Wednesday, June 22, 2022

"Empty Shelves Everywhere At Aldi! This Is Crazy!"

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Adventures with Danno, 6/22/22:
"Empty Shelves Everywhere At Aldi! This Is Crazy!"
"In today's vlog we are at Aldi, and are noticing Empty Shelves Everywhere! We are also noticing ridiculous price increases, and a major food shortage! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"

Gregory Mannarino, "The Biggest Crisis Ever Is About To Hit - Global Hunger Crisis"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 6/22/22:
"The Biggest Crisis Ever Is About To Hit - Global Hunger Crisis"

"Walking The Empty Car Lot Today Talking To A Car Salesman; You Are Being Economically Destroyed"

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Jeremiah Babe, 6/21/22:
"Walking The Empty Car Lot Today Talking To A Car Salesman; 
You Are Being Economically Destroyed"

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Gerald Celente, "Trends Journal, Mental Institution"

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Very strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 6/21/22:
"Trends Journal, Mental Institution"

"Go To The Gas Stations And Stock Up Now Because Things Going To Get Even Worse In The Months Ahead"

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"Go To The Gas Stations And Stock Up Now Because 
Things Going To Get Even Worse In The Months Ahead"
by Epic Economist

"Are you ready for the worst energy supply shortage in U.S. history? Are you ready to spend 50 percent more on a gallon of gasoline? Are you ready for yet another round of price hikes at our major stores as diesel prices continue to soar? Are you ready for another “shortage of everything”? Are you ready for widespread blackouts all over the nation this summer? We’ve been warned that all of these things were coming, and guess what? Now, they’re here. The most devastating energy crisis this country has ever seen is posed to get even worse in the months ahead, and by now, nothing can be done to magically solve our problems.

America’s fuel supplies have never been tighter, and drivers have been feeling the consequences of this where it hurts them the most. At this point, gas prices are still hovering around $5.00 per gallon – and that’s after a 10% drop recorded over the past two weeks.Regardless of the decline, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is still 50 percent higher than it was a year ago. Believe it or not, over the past month, gas prices rose over 50 cents per gallon. And the slight decrease some drivers have seen since June 6 is likely to be just a temporary blip, according to energy consultancy firm Rystad.

At the same time, the price of diesel has been increasing at an even faster pace. Over the past year, diesel prices surged by a whopping 75 percent, and yesterday, another record was broken as prices reached $5.81. That’s even more worrying when we consider that truckers use diesel to transport goods all across the country. Soaring diesel prices are threatening to spark a domino effect of price hikes that will impact virtually everything that we consume on a daily basis. On top of that, industry executives are alerting that it can also trigger widespread shortages and aggravate already-existing supply chain problems.

The latest price increases are just one more supply chain issue facing the U.S. economy right now as prices on all kinds of goods keep going up. But instead of protecting our fuel reserves, we’re exporting record amounts of distillates even though we’re in the middle of a historic fuel shortage. In March, April, and May, exports of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from the U.S. Gulf Coast were up by 32 percent compared to the same time in 2021, data from market-intelligence firm Kpler showed. To make things even more complicated, our aging power grids can’t handle the growing demand anymore. Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warned that we would face rolling blackouts this summer. Apparently, widespread power outages have already begun.

This week, more than 70,000 customers in Kentucky and nearly 40,000 in Tennessee are experiencing power outages amid high temperatures and extreme weather events. Southwest Virginia has also been hit and according to PowerOutage.US, there are 10,000 families without power. Things are going downhill sooner than expected. Those who don’t believe that we are facing the worst energy crisis in U.S. history are just not looking around. But it is safe to say that in a few months no one will be able to deny what’s going on. Soon, everyone will understand that we truly have entered a nightmare with no end in sight. This is the “new normal,” folks. The shortages are just beginning, and what’s coming next is going to be exceedingly painful."

"The Dynamics of a Riot"

"The Dynamics of a Riot"
by Jeff Thomas

"In my lifetime, I’ve had the misfortune of being present in two major natural disasters and one violent social crisis. Each taught me valuable lessons.

In the aftermath of a natural disaster, there’s the danger of the loss of shelter, services, and food. In most cases, people who experience the loss of shelter and services realize that “things are bad all around” and they tend to do the best they can, accepting that life will be hard for a period of time.

Food is a different matter. People, no matter how civilized, tend to panic if they become uncertain as to when they will next be able to eat. And, not surprisingly, this panic is exacerbated if they have dependents, particularly children who are saying, fearfully, “Daddy, I’m hungry.” As Henry Lewis said in 1906, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Quite so. Intelligent, educated, otherwise peaceful people can be driven to violence and even murder if the likelihood of future meals becomes uncertain. This has been the cause of spontaneous riots throughout history.

But this is not the only cause of riots. In the post-1960 period in the West, a new phenomenon has occurred that has steadily grown: Governments and the halls of higher education have increasingly taught people that they are “entitled.” Governments have been guilty of this for millennia, beginning at least as early as the “bread and circuses” of ancient Rome. It’s a way for governments to get people to be dependent upon them and thereby to do their bidding. But, since the 1960s, it’s become a systemic norm.

And it always ends in the same way. The false economy of “free stuff” eventually devolves into overtaxation and economic collapse. When it does, people are more likely to riot, as the entitlements are “owed” to them. In today’s world, however, this condition has peaked far beyond what the world has ever seen before.

Increasingly, those who are angry that the free stuff they are receiving is not enough to placate them take to the streets. Typically, they throw rocks and Molotov cocktails, burn cars at random, destroy buildings, and loot stores. All of this activity, of course, does not make it more likely that they will receive more free stuff from the authorities who presumably owe it to them. Instead, it victimizes those who have lived lawfully and with less dependence upon the state.

Riots occur for a great variety of reasons. The trigger can be something as absurd as in the 2011 Vancouver, Canada riot, in which locals became infuriated over the loss of a hockey game. Over 140 people were injured and over 5 million dollars in damage was done in a five-hour period. That last bit of information should be emphasized, as the fans had plenty of time to calm down after their team’s loss, but the rage, once ignited, became self-regenerating. This is one of the important dynamics of a riot that’s often overlooked. The riot, which may begin as a reaction to an event, becomes the event and is continued for its own sake.

In the same year, thousands of people rioted in London. The trigger was more serious this time: the shooting of a local man by a policeman. (Although the man had fired on police prior to being shot himself, this fact failed to deter rioters.) The riots, like most irrational retaliations, only served to cause more deaths and injuries. The riots lasted a full five days over a dozen London boroughs, then ignited further in a dozen other cities. Over £200 million in damages occurred, and over 3,400 crimes were logged.

There’s another dynamic that’s not revealed as it’s seen from the safety of our television screens, and that is the spontaneity of a riot. For anyone who has lived through a riot, as I have, the lesson is an indelible one. Riots, on occasion, are planned and, once they begin, there are occasions in which individuals capitalize on them (such as the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, where hired rioters were bussed in). But, in most cases, they’re spontaneous. They begin as a reaction to pent-up anger. (In the Vancouver incident, the anger was building even before the hockey game had ended, but many riots, especially socially related riots, are often the result of many years of pent-up anger.)

The riot itself is generally a small spark that’s added to the existing anger and is often related to a specific event, such as the riots in US cities the night Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in 1968. Once started, riots, for the most part, are entirely unplanned and rely on random acts of violence. Within minutes of the first violent act, entire neighborhoods spontaneously ignite. As in the London riots, the same incident can spark off multiple riots, miles from each other.

A third often misunderstood dynamic is uncontrollability. Police can race to the center of a riot and, in some cases, quell the rioters, but, as the riot is not “organized,” the rioters have merely to stop whatever they’re doing and, for the moment, they cease to be participants. If police move on to other riot locations, the rioters who had been temporarily inactive could begin to riot again. Even if police are successful in quelling all violent activity in a neighborhood, they could receive a radio call directing them to a new riot location, just blocks away.

In my own experience, new locations of violence erupting seemed to be going off all around the city, like popcorn. Before one could be quelled, others would pop up. The incidents were therefore unstoppable by authorities.

Warfare has traditionally been approached from the standpoint that one army faces another and they fight until one surrenders. Guerilla warfare, however, has always proven unwinnable, as long as the guerillas are fighting on their home turf. Rioters have the same advantage as, say, an armed sheepherder in Afghanistan or a rice farmer in Vietnam. The violence only ends when all rioters have decided they’ve had enough.

Of course we’d hope that rioters would learn from their crimes, but this is rarely the case. In the London riots of 2011, rioters burned down the local Sainsbury’s in their own neighborhood. The next day, the same people were on the streets, in front of the television cameras, angrily stating that their grocery store was now gone and their children needed food. They demanded that the government truck in free food as an emergency measure and, not surprisingly, that’s what they got. This is exemplary of the fact that, in every case, reason is abandoned and anger rules the day. No lessons are learned by the rioters. In fact, months later, rioters have often been quoted as saying, “We showed ’em.”

So, what can we take away here? First, and most importantly, that riots are by their very nature spontaneous, mindless, and, for the most part, uncontrollable. Second, if an individual lives in or near a location where sociopolitical tension is on the increase, he is living in danger. The spontaneity of a riot means that he cannot prepare for it. If it arrives on his doorstep, or if he’s on the street at the time when it occurs, he may lose everything, including his life.

Since riots are mindless, rioters cannot be reasoned with. There’s no talking your way out of the danger, once it has reached you. Finally, as riots cannot effectively be controlled, the one and only defense against them is to conclude that, if one lives in an area where socioeconomic conditions indicate that the location (whether it be a neighborhood or even an entire country) is unsafe, it may be time to move. The key here is that the move occur before violence erupts. Once it has, it’s too late."

Gregory Mannarino, "Must Watch! A Massive Con-Job, Another Grand Deception"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 6/21/22:
"Must Watch! A Massive Con-Job, Another Grand Deception"

Musical Interlude: Deuter, “Black Velvet Flirt”

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Deuter, “Black Velvet Flirt”

Simply beautiful...

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Point your telescope toward the high flying constellation Pegasus and you can find this expanse of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies. Centered on NGC 7814, the pretty field of view would almost be covered by a full moon. NGC 7814 is sometimes called the Little Sombrero for its resemblance to the brighter more famous M104, the Sombrero Galaxy.
Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies seen edge-on, and both have extensive central bulges cut by a thinner disk with dust lanes in silhouette. In fact, NGC 7814 is some 40 million light-years away and an estimated 60,000 light-years across. That actually makes the Little Sombrero about the same physical size as its better known namesake, appearing to be smaller and fainter only because it is farther away. A very faint dwarf galaxy, potentially a satellite of NGC 7814, is revealed in the deep exposure just below the Little Sombrero.”

Free Download: Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

"Miracles"

"Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge
of the water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with anyone I love, or sleep in the bed
at night with anyone I love,
Or sit at the table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honeybees busy around the hive
of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining
so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon
in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread
with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim- the rocks- the motion of the waves
- the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?"

- Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
Freely download "Leaves of Grass", by Walt Whitman, here:

"The World..."

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. "
- Horace Walpole, In a Letter, 1770

"Everything We Assume Is Permanent Is Actually Fragile"

"Everything We Assume Is Permanent Is Actually Fragile"
by Charles Hugh Smith

"The great irony of the past 75 years of expanding consumption is the belief that all these decades of success prove the system is rock-solid and future success is thus guaranteed. The irony lies in the systemic fragility that's built into the large-scale industrial production that generates endless surpluses of energy, food, fresh water, etc. and the global financial system that delivers endless surpluses of capital and credit to be distributed by public authorities and private owners of capital.

The key driver of increasing efficiencies has been scaling up production by concentrating ownership and capacity into a few quasi-monopolies/cartels. In industry after industry, where there were once dozens of companies, there are now only a handful of behemoths with outsized market and political power which they wield to retain their dominance.

For example, where there were dozens of large regional banks in the U.S. not that long ago, relentless consolidation has led to a handful of supergiant too big to fail banks which can take extraordinary risks (and undertake criminal skims) knowing that the federal government will always bail them out and leave the banks' corporate criminals untouched.

Two of these too big to fail banks recently paid fines in the billions of dollars, yet no one went to prison or even faced criminal charges. This highlights the systemic problem with concentrating capital and power in the hands of the few: too big to fail means corporate wrongdoers have a permanent get out of jail free card while the small-fry white-collar criminal will get a fiver (five-year prison sentence) for skimming a tiny fraction of the billions routinely pillaged by the too big to fail banks.

The net result is a two-tier judicial/law enforcement system: the too big to fail "essential" companies get a free hand and the citizenry get whatever "justice" they can afford, i.e. very little.

This concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few corporations is of course state-cartel socialism in which the public good has become subservient to the profits of corporate owners and insiders, and the skims paid to the state's insiders. The state enables and enforces this concentration of private wealth and power in a number of ways: regulatory capture, the polite bribery of lobbying, the revolving door between government and private industry, and so on.

The public good would best be served by competition and transparent markets and regulations, but these are precisely what's been eliminated by relentless consolidation and the paring down of the economic ecosystem to a handful of too big to fail nodes which work tirelessly to eliminate competition, transparency and meaningful public oversight.

This ruthless pursuit of efficiencies and profits has stripped the economy of redundancies and buffers. Production supply chains have been engineered to function in a narrow envelope of quality, quantity and time. Any disruption quickly leads to shortages, something that became visible when meatpacking plants were closed in the pandemic.

Supply chains are long and fragile, but this fragility is not visible as long as everything stays within the narrow envelope that's been optimized. Once the envelope is broken, the supply chain breaks down. Since redundancies and buffers have been stripped away, there are no alternatives available. Shortages mount and the entire system starts breaking down.

Quality has been stripped out as well. When markets become captive to cartels and monopolies, customers have to take what's available: if it's poor quality goods and services, tough luck, pal, there are no alternatives. There are only one or two service providers, healthcare insurers, etc., and they all provide the same minimal level of quality and service.

The moral rot in our social, political and economic orders is another source of hidden fragility. I'm constantly told by readers that corruption has been around forever, so therefore nothing has changed, but these readers are indulging in magical nostalgia: things have changed profoundly, and for the worse, as the moral rot has seeped into every nook and cranny of American life, from the top down.
There is no "public good," there is only a rapacious, obsessive self-interest that claims the mantle of "public good" as a key mechanism of the con.
As I discussed in "Everything is Staged", everyone and everything in America is now nothing more than a means to a self-interested end, and so the the entirety of American life is nothing but 100% marketing of various cons designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many. That America was a better place without endless marketing of Big Pharma meds and colleges hyping their insanely costly "product" (a worthless diploma) has been largely forgotten by those indulging in magical nostalgia.

What few seem to realize is all the supposedly rock-solid permanent foundations of life are nothing more than fragile social constructs based on trust and legitimacy. Once trust and legitimacy have been lost, these constructs melt into the sands of time.

A great many things we take for granted are fragile constructs that could unravel with surprising speed: law enforcement, the courts, elections, the value of our currency - these are all social constructs. Once legitimacy is lost, people abandon these constructs and they melt away.

It's clear to anyone who isn't indulging in magical nostalgia that trust in institutions is in a steep decline as the legitimacy of these institutions, public and private, have been eroded by incompetence, corruption, dysfunction and the rapacious self-interest of insiders.

What we've gotten very good at is masking the rot and fragility. Masking the rot and fragility is not the same thing as strength or permanence. The nation is about to discover the difference in the years ahead."

"Against All Odds..."

"There's a little animal in all of us and maybe that's something to celebrate. Our animal instinct is what makes us seek comfort, warmth, a pack to run with. We may feel caged, we may feel trapped, but still as humans we can find ways to feel free. We are each other's keepers, we are the guardians of our own humanity and even though there's a beast inside all of us, what sets us apart from the animals is that we can think, feel, dream and love. And against all odds, against all instinct, we evolve."
- "Grey's Anatomy"

Judge Napolitano, "Ukraine Russia War Update - Col Douglas Macgregor"

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Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom 6/21/22:
"Ukraine Russia War Update - Col Douglas Macgregor"
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The Daily "Near You?"

Seymour, Connecticut, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"You May Not Want To Hear This, But More War Is Coming"

"You May Not Want To Hear This,
But More War Is Coming"
by Michael Snyder

"There are dark clouds on the horizon, and those that choose to ignore them do so to their own peril. When World War I started, nobody thought that it would be the most horrifying war that Europe had ever witnessed. The “war to end all wars” resulted in approximately 20 million deaths, but of course it didn’t actually end all wars. World War II erupted in 1939, and it resulted in at least 40 million deaths. After witnessing such immense death and destruction, you would think that humanity would be absolutely determined to avoid a global war in the future. Unfortunately, World War III has now begun, and by the time it is over the number of dead will far exceed the combined totals from World War I and World War II.

Right now, the war in Ukraine is the largest land war that we have witnessed in Europe since World War II. It is essentially a proxy war between Russia and the NATO powers, and as I will explain later in this article a new crisis that has just erupted could potentially turn it into an actual shooting war between Russia and the NATO powers.

Meanwhile, the Chinese continue to make preparations to invade Taiwan. I do not know if they will pull the trigger on an invasion in 2022, but I do believe that it will happen at some point. And when that day arrives, the United States and China will instantly be in a state of war.

But I believe that there is another major conflict that is even more imminent. Israel has always warned that Iran would never be allowed to get to a point where it could produce a nuclear bomb. Sadly, the IAEA recently announced that Iran now “possesses enough fissile material to construct a nuclear bomb”…

Israel and Iran are rapidly approaching an inflection point over Tehran’s nuclear program, and what was the atomic equivalent of a controlled clash between the two countries is now devolving into an unconstrained chain reaction. In late May, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations agency tasked with globally overseeing nuclear technology and use, reported that Iran possesses enough fissile material to construct a nuclear bomb. Jerusalem’s long-feared specter of Tehran becoming an existential threat to Israel is now very real and imminent.

There is going to be a war between Israel and Iran. It may not begin in the way that you would expect, but it is definitely coming. Of course some would argue that it has already begun, because the “shadow war” between Israel and Iran has greatly escalated over the past year. The following comes from the Wall Street Journal…"Israel has stepped up the campaign in the past year, with strikes using small drones to hit Iranian nuclear facilities and an attack on an Iranian drone base, according to the people briefed on the campaigns. Iran blamed Israel for last month’s killing in Tehran of a top Iranian military officer that the Israelis suspected of running overseas hit teams targeting Israelis."

The recent deaths of a small number of Iranians involved in the country’s nuclear and military research programs have also raised questions as to whether Israel was responsible for them. But at least missiles are not flying back and forth between the two nations yet, and for that we should be thankful.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, and Israel recently took the unprecedented step of publicly announcing that it had prepared military aircraft for a strike against Iran…"Israel concurs. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett acknowledged on June 12 Iran is “dangerously close to getting their hands on nuclear weapons.” Earlier, Jerusalem - in an atypical disclosure for Israel - declared it has sufficiently extended the range of its U.S.-supplied Lockheed Martin F-35I Adir stealth fighter-bombers to complete any missions tasked to them in Iran. Israel’s message to the ayatollahs was loud and clear: Israel can reach deep inside Iran and exit Iranian air space unseen. Either abandon pursuit of nuclear weapons or risk getting hit."

Then on Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Channel 12 News that “offensive options” against Iran are all set to go if it turns out that they are necessary. Needless to say, it would not be easy to take out Iran’s nuclear program. There are 38 nuclear-related sites, and some of them are deep underground.

And if Israel does conduct such an operation, there will inevitably be a massive response…"Jerusalem’s planning must anticipate Hezbollah, Hamas and other Tehran-backed militias aggressively responding in kind if Israel launches a raid into Iran. In all likelihood, before Israel’s air forces could return to Israeli airspace, massive volleys of rocket fire would be hitting the country from Lebanon, Gaza and Syria - and possibly even from Iran itself. Striking Iran’s nuclear facilities would be only the beginning, not the end, of a hot war between Israel and Iran. Complicating matters is the fact that Israel is now headed for “its fifth election in three and a half years”. Yair Lapid will be the caretaker prime minister until the election in October, and it is unclear whether he will be more aggressive or less aggressive toward Iran than Naftali Bennett was."

Meanwhile, a shooting war between Russia and NATO is now closer than ever now that Lithuania has decided to block all EU-sanctioned goods from reaching Kaliningrad…"NATO member Lithuania became the flashpoint of tensions between Russia and the military alliance on Saturday when it banned the transit of EU-sanctioned goods through its territory to and from the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. The Kremlin described the move as “openly hostile” and warned it will take action if the ban is not lifted “in the near future”.
The Russians are absolutely furious, and they are strongly warning Lithuania to back down…"The Lithuanian chargé d’affaires in Moscow was told that unless cargo transit was resumed in the near future, Russia reserves the right to act to protect its national interests. The Russian foreign ministry said: ‘We consider provocative measures of the Lithuanian side which violate Lithuania’s international legal obligations, primarily the 2002 Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the European Union on transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation, to be openly hostile.’

So what happens if Lithuania doesn’t back down? What will Russia do? At this point we don’t know, but the Kremlin is describing this situation as “more than serious”…"Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “The situation is more than serious. This decision is really unprecedented. It’s a violation of everything.” He added: “We consider this illegal. The situation is more than serious…we need a serious in-depth analysis in order to work out our response.”

If the Russians ultimately decide on a military response, that could change everything, because Lithuania is a member of NATO…"Any attack on NATO member state Lithuania would be seen as an act of war against the military alliance. It would therefore likely trigger a retaliation under Article 5 of the NATO treaty which states that an armed attack against one member state is considered an attack against them all."

Did you ever imagine that tiny Lithuania could be the spark that brings the world to the brink of nuclear conflict? I certainly don’t want to fight a nuclear war over a Lithuanian blockade of Kaliningrad, and I am sure that you don’t either. And the truth is that most Americans would have no chance of finding Kaliningrad on a blank map of the world.

But now a very reckless decision by some nameless Lithuanian politicians could end up being the straw that broke the camel’s back. Over and over again, I have pleaded for a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine before it had the opportunity to spiral out of control. Now we are on the verge of the unthinkable, and our leaders continue to find new ways to escalate the conflict."
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"Biggest Development Since The Ukraine 
Invasion - WW3 Just Started"
"The economic blockade of Kaliningrad has begun in violation of multiple treaties and potentially triggering a Russian Invasion of the Baltic States and Lithuania.  NATO members prepare to deploy more troops to the Baltic to defend against any potential aggression by Russia to take the Suwalki Gap (Suwalki Corridor)"

"World War 3 Just Got A Little Bit Closer"

"World War 3 Just Got A Little Bit Closer"
by Chris Black

"If you don’t realize the goal is WW3, you don’t know these people very well.

🚨BREAKING – #WorldWar3: NATO puts 1 million Russian citizens in Kaliningrad under blockade, provoking Russia to invade Lithuania through Russian allied Belarus to free them. NATO has implemented a ban on all rail transit and goods going to Russia aligned Kaliningrad. pic.twitter.com/cki8hyzuE8
- Alexander Higgins (@kr3at) June 20, 2022

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Lithuania and Kaliningrad are the flashpoint for global thermonuclear war. Russia attacked Ukraine as Ukraine was going to invade Donbas with 100k soldiers, after shelling civilians with heavy arty for 2 weeks in a row. Now ZOG is trying to provoke Russia even more.

I don’t think they’ll take the bait, because they’re winning already. But desperate people can do desperate things, and by that I mean the alien regime in Washington DC/EU. History aficionados know that the cabal living in London, and directing DC, that taught out and is directing the One World Government, was responsible for all the world wars. If NATO goes to war with Russia, what does the 50 million Chinese army do? Sit back, watch Russia, if defeated, knowing they are next, or go to Russia’s aid? That is the question.

What Russia is doing to Ukraine (that happens to have been trained in NATO tactics for the last 8 years) with only 10% of their army has scared the living sh*t out of NATO and the US. They know damn well they wouldn’t have a chance in a conventional ground war with Russia in Eastern Europe. They would immediately escalate the conflict to nukes and Russia would then burn down both the EU and the USA.

Oh and by the way, the US (and their ass kissers in the UK) started this whole thing with the Maidan coup in 2014. Personally, as an armchair general, I’d cut off all gas to Europe (the MSM is already whining about mean and nasty Putin reducing NS1 – it’s a miracle it’s supplying anything), deliver to Kaliningrad via the sea, and refuse to supply Lithuania, even after the EU backs off its rail ban.

Lithuania is run by nosebags for ages. Their move, although boneheaded, is not unexpected. And they will get what they deserve I reckon. The agreement on Kaliningrad dates back to the Potsdam Conference and was endorsed by the US and UK. The transit treaty signed by Lithuania was a precondition for them to join EU and NATO and is three decades old.

Guess we can add this to America’s long list of broken agreements. Perhaps our biggest broken agreement is the dollar. That one will bite us hard, you ain’t seen nothin yet…"

"No Room For Cowards..."

“Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life. No one has the right to point fingers at his/her past and blame it for what he/she is today. We do not have the right to point our finger at someone else and blame that person for how we treat others, today. Don’t hide in the corner, pointing fingers at your past. Don’t sit under the table, talking about someone who has hurt you. Instead, stand up and face your past! Face your fears! Face your pain! And stomach it all! You may have to do so kicking and screaming and throwing fits and crying – but by all means – face it! This life makes no room for cowards.”
- C. Joybell C.

"Economic Market Snapshot 6/21/22"

Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...
Only the consequences are real - to you!
"Economic Market Snapshot 6/21/22"
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"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
Oh yeah... beyond words.
And now... The End Game...

Bill Bonner, "Foolish Finance"

"Foolish Finance"
As headline inflation skyrockets, it's deflation in 
financial assets that's catching folks off guard...
by Bill Bonner

Youghal, Ireland - “Oh, the stories I could tell about the big house.” Bringing readers into the conversation, a “big house” in Ireland usually refers to one owned by the “Ascendancy” of protestant, English or Anglo-Irish landowners. When the IRA was on the rampage, these ‘big houses’ were often the targets; many were sacked, looted or burned to the ground.

Our guest on Sunday knew her subject well, having lived in one of them all her life. “You know, the two classes didn’t mix. It’s better now. But back then it was a kind of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ thing. The people who worked, who cooked, cleaned and kept the dogs and the horses… they were generally local Irish. But the owner was almost always English… or closely connected with England.

“Well… Mr. H was the owner. He was born in Ireland, but to English parents and he inherited the estate from them. He said he didn’t trust the Irish to run the house. So he got a Scottish woman… and brought her over to head up the staff. But he didn’t check her credentials very well.

She was an awful thing… bossy, no sense of humor… and it turned out she had a drinking problem and had been fired from her last job. What’s more, she couldn’t do very much because she had bad hips… or bad lungs… or bad something. And she kept a drawer full of painkillers of various types in the kitchen.

She also had a fondness for cats. She collected strays. And pretty soon the whole estate was full of cats, more or less domesticated. Mostly less… And she also kept some pills for de-worming the kittens in the kitchen drawer.

Mr. H knew about the pain killers. But he didn’t know about the worming pills. And one day, the Scottish housekeeper was sprawled over one of the chairs, dead drunk. The kitchen was a terrible wreck. He had been yelling at the downstairs girls… and drinking heavily himself. He was so upset by the state of things that he had a terrible headache. And so, he reached into the drawer to help himself to some of the painkillers. Well, you can imagine what happened. He was the only man in County Cork who was certifiably worm-free. And when we heard the story, the whole downstairs staff broke out in the most jolly laughter I’ve ever heard.”

The Inflationary Deflationary Scare: Meanwhile, back in the world of finance and foolishness… everything has changed. Everything is different. It’s Mr. Market who’s calling the shots now. And he’s de-worming the economy… purging it of the mistakes of the Greenspan-Bernanke-Yellen-Powell Fed. And now, it’s not so much inflation that you have to worry about. It’s deflation.

At least, that is our hypothesis. An inflationary catastrophe doesn’t develop neatly or unambiguously. If it were otherwise, you wouldn’t have to worry about a bear market or inflation. You’d just move out of stocks as soon as prices begin to fall… or into gold when the inflation rate ticks up. But it’s never quite so obvious what is going on. Mr. Market teases us. Confuses us. He misleads us, toying with investors and making fools of policy makers. And often, an episode of heady inflation doesn’t really get underway until prices have already undergone substantial deflation.

That is, we believe, where we are now… at the beginning of a deflationary crisis. But this matter requires some de-construction. The feds favor inflation. They live on it. They live by it. They want it. They believe they can stimulate their economies by causing inflation. They expect to pay their expenses by inflating the money supply. And they boost their own wealth by inflating the stock market.

It is no coincidence that all major currencies have lost value since 1971. Against gold, the dollar is down 98%. The British pound has lost 99%. The German mark and its euro successor, 96%. The Canadian dollar – down 99%. That’s no accident, either. It’s a matter of public policy. All major governments prefer to devalue their own currencies; it’s probably the only government policy that is truly successful.

The Poverty Effect: But wait. Mr. Market doesn’t just rollover and disappear. He has his own agenda. Now, he’s large and in charge. And he’s a deflation guy. Stocks are down about 20% so far. Bond yields too (the inverse of bond prices) are running much higher than they were a year ago. Case in point - the most important yield in the word, on the 10-year Treasury bond, has doubled.

Real estate is much more local and particular. But it too shows signs of being in an early downturn, thanks to much higher mortgage rates. Homebuilders are getting hammered. And foreclosures are returning to more normal levels too. KNEWZ in Los Angeles: "A year ago, thanks to various mortgage payment forbearance programs, there was minimal foreclosure activity across America. This May, according to ATTOM, default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions encompassed 30,881 U.S. residential properties, a 185 percent increase from the same time in 2021."

This is the opposite of the wealth effect… and the opposite of what the feds want. So far, only asset prices are falling. Mr. Market is setting things straight. He began with the most obvious targets – overpriced cryptos and techs. Now, he’ll work his way from Wall Street to Main Street… and up and down the commercial chain… from retailers, to wholesalers, to producers, to raw material providers… from investors to businesses to households… chopping down years of inflationary growth. But the open question is this: will the Fed allow him to finish the job? Stay tuned..."

"When Do You Say Enough is Enough? The Reality of our Economy"

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Dan, iAllegedly 6/21/22:
"When Do You Say Enough is Enough? 
The Reality of our Economy"
"Enough is enough with inflation numbers that are not right. No one believes that Canadian inflation is in the 6% range. No one believes the UK inflation is in the 7% range and no one believes that United States inflation is at 8.6%."
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"The Great Reset: Turning Back the Clock on Civilization" (Excerpt)

"The Great Reset: 
Turning Back the Clock on Civilization"
by Birsen Filip

"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free." 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excerpt: "The Covid-19 pandemic engulfed the planet in a fascist fusion of large corporations with the powers of state governments. Austere policies, centrally designed by the social engineers of medicine, were forced on the citizens of democratic nations in the form of national quarantines, mandatory injections, the termination of livelihoods, suppression of treatment options and rampant censorship of dissenting views…

The covid-19 pandemic featured an unprecedented fusion of the interests of large and powerful corporations with the power of the state. Democratically elected politicians in many countries failed to represent the interests of their own citizens and uphold their own constitutions and charters of rights. Specifically, they supported lockdown measures, vaccine mandates, the suppression of a variety of early treatment options, the censorship of dissenting views, propaganda, interference in the private spheres of individuals, and the suspension of various forms of freedom. All of these policies and measures were centrally designed by the social engineers of the pandemic.

Globalists, who are obsessed with societal control, decided to take advantage of the pandemic in order to increase their authoritarian power. Prominent among them was, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of World Economic Forum (WEF). In June 2020, he stated that “the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.” According to him, “every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.”

It is no secret that the WEF has focused on accelerating the implementation of central planning for the entire global population since the early days of pandemic. This plan to establish a new world order, known as the Great Reset, was a key theme at the recent annual meeting of the WEF, which was held during May 22–26 in Davos, Switzerland."
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"Record High Diesel Prices Threaten Domino Effect To Other Goods"

"Record High Diesel Prices Threaten Domino Effect To Other Goods"
by Casey Harper

"Record high diesel fuel prices are yet another driver of rising costs for Americans, and those costs could get even higher this year. Diesel gas prices hit another record high last Thursday at $5.79 per gallon, according to AAA. That is a spike from $5.57 a month ago and much higher than the average of $3.22 the same time last year.

Diesel gas prices have continued to hit new records this week even as regular gas has leveled out, at least the last couple of days. Those higher prices are one of several factors raising costs for businesses, costs that are often passed down to consumers.

President Joe “Biden’s attack on the fossil fuel industry can be felt across every sector of the economy because everything needs energy,” said Daniel Turner, executive director of the energy workers advocacy group, Power the Future. “So it’s not just gas prices. It is also consumer goods, food, and all services. The diesel prices are particularly alarming because of what machinery uses diesel: agriculture, trucks, railroad. All cargo shipping is diesel powered. So the price of all food that is planted, irrigated, fertilized, harvested, processed, packaged, and transported is being made more expensive at every step of the process. All those costs are passed on to consumers.”

Food prices have soared in recent months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 10.1% increase in the food index in the previous twelve months, “the first increase of 10 percent or more since the period ending March 1981.” Food prices have been hit hard by Russian President Valdimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine since Ukraine is a major exporter for food and chemicals used in fertilizer, but several other factors have played a part, including inflation. BLS' producer price index rose 10.8% in the past 12 months, and consumer prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades.

Many of the food production costs that are hitting farmers now will not be felt by consumers until the crops are harvested and sent to market later on. “We have not yet begun to see the cost of Biden’s war on energy, on food prices because we have not yet harvested,” Turner said. “It’s only late spring, and we are still eating last year’s wheat. Wait until late summer and early fall and we will see painfully high prices across the board, and we are woefully unprepared. Making energy expensive makes life expensive, and as we spend more money to fill up our cars and buy basic groceries, we will be spending less on entertainment, travel, dining, shopping, etc.” 

Diesel, though, is used to transport all kinds of goods, not just food. Right now, businesses are paying more than ever to transport via diesel trucks while the market also deals with a truck driver shortage. Those higher costs are one more supply chain issue facing the U.S. economy right now as prices on all kinds of goods rise.

Experts say higher energy costs will only make that worse if they remain elevated for an extended period of time. “By the economics textbook, higher costs work themselves up through the supply side of the market and raise prices,” said Roger Cryan, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation, as previously reported by The Center Square. “The prices are especially high right now because of the sudden lack of access to Black Sea grain, but if these energy prices stay high in the long run then they will entirely work their way into food prices.”

Biden has taken heavy criticism for his energy policies from detractors who point to his policies that held back oil leases and pipeline development. Biden has tried to deflect those critiques, pointing to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted global oil markets. “Biden has got a case that there is a Russia shock, but the other side has also got a case that if the United States were producing more, the Russia shock wouldn’t be such a big deal,” said Desmond Lachman, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute.

“The Biden case is pretty weak when he tries to make it sound like inflation is all Putin’s fault because of the oil and food prices because the truth of the matter was inflation was far too high before February 24 when Russia invaded Ukraine,” he added."