The Financial Survivalist

Plans recently suggested by Trump sound like a great idea—except that we’ve been supporting a strong space presence for decades. Between 1998 and 2015, the Pentagon spent $21 trillion that is “unaccounted for.” Where did it go??

Trump may not be aware that starting in the 1950’s, alien technology was back-engineered and a space fleet was developed at Lockheed R&D “Skunkworks,” which director Ben Rich said in 1995 had “the means to travel among the stars… Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.

Thirty years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that he had a “high degree of confidence” that Earth would be significantly warmer by 2018. It isn’t. And in that regard, what just happened over the past two years is especially interesting: global average temperatures dropped 0.56 C degrees—the most dramatic cooling event of the last century!

[Incidentally, “high degree of confidence” was the same phrase government operatives used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq to seize alleged weapons of mass destruction.

We’re sending our blog to blog heaven. After years in publication, I’m shutting it down.

The reason: there is so much going on these days I cannot begin to capture what’s important in a short blog … and I expect developments to intensify even further during the next two years, at the least.

Congress developed and the President signed a bloated bipartisan two-year spending deal, loaded with “pork” and lauded by Trump as containing money for jobs and more than the military asked for. The massive $600+ billion bill includes increases in both defense and non-defense spending, for both 2018 and 2019—conveniently moving the next possible spending confrontation past 2018 elections.

It’s hard to say how far ramifications from Friday’s release of the so-called FISA memo will extend. After all the hype, the memo itself seemed a bit underwhelming. However, Rep. Nunes and others note that it contains “clear evidence of Russian collusion” – paid for by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign … and the Mueller investigation wouldn’t have been authorized without it.

The U.S. military did what it does best. Allowed to operate by a hands-off President, U.S. forces routed ISIS—which now occupies just 3% of Iraq and 5% of Syria. U.S. forces will remain “as long as ISIS wants to fight,” …

The boldest rewrite of the U.S. tax code since 1986 cleared the Senate Saturday and began the process of reconciliation with the House bill, with the President planning to sign it before Christmas. The major beneficiary of the $1.2 trillion …

The next economic leg forecast by Martin Armstrong’s Socrates computer software turned down last weekend. Having accurately forecast the improvement in confidence which we’ve seen in America following the election of Donald Trump, Socrates next leg is a darkening period from …

The Zimbabwean military overthrew the government of 93-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe and placed him under house arrest. Mugabe’s sacking of his vice president and subsequent attempt to set up his wife as successor triggered the action. The country’s chaotic economy …

President Trump was greeted with a red carpet on his arrival in China (Obama was required to exit Air Force One through the rear door). Donald and Melania Trump were granted a rare dinner at the Forbidden City, an honor …