THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DAYS

21 Jan 2017:

Mobsters have taken the White House.

God Help America.

The usual course for failing narcissists is to start a war and take emergency powers.

As the war is lost – narcissists commit suicide rather than face reality.

Trump has the nuclear button. 4 minutes from Armageddon.

Congress must confine their deluded and demented  new leader.

Noel HODSON - Author

20th Jan 17 - Lee – this confirms our previous conversation. Trump has “the button” and can trigger nuclear war in 4 minutes:

NEW SCIENTIST 21^ST JANUARY 2017

FROM the moment Donald Trump is inaugurated on Friday, he will be accompanied constantly by a device that launches nuclear missiles within 4 minutes – widely known as “the button”. Is it safe under his finger?

Many have been worrying about that question ever since Trump first seemed likely to become president. His mercurial nature and contradictory policy statements make him an unpredictable custodian of the US nuclear arsenal.

The stakes are high. “The use of even a single nuclear weapon, anywhere in the world, would be a global humanitarian, environmental and economic disaster,” says Derek Johnson, head of anti-nuclear group Global Zero, for reasons ranging from nuclear winter to a lowered threshold for subsequent nuclear attacks.

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Dear Mel et al

20 January 2017 - Today, inauguration day, I feel depressed and tired and unwell.

Do you receive these US briefings from The Center for Public Integrity? I hope these journalists can keep Trump and his assorted Cabinet thugs in check.

Thanks for your passionate essays on the perils of Demented Donald; which I agree with. The parallels with Mein Kampf & 1934 are chilling.

Trump supporters seem determined to not take Trump at his word, but, as in Orwell’s 1984, to believe the opposite, that underneath his hate and warring speeches he is a really nice man. Most “nice” men I know don’t have orgies with Russian prostitutes and piss on hotel beds. Nor do they “grab ‘em by the pussy”. Nor advocate more torture. Nor do they exact revenge at “15 times the hurt” including on terminally sick nephews. Nor do they dodge the Draft, evade taxes, evade creditors, recruit Russian election hackers or data-leakers, support KKK and round up millions of “wet-backs” for concentration camps.

Trump is correct that mob disaffection is due to unprecedented income and wealth gaps – globally. 34 million Americans on Food-Stamps, 20 million still without health-cover despite Obama Care, etc.

Davos refuses to address this possibly revolutionary threat. A handful at Davos growing richer, literally by the second, and refusing to re-invest (e.g. in green-tech, like the Chinese). Money MUST circulate to keep economies healthy. You are right - YES – if the frozen $32 trillion tax-haven-capital-flight (80M good jobs) is reinvested in the countries of origin, with re-distributive taxes, ALL national deficits and most global tensions would dissolve (Piketty). Will Trump re-distribute the wealth? Mrs May and Christine Lagarde are calling, at Davos, today, for such re-distribution. Whistling in the wind?

Brexit – All major UK players will turn to Europe. Influential grinning idiots are bankrupting the UK. Their main personal selfish motive is to escape the tightening EU and USA tax-net. Tax-haven, Low tax and Small government will make us a banana-monarchy, as we try and fail to re-negotiate about 600 trade agreements made over the past 47 years. We will be diminished and side-lined for centuries.

Boyz night-out. I’m up for it. But this morning I  am too gloomy to agree dates or an agenda. If Donald does not trigger WW3 this weekend – let’s pick up the Boyz-nite arrangements on Monday.

In God We Trust (or do we?)

Noel

Noel HODSON - Author

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