Ukraine Death Toll Rises & Europe Finally Considers Economic Sanctions
The death toll has now exceeded at least 25 and the situation seems to get worse. The likelihood of this turning into a major civil war ultimately drawing in the West v Russia increases with each day. The deadly clashes in Ukraine’s capital have drawn very profound and sharp responses from Washington, leading to Europe at last considering sanctions and the Kremlin statement blaming Europe and the West illustrating this is a major and very serious confrontation. The images coming from there are reminiscent of the French Revolution. Pay close attention. The fate of Ukraine may just be the fate of the World going into 2020.
US Economy Still Rising into 2015.75
Consumer debt rose the most in 6 years during the last quarter. Everything is pointing to a continued rally in the USA contrary to Europe and China no less Japan. Retails sales were outstanding for Christmas in the USA as they were in London. Everything still appears of track.
Home Land Security wants National License Plate Tracking
These people are trashing everything to do with the Constitution and there is nothing we can do about it when Congress are not real people but career drones who rubber stamp whatever the Bureaucracy desires. The latest proposal is to track all cars nationally. They will know where you are and where you have been at all times. The Washington Post has reported part of the issue – but these people dream of going far beyond George Orwell’s 1984.
Once you create such tools, they will be abused. Look at the New Jersey scandal with Governor Christie. Having the power to mess with opponents once created will ALWAYS, and without exception, lead to abuse. Christie awarded a contract as a New Jersey prosecutor to the retired John Ashcroft who was Attorney General earning tens of millions of dollars. This was not even to a law firm that was within the same state. This illustrates that the corruption – allow a prosecutor “discretion” and you get corruption at all sorts of levels. They always have some excuse. There is some pretend investigation that goes nowhere. They make some noise and then look the other way EVERY single time.
People with connections already can get lists of every phone number you called or called you. This information has found its way into private hands. This idea of tracking everyone’s car is so off the wall. Quite frankly, if it is so dangerous in the United States because everyone wants to blow everything up, it may be better to adopt a new policy of ISOLATIONISM. How about we stay the hell out of everyone else’s business since they do not come here to protect US citizens! We send our children to die overseas and then we surrender all our privacy and rights because people in the dark corners of the crevasses of Washington want to play king of the world with everyone’s lives. We seem to have to sacrifice everything for their power trips.
There was a time when it was nice, quiet, and safe in America. The wisdom that sparked a revolution has evaporated and the old saying – the King is dead, long live the king – is alive and well. We traded a king for Home Land Security and the NSA that have adopted the same precise policies of George III – the power to search anything at anytime without any particular reason known asWrits of Assistance.
It was John Adams who said the Writs of Assistance are what gave birth to the American Revolution. Tracking where you go and come without PROBABLE CAUSE is precisely the same violation of Liberty that created the United States. This demonstrates that ultimate power indeed corrupts ultimately. What have they done? We have lost all liberty and privacy.
The problem with creating new laws is HOW DO YOU ENFORCE THEM? You can make it illegal to have pre-marital sex. Who will enforce it? The Right to Privacy came on such an issue that was unthinkable. It rose to the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), that became the landmark case of all time.The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected a Right to Privacy. The case involved a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives. By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the “right to marital privacy”. How does government enforce such a law? Do they enter the bedroom just before you are to have sex and inspect to see if you are using a condom that were invented in Roman times?
Once you allow Home Land Security to create a national tracking system, where does it end? Europe is proposing to revoke the right to free travel of those who protest against government. Rome created passports to allow you to travel within the Empire that could only be done IF YOU DID NOT OWE TAXES! Barbara Boxer has adopted the same power of Rome to the USA. The US government can revoke your passport if you owe them more than $50,000. This is not the land of the free. We are cattle to be herded and milked for money to support them and their friends.
Ukraine – From the Otherside’s View
COMMENT:
Sorry, Mr. Armstrong, what you wrote about Ukraine is not the Truth at all, it’s just YOUR truth , and/or that of your contributors.
Living in Europe, we know very well EU is totally against the people : many people here think this (we are less and less influenced by the lined up media, you know?) and also think that in Ukraine the Germanic-driven EU, together with the imperialistic USA as usual, are behind the rioters, and financing them, just as they did in Lybia, Egypt, Syria, etc..
So now you are just posting propaganda, and losing your credibility. I’m very disappointed for this, because I held you in great consideration, but still hoping you can revise your opinion : maybe you can just try to find some impartial source…..
R
REPLY: The question was HOW did this begin. This is the same movement against government corruption that is rising fromArgentina, Brazil, China, Thailand, Turkey, Bosnia, Spain, even New York City and many other places including financial markets that the USA will do nothing about. Corruption is the trend in this cycle and it is NOT restricted to Ukraine. This is the same root cause as the Occupy Wall Street. Corruption is thecommon link and Ukraine is no exception. Corruption has plagued the human race since ancient times. It is like a Shakespeare Play – the words and the plot remain the same from one century to the next – only the actors change. Bribery was so extensive during the elections in the Roman Republic of 53BC, it caused interest rates to jump. It was the schemes of 1869 that led to the term Black Friday because they were dragging bankers out to the streets and hanging them. Corruption has been theFourth Branch of government.
The USA did NOT fund this event as it did not fund the others. Syria was argued for Saudi Arabia for the Pipeline not because of any other nonsense of noble causes. Ukraine was not even a consideration for they assumed it was joining Europe. Nevertheless, I have stated that Ukraine is strategic from every side.
I have stated that Ukraine is a DIRECT confrontation that is totally different from Syria or any other event. HOWEVER, will the “rebels” end up being funded if there is a civil war – YES. Were they funded to begin to occupy Independence Square – NO.
I PERSONALLY know people involved as was the case if Cyrus. So I need not read the press to tell me how this began. I have direct sources for that. I reported on the corruptionBEFORE the riots began. This crackdown is directed by Russiaand the “riot police” are mercenaries who do not speak Ukrainian.
Regardless of HOW it began, this will evolve into a DIRECTconfrontation and the USA will most likely end up funding the people. Ukraine is the focal point. Had they been funding them from the beginning, there would have had weapons. This action now has justified that funding, which will be seen in the months ahead.
I respect your view but you should realize that is the propaganda from Russia just as there is propaganda from Europe that paints them as the savior. The issue began as corruption. We haveFOUR people from Ukraine not just one and none knew the other. So what I report is from the ground. It may be a view you disagree with, but it is not propaganda put out by any side. This will evolve into funding rebels no doubt. However, it did not begin that way and it was not even something anyone considered as remotely possible or needed in Washington.
Ukraine the Truth
QUESTION:
Hi Martin, can you please enlighten us on the damned truth. Do half of the people in Ukraine want the Eu, and the other half want Russia or, is this really a protest against government corruption or, both?
Thanks
ANSWER: Russia wants to portray this as a coup organized by the USA, Europe wants to portray this as Ukraine wanted them, and the USA media spins this as US against RUSSIA.
This began as a movement against CORRUPTION and not a Europe v Russia confrontation. The more it has played out, then this has also developed into a fight for freedom. The Russian side of Ukraine is the East and south and they speak Russian. The West speak Ukrainian so there are even two languages spoken.
The Russian side has very strong RIGHT WING elements and they are anti-gay and want 7 years in prison for a girl who gets an abortion. So there is now a religious fever being thrown into the fire.
BY ABSOLUTELY NO MEANS did this begin merely over the refusal to join Europe. The corruption in Ukraine is massive. Much of the bureaucracy is buried still in communism with no rational explanation. Under communism, the state-owned everything. Therefore, your “papers” were a form of domestic passport not good for international travel. Inside that passport you had to have your PERMANENT address assigned to you by government since you were not allowed to move. To this day, although communism collapsed and you can move, your passport must still have your “official” address. If you want to move, it will take months to get a new passport and you have to pay a bribe to get it expedited that may still be 2 months. The law forced you to return to change any document. You cannot do anything on-line.
The bureaucracy has never been reformed. There is no law saying you need an address anymore, yet nobody can change anything because it is as if there is nobody really in charge. It is a chaotic mess. The police were extorting people like the Mafia, so this began as all other protests – against corruption. Simple as that. The mainstream media is playing to the propaganda on both sides.
It appears that civil war will erupt for the younger generation want their freedom. Russia will not allow that to happen for this is a strategic former possession that was once part of Russia and Kiev was the former capital of Russia before Moscow. This is likely to fester and grow. There is no peaceful resolution.
Seating for Spouse & Student Children
The number of requests asking to bring your spouse and student children have been many as the Cycle of War turns up for all to see. We have expanded the seating for this event with prices accordingly adding $100 to bring your spouse and $50 per child who is a student in high school through college.
US Dollar Holdings Rose in December to $5794.9 billion
Chinese holdings of US Treasurys declined in December by a modest $48 billion. China’s holdings of dollars dropped from $1316.7 billion to $1268.9 billion. The US Treasury holdings by foreign entities increased in December, from $5716.9 billion to $5794.9 billion. This is still showing the rising trend on a global basis for the dollar. The US claiming they will defend Japan against China has shifted China’s strategic reserve position as their economy declines while the increase in dollar holdings came from Europe for fear of the Euro and rising tensions of war and civil unrest. So far, this is a trend that is lining up with the Cycle of War. We would expect dollar holdings to decline among China and Russia while Europeans will be buying everything they can get their hands on as was the case during WWI and WWII.
Global Market Watch Feb 18th, 2014
Ukraine – ALL OUT WAR
Ukraine is turning into an outright Civil War. The mercenaries have been attacking the protesters and the death-toll just keeps rising. We have people there on the ground and this is very disturbing to say the least. Kiev has been closed. You cannot get in nor get out. The war is spreading beyond the city and this is the turning point that will remain critical between East and West precisely on point as in our Cycles of War (which can be downloaded).
The BBC has reported on the events in Ukraine as has Reuters. The Guardian has a short clip on this crisis that is the seed to something that is far more important to the global trend than anyone suspects at this point in time.
We will be reviewing the Cycle of War at the March 21st Conference in Philadelphia. Because of the urgent crisis unfolding, we will try to expand the seating.
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