Adventures With Danno, PM 8/21/25
"Skyrocketing Prices On Coffee"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "Wall Street Is Robbing You Of The American Dream"
Jeremiah Babe, 8/21/25
"Wall Street Is Robbing You Of The American Dream"
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Gerald Celente, "AI Takeover, No Human Control"
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Gerald Celente, 8/21/25
"AI Takeover, No Human Control"
"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."
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"Trump Threatens Strike On Moscow! Ukraine's New Missiles Are 'Ready To Fire'! WTF?!
Prepper News, 8/21/25
"Trump Threatens Strike On Moscow!
Ukraine's New Missiles Are 'Ready To Fire'! WTF?!
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"A Look to the Heavens"
"This fantastic skyscape lies near the edge of NGC 2174 a star forming region about 6,400 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Orion. It follows mountainous clouds of gas and dust carved by winds and radiation from the region's newborn stars, now found scattered in open star clusters embedded around the center of NGC 2174, off the top of the frame.
Though star formation continues within these dusty cosmic clouds they will likely be dispersed by the energetic newborn stars within a few million years. Recorded at infrared wavelengths by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, the interstellar scene spans about 6 light-years. Scheduled for launch in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is optimized for exploring the Universe at infrared wavelengths."
"Our Great Adversary..."
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus - the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”
- Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist.
Gregory Mannarino, "State Of Emergency! The U.S. Is Now A Failed State"
Gregory Mannarino, 8/21/25
"State Of Emergency!
The U.S. Is Now A Failed State"
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"Turns Desert Into Water: How Burkina Faso Created an Ocean Out of Nothing"
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Breaking Faso, 8/18/25
"Turns Desert Into Water:
How Burkina Faso Created an Ocean Out of Nothing"
"At Breaking Faso, we expose the untold stories behind Burkina Faso’s political and social upheaval.From Ibrahim Traoré’s rise to anti-imperialist resistance, military transitions, and the raw voices of the people - this is the unfiltered truth of a nation breaking free from silence."
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The Poet: Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song On The End Of The World”
“A Song On The End Of The World”
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.”
~ Czeslaw Milosz
"Grief..."
“The dictionary defines grief as: “Keen mental suffering or distress over affliction of loss; sharp sorrow, painful regret.” We’re taught to learn from and rely on books, on definitions, on definitives but in life, strict definitions rarely apply. In life, grief can look like a lot of things that bear little resemblance to sharp sorrow.
Grief may be a thing we all have in common but it looks different on everyone. It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life, it’s loss, it’s change. And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, it has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime. That’s how you stay alive when it hurts so much you can’t breathe. That’s how you survive. By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, it won’t feel this way. It wont hurt this much. Grief comes in it’s own time for everyone in it’s own way. So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty. The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes and let it go when we can. The very worst part is that the minute you think you’re past it, it starts all over again and always, every time, it takes your breath away.
According to Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, when we are dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinctive stages of grief. We go into denial because the loss is so unthinkable, we can’t imagine it’s true. We become angry with everyone. We become angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain, we beg, we plead. We offer everything we have. We offer up our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair. Until finally we have to accept that we have done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.”
- “Grey’s Anatomy”
"Wars And Rumors Of War"
“When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go and fight it.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Humanity is the spirit of the Supreme Being on earth, and that humanity is standing amidst ruins, hiding its nakedness behind tattered rags, shedding tears upon hollow cheeks, and calling for its children with pitiful voice. But the children are busy singing their clan's anthem; they are busy sharpening the swords and cannot hear the cry of their mothers."
- Kahlil Gibran
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003 file photo. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines.
“My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was. But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can’t be stilled. I clenched my teeth against the stars. I closed my eyes. I surrendered to sleep. One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.”
- Gregory David Roberts, "Shantaram"
"Do You Believe..."
"Do you believe," said Candide, "that men have always massacred each other as they do today, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools? "
"Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?"
- Voltaire
Travelling With Russell, "Inside Russia's Largest (Sanctioned) Car Dealership"
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Travelling With Russell, AM 8/21/25
"Inside Russia's Largest (Sanctioned) Car Dealership"
"What does the largest (Chinese) Car Dealership look like in Russia?
Join me on a tour of Moscow-Tianya. The largest car dealership in the
Russian Federation. With more than 6,000 cars and 50 different car brands for sale."
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"78 Percent Of HR Leaders In The U.S. Say That Their Companies Are Conducting “Serial Layoffs”
"78 Percent Of HR Leaders In The U.S. Say That Their Companies
Are Conducting “Serial Layoffs”, And We Are Being Warned
That A Major Cost Of Living Shock Is Coming"
by Michael Snyder
"Other than the early months of the pandemic, we haven’t seen anything like this for a long time. Mass layoffs are happening all over the nation, major retailers and large restaurant chains are deeply struggling, and the cost of living is out of control. I am going to share more numbers with you today that confirm that a very painful economic downturn is now upon us. For example, a survey that was recently conducted by outplacement firm Careerminds discovered that 78 percent of HR leaders in the U.S. admit that their companies have been through multiple rounds of layoffs. In fact, 40 percent of HR leaders in the U.S. say that layoffs are now occurring quarterly at their companies…
Financial difficulties pushed 78% of U.S.-based HR leaders to conduct multiple rounds of layoffs within the past year, according to the results of a July survey by outplacement firm Careerminds, with many stating they oversaw “serial layoffs” that occurred in rapid succession. The survey of 600 respondents found that 75% of reported layoffs occurred within less than six months of one another, and 40% of HR leaders said layoffs happened quarterly at their organizations. Financial instability constituted the biggest driver of job cuts, followed by changing business priorities, market disruption and post-pandemic overstaffing.
If 40 percent of your large employers are conducting layoffs every quarter, you have a major economic crisis in your county. There is no possible way to spin that number to make it look good. We have been witnessing such a dramatic economic shift in recent months.
According to the latest numbers that were released by Target, store traffic has been declining nearly every single week since late January…"Target’s annual sales have been roughly stagnant for the past four years, and its inconsistent performance has tested the loyalty of shoppers and shaken the confidence of Wall Street. Store traffic at the big-box retailer has fallen almost every week since late January, according to Placer.ai, an analytics firm that uses anonymized data from mobile devices to estimate overall visits to locations. And shares of the company have tumbled about 60% from their all-time high in late 2021."
The reason why Americans are doing less shopping is because they have less discretionary income to spend. And prices just keep going up and up. At Walmart, many products have had their prices hiked by more than 20 percent this year…"At Walmart, a “Jurassic World” T. Rex figure had spiked by nearly 38% to $55 on May 21 from just a month ago. A heating pad costs 25% more to $24.96 this year, according to employees who posted photos of the price hikes on social media. A fishing reel at Walmart jumped to $83.26 from $57.37.
Joe - a regular Walmart shopper who also asked that his last name not be used - told The Post last week he was eyeing new air conditioners at the store in Cortlandt Manor, NY. Last year, he said, a small unit that cools off a 300-square-foot room cost $115 - up from $100 a year earlier."
Most U.S. consumers cannot afford these prices. Unfortunately, now we are being warned that prices on many things will soon go quite a bit higher. On Monday, a 50 percent tariff on steel and aluminum will start being applied to 407 categories of goods…"Butter knives, baby strollers, spray deodorants and fire extinguishers, considered “derivative” steel and aluminum products, were previously excluded from the 50% tariff, though they were still subject to the higher country-specific tariffs Trump enacted over the last several months.
However, on Friday, US Customs and Border Protection and a division of the US Commerce Department published notices informing US importers that 407 categories of goods containing steel and aluminum would immediately be subject to the 50% tariffs at 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday. The non-steel and non-aluminum components of the products face other applicable levies." Thousands upon thousands of products that contain steel and aluminum that Americans purchase on a regular basis are about to get a lot more expensive. Are you ready for that?
Meanwhile, beef prices continue to soar into uncharted territory…"Walter Avalos, a D.C.-based seller for a large U.S. deli producer, typically got instructions once a year to hike red meat prices. Now, it’s every week. “We had to put at the bottom of our inventories that prices can change at any moment,” said Avalos, 34. “It never used to be like that.” Red meat prices are skyrocketing in the United States, the world’s largest consumer and producer of beef. Beef and veal prices surged 11.3 percent in July over the year, according to the most recent consumer price index report.
When I read that line about prices rising “every week”, that reminded me of what the history books say about the Weimar Republic. Sadly, there will continue to be pressure on beef prices for the foreseeable future because the size of the U.S. cattle herd has fallen to the lowest level since 1951…One of the drivers of spiking beef costs is a drought that has ravaged U.S. cattle in key meat-producing states since 2022, causing cattle volumes to collapse this year to their lowest recorded levels since 1951. In 1951, 154.8 million people lived in the United States. Today, 340 million people live in the United States. So we have the same amount of cattle that we did in 1951, but we are trying to feed more than twice as many people. Just think about that for a while.
Switching to vegetables won’t bring relief either, because the price of vegetables in the U.S. went up by 38 percent from June to July…The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 38% surge in the wholesale price of vegetables in July. This is the biggest price spike for any product category month-to-month. “It’s insane. That’s why I’m growing a lot more myself this year,” said Dana Roads, who is visiting from Utah.
If you haven’t seen this figure before, I know that it may be difficult to believe that vegetable prices went up by 38 percent in one month. But it is true. This figure comes directly from the government, and if you want to learn more please see my previous article entitled “Are You Drowning Too?: Vegetables Are Up 38.9%, Coffee is Up 25%, And Electricity Prices Are Rising Twice As Fast As Inflation”.
And the really bad news is that vegetable prices are expected to continue to go up because there aren’t enough agricultural workers in the fields…A shortage of workers could lead to lost crops down the line. “A lot of the product is being lost because there’s nobody to work. So it’s the product that has been picked has been raised maybe 35 to 40%,” said Jaime Desales.
Unless you are independently wealthy, you are feeling the pain of higher prices. When I was younger, I thought that anyone making $100,000 a year had it made. But today a $100,000 income won’t even cover the average cost of living in 13 U.S. states…In 13 states, a $100,000 salary isn’t even enough to cover average annual cost of living. On the other end of the spectrum, there are 15 states where making that amount would cover 120% or more of those expenditures.
In life, consequences are not always immediate. When our leaders started borrowing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have during the pandemic, a lot of people were convinced that it must be okay because we did not immediately experience severe consequences. But now we are starting to experience severe consequences, and things will get a whole lot more painful if we stay on the path that we are currently on. I am definitely one that likes to hope for the best, but I would strongly urge you to prepare for the worst because it appears that is exactly where things are heading in the months ahead."
Bill Bonner, "Trade Under the Big Top"
"Trade Under the Big Top"
by Bill Bonner
Poitou, France - "We struggle to understand how the ‘Great Reset’...or ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’...is not essentially a scam: We want a toaster oven. We go to Walmart and buy one, Made in China. We pay with dollars - which are IOUs from the US government. The Chinese central bank ends up with the money. Relatively few Chinese people buy toaster ovens that were Made in America, however. So, the Chinese central bank ends up with a lot more IOUs from the US than the US central bank, the Fed, has in Chinese yuan.
And since the US can print as many IOUs as it wants...and since the foreigners use them as a financial reserve - almost ‘as good as gold’ - the imbalances get larger and larger, growing recently by $1 trillion per year. In this manner, foreigners ‘rip us off’ by producing better, cheaper goods...and they ‘take our jobs’ by working for lower wages than we do. This results in big piles of IOUs (from trade surpluses) overseas...and big empty, rusting factories in the US. Mothers want their sons to grow up to work in finance, not manufacturing. Because, that’s where the money is!
Fund managers and speculators become the richest people in the US...financing universities and politicians...and owning the fine homes that used to be a source of pride for America’s industrialists. It was a mutually satisfying relationship for many years. Americans got something-for-nothing...paying with paper IOUs - which cost almost nothing to produce - for real goods and services. And then, what could the foreigners do with the dollars? They bought what they wanted from the US. The rest, recycled into US Treasury bonds, financed the US government.
The Germans sold their autos. The French sold their perfumes. And the Chinese were able to sell so much stuff they made the fastest economic progress of any country in history. In a single generation they went from one of the poorest countries on earth to one of its richest...with nearly a billion people lifted from mud-smeared poverty and put onto the comfortable seats of a BYD electric car. They made progress politically too - going from an oppressed people who were allowed only one child...to a free people who wanted only one child.
But the IOUs were not only ubiquitous, they were unreliable. The US government’s official policy was to depreciate its IOUs at the rate of 2% per year. Inflation now is running closer to 3%. Which leaves the real return on a 10-year T-bond at barely more than 1%. Since the turn of the century, officially, US dollars have lost nearly half their value.
Foreign dollar holders are getting edgy...and less eager to buy US Treasury debt. And while the amount of debt can go up without limit, the cost of debt service must come out of the real economy. The interest on the US national debt, for example, went over $1 trillion per year - more than the ‘defense’ budget. US deficits reached Argentine levels...equal to 7% of GDP.
This could not go on for much longer. The cost of debt service was quickly becoming more than the nation could stand. And any attempt to lower interest rates - to make the debt payments lighter - risked setting off inflation. What could be done?
Enter Stephen Miran and Scott Bessent. The honest way to deal with the problem is also the obvious way - cut back on spending, buckle down...pay down debts that can be paid, default on others. Most important, renounce the ‘paper’ dollar that distorted the whole world economy. Turn back to gold...or something that would anchor the currency to real world output. But Miran and Bessent have a trick up their sleeves: Make the foreigners pay.
They realized that foreign countries have become so used to taking America’s IOUs in payment for goods and services, they would suffer a large shock if the dollars stopped coming. So, they go to the foreigners and say: “Look, if you want to keep doing business with us you need to take those IOUs and re-invest them back in our economy. Oh...and we’ll take 90% of the profits”. That is, we believe, the state of play. Negotiations are underway...to create a US Sovereign Wealth Fund using the foreigners’ money as the initial capital.
And now we will take some guesses about the future. China will say ‘no’...or whatever it is that the Chinese say when they mean F-off. “If you want our strategic metals, you’ll stop trying to boss us around,” they’ll add. The US will back down.
Other nations, however, do not produce strategic metals. They will have little to bargain with. Most will say ‘yes,’ or whatever they say when they mean ‘we have no choice; we’ll go along.’ Team Trump will declare a big win. But saying is one thing. Doing is another. And a trade deal, procured under duress, is not likely to be more valuable than intel gotten by torture. How much, what, when...how - the details will be subject to endless negotiation and almost infinite corruption. In the end, very little additional money will be invested. Guided politically, rather than commercially, almost none of it will be profitable. And the foreigners will look for other trading partners."
Dan, I Allegedly, "Interest Rate Cuts Will Fix Nothing – Here's Why"
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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 8/21/25
"Interest Rate Cuts Will Fix Nothing – Here's Why"
"Interest rate cuts won’t fix the economy, and in today’s video, I break down exactly why. From rising costs in real estate and retail to the challenges businesses face with layoffs and inflation, these cuts won’t bring the changes everyone is hoping for. I share real stories, including my cousin’s home-buying journey, why refinancing isn’t always the answer, and how banks are stricter than ever. Plus, we explore wild developments like AI bots applying for jobs, hacks exposing major corporations, and shocking rent hikes that are leaving people reeling."
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Adventures With Danno, "I Was In Complete Shock At Kroger!"
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Adventures With Danno, AM 8/21/25
"I Was In Complete Shock At Kroger!"
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