"It is not enough to know that there is a shadow government pulling the strings of the visible government- we must also act to expose it, and defeat it!"-Mark Matheny
A still from the propaganda film shows an imagined missile attack on Washington DC. Photograph: YouTube/DPRK
The video, menacingly titled ‘Last Chance’, contains a visual history of relations between the US and Pyongyang and ends with the US flag in flames
North Korea released a new propaganda video menacingly titled “Last Chance”, showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.
The four-minute video, set to jaunty music, romps through the history of US-Korean relations and ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging through clouds, swerving back to the earth and slamming into the road in front of Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.
The US Capitol building explodes in the impact and a message flashes up on the screen in Korean: “If US imperialists budge an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nuclear (weapons).”
The video was published on the North’s propaganda website DPRK Today on Saturday and shows images from the Korean War, the capture of US spy ship Pueblo in 1968 and the first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear programme in the early 1990s.
Pyongyang has upped the rhetorical ante in recent weeks, with near daily threats of nuclear and conventional strikes against the South and the US mainland in response to large-scale South-US war games.
The threats have turned increasingly personal, and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday watched a live-fire long-range artillery drill simulating a strike on the official residence of his South Korean counterpart.
Tensions between the two Koreas been on the rise since Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, and a satellite rocket launch a month later that was widely seen as a disguised ballistic missile test.
North Korea has been pushing to acquire submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capability which would take its nuclear strike threat to a new level, allowing deployment far beyond the Korean peninsula and the potential to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
The North has conducted a number of what it says were successful tests of a SLBM.
But experts have questioned the veracity of those tests, suggesting Pyongyang had gone little further than a “pop-up” test from a submerged platform.
Although Donald Trump is beating all the other GOP candidates, and leading overall in the race for the 2016 Presidency, our current President is of the opinion that Trump will ultimately not win.
Recently, Obama made a statement to Matt Lauer that he could only imagine Donald Trump giving a 'State of the Union' address on a Saturday Night Live Skit:
President Obama: The message that Donald Trump is putting out has had adherents a lot of times during the course of our history. You know, talk to me if he wins, then we'll have a conversation about how responsible I feel about it, but I'm pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of Americans are looking for the kind of politics that does feed our hopes and not our fears, that does work together and doesn't try to divide us, that isn't looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating, but looks for us, you know, buckling down and figuring out how to do we make things work for the next generation.Matt Lauer: So when you stand and deliver that State of the Union address, in no part of your mind or brain can you imagine Donald Trump standing up one day and delivering a State of the Union address?President Obama: Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday Night skit. Look, anything is possible, and I think, you know, we shouldn't be complacent. I think everybody's got to work hard.
If you notice Obama's response, he alludes that Trump's message is one from the past, given by the Likes of Adolph Hitler, and other tyrants of history, and those men had lots of adherents. Since the beginning of Trump's rise in the campaign, the left primarily, have tried to paint Trump as a radical tyrant, to be compared to Hitler. They have constantly tried to pin the label of "Racist" upon him, saying that his speeches are those of a racist and a bigot.
Obama went on to say that he felt the American people are looking for the kind of politics that "feed our hopes and not our fears".... Meanwhile, Obama, the democrats, and the republicans are feeding the American people their "propaganda of fear" by using the media to slander and attack trump as a frightful radical hate-monger and Hitler archetype.
He also mentioned politics that "doesn't try to divide us" and that "isn't ..... scapegoating"...
yet, during the Obama Presidency our country has seen the greatest examples of dividing us as a people through both race and class warfare. We have seen tension between blacks and whites escalate drastically, where groups such as the "Black Lives Matter" crowd have literally thrived on the fears and hate coming from the left progressives who are using the Saul Alinsky Rules of Radical formula to fundamentally transform America.
And as for scapegoating, Obama certainly has used his politics to attack the Republican Party and the Bush legacy both as scapegoats for everything that is wrong with America.
Americans certainly do want to see a change in politics, but the change they are looking for, the hope that they are starting to see in Trump, is the fear that the ruling class are terrified of. The Left and the Right, both, as well as the Elites that control finance and politics from above Washington (and those overseas) are afraid of what Trump is reviving here in the hearts of men and women across our Country. He is reminding us of our pedigree.... he is reminding us that we are Americans!! We are sons and daughters of those Boston Teas spillers who stood up the the Tyranny of Elites that want nothing more than to oppress and deprive us of our humanity!
The elites are terrified not of Trump the man, but of the hope that Americans see in the words coming from him of "Make America Great Again"!
When asked again recently by a reporter if Obama felt Trump would win the Presidency, or even the nomination, Obama once again went on the aggressive to point out what he felt was the sins of not only Trump, but the Republican side as well.
Some of the things he attacked was the anti- muslim sentiments coming from not only Trump, as he put it, but also from the Republican Party. He went on to say that Trump and the GOP are anti-immigration and to top it off, they are climate-change deniers!
What he fails to mention is the fact that Trump is not anti-muslim, as he put it, but Trump has clearly stated that he wants to temporarily stop muslim refugees from entering the country UNTIL they can be checked out properly. Of course a strong majority of Americans agree with Trump's stance on this.
"Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,"
He went on to say this"does not apply to people living in this country, but we have to be vigilant." However, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the GOP want us all to believe that Trump wants to just round up all Muslims in the country and throw them out. They are the ones playing on our fears. As for immigration, Trump has clearly stated that he is pro-immigration. He simply wants migration to the U.S. by foreigners to be done LEGALLY! Here is what Trump had to say at a debate on October 28, 2015:
"I'm in favor of people coming into this country legally. As far as the visas are concerned, if we need people they have--it's fine. They have to come into this country legally. We have a country of laws. It's fine if they come in, but they have to come in legally."
Of course this is not what the current President would like to hear. Neither does Hillary Clinton for that matter. Most of the illegal immigration is currently coming from Mexico, and since South America is primarily a Catholic Nation, they are also a democratic majority. This is votes for the Left! They definitely don't want the doors to close on the border of Mexico especially. There are other reasons too, however, such as the destruction of national sovereignty by destroying our borders and causing a massive influx of peoples to come into the country who will not, and who are not prompted or encouraged to assimilate into our way of life. Quite the opposite is happening instead. We are told by our media and by the Government that we need to instead accommodate to them, and if we don't then we are bigots and racists!
An overwhelming amount of Americans are in agreement with Trump, but that doesn't matter to the Power Elite. They want you to believe Trump is a Nazi Racist. It is important to note that, while Hitler used "scientific racism" and "antisemitism" as tools of propaganda, the Obama administration has used racism as a tool to divide the country while pitting the Arab Nations and The UN against Israel.
As for climate-change, Obama is simply pushing the UN agenda 21 plan to bring all nations under International Carbon Taxing and ultimately International rule by a Governing UN regulatory body in league with the IMF and World Bank. The Elites are angry because Donald Trump has stated he is not a believer in global warming:
I mean, Obama thinks it’s the number one problem of the world today. And I think it’s very low on the list. So I am not a believer, and I will, unless somebody can prove something to me, I believe there’s weather. I believe there’s change, and I believe it goes up and it goes down, and it goes up again. And it changes depending on years and centuries, but I am not a believer, and we have much bigger problems.
“The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It’s not a friend to freedom,..... It’s not a friend even to the United States of America, where as all know, it has its home. And it surely isn’t a friend to Israel,”.
Again, however, most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the UN has been caught in scandals and in atrocities around the world. Read of them here, here , and here.
What seems like radical policies coming from Trump, are really just steps that he sees and knows have to happen to set America back on the course once charted by our founding Fathers who started this nation.
Everything Trump is attacking is in reaction to the agenda that has been pushed by both Parties that have sought to destroy our borders, our economy, our military and our standing on the world stage. Americans need to become aware of what is happening around them and understand that there is no need for a revolution in our country,- that has already happened. What we need is a restoration of the Principles and values and courage, and sacrifice that made our country great, and that can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
“Definition of economic bubble: A market phenomenon characterized by surges in asset prices to levels significantly above the fundamental value of that asset.” We are definitely in another housing bubble. First, most Americans can’t afford to buy a home without utilizing artificially low interest rates and even then they are stretching their budgets like spandex. Second, home prices are surging in the face of stagnant household incomes. That is the biggest sign of a bubble. The underlying asset in housing is moving up even though incomes are not. So what is driving prices up? Speculation, flipping, investors, and what we would categorize as fickle money. This is the ultimate sign of a housing bubble. Homeownership is near a generational low because most households are living month to month unable to buy. If you want to see the housing bubble in one chart look no further.
The scariest chart in housing
Home prices are up a stunning 34 percent from 2012. That is an incredible increase but this is not being driven by families buying homes. It would also be different if household incomes were going up. They are not. Take a look at this chart:
This might even be scarier than the years before the last bubble. Why? Take a look at the chart. From 2002 to 2008 housing prices and incomes went up together (but of course home values were already on an upward trajectory). The bubble hit and both home values and incomes went down. All of this makes sense. In 2012 housing prices and incomes went up. But that jump in income only lasted a brief period. Now, you have home prices surging 34 percent yet incomes are stagnant. That is a big problem.
You can even see this problem between new home prices and new homes sold:
New home sales are in the dumps yet prices are moving up dramatically. Most of this is speculation and of course the financial sector in our economy is thriving on the backs of the middle class. But are we in a bubble?
“Bubbles are often hard to detect in real time because there is disagreement over the fundamental value of the asset.”
This is where we stand today. We are in the bubble. It is hard to assess value because people are disagreeing on whether this is a bubble or not. But take a look at commercial real estate values as well. This is definitely a bubble. You need to continue to have speculative money flowing in to keep values at their current levels.
Will the housing bubble pop this year? Bubbles can last longer than most people think. But there are already cracks in the system. You saw the market briefly correcting this year. Suddenly stocks are up on low volume and current prices are still overvalued. The same can be said for housing. Low supply, low demand, yet prices are going up. The Fed is completely afraid to raise rates knowing that it has no other option but to keep rates low. This policy move has made themiddle class a minority.
Here is a good summary of where we are going:
“(The Sovereign Investor) I see one of two scenarios at play. Which one do you think will ring true?
Homebuyers continue to fork over more dollars to buy properties while we sit with stagnant wage growth, stagnant economic growth and low-wage jobs being about all that’s created.
We are on the edge of a bubble larger than the one we experienced less than a decade ago as housing prices race back down to where it is affordable and sees demand from new buyers.
The Federal Reserve is held accountable for this fiasco. If it goes forward with a rate increase in the near future, it will be us who pay the price of another bubble.
There’s only one action to take if you ask me — lower your exposure to the industry.
In stocks, that’s homebuilders and mortgage originators. Avoid them at all costs. In your personal investments, that’s being prepared for another real estate shock.
These prices are unsustainable and due for a correction.
Once that happens, opportunity awaits you to pick up houses and housing-related stocks on the cheap.”
It was supposed to be a secret where these 200 Marines were headed. And yet the terrorists had them in their sights.
Three days before ISIS militants killed Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin, the U.S. military notified his family—and the families of roughly 200 Marines—that their loved ones had moved off the USS Kearsarge, deployed to the Persian Gulf, to somewhere in northern Iraq. The letter didn’t say exactly where he had been deployed two weeks earlier, or why.
But while his family and the American public were largely being kept in the dark, members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State were acquiring detailed intelligence on the movements of Cardin, the second U.S. service member killed in Iraq, and his fellow Marines.
As it turned out, those Marines were on no ordinary deployment. Cardin and his fellow Marines were deployed near the front lines of what is expected be the biggest battle of the war, two officials told The Daily Beast, tasked to launch a mission that signaled the U.S. was again furtively expanding its mission in Iraq.
Regardless, U.S. military commanders in Iraq decided it was not safe to tell the American public.
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Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin
“We made the decision a month ago to announce this on the 20th” of March, Army Col. Steven Warren, a spokesman for the U.S. effort in Iraq, told reporters Monday. “We didn’t want to make the announcement until they were fully operational. They became fully operational on Friday.”
All the while, helicopters flew overhead of a new, makeshift base delivering four artillery units and a company of soldiers, all for ISIS to see and then attack. The U.S. military believes ISIS targeted its troops, the officials said, after watching them build the base.
Cardin, of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, died Saturday when an ISIS-fired rocket landed in the base he had arrived at just days earlier. Cardin, 27, of Temecula, California, was killed in his bunker; another eight troops were injured, three seriously.
The circumstances of Cardin’s death and deployment have become a familiar, disturbing pattern in this war—one where the U.S. military does not reveal what it is asking of troops until it has to, usually when a service member is killed. Up until Cardin’s death, the U.S. military said it troops were only on heavily fortified bases; that its forces were not part of any offensive operations; that they were properly secured; and that frontline troops are counted in publicly released tallies of those deployed in Iraq.
But Saturday’s attack revealed that none of that was accurate.
President Obama has stoked controversy after he suggested to an audience of Argentinian youth that there was no great difference between communism and capitalism and that they should just “choose from what works”.
Obama responded to a question about nonprofit community organizations and the necessity of attracting funding from both the public and private sectors.
“So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate,” Obama said.
“Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works,” he added.
Obama went on to praise Cuba’s socialist system under dictator Raúl Castro, touting the country’s free access to basic education and health care, although he acknowledged that Havana itself “looks like it did in the 1950s” because the economy is “not working”.
Obama concluded his comments by arguing that a market-based system “has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis”.
Reaction to the remarks wasn’t pretty.
“This man is so destructive, so harmful and so ignorant,” wrote Jim Hoft.
“The Marxist in the White House is erasing the lines between two dangerous ideologies and the one that made the US great, just as he erased our borders. This is a man who would be at home in communist China,” chided the Independent Sentinel.
For a more accurate breakdown of how capitalism beats socialism every time, watch the video below.
The story of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonisation of central Africa, turning it into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which millions died.
PARIS — Despite some establishment efforts to put a smiley face on the growing chaos, the “refugee crisis” swamping Europe is deadly serious. In fact, even top government officials and establishment voices now acknowledge the growing problems, which range from widespread mass sexual assaults perpetrated by Middle Eastern refugees, to a heightened risk of jihadist terrorism, to the expansion and multiplication of Islamic-dominated enclaves where authorities fear to tread, sometimes dubbed “no-go zones.” For Europeans, especially those in countries facing the brunt of the crisis, such as Germany and Sweden, the situation is quickly going from bad to worse.
The refugee crisis, with millions of poor, non-Western immigrants from an alien culture flooding into Europe, often with the intent of settling there permanently but not assimilating, represents a fundamental transformation of Europe. And at this point, it appears that there is no going back. It could get worse, too, as estimates suggest that around one in every 120 or so people on the planet is now considered a refugee or internally displaced by the United Nations. Millions of those are hoping to settle in the West.
For many Westerners, the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, which resulted in the slaughter of about 130 victims and the wounding of almost 400, served as a major wake-up call. Paris, though, like other major European cities, had long faced difficulties with its rapidly growing foreign population. Indeed, a decade before the Paris attacks shocked the world, massive riots across Islamic immigrant-dominated areas of the French capital and beyond resulted in a number of civilians killed, more than 125 police and firefighters injured, and almost 3,000 arrests.
The wave of terrorist attacks were still a shock, of course, but they should not have been — the warning signs were everywhere. Paris had just come under a similar jihadist attack earlier in 2015, when Islamist gunmen massacred employees at a vulgar magazine infamous for ridiculing religion, God, and Muslims. Before that, Islamist militants had slaughtered a rabbi and some Jewish children in southern France. And authorities had long realized that they had a major problem that spanned across borders.
Some of the terrorists were operating out of Belgium. After the most recent Paris attacks, the New York Times quoted Belgian Home Affairs Minister Jan Jambon acknowledging that authorities there did not “have control of the situation in Molenbeek,” a neighborhood linked to numerous other terror attacks. Prime Minister Charles Michel acknowledged that the town — often described as a “no-go area,” one of many such areas proliferating across Europe — had developed quite a reputation for jihadism. “I notice that each time there is a link with Molenbeek,” he said after the Paris attack.
Similar enclaves can be found in France, Germany, Sweden, and other nations. This writer has visited several such areas, in the company of non-Western immigrants, and observed the situation firsthand. Despite occasional claims to the contrary, the no-go zones are neither a myth nor an isolated phenomenon. Police, when they do come, arrive in caravans of squad cars, often wearing bullet-proof vests. Drug dealing takes place in the open, in broad daylight, right in the town square. Women, who have two to four times the fertility rate of native Europeans, are almost all wearing hijabs or niqabs. Natives are rarely seen. The signs are often in Arabic, and shopkeepers regularly do not speak the native language beyond some basic terms. In some cases as much as 90 percent of the population is non-Western. And asking around, residents are more than happy to tell you about how their host nation should be governed by sharia law. There are numerous videos online of “sharia patrols” on European streets where Islamists, operating outside the law, try to intimidate natives into submitting to Islamic law. While some admit to participating in what Islamists refer to as a hijra — Islamic migration to spread Islam — many express concern about the massive, uncontrolled waves of refugees and migrants pouring across the borders. The areas feel more like the Middle East than Europe.
Politico Marh 24, 2016 Kasich and Cruz quietly work to persuade delegates to break with GOP voters in a contested convention.
When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican National Convention, they got an unexpected visitor.
Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus to make an appeal: If the convention fails to elect front-runner Donald Trump on the first ballot, consider Kasich on the second — even if the state’s Republican voters sent them there to back Trump or Ted Cruz.
Madrid was polite and earnest, but, according to interviews with 17 of the state’s 29 delegates, he came up empty.
"Kasich will not get my vote no matter what he does. That ain’t gonna happen," said delegate Allen Unruh, a Sioux Falls chiropractor and tea party activist.
Madrid’s visit to South Dakota on Saturday marked one of the earliest signs that the shadow campaign for the Republican nomination has begun. Kasich and Cruz are scrambling to secure commitments from bound delegates to break off on a second ballot and vote against Trump. In many cases, that means asking delegates to buck Republican primary voters in the name of settling on a nominee.
The fight will heat up in April, when a slew of states — including Arizona, Colorado and North Dakota — begin selecting their own slates of delegates, using methods ranging from statewide and congressional district conventions to meetings of state party leaders to county-level votes or caucuses.
But if Madrid’s results are any indication, it’s not Kasich who threatens to steal Trump’s South Dakota delegates in Cleveland — it’s Cruz.
"I’m not a Kasich fan. I would vote for him over a Democrat; however, I think there’s not a lot of difference between him and a Democrat," said Florence Thompson, a delegate from Caputa who described herself as a "raving conservative."
Added Dana Randall, South Dakota's national Republican committeeman and another delegate, "I’m not anti-John Kasich, but I don’t think [Madrid] swung one vote either way."
South Dakota's delegation is top-heavy with supporters of Cruz, the Texas senator whose ideological purity has resonated in this deeply conservative Midwestern state. Most delegates expect South Dakota to devolve into a slugfest between Cruz and Trump, and Cruz's ultraconservative identity gives him an early edge.
On Obamacare’s sixth anniversary, report finds premiums up 28 percent in five years
Health insurance premiums have increased faster than wages and inflation in recent years, rising an average of 28 percent from 2009 to 2014 despite the enactment of Obamacare, according to a report from Freedom Partners.
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, and Wednesday is the law’s sixth anniversary.
The Obama administration expressed concern in 2009 about skyrocketing health care premiums in a report entitled, “The Burden of Health Insurance Premium Increases on American Families.” They were concerned that premiums had increased by 5.5 percent from 2008 to 2009.
However, from 2010 to 2011 in the first year after Obamacare was enacted, premiums increased by 9.4 percent.
“In 2009, when the [Executive Office of the President] issued its report, states had seen premiums increase on average by 30 percent between 2004 and 2009,” states the Freedom Partners report. “But since 2009, health insurance premiums have continued to grow faster than wages in nearly every state, averaging a 28 percent increase from 2009 to 2014, resulting in a greater amount of disposable income being consumed by rising premiums.”
According to the report, while premiums increased by 28 percent from 2009 to 2014, wages increased by only 7.8 percent. From 2004 to 2009 when premiums increased by 30 percent, wages increased by only 12.2 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility in the wake of deadly attacks by the Islamic State group in Brussels and Paris.
Paul Lewis, the Pentagon's special envoy for Guantanamo detention closure, declined to provide the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee with details. He would not say whether the incidents occurred before or after President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.
