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The reason you never saw a b****t soliciting your opinion on integration is that this nation's founders DID NOT INCLUDE THE AUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL REFERENDUMS in this nation's constitution.

The final arbiter of civil rights is the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judges and justices do not allow the majority to determine the civil rights of a minority.

A majority of white folks are not allowed to consign a minority of black folks to inferior schools and inferior accomodations.

Isn't diversity and e******y a b***h???

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More gullible goobers who believe states are actually sovereign and can make their own immigration policy. Immigration policy is the domain of the federal govt. Don't like that? Tough.

This states rights garbage was settled long ago. I suspect very few of you know anything true about the civil war and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

The nation rejected the southern states rights claims that they had a right to segregated public places and schools. They claimed the right to do wh**ever they damned well pleased, without federal "interference".

The federal govt. gave them a good remedial civics lesson.

Many conservatives just pull this "states rights" garbage out of their a**es! I have seen this type of ignorant idiocy my whole life.

Isn't reality a b*tch!!!

For the Doubters...

Great insight to the effects of it all....
slowly, ever so slowly making it's way into your budget and taking from your pocket... wrecking jobs and economies, then your communities...
All by design....


A Road Map for the Markets ...
by Larry Edelson
Dear Subscriber,

Despite the lackluster dog days of summer trading in the financial markets — nearly every single market on the board is now reaching critical inflection points.

I told my Real Wealth Report subscribers all about it in my latest issue — including my specific recommendations on how to seize this moment in time.

In today's column, I will tell you what I am seeing — plus I'll give you a road map to help you see for yourself where the fireworks are likely to begin in each of the major markets.

But before I do, let's take a look at the major underlying fundamental forces at work.

I'm not going to bore you with all the details, nor am I going to address the stuff of corporate earnings, balance sheets, economic stats, etc.

For in the end, traditional types of analysis don't matter all that much today.

What matters the most today is the psyche of the financial markets and the forces they are truly responding to, each market in its own way.

I see two major fundamental forces at work impacting all markets:

First and foremost is the ramping up of the war cycles that I have been warning you about for over two years.


Just like the 1930s, the U.S. dollar is starting to show very resilient strength, due largely to frightened capital fleeing from other parts of the world, especially Europe.
Make no mistake about it: The cycles of war that I have studied — starting in my college years over 38 years ago — are real.

They are based on scientific studies of both domestic and international war data extracted from the annals of Raymond Wheeler's studies on war and subjected to rigorous fact-finding.

They are as concrete as the seasons of the year, and they tell you, in no uncertain terms, when society is likely to be most predisposed to conflict, both domestically and internationally.

The fact is that the war cycles are now ramping up all the way into the year 2020, and with an intensity that even I underestimated.

From Russia and Eastern Europe ... to Nigeria ... to Iraq and Syria ... Jordan ... Israel and Gaza.

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From the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) k*****g thousands, beheading an American journalist, and threatening many more ...

To China, brazenly occupying the South China Sea, the Senkaku and Spratly Islands, hunting down oil and gas resources, ignoring territorial rights of others, ready to wage war if need be ...

To Ferguson, which is merely the beginning of civil unrest in our own country.

In Monday's column, Martin told you how it is affecting families he personally knows in riskier parts of the world.

So imagine how geopolitical turmoil could be affecting large pension funds in other countries, funds with hundreds of billions of dollars.

Or large hedge funds whose managers are now adopting new trading styles — some even avoiding the commodity markets entirely, opting instead for venture capital investment in safer shores, like the U.S.

And if all that's happening across the oceans isn't bad enough, the war cycles won't stop there ...

Second, the draconian war-like measures that inept Western world leaders tend to implement every time their government's balance sheets become bankrupt.

I'm talking about how leaders in Europe and the United States wage war against their own citizens.

How they hunt down the rich and raise a battle cry for class warfare ... which later backfires by widening the gap between the rich and poor, often driving the rich out of town, along with their companies and jobs.

How they target the average citizen, by camouf**ging hidden tax increases (such as Obamacare and the proposed myRA retirement plan) ...

And how they brazenly implement actual wealth t***sfers from you to government coffers, such as Europe has done in the Cyprus haircut, forcing all bank depositors to pay when banks fail ...

Or how they openly endorse the IMF's recent 10 percent wealth surtax on every citizen, already in the works in Europe ... and also actively considered behind closed doors in Washington.

Then there's all that spying going on, all that trampling of basic rights to liberty, privacy and other basic freedoms.

It's all part and parcel of how bankrupt empires fade away into the sunset, and we will be no different.

The ultimate end may be far away. But all of this is already beginning to have an astounding impact on financial markets.

The dollar for example, has now surged to its highest levels in almost a year, defying the pundits' call for its immediate demise.

Or crude oil, its bear market about to end any day now, as it prepares for a major move higher.

Agricultural commodities, in a severe slump, but one which will end soon, leading to new bull markets in the prices of wheat, corn, soybeans.

Then there are the precious metals, where so many investors have given up hope: Yet despite the soaring dollar, gold, silver, platinum and palladium remain poised to soar in the weeks, months and years ahead.

Finally, consider the U.S. equity markets: The resilience you see in the stock market is for real, a sign of exactly what I've been warning you about ...

That rising domestic and civil unrest and international conflict throughout the world is extremely bullish long-term for the U.S. equity markets.

Right now, my best advice is to watch my weekly system support and resistance levels, which I outline for you below, along with some short commentary.

For gold: Basing, building a new bull market. Importantly, the bullish forces for gold will gain complete control once the yellow metal closes above $1,406.80 on a weekly closing basis. But at no time must gold close below $1,259.90 — or the bear may suddenly return.

For silver: Same. Basing for a new bull market. Major resistance: $22.24. Major support: $19.20.

For mining shares, in general, per the ARCA Gold Bugs Index (HUI): Preparing for their next legs up. Major resistance: 252.43. Major support: 202.16.

Crude Oil: Current weakness putting the finishing touches on a major bottom formation. Major resistance: $104.35. Major support: $92.35.

Natural Gas: Same as crude oil, but extremely bullish long-term, with the potential to quadruple over the next three years. Major resistance: $4.1650. Major support: $3.58 to $3.72.

U.S. Dollar, basis the U.S. Dollar Index, nearest futures (DXU4): Just like the 1930s, the U.S. dollar is starting to show very resilient strength, due largely to frightened capital fleeing from other parts of the world, especially Europe. Major resistance: 82.330. Major support: 79.055.

U.S. Broad Equity Markets: The danger of a correction is still there. But, long-term, the U.S. equity markets are headed much higher. Via the broad-based S&P 500, major resistance is at 2,032.00. Major support: 1,889.50.

And remember, you can let me know what you think about precious metals, governments targeting their citizens, or anything else right here.

Best wishes, and stay safe ...

Larry

All the elitists are in bed together and know no country borders.
"Is it just irony that our government helped birth ISIS and now the White House is at war with the group? Or is it possible that maybe, just maybe, a greater plan is afoot?

As the sinister Rahm Emanuel famously said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

If a crisis of opportunity does not present itself in the time frame you need, why not ENGINEER a crisis to fit your goals? This is a tactic that has been used by elites for generations, and it is called the Hegelian dialectic.

Hegel wrote that the state “has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State… for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges.”

In his dialectic theory, Hegel conjured a strategy by which the establishment elites could control the masses through deliberately created division. To define the Hegelian dialectic method simply, the ruling body must first trigger a problem or crisis that causes the citizenry to react with fear and demand a solution. The rulers then offer a solution, which they had already predetermined before they had started the crisis; this solution would usually entail more power for the elites and less freedom for the citizens.

The world appears divided and chaotic exactly because it has been MADE that way by a select few in the g*******t establishment. In fact, if you were to name any war in the past 100 years, any competent alternative analyst would easily produce undeniable evidence of the involvement of international banks and think tanks pulling strings on both sides.

If you don’t understand the concept of “order out of chaos,” then you’ll never understand a thing.

Engineered chaos serves several purposes. It provides distraction and cover for the elites to implement other plans that they would rather not have noticed.

It also provides a scapegoat for the masses, who are now divided against each other. When violent changes are implemented that produce destructive consequences, the people must be placated with an easily identifiable villain. Certain changes g*******ts wish to make in the way the world functions require the careful exploitation of scapegoats.

For example, the g*******ts at the IMF have been discussing the establishment of a global basket currency for years to replace the U.S. dollar.

Russia and the East have also, conveniently, been calling for the IMF to replace the dollar with their Special Drawing Rights basket.

And finally, as well as conveniently, the elites in the U.S. government have launched a controlled c**p in Ukraine and initiated direct economic confrontation with Russia, thereby giving the East the perfect excuse to dump the U.S. dollar as world reserve and replace it with a basket currency system under the IMF.
Hopefully, you have the sense to see how this works: problem, reaction, solution. Economic or physical war is launched between East and West, while the dollar is k**led in the process. The masses react by demanding a fair and balanced replacement for the dollar as world reserve so that economic stability can return. The Americans blame Russia and the East for their fiscal misfortune. The East blames the hubris of the West for its own downfall. Neither side blames the banksters, who started the whole calamity to begin with. And the elites swoop in as saviors with a new Bretton Woods-style agreement to appease all sides and cement their global currency system, the system they had always wanted. And with a global economic currency and authority in place, global governance is not far behind — order out of chaos.

This process is more psychological than political in its goals. One could argue that if the elites already have control of all central banks and governments, then why do they need a global government? The answer is that these men do not want secret global governance, they want open global governance. They want us to ACCEPT the idea as a fact of existence, for only when we agree to participate in the lie will they then have truly won.

The end result of World War I was the creation of the League of Nations and the argument that sovereignty leads to disunion and catastrophe. World War II led to the creation of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. I believe that a third world war is nearly upon us, one that may involve weapons of monetary destruction more so than weapons of mass destruction. Each supposed disintegration of global unity has eventually led to greater centralization, and this is something the skeptics seem to forget. The progression of crises suggests that the next war will lead to total globalization under the dominance of a minority of elitists posing as "wise men" who only wish to bring peace and harmony to the masses. In the meantime, the skeptics will continue to mindlessly debate in the face of all reason that the whole thing was a fluke, an act of random mathematical chance, leading coincidentally to the one thing the establishment rulers crave: total global totalitarian micromanagement."

“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”
-H.L. Mencken, American journalist

It’s vogue, trendy and appropriate to look to dystopian literature as a harbinger of what we’re experiencing at the hands of the government. Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm have much to say about government tyranny, corruption, and control, as does Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report. Yet there are also older, simpler, more timeless stories—folk tales and fairy tales—that speak just as powerfully to the follies and foibles in our nature as citizens and rulers alike that give rise to tyrants and dictatorships.

One such tale, Hans Christian Andersen’s fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes, is a perfect paradigm of life today in the fiefdom that is the American police state, only instead of an imperial president spending money wantonly on lavish vacations, entertainment, and questionable government programs aimed at amassing greater power, Andersen presents us with a vain and thoughtless emperor, concerned only with satisfying his own needs at the expense of his people, even when it means taxing them unmercifully, bankrupting his kingdom, and harshly punishing his people for daring to challenge his edicts.

For those unfamiliar with the tale, the Emperor, a vain peacock of a man, is conned into buying a prohibitively expensive suit of clothes that is supposedly visible only to those who are smart, competent and well-suited to their positions. Surrounded by yes men, professional flatterers and career politicians who fawn, simper and genuflect, the Emperor—arrogant, pompous and oblivious to his nudity—prances through the town in his new suit of clothes until a child dares to voice what everyone else has been thinking but too afraid to say lest they be thought stupid or incompetent: “He isn’t wearing anything at all!”

Much like the people of the Emperor’s kingdom, we, too, have been conned into believing that if we say what we fear, if we dare to suggest that something is indeed “rotten in the state of Denmark,” we will be branded i***ts and fools by the bureaucrats, corporate heads, governmental elites and media hotshots who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo—or who at least are determined to maintain the façade that is the status quo. Yet the t***h is staring us in the face just as surely as the fact that the Emperor was wearing no clothes.

T***h #1: The U.S. is on the brink of bankruptcy, as many economists have been warning for some time now, with more than $16 trillion in debts owned by foreign nationals and corporations. As one financial news site reports: “Internationally, the world is fed up with The Fed and the U.S. government’s unabashed debt growth. China, Russia, Iran, India and a host of other countries are establishing trade relationships that are bypassing the U.S. dollar altogether, a move that will soon see the world’s reserve currency lose purchasing power and status. In anticipation of this imminent collapse gold is being hoarded by private and public entities from Berlin to Beijing in an effort to preserve wealth before the Tsunami hits.”

T***h #2: We no longer have a government that is “of the people, for the people and by the people.” What we have now is a feudal monarchy, run by wealthy overlords and financed with the blood, sweat and labor of the underclasses who are kept in check by the increasingly militarized police. This sorry state of affairs is reinforced by a study which found that average citizens have “little or no independent influence” on the policy-making process. A similar study published by thePolitical Research Quarterly revealed that members of the U.S. Senate represent their wealthiest constituents while ignoring those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

T***h #3: Far from being a benevolent entity concerned with the well-being of its citizens, whether in matters of health, safety or security, the government is concerned with three things only: power, control and money. As an often quoted adage says, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Unfortunately, the master-servant relationship that once had the government answering to “we the people” has been reversed. Government agents now act as if they are the masters and we are the servants. Nowhere is this more evident than in the t***sformation of police officers from benevolent keepers of the peace to inflexible extensions of the military hyped up on the power of their badge.

T***h #4: Our primary use to the government is as consumers, worker bees and bits of data to be collected, catalogued, controlled, mined for information, and sold to the highest bidder. Working in cahoots with corporations, the government has given itself carte blanche access to our phone calls, emails, bank t***sactions, physical movements, even our travels on foot or in our cars. Cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke envisions a future where data about every aspect of our lives will be collected and analyzed. Thus, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court might have said to the contrary, the government no longer needs a warrant to spy on your cell phone activity or anything else for that matter. As theWashington Post recently revealed, 9 out of 10 people caught up in the NSA’s surveillance net had done nothing wrong to justify such intrusions on their privacy. Clearly, the government now operates relatively autonomously, answering only to itself and unbridled by the courts, Congress, the will of the people or the Constitution.

T***h #5: Wh**ever problems we are grappling with in regards to i*****l i*******ts flooding over the borders has little to do with the fact that the borders are porous and everything to do with the government’s own questionable agenda. How is it that a government capable of locking down roads, open seas, and air routes is unable to prevent tens of thousands of women and children from crossing into the U.S. illegally? Conveniently, the Obama administration is asking Congress for $3.8 billion in emergency funding to send more immigration judges to the southern border, build additional detention facilities and add border patrol agents. The funds would be managed by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, State and Health and Human Services, the very same agencies responsible for bringing about a rapid shift into a police state.

T***h #6: The U.S. government is preparing for massive domestic unrest, arising most likely from an economic meltdown. The government has repeatedly made clear its intentions, through its U.S. Army War College report alerting the military to prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” through its ongoing military drills in cities across the country, through its profiling of potential homegrown “dissidents” or extremists, and through the proliferation of detention centers being built across the country.

T***h #7: As Gerald Ford warned, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Too often, Americans have fallen prey to the temptation to let the government take care of wh**ever ails them, whether it be financial concerns, health needs, childcare. As a result, we now find ourselves caught in a Catch-22 situation wherein the government’s so-called solutions to our problems have led to even graver problems. In this way, zero tolerance policies intended to outlaw drugs and weapons in schools result in young children being arrested and kicked out of school for childish behavior such as drawing pictures of soldiers and crying too much; truancy laws intended to keep students in school have resulted in parents being arrested and fined excessively; and zoning laws intended to protect homeowners have been used to prosecute residents who attempt to live off the grid.

T***h #8: The U.S. is following the N**i blueprint to a “t,” whether through its storm trooper-like police in the form of heavily armed government agents, to its erection of an electronic concentration camp that not only threatens to engulf America but the rest of the world as well via NSA surveillance programs such as Five Eyes. Most damning of all is the Department of Homeland Security’s self-appointed role as a national police force, a.k.a. standing army, the fundamental and final building block for every totalitarian regime that has ever wreaked havoc on humanity. Indeed, just about every nefarious deed, tactic or thuggish policy advanced by the government today can be traced back to the DHS, its police state mindset, and the billions of dollars it distributes to police agencies in the form of grants.

T***h #9: Not only does the U.S. government perpetrate organized, systematic violence on its own citizens, especially those who challenge its authority nonviolently, in the form of SWAT team raids, militarized police, and roaming VIPR checkpoints, but it gets away with these clear violations of the Fourth Amendment because the courts grant them immunity from wrongdoing. Expanding its reach, the U.S. also exports its violence wholesale to other countries through armaments sales and the use of its military as a global police force. Yet no matter how well trained, well equipped and well financed, America cannot police the world. As history shows, military empires, once over extended, inevitably collapse into chaos.

T***h #10: As I make clear in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the United States of America has become the new battlefield. In fact, the only real war being fought by the U.S. government today is the war on the American people, and it is being waged with deadly weapons, militarized police, surveillance technology, laws that criminalize otherwise lawful behavior, private prisons that operate on quota systems, and government officials who are no longer accountable to the rule of law.

So there you have it: facts rather than fiction, so naked that a child could call it for what it is, and yet so politically inconvenient, incorrect and uncomfortable that few dare to speak of them.

Even so, despite the fact that no one wants to be labeled dimwitted, or conspiratorial, or a right wing nut job, most Americans, if they were truly paying attention to what’s been going on in this country over the past few decades and willing to be t***hful, at least to themselves, would have to admit that the outlook is decidedly grim. Indeed, unless something changes drastically for the good in the near future, it looks like this fairytale will not have a happy ending.

About the author

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He is the author of The Change Manifesto (Sourcebooks).