Visit our website now: http://www.billstill.com for the unvarnished truth about Washington and today’s United States Political Climate. Good morning, I’m still reporting on Good evening, I’m still reporting on Still Report #1220– Will President Obama Suppress Military Vote Again? http:// www.billstill.com/ I just got in a letter from Jane Smith (name changed to protect the innocent). She was just informed by her husband who is deployed overseas that they have not yet received their absentee ballots again this year. “Their ballots must be postmarked by 11 Oct. 2016 or they will not be counted. This has happened before and it appears it is happening again. “Again, some low-level clerical error will be blamed and the nation will again simply shrug it off.” The heartbreaking absurdity of this story is that Jane is actually afraid of complaining about her husband not getting to vote. Everyone in the service is afraid of losing their jobs due to ongoing massive layoffs under the current administration. But to be in fear of complaining about not getting to vote in this, the most important presidential election in our history? Is this even America anymore? As Jane said, this problem is nothing new, but the last story on this issue that I could find was a Washington Post story dated, 11 Nov. 2015 – thirteen months ago. Since President Obama’s first election in 2008, the record of military voter suppression has been horrifying. For example, Minnesota is the state which prides itself on typically having the nation’s highest voter participation rate. Voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election was 78.2%. However, among military members and their families, it was a mere 15.8%. To make matters worse, Minnesota military voters – casting their votes by absentee ballot – had their ballots rejected a whopping 70% of the time, as compared to a 10% rejection rate for the general population. According to a 2010 story in Heritage.org, Legal Memorandum #45, by Hans A. von Spakovsky of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies: “Said another way, nearly 80 to 85 percent of military voters were unable to cast an absentee ballot that counted during the 2008 presidential election….” So, Congress to the rescue. In 2009, Congress passed the Military and Overseas Voting Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009. According to the Washington Post article of 11 November, 2005: “States were required to change their election laws to ensure that overseas military personnel could register to vote and request ballots electronically. Additionally, states were required to have ballots ready to mail at least 45 days before an election to ensure enough time to return the ballot to be counted.” So that fixed it for the 2012 vote, right? Wrong! As a result of the 2009 MOVE Act, voting assistance offices were to be built at most military bases. However, only half were ever funded - in defiance of the law. According to a 5 November, 2012 story in the Washington Times by Ned Ryun: “The explanation? The Obama administration by way of the Pentagon blamed a lack of funds for their failure to comply with the law. “We can afford to send $2 billion to the Egyptian government, run by the radical Muslim Brotherhood — whose president has recently called for the destruction of Israel — but we can’t fund efforts allowing our own soldiers to vote?” “It’s a national disgrace. Worse, the facts make us wonder if it is intentional. After all, members of the military vote overwhelmingly Republican.” On top of that, in Nov. 2012 when the key swing state of Ohio extended military voting by three days, the Obama campaign sued the state. The lawsuit said that the extension was “arbitrary” and had “no discernible rational basis.” In the end, according to the Washington Post story, in 2012, some 250,000 military voters did not get their votes in on time to be counted. And today, it’s happening again. Have the states sent out their military absentee ballots? Because as of today, it is only 41 days until election day. According to the chief of operations for the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA) as quoted in the Heritage.org piece: “… it takes at least 36 days of mail time (18 days each way) for a ballot to be sent to and from a war zone and some additional amount of time to account for military exigencies.” However 8 typically-blue states refuse to follow the 45-day standard: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont. Consider becoming a cherished sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3204630 https://youtu.be/l-4bBDfLeSM

to become Partner #426: www.billstill.com, then Click "Subscribe". Bitcoin address: 15Ucde9jSR7UezG8w4Lgk3jMhiCebc4veG The Chinese stock market has just crashed again for the second time in the last 3 days. Trading was shut down for the day about 20 minutes into the Jan. 7 morning session as automatic circuit breakers kicked in after losses hit 7%. However, so steep was the dive that before the circuit breakers could bring trading to a halt, the market was down 7.32%. Again, trading was halted about an hour ago in China, where it is now Thursday, January 7th. The impact of this second day-long shutdown of the Chinese market is difficult to assess, but it will likely be more severe than the crash in China on Monday. The effect of Monday’s shut-down in China precipitated a 700 point drop in the New York Stock Exchange this week. One of the possible causes for the drop today was the World Bank came out with a new forecast for economic growth in 2016 & 2017. They dropped their World GDP growth target from 3.3% down to 2.9%. The reason for the stagnant growth prospects for the world is that the world is simply swimming in debt. In a debt money system, where all money is created by banks when they make loans, there appears to be a limit to how much debt the world can absorb. The problem is that when the debts are created, the interest on those debts is not created, therefore in order to keep the system afloat, more and more debt must be created to service the interest payments on the previous debt. It’s a literal financial pyramid scheme that is absolutely doomed to failure. I know it’s hard to understand, but this is the fact of the matter, despite the fact that the mainstream media is not telling you this. Why? Because they are all in debt up to their necks and can’t afford to anger the big banks who loan them money. Will the system come crashing down this week – tomorrow? Next week? No one knows. We are moving into unexplored territory. Compounding interest is choking the life out of every nation on the planet. Fortunately, there is something we can do. Every nation should start reissuing debt-free money, issued by their sovereign governments and gradually feeding it into the system to buy up existing debts, until they are all paid off. Then never give banks the privilege of issuing your national money again in a way that is nothing short of counterfeiting. I can’t tell you how fast this money should be injected into economies, and if we do face a massive crash scenario that complicates matters. But in any case, as the new debt-free money goes into the economy to pay off existing government bonds – which is how governments borrow – then nations need to gradually get off the borrowing addiction so that in the end, government borrowing should be forbidden and all money comes into the economy by being issued by the government without debt. Then when banks make loans, they can only lend out money they actually have, which may or may not include the value of their assets as well as cash or cash equivalents. There are many alternate routes to try and different nations will try many different variations and the best at restoring calm and prosperity will be the ones all nations end up adopting. So remember, when it comes to solutions, there are just two things to remember: 1. You must end up with government-issued, debt-free money, and: 2. Governments can no longer be allowed to issue bonds to create debt – or borrow any money at all. Governments must be put on a pay-as-you-go basis. If they need more programs then they have money to pay for it, then they need to cut the program to match available money, or they need to raise taxes immediately to pay for the new programs. This is all covered in my book, “No More National Debt”, available at www.billstill.com, or on Amazon.com. I’m still reporting from Washington. Good night.

CORRECTION: IN THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE TEXT, I SAID: "... a veto-proof 60-vote majority in the U.S. Senate." 60 votes gives a filibuster-proof majority. A "veto-proof" majority is 67 votes. We regret the confusion, and YouTube will no longer let me text-based edits in the on-screen video stream. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve Chairwoman, Janet Yellen, openly opposed the stated policy of new President Donald Trump by saying the Fed was worried about the economy heating up too much so they would raise interest rates more than planned – 3 times in 2017. Now remember, this is a Fed that only raised interest rates twice – in the last 10 years in a failed effort to support President no-name Obama. In other words, if Hillary Clinton would have won the election, then the Fed would have continued with more moderate interest rate hikes – or none at all – as they did for President Obama. So let’s get this straight – when the Fed raises interest rates it is to worsen the U.S. economy. Why? When interest rates go up, what happens? There is less borrowing. So what do you suppose happens to the total amount of money in the U.S. economy when there is less borrowing? There is less money. And that’s how the Fed justifies it. Visit our website at http://www.billstill.com Considered by informed insiders’ as the ultimate resource for surviving economic or financial collapse/crash and attaining the unvarnished truth about the latest US and world news, current events in Washington, and today’s United States political climate. Please Like, Comment & Share. Good evening, I’m still reporting on The Fed Declares War on Trump Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington. Connect with Bill Still: https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3 https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BillStill http://billstills.blogspot.in/ https://twitter.com/billstill https://www.facebook.com/BillStillOfficial https://www.pinterest.com/billstills/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/billstill http://billstills.tumblr.com/ https://billstills.wordpress.com/ https://www.diigo.com/profile/billstill https://www.reddit.com/user/billstills/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/billstillss Consider becoming a cherished sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3204630 https://youtu.be/mtbPkcZpZmY

Well, it’s time to admit that I was wrong and my friend, Karl, was right. The following is based on the safe assumption that the flaperon found on Réunion Island, 400 miles east of Madagascar, is from MH370. I said MH370 landed on dry land. Karl said it was in the drink. He was apparently right. But there are three new interesting tidbits of information with the story – again, assuming this was MH370 wreckage: number one is that the piece of the wing called a flaperon that washed up on Réunion Island indicates that the jet was probably gliding in ditching mode, otherwise this component would have been completely destroyed had the jet hit the water hard. The second tidbit of interesting new information is that a piece of luggage was found close to the beach where the flaperon was discovered. This brings us to the third tidbit: investigators who analyzed the debris from Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 found that the debris doesn’t float for that long and it tends to remain concentrated together. Conclusion: based on available evidence, MH370 is probably to the northeast of Réunion Island off the east coast of Africa, not off the coast of Australia. If it had ditched off the coast of Australia, it would have had to drift in the predominant Indian Ocean’s counter-clockwise current for over 4,000 miles. One thing is for sure, we will have much better information by Monday morning.