So, we rise from the rubble...
Friday, April 22, 2022
Gregory Mannarino, "STOCKS DIVE! War, Inflation, Recession Fears, Crisis Economy, Bank Warnings, Shortages, Is It Over?"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 4/22/22:
"STOCKS DIVE! War, Inflation, Recession Fears,
Economy, Bank Warnings, Shortages, Is It Over?"
Gerald Celente, Gregory Mannarino: "Crisis Economics, Prepare for the Worst"
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Gerald Celente, Gregory Mannarino:
"Crisis Economics, Prepare for the Worst"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
"Dow Undergoing Catastrophic Decline, The Dow Is Now Down 1,003+ Points, Storm Coming!"
April 22, 2022 3:58 PM EST: "Dow Undergoing Catastrophic Decline, The Dow Is Now Down 1,003+ Points. The Average Stock Is Now -40% Off 52 Week Highs. Storm Coming!"
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Presented without comment, you should be aware of this
and further developments, and consider the consequences.
"Food Production Is Going To Be Substantially Lower Than Anticipated All Over The Globe In 2022"
"Food Production Is Going To Be Substantially Lower
Than Anticipated All Over The Globe In 2022"
by Michael Snyder
I don’t think that people realize how severe this crisis will eventually become. Never before in modern history have we seen global food production being hit by so many major problems all at once. It truly is a “perfect storm”, and hundreds of millions of people are going to deeply suffer as a result. I would very much encourage you to share this article with as many people as you can, because everyone needs this information. As I discussed previously, things may be somewhat bad right now, but conditions will eventually get much worse as the months roll along.
I am going to share a lot of statistics in this article, and each number is important. But ultimately it is the collective impact of all of these factors together that is really going to hammer us.
Let me start by talking about rice. According to Bloomberg, the global fertilizer crisis is going to result in a loss of production worldwide that is the equivalent of enough food to feed “500 million people”… "From India to Vietnam and the Philippines, prices of crop nutrients crucial to boosting food production have doubled or tripled in the past year alone. Lower fertilizer use may mean a smaller crop. The International Rice Research Institute predicts that yields could drop 10% in the next season, translating to a loss of 36 million tons of rice, or the equivalent of feeding 500 million people."
We don’t eat that much rice in the western world, but in Asia it is a core staple of their diets. How will all of that food be replaced?
Well, they could eat more wheat, but there is going to be a lot less wheat produced in 2022 as well. In fact, one agricultural commodity expert is warning that the war in Ukraine alone could mean that “between 19 million and 34 million tons of export production could disappear this year”… "Globally, there are six breadbaskets that together supply roughly 60 to 70 percent of global agricultural commodities. The Ukraine–Russia region is responsible for roughly 30 percent of global exports of wheat and 65 percent of sunflower, in a context where those markets are increasingly tight and interconnected - so a slight disruption in supply creates some impact on price."
Of course, we don’t know what the length and scale of this conflict will be. We ran some scenarios, and from our perspective, between 19 million and 34 million tons of export production could disappear this year. If we fast-forward to 2023, the figure could be between ten million and 43 million tons. To translate, that represents caloric intake for 60 million to 150 million people.
I don’t know about you, but I regularly eat a lot of things that contain wheat, and so do hundreds of millions of others. So this is going to be a huge issue. And we are already seeing wheat prices go completely insane. From early March to early April, the price of wheat jumped almost 20 percent… "Global food prices rose to their highest-ever level in March, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported April 8, with wheat prices up nearly 20% from a month earlier."
Unfortunately, the outlook for the months ahead is very troubling due to bizarre weather patterns all over the planet. Here in the United States, much of our winter wheat has been devastated by persistent drought… "According to the USDA, 69 percent of total U.S. winter-wheat production is in an area experiencing drought, including hard-red winter, soft-red winter and soft white. That includes 82 percent of the production area in Kansas, 82 percent in Colorado, 99 percent in Texas and 99 percent in Montana."
On the other side of the globe, parts of northern Africa are experiencing their “worst drought in decades”… "Morocco’s agriculture minister said the North African country would likely lose 53 percent of its cereals harvest after experiencing the worst drought in decades. Rainfall was 41 percent less than average this season."
So how will all of that food be replaced? Well, I suppose that we could all eat more corn, but the outlook for corn is not good either. Russia and Ukraine are normally two of the largest global exporters of corn, but now the war has changed everything, and there have been very serious planting delays here in the United States… "Chicago corn was largely unchanged on Wednesday and near a decade-high scaled in the previous session, as traders fretted over planting delays in the United States and a lack of supplies from war-torn Ukraine."
On top of everything else, there will be a lot less eggs produced this year, there will be a lot less chicken meat produced this year and there will be a lot less turkey meat produced this year because of the nightmarish bird flu pandemic which just keeps getting worse. According to NPR, the total death toll has now risen to “more than 28 million”… "More than 28 million poultry birds, like chickens and turkeys, have been lost in the U.S. because of a new bird flu. The virus either made the birds sick or they were culled to prevent its spread. Unlike previous bird flus, this one is also affecting a lot of wild birds. As NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce explains, that could keep the virus in circulation for a long time."
The vast majority of the time, most of us never even think about where our food comes from. But that needs to change, because food production systems are collapsing all over the world. For years, we have been warned that a global food crisis was coming, and now it has officially arrived. And with each passing day, more things are happening which threaten to make it even worse.
For now we are still eating food that has already been produced. The real problem will come in the months ahead when total global production of food drops well below total global demand for food."
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"Things Are Bad Now, But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet"
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Dan, iAllegedly 4/22/22:
"Things Are Bad Now, But You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet"
"Things are bad in the economy and they’re about to get much worse. The FED is talking about inflation slowing in place and down by raising interest rates a month from now. How will this help global inflation?"
"Our Dilemma..."
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time;
what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
- Sydney J. Harris
Jim Kunstler, "Daddies in Mommie-land"
"Daddies in Mommie-land"
by Jim Kunstler
"Welcome to the season of everything losing ground, at least for Western Civ. Sore-beset with idiots and scoundrels running things, the West stumbles backwards into neo-medieval darkness and superstition, hurling garlic bombs of objurgation against the supposedly wicked Putin along the way.
Your “trusted news sources” in our corner of the world will not tell you this, but the mythologized golem of the West’s collective sick mind, The Putin, mounted Operation Z in Ukraine at our country’s foolish behest. It was a twisted variation of the old head-trip Let’s You and Him Fight - described so well in psychologist Eric Berne’s classic book "Games People Play." It’s a game instigated generally by women. The West detests the actual Mr. Putin for systemically and doggedly having to correct the mischief that the USA set in motion there in 2014 - putting out a dumpster fire we kept feeding for eight years.
Mainly we hate the Russian president for doing what he said he would do, acting like a man, literally having to set boundaries for the unruly children, like Daddy used to do. America hates daddies. To America, all daddies are monsters (rapists!). That’s why America wants to turn all daddies into mommies. Anyway, we barely remember what daddies used to do. The context for daddies - the family - has been obliterated in America by every agency and institution in the land. The only role available these days is the chimerical creature known as a “baby daddy,” which is as much a baby as a daddy, developmentally speaking. Real daddies are men, which is to say: not babies. Mr. Putin acts like a man, especially having to do a dirty job that needs doing, without complaint. America can’t stand that.
If the USA and its NATO allies actually cared about Ukraine, we would have just left the place alone to slowly settle into the de-industrialized agricultural backwater it was becoming. And if we wanted to prevent widespread devastation once Operation Z got underway, we would have promoted peace talks, with an emphasis on our previous declaration that Ukraine would not be a candidate to join NATO. Instead, we set up Ukraine as a launching pad for annoying Russia (while also using Ukraine as a money laundromat for public officials and arms-makers).
America is a drama queen, like the Queen Bee in one of those Real Housewives shows on cable TV, whose entire purpose in life is creating colorful conflicts within her circle of sisters. Daddy is not needed around that house, except offstage maybe as the wide-receiver for a multi-million-dollar paycheck courtesy of the NFL (a rival entertainment). When one of America’s drama queen stunts goes wrong, the Queen Bee melts into a puddle of tears - boo hoo - tripping the empathy toggle.The sisters cluster around her, beating their wings. Somebody, please, help her feel better… fetch her a glass of pino grigio or a Xanax!
Drama Queen Bee America does not like how the Ukraine drama is playing out. The mean old Daddy Putin is rocking the joint, cleaning out the place like Gary Cooper in some Long Branch Saloon of the Eurasian steppe - heaving all those Azov Nazis through the swinging doors out into the dusty street. The other sisters in the NATO circle were induced to acting as cheerleaders for the Azov boys, and now Mr. Putin has gone and turned off Europe’s gas. Western Civ is about to be sent to bed without dinner - the ultimate daddy trick. Now the sisters are all going boo hoo. Nothing is working for the sisterhood.
America’s president, “Joe Biden,” suits the current national script perfectly. He’s a mere prop for the drama queens. No one mistakes him for “Daddy.” He’s the old, impotent, intemperate, often confused “Grampy,” a figure of bathos and derision, a shell of a man who, in his prime, lived just to work his official positions for millions in grift. How, otherwise, do you account for his fortune? The Ukraine money laundromat was one of his favorite stops, managed carefully by cheerleaders Victoria Nuland, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, and NSC official Fiona Hill, America’s foreign policy establishment there back in the day.
But who, exactly, is managing Grampy now backstage in the White House? My guess would be Susan Rice because you never hear anything about Susan Rice or her role there: Director of the Domestic Policy Council of the United States. Wow! Sounds weighty. When was the last time you saw her name in The New York Times or cable TV news? You’d think they’d be interested in her doings. Yet I doubt that one-in-a-hundred US citizens could tell you who Susan Rice is and what she does. (Was that her the other day in a bunny suit at the White House Easter Egg Roll, assisting a confused Grampy offstage?)
Somewhere in the White House there must be phone logs that record how many times a day Ms. Rice makes and receives phone calls across town to and from the Kalorama neighborhood of DC. Does that make Barack Obama America’s secret daddy? Or is he playing a somewhat different role… like, head of a cartel?"
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 4/22/22"
"Weekly News Wrap-Up 4/22/22"
"Russia/Ukraine Intensifies;
Germany Tanking; Food, Inflation and Drought"
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"There are zero reported peace talks going on to settle the war in Ukraine. This can mean only one thing, and that is this conflict will intensify. Could we get to the nuclear war stage? The answer is the global leaders are so corrupt, reckless and out of touch, anything is possible, and yes, that includes a nuclear exchange. The only question is who will launch first?
German food prices have risen 20% to 50% in a short period of time. They are not coming down anytime soon. Fuel prices are rising, and Germany is threatening to cut off all oil from Russia by the end of the year. Germany is the economic engine that drives the EU, and it is tanking. Germany and the rest of the EU better hope Russia does not beat them to the punch and cut them off now. The EU is in deep financial trouble, and their leaders will not stop destroying the economy with stupid sanctions that only hurt their own people. You can say the same for the Obama/Biden Administration.
To add insult to injury, the Western U.S. is in a 1,200-year mega drought in most places. Now, Lake Powell is at record lows, and water is going to be rationed. If this is not a sign food prices are heading higher, nothing is. Oh, and don’t forget that fertilizer out of Russia is being sanctioned, and fertilizer is in short supply all over the world. This will mean less fertilizer will be used either because of cost or supply problems, and that will translate into much lower yields and less food overall."
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks about
these stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up for 4/22/22:
"Food Shortages And Empty Shelves Are Growing Across The Country! What Now?"
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Adventures with Danno, 4/22/22:
"Food Shortages And Empty Shelves Are
Growing Across The Country! What Now?"
"In today's vlog we are noticing massive food shortages all across the country! We are here to explain skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
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Gregory Mannarino, "Out Of Control! People Are Dumping Dollars As Inflation Rages"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 4/22/22:
"Out Of Control! People Are Dumping Dollars As Inflation Rages"
Thursday, April 21, 2022
"Panic At Sea: Nearly 2,000 Ships Stuck Outside Ports As Container Shortage Intensify"
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"Panic At Sea: Nearly 2,000 Ships Stuck
Outside Ports As Container Shortage Intensify"
by Epic Economist
"The already stressed global supply chain is all set to face a fresh wave of backlogs, congestion, and shortages as new shockwaves emerge in almost every link of the system. Conditions continue to worsen by the day as Chinese ports operate at bare minimum capacity due to virus-related restrictions imposed by the government. The disruption in the flow of goods in and out of the country is expected to reach alarming proportions and cause serious distortions in the market in the weeks ahead. The problem is particularly worrying between the US and China - the world’s busiest shipping route - but the restrictions will have a cascading impact all across the globe. Experts say that the disruption faced last year will be insignificant compared to what is coming. On top of all that, the US is facing a critical shortage of workers that is threatening to result in more delivery delays, empty shelves, and widespread chaos at key container ports.
Authorities have effectively neutered Shanghai, not only a city of 25 million people but also the world’s largest seaport for container traffic. They have also enforced full or partial lockdowns in 23 cities, impacting more than a fifth of the Chinese economy. According to Reuters estimates, at least 373 million people - in cities that represent roughly 40% of China’s gross domestic product - have been affected by the most recent round of lockdowns across the country.
The American consumer is going to be particularly affected given the fact that the U.S. imported more goods from China than anywhere else in the world over the past decade. Last year alone, we imported over $435 billion worth of goods from Chinese cities and sent another $125 billion to the country in exports, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. And when stay-at-home mandates end, the shipping nightmare begins. Jon Monroe, an ocean shipping and supply-chain expert said that an overwhelming movement of goods will drown shipping lines and ports once the lockdowns are lifted. “It’s probably worse than Wuhan. You’re going to have a lot of pent-up orders,” he explained.
Right now, 477 bulk cargo ships are stranded at sea aff Chinese ports waiting for a berth to dock and deliver resources from metal ore to grain into the country. All in all, the number of container vessels waiting outside of Chinese ports today is 195% of what it was in February. In America, after signs of progress that the backlogs of containerships stacked up outside ports were easing, it now appears that the trend is reversing itself. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are facing another cargo surge as earlier-than-usual back-to-school and peak season imports collide with the massive backlog of freight from mainland China.
“Higher gasoline prices are affecting labor availability in the warehouse sector. Some workers in the hourly wage category feel they cannot afford current gasoline prices, so they are simply not showing up to work. For anyone who’s earning about $15 an hour, the price of gas is a big hit,” Weiss highlighted.
Conditions have been pretty dire for dockworkers, too. Now, a confrontation between workers and employers at some of the most critical ports on Earth is looming and it threatens to halt operations along the West Coast. Dockworkers have been handling massive amounts of cargo for exceedingly long hours every day. They’re asking for better pay and more regulation to prevent companies from forcing workers to do overtime after already long shifts. A labor impasse could worsen the traffic jams that are already keeping dozens of ships waiting in the Pacific. It also can aggravate shortages and send already high prices for consumer goods soaring.
All of these factors are making disruption a permanent part of the commercial landscape of the United States. Our economic growth is being dampened by prolonged inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, volatility in energy markets, and investor uncertainty - and the convergence of all of these problems going to create catastrophic consequences for everyone in this country."
Gerald Celente, “Trends In The News”
Full screen recommended.
Very strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 4/21/22: “Trends In The News”
“Inflation Nightmare, Sanctions Making It Worse”
"Information Off The Internet"
All these posts! I know, I know, it's a lot.
Complicated times, folks, so much happening so fast.
Bear with me, we're all in the same boat...
You can handle the truth, given the chance...
- CP
Musical Interlude: The Alan Parsons Project, "Prime Time", "Eye In The Sky"
The Alan Parsons Project, "Prime Time"
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The Alan Parsons Project, "Eye In The Sky"
"A Look to the Heavens"
“These three bright nebulae are often featured in telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the large nebula left of center, and colorful M20 on the right. The third, NGC 6559, is above M8, separated from the larger nebula by a dark dust lane. All three are stellar nurseries about five thousand light-years or so distant.
The expansive M8, over a hundred light-years across, is also known as the Lagoon Nebula. M20's popular moniker is the Trifid. Glowing hydrogen gas creates the dominant red color of the emission nebulae, with contrasting blue hues, most striking in the Trifid, due to dust reflected starlight. The colorful skyscape recorded with telescope and digital camera also includes one of Messier's open star clusters, M21, just above the Trifid.”
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"The eternal silence of infinite spaces frightens me. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me? We travel in a vast sphere, always drifting in the uncertain, pulled from one side to another. Whenever we find a fixed point to attach and to fasten ourselves, it shifts and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us. This is our natural condition, most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desires to find solid ground and an ultimate and solid foundation for building a tower reaching to the Infinite. But always these bases crack, and the earth obstinately opens up into abysses. We are infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, since the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from us in an encapsulated secret; we are equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which we were made, and the Infinite in which we are swallowed up."
- Blaise Pascal
"Stocks Drop After Fed. Banks To Write Off BILLIONS In Russian Assets"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 4/21/22:
"Stocks Drop After Fed. Banks To Write
Off BILLIONS In Russian Assets"
"My Bank Is Closed Today?! Fantasyland Ride Is Over; Relatives Ask For Money; Homebuilders Carnage"
Jeremiah Babe, 4/21/22:
"My Bank Is Closed Today?! Fantasyland Ride Is Over;
Relatives Ask For Money; Homebuilders Carnage"
"The Gods of War"
Antique statue of Greek god of war Ares (Mars in Roman mythology).
In Summer Garden in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"The Gods of War"
by Bill Bonner
San Martin, Argentina - "One of the nice things about two countries going to war… when you are not one of them… is that you get to watch. And learn. But you can’t trust the mainstream media to report the facts honestly. America’s press has taken sides. So its ‘news’ is more like propaganda than real intelligence. For example, the media tells us – with unconcealed glee – that the Russians are “bogged down.” They are “taking heavy casualties,” including “many generals.” They are running out of food and ammunition, etc. etc. Apparently, the Ruskies are getting whipped. Here’s The Guardian:
Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going according to plan. The sinking of the Moskva – the flagship of the Black Sea fleet – is the latest major military setback. In the course of almost two months, Russia has lost six major generals and between 15,000-20,000 troops, all the while failing to secure any appreciable gains.
Reports of low morale and defection, coupled with sightings of mercenaries deployed by the Kremlin, hint at recruitment problems. This, along with Russia’s apparent inability to replenish lost military equipment – a consequence of western sanctions – has led some observers to wonder whether the Russian war machine is running out of road."
The real facts on the ground may not be so one-sided. Both sides are losing men and materiel. Both must be making mistakes.
A Changing of the Guard: But one thing must be troubling Pentagon observers – the loss of heavy tanks and the Russian ship, the Moskva. Retired Army colonel David Johnson comments: "Is the value of the tank in modern warfare zilch? That’s the lesson many observers are taking from a flood of images depicting Russian tanks mired in the mud, their turrets blown off, having been ambushed and destroyed by Ukrainian forces armed with cheap anti-tank weapons. These images are often pointed to alongside feeds from Turkish-produced drones destroying tanks, seemingly with ease. After the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war, in which Russian-produced tanks were destroyed by the same model of drones, this is heady stuff for those ready to proclaim the death of the tank."
We already see comparisons of armor advocates to the battleship admirals before World War II, who refused to see the importance of carrier aviation, or Maj. Gen. John Herr, the last U.S. Army chief of cavalry, who continued to insist on the relevance of the horse on the battlefield even after the Nazi blitzkriegs against Poland and France. Army chief of staff Gen. George C. Marshall used his executive-order authority, given after Pearl Harbor, to get rid of all the horses in the Army - and Herr. The question before us now is whether the tank is the modern equivalent of the…horse.
We will pose a different question: is this how the empire dies? By our reckoning, the US empire peaked out in the 1960s. It diddle daddled until the late ‘90s… and then, with the ‘war against terror,’ began a serious dive to the downside. Since then, by almost every measure you can think of, the US has sunk.
But empires do not go gracefully into that good night. They rage… and make things worse for themselves. That is what we have seen thrice this century – in the response to the terrorist threat (whatever it was)… in the attempt to prevent a correction on Wall Street in 2008-2009 and more than a decade of negative interest rates, (in which the Fed tried to stimulate growth back to pre-decline levels)… and in the Covid Panic, with its trillions in gimmie/stimmie schemes, again, trying to make up for real lost output with ‘printed-up’ dollars.
The American people understood better than their leaders what was going on. Given a chance, they voted to “Make America Great Again” in 2016. But the slippage got worse, not better. And the only solution the elite could think of was to spend more money. But where could they get the cash? They had to print it. This is what led to today’s inflation. And left unchecked, it will lead to civil disorder, war, recession, economic chaos and poverty.
Costly Errors: The end of one empire is usually marked by the rise of another… and often accompanied by a decisive battle, in which the gods of war switch sides and the dying empire loses. America has a huge, very costly military with a gilded officer class. It was hard to imagine how it might be humbled on the field of battle. But now, even the New York Times is able to read the writing on the wall: "The sinking of the Moskva on Thursday was a grave blow to the Russian fleet and a dramatic demonstration of the current era of warfare in which missiles fired from shore can destroy even the biggest, most powerful ships…" The sinking of the Moskva is a clear sign that the future has arrived.
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” said Donald Rumsfeld, who wisely went to war with an enemy that had, in comparison, no army at all.
The problem with going to war with today’s US armed forces is now on display. Too much money begets too many old, slow-moving armies with too much brass and too much bureaucracy. The US has more tanks and ships than anyone else. But these WWII-era armaments are extremely vulnerable to new, faster, smarter, cheaper weapons. We will be going to war with thoroughbreds, in other words.
In Afghanistan, for example, the Taliban had no navy… no air force… no military pensions… no veterans’ hospitals… no military bands… no tanks… no armored troop carriers… and no phalanx of lobbyists to angle for more money. The amounts it spent would scarcely be enough to finance the Pentagon’s officers’ lounge. But over 20 years its fighters persisted… and won.
And the trouble, beyond the obvious ones, with going to war with horses today, is that your tactics must be those of cavalry officers. The US is loaded up with cumbersome, complex, sophisticated weapons. Its battlefield tactics are built around its equipment. And its equipment is what you get when you have a lot of money and an invincible corps of lobbyists to push for bigger and more costly weapons systems. But if its tanks and ships can be put out of service quickly… and cheaply… the US will be defeated.
Whether that will actually happen… or not… we don’t know. But the gods of war wouldn’t be especially surprised if it did."
"USA Targeting of Moskva Ship is Russia's "Pearl Harbor", Retaliation is Next"
"USA Targeting of Moskva Ship is Russia's "Pearl Harbor"...
Retaliation is Next"
by Mike Adams
"To understand the sinking of the Moskva and Putin’s impending retaliation against the United States, you first have to realize that any national leader wanting to make bold military moves first needs the support of his own people. In 1941, Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen (the US government knew all about it and even provoked it) in order to create the emotional support for the US to enter the Pacific theater of war.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was, essentially, the 9/11 of World War II. And just as with 9/11, the US government knew all about it and allowed it to take place in order to produce the casualties and emotional reaction that would see the American people demanding retaliation against Japan.
It has now been revealed that the US military ran the entire operation to sink the Moskva, including running the tracking of the ship via a P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft, which then handed off fire solutions to the Ukrainians who were all trained by the US military as well. Thus, the United States provided the weapons, the training, the tracking and the fire solution to sink the Moskva. All Ukraine did was press the “fire” button, essentially. This is so widely known now that it’s even being reported by the UK Daily Mail. It reports: "REVEALED: US maritime surveillance plane was over Black Sea minutes before Russian flagship Moskva was ‘hit by Ukrainian missiles’.
A P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft was patrolling the coast before the attack The high-tech jet can spot ships on radar at ranges of more than 100 miles… The US Navy used its new marine surveillance aircraft to provide accurate targeting data to Ukrainian forces to sink the Russian Black Sea flag ship Moskva on April 13."
By sinking the Moskva, the US just handed Putin something akin to “Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment,” in which Putin can claim to his people that the USA initiated an attack on the Russian Navy, sinking one of their ships and killing hundreds of their people. This news has, of course, been paraded all across Russian media, driving domestic support for Putin even higher than before.
Just like with Pearl Harbor in the United States, the people of Russia are now demanding “payback” from the aggressors, whom they see as the United States. In effect, the USA just handed Putin the final piece of the puzzle that he needs to launch retaliatory nuclear strikes against the West.
Russia unveils the unstoppable RS-28 Sarmat (Satan 2) ICBM carrying up to 15 MIRV warheads: It is no coincidence that Russia has just unveiled a test launch of its RS-28 Sarmat (Satan 2) ICBM which carries up to 15 MIRV warheads. These are independent re-entry vehicles, each one carrying a nuclear warhead hundreds of times larger than the atomic bombs used on Japan in World War II.
The RS-28 also carries Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) which glide at extreme speeds while maneuvering to their targets, utterly evading every defensive system owned by the United States. Put another way, the USA is utterly defenseless to stop Russia’s nuclear weapons from striking US-based targets.
It takes roughly 30 minutes for one of these ICBMs to fly from Moscow to New York City. Should Putin launch one, the people of New York would have no warning whatsoever, since the traitorous, occupying US government almost certainly wouldn’t bother to warn anyone if they only have a few minutes remaining to evacuate.
Thus, at any given moment, millions of Americans are just 30 minutes away from total annihilation. Russia could even, theoretically, launch a missile featuring high-altitude EMP detonation, plunging the United States into a 19th-century Dark Ages existence in which roughly 90% of the population would die within a year or so due to mass starvation, collapse, violence, disease and so on.
From InsiderPaper.com: "The RS-28 Sarmat is capable of carrying about 10 tons of payload for either up to 10 heavy, or 15 light, MIRV warheads, as well as an unspecified number of Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) or a combination of warheads. It also carries several countermeasures against anti-ballistic missile systems. The Russian ministry of Defense said that the missile is Russia’s response to the U.S. Prompt Global Strike system."
While the Pentagon has been focused on creating gay helicopter crews and transgender soldiers, Russia has been engineering highly effective, high-tech weapon delivery systems such as hypersonic missiles and advanced ICBMs.
While America’s traitorous leaders are dismantling America’s energy infrastructure and transportation system (see the recent clobbering of Union Pacific railway deliveries), Russia is raking in record profits from energy sales while convincing many top nations around the world to buy energy in Rubles rather than dollars.
The US empire, steeped in corruption, pedophilia, criminality and insanity, is finished. Now it’s only a matter of time to watch the self-immolation of the United States of America accelerate by the day.
Mark my words: Before the end of this year, America’s cities will be in flames from the food riots. Government tyranny will be out of control, and we will be witnessing the early chapters of either a mass uprising or a civil war (or perhaps elements of both). Mass starvation is coming to the West, and it was the insanely stupid economic sanctions against Russia that initiated the entire catastrophic chain reaction that will lead to the fall of America as we know it.
A very sad day, indeed. Then again, with America’s abortion fanatics going all-out insane on mass murdering babies, it begs the question of whether a “reboot” might be the only way to restore the Christian values upon which America was originally founded. As Michael Snyder writes, “The End Of Civilization As We Know It Is Coming – And That Is Actually Really Good News.” "Is he correct? Only time will tell.
Get more details on all this in today’s Situation Update podcast:
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"What It Might Mean..."
"Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are."
- Matt Taibbi
"The American Dream is Dead - Home Prices Hit $1 Million"
Dan, iAllegedly 4/21/22:
"The American Dream is Dead - Home Prices Hit $1 Million"
"Housing has become so unaffordable for the average American. Here in Southern, California we just saw the average home price hit $1 million in Orange County, California. Refinances and mortgage demand have been cut in half in the last 60 days. The house ATM is finished. The Bubble will pop soon."
Gregory Mannarino, "Business Activity Unexpectedly Falls, Manufacturing Slows, And Stocks Poised For More Gains"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 4/21/22:
"Business Activity Unexpectedly Falls,
Manufacturing Slows, And Stocks Poised For More Gains!"
"Stockman Exposes The 'Inflationary Hell' That's About To Break Loose" (Excerpt)
"Stockman Exposes The 'Inflationary Hell'
That's About To Break Loose"
by International Man
Excerpt: "It is only a matter of time before Kiev surrenders to the Russians, with or without their clown-car president signing the armistice. But that deal will be so onerous from Washington’s perspective that it will not mark the end of the sanctions war, but will be an excuse for its actual intensification and indefinite prolongation. When that becomes the reality, however, inflationary hell will break out all over the place. And the Fed’s decades-long experiment in egregious, inflationary money-pumping will splatter ignominiously all over the Eccles Building (Fed headquarters)."
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"The Biden Inflation Scorecard! House Price Growth UP 69%, Food UP 58%, Gasoline UP 72%, Diesel Fuel UP 154%, Fed Bal Sheet UP 21%, Mortgage Rates UP 83.3%"
by confoundedinterest17
"Under President Biden’s Reign of Error, inflation is the highest in 40 years. But Powell and The Fed are still overstimulating the economy, and Congress is contributing to the inflation disaster with short-sighted political policies and spending (flooding the economy with stimulus spending helping to drive up prices). Even Democrat US Senator Elizabeth Warren gets it.
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Here is Biden’s inflation scorecard in one chart. Under Inflation Joe, foodstuffs are up 58%, gasoline is up 72%, diesel fuel is up 154%, and green energy element Lithium is up 645% (no wonder electric car manufacturer Telsa is raising their prices 10%). Of course, The Federal Reserve keeps on expanding its balance sheet, UP 50.3% under Inflation Joe.
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House price growth is up 69% and the 30-year mortgage rate is UP 83.3% and currently is at 5.28%. The orange line is the growth path.
Yes, prices have risen even more after Russia Invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. But most of the inflation was baked-in prior to the Russian invasion. Sorry Jen Psaki, but you are wrong about inflation being all Putin’s fault."
"So Not Even A Fly Can Escape": Putin Declares Mariupol 'Liberated' - Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off"
"So Not Even A Fly Can Escape": Putin Declares Mariupol 'Liberated' -
Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off"
by Tyler Durden
"Weeks ago Russian forces had already captured and besieged much of the southeast Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which began a process of the majority of civilians emptying out - though there could still be tens of thousands remaining. Within the past days an estimated couple thousand Azov fighters have been surrounded and holed up at the large, cavernous Azovstal steel plant, reportedly including some civilians, resulting in a standoff situation where those inside are fast running out of supplies.
Previously it was thought that Russian troops were preparing to storm the sprawling complex, but instead on Thursday President Vladimir Putin indicated to his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that this course of action must be scrapped and instead the plant should be completely sealed off.
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Putin further declared Mariupol, which prior to the invasion had a population of about 450,000, is now "liberated" - and congratulated the defense chief on the military "success" - at a moment Russia has launched a broader major offensive to take the whole of Donbas. The Russian leader gave the words in response to Shoigu's own briefing to his commander-in-chief, which was aired on state TV: "Mariupol has been liberated," Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Putin in a televised meeting. "The remaining nationalist formations took refuge in the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant."
As for the plant, Putin said it should be sealed off with those inside "so that not even a fly can escape"... “We should always think, in this case especially, about saving the lives and health of our soldiers and officers. There is no need to climb into these catacombs,” Putin said. "Block off this industrial area so that not even a fly can escape," he continued. Those trapped in the plant will be offered a chance to surrender, and they can keep their lives and receive a "dignified treatment," Putin said.
Putin is hailing Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol after his forces completely destroyed it during a two-month siege. Previously a Ukrainian official in the region gave those still inside Azovstal "days or hours" to holdout - given they are not only cut off from all escape routes but that essential supplies like food, water, and likely ammo are running out.
One retired military official, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, explained to CNN that Putin's strategy is a rational one from a strategic point of view: “There’s no point in just ratcheting out and going in for each individual person in that very labyrinth complex. There’s no reason to do that. All they have to do is just keep that last piece cordoned off and virtually the city is already theirs.” Davis said further, "Even though the Russians don’t go after them [the Ukrainian troops inside the plant], because they have them surrounded, they can’t get even food or water, much less ammunition."
"The risk to those soldiers is that they would slowly die if they don’t get some help. I think in probably the coming hours or days you’re going to hear that those troops are finally negotiated out," he added. Starting Tuesday the remaining civilians began exiting the plant. Russian forces established a 'humanitarian corridor' and some 120 were safely evacuated. RT aired footage of the Ukrainian civilians being escorted out of the area later that day.
Russian forces have been blaring on speakers their demand for Azov fighters to lay down their arms and exit the complex 'or else'... "Russia is using a Tigr vehicle with a loud speaker to get Ukrainian soldiers to surrender at the Azovstal plant."
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 21, 2022
Russian forces have seen the Black Sea port city as crucial in completing a land bridge which links up territories already under its control stretching to Crimea."
"Prices Are Getting Crazy At Kroger! This Is Ridiculous!"
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Adventures with Danno, 4/21/22:
"Prices Are Getting Crazy At Kroger! This Is Ridiculous!"
"In today's vlog we are at Kroger and are noticing massive price increases! We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
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"Americans Are Spending More, Getting Less,
& Borrowing More To Pay For It"
by Schiffgold
"American consumers are spending more, getting less, and borrowing more to fund this involuntary spending spree. Retail sales in March were 7% higher than they were in the stimulus-fueled March of 2021, but thanks to inflation, they didn’t get as much bang for their buck.
Seasonally adjusted, retail sales were up 0.5% month-on-month in March at $677 billion. As WolfStreet put it, “Stimulus Miracle March 2021 was a very tough month to beat. But Americans did blow by it. What they didn’t do is blow by the now raging inflation.”
Unsurprisingly, higher gasoline prices accounted for the bulk of that increase in retail sales as consumers pulled back in other areas. Online sales fell for the second straight month. It was the first back-to-back decline in online sales in over a year.
Increasing retail sales is usually viewed as a good sign for the economy. It signals that consumers are confident and able to spend money. Reuters reported that the pickup in consumer spending is “helping to underpin the economy.” This is just wishful thinking. Paying more and getting less does not “underpin” an economy.
In a high inflation environment, surging retail sales tell a different story. Consumers spend more because they have to. This is an involuntary spending spree. American consumers are spending hand-over-fist in an effort to keep up with surging prices. Since retail sales are expressed in dollar amounts, they reflect both units sold and rising prices. That means there are two ways retail sales can go up:
• Consumers buy a larger quantity of stuff.
• The price of the stuff they’re buying goes up.
In other words, just because dollar widget sales increase doesn’t mean people bought more widgets. It could be that they bought fewer widgets but paid more for them. This is exactly what’s happening in many retail sales segments.
You can see clearly see the pain from rising prices when you look at individual categories in the Consumer Price Index Data. The CPI for durable goods was up 17.4% year-on-year in March, even with a month-on-month drop of 0.9% thanks to a sharp drop in used vehicle prices after a massive spike. The CPI for nondurable goods was up a blistering 3.8% in March and up 13.1% year-over-year.
When up put a 7% increase in retail sales in the context of these rapidly rising prices, it doesn’t look so good. Americans are spending a lot more money and they’re getting a lot less for it. And in order to keep up with surging prices, Americans are turning to plastic. Revolving credit, primarily credit card debt, rose by a whopping 20.7% in February. That helped fund a 0.8% increase in February retail sales – revised up in the latest data from 0.3%.
This raises an important question: how much longer can over-indebted consumers keep paying these upward-spiraling prices? Especially given the fact that the Fed is now raising borrowing costs? They can’t. Savings are running dry and credit cards have limits. They’re going to have to start cutting back on many buying a lot of stuff just to keep up with the rising cost of necessities. This does not bode well for the economic future."
"Colonel MacGregor Says That When It Is Obvious That the Media Was Lying About the Ukraine, US Might Freak Out"
"Colonel MacGregor Says That When It Is Obvious
That the Media Was Lying About the Ukraine, US Might Freak Out"
by Andrew Anglin
"In Colonel Douglas MacGregor’s latest interview, he debunked the moronic claims that Russia is “committing a genocide” or “doing war crimes,” and also the stupid claim that Russia is planning to nuke the Ukraine. He then explained, as we’ve explained in detail, that we are at the final phase of this conflict, with between 40 and 60 thousand troops left in the Ukrainian military, who are getting cut off by the Russians. They will either get slaughtered or surrender.
He said that when it becomes undeniable that all of these retarded claims made by the US government and media with regards to how Russia was losing the war have been proved to be retarded, that the US government/media may start saying “we have to do something!” in order to cover up just how badly they lied about all of this. “The worries me,” MacGregor said.
We are already hearing increasing talk of “boots on the ground” in the Ukraine from the people in Washington. Sen. Chris Coons, the Biden conduit who holds his former seat in Delaware, has actively begun floating the deployment of US troops to Ukraine: "Putin will only stop when we" - the US - "stop him," Coons warns pic.twitter.com/ABydvBPuO0
- Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 17, 2022
Of course, if they were only dealing with the Americans, the government and media could just drop the Ukraine topic entirely, and move back to coronavirus, or some other gigantic hoax. They’ve already demonstrated that they can do this with ease – just totally switch the entire public conversation in the course of a few hours, and get the population to go along with it.
But it’s not just the Americans – America has told the entire world that the Ukraine was going to win a war with Russia. This is going to look even dumber than when they said that the Kabul government would stand for at least six months. These people are so mired in their own lies that they need to compile lies on top of lies in order to justify previous lies.
However, it is clear that the Pentagon is telling everyone in Washington that a war with Russia is not feasible. However, they also told them that they could turn the Ukraine into a boondoggle for Russia, and cause the Russian government to collapse because of it. These people are not known for accurate statements. So maybe the politicians will say “the Pentagon has been wrong about everything – maybe they’re also wrong that we can’t win a ground war against Russia in the Ukraine?”
Only 10% of Russia’s military is in the Ukraine, and it’s likely that they held back because they thought it possible that the US/NATO could invade. At that point, they could flood the country with forces. Then, you’d basically have a nuclear war."
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"Ain't no man can avoid being born average,
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"The Prophet: On Good and Evil "
"The Prophet: On Good and Evil "
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves,
and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among
perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
For when you strive for gain you are but a root
that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast.
Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,
Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.
For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root.
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech,
Yet you are not evil when you sleep
while your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift,
see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
You are good in countless ways,
and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness:
and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea,
carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and
bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
Wherefore are you slow and halting?
For the truly good ask not the naked,
Where is your garment?
nor the houseless, What has befallen your house?"
- Kahlil Gibran
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