Wednesday, November 9, 2016

David Stockman: "The Jig Is Up: America’s Voters Just Fired Their Ruling Elites" | Zero Hedge

From the article: 
America's voters fired their ruling elites last night. After 30 years of arrogant misrule and wantonly planting the seeds of economic and financial ruin throughout Flyover America, the Wall Street/Washington establishment and its mainstream media tools have been repudiated like never before in modern history.

This is the good news.  Then comes somes seriously bad news.

For months and years to come, the Imperial City will be ungovernable and the nation will be racked with fiscal, financial, political and even constitutional crisis. By kicking the can in a ruinous direction for decades, America implicitly opted eventually for the bleeding cure.
To wit, the giant stock market bubble will now crash. The stock-price obsessed C-suites of corporate America will now panic and begin pitching inventory and workers overboard. We will be in an official recession within 6 months. The Federal budget will plunge back into trillion dollar annual deficits very soon.
Accordingly, Washington will descend into permanent warfare over the debt ceiling and an exploding $20 trillion+ public debt. Any notion of a Trump economic revival program—-even if it could now be confected—will be stillborn in the financial and fiscal chaos ahead.
And most important of all, the almighty Fed will be stranded high and dry—-out of dry powder and under political attack like never before from angry politicians and citizens alike.
The jig is up.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-09/david-stockman-jig-america%E2%80%99s-voters-just-fired-their-ruling-elites?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

Some have tried, for years, to point out we can't exist indefinitely in a deficit state.  Eventually it will not be able to be sustained.  Stockman says we are there.  Facing the truth is the good news.  The truth is difficult is the bad news.



Artificial Intelligence MogIA Predicts Fourth Election in Row with Trump Win - Breitbart

From the article: 
MogIA, an artificial intelligence system and election predictor, has successfully predicted its fourth election in a row.
The system, which learns in real-time by examining data on the internet, placed its bets on Donald Trump to win the 2016 US Presidential Election in October after also successfully predicting both the Democratic and Republican party primaries.


 
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/11/09/artificial-intelligence-mogia-predicts-fourth-election-in-row-with-trump-win/

Don't need "no stinkin polls".  Maybe we don't even need to vote if this AI can already measure our behavior.  That's all that voting is, formally recording our choice as exhibited by our behavior.

Monday, November 7, 2016

Losers go to jail - Marginal REVOLUTION

From the article: 
The results show that US politicians manipulate the justice system to maintain power.
 



http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/11/losers-go-jail.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29

What do you think?  Is the justice system compromised?


Sunday, November 6, 2016

America's Ruling Elite Has Failed and Deserves to Be Fired

From the article: 
The sole output of America's Establishment/Ruling Elite is self-serving hubris.
America's Ruling Elite is freaking out because a significant percentage of the American public is trying to fire them. The Ruling Elite has failed and deserves to be fired, and deep down, they know it--and this awareness of their self-serving failure fuels their panic and their loathing of the non-elite Americans who are trying to fire them.
 
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/11/americas-ruling-elite-has-failed-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+google%2FRzFQ+%28oftwominds%29

Putin: “A society that can’t defend its children has no tomorrow” | The Geller Report

From the article: 
Whatever you may think of Putin, he is right about this. "In a European country, a child is raped by a migrant, and the court releases him. It doesn't fit into my head what on earth they're thinking over there. I can't even explain the rationale – is it a sense of guilt before the migrants? What's going on? It's not clear….A society that cannot defend its children has no future."
He is absolutely right, and what is appalling is that he is one of the only world leaders saying it, if not the only one. That's a stunning indictment of the leadership we have today.
 
http://pamelageller.com/2016/11/putin-a-society-that-cant-defend-its-children-has-no-tomorrow.html/

Friday, November 4, 2016

Bigger than Hillary Clinton: The Establishment Cesspool of Dishonesty and Corruption | Gingrich Productions

From the article: 
If you are as surprised as I am at the depth of dishonesty and corruption that has been revealed in this campaign, then you will understand why I am writing this particular column the weekend before the election.
Americans are faced with a crisis of dishonesty and corruption vastly bigger and deeper than Secretary Hillary Clinton. Defeating her is necessary if we hope to clean up our dishonest and corrupt capitol city, but in many ways Hillary is merely the most prominent face in an entire network of dishonest people.
I have been actively involved in politics and government since August of 1958.
In all those years, nothing prepared me for the avalanche of blatant corruption and dishonesty that has been exposed and detailed during this campaign.
The dishonesty infects the news media, the Justice Department, the IRS, the Veterans Administration, the State Department, and the White House, among others.
 
http://www.gingrichproductions.com/2016/11/bigger-than-hillary-clinton-the-establishment-cesspool-of-dishonesty-and-corruption/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bigger-than-hillary-clinton-the-establishment-cesspool-of-dishonesty-and-corruption

What a mess we have become.  

Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » The Inner Ring

From the article. 
But you will be a scoundrel.
 
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/54168.html

Reminds me a bit of the honor code and the need to be rigorously honest.  Sadly, it seems some are moving away from those ideas.  This is what happens when we lose sight of "help me choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong".