, Mnuchin and the rest of his lying, scheming, criminal cabal exactly as did Tim Geithner and President Obama, never mind Bush. They are all lying and have been since 2000 -- serially, criminally and notoriously while the American public laps it up like Pavlov's dog.

So why is the stock market soaring? Because all that emitted unbacked credit goes somewhere and where it went was into stock buybacks and the 0.1%'s pockets. Where it did not go was into ordinary American's pockets, just as it didn't for the entire eight years of Obama's Presidency.
Ordinary people -- 99% of the population in any nation -- only gain quality of life in real terms when REAL GDP expands. It has not done so in the United States since 2000 and that is a trivially-proved fact requiring nothing more than grade-school arithmetic.
There hasn't been any actual material GDP expansion since President Clinton left office. It has all been a scam since with every bit of alleged "GDP growth" created out of one thing and one thing only: Federal deficit spending. There has been exactly no real GDP expansion of material import -- that is, actual expansion in the production of goods and services -- for the last 18 years. We have not had one year of actual GDP expansion exceeding 2.06% since 2000 and accounting for population expansion we have not had one year in which it has exceeded one percent.

This is not my data; it is directly from the BEA and the Treasury's "Debt to the Penny" series. You can trivially go look for it yourself and using either Google Sheets or Excel replicate these charts. These figures are from Trump's own Government agencies and it took me less than an hour to source, compile the write this Ticker.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A LYING, SCHEMING SACK OF ****." Karl Denninger HERE

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The State of the Economy

"No one is talking about it openly, but, let us face it: those U.S.-made planes are crashing; the performance of Apple phones and computers is falling far behind those made by Huawei and other Chinese companies. Lenovo took over IBM and is doing extremely well. NASA is absolutely incapable of building decent rockets that would be able to deliver people or even satellites to space, cheaply and safely.
In the field of electric automobiles, China is far, far ahead. In fact, anyone who visits a major or secondary Chinese city, would be shocked to see that the implementation of ‘zero emission’ vehicles there is not something that is in the planning stage, it has for several years been a dream come true, reality: dozens of Chinese cities already have an excellent network of metro trains, of ecological electric buses, and of enormous public sidewalks that encourage people to stroll and remain healthy. Even police cars in China are electric.
Russia is doing extremely well, in several fields. In fact, it is at the vanguard, when it comes to such grounds as science and culture. Those days of ‘humiliation’ of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin era are far back, when Moscow naively believed Thatcherites and Reaganites! Russia is rolling: now producing and exporting excellent, often organic food. Its icebreakers are opening new paths for both people and goods. Russian space rockets are second to none, and its passenger airplanes are back in the skies. Nuclear and other power plants are helping to supply energy to many countries, all over the world.
You name it; China and Russia are producing it, developing it, helping to create it! Both nations are cooperating, scientifically, working for people, not just for business.
Citizens in both countries are enthusiastic, optimistic, full of hope. Their lives are improving, and there is so much to look forward to! They are building their nations, and helping the world to survive, to move forward. It can be called Communism or socialism with Chinese characteristics. Or it can be called nothing in particular in Russia (according to surveys, most of the citizens there want both the Soviet Union and Communism back, and the government is attentively listening, steering the country into the right direction). Perhaps, soon, the definition will be ‘socialism Russian-style’, without huge posters, but with plenty to show, and to celebrate.
But whatever it really is, it is working; working very well. Standards of living are growing. Health is improving. The environment is improving. Culture is everywhere. People are ecstatic.

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And the West? The United States of A?
No, really! Honestly. Recently I spoke at several universities in Canada and Europe; I worked on two books in California. What a depressing experience!
Everyone bitching about everything; no optimism, and no spirit of building the motherland or improving the world. Cynicism, nihilism, bad moods on every corner. Nothing is ‘sacred’.
People shackled by debts and loans, scared of leaving the insane rat race.
In the US of A, there is horror of getting sick and ending up on the street. And those bizarre, truly repulsive student loans: the regime forces you to study in order to get brainwashed, becoming a reliable lackey, and then slams you with tens of thousands of dollars in basically unserviceable debts. And where does it all lead to? To some tremendous scientific breakthroughs? To groundbreaking works of art? To pushing the boundaries with new, magnificent works of philosophy? No way! It only leads to the printing of new and newer diplomas, of PhD. certificates, each costing tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars. And those desperate research labs in the USA (most of them private, anyway) are importing scientists from India and China, trying to brain-drain the nations who are educating their people for free or cheaply. While concert halls in New York and London are begging the Chinese, Korean, Argentinian, Russian and Japanese pianists to come and play, even Western classical music.
What is it, President Trump? ‘Making America great again’ is somehow not working, is it?
Your country tried to ruin Soviet and Chinese communism for decades, telling the East Europeans through propaganda media outlets how great, how glorious the Western market system was, and how pathetic the command economy was, central planning and internationalism.
Look at them now – those who ate your lies: in Bulgaria and Romania, both EU countries, people are living in misery, industry ruined or eaten by German and French multi-nationals. Look at Ukraine: a country with a standard of living approaching that of the poorest Southeast Asian countries. Even in the rich Czechia, I recently saw people eating from garbage bins, while once mighty factories like Skoda have been totally cannibalized by West European businesses. That’s what you used to tell them – East Europeans: “Come back to Europe. Come to the West!” So, they did. Talk to them now: nobody seems to be happy.
Western nihilism ate all basic, healthy human instincts, alive. Look at the West European citizens. Most of them shout at their television sets from bar stools or sofas; no internationalist principles left. Human beings reduced to only desiring more money, more food, more booze, more privileges – “benefits”. At the expense of others. A finished ‘culture’. Nothing great is being produced – literature, films, music. A total collapse of basic values. Putting people who are trying to help refugees on the high seas into prison; refugees who are escaping from countries ruined and destabilized by Western terror, aggression and greed. Disgusting. “New Europe”.
At least Europe is still producing some decent watches, shoes, cars and fragrances. Nothing that could justify the outrageously high standard of living of its citizens. Not much, really; no major breakthroughs from which humanity could benefit, but at least something, still.
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But what is it that could “Make America “Great Again?” in the US of A?
If it is not loot and naked imperialism, what makes the country so rich? And rich it is. Not necessarily its people, but the country, definitely.
Once again, others are producing better planes, better cars, better computers, communication systems, phones, audio devices. Others are building better cities with a much higher quality of life. Others have created incomparably greater high-speed rail networks, public transportation, better pharmaceutical research institutions. Others are making much better films (not that horror and violent crap of Hollywood), write much better books, think and dream about much better societies.
So, what is it, President Trump, that America (let’s actually call it the United States, as your country does not own America, which, despite its idiotic name derived from that greedy ‘discoverer’ Amerigo Vespucci, spreads all the way down to Fire Land and was ‘the greatest’ before it got invaded and plundered by that Western imperialist scum) could still offer to this scarred but increasingly alert planet?
Should we celebrate subjugation? Should we climax from being coerced into slavery?
Your weapons, which are murdering millions, annually, in all corners of the globe? Should your weapons which are produced from an unbridled military budget, which not even your own government could calculate properly, make America great again?
Because if not your weapons, then what?
Your food, your mass-produced food full of cancerogenic chemicals? Your junk food? Hardly! Your music, which has never evolved from “I love you, don’t leave me” repetitiveness? Or your idiotic movies in which some giant insects are eating entire cities; thoroughly bizarre, infantile and sadistic fantasies of brains that have been fried by cocaine inside the pseudo-Roman villas of Southern California; idiotic movies that are spreading nihilism, mediocrity and intellectual degeneracy worldwide?
Or that ‘me-me-me’ obsession, appalling cry-baby selfishness, a constant ‘fight’ for ‘sexual rights’ (of all imaginable and unimaginable denominations), which steals the true political narrative and keeps people away from real issues and the horrors that are occurring in both your country and abroad, where your murderous armies and propagandists have already destroyed all hope and even the future.
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You know, Trump, one sure way to make “America Great Again”, is to make your people ‘think again’. To detox them from pathologies that your regime has created, from the horrible neurosis which have reduced them to what they are now.
Get rid of the turbo-capitalist, mega consumerist nightmare. Fire most of the staff from the universities, and hire those who can teach students how to think and how to dream, instead of forcing them into serving your corporate cosmos. Send your media slaves whom you call ‘journalists’ to some potato farms, to get a bit of fresh air, so they stop polluting the airwaves and pages of the newspapers, with unimaginable lies and fabrications (you hate them anyway, so it should be quite easy).
Teach them – your own citizens – about real patriotism: hard work, deep thinking, altruism. Teach them how to build a kind, compassionate society, with a great quality of life, healthy environment, and great culture.
And fire those degenerates, mass murderers, like Bolton and Pompeo.
You would not do it, would you? You cannot really lead, or even understand the horror into which your nation has submerged!
And your citizens will keep voting you, or others like you, into office.
So, the only way you can continue to rule over the world, is by force. Hoping that others will not defend themselves, out of fear.
That is precisely what you are doing! This is all you know how to do!
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We determined that the United States of A is not excelling in almost anything, anymore. The same could be said about the entire West.
Let us summarize again: Washington excels only in the production of its deadly weapons, and in scaring other nations into submission. It is also doing great when it comes to propaganda, of which ‘education’ and ‘media’ are an indispensable part.
This is, of course, not good enough. This is not what the people on all the continents want: to be controlled like this forever.
Trump knows it, somehow, intuitively. Not intellectually but subconsciously. And so do his lieutenants like Bolton and Pompeo.
But they are not ready to give up and to let others, those who are more talented and kinder, lead the planet. Because controlling the world is the old, unpronounced but ‘understood’ dogma, on which both Europe and the United States were constructed. A religious, fundamentalist dogma.
A country built on greed, plunder and selfishness, has suddenly nothing tangible or optimistic to offer to the world. Therefore, it will intimidate, even murder, but never let go. It does not know how to lose. It does not know how to compromise. It only knows how to control. Losing is not in its vocabulary." If it cannot be loved, it will rape!

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