Social Matter - Not All Geopolitical Problems Are America’s Fault

New essay is up at Social Matter and it is on a major pain point for America that you know what, we're not to blame for!

Is the kingdom going to fall? Will the kingdom take down its whole region in a flurry of war? The kingdom in question is Saudi Arabia. Probably not, but the fun has kicked up ten notches for them. Iran has some breathing room, and suddenly it’s a Shia-Sunni/Iran-KSA shouting match each week in the news. Iranian missiles can certainly reach across the Persian Gulf and knock out oil fields. The KSA has had bad press, as well, since now people feel open to discuss KSA-ISIS links or even ISIS being a proto-KSA. Blame can be spread all around, but we can thank the British for the high position the Saudis hold in our global society.

It's amazing that America is not to blame for this one. We inherited a bad situation that the Brits decided to put into place. Go read it there.

Trump's No Show + SM Review-Preview 31

How much fun is it watching Trump reveal the circus that politics is? Last week it was Trump going before evangelicals and Christian voters and saying "2 Corinthians" and openly saying "that's what you guys call it/wanna hear", which while being accused of pandering actually reveals how phony pandering to Christian voters is. It was beautiful.

This week Trump showed how it's the media that picks our leaders as well as the Inner-Outer Party set up. Trump says he will not show, and the cuckservative crowd said, "Oh he's afraid of Megyn Kelly." Uh no, he's copying Reagan. Fox would not bend to his wishes, Trump would have to bend to their demands. The media is in charge buddy. What was he really avoiding? He was also dodging the fact that the Outer Party GOP had asked several progressives to ask questions at the final pre-primaries debate. On what planet should a party ask members of the other party to ask questions during an important debate. Clinton is not going to take any question from legitimate Rubio, Cruz or Rand advocates.

It is a circus. It is a show. It is reality television. Few truly want to admit it. As much as the system and your right thinking friends and family want to bitch, the show just was crashed by the longest running reality star in America.

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Last week, I wrote on the use of phony experts in the media think pieces people read everyday. These are not the writers themselves but the cited authorities who mouth progressive standard lines that back up how the progs want you to think. The episode of Weimerica Weekly that aired was my first interview. We had a talk about drugs, the underclass, cycles of poverty, mass incarceration, and if there is anyway out of it all. Hipster Cop was her name, and I thank her for her time.

WW1: One Man's Letters Home

I found this and felt it worthy of sharing. This is just one man's notes home to his wife and daughter. His name was Wilfrid Cove. He was a gunner in the trenches.

Tuesday 14 November 1916  

My Darling Ethel, 

I hope you have received my birthday present, but in case you haven’t here’s again wishing you many many happy returns of your birthday. It is the first of your birthdays that we have been apart since you were sweet 17 that I can remember. I hope it will be the last. Heaven send that by your next birthday – or mine come to that – this terrible war will be over & that we may both be spared & united on each of our birthdays and those of our dear little kiddies & for many years to come. It causes me many regrets and much sorrow when I remember that my selfishness has more than once caused you unhappiness and I sincerely hope that my future conduct will make you realise that notwithstanding my shortcomings I do love you with all my heart and realise I have one of the best wives in the world.  

I can now quite understand the Late Lord Kitchener’s preference for bachelors as soldiers. He must have realised, altho’ a bachelor himself, that it is not the coward’s fear of death but the fear that by death many a good soldier may thus be prevented from rejoining the wife & family he loves so much. I have just that very feeling myself at times when the shells are dropping all around us and the air is whistling with them.  

Goodnight my darling. Longing and hoping for a letter from you tomorrow. 

What happened to the English language might be your first reaction, but here is his letter to his daughter one month later.

Monday 4 December 1916  

My dear little Marjorie, I have only just received your little letter which Mamma sent with hers on Nov 19th. Do you remember that you asked me to be home for Xmas? I only wish I could but there are many more soldiers in our Battery who are more entitled to the Xmas leave than I am, so am afraid you will have to do without Daddy this Xmas.  

Santa Claus will come as usual. I think your writing and dictation just splendid, and your drawings are getting funnier than ever. I have pinned your crayoned tulips on the wall of my dug-out bedroom beside your photograph. Daddy is as comfortable as possible. I expect even you would get tired enough to go soundly asleep in this dug-out. It would be a change from your pink bedroom.  

And how is little Daffodil getting on? I expect you quite enjoy the time when Mamma reads you more about her. It was Mamma’s book when she was a girl like you. Write again soon, dear, + send another crayoning to help cover the sand bags.  

Heaps of love & kisses, which you must share with Mamma and Betty.
From your ever loving Daddy 

This picture was found in his breast pocket when he was killed in 1917. The numbers of WW1 can make one lose sight of the humanity.

Here is the drawing his daughter sent to him as he fought at the front.

Never forget.

Social Matter - Weimerica Weekly Episode 10

Episode 10 of Weimerica Weekly is up. This episode starts a new phase for the show. I managed to get an interview. There will be more scattered throughout the year.

I interview a law enforcement officer that I named "Hipster Cop". She has seen crime in small towns and in a big city. We discuss heroin, the underclass, the mass incarceration issue, and the issue of generational criminality and poverty. Whatever you already estimate, you do not know how much money we spend just to maintain the criminal underclass.

Please do listen. This one is roughly 35 minutes, as I wanted to lob some extra questions outside the scope of drugs and law enforcement at my guest.

Money and Economics Links

Is the world of money coming to an end? Sure feels like it. Last year, high yield tanked, and this year, the equity markets are tanking.

Let's talk about fake fixes and fines that never seem to change anything. Anyone know where the billions and billions (supposedly $144 billion) in fines the big banks and lenders have paid have gone? Is it all a charade? As the author notes, even just splitting $50 billion between the 10 million home owners would be $5K, so why has there not been a single article in any news outlet about relief for homeowners hurt by the financial crisis? We all know if there had been any good story the media would have trumpeted it to boost Obama.

Confirming suspicions, all tuition increases since 1987 can trace back to government lending. As a part of the increases, I still stand by my alternative theory that the elite schools foreign students getting a discount due to the drop in the dollar around 2000 caused elite schools to jack up costs since in foreign currency terms, the tuition stayed the same. This created a herd like move.

What's declined? I was asked that at work recently. I usually like to use the "where can you walk today vs 1955 in safety", but I point to the late '90s as an obvious peak in economic power. More proof rolls in as the US is no longer in the top 10 for most prosperous nations. The elite and the Left want to keep stuffing semi-literate 3rd worlders into this declining nation, which makes absolutely no sense.

Is a break up of TBTF banks possible without an explicit break up? Tom Michaud believes so. It is an interesting argument but it is that regulators and the Dodd-Frank rules will force the TBTF banks to break up on their own. This seems hard to believe in our era of regulatory capture. How are regulators going to enforce the laws? As noted above, are the settlements and fines all phony? Where does the money go? They can't even show us that, and that should be a slam dunk PR move.  For all his talk, the TBTF banks still own a 60% share of total banking assets in America. As Michaud states, JPMorganChase is a trillion dollars bigger. Without a cleaning out of derivatives, the TBTF will remain as they are.

I could link to a myriad of "WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH CHINA" essays and articles. China has gone after 1500 corrupt cronies, changed their one child policy, seen the yuan added to the SDR basket and is experiencing massive outflows of money. The hard landing is coming as many experts say. Truth is, no one dealt with the mess from the American financial crisis of 2008. We can only kick the can so far down the road.

#ArrestSoros

George Soros is the supervillain of our era. With the money, global view and manipulation of geopolitics, his profile is much more like a Bond villain than a supervillain. There are plenty of politically active billionaires. Politics is their sport, controlling the lives of millions and contracts of large governments is fun. Soros takes everything to a new degree as he openly confirms the conspiracies that involve him, and his money seems to be everywhere. A short while back, there was a hashtag that that sought to highlight his criminality, #ArrestSoros. This is not just an empty slogan but a doable proposition.

Arrest Soros and charge him under the RICO statutes. RICO is the set of laws that allowed the Feds to go after the Mob. These laws are not purely for mafia organizations as they apply to any network that engages in crime as defined per the collection of RICO eligible crimes. RICO allows for people at the head of organizations to be charged and held culpable for crimes committed by members of their organizations. They can either order them to perform the act or assist them in performing the act. Soros here would be assisting through his wonderful ability to pay for everything. Attempting or feigning to attempt to solve the Wall Street problem, prosecutors have even considered charging Wall Street organizations under the RICO statutes.

Take a look at the offenses that trigger RICO. #BlackLivesMatter protests have led to arson and robbery. People affiliated with #BlackLivesMatter have committed a myriad of crimes elsewhere. The acts of terrorism is a given, as no small town or large city wants BLM to come in for a weekend of loot 'n' shoot. Recall that he has funded #BlackLivesMatter, and despite the protestations, employees of one of his domestic organizations started BLM. Because his bussed in protestors were the troublemakers per the peace loving locals, Soros funded protestors were the terror agents. Soros sits on top of that BLM empire. Like a mob boss, he is atop a hierarchy, and that does not make him any less culpable as Don Paulie would be for street tough Vinnie's actions. Soros' Open Society Foundation is a worldwide NGO that subverts nations and encourages chaos with a respectable face. They escape any punishment solely because Soros is aligned with and funds the progressive ruling elite.

That sounds weak, one might argue. It might be tough to prove. Let us go to an even better federal law that will surely come in handy to #ArrestSoros. Maybe not arresting him, but rendering him bankrupt and unable to fund the destruction of the West. Let an intrepid lawyer use the Alien Tort Statute. The Alien Tort Statue (ATS) allows for civil actions (torts) by foreigners for actions on foreign soil to be brought before US courts. There have been large corporations brought before the courts for this statute, and some have lost their cases or been forced to settle outside of court. Even officials are now openly fingering Soros as the man funding the immigrant invasion of Europe.

Think of the high court drama and made for television or the Internet testimony. The ATS is broad and the scope of crimes includes vague terms like "degrading treatment" and "crimes against humanity". Review some of the agreed"crimes against humanity like dehumanization, and think of the current refugee crisis. Uploaded Iphone videos alone should be enough evidence to build "Nuremberg 2: Merkel In A Noose". Europe has now seen spikes in crime in nations that have accepted refugees. It would be easy to list crimes but murders performed by immigrants and widespread gang rapes of migrant on native in an atmosphere of "convert to Islam or your kids will" taunts qualify as enough to bring a civil action.

How would anyone, even mighty Soros himself, withstand testimony from hundreds if not thousands of women beaten, raped and harassed by migrants that he has openly admitted to aiding in their quest for Europa? Tearful women crying over vague pain from breast implants caused multi-million dollar settlements and judgments against breast implant manufacturers. That was just over breast augmentation. This is rape, which in the feminist hysteria has been elevated to a crime where the steady message is no woman lies, all should be believed and rape culture must be stamped out. Soros being linked to the importation of rape culture would be global headlines for the length of the trial. He would seek a settlement. The key would be bringing forth so many plaintiffs that the billions of dollars he holds is reduced to millions. Penniless would be best.

After the ATS tort settlement, one would hit him with the RICO arrest. He would have less money to defend himself or buy off any politician or official who may protect him. One two punch. This will not happen. I know. No need to leave a silly comment to this post citing it. Soros is part of the ownership class for the Left, and a prominent shareholder in our thoroughly corrupt and bought government apparatus. Like a good Mob boss, Soros makes sure to have many channels and layers for spreading his influence, money and control. As long as progressives remain in control and the FIRE economy supreme, Soros will remain untouched. Without his money, what do they have? Without their system, how long does he last?

That apparatus, that system is showing its age. Built on lies, the normal management functions are no longer working as effectively. Speed and compressed timelines have shown their centralized institutions for the dinosaurs they are. Iphone recordings and social media websites have done enough to shake The Narrative. As the gap widens between the official story and reality, the credibility gap becomes a credibility gulf. When LBJ endured his credibility gap, the streets were full of protestors for everything and anything. The time for official channels for justice and dealing with our problem is nearing its end, if not already in the rearview mirror. The days of pitchforks, torches and extrajudicial measures are coming. Be careful though. If you need a fig leaf of due process, the above blueprint can be a means to #ArrestSoros.

Social Matter - The Expert Is A Prefabricated Voice

This week's essay at Social Matter is on the fake experts that are trotted out in news items to mold public opinion.

The media is sovereign. If not, they are near sovereign in our society. They have amazing power as the megaphone, the editor of the megaphone, and the user of the megaphone. What they choose to discuss matters, as it shapes the direction of society as energies are focused, applied, and in some cases, misallocated. Beyond that, the media tells us who are experts. They select whom to quote and deem an expert to reveal to you the story they are sharing. 

As the existing order goes thru strains as it grows or pains as it dies, we need to reveal just how fraudulent these men and women are who are selected by the authorities to tell us little people what to think. It is the same types, spouting the same garbage funded by the same puppetmasters. I hope you enjoy.