Is Jimmy Carter's 'Malaise' in Vogue Again in Joe Biden's White House?

By Chuck Lehmann 

For those of you who were alive during the Jimmy Carter Administration, you’ll remember that he propagated the phrase “malaise” in referring to the “stagflation” (definition:  Persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and a stagnant demand in a country’s economy) that gripped our country during those years.  Gas prices were soaring as gas became scarce with long lines at the pump; home prices and interest rates were going through the roof; and food items were in short supply -  indeed we were in a “malaise” due to Carter’s policies at the end of the 1970s..........To Read More.......

KENDRA HAS IT FIGURED OUT!

An utterly corrupt gang of thugs, still at it and visible to all willing to look, can get away with surrendering and selling out our nation and our nation's allies to civilization’s enemies, for personal gain?

By Andrew G. Benjamin ——Bio and Archives--August 28, 2021 @ Canada Free Press

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Indeed, Kendra figured it all out....and more!

The Taliban, a terrorist gang of tens of thousands, allied with ISIS and al Q’aeda, now have America’s most advanced military gear in their hands.

An air force with the most comprehensive inventory of COBRA helicopters, with the Cobra’s top secret avionics, electronic communications and targeting systems, advanced weapons sytems, night vision and thermal imaging; hundreds of America’s state-of-the-art M-1117 IED-resistant vehicles, tanks, mobile artillery, missiles, munitions, and tens of thousands of very lethal automatic small arms. 

What will the Taliban do with these? 

Try this: kill American and coalition troops, their own civilians too, and sell the gear they cannot master to the highest bidders: Russia, China, Iran................for billions—flood the world with opiates for more billions.

There is a history and pattern from the America-hating presidents who got us here – as the sequence was predictable. It is so, because patterns are predictable and history means one event follows another.

President Clinton (D) gave China advanced missile technology for secret campaign contributions, and later campaign contributions to get Hillary (D) elected.

Barack Obama (D) took Russian collusion promises, as he removed American defensive missiles out of Europe that safeguarded Ukraine from invasion. And later accused Donald Trump (R) of Russia Collusion.

Guess what really happened?

By rejecting the America-friendly Shah of Iran, Jimmy Carter (D) made sure Americans will be taken as hostages by advancing the cause of the Mullahs, and abandoning our American ally. 

With a single promise to Iran’s mullahs, Ronald Reagan (R) got our hostages released.

Because America deserved it.

Barack Obama (D) and his veep Joe Biden (D) made sure Americans were again taken hostages by Iran.

And then apologized to Iran for Iran’s taking American hostages. 

Because America deserved it.

Meanwhile the same Barack Obama (D) and Joe Biden (D) released from America the very same terrorists who just conquered Afghanistan. 

Because America deserved it.

Under Barack Obama (D) and Joe Biden (D), ISIS grew 4400 percent by the estimates of Obama’s own CIA head.

Because America deserved it…

Crushed in Iraq and Syria by Donald Trump (R), ISIS and al Q’aeda just reconstituted themselves and moved into Afghanistan to join the very terrorists Barack Obama (D) with Joe Biden (D) released from GITMO.

Thanks to courtesy of Team Biden-Harris (D, D), the Taliban’s ideological mates, ISIS and al Q’aeda, returned to Afghanistan. This time outfitted by Obama-Biden-Harris-Blinken-Pentagon’s WOKE generals (12 Ds), with an entire air force and weapons greater in power and sophistication than the standing armies of most of Europe’s advanced and wealthy nations.

Or connect the dots to a President WHO HATED HIS OWN NATION and proved through his record of activities he was in it to win it. Win it, to destroy his own nation. See the link of June 2, 2009 above.

Or connect the dots to the one who is pulling the strings to make sure his nation was permanently damaged.

After all, he sprinted out of the gate in 2009 to tell the world bluntly that his nation was not worthy!

Not worthy of respect, not worthy to succeed, not worthy to win a war.

And then stayed behind in Washington DC to make sure his agenda will succeed. 

WASHINGTON TIMES, April 19, 2012 - 9 years ago almost to the day: 

“President Obama has lost Afghanistan. The war is turning into a catastrophic defeat - one that will be worse than Vietnam…..”

LETS SEE IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT—VIDEO

 

The Secret Ronald Reagan Told Me About Gold and Great Nations

Ron Paul on Fifty Years of Fighting Fiat Money 

By Ron Paul,Special to the Sun August 14, 2021 @ New York Sun  

Today marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window,” ending the ability of foreign governments to exchange United States dollars for gold. Nixon’s action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, giving the U.S. a fiat currency.

America’s experiment with fiat has led to an explosion of consumer, business, and — especially — government debt. It has also caused increasing economic inequality, a boom-bubble-bust business cycle, and a continued erosion of the dollar’s value.

Nixon’s closure of the gold window motivated me to run for office. Having read the works of the leading Austrian economists, such as Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, I understood the dangers of abandoning gold for a fiat currency and wanted a platform to spread these ideas.

When I first entered public life, support for restoring a gold standard, much less abolishing the Fed, was limited to so-called “gold bugs” and the then tiny libertarian movement. Even many economists who normally supported free markets believed the fiat system could be made to work if the Federal Reserve were forced to follow rules.

These rules were supposed to provide the Fed with clear guidance as to when to increase or decrease the money supply. This may sound good in theory, but a “rules-based monetary system” still allows the Federal Reserve to manipulate interest rates, which are the price of money, causing artificial booms and very real busts.

The stagflation of the Carter era did increase interest in monetary policy. The rise of the “supply-siders,” who supported a limited role for gold, helped increase interest in the issue.

Ronald Reagan once told me that no nation has abandoned gold and remained great. As president, he supported the creation of the Gold Commission. However, he did not stop the establishment from stacking the commission with defenders of the monetary status quo.

The commission’s two pro-gold members, Lewis Lehrman and myself, produced a minority report, written with the aid of Murray Rothbard, making the case for a gold standard. The report was published as “The Case for Gold.” It can be downloaded at Mises.org.

By the mid-1980s, any interest among the political and financial elites in questioning the Fed's power had disappeared. This was due to acceptance of the myth that Paul Volcker tamed inflation. In the 1990s, a virtual cult of personality arose around the “Maestro” Alan Greenspan, who once told me that the Fed had learned how to “replicate” the results of a gold-backed currency.

While my warnings that the Fed was leading the American economy over the cliff were dismissed in Washington, they found a receptive audience outside the beltway. The response to my 2008 presidential campaign led to a birth of a new liberty movement that put monetary policy front and center.

The 2008 meltdown, big banks bailouts, and the Fed’s subsequent failure to reignite the economy despite unprecedented money creation fueled the growth of the new movement. My Campaign for Liberty organization mobilized the new liberty movement to make Audit the Fed a major issue in Congress.

Fifty years after Nixon closed the gold window, prices are heading toward 1970s-era increases. Yet the Fed cannot increase interest rates as long as the politicians keep creating billions of new debts.

It is clear that America is heading toward another Federal Reserve-created economic crisis. The good news is the impending crisis gives us an opportunity to spread our message, grow our movement, and finally force Congress to audit and end the Fed.

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Dr. Paul, a physician, is a former member of the United States House, having served Texas’ 22nd district between 1976 and 1977 and between 1979 and 1985 and its 14th district between 1997 and 2013. He stood for president on the Libertarian Party line in 1988 and stood the Republican nomination in 2008 and 2012. Photo of Dr. Paul by Gage Skidmore, via Wikipedia.

From JFK to Joe Biden

Democrat presidents promise miracles and deliver — not much. 

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. April 13, 2021

 

In predicting what we can expect to be the achievements of President Joe Biden, let us consider what his modern Democratic predecessors have achieved. There is a pattern in the president’s predecessors’ achievements that is revelatory. Briefly, consider what they did.

Ever since the presidency of Jimmy Carter no Democratic president has achieved much of anything, though all have promised greater and greater miracles.

President John F. Kennedy entered the White House as a war hero, and he pursued the Cold War with courage and growing astuteness. He had plans for the domestic front but was not given the time to implement them. Suffice to say, he was a successful Cold Warrior. 

(Editor's Note:  Unlike the author I'm not a fan of JFK, or his administration.  He was not a successful president, he was a media favorite as was his wife.  Both of whom were overrated.  Furthermore, I wouldn't qualify him as a successful cold warrior.  He demonstrated his failings during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the real history came out it was clear Khrushchev ate JFK's lunch, not the other way around.  But his failure as a president, and as a man, was even more exposed during the Bay of Pigs and his betrayal of the Cuban freedom fighters.  Two things everyone seems to forget:

• One, there was a lot of talk about his even being nominated by his party for a second term.
• Two he was elected through voter fraud, and Nixon and all the establishment knew it.  RK)

President Lyndon Baines Johnson was no war hero, but he entered the White House with a long record of legislative achievements, and while in the White House he fashioned a staggering record of domestic accomplishment — a record that cost the country billions and achieved little, but getting it through Congress took enormous energy and cunning. In fact, it cost him his life in the end, but the Great Society stands as a monument to him — a monument to his folly, but a monument nonetheless. As for the war in Vietnam, LBJ showed some grit, and our military whipped the communists again and again. The fault of the war’s outcome resides with the Democrats on Capitol Hill. They lost the war.

The next Democrat to enter the White House … well, what can I say? I called him the Wonder Boy, Jimmy Carter. He left no Great Society or New Frontier, but after dithering around for three years he did begin to build up the military, and I am told he left the White House with a modest reduction in the heating bill. After him came Bill Clinton, who initially talked of an infrastructure plan and of a nationalized health-care policy, but who actually achieved very little until Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues gained their majority. Then Bill and Newt brought us a bipartisan government that was pretty much a success except for Bill’s impeachment.

After Bill came Barack Obama, who was the first gentleman of color to become president. This should have been an achievement in itself, but it only opened the door for the 1619 Project, endless talk of systemic racism, and arguably the largest outpouring of racial hatred that has ever been seen in this country: in the schools, the streets, no place is free of it, and still Obama remains silent.......To Read More.....

 

Iran and the Nobel Peace Prize Presidents

By Dennis L. Weisman January 15, 2020

I. Introduction

For the second time in 40 years, a Republican President was forced to clean up the mess left by his Democrat predecessor’s failures in Iran. The first time was when a group of Muslim “college students” overran the U.S. embassy in 1979 and paralyzed the Carter administration for more than a year. The second time was when the Obama administration, in a move reminiscent of British PM Chamberlain’s futile attempt to appease Hitler, sent a plane-load of cash in the middle of the night to Tehran to induce the rogue nation to stand down on its nuclear program. The irony with Carter and Obama, both Nobel Peace Prize recipients, is that their policies precipitated “war” not peace.

Aesop's fable of the scorpion and frog captures the essence of the problem:

"A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a babbling stream. It's too treacherous to cross, so the scorpion nicely asks the frog to carry him across on its back. This makes the frog a little suspicious. It asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” That sound reasoning relaxes the frog's nerves. So he allows the scorpion to climb aboard and they shove off across the flowing water. They get halfway across the stream and the scorpion stings the frog directly in the middle of his back. The frog feels the onset of the scorpion's poison and starts to sink. He manages one dying breath: "Why?!" And the scorpion replies: “It’s my nature…”

 II. James Earl Carter Jr. ............ To Read More

My Take - This piece was a good one, but the author was entirely too understanding, too kind and too forgiving of the motives and actions of both Carter and Obama. Carter's administration was a disaster, both in foreign policy and the nations economy.

Most are too young to remember the gas lines, running out of natural gas in the middle of a very cold period, and the 20 percent inflation his administration created with his policies.

A foreign policy disaster that allowed the current terrorist mess by his abandonment of the Shah of Iran. His signing of the Community Re-investment act was what caused the housing bubble that exploded and created a massive worldwide recession, thirty years later.

As for his "righteous" image. Carter is a subscriber of the "social gospel" which in effect promotes the idea socialism is the practical application of Christian ethics.  How brain dead is that?

Obama was either a criminal or ignorant and stupid, or all of the above. Take your pick, because the amount of corruption surrounding Obama was impossible to avoid noticing. He was a talented speaker, but he was an even more talented liar. He has put in place things that may not come to negative fruition for years. That's the problem with these guys. They put things into place that create disasters after they're gone.

Nixon was just as bad, if not worse, with his creation of OSHA, the EPA, and passage of NEPA, the Endangered Species Act and more. He's been long gone and his actions still haunt America. But at least he didn't receive that paragon of leftist hypocrisy the Nobel Peace Prize.

Both Carter and Obama are anti-semites whose only accomplishment was to undermine America, America's allies, the American identity, the American culture and the American economy. Their goal? Overturning the Constitution and imposing a socialist state, and preferably under the auspices of the most corrupt incompetent organization the world has ever known. The United Nations. Everything either of them did borders on treason.

Isn't This Time For a Little Schadenfreude?

By Rich Kozlovich

 

As you read the articles in he next post from Benny Peiser's Global Warming Policy Foundation I would like for everyone to do a little history with me. 

 

When all this claptrap about solar and wind “renewable” energy first became popular ie was during the Carter Administration.  Why?  We were running out of oil and pollution was cooling the planet and we were going into another ice age, with absolutely fatal consequences to human civilization.  It didn’t’ happen, we didn’t’ run out of oil and solar and wind energy was an abject failure. 

Now we have more claptrap about solar and wind “renewable” energy and the reason’s given is we’re running out of all traditional energy sources and the rise in CO2 is warming the planet to the point we’re all going to roast, devastating humanity. 

 

Well, it’s turned out we’re not only ‘not’ running out of fossil fuels, we have enough proven reserves to last for decades to come, the CO2 levels the last 20 years has risen dramatically and yet the tiny rise that was occurring stopped 18 years ago, and may actaully be reversing.  Ergo – temperature and CO2 have nothing to do with one another. 

 

Now we’ve been shown over the last ten years all the data and predictions from the warmers were either based on lies or computer models which were filled with inadequate data, a fact many believe – including me – was done deliberately to get a preconceived result.  And now every one of those model predictions has failed to materialize, except in reverse. 

So for those of us who have believed from the very beginning this was just another green scam filled with lies, and speculatory predictions based on those lies, I have a question.

Isn’t this time for a little Schadenfreude now?