https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schi...ment-probe

Project Veritas will soon be releasing its undercover investigative videos of CNN.
Stay tuned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-wNuKmBrY
Exposing the rotten crooks in government.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...943543002/

Just when Trump finally did something courageous and withdrew troops in Syria amid fury from the warmongering Repub and Dem he turned aound and escalated our war against Iran.

International Man: Elizabeth Warren proposed an annual tax on a person’s wealth. What do you make of this?
Doug Casey: When you tax something, you discourage it. If Elizabeth Warren wants to tax people’s wealth, that’s going to encourage people to hide their wealth. And discourage them from getting wealthy. So, it’s poison from an economic point of view.
But it’s even worse from an ethical or spiritual point of view. It sends a signal that wealth is evil. That it has to be kept under control and limited. That a political priesthood should determine how much is enough and who should get it. It’s especially perverse in that people like Warren act like they have the moral high ground. When in fact, they’re in the moral gutter.
She says she’s pushing it to keep people from getting “too wealthy,” which is actually insane. It’s exactly the opposite of what we should want. We want to encourage everybody to become very wealthy so that everybody’s a capitalist. Worse, the proceeds of a wealth tax go to the state—the worst place it can go. It will increase the size of government, and the capital will be dissipated, at best. Perhaps it will be redistributed to a well-connected crony capitalist or used to further corrupt the poor with handouts. Bad news all around.
The hatred of the rich is, however, somewhat understandable. Why? Because so many of them became incredibly wealthy by becoming cronies and gaming the political system. Most of their money was gained through theft, not production. The way to prevent that is to get the state out of the economy. Not make the state and its cronies bigger and stronger by directing more tax revenues to it.
But there are other consequences of a wealth tax.
Every American is going to have to file a balance sheet with the government, not just an income statement the way we currently do for the IRS. They’ll know, under penalty of perjury, not just what we earn, but what we have.
A wealth tax is extremely anti-freedom. Plus, it will require the hiring of thousands more IRS agents, just the opposite of what we want to do. We want to abolish the IRS, not make it larger.
A wealth tax is a completely insane idea, from absolutely every point of view. It has no positives.
International Man: Initially, the government would hit only the rich with the wealth tax. But that’s precisely how proponents sold the federal income tax to the American people, and look at the monstrosity it has grown into today. Do you think the same thing could happen if someone like Warren institutes a wealth tax?
Doug Casey: Unquestionably. The federal income tax started out in 1913, at 1% on net personal incomes above $3,000 (about $50,000 in today’s dollars) and 7% on incomes above $500,000 (about $8 million today).
International Man: Cory Booker wants reparations for descendants of slavery. What are your thoughts on this?
Doug Casey: Another completely insane idea. It’s guaranteed to create much more antagonism between the races—where just by virtue of being black, you receive lots of money from white people. Even though no American blacks have ever been slaves.
Nor their parents. In fact, no black person in the country today has anything closer than a great-great-grandparent who was a slave. The idea is criminally insane. It’s all about theft based on race. So it’ll only create more antagonism between whites and blacks. In addition to opening up questions like, “What percentage black do you have to be?” 100%? 50%? A quarter? An eighth?
Would you lie like Elizabeth Warren to capture a benefit based on your possible racial background? This opens up a Pandora’s box filled with race hatred, corruption, and millions of lawsuits
Entirely apart from that—although it’s perverse—blacks in the United States should be happy their ancestors were stolen from Africa. As bad as things were for slaves in this country, they would have been even worse off in Africa—where they would also have been slaves. Africa is full of de facto slavery even today, even though it was legally—cosmetically—abolished in 1982 in the last country to have it, Mauritania. And their descendants would have been much, much worse off. They would have had none of the myriad advantages of being in a Western country.
Actually, most of the blacks who were stolen from Africa went to Brazil and the Caribbean. I believe the number is about 80%. So does Booker mean that the Caribbean islands, which are today mostly black, and Brazil, which is over 50% black, should get reparations too?
He makes the argument that American prosperity was built on black slavery. This is historically not just false, but the opposite of the truth. Slavery discouraged industrialization of the South, keeping it a century behind the North in technology. The slaves were an actual detriment to development. There was no “surplus value” created to be distributed to anybody 150 years later.
Booker is a slick race hustler with a criminal mentality, from a wealthy family. He’s in the tradition of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It’s a sign of how degraded the US has become that he’s taken seriously in any way.
International Man: Andrew Yang wants to give every adult an unconditional $1,000 a month—in other words, a universal basic income. Yang calls this a “freedom dividend.” But the government is not a profit-seeking corporation, and it can’t pay a “dividend.” What is really going on here?
Doug Casey: A freedom dividend? A dividend can be paid to an investor only if capital is deployed in a way that it creates a profit. Who are the investors here? Where is the capital they saved to “invest”? Where is the profit the government makes to distribute? What does any of this have to do with “freedom”? It’s a goofy idea based on theft.
There’s two ways that money can be generated to give everybody $12,000 per year. Either steal it from people who actually produce it or have the Federal Reserve print it up and give it to everybody—in which case you’ll destroy the currency.
The fact is that when there’s any kind of an economic transaction, there has to be an exchange, you have to give something to get something. Where is the exchange here? It’s pure institutionalized theft.
Most of the people getting the $12,000 will simply stop working at their minimum wage jobs and just fritter it away. Many might use it for a down payment on a $50,000 pickup truck. Which might be smart, because next year the same truck might cost $70,000 due to all the extra money creation. It’s another criminally insane idea. Yang’s main qualification to be president is that he rides a skateboard reasonably well—better than Beto for sure.
International Man: Robert O’Rourke—who prefers to be called “Beto” to give himself a more Hispanic-sounding name—has openly embraced gun confiscation. What are the implications here?
Doug Casey: Once again, this is just more overt theft to increase social engineering. If you can take somebody’s gun away from them, why stop there? You should be able to take their car away from them too. Cars are much more deadly than guns.
It’s not just a question of the Second Amendment, either. The Constitution in general has been interpreted out of existence—except for meaningless administrative niceties like who gets to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate or the order of succession if the president dies. The Bill of Rights is basically a dead letter.
When talking about guns, however, it’s a mistake to reference the Constitution. It means nothing to the 96% of the world outside the US. And it is just a document, which can be—and probably will be—changed or abandoned entirely. The essential issue here about guns is that it differentiates a free man from a slave. Historically a free man has the right to be armed and defend himself. A slave does not.
Sam Colt made it possible for a 90-pound woman to be equal to a 200-pound man who was attacking her. Sam Colt did more to protect the rights of the weak than every legislature since Day One.
Gun control seems to be Beto O’Rourke’s signature proposal. But all of his other ideas are equally bad. Like every other presidential wannabe this year, he’s glib and thoughtless. And may actually be evil.
I hate to use that word, because it’s been so overused and degraded by Church Lady and tent-show preacher types. But it’s appropriate when talking about people like Beto and the others. It simply means purposefully destructive or morally insane.
The fact that evil is disguised or smiles sincerely or looks well intentioned or seems like a good idea at the time, doesn’t mean it isn’t evil. It’s mostly, as Hannah Arendt pointed out, banal. Like all these candidates. That said, I rarely use the word “evil” in referring to these people. Not because it isn’t appropriate, but because few Americans take the concept seriously anymore.
International Man: At one of the debates, the moderator asked the candidates if they would support the government providing medical care to illegal aliens. All of them supported the idea.
Bernie Sanders has advocated a “Medicare for all” plan and wants to cancel student loan debt.
Elizabeth Warren wants to give all Social Security recipients an extra $200 a month.
These are just a few examples of how the welfare state is about to skyrocket. What is your take on this?
Doug Casey: Yeah, Bernie—a roiling mass of antagonism, bitterness, hatred, and aggression. The best thing about him is his psychological transparency. Frankly, it’s unseemly for a 78-year-old to want to force other people to pay his medical bills.
Also, doctors today don’t even get to practice medicine. Most of their time is spent filling out forms and complying with regulations. Many doctors are leaving the practice because they simply don’t have time to practice medicine properly. And the risks and aggravations aren’t worth the reward—certainly when they likely have hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loans to pay off and can really start practicing only when they’re pushing 30.
If you’re an American and don’t have a company paying your insurance and you need a serious medical operation, a smart thing for you to do is to fly to Thailand or another medical tourism venue. Have the procedure done there at perhaps an 80 or 90% discount from what it costs in this country.
If we have Medicare or Medicaid for all, no matter where you came from or who you are or what you can pay, I would expect people from Thailand would be flying here to the United States. The idea is economically and medically impossible. But legally plausible.
Here’s an idea. Your body is your primary possession. But it’s like a car—try to keep it in good condition. If it breaks, you pay for it—it’s not up to the government or the taxpayer to fix it. The idea of free medical care—like free education, free housing, free food, and the rest of it—is both destructive and degrading. The fact these things are discussed as practical possibilities shows that the society as a whole is irresponsible and apparently no longer capable of thinking in economic, ethical, or philosophical terms.
It’s going to end badly.
International Man: Putting it all together, what does the state of American politics today say about society and the future of the country?
Doug Casey: These people, these political types, like to talk about America being an exceptional country. In fact, it once was exceptional. It really was different from every other country of the world. But now it’s philosophically and ethically identical to every other country in the world. Property rights are no longer taken seriously. The public doesn’t really believe in them anymore. Most of the country wants to have socialism.
We’re on the slippery slope and it augers very poorly.
The United States is only a generation or two behind Argentina, which was actually on par with the US in the early 20th century. But today Argentina is moving in the direction of Venezuela, which 30 years ago was the richest country in South America. Too bad. I like both the US and Argentina, but it’s sad to see Argentina leading the way.
International Man: What are the investment implications?
Doug Casey: It’s very hard to be an investor. At this point, you can only attempt to speculate, to stay ahead of what these people are doing. It’s becoming a zero-sum game.
The Democrats are basically setting the country up for a civil war between the people who have things and produce things and the people who don’t have things and don’t want to produce. Not only are the ideas they’re promoting stupid; they’re really dangerous.
Here’s a gratuitous prediction: Unless magic happens, Elizabeth Warren—Pocahontas—is likely your next president.
Reprinted with permission from International Man.

Max & Stacey unmask some truths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xB2BcF99rk

Jimmy Dore on "the Rising" with Krystall Ball & Saagar Enjeti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0kDY4VE9c

At the Cowboys - Packers game
Jimmy Dore has a few thoughts on that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGNebWt9_zI

Walter Williams
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a new paper, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.” Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials. My question for you is: If you were around at the time, how many government restrictions and taxes would you have urged to avoid the predicted calamity?
As reported in The New York Times (Aug. 1969) Stanford University biologist Dr. Paul Erhlich warned: “The trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that unless we’re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”
In 2000, Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” In 2004, the U.S. Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. In 2008, Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years. A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016.
In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”
Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness: “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. … By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
Ecologist Kenneth Watt’s 1970 prediction was, “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.” He added, “This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
Mark J. Perry, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus, cites 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970. This time it’s not about weather. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver would be gone before 1990. Kenneth Watt said, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate … that there won’t be any more crude oil.”
There were grossly wild predictions well before the first Earth Day, too. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior predicted that American oil supplies would last for only another 13 years. In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous energy claims, in 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey said that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. However, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that as of Jan. 1, 2017, there were about 2,459 trillion cubic feet of dry natural gas in the United States. That’s enough to last us for nearly a century. The United States is the largest producer of natural gas worldwide.
Today’s wild predictions about climate doom are likely to be just as true as yesteryear’s. The major difference is today’s Americans are far more gullible and more likely to spend trillions fighting global warming. And the only result is that we’ll be much poorer and less free.

A Philadelphia 76ers fan says he was tossed out of a preseason game after showing their support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, according to NBC Philadelphia. 
NBA commissioner Adam Silver
Sam Wachs and his wife brought signs which read "Free Hong Kong" and "Free HK" to Tuesday night's game between the Sixers and the Guangzhou Loong-Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association. According to Wachs, he lived in Hong Kong for two years and supports the anti-government movement. 
"We were just sitting in our seats near the Chinese bench," said Wachs. 

Quote:As they were sitting, Wachs said security confiscated their signs. He then said they were kicked out of the game during the second quarter by security after they yelled, “Free Hong Kong.”
“We were saying, ‘Free Hong Kong,’’ Wachs told NBC10. “What’s wrong with that?” -NBC Philadelphia

Quote:The National Basketball Association lost almost all of its major Chinese sponsors in the country, the league’s biggest market outside the U.S., as the government flexes its economic muscle after a tweet backing Hong Kong’s protesters triggered a backlash.
A local joint venture of Nissan Motor Co. was the latest to distance itself from the U.S. league, joining China’s largest sportswear maker, the second-biggest dairy firm and a smartphone brand who all said they were pulling out. State television CCTV and tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. said Tuesday they won’t show NBA’s pre-season games.
In the latest China controversy involving the basketball organization, Beijing is resorting to a time-tested strategy of targeting businesses it deems to challenge its political interests -- especially those questioning its sovereignty over certain territories. The furor, triggered by last week’s tweet by an official with the Houston Rockets, has imperiled the NBA in a multibillion-dollar market. -Bloomberg

Quote:Workers were seen stripping a giant NBA banner in a mall in downtown Shanghai, while state-run CCTV said the league should apologize to Chinese fans and withdraw its comments. Some users demanded refunds from Tencent for their NBA subscriptions after the blackout of the preseason games.
The backlash has intensified after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver defended Morey’s right to free speech. Silver refused to apologize and said the NBA doesn’t dictate what people can or can’t say, sparking further anger in a nation that restricts free speech. China’s Communist Party-backed Global Times fired back in a tweet saying “free speech is never free.” -Bloomberg