Month: March 2017

The Eyes: Windows to the Soul

by Uncola via TheBurningPlatform.com

I wouldn’t be surprised if the week of March 20, 2017, will go down in history as a Fort Sumter-like spark which began a cascading series of events that will soon spread like wildfire, engulfing the entire world with inescapable social and political ramifications.

On Monday, March 20, 2017, elite banker and rabid globalist, David Rockefeller, died at the age of 101.  Whenever I think of this disturbing fellow, I picture him behind a mask at a party with Stanley Kubrick and Tom Cruise in that dark mansion from the movie, Eyes Wide Shut.

Although the mainstream media has mostly reported on Rockefeller as a philanthropist, he was, in fact, someone who the journalist and former LBJ aide, Bill Moyers, once called “the unelected but indisputable chairman of the American establishment”.

Rockefeller himself once said:

Some even believe we {the Rockefellers} are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States… If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

In a 1991 Bilderberg group meeting in Baden, Germany, that Bill Clinton also attended, Rockefeller additionally acknowledged the mainstream media’s collusion with, and commitment to, the New World Order.

He said:

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IDIOTS EVERYWHERE

Hat tip nkit

Via American Spectator

Are the Catholics at Villanova too hung up on the cross?

I tried to come up with a title for this story that would be a clever spin on the “Why did the chicken cross the road?” gag, but I’ve got nothing.

New infrastructure that eases congestion of vehicular traffic is good, right? Encouraging people to walk in safety to mass transit is good, too, right? A wheelchair-accessible bridge over a busy road — also good. Am I right? So why is Villanova University in Pennsylvania catching hell over a pedestrian bridge on the school’s property, that the school will own and maintain, and that the Board of Commissioners of the township of Radnor (where Villanova is located) approved by a vote of 6-0? Because the architect’s design calls for two pillars, one at each end of the bridge, each surmounted by a 4-foot, 7-inch tall cross.

Susan Snyder, staff writer for the Inquirer of Philadelphia, tells us that some Radnor residents regard the crosses as “an audacious show of religion that has no place in a township of many faiths.”

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Earth & Water Part I – Feet of Clay

By Francis Marion

All of my heroes have feet of clay. – Hardscrabble Farmer

I don’t recall exactly which thread the above quote originated from but it has been stuck in the back of my mind for months. Like a mosquito on a hot summer night, while you’re trying to sleep, it hums in my ear and distracts me from the task at hand. Most of the time it sounds like he’s close so I slap and grab in the dark but realistically, in the silence of the night he’s probably a good foot or two away which means all I’m swatting and grabbing at is air. So now I’ve got a choice. I can hope he goes away and that eventually I’ll get some sleep or I can get up, turn on the light and do something about it.

So I’m getting up and turning on the light.

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Retailing in America: Game Theory in Reverse

Guest Post by Danielle DiMartino

Toro, toro? Hankering for Hamachi?

Have an urge for uni? In Midtown? Well then, head west, to 8th Avenue to be precise. And keep walking, west that is. But go easy on the sake if you’ve got a sushi crawl in mind. No fewer than six fine purveyors of some of the best raw fish on the isle of Manhattan await you. Clearly the law of game theory applies to more than just clusters of gas stations.

Not sure you’d agree, but game theory made the study of economics engaging. The brain teaser’s roots date back to the 1920s with the work of John von Neumann. His work culminated in a book he co-wrote with Oskar Morgenstern which delves into the oxymoronic theory in its most straightforward form – a ‘zero-sum’ game wherein the interests of two players are strictly opposed.

But it was John Nash who elevated the theory to fame. The eminent Nash Equilibrium added practicality to the theory and opened the door to nuance. The ‘players’ were numerous and shared both common interests and rivalries. Hence six sushi spots in one square block and a handful more a few steps in either direction.

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What’s Going To Happen To The Value Of The Dollar?

dollarPresident Trump wants to increase exports and says the dollar has to come down. Janet Yellen and the Fed are hell-bent on raising interest rates, which should increase the value of the dollar. Historically the economy slows down when rates begin to climb yet the stock market is soaring.

High inflation affects all of us and generally signals a weakening of the currency. Kiplinger forecasts, “Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, will end 2017 at a 2.4% annual rate.”

For those who don’t eat or drive, that doesn’t sound too bad. They also predict, “Overall prices of groceries will be nearly flat next year but the cost of dining out will rise.”.

Gasbuddy reports, “Motorists to spend $52 billion more at the pump in 2017, yearly average to be 36-cents higher.” They anticipate the average price will rise 16.9% to $2.49/gallon.

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Social Justice Warriors and Bubonic Plague: Is There a Difference?

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Today I will explain why America is going to hell, and probably deserves it. It has to do with conservatives and liberals, who may be thought of as Woofers and Tweeters. They should all be taken out and shot. The country would then be a much better place. Worth a try, anyway.

Some observations:

(1) Liberals posit the equality of groups that are not equal, attribute the inevitable differences of outcome to discrimination, and try to eradicate them through regulation, affirmative action, and punishment of those noticing the differences. This doesn’t work, assuring a  pretext for indignation that is non-depletable, like the liver of Prometheus.

Here we have the bedrock of American politics.

(2) Liberals believe that we should all  love one another, and hate those who don’t. This puts them in the morally invincible position of being against hatred. It also obscures the observable fact that most of us, certainly to include liberals,  dislike a great many people, and that most groups detest a lot of other groups, or will if placed in contact with them. Distance is prerequisite to love.

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CBO Warns Of Fiscal Catastrophe As A Result Of Exponential Debt Growth In The U.S.

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by Tyler Durden
Mar 30, 2017 10:30 AM

In a just released report from the CBO looking at the long-term US budget outlook, the budget office forecasts that both government debt and deficits are expected to soar in the coming 30 years, with debt/GDP expected to hit 150% by 2047 if the current government spending picture remains unchanged.

The CBO’s revision from the last, 2016 projection, shows a marked deterioration in both total debt and budget deficits, with the former increasing by 5% to 146%, while the latter rising by almost 1% from 8.8% of GDP to 9.6% by 2017.

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The Phoenix Template, Part One

The American police state has been a work in progress for seventy years.

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

Part One of two parts.

Most Americans don’t pay much attention to what the government does in foreign nations, and even less attention to what it has done in the past. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this focus on the here-and-now, but contemplation beyond the usual horizons is well-advised. Not for the usual high-minded reasons offered by multiculturalist do-gooders, but because what the government—and those who pull its strings—have done in foreign lands for the past seventy years is their template for what they plan here at home.

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Congressional Motto Needed: I Propose “To Rob and Plunder”

Guest Post by Mike Shedlock

I did a search for a Congressional Motto for the US and came up empty.

In the wake of a Republican sellout to Comcast, ATT, and Verizon, a slogan is badly needed.

I propose “To Rob and Plunder“.

What happened?

Yesterday, the Republican House passed a bill that allows internet providers from selling nearly everything you do to the highest bidder.

The legislation goes far beyond Google displaying ads based searches you do.

Privacy Destroyed

Genn Greenwald (emphasis his) explains in To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy.

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Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem

Hat tip The Man With No Name

Guest Post by Kate Starbird

Background: Examining “Alternative Narratives” of Crisis Events

For more than three years, my lab at the University of Washington has conducted research looking at how people spread rumors online during crisis events. We have looked at natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes as well as man-made events such as mass shootings and terrorist attacks. Due to the public availability of data, we focused primarily on Twitter — but we also used data collected there (tweets) to expose broader activity in the surrounding media ecosystem.

Over time, we noted that a similar kind of rumor kept showing up, over and over again, after each of the man-made crisis events — a conspiracy theory or “alternative narrative” of the event that claimed it either didn’t happen or that it was perpetrated by someone other than the current suspects.

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Banks Secretly Report All Cash Transactions to the Police

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

$10,000 NZ DollarsI have warned that governments around the world are engaged in the greatest collection of data in human history, tracking everything we do because they are going broke. This is just the hunt for money pretending to be looking for terrorists. Collecting every phone call, email, and text message is far too much data to ever allow preventative action. They have been limiting cash everywhere. India simply cancelled the currency overnight to eliminate cash. Now, New Zealand banks are being ordered to provide police with customer details on each and EVERY cash transaction over $10,000, claiming this is a crackdown on money laundering and the potential financing of terrorism. Of course, the money laundering really means hiding money from the government to avoid taxes.

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Life Imitates Art: Any Other Examples?

The story of the little boy being felt up by the TSA pervert made headlines over the last few days, including Zero Hedge, and then the trailer was introduced (all throughout the MSM) for the movie “It”, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name.

I immediately noticed a similarity between the TSA pederast and Pennywise the Clown as they both terrorize the children.

On TBP in the past, George Soros has been compared to a Sith Lord from Star Wars, and most, recently, Admin has compared President Trump to the “Mule” from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.

Can you think of any other apt comparisons today of life imitating art, or vice-versa?


THIS DAY IN HISTORY – President Reagan shot – 1981

Via History.com

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.

The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his entourage to his limousine when Hinckley, standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots at the president, hitting Reagan and three of his attendants. White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head and critically wounded, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy was shot in the side, and District of Columbia policeman Thomas Delahaney was shot in the neck. After firing the shots, Hinckley was overpowered and pinned against a wall, and President Reagan, apparently unaware that he’d been shot, was shoved into his limousine by a Secret Service agent and rushed to the hospital.

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