Kurieuo wrote:But, I think this is bigger than Hillary, even Obama before her.
I read Martin Armstrong's blog on a regular basis. In my opinion, he is the smartest economist on the planet. A true intellectual. He is the American economist that back in the 80's developed a mathematical model which he turned into a computer program, that predicted the rise and fall of stock markets based on evidence of empires throughout history. His model was incredibly accurate and made him a very wealthy man in the 90's.
When the bankers and rich stock brokers on Wall Street found out about it during Bill Clinton's Presidency, they attempted to acquire it from him. He would not give it up. So they framed him and put him in jail for 11 years, a number of those years in solitary confinement. Two of the lawyers who prosecuted him have since been hired by Goldman Sachs. And Goldman Sachs is a Wall Street corporation that is financially supporting Hillary Clinton.
He is not a big fan of Trump. But he likes Clinton far less and since his release from prison, he has been continuously writing about the greed, deception and mass corruption within the US political and economic system.
He answered a question from a person last week on his blog:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/blog/
QUESTION: Marty; As you have always said you are not Republican or Democrat because both parties are corrupt and the scandals seem to be endless on both sides. Hillary scandals involve money and Trump women, not unlike Bill. In many ways, this is like the Clintons, sex v money. So what do you really think would be the difference between a Trump White House and a Hillary White House?
Thanks
BM
ANSWER: "The powers that be are filling every media outlet with the story Russia will hack the election, so if Trump wins, it will be declared a fake. There is no possible way they will allow Trump to enter the White House. Trump is against nation building, which is the only real power these crazy people want. They are blaming Russia to set the stage for war. There is no way to identify a true professional hacker. So it cannot be proven that it was Russia. This is the excuse to deny Trump the White House regardless of the vote. This is the real agenda. It’s in play right now. Open your eyes. They need the media to sell this story.
That aside, the candidates are anything but traditional and far from ideal. They are trying to paint Trump as a sleaze as they did to Bill with Monica, despite having nothing to do with his qualifications. The peak in government was clearly on time 2015.75 and this is part of the crash and burn. Hillary has abandoned the “America’s First Family” pitch from 2008 as if they were royalty. It doesn’t fly with Bill’s escapades these days.
To run for office today, you really have to be out of your mind or you cannot care what people think about you I suppose. The joke with Hillary is we might as well vote for her because she will not die; she will keep running until she becomes the first woman president if it kills Bill. Trump, they say just wants to put “Trump” in neon lights above the White House.
Meanwhile, I have been warning that Trump’s rise has been all about corrupt government — the outsider v establishment. Now, USA Today has reported a poll that reveals the number one concern in America is none other than “corrupt politicians.” This is what we get, and we deserve it, for there are still people who believe in Hillary simply because she is a woman or a Democrat. At least inside the Republican Party it has been outright civil war.
Although the computer shows Trump should win against all odds, this is obviously like BREXIT. The polls are rigged, 99% of the media is bought and paid for, and it is to the point where CNN hands questions to Hillary in advance. Nevertheless, I remain skeptical that they would allow Trump to take office. Look, the computer projected BREXIT would win. I was personally skeptical about that for they were trying to rig that vote as well. The computer was correct and I was wrong. Career politicians have way too much to risk. They are afraid Trump will go on TV and tell the truth about various bills they stuff in compensation for their friends and family. Trump is too much of a wildcard for them to allow him to take an office with a veto pen. I would vote for Trump only to see such chaos unleashed on Capitol Hill.
Hillary will do whatever the establishment dictates. She will go along with World War III and I do believe Obama is ratcheting up the stakes as he tried in Syria and lost. So this time he needs Russia and a direct confrontation to get the backing. Emails have come out showing that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been funding ISIS. Why? I explained in the Cycle of War Part II that this is a civil war in Islam — Sunni against Shia. ISIS is Sunni and they are trying to topple Syria and Iran because they are Shia. Plus, there is more oil in the Golan Heights than in Saudi Arabia and that may be occupied by Israel, but it is Syrian territory. What oil company is involved? Genie. Who is on the board of directors of Genie Oil? **** Cheney.
So what I see as the big difference between a Hillary v Trump White House is W-A-R. It looks like Obama is already poking Russia to intentionally goat them into a confrontation. He called Russia a “regional power,” deliberately trying to demean them. Some people have said Trump would spout out something stupid and start a war. Well, the alarmists about Trump in this regard are just too biased to open their eyes. Obama is deliberately trying to provoke war which is a hidden agenda going on here as well. This reminds me of Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” The main difference is Trump is anti-nation building and that is why the establishment hates him so much. It appears they will start a war to ensure they continue this policy of nation building that gave us Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
One Hillary diehard writes that Trump is a “buffoon” and war is coming anyhow so Hillary is our man. Well, get ready then, because this war will require a lot of boots on the ground and the talk behind the curtain is that the draft will be reinstated and the age limit will be 40 since the birth rate has declined. Some have even suggested with Hillary in charge, feminists will rule since they think women can a do whatever a man can do, so get ready for the draft applying to women as well. So you better start jogging and get in shape. You will get your wish.
The problem with this dream coming true is that it is really a nightmare. We are not the only species to wage war. Some ants storm rivals and take their young to be slaves, which sound like the Romans. Perhaps war is simply tucked deep inside human nature and leaps out now and again like swarms of locusts who come as solitary individuals that suddenly swarm together. They say serotonin in the brain triggers a dramatic set of changes that cause locusts to breed abundantly and then swarm. Perhaps we have the same problem as a species!"
Kurieuo, I do not know if you have read the book, 'The Decline of the West' by Oswald Spengler. But it is worth a read just because it mirrors some of the things happening today. Whether you agree with his ideas or not, they’re intellectually fascinating, and worth a look.
Spengler believed that humanity was an organism that went through 1000 year cycles which he likened to the Seasons; Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter or birth, growth, decline and death. He believed that these "seasons" lasted for approximately 250 years.
In compiling his work, he studied the 8 High Cultures he thought to have existed: Babylonian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Mayan/Aztec, Greek/Roman or Classical, Arab and, finally, Faustian, or what we call Western civilization. He believed each of the eight civilizations went through phases.
In Spengler’s model, each culture goes through a formative Culture Stage, followed by a decadent period known as Civilization. The culture period makes up the “organic” Spring and Summer of a civilization, and is when the civilization is inspired by its own art and religion. Autumn and Winter make up the Civilization phase, in which the society becomes inorganic and is based only on the organization created during the Culture phase. The creativity seen in the Culture period slowly fades away. The civilization stiffens, and becomes overpopulated, metropolitan, and uninspired.
Spengler predicted that the time we are living in now is the fall and winter stage.
According to Spengler, the Western world has entered Winter and its civilization is ending. He describes Winter as the “dawn of Megalopolitan Civilization. Extinction of spiritual creative force. Life itself becomes problematical. Ethical-practical tendencies of an irreligious and unmetaphysical cosmopolitanism.”
Over the coming decades, Spengler expected the intellect of our civilization to fade, people to stop reading and thinking as the civilization as a whole loses interest in thought, and the government to become autocratic/tyrannical. Art will further devolve into “meaningless subjects of fashion.”
But probably most interesting he says, "the population comprising the civilization will continue dying off as it loses touch with the myths and culture it was founded upon."
All Western democracies were founded on Christian principles. So what you mentioned in your post, is simply the result of a modern Western culture that has abandoned its Christian heritage and has an amnesia of sorts, hoping for a better life but not really sure how to achieve it, all the while succumbing to an autocratic government.
Spengler had his critics.
Answering Spengler's pessimism helped animate Arnold J. Toynbee's similarly themed work, 'A Study of History.' He was optimistic where Spengler was pessimistic. He expanded Spengler's theory into a fully cyclical one and replaced Spengler's "cultures" with nations or societies.
One critic of Spengler was G. K. Chesterton. He said, "The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty."
You just have to love the 18th, 19th and early 20th century writers. No TV, radio or phones. They sat down,thought and wrote.
There are two types of people in our world: those who believe in Christ and those who will.
If Christianity is a man-made religion, then why is its doctrine vehemently against all of man's desires?
Every one that is of the truth hears my voice. Jesus from John 18:37
from accidentally shootings of self or others but then supports the murder of the unborn it strikingly cynical...
