Hillary the Harbenger of Economic Destruction
The hypocrisy of Hillary is just beyond belief. She and her husband have lined their pocket from government well beyond most. She steered the contract for mining in Haiti to her brother. Bills has taken unbelievable donations to his “library” from foreign government thanks to Hillary. Hillary has always taken money from the major banks yet talks out of both sides of her mouth. Now the NY Timesreported:
“Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people who were briefed on Mrs. Clinton’s policy discussions but could not discuss private conversations for attribution.”
She is a communist at heart who plays the game for money. She will raise taxes like you have never seen before and will wage war against anyone who invests to survive the future. Yet she runs to the bankers for money every time. They, of course, will get special dispensation. If anyone will drive that final nail in the American economy, you can count on Hillary.
Polls Show 75% of Americans See Politicians as Corrupt and 2 to 1 Now Distrust Police
COMMENT:
Martin, First, I want to thank you for all that you do to educate and enlighten — you are living proof that excellence cannot be held down. I just finished speaking with my neighbor whose son was employed with the local police department and was someone for whom I provided a reference. I just learned he was recently fired for “ambiguity”. Essentially, and per comments from his peer-policeman at both City and County level, he failed to meet his ticket and confiscation quotas. I know my neighbor’s son well — prior to his tenure as a policeman, he helped me tame the 10 acres I live upon: he did his work with honor, intelligence and value. While its obvious we’re being hunted for money, its ver disturbing to see it happening at such a granular level — certainly nothing you haven’t warned us about. Thank you again for all you do to help humanity move forward. I look forward to seeing you in Princeton this November.
Best Regards,
NS
REPLY: The most recent polls show that 75% of Americans now distrust the police. They are becoming nasty, greedy, and view the public as the enemy. The days of helping people are just gone. Municipal governments are dead broke and they have converted the police to hunt down money everywhere. USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll finds Americans by 2-to-1 say police departments nationwide don’t do a good job in holding officers accountable for misconduct, Meanwhile, polls show that 75% of Americans believe politicians are just corrupt.
European Tour Open to Public
These are the events that are open to the public in Europe
4/28, Stuttgart, Kino Delphi 7:30pm (booking is open)
4/29 Berlin, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain 8pm (booking is open)
5/07 Leuven, Belgium, Docville Festival 9:15pm
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum Solution-Conference 4pm (booking is open)
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum THE FORECASTER 6pm (booking is open)
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum Kolloquium with Prof Otte.(booking is open)
5/09 Frankfurt, Kino Harmonie 20:30pm (booking is open)
5/11 München, Rio, Saal 1, Dok.fest 8pm (booking is open)
5/13 Hannover, Kino am Raschplatz 8:30pm (booking is open Film only)
5/14 Warsow, Poland, Filmfestival – exact dates not yet fixed
4/29 Berlin, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain 8pm (booking is open)
5/07 Leuven, Belgium, Docville Festival 9:15pm
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum Solution-Conference 4pm (booking is open)
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum THE FORECASTER 6pm (booking is open)
5/08 Tübingen, Kino Museum Kolloquium with Prof Otte.(booking is open)
5/09 Frankfurt, Kino Harmonie 20:30pm (booking is open)
5/11 München, Rio, Saal 1, Dok.fest 8pm (booking is open)
5/13 Hannover, Kino am Raschplatz 8:30pm (booking is open Film only)
5/14 Warsow, Poland, Filmfestival – exact dates not yet fixed
The 19 Year Cycle
The 19 Year Cycle curiously suggested by Jefferson shows up as another layer within cycle theory. This was the basis for both the ancient Hebrew and Babylonian calendars. The concept of a “leap” year was rather simple to understand. The Julian calendar was a direct calendar to measure time by solar cycles. The Hebrew and Babylonian calendars kept track of the sun by using the moon. The moon cycle was 19 years amounting to 228 months but it requires 235 months to equal a 19 year solar cycle. Adding these 7 months was rather arbitrary. The modern Hebrew calendar inserts the 7 months in an orderly fashion one each during the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th years of the cycle. This was actually not done until 360AD. The point of this 19 year cycle is the acknowledgement that the moon, sun and earth return to the same position in this triad once every 19 years.
There is also the periodicity and recurrence of eclipses that is governed by the Saros cycle, which is a period of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours). It was known to the Chaldeans as a period when lunar eclipses seem to repeat themselves, but the cycle is applicable to solar eclipses as well.
There is a cycle to absolutely everything. The 19 year cycle is the realignment of the sun, moon, and the earth when they return to the same point in their relationship. It will show up in economics every so often like the 19 year bear market in gold from 1980 into the 1999 low. However, it appears to end up as a harmonic of several cycles lining up since you cannot find a regular 19 year cycle to highs and lows that is consistent.
Jefferson & 19 Year Cycle for an Expiration of the Constitution
If there was ever a person who I would say was a mentor to me with respect to political understanding, it is Thomas Jefferson. It was interesting that Jefferson was often attacked because of his ideas. In an 18th-century presidential campaign, people slandered Jefferson’s candidacy to support John Adams, accusing Jefferson of being “half Injun, half nigger, half Frenchman” and born to a “mulatto father” or slave and “a half-breed Indian squaw”. This birth to a mulatto and an Indian was allegedly “well-known in the neighborhood where he was raised”. Jefferson’s father was Peter Jefferson (1708–1757) who married Jane Randolph Jefferson (1721–1776), in 1739 when he was 31 and she was 18.
Thomas married Martha (1748–1782) in 1772. She had six children, which weakened her and she died in 1782. Thomas vowed not to remarry and so he did not. While only two of his daughters survived into adulthood, it was long-rumored that Jefferson fathered six more children with his slave, Sally Hemings. This began in September 1802 when a political journalist James T. Callender, a disaffected former ally of Jefferson, wrote in a Richmond newspaper that Jefferson had for many years “Kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves…Her name is Sally,” Callender continued, adding that Jefferson had “several children” by her.
Jefferson was really the American leader in the Enlightenment Era. Jefferson was a polymath in the arts, sciences, and politics, who is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. A polymath is a person known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. The term was first used in the seventeenth century and is more commonly known as a “Renaissance man” which is often applied to the gifted people of that age who sought to develop their abilities in all areas of accomplishment: intellectual, artistic, social and physical. While our formal education sought to teach many different disciplines, the great failure of our modern education system has been the lack of drawing any connectivity between the fields. In this failure, education only mimics the creation of a “Renaissance man” without grasping what it truly means.
Thomas Jefferson was considered an important architect in the classical tradition; he designed his home Monticello and other notable buildings. Jefferson was keenly interested in science, invention, architecture, religion, and philosophy. He was an active member and eventual president of the American Philosophical Society. This may be reflected best in what became known as “Jefferson’s Bible” or “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” its formal title. He constructed this interesting book during the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. What Jefferson was doing was trying to reduce this to the philosophy of Jesus – the thinking process minus the religion. Jefferson’s condensed composition was misunderstood, for it became notable for its exclusion of all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the resurrection and most other miracles, as well as passages indicating Jesus was divine. He was interested in the pure teachings without the religious embellishment – sort of only his direct philosophy reduced in a manner such as extraction something akin to the Ten Commandments rather than other’s interpretation.
Jefferson was a deep thinker. He was conversant in French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, and studied other languages and linguistics – interests that led him to found the University of Virginia after his presidency. Although not a notable orator, Jefferson was a skilled writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe throughout his adult life.
Yet there was another side to Jefferson that the vast majority never fathomed. Emerging from being truly a polymath or “Renaissance man”, Jefferson made the connections between all the fields of study and saw the hidden order. This was in part the reason for his condensed “Jefferson Bible”, and attempt to get at the truth of all things. In a letter to James Madison, Jefferson described sending two trunks of books of important works:
“I have at length made up the purchase of books for you, as far as it can be done for the present. The objects which I have not yet been able to get, I shall continue to seek for. Those purchased, are packed this morning in two trunks, and you have the catalogue and prices herein inclosed. …. Greek and Roman authors are dearer here than I believe any where in the world. No body here reads them, wherefore they are not reprinted. Don Ulloa in the original not to be found. The collection of tracts on the economics of different nations we cannot find; nor Amelot’s travels into China. I shall send these two trunks of books to Havre there to wait aconveiance [sic] to America”
The inventory of books he sent to Madison has survived. They show the diverse study he was interested in, including history. What emerged from his diverse knowledge was an ability to see the repetitive nature of history and man. This is reflected in a strange concept that many people have no knowledge ever existed. Jefferson believed that the Constitution should automatically expire every nineteen years. Jefferson’s understanding of cycles is fascinating, for he was very poignant in his comments written in his letters. In particular:
Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:459, Papers 15:396
There is little doubt that Jefferson’s most famous quotes never address the deep knowledge this man possessed from all his diverse studies. Some of his most prominent quotes remain:
- “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
- “Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.”
- “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Jefferson’s idea that the Constitution should expire every 19 years illustrates the man studied history. His view that a national debt is enslaving turning future generations and amounts to taxation without representation is stunningly correct and it is my argument that the national debt MUST be eliminated.
Likewise, the constitution should expire and require review on the 19 year cycle is another check and balance against government, but at the same time that could be dangerous. It was the late 1800s when the Progressive Era began following Marx. There are some basic principles that just cannot be subject to change – no debt and no direct taxation.