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Rodney Leon retweeted
Justice for Austin Payne:
A few days ago, Austin Payne, a 15-year-old White boy in Georgia, was hunted, shot, and left to die in an abandoned apartment by four black teen males. He called his mom after being attacked and shot, telling her he was dying. She found his body the next morning after searching all night for him.
Charged with his murder: Jansquincey Donaldson, 15; Omari Marion, 15; Adarious Wallace, 16; Detravion Parker, 22. National media has been completely silent. If four White teens had done this to a Black kid, it would dominate cable news for days. Instead, silence.
They covered the Nolan Wells case wall-to-wall for a drowning. Yet this kid was hunted like an animal and brutally murdered, and because his skin is White, his story will never be told.
Support Austins Family:
Rodney Leon retweeted
Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."
I noticed Bill Curry turned 47 the day of his 30th game at Alabama and Alabama won 47-30. I asked Gemini to check it and in less than 5 seconds it confirmed it, with details.
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Rodney Leon retweeted
Forget about gridlock. Some of the worst socialist ideas Trump had over the past two years that were so far left that even Republicans balked at supporting them will likely be signed into law now that Trump will be working with the Democrats instead.
Rodney Leon retweeted
With all of the major stock market indexes lower this week, the standout winners were precious metals mining stocks. The $GDX surged 9.6%. This is a sign of things to come. A sharp turn to the left, and the higher inflation that will result, will be extremely bullish for gold.
Rodney Leon retweeted
Donald Trump has successfully obliterated the Republican Party. It took almost ten years but the Trojan Horse Democrat from NYC has done his job.
Thank you and good night. ❤️
Rodney Leon retweeted
Given all of @elonmusk's past well-deserved criticism of the NY Times, I wish he would help disseminate my evidence on X, which proves conclusively that the Times covers up government corruption and knowingly spreads government propaganda as actual news! 9fraud.com
Rodney Leon retweeted
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
Rodney Leon retweeted
If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. He needs to mend his heart before thinking about running for any office. White ppl haven’t hurt him. He knows exactly who did. Notice how he doesn’t get the satisfaction he was craving when the interviewer simply anchors himself & doesn’t validate that experience. We should all do more of this. Don’t validate anyone’s experience for the sake of temporary bonding.
Some have said Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk's brutal assassination. Kirk was born 5 mths 14 days 48 yrs after Hitler died. Israel declared independence on 5-14-48.
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Rodney Leon retweeted
I get criticized by MAGA Republicans for criticizing Trump. But if Republicans don't criticize Trump, then the only criticism will come from Democrats. But Democrats criticize Trump for the wrong reasons. Letting Democrats define Trump undermines the Republican cause.
I criticize Trump for being too much like Democrats. Republicans need to draw a contrast between the failed big-government policies of Trump and Democrats and the true free-market, limited-government policies that should define the party.
Rodney Leon retweeted
Because of the dishonest N.Y. Times and its corrupt reporter Matthew Goldstein, the internet will not even give me the satisfaction of acknowledging my total victory in my defamation lawsuit against Nine Entertainment. Not only did I win, but it was perhaps the most decisive win in the history of Australian defamation law. Plus, I won seven consecutive judgments against Nine, setting an Australian record.
Nine's conduct was so bad that it could not even submit a valid defense. It tried three times, but all three were thrown out by the judge for lack of evidence. It was ordered to pay me a sum that exceeded the maximum allowed under Australian law and to pay my legal costs on an indemnity basis, which is reserved for the most egregious conduct. In fact, discovery revealed that Nine not only defamed me, but its "journalists" Nick McKenzie and Charlotte Grieve lied and committed fraud.
Citing the N.Y. Times as its source, Google only reports that I "settled a defamation lawsuit against the Australian media company Nine Entertainment over their reporting on the matter" involving the investigation of my bank.
The reason the N.Y. Times refuses to publish that I won my lawsuit is that Matt Goldstein worked with Grieve and McKenzie to defraud the public into believing I was guilty of committing crimes they knew I did not commit.
Matthew Goldstein is a liar and a fraud. Nothing he writes in the N.Y. Times can be believed. Goldstein does not care about the truth. He has no ethics or principles. He is a tool of government propaganda. He is a disgrace to the profession of journalism, and as long as he is employed by the N.Y. Times, no one should read that publication or believe anything it reports.
In case any one of them wants to sue me for defamation, to quote Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, "Go ahead, make my day."
@MattGoldstein26 @Ageinvestigates @CharlotteGriev1
Rodney Leon retweeted
Capitalism already allows workers to own the means of production. They can start businesses, purchase factories, establish cooperatives, and share ownership however they voluntarily agree.
What frightens capitalists isn't workers owning property. It's socialists claiming the authority to confiscate someone else's property in the name of workers.
If your socialism is voluntary, capitalism already accommodates it.
If it's compulsory, spare us the lecture about autonomy.
RT @PeterSchiff: After I won my defamation lawsuit against corrupt Australian "journalist" Nick McKenzie, his friends in the media, especia…
Rodney Leon retweeted
This is all a big show. There is no real inflation hawk. Look at Scott Bessent, they are all trying to appear as if they are tough on inflation because he just hired Judy Shelton as an advisor; a gold bug. They hired someone who is talking about a gold standard to appear serious.
They are not serious about anything. This is all part of the show. All smoke and mirrors. They are trying to create a false impression that they actually want to do something about inflation.
The last thing they are going to do is actually do something about inflation.
Rodney Leon retweeted
Me and Ilhan Omar are far apart policy wise. I’m pro life, she’s pro abortion. I’m pro 2A, she’s pro gun control. And on and on.
But can someone tell me how pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???
People are so sick and tired of the bullshit.
When you dumb mf’ers at the WH actually release the Epstein files and lock up the pedophiles and rapists you all hang out with, then we will start paying attention.
Until then 🖕.
Rodney Leon retweeted
You're so concerned about leaving capital out of the definition of capitalism that you've conveniently left government ownership, central planning, and compulsory redistribution out of the discussion of communism.
Capitalism rests on private property, voluntary exchange, and individual rights. Communism seeks to abolish private ownership of the means of production and replace market allocation with collective control, historically exercised through the state.
Now look at what created the debt: government spending, redistribution, entitlement programs, and political promises financed through taxation and borrowing.
Which of those requires capitalism, Noah? And which depends on the government exercising increasing control over resources produced by others?
You can capitalize CAPITAL all you like. It won't turn government spending into free enterprise or make the resulting debt the fault of voluntary exchange.
Rodney Leon retweeted
Chapter 3 - "MMT Advocacy Using Financial Accounting: A Critique" by @BobMurphyEcon
"Constituting an accounting tautology, the underlying sectoral equations aren’t wrong, but in the hands of the MMTers they can be extremely misleading. Specifically, Kelton and Mitchell make it sound as if—putting aside net exports—the private sector can only enjoy increased investment and asset accumulation if the government accommodates it by running a budget deficit. Yet this is obviously not true." - pp. 70-71
Dr. Murphy cites empirical research from Angus Deaton and the ECB that throws cold water on the idea that economies need an increasingly indebted government to grow.
So, where do the MMTers go wrong in their interpretation of sectoral balances?
"The specific trick in the sectoral balance demonstration is to lead the reader to believe that net saving (in symbols, S − I) is the same as saving or investment, period. But to be clear, a balanced government budget doesn’t restrict growth in private sector saving, nor does it restrict growth in private sector investment. Rather, the sectoral equations merely show that—setting aside international trade—a balanced government budget means that private saving must equal private investment. The levels of the two variables can be high or low; the lack of a government deficit simply rules out private saving exceeding private investment." - pp. 71-72
Dr. Murphy then goes through examples with households holding Acme stock. The sectoral balance approach correctly considers those shares as an asset for the shareholders and a liability for Acme, but...
"this doesn't mean that net assets of the private sector are always zero. Clearly, nothing is preventing the households from living below their means and financially investing (through the purchase of newly issued shares or bonds) in Acme such that it can engage in real investment by hiring workers and other inputs to produce more factories, equipment, and inventory. Over time, the aggregate wealth of the community can increase, even though at any moment the private sector financial assets always sum to zero." - p. 73
There's a big twist, however, when it comes to government debt. Private firms have to produce at a profit to pay down their debts--they have to economize factors of production and turn them into goods and services that consumers value.
How does the government service its debt?
"If the-world-minus-the US government (which for simplicity we will hereafter call 'the private sector') owns $30 trillion of Treasury debt, in what sense is the private sector $30 trillion wealthier? After all, the only ways the Treasury can pay this debt are through taxation (either up front or over time by rolling over the debt) or inflation. Either way, the private sector fundamentally pays for the redemption of the Treasury’s debt. And if a fire suddenly destroyed all legal evidence of the Treasury’s $30 trillion in debt held by the public, the private sector as a whole would be unaffected, because the loss of a stream of coupon and principal payments would be matched by less taxation or inflation." - p. 74
So, no, the government's red ink is not our black ink. Since the government has nothing except what it takes from the private sector, all the debt service payments come at the expense of the private sector. Sure, there are winners and losers within the private sector, but the private sector as a whole is not wealthier as a result of the government's indebtedness.
Dr. Murphy distills this into an instructive analogy:
"Suppose Paul and Gary are neighbors and Gary borrows $1,000 from Paul, issuing him a formal IOU. So long as Paul believes Gary has the means and desire to honor his obligations, Paul will treat the IOU from Gary as an asset. To be sure, if Gary intends to honor it, then he has to treat the IOU as a liability, such that the financial assets of the neighborhood still sum to zero. Even so, if we focus only on Paul, we can say the existence of the IOU gives him a net financial asset.
"But suppose that instead of lending $1,000 to Gary, Paul instead lends it to the local gangster. It is well known that the gangster will— when the time comes—go through the motions of “paying back” the $1,000 plus interest, but in practice he will stick a gun in Paul’s belly, take the cash from him, and then hand it right back, along with the ripped-up IOU. In this scenario, it’s not simply that the total neighborhood financial assets sum to zero. We can go further and say that even considering Paul in isolation, the IOU isn’t an asset at all." - pp. 74-75
Read the full chapter here: mises.org/library/book/anti-…
The @WSJ wants you to worry about the federal government's red ink. It would be nice if they bothered to show the black ink that spills onto the private sector's side of the ledger.
