Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 20 March 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 20 Mar 2016 09:40 AM PDT


Whenever Marc Faber appears in the financial media, in this case Bloomberg TV, one can expect the usual fire and brimstone sermon of how micromanagement of the global economy by central bankers will lead to disastrous results, something which we agree with wholeheartedly and as of two months ago, so did virtually every billionaire at Davos.
Recall that just at the end of January, the WSJ when reporting from Davos said that “The world’s central banks can’t save us anymore. That was the message from some of the world’s most prominent investors at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday. Their mood here was irritated, bordering on affronted, with what they say has been central-bank intervention that has gone on too long.”
Somehow we doubt these same billionaires are quite as irritated, or quite as negative on central bank intervention two months later when thanks to, drumroll, central bank intervention, the Dow Jones has staged the biggest quarterly rebound from its lows since 1933.
Anyway, back to Faber, who – sure enough – ponders the idiocy of the IMF’s counterfactual statement today, when Lagarde said the world economy would be worse off without negative interest rates:
… they will always say, if we hadn’t done this and hadn’t done that, it would be much worse. They have no proof for this assertion. In my view, it would have been better to let the crisis, already the first one in 2000, run its course and prevent the colossal credit bubble that was built up that then led to an even bigger crisis, and now they’re doing the same mistake.
He then goes on to slam NIRP and the upcoming helicopter money:
… the magicians at central banks, they always come out with a new trick and these negative interest rates that we have today, this is for the first time in recorded human history from the times of Babylon up to today that we have negative interest rates, and it’s not going to end well. That, I can tell you. But the sequence of how it will not end well, I’m not so sure. But they still have a lot of ammunition. What they can do is helicopter money. In other words, they can send you and Mr. Bloomberg and me and everybody, say a check for $10,000, and that is like throwing gasoline into a fire…. will it help the economy? That is the question. It won’t help in the long run. You cannot grow an economy by just throwing money at people.
On what policies he would prefer instead:
… the less policies, the better it would be. We all learned at school that the free market and the capitalistic system is the best allocator of resources, and now what we have is the worst allocation of resources because it’s the government that tells you how these resources are allocated and they continuously expand their interventions, and I can tell you, I started to work in 1970. In the 70’s and early 1980’s, central banks actually never came up in discussions. They have now become like the messiah, and everybody watches what the central banks do and in the end, in my view, they will have, from a long term perspective, no impact whatsoever. Now can they move markets short term? Yes, but maybe not in the direction they want to.
None of these are necessarily new as Faber’s position on these topics has been well known in advance. However, what surprised us was how clear Faber’s political outlook is.
This is what he said:
You can buy the Singapore stock market with a four percent dividend yield. Well, Singapore is a relatively sound economy. It’s diversified and it’s well run, unlike the U.S., unless, of course, the U.S. is run by Mr. Trump. Then the U.S. will improve.
HYDE: But Mr. Faber, I mean, we’re seeing from Donald Trump’s potential policies that he wants to slow international trade between the United States and other countries. Surely that’s going to be a block upon free markets.
FABER: Well, I agree that it is negative if you have restrictions on a free market. That, I agree entirely. But you have to equally see that the U.S. has essentially given in on a lot of things that benefit other countries. If you look at, say, the growth, 2000 to today, which countries have done relatively well? The emerging markets have done fantastically well. Their GDP has gone up substantially. The standards of living have gone up substantially. They have accumulated large reserves, and so forth. The U.S. and Europe and Japan, relatively speaking, have been declining, and that, the statistics are visible from industrial production in emerging economies. It’s doubled in the last 12 years. Global trade, you look at the share of emerging markets, it’s gone up. The developed world, the U.S., Europe, Japan, it’s gone down and so forth. So I think that maybe we have to find a way to have a more balanced approach to global trade. I’m not saying protectionism, but the more balanced approach that is fair to the developed world.
BARTON: Are you really a fan of Mr. Trump, Marc? Do you really believe…?
FABER: It is all relative. Given the alternatives, I would vote for Mr. Trump, because he may only destroy the U.S. economy, but Hillary Clinton will destroy the whole world. Look at her nation building in the Middle East, how successful that has been.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2016 09:06 AM PDT

Violence at a Trump rally? Hardly unexpected. However, make that violence between by a black Trump supporter who unloaded on an abusive, KKK-dressed, Hitler-saluting white leftist protester who was being escorted out of the building, and the absurd shock value suddenly evolves to such surreal proportions one would expect a Salvador Dali portrait of Trump in the oval cabinet to emerge any day now.
The protestor was wearing a hood while saluting, presumably referring to KKK/Hitler, before he was punched & kicked https://t.co/BfioarhaBR
— Noah Gray CNN (@NoahGrayCNN) March 19, 2016
As the Hill first reported, a Trump protester was punched and kicked several times while being escorted out of a rally in Tucson, Ariz., by police. Videos show a protester in an American flag shirt holding up a picture of Trump before being punched. Another protester walking right behind him is seen wearing a white KKK-style hood. Police immediately handcuffed the attacker, a black man.
Trump called out the hooded protesters early on in the rally. “He’s a disgusting guy,” Trump said. “That is a disgusting guy, really disgusting.”
This is a clip of what happened:


And now we wait for the “impartial” media (whose CTR and CPM is through the roof in the past few months thanks to the Trump phenomenon) to accuse Trump of racial violence and somehow blame him for this latest embarrassing incident.

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Posted: 20 Mar 2016 08:31 AM PDT

With Britain in the early stages of deciding whether to stay in the EU or not, the prospects of having millions of Turkish arrivals could force a Brexit, Robin Tilbrook, chairman and founding member of the English Democrats, told RT.
Diplomats are meeting in Brussels for a two-day summit in an attempt to negotiate a refugee deal with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Turkey says it will accept migrants from the Middle East in exchange for financial support and political concessions.
Moreover, the Turkish government is demanding visa-free access to Europe for its citizens.
RT: What are the biggest stumbling blocks?
RTl: I don’t know, but it’s going to be a struggle, isn’t it? Mrs. Merkel’s future really depends on it. I think the awareness in Europe and indeed in Germany as to just what a mess she’s made of it, I think we might start to talk of ‘making a Merkel of it’ rather than just a mess of it.
RT: What’s the EU’s position on this deal?
RTl: The fact that you have got all the various different member nations having a say on it. But then on the other side there is an increasing desperation at the EU official level trying to get something that works for them and seems to – at least temporarily – resolve the issue.
RT: What’s the UK’s position on this deal?
RTl: I think the answer is that the people feel rather differently to the politicians, and I dare say that is probably true across most of the EU. Most people do not want large numbers of refugees coming to their country; the opinion polls have been very steady on that throughout this whole crisis. We also don’t want visa-free access for 77 million Turks either, thank you very much.
RT: Do you think the way the EU is dealing with Turkey is right? Is the EU using this as a carrot?
RTl: I think the Turkish government is angling for it. They are trying to get some concessions and who can blame them? They are in a negotiating position and they feel that they should negotiate for, in particular, money, I suppose. We are now talking about €6 billion in a way of a subsidy. But I do think the more worrying thing is for us, for people in this country – is the number of people – we just can’t possibly cope with those kind of numbers. It is absolutely unmanageable.
And of course there is a big political impact of it possibly. We are in the beginning stages of our referendum as to whether to stay in the EU or to leave. And the talk of having 77 million Turkish citizens potentially able to come without visas into the EU that will certainly be a big boost for the votes of people to leave.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2016 07:23 AM PDT

U.S. presidential candidate and Texas senator Ted Cruz went all-in for Monsanto on the campaign trail in Iowa, parroting Monsanto’s propaganda by proclaiming that GMOs are feeding the world while insulting health-conscious consumers by equating support of GMO labeling with “anti-science zealotry.”
At the Iowa Agricultural Summit, Cruz revealed that he in effect fully supports the mass poisoning of the American people with hidden (unlabeled) GMOs, cancer-causing glyphosate herbicide, farmer suicides caused by GMO crop failures and the widespread genetic pollution unleashed by genetically modified crops. “[W]e shouldn’t let anti-science zealotry shutdown the ability to produce low-cost quality food for billions across the globe,” he stated, invoking a false claim that’s actually a widely disproven Monsanto talking point. (SOURCE)
Hilariously, in making that statement, Ted Cruz also implies that he is literate on scientific issues. This alone is highly questionable. He may be a brilliant constitutional scholar and student of the law, but he knows next to nothing about the health effects, environmental impacts and genetic pollution risk of GM crops. He could start by reading Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public.
For the record, my own book, Food Forensics, comes out this July and also covers GMOs and glyphosate.
The right to bear arms but not to read accurate food labels
In choosing Monsanto over the health and food freedom of the American people, Ted Cruz joins Hillary Clinton as a Frankenfood pusher who believes that Americans should not only be fed cancer-causing herbicide chemicals that are being banned all across the globe; he also apparently believes that the American people have no right to know whether they’re even eating toxic GMOs.
As Natural News readers know very well, I am a supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that the right for law-abiding citizens to acquire firearms shall not be infringed by government. Ted Cruz agrees with this particular position, but he opposes the right of citizens to have access to honest food labels that describe the GMO content of the food they’re buying. And in this, he is demonstrating his disturbing failure to think with consistency.
In effect, Ted Cruz believes that Americans have the right to buy a gun, but not to read a label. Apparently GMOs are far more dangerous than guns in the mind of Ted Cruz, because GMOs must be hidden from the public even as guns are readily accessible.
While people like Ted Cruz routinely invoke the right of self defense against violence as one justification for access to firearms, he simultaneously denies the right of self defense against chemical violence by failing to support the public’s access to accurate GMO labels. (You can have a GUN, in other words, but you’re not allowed to have a LABEL.)
Even worse, he insults all those Americans who share ever rising concerns over food pesticides, herbicides and chemical contaminants that the scientific literature overwhelmingly proves can cause cancer. If only guns could provide personal protection against pesticides, then Ted Cruz might find himself on the right side of this argument… but that’s not how chemistry works. Chemicals are insidious, slow, invisible killers that commit violence on a cellular basis, day after day, meal after meal, until the victim is rendered diseased and ultimately dead. The primary defense against chemical violence is CHEMICAL AVOIDANCE. And that avoidance can only be achieved through the kind of honest food labeling that Ted Cruz opposes… even ridicules.
Here’s a gun you can use to kill someone else, Cruz might say to a citizen. “But we offer you no defense against the chemicals in food that are killing YOU.” Your right to self defense, in other words, ends where Monsanto’s weedkiller profits begin.
Ted Cruz, it seems, is simultaneously opposed to criminal violence while wholly in support of chemical violence. This stance is self-contradictory. If you believe in the right of self defense, then you must believe in the right of Americans to exercise informed self defense against chemicals that cause harm, too. And the only way to exercise self defense against the chemical violence committed by the agrichemical giants is to have access to honest, accurate food labels that reveal the genetically engineered content inside those products. It is this access to accurate food labels that Ted Cruz inexplicably opposes… even insults… in precisely the same way the political left ridicules lawful gun owners who seek an effective means of self defense against criminal violence.
A violation of God and Biblical principles
Perhaps even worse than the betrayal of fundamental constitutional principles of liberty, by going all-in for Monsanto, Ted Cruz joins forces with the most evil corporate entity on planet Earth. Because Ted Cruz claims to be a supporter of Christianity, Biblical principles and God’s creation, his betrayal on GMOs is far more than a political betrayal; it is spiritual treason against God.
Monsanto has taken a corn crop that was perfected through natural selective breeding by early humans, thenturned it into a food POISON that damages the kidneys, liver and reproductive organs. This is a treasonous act against humanity, Mother Nature and even God.
By supporting Monsanto, Ted Cuz is openly encouraging a devious corporate entity that systematically violates the laws of Mother Nature and believes that Man’s engineered (poisonous) seeds are superior to God’s seeds that gave rise to nutritious corn via natural selection (humans working in harmony with nature to gradually shape phenotype genetic expression of food crops). The imperialist pushing of GM corn, for example, has led to the agricultural eugenics wipeout of diverse corn species across Mexico. See Mexican farmers fight to preserve 59 indigenous corn varieties against hostile GMO takeover. It has simultaneously collapsed the diversity of the seed supply in states like Texas, where seed diversity for home gardeners has plummeted as biotech corporate giants bought up seed companies and shut them down.
Not only does Monsanto seek to overthrow Mother Nature’s seeds with its own genetically engineered seeds, it has aggressively sought to dominate the intellectual property of seeds that produce food for the entire nation, incessantly acquiring patent monopolies over many forms of food crops, food producing ranch animals and agricultural chemicals.
To put this into Ted Cruz’s evangelical language, no servant of God can side with Monsatan without committing spiritual treason. By proclaiming his treacherous partnership with Monsanto and the biotech industry, Ted Cruz aligns himself more with the Devil than with God. The Devil seeks power and domination over Man… and so does Monsanto. The Devil operates out of deviousness and deceit… and so does Monsanto. The Devil wields power by fear, intimidation and threats… and so does Monsanto. If this is Ted Cruz’s partner in his quest for the highest position of power in America, he is adamantly unqualified to lead any man or nation into anything other than darkness and destruction.
Ted Cruz abandons constitutional liberty and joins the totalitarian agricultural establishment
Beyond the spiritual and political implications of his siding with Monsanto, Ted Cruz has also abandoned his constitutional principles of American liberty in dismissing anti-GMO citizens who oppose deadly herbicides and seed monopolies.
Americans only possess the liberty to choose what to eat when that liberty is made possible by accurate food labeling. To side with Monsanto is to join forces with the DARK Act proponents who seek to crush all honest food labeling laws across America (such as Vermont’s GMO labeling law, set to go live this summer). See Food tyranny to become federal policy as DARK Act threatens to censor all GMO labeling nationwide … Take action!
To deny consumers an informed choice is to deny them liberty. And to deny them liberty is to entrap them in a corporate-run system of food deception and systemic chemical poisoning that can only accelerate the downfall of this nation from disease, suffering and medical debt. Ted Cruz’s future for America is a future full of cancer, crop failures, starvation and disease, where corporations like Monsanto own all the intellectual property of seeds, placing farmers into de facto indentured servitude, all while the crony capitalist banksters pocket trillions in profits that are invisibly stolen from the working class via fiat currency money printing and fraudulent quantitative easing (currency debasement). It is a future wracked with poverty, suffering, disease and destitution, where America collapses into a third world nation of impoverished sheeple who are all systematically poisoned by insidious agriculture giants that serve as the new donor class for political power.
The corporate giants that dominate America’s food supply today are nothing less than agricultural totalitarians, filled with hatred for health-conscious consumers, clean food and food transparency. Their enemies are food choice and truth in labeling, and they operate via violent character assassins and paid defamation mercenaries like Jon Entine, a devious liar and disinformation slinger who has ties to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the very same group of conservative thugs and haters of democracy who recently hosted a desperate, secret meeting among wealthy globalists to try to stop Donald Trump from getting elected.
Ted Cruz now has ties to both Goldman Sachs and Monsanto, two of most destructive entities on the planet
No doubt the agricultural giants are now supporting Ted Cruz in precisely the same way the criminal central banksters do, too. Via his wife, Ted Cruz also has ties to Goldman Sachs, an entity that carries out global economic arson and unbridled destruction that rivals the agricultural and chemical destruction of Monsanto and the biotech industry.
With these allies in his corner, Ted Cruz has become the establishment he once claimed he would dismantle. He has become an enemy of truth and health and an ally of deception and death. He has sold his soul to Satan and demonstrated, for all the nation to see without question, that when the American people are dying from the very cancers that are caused by toxic glyphosate weedkiller and GMO crops, Ted Cruz will side with the agrichemical giants that are profiting from that poison.
Ted Cruz, it now seems, has become the Hillary Clinton of the right.
Here are the pictures of the GMO poisoned and glyphosate poisoned rats from the Seralini study:

Who’s left to vote for? Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump!
With both Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz now totally sold out to Monsanto, there’s only one choice remaining in each of the two dominant political parties in America.
Bernie Sanders is openly supportive of GMO labeling. It’s his own state — Vermont — that passed the nation’s only GMO labeling law that’s set to become active in just a few months. Perhaps for this reason, Sanders has become a favorite among anti-GMO activists and clean food activists. (Sadly, they do not yet fully grasp the economic destruction caused by socialism, but that’s another topic for another website…)
On the political right, Donald Trump supports organic food but hasn’t yet made a public position statement on Monsanto and GMO labeling, so he’s a wild card in that arena but appears to lean towards organic. (It’s just one of his many seemingly centrist positions that could cross party lines and appeal to many democrats.)
Whoever you vote for in the primaries or the general election, don’t let it be Hillary Clinton (the Bride of Frankenfood) or Ted Cruz (Monsatan’s Preacher). If God won’t forgive either of these two people for their betrayal of humanity… you shouldn’t give them your vote, either.
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Posted: 20 Mar 2016 06:10 AM PDT


What’s the more appropriate phrase: black lives matter, or all lives matter?
Obviously all lives matter, but Black Lives Matter (BLM) maintains its slogan is designed to draw attention to the fact that people don’t think their lives matter – but isn’t saying other lives don’t matter; just that theirs matter a little bit more.
Actions speak louder than words, and the violent rhetoric BLM spews makes it hard to believe such a defense. Whether it be advocating for the murder of police, or racial segregation, BLM seems intent on reversing the Civil Rights movement, not launching a new one.
We saw BLM protesters (among many other leftist groups) shut down a Trump rally in Chicago last week, with violence then breaking out. Protesters shattered the windows of cars with Trump stickers, and assaulted police.
If Trump wins the election, BLM has more violence planned. As the DC Gazette reports:
Black lives Matter spokesmen, Tef Poe has always been the voice of the bigoted group. In November 2014, Poe was even flown to the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland to speak about “police violence.” Funny, now that very same person is now inciting a race riot.


And these folks think asking for an official ID card before voting amounts to intimidation?
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 23:26