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Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain", a bloc of NAZI-supporting eastern European countries overrun by Soviet Union forces from 1943-1947 is the reason for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during World War II when Nazi Germany invaded Russia. Many defenseless Russian civilians were murdered just for being "sub-humans" (untermensch) according to Nazi Einsatzgruppen. It can be argued, I think very successfully, that the Soviet Union won WWII. Those 'sub-humans' destroyed the 'super-humans' all the way from Volgograd (Stalingrad in 1942-3) and St. Petersburg (Leningrad in 1943) to the Battle of Kursk and to Berlin, and they could have gone all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, but the U.S. and Great Britain handled the Western Europe Front. I am not praising either Stalin or their form of government at the time. The Russians defended themselves very successfully.

The Soviet Union's communist economy FAILED in 1991. In 2014 the new Russia took control of Crimea from Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine has been under attack by Russian supplied local militia since 2014. Today, Russia's imperialistic tendencies are much less than the massive defensive measures taken during WWII. In fact, all former eastern European countries that comprised the Soviet Bloc are now independent countries, enjoying their freedom before the war.

Russia has bountiful natural resources that have not been developed fully. Russia in terms of real estate is the largest country in the world. Russia competes economically in the world by selling energy resources—natural gas, oil, and CNG/LNG. Today, the USA competes with the same natural resources as well as many other products and services. After WWII (1939-1945), Russia merely formed a bloc against western Europe (long viewed for centuries with distrust since Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great), and the recent murderous, supposed "super-human" regime with Adolf Hitler, the God, which is no longer threatening anyone proved Russia's distrust was justified once again.

Russia with President Vladimir Putin threatens no other country except Ukraine (only local militia) and Syria with their supportive role against rebels. All of the former Communist Generals who fought in WWII have long since died (too much vodka). Russia is still viewed with suspicion by the U.S. government but such suspicion is primarily used as a political tool today. Various U.S. "intelligence agencies'" (oxymoron) claim that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential elections have seemingly been revealed as another political tool to smear President Donald Trump. The 'Deep Snake' (Brennan, Clapper, and Comey) were the treasonable perpetrators in the Russian interference hoax. The hoax was supported with Comey's FBI, the DNC, and Hillary's campaign by payments for the Steele Dossier (fiction written by the former MI6 agent for Moscow) which was used to get a FISA warrant to spy domestically on the 2015-16 Donal Trump campaign for president. This elaborate HOAX (con-game) has been uncovered to be a giant lie by the very wastefully expensive Muellar investigation. The spiteful, wealth-jealous Democrat Socialists continue today in 2019 with an Impeachment Hoax that they intend to stretch-out to November, 2020.

Today, it is very difficult to understand the need for NATO. THERE IS VERY LITTLE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE EXPENSE! It is very unlikely that Russia would invade Western Europe since their is really nothing to gain. Russia needs to further develop and refine their economy to compete worldwide. I think all American military personnel in Europe should come home to America. American bases overseas should be sold to the highest bidder. Any and all non-sensitive, old-tech equipment should also be sold to the highest bidder or shipped home. At the very least, the expense should be reduced by at least 75%. A land base presence is so yesterday. Western Europe can continue to pay for a new organization—the Western European Treaty Organization (WETO) to defend themselves against any new aggressor. The USA prefers to insert its troops into wars started by arrogant Europeans when Europe (after ignoring possible threats) is about to fall victim to a new aggressor. The USA did this in WWI and WWII. It is hoped that these two wars were REALLY the "war(s) to end all wars".

Of course, the U.S. was the great supplier to the Soviets before they ramped up production in eastern Russia of AK-47s, machine guns, the superior T34 tanks, and aircraft that out -performed the Nazi Messerschmitt. The U.S. and Canada literally fed the British public with great ship convoys of food and supplies while under deadly attack by German U-boats. The U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain mounted the greatest amphibious landing of warriors on the beaches of Normany to begin the Western Europe Front against the Nazis in June, 1944. Of course, in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Navy, Marines, and Army completely destroyed the Japanese Navy's aircraft carriers and battleships, their Air Force that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, and their brutal Army that tortured and killed Americans in the Phillipines. The Pacific War ended with two fission bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The U.S. will continue to develop, new, high-tech weapons that are proven to work better than any competitor's to provide overwhelming defense against attack or imminent attack. When necessary the U.S. military will obliterate an enemy with massive, undefeatable military strength. Ground troops along with DEA and CIA might be necessary in the near future to help Mexico wipe out criminal Drug Cartels if cartel money hasn't bought Mexico's federal government. Also, the USA should dispatch Aircraft Carrier Groups in all seas worldwide concurrently and continuously with rotating 3-6 months missions to visit the world while listening to all communications. With Aircraft Carrier Groups, drones and satellites, America can surveil the world. Helicopters can launch from carriers for short on the ground assessments if needed anytime. The carriers would launch and land surveillance drones to fly 24-hour missions to photograph areas suspected of threatening military buildups. The carrier groups could launch well-armed, Marine amphibious missions to protect American diplomatic and/or business interests. Physical bases in foreign countries are no longer necessary. America's offshore bases would be Aircraft Carriers.

FROM Gallup: 55 Percent of U.S. Adults Say Country�s Best Days Are Ahead

by PENNY STARR 3 Jul 2018

A Gallup poll conducted in June reveals 55 percent of American adults believe the best days for the country are �ahead of us.�

Those who said the best days are �behind us� came in at 41 percent.

The last time Gallup asked this question � December 2012, when President Barack Obama was president � only 47 percent of respondents answered �ahead.� That survey�s results also showed 50 percent of respondents answered �behind.�

The pollster says that Americans are inspired by President Donald Trump�s success in improving the U.S. economy, including the job market.

�The latest data, collected in a June 18-24 Gallup poll, come as satisfaction with the direction of the U.S. has reached a 12-year high, with 38% of Americans saying they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country,� Gallup reports on its poll.

�U.S. adults are also noticing the effects of a robust job market, with about two in three saying it is a good time to find a quality job,� the data firm continues. �By comparison, 23% were satisfied with the direction of the country in December 2012, and 19% said it was a good time to find a job.�

Gallup notes the usual break along party lines when it comes to optimism about America�s future, with about seven in ten Republicans (69%) and 54% of independents responding that the best days for the U.S. are ahead.

�Democrats, however, are split, with roughly equal percentages saying the best days are in the past and in the future,� the report says.

[Editor's Note: If you're a government employee, you need not worry about working hard, learning new things, or getting fired for non-performance or even criminal activity. If you are a union member, you are covered. Even if you aren't a union member, the government in its infinite wisdom has created at least three more bureaucracies that make the termination of a government employee a virtual impossibility. This means that no one is responsible for their behavior if employed by the federal government. What a wonderful, beautiful, protected environment—protected by the womb of government. Why perform or do anything correctly or in a timely fashion? Surely one could lose their self-respect in such a life indemnified against any failure. ]

Gallup also notes that self-identified independents � who helped elect Trump in 2016 � represent the biggest shift in the numbers.

�As for independents, a small majority (54%) now say the best days are in the future, but in 2012, the opposite was true � a similarly sized majority (55%) said the best days were in the past,� the report states. �So, this group�s change in views is a big driver behind the change in the national figure.�

The �bottom line,� according to Gallup, is that most Americans believe the best is yet to come.

The poll is based on a random sample of 1,505 telephone interviews of adults 18 or older in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points and a 95 percent confidence level.

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[Editor's Note: the quintessence of Socialism is expressed in this article, demonstrating that Socialism DRAINS the wealth of a former Capitalist country until total economic and moral failure ensues. Such failures have happened since the publication of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. Any Socialist or Communist country today survives only on the back of the highly regulated capitalism in these countries. ]

FROM The Crux

A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.

Excessive Spending Destroys!

Feds Have a Spending Problem — DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING!

Feds Have a Sewage Problem!

DEBT PERSPECTIVE!

Social Security (SS) monies flow into the Feds via paycheck withholding. The Feds buy US Treasuries and the Bond purchase money is deposited into the treasury. Benefit money must therefore be paid out of the Treasury. If there had been a SS brokerage account (instead of the Feds spending it), the monies could have been invested very conservatively to receive a modest 5-8% annual return on investment and the SS "Trust" Fund would be solvent even with retiring baby-boomers. Another mismanagement failure is SS Disability which has been defrauded by mendacious citizen malingerers especially from 2000 to 2016.

 

James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr and wife, Lisa Page, and Hillary Clinton SHOULD BE CHARGED AND TRIED for their violations!

CONVENTION of STATES

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Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice
... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal

 

Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.

In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison � who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).

In 1833, Justice Story published a study titled, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of the Second Amendment, Story stated:

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."

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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.

A Convention of States is necessary to amend the Constitution for Congressional Term Limits to twelve (12) years and restrict time in DC to only six (6) months per year. Such an Amendment is only a FIRST step in restoring America to its Constitutional roots. Back in the day when the People still feared kings, the president's term was limited by Constitutional Amendment.

Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.

CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.

Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788

Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!

RESTORE AMERICA! CUT GOVERNMENT 50%!

"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"

Larken Rose

[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.

The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:

  1. laws to be repealed or modified,
  2. Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
  3. new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.

These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill". A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.

Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto. CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress. If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.

The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of Federalist Papers. An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.

To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:

  1. the 16th Amendment,
  2. the Federal Reserve Act,
  3. the War Powers Act,
  4. all Asset Forfeiture laws,
  5. the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
  6. the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act
  7. NDAA
  8. Homeland Security which includes TSA
  9. the Dodd�Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
  10. most Eminent Domain laws, and
  11. the Affordable Care Act

Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy. These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).

Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats) at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.

Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:

  1. clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
  2. Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
  3. strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
  4. a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"), deficit spending is permissible.
  5. Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
  6. Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
  7. Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
  8. After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.

Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged" Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic. Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done. If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted, then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]

FROM Project to RESTORE AMERICA

The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.

According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.

So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.

Why Do We Need Term Limits?

John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.

  1. Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
  2. Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
  3. Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
  4. Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
  5. Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.

Term limits for lawmakers: when is enough, enough?

[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]