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IN THIS ISSUE

AUGUST 2016

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BREXIT AND THE COMING GLOBAL CHAOS (AND WAR)........................... PG. 1

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PUSHBACK: ARE THE GRASSROOTS BEGINNING TO RESIST THE GLOBALIST ESTABLISHMENT?........................................... PG. 6

III. HOW SOCIALIST REGULATIONS ARE STRANGLING AMERICA.............. PG. 12 IV. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS .......................................................................... PG. 14 V.

FINAL THOUGHT: WHEN A NATION LOSES ITS COURAGE........................PG. 14 Donald S. McAlvany Editor

2016: THE YEAR OF UPHEAVAL, CHAOS, AND POLITICAL PUSHBACK “What used to be good and positive is now bad and negative. Faith in God, being productive, being a patriot, respecting the Constitution and the Rule of Law that flows from it all, according to our political leaders, make us dangerous, negative citizens. What they really mean is that people who seek the truth and do not accept political correctness have figured out that politicians get to define what is or is not politically correct and they always define it as something that hides their unlawful behavior and benefits them and their objective of global governance.” – Marilyn M. Barnewall “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein “Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of free men. It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved by any people except by a firm adher-

ence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent return to fundamental principles.” – Patrick Henry

I. BREXIT AND THE COMING GLOBAL CHAOS (AND WAR) “We are in very early days of a crisis which has got a way to go.” – Alan Greenspan, Bloomberg, June 27, 2016 “It seems clear that the European project – the whole effort to promote peace and growing political union through economic integration – is in deep, deep trouble. Brexit is probably just the beginning, as populist/separatist movements gain influence across the continent.” – Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 24, 2016

INTRODUCTION Some people are comparing the Brexit vote and even Donald Trump to the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. There are clear similarities.

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The Brexit vote was about divorcing Britain from the overbearing socialist bureaucrats in Brussels. Trump’s presidential campaign is about destroying the overbearing globalist elitists in Washington – regardless of their party affiliation. The Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence were about freedom from overbearing, despotic kings. The latter led to war. Brexit will not likely do the same, but it has clearly brought out the despot in many Brussels bureaucrats and European politicians. Much is being made about the powerful “Leave” vote in Great Britain. While the vote is “nonbinding,” going against it will lead Britain to the brink of serious internal strife. Moving in line with the vote will cause even greater conflict across the European Union. Here’s why: Germany’s vision of a European super-state is very much alive. Without Britain to hold it accountable, Germany now takes primary possession of power in the EU. What Hitler couldn’t attain by war, Germany may have now attained peacefully. As other countries look to follow Britain’s leadership, Germany will move quickly to make it all but impossible to leave the Union. Watch German Chancellor Merkel closely in this respect. Statists and the elite have always moved to increase their power and control. They love to control the little guy. They think of themselves as gods and the “little people” as their subjects, though they would never say it that way and would object to anyone else’s doing so. Statists love to bring everyone together in one union so they are easier to control and so the state’s power is magnified. (That is what Bush’s North American Union was all about.) Think Babel, think Babylon, think Rome, think the Soviet Union and the Third Reich. The promise that we can be as gods is as alluring to people now as it was to Eve. Americans have fought against this drive for centralization and power since the nation’s inception, sometimes successfully, often not. Now – again – it’s the Europeans’ turn. The subjects are trying to throw off their gods, and the gods will not likely take it standing still. It’s not in their nature. The EU was supposed to be a kinder, gentler (and more functional) Soviet Union. But Brexit told Brussels (and Berlin) that the British don’t want the overbearing tyranny of foreign-controlled socialism running their country. (Unfortunately, the Brits’ own brand of socialism doesn’t seem to be quite as objectionable.) And the massive invasion of Muslims was

the last straw – actually the cement block – that broke the camel’s back. With the American Union divided and the European Union in disarray, Russia sees an opportunity. Russian President Putin is from the old KGB and wants nothing less than a resurgence of Russian glory. He sees the obvious weakness and inconsistencies in the US and EU, which maintain economic sanctions against Russia, continue to violate promises made to Gorbachev not to extend NATO to Russia’s borders (US/NATO nuclear missiles have very provocatively been moved up to the Russian border in recent months), and massively export moral putrefaction to the rest of the world. The close calls our warships have had recently with Russian jets are his way of testing the waters. Such tests will likely increase in the coming months. All of the internal struggle within the US and Europe, coupled with attempts by these regions to divert attention from worsening economic conditions with these military threats, could bring about extremely high tensions with Russia – and even with China. [ED. NOTE: The threat of nuclear war between Russia and America is now higher than at any time since the Cold War, with both America and Russia getting in each other’s face.]

A. BRITAIN’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Brexit is being hailed as Britain’s Declaration of Independence against tyranny, invasion, and occupation. This is truly shocking news in this day when more and more people are buying into centralized governments, tyranny, and world government. If this momentum continues, Brexit will go down in history as a watershed because of its paradigm-shattering implications for economies and nations around the world. It is the greatest voter revolt against the global elitists the western world has seen to date. Britain did it peacefully (at least so far), as there is no single person like Lincoln to take the EU to war over a member’s secession. Britain also voted to secede in the face of massive propaganda from the “Remain” camp. Even the directions for filling out the ballot were “Remain” propaganda. According to the Telegraph, the step-by-step guide included advice to “read the instructions carefully, then complete your ballot paper” above an image showing a hand with a

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pencil ticking a box to “remain a member of the European Union.” The EU elitists were determined to overpower the people by any means necessary. Some in the British press are even suggesting that the elitists had a Member of Parliament (Jo Cox) murdered just before the election to manipulate public opinion. Of course, the elites blamed the murder on pro-Brexit forces. There’s no way to tell who all had a hand in it, and coincidences do happen in life, but it’s amazing how often the Establishment benefits from such “coincidences” at the perfect time and place – such as all the shootings going on at this writing, just as the Republican-controlled Congress is trying to pass gun control legislation. At any rate, the Establishment’s manipulation of the situation, whether instigated or not, almost worked. Support for Brexit plummeted after the murder. In the end, the British need to leave the EU was bigger than one person or event. As great as the Brexit vote was for freedomloving people worldwide, it wasn’t the first move Europeans made against the Brussels bureaucracy. More than a month earlier, on May 23, Austria kicked its elite parties to the curb. The nation’s entire national establishment worked vehemently to defeat a hardline conservative anti-immigrant candidate. Still, he was able to force a runoff vote with a green candidate who favored more immigration. The two dominant parties came in fourth and fifth. Third place went to an independent. Despite the groundswell against him, the conservative won 49.65% of the vote, narrowly losing to the green candidate (the election has since been annulled due to voting irregularities, and will be held again). The Austrians and the British have sent a clear message to the establishment – we don’t want your leadership!

B. ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT VICTORIES BODE WELL FOR ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT VOTERS IN AMERICA The implications of such victories are massive. Voters are revolting against the Establishment in huge numbers – so much so that even corrupt government regimes can’t commit enough ballot box fraud to defeat them. The EU from the beginning has been a delusional, socialist financial house of cards. And its underlying fictional construct is much closer to collapse. That’s a good thing. The faster financial fic-

tions play out, the less severe the pain of the inevitable correction. The longer it takes to correct, as in the US, the more severe the pain. Brexit’s financial implications are very farreaching. They could easily reach America’s shores, even beyond the initial stock market correction. They could force the already weak financial markets to face a “moment of truth” – a reckoning within financial centers across the globe. The resulting collapse of trillions of dollars in derivatives debt would be a train wreck. Combine the $500 trillion derivatives market with the $100 trillion mountain of debt that nations hold now and you have a time bomb waiting to explode. This is an unbelievably unstable situation. Bankers and politicians have no idea how to avoid the implosion. They’ve tried bailouts and bail-ins, but those have all proved wanting. Canceling the debt would devastate creditors and collapse the massive derivatives bubble. [ED. NOTE: In the two days following the unexpected Brexit Leave vote, global stock markets collapsed, with $3 trillion in losses, before the central banks entered the markets with hundreds of billions of prop-up dollars to stop the free fall.] Bankers are destroying all the economies of our world. Their parasitic, blood-sucking methods are bringing the world to the brink of financial collapse. Millions of voters are finally coming to the conclusion that they have to be stopped. Many bankers should face charges for massive financial fraud. That’s not likely, even under Donald Trump. But it might be enough to get him elected, as Americans are ready for globalist bankers to be kicked to the curb.

C. BREXIT RETURNS SOVEREIGNTY, BUT IT DOESN’T END CENTRALIZED TYRANNY Brexit is going to affect more than the financial markets. It also will cause massive social, cultural, and political changes. With Britain leaving the EU, this socialist superstate (meant to be a stepping stone to world government) could start falling apart. That would return sovereignty and responsibility to the individual nations. These nations would regain control over their own borders. Most of these nations would close their borders to the Muslim mass migration that’s now invading Europe. In order to protect their country from the Muslim caliphate, closing their borders would be a necessary strategy of self-defense. This will im-

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pact the US as well. It already has handed Donald Trump the Republican nomination for president. Other nations, including the US, will follow suit, making moves to protect their own borders from mass migration (legal and illegal). Radical Islam has taken advantage of open borders to move terrorist personnel, weapons, and supplies into staging areas to prepare for domestic attacks. These attacks will escalate, as they have in Nice, Istanbul, and Orlando. The FBI is already overwhelmed with terrorist investigations. Its ability to stop the attacks is reaching its limit. As a result, we could soon be seeing 10-20 terrorist attacks per year in America, if not more. As in the US, the EU government is filled with bureaucratic bottom feeders. They are some of the most damaging, self-indulgent, arrogant life forms on our planet. Their unimaginable greed, incompetence, and criminal acts have preyed on the hard work of European citizens. The Brussels bureaucrats should all be arrested, prosecuted, and publicly humiliated for their destructive, self-serving actions. What we’ll likely see instead is more EU members exit.

D. BREXIT FORCES RUSSIA TO MANEUVER FOR WAR One of the biggest consequences of Brexit is the message it sent Russia. As the EU begins to fall apart, the next step could be the destruction of NATO. Donald Trump has already hinted at leaving NATO if he wins the election. He knows what’s going on with this organization. Germany is playing both ends against the middle. It is working desperately to keep the EU and NATO together. But on the other side, Germany is aligning itself with Russia. Putin, as we mentioned earlier, smells blood. He is a master chess player. He has slowly been working to partner with Germany in multiple arenas. It started with Russia’s invasion of Syria, which Germany supported. And despite giving lip service to NATO, Germany could be on the verge of leaving the organization. All the country needs is the right incentive to leave – and Russia may provide that incentive. Russia didn’t move into Syria because it feels threatened by ISIS. Russia saw an opportunity to establish a foothold in a strategic area of the world and to embarrass the American government by successfully confronting ISIS (which everyone but dumb-as-a-rock Americans knows was started, funded, armed, and trained by the Obama Administration). With its pres-

ence in Ukraine, Russia wanted to flank the former Soviet states from the south. Syria gives Russia that southern stronghold. If Germany and Italy leave NATO, as they could be moving to do, and partner with Russia, it would give Russia the ability to surround the former Soviet states. It would have the states surrounded from the northeast (Moscow), east (Ukraine), southeast (Syria), northwest (Germany), and southwest (Italy). If France joins the alliance, and there are whispers to that effect, Russia would have flanked most of Europe, including Eastern Europe. Why would Germany, Italy, and France all leave NATO and partner with Russia? The answer is simple: energy. All Russia would have to do is turn off the natural gas shipments to Europe this winter and the continent will freeze. NATO will disappear. The United States has responded, but weakly. It shipped its most modern nuclear weapons to its bases in Germany two years ago. The rest of NATO just voted to move troops to Europe’s eastern borders with Russia because of Russia’s aggressive behavior. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sees the moves as NATO “preparing a real war.” If the Brexit vote puts NATO on the rocks, the US would be put in a precarious situation. Russia would have it outflanked in all of Europe. In response to Russia’s moves, NATO has increased its war games at various points along the Russian border. The US doesn’t want to start a war with Russia, but will gladly enter if Russia can be made to seem the aggressor. Our media readily reports on Russian jet fly-overs. However, you never hear of any maneuvers by the US against Russia. When Turkey shot down the Russian jet last year, it wasn’t just Turkey making the move. It was a move by a NATO partner warning Russia they had pushed too far. This type of move is going to increase in the coming months as the EU deteriorates and NATO loses members. [ED. NOTE: America and NATO have been moving nuclear missiles near the Russian border. In response, Russia has moved nuclear missile submarines into the Gulf of Mexico and off the East and West coasts of America. With a fool, agent provocateur, or stooge of the Neocon (globalist) establishment in the White House (think Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton), a major war between America and Russia is not out of the realm of possibility. And American

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beliefs to the contrary notwithstanding, Russia has overwhelming nuclear superiority over America.] War with Russia could happen sooner rather than later. Its control over Europe’s energy will prevent NATO from surviving. If the UK’s exit from the EU is copied by Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as appears very possible, the EU will cease to exist. And so will the EU’s financial support for NATO. Without the resources to combat Russia’s energy blackmail, most of Europe will have no choice but to partner with Russia. The only European countries that have any energy reserves to speak of are France (88 days), Germany (77 days), and Britain (16 days). But none of them has enough to satisfy its energy demands for the entire winter. The rest of Europe has almost zero energy reserves and is completely dependent on Russian gas exports. Even though Britain has only 16 days of reserves, it will hold out the longest with help from the US. It will force a reduction in energy usage and impose rationing and denial of service to non-essential entities and service. This could buy the US and its allies time to launch a strike against Russia. But it’s not just Russia the US has to be concerned about.

E. CHINA AND RUSSIA – FORMIDABLE OPPONENTS Everything is about energy in the 21st century. The US continues to fight in the Middle East because of oil. The war against Iraq wasn’t about weapons of mass destruction (i.e., chemical weapons that America had supplied to Iraq under Bush Sr. during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s). It was about oil. Saddam Hussein was planning to decouple oil from the dollar, a move that would have rocked the US economy. The war in Syria is not about “democracy” – it is about oil and gas pipelines that run through that country. Now a much greater challenge faces the Petrodollar. Two years ago, Russia and China forged an agreement based on their mutual desire to disconnect oil from the dollar. The $400 billion energy deal will have some 38 billion cubic meters of gas flowing from Russia to China by 2018. The deal is massive, as it is between the world’s largest oil producer (Russia) and the world’s largest energy user (China). When these two nations signed this deal, over one-third of the world sidestepped the dollar for buying oil. Next in line for this type of deal are the rest of the BRICS nations. When Brazil, India, and South Af-

rica join the deal, it will set the stage for a new world bank based on new development and investment. The joint infrastructure will create a capital fund with an initial capital infusion of $100 billion to invest in each other’s transportation, water, and sewage systems. When this deal is signed, the US economy will almost certainly crash. China already dominates Asia. It has made moves to become a major player in Africa. Once China dominates these two regions, the deal with Russia will allow them to supply energy needs better than the United States and its allies. As the globalist bankers work with China to capitalize on Africa’s resources, China and Russia will be unstoppable. The Petrodollar looks to be on its last legs. America’s leadership over the world’s economy is ending. Simply put, on its present course, the dollar could collapse at any time. It’s becoming clear that Britain’s Leave vote doesn’t mean it is fully in the line with the US. It is already negotiating trade deals with China, which will put Britain more in line with the new alliance between Russia and the other European nations that are plotting to leave NATO.

CONCLUSION When the Soviet Union fell apart, NATO, which was created by the Cold War, had no real reason to exist. The last 15 years have put incredible pressure on the organization’s existence. Because of the Bush war in the Middle East and Obama’s supporting of wars of liberation by Muslim fundamentalist forces (such as the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS) across the Middle East (think Arab Spring – which was “Made-In-America”), the rest of the world has lost trust in American government. Between these two Establishment presidents, America has lost its ability to lead and the moral authority to ask the world to follow. America is floundering on the world stage. It will get far worse under Hillary Clinton. This inability to lead in a sound moral direction (and the arrogant Neocon philosophy of imperialism – that America is the only country qualified to lead the world) has isolated the US. The world has tired of American imperialists rampaging around the world in lockstep with the Rothschild/Rockefeller banking cabal. The Brexit vote is hopefully the beginning of the end for the EU. However, it has opened the door for a new alliance between many European nations and Russia. Britain’s reliability as a US ally is being tested. Brexit was about British sovereignty, which is a positive. However, the results of the nation leaving the

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EU could be devastating to US world relations. While Britain was involved in the EU, the US had an ally at the table. Our influence in that part of the world is fast disappearing. President Obama’s belief that the US is not a great nation and is just another cog in the wheel is beginning to take its toll. We’ll soon begin to feel the consequences of his disastrous leadership.

the period 1870 to 1913 was one of the most aggressive periods economically that we’ve had in the United States, and that was a golden period of the gold standard.” The worse the world situation gets, the more valuable gold becomes. At this writing, gold is up about $100 since Brexit and about 30% in 2016. Silver is up almost 50%.

The rest of the world is telling the US to take its dollar and shove it. America’s morality is nosediving. The world is looking at America, with its homosexual marriage, men in women’s bathrooms and showers, and much more, with disbelief, disgust, and distain – and rightfully so. Along with it, our country’s ability to lead effectively has ended. We no longer hold the moral high ground. The rest of the world doesn’t see any reason to align itself with us. One by one, America’s allies are seeing that they have reached the point of diminishing returns in hitching their wagons to the American leviathan and the dollar. Even the British are coming to this conclusion. The end result is going to be devastating to the US dollar. As it free-falls, the standard of living of the American people will be cut in half overnight.

[ED. NOTE: One of this writer’s serious concerns is that as the Neocon (global socialist Establishment) leaders of America see their financial base and power in jeopardy, and see themselves losing control and their plans for global hegemony beginning to crumble, they will precipitate a major war – which could rival or surpass World War II in size and destructiveness. This would line up with their philosophy of “the new (world) order will come out of planned chaos.” This is how the Great Depression of the 1930s was ended – with WWII.

It won’t stop with the US, though. The US is still the largest economy in the world. Its undoing will destroy the world’s economy. The Brexit vote was the clearest sign yet that the world’s monetary system is collapsing. The EU has failed. The British pound plunged to its lowest level in over 30 years. The Dow dropped 900 points in two days. Gold and silver went up dramatically, showing that they are the steadiest financial reserve in the world. Currency values fluctuate in relation to gold, but gold maintains its value. Global gold holdings were deceptively said to have topped 2,000 metric tons for the first time in three years as the Brexit fallout and speculation that US interest rates won’t rise anytime soon sent investors hunting for a haven. (That is actually a ridiculously low figure. True holdings are several times that figure in China alone. But it’s useful as a gage of establishmentacknowledged public response to the Brexit vote.) This trend is going to escalate in the coming months. Even tried and true statists are now seeing the need for a gold standard. After the Brexit vote, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan saw how desperate America’s debt situation has become and saw just how fragile it makes our economy. The Brexit vote forced him to say, “If we went back to the gold standard and we adhered to the actual structure of the gold standard as it existed prior to 1913, we’d be fine. Remember that

And where would that war be and who would it involve? It would pit the New World Order countries (the US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc.) against the New Axis powers – Russia, China, the residual communist countries, the Islamic countries, and possibly the BRICS. That war could be in Eastern Europe (NATO versus Russia), the South China Sea (America versus China), and/or in the Middle East. And the more desperate the globalist Establishment becomes over its loss of control in America and Europe, the more likely (and sooner) it will try to precipitate a major war – which could go nuclear. Hillary Clinton would be their choice to lead us into that war.] Fasten your seat belt, keep your head down; and prepare for the ride of your lives. And pray against these forces of evil, for knowledge of how to protect your family, and to know how you can fight back against the rising tide of evil.

II. PUSHBACK: ARE THE GRASSROOTS BEGINNING TO RESIST THE GLOBALIST ESTABLISHMENT? “Free trade and defense of Western civilization remain guiding principles in the UK. That’s perhaps the best reason for the UK to leave the EU – the latter no longer seems to be a moving force for the EU or the international left that runs it.” – Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, June 24, 2016

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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” – Barack Obama, October 30, 2008 “We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” – Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008

INTRODUCTION There once was a day when traveling to London was impressive. One of the crowning jewels of Western Civilization, London was a bastion of civilization, respect, tradition, and standards. Those days are gone. London has undergone such a massive transition that it now has its first Muslim mayor and the city is getting run down. The standards are disappearing. The tradition and culture have shifted away from the values that made London great. The Brexit vote was the British way of saying, “We’re not going to give Western Civilization up without a fight.” President Obama has made every effort to bring America down to the same level as the rest of the world. He doesn’t see America as a shining light, a leader, or anything special. He thinks America has always been fundamentally evil and should be like the rest of the world – poor and ruled by the elite. The only way to destroy America was to fundamentally change it from its core. The military was too strong to overpower. So Obama and the rest of the world had to change its values, its traditions, and its standards. By understanding this, you can see why Obama does everything he has done. From immigration to homosexual marriage to his new bathroom policies, President Obama, perhaps better than any other president we’ve ever seen, has held to his campaign promises to fundamentally change America. He played on a desire of the American people to see the government change and shrewdly moved the change to America as a whole. Prior to his election, Americans loved America. But they didn’t like the government. Now, many Americans aren’t so sure they love America – at least, not what it has become. This is the real reason Donald Trump won the nomination for the Republican Party. Like Brexit, Trump’s Republican win (whether you like or hate Trump), is a statement from people who know what their country is supposed to be like. Americans are saying, “We’re not going to give up Western Civilization or our traditional American values without a fight.” But is it too little too late? President Obama has opened

the floodgates for cultural transformation. He has finished breaking down the barriers to any standards we had. And he has created a cultural divide that will continue to destroy the country we love. The recent executions of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge are just the beginning of the well planned and orchestrated political/internal strife by the political left. Right now, Americans trust the government to do something about it. Maybe the state and local governments will try. But the federal government isn’t going to lift a finger to stop it. (If anything, they support it and will use it to push forward their gun control and federal police agendas.) The Obama Administration has made it clear that this is exactly the cultural shift it wants to see. As an avowed revolutionary, Obama believes in destroying what remains of the American republic so he can replace it with a socialist power structure and culture more to his (and his Establishment puppet masters’) liking. This revolution is just getting going!

A. FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATION STARTED IMMEDIATELY Obama’s transformation of America started with its finances. Handed an economy in disarray, Obama moved quickly to shackle the country with debt on an entirely new scale. He’s put record numbers of Americans on food stamps, unemployment insurance, and disability insurance, or simply disengaged them from the work force. Worse, Obama has fundamentally changed how Americans think about wealth redistribution. Today, scores of millions of people (i.e., almost half of the US population) think taking from the rich and giving to the poor is the American way. This fundamental change in thinking required a moral decline that now believes stealing is justified if the government does it. The discussion is no longer focused on whether there should be a safety net or not. Now these benefits are expected. Obama now has these people believing that anyone who threatens their “free” state money is an enemy. Giving these “entitlements” has completely changed the political realities (i.e., the political balance of power) of the country. In addition to the massive debt, Obama continues to push taxes up for the most productive Americans. Obama has changed our understanding of deficits. They are no longer in place just to keep spending higher to prime the economy and to pay for expenditures, but as a means of redistribution. Those in the so-

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called 1% are taxed as a punitive tool for making wealth undesirable. In other words, Obama envisions that taxes and debt are social constructs to radically change the country. In Obama’s eyes, equality is more desirable than wealth – at least for the masses (some animals must always be more equal than others). In the same vein, health care changes haven’t been about helping those without insurance, but as a means of social transformation. Now there are more people fully dependent on the government, and there are more federal workers and higher redistributive taxes. Obamacare was never about government salvation for the health care industry. It was always about social transformation. President Obama has even been able to use interest rates as a social construct. In the same way, he has used massive government debt to redistribute wealth, low interest rates have increased the debt of the middle class, moving their wealth into the banks (which charge massive interest on credit despite the low interest they pay the government for money they receive and their low payments on deposits). Low interest rates and zero accountability on the banks are destroying the middle class.

B. OBAMA’S GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION WILL LAST FOR DECADES Some analysts have said that the president, because of the structure of the American government, has limited ability to change the country or the government. That would be true if in any real way he abided by the Constitution, and the Congress was still functional and fulfilling the purpose laid out for it by our founding fathers. President Obama doesn’t do that, and the Congress is as useless as a screen door on a submarine. [ED. NOTE: Actually, it would be a good thing if the Congress were entirely useless. In truth, it has been only somewhat less aggressive than the other two branches of the federal government in furthering the cultural revolution – under Democrat and Republican majorities alike.] While the essential makeup of the government hasn’t changed considerably, Obama has set a new precedent for the presidency. He has created, ignored, nullified, altered, and defied laws as he sees fit. He has developed an imperial approach that has surpassed all of our previous imperial presidents. The media has given his executive fiat a free pass. And the Republican Congress is impotent against his

moves. In addition to his “above-the-law” imperialism, he has started wars against marriage, coal (and other forms of energy), guns, political opponents, manufacturing (via “climate change”), and non-union businesses. He has masterfully cast all of his actions as glorified social change that’s justified by noble ends. Even his scandals: Benghazi, IRS, NSA, press monitoring and censorship (by arresting reporters wanting to report on conditions along the border), immigration crimes, and Fast and Furious – have escaped any real consequence. He has managed to make everyone else but him guilty of all these problems. [ED. NOTE: This is a classic characteristic of the most effective despots. “Uncle Joe” Stalin and “Chairman” Mao Zedong were two tyrants who did almost indescribable damage to their countries and killed tens of millions of their own people, even as they were loved and cherished as saviors of their countries by many more millions of their citizens.] Obama has changed the discussion on energy. His war on coal has crippled an entire industry. Natural gas and nuclear energy, one-time darlings of the cleanenergy progressives, are no longer acceptable. Energy in general is now considered a necessary evil. National security, jobs, and any other consideration have been swept off the table. Obama’s changes will affect the government and future presidents for decades as they now have to work within his paradigm or work very hard to get out of it.

C. RACE RELATIONS ARE NOW (BY DESIGN) AT A 30-YEAR LOW President Obama was supposed to be the savior for the world’s race relations. Finally, a black man had made it to the top office in the land. Surely this was the pinnacle of progressive civil rights. However, Obama’s real goal was not to bring the races together, but to put enmity between them. He has blamed white privilege for any perceived injustice against blacks. He has released criminals because they were black. And he refuses to rebuke blacks who attack the police. He continues to emphasize racial differences to incite violence. The result is the worst race relations since the 1970s. The purpose of this strategy came out right after the shootings in Dallas. Not wanting to waste a crisis, Obama immediately came out and said, “I want to start moving on constructive actions that are actually going to make a difference.” He wants these actions based on the recommendations of the panel that he picked after the 2014 street riots in Fergu-

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Financial Freedom Freedom is a precious commodity. Whether it is economic, political, or spiritual freedom, men and women have given their lives both to achieve it and to keep it. Over the millennia, the three have been intertwined. The United States is perhaps the greatest example of how the three work in harmony. Our forefathers sailed from Europe to the New World for the chance to practice religious freedom. In Europe, their expression of religion was being oppressively restricted and regulated. Once here, the pursuit of freedom eventually led them to declare political independence from England. And finally, to secure financial freedom, the newly established United States of America began to mint and circulate its own coinage. However, this new coinage needed to have integrity. It had to be worth something. Domestic and international transactions could only be conducted if the money used was valuable and trustworthy. It is not a coincidence then that the Constitution of the United States requires that all U.S. coins be minted out of gold and silver, thus guaranteeing their value and their receptivity in the marketplace.

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Financial freedom is only possible if you can actually conduct business with a trusted medium of exchange. In order to purchase the things that you want and need, there must be a seller willing to accept your money. And for you to be willing to sell a product, service, or asset, you must be convinced that you are receiving a genuine store of value in exchange. The simple fact is, the U.S. Dollar would never have been accepted in America’s infancy if it had been merely a fiat or paper currency. No one in their right mind would have been willing to exchange valuable resources in the form of products, services, raw materials, or capital assets for a piece of paper. Likewise, today, you wouldn’t be willing to sell your home for Monopoly money. Monopoly money isn’t worth anything. It’s merely paper.

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son, Missouri. The panel offered “practical concrete solutions that can reduce – if not eliminate – the problems of racial bias,” Obama said. So what is this “practical concrete solution”? The panel’s recommendation, which came in its “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Report” from May 2015, urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices. It advocates federal lawsuits, grants, and threats to cut federal aid for any police force that doesn’t comply with the federal force. Obama’s policing of the police has already resulted in 30 lawsuits against police jurisdictions. The lawsuits seek to force local police to submit to federal rules. The federal police force’s goal will be to limit the power of local law enforcement, maximize the federal cops’ authority (as well as the federal government as a whole), further push division in the community, and encourage criminals. It is the revolutionary’s blueprint for destroying Western civilization. [ED. NOTE: This subject is described in greater detail at MIAtoday.com, where you’ll read that black suspects are less likely to be shot than white ones. This fact was painstakingly determined by a progressive black professor at Harvard, whose staff spent 3,000 hours to review five million police confrontations in 10 major cities, expecting to prove police bigotry and discrimination toward blacks. He found exactly the opposite.] Add to this Obama’s insistence that illegal immigrants be given free rein on our border, and you see how he uses race to completely transform our culture. Just as Western civilization is dying in London and the rest of Europe because of immigration, Obama is using it to do the same here in the US. Many Republicans in Congress are just fine with this because it helps big business – but they’re selling out the country’s culture. Obama has completely changed the discussion on immigration. The conversation used to be between those who believed the law had to be enforced and those who agreed in principle that illegal immigration was a problem, but didn’t want to turn away those poor people from Mexico. Now the conversation is a politically and racially charged issue. Now the discussion is moving toward whether or not the Southwest US actually belongs to Mexico, not America. Before long, this issue will be similar to the Palestine/Israel land war. ACORN’s former CEO Bertha Lewis shows the priority of immigration in cultural transformation. She recently urged African-Americans to support increased

immigration. She said, “We got some Latino cousins, we got some Asian cousins, we got some NativeAmerican cousins, we got all kind of cousins.... Cousins need to get together, because if we’re going to be [part of the non-white] majority, it makes sense for black people in this country to get behind immigration reform.... Everyone, even all white folks in this country, acknowledge that in a minute, [the] United States of America will be a new majority, will be majority minority, a brand-new thing.... For the first time ever in history, African-Americans and minorities will outvote white Americans. That’s the fear of the white man. That could change everything. That’s why [immigration] should matter to us.” Further evidence that immigration is about cultural transformation away from a Christian Western civilization is Obama’s refugee program. Under this administration, a terrorist has an easier time getting into America than a Christian. The Obama administration is letting in thousands of Syrian refugees – almost 100% Muslims. In May alone, the number of Syrians admitted into the US was 1,037. That’s an increase of 130% over April. But the number of Christians among them was a minuscule two. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian population, so there is clearly an agenda to keep them out. The Obama administration is using its vetting process to weed out Christians and leave them languishing in makeshift camps outside the official refugee camps. It has actually sent back Syrian Christians – who have then faced severe persecution by ISIS and the fundamentalist Muslims, or agonizing torture and death. The official line is that the government is afraid of ISIS or other Muslim radicals. But the administration continues to give preferential treatment to every faith except Christians – especially to the Muslims. That is because Barack Hussein Obama IS a Muslim!

D. THE GREATEST CULTURAL CHANGE – MORAL TRANSFORMATION The US has been headed toward a cliff morally for decades. Obama can’t take all the credit for that. But he can take credit for pushing the country over the edge of the cliff. Just as he has changed the conversation on other issues, he has shifted the conversation on sexual preference. Now sexual preferences aren’t just a matter of freedom to do what you want, they are a civil right. Anyone who opposes them isn’t just a religious fanatic, but is also a bigot and a racist. The shift

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has been so dramatic that opposing the sexual revolution will soon put you on the terrorist list. We saw the rhetoric immediately after the Orlando nightclub attack. Even though it wasn’t a Christian who attacked the club (indeed it was a pro-ISIS Muslim fanatic who once worked for Homeland Security), “it was still the Christians’ fault for promoting anti-gay propaganda and encouraging the terrorist.” This is how Christianity and other anti-gay beliefs will be marginalized, ostracized, labeled as unacceptable, and finally made illegal. To hasten the cultural shift, Obama made his bathroom dictate, which allows anyone to use any bathroom they choose. Restrooms on public property cannot keep a person from using a bathroom because of their birth sex. The move came on the heels of North Carolina’s law directing people to use the bathrooms according to their biological sex at birth. The national outrage across the country was deafening. (As an aside, if you want more of this insanity, vote for Hillary. Incidentally, the majority of Democrats are sympathetic to these insane policies.) But the silence about certain provisions of Obama’s bathroom policy was just as ominous. As outrageous as his transgender bathroom order is, the worst part doesn’t even involve locker rooms, where it forces teenagers of the opposite sex to change and shower next to each other. No, the most offensive part of the new policy are these provisions:

• School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;

• Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and

• School

officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man without risking a federal lawsuit.

Despite the obvious cultural offensiveness of this dictate, most of the conservative press has failed to report it. They also have missed what the Obama administration says is transgender. Conservatives are saying the policy is unclear, vague, or ill defined. But that’s not true. The eight-page letter from the administration outlining the policy is quite clear. As far as President Obama is concerned, a student becomes a member of the opposite sex the moment he feels like it. As soon as the student tells school officials about his

decision, they must immediately treat him accordingly. The student doesn’t have to meet any other conditions to “change his sex.” In fact, the letter prohibits schools from setting any. “Under [the Obama administration's unilateral rewriting of] Title IX, there is no medical diagnosis or treatment requirement that students must meet as a prerequisite to being treated consistent with their gender identity,” the letter says. This goes against Title IX, which specifically says a medical sex change is required and a new birth certificate is made after the person notifies the state after the surgery. As if that weren’t bad enough, Obama’s policy even dictates how school administrators can talk about these students. Obama’s rewriting of Title IX now prohibits confusion about sex – not just sex discrimination. In fact, one aspect of this unlawful and insane mandate is the reference to approved and disapproved speech. School administrators must address these students by their preferred names and pronouns. According to the letter sent to schools across the country, “Under Title IX, a school must treat students consistent with their gender identity…. The Departments have resolved Title IX investigations with agreements promising that school staff and contractors will use pronouns and names consistent with a transgender student’s gender identity.” Failure to do so, says Obama’s decree, will create a “hostile environment in violation of Title IX.” Do you see what Obama and his leftist comrades are doing to destroy the last vestiges of the American culture and morality? If you were a communist bent on destroying America, aren’t these exactly the things you would be doing? Do these things leave you angry as hell, or are you simply watching from the sidelines passively, saying: “Oh well – what can we do?” Or worse still, saying or feeling no anger at all about such evil? If Donald Trump has any sense (maybe yes, maybe no?), he would make a major campaign issue out of this travesty, promising to repeal it 100% if elected. It is a major area of Democrat vulnerability if he has the sense to exploit it. He would pick up millions of angry votes. [ED. NOTE: Anyone who still has children or grandchildren in a public school in America today and has any understanding at all of this issue (and many more) is either void of any common sense, brain dead, or dumb as a rock – or perhaps LGBT.

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Private Christian schools (which may eventually come under this mandate as well) or homeschooling (even better) are the only options for people who love their children or grandchildren and have any biblical sense of right and wrong.]

E. CLINTON WANTS TO DOUBLE DOWN ON OBAMA’S TRANSFORMATION President Obama has done more to transform the United States into a non-Christian nation than any previous president – maybe more than all of them put together. He is the first to declare that America is no longer a Christian nation. And all of his policies have pushed America further away from Western civilization and closer to being an immoral, valueless Third World nation. His economic, political, and social ideology is a Marxist/fascist combination. He has stayed true to his Marxist/Muslim/ homosexual ideology his entire presidency, and hasn’t given an inch to Republicans’ efforts to stop him. The Republican Congress has capitulated to him in healthcare, immigration, and financial transformation. Any attempt to thwart Obama has been greeted with disdain and ridicule from the media. It now appears that Donald Trump could be the unlikely last hope America has of remaining a First World Western civilization. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, is set to double down on Obama’s transformation. You might think that, given Trump’s meteoric rise, Clinton would follow her husband’s lead and move more to the center. Instead, she vows to continue destroying American culture. She stated it clearly to West Virginia’s coal country electorate when she unashamedly said, “I’m going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs.” But she won’t stop there. Clinton has vowed to regulate hydraulic fracturing into oblivion. She plans to further ban mining and drilling on federally controlled lands – a continuation of Obama’s policies. These lands represent 50-85% of all real estate in Alaska and America’s western states. She wants to rid these areas of ranching and grazing, as well. She states that her husband will handle the economy, since he supposedly knows what he’s doing. But that suggests she doesn’t know what she’s doing. Her policies will destroy communities. She will move for total gun control. She will continue to destroy our culture with Obama’s immigration stance. She is extremely morally deficient – and there is every reason to believe that she will continue to

push the anti-Christian agenda; the gay/lesbian agenda; and those Marxist, globalist, and proMuslim policies of Obama and the political left. (Her chief advisor, as with Obama, is also a Muslim.) Remember that, like Obama, her mentor was the communist strategist, Saul Alinsky. This writer believes that if she is elected, America could be in a Marxist dictatorship within one year of her taking office. And the globalist Neocons who support her could use her to take America into war with Russia, China, or a wider war in the Middle East.

CONCLUSION The globalist Establishment in America now controls both political parties, while the political left has had a 60-year (+) strategy for the destruction of the American culture, morality, spiritual life, economy, Constitution, and freedom. They are very close to their goal of total (orchestrated) chaos in America, and as an outgrowth of that planned chaos, implementation of a Marxist dictatorship. Martial law is a strong possibility over the next 12-18 months. Bush Jr., Obama, and Hillary are very effective implementers of far left/globalist policies – but they are not calling the shots. For that level of control you have to look to powerful Establishment (globalist) insiders like Bush Sr., Kissinger, Rockefeller, George Soros (a key financial angel to Obama and Hillary), and a host of powerful but largely invisible global socialists and elites. And they have their counterparts in Europe. They are terrified of Trump because they don’t completely control him. This is the reason for the non-stop Establishment attacks against him from Democrat and Republican leaders, almost the entire media, and the entire political left. About five years ago, this writer’s son-in-law Curtis Bowers produced a widely distributed documentary film: “Agenda: Grinding America Down” – which described in great depth the 60-year+ strategy of the communists to destroy America’s culture, morality, spiritual life, way of life, and freedom in order to convert our once-free nation into a communist dictatorship. That long-term strategy is now nearing completion, and may become a fait accompli very soon via massive orchestrated social upheaval (like what we are seeing today), a huge 9/11-type terrorist attack, a series of attacks triggering martial law, or via the upcoming US presidential election.

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[ED. NOTE: That film sold almost 300,000 copies, and became the third best selling conservative political documentary film in history. Many MIA readers bought multiple copies and distributed same to friends. Curtis has now produced a second documentary: “Agenda 2: Masters of Deceit,” which updates the political left’s progress over the past five years and suggests how those who care about America can fight back. Both films are highly recommended, and can be ordered at agendadocumentary.com or by calling 208-880-4831.]

III. HOW SOCIALIST REGULATIONS ARE STRANGLING AMERICA “The unparalleled increase in regulatory burdens spells a decline in economic freedom and individual liberty, with a concomitant increase in political gamesmanship and cronyism – all of which inhibits innovation, investment and job creation, increases prices, and curtails consumer choice.” – James Gattuso and Diane Katz, The Daily Signal, May 23, 2016 “President Barack Obama’s regulatory agenda cost Americans $784 million every day the federal government was open for business last year, according to a new report, partly driven by costly environmental and health rules. Bureaucrats pushed $197 billion in regulatory costs in 2015, including $99 billion in costs due to finalized regulations on industries covering energy producers to food companies to manufacturers. In total, regulators wrote 82,036 pages of rules in the Federal Register last year – a record level.” – Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, January 12, 2016

INTRODUCTION Since the early 1900s, American progressives (socialists) – both Republican and Democrat – have had one goal – control. Their ideology is profoundly anti-freedom. They love the federal government and hate states’ rights and Constitutional freedom. The federal government gives them the ability to control hundreds of millions of people with one imperial edict. This is what made President Obama’s bathroom edict so powerful in its ability to change our culture. With one short letter, it completely changed the culture of our government school system, and its effect extended across the country. It is also why Obama (and Bush before him) has the NSA listening in on your phone calls. The more the government knows about what you’re doing, the better it can control you.

The more progressive (i.e., socialist, Marxist, or communist) a president is, the more regulations he (soon to be she?) forces on the people with a stroke of his pen. Regulations have allowed the president to bypass Congress and enact burdensome rules (with criminal penalties for violation) on the people. This control is multi-faceted. It’s not just about controlling the people. It’s also about controlling the government’s agenda, the direction of the country, and the money. By controlling all of these, the federal government can take power and money away from the people and put it squarely in the hands of the elites. In the three decades prior to 1900, economic growth averaged 4.5% per year. Compare that to the real GDP growth rate between 1949 and 2011, which averaged 3.2% per year. The massive socialist regulatory state began to emerge in 1900. So 50 years of growing regulations dropped the nation’s GDP by 1.3% (i.e., by one third). According to the Bureau of Economic Affairs estimates, the real GDP in 1947 was $1.8 trillion in 2005 dollars. If you compounded that over the next 62 years at 3.2%, it would yield a total real GDP of about $13.3 trillion in 2011. But if the cost of regulations had remained fixed at 1949 levels, the BEA estimates that GDP growth would have averaged 2% higher annually. That means it would have grown by about 5.2% annually. Compounding that yields a total GDP in 2005 dollars of approximately $43 trillion ($49 trillion in 2011 dollars). In other words, federal regulations have forced on our country opportunity costs of $35.7 trillion dollars. With our national debt at nearly $20 trillion, you can see how government regulations all by themselves have put us in terrible financial shape. This affects each one of us personally in a dramatic way. According to the BEA’s Journal of Economic Growth, government regulations have cut your annual salary by $277,000 annually. If you make $53,000 per year, you would be making $330,000 each year! Two independent economists think those numbers are low. John Dawson of Appalachian State University and John Seater of North Carolina State constructed an index of federal regulations. They did this by tracking the growth in the number of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations since 1949. The number of pages in 1949 was 19,335 pages. In 2005, there were 134,261 pages. That’s a six-fold increase. (By 2011, the number of pages had risen to 169,301 – almost a nine-fold increase.) Dawson and Seater say that annual output in

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2005 was 28% lower than it would have been if regulations stayed at the 1949 level. And GDP in 2011 would have been $53.9 trillion instead of the $15.1 we saw. That means government regulations stole $38.8 trillion out of our economy in those 62 years. In 2011, that was enough to pay off the national debt twice.

A. THE OBAMA REGULATORY JUGGERNAUT Thwarted by a Republican Congress, President Obama has resorted to regulatory end-runs to cement his legacy. As of April 2016, Obama had already signed 392 new regulations, surpassing George W. Bush’s 358 and Bill Clinton’s 361 (both of which were disgraceful in their own right). At that time, there were 47 more sitting on his desk waiting to be signed. Obama will be the first president to enact more than 400 regulations while in office. His massive regulatory push has essentially declared war on the private sector. Over 82,000 pages of new recommendations were made last year (a new record). If they had all been put into force, business would likely be impossible to conduct in America. Still, Obama’s bureaucrats have cost business $197 billion and added 127 million hours of paperwork for private industry. To put that in perspective for families, Obama’s regulatory agenda cost Americans $784 million every day the federal government operated in 2015. Most of these costs were due to new environmental (e.g., global warming, air quality, coal ash) and health rules. The think tank American Action Forum (AAF) compiled economic data on all the regulations federal agencies proposed and finalized last year. They found that Obama’s agenda cost every voter $838 for the year. Those are direct costs. That number doesn’t include opportunity costs, the costs of regulations already on the books, or the compounding of wealth not realized because of previous costs of regulation – which is the biggest loss of all. As Einstein is said to have stated, “Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.” Think of the losses your grandchildren will suffer because of Obama’s destructiveness. If you include regulations already on the books, the direct cost for complying with federal regulations amounts to nearly $15,000 per year for the average US household. And this number doesn’t include taxes, lost wages, and other costs from decades of regulations. With the entire government (not just Obama) imposing as many as 3,500 regulations per annum,

these numbers are inexorably rising. One area where regulations are having a dramatic impact on individual families is the cost of housing. The National Association of Home Builders says government regulations are responsible for adding $84,671 to the final price of a new single-family home.

B. REGULATIONS ARE BEING USED TO PUSH SOCIAL (SOCIALIST) AGENDAS The socialists argue that regulations make things better and safer. But regulations are becoming a tool the president and his bureaucrats use to push for social change (and socialist control). [ED. NOTE: Virtually the entire legion of bureaucrats from every federal agency in America falls under the executive branch. Because the Democrats and the Republicans are simply two sides of the same coin, that makes the bureaucracy uniform in its agenda of controlling the American people.] Obama’s promise to fundamentally change America is coming largely through new regulations. His federal regulators have devoted much time and attention to creating onerous environmental rules. For example, the regulations on the nation’s vast fossil fuel resources have prevented the US from attaining energy independence and have held our economy stagnant for years. They have also crippled the coal industry. Coal generates about 41% of our electricity and is the cheapest source of power we have. The attacks on the coal industry are going to force Americans to pay more for their electricity. But Obama argues that cheap coal is hindering the development of solar and wind power. So instead of taking his case to the American people and Congress, he simply passes regulations through the EPA to push his agenda. He effectively uses regulation to destroy the competition for his pet socialist projects. The negative impact on coal has been massive. What’s more, the most costly of last year’s wave of regulations was the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan.” The plan represents the first direct regulation of so-called greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. At a cost of at least $7.2 billion a year, the plan will do absolutely nothing to mitigate global warming. So Obama’s legacy will be a huge amount of money spent, much higher costs due to regulation, higher energy costs, and a zero gain in his push for solar and wind. That’s the work of a leftist community organizer, not a head of state.

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C. REGULATIONS ARE KILLING THE US ECONOMY

IV. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

The question, though, is whether the benefits of these regulations outweigh the costs. After all, we all like to have cleaner air, higher wages, and so on. Progressives argue that regulations provide these benefits. But we’ve already shown how regulations have a dramatic negative impact on wages. They have cut wages by 75%. Roll back regulations to 1949 levels and you’ll see even the lowest wages skyrocket.

A. THE BULL IS BACK, WITH A VENGEANCE –The Golden Bear market of the last four or five years has now clearly moved back into hibernation and the Golden Bull market has re-emerged with a vengeance. Since January 2016, gold has moved up in price over 25% and a new up-cycle has become apparent. MIA believes this new up-cycle will be the greatest move in precious metals history!

President Obama is so concerned about his longterm legacy (or simply advancing the Marxist agenda) that he has gambled the nation’s economic stability to enact his regulations. The growing burden of regulations will soon turn economic growth negative. It has already turned the economy stagnant. In fact, a study out of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University shows that the regulations have created a considerable drag on the economy. The study suggests that the regulations are causing an average reduction in the annual growth rate of GDP of 0.8%. This is probably on the low side. Still, with GDP growth sitting at 1-2%, reducing this regulatory drag to zero would increase GDP growth by 30-50%. That’s a massive impact.

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CONCLUSION Regulations are destroying the American economy and Americans’ freedoms at an incredible rate. The strategy of the political left has always been to strangle Americans’ freedoms and impose socialist controls on every aspect of our lives – but to do it so gradually that no one would notice (i.e., the frog would enjoy its warm bath until it was fully cooked). But the controls are now exploding, and are accelerating toward a total socialist dictatorship. This will certainly become a fait accompli in short order if Hillary Clinton (a hard core leftist) is elected. Would Donald Trump, a hard-nosed businessman, reverse and rescind many of these controls? We can only hope so, but we KNOW what Hillary will do! The same regulatory strangulation is also happening in the UK, the European Union, and most of the West as socialists in those countries attempt to create the same regulatory hell that suffocated the people and their freedom in the former Soviet Union for over 70 years. By way of contrast, most of Asia is moving toward more economic freedom. Therefore, as the West is dying by its own socialist hand, Asia is rising dramatically and is clearly the wave of the future.

B. VISIT MIATODAY.COM FOR NEWS you won’t see elsewhere. How an eminent black scholar unintentionally and with no malice aforethought disproved the Black Lives Matter meme. See how it looks for Chicago taxpayers as they begin to assume the debt their masters have saddled them with. And read what happens when an inmate is in charge of the asylum – the incredible destruction being wrought by radical Maryland State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Check out the news briefs, videos, and many historical documents there, as well.

V. FINAL THOUGHT: WHEN A NATION LOSES ITS COURAGE When one considers the incredible moral and spiritual collapse in America over the past few decades, a decline that has been systematically engineered by the political left, one might ask – but why have the American people let this happen; why have Christians and the Christian church allowed the political left to steal everything that made America great, every principle that once made America a shining city on a hill, and perpetrate great evil on our country – with barely a whimper of protest? When the political left can legalize homosexual marriage; integrate males (i.e., so-called “transgenders”) into female bathrooms and showers in all public schools across America; mandate the teaching of alternate/transgender lifestyles to young children

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as normal, natural, and even desirable; facilitate the abortion of over 60 million babies and the selling of baby body parts to the highest bidder; and commit hundreds of other affronts against our freedoms, culture, natural law, and common sense – and most Americans, including most Christians and Christian pastors, respond in total silence or indifference – one can only conclude that we have become a nation of brain-dead cowards (or sheep). We have lost the courage that past generations had – the courage to fight back against the great evil which is now destroying our country. Almost 40 years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sounded a warning to America about our growing loss of courage as a people – the courage that our forefathers had to fight back against tyranny and evil in their day – and how that lack of courage would lead to our eventual enslavement: “The fight for our planet, physical, and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of evil have begun their decisive offensive. You can feel their pressure, yet your television and movie screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?” These perceptive and challenging words were uttered by one of the great Christians of the 20th century in the heart of a commencement address at Harvard University. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was in exile in America after suffering years in Communist prison camps for criticizing Stalin. He had found faith in the “Gulag Archipelago,” the Soviet Union’s cruel prison system, which devoured alive millions of individuals who opposed or circumvented the atheistic regime. The result of his suffering was a masterly documentary, “Gulag Archipelago,” which exposed the brutality of the Soviet regime. At one point in this massive work he showed how utterly different his thinking had become from the complacent pleasure-seeking of the West. “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!” He could say this because in prison he had recognized his spiritual danger and found time to consider the claims of God and Christ. “God of the Universe! I believe again! Though I renounced You, You were with me!” he wrote in a poem. Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard address was given on June 8th, 1978. It was an attack on Western complacency. The speaker was equipped with the lens of one culture to see the essential flaw of another. In the West, that

flaw was faltering courage. He said: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage.... Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.” He went on to analyze how legalism has eaten up morality. “The West has finally achieved the rights of man, and even to excess, but man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has grown dimmer and dimmer. Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?” How many people in Congress, in the media, in the pulpits or major boardrooms of America – let alone in main street America among the masses – have the courage to stand up and declare that much of what America and our leaders are doing today, within our own borders and around the world, is evil, is anti-God, and is totally destructive of our freedom and way of life? Very few indeed! Only a small remnant has the courage to speak out against the evil pouring out of the US government. But why? Why so few? As Solzhenitsyn said upon returning to Russia after 25 years of exile in America, “America is a nation which has forgotten God.” And, we might add, a nation that has forgotten God’s principles of right versus wrong – His admonition that we are to love good and hate and oppose evil. Instead, most Americans have ignored the evil and come to fear their government. So, how does a nation regain its courage – regain its will to fight back against evil – the evil that is so prevalent in our day? First, by turning back to God – who was the foundation of our country and the guide and inspiration for our Founding Fathers and millions who came before us. Our first 150 years were characterized by a people who hated evil and tyranny, and were willing to fight and die for freedom and God’s principles. Americans must stop being ruled by fear – fear of government; fear of police; fear of terrorists; fear of being called names or ridiculed by the liberals or know-nothings; fear of being jailed for being a “dissident,” a “patriot,” an “extremist,” or “critic of the regime”; or even fear of death. Our Founding Fathers were not afraid to risk everything – their lives, their property, their reputations – to oppose the evil tyranny that ruled them

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from England. Where is such courage in our day, as the political left relentlessly moves to enslave America in another Soviet-style Gulag Archipelago? As a nation, can we recover our lost courage? Yes, but only with God’s mercy and help. Throughout the Bible, God’s people were told dozens of times to be strong and courageous. As Deuteronomy 31:6 says: “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, because the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.” I Corinthians 16:13 says: “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.” Does that describe most Americans today? This writer has his doubts. Isaiah 35:3-4 says: “Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, ‘Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, He will come with vengeance; with divine retribution He will come to save you.’” Proverbs 29:25 says: “Fear of man [or of evil government] will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be kept safe.” And Psalm 27:1 says: “The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid?” Our founding Fathers lived by such courage – they were not afraid of the tyrants, even if their opposition resulted in their death. How many Americans could say with Patrick Henry today, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others might take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” Could you say that? Could I? How many Americans could say with the young patriot Nathan Hale, just before he was executed by the British: “My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country.” Could you say that? Could I?

cal principles upon which our country was based. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was right – Americans as a whole have lost their courage and are about to lose their freedom. Can we regain that courage and the freedom that we have almost completely lost? Maybe, maybe not – but if so, it will only be with God’s help and a nationwide repentance at the evil we have so complacently allowed to rise up around us in our day. As 2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “If my people, who are called by name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” This writer believes that 2016 could be America’s last chance to turn back, to fight back against the rising evil in our country, to regain our courage, draw a line in the sand, and say to our evil, corrupt leaders and the political left, who (like Obama) hate everything about America: “No more – you shall go no further or we will fight to stop your evil destruction of our once great nation.” Will that happen, can we regain our courage and our lost freedoms? We can only hope and pray so, but it is worth pondering! And that is the Bottom Line!

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