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Trump Is Right—Dump NATO Now

26 Saturday Mar 2016

Posted by HattieBelle in 2016, Donald Trump, economy, Election, Foreign Policy, GOP, Indiana, NATO

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by David Stockton

3-25-2016 David Stockman

David Stockman

If you want to know why we have a $19 trillion national debt and a fiscal structure that will take that already staggering figure to $35 trillion and 140% of GDP within a decade, just consider the latest campaign fracas. That is, the shrieks of disbelief in response to Donald Trump’s sensible suggestion that the Europeans pay for their own defense.

The fact is, NATO has been an obsolete waste for 25 years. Yet the denizens of the Imperial City cannot even seem to grasp that the 4 million Red Army is no more; and that the Soviet Empire, which enslaved 410 million souls to its economic and military service, vanished from the pages of history in December 1991.

What is left is a pitiful remnant—–145 million aging, Vodka-besotted Russians who subsist in what is essentially a failing third world economy. Its larcenous oligarchy of Putin and friends appeared to live high on the hog and to spread a veneer of glitz around Moscow and St. Petersburg. But that was all based on the world’s one-time boom in oil, gas, nickel, aluminum, fertilizer, steel and other commodities and processed industrial materials. Stated differently, the Russian economy is a glorified oil patch and mining town with a GDP the equivalent of the NYC metropolitan area. And that’s its devastating Achilles Heel.

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Americans have never had a lower opinion of the press

25 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by HattieBelle in 1st Amendment, Control, Government, Media

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Sixty percent of Americans don’t trust mass media.

4-18-2016 gallup trend media trust

Is this attitude fair? Or has the media gotten a bum rap?

In general, do newspapers, TV and radio report news fully, accurately and fairly?

Look at the Time magazine covers distributed to different parts of the world for the same month. One of them is not like the others.

The Oct. 24 edition of Time magazine suggests that U.S. foreign policy is of more importance to foreigners than to Americans. Or perhaps the front page headline wasn't optimistic enough over the job the President in charge was doing overseas?

The Oct. 24 edition of Time magazine suggests that U.S. foreign policy is of more importance to foreigners than to Americans. Or perhaps the front page headline wasn’t telling the tale of American “exceptionalism” our commander-in-chief wanted customers in check-out lines across the nation seeing?

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be the key democratically elected Muslim leader who stands at the crossroads between East and West, but hey! What about these inventions?!

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be the key democratically elected Muslim leader who stands at the crossroads between East and West, but hey! What about these inventions?!

If you lived abroad Dec. 5, 2011, the cover of your current issue of Time magazine featured a dramatic picture of an Arab rebel wearing a gas mask under the headline "Revolution Redux". Americans got, "Why anxiety is good for you."

If you lived abroad Dec. 5, 2011, the cover of your current issue of Time magazine featured a dramatic picture of an Arab rebel wearing a gas mask under the headline “Revolution Redux”. Americans got, “Why anxiety is good for you.”

How can this be? Our government doesn’t control our press…does it? We have the freest press in the world right?

Well, not exactly.

The Obama administration, instead of being the transparent government Obama promised, has taken unprecedented control of the media–even spying on and persecuting journalists.

US plummets on World Press Freedom Ranking

The indicators for press freedom in the U.S. have been dramatic with a downward movement from 27th to 47 in global ranking.

1 Finland -10,00
– Norway -10,00
3 Estonia -9,00
– Netherlands -9,00
5 Austria -8,00
6 Iceland -7,00
– Luxembourg -7,00
8 Switzerland -6,20
9 Cape Verde -6,00
10 Canada -5,67
– Denmark -5,67
12 Sweden -5,50
13 New Zealand -5,33
14 Czech Republic -5,00
15 Ireland -4,00
16 Cyprus -3,00
– Jamaica -3,00
– Germany -3,00
19 Costa Rica -2,25
20 Belgium -2,00
– Namibia -2,00
22 Japan -1,00
– Surinam -1,00
24 Poland -0,67
25 Mali 0,00
– OECS 0,00
– Slovakia 0,00
28 United Kingdom 2,00
29 Niger 2,50
30 Australia 4,00
– Lithuania 4,00
32 Uruguay 4,25
33 Portugal 5,33
34 Tanzania 6,00
35 Papua New Guinea 9,00
36 Slovenia 9,14
37 El Salvador 9,30
38 France 9,50
39 Spain 9,75
40 Hungary 10,00
41 Ghana 11,00
42 South Africa 12,00
– Botswana 12,00
44 South Korea 12,67
45 Comoros 13,00
– Taiwan 13,00
47 United States of America 14,00

Our 1st amendment rights have eroded to the point where our American press, in comparison to media in other countries, has become less free than at any other point in American history.

The following articles discuss how Obama is abusing our 1st amendment rights, controls what we can know and is persecuting journalists who don’t tow the line:

  • NYT reporter: Obama admin “most closed, control-freak administration I’ve   ever covered”
  • Obama Administration targets reporters
  • Obama DOJ accuses journalist of committing crimes
  • CBS:Obama is most aggressive and controlling President of press since Nixon

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