"This Is Going To Be A National Crisis" - One Of The Largest U.S. Pension Funds Set To Cut Retiree Benefits

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-20/going-be-national-crisis-one-largest-us-pension-funds-set-cut-retiree-benefits

 The Central States Pension Fund, which handles retirement benefits for current and former Teamster union truck drivers across various states including Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, New York, and Minnesota, and is one of the largest pension funds in the nation, has filed an application to cut participant benefits, which would be effective July 1 2016, as it "projects" it will become officially insolvent by 2025.

China’s Response to the Neocon Warmongers

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/20/chinas-response-to-the-neocon-warmongers/

China’s Response to the Neocon Warmongers

China tests ICBM capable of striking US within half an hour

https://www.rt.com/news/340359-china-test-ballistic-missile/

America : Freedom to Fascism

Abby Martin Exposes What Hillary Clinton Really Represents

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

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Market Talk – April 19th, 2016

Posted Apr 19, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

An encouraging session for Asia over night but especially the Nikkei. Bouncing from yesterdays lows with an enticing 600 point (3.7%) rally. We did not see that [...]
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• Market Talk

Market Update

Posted Apr 19, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The market continues to press everyone up against the absurd. The Dow rallied so far above the 18100 level that it defied the logic that continues to be bearish. [...]
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• Dow Jones
• Energy
• Forecasts
• Gold

2016 WEC: Institutional & General Public Sessions will be Separate

Posted Apr 19, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

  The 2016 World Economic Conference will probably be held in Orlando. We are not planning to hold one in Europe at this time. We will not be holding an [...]
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• World Economic Conference

Gold Stocks: 7-Month High?

Posted Apr 19, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The gold stocks are really a mixed bag. Some companies will go belly-up and others will survive. Those with big debt positions should stay far away for as interest [...]
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• Gold

The Dow Pressing Higher?

Posted Apr 19, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

This is perhaps the most bearish rally in history. The number of people yelling that the market will crash 80% to 90% is still amazing and the number of short [...]
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• Dow Jones

66% Of German People Against Merkel

Posted Apr 18, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

According to a recent poll, 66% of Germans are now against Merkel. As it now stands, if the election were today, she would find perhaps the lowest number of votes [...]
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• European Union
• Western Europe

Refugees Take Over Paris Metro

Posted Apr 18, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Europe is being torn apart from the inside. In Paris, the metro station is turning into a slum and war zone. School gyms in Germany have been turned into dorms for [...]
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• European Union
• Western Europe

Selling Bullshit

Posted Apr 18, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty; This is really going to be interesting now that banks are existing proprietary trading and the organizations who have spun this tale that the metals [...]
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• Precious Metals

Market Talk April 18th, 2016

Posted Apr 18, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

A disappointing result from the weekends Doha meeting, resulted in negative market reaction early Monday morning trading. With oil initially trading off 6.5% from [...]
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• Market Talk

Video Gold Update Will be Next Week

Posted Apr 18, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Those who purchased this year’s 2016 Gold Report will receive the second video next week. This video will include gold and silver. Those interested in [...]
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How US Covered Up Saudi Role in 9/11

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=36145

Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/saint_or_sinner_government_eyes_are_watching_every_move_you_make

 “The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what [government officials] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals. This dynamic - the hallmark of a healthy and free society - has been radically reversed. Now, they know everything about what we do, and are constantly building systems to know more. Meanwhile, we know less and less about what they do, as they build walls of secrecy behind which they function. That’s the imbalance that needs to come to an end. No democracy can be healthy and functional if the most consequential acts of those who wield political power are completely unknown to those to whom they are supposed to be accountable.” ― Glenn Greenwald

45% of Americans pay no federal income tax

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/45-of-americans-pay-no-federal-income-tax-2016-02-24

AND IF NONE OF US PAID (LET OURSELVES BE EXTORTED) TAXES. THE GOVERNMENT WOULD DIE, EVEN IF THEY KEPT PRINTING MONEY (MAYBE, ESPECIALLY, IF THEY KEPT PRINTING MONEY)

Paul Craig Roberts: How The American Neoconservatives Destroyed Mankind’s Hopes For Peace

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/18/how-the-american-neoconservatives-destroyed-mankinds-hopes-for-peace-paul-craig-roberts-2/

Another Letter From Finland

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/17/another-letter-from-finland/

FOR RELEASE MARCH 31, 2016 Campaign Exposes Fissures Over Issues, Values and How Life Has Changed in the U.S.

http://www.people-press.org/files/2016/03/3-31-16-March-Political-release-1.pdf

Is the American Dream Dead?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/point-taken/extra-points/conversation-american-dream-dead/

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Negative Interest Rates Destroying the World Economy

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I think I am starting to see the light you have been shining. Negative interest rates really are completely insane. I also now see that [...]
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• Basic Concepts

Saudi Threat to Sell US Assets No Big Deal

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Saudi Arabia has threatened the Obama administration and congressional leaders that it will sell billions of dollars in U.S. financial assets if Congress passes a [...]
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• Uncategorized

76 Year Old Released from Prison since he was Innocent Afterall

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Our criminal justice system is the worst in the world. America has only 4.4% of the world population and 22% of the world prison population. We have the worst [...]
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• Uncategorized

Are the People being Manipulated by those Claiming Manipulation?

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty, the goldbugs are out in force saying that the banks have admitted they manipulated silver. It is interesting how these people lack any understanding [...]
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• Basic Concepts

Bundesbank Bank’s Thiele Against Electronic Money

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The Bundesbank (German Central Bank) has come out opposed to eliminating cash. During the pre-Euro years, the Bundesbank was providing us with inside info on the [...]
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• The Hunt for Taxes
• Western Europe

European Court of Justice say Banks Cannot Rely on Secrecy Laws to Deny Taxes

Posted Apr 17, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has stated that banking secrecy established in Austria cannot be relied upon by German Bank branches in Austria to defeat tax [...]
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• The Hunt for Taxes
• Western Europe

1936 Convention – 2016 Convention – Will 2017 be like 1937?

Posted Apr 15, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Perhaps it is just cyclical, but the Cleveland Republican Convention will be the first time that city has held a political convention since the fateful 1936 [...]
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• 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• America's Economic History

Truth about Politics

Posted Apr 15, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Obama came to office yelling about  “fat cat bankers” and “corporate jet owners.” He rescinded all the Dodd-Frank restraints against the bankers and [...]
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• 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

The Other Side of a Phase Transition

Posted Apr 15, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Dear Marty, Whether in a Phase-transition or a Slingshot Move in the Dow, you made it very clear that such moves will be driven by capital inflows to the [...]
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• 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
• America's Economic History

Market Talk – April 15th, 2016

Posted Apr 15, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

It really should be no surprise to people that we saw some retracement after a 3.3% rally in a day. That is exactly what we saw today in the Nikkei after yesterdays [...]
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Influence – Does it Matter?

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; A lot of people claim to have contacts in high places, but they seem to delude themselves and others. I have been in Washington and saw [...]
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• Understanding Cycles

China’s Coming Gold Fix April 19th, 2016

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Next week, China will begin its competition with London & New York and attempt to create the equivalent of the London gold fix but in Chinese yuan on April [...]
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• Gold

IRS Helps Illegal Aliens use Stolen Social Securities Numbers

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

  One of the reforms we have presented in our Solution is why income taxes have become obsolete and should be eliminated. The only people who pay income taxes [...]
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• The Hunt for Taxes

Europeans – Get Out While you Can?

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Hey Martin. I’ve been a reader of your for years now. Thank you for everything you are doing. I live in Europe in Finland and I can feel this [...]
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• Euro €
• Western Europe

Market Talk April 14th, 2016

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The market was right to focus on the Japanese Yen over the past few days having witnessed a convincing dip in the Nikkei that many wish they had bought. Having been [...]
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PEW Explains Who is Voting for Trump and Why

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/08/pew-explains-who-is-voting-for-trump-and-why/

Will The Democrats Choose An Oligarch For Their Presidential Candidate?

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/16/will-the-idiot-americans-elect-an-oligarch-as-their-president/

Paul Craig Roberts: Syrian Elections Prove Again That Washington And Its Presstitutes Lie Through Their Teeth

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/14/syrian-elections-prove-again-that-washington-and-its-presstitutes-lie-through-their-teeth-paul-craig-roberts/

Finland has been brought under Washington’s thumb

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/13/finland-has-been-brought-under-washingtons-thumb/

One Man Asks Why Was Tritium Found At 9/11 Ground Zero

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero

Dr. Ed Ward has documented what he believes is strong evidence suggesting that up to three thermonuclear devices were detonated at the World Trade Center site on 9/11.

The Fed Sends A Frightening Letter To JPMorgan, Corporate Media Yawns

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/fed-sends-frightening-letter-jpmorgan-corporate-media-yawns

 Yesterday the Federal Reserve released a 19-page letter that it and the FDIC had issued to Jamie Dimon, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on April 12 as a result of its failure to present a credible plan for winding itself down if the bank failed. The letter carried frightening passages and large blocks of redacted material in critical areas, instilling in any careful reader a sense of panic about the U.S. financial system. The Federal regulators didn’t say JPMorgan could pose a threat to its shareholders or Wall Street or the markets. It said the potential threat was to “the financial stability of the United States.”

"It's A Rotten System" Ron Paul Says: US Elections Are Rigged, Voting Simply Used To Pacify The Public

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-16/its-rotten-system-ron-paul-us-elections-are-rigged-voting-simply-used-pacify-public

“I don’t think there’s an easy way out for the establishment or the parties,” he noted, explaining that Democrats and Republicans would both rather risk “further alienation of the people” than allow a candidate to succeed who could shake up the system. "It's a rotten system."

Saudi Arabia Threatens To Liquidate Its Treasury Holdings If Congress Probes Its Role In Sept 11 Attacks

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-16/saudi-arabia-threatens-us-it-will-liquidate-its-treasury-holdings-if-congress-passes

 Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Abstain From Beans

http://www.anarchism.net/anarchism_abstainfrombeans.htm

In ancient Athens, those who admired the Stoic philosophy of individualism took as their motto: “Abstain from Beans.” The phrase had a precise reference. It meant: don't vote. Balloting in Athens occurred by dropping various colored beans into a receptacle.

Burr-Feinstein encryption bill is officially here in all its scary glory

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/burr-feinstein-encryption-bill-is-officially-here-in-all-its-scary-glory/

 Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a draft appeared online last week. The bill, titled the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, would require tech firms to decrypt customers’ data at a court’s request.

Twilight Of The Psychopaths

http://rense.com/general83/twi.htm

Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively with their fellows, sharing the necessary labour in order to obtain the leisure to develop arts and sciences. And while that would be a good idea, it is not a good description of what has been going on in the so-called advanced cultures during the past 8,000 years.

 

Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and "warfare." Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.

 

The prevailing recipe for civilization is simple:

 

1) Use lies and brainwashing to create an army of controlled, systematic mass murderers;

 

2) Use that army to enslave large numbers of people (i.e. seize control of their labour power and its fruits);

 

3) Use that slave labour power to improve the brainwashing process (by using the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and PR men). Then go back to step one and repeat the process.

 

Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, injure, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse. The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers- was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non- psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies - especially military hierarchies.

VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE BY JUDGE ANNA YOU MUST READ

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=35799

THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLES YOU COULD EVER READ. DON'T DISREGARD IT!

YOU CAN SKIP 'RALPH'S' LETTER AND MOVE TO JUDGE ANNA'S RESPONSE.

GOOGLE ALL THE NAMES AND LINKS SHE PROVIDES IF YOU WANT TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'LAW OF THE LAND' AND LAW OF THE SEA' WHICH IS HOW THE TREASONOUS CRIMINALS HAVE USURPED THE POWER IN THIS COUNTRY AND USED IT TO BLEED US ALL DRY AND CONTROL US AS WELL AS DISREGARD THE CONSTITUTION.

IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT IS GOING ON.

NEOCON CABAL: A Stone-Cold Terrorist Cell Occupies The U.S. Federal Government

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=35662#more-35662

The Fate of the American Republic Depends On Their Immediate
Arrest And Prosecution

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

John Oliver - Panama Papers: Iceland's PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ia8UALfBA4

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Cruz losing Support of Fellow Republicans

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Proof that Ted Cruz is very much disliked among Republicans was demonstrated over the Planned Parenthood issue. Cruz is being ignored in Congress. On Monday [...]
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• 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

A Song That Explains Life & the Battle we All Face Even as a Society

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

What we all face ahead is a struggle. It will take courage and understanding to survive. How our story ends is yet to be seen. All we can do is recognize what is at [...]
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• Basic Concepts

Market Talk as of Close of April 13th, 2016

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

JPY remained the focal point for Asia, well that was until the market realized it had finally turned. The JPY took out the 109 handle and dealers were less [...]
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• Market Talk

Bank Stocks – Stay FAR FAR AWAY

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty, you hit the nail on the head. Nobody looks at these fines against the banks as you have. You are right. The shareholders pay the price to keep the [...]
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• Dow Jones

SEC & NYC Going Crazy on Contempt of Court Stay Out of NYC

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Judge John Walker, Jr The Second Circuit back in March refused to reverse a contempt order imposed on an allegedly recidivist stock fraudster. What is amazing is [...]
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llinois to Tax Drivers 1.5 cents per mile they drive

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

llinois motorists are living in a bankrupt state that has promised pensions it never funded. Their state constitution bars the politicians from reducing the [...]
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• The Hunt for Taxes

Obama refuses to Prosecute Hillary to Help Democrats

Posted Apr 14, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The reason we seriously need a new Constitutional Convention is because the current one has been reduced to a scrap paper. President Obama’s outrageous suggestion [...]
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3 Essentials To Prevent Home Invasions

http://www.survivopedia.com/essentials-to-prevent-home-invasions/

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The Dow – Breaking Out Again?

Posted Apr 13, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

The Dow Jones took out the Weekly Bullish but not the key one at 17846. This is why we are basing without immediate follow-through. Nonetheless, our primary [...]
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• Dow Jones

The World Economy is Closing In Thanks to Merkel

Posted Apr 12, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Sometimes the brain-dead decision of one person can set off a contagion that sweeps the world. Merkel’s open invitation to the Muslim, pretend refugees has [...]
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Give a Man a Job

Posted Apr 12, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Jimmy Durante captures the mood of the nation during the Great Depression in 1933 basis FDR’s [...]
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#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians

Posted Apr 12, 2016 by Martin Armstrong

Over 400 protesters were arrested in Washington for exercising their First Amendment right Assemble and Free Speech. They were protesting the ownership of Congress [...]
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Paul Craig Roberts: President Killary

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/04/13/president-killary-paul-craig-roberts/

Would The World Survive President Hillary?