“Shepard’s personal income from the investments grew considerably since McCaskill took office in 2007. He reportedly made between $1,608 and $16,731 in 2006. But in 2017, Shepard reportedly earned between $365,374 and $1.1 million ‘from investments in housing projects that received federal subsidies.'”
Tag Archives: American Ruling Class
Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange
“What mattered then and matters now is that the material uncovered is true.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/07/22/martyrs-to-the-cause-carter-page-and-julian-assange/
Trump FISA Warrant Released; Proves Comey Lied about DNC-Funded Dossier
“The FISA court was not advised that the Steele dossier was funded by the DNC.”
“The Swamp”: Fearless Reps Expose the Corruption on Capitol Hill
“The Swamp videos make it very obvious that, although there are 435 members of the House of Representatives, the key decisions are made by a handful of very powerful leaders bent on controlling the country and that the betrayal is bipartisan.”
The Hidden History of World War I
“The whole thing shows you that wars can be caused by groups that you and I are not aware exist and that strings are being pulled by people behind the scenes. And wars can be avoided, I think, by honesty and transparency.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/no_author/hidden-history-of-ww1-2/
Trump’s criticism of Fed rate hikes recalls Nixon
“Former President Richard Nixon arm-twisted Arthur Burns to maintain loose monetary policy as Nixon sought re-election in 1972. That didn’t work out particularly well: As the 1970s economy continued to grow, inflation took root thanks to low rates and remained stubbornly in place until the early 1980s.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/trumps-fed-criticism-is-nearly-without-precedent-in-us-history.html
America has a nobility problem
“The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats.”
Former Fed officials lament taxpayers’ inability to see necessity of bank bailouts
“The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, ‘I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'”
Read more: https://apnews.com/f0c5c2a63f16473e999f64312039dbe2
Jacob Hornberger: The Deep State Went After JFK on Russia Too
“More than 50 years later, President Trump is getting excoriated for doing what Kennedy did — rejecting the admonitions of the U.S. deep state and reaching out to Russia in a spirit of peace and friendship.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/17/the-deep-state-went-after-jfk-on-russia-too/
The Vlad and Donald Show – A Glorious Blow for Peace
“It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.”