the empire evidently believes it aught to control the world, and its citizens, as hornberger will show;

President Trump’s sanctions against Iran have just intersected with his trade war against China. The intersection comes in the form of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Huawei Technologies, one of the most prominent companies in China. Meng was arrested by Canadian officials on the request of U.S. officials as she was changing planes in Vancouver.

U.S. officials are now seeking Meng’s extradition to face criminal charges in the United States. The charges? Get this: They are alleging that she violated Trump’s sanctions against Iran.

What? Meng isn’t a U.S. citizen. What does she have to do with Trump’s sanctions against Iran?

Well, you see, when the U.S. government imposes sanctions on a foreign country, it expects not just U.S. citizens to comply with its dictates. It expects everyone in the world to comply with its dictates. That’s how the U.S. worldwide empire operates. The empire has worldwide jurisdiction. Its criminal laws apply to everyone in the world. Our country’s ruler issues the orders, and everyone in the world must obey or face the prospect of being arrested, brought to the United States, and placed in a federal penitentiary.

Meng’s arrest, of course, cannot be divorced from Trump’s trade war against China. By arresting Meng, Trump, the self-labeled “Tariff Man,” is obviously upping the ante in his trade war to bring further pressure to bear on China to succumb to his trade demands.

That might happen. But it is also possible that something else might happen. Executives of major U.S. companies who travel to China now might well find themselves in the same straits that Meng finds herself. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of U.S. businessmen suddenly find reasons not to travel to China...........https://www.fff.org/2018/12/07/trumps-sanctions-meet-his-trade-war/

kunstler lays it all out clearly in regard to the 'russian' problem and 'our' elections in this exploration of where we are and may end up being. i've had friends speak of the wonderful military tribunals coming our way which is only more fascism along the lines of 'peoples courts' found in various dictatorships. the country has been gone for a long time and things like this crap only take it further and faster into the shithole;

A titanic battle between Mr. Trump and his antagonists looms in the political gloaming of the new year. It may not be resolvable by conventional means since the Intel and Justice agencies have been leading a two-year coup-by-subterfuge against the president, with Robert Mueller as the spearhead, leaving a slime-trail of sedition and prosecutorial misconduct that they are now desperately trying to cover up. How then can the corrupted Department of Justice and its stepchild, the FBI, be relied on to adjudicate these unprecedented crimes against themselves?
The answer may be coming next week when the lame duck session of House Oversight Committee calls John Huber to appear. Huber is the federal prosecutor out of the Salt Lake City district office who was assigned by the erstwhile Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into the manifold irregularities of the RussiaGate matter. It’s not clear how much Mr. Huber can tell the committee about an ongoing case, but he hasn’t made a peep all year, and if his testimony suggests that he’s twiddling his thumbs in the sagebrush, it will inform you that we are headed into real civil war. Too much incriminating information is already loose in the public domain about Hillary Clinton and the DNC colluding with Russia, and something has to be done about it.
It’s obvious that the Obama White House, along with CIA director John Brennan, and Director of National intel James Clapper, used the FBI and the DOJ (with support from the nation’s two leading newspapers), and help from Britain’s MI6 intel shop, to run illegal operations against Mr. Trump during the 2016 election, and then persisted in acts to delegitimize him after Jan 20, 2017. All this, of course, is apart from whether you like Mr. Trump or approve of his policies.........http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/capture-the-flag/

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the las vegas shooting has all of the aspects of several other false flag operations we've come to expect, and even anticipate. in this article you can discover some of that;

A Las Vegas-based Uber driver told police one day after the 2017 massacre that he may have dropped off several accomplices at the MGM just days before the attack in which 58 innocent people were gunned down by a reported madman from his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Vista Suite.
The Uber driver maintains that he dropped off a man named “Paddock” and a woman who said they were “in the military” and also made mention of a “terrorist attack.”
The driver said the couple pointed out that ‘Vegas wasn’t ready’ for such an attack...........https://www.intellihub.com/video-uber-driver-tells-police-he-may-have-dropped-off-the-las-vegas-shooter-and-a-woman/

i ask you to imagine the response from the empire if the russians, or chinese were to do some similar thing in the caribbean, and then you may conclude the empire is looking for war, and perhaps even hoping and wishing;


The U.S. is looking to run a Navy operation commandeering a Navy warship into the Black Sea in defiance of Russia which risks a sharp rise in tensions between Ukraine, Moscow and the U.S., CNN reported.
The Pentagon has asked the State Department to request permission from Turkey to sail ships into the Black Sea, which borders both Ukraine and Russia as access to the Sea of Azov, a key area for a string of confrontations between Moscow and Kiev.
According to CNN, the Pentagon’s insane request is unclear if the U.S. Navy plans to follow through on entering the Black Sea. It could be the striking point that spurs conflict between the two countries.
A State Department spokesman refused to comment on the specifics of the matter, but stated that “the United States carries out its activities consistent with the terms of the Montreux Convention. We will not, however, comment on the nature of our diplomatic correspondence with the Government of Turkey.”
Access to the Black Sea through the Bosporus Strait is governed by the 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits, requiring governments to secure permission from Turkey 15 days before passage.
A 2003 treaty designates the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov (off the coast of Crimea) as shared territorial waters. Russia has sought further control over the waters after the referendum in Crimea in 2014.........https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/u-s-looks-to-run-navy-operation-in-black-sea-risks-heightening-tensions-with-russia.html

this 'meme' sent by a friend this am and i approve this message;

this article will show in several clear charts and accompanying text, why we're headed towards the largest financial disaster you might imagine;


What happens when asset valuations rise well in excess of income?  Generally bubbles form and then burst.  With that in mind…
Wilshire 5000 (red line representing all publicly traded US equities), disposable personal income (dark blue line), real disposable personal income (light blue line), and federal funds rate (black dashed line).  During each bubble, assets have appreciated far faster than incomes to support those higher asset prices.   Lower interest rates and higher leverage have been used to incent greater quantities of debt…to be paid in the future.  All data is through Q3 but not inclusive of the volatility seen thus far in Q4............http://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-has-died/