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Got panic?
The Washington Post
U.S., world stock markets slide as panic in China spreads
China’s turmoil sends oil, stocks sliding worldwide
Global stock markets fell for a sixth day on Jan. 7, as another collapse in China’s ailing share market spread across the world. (Reuters)
By Simon Denyer and Renae Merle
January 7
BEIJING — A collapse in China’s ailing stock market spread like contagion across the globe again Thursday, pummeling nervous investors looking for respite from the week’s rocky trading.
Chinese stocks traded for less than 30 minutes, slumping 7 percent and triggering the second emergency market closure this week. The action prompted markets in Europe to retreat and then spread to the United States, where stocks tumbled 2 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average, which tracks 30 blue-chip stocks, and the Standard & Poor’s 500, a broader measure of the market, both fell about 2.3 percent. They have lost about 5 percent of their value the week so far.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq suffered the deepest losses, falling 3 percent on Thursday. It is down about 6 percent this week and on pace to enter a what’s known as a correction, meaning the index will have fallen about 10 percent from its most recent high.
The sell-off was widespread, even hitting tech giants Apple and Amazon, which were down 4 percent and 3.7 percent respectively. JPMorgan Chase slid 4 percent, while Nordstrom tumbled 5.5 percent.
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Next week should be interesting.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/01/09/global-stock-markets-dive-first-week-of-2016/
I frankly don’t understand why U.S. stocks fell so hard last week.
Is the Plunge Protection Team deliberately standing clear, or have they run out of ammo?
They tried mightily to pump up the market from 11:00 a.m. on. Had they not intervened, the drop in the DOW would’ve been more like 800-900 points.
Ft dot com
China
China stock market: the 29 minutes that shook the world
Miscalculations raise questions about China’s commitment to markets reform and leaders’ competence
A woman walks past a screen in the brokerage house in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China
Tom Mitchell in Beijing
The 29 minutes that shook the world began on Thursday, January 7 at 9.30am Chinese local time when markets opened. At 9.42am, a sharp fall on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges triggered a controversial new “circuit breaker” that halts trading for 15 minutes after a 5 per cent decline and closes the markets for the day after the blue-chip CSI 300 index is off 7 per cent.
When trading resumed at 9.57am, investors panicked. It took just another two minutes for the CSI 300 to set off the second circuit-breaker, ending the day’s session before, as Chinese investors joked, their “coffees had even cooled”.
At the same time, the renminbi was setting a freefall record of its own by declining 1 per cent against the dollar in just 10 minutes — a sharp move for the still carefully managed currency.
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More of a persistent sense of unease…
What is there to be afraid of? Everything is beautiful.
Remember… Nothing cures poverty and accelerates the economy like falling prices to dramatically lower levels. Nothing.
+1. True price discovery is long overdue. Let the speculators get wiped out. They deserve to be a cautionary tale.
Fortune Insider China
This is The Biggest Threat To China’s Stock Market
COMMENTARY by Kristina Hooper
January 9, 2016, 9:00 AM EST
Investors’ fears are real.
Mark Twain is attributed with saying that history may not repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme. What we are seeing this week in terms of the Chinese stock market sell-off is similar to what we saw last year, except the one big difference for US investors is that the Fed may not be as worried about the volatility – unlike what we saw in September, when geopolitical turmoil and resulting volatility helped postpone the Fed’s rate hike.
In a speech on Monday, Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester was clear that a China slowdown is not viewed as a significant risk to the Fed’s economic outlook for the US, as it’s already been built into the outlook. And on the same day, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said that a stock market sell-off won’t impact the Fed’s decision making.
In the year ahead, China’s stock market is in for many more bad days. But while there is cause for caution, that shouldn’t translate into a cause for panic. The bigger takeaway for U.S. investors is that China is one of many issues that will likely create more volatility for equity investors in 2016, driven by factors such as Britain potentially leaving the Euro in June and heightened tensions in the Middle East and Asia. US investors will need to learn to become accustomed to China’s volatile market. What might help is a better understanding of what’s driving markets today.
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Business & Economy
What’s behind China’s stock market meltdown?
We examine the global panic surrounding China’s economy and what can be done to keep it going.
09 Jan 2016 19:21 GMT
For the second time in a week stocks have fallen on China’s stock exchanges, causing an emergency shutdown and intensifying concerns about the health of the world’s second largest economy.
Trading was frozen on both the Shanghai and the Shenzhen stock exchanges on Monday and Thursday after stocks plunged by more than 7 percent.
The drop, which is being linked to poor economic figures, tensions after North Korea’s nuclear test and the spat between the Arab world and Iran, comes amid further data showing that China’s economy is slowing down.
But what is heightening fears is that markets have continued to fall despite government intervention.
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“…and what can be done to keep it going.”
Is this a policy objective?
The Wall Street Journal
China News
As Growth Slows, China’s Era of Easy Choices Is Over
Swelling debt levels, bloated state companies and aversion to market forces pose risks for Beijing
By Mark Magnier
Jan. 8, 2016 1:18 p.m. ET
BEIJING—China has pulled hundreds of millions of people from poverty, supercharged its economy and burnished the pride of a nation that stood weak and isolated only decades ago.
But swelling levels of debt, bloated state companies and an overall aversion to market forces are swamping the world’s second-largest economy, threatening to derail China’s ascent to the ranks of rich countries
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Why China’s growth could be over
Steven Kopits
Tue, 5 Jan ‘16 | 8:58 AM ET
CNBC.com
Independent analyses by both the University of California San Diego macroeconomist James Hamilton and the Bank of England have fingered weak demand as the chief cause of low oil prices. Given that China is the driver of incremental demand for most commodities, weak prices must therefore be principally attributed to weakness in the Chinese economy.
But what sort of weakness is this? The thinking splits two ways. Many analysts anticipate a gradual slowdown in China’s underlying growth rate as it migrates from an investment-led to a consumer-led economy. By this view, China is facing a structural re-alignment, with the shift requiring another two to four years. Things are slowing down, but it’s nothing serious.
A darker view sees a credit bubble emanating from years of misguided over-investment in China’s infrastructure, housing and manufacturing. China has created an unsustainable credit bubble, and this will come crashing down, taking the Chinese—and by implication, East Asian—economy with it. This view does not deny the need to restructure the Chinese economy, but anticipates a cyclical downturn, a financial crisis along the lines of 1998. The Chinese economy will not see a “soft landing,” but rather a full-blown crash.
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Baltic Dry Index
BDIY:IND
429.00
16.00
3.60%
As of 08:05:16 ET on 01/08/2016.
Open
429.00
Day Range
429.00 - 429.00
Previous Close
445.00
52Wk Range
429.00 - 1,222.00
1 Yr Return
-39.49%
YTD Return
-10.25%
Yes, it hit another record low yesterday.
Bought 200K DRYS yesterday. Speculation.
It can’t go below 0, CAN IT?
Only if the ships go below sea level! The true meaning of being “under water”? Only the debt remains.
Are you betting on Chinese economy booming?
Shipping rates below operating cost means somebody needs to start scrapping ships.
Overcapacity meets collapsing demand. Everywhere.
Do you know what is really ominous about the current level of the Baltic Dry Index?
It’s that it is a leading indicator of global economic conditions. In plain English, the current record low reading on the BDI portends further Chinese economic collapse and cratering commodities ahead.
Buckle up and enjoy the roller coaster ride!
Top News
Fri Nov 20, 2015 | 9:09 AM EST
Dry bulk shipping record low a warning flag for global economy
* Dry bulk shipping sector in one of worst ever downturns
* BDI index slump mirroring other commodities indicators
By Jonathan Saul
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A slump in dry bulk shipping is set to worsen as the meltdown in global commodities and too many ships free for hire rock the sector used by investors to gauge the health of world trade.
Slower coal and iron ore demand from China - the world’s biggest industrial importer - have battered the dry bulk sector, already in the midst of its worst ever downturns that is expected to extend well into next year.
This week the Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index , which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities and seen by investors as a forward-looking indicator of global industrial activity, plunged to an all-time low.
A slump in oil and other commodity prices, due to slowing Chinese demand, has widely been seen as one of the reasons for U.S. Federal Reserve hesitancy in tightening policy.
“Dry bulk demand is very much dependent on the world economy,” said Symeon Pariaros, chief administrative officer of Athens-run and New York-listed shipping firm Euroseas.
“The slowdown in the world economy has caused both dry bulk and container shipping to suffer a lot lately. Euroseas, having exposure in both these sectors, is facing the consequences of this very low rate environment.”
The Baltic’s BDI index, which gauges the cost of shipping resources including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, has dropped to 498 points and is over 95 percent down from its all-time high of 11,793 points in 2008 before the financial crisis first hurt the sector.
“Demand slowing down and (ship) supply continuing to increase are the reasons why we will see the BDI likely hit figures in the 400 point level, which would be absolutely uncharted territory for the market,” said Khalid Hashim, managing director of Precious Shipping, one of Thailand’s largest dry cargo owners.
JAPANESE CASUALTY
Worries over China and the health of the world economy have also pushed the 19-commodity Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index to near 13-year lows in recent days, mirroring in part some of the pain felt by dry freight players.
“You can’t ignore the role of sentiment in the markets. Right now dry cargo shipowners’ heads are down and they are taking a daily battering at these earnings levels,” said Tony Foster, chief executive of British shipping asset manager Marine Capital.
“The market is clearly very weak in the short-term and 2016 is going to be very difficult.”
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DRYS - the price reached $120 in 2008, but look at what has happened since then:
http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=DRYS&ty=c&ta=0&p=m
Ouch.
The Willy Sutton of Greece (”because that’s where the money is”) is George Economu, the guy who heads DRYS:
“Because Americans are the dumbest investors around, and there’s lots of liquidity in this market’”
What’s the percentage loss from $120.00 down to $0.12 a share. Is it 99.9%?
Green Bay Press Gazette
Money
China woes melt commodities markets
Alex Breitinger
14 hours ago
Global markets took a steep dive this week after China announced that it was depreciating its currency in an effort to boost its economy, which has been slowing recently. This sign of weakness sent Chinese and global stock markets sharply lower.
Many commodities markets dropped on fears that the world’s largest commodity buyer was in trouble. One of the hardest hit markets was copper, which fell to a seven year low at $1.99 per pound. Meanwhile, U.S. agricultural products came under pressure as well, especially corn, which China uses to feed its pigs and poultry.
Crude can’t stop slipping
Crude oil prices dropped near $32 per barrel this week, the lowest price in almost a dozen years. Prices are continuing to feel pressure from record-high supplies, and Chinese economic concerns added to dismal outlooks for global oil demand in the coming months.
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When do you sleep?
Angry old white men dont sleep.
Hahahha that’s what he calls the rest of us.
Why inject race only, add some religion in also, maybe gender too.
So far as I can tell, only a couple of angry old white trolls for Trump post here daily. The exact count is hard to pin down, as some of them have multiple personality disorder manifest by conversations with themselves under different names.
I like trump and i like Bear. But eight years ago i had to hide in a dark closet because i didn’t vote for obama. I refuse to hide this year! Trump says what GOP won’t. Now who wants to read spread sheets?
We will not be bullied by the partisan forces of political correctness
Registered independent, still fairly young (32), ivy grad, lawyer turned private equity, and would vote Trump because he talks about issues that matter and would pursue an agenda that matters. I voted Obama in 08 and 12, BTW. Also have been called a lib on here.
Newsflash — Trump isn’t going to actually get huge deportations or bar all Muslims from entering the u.s. but I think there would be real reforms to immigration so we can review who actually comes. And his other policies would need to be negotiated with experts and with Congress. Presidents don’t run around deciding things for themselves.
Bear, you’re still welcome to believe it’s only old white men who favor Trump to Hillary. A reasonable person can look at Trump and then Hillary and see that Trump is the better person and will push real results instead of handouts, crony capitalism, and social engineering.
We need to stop worrying about feelings and have real conversations not controlled by activists and the media.
Trump is a bully and wannabe dictator. If that’s what you desire in our next president, then feel free to keep on pimping right up until the moment when President Clinton is announced as the 2016 election winner.
Trump admittedly has an interesting effect on the thinking of a minority of seemingly reasonable people.
However, few people in my personal circle, which spans the mainstream political spectrum, have any desire to see him elected president.
hich spans the mainstream political spectrum
LOL …That’s supposed to be a virtue? Why some seemingly reasonable people think the continuation of the mean, corrupt and criminal status quo as the “right” thing to do?
I love how you people on HBB have laughed over the years about how George W and Obama fooled the American sheople and yet you same ones are telling me that Trump “will not do” such and such.
Sheep. Trump is a statist and all people running for any office these days are liars. Big phat liars.
W and Obama fooled the American sheople and yet you same ones are telling me that Trump “will not do” such and such.
Of Course Trump will do exactly what W and O have done. That’s why the anger & hatred towards him are so unjustified. He’s a liar like most of them. One thing though, the end might be a lot sooner with Trump in the helm than others. That’s what excites me about him. He will still not get my vote because I don’t vote.
Trump is a bully and wannabe dictator.
You are a joke. Obama’s executive orders are what?
It’s not Trump versus Obama. Get whatever bitching and whining about Obama you have left in your system over with quickly, because he’s leaving office in twelve months.
‘…yet you same ones are telling me that Trump “will not do” such and such.
Sheep.’
+Infinity
It’s not Trump
Actually yes it is. If it wasn’t, the incumbent party hacks would not be screaming so like little children.
I don’t think he has a snowball’s chance. Most people are still on the Good Ship Lollipop. It is a little bit too early for a real hero, but the time is shortening.
PB, what is it exactly that makes you go so ballistic about Trump every single day on here? Why does he get under your skin so much?
Are others not allowed to have a differing opinion from you? Isn’t that what this country all about?
You are the one who seems to have a problem with Trump, not these mythical Trump trolls that you keep claiming are roaming these boards.
He never stated that people aren’t permitted to have opinions that differ from his. And of course Trump trolls have no problem with Trump. They love him.
PB has said on here many times that someone very close to him is Muslim. Possibly middle eastern descent also. The Trump hate is very strong in those communities.
I think that he said he had one or two friends or acquaintances. who were Muslim. I don’t recall him saying that he was very close to a Muslim.
“Why does he get under your skin so much?”
I find his behavior unbefitting of a U.S president. It really is that simple!
It really is that simple…
The tone of your insults are more emotional than logical.
How can you sleep when the world is ending?
I can’t. It’s the psychotic religionists (believers in a sky wizard and believers in the State) who are trying to kill off all humanity.
What is the difference between misanthropy and being in a voluntarist society of one?
I am in a voluntaryist society of many. I know a lot of voluntaryists around the world. That is my society. Again, you are too dense to realize (if you are not an order follower) 99% of your activities make you a voluntaryist yourself. The final 1% is when you vote. That is when you hire your Agent to kill, kidnap, or steal, and it undoes the peaceseful nonviolent life you live the other 99% of the time.
And when you pay your tithes to the state is when you undo yours.
Oil’s collapse is fantastic news all around. Everything cheaper. So da Boyz can keep prices at these elevated levels but actually make more profit. Plus the oil producers take it in the shorts.
Well, I was wrong not to chase the gap down on Monday but I still don’t think this is the place to settle in for the long ride down. The bounce (probably a month or two) off this low will be the spot. All jmo and that’s where I’ll be getting in on the short side. Tech and financials, indices. Not energy.
This sounds like day trading talk.
I shorted several stocks a couple of weeks ago, including Adobe (ADBE) but none of the FANGs, given how manipulated they are. Shorting in a rigged, manipulated market is a good way to get your face ripped off, but I sense the power of Yellen the Felon and her cohorts to levitate the Ponzi is ebbing after eight uninterrupted years of QE and ZIRP while the underlying economic (and social) fundamentals continue to deteriorate. Pin, meet bubble….
Tech and financials, indices. Not energy.”
not healthcare ?
Exeter!
Only renters get to ski here:
http://i.imgur.com/US3VRk5.jpg
People with mortgages can’t afford lift tickets for this:
http://i.imgur.com/WWCxYDM.jpg
Make better financial decisions and you might get to ski this:
http://i.imgur.com/Ggekuvn.jpg
It’s not that complicated, just spend less than you earn:
http://i.imgur.com/CxRJD1e.jpg
And for all you loanowners who’ve never seen one (because you can’t afford it) this is a horse, stop borrowing money and maybe you’ll get to see something more impressive than a donkey someday:
http://i.imgur.com/PwKxH9a.jpg
Region VIII
Is it okay to repeat my question from a couple days ago… are you taking a month off from work? Waiting for spring planting?
Fyi- commercial growing is done largely indoors. Guerilla growers, I.e. those planting in national parks, etc. Are the seasonal ones.
(I know, I was being sarcastic
)
Just another day in the life of a renter, I have bonus days on my Loveland pass so this was my first and only trip to Purgatory this year
Alot of former skiers are loanowners now, they’re sooooo old
I think you may have stumbled onto the real reason for not being a skier: older, married, average income and with kids. Rent or loandebtor, if you’re in that demographic, you won’t be skiing.
Older Phoenix renter with kids here. The snow in Flagstaff with El Nino is epic this year. Shreddred AZ Snowbowl a couple of days ago. Going back next week. Great pics Goon.
I used to ski around south Lake Tahoe 30-yrs ago, and families were typically there usually Mon-Thu. The Fri-Sat crowd faced higher hotel rates and were your better skiers. I’m sure that flat middle-class wages haven’t helped the ski industry.
Only renters get to ski here:
Looks too cold a bit self-entitled and too monochromatic for me. During a “Depression” in Rio, only Americans who own their homes outright can live here without feeling the burn.
http://tourist2townie.com/wp-content/uploads/IpanemaBeach-RiodeJaneiro-Brazil.png
http://bikinicleanse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bikini_Cleanse_Rio_Carnival3.jpg
http://travelchannel.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/travel/fullset/2012/07/20/dc/rio-beaches-praia-vermelha.rend.tccom.616.462.jpeg
YEAH… that’s what daddy likes!
FWIW:
Here’s a 4.5 minute video on stress that is related to the book “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers”:
“Stress: Portrait of a Killer”
http://killerstress.stanford.edu/
Pay particular attention to what is said about baboons.
C-SPAN just aired a preview of the State of the Union with King Obama saying “that’s not who we are”
Take your fundamental transformation and go back to Kenya, LOLZ
Forward
King Obama = FAIL:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/08/fox-news-poll-majorities-say-obama-has-mostly-failed-on-top-issues.html
Sorry for the lack of a trigger warning, just refresh Huffington Post on your i-crap and receive the comforting narrative of Obama/Hillary worship
Forward
In the spirit of nonpartisanship, I will say that the state of the union is such that Hillary and Trump are the candidates.
Hillaryous is unelectable.
There aren’t enough Trumplings to keep her away.
Russ,
Falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. It’s what the economy needs to recover.
47% of the population are receiving some sort of gubmint benefits, and 95% are stupid. That makes Hillary a shoo-in.
The Trumplings are definitely part of that 95%. They aren’t Hillary’s to claim by default. The lizard queen will need to work for it a bit.
Just wait till Cruz is dispatched… we’ll see her fangs come out.
Most “Trumplings,” I think, aren’t voting for Trump as much as they’re voting against the sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP. I support Jim Web, but if Trump is on the ballot, I’ll vote for him over Her Essence of Snake Oil any day.
Most “Trumplings,” I think, aren’t voting for Trump as much as they’re voting against the sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP
I disagree, and “voting against the sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP” takes too much brain-power and goes against your premise that 95% of the voters are “stupid”.
Most Trumpsters are just drawn to him on a visceral level.
Most of them feel that self-absorbed, thin-skinned, racist bullying lying is somehow “saying what others are afraid to say”.
Most “Trumplings,” I think, aren’t voting for Trump as much as they’re voting against the sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP. I support Jim Web, but if Trump is on the ballot, I’ll vote for him over Her Essence of Snake Oil any day.
I bet each trumpling has his or her own reason vote for him. It’s still not gonna matter though…as worse as the trumplings are, the vast ocean of idiots will still vote for hillarious for their own reasons.
Well, let’s see, he’s willing to call out the blacklivesmatter thugs, the Caitlyn Jenner woman of the year deviants, the cross the border for benefits open border shills, the accept the refugees with no proper vetting crew, China, and the Hillary is my feminist hypocrites. Pretty good list of those trying to shove their lies down out throat with the encouragement of the liberal accomplices media. If it pisses off the only can see race crown like Lola, that’s good enuf fer me.
And on top of that he laughs at the rich interest country club, quarter mile driveway, silver tea service, white shoe, Nelson Crookerfella, sell out GOP that brought us Mitt Romney, Jeb, Goldman Sachs’ Hubbie, and the rest of the puppets of the rich.
Big middle finger to all establishment liars. Once in a lifetime chance for me, and I usually don’t vote because they are all shills. Him I’ll vote for.
“Most “Trumplings,” I think, aren’t voting for Trump as much as they’re voting against the sleazy, corrupt Establishment GOP. ”
A trumpling is a trumpling, no matter how it rationalizes.
If nobody deserves your vote, nobody should get it.
Big middle finger to all establishment liars. Once in a lifetime chance for me, and I usually don’t vote because they are all shills. Him I’ll vote for.
Same here. I wrote in Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, not that it did any good. Even though I disagree with Trump on a lot of issues, he is the best chance in a generation to raise a middle finger to the GOP Establishment, and that’s reason enough to vote for him, win or lose. Any country that elects Hillary will get exacty what they deserve, just like the German sheeple are getting what they deserve for electing Merkel.
If he weren’t a documented swindler, all those things he says would be fantastic. I don’t want this country to end up like the people he shafted in bankruptcy.
The country is already that way Russ.
Well then why participate at all in this superflous, farcical quadannual ceremony? Why endorse it with credibility by interacting with it?
You want to make a statement? A gesture?
Do a cross country trip loading donated snacks into 4 door F-450 diesel, with your own camera crew, on one of the gaming livestream services. In the truck, you have a ww2 vet, a bull rider, a hippy, and a Ukranian plumber that doesn’t speak english.
At the end, roar triumphanty past the media encampment, blowing your air horn and rollin’ black smoke, with a 16 foot Amerian flag waving in the back of that truck.
A defiant act of Snack Terrorism is the only rational response to the ridiculous situation we are presented with.
Cankles’ sleaze, corruption, and criminality, as well as her abject subservience to the .1% in the financial sector, is apparently too much for some of the Democrat base to swallow.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-08/new-poll-shows-donald-trump-is-a-real-threat-to-hillary-clinton
Hillary Clinton is the worst kind of felon: one who enjoys impunity because a corrupt and co-opted judiciary will never hold her accountable for her crimes.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/78017
“Hillary and Trump are the candidates
This is how Vegas now has it, with Hillary taking the win.
http://www.oddsshark.com/entertainment/us-presidential-odds-2016-futures
Stop schlonging factual information into the Trumplings’ fantasy world.
Those aren’t real markets because no real volume of money being wagered. And too far out anyway.
Well, if Vegas has called it, we should just continue with the coronation and skip all this election stuff.
It’s a Breitbart link (Andrew Breitbart was murdered by King Obama):
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/08/poll-trump-beats-hillary-in-general-election-match-up/
Aren’t felons disqualified from the presidency?
That requires an uncorrupted judiciary and enforcement arms of government. Let’s see how well that works out. Hillary Clinton exemplifies the corrupt and venal .1% who are are literally above the law, and every single Democrat voter sanctions and enables this corrupt status quo.
Free Jon Corzine!
I guess not. We are even allowing a canadian to run for us president.
The first five words on that are “A new FoxNews poll shows”. Immediately I wondered what Rasmussen is saying.
“Andrew Breitbart was murdered by King Obama”
Forget it, Jake… it’s Chinatown.
And speaking of Huffington Post, here’s a tearjerker narrative about how King Obama will leave the Queen’s seat empty at the State of the Union to make a statement about victims of gun violence:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/56900d90e4b0c8beacf6e71a
Grabbers gonna grab, it’s the globalist way
Got 7.62×39?
There is no “gun violence”. Let it alone and the gun will just sit there. There is only criminal violence about which they want to do worse than nothing.
Sorry rockers–but Guns and Roses didn’t pass 0bama’s background checks–they will be called ROSES from now on!!!!
First real G&R concert in 20 years coming up, with Axl (a world-class A-hole) and Slash reunited on stage, for $3 million a concert.
“Got 7.62×39?”
Fantasy
When Obama bans Russian-made ammo imports, i.e. 7.62 X 39mm and 5.45 X 39mm, the price of Russian-made ammo is going to go through the roof, just like Chinese-made 7.62 X 39 tripled or quadruped in price after President Clinton slapped on his import ban on Chinese-made “assault rifles,” SKSs, and ammunition. This could be the hottest commodity investment of all.
” This could be the hottest commodity investment of all.”
So you can shoot people?
Hey dumbass, the vast majority of gun owners would never shoot anyone unless it was in literal self-defense of their lives or families and there was no other choice.
So it’s just an investment? Is that what Goon means when he says. “Got 7.62×39?”
I bought a sealed case (1000 rds) of Chinese 7.62 X 39 for $90 in 1992, as I recall, and sold them to a jeweller friend of mine for $450 after the Clinton ban. I didn’t fire a single one (sealed metal crate made for premium value), although my Uncle had given me a Chinese SKS carbine, a battlefield pickup from Vietnam, in that caliber. I suspect Goon buys 7.62 X 39 for the same reason a lot of other people do: they expect a SHTF scenario and are stacking accordingly.
I recently saw a dude wearing a T-shirt that said “Ammo: the currency of the New Millenieum.” He may well be right, if we experience an economic collapse thanks to the Fed’s deranged money-printing.
“I suspect Goon buys 7.62 X 39 for the same reason a lot of other people do: they expect a SHTF scenario and are stacking accordingly.”
Right, to shoot people.
No, it makes for excellent barter currency. Just like coffee, cigarettes, and toilet paper did in Germany in the aftermath of WWI and WWII.
He may well be right, if we experience an economic collapse thanks to the Fed’s deranged money-printing.
Those crackpot websites that you read have probably been predicting hyperinflation on a regular basis for five years or more. You’ll probably die of old age and never see it.
“…King Obama…”
If you want your king, you can keep your king.
If you are ballsy and stand straight, you don’t want a king, nor ruler, and you can keep ignoring the king/ruler, regard them as sociopaths.
Shift payments man. Http://www.shiftpayments.com Vacate the banks, vacate the MIC. Vacate the vote, vacate the state.
If you are ballsy and stand straight, you don’t want a king, nor ruler, and you can keep ignoring the king/ruler, regard them as sociopaths.
Sure, and become less free every year. How’s that serfdom working out for you?
You will eventually lose all your Bitcoin or electronic currency. You are being swindled.
Heh heh. Oh I really think you are onto something! LOLZ
Salon dot com says Infowars scary bad, you should only read Obama/Hillary worship media like New York Times and Washington Post:
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/08/stop_validating_nuts_like_alex_jones_mainstream_conservatives_give_credence_to_conspiracy_theories_about_obama_and_guns/
Registration, confiscation, extermination
It’s the progressive way
Maybe the more awake and aware among the population are gravitating to “fringe” sites because they can see with their own two eyes the disconnect between the Oligopoly-owned media’s propaganda line and their own emphirical observations, and they’re fed up with being lied to by the Commisars of Political Correctness.
Obama saying “that’s not who we are”
And Repubs losing 5 out of the last 6 Presidential election popular votes proves that’s not who we are.
And I wonder just how freaked-out the Repubs are going to feel after the 2016 November bloodbath. Oh, it’s coming imo.
Is is going to be another denial? Who will the angry Repubs point fingers at this time? Will there be any self-reflecting on their obvious death-rattle as a national party? Or just grrrrrrrrr?
The Establishment GOP has put up successive Oligopoly errand boys like McCain and Romney, that the Republican base only voted for because they thought the Democrat alternatives were even worse. There was zero enthusiasm among the Republican base for these Empty Suits, just like Jeb and Rubio are only attracting support from the most elderly, slack-jawed GOP voters.
There was zero enthusiasm among the Republican base for these Empty Suits
I disagree. This is where the right-wing of the Repubs are strategically wrong. There was plenty of enthusiasm among the huge center of the Republican Party - especially against Obama.
Maybe there lacked total enthusiasm from the rabid right but their numbers are too small nowadays.
What you’re going to see if Trump or Cruz is the nominee is the far-right Repubs being totally enthused but the Repubs will lose many in their center and what’s left of their moderates. What moderate, intelligent Repub would get excited by Trump?
The numbers for a winning angry white party just aren’t there anymore on a national level. The “Southern Strategy” is finished in today’s American demographic. Repubs thinking all they have to do is nominate a more conservative candidate are living a fantasy of a long-gone America.
Hey Rio, it looks like the corrupt and co-opted union bosses, many of them organized-crime fronts, are having trouble herding their blue-colar rank and file into casting votes for Hillary and the Oligopoly, and against their own interests.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/08/2729682/
Hey Rio, it looks like the corrupt and co-opted union bosses, are having trouble herding their blue-colar rank
Why should I care? I hope they vote for Sanders.
Ray, you’re repeated anti-union rants indicate that you’ve consumed plenty of the oligopoly’s KoolAid yourself. The decline of the unions is one the major causes of the decline of the middle class.
“The decline of the unions is one the major causes of the decline of the middle class.”
No decline for the get out the vote union bosses.
Report: 10 Union Leaders Make Twice as Much as CEOs
Laborers Union Honcho Makes $670,000
BY: Bill McMorris
May 20, 2015 11:10 am
Big Labor’s battle against the One Percent does not appear to include 10 union officials who are better paid than the average American CEO, according to a new study released Wednesday.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 464 President John T. Niccollai was the highest paid union official in 2014, according to federal labor filings. He earned about $575,000 for representing 16,000 grocery store workers in New Jersey. Those workers pay the union nearly $500 in annual dues and anywhere from $50 to $150 for initiation fees.
The $3.4 million the union spent on salaries alone is nearly $500,000 more than it spent on representational activities on the year.
Nine other union presidents received pay packages in excess of $370,000. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rounded out the top-10 list with a salary of $375,174, according to that union’s most recent report.
Rick Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, said the high salaries demonstrate the hypocrisy of union leaders who make a living condemning business owners.
“If Big Labor is interested in turning a skeptical eye on executive pay, it should start with the one-percenters in its own ranks. Dues payments from middle-class employees are funding six-figure pay packages for hundreds of union presidents,” Berman said.
Patrick Semmens, spokesman for the National Right to Work Committee, said there is one key difference between CEOs and union officers. Company officials derive their incomes from business performance, but union organizers receive theirs from the paychecks of workers.
“The real scandal here is that union bosses fund their often lavish salaries with dues and fees taken from workers who would be fired for refusing to pay,” he said.
“Union officials should work for the rank-and-file workers, but with forced union dues employees instead end up working for the benefit of union officials.”
freebeacon.com/issues/report-10-union-leaders-make-twice-as-much-ceos/ - 82k -
Report: 10 Union Leaders Make Twice as Much as CEOs….rounded out the top-10 list with a salary of $375,174
Very misleading and dumb. 375K compared to the funds managed isn’t squat. A CEO’s salary dealing with that kind of income would make millions.
Most stuff you post Phony is an insult to anyone unbiased with even average intelligence.
What moderate, intelligent Repub would get excited by Trump?
Back when Trump was still telling the big money to go pound sand, talking about illegal immigration, and hinting at being a jobs candidate, he was exciting plenty of moderates. When he started calling out the PC crowd, he was keeping the moderates because he was the only one willing to actually “have a real conversation” that all other politicians have been saying we should have yet never did. Now, I’m not sure what he’s doing. Perhaps moving far right to win a couple primaries and then move center in the general?
Ray, you’re repeated anti-union rants indicate that you’ve consumed plenty of the oligopoly’s KoolAid yourself. The decline of the unions is one the major causes of the decline of the middle class.
If our unions were like the German labor unions, and genuinely looked out for the interests of their workers while also being aware you don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg, I would fully support them. However, the union bosses are corrupt to the core, usually tied to the mob, and are adjuncts of the DNC when when it means screwing over the rank-and-fire with trade deals like NAFTA and TPP. So f*** the unions, until the rank and file finally rebels and gets new, responsible union leadership.
Well said, Raymond. Same in my workplace - the union leaders are lazy dudes whose primary purpose is to get the highest-paid positions and window seats for themselves and their buddies. I wish it wasn’t so. And they used union dues to print Obama posters put up in our workplace (which is not technically allowed, but it shows how rigged the system is).
Most union workers are too blind to see that they are being used as useful dues-paying idiots.
usually tied to the mob
You just made all of that up, didn’t you? Unions accomplish a lot for their members.
And I wonder just how freaked-out the Repubs are going to feel after the 2016 November bloodbath. Oh, it’s coming imo.
I think more and more of the GOP base, which is finally waking up, doesn’t give a damn about the outcome of the Republicrat Duopoly’s Wall Street puppet show. Nobody who respresents us is running, although Trump is the next best thing as a protest vote and he at least forces debate on issues the Establishment would rather sweep under the rug and ignore. So it really doesn’t matter which Hollow Man candidate (I include Hillary in that) wins - the Oligopoly, our unelected rulers, will still be the shot-callers, regardless.
Nobody who respresents us is running, although Trump is the next best thing
Bernie Sanders is representing most Americans and Sanders is representing the majority of American opinion on most important policy matters. Almost every one.
Trump is a disaster for the Repubs at home and a disaster for America’s perception abroad.
Trump represents what’s the worst about American. Trump disgraces the majority of Americans and America.
Barbie Saunders is a shill for Hillary who you will vote for, NO MATTER WHAT.
Trump is a decoy for a Hillary election victory. Get a clue!
“Trump is a disaster for the Repubs at home and a disaster for America’s perception abroad.
Trump represents what’s the worst about American. Trump disgraces the majority of Americans and America.”
May I offer you some smelling salts?
Wow, lots of globalists here - who don’t care about borders, language, or culture. One of the reasons why Trump is so popular is that he does. You anti-Trumpites are the ones who disgrace America.
We need a LEADER who is proud of America, not one who goes around and bows down to foreign leaders on his global apology tour.
Muslims Engage In Sexual Terrorism Across Europe
Migrants rape women and demand welfare
http://www.infowars.com/muslims-engage-in-sexual-terrorism-across-europe/
“Alex Jones talks with Stefan Molyneux about the migrant crisis in Europe and how the “migrants” are raping their way through the countries that are taking them in.”
This deserves a watch/listen. It is not all about the rapes, the conversation covers the history and agenda behind the globalists and Islamic expansion.
Truth stings, but then it makes you feel better.
Lol…. Sex terrorism!
No situation is so horrible that a paniced loon won’t want to make it seem even worse.
Weak
Translation: boo hoo hoo
Simple Definition of The Central Scrutinizer
: having little physical power or ability : not strong
: having little power or force
: likely to break or stop working properly : not able to handle weight, pressure, or strain
Full Definition of The Central Scrutinizer
1 lacking strength: as a : deficient in physical vigor : feeble, debilitated b : not able to sustain or exert much weight, pressure, or strain c : not able to resist external force or withstand attack d : easily upset or nauseated
2 mentally or intellectually deficient
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weak - 118k -
Yeah, another term ending in -ism is coined.
If you don’t want them in your country, don’t bomb their homes.
This has to the biggest lesson learned from this fiasco.
+1000
No matter what we do, bomb or stop bomb, they’ll keep it up and keep on making excuses for why.
Well, I guess we might as well throw our hands up and bomb them some more then!
Hey kids! Bombs for everybody!
Exactly. Thinking that this is because of something we are doing is beyond stupid.
The violence in their culture dates back to the founding of Islam. They hate and want to kill anybody who doesn’t believe the exact same thing as they do.
Blaming the victim is not the solution.
Stefan Molyneux/Alex Jones on Islam today:
youtube.com/watch?v=noruglsb7yk
This was posted on infowars a few hours ago,
Berlin on NYE:
infowars.com/shock-video-shows-migrants-in-berlin-shooting-guns-throwing-fireworks/
I watched almost ½ of that Molyneux/Jones video. It’s interesting how much Molyneux is smiling in it and how animated he is. He appears to be very pleased that these women were assaulted in Cologne. The anger that he and Jones express towards the Angela Merkel is bizarre, unless they happen to possess German citizenship.
He’s also clearly a white supremacist. Wikipedia has the following:
Stefan Basil Molyneux (/stɛˈfɑːn ˈmɑːlɪnjuː/; born September 24, 1966) is a Canadian blogger. Molyneux’s areas of interest include anarcho-capitalism, secular ethics, libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, and familial relationships. He is a self-published author and has spoken at libertarian conferences and on podcasts. Molyneux formerly worked in the software industry.
So he must be some sort of secular, anarcho-capitalist, libertarian white supremacist.
“If you don’t want them in your country, don’t bomb their homes.”
Did you even listing or watch?
Now the dimwit ladies of Cologne are protesting, demanding “Give us our safety back!”
Sorry ladies, you & the majority of the German sheeple voted for Frau Merkel, a tool of the globalists and banksters; now you’re getting what you voted for, good and hard. There’s no putting that genie back in the bottle.
http://news.yahoo.com/want-safety-back-hundreds-women-cologne-protest-135213584.html
Sorry, ladies, but your new occupiers don’t give a damn about your silly protests. Enjoy your Soros-sponsored “fundamental transformation”!
http://news.yahoo.com/want-safety-back-hundreds-women-cologne-protest-135213584.html
Sorry ladies, you & the majority of the German sheeple voted for Frau Merkel
Merkel’s conservative CDU party didn’t get a majority of the votes in the last federal election. It only got about 40% in North Rhine-Westphalia, that state that Cologne is in. Probably 70% or more of young women in a big city like Cologne would have voted for the SPD or one of the other parties on the left.
The parties on the left are equally culpable in aiding and abetting the refugee influx.
Globalists gonna globe
This is just a preview of what the cultural relativists have coming their way
Anyone who is willing to risk serious bodily harm from shrapnel wounds caused by the certainty of an exploding polygraph machine that Hillary Clinton is hooked up to is truly a brave American.
Benghazi victim’s dad dares Clinton to lie detector test
By Anna Giaritelli
1/7/16 8:19 AM
The father of one of the men killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks has dared Hillary Clinton to a lie detector test.
Charles Woods, father to former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, said Wednesday that the then-secretary of state told him that a YouTube video was the cause of the attacks, but now denies it.
“I would love to sit down with Hillary Clinton, if she’d agree to do it as well, you know at the same table, by the same operator and have a lie detector test,” Woods told One America News Network.
Woods, a retired administration law judge, said he felt compelled to speak out after seeing Clinton’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos where she offered a different story.
The three other families who lost a loved one in the attack have also confirmed Woods’ story.
Clinton’s campaign team has not responded.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/…/article/2579800 - 130k -
A penny for the thoughts of a dying Chris Stevens. “I thought Hillary had my back”.
Maybe, you speculating on the value of the death of a volunteer warrior of the caliber those guys were is not in your pay grade. I include the diplomat in the same breath. He knew the job was dangerous when he took it.
‘Expendable’ is just about the first lesson they learned. You’re not in the position you were placed because someone thought you salvagable above all else, you were put there because you understand the position and will hold it if told to, or, if no orders are received, will hold it because you are bound by duty to do so.
You challenge a CHOICE(possibly) that was made as a command decison.
Do you question the charging of the hill from rough rider days, or the thousands dead on a single battle field during the civil war, 10,000 lost worthlessly to secure a non strategic island in the Pacific?
Were the commanders felons because of it? Possibly. Calley was, Sherman, probably not.
It’s not yours to speculate on. It isn’t a living relatives to speculate on. Had the relative such worries, they should have demanded the volunteer to quit. If you think death, intentionally inflicted by either side, wasnt an option to your Seal son, you’re just to obtuse to comment.
You’re flavor of the day types.
You’re flavor of the day types.
But, but…the selective outrage of it all!
“It’s not yours to speculate on.”
Yes it is, and I just did. I don’t shed any tears for Stevens, BTW. It is interesting that he expired in almost the same manner Gaddafi did. Sort of poetic justice.
Did you see this phony? You must know about the guy, he lives very near you, has a radio show and a blog, and his political views are pretty much identical to yours.
Is he a friend of yours?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/us/florida-professor-who-cast-doubt-on-mass-shootings-is-fired.html?_r=0
Polygraphs are junk science at its worst. Sociopaths routinely lie and pass them; innocent but nervous people are far more likely to fail them. Clinton would brazenly lie her ultra-wide a$$ off and still pass with flying colors, because sociopaths and psychopaths are practiced, smooth, compusive liars.
She could disable a polygraph machine with a stern glass. The woman is a Sith lord.
Glance! A stern GLANCE, dammit!
Not with a glance, but with a cackle I think.
Or a reset button?
A stern glance and a malevolent cackle.
I think hillary is fond of reset button. If I were a machine, I would be afraid to be near her.
Benghazi victim’s dad dares Clinton to lie detector test
Is that actually supposed to mean something to any voter of importance?
It’ like a headline only a child would find meaningful.
Silly German sheeple. Noisy rallies or having a female “artist” stand there buck naked in public with a sign demanding respect will just cause the Third World gropers and rapists to treat you with even more derision and scorn. And millions more are on the way, courtesy of your globalist masters who you installed and enabled with your votes.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-09/thousands-flood-streets-germany-fury-over-refugee-sex-assaults-reaches-boiling-point
+1,000
SJW’s own this
SJW’s own this
A manchild proudly making his living from legalized pot, while scoffing at those who battle for social justice might be considered by many to be a non-reflective, self-absorbed hypocrite.
Why pot legalization is also a fight for social justice - The Week
theweek.com/articles/…/why-pot-legalization-also-fight-social-justice
Why pot legalization is also a fight for social justice … Yet it should be noted that marijuana’s legal status has only ever made me …
Legalizing marijuana in NJ is a social justice issue … - NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/…/legalizing_marijuana_in_nj.html
Nov 16, 2015 - The state’s first public hearing on legalizing marijuana offered a strongly supportive view from invited guests representing law enforcement, civil …
Kat Bush sings “The Man with the Child in his Eyes.” The song is about retaining an endearing boyish quality into adulthood. By some accounts Kate wrote it for David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, who mentored her when she was 16 and getting ready to release her first album that would produce the best-selling UK single of all time by any female singer-songwriter, “Wuthering Heights.” (Kate denies it was written about Gilmore or that they ever had an intimate relationship.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj8suae3WY
SJW’s own this
SJWs and Germany’s political establishment own this. The backlash is going to be epic, once the sheeple wake up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12090750/German-law-should-be-toughened-to-ease-deportation-of-migrants-says-Angela-Merkel.html
Philly’s liberal-Democrat mayor and his corrupt officials are of course trying to cast this as a “gun violence” rather than “Jihadi violence” issue. Must.follow.the.scripted.narrative.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/8/man-who-shot-philadelphia-police-officer-pledged-allegiance-to-isil.html
Philly’s liberal-Democrat mayor and his corrupt officials are of course trying to cast this as a “gun violence” rather than “Jihadi violence” issue
Seriously? Are you so biased now that that you can’t even comprehend what you read in your own article?
“A gunman who claimed to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer while he sat in his patrol car in an ambush-style attack, the city’s police commissioner said on Friday.
Gunman Edward Archer of Philadelphia, who has been arrested, fired about 11 shots through the window of the officer’s car, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters. He walked toward the car as he fired, eventually getting close enough to reach in the window.
“He has confessed to committing this cowardly act in the name of Islam,” Ross told a press conference, adding that the man also referenced ISIL fighters.”
Don’t bomb their countries if you are afraid of reciprocity.
Bomb or not they still do this stuff. Too late. Like the Palestinians, their leaders whip them into a frenzy. No chance of peace. And if we just withdraw completely Israel will kill them all.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/08/philly-mayor-isis-cop-shooter-does-not-represent-islam/
If that is really true, why do they keep having to explain it?
Where there is smoke there is usually fire.
Letting people into our country who want to destroy it is not going to work out well.
Another non-hate crime consigned to the memory hole by the MSM.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/09/report-career-criminal-accused-of-slashing-victim-calling-her-white-bitch/
Yeah, the MSM is so awful. They deprive you of the satisfaction that you get from reading about violent attacks on white people.
No, they willfully fail to report on issues of public safety unless it advances The Narrative, i.e. guns are evil.
I thought that you were claiming that they didn’t report it because it was a black-on-white crime.
Most religious hate crimes in this country are committed against Jews. How do people wearing hijabs feel about Jews?
It’s women who wear hijabs and women commit very few violent crimes. The face that they may harbor anti-Jewish sentiment doesn’t matter much. We’ve got a large number of posters here on the HBB who express anti-Black and anti-Mexican sentiment on a regular basis. Probably only one or two of them have committed hate crimes.
Being against open borders is promexican as being against blacklivesmatter is problack. But hey, keep defending Jew haters by saying “those other guys do it too.”
I didn’t defend Jew haters.
With “friends” like these, 2016 is going to be a neocon romp.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-a6803191.html
The one good thing about a full-blown market collapse is that the sheeple and even their MSM border collies might finally be forced to acknowledge the pernicious role played by the Fed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-sell-off-worst-in-4-years-2016-1
It’s clear that people need more credit… so they can make their payments.
“It’s clear that people need more credit… so they can make their payments.”
Almost correct. Here, try this:
It’s clear that people need more credit… so they can make Mr. Banker’s payments.
There.
Comment by Oddfellow
2016-01-09 09:10:04
“Did you see this phony?”
“Is he a friend of yours?”
I don’t know the man, but I do know that people who have views like him have been visited by police over what they have said and posted and at least one put in jail for it.
January 8, 2016
Lenny Pozner’s HONR Network: The Fine Art of Online Stalking and Harassment 63
by James Tracy • Documents, Guest Posts • Tags: censorship, defamation, Lenny Pozner, Sandy Hook Elementary, terrorism
Submitted by Tony Mead
(Warning: Graphics contain strong language/profanity)
Since so many people are showing up on my Facebook page for the first time, not knowing the persecution that we’ve endured, I think it appropriate that I introduce you to the HONR Network.
The HONR Network was founded by Lenny Pozner to seek out, identify, stalk and harass anyone who investigates the suspicious and confusing facts surrounding the Sandy Hook incident. They are dedicated to investigating individuals’ backgrounds, places of employment, family and friends, and then attacking their targets by posting personal information, pictures and even contacting people’s employers with accusations of harassment.
Lenny Pozner and HONR Network elite members strategize
their next move: “Hope … we get his brother in laws
number …”
This group is lead by Lenny Pozner and includes CW Wade, Keith Johnson, Thomas Bittman, Stephen Waddock, Ryan Graney, Loucy Pepin and Arie Fique, among several other disreputable characters who may, or may not, just be additional online profiles of these individuals.
Indeed, Lenny formed a Facebook Group called “Conspiracy Theorists Anonymous,” where its 35 members conspired on how to attack anyone that participated in investigating Sandy Hook. Their members even included the Rabbi Shaul Praver !!
Now, I ask you, why is a distraught father, who has recently lost his son, so obsessed with persecuting those who seek the truth about the incident? I know that if I lost a child, I would want to know that proper mass casualty event protocols were followed, proper security had been implemented, and that everything that could possibly have been done to perhaps save my kid was done.
Instead, Lenny is busy working round the clock to insure that no one dare question the Official Report !! And – why in God’s name is a RABBI in there?
Lenny took it upon himself to contact me, at first through Facebook messaging and then through multiple phone calls. After writing the article for the Hartford Courant, he sent me some very bizarre text messages explaining how he was exempt from lawsuits and “judgement proof”! “Get in line, sucker” was his response- hardly the type of thing you’d expect to hear from a poor, grieving father.
As people show up on the Sandy Hook Hoax Facebook Page for the first time spewing forth hatred and disgust that we could be so “disrespectful to the families” and “wishing something like this happens to you”, I would encourage everyone to dig a little deeper. The reason most of the new people are here is because they have heard that Dr James Tracy has been fired due to his attack against the poor grieving family.
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH !!!
Dr Tracy was issued a DMCA copyright complaint against an image of Noah Pozner that was used on his blog. It was the same image that had been used repeatedly by major news networks throughout the world after Sandy Hook and then again after a school shooting in PAKISTAN !
Dr Tracy then agreed, as a courtesy, to remove the image, but also filed a counterclaim asking for proof of copyright ownership, proof that he is indeed the father (remember- “Lenny” is an alias ! His real name is still a mystery. He goes by Lenny, Leonard, Eliezer, Len P Osner, and he told me that his given name is Leonid!) and a dated, time stamped copy of the original image.
Lenny was incapable of providing such things and so, after 30 days, the DMCA complaint expired. Tracy could have legally re-posted the image to his blog, but he didn’t. Instead, Lenny decided to attack Tracy through the media. His termination, despite all of the media hype, is for a technicality that has nothing to do with his views on Sandy Hook.
If the Pozners feel as though they have been harassed, why is it that they have brought no legal action against these supposed provocateurs ?
Take a look at these websites that actually taunt and harass people (here, here, here, and here):
memoryholeblog.com/…/ - 180k -
I don’t know the man
You should go have a burger with him. He’s your political twin, and lives right down the street. And he just lost his job, so he might appreciate a free meal.
Poor King Obama is the anti-Midas. Everything he touches turns to sh*t. His demonization of guns and the NRA, the pretext for his oliarch handlers’ ultimate agenda - confiscation and the nullification of the Second Amendment - isn’t working out so well.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/01/08/the-american-publics-positive-perception-of-the-nra-soars-in-the-face-of-obamas-gun-control-agenda/
MOLON LABE
Will collapsing stock prices help keep the feds balance sheet looking rosy as the flight to quality keeps bond prices high? They might even be able to sell some stuff. Any thoughts?
I wouldn’t call US debt a “quality” asset with Yellen the Felon quite prepared to inflate away all government and corporate debts and liabilities with her printing press. The only safe haven are tangible physical assets that you actually possess, i.e. physical precious metals.
Don’t forget ammo.
Of course, the government could ban possession of PMs and ammo.
They can ban all they want. They will take your savings accounts, brokerage accounts, 401ks and IRAs before sending their jackboots door to door for PMs and guns. Cuz guns will shoot back.
And that’s when you know it’s “go time.” Go out of the gun grabbing states and into places like Arizona.
Now here is a truck for Bill in LA… no more lonely nights!
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/cto/5395184023.html
It looks great. I don’t have a place to park it. I got plenty of space for Bitcoin.
This is why Trump is winning, because he reaches out and acknowledges his supporters. To be sure, someone probably called the obit to his attention. However, the floating turds on both sides of the fence who fancy themselves presidential material couldn’t give a crap about the common man. They just sort of naturally think they deserve the kudos just for living. As bombastic as Trump comes across, there’s also a sort of humility and decency that comes across as well.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 59m59 minutes ago
Thank you so much. Earnest must have been a great person. http://m.richmond.com/obituaries/article_80ca0100-a435-5a87-814b-03d039e997c2.html?mode=jqm …
“In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Cullather Brain Tumor QOL Center, 5875 Bremo Rd., MOBS, Suite 108, Richmond, Va. 23226 and please vote for Donald Trump.”
PS: Cue the sneers and snickers from the panty sniffing weebles.
As bombastic as Trump comes across, there’s also a sort of humility and decency that comes across as well.
Anyone can see that Trump is such a humble and decent man.
Donald Trump cut off medical funds to nephew’s sick baby because he was ‘angry’ over family feud
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-revoke-cut-off-child-medical-bills-family-feud-a6795131.html
Donald Trump, frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, has faced fresh criticism after it was revealed in an interview that he allegedly withheld funds for the medical bills of a sick infant due to a family feud.
…….Fred III, got married and had a child. Shortly after birth, the baby began having seizures which later developed into cerebral palsy.
The Trump family pledged to pay for the child’s medical bills, but that came to an end after the reading of Fred Sr’s will, which Donald Trump had reportedly helped draft while his father was still alive.
In Fred Trump Sr’s will, much of the inheritance, believed to be around $20 million, was divided between four of his five children and their descendants - leaving Freddy explicitly excluded from receiving any of the money.
I thought he inherited $200 million from his dad, now it’s 20 million split 4 ways? Story straight Lola
“allegedly”
There’s also this:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/12/26/that-time-when-donald-trump-saved-a-georgia-farm/
He certainly can be nasty to his detractors and enemies and who can blame him? However, he believes in burying the hatchet when attacks cease, and that is a good thing. He’s known to be loyal to his people. Unlike the Clintons, who don’t care who they throw under the bus. To be an enemy of the Clintons is dangerous. To be a friend is fatal.
“allegedly”
Not allegedly. Trump admitted he did it because he was “angry”.
He certainly can be nasty to his detractors and enemies and who can blame him?
Civil people can blame Trump for being a horrible person. Trump even makes fun the handicapped.
he believes in burying the hatchet when attacks cease
BS. His nephew’s baby who Trump cut-off paying the medical bills for never attacked him.
He’s known to be loyal to his people.
No. He’s on record for years backing Democrats and Democratic causes. Trump is an opportunist and only loyal to Trump. BTW, Trump is not a Republican.
“Donald Trump, frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, has faced fresh criticism after it was revealed in an interview that he allegedly withheld funds for the medical bills of a sick infant due to a family feud.”
There’s that word, right there, allegedly.
And who cares if he is or isn’t a Republican?
BTW, Trump is…
doing a public service.
Is he worthy might not be the right question.
Why is Trump obligated to pay the medical bills for his nephew’s baby? Isn’t that the nephew’s responsibility?
No one stated that he had an obligation. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t act like an a–hole.
While ‘Murica might be able to survive the passive stupidity of the 95%, i.e. the Obama Zombies, McCain Mutants, and Romney Retards, I’m not so sure we can survive the kind of bellicose, militant stupidity exhibited by the armed self-described “Constitutionalists” who may have some legitimate concerns but whose tactics are reckless, dangerous, and practically guaranteed to result in confrontations and bloodshed that benefit no one and are the last thing this country needs. Why can’t all stupid people at least be peaceful and passive?
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-armed-group-not-ready-to-end-wildlife-refuge-occupation-2016-1
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
That’s how the trannies and weirdos sneak in. We’ve gotta change that part.
TSA molestation and inquisition for thee, not for me. Faux News CNN executive of gourmet media that supports the MIC and surveillance state raves about Set Jet, a different way of travel than the cattle car normal commercial flight:
https://setjet.com/testimonials/
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“Gourmet media”…gubment media.
How can any of China’s central planners possibly think this is a good idea?
http://en.people.cn/n/2015/1116/c90000-8977146.html
Demolition adds to GDP!
Krugman at his purest.
Like ZH headline says: China goes full Keyneian-tard, Demolishes Never Used just-built skyscraper
Parliament - Come In Out Of The Rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsP3rHs3oUI
Sly & the Family Stone - Runnin’ Away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUGGVQ9glwU
But you can’t run away from yourself…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JEV0ea86lU
Curtis Mayfield - This Is My Country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_esbRoOeR0
Otis Redding - I Can’t Turn You Loose (live at the Whisky-A-Go-Go 1966):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBuVoy0XGY
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government. I’d want to change that.
You and your trumplings are going to be making boo boo faces on election day… and maybe even on the day of the nomination. Ted Cruz has the Power of Jesus.