Martin A. Armstrong - Economics

[Indiana Jones]

Obama Desperate to Attack Syria to Distract People from Budget Crisis
Posted on August 30, 2013 by Martin Armstrong

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/08/

[PieterP]

Obama Desperate to Attack Syria to Distract People from Budget Crisis
Posted on August 30, 2013 by Martin Armstrong

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/08/

Welja, schoffeer onze Franse `vriend` Hollande maar, die heeft trouwens ook niks dan ellende thuis.
He, maar nou begin ik het te begrijpen (sarc on).

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/3562975/fra ... steun.html

Ennnn, zijn jullie ook zo benieuwd met welke overtuigende bewijzen Jon Kerry vanavond eindelijk gaat komen?

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/3563279/vs- ... -vrij.html

Waarbij de volgende link natuurlijk zal verbleken:

http://xandernieuws.punt.nl/content/201 ... l-Damascus

Hoe dan ook ik raak steeds meer overtuigd dat smoesjes gaan zorgen voor een hele bittere herfst.

[Indiana Jones]

Het MOET er kennelijk van komen .... net als met 911; Irak en Afhanistan ..... the sheeple afleiden van de werkelijke problemen en dat schijn je het best te kunnen doen met oorlog en vernietiging .... zoals de Romeinen dat feitelijk ook al deden .... nothing has changed, politicians didn't learn anything ..... the past 2000 years ....

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/3563279/ame ... wezen.html

[Indiana Jones]

Mainstream Media – Pro War
Posted on August 31, 2013 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Why is mainstream media pro-Obama and war?
ANSWER: The press has traditionally been a pawn of government. The press has been anything but free and honest and has far too often played a major role in creating wars and covering up political prosecutions. Government needs to control the news. That is what they do. They need it for political prosecutions as well as for wars as we are observing right now. Anyone who exposes the illegal activity of government is criminally prosecuted and tortured mentally for life.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/08/3 ... a-pro-war/

[Indiana Jones]

Dit lees je vandaag in het nieuws:

Gepubliceerd door: NU.nl/ANP:4 september 2013 16:45

'Conflict Syrië leidt desnoods tot Derde Wereldoorlog'
Dat zei de Syrische onderminister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Faisal Moqdad, woensdag in gesprek met persbureau AFP. "De Syrische regering zal haar positie niet veranderen. Ook niet als dat leidt tot een Derde Wereldoorlog", aldus Moqdad. "Geen Syriër kan de onafhankelijkheid van zijn land opofferen."
In een interview met The Wall Street Journal laat Moqdad weten dat hij hoopt dat Amerikaanse vertegenwoordigers "wijsheid zullen tonen, en zullen luisteren naar de stem van gerechtigheid". "We houden van het Amerikaanse volk", aldus Moqdad. "We hebben miljoenen Amerikanen met een Arabische achtergrond, waaronder Syriërs, en we willen geen oorlogen met de Verenigde Staten."
Ook in het interview met The Wall Street Journal benadrukt de dimplomaat echter dat het hek van de dam is als Amerika besluit over te gaan tot een militaire actie. ''Als de oorlog begint, kan niemand controleren wat er zal gebeuren. We denken dat elke aanval op Syrië zal leiden tot chaos in de gehele regio, en wellicht buiten de regio."
http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/3567131/con ... orlog.html

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Dit schrijft Armstrong erover:

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Martin Armstrong
Syria – Benghazi Connection
What is taking place in Syria is far more complicated than most people suspect. As with everything, there is the story, and then there is the truth lurking behind the story. The region has been flooded with weapons supplied to rebels initially in Libya that have flowed to Syria, Mali, and even back to the streets in the USA. Nothing but nothing is what it appears.
This is far more complicated than what is being reported and there is a lot more at stake than what people suspect. Even France was supplying weapons to Libyan rebels illegally like the USA against UN sanctions. When we sell or give weapons to such groups they not merely spread to other groups, they also end up being sold into the US domestic drugmarket.
On August 29th, 2013, the Obama administration surprisingly announced new gun control measures. These deal with the little known problem of re-importation of US weapons we give to rebels to fight various conflicts that go to our streets. The Obama administration is now curbing the import of military surplus weapons. All the yelling and screaming about weapons on the streets it is not widely understood that they actually are coming from our own sales or gifts to rebels overseas. We hand out weapons like candy for political reasons and they arm the domestic drug trade.
To overthrow the Syrian government will turn the “civil war” into a Holy War and we will see tremendous death and carnage. Russia has been pointing to the rebels using chemical weapons. To top this, then there are reports that it was Saudi Arabia who supplied chemical weapons to the Syrian Rebels to get the US involved and raise oil prices given the US is less dependent on imported oil.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/09/0 ... onnection/

[Indiana Jones]

Behind-the-Curtain – Why Syria Must Go – It is Gas this Time
Posted on September 5, 2013 by Martin Armstrong



Way too much evidence is showing that it was the Saudis who have supplied the rebels with chemical weapons not Assad. So why are the Saudis intent upon getting rid of Assad? The Saudis are planning together with Qatar a pipeline, which will run from the Gulf to Turkey. This will result in the Russian Gazprom having competition for the important European market. Currently, Russia controls all Gas into Europe.

Qatar has supported Syrian Rebels with $3 billion as well. Why have the Saudis and Qatar teamed up against Syria? Because Assad is blocking the pipeline and that protects the European market for the Russians. So as long as there is Assad in Syria, this pipeline will not be built because Russia wants to prevent this competition absolutely.

Then there is the Russian efforts to unseat the dollar as the world reserve currency. As long as the Saudis are in control of the Middle East, the dollar will remain as the energy currency. Those in power fail to understand that the reserve currency status has nothing to do with energy. It is the depth of the dollar market that can absorb capital – not what currency you price oil in. Make it Swiss francs. What will happen you buy the Swiss to settle the trade but you cannot park trillions of dollars in the Swiss. Only the Sovereign Debt Crisis will alter the reserve status of the dollar.

Since the meeting between Putin and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, the Western pressure has increased steadily in the direction of a military strike against Syria. After the British Parliament rejected a military strike, the US is bullshitting the world because it will strike alone. The French president Francois Hollande is supporting this effort to see competition with Russia in gas. France is in its own economic crisis where the oil prices are not entirely controlled by a cartel. Hollande wants to get his hands on the gas to better tax and control the flow into France to eliminate any ultimatums from Russia.

The Saudis assume that they can use the religious rebels to accomplish their goals but later control them so they do not gain power. That is a huge assumption. What if they are wrong?

[Indiana Jones]

Dirty Dealing on Syria in Washington
Posted on September 6, 2013 by Martin Armstrong



The only key Arab nations supporting Obama are Saudi Arabia and Qatar and that is all about the pipeline blocked by Syria. There are even rumors that the Cyprus event was used to cripple Russians and cut-off their eventual access to a huge gas field there, yet to be brought into production. If the Russians gained control of that, then they would really have a stranglehold on Europe.

Credible sources keep pointing to a massive cover-up surrounding Syria – Benghazi Connection. The United States has literally trashed the region with its crazy foreign policy run by people who are truly clueless about the region and the religious conflicts. They messed up Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan and now Libya is in chaos yet the press will not report that in the USA.

The British Independent wrote: Special report: We all thought Libya had moved on – it has, but into lawlessness and ruin.



The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Martin Dempsey, backed by his Joint Staff generals and admirals, has stood his ground between a rushed and politically incoherent President Obama who has been intent on launching a military attack on Syria while Congress was on vacation. Some have claimed Dempsey lied to Congress over the Benghazi affair stating the troops were sent to Tripoli when they were needed in Benghazi. However, Dempsey may have been out of the loop altogether accounting now for his stand against Obama and Syria – not again.

Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice has ZERO military experience. This is akin to a man trying to explain what child-birth feels like. There is UN ambassador Samantha Power, and deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, have also been advocates to blow-up the Middle East even unilaterally. They take the position that this is not a real democracy where the people have any say whatsoever. They adopt the position of a dictator arguing they trump congressional approval citing the attack is not war but a humanitarian!? operation that does not require approval under the War Powers Resolution or Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

Neither Rhodes, Rice or Power have any military experience. Rhodes’s brother, David Rhodes, is formerly an executive with Fox News and is the president of CBS News. Then there is Obama’s special adviser, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, whose brother is Ben Sherwood, President of ABC News. This is just a hint at how mainstream media is linked into the Obama Administration. This is called inside information in the private world of finance.

Dempsey dashed to the White House during the early morning hours of Saturday to make one last final plea to hold off on any attack. Dempsey told Obama then and there that his military plan would NOT work. He warned that Obama would drag the USA even deeper into the affair with dangerous consequences.I reported previously that three letters were sent to Obama demanding he wait for the return of Congress. More than 200 members signed those letters. Acting without congressional approval and a botched military action, Obama would go down in flames when Dempsey warned him his mission would fail. It was Dempsey who persuaded Obama to hold off on any attack until Congress reconvened after Labor Day.

There is clearly a side-benefit to this Syrian affair. It has taken the spotlight from the IRS abuse, NSA scandal and the Benghazi affair. This has capturing the attention and derailing any discussion of those issued for the next election.

Administration officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden, have been out in full force to demand action against Syria. John Kerry had the audacity to actually compare US inaction against Syria to early efforts to appease Nazi Germany. Simply unbelievable. He will say anything. Obama will need 60 votes to overcome a potential filibuster in the Senate. The Democrats passed the joint resolution in the committee 10-7, to authorize limited military strikes. The full Senate is scheduled to vote next week. In the House, Obama will need 217 votes out of 435 with seats vacant.

The Israeli Lobby organization, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has also tremendous political influence over Congress. They pour money into election campaigns at Goldman Sachs levels or more. They really own Senator John McCain who has been a champion of Syrian rebels, including the human organ-eating Al Qaeda-affiliates, donating $772,327 in funds to him. The poured $343,394 into New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez pockets. Menendez is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has also supported the attack upon Syria. These key people can be bought like a street-hooker who could care less who is next.

However, this whole Syrian-Benghazi affair is far deeper than most suspect. There are leaks coming from the Pentagon to members of Congress stating that proof exists that Obama and CIA director John O. Brennan personally authorized the transfer of arms and personnel from Al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al Sharia Islamist rebels in Libya to Syria’s Jabhat al Nusra rebels, who are also linked to Al Qaeda. This is most likely the real reason USA ambassador in Lybia Stevens was killed. This is not much different than the alleged Iran-contra scandal. Many sources are saying they have been linked with Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud and Al Qaeda. They were personally aware that arms from the caches of the late Muammar Qaddafi of Libya were transferred to Al Qaeda forces in Syria for use in terrorist attacks. This is why some of the weapons have made it back to the streets in the USA. The level of arms transfers is directly involved in the alleged Libyan Islamist rebel attack on the CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Obama and Clinton have been unable to extricate themselves from this stinking mess.

Some have claimed Saudi is trying to install a Sunni fundamentalist regime in Syria. But this makes no sense. It appears to be all centered around the gas pipeline.

Obama has sought life-imprisonment for any whistleblowers contrary to everything the Constitution stood for. This is to cover-up what is going on in the Middle East and the rising tensions once again with Russia. The White House is clearly practicing a propaganda and disinformation campaign in this whole Syrian affair. The BBC has been caught using photographs of dead civilians in Iraq to show claimed victims of Assad’s alleged chemical attack. Likewise, Al Jazeera, a conduit for the Muslim Brotherhood power brokers in Qatar has shown footage of victims of Assad’s government that were covered with fake bandages and Hollywood blood.

Today he is in Russia saying he was not elected to start wars, but to end them. Yet he claims human rights were violated so the US must act. Bullshit. Where was the US when Stalin murdered tens of millions. Where was it when Mao was marching? Where is the US with its own human rights violation and why does it imprison more people that all of Europe, Russia and China nearly combined? Because he seeks to imprison people like Bradley Manning for exposing human rights violations by the USA or the criminal charges files against Edward Snowden for espionage. Only 4% of the people in prison are there for violence. As John Stuart Mill wrote:

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

[Indiana Jones]

NSA Breaks Encryption – Here We Go Again There is nobody and nothing they have not tapped
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/09/0 ... ot-tapped/


Versleutelde bankopdrachten, versleutelde medische gegevens, versleutelde politieke berichten ...... ALLES is bereikbaar voor de NSA, dankzij de samenwerking met Microsoft c.s. die bewust gaten hebben gelaten in de systemen, zodat de NSA erin kan.
Nu is het een kwestie van tijd dat ook hackers die gaten gevonden hebben, want ze zullen niet met updates gedicht worden, omdat de NSA er dan niet meer in kan.
Bye, bye HTTPS op het World.Wide.Web

[Rasta]

NSA Breaks Encryption – Here We Go Again There is nobody and nothing they have not tapped
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/09/0 ... ot-tapped/


Versleutelde bankopdrachten, versleutelde medische gegevens, versleutelde politieke berichten ...... ALLES is bereikbaar voor de NSA, dankzij de samenwerking met Microsoft c.s. die bewust gaten hebben gelaten in de systemen, zodat de NSA erin kan.
Nu is het een kwestie van tijd dat ook hackers die gaten gevonden hebben, want ze zullen niet met updates gedicht worden, omdat de NSA er dan niet meer in kan.
Bye, bye HTTPS op het World.Wide.Web

Dan is het eerder bye bye Microsoft. Want het web blijft. Mensen moeten nu verplicht een operating systeem nemen wat open source is, en door iedereen gecontroleerd kan worden op fouten en zwakheden. Geen proprietary rommel.

[Paul]

volkomen met rasta eens !!!