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"This country, and with it most of the Western world, is presently going through a period of inflation and credit expansion. As the quantity of money in circulation and deposits subject to check increases, there prevails a general tendency for the prices of commodities and services to rise. Business is booming. Yet such a boom, artificially engineered by monetary and credit expansion, cannot last forever. It must come to an end sooner or later. For paper money and bank deposits are not a proper substitute for non-existing capital goods. Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. It has happened again and again in the past, and it will happen in the future, too." - Ludwig von Mises - 1952As the von Mises quote proves, economic cycles, artificial booms created by Federal Reserve easy money and delusional human nature are cyclically constant across the decades. Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills realizes the current artificial boom, created by a feckless Fed captured by Wall Street banks and corrupt Washington politicians who took Dick Cheney's "deficits don't matter" mantra to obscene levels, will end in another financial crisis. Our Deep State controllers have "solved" a financial crisis caused by too much debt by tripling down on more debt.
Senators from both parties were upset that Haspel was not part of a recent closed-door session with top administration officials about Khashoggi's killing and the U.S. response. The briefing included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.From Zero Hedge:
Questioned about Haspel's absence from last week's briefing, a CIA spokesman said that the director had already briefed congressional leaders on Khashoggi and that no one was keeping her away. In another explanation, a White House official said Haspel decided not to participate in part because of frustration with lawmakers leaking classified intelligence from such settings. The White House official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
Senators, in a rare rebuke of Trump's handling of the situation, moved immediately after the briefing to punish Saudi Arabia by advancing legislation to curtail U.S. backing for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. They overwhelmingly approved the resolution, 63-37, on an unexpectedly wide bipartisan vote. The resolution is pending further action as key senators push for an end to U.S. support for the Saudi war against Houthi rebels. Human rights groups say it is indiscriminately leading to civilian deaths.
Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, had messages for President Donald Trump and America in a video shown at his memorial service in Washington.
[Rand] Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argued that if lawmakers aren't allowed to have access to the intelligence community's conclusions, then they can't provide oversight.
"To my mind this is the very definition of the deep state... The deep state is that the intelligence agencies do things, conclude things, make conclusions but then the elected officials are prevented from knowing about this. If we aren't told about this and I'm not allowed to know about these conclusions, then I can't have oversight. And so then state grows, the intelligence, the deep state grows and has more and more power."
"I've read in the media that the CIA has said with high confidence that the crown prince was involved with killing Khashoggi. I have not seen that intelligence nor have I even seen the conclusions. And today there's yet another briefing and I'm being excluded. So really, this is the deep state at work ... that your representatives don't know what is going on in the intelligence agencies."
Comment: Reminds us of another related article we published recently: Ukrainian General: US is advising Kiev to unleash 'chaos' in Donbass