America's Fake Democracy, Or Why Trump's Rule Must End

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. James Madison

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. Alexander Hamilton

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams

America is not a democracy, never has been and was never intended to be. America is an oligarchy: originally an oligarchy of rich owners of land and slaves, but today an oligarchy largely of the chiefs of the civilian and military security agencies in collaboration with tech billionaires, the corporate media, and the educational bureaucracies. 

It is true that the legislative branch of government is elected, but in the election of the upper house, or Senate, the US Constitution gives equal representation not to each citizen, but to each state. Thus, in Senate elections, the vote of each of Wyoming's 582 thousand residents counts for as much as the votes of 70 of California's 40 million residents. 

Such inequality was fully intended by the Framers of the American Constitution. Allocating an equal number of Senate seats to each state ensured dominance of the Senate by representatives of the land- and slave-owning class versus representatives of industrialized states with rapidly growing blue-collar populations.

Today, by virtue of the absence of campaign finance limits, electoral bias in favor of the property owning class remains, even as the nature of the property owned has changed (although perhaps not as much as might appear, Bill Gates being reportedly largest farmland owner in America). 

Moreover, campaign finance is only one of many ways in which the Money Power influences the outcome of US elections. Of obvious importance in this respect are the news media controlled by a handful of giant corporations, whose chief function it is to catapult elite propaganda. 

There is, in addition, a new election-determining factor closely allied with the Money Power, namely, the great state bureaucracies, in particular the "education" establishment and the agencies of national security. 

The prime function of the "education" establishment is to brainwash the masses, the main object being to render them submissive to the government directives and slogans of the day, whether they be to promote the wearing of face masks, contempt for Christianity, or belief in the whiteness of racism. 

The functions of the agencies of national security are more complex but include the creation of narratives necessary to rationalize criminal wars of aggression, the suppression of populist movements at home, and the orchestration of regime change operations both at home and abroad.

These elements — the Money Power, the mass media, the educational establishment and agencies of national security, seem to provide the American oligarchy with immense stability. But the fake democracy adopted by the Framers of America's Constitution as a necessary evil, an evil that was intended to be circumvented by the various means of top-down control of the public mind, exposes the oligarchy to a great threat. It is the threat of the demagogue: the silver-tongued charismatic genius who can emerge at any time, but who in all cases prior to 2016 have been successfully eliminated: Huey Long, for example, shot, so it is believed, by an aggrieved loner; JFK and RFK, shot by aggrieved loners, or so one to expected to believe; or Governor Wallace, shot by an aggrieved loner, or so one is expected to believe; or Martin Luther King, shot by unknown assassins.

But the elimination of charismatic political interlopers by the hand of lone nuts or unknown assassins, has given rise to widely held conspiracy theories that a have shaken faith in the integrity of the ruling elites. What then to do? Why rig the 2020 election and turn a triumphant Trump landslide into a humiliating defeat at the hands of a tottering 78-year-old who heads a clan of thieves. 

Fortunately, many will think, Trump accepted the humiliation of a fabricated defeat rather than launch Civil War II. But America's model of government is broken, and with it America's educational system, which is now seriously corrupt. Neither credibility of the political system and media nor the effectiveness of the educational system can restored without a massive reform. Such reform would have to include:

(1) A commitment to truth not propaganda and the recognition and reward of merit in education, which means the rooting out of political correctness in all its manifestations;

(2) A breakup of the corporate media monopolies and their replacement by a free press, which is to say  a press of many independent voices. 

(3) A revision to the franchise including: (a) lifting the voting age from 18 to something like 31, by which time the average citizen may have at least some slight grasp of what constitutes good government; and (b) denying the vote to public servants, welfare recipients, and non-tax-paying citizens.

(4) The institution of election-day, in-person-only voting with paper ballots counted by hand in full public view.  

But if, as is safe to assume, no such reforms occur, the US will continue on course for a Soviet-style implosion and break-up, with Joe Biden, perhaps, playing the role of the hapless Gorbachev, and Donald Trump haranguing the crowd from atop an MI Abrams battle tank — its 105 mm M68 gun pointed at the Oval Office Window — playing the role of Yeltsin.  

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America: A Fake Republic with Fake Elections, A Fake Free Press, and A Fake Right of Free Speech

Just when President Trump most urgently needed the support of his cabinet, Attorney General William Barr delivered a punch in the guts, stating that there is no evidence of widespread fraud that could have changed the result of last month's presidential election.

Of this, the Irish Savant Comments:

Nothing to see here: AG Barr comes up good just when the Deep needed him.

The Savant then asks why Trump hired Barr, a man whose Deep State connections were well known. And that raises the big question about Trump: why did he fail to take effective control of the government? 

Was he intimidated by the Deep State (remember the Kennedy's), working with the Deep State, or simply unable to get a grip on the job?

Remarkably, speaking of Bill Barr, Trump said:

And here's one way to understand that remark:

the administrative state takes advantage of their insider positioning to control outside elements that are a risk to their status. They weaponize the principled honor of their target. This is why good people, decent people, do not last in Washington DC.

THAT is how a good man, a very decent man, has his love, honor and willingness to trust, weaponized against him. AG Bill Barr duped POTUS Trump, our president gave him full benefit of the doubt. Listen to that video: “I’ll only say this once”…

Do you remember the warning by Castellanos? Think back to the 2015 instructions from republican insider Alex Castellanos as he described how the RNC could eliminate the disruptive influence of Donald Trump:

[…] “The best way to do it is how Brutus killed Caesar. Get real close, snuggle up, and shiv him in the ribs”… (link)

Then there's the Epstein angle. Trump knew Epstein well, a "terrific guy" as he once described,  the reportedly late or possibly not late, spy, blackmailer, and sex maniac. Apparently Bill Barr's father knew Epstein well too. Well enough to hire him, anyhow. Did Epstein know Trump too well for Trump's own good?

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The Buffoonish Ignorance of the Trump Haters

Donald Trump had always struck me as an ignorant buffoon and most of his proposed policies were ridiculous, Ron Unz

You may not like Donald Trump, he may not amuse you, his actions may not serve your interest, but if you think that Trump — the man who built iconic New York skyscrapers, survived the failure of an airline, multiple Atlantic City casinos, and a dud "university," earned several hundred million as a television entertainer, and then, in his seventies and seemingly on a whim, set out to win, and rather easily gained, the US Presidency  — is an ignoramus and a buffoon, which is to say a no-nothing and a ridiculous person, you should perhaps consider whether it might be your judgement that is ignorant and buffoonish. 

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How Trump Will Take Over the Monetary Printing Press to Juice Markets for the Election

For all those in the alt-news world who rail against America's privately owned central bank, the Federal Reserve, with its power to print money without limit, here's an alternative that looks much worse: a President with the power to spend without limit and force the Fed to print the money to cover the cost. And that President is Donald J. Trump.

How has Trump acquired such power? As a reporter explains it, this outcome has been achieved through the creation of an:

alphabet soup of new programs that deserve special consideration, as they could have profound long-term consequences for the functioning of the Fed and the allocation of capital in financial markets. Specifically, these are: CPFF (Commercial Paper Funding Facility) – buying commercial paper from the issuer. PMCCF (Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility) – buying corporate bonds from the issuer. TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility) – funding backstop for asset-backed securities. SMCCF (Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility) – buying corporate bonds and bond ETFs in the secondary market. MSBLP (Main Street Business Lending Program) – Details are to come, but it will lend to eligible small and medium-size businesses, complementing efforts by the Small Business Association. To put it bluntly, the Fed isn’t allowed to do any of this. The central bank is only allowed to purchase or lend against securities that have government guarantee. This includes Treasury securities, agency mortgage-backed securities and the debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. An argument can be made that can also include municipal securities, but nothing in the laundry list above. So how can they do this? The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a “first loss” position. What does this mean? In essence, the Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc. to purchase these securities and handle the administration of the SPVs on behalf of the owner, the Treasury. In other words, the federal government is nationalizing large swaths of the financial markets. The Fed is providing the money to do it. BlackRock will be doing the trades. This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump.

So Corona virus and global pandemic, mass unemployment and the Greatest Depression, even if the worst that could happen happens, Trump is now in a position to buy a stock market recovery by November 2020, which means that the US is surely headed for the biggest stock market manipulation in the history of fixed markets and financial rackets.

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Justin Trudeau Out? Thereason May On the Skids?

In the matter of current events, what seems self evident to a person of modest wit and experience seems to be a matter of extraordinary surprise to the mainstream media. The ongoing disintegration of the premiership of Justin Trudeau is a case in point. Of young Justin, we wrote more than a year ago:

If he lacked ideas or brains he seemed to be taking advice, and there were still some wise heads in the Liberal Party, including that of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, willing to provide the advice. Meantime the Tories were tired, out of ideas, facing mounting economic problems, and tarnished by the Senate expenses scandal. The result was highly predictable. Trudeau led the Liberals to a splendid victory.

But, as we also wrote,

since, then, the trend has not been young Justin's friend. A limited intellect, a lack of significant real-world experience, and a surfeit of praise will tend to propel any youthful hero on a course for disaster. Justin Trudeau's case has proved to be no exception.

Yet the media never seemed to notice the impending fiasco, until now, when, according to the latest opinion survey, the poor slob Justin has a lower public approval rating than Donald Trump.

Personally mired in LavScam, ridiculed for a combination of inappropriate conduct abroad, absurd political correctness (we say peoplekind, not mankind) crude insensitivity (thank you for your donation, in response to a question about mercury poisoning of the first nations people of Grassy Narrows, Ontario), it appears suddenly to the media that Justin's hold on power may not to be prolonged.

And as our Justin seems headed for the discard pile of dud Canadian Liberal Party leaders, Theresa May, who we long ago dubbed Thereason May, seems headed for the exit from the parliamentary whorehouse too, her betrayal of the people to whom she gave the assurance: "Brexit means Brexit," being  suddenly evident to all, as declared in a column in the Daily Mail:

Too little, too late. If Theresa May had possessed a shred of decency, she should have resigned long ago. Her authority was shot to pieces after her disastrous, self-inflicted general election humiliation, which cost the Tories their majority and ensured that the enemies of Brexit would prevail. She had a second chance to do the decent thing last July when it became apparent that her dismal, defeatist Chequers withdrawal agreement was a shoddy betrayal of her oft-parroted mantra: ‘Brexit means Brexit.’ Instead of respecting the views of those who spoke for the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU, she even threatened to confiscate the ministerial cars of Cabinet dissenters and make them walk home. This wasn’t the action of a strong, confident Prime Minister. It was a petty, vindictive attempt at intimidation... If Theresa didn’t get her way, she was going to scream and scream and scream until she was sick. This was the real Mrs May: aloof, stubborn, convinced of her own self-righteousness, and contemptuous of others who begged to differ.

Thus, is it once again confirmed, you can fool most of the for long enough to do a lot of damage.

Why Both Liberals and Conservatives Hate Trump and How Their Antagonism Hurts Canadians

Everyone hates Trump: Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives. Paul Ryan, Justin Trudeau, Theresa May. They hate Trump because he is the enemy of the elite factions, aka, the Deep States, that rule the Western nations.

The Deep State despises the people, who they see as cattle to be controlled and exploited. The Deep State  rules not in the interests of the people, but to serve as  agents of the global Money Power.

Thus, as Justin Trudeau declared to the New York Times, the Canadian nation is defunct.

‘‘There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada’... There are shared values* [which are] what make us the first postnational state.’’ Justin Trudeau — New York Times. *Such values to be dictated by the elite by means of school and media brainwashing, social media and search engine censorship, and by legal enforcement of political correctness through pseudo human rights tribunals, and other mechanisms of fake social justice.

Trump is a throwback. He is a King and Country ruler. The King protects the People, the People defend the King. Thus were nations long ruled by wise monarchs, Elizabeth I of England, for example, and later by aristocratic elites, as in the early days of Britain's parliamentary democracy.

To the globalist, Treason-Party elites that run the Western nations, nothing more catastrophic that the election of President Donald Trump can be conceived. What use to the International Money Power is a US Congressman if Trump can just slap a 25% tariff on any imported good he chooses, steel, machinery, computers and car parts, shirts and shoes and a thousand other things? Such actions disrupt the profitable employment of trillions invested in a world headed for global governance and the unrestricted international movement of capital, technology, goods and labor. What use are contribution to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation, or the appointment of former Canadian Prime Ministers to the boards of international companies if the Government of Canada caves to the Trump agenda?

For the Canadian people, however, what is bad for the elite in the Trump agenda is clearly good for them. Were Canada to seek a place within the American trade ring-fence, investment would boom as it is already booming in the US, labor markets would become tight, wages would rise. Inflation would pickup, as would interest rates, and Canada's grotesquely inflated housing market would slump. Houses would then be cheap again, young people would form households earlier, the national fertility rate would, heaven forbid, rise, and the need for mass replacement immigration would subside, as the  globalist-battered Canadian nation revived.

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The Trump Enigma: Imperialist or Nationalist

One of the basic lessons that can be gleaned from a study of multiple imperialisms over the past five centuries, is that imperialist warfare is always class warfare. Imperialism is always class warfare at home, and usually it is class warfare abroad as well. Both at home and abroad, it is the so-called “lower” classes, the workers and peasants, who are dispossessed by imperialist extraction. Workers and peasants—sometimes even slaves—make up the bulk of the military forces conscripted by imperialist powers. Workers and peasants at home are the ones whose labour was exploited to fuel imperial dominance. Abroad, the products of the labour of workers and peasants, and any productive assets they might have controlled, are usually what is targeted by imperialism. Any attempt to distract Americans from these basic, long-term, and inescapable empirical realities of class dominance and class divisions, any submersion of class beneath the weight of minoritarian identity issues, is by default if not by design an ideological program in the service of imperialism. The converse is also true: the rise of class consciousness in the US, or at least greater awareness of the plight of the working class, will erode the political support base for the increasing costs of maintaining empire abroad.
Maximilian Forte

The above quote from an essay by Concordia University anthropology professor, Maximilian Forte, draws attention to a fundamental enigma: is US President Donald Trump an American nationalist or a globalist imperialist. Trump's election campaign was clearly nationalist: it was for protection against both unfair foreign competition and jobs off-shoring by American corporations; it was for tax cuts to remove tens of millions of the lowest paid workers from the tax rolls while providing incentives for job-creating corporate investment in America; and it was for better relations with America's post-war rival for global dominance, Russia.

Yet as president, the Trump administration has pursued sanctions against Russia for its "aggression" in the Ukraine and its "threat" to the Baltic trivialities, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia; attempted in defiance of international law to establish a permanent US military presence in Syria; and threatened further economic warfare against Iran.


So what is Trump: nationalist, imperialist, muddle-head, or devious operator either seeking to appease the increasingly exploited and aggrieved American masses while pursuing the US agenda for global empire, or alternatively, attempting to fool the globalist faction of the US elite with meaningless imperialistic gestures, while creating in the US a democratic nation state?

Who knows? Certainly not us. However, as one in favor of the survival and renovation of Western civilization, I take comfort in the frenzied Trump hatred of the NeoCon scum, and the"liberal" fascists for a politically correct society. That Trump seems better liked by rival states, Russia and China, than by globalist allies such as Germany, anti-Brexit Britain, and Islamified France seems to provide further ground for hope.

Trump Trashes UN Globalist Plan for the Destruction of the Western Nations

CNN, December 3, 2017:  The United States notified the United Nations that it will no longer take part in the global compact on migration, saying it undermines the nation's sovereignty.

... The UN General Assembly president expressed regret at the US decision.

...The US participation in the process started last year "following the Obama Administration's decision to join the UN's New York Declaration on Migration" ....

Naturally, the UN General Assembly President regrets any nation having any sovereignty, especially sovereignty expressing the democratic wishes of the people — the United Nations is the ultimate globalist tool. So, also naturally, President Obama shared the United Nations General Assembly President's desire to replace the American electorate with people, such as himself, from the Third World. And so, also naturally, all liberals and democrats of the Treason Party call Trump racist for defending the interests of ordinary Americans whose country is being taken from them by mass replacement immigration. So, also naturally, the Mayor of London, the Muslim settler, Sadiq Kahn, seeks to override the authority of the Prime Minister and prevent the British Government's from inviting the American President to visit Britain. The inevitable, and apparently intended, outcome of the UN/Treason Party policy on immigration is that the nations that breed with the most irresponsible abandon, for example those African nations with a fertility rate three times the replacement rate, will simply overrun the world, wiping out every other race and nation in the process. Calling those who oppose such vile and indeed insane policies racist, equates racism with opposition to the genocide of one's own people.  Sadly, that simple mathematical fact is beyond the grasp of the self-hate-filled minds of the idiot white liberals in the mind-bending clutches of the Western media-educational-entertainments complex.

Nation-Destroying Stupidity In the Age of Universal Higher Education

English novelist, wartime spy, journalist, editor, humorist, novelist, and TV personality, the late Malcolm Muggeridge, once remarked that when everyone has a university degree, no one will know anything at all.

We are now approaching the time when the truth of that prediction can be tested. Two-thirds of Canadians between the ages of 25 and 64 now have a post-secondary education. Since the proportion of those benefiting from higher ed continues to rise, it follows that the vast majority of younger Canadian adults have, or will obtain, a university degree or some other kind of post-secondary diploma.

Aangirfan, aka Aanirfan, Is STILL a Fraudster

As we pointed out in:

Aangirfan, aka Aanirfan, Is a Fraudster,

the conspiracy theory blog, Aangirfan-aka-Aanirfan, has used pictures of Donald Trump with his own children to imply that Trump is a child abuser.

 Aangirfan, aka Aanirfan, is thus, in the current terminology, a creator of fake news.

The Aangirfan, aka Aanirfan, post referred to in our earlier report, which described Donald Trump as a Nazi Zionist, has now been deleted. However, in a post published today entitled:

 TRUMP BEING BLACKMAILED BY RUSSIANS'

Aangirfan, aka Aanirfan, employs the same fraudulent technique to smear Trump as a paedophile.

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Brexit, writes Israel Shamir at Unz.com:

gave hope to the Americans. If the Brits could defeat powerful coalition of party establishment, media, mercenary intellectuals, bankers, so can the Americans. Now we have learned that Trump can win. Instead of having a new world war, people can have peace. Instead of giving all their money to banks and the Pentagon, the bounty can be shared by the people who produce the wealth of the nation.

The main argument contra Trump that still rules in the social networks is a PC argument. He is a white man and therefore a racist, he is against Muslims, he never goes to gay discos, he does not belong to the approved minorities.

Donald Trump: Iraq War, Trade, Immigration, and Foreign Relations

Anyone who thinks Donald Trump will be a great US President must value hope far above experience. The only realistic question is whether Donald Trump as president would do less harm than whoever might be the alternative — any good he might do, being considered, surely, as a bonus. To judge that question, one has to judge not only the merits of Trump's policy proposals but whether there's any truth in anything he promises.

The American Empire
Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely stated that he was opposed the Iraq war before it began.

Colin Powell brandishing soap powder at the UN as proof of
Saddam's WMDs.

Later, he changed his tune, but it's easy to be right after the event.

And in the case of the Iraq war, it wasn't hard to be right even before the event.

The Case for war was a transparent fabrication: the bollocks about Iraqi drones of death attacking US cities was, well, typical Fox News war-pushing bollocks, just like the aluminum tubes flaunted by lying New York Times reporter Judy Miller, Colin Powell's vial of biological weapons agent, aka soap powder, at the UN General Assembly, and Phony Blair's "sexed up" dossier on Saddam's nukes, cut and pasted off the Internet. But none speaking from a position of authority but Dr. David Kelly, UN WMD inspector, dared call such treason treason and he appears to have been suicided for his trouble.

Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, Saddam had no WMD, and Saddam had no time for terrorist organizations. That was obvious to anyone with a brain, but Donald J. Trump didn't see it or didn't wish to say it before the war started, when to say it might have mattered.

The implication is clear. Trump has no problem with wars of imperialistic aggression. He just thinks that Iraq was botched. It would be foolish, therefore, to suppose that, as president, Trump, who boasts of being the most "militaristic person," would hesitate to use the American military if he thought it would serve America's hegemonic aims.

Trade
Trump says he will bring off-shored jobs home. Well, he'll have to. In fact any president will have to, unless they are prepared to see the US economy implode and the mass of Americans reduced to abject poverty and perhaps open revolt (Which is why Homeland Security has six hollow point bullets for every citizen). We're in an election year and the economy is dead stalled. Growth is zero, job creation is zero, and the number of those of working age who are out of the work force exploded last month by six hundred and sixty-four thousand, closing rapidly on one hundred million. Meantime, the unemployment rate fell. LOL. Statistics show whatever we want them to show, neither more nor less, as Humpty Dumpty would have said.

Immigration
Trump is against inviting the Mexicans to walk in and retake Texas, California, etc. That seems a reasonable position and it's difficult to see any political leader standing indefinitely in total opposition to the mass of the population, whether in the US or Europe on the question of the very existence of the nation state.

Foreign Relations
All nations are headed by psychopaths, or politicians who have learned that success is possible only by emulating a psychopath. Trump, therefore, will be no less quick than Clinton or some other Obama clone to shaft Putin if he thought it would promote the interests of the Empire. Thing is though, American policy has driven Russia into the arms of China, which as Trump has pointed out, is a very stupid thing to do. As senile old Leonid Brezhnev said, it would be in the best interests of the white race for America and Russia to work together not against one another. Trump apparently agrees, whereas the entire Obama/Bush/Clinton/Cameron/Hollande/Merkel treason alliance, seem committed to the death of Western civilization and the European people.

Conclusion
You may not trust Trump in the least, but why would you vote for a cuck openly committed to the destruction of your people and civilization when you could vote for someone who claims with both realism and a semblance of credibility to be on your side? This, if I understand him, is exactly the conclusion reached by Dilbert creator, Scot Adams.

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Getting the Relationshiop Between Economic Theory and Economic Performance Arse-Backwards

Over at the Unz Review, Eamonn Fingleton argues that Donald Trump will beat the Heck outa Hillary because he understands the economy, whereas she has been closely connected with the ruling elite that, for 25 years, has failed to understand, or therefore prevent, the disaster of American deindustrialization and off-shoring of jobs, a failure Fingleton attributes to faulty economic assumptions. In particular, he says:

Anglophone textbooks have traditionally identified just three key factors of production – capital, labor, and land. Now a further factor has emerged that plays a decisive role in the relative competitiveness of modern nations, blah, blah blah. 

And until now, nobody knew this? As if.

No, the idea that America’s economic decline can be attributed to bad economics has things arse-backwards.

As Harvard economist J.K. Galbraith made clear decades ago, the function of economics is not to steer the economy but to rationalize for the public whatever direction the elite has decided the economy must go.

Today, globalization, i.e., destruction of the democratic, sovereign nation state, accompanied by the concentration of power in the hands of bankers and oligarchs operating via global institutions such as the UN, the WTO, etc., etc., is the objective to be concealed. Economists, liberally rewarded with newspaper columns, Nobel prizes, extremely lucrative textbook contracts (at the expense of students required to purchase their outrageously expensive and essentially worthless books) and Ivy League university chairs, merely provide the cover up.

So Western elites are not wrong about the economy, they just don’t care about the economy as a source of income to the masses. What they care about is the continued concentration of wealth under their own control or the control of those who pull their strings.

That their policies undermine Western prosperity and power means nothing to them. The end game is global governance mediated by local governments subject to corporate control via trade agreements, and global institutions.

Hence Obama’s notice to the British: “sovereignty is obsolete,” which is to say: "I declare your independence as a democratic nation state finished." And the same goes for American sovereignty. National governments must no longer serve the people, they must serve the Treason Party representing the plutocratic global elite. 

The key question about Trump is whether he is a true American patriot or a covert Treason Party alternative to the discredited Bush-Clinton duopoly. The answer to that question will likely determine not only the fate of the European people as a racial and cultural group, but whether we are to have peace or war with Russia and China.

Bitter Republican Losers for Hillary: Or Why the Neocons Hate Trump

Hillary Clinton is now threatened by her own party leadership, which realizes she could lose the Presidential election to Donald Trump and is, therefore, thinking about replacing her as the party's nominee.

To counter this threat,  the Clinton campaign has come up with an anti-Trump ad, featuring a parade of GOP losers, from Mitt Romney to the egregious warmonger Lindsey Graham, plus other also rans in the Republican presidential nomination contest, JEB, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, all heaping contempt and loathing on their party's presidential candidate.

This raises two questions. Will potential Democrat voters really be swayed by what a bunch of bitter Republicans have to say against their own Party leader? And, more interesting, why do so many of the Republican leadership so hate their own presumptive presidential nominee that they now appear as advocates for their supposed Democratic Party opponent?

The answer to the second question is that for the past 24 years, the Republicans and the Democrats have been two parties with one overriding policy; namely, the destruction of the democratic and sovereign nation state, including America, in a process of universal genocide, the objective being the subordinating of all humanity to corporate rule. But what Donald Trump revealed in a speech on foreign policy delivered at the invitation of the Center for the National Interest, is his intent to trash the entire Neocon Republicrat consensus project.

As one commentator summarized the speech:

To everyone’s surprise... «the Donald» did not have anything to say about his position on various subjects, aimed at satisfying one lobby or another, but instead delivered an analysis of US policy and describing its total overhaul.

According to Trump, it was a fundamental error to have attempted to export by force the Western democratic model to people who had no interest in it. He delivered a criticism of a neo-conservative ideology ...

After having denounced the gigantic human and economic waste of the Neo-conservative policy, for the countries concerned as well as for the United States themselves, he continued with an indirect attack on the «military-industrial complex», blaming the general excess of weapons in the world. There was no mistake – for the first time since the assassination of John Kennedy, a presidential candidate was denouncing the omnipotence of the arms manufacturers, who have eaten up almost all of US industry.
...

With a certain sense of provocation, Donald Trump placed his project for a new foreign policy under the slogan «America First», by reference to the association of the same name which existed before the Second World War. This group remains in peoples’ memories as a Nazi lobby which attempted to prevent the «Land of Freedom» from going to the help of the British, who were under attack by the perpetrators of the anti-Jewish genocide. In reality, «America First», which was indeed diverted from its mission by the US extreme right, was originally a huge association created by the Quakers [who] denounced the World War as a confrontation between imperialist powers, and consequently refused to take part.

And so the adversaries of Donald Trump are presenting him in a false light. He is absolutely not an isolationist like Ron Paul, but a genuine realist.

Donald Trump was not a politician until now, but a real estate promoter, a businessman and a television presenter. This absence of a political past allows him to envisage the future from an entirely new angle, without being bound by any previous engagement. He is a dealmaker, the sort that Europe met in Bernard Tapie in France and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Two men not without fault, but who renovated the exercise of power in their own countries by shaking up the ruling classes.

America's ruling class, clearly does not appreciate anyone intent on shaking them up.

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Armstrong Economics, March 10, 2016:

It’s not the hair.

Or the bad manners.

Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll build.

There’s a different, more subtle reason why the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news media in general hate Donald Trump. The reason can be found in a New York Times best selling business book,Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor David Pottruck.

Pottruck, the Charles Schwab CEO who took the genial brokerage house online and into the big time, says that organizations hate change.

Hate it with a PASSION!

That’s because when there’s a new way of doing things, a new way of solving problems, a new way of relating to everything, they feel threatened as a deep personal-loss. Change renders meaningless the value of their hard-won experience and know-how. In politics, it may means family member lose their cushy jobs and perks.

Student loans of government employees get automatically paid off by government – TAX FREE. Those in government have done things one way forever. Change is NOT FAIR to them. Everything they have done to line their pockets is threatened. The rules of the game may no longer apply. So they dig in their heels and will do whatever it takes to resist change.

They resist perpetually until forced otherwise.

They subvert any process that would lead to change.

Until they lose, it becomes open warfare against the people to sustain the establishment and its perks.

And so it is with Donald Trump.

Like him or not, he has completely rewritten the rules of Presidential politics. He bypasses the media, taking his message, raw and unfiltered, to the millions of people who follow him on Twitter.

The party establishment went from underestimating him and laughing at him to fearing him breaking out in night sweats. They fear all power and their relevance will vanish into thing air.

Donors gave Jeb Bush $120 million and he came in dead last.

The money, like Jeb, is gone and it could not save their fiefdom.

Now wealthy donors have a choice. Oppose Trump and he wins and they are out in the cold.Understand there is a change in the wind and shift sides to the people.

How ironic. It took a billionaire to neuter the billionaire donor class.

Most of the media hates Trump to the core and dislike the fact they are no longer able to play kingmaker losing their power fearing they will be irrelevant with the internet displacing them.
The political class have lost the power to rule behind the curtain from paid operatives and cronies who cannot transition to the new world where the old rules of campaigning don’t apply. 

Trump has spent more on hats than he has on polls so the pollsters also have lost their importance.
Diplomats worldwide are running scared because Trump will renegotiate everything from a business standpoint that cannot be bought like Hillary & her foundation.

The handwringing, the dire predictions of doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s positions, but their loss of power.

They complain Trump is bringing in new voters who are not Republican. And this is bad?

The Trump threat isn’t to the Constitution, to America’s standing in the world, or even to Republican Congressional candidates, it is to the establishment.

If you think Trump’s supporters are angry about the way the government and the business world colluded, you are right. The establishment fails to appreciate the anger. They’re just furious. Even if Trump fails to win, there will be more in the wings. He is inspiring a change and he doesn’t even understand how profound.

The Real Donald Trump

Donald Trump is a con man and failed businessman. He flies a Boeing 757 with his name on it solely to fool simple-minded persons into thinking that he is rich and successful.

At church, Trump habitually talks during the sermon, and steals from the collection plate.

Trump uses English at a Grade 4 level and his spelling is even worse.

He calls all women "fat pigs," "dogs," "slobs" and "disgusting animals," yet only marries actresses or high class models who for some reason seem to like him, even, or perhaps especially, when he's no longer married to them.

Trump calls  all Mexicans, male and female alike, rapists, criminals and drug dealers, etc., and wants to have them completely walled off from America, but somehow he's managed to con the Hispanics of Nevada to make him their first choice in the Republican primary.

He calls all Muslims radical terrorists, rapists, bombers, etc., etc., yet he has somehow managed to become the most popular Republican presidential candidate among Muslim Americans.

Trump is a racist and white supremacist who has managed to gain more support among American blacks than any Republican presidential contender in living memory.

Trump's a fake Christian (Pope Francis, verified) yet he gets more support among Republican fundamentalist Christians than the supposedly genuine article, Ted Cruz.

 Trump wants to be best friends with the richest man in the World, Vlad the Impaler Putin. And in a crass insult to past American statecraft, he claims that, by getting along with the Russkies, he will reduce the risk of nuclear war and stabilize the Middle-East. As if.

Then, to cap his fantastic foreign policy vision, he proposes to hand off responsibility for dealing with that Axis of Evil monster, Kim Jong-un, the madman of PyongGoneBonkers, to the world's other miniature regional power and nest of Commie bastards, China, as if those slitty-eyed folk could do anything.

Trump Claims that, as a business man, he bribed every politician alive, even Hillary, which is obviously a lie, since why, if it were true, would he have a bunch of politicians, including Hillary, running against him for the Presidency?

Trump thinks that Americans should make shoes and shirts, and computers and car parts for one another (and here), rather than buying them from American-financed sweatshops in Mexico and China. That way, he says, tens of millions of out-of-work Americans will get a decent job again. What he omits to say is that making Americans buy stuff from other Americans would raise the price of sneakers and jeans to the point where those with six-figure incomes would feel that buying stuff cost real money, which is preposterous.

Trump is a closet dipsomaniac and pot smoker, who pulls wings off flies and eats cookies in bed, and much more, as will be revealed in the next public statement by Mitt Romney.

Meantime, since Trump has so thoroughly wrecked their plans for a politically correct Union of Soviet Socialist American States, that William Kristol and the rest of the Neocons are threatening to emigrate to Russia and restart the Soviet Union.*

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* This last claim may sound far-fetched, but it should be noted that at a meeting for GOP bigwigs and their tech-sector billionaire backers, remarks by William Kristol included repeated quotes from Karl Marks's Communist Manifesto:

William Kristol:

A specter was haunting the World Forum–the specter of Donald Trump. ...
The key task now, to once again paraphrase Karl Marx, is less to understand Trump than to stop him.

Karl Marx:

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. ... 

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February 13, 2016: The following is a transcript of exchanges between Donald Trump, JEB Bush and Marko Rubio during last night's Republican presidential candidates' debate in Greenville, S. Carolina. It may explain why Trump says he always carries a gun.

Founders of the New World Order, or the Banality of Evil

G.H.W. Bush (left) declared the New World Order. John Ellis 

Bush (right) signed the Statement of Principles of the Project

for a New American Century (PNAC) , which declared the 
necessity of a "new Pearl Harbor." G.W. Bush (center) ignored
CIA warning of Bin Laden's determination to strike the US and
used the 9/11 attacks, which he described as the Pearl Harbor
of the 21st Century, to justify the wars for American global 
empire that PNAC called for. Image source. 

Trump:

The war in Iraq was a big fat mistake. It took JEB Bush .... five days before his people told him what to say, and he ultimately said "It was a mistake."

The war in Iraq, we spent two trillion dollars, lost thousands of lives, we don't even have it, Iran is taking over Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the World. Obviously it was a mistake. George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes, but that one is a beauty. We should never have been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle-East.

Moderator:

So yo still think he [George W. Bush] should be impeached?

Trump:

You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell you, they lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, but there were none and they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.

John Ellis Bush (JEB):

... I could care less about the insults that Donald Trump gives to me ... but I'm sick and tired of him going after my family. My dad is the greatest man alive, in my mind. While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe, and I'm proud of what he did. And he's had the gall to go after ...

Trump:

The World Trade Center came down during his brother's reign.

Bush:

He's had the gall to go after my mother.

Trump:

That's not keeping us safe.

Bush:

I won the lottery when I was born 63 years ago, looked up and saw my Mom. My Mom is the strongest woman I know.

Trump:

She should be running.

Rubio:

I thank God, all the time, that it was George W. Bush who was in the White House on 9/11 ... He kept us safe. No matter what you say about weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was in violation of UN resolutions, in open violation, and the World wouldn't do anything about it. And George W. Bush ... kept us safe, and I am forever grateful ...

Trump:

How did he keep us safe, when the World Trade Center ... [interruption by crowd]. The World, excuse me, I lost hundreds of friends, the World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush.

He kept us safe?

That's not safe. That is not safe.

Rubio:

The World Trade Center came down because Bill Clinton didn't kill Osama bin Laden when he had the chance to kill him.

Trump:

...  George Bush had the chance also, and he didn't listen to the advice of his CIA.

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BBC Goes Full Genocidal

A recent example of the BBC's large-type Web journalism entitled Donald Trump and the politics of paranoia, written by a member of the Chosen, one Michael Goldfarb, asserts:

One startling feature of the latest race to become the next president of the US - which begins in earnest with next week's Iowa caucuses - is the runaway success in the opinion polls of the outspoken billionaire, Donald Trump.

What's "startling" to the BBC about Donald Trump's popularity is that he's not just another presidential puppet of the New World Order project for the destruction of the democratic nation state, including not only Britain, but also the United States of America. 

Yeah, that is startling. The project for a global empire, ruled by a plutocratic elite, and served by a mongrel population brainwashed in the religion of Political Correctness that appeared to be going so well, seems now to be going edge ways. The Brits, and the Frogs have accepted their own demise as distinct racial and cultural entities. The Germans are being brought to the bidding of Angela, Treason, Merkel as they are compelled to commit national suicide by accepting an influx of millions of  strong, young Asian and Middle-Eastern males described euphemistically as "refugees," but for some reason Americans are kicking up a real fuss about open borders, Third Worldization and the eclipse of the Euro-American majority. Why?

The reason, as Mr. Goldfarb of the BBC explains, is that egomaniac Trump, telling people that a real country has borders. Well damn that: America is not a real country and it's time for those "bitter" white people who "cling to guns or religion," as America's Euro-American majority have been described by their African-American President with an Islamic-Indonesian upbringing, to give up on the stupid idea of refusing to go "gentle into the good night." 

Yep, it's time for Americans to bite the bullet, accept destruction of the Euro-American majority that built the greatest nation on Earth, and open the floodgates to the Third-World. That is what the globalized corporate giants demand: cheap immigrant labor, unrestricted import of goods from the sweatshops of the World, and the Hell with this silly idea of democracy, individual liberty, and free speech — in future the BBC and the other temples of political correctness will tell Americans what to think. 

And if Americans don't like that then, as the BBC clearly believes, they are stinking nativists: or in Guardian-speak, they are far-right wing, extremist, Nazified, racist xenophobes with the contemptible desire to be succeeded in their own country by their own posterity, not by people from elsewhere. What's more the BBC screams in large type, they are PARANOID. 

Which goes to show what good sense most Americans have, for as Andy Groves, former head of Intel Corporation remarked: "Only the paranoid survive." Let's hope the Germans and the Brits and the French and all the other European nations oppressed by a genocidal conspiracy to erase their identities from the face of the Earth get real paranoid real soon. The Brits could make a start by giving the bums rush to David Cameron, that war-criminal shill for the New World Order, to be replaced by someone who will shutter the BBC, an propaganda agency with an undue tolerance for rapists and paederasts.

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Trump, Not Keynes, Holds the Key to Economic Recovery in the West

Tony Blair: laughing all the way to the bank 
since leaving office.*

This article, by Mike Whitney in the Unz Review, explains how US (and by extension European) monetary and fiscal policies* saved criminally reckless Western financial institutions from bankruptcy. The method was to provide the bankers with virtually limitless amounts of cash at negative real interest rates, which enabled them to blow a huge stock market bubble that financed their return to solvency. At the same time, Whitney argues, governments were careful to limit the magnitude of monetary stimulus so as to insure no substantial growth in aggregate demand or, therefore, in employment or wages.

On the latter point, Whitney offers the correct Keynesian analysis. But Keynes addressed the problems of a different age, when the US economy was largely self-contained, with external trade amounting to less than 5% of GDP.

Globalization with input factor mobility, i.e., free movement of labor from the Third World to the First World, free movement of capital and technology from the First World to the Third World, and free movement of the products of sweatshop labor from the Third World to the First World means lower wages and higher unemployment in the First World, which in turn shrink aggregate demand resulting in even lower wages and higher unemployment.

The Keynesian solution to shrinking demand and rising unemployment was deficit spending to raise aggregate demand and hence employment and wages. But today, in an era of globalization to the max, the effect of deficit spending is primarily to suck in more cheap Chinese shoes and shirts, computers and car parts, all of which Americans and others in the First World used to make for one another. Add in the effects of computerization, automation, robotization and insane student debt and the outlook for employment and wages for ordinary folks becomes, as is now apparent, bleak indeed.

There are two measures to improve the welfare of the proletariat. One is massive infrastructure spending, since this generates work that cannot be off-shored and is still largely beyond the scope of automation and robotization. The other is a return to free trade without input factor mobility, which as David Ricardo explained in his 1817 classic, “On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation” yields the benefit of “Comparative Cost”, or “Comparative Advantage” as it is now known, i.e., the benefit of increased total output and lower costs than if each nation tried to produce in isolation.

These,  as I explained here, in a post that was rejected for publication in the Unz Review, are the economic policies espoused by Donald Trump, i.e., restoration of the border to limit influx of labor from the Third World, and the imposition of tariffs to restrict influx of products of foreign sweatshops financed with First World capital and technology, thereby achieving the benefits of comparative advantage through international trade, and last but not least a massive infrastructure renewal project.

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* Said policies are administered by governments largely owned by said criminally reckless financial institutions, for example, the great American banking firm of J.P. Morgan, which took former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on as an "adviser" for a fee of two million pounds per year. This is in accordance with the Western tradition of political bribery, which as explained by Thomas Macaulay (The History of England (1848)), involves payments made after the bribed individual leaves office, an arrangement that is entirely legal, and one that no politician would ever think of changing.