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Trump’s foreign policy might mark Peak America
Summary: No analysis by Trump’s foes shows the danger he poses so clearly as his own speeches. But we have lost the habit of listening to our leaders, instead relying on trusted tribal voices to filter and mold their words into pleasing poems. See Trump’s statement about Iran – and fear for America’s future.
The essential insight explaining the Trump years
Bill Bonner writes about finance at The Daily Reckoning and is a founder of The Agora (see this article about it). He is a doomster and perma-bear, but has an interesting perspective on our situation. See these terrifying words from his column “Corrections” in March 2001…
“Men do stupid things regularly and mad things occasionally. And sometimes, the impulse to self-destruction is so overwhelming it overtakes an entire nation. …The best a person can hope for when he goes mad is that he runs into a brick wall quickly …before he has a chance to build up speed. That is why success, in war and investing, is often a greater menace than failure. …
“People seem to make such obvious and moronic errors that it seems as if they were driven to it by some instinct of self-destruction — like lemmings periodically exterminating themselves in a march off the cliffs. What’s more, this diabolical instinct seems to report for duty at the very moment when the future seems the brightest — that is, when it is most needed! Just when men are most proud, most confident, most expansive in their ambitions and hopes …that is when they make the most lunkheaded judgments.”
Exhibit one, from President Trump
See the ignorance, hubris, and belligerence in the President Trump’s January Statement by the President on the Iran Nuclear Deal. It gives his justification for the US to attack Iran with every tool short of (so far) force. This might be Peak America.
“It {Iran} props up the murderous regime of Bashar al Assad, and has helped him slaughter his own people. …Within Iran, the Supreme Leader and his Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps use mass arrests and torture to oppress and silence Iran’s people. …”Iran’s ruling elite has let their citizens go hungry while enriching themselves by stealing Iran’s national wealth.”
That’s an incredible statement given the number of murderous regimes the US has installed and supported during its history. Look at Wikipedia’s list of nations using Death Squads. See how many are allies – or regimes installed by America. And so many kleptocratic rulers! Plus those who did all of the above, such as America’s long ally – President Marcos of the Philippines.
“The regime’s destructive missiles threaten neighboring countries and international shipping.”
The number of instances is beyond count in which America has threatened other nations with military force. Also, is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism? (Spoiler: yes.)
Now for the pièce de résistance of Trump’s statement.
“{W}e are calling on all nations to lend similar support to the Iranian people, who are suffering under a regime that is stifling basic freedoms and denying its citizens the opportunity to build better lives for their families – an opportunity that is every human being’s God-given right.”
We are working to punish Iran, even overthrow its government, for the Iranian people. Without asking if they want help from foreign infidels. Infidels whose CIA in 1953 overthrew their democratically elected government (Operation Ajax) to prevent it nationalizing Iran’s oil reserves. The CIA installed the Shah, who gave favorable treatment to western oil companies and whose secret police (SAVAK) crushed all opposition. Even in exile – leaving much of his wealth behind – he was one of the richest men in the world.
If the people of Iran did consider asking us to overthrow their government, the people of Afghanistan and Libya would scream “don’t!” We (and our allies) helped overthrow the rich, secular, stable Libyan regime — plugging it into chaos (making Islamic fundamentalists powerful) – to boost the profits of western oil companies. The CIA’s Operation Cyclone gave a black eye to the Soviet Union — and helped plunge Afghanistan into civil war from which it has not recovered (see how the lives of Afghanistan’s women have changed with our “help” (much as the women in Iraq and Libya have changed) – a reverse liberation back into oppression.
If Iran’s people decided they did want our help, they might stop when reminded of Trump’s frequently stated belief that we should have stolen Iraq’s oil as payment for our “help” (wrecking so much of their nation).
Only a President ignorant of our history could pose as a liberator of the Iranian people. Only a people ignorant of their history would treat such a statement with anything but ridicule.
Trump’s megalomanic closing!
“Those who, for whatever reason, choose not to work with us will be siding with the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions, and against the people of Iran and the peaceful nations of the world.”
Trump declares himself the voice of the world – or perhaps King of the World. Without bothering with consent of the governed.
A picture of American foreign policy
It is our foreign policy. It need not be delusional. It need not take America off a cliff. Our only hope lies in our hands, as it should.
102 Comments on "Trump’s foreign policy might mark Peak America"
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 12:59 pm
AP FACT CHECK: So where is Trump’s 3 percent growth?
https://apnews.com/cbf09fb819724aeeb09225ca2ba58c7b/AP-FACT-CHECK:-So-where-is-Trump's-3-percent-growth
Why Trump Is Probably to Blame for the Weak Dollar
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-05/why-trump-is-probably-to-blame-for-the-weak-dollar
The richest Americans get a $33,000 tax break under the GOP tax law. The poorest get $40
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/30/the-richest-americans-get-a-33000-tax-break-under-the-gop-tax-law-the-poorest-get-40/?utm_term=.daa4bc1f62d4
I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/30/im-a-depression-historian-the-gop-tax-bill-is-straight-out-of-1929/?utm_term=.f78173c6d6c6
Janet Yellen Isn’t Buying Trump’s Talk of an Economic Miracle From Tax Cuts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-13/yellen-isn-t-buying-trump-s-tax-cut-talk-of-an-economic-miracle
Goldman Sachs doesn’t think the Republican tax bill would be a big boost to the US economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-reform-bill-goldman-sachs-text-analysis-2017-12
Tax overhaul will have a limited effect on U.S. economy, Moody’s says
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tax-overhaul-will-have-a-limited-effect-on-us-economy-moodys-says-2018-01-25
Michael Moore predicts Trump-driven economic crash and advises not to invest in stock market
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/michael-moore-predicts-trump-driven-economic-crash-and-advises-not-to-invest-in-stock-market-2017-08-11
The Trump doomsayers might turn out to be right
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-doomsayers-might-turn-right-142123574.html
Wag The Dog — How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump And The American Media
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-chemical-attack-al-qaeda-played-donald-trump_us_58ea226fe4b058f0a02fca4d
How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside Washington
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-trump-regime-was-manufactured-by-a-war-inside-the-deep-state-f9e757071c70
Trump has made 1,950 misleading or outright false claims already https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/donald-trump-lies-fact-checker/index.html
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 1:01 pm
TRUMP Golf Count (Real-Time)
http://trumpgolfcount.com/
BobInget on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 1:13 pm
Below: a collection of comments on coming US oil shortages;
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kxviswan
I am getting massive crude draws in the next 3 months
I am calculating 64 MM crude draw in the next 3 months vs. STEO number of 4.5 MM barrels.
I used 17.3 MBD for refinery run rate, export 1.7 MBD, import 7.8 MBD and US production of 10.5 MBD as average for the next 3 months, April refinery run rate will be below 17.3 but June will compensate.
The average weekly draw works out to 4.9 MM barrels.
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Re: I am getting massive crude draws in the next 3 months
You are well more bullish than even I am.
I would expect such draws to occur by the end of August rather than end of June.
I would expect imports to rise to 8.0-8.5 mm bpd when we break down 400 mm bbl mark unless VZ collapses. With the help of Canada, Iraq and others at the expense of Europe/Asia.
If you are right, US crude stocks would drop to 360 mm bbl by the end of June (my target – by the end of August) that would match with the mid point of 2014.
My Milestones are 411, 400, 380, 360 mm bbl.
The first three – 80%+ odds, 360 mm bbl is less than 50% odds.
If you are right with 360mm bbl, why would WTI be lower than in 2014?
$100???
Would be happy to see it.
Best of luck,
romm
kxviswan;
In response to msg 139842 by romm view thread
Re: I am getting massive crude draws in the next 3 months
Last year imports were 8.13, 8.4 and 8 MM barrels/day for April, May and June.
Saudi contribution was 1.15, 1.1 and 1.02 MM barrels/day in these months. Expect these numbers to be 300-500K/day less. Add to this Venezuela that averaged more than 700K/day last year.
I do not see imports increasing over 7.8 MBD.
Re: I am getting massive crude draws in the next 3 months
I think you are being too conservative.
Here is why:
Energy Aspects said we drew 40 million b/d in Q1 2018:
” Had we said back in November 2017 that US petroleum inventories would not only fail to build in Q1 18 but instead draw by some 40 mb”
https://www.energyaspects.com/publications/search/macro-energy
Now if Q2 demand rises by 1 million b/d per rdesroch/IEA below, then see my conclusion at the bottom of this post:
” IEA Shocking Demand Increase! 2.4 Million bpd from Q1 to Q4 2018
I haven’t look at the yearly demand curve for quite some time, and the change in shape of the curve shocked me. In the past Q2 was the low point of the year, and was the shoulder season. All that has changed when I looked at the IEA estimates for 2018 from March report.
Q1 2018 demand is estimated to be 98 Mbpd
Q2 demand jumps by 1 MILLION a day!
Q3 jumps another 700 kbpd!
Q4 adds another 700 kbpd
From Q1 to Q4 demand jumps by 2.4 MILLION per day.
BobInget on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 1:44 pm
The following observation can be verified w/a Google search.
Trump tweeted on Trump Tower Fire that caused death of apartment tenant. 200 NYC firefighters attending;
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/08/trump-bragged-that-his-tower-withstood-a-fire-but-has-been-silent-about-the-man-who-died-in-it/?utm_term=.6fab65b9b1cc
(just the latest example of the man’s utter lack of empathy)
The following Tweet concerns a poison gas attack
in Syria.
(10 min)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-tweets-condemnation-of-syria-chemical-attack-criticizi
(Trump vows ‘Big Price to Pay’)
(2 hours)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/08/trump-blames-putin-obama-mindless-chemical-attack-syria/497132002/
IMO this entire mess is coming to a conclusion
this month.
Putin played a weak hand perfectly.
Again, IMO; Events in the last 24 hours will determine our collective futures.
Possibilities;
? US launches missile attack on President Assad.
Assad responds, attacking US troops in Syria.
? Israel and Saudi Arabia attack Iran.. Just because…
? Iran, forced to respond, knocks out Saudi export
choke points with ‘conventional’ weapons.
? Israel, feeling threatened? Launches nukes at
Iran.
? Fade to Black.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 2:55 pm
An oil crisis may be brewing — and it’s not because of decreasing demand
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-oil-crisis-may-be-brewing-and-not-because-of-decreasing-demand-2018-4
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:06 pm
Trump warns ‘big price to pay’ after dozens killed in apparent chemical-weapons attack in Syria
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-issues-warning-after-dozens-killed-in-apparent-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria-2018-04-08
Russia predicted this was going to happen a few weeks ago..
US training Syria militants for false flag chemical attack as basis for airstrikes – Russian MoD
https://www.rt.com/news/421589-us-preparing-syria-provocations-airstrikes/
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:16 pm
The “coalitional killing” of members of neighboring groups occurs regularly in humans, wolves and chimpanzees.
https://www.scribd.com/document/375842373/Evolution-of-Coalitionary-Killing
See Greg and Madkat The US is just doing what comes natural. so kick rocks you self righteous babies!
BobInget on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:16 pm
Trump Blamed Putin And Iran After Dozens Were Reportedly Killed In Syria Chemical Attack
Activists and rescue workers said as many as 70 people suffocated to death Saturday after a barrel bomb containing a chemical agent hit a shelter in a rebel-held town in Syria.
Originally posted on April 8, 2018, at 12:54 a.m.
Updated on April 8, 2018, at 1:35 p.m.
By Stephanie K. Baer (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Patrick Smith (BuzzFeed News Reporter) David Mack (BuzzFeed News Reporter)
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Medics, activists, and rescue workers in Syria said dozens of people were killed and hundreds of others injured in a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town near Damascus on Saturday — allegations the Syrian government has denied.
At least 70 people have been killed so far in the attack in Douma, the Union of Medical Relief Organizations, an American charity that works with Syrian hospitals, told the BBC.
Images circulating on social media showed the lifeless bodies of men, women, and children, including infants, foaming at the mouth — a telltale sign of a gas attack. The footage could not be independently confirmed.
The UN Security Council will convene for an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the alleged attack. “The Security Council has to come together and demand immediate access for first responders, support an independent investigation into what happened, and hold accountable those responsible for this atrocious act,” said US Ambassador Nikki Haley.
President Donald Trump, who last year launched a missile attack against the Syrian regime after a chemical attack in the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, placed blame for this weekend’s attack at the feet of Russia and Iran — criticizing Vladimir Putin by name.
“Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” he tweeted Sunday. “Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad.”
He warned there would be a “big price” to pay.
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…
01:00 PM – 08 Apr 2018
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….to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever. SICK!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
….to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever. SICK!
01:04 PM – 08 Apr 2018
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Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain urged the president to follow up on the tweet with military action.
“If it becomes a tweet without meaning, then he has hurt himself in North Korea. If he doesn’t follow through and live up to that tweet, he’s going to look weak in the eyes of Russia and Iran,” he told ABC’s This Week program. “So this is a defining moment, Mr. President. You need to follow through with that tweet.”
McCain also signaled he believed President Trump publicly pushing this week for US troops to soon withdraw from Syria, where they have been fighting ISIS, had contributed to the attack.
“Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack,” he said.
After President Trump tweeted about the apparent chemical attack in Syria, Sen @LindseyGrahamSC tells @MarthaRaddatz: “If [the president] doesn’t follow through and live up to that tweet, he’s going to look weak in the eyes of Russia and Iran. This is a defining moment.” https://t.co/YxKgRcgRDo
This Week
@ThisWeekABC
After President Trump tweeted about the apparent chemical attack in Syria, Sen @LindseyGrahamSC tells @MarthaRaddatz: “If [the president] doesn’t follow through and live up to that tweet, he’s going to look weak in the eyes of Russia and Iran. This is a defining moment.” https://t.co/YxKgRcgRDo
01:53 PM – 08 Apr 2018
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A tweet by the pro-opposition Ghouta Media Centre, which contained several graphic images, said that 75 people had been killed in the attack and that there were 1,000 more cases of suffocation.
In a now-deleted tweet, the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group formally known as Syria Civil Defence, put the death toll at 150. The group later said at least 40 people suffocated to death after a helicopter dropped a barrel bomb containing a chemical agent on Douma, a town in the Damascus suburbs known as Eastern Ghouta.
Entire families died while hiding in cellars, trying to seek shelter from air raids and barrel bombs, the group said on Twitter.
The reports have not been independently confirmed.
Other relief organizations and watchdog groups, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Syrian American Medical Society, also reported the attack, though the number of victims killed has varied.
Rami Abdulrahman, the director of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Reuters he could not confirm if chemical weapons had been used.
Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, rejected the claim that chemical agents were used in Saturday’s attack.
A US State Department spokesperson called the reports “horrifying,” and said in a statement that Russia should be blamed if chemicals were indeed used in an attack on civilians.
“Reports from a number of contacts and medical personnel on the ground indicate a potentially high number of casualties, including among families hiding in shelters,” the spokesperson, Heather Nauert, said. “These reports, if confirmed, are horrifying and demand an immediate response by the international community.”
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also called the reports “deeply disturbing.”
“An urgent investigation is needed and the international community must respond,” said a spokesperson for the British Foreign Office. “We call on the Assad regime and its backers, Russia and Iran, to stop the violence against innocent civilians.”
On Sunday, Moscow angrily denied that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta and said it would be able to provide proof.
News agencies reported that Russian Maj. Gen. Yuri Yevtushenko said: “We firmly deny this information. We are ready, once Douma is freed from militants, to immediately send Russian specialists in radiation, chemical, and biological defense to collect data that will confirm these claims are fabricated.”
On Sunday, the Syrian state broadcaster al-Ikhbariya reported that rebels in Douma had contacted the Syrian regime in the hope of restarting negotiations, which collapsed on Friday. The channel also said the government had demanded that the rebels release prisoners and cease shelling Damascus before any talks could start. The government began two-hour ceasefire began Sunday afternoon.
Despite repeated accusations, however, the Syrian government denies that it has ever used chemical weapons in the country’s seven-year civil war.
President Trump also mocked his predecessor, Barack Obama, for not taking military action against Syria after earlier chemical attacks.
If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history!
01:12 PM – 08 Apr 2018
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However, in 2013 Trump repeatedly urged Obama via Twitter not to attack Syria after the regime used sarin gas and other chemical weapons.
“The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement,” he tweeted in September 2013. “Do NOT attack Syria, fix U.S.A.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates or follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter.
Stephanie Baer is a reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact Stephanie K. Baer at stephanie.baer@buzzfeed.com.
Cloggie on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:23 pm
The bravest people in the West are no doubt the Hungarians. They had the courage to resist the Soviets in 1956 and began an uprising.
Today they consolidated the populist resistance against the treason of the western elites against their own populations:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5591225/Hungary-set-elect-PM-Viktor-Orban-consecutive-term.html
Hungary as no other has exposed how the US empire works and who calls the shots (“deep state”) and how they their European vassals in their (deep) pockets:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/31/hungary-europe-soros-network-list-allies-eu-parliament/
Who is this unelected Soros guy? Why does he have access to EU chieftain Juncker behind closed doors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQe9N5cH38
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Democracy in the West is a scam. Since 1945 we’re living in an oligarchy.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:26 pm
Trump blames Putin, for ‘Animal Assad,’ tweets ‘big price’ after reports of Syrian chemical attack
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/08/politics/donald-trump-syria-assad/index.html
Trump is now turning on Putin…..I know he would…lol
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 4:28 pm
Just like I said Clogg. Putin was just one false flag away! And now Trump is turning on him! lol great job Donald lets end this shit and take his oil and gas reserves! If I was Putin I would be packing my golden parachute!
BobInget on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:03 pm
Don’t be fooled MM.
Trump is the one in deep Doo.
If everything goes to plan, Russia ‘corners oil markets, worldwide’.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. … There were no U.S. casualties.
Gulf of Tonkin incident – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
Israel, Saudi Arabia, current White House have been searching for an excuse to ‘punish’ Iran.
Trump let the cat out of bag by blaming President
Obama and Iran for Syria’s gas attack.
Understand, bombing Iran will not be w/o serious consequence. Attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities will inevitably lead to serious retaliation.
Casus Belli is a term you be hearing in the next few days. Look it up.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:17 pm
2017 was the worst year for Hollywood movie ticket sales in the US in over two decades
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/hollywood-s-2017-is-a-bomb-as-moviegoing-slumps-to-25-year-low
Boat on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:31 pm
Mm
Netflix signed a producer for 5 years for 300 million. Your living in the past. Streaming movies is today. The movie theater is so yesterday. Except the Saudi. Building a theater for women I hear.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:32 pm
Long-run evolution of the global economy: 2. Hindcasts of innovation and growth (Garrett 2015)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ESDD….6..655G
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:37 pm
Boat
I know boat its just netflix and the retail stores collapses is just amazon. and the car sales collapses is just uber. and the restaurants closing is just people high on opoites who dont feel hungry. .LOL
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:39 pm
The Collapse of Civilization Manifesto
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:41 pm
The US has reached the last stage before collapse – Foreign Policy
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-reached-last-stage-before-collapse-2017-12
American Psychological Association: Majority (59 percent) said this is “Lowest Point in U.S. History”
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/11/lowest-point.aspx
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:45 pm
Adidas to close stores in online push: CEO in Financial Times
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-adidas-ceo/adidas-to-close-stores-in-online-push-ceo-in-financial-times-idUSKBN1HF0VP
Boat on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 6:45 pm
Mm
Not to mention unemployment is so low something has to close for the new something grow. Ask Japan. Bring on the robots. Try tracking the new shyt vrs the closing of old shyt. Everything about you is so old.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 7:08 pm
Boat
The labour participation rate across the world is dropping rapidly. You may be inclined to believe the official unemployment numbers, but, they are a poor indicator of employment statistics. Let us take the United States as an example. The labour participation rates have dropped way below the rates when 1980’s recession unfolded.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-might-not-be-as-close-to-full-employment-as-we-think-2018-2
Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary
https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created-since-2005-are-temporary/
The lost decade for the economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/01/01/GR2010010101478.html
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 7:15 pm
Boat
Next time before you spew MSM talking points. Try questioning the fake news..Then you wont be so fooled1
Don’t believe the lies about the US being at ‘full employment’
https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/dont-believe-the-lies-about-the-us-being-at-full-employment/
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment – Gallup
http://news.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx
MASTERMIND on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 7:18 pm
Boat if unemployment is so low. Then why are so many major companies laying workers off?
Amazon lays off hundreds of employees
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/12/technology/amazon-layoffs/index.html
Tech layoffs surged in 2016, and 2017 doesn’t look much brighter
https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2017/02/17/tech-layoffs-surged-in-2016-and-2017-doesnt-look.html
Goldman Sachs Announces Its Biggest Layoffs Since Financial Crisis
http://fortune.com/2016/07/19/goldman-sachs-layoffs-3/
IBM Layoffs 2018: What We Know About the Job Cuts
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/ibm-layoffs-2018-what-we-know-about-the-job-cuts-cm942003
Cisco’s Layoffs Are Just the Tip of the Spear for Tech
http://fortune.com/2016/08/18/expect-more-tech-layoffs/
Microsoft plans thousands of job cuts
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/microsoft-will-layoff-thousands-of-employees.html
Walmart is reportedly planning to cut over 1,000 corporate jobs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/walmart-is-reportedly-planning-to-cut-over-1000-corporate-jobs.html
Caterpillar announces undisclosed number of layoffshttp://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-caterpillar-layoffs-20161214-story.html
Lego to cut 1,400 jobs and ‘reset company’ after sales drop
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-lego-job-cuts-sales-drop-20170905-story.html
GE Is Laying Off 12,000 People From Its Power Business
http://fortune.com/2017/12/07/ge-layoff-power-business/
Kellogg job cuts are ‘devastating news’ -Union
https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2017/09/01/union-kellogg-job-cuts-devastating-news/625401001/
Pfizer Expecting Layoffs as it Ends Alzheimer’s Drug Research
http://fortune.com/2018/01/08/pfizer-alzheimers-drug-research-end/
Toys ‘R’ Us lays off 31,000 employees: No job and no severance
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/16/news/companies/toys-r-us-employees/index.html
Barnes & Noble Is Laying Off Workers Amid Declining Sales
http://fortune.com/2018/02/13/barnes-noble-layoff-workers-declining-sales/
Kleenex and Huggies Maker to Cut More Than 5,000 Jobs
http://fortune.com/2018/01/23/kimberly-clark-job-cuts/
State Farm to Close 11 Offices, Cut Some 4,200 Jobs, After 2016 $7B Loss
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/05/04/450094.htm
Macy’s is closing 68 stores — laying off around 4,000 employees
http://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-macys-stores-closing-2017-1
Lowe’s Will Lay Off More Than 500 Workers
http://fortune.com/2017/02/22/lowes-layoffs-north-ca
Cloggie on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 10:29 pm
Oh-la-la, another nail into the coffin of the empire:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5591225/Hungary-set-elect-PM-Viktor-Orban-consecutive-term.html
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has hailed an ‘extraordinary victory’ after his party was projected to win a landslide victory in elections.
With almost 98 percent of votes counted, Orban’s Fidesz party has won 48.81 per cent of the vote, the National Election Office (NVI) said, surpassing even the expectations of many within Fidesz.
This is expected to translate to 134 seats in parliament.
Nationalist party Jobbik is predicted to 27 seats, the election office’s website said, while the socialist party was expected to win 20 seats”
The 2nd party is even more rightwing.lol
#SignOfTheTimes
Interestingly, Orban does not want to leave or blow up the EU, but instead take it over. Berlusconi same story. And they are both pro-Putin
Keith McClary on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 10:58 pm
This doesn’t even mention Trump’s trade war with China (and maybe with Canada and Mexico at the same time).
GregT on Sun, 8th Apr 2018 11:30 pm
It isn’t Trump’s foreign policy. It’s the same US foreign policy that the world has witnessed for the last 70 years, at least, dictated by the same group of people.
Like I’ve been saying here for over four years now, the destabilization of Iran has always been their ultimate goal.
Cloggie on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 12:17 am
Just like I said Clogg. Putin was just one false flag away! And now Trump is turning on him! lol great job Donald lets end this shit and take his oil and gas reserves! If I was Putin I would be packing my golden parachute!
Eurasia is ready for you.
Remember Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan?
ROFL
https://www.rt.com/news/387313-us-losing-leadership-eu-mogherini/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZIUdHm6b4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omm3QPMqyjc
China, Russia and Europa are solid real, coherent nations.
America in contrast is this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/967415441839796225
Your GIs may have a sexy teint but can they still read?
Anglosphere is so 19th-20th century.
London former head police warns that the police is losing control over majority Islamic London:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/05/london-murders-met-seen-as-losing-control-of-streets-warns-ex-officer
DerHundistlos on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 2:29 am
I entirely concur with this line of reasoning. I have been saying something similar ever since Trump assumed the presidency and his political party assumed control of the legislative and judicial branches. Since then, Trump and his Republican enablers have been working furiously to destroy the natural world. Even at this site, where people should know better, Trump et al are aggressively defended by a small army of sycophants.
Either the Republicon’s have a death wish or they have a below ground/off planet exit plan when the Earth begins to go Venus.
The only solace is knowing that these monsters will be interred in an eternal Pain Amplification Chamber so enjoy it while it lasts.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 2:34 am
Boat-
“Full employment” is meaningless when wages are stagnant and the vast majority of new job creation pays minimum wage.
Davy on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 3:41 am
Please anyone singling out a party or one man as the problem is oblivious.
JuanP on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 8:43 am
DerHundistlos “The only solace is knowing that these monsters will be interred in an eternal Pain Amplification Chamber so enjoy it while it lasts.”
I guess that means you believe in hell? Unfortunately, I don’t. The sad truth is that most evil and selfish people mostly get away with screwing others at will. To become very rich and powerful in this world it helps to be sociopathic and narcissistic. Trump and Hillary are both typical examples of this.
joe on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 1:15 pm
The last week has seen isis and violent sunni muslim extremists pushed out of the area of eastern Damascus (eastern ghouta) to the consternation of Israel (and Linsey Graham) Trump announced quite rightly that he could not give a fuck. Why? Obama tried to get rid of Erdogan, Russia saved his ass, he knows it, Turkey is taking delivery of the s400 missile system (you need Russians to operate it). Americans are fighting Turkey in Syria cause they promised too much again to the Kurds. Remember that it was the Kurds who stopped isis with CAG and serious airpower. So America has only three choices, 1 support the Kurds in fighting a nato ally, 2 turn on the Kurds and help isis/jihadis/turkey, 3 invade Syria using a conventional army like the invasion of Iraq of yet another country that never attacked America.
Like with the suspected poisoning of Skripal in the UK, real/not real, staged/not staged, the US has no good alternatives and no real strategic interests in Syria, however many interests wish to keep the US fighting in Syria. Fact is this is not 1900, fighting for coal ports or 100 years worth of easy oil is not an option, the US risks fighting strategy games for worthless gains. Saudi Arabia is currently starving millions of people in Yemen, Linsey Grahams moral compass is seriously off centre, Trump is not in control, its likely he got everything he wanted in Nov 2016 (one in Obamas eye) and stopped caring soon after, he probobly just reads what he’s told to read and plays golf like the other old retired men.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 5:06 pm
Well, Davy, there’s only ONE of the TWO political parties that have passed legislation to a sell-off our parks and protected areas. Only on of the two political parties has legislation before congress to eliminate the highly successful Endangered Species Act. Only one of the two parties is rolling back decades of important environmental safeguards. Only one of the two parties passed legislation that allows chemical companies to introduce new compounds into the environment without safety trials. And the list goes on.
These are indisputable and specific facts. If you have EVIDENCE to the contrary, then show me.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 5:24 pm
Don Juan-
No, I don’t know if hell exists. I do know while the effects of a person’s behaviors are not necessarily apparent right away; nevertheless, they show up eventually.
In Hinduism, karma intrinsically is linked to the concept of getting back what one puts forward. The bible teaches whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
All major religions address this issue for the reason that experience has demonstrated this to be true.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 9th Apr 2018 5:47 pm
Yeah, the two parties are equally destructive to the environment EXCEPT for (incomplete listing):
Only ONE of the TWO major political parties amended the Migratory Bird Act to allow for the killing of birds, regardless of their conservation status.
Only ONE of the TWO political parties supports the removal of endangered status for nearly 300 critically endangered species in order to help their development supporters.
Trump eliminated fuel efficiency standards established by the Obama administration.
Massive cuts to climate and clean energy programs.
Trump loosened regulations on toxic air pollution.
Trump prohibits the use of climate change wordage in all government publications.
In a plan that is a direct attack on the Indian Nations, Trump announced that he would reduce the 1.35-million acre Bears Ears National Monument, created by President Barack Obama in late 2016, by 85 percent. The president also said he would cut the 1.88-million acre Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, designated by President Bill Clinton in 1996, nearly in half.
Trump repeals entire Clean Power Plan.
Trump drops Obama era ozone stanmdards.
The Trump Administration cancelled a rule that would have helped prevent endangered whales and sea turtles from becoming entangled in fishing nets off the U.S. West Coast.
makati1 on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 6:21 pm
Der, BOTH so called ‘parties’ are bent on leveling the playing field in the Us. Neither one really runs America. Big corporations and big banks do. Your vote is nothing. Distraction while the tax needle in your arm is bleeding you dry.
It’s ALL about money and power, not logic and morality. Resources are to be exploited for profit. You can thank Capitalism for that. Capitalism encourages greed. Allows a few to amass unearned wealth at the expense of fools.
That is why I am anxious for the collapse that will end the plundering and murder of the ecosystem by the West and especially the Us. I cannot wait to wake up some morning and the DOW is at 400 and the Us is in panic. Bring it on!
Davy on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 7:41 pm
Billy 3rd world thinks his P’s will be just fine when the world’s economy crashes. He forgets his country imports many things and it’s overpopulation is only managed with growth.
makati1 on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 7:53 pm
“How appropriate they are now in Amerika 2018. We have finally become a damaged empire due to a mega variety of reasons. Foremost is the delusion of far too many of us that we a nation victimized by forces of terror outside of our influence. Well, anyone who takes the time to turn away from the narcotics of electronic gadgetry, 24 hour sports, sexual delights, addictive cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs of preference, along with mainstream media’s embedded- with- empire phony news, would see that (sadly) our nation is the role model for terrorism. As we float aimlessly into the narrow straights of both national and individual economic turmoil (even bankruptcy) the ‘movers and shakers’ of this empire laugh all the way from their well secured gated communities to their banks and investment houses.
Can this all not be a dream, contrary to what most Eastern philosophies teach? After all, could George Orwell have written a better story with a Reality Television star becoming president? As with those lemmings who thought the Gordon Gecko character in Oliver Stone‘s film Wall Street was sacrosanct in his belief that ‘Greed is good’, so too those with but ‘A pot to piss in’ followed almost religiously a billionaire so called populist demagogue who peddled the same crap. He did not ‘drain the swamp’, rather filling it with more super rich ‘Greed is good’ muck. Yet, it only shows how much our Amerikan populace can continue to take from an enema bag overloaded with…
We who love the country we grew up in, and see through this con job, signed off by the two halves of our Two Party political scam, have a civic duty to stand up and say ‘NO MORE!’ One afternoon a few short years ago, as my 85 year-old peace activist friend John and I stood outside our library holding signs to protest this Military Industrial Empire, a lady from Germany came up to us. She complimented us on our activism and made a cogent point:
“You Americans have so much to be angry with concerning this government and its phony wars. You have but two of you standing out here each week. If this was Germany and my country did what yours has done, there would be literally a thousand people out here with you.”
Well, it seems that my fellow citizens have become too comfortable living in this feudal society. Psychologists refer to this kind of mindset as that of enabling. How many Apple Annies must there be on the street corners of our nation before we all get wise?”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/its-all-over-now-baby-red-white-and-blue-the-two-party-political-scam-and-the-u-s-military-industrial-complex/5635558
Nuff said.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 7:55 pm
Mak, Capitalism also encourages waste and planned obsolescence. Can’t have high quality consumer items that last. It eats into the profits.
Boat on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 8:29 pm
Sisfuss
Not true. I look for value vrs price according to need. You can buy cheap, mid-range or expensive products. If your a sophisticated consumer that is.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 8:58 pm
I’m not paying $1300 for a washing machine, Boater. Where’s the value in that?
Boat on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 9:40 pm
Fusssiss
You must be a foriegner. Reading comprehension not a skill set highly tuned. Bet you could garden though.
makati1 on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 10:28 pm
Calling the kettle black, Boat? lol
makati1 on Tue, 10th Apr 2018 10:32 pm
Sissy, Was a time when an appliance would last for decades and could be easily repaired. Then they started to run out of new customers so they began the use of “planned obsolescence”. Now most appliances last less than 10 years and some not even five. And, they are mostly unreparable. Capitalism/waste big time.
Cloggie on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 12:28 am
Peak America?
1912 – US Jewry snatches US purse (Fed)
1933 – US Jewry takes over US government, teams up USSR
1945 – intended destruction Europe succeeded, organized by US Jewry
1948 – Jews lose USSR to Stalin, Cold War begins
1963 – Mossad kills closet anti-semite and Hitler-admirer JFK
1965 – US Jewry opens US borders for 3rd world immigration
1969 – Moonlanding (German engineering ingenuity + giant US tax farm
1975 – US loses Vietnam war, first real scratch prestige
1991 – Russia added to the empire after collapse USSR
2000 – Putin appears, kicks kiken oligarchs out
2001 – CIA-Mossad engineer 9/11 to create pretext to invade ME
2003 – Putin-Schroeder-Chiraq team up and say no to invasion. Begin PBM
2005 – Total US vassal Merkel takes over
2007 – Begin SCO alliance Russia-China
2008 – Begin complete failure US policies ME
2011 – US instigates war in Syria, causes rise IS
2014 – CIA engineers Euro-Maidan
2015 – Russia turns things around in Syria
2016 – Populism reaches White House, against NWO
So when was peak America?
I would say 1969: top of prestige and still white. Vietnam was beginning of real decline, Iraq/Syria hastened it. Now US is ticking ethnic timebomb. Alt-right wants to break up US. Rest of the world wants that too. WW3 will make it happen.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 12:32 am
Triple Digit Oil Prices: Are You Ready?
https://investoralmanac.com/2018/03/21/triple-digit-oil-prices-are-you-ready/
Hope you like paying double for gas soon!
Theedrich on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 3:19 am
America’s DeepState loves false flags. Ever since the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana harbor (1898), it has been the preferred way to whip up suicidal patriotic fervor among the otherwise inert masses.
As Aeschylus, a Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC) said long ago, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” We can now expect that, with U.S. spy-satellite information, Yidland, Araby and other dog-waggers will do the State Department’s will for it. The media-anesthetized plebs will see only one side of the story: America good, Syria (and Yemen, Iran or other U.S. target) bad.
Yup, let’s use our God-given, Yid-Cretin nukes on them. And let’s not inquire too closely into what is really happening in Syria or Yemen. Because Yahweh the Yid-chosen god wants us to.
Also, let us not speculate about the possibility that we might spawn thermonuclear war. Because Jeezus doesn’t want us to worry our microcephalic brains about that.
Cloggie on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 5:56 am
Russia threatens to take out incoming US missiles in Syria.
Russian television warns viewers to prep:
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/984014083505651713
Anglos are well-advised to get the f* out of Eurasia or run the risk of getting killed.
And certain fools from the Ozarks should even think of running off to Italy.lol
This forum will probably close down (or “Americanize”) as soon as war breaks out.
WW3 is only one button push away.
makati1 on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 6:09 am
Cloggie, you see it clearly. One “Oops!” from Armageddon. The fools in DC think they can win … or so they claim. No winners this time. Only ‘survivors’ that will die from a nuclear winter and/or cancers.
I will be very surprised if Russia backs down. I hope their missiles take out any fired by the Us. Now THAT would be a kick in the ass for the ‘exceptional’ country. LOL
Davy on Wed, 11th Apr 2018 6:17 am
“Anglos are well-advised to get the f* out of Eurasia or run the risk of getting killed. “
Dream on Nazi
“And certain fools from the Ozarks should even think of running off to Italy.lol”
I have a place to go do you? Nope, what happens when your money is no good? You are just a lonely old man like billy 3rd world with nobody to take care of you.
“This forum will probably close down (or “Americanize”) as soon as war breaks out.”
This board needs to lose some Nazi baggage that spams and pressures the board with lies and embellishments.