The Burning Platform

I’M TIRED

Hat tip Boston Bob

Guest Post by Robert A. Hall

I’m 70.

Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating
the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Sharia law tells them to.

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Black Power Political Organization Takes Responsibilty For Murdering 5 Dallas Cops

Via Zero Hedge

Thursday night saw the biggest loss of life for America’s law enforcement since 9/11. Last night five police officers were killed, six officers were wounded and two civilians were shot according to the most recent reports.

The Black Power Political Organization has taken responsibility for the attack according screen shots of a Facebook post. The group’s Facebook account has since been taken down.

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What the post says:

“Sniper Assassins Take Down Five Police Officers! And More Will Be Assassinated In The Coming Days! Do You Like The Work Of Our Assassins? Get Your Own Sniper Rifle And Join Our Thousands Of Sniper Assassins Worldwide In The Fight Against Oppression!”

The movement claims responsibility for the sniper attacks we heard about last night. The call for more to join “our thousands of sniper assassins” is highly alarming. As the US and other developed nations slide further into anarchy, one may wonder how many more violent groups will form and mobilize following oppression from leaders.

MORE BLS BULLSHIT

Here we go again. The MSM is screaming about the FANTASTIC job growth in June. They fail to mention the May numbers were reduced to 11,000 jobs. It’s likely the Verizon strike has screwed up their little seasonally adjusted data models they use to fake the monthly numbers.

How come the MSM isn’t reporting the Household Survey numbers? It seems they are in major disagreement with the Establishment Survey. The fake unemployment rate actually jumped from 4.7% to 4.9%. Let’s look at some facts from the Household Survey that are getting buried by the feckless mainstream media:

Only 67,000 more Americans were employed versus May. Slightly less than the 287,000 being reported by the MSM.
The number of unemployed SOARED by 347,000, as people previously classified as not in the labor force suddenly decided to join the labor force. I wonder why? I wonder when the other 94.5 million people not in the labor force will decide to join the labor force?
Our booming economy has created a grand total of 23,000 new jobs since January. WINNING!!!
There are currently 223,000 less people employed than there were in March. That’s certainly an inconvenient factoid.
The employment to population ratio has fallen for four straight months and at 59.6% is near three decade lows.
In the first six months of 2016, the good old birth death excel spreadsheet adjustment has added 509,000 phantom jobs from all the companies opening for business. There are more companies closing than opening, so this number is completely false and is likely NEGATIVE 500k or more.
If 287,000 jobs were added, indicating strong demand, why did wages rise a pitiful 0.1% and the workweek hours remained flat? Because the 287,000 is a made up lie by the BLS. Wages have risen by 2.6% in the last year, below the true rate of inflation. Shit jobs pay shit wages.

There is exactly four months left until the presidential election. Expect more “positive” economic reports as the establishment will lie, cheat, and fake the data to get Crooked Hillary elected. Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see with their own eyes we are in the midst of an ongoing recession. But there are tens of millions of zombies who are distracted by their iGadgets, twitter, instagram, facebook, and the various adventures of Hollywood stars and professional athletes to notice what the ruling class is doing.

So it goes.

THE RACE WAR HAS BEGUN

For all the linear thinking people out there, do you need any more proof of the cyclical nature of history than the last two weeks? Politicians being assassinated in Britain. Then the people of Britain shocking the world by telling the politicians, EU bureaucrats, and central bankers to fuck off. Markets in turmoil. Currencies in turmoil.

Then the rule of law is completely trashed by the FBI, DOJ and the rest of the corrupt establishment running this country. Hillary Clinton commits multiple crimes, lies under oath, and skates away free to become the next president of the United States. If ever rational thinking people needed more proof the system is rigged, they got it this week. The simmering anger among the hoi poloi is palpable.

Then two police shootings of black men in the U.S. Obama doing his absolute best to fan the flames of racial discontent. And now the blowback of black terrorists slaughtering police in Dallas. There is nothing or no one who will keep this from intensifying.

As I’ve said hundreds of times over the last few years, Fourth Turnings DO NOT deescalate or de-intensify. They build to a crescendo of violence, bloodshed and war. The world is a powderkeg and we are on the verge of a civil war, monetary war, cyber war, and eventually world war.

We can all go about our lives like everything will resolve itself peacefully. We can believe the establishment that everything is just fine. We can pretend the coming storms can be avoided. That’s delusional thinking. There are ten years left in this Fourth Turning. If you think the first eight years weren’t so hot, you haven’t seen anything yet. The two presidential candidates are lightning rods.

I wonder if Obama will call this domestic terrorism. Knowing what a lowlife race baiter he is, he’ll try to blame the NRA, Trump, and guns for this slaughter. I think I’ll take a safer route to my job this morning. The upcoming political conventions will be the next powderkeg to blow during this INTENSIFYING Fourth Turning. It won’t be until the next financial collapse portion of this Crisis when the willfully ignorant populace will notice that the shit is hitting the fan.

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