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It didn't look like much happened with yesterday's big tech hearing, but I stumbled upon this - which is HUGE! Trump always said if Congress doesn't handle the social media companies that he would - and he DID! He quietly signed an Executive Order on Monday, the contents of which were apparently only released yesterday. He directed the Dept. of Commerce to clarify that Section 230 does NOT apply to so social media companies and that they CAN BE SUED for altering or editorializing their users' speech. This is really, really big because Section 230 was what the tech giants hid behind to protect themselves from the consesequences of removing, censoring or shadow banning content from conservatives (or really anyone, but they mostly target conservatives). Now that they CAN be sued (and no doubt they will), that should stop much of their hijinks. Whoooopee!! link Implementation of President Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social media companies that alter or editorialize users’ speech to escape civil liability. The petition also requests that the FCC clarify when an online platform curates content in “good faith,” and requests transparency requirements on their moderation practices, similar to requirements imposed on broadband service providers under Title I of the Communications Act. President Trump will continue to fight back against unfair, un-American, and politically biased censorship of Americans online.

Fascinating information, good to know. Ten Coronavirus Charts and Graphs You Need to See If you listen to the mainstream media (and I don’t recommend it) it’s safe to say you’re probably not getting a balanced picture of the USA’s coronavirus situation. They go for the headlines, the stuff that looks bad, in the hopes they can pin everything on Trump, or deflect criticism from Cuomo in New York, and generally make people afraid. But there’s a lot of stuff happening that doesn’t make it into the headlines or is ignored. So, I’ve compiled some graphs, charts, etc., that show you what’s been going on lately that might not be getting the attention it deserves. Some of it is good news, some of it is bad, some just puts things into context, but it all matters. 1. Small businesses are still getting crushed Have you seen your favorite local restaurant or shop go under? The longer we go without reopening, the harder small businesses are finding it to stay open. Even when this is over (assuming it ever is) your favorite places may no longer be in business. 2. Testing, testing, testing The USA is literally crushing it when it comes to testing compared to other countries. Remember when testing was hyped as the most important thing? 3. Putting COVID-19 cases in perspective More tests mean more cases. And when you look at the raw numbers, it looks like the United States is experiencing a spike, while other countries are not. But what happens when the data is adjusted to account for the huge increase in U.S. testing? 4. Stop blaming Florida! The media wants you to believe that Florida is the new COVID-19 hotspot. Is it really? 5. Consumer confidence takes a hit Still think the shutdowns were a great idea? 6. Build the wall! Build the wall! Trump should be citing this one when he makes the case for a border wall. 7. The amazing declining fatality rate in Florida The fatality rate of COVID-19 is declining in Florida, and probably elsewhere as well because of more effective treatments. This is good news. 8. I bet you’ve never seen this before Fascinating stuff right here. 9. 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott! Let’s keep the schools shut down! 10. Sweden got it right The “experts” told us to shut everything down. Sweden didn’t, and look how they did. _____

It's clear that you strongly dislike Trump, so I won't try and defend him because I think you and I are too far apart to meet in the middle. That said, I just want to point out two things: 1) The US is a "constitutional republic" and as such, the States have the ultimate authority - not the Federal Government. The States are responsible for taking care of their citizens, NOT the federal government. That is why Trump is not going into the States or telling them how to govern. The Constititution does not give him the power to over-ride State Governments. Trump is a Constitutionalist and if you listen to some of his answers to reporters, he often says how it's the States' responsibility, and that he will only do something if the States refuse to handle it themselves. When too many people start dying from the State government's decisions and/or when they State Governments start taking away their citizens' consitutional rights, then, Trump, as President, then has some legal standing to go in. The only question is how far and how much can the State governments do, before they cross the line and give him that legal standing. So from the legal standpoint point of our US Constitution - Trump is not responsible for those deaths. If anyone is to blame, it's China and in some cases, the mismanagement of the State Governments. I actually expect to see some lawsuits coming because of them putting Covid patients in senior facilities (which btw was against Trump Administration guidelines). Many people are particularly angry at Cuomo and they have outright called him a murderer for that. 2) Trump is not God for chrissakes! How could he or anyone have known what the coronavirus was or how to deal with it when we first learned about it. You admitted he did his best - that's all any leader - any person, can do. I also believe Covid is man-made, whether intentionally released or not. There's no doubt that Wuhan was working on gain-of-function experiments which would make viruses many times more contageous and deadly. But Trump - and no one (except a small percentage of Chinese people) didn't know that back then. If someone doesn't know what the virus is, how it works, how deadly, how contagious, or anything about it, how can they possibly know how to respond and protect against it? (This is why Trump is so angry with China becaue they could have shared all they knew about it early on so that the rest of the world could have responded better from the start.) All anyone could do in that situation is use their best judgement - which is what Trump did. It's now over 6 months later that we're starting to get a better understanding of it - but with the misinformation from major drug companies deliberately smearing the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (which costs only $100 and is generic), high dose vitamin C, oxygen therapy, etc. so that they can peddle $3,000 Remdemisver (which hardly helps) and a vaccine that even Fauci admits won't really work - I think it's still not possible to know what the best course of action is - even today. And it's really not fair to blame someone for doing their best in a situation when they didn't know what they're dealing with. And fyi for everyone, N95 masks do NOT prevent anyone from getting coronavirus. You will still get exposed, but you will at least breathe in less virus molecules because the mask will block many of them. And any kind mask will also do that to a greater (like an N99 mask) or lesser (a cloth mask) extent. Back with the Spanish flu a hundred years ago, I read one of the reasons the US had a lower death rate from it, was because it came to the States late and by then people knew to wear masks (simple cloth ones). It makes me so mad when people say, "Masks don't work, they won't protect you against getting the coronavirus." While technically it's true they won't fully protect you, they intentially leave out the truth that masks will nonetheless greatly decrease your chances of catching it because the masks will limit your amount of exposure to it. The lower your exposure, the greater the likelihood your own immune system will fight it off before you fully contract the disease, or that you will contract a lesser case of it. People spend to much time arguing either 1) full protection or 2) no protection while the truth is really in the middle at "some protection". While I don't think it's good to wear masks all the time becaue they do limit your oxygen intake (and btw, in China a man did actually die from wearing a mask because he was a runner and after the lockdown he started running again with a mask. After a few days he got really sick really fast and died), I definitely think they're a good idea when you're out in public with a lot of people.

Yes, this is another "cure", hydroxycholoroquine, zinc and Azithromicin. Another potential "cure" is is cholorine dioxide, or MSM and supposedly many people have seen astounding recoveries from using it But I'm personally a little bit leerly of it because chlorine is really toxic so it always scares. Still if I was dying from Covid and it was the only option available, I'd give it a try. I still say high dose Vitamin C (5,000 to 10,000 mg spread out through the day because it can cause diarrhea if taken all at once) plus 5,000iu Vitamin D3 along with zinc will supercharge people's immune systems and even if you are exposed to Covid, your immune system will kill it off so quickly that you won't actually contract the disease. And in the event that you somehow did, at least there are 3 great "cures" to choose from!!

If you get any seeds in the mail from China that you did NOT order - DON'T OPEN THEM!!! Apparently China is sending various unknown types of seeds to random people accross the country and labeling the contents as jewelry. There is speculation that China is engaged in some sort of "agricultural warfare", by trying to introduce invasive species of plants to our ecosystems or plants that may harm livestock or other living things in our ecosystems. Those rat b*_)#$@s commies!!! Agricultural Warfare? People Are Receiving Mysterious Unsolicited Packages Of Seeds In The Mail From China by Tyler Durden Sun, 07/26/2020 - 11:55 TwitterFacebookRedditEmailPrint Just when you thought tensions between the U.S. and China couldn't get any stranger in the midst of the ongoing global pandemic, Americans across the country are starting to report receiving unsolicited packages of different types of seeds that they didn't order - and don't know anything about - at their door. The return address on the packages is always from China. The Washington State Department of Agriculture wrote about the phenomenon on their Facebook page on July 24, 2020 and said that the seeds are being shipping in packaging that identifies the contents as jewelry. Similar advisories have been issued in Virginia, Utah, Kansas, Arizona and Louisiana. “Unsolicited seeds could be invasive, introduce diseases to local plants, or be harmful to livestock,” the post says. Facebook users have been adding photos in the comments section of the post sharing photographs of seeds they have received from China. “It’s not a joke. I got some the other day!!!” one user commented, stating that the package identified the contents as a "Rose flower stud earring". “Look’s like it’s all across the country,” stated an Indiana resident who also received seeds in the mail unsolicited. At least 40 residents in Utah were said to have been mailed the unsolicited packages, according to the Daily Mail. The Kansas Department of Agriculture and the Arizona Department of Agriculture also addressed the phenomenon, as did the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, who said: There have been similar reports from Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. "The seeds have yet to be identified, but officials speculate that the seeds may be of an invasive plant species and are advising residents not to use them," Fox News reported. "Taking steps to prevent their introduction is the most effective method of reducing both the risk of invasive species infestations and the cost to control and mitigate those infestations," VDACS wrote in a press release. Twitter is also littered with reports of people receiving these seeds: The Washington State Department of Agriculture has advised people on its Facebook page: NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST ZEROHEDGE DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX Receive a daily recap featuring a curated list of must-read stories. Anyone who has received seeds in the mail can report them to the United States Department of Agriculture by visiting their website here. The site says: We can't help but wonder, given the fact that agriculture is such a large cornerstone of trade talks with China, whether or not this could be more than just "agricultural smuggling", but perhaps agricultural warfare of sorts. This story is developing and we will continue to update it if more information becomes available. link

And according to a Rasmussen poll from July 24th, 48-50% of people are likely to vote for Trump overall, AND 49% of blacks (which is up fromt he 40% that I'd last read about) will likely to vote for him AS WILL 57% of other minorities. The latino/a's, which according to wikipedia represent almost 17 of the US population, must be part of the other minorities. Gotta say both these polls make me feel a lot better after reading about all the rioting last night across the country.

Well, according to the dinar guru site that is conducting an election poll, as of this writing 1,750 people said they would vote for Trump as opposed to only250 who said they'd vote for Biden. Right now Trump is running 7 to 1with Biden, at least with dinar holders. Another 100 or so don't want to vote.

Hopefully one or all 3 of your cousins don't really have it! Now it turns out that Florida is deliberately overstating their positive cases. Places are showing close to 100% positive cases when the real number is much less. In Connecticut they found the tests were faulty and no accurate. Now they're notifying people who never even took the test that they tested positive. link SCIENCE FRAUD: Florida Gov. DeSantis calls for investigation into why people are testing “positive” for coronavirus tests they never received

Yes those of us who think for ourselves understand that. The problem is, if you try to say anything ,even something as innocuous as All Lives Matter, you get fired from your job, or worse yet shot dead like that young woman last week. I believe most peole who think for themselves and don't listen to the propagandist MSM, realize this is a fight to the death for the future of America. If Trump wins in November, with another 4 years I think he'll root out a huge amount of corruption and restore much of our precious Republic. But if there's serious election fraud, and/or if the majority of people don't think for themselves, the US (and then the world) will likely fall to socialism. That will continue for as long as it takes for people to get fed up and start a bloody revolution - which will probably be a really long time. This is a great article (by a Venezuelan no less), that explains the problem. It's an important read and I hope people will share it. In a nutshell, US young people are now taught in schools to believe in liberalism and they're not taught (like my older generation was) about US history anymore. They have no understanding of how the world really works and think socialism is a good thing. They have no idea it will never work and always ends horribly with great brutality. link Ideological World War III Will Destroy United States 80% of students in the Harvard School of Arts and Sciences consider themselves to be progressive/socialist, compared to only 1% who consider themselves to be right-wing UNITED STATESIDEOLOGYOPINION By Emmanuel Rincón Last updated Jul 16, 2020 0 Comments 3,999 Share In recent months, the founding fathers, their statues, and U.S. history have come under attack from the media, universities, Black Lives Matter, and Antifa (EFE). Spanish – The Sassanid Empire fell, the imperial Qing dynasty, the Roman Empire, the Mongolian Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire also fell. Unfortunately, it seems that the time has come for the fall of the United States as a world power. The generational cycle is unstoppable. Time is twisting human interactions because there is no way for those who have had everything without earning it, without sweating it out, learn to appreciate it, and preserve it. The United States of America was formed as a great nation on a foundation of effort, capitalism, and freedom. These three characteristics are becoming increasingly scarce in the collective imagination of the once-great nation of the world. Only those who fought and shed their blood for freedom and free trade know what they had to sacrifice to achieve it. Only those who planted great enterprises with their ingenuity and efforts know how difficult it is to raise and maintain them, like a ship that has to face the open sea, great floods, and storms. In the past, the United States was able to overcome the weaker generations due to the occurrence of the great world wars, which, despite the terrible casualties they produced, made the country aware that its freedom and supremacy was at stake every day. They had to overcome hurdles every day. They had to be more competitive, economically solid, stronger if they wanted to remain the king in the geopolitical jungle. Yet, this new generation of Americans does not know the great heroic deeds that their own country went through to get where it is today. It does not know the sacrifice and effort of its ancestors. Americans went from being the men who fought and defeated the Nazis to be men who are offended by a meme joking about a minority. No dynasty can overcome the vicissitudes of time. Nothing that happens in America today is accidental. The lack of knowledge about history is not a product of chance. The fact that currently, American mainstream media, such as The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, among others, is calling for cancellations, the destruction of Mount Rushmore that glorifies their patriotic idols, is neither an isolated event nor a coincidence. For decades, different groups of power have tried to destroy the American system and “defeat capitalism”, and since capitalism cannot be defeated or dismantled economically, they have resorted to a slower, tedious, but equally effective way to end it: ideological indoctrination. Today, most young Americans with a low-profile job can afford to buy a car with a couple of months of work. They don’t have the slightest idea that in a country like Venezuela, a person would have to work for about 150 years without spending a single penny, to raise enough money to buy a car, or worse, they don’t know that in that country, no matter how much you work, over 90 % of the population will never have enough money to buy food because their rulers told them there was a lack of equality and social justice, the government started giving everything away, and in the blink of an eye, they destroyed the economy, which no longer produced any food. The facts of this brutal indoctrination are palpable and shocking. At Harvard’s Faculty of Science and Arts alone, 80 % of the faculty members consider themselves to be “liberal”. In the United States, the term liberal does not have the same connotation as it does in Latin America. The American liberal is the progressive/socialist for latinos. The followers of the free market doctrine in the United States are referred to as “classic liberals.” So, 80 % call themselves or are sympathetic to socialist progressivism at Harvard, while only 1 % consider themselves “conservative”. The American conservative is someone on the right of the ideological spectrum. So ultimately, only 1 % consider themselves right-wingers at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. On the other hand, at Yale University, staff donations to election campaigns in the United States declined by 99.17 % for Democrats, and 0.83 % for Republicans. The most progressive and socialist candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders received the most contributions from this prestigious university. These data show why Donald Trump himself has already made a statement on the situation in the universities and talks about cutting the tax exemptions of those institutes that are indoctrinating the youngest Americans with extreme left-wing theories and rewriting history by presenting their patriotic heroes as tyrants or criminals instead of providing a solid education. According to Pew Research, the millennial generation supports 59 % of the Democratic Party and only 32 % of the Republican Party. Among women, where the oppressive and victimizing discourse has taken hold, as it has among African Americans, the gap is even wider, with 70 % considering themselves to be Democrats and only 23 % Republicans. The numbers categorically show how socialism, an ideology the United States fought for years, has been making its way among the new generations. The Democratic Party itself has suffered an abysmal leftist influx that has made it a party of contradictions over time. It must be remembered that it was the Democrats who defended slavery and who were also part of the early days of the Ku Klux Klan. Moreover, another devastating fact to demonstrate their hypocrisy regarding racism is that the first Black Democratic senator, Carol Moseley Braun, was elected in 1993, while the first Black Republican senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, was elected in 1870, 123 years before his Democratic counterpart. The last great Democrat was Robert Kennedy, but the party and ideals he represented no longer exist. Robert was perhaps a more complete version than his brother JFK because he believed in and defended equal rights for all citizens, he openly fought against racism at a time when Black people were heavily discriminated against and persecuted – not like today – and his discourse aimed at eradicating poverty, not with state grants and aid, but with work, effort, and economic growth. He did not lie to the electorate by saying that the state would solve their problems or give them freebies, as the Democrats today do, bolstered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and the presidential candidate himself, Joe Biden, who has recently said that shareholder capitalism in the United States must be dismantled. This radical transformation of the blue party has been consolidated by a carefully thought-out agenda and crude financing of the internal and external power groups that want to see the United States destroyed. Since the United States has a strong two-party system, a radical communist or socialist party such as “Podemos” in Spain could not be created. So the extremists had to infiltrate one of the two parties, and the blues were the ones who fell. Today, the progressive thinking that the Democrats stand for is fed into the media and universities. This is how the whole power structure has been created to defeat the current American system: Harvard, Yale, The New York Times, CNN, and the Democratic Party along with many more powerful institutions are in favor of turning towards socialism, and a generation increasingly ignorant of its own history. The scene is set for the great power of the 20th century and the early 21st century to begin digging its own grave and to collapse socially, economically, and politically. Donald Trump still has a good chance of being re-elected for a second presidential term, but this will not be able to cure ideological cancer that has already metastasized throughout society. If not in this one, a more progressive and socialist presidential candidate than Biden himself will win future elections, and increasingly, the new ignorant, sleepy, and manipulated generations will continue to demand more free things, more subsidies, fewer responsibilities, more state intervention until the United States has already faded completely, its system is destroyed, and gradually, China surpasses them at all levels of economic and political influence. Then, the totalitarianism of the Communist Party will become the new model for the western nations. The victimhood discourse was key to penetrating the minds of a majority of Americans. Segregation has been the ideal weapon to instill the hatred of its own citizens for the most successful country in the last two hundred years. I am deeply hurt by what is happening in the United States. I am hurt because apart from having been an example to follow for so long, it was the only country capable of keeping the expansive and collectivist pretensions of the Russians and Chinese at bay. That balance is about to be broken, and when that happens, we will lose all those we yearn for, value, and wish to live free. Sadly, the destruction of the great country of America seems inevitable and closer than ever. I believe that Trump will be able to delay his fall for a couple more years, but I doubt that there can be a return with these new generations who know nothing of struggle, effort, and meritocracy, and who are only capable of seeing life through the eyes of victims. Dark times in human history are approaching, and we must prepare ourselves to face them with gallantry and fight until the last moment.

I have to disagree. Having been here going on 10 years, up until you came along. people did NOT constantly quote the worst gurus' lying posts here. Occassionally there'd be a newbie who thought Oakie or TNT Tony might be legit, but they soon realized that they were blatantly lying and not worth quoting. With you, you know you're posting rubbish but continue to do so knowing that a great number of people don't like it (you know you used to receive far more rubies (when we used to have that option) than emeralds and that people don't say nice things about you). But for some reason, you seem to enjoy irritating so many people, or maybe you just like the attention. In any event, I was impressed to read about you altruistic plans and my attitude toward you has softened a bit.

Ventura County In California just issued its first order to lock down an apartment building. The residents must take a mandatory Covid test (which is a joke because we're now learning how inaccurate the test results are with the end result many people are reported as positive when they really aren't: Connecticut public health laboratory confirms nationwide coronavirus tests are flawed, creating huge spike in false positives). It's a senior, subsidized housing location and my guess it's the State's first attempt to see if they can get away with this. They are pushing on the weakest people first, the old people who are frail, afraid and without much fight left. In Wuhan they locked people in their apartments early on by welding their doors shut. In the end, a lot of people starved to death there. I wouldn't expect to see that in the US, but Cali makes their own rules so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they're already trying this. link to article

Wow! I am seeing you in a new and much better light after reading this. After all your thousands of rubbish posts you contantly bring here to aggravate people, I think I judged you too harshly. While I still wish you'd stop bring over all those worthless posts, I now honestly wish you and yours the very best and much success in your kindly endeavors.

If you are trying to say that you AFTER exchange your dinar and then gift some of the cash you received from that exchange to a friend or relative, that those friends/relatives are NOT responsible for the taxable gain on the RV - then, in my opinon you are correct. However, Adam is correct that there may be taxes owed when you gift money to someone else. The only exception is if it's $15,000/year or less. I found this great article that breifly explains the details of how that works. As always you need to speak to a qualified tax professional, but this gives you an idea of the basics . https://blog.taxact.com/gift-tax-do-i-have-to-pay-gift-tax-when-someone-gives-me-money/ With some investments there is a difference depending on how long you held the investment. Foreign currencies are a bit of a wildcard, and our specific situation falls under the "hope for the best" guidelines and regulations. Most likely the profits from a major revaluation of this currency will be treated as normal income, and taxes will be owed accordingly. I want to weigh in on this because, though I'm not a tax professional, I'm pretty good in finance and I spent a fair amount of time researching this a year and a half ago. Thanks to some great posts here by a very high caliber CPA, extaxguy, I decided that there's a good probability that I CAN claim my RV income as capital gains and therefore pay a maximum of only 20% taxes on it. I even wrote up a nice letter to give to my accountant that justifies my position. But then I watched a great video by Aaron Russo, a famous movie producer, in which he explained how he and some wealthy friends had paid capital gains taxes on an investment they had all made. Years later the IRS changed the tax treatment and made it Ordinary Income instead - and made it RETROACTIVE!! So Aaron and his buddies were billed for more taxes PLUS Penalties and Interest. They were wealthy people and sued the IRS and even though they should have won because it surely can't legal for the IRS to retroactively change the laws - THEY LOST! I think some of his rich buddies even went broke from it. So the upshot is that, while it's possible the RV gains may be taxed as Capital Gains (and with Trump in office, I think the probability of that happening is the highest it's ever been), don't count on that!! You're far better off assuming you'll pay the maximum (37% + your state income tax) and if turns out we're lucky enough to only pay capital gains on the gain, we gan apply for a refund and it'll be found money for us! Also, as I've been espousing recently, for those who plan to give money to charities post RV, give it to them in physical dinar notes (and don't make a gift letter for it). That way you can write off the new higher amount against your income. And this year, thanks to the CARES Act, you can give up to 100% of your taxable income to qualified charities (which for most people who aren't making a big income, would be about half of their dinar) and you wouldn't owe any federal income tax on the other half you keep and cash in! However you'd still have to pay your state income tax (see info below). Pretty sweet plan for people who like to support charities!!! You can find more specifics in the "RV Tax Tip" thread. Tax planning is so important! I know it's intimidating to people, but you risk losing so much of your new found wealth if you don't address it pre-RV. There's a lot of free info here on this site that you can start with, and once you start learning about it, it's really pretty easy to understand the basics.

I was just listening to Bob's recording and he specifically said that you do NOT want to do a gift letter to charity now because if you did, it will peg your charitable write off at only the amount you paid for your dinar. That makes sense because that's the exact reason we are doing gift letters for our IBC, family and friends. We want THEM to be responsible for the taxable gain once the RV happens and not us. I know for sure the increase to 100% of adjust gross income (taxable income) mandates it must be a "cash"gift. So super lucky for us that our IQD investment is actually cash. Anyway, since you have gift letters, you might as well hold on to them just in case things change at some point in the future, but just don't give them to your charity now. And if the RV does happen shortly while we're under the new CARES Act charitable deductions rules, then you can toss them.

Personally I think Rouhani has too big of an ego to try a shake down. On top of that, I don't think he really even cares about his people except so far as they serve his purposes. Having them hiding and afraid probably makes it easier for him to control them. (That seems to be the alt left's game plan in America after all). We've known for months that Iran has been under-reporting deaths, so maybe he's just trying to get in front of this before it gets so big that he can't cover up anymore it blows up in his face. That said, I can't begin to try and understand how a man like Rouhani thinks, so I just watch what he does and try to make sense of it as time goes by. I had hoped that coronavirus was fading away, but with the uptick in cases around the world, that doesn't look to be the case. Still, I'm hopeful that it may still fade away soon. But when you see Rouhani post these huge numbers, I for one can't help but think about their neighbor Iraq. After that, my mind starts to wonder if we will see the rest of the world follow suit and basically admit that we're all pretty much gonna be exposed to it. Personally, unless you're a hermit who completely stays away from other people, I think that's inevitable and is why I'm such a huge proponent of boosting our immune systems with high does Vit C, lots of Vit D3 and zinc.

President Rouhani actually announced this on twitter. If this is happening in Iran, it doesn't bode well for Iraq...😟 though perhaps it might push the RV more quickly since things are getting more desperate there. That should make it easier on the people at least. Iranian President Claims 100 Times More People Have Been Infected With COVID-19 Than Previously Reported A new report by the Iranian Health Ministry estimated that roughly 25 million people in Iran have been infected by COVID-19. President Hassan Rouhani shared these findings Saturday, showing significantly higher numbers than the roughly 271-tho,000 and cases previously reported by officials. This significant gap casts further doubt on the country’s official figures as they denied the virus’s arrival in February, allowing it to spread even further. Authorities said the low reported numbers are likely due to a lack of testing and poor data collection. Rouhani said he estimates millions more are still at risk to contract the virus in the future. “This report says that we should consider the possibility that 30 to 35 million people will be at risk of exposure to the virus,” he stated. “This same report suggests that the number of hospitalized people will be twice the number we have witnessed during these last 150 days.” Officials are reimposing lockdown restrictions amid the new estimates, including banning religious gatherings and closing entertainment venues.

Saturday satire: When Walmart required customers to wear masks, they had no idea THIS would happen… Saturday, July 18, 2020 by: Mike Adams Tags: comedy, covid-19, Hilarious, infections, masks, outbreak, pandemic, satire, stupid, Walmart 5,570VIEWS (Natural News) If you’ve ever wondered why the human race is doomed — and why mask mandates are a complete waste of time — look no further than Walmart, where you will find some of the most hilarious demonstrations of medical illiteracy the world has ever seen. Last week, Walmart announced that all its customers must wear masks. They mistakenly forgot to define the term “mask,” so Walmart shoppers came up with their own answers to that conundrum. And they are beyond hilarious. All photos below courtesy of PeopleofWalmart.com, where you’ll find tens of thousands of other photos that are so psychologically tormenting, you’ll be begging for a mask to cover your eyeballs. Just remember what Walmart people say when you’re taking photos of them to post on the Internet: They hate us ‘cuz they anus. Lets make Dr. Fauci proud… You want masks? We give you masks! A whole new rendition of the term “bag lady”… My husband was about to throw these out, but they’re still usable! The only question is, does the ass side go in front, or back? Honey, don’t forget the eggplant. We’ll need some on the moon: White diapers matter… Luke, I am your pork-devouring father… and my tats are epic: For some reason when I put this bag on my head, the whole Walmart store goes dark… There’s a cereal killer on the loose at Walmart: When we said “air filter,” we didn’t mean to take one off your car’s engine… Coronavirus is no match for Storage Bin Man! This guy is like a walking cartoon of comedy: It’s not quite the Cone of Silence, but rather the Umbrella of Plastic: Did you know that if you attach two yellow masks together with shoe laces, you can make a pair of fashionable shorts? Odds are, no one needs any special reminder to keep their distance from this guy: But here’s a man with a social distancing idea that might actually work! The wings make it work even better, helping you feel fresh and free! Everything was going great today until my head got stuck in this fish bowl, so I figured why not just continue shopping with it on? The highway construction crew called and they want their road cones back… Bee happy: But officer, I was wearing a mask… just not on my face! Does that count? I know the libtard Left has been destroying the meaning of words, but “mask” doesn’t mean “snorkel”… And finally, like I said earlier, they hate us ‘cuz they anus. Destroy your day with more eye-wrecking photos at PeopleOfWalmart.com.

According to Bob, NO, we do not!! I left out a couple of sentences when I copied the text above, so here's the part I left out. It's a good thread (link to it), especially if you want to leave a family legacy and/or want to do a lot of charity work. Bob has decades of CPA experience and he's been focussed entirely on the RV for the past few years and has some really good options. It's free to listen to what he has to say, AND he'll give you a free 30 minute private phone consultation to boot. Anyway, here's the part I left out. They have changed some of the programs, most noteably you now set up your Charitable Remainder Trust now, pre RV. Also important is that you no longer need to prepare a gift letter to your Charity pre RV. **************************************************************************************** Yes Dinarrock! That's why the second paragraph (which I'll repeat again now because this so HUGE) is so FANTASTIC!!! There is a way that you can create your own charity (post RV - you don't even have to do it now) and set it up under the umbrella of a "Community Foundation" (and pretty much every town and county has one, and there are even national and state ones) which allows your brand new charity to qualify for the CARES 100% deduction program!! I didn't mention it, but I think you and/or your family/friends can even draw a salary from your new charity for your work to manage it!!! SAAAWEEEET!!!! Again, we all need to check with a tax attorney to actually do this, but it's one heck of a plan which looks to be totally legally!!!! Pretty exciting information! Also, and this is HUGE, there happened to be a person on my webinar last night who worked all her life in charities. It's not possible to just create a new charity and gift your dinar to it because the CARES ACT mandates it must be a public charity or certain foundations, and it takes the IRS 2-3 years to approve a new charity. However this person on the webinar had a strong background in the world of charities, and she said you can go to your local "Community Foundation" and they will help you set up your own charity under their umbrella so that your new charity will quality for the CARES Act program under their foundation umbrella. They take a small percentage of your contributions, but you control the charity. Now, absolutely we all need to discuss this strategy with a tax attorney, and both this person and Bob said that. But if this can be worked outed, this is AWESOME! I have lots of things I want to do and I'd love to be the one in control of making sure they get done well. I had planned to establish my own charity anyway, but now this looks to be a way to do that from the get go. I am super excited about this strategy and hopefully some others of you here will be too.

Yes, I realize that, but this year you are allowed to deduct charitible contributions of up to 100% of your taxable income, i.e., your adjusted gross income! (And according to Bob if you give more than that, you can even carry the ununsed deduction forward 5 years!!!) It's part of the Covid CARES Act and there are a few requirements which I explain below. Trump wanted to help charities who are obviously hit very hard with so many millions of people being out of work, so they raised the previous charity deductions limit of 60% all to way to 100%!! This article from Forbes explains it, CARES Act 100% Of AGI Limit On Charitable Contributions Explained. I learned about this in April and I posted the information about it in the RV Tax Tip thread, from which I've copied the pertinent information below. I've reposted this several times since then but people just don't seem to realize the magnitude of this. For people who plan to gift a lot to charity, this a real game changer and I strongly enourage you to carefully read and STUDY how I explained it below. link to the post And for anyone interested in learning more, Bob is currently doing free webinars and if you search for: Breitling dinar blog , you'll find his site where he gives you the link to sign up for Bob's free webinar. ********************************************************* But the really HUUUUUGE news (and Bob just announced this yesterday) is that Trump's new CARES Act has increased the percentage of charitable deductions for 2020 (and probably only for the year 2020 since this is a way to help out charities who are sorely hurt by the coronavirus) to 100%!!! What this means is that by donating a lot to charity after the RV, you can potential lower your tax liability to 0, zero, zilch, nada! Here's an example: you have 10 million dinar and it RVs at $1 (picking a number to make the calculations easy). You give 5 million dinar, worth USD$5 million (5 million US dollars) to a charity (and CARES specifies it has to be a public charity and certain foundations, and also that it has to be cash - which dinar is), and get a receipt from them for the USD$5 million value. Then you keep the remaining 5 million dinar (also worth USD$5 million) for yourself and cash it in. You then use your charitable donation reciept for US$5 million as a write off against your USD$5 million gain on the RV, so your tax liability is $0!!! That way you NET the full amount of your half, USD$5 million because you OWE NO TAXES! By giving away half your dinar, you reduce your federal tax liability to zero on the other half you keep and cash in!! However, I doubt any state is going to change their tax laws for the coronavirus like the federal governmen did. So if you live in a state that charges income tax (unlike the income tax free states of Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming and people like me who live outside the US), you will still have to pay your state income tax on the gain. Also, and this is HUGE, there happened to be a person on my webinar last night who worked all her life in charities. It's not possible to just create a new charity and gift your dinar to it because the CARES ACT mandates it must be a public charity or certain foundations, and it takes the IRS 2-3 years to approve a new charity. However this person on the webinar had a strong background in the world of charities, and she said you can go to your local "Community Foundation" and they will help you set up your own charity under their umbrella so that your new charity will quality for the CARES Act program under their foundation umbrella. They take a small percentage of your contributions, but you control the charity. Now, absolutely we all need to discuss this strategy with a tax attorney, and both this person and Bob said that. But if this can be worked outed, this is AWESOME! I have lots of things I want to do and I'd love to be the one in control of making sure they get done well. I had planned to establish my own charity anyway, but now this looks to be a way to do that from the get go. I am super excited about this strategy and hopefully some others of you here will be too.

Well, we DO have a connection. I traveled to Alberta (Edmonton) to buy my horse who is the light of my eye, so I definitely feel a connection to Alberta!!

You may be right and only time will tell. But, one thing that's different now is Trump. He's not part of the Powers that Be - and his biggest promise has been to take them down - to "drain the swamp". That's why he's hated and attacked so much. The PTB know he's making progress and they're will to do anything - including destroying the U.S. - to stop him. I am amazed at all that Trump's just announced in his last few press conferences and meetings. And if the socialist left doesn't get control (and I don't think they will), he will accomplish things we couldn't even have imagined. He's a capitalist through and through and he wants people to have money so that they can spend it and invest it - both of which support a long chain of jobs and workers and grow the economy. He has already lowered taxes and has said he wants to lower them again. I'm not sure that will happen this year thanks to Covid and the collapsed economies, but his actions leave no doubt that he's trying to help people survive and prosper. He quickly spent trillions to help people and businesses and is willing to spend even more. He knows how to help the country recover very fast and as one of the world's smartest (if not the smartest) businessmen, his accomplishments to date leave me no doubt that he will be successful. Next week he'll announce his plan to quell the riots and looting and once we can get control of Covid, I think the sky's the limit with him. Did you know that just 2 months Trump even suggested that capital gains should be done away with temporarily? If that were to happen, I'd bet he will let the RV be taxed as capital gains. And did you know that this year, his administration will allow up to 100% charitable deduction write offs? That's amazing, because if your dinar ended up being worth, say, US$10 million after the RV, you could actually gift half of it to a charity and get a US$5 million write off on the other half you cash in for yourself. You wouldn't owe any federal taxes at all, though you'd still owe state income tax. And if you do it correctly, you can even set up your own charity that you control! Of course, from where we stand right now, we don't know what the situation will be when the RV happens. I totally get and appreciate the value of an offshore corporation. I have one myself and a bank account already set up for it in Belize. My philosoply is to open as many doors as you can so that you have a variety of options to choose from when the time comes. But right now the world is in limbo while we wait to see what happens with Covid. Maybe it will become less and less virilent and just fade away. That looked to be the case a month ago, but now new cases are increasing again. But if it's a bioweapon, as I suspect it is, it may not go away and may get worse. It's probable that there will be no vaccine for it since people who have recovered from it are catching it again and it's turned out that their antibodies against it fade away fairly quickly. They're also finding it does longer term (and we don't know how long yet since Covid's only be here for a few months) damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys and brain. So it's very possible that the 2nd or 3rd go round with it will turn out to be deadly as people's bodies have already been compromised. If that happens, global travel won't be popular unless absolutely necessary. This will destry many countries that are dependent on tourism. So right now I wonder if I really want a great deal of my money in a Belize bank - or any foreign bank. Just a couple of months ago I got an email from my Belize bank telling me that one of the other banks in Belize went under, but that I shouldn't worry because my bank is still open and going strong. But I can't help but think, even though my bank's open now, will it stay open long term? I actually created my offshore corporation myself and not through OSI, so I don't know what is being discussed there or what kind of options they're talking about. So I study world events and do my best to evaluate what they mean to me and my situation. But as someone who lives in a foreign country right now, the U.S., if it doesn't fall to socialism, has an awful lot of positives going for it so, until we learn more about Covid, that is where I'll put the bulk of my wealth. I will definitely put some overseas, but not most of it. And I'm willing to pay whatever taxes I have to (though fortunately I plan to give a lot to charity which will decrease that) because at this point I'm very risk averse and believe that it's safest in the U.S. jmho Like him or not, if you look at Trump's accomplishments through objective, economic eyes, you will see that he's been great for the US. Countries and people all over the world reconize that and it's why the USD is - and remains, the most preferred currency in the world. Sure it helps that it's the petro dollar, but right now people all over the world are seeing their currencies devalue against the the USD, which makes most of the world want to hold their money in USD if they can. Supply times velocity is what gives a currency value and the USD looks like it will continue to have a lot of velocity. And while you can hold your money in USD in a foreign country, if that country suddenly shutters it's banks (like Cyprus did in 2013) and they take a big chunk of your money and then only give you pennies on the dollars for it, that'd be a real bummer. I don't think there's any risk free place to keep it, so we all just have to make our own decision about what seems best for us.

More and more articles are beginning to come out about people catching Covid a 2nd time. Apparently the antibodies they develop after recovering from their first bout with it don't last and totally disappear within a few months. This means that, just like with SARS, it will never be possible to have a working vaccine against it. Though I have no doubt Fauci, Gates and the drug companies will claim they found one and we all need to get it so t at Gates can put his smart tech into us. Anyway, it's really to early to tell how big of a problem this is because we have such a short history of Covid, but they are also finding that people end up with significant heart, brain, lung and kidney damage from it, though we don't know if those will be permament. So for people who haven't got it yet, best to protect yourself by super charging your immune system. High dose of Vitamin C (at least 5 grams per day and more if you're a big person), plus 5,000IU Vitamin D3 and zinc. Chaga mushroom is also great. And this video from a leading-edge-doctor-on-coronavirus has some other good ideas too.

Your dinar are surely legitimate notes. I bought my first dinar from Dinar Banker too. They were a licensed currency dealer. They were indicted because they paid one of the gurus to say he had inside info that the RV was about to happen and the guru recommended people buy their dinar from Dinar Banker. There has never been any mention that they sold counterfit notes, it was only about scamming people that the RV was imminent and would make people instantly rich. But aAs Yota said, why don't you just hold on for a few more months - it could be a HUGE payday for you and your sister's family. And later if you fp want to sell them, you can sell them here, on ebay, or to another currency dealer like xchangeofamerica.com, safedinar.com or treasuryvault.com. You will get the highest price on ebay. It's currently close to $2000 per million dinar on ebay lately which is double the price there only 2-3 months ago.....just fyi

@Half Crazy Runner and @eastcreek and anyone else who's planning to give to charity, a good way to do that is gift them actual dinar. According to CPA Bob Adams, this year you are allowed to gift to qualified charities up to 100% of your adjusted gross income - as long as it's a "cash" gift, and the IQD is technically "cash". So, for every dollar's worth of dinar you give away, you can deduct that total dollar value from the taxable income you have from cashing in dinar for yourself (or any other income you have). For example, if you have 10 million dinar and it comes in at $1.00, you could give up to 5 million dinar (worth US$5 million) to charity and deduct that US$5 million against your gain of US$5 million that you have from cashing in your other 5 million dinar for yourself. You will still own whatever state income tax you owe (0-13.3%) but you wouldn't owe the federal government anything! And while most people won't give away half of their dinar to charity, still, however much you do give 10% - 20% - whatever you gift to charity in actual dinar, you are able to write off the US$ value of it against your income to reduce your tax liability. You can read more below and in that entire thread. Bob Adams was doing free webinars on tax planning earlier this year but I'm not sure if he's still offering them.

Newshound Guru Breitling If the value of their currency is too high regionally...no body is going to want to do business with Iraq because the value of labor is too high. This is how Iraq is going to look at it. They are going to look at that. And they are also going to compare it with them doing business outside of Iraq and they might be able to pull it off. That's how they're looking at it. That's why they haven't made the decision yet. That's why they're taking their time. You guys are in panic mode because you're waiting for your big payday. You don't realize how important of a decision this is for Iraq... They've got to be able to balance...how do they be competitive in the region and also take advantage of the International markets? Because if they go too high - regionally they're going to get cut off. If they go too low they're not going to be able to pay for the local budget.