Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Fun..

 

Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records.
Specifically, Hunter Biden’s attorneys point to details Gary Shapley (IRS agent) shared in an interview with CBS News that aired in June. 
During the interview, Shapley alleged that Biden took certain personal expenses as business expenses, including “prostitutes, sex club memberships, hotel rooms for purported drug dealers,” and that Biden owed $2.2 million in unpaid taxes, the lawsuit alleges.
Shapley’s attorneys called the lawsuit a “frivolous smear” and said the agents only discussed information allowed under the statute. Ziegler’s attorney said the lawsuit is an effort to “distract from the ever-growing evidence that supports the testimony of the two IRS whistleblowers.

Chance..

 

Win..

 
Five Americans detained for years in Iran walked off a plane and into freedom Monday, most arm-in-arm, as part of a politically risky deal that saw President Joe Biden agree to the release of nearly $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets owed by a third country, South Korea.

The successful negotiations for the Americans’ freedom brought Biden profuse thanks from their families but heat from Republican presidential rivals and other opponents for the monetary arrangement with one of America’s top adversaries.
“Today, five innocent Americans who were imprisoned in Iran are finally coming home,” Biden said in a statement released as the plane carrying the group from Tehran landed in Doha, Qatar. A plane carrying the Americans home to the United States was due to land Monday night.
What took so long? The money is Iranian money so what caused the delay? Just a thought.

Musk Rat..

 

Looming..

 

Ironic..

 

 "The total contribution by the EU to Ukraine since the start of this war is about €72 billion. Europe has given roughly the same as the US."

Very odd... US agreed to send weapon of war, mass killing Cluster Munitions, and depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine. 

However, for the American people, they can't put a budget together.

Bidenomics..

 

Air Tag..

 

Hard..

 

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Power..

 

Paul Kennedy posits that continued Debt and deficit spending, especially on military build-up, is the single most important reason for decline of any great power. 
The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were as of 2017 estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion, which Kennedy deems a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to humiliate America by showcasing its casualty averseness and lack of will to persist in a long-term conflict. 
By 2011, the U.S. military budget — almost matching that of the rest of the world combined — was higher in real terms than at any time since WWII.
Kennedy made similar assessments about American decline in his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in which he projected "a need to 'manage' affairs so that the relative erosion of the United States' position takes place slowly and smoothly".
Now with other countries advancing like China and India, the BRICS coalition which 
control 43% of World GDP, the deDolarization aspect of the trade and finally the oil/Energy control, No war, all will have a great impact on the current 
G7 decline.  "Its the Economy Stupid"