Let's Do Popcorn! News & Markets for 2-27-18
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Note - everyone uses the Law. It is Law. Whether they realize it or not that is what is happening. What they believe is what they see and it may not be your world but it is their world. That's all it is. It is Law or Principle and it is working all the time and it works the same for everyone. Your belief and what you imagine and give attention to in your mind, those secret talks you have with yourself, they manifest in this world. You are a projector. You manifest what you believe is true. We all write the story and we all believe it in.
Tim Cook of Apple wants to do away with cash. Well of course he does. He loves his Apple pay because Apple is the bank with Apple pay. This, along with gun ownership, is of the utmost importance.
You can't take it with you if it is just bits controlled by the bank or a company.
When you make a deposit you are lending that bank your money and they are a debtor to you and if they go under you are an unsecured loan and the last one to see any relief and more than likely you will not receive any relief if that happens.
You are the power with cash. You can go to the bank and get all your money and there is nothing more scary to a bank than it's depositors showing up demanding their money. They don't have it. They loaned it out and they have reserves to take care of those who do show up but not one of them is prepared if all show up. They would be screwed if that happened.
You can't do that without the cash to carry out. If they put all your money on a card the card is still from them. The bank controls the card not you.
You control it all with cash and that is why cash is king and it is not too expensive to make. Paper is cheap and abundant.
Corporations that take a political stance are asking for trouble. It's none of their business frankly and a sure fire way to go down. Pissing off half your customers is just not a good idea for continued growth. If you own this stock I recommend you lose it.
I love Google. I love the search engine's speed and the email and youtube. All wonderful stuff but there are two sides to everything and when a company chooses to side on a political issue it spells the beginning of the end for that company. Their attacks on their own youtube base is hurting them as they turn away and go to sites like Patreon or Minds to do as they wish.
After all you don't have to watch them. You choose to do so.
Now they are attacking their customers in the search arena.
On February 26, Twitter users LADowd and Xavier Dreyman noticed that results in the most used search engine in the world were returning nothing in the “Shopping” tab when any query included a gun part, model, or manufacturer.
His first result was for the rather broad term of “rifle scope”. This brought up zero results while providing just two sponsored results below the main search. They continued on looking for “Remington razor” which also brought up zero results. Remington is most known for firearms.
Shopping result for anything related to “Remington”, “Glock”, and “Colt” turn up nothing. Twitter user “Stigcicle” found a list that includes censoring “Steyr”, an Australian town that has the misfortune of sharing the name with a gun manufacturer. This includes shopping for parts for a Dodge Colt.
Google’s actions in the wake of the this tragedy are not a surprise given the company’s known political stances. What is surprising is the action was taken in silence.
Perhaps in silence those who discover this will move on. Google seems to think they are the only game in town. They aren't. It's a choice.
Government & Safety & Parkland Shooting
Governments love to hear from the public - do something about this. Such was the case after 9/11. I think we have learned by now the government cannot keep you safe. Only you can keep you safe and that comes with a state of consciousness that you are always safe no matter what.
Look at us. We allow an entire government department to search our luggage and our bodies in the most intrusive ways all to make sure you are 'safe' and you are still not safe. You will never be safe until you start to believe that you are always safe.
The Parkland Shooting is a great example.
The two main law enforcement units that should have protected students against the shooter failed miserably.
The shooter was handed to the Broward County Sheriff’s office and the FBI on a silver platter multiple times. There were tips that specifically mentioned school shootings. There were threats made by the shooter, which again, specifically mentioned school shootings.
There were calls about violence, including the shooter putting guns to people’s heads. Deputies visited many times after concerned friends, family, and strangers called. The shooter called the police on himself.
A sheriff’s deputy failed by refusing to go into the school during the shooting and engage the shooter. He was on the scene. He knew what was happening. He shirked his duty. Four other deputies are reported to have arrived on the scene while the shooting was ongoing, and likewise did not intervene.
These are the people who will protect us if we are disarmed?
I think you can understand why gun sales went out the roof in Florida afterwards and I think you can understand why no sane person would want to give up their gun.
Scott Israel wants to blame the NRA yet it was his department that failed to prevent and failed to stop this shooting.
He is the poster child on why one should never depend on law enforcement.
This man is a typical politician. He was on the Florida Leadership Council of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign. He was a Republican but ran for Sheriff as a Democrat. I guess he needed that paycheck and it seemed like the best way to get elected.
Once elected, he hired his campaign manager’s husband as an “outreach manager” for the Sheriff’s Department, which pays almost $80,000 a year. Israel gave out almost $400,000 in publicly funded salaries to political supporters. These “public outreach” jobs are responsible for social media posts and other pro-department 'news'. They form a tax-payer funded re-election arm of the Sheriff’s office.
Israel complained that he didn’t have the funding to keep a murder suspect from escaping the county courthouse in 2016. But he did have the funding to hire political supporters.
Maybe the deputy on the scene was more equipped to campaign for office than provide public safety. He told them don't go in without your body cam turned on and they had no body cams on them so they didn't go in.
The shooter made actual threats. He reportedly put guns to people’s heads multiple times. Those are actual crimes which if charged and convicted, would have disqualified him from legally purchasing a firearm.
This shooter victimized people. He threatened violence against other people. He had violent altercations which were never followed up with criminal charges.
Scott Israel’s politicized department dropped the ball on addressing actual criminal activity of someone who went on to do much worse.
The failure is on the FBI and law enforcement and some people want to make sure they are the only ones equipped to handle threats like these? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is crazy.
The shooter would have already been barred from owning guns if law enforcement had done their jobs.
Sheriff Scott Israel was too busy quoting villains from Game of Thrones and as such this demonstrated that he didn’t care what the public had to say about his corrupt hiring practices. He does not care about the public that is pretty evident from his response.
Then there is the FBI. It's a known FBI MO.
It is well documented that a majority of the terrorist attacks the FBI thwarts are actually entrapment operations.
Is it a stretch to think they would radicalize someone for political purposes considering what we have learned about them and then just let a tragedy happen?
We know that the FBI will pursue investigations for political purposes. We know that they will harass citizens and hide evidence for political purposes. We know they lie for political purpose. The entire history of the FBI is tainted by corruption, blackmail, coercion, and overreach.
The FBI who was contacted at least twice about the shooter and did not follow protocol. A Sheriff’s department who never charged the shooter with a crime despite dozens of incidents. A politically motivated Sheriff running that department, who has met Hillary Clinton on numerous occasions and volunteered in a leadership position on her 2016 campaign.
The media rolls out the victims in a coordinated campaign for gun control. Sheriff Scott Israel takes part in throwing blame on guns and the NRA.
Then there is David Hogg, the son of a former FBI agent. He did not attend school there. He had already graduated so why was he there? He quickly becomes an activist, not just for gun control, and commenting on all sorts of political issues. He is against Trump, against the NRA, and supports Sheriff Israel, despite the gross failures of his department.
He doesn’t want to blame the FBI because he has seen how hard his dad worked. The media provided additional information about his dad. He used to collect teddy bears and hand them out to refugee children. As my mom used to say, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? LOL
We know the FBI has a contingent of Clinton supporters and relied on the Clinton Campaign for information they presented to the FISA court against Trump allies.
Governments have done horrible things before. Read any history book. It is full of murderous plots, and traitorous deceits.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested a false flag called Operation Northwood to President Kennedy, who vehemently objected.
We also know the media has long been in the pocket of the government starting with Operation Mockingbird. They hire journalists and broadcasters to repeat CIA/FBI lies. They said Mockingbird ended but it didn't. Not one government agency ever created has ended. It just gets moved and it's name is changed.
I am just stating what we know and if it smells like a fish, looks like a fish, swims like a fish I believe it is probably a fish.
How do you turn attention away from Hills & Company and the implosion at the DNC during primaries?
Kill some kids and start crying about the NRA. Globalists like Hillary and her gang don't see people. They see numbers. They don't see anything other than consolidating power into their world - the world of politics.
It's a civic duty not a career. Lose the federal pensions and they will scatter like roaches when the lights go on.
My two cents anyways.
Fed head blah blah blah took the steam out of the market today. Algos are so dramatic. LOL Today the new Fed Head was a hawk. No worries. They love to keep all guessing and in a week he will be a dove and the ones deemed doves will be hawks and the ones deemed hawks will be doves and your head will hurt if you try to guess. It's just the Fed trying to get the market to be a good boy in their eyes. It doesn't matter really.
The Fed is raising rates. That's all there is to it and it will be ok. We have done this before and it will be ok. They just think it is unique but it isn't unique. It's just a repeat.
S&P 500 Resistance – 2759, 2785, 2811, 2824, 2842, 2876, 2905
S&P 500 Support – 2730, 2715, 2682, 2655, 2638, 2607, 2575, 2560, 2530, 2505, 2478, 2422, 2400, 2375
Target 3200 remains.
Nice rally today. We might be making a wedge here but we need more data. Resistance is 11,750. Right now looking for more to the upside.
Take care,
Rita