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09.23.23- Weekend Rant: Flies, Poop and Incomprehensible Numbers... A Tidy Little Story on Magnitude of the US Debt Disaster
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09.21.23- The Unabomber
(I feel compelled — not out of moral obligation, because I believe any rational person is capable of separating the message from the messenger but because of rampant targeting by the state of so-called “domestic terrorists,” a category to which I have surely been relegated on some government list somewhere – to caution that I do not endorse mailing bombs or any variety of offensive violence in any form.) Read More |
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09.20.23- Could WWIII Begin in Black Sea?
World War II began with the conventional weapons of the time (infantry, ships, aircraft, artillery, etc.) but eventually escalated to fire-bombing major cities like Dresden, annihilating entire army groups on the Eastern Front in Europe with millions of dead and the use of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read More |
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09.19.23- Parsing the Telescreen, Slouching into the Gulag
Several years ago Vi and I bought a sixty-five inch LG screen that we use for watching YouTube and Netflix. It has search-by-voice. Thus by pressing a button on the remote to wake it up, we can say, “Tianjian automated Chinese seaport,” and it will find the relevant sites on the web. Read More |
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09.18.23- "This Is Bad, Really Bad..."
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09.16.23- Rickards Raises Hurricane Flag
“What’s the point of reading these lengthy remarks about the demise of our economy? All I’m seeking is specific stock tips.” A fish prowls the depths in pursuit of lunch. It seeks its own “stock tips” to guide the hunt. It lacks all curiosity of the greater ocean through which it slithers. Read More |
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09.15.23- The IRS Is Coming For You
Because no matter how you slice it, America is a police state writ large now. And police states look an awful lot like the mafia. What’s legal isn’t always moral. Read More |
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09.14.23- Making the Chicken Run
I’ve written many times about the importance of internationalizing your assets, your mode of living, and your way of thinking. I suspect most readers have treated those articles as they might a travelogue to some distant and exotic land: interesting fodder for cocktail party chatter, but basically academic and of little immediate personal relevance. Read More |
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09.13.23- The Smart Money
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09.12.23- Paper Tiger
China’s GDP surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to over $3 trillion by 2008. China’s average annual growth rate exceeded 10% from 1978 to 2005. During this period, over 600 million people escaped poverty to obtain at least a stable if low-income standard of living. Read More |
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09.11.23- The Continued Deadly Effects Of 9/11
Part of this number, the New York fire and police departments count a total of 343 and 23 personnel, respectively, among the fallen that day. However, as Statista's Martin Armstrong reports, since then though, over 650 more have lost their lives to illnesses related to their participation in the rescue and recovery efforts on and in the aftermath of 9/11. Read More |
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09.09.23- Are You Suffering from Learned Helplessness?
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09.08.23- The Dream Is Dead
It’s impossible to check headlines without seeing a new story about major trading partners planning to substitute their local currencies (or in the BRICS case, a newly formed currency) for the U.S. dollar in payment channels supporting world trade. Read More |
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09.07.23- The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to
First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state. Read More |
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09.06.23- Expressionless Babies, Bored Lovers
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09.05.23- “Mad Max” Conditions Are Coming: Desperation Is Rising As The Economy Rapidly Deteriorates And Food Costs Soar
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09.04.23- How They’ll Sell Lockdown 2.0
We have to stop the spread, the announcer said, and that’s why masks are coming back to classrooms. However, they added, relief is on the way in the form of a new vaccine. Rinse, repeat — as the shampoo bottles say. Read More |
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09.02.23- The Sailing School of Investments
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09.01.23- Ivermectin Is a Proven Cure for Covid. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Different.
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08.31.23- The Great Wealth Migration
We’ve only had a six-week summer here in Italy. It was cool until mid-June, and as I stand here typing, it’s a mere 69F (20C). The global warming nuts are having a tough time with this. The weather maps are blue and green, even in environMENTALGermany. Read More |
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08.30.23- Neither Comply Nor Resist
What do I mean by Neither Comply Nor Resist? Let’s start by noting society functions by our voluntary compliance with a spectrum of social norms–what’s socially acceptable and unacceptable–some of which are institutionalized into legally defined rules that impose judicial consequences on those who break the rules. Read More |
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08.29.23- A New Covid ‘Variant’…Just in Time for Election Season!
Also, the “unvaccinated” are again to be denied basic human rights in the name of fighting a virus that the vaccine demonstrably does not protect against. Read More |
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08.28.23- BRICS 11 - Strategic Tour de Force
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko), not to mention the stunned collective West, to fully grasp the enormity of the new strategic stakes. Read More |
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08.28.23- BRICS 11 - Strategic Tour de Force
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko), not to mention the stunned collective West, to fully grasp the enormity of the new strategic stakes. Read More |
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08.26.23- A Crisis of the Vaxxed
In 2021 I started talking about how the vaccines were going to cause COVID-19. The vaccines were going to damage the immune system that creates the spike protein, and this was going to result in the vaccinated getting COVID-19 and being more susceptible to it. That is all true. Read More |
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08.25.23- "On Stupidity"
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08.24.23- “No” Is the Magic Word
I’ve been running around Europe lately with the family. But there’s one skill that I’m so pleased I’ve developed. And that’s negotiation skills. Because even in Europe, people try to take advantage of you. Read More |
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08.23.23- The 'Oliver Anthony' Gap
So, the story of Oliver Anthony and his song, “Rich Men North of Richmond” just keeps getting better and better. Oliver’s folk anthem for what Gary North used to call “The Remnant” and what Ron Paul deemed “The Silent Majority” has not just jumped containment it’s become a living, breathing thing. Read More |
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08.22.23- We Won’t Be Fooled Again
Of all the vicious lies spun around the Covid-19 operation, among the most damaging was the campaign to demonize ivermectin, a Nobel Prize-winning true wonder-drug, among the safest known pharmaceuticals ever, effective against disease-causing parasites and also a potent anti-viral agent — which was exactly why the CDC and FDA turned on it. It very effectively subdued Covid-19 infections. Read More |
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08.21.23- In Praise of Conspiracy Theorists
Some of it — perhaps more than some of it — sorts into the “conspiratorial” category. For example: the theory that space lasers set Maui on fire. Read More |
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08.19.23- Why Americans Are Getting Poorer
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08.18.23- How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons
In these publications, the average person will find so-called economists advocating upside-down and destructive concepts like negative interest rates, banning cash, debt-fueled consumption, government spending, and rampant money printing as the cures to economic ailments. Read More |
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08.17.23- If you’re not thinking about real assets, you’re going to get left behind
They said bluntly, “Washington has laid the seeds of a crisis that Wall Street can no longer ignore.” I’ve been writing about this for 14 years; back then, it was highly controversial… almost conspiratorial… to suggest that the US government was in deep financial trouble. Today it’s front page news in the most prominent financial publication. Read More |
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08.16.23- Middle Class Meltdown: Thanks To The Reckless Policies Of Our Leaders, 'Average' Americans Are In Huge Trouble
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08.15.23- Do You Live in One of the Most Scammed States in the U.S.?
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report notes, the scams themselves are as varied as ever, with some changes. Read More |
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08.14.23- The Taxpayers Bailed Out Yellow Trucking. It Went Bankrupt Anyway
If you are a taxpayer, you know all this, your government is a 29.6 percent shareholder of Yellow and all. The Trump administration’s Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act dished out $500 billion to businesses, states, and municipalities as a result of the coronavirus. Yellow Corporation received $700 million of the $735.9 million set aside for national security loans. Read More |
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08.12.23- David Rubenstein says there's only one solution to US debt: inflation
"We aren't going to cut expenses in the government. We aren't going to increase taxes that much. We aren't going to go to a bailout with the IMF, that's not realistic. And we're not going to default," the Carlyle Group's co-founder told Bloomberg TV. "The only alternative is to inflate your way out." Read More |
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08.11.23- Threading Narratives Together
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08.10.23- Food Prices Are Crazy High Now, But They Will Soon Go A Lot Higher
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08.09.23- The Commercial Real-Estate Dam
The image above shows the badly swollen Mendenhall River, which has risen to something like a thousand-year/never-happens level as an ice dam on Mendenhall Glacier has given way, dumping a raging torrent from the glacier’s trapped lake at Suicide Basin into the river. That is a fitting symbol of what just happened in commercial real estate and to its bankers today. Read More |
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08.08.23- More Americans say
Retirement is a time-honored life stage and a near-universal expectation in working America. Yet, a comfortable retirement requires savings, and many workers fear they don’t have enough. In a July poll conducted jointly by Axios and Ipsos, 29 percent of workers under 55 answered a retirement query with, “I don’t think I will ever retire.” Read More |
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08.07.23- The Rise and Rhetoric of
As I watched the BBC a couple of days ago, I could not help but notice that the alias of the BBC should be ‘Chicken Little’. Read More |
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08.05.23- The Bizzarro Effect
How many times in our lives has it been said or thought that things could not get worse, weirder, more absurd, more dangerous, more immoral, more brutal, more controlling, more restrictive, more perverted, more murderous, or more insane? Can those thoughts even be considered in this day and age of complete and total lunacy? What has happened to mankind, and can it all be blamed on brainwashing and indoctrination by the ruling class over the rest of society? Read More |
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08.04.23- Here’s Why Inflation Is About to Return with a Vengeance
Keep in mind that when these people talk about “inflation,” they are only talking about the most recent consumer price index (CPI), which is allegedly a measure of current inflation growth rather than inflation already accumulated. The official CPI is easily manipulated, though, and to focus on that single measurement is a dishonest way of misleading the public regarding the true economic danger.Read More |
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08.03.23- "These are BABY factories" Ukraine baby bunker exposed!
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08.02.23- Yes, It’s a Bubble
I’m not going to get into the weeds here, but things like inverted yield curves and negative swap spreads, among other indicators, are all pointing to recession. In addition to those technical indicators, manufacturing is down, global trade is down, etc. Read More |
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08.01.23- Blobulation
Surely Merrick Garland is not running the Department of Justice, but which gloopy pseudopod of the Blob is? My guess would be some Intel Community politburo made up mostly of people you’ve never heard of. The trouble is these geniuses confuse political fuckery with the operations of law. Read More |
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07.31.23- Inflation will return
The misunderstanding is to assume that the widely expected recession will lead to further falls in consumer price inflation, and that therefore interest rates and bond yields will decline. These hopes are based on Keynes’s rejection of Say’s law, which simply points out there is no such thing as Keynes’s general glut because the unemployed stop producing. Read More |
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07.29.23- Artificial Intelligence:
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07.28.23- “Bad Day At Black Rock”
It seems that BlackRock owns a chunk of Fox News – 45.7 million shares of Fox News stock. Read More |
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07.27.23- Governments Targeting Retirement Funds… and What You Can Do About It
Retirement savings are a juicy target. But, unfortunately, they’re among the lowest-hanging fruit for any desperate government. Read More |
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07.26.23- World Oil Supply Set To Decline In Coming Decade
Even the food you ate today. Oil is still the lifeblood of the global economy. Yet after hitting $120/barrel a year ago, its price has since dropped nearly in half. Read More |
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07.25.23- The Purple Hour
The hour is late for “Joe Biden.” His sojourn in America’s highest office was one long twilight of pretending to be effectual, or merely present, and now even that abject pantomime slips into a place of nullity, where all is still and dark. What does he do these languorous weekends at the fabled Delaware beach house? Stare out at the empty Atlantic horizon over an uneaten egg salad sandwich with the crusts cut off? Does he even suspect that the world is already turning without him? Read More |
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07.24.23- The Downfall of Blobism
You might not know it these lazy, hazy, muggy days of midsummer, but things are getting pretty wildly out-of-hand in our republic. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. blew up the Democratic Party yesterday in the House Subcommittee on Weaponization of Government hearing, acting like a normal human while being set upon by a flock of harpies desperately screeching “Russia, Russia, Russia,” as if that means anything anymore. Read More |
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07.22.23- Deflation While Food Prices Are Going Up? You Cannot Be Serious
The next day I was drinking a £7 pint at my local, I looked at my phone and was assailed by financial commentators and substack writers with news that inflation was cured, and even deflation and rate cuts were looming on the horizon. Deflation you say? No one had told the drinking establishments I frequent. UK inflation index might be saying slowing inflation. But prices have not actually fallen. Read More |
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07.21.23- New York Fed Reports Surge In Credit Application Rejections
Here you have the sage conclusion of Mr. Charles Munger, aged 99 and one-half years. Mr. Munger is of course the business partner of Warren Buffett and legendary vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. This ancient draws his conclusion from many, many decades of penetrating and microscopic observation. Read More |
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07.20.23- Lessons from The Great Depression
Longtime correspondent Ishabaka recently shared key takeaways from a classic on-the-ground account of The Great Depression in the U.S.:, The Great Depression, a Diary. Read More |
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07.19.23- Navigating the long shadow
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07.18.23- Falling China, Falling Dollar,
As some of today’s news stories show, there is plenty of reason to believe the Fed’s inflation fight is far from over. The same can be said for its impact on the dollar, which rose in value when the Fed was increasing its interest hikes and then started falling in value as the Fed started backing down its rate hikes. That is almost as inevitable as math. Whenever a central bank raises interest on bonds issued in its own currency, it has the effect of strengthening the value of that currency. Read More |
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07.17.23- Are You Willing To Starve
You know who we’re talking about. The Davos WEF crowd. The UN, IMF, World Bank, and central bankers. Washington lobbyists, NGOs, public/private partnerships, technical advisory committees, nonprofits, and everything in between. We’re also talking about your meddling neighbor, and many others. Read More |
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07.15.23- Vast Hordes Of Americans Are Being Forced Out Into The Streets As The Middle Class Disintegrates
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07.14.23- In Investing, It's All About
To begin this critical investment lesson today, let’s review the important part of my pinned comment I wrote on 27 June 2023 to this article: (1) This is about understanding where prices will go from here ($22.30 synthetic). I'm very confident they will be higher and much higher in 12-18 months, so this is not “take a loss for the team”. This is about doing something good for ourselves AND for all of humanity. I 'll revisit this post in a year to 18 months to prove my point that all will miss a massive opportunity; Read More |
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07.13.23- The Original Leftists
Didn’t Marx and Engels start it all? Nope. They just wrote those stupid ideas down. But thanks to this historian of fantastic ability and insight, we know that the French Revolution was nothing like the American Revolution: The French Revolution was the beginning of the downfall of The West. Read More |
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07.12.23- Why 100+ million deranged Americans are dumb enough
Sawtrey wasn’t a witch or satanist, or even a criminal. He was, however, an early leader in a breakaway religion known as Lollardism, which both the Church and the English government viewed as a major threat. Read More |
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07.11.23- The Globalists Are Making Really Big Moves Which Would Fundamentally Change How Our Society Operates
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07.10.23- The Atrocious Nature of the Mindset and Actions of the Psychopathic Criminal Element of This Country
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07.08.23- Millions Of Americans Are Relocating Just Prior To The Great Chaos That Is Coming
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07.07.23- Globalists Are Engineering a Financial Shock, and Here’s the Proof
The supposed purpose of the summit was to find financial solutions to the goals of tackling poverty while simultaneously curbing “planet-heating emissions.” As with all climate change related events the discussion in Paris inevitably turned to international centralization of power and the formation of a global consortium to fix the problems that they claim sovereign nations cannot or will not fix. Read More |
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07.06.23- “Pride” Is A Thinly Veiled Color Revolution To Destroy Western Civilization
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07.05.23- Who Wins And Who Loses In A Deep Global Recession?
Does anyone benefit from a deep, prolonged global recession? Perhaps not in absolute terms, but in relative terms we can say some will suffer less than others. We can also say that some will strengthen their relative positions vis a vis competitors and others will lose ground / weaken, with potentially fatal consequences if the recession leads to systemic instability, i.e. phase change or tipping point. Read More |
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07.04.23- Bud Light's Disastrous Pro-Trans Marketing Sparks Major Job Losses
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07.03.23- Questions
Part of resistance to treason is recognizing what resistance is. I think of it like a simple electronic circuit, current flows from point A to point B in a direct route and it’s considered “open.” If you add a resistor into the circuit, it slows the current down, add enough and the flow of the current stops all together. That’s the point of resistance, but it has to have enough resistors for it to work. Right now, there’s too few and the circuit, while hampered, continues to flow with objectives that are not beneficial to the people. Read More |
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07.01.23- Is Anarchy the Ideal?
Far from merely the superficial, rebellious ideology embraced by punk rockers, anarchism informed major political events throughout history such as the French Revolution and the short-lived breakaway state of Catalonia in 20th-century Spain. Read More |
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06.30.23- EU Warns Against Potential "Unintended Consequences" Of Geoengineering
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06.29.23- What’s Really Making Many Americans Fat, Sick, Poor, and Stupid
One in three Americans are either overweight or obese. Why do you think so many Americans are overweight and sick? Doug Casey: I don’t pretend to be a medical expert. But I can assure you that it’s better to be young, healthy, rich, and smart than old, sick, poor, and stupid. Read More |
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06.28.23- This Is Actually Terrifying
That’s the growing risk of a nuclear war. I’m not being hyperbolic. Let’s break it all down… Read More |
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06.27.23- The Corruption of POTUS, SCOTUS and SCROTUS
Political corruption isn't hard to define: confidentially leveraging the power of one's position in the State for private gain. This covers the spectrum of using State power for personal gain from freebies, bribes, sweetheart deals, obtaining insider information, revolving doors between private sector and state positions, influence-peddling, selling tax breaks, subsidies, permits, etc., bloated speaking fees and so on, in a nearly limitless profusion of private financial gains generated solely by one's position of power within the State--the legislative and regulatory government, central bank, military and judiciary--gains that are cloaked from public disclosure and scrutiny. Read More |
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06.26.23- A Catastrophic Implosion...
Like some other commentators, I have in recent years several times quoted a famous exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises. Recent developments in the Biden family money laundering scheme, the implosion of a boutique underwater expedition to the Titanic, and a possible coup in Russia prompt me to wheel it out once again. Read More |
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06.24.23- Yes, It CAN Happen Here
I’ve warned how they would allow governments to monitor every transaction you make, which basically means a surveillance state. This facilitates the creation of a social credit system that allows governments to punish those who engage in unapproved activity such as buying guns, donating money to the wrong political party, buying unapproved literature, etc. The government will even know your physical whereabouts at the point of purchase. Read More |
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The "Titan Tragedy," which they are now calling it, probably would not have happened had the OceanGate submersible company's CEO, Stockton Rush, not hired affirmative action diversity employees rather than the "50-year-old white guys" he despises to man the vessel. Read More |
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06.22.21- We Must Act Now
Who are “we”? Why must we act — now? How must we act? Against whom must we act? And how might this fellow’s counsel wreck us all? These are the central questions we tackle today. Read More |
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06.21.23- Can Artificial Intelligence Solve The Socialist Calculation Problem?
To get literary, perhaps we are on the verge of creating the Machines, the artificial intelligences that plan the global economy in Isaac Asimov’s short story, “The Evitable Conflict”. Read More |
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06.20.23- First Tangible Sign that NATO "Exercise" May Go to LIVE WAR with Russia
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06.19.23- To Many Americans, It Already Feels Like We Are In A Deep Recession
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06.17.23- Why Are Americans Falling for Retirement Illusions?
Today, we’re going to shift gears. Instead, we’re going to discuss affluent Americans who are confident in their financial stability and believe their savings are secure enough to weather any economic storm. Read More |
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06.16.23- 10 Very Important Questions That We Should All Be Asking Right Now
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06.15.23- US Consumers Are Facing A Crushing Debt Servicing Problem
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06.14.23- Default by Inflation Is the Real Drama in the Global Debt Market
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06.13.23- Cut the Chains of Financial Serfdom
The Financial Nobility/Aristocracy own all the debt and the serfs owe the debt to the Aristocracy. The serfs own assets that don’t generate much income, the Aristocracy owns assets that generate trillions of dollars in income. The serfs pay high tax rates if they make above-poverty wages, the Financial Nobility pay low taxes thanks to tax-avoidance scams arranged by the Aristocracy’s toadies and lackeys in the Central State. The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic. Read More |
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06.12.23- Future Headline:
“Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be humorous and exaggerated, rest assured that everything we write is based on actual events, news stories, personalities, and pending legislation. Read More |
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06.10.23- How the Obesity-Industrial Complex Keeps Americans Sick, Fat, and Sad
And what do Americans get for all that spending? The US is the fattest and the sickest in terms of chronic disease rates in the world. Per Statista, “the CDC estimates that six in ten adults in the United States currently live with a chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.” You probably know someone personally – in all likelihood, multiple people – who suffers from a chronic health condition. Read More |
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06.09.23- Woke Marvel Eliminates The Punisher Due To "Problematic" Conservative Fan Base
The goal is relatively obvious – To erase competing ideals and viewpoints while saturating the market with only one political vision; a woke vision. It's called social engineering, and anyone who claims this is not happening in the US today is gaslighting. Read More |
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06.08.23- A prophetic interview with Sir James Goldsmith in 1994
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06.07.23- The Virtual Reality Race Is On
Some analysts say the proposal could start a new bidding war in the 3-D printer space. Stratasys has already rejected a potential takeover from Nano Dimension Ltd. (NNDM), another company that’s also apparently working on a merger with Desktop Metal Inc. (DM). But I don’t really care. Read More |
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06.06.23- A Short History of Virology
Considering recent global events does a short history of virology support the central insight of Troubles Away, namely that troubles appear when we believe in something that is not true? Read More |
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06.05.23- The Fiscal Irresponsibility Act
“I’m so humbled to be receiving this prestigious award,” said a giddy Kevin McCarthy, holding the golden statue aloft. “This award belongs to all of us – every Republican who has gone on Fox News to complain about the national debt or give impassioned C-SPAN speeches to an empty House floor to convince the American people they care about this stuff, your acting really paid off.” Read More |
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06.03.23- Globalists Hide Behind the Jews, Claim all Resistance to Corrupt Tyranny
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06.01.23- AI: Good News for Bad Guys
A small group of companies with advanced capabilities in AI/GPT (Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Apple, and a few others) are rallying sharply on the profit and productivity potential offered by the new technology. If the AI/GPT plays were removed from stock market indices, the remainder of the stocks would be down on a year-to-date basis. Whether this performance is a bubble or a genuine leap based on fundamentals remains to be seen. Read More |
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06.01.23- The Debt Deal Disaster
Why are so many companies continuing to push this woke nonsense regardless of the boycotts? The answer is BlackRock, Vanguard, and the globalists are propping up their stocks despite the decline in revenue. This is planned, and we either fight back, or they will continue to buy off our nation. Read More |
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05.31.23- This is the End of a Mega-Cycle
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05.30.23- The Metaphysics Underlying
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05.29.23- 'The Official Truth': The End Of Free Speech That Will End America
According to a survey by Rasmussen Reports, 59% of likely voters in the United States view the corporate news media as "truly the enemy of the people." This is a majority view, held regardless of race: "58% of whites, 51% of black voters, and 68% of other minorities" — all agree that the mainstream media has become their "enemy." Read More |
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05.27.23- America Is on Suicide Watch
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05.26.23- Why Exactly Does the Government Dump Toxic Fluoride Into ¾
“Water fluoridation” means that the government adds a synthetic form of the potentially toxic chemical fluoride into the water under the guise of Public Health™. Read More |
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05.25.23- Next Gen Money, Part 1: Texas Re-Imagines The Dollar
With all the (completely justified) angst surrounding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), it’s easy to forget that the concept of digital money isn’t the problem. It’s just a tool like any other and can be used for good or evil, depending on who’s wielding it. Read More |
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05.24.23- Are You Ready For a Real Recession?
We haven’t had a real recession in forty years (1981-82) and so only those who were in the workforce back then have any experience of how far and how fast things we think are solid can unravel. What’s a real recession? In the most basic terms, a real recession is an organic, i.e. unmanipulated by central banks, completion of the credit cycle, also known as the business cycle. Read More |
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05.23.23- Discredited But Massively Wealthy SPLC Working with Corrupt FBI
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05.22.23- Is Self-Defense Becoming Illegal?
Do you have to just let things happen? Must you just watch while innocent people are victimized by criminals? Read More |
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05.20.23- Where’s the Justice?
Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was unexpected, especially under the guise of public health. Read More |
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05.19.23- How Many Dominoes Must Topple Before One Falls on Us?
Dominoes falling are abstractions until one falls on you. Lines of dominoes toppling are an apt analogy to highly centralized systems that are tightly bound, that is, all the transactions that flow through the centralized hubs are interconnected, so when one domino falls, it topples chains of dominoes that then topple other chains. Read More |
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05.18.23- "The Reset That Is Planned...Is From Evil, To SUPER Evil"
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05.17.23- Dollar dominance ‘coming to an end’
The US dollar is starting to lose its leading position across the globe, as Washington has become the world’s largest debtor, famed investor Jim Rogers told Sputnik news agency on Wednesday. The co-founder of the Quantum Fund noted that more and more countries are growing hesitant about the greenback, as deep reliance on its use can lead to various problems. Read More |
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05.16.23- Godfather of AI Issues a Warning
I figured choppy market conditions would put a lid on some of the crazier AI discourse pundits have tossed around since these stocks first started running earlier this year. But it’s only getting worse. Read More |
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05.15.23- We are probably not prepared ENOUGH for the events now approaching
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05.13.23- Rise to Rebellion -
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05.12.23- A New America Needs Old Hickory
All day. Every day. On every radio station, it seemed. And good songs, they are. Colvin’s Sunny Came Home is about renewal, while McLaughlin’s Building a Mystery is a love song. But Paula Cole’s song seemed the neediest. Read More |
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05.11.23- Regional Bank Turmoil In The U.S. Is Far From Over
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05.10.23- The Biblical Story of the
Now, of course I’m familiar with the story. What I hadn’t remembered, that struck me this time, was there was some kind of monetary crisis going on. Here, let me show you: Genesis 47:15 (KJV):
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05.09.23- Where Not to Be in a Crisis
That may appear to be an overstatement, but historically, it’s the norm for a time of major upheaval to occur every eighty years or so. And although some of us began analysing and commenting on the Greater Depression many years ago, it’s clear to all of us that we’ve now entered the leading edge of the crisis. Read More |
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05.08.23- The Singularity. Will it bring
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05.06.23- AI – Artificial, yes. Intelligent?
No less an eminence than Elon Musk has warned: “One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI. But AI is both positive or negative — it has great promise, great capability, but also with that comes great danger.” Me, I call BS on such predictions — for now, at least. Why? Because I enlisted ChatGPT, the easiest way to interface with AI, as my co-author for this week’s column. Read More |
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05.05.23- The Worst Inflation of All:
How soon should you take action if you're struggling to pay your bills on time? Days not weeks. Read More |
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05.04.23- The US Is No Longer a Democracy
GEOFOR: Dear Mr. Roberts: At the beginning of the 20th century, Eugene V. Debs already ran for president of the United States while in prison. In the 21st century, they are trying to exclude Donald Trump from the presidential race in every possible way. To what extent will the ongoing investigation hinder him in his quest to occupy the Oval Office and what consequences can Alvin Bragg’s desire to put the ex-president behind bars lead to? Read More |
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05.03.23- Another Zombie Bites the Dust
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05.02.23- ‘One Health’ — The Global Takeover of Everything
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05.01.23- Will The US Lose Its Global Dominance?
On this channel, we spend most of our time focusing on the macroeconomic picture. But the economy doesn't exist in a vacuum. Read More |
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04.29.23- Invisibility Cloaks, Metamaterial Crystals, and Plasma Sheaths
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04.28.23- Statist Intervention – The Consequences
Central to Keynes’s opus was a desire to create a role for the state, intervening in economic affairs. In searching for this objective, he had to traduce the law of the markets — Say’s law. We show why this was mistaken. The error has been at the root of the accumulated errors of monetary policies ever since. Read More |
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04.27.23- Fire Joe Biden, Not Tucker Carlson!
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04.26.23- Where We Are in the Big Cycle: On the Brink of a Period of Great Disorder
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04.24.23- The Ruling Classes Are Inflation Deniers and the Ship of Fools Sails On
The CPI measures nominal dollar changes based on month over month and year over year for 299 items. The year ending December 2021 posted an overall CPI of 3.4 percent. Food at home was up 6.5 percent during this period. For the year ending 2022 the CPI rose 6.5 percent while food rose 10.4 percent. Compounding the two years the CPI rose 11 percent, and the food at home category rose 17.6 percent. Read More |
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04.22.23- Biden Plays Russian Roulette With Your Family’s Future
By June of this year, that number is likely to increase by one, and that means the U.S. debt is poised to skyrocket after it happens. But what if things don’t go according to plan? That’s what we’re going to examine briefly in this article. Read More |
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04.21.23- The Most Dangerous Man on Earth
The most dangerous human being on Earth is the ideological human being. It is the ideological human being — the human being set aflame by theory and belief — that most menaces our individual and collective happiness. Read More |
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04.20.23- Should You Fear AI?
You can’t read headlines or turn on the news without hearing about how machines with vast computing power, access to billions of books and documents, the ability to teach themselves and blinding processing speeds are now poised to take over the world. Last night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson even had an in-depth conversation about AI with Elon Musk. Musk didn’t have an optimistic take. I’ve been studying AI and its potential for years. Read More |
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04.19.23- Aaaach-tung!!!!
This commentary speaks to America’s parallel with events that began in 1930s Germany and resulted in the meteoric rise of a right-wing group that eventually became the Nazi Party. But in America, it’s not the Nazis that worry me; it’s the Licentious Left that is most worrisome. America’s takeover by Left-wing Socialists and the impending financial collapse they caused will destroy this country. The parallel to 1930s Germany is unmistakable and undeniable. Read More
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04.18.23- Harmful Until Proven Otherwise
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04.17.23- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Budweiser Ad PARODY
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04.15.23- The Dark Side of Transhumanism: Merging Humans and Machines
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04.14.23- The World’s About to Change
If we blow through the puffery, the bottom line is that military experts in Washington all but predict that Russia is set to prevail, and Ukraine is set to lose. Read More |
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04.13.23- Why the US Is Headed Into Its Fourth Turning
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe introduced a popular theory in their book, The Fourth Turning, outlining the recurring generational cycles that have occurred throughout history. Read More |
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04.12.23- A Nervous Hiatus
On Easter Sunday, fate put me on the Jersey Turnpike at 5:30 in the morning. I was motoring home from our nation’s capital where I traveled for the memorial service of a favorite aunt who passed away last month at ninety-five after a richly rewarding life. Her husband, my favorite uncle, enjoyed a long and colorful career in America’s Intel Community, and passed-on back in 2002. They recruited him at the founding of Spooks Inc in the late 1940s, since he came out of the army intel corps in Southeast Asia during World War Two. Read More |
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04.11.23- The Curse of Rousseau
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04.10.23- Bondage Is Cruel
Is $18K per inch a good deal? Currently, less than 3,000 daily riders take the Central Subway. This represents about 0.37 percent of the city’s total population. Perhaps for these riders it’s a good deal. For everyone else it’s a complete rip off. Read More |
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04.08.23- Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms
The foreshadowing occurred again in Nashville last week. Will the leftist-stoked and Democrat/establishment sanctioned 2020 riots prove merely a preview to a calamitous and pivotal 2024 presidential election year? Read More |
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04.07.23- These 5 states will be the first to kick residents off Medicaid starting in April
States have been barred by Congress from winnowing their Medicaid rolls since the Covid-19 pandemic began. That prohibition ends on Saturday, and some states are moving much more swiftly than others to kick off those deemed ineligible for the public health insurance program for low-income Americans. Read More |
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04.06.23- Franklin D. Roosevelt's Gold Heist
Many people refer to EO-6102 as a gold confiscation order. But confiscation is probably not the best word for what happened in practice. Read More |
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04.05.23- Stop Searching for Heroes
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04.04.23- An Unbridled Leftist Government
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04.03.23- FAA Alerts and Air Incidents
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04.01.23- Weekend Rant: CBDC is a universal remote control over behavior.
When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars. Take your choice – there is no other.”- Ayn Rand Given that CBDC is an important topic, this is a good time to describe basic MMT beliefs as applied through CBDC use. Read More |
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03.31.23- America, Arm Your Schools Now!
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03.30.23- Artificial Intelligence:
I wasn’t yet born in ‘68, so I was lucky enough to miss the whole “HAL” thing. But for people who watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, the fear felt justified. Fear of what? We’ll get to that in a bit. Read More |
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03.29.23- Why the Dollar-based International System Is Breaking Up
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03.28.23- A Matter Of Trust
So we made it through a Friday evening without a bank collapse. This obviated the need for another weekend of regulatory scrambling, but if the price action is anything to go by we’re not out of the woods just yet. European bank shares took another dive on Friday after Deutsche Bank called a tier 2 bond and lit the fuse on more selling. The decision makers at Deutsche must have thought that early repayment would engender confidence. But this market is suspicious of promises, and promise-makers. Read More |
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03.27.23- US Officials Really, REALLY Want You To Know The US Is The World’s “Leader”
Here are excerpts from his comments: Read More |
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03.25.23- The Career of a Keynesian Mediocrity
Because they know stuff. These central bankers act in tandem with fiscal policy emanating from a (supposedly) all-seeing, all-knowing government, one filled with well-intended political actors. And politicians know stuff, too. Well, that’s what they tell you, anyhow. Read More |
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03.24.23- My Preferences For Defensive Firearms
I’m sure this column will not provide anything new for the firearms aficionados out there. However, we are living in a violence-prone society, and more and more people (especially ladies) who never paid much attention to guns before are sensing the need to arm themselves but often don’t know where to start. I hope this column helps these folks. Read More |
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03.23.23- Get Woke, Go Broke?
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03.22.23- Powell's Problem: KISS Vs 'Too Clever By Half'
I think Powell needs to deliver one simple message:
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03.21.23- Get Ready for the Distressed Equity Bonanza
Last week after Silicon Valley Bank went poof in a matter of hours, I wrote that this financial catastrophe is just getting started: “Like Lehman Brothers in 2008, SVB is just the tip of the iceberg. . .” Within days, several other banks were on the verge of collapse. And now today, of course, major banks in the United States (including JP Morgan) are rallying to save the First Republic Bank. Read More |
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03.20.23- Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse proves the US is in obvious decline
For example, historians often point to 476 AD as the year that the Western Roman Empire fell, when Odoacer and his barbarians forced the abdication of the Emperor Augustus— even though it was obvious that Rome was in decline way before 476. Read More |
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03.18.23- SVB + FTX + SBF = WTF?
The net effect of all the lying propaganda laid on the public by the people running things lo these many recent years is a peculiar inertia that makes us seemingly impervious to gross political shocks. Momentous things happen and almost instantly get swallowed up by time, as by some voracious cosmic amoeba that thrives on human malignancy. Case in point: the multiple suicide of several giant banks just days ago that prompted “Joe Biden” to nationalize the US banking system. Read More |
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03.17.23- Real Deposit Insurance
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03.16.23- 'Time Is Not Our Friend': Solvency & Liquidity Meet Liquency & Solvidity
Solvency & Liquidity Let’s start with extreme and obvious examples. Read More |
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03.15.23- Watch Israel, Because I Believe That Events Of Historic Significance Could Soon Happen
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03.14.23- Mass
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03.13.23- The Collapse Of SVB
The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), $212 billion in assets until only recently, is a huge mess and a possible foreshadowing. Its fixed-rate bond holdings declined rapidly in market valuation due to changed market conditions. Its portfolio crashed further due to a depositor run. And it all happened in less than a few days. Read More |
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03.11.23- Is SVB Just the Beginning?
That is because the fellow is a nearly perfect “contrarian indicator.” If he says x you can very reliably wager on y. SVB stock was trading hands at $320 that day. Today it trades hands at $0. It has vanished from existence. Read More |
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03.10.23- Could Fauci Be Charged With Negligent Homicide For COVID Crimes?
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03.09.23- The Truth They Won’t Tell You About Social Security
Maybe you think that’s how it does work? If so, I’ve got some bad news for you. Read More |
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03.08.23- Parents Majoring In The Minors
We recently were informed that some schools are now ending their honors programs so they can promote “equity” (racism). It seems that lots of the white kids do well in the honors programs so that now must cease and we must begin to enforce a stultifying conformity, a “one size fits all” program they have mislabeled as “equity,” Read More |
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03.07.23- How A Country Goes Bankrupt...
Now, with money getting tighter, not just businesses and individuals but some governments are staring at the “suddenly” part of that old saying about bankruptcy. Read More |
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03.06.23- A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or if we’ve gone straight to an idiocracy. Read More |
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03.04.23- Fly Away from Your Own Destruction
I don’t think any of us really knows what it’s going to take to turn life in America around and place it back on a more reasoned and moral path, but it’s a certainty that the nation will soon self-destruct, if it doesn’t soon abandon the policies being implemented by Joe Biden’s anti-American regime. There isn’t any nation that can survive forever being torn between two antithetical ideologies in such a nonsensical, irresponsible and subversive and treasonous manner. Read More |
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03.03.23- Inflation Smokescreens
Some might say they were ignorant. Read More
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03.02.23- When Nations Collapse
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03.01.23- Market Morons Finally Forced
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02.28.23- Biden aims to shatter record for fastest tax increase
Those 155 Americans had managed to reduce their federal tax liability to essentially zero by using perfectly legal deductions and credits in the tax code. Read More |
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02.27.23- The Next Bear Market Shoe
The path represents the underlying fundamentals of the company or the market, and the dog represents investor sentiment and market valuation about said company or market. As the man walks down the “fundamentals” path, the dog strays wildly, side-to-side, on the leash. First to the far left side of the path, then back to the right - and in the interim, everywhere in between. It’s distracted, chases woodland creatures, tries to smell items and is just generally excitable. That’s investor behavior. Read More |
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02.25.23- Weaponizing Global Depression
One important asymmetry is energy, with exporting (producer) nations on one end and importing (consumer) nations on the other. A very small number of nations/regions occupy the middle: they export or import relatively little energy, as they are largely self-sufficient and can make do with what they produce themselves. They aren’t reliant on exports for income or imports to keep their economy from collapsing. Read More |
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02.24.23- The World vs. the Khazarian Mafia
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02.23.23- The Lesser Rewriters
I bring news from my other adopted country, the United Kingdom. You may know I lived in London for nearly ten years and consider myself a cultural Anglophile. (But not a political one; the British polity lost the plot ages ago.) Read More |
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02.22.23- Pfizer Knowingly Allowed Dangerous Components in its Vaccines (Part 1)
The issue of truncated mRNA led the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to raise a “major objection” before its December 2020 conditional approval of the vaccine. What has happened? How have these issues been considered resolved? This two-part series article will address the matter in depth and examine its potential consequences for human health. Read More |
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02.21.23- The United States And Russia Are At War. You Do Realize How This Is Going To End, Don’t You?
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02.20.23- Here’s Your Proof of a Rigged and Stolen 2020 Presidential Election
I’m not talking about millions of mail-in ballots with no Voter ID, no safeguards in place, and no signature match. Nor am I talking about ballot harvesting or ballot drop boxes- both literally criminal enterprises that would make the Gambino Crime Family blush. Read More |
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02.18.23- PPI: Told ‘Ya So
The index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.6 percent in January 2023, the largest advance since moving up 0.9 percent in March 2022. For the 12 months ended in January 2023, prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services increased 4.5 percent. The days of "hide the sausage" fiscal policy irrevocably ended with the Ukraine/Russia conflict as a direct result of our, and Europe's, sanctioning actions. It's gone and not coming back. Read More |
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02.17.23- The Question The amount of b.s. in the world is truly off the charts. You and I are accused of “misinformation” by people who couldn’t stop lying if their lives depended on it. Read More |
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02.16.23- The Horrifying Endgame in Ukraine
But today I’m discussing what is by far the most alarming topic on the geopolitical landscape today. That’s the war in Ukraine and the dangers of escalation. Read More |
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02.15.23- How to Survive AI Mania
The frothy action has launched several languishing stocks back into the stratosphere. Traders are gobbling up shares of every AI-adjacent stock they can find. The financial media are cranking out fantastical stories of a bold future filled with sentient chatbots able to write term papers for lazy students – and even pass the bar exam. Growth speculators can’t get enough of the hype. They’re waking from their 2022 hibernation, ready to bet the farm on tech’s next big thing. Read More |
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02.14.23- Capitulation All Along The Watchtower
I’m there. I’ve had enough. I’ve been venting, ranting, and writing about topics I judged worth my effort for about fifteen years. My fervor is dead. I’m fighting too many battles on too many fronts. I’m picking the battle that is most important to me ~ ME! Read More |
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The White House warned of the potential for harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials. Just like the Biden administration does to January 6 Trump supporters. Read More |
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02.11.23- Weekend Rant: What Can We Learn From the Biggest Lies People Believed About Covid?
People were supposedly dying en masse in China, but the communist country refused to give accurate data on the situation and to this day their reported covid death rate is highly suspect. After a period of uncertainty, suddenly, there was a rush by the media and by government officials to predict the worst case scenario. Read More |
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02.10.23- - Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
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02.09.23- The Banksters Want Your Money
I’m sure you’re wondering, “Why the hell is he writing about bailouts? Isn’t this an ancient topic?” I don’t blame you. Back in 2008 in the US, bailouts were the order of the day. And in 2011 in the European Union, depositors at Cypriot banks were bailed in. Allow me to set the stage… Read More |
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02.08.23- How "Prosperity" Ends
This bubble-generated “wealth” then fuels a vast expansion of credit and consumption as assets soaring in value increase the collateral available to borrow against, and the occasional sale of soaring assets generate capital gains, stock options, etc., which then fund sharply higher consumption. Read More |
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02.07.23- Maine Town Declares
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02.06.23- A History of how Corruption has Grown in the Federal Government
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02.04.23- Just Beneath
Don’t let the vapid artificiality of mainstream culture cause you to miss the weird magic of life as it actually is. Don’t let the barrage of advertisements screaming “THIS IS NEVER ENOUGH” distract from the symphony of joy in your cells at simply being alive. Read More |
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02.03.23- US pension funds are on the brink of implosion – and Wall Street is ignoring it
Earlier this month, PitchBook – the go-to news outlet of the private equity industry – declared that “private equity returns are a major threat to pension plans’ ability to pay retirees in 2023”. Read More |
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02.02.23- The Forgotten Lessons of 2008:
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02.01.23- The Cancellation of a Civilization
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01.31.23- An Idiot’s Guide to Bitcoin (Part 1)
You’re wrong about crypto! Yes, I am wrong. In fact, I’ve ignored crypto for years – so I’ve been wrong. The only positive aspect of my crypto-indifference is the consistency. Even when bitcoin was mooning, I remained skeptical. Read More |
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01.30.23- There is Far More Going On Behind the Scenes Than Most People Ever Imagined…
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01.28.23- Nearly Everyone Fails This Basic Diversification Test
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01.27.23- Dangerous Days
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01.26.23- Welcome to the Hotel California, Where You Can Check Out,
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01.25.23- A Bit of Good News
The neoconservative attack on Russia and China has a silver lining. It has killed Globalism. Russia and China and the countries dependent on Russian energy and Chinese goods and financing have been cut off from the WEF’s effort to unify the world under US hegemony. Globalism was never anything but a way for Washington to exploit the rest of the world. As Ms. Blinova says, the World Economic Forum is an elite club that intended to dictate Washington’s rules to the rest of the world. Washington would rule under the guise of “globalism.” Read More |
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01.24.23- Valuable Lessons For Life In 2023
In a world of instant gratification, all of us, including myself, become impatient. We want results, and we want them now. Read More |
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01.23.23- We Are Witnessing An Enormous Wave Of Bankruptcies And Layoffs
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01.21.23- Weekend Rant: The Price History of Campbell's Tomato Soup
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01.20.23- How The Economic Machine Works
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01.19.23- Biden Bucks and Gas Stoves
I’ve also written frequently about the false science of climate change and the extreme climate alarmism embraced by global elites and their flunky pseudo-scientist collaborators. They’re meeting right now in Davos, by the way, figuring out new ways to try to run your life. The Biden administration itself has a long history of using this alarmism to try to control your life. Their most recent offense might just be their worst… Read More |
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01.18.23- Net Zero Will Lead to the End of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist
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01.17.23- Too Wet? Too Dry?
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01.16.23- CyberAttacks and
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01.14.23- What Is The US "Gas Stove Ban" Really About?
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about. Talk of banning gas stoves and “unregulated indoor air quality” could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more “smart” monitoring technology into your home. Let’s jump in. Read More |
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01.13.23- Decline of Empire: Parallels Between the U.S. and Rome, Part 2
When the law was short and simple, the saying “Ignorantia juris non excusat” (ignorance of the law is no excuse) made sense. But as the government and its legislation became more ponderous, the saying became increasingly ridiculous. Eventually, under Diocletian, law became completely arbitrary, with everything done by the emperor’s decrees—we call them Executive Orders today. Read More |
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01.12.23- Americans Don’t Realize
We Americans are frogs. We are frogs wallowing blissfully in a pot of fatally warming water. We boil gradually away, unaware… comfortable… arrogant… and ignorant. Read More |
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01.11.23- Insurrection Anybody?
Insurrections galore spark off all of a sudden, and 2023 was just born days ago! Want to know why? Because the business model of the global economy is broken and the supposed remedy for that is centralized control of populations and super-strict regulation of all their activities — that is, techno-tyranny (with Marxist characteristics, as the Chinese like to put it). Not everybody wants to ride that bus, and so an epic economic problem becomes an arduous political struggle, here and elsewhere in the world. Read More |
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01.10.23- The Benefits of a Saving Culture
It is probably too late now but encouraging people to save by removing all taxation from savings makes an enormous contribution to reducing price inflation and trade deficits, while enhancing national wealth. This is evidenced empirically and demonstrated by reasoned theory. Read More |
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01.09.23- Fear Of COVID Is
But I haven’t died “from Covid.” Like the super-vast majority of people, I was never at any risk of doing so. Read More |
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01.07.23- 11 Signs That The Economic "Tipping Point" That Everyone's Been Waiting For Has Arrived
The “experts” on television are endlessly debating about whether or not we are going to have a “recession” this year, and meanwhile economic activity is imploding all around us. The number of homes being sold in this country each month has already fallen by a third. The number of job cuts in November was 417 percent higher than it was during the same month a year earlier, and at this point even Amazon is laying off thousands of workers. Read More |
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01.06.23- Are You Prepared
The sentiment is welcome. The outcome, however, can be a grave disappointment. If you recall, 2022 was supposed to be a year of redemption and prosperity. After the ugly coronavirus fiasco, the economy was finally reopening. The general belief was that the resurgence of economic activity was going to bring a new boom and a new cycle of prosperity. Read More |
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01.05.23- Decline of Empire: Parallels Between
As some of you know, I’m an aficionado of ancient history. I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss what happened to Rome and based on that, what’s likely to happen to the U.S. Spoiler alert: There are some similarities between the U.S. and Rome. But before continuing, please seat yourself comfortably. This article will necessarily cover exactly those things you’re never supposed to talk about—religion and politics—and do what you’re never supposed to do, namely, bad-mouth the military. Read More |
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01.04.23- How to Be Your Own Bank: Holding Actual Custody of Your Digital Assets
I realize a lot of hardened crypto veterans will probably roll their eyes as if to say “duh.” But I didn’t realize this stuff when I got into the uncharted technological territory that is a cryptocurrency, and it has important implications for your financial health. Read More |
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01.03.23- Predictions –
I just read that it’s the law that if it’s raining in Sweden you have to have your headlights on. How am I going to know if it’s raining in Sweden? Read More |
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01.02.23- It's Not a Lie if You Believe it
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Read More |
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The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history.
Just four and a half months since President Biden declared an end to the Covid “emergency,” the media is suddenly full of stories about the return of Covid. This time a new “variant” is being rolled out and the media, in collusion with big Pharma and the fear-industrial complex, are churning out stories about how forced masking is making a comeback.
Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement.
Today the story is COVID-19. COVID-19 is everywhere. Headlines on more lockdowns, new vaccines, and endless corruption. This is a crisis of the vaxxed.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theory explains much of contemporary politics and culture.
Happy Thursday!
Due to professional obligations we take aboard an overplus of daily “information.”
International Man: 
“Scary” is the word that the Wall Street Journal used this weekend to describe the looming financial crisis in the US.
The middle class in the U.S. has been steadily shrinking for decades, but in recent years our leaders have greatly accelerated that process. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 they absolutely flooded the system with new money, and almost all of that new money went into the pockets of the wealthy. The gap between the wealthy and the rest of us is now larger than ever, and that isn’t a good thing for our society. Even if you are still making as much money as you did a few years ago, you have lost a lot of ground financially, because the cost of living has been rapidly eating away at our standard of living. 
Forbes recently compiled a list of the 
After ninety-nine years in business, Yellow, one of the nation’s biggest trucking companies, shut down. The company has more than twelve thousand trucks and employed thirty thousand, with twenty-two thousand of those jobs held by Teamsters.
The US won't climb out of its $32 trillion debt, David Rubenstein said. Instead, its best bet is to lean on inflation.
Over the past few years, we have seen food prices in the United States and other wealthy countries do things that they have never done before. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning. Global food supplies are getting tighter, and meanwhile global demand for food just continues to increase. For decades, many among the elite were optimistic that someday we would be able to eliminate global hunger completely because tremendous progress was being made. But then right around 2015 things started to reverse, and now the trend is very much going in the wrong direction. 
A growing share of working Americans don’t think they will ever retire, recent surveys suggest. 
For those who may not recall Chicken Little (aka Henny Penny), the character was derived in the 1880s and was meant to be an allegorical character. Chicken Little was never intended to be the whimsical Disney fantasy character that it became. Chicken Little was infamous for over-exaggerating threats to existence, most notably, with the phrase “the sky is falling”. 
Perhaps one of the most bizarre recent developments in economic news has been the attempt by establishment media, on behalf of President Joe Biden, to declare U.S. inflation “defeated” despite all the facts to the contrary.
There are signs of recession everywhere and these are good indicators. It’s not just sentiment or guesswork.
It is an error to expect inflation to continue to fall in America. All financial market values in the US and elsewhere are predicated on this hope.
The global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market has grown from $1.5 billion in 2010 to $136.6 billion in 2022. The market is expected to continue to grow at a rapid pace, reaching $1.81 trillion by 2030. As the growth of AI continues, it is likely to have a significant impact on our lives, helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. 
The title for this article was taken from an old 1950s movie starring Spencer Tracy which maybe some of you have seen. Regarding what this article is about I felt it was appropriate. Awhile back I read an article on the net that mentioned that BlackRock was a “woke” company. I didn’t know much about BlackRock except that I had seen it advertised on Fox News quite a bit. Now I’m beginning to understand why.
International Man:
If you're watching this, whether you're a fan of fossil fuels or not, there's no denying that modern society is still immensely dependent on them -- particularly oil. Look around you -- practically everything you see required oil somewhere along the process of being mined, manufactured or transported to get to where you are.
I was ordering my Pimms at Wimbledon, which I discovered would cost me £11 - and was extremely tempted to rant “You cannot be serious!”. But I sucked it up and paid. 
The risks of gambling in speculative frenzies and depending on serial asset bubbles continuing forever are easily observable, yet few act to reduce these risks. 
The global tightening cycle that started in 2022 to curb surging inflation has been unprecedented in speed, size, and international synchronicity. While higher interest rates can dampen activity through many channels, one often-neglected channel may turn out to be particularly important going forward: rising private sector debt burdens associated with past borrowing. 
Central planners are pulling double shifts. Contriving plans and proposals to control what you consume, how you travel and cook, where your money is spent, and much, much more.
How many people will be sleeping in homeless shelters, on the streets or in their vehicles where you live tonight? That is the sort of question that not a lot of us like to think about. But the truth is that homelessness is growing at a very rapid pace all over the country right now. But if you have lots of money, life probably seems pretty good to you at the moment. You may eat at a different restaurant every night, and you may be one of the approximately 10 million Americans that currently own a second home. 
I know that we've all been told market timing is impossible but I'm here to prove this is just another industry lie.
Tomorrow is Bastille Day. And with all the recent trouble in France, it’s interesting to revisit the beginning of communism. They’re not communists there, you say? Perhaps not. But one bright historian called the French Revolution the “Proto-Communist Revolution.”
On the 26th of February in the year 1401, an English priest named William Sawtrey was hauled before his Archbishop to learn whether he would live or die.
While everybody else is distracted, the globalists are making absolutely enormous moves. Previously, I have written about the UN’s 
“The eyes of a psychopath will deceive you, they will destroy you. They will take from you, your innocence, your pride and eventually your soul. These eyes do not see what you and I can see. Behind these eyes, one finds only blackness, the absence of light. These are of a psychopath.” 
Summer is moving season for millions of Americans, and many will end up relocating to an entirely different state. In the old days, such long distance moves were often prompted by an employment change or by a desire to be closer to family. But now political and ideological considerations are motivating many Americans to search for greener pastures. Just about all of us can feel that something has gone horribly wrong in this country. All around us our society is literally coming apart at the seams, and it has become exceedingly clear 
At the end of June government leaders from around the world met at the 
The term “color/colour revolution” is often associated with covert efforts among US and European interests to foment civil unrest within enemy nations (and sometimes allied nations) as a means to destabilize their societies and governments. It is essentially 4th generation warfare, a concept expanded on by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino (a self professed satanist) in a white paper titled 
Bud Light's self-destruction after its botched TikTok promotion with clownish, male-to-female trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, resulting in what Deutsche Bank analyst Mitch Collett recently said is a permanent loss of nearly 25% of its business, has forced one of its glass bottling producers to shut down plants. 
Here are some questions I have that when I ask them of my representative or senator, I get BS answers, but this is only because not enough people are asking these questions. 
Anarchy –a combination of the Latin prefix meaning “without” and meaning “ruler” or “government” 
An increasing number of climate alarmists who trust "global warming science" have pitched the idea of large-scale interventions such as solar engineering to reverse 'climate change.' They believe human activity is the sole reason for the Earth's increase in temperature and say large-scale intervention is immediately needed to stop the planet's destruction. Some have even called for fleets of planes to spray chemicals into the atmosphere to deflect the sun's rays as the world's last hope for survival. 
International Man:
The “coup” in Russia is over but there’s a very worrying development going on in Ukraine right now that should frighten everyone.
I’ve warned repeatedly about the dangers that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) pose to personal liberties.
The United States spends more money per capita on healthcare than any other country on Earth – almost twice as much as Germany and triple Japan. To emphasize, this is the average spending on an individual level, so it’s triple the spending of Japan per person.
For many years, there have been those who have been prognosticating an economic crisis – not just a recession lasting a year or two, but a full-blown Greater Depression that would eclipse any major event we’ve seen in our lifetimes.
Lately, every other news story is about artificial intelligence and how AI is going to take over the world.
High consumer prices are one thing. Inflation has taken its toll on most household finances. But add high interest rates on top of soaring consumer debt, and the financial pressure increases even more.
The GEOFOR editorial board asked Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, USA, PhD in economics and U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration to comment on the prosecution of Donald Trump, and to find out whether it could lead to the former president’s actual incarceration, and how it would affect the presidential election in 2024.
Another one bites the dust…
In the March 22, 2023, video above, Dr. David Bell, Ph.D., a PANDA Science Sense Society
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I figured that while we’re on the subject of strange science and technology this week we might as well talk about another subject near and dear to my inclination for high octane speculation: invisibility. I’ve written a whole book on the subject in connection to the Philadelphia Experiment (Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory), and on occasion I’ve blogged about the subject. It’s a subject that has captured the imaginations of others as well, as a cursory glance at the book titles on the subject will attest. 
This article looks at our current economic condition from the viewpoint of classical economics. It is now 87 years since classical economics were dismissed by John Maynard Keynes in his “General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money”.
A year and a half ago, when I put out my book 
Why MMT and CBDC Are Dangerous
Josef Mengele — 
A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project has been made by one of the world’s leading nuclear physicists. In a recently published 
