Ukraine – The US & Russia Propaganda
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; Thank you so much for defending the people of Ukraine against those who claim we are just manipulated by the CIA. These people have no understanding of what we have gone through and for what so many have died for. You have been truly an inspiration to our desire to be free.
God be with you
KS
REPLY: Thank you. There are just so many people who want to think the world is dominated by some all-powerful group yet they cannot grasp that no such group exists. There are groups that try to influence trends with bribes and all sorts of schemes. But nobody is actually in control of anything. Those who think they are in control are simply delusional.
I am deeply sorry for your lack of support you have gotten from the West. I am more upset how the US usurped your government installing its cronies rigging your May 25th elections and depriving you of the benefits of your grassroots revolution. The CIA is only capable of creating a coup – never a revolution involving millions. There are people just blind to this stark difference. Russia on the other side has invaded the East and pretends that there were really just separatists in full military gear. Both sides try desperately to hide in the shadows while furthering their own self-interests and feeding the propaganda that small minds become absorbed by.
I fear the CIA spin is really a cover-up to hide from the world the global-uprising that is underway against corruption that brought millions out from the homes there in Ukraine. An example of this was a story of how a man was enraged against police handing out traffic tickets that are really IRS agents on wheels that can cost people their homes and jobs under the pretense that they protect the public.
One such victim saw a policeman with radar-gun hiding on the side of the road. He took his car and drove into the police car killing both. The story first reported an enraged motorists whose car was filled with tickets sought revenge. By the nightly news, the story became a motorist went out of control and hit a policeman and both were killed. They again altered the story when a man perched himself on a building across from the IRS and was shooting IRS agents as they came out of the building. That is how the story was reported at first and again it was altered to a crazy gunman was shooting people randomly on the street. In both cases, the story was altered to hide the fact that people were retaliating against government. By saying the Ukrainian Revolution was a CIA plot, diminishes what you fought for and hides the truth that people are getting angry at government corruption.
So it is very sad that people keep spinning this nonsense about the CIA for this hides the global trend and prevents people from seeing Ukraine, Turkey, Thailand, Venezuela, Bosnia, and even Nevada are all the same trend. The more they claim it was a CIA plot, the less support you get from other nations. What European will now take up arms to defend the CIA? There will be none. So I am deeply sorry that these people are so quick to sell you down the river because they prefer conspiracy to reality.
This is what government as a whole wants. As long as the CIA can be blamed, then government is safe and they stop a contagion of worldwide civil unrest against corruption. Russia targets the CIA so that other nations will not support Ukrainian people.The whole CIA story is designed to make sure Ukraine receives no support. This is standard operational procedure I have witnessed so many times. Blame the CIA and you prevent the public from seeing the uprising against corruption. So my deepest apology for those in the West who spin the CIA story preferring conspiracy while letting your people suffer and die.
In the East, they declared the official hunt for those, who have any opinion other than that of a separatists in Luhansk. The well-known lawyer Chudnovsky was shot at for refusing to take part at a press conference together with the separatists. In Donetsk, pro-Ukrainians were told yesterday they are giving them “one more” chance to join Russia. The persecutions have begun. On Facebook, Ukrainians are posting names of the dead.
Those who keep attributing everything to the CIA have greatly harmed Ukraine. I am truly sorry you have not gotten the support you deserve. Everyone has a right to freedom. The political machinations of the US and Russia plow down the rights of the individual. Each government is only interested in political power and could care less about the blood they leave on the streets.
Reid’s Multinationals
The corrupt Harry Reid has demanded that foreign entities must report on whatever any American does offshore. He has supporting the hunting of small business and individuals while the multinational public corps remain outside his reach of FACTA.
Multinational companies have accumulated $1.95 trillion outside the U.S., up almost 12% over last year. Multinationals are able to keep their cash offshore to avoid paying as much as 35% on repatriated profits. Reid goes after the individual, but not his big donators.
For example, the Connecticut-based General Electric is considering using part of its $57 billion in overseas cash to fund its 12.4 billion-euro ($17 billion) offer for the energy business Alstom SA. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.,who is looking to buy AstraZeneca Plc of the U.K., also has almost $70 billion in cash overseas.
Reid has no problem with the big corporate multinationals while at the same time he is hunting any individual or small business to ensure they never compete. This is the real American Oligarchy.
Ontario – Hiking Taxes on the Rich who are now C$150,000
We are in a global bull market for tax increases and this will help tremendously create the next severe economic contraction. Politicians around the world only see raising taxes to hold power. NOBODY will even consider adopting reform. This is all about government, without any vision whatsoever beyond the current fiscal term just trying to keep the debt rolling. There is no way out of this debt spiral. They cannot see the future and are adopting Marxism 100%. The West is headed into a Fascist/Communist State and it is ALL ABOUT MAINTAINING CONTROL.
Ontario’s Premier Kathleen Wynne said she will raise taxes on the rich. However, the definition of the hated “rich” is falling to C$150,000. She will also tax tobacco and aviation fuel. We are seeing electronic cigarettes that were introduced to help people stop smoking and pose no health risks are being treated as if they were cigarettes. Many places in the USA have found their revenues from cigarettes has been declining so they are now proposing to tax cigarette alternatives. Only politicians would think of such things because it is NEVER about helping people, it is just about helping themselves to other people’s money. They cannot see that every government employee that retires must still be paid and then they are replaced. The cost of government is exploding on a global basis. We will see a tax war emerge along with a collapse in pensions after 2015.75. (see Globe & Mail).
Global Market Watch – May 1st, 2014
Behind the Curtain – Putin is Admired
Putin at least stands for what he truly believes in. That is far more than we find in Western Politicians. Most Western Politicians admire Putin for he is tough and has backbone that they seriously lack not to mention perhaps brains. I disagree with Putin that landmass has anything to do with the power of a nation and Japan proved that to be a correct statement. Russia could be a great major economic power if it reformed internally and set its people truly free. Russians are great programmers and still have embedded an entrepreneurial spirit.
It is my “OPINION” that ever since Bush Jr, bureaucracy has taken hold and grabbed more power – i.e. NSA. I say this simply based upon my personal observations dealing with government. Consequently, the very same neoconservatives who ran foreign policy under Bush are still there under Obama. The US President is just a puppet and the strings are pulled by the unelected bureaucracy. The problem with this group has been they are only concerned with power – not economics. They are totally ignorant about the economic trend and remain clueless with respect to how to run a government. They totally fail to grasp that we need each other and cannot articulate for a single second why Russia or China should still be enemies when Communism has fallen.
May Day in Turkey – Riots & Tear Gas
BBC is covering the May Day riots in Turkey where tear gas in the weapon of choice for now. If anyone question the rise in trend forecast by our Cycles of War, I do not know what planet they are hiding on.
Donetsk Falls to Pro-Russian Forces
Today, the Pro-Russian forces have seized the prosecutor’s office and all the police have surrendered. They have agreed to support Russia now so Donetsk is over. This is even reported now on BBC.
Update on Crimea
Yalta – Crimea – Resort
The summer season in Crimea is now opening. Here are photos of the main Crimean resorts now (Yalta, Alushta, Ordzhokinidze, Sudak, Kerch etc). All of them are empty. No tourists and NO RESIDENTS. What was a vital resort is vacant this season. Moreover, Russian residents are not allowed to drive through continental Ukraine to get to Crimea. Now it will take much more time for them to get there, which is very bad for tourist season.
Today´s May Day rally is mandatory in Crimea. I know people who grew up behind the Iron Curtain and even back in 1988/1989, every hospital or school had to go to May Day parade in the USSR. Children had to wear national costumes. Today, University professors have admitted they were told to gather the students for the May Day parade as in the old days. Factories, institutes, are all closed and workers are to appear to show happiness.
Many people may not understand the strategic importance that Crimea has played over the centuries. But Yalta was the place where the famous conference took place between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill.
China & Russia Joining Forces Against USA
China has announced on Wednesday that it would conduct joint naval drills with Russia in the East China Sea off Shanghai in late May. I have stated bluntly, Obama’s Administration has been the worst we have seen certainly in my lifetime. He has torn apart the world and is more concerned about using US power to hunt down money for taxes than to building a future that is in the right direction. The US has ignored international law and violated territorial rights forcing institutions outside the USA to comply with US law or suffer confiscate of their assets domestically with the USA. This effort of the NSA has not been to find terrorists, but hidden assets that Obama can seize to pay for his socialistic agenda. He has torn down the world barriers and disrespected everything assuming the USA is the largest military power and that gives him the right to simply bully the rest of the world into submission.
I have warned that Obama’s policies would forge an alliance between China and Russia, who were traditional enemies. That is now unfolding right on schedule with our Cycle of War. China and Russia have been driven together because of Obama and the NSA have crossed that line and presumed supreme power and dominion over the world. Obama has transformed America into a police-state and is turning to hunt down its own citizens. The arrogance of the Obama Administration knows no bounds. Every source I have from around the world has expressed just this same attitude that Obama has crossed the line.
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The Cycle of War is unfolding right on schedule.