"Biden to Declare Climate Emergency!"

"Biden to Declare Climate Emergency!"

by Brian Maher

"It is proven beyond all doubt, it is a fact beyond all dispute: A climate emergency is upon us. Earth is down with a mighty fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post: "The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the Earth’s surface… The eastern Arctic has steadily gotten warmer, and today the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of about 50 years ago. Many old landmarks have changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared."

Thus the Arctic sweats and sweats: "Formerly the waters around Spitzbergen [Norway] held an even summer temperature of about 3 degrees Celsius; this year recorded temperatures up to 15 degrees, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen."

Spitzbergen sits far within the Arctic Circle, incidentally. Imagine an ice-free winter deep within the Arctic Circle - if you can. As well imagine a fire-free hell. Yet the facts are the facts. To deny the climate emergency is to deny the very nose upon your face… the honesty of congressmen… or gravity itself. Wait… When?

But what is this? Could it be? The article here cited bears the date of Nov. 2… 1922. That is correct - Nov. 2, 1922. We have played a trick. Yes, the Arctic was iceless in 1922, should you accept the verdict of The Washington Post. We have published this information before. But at times we wish to razz the environmental calamity-howlers among us. They sob that today’s warning has no precedent. Yet it evidently does.

Climate Emergency! We reckon about climate today because we are informed the United States president, Biden, may soon declare a national “climate emergency.” A declaration of national emergency is no mere statement. It is the warrant for vastly expanded presidential dictating. Explains a certain Jean Su, senior attorney for a bunch labeling itself the Center for Biological Diversity: "If he declares a national emergency, it triggers the ability for him to deploy around 130 different powers… One of the most useful for climate is the reinstatement of the crude oil export ban. Shutting that off would actually reduce the incentive for companies from fracking in the Permian Basin."

We must conclude Saudi crude oil is a lesser environmental menace than American crude oil. Why else would the president choke off domestic production - while pleading with the Saudi king to expand output - which he did last week (unsuccessfully)? Thus the United States can take oil in. But it cannot dig it up or send it out… lest the heavens fall.

Carbon dioxide is of course the great bugaboo of this climactic tale. We are told it is cooking Earth. Yet is it? It is proven beyond all doubt, it is a fact beyond all dispute: A climate emergency is upon us. Earth is down with a mighty fever. Even the polar ice has vanished.

Garbage in, Garbage Out: Yet do these models give true readings? From a 2020 report by the American Geophysical Union: "The tendency of climate models to overstate warming in the tropical troposphere has long been noted… We focus on the 1979–2014 interval, the maximum span for which all observational products are available…. all 38 models overpredict warming in every target observational analog, in most cases significantly so, and the average differences between models and observations are statistically significant."

All 38 models! Can you believe it? Further razzing comes by way of geophysicist Mr. Allan MacRae: By the end of 2020, the climate doomsters were proved wrong in their scary climate predictions 48 times. At 50-50 odds for each prediction, that is like flipping a coin 48 times and losing every time! The probability of that being mere random stupidity is one in 281 trillion!…

The global warming alarmists have a perfect NEGATIVE predictive track record - they have been 100% wrong about every scary climate prediction - so nobody should continue to believe them. Even the catastrophists themselves are beginning to cough behind their hands, disappointedly. They concede they were yelling wolf. Science magazine: "The climate models that help them project the future have grown a little too alarmist. Many of the world’s leading models are now projecting warming rates that most scientists, including the modelmakers themselves, believe are implausibly fast."

Cherry-Picking Evidence? That is, carbon dioxide is being falsely accused of climate crime - if the information here presented is truthful. The caveat is necessary because your editor lacks all credentials within the climate sciences. He is, however, skilled in the picking of cherries that confirm his prejudices.

But if not carbon dioxide, what accounts for the changing climate? We do not know. Yet there is the sun to consider - it gives off a varying glow. Might shifting ocean currents explain it… or wind patterns? We hazard they might. Again, we do not know. But we slant heavily towards the natural explanation. Yet largely due to these fantabulists the United States president is preparing to declare a national climate emergency - with the attending dictatorial powers authorized therein.

“But aren’t cleaner wind and solar energy desirable?” you ask. “Shouldn’t we pursue cleaner, more sustainable alternatives?” If the world prefers wind over oil, solar over coal, let it have wind and solar over oil and coal, we say - so long as they are adequate to needs. Yet the world must evidently come to terms with fundamental physics…

The Point of Diminishing Returns: Mr. Mark Mills co-directs Northwestern University’s Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. From whom: "All sources of energy have limits that can’t be exceeded. The maximum rate at which the sun’s photons can be converted to electrons is about 33%. Our best solar technology is at 26% efficiency. For wind, the maximum capture is 60%. Our best machines are at 45%. So we’re pretty close to wind and solar limits. Despite PR claims about big gains coming, there just aren’t any possible."

If this fellow is correct - our minions inform us he is - we begin to suspect we are being taken for a sleigh ride. Wind and solar energy would be vastly inadequate to global energy needs… and would remain inadequate to energy needs through the end of the chapter. They may have their place - and let them have their place. Yet that place is evidently limited. They would nonetheless cost trillions and trillions of dollars that could serve far worthier purposes… including the mitigation of whatever nuisances and irritations that may accompany climate change. Thus we conclude: Going green would sink us all impossibly and unfathomably into red…"

- dailyreckoning.com

"15 Mind-Blowing Facts Which Prove China Is Completely Crushing America"

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"15 Mind-Blowing Facts Which Prove China

 Is Completely Crushing America"

by Epic Economist

"As the Chinese economy continues to expand at an exponential rate, the era of American economic dominance is rapidly ending. According to the IMF's measure of purchasing power, the eastern superpower is already the world's largest economy. China also accounts for more total global trade than the U.S. does, and is the world's largest manufacturer. Experts estimate that the Chinese economy will surpass the U.S. economy before the end of this decade, and it will become three times bigger by 2040. Meanwhile, America is now headed to another recession, our standards of living are steadily falling and our major cities are crumbling at an alarming pace. If we continue down this path, the future of the next generation of Americans will be extremely bleak. Unfortunately, things are changing at a pace that is much faster than most people ever thought possible.

In one decade, the average household income in China has increased by over 400%. The Chinese economic boom has helped to raise living standards for the working class. From 2002 to 2012, China's average household income rose from $987 per year to $4,873, an increase of over 400%. By 2021, that figure was up to $10,200, more than double the 2012 average. Meanwhile, household income has flatlined in America, rising 41% from 2000 to 2020, according to Pew Research Data.

Even though China has a much bigger population than the U.S., it has fewer poor people than America. Globally, the World Bank poverty line is an income of $1.90 per day. By 2019, only 0.7% of the Chinese population were at or below the poverty level, meaning that about 9.9 million people lived in poverty out of a population of 1.35 billion. In comparison, in the U.S., 12.3% of the population falls below the national poverty line. That means over 39.7 million Americans are living in poverty.

In the last 15 years, America has lost more than a quarter of its high-tech manufacturing jobs to China as U.S.-based multinational companies placed a growing percentage of their research-and-development operations in the Eastern nation. Over that span alone, the number of high-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States has declined by 687,000, or 28 percent. Meanwhile, U.S. economic growth will slump this year and it will be even slower in 2023, according to a new study from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD estimates that U.S. GDP growth will slow to 2.5 percent in 2022 and fall to just 1.2 percent in 2023. By contrast, the OECD report said China's GDP will grow 4.4 percent this year and 4.9 percent in 2023.

Everywhere you look, China is gaining dominance and America is in decline. The United States is going to have to put itself together if it wants to have any hope of competing with the Chinese in the future. At this point, we can only hope that our leaders start coming up with some solutions soon because we are running out of time. That's why today, we compiled some eye-popping stats that show just how rapidly the Chinese economy is overcoming ours."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com/

Gerald Celente, "Trends In The News"

Full screen recommended.

Strong language alert!

Gerald Celente, 7/21/22: "Trends In The News"

"Say No To War, Or Die In War. Nukes Are Next"

- https://trendsresearch.com/

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Gregory Mannarino, "'Banking Crisis 2.0' And You Will Pay For All Of It"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 7/21/22:

Must Watch! "'Banking Crisis 2.0' And You Will Pay For All Of It"

- https://traderschoice.net/

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Musical Interlude: Ludovico Einaudi, “Primavera”

Ludovico Einaudi, “Primavera”

"A Look to the Heavens"

“The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its more familiar outlines are seen in the brighter central region of the nebula in this impressive wide-angle view. But the composite image combines many short and long exposures to also reveal an extremely faint outer halo. At an estimated distance of 3,000 light-years, the faint outer halo is over 5 light-years across.

Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a sun-like star. More recently, some planetary nebulae are found to have halos like this one, likely formed of material shrugged off during earlier episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age of the outer filamentary portions of this halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years. Visible on the left, some 50 million light-years beyond the watchful planetary nebula, lies spiral galaxy NGC 6552.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

"One Summer Night..."

"One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will."

- Rachel Carson

"It May Be Necessary..."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can

 know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"The Gods Laugh At Your Plans: Chekhov, Jaspers, And Life-changing Moments"

"The Gods Laugh At Your Plans: 

Chekhov, Jaspers, And Life-changing Moments"

The most momentous and significant events in our lives 

are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.

by Jonny Thomson

"You’re in the shower one day, and you feel a lump that wasn’t there before. You’re having lunch when your phone rings with an unknown number: there’s been a crash. You come home and your husband is holding a suitcase. “I’m leaving,” he says.

Life is inevitably punctuated by sudden changes. At one moment, we might have everything laid out before us, and then an invisible wall stops us in our tracks. It might be an illness, a bereavement, an accident or some bad news, but life has a habit of mocking those who make plans. We can have our eyes on some distant shore, some faraway horizon, only to find everything come crashing down by the most unseen of events. As the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men. Gang aft agley” (often go wrong).

In Anton Chekhov’s remarkable play, "The Seagull," we meet a cast of characters who are all, in some way, in love with something. The young, idealistic artist Konstantin is in love with the idea of pure art. Arkadin, his mother, is in love with her fans and her celebrity. Konstantin’s girlfriend, Nina, is in love with becoming rich and famous. Everyone in the play has some kind of ambition and plan, or they live in regret over the life they chose. They rail against how misguided or mistaken their life has been, while longing for something else.

They are each like a seagull, flying over the sea or a great lake, and aiming purposefully for the shore. The view up there is wonderful. But the longer the seagull flies, the more oblivious they are to how they tire or weaken. They’re so fixated on some distant horizon that they’re at the mercy to life’s sudden changes. They’re blinkered and distracted, and the gods love nothing more than the hopeful hubris of mankind.

At one point in the play, Chekov has the character Trigorin recount a short story about a gull flying over a lake who’s, “happy and free.” But in the next moment, “a man sees her who happens to come that way, and he destroys her out of idleness.” The seagull is killed, its flight and plans annihilated, in one instant of random thoughtlessness.

Boundary Situations: While so much of our lives are spent in planning and preparation, the most transformative and significant moments are those which come at us out of the blue. These are what the psychiatrist Karl Jaspers called “boundary situations” - the ones we cannot initiate, plan, or avoid. We can only “encounter” them. These are not the mundane, everyday parts of our life - what Jaspers calls “situation being” - but rather they are things which thunder down to shake the foundations of our being. They change who we are. Although these “boundary situations” (sometimes called “limit situations”) change a bit in Jaspers’ works, he broadly sorted them into four categories:

Death: Death is the source of all our fear. We fear our loved ones dying, and we fear the moment and fact of our own death. When we know grief and despair, or when we reflect on mortality, we are transformed. We always know about death, but when it’s a boundary situation, it comes crashing into our lives like some grim scythe; an unforeseen curtain call. The awareness and subjective encounter with death transforms us.

Struggle: Life is a struggle. We work for food, compete for resources, and vie with each other for power, prestige, and status in almost every context there is. As such, there are moments when we are inevitably overcome and defeated, but also when we are victorious and champion. The final outcomes of struggle are often sudden and great, and they make us who we are.

Guilt: Hopefully, there comes a moment for each of us when we finally accept responsibility for things. For many, it comes with adulthood, but for others it comes much later still. It’s the awareness that our actions impact all around us, and our decisions echo into the world. It’s seeing the damage or tears we’ve caused. It’s to recognize that, however small or big, we’ve hurt and upset someone. It’s a profound pull of the heart that changes how we live, and it often comes on unexpectedly.

Chance: No matter how neat and ordered we might want our world to be, there will always be a messy, chaotic, and unpredictable exception. We can hope for the best, and make the plans we want, but we can never take a steering handle on the facts that will affect our existence. According to Jaspers, we each prefer, “assembling functional and explanatory structures… whose central axis lies in sufficient reason” and yet, “despite this, it is not possible for man to control and explain everything. In fact, day by day he faces events that he cannot call anything else other than coincidences or hazards.” We want order, and regularity. What we get is the mercurial and capricious throes of chance.

The best laid plans: What Chekhov’s Seagull and Jaspers’ “boundary situations” get right is that we are each much more vulnerable than we might want to allow. A wedding, three years and a fortune to plan, is ruined by a stomach bug. An hour-long journey home for Christmas winds up getting you stuck in the traffic of a freak snowstorm. A lifetime achievement is overshadowed by a national disaster. Our lives are defined by the unforeseen. We have our dreams, hopes and are flying to some faraway shore. Yet life doesn’t care. Around every corner, at every flap of our wings, everything can change."

- https://bigthink.com/

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If you caught a glimpse of your own death,

would that knowledge change the way you live the rest of your life?"

- Paco Ahlgren, "Discipline"

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "I Want A Lot"

"I Want A Lot"

"You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.

So many live on and want nothing
and are raised to the rank of prince
by the slippery ease of their light judgments.
But what you love to see are faces
that so work and feel thirst...

You have not grown old, and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Bill Bonner, "Scorched Earth Policies"

"Scorched Earth Policies"

Wars against crime, homelessness, other wars... 

and now, the earth's temperature!

by Bill Bonner

Baltimore, Maryland - "If we wanted to ruin a kid’s life, we’d tell him that whatever happened, it wouldn’t be his fault. “94 again today.” Yes, it’s hot here in Charm City. In more ways than one. Every weekend brings a heat wave and a crime wave. And the waves keep coming: “Three shot in street corner fight.” “Man rushed to hospital after shots exchanged on JFX.” “189 fatalities so far in 2022.” The local news is just one shooting report after another. The mayor is on the defensive… He looks overwhelmed… out of his depth… like he just got cut from a high-school basketball team. The chief of police, though, could have come right out of central casting… a heavy man with a decent manner, he sounds like he is doing his best.

It is a city on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Many of the shops, bars, and offices are empty. There are few people out on the streets. And those who are should probably be arrested… or put into some sort of long-term care. They shuffle… waddle… lean… and stumble along like zombies.

Blameless and Aimless: Many are ‘unhoused.’ That is, they are ‘suffering homelessness.’ These statements – brought to us by the press, the government, and activists – reveal the problem. It’s not their fault! Being ‘unhoused’ suggests no cause and effect between the housed and the houses. It is just something that happens. Like the weather. If someone is unhoused, it must be because the economy failed… the gods failed… or the government… or housing industry. Someone… somewhere… failed. But not the obvious person – the guy sleeping on the steps.

This morning, we walked up the hill to the office. There, in the doorway of the Methodist Church on the corner, someone was asleep. Laid out on the stone steps. A broken beer bottle next to him. Otherwise, nothing. The church steps seem to attract people who suffer homelessness. Practically every day, one or two are there suffering it… but mostly passed out. They get up eventually and make their way to one of the many shelters or ‘caring’ centers in the neighborhood. Some have been kicked out of their houses. Some have just never gotten themselves together. Others have drug, alcohol or mental issues. Often, it is some combination.

It is a remarkable time we are living through. A person is not expected to be able to put a roof over his head. And a city can’t keep its people from killing one another. But Americans think they should tell the Ukrainians what to do with the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic. And many humans believe they can control the weather for the whole planet.

Too hot? It’s just another problem to be solved – by the same people who solved the terrorist threat… and the Covid 19 threat. They rescued the world economy in 2009. They saved millions of lives in 2020-2021. And they’re solving the Russian aggression crisis….and homelessness, too.

“Code Red”: With so much on their plate already, do they really have the ability for the most ambitious crusade in the history of the world? They must think they have no choice. “Code red for humanity,” says President Biden.

Here’s the latest on the weather from The Washington Post: "Extreme heat prompts alerts in 28 states as Texas, Oklahoma hit 115." "Records are crashing as temperatures spike amid a high-end heat wave baking the Great Plains. Temperatures have spiked to 115 degrees in Texas and Oklahoma, with more than 60 million Americans anticipated to see triple-digit heat over the next week. Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings affect more than 105 million people in 28 states both across the central United States and the Northeast, where the combination of hot weather and high humidity will lead to conditions ripe for heat-related illness or heatstroke."

Meanwhile, from Europe… the scorched earth policy seems to be working already. But it’s not the Russians who are doing the scorching. It’s the weather. CNBC: "A deadly heat wave in Western Europe has triggered intense wildfires, disrupted transportation and displaced thousands of people as the continent grapples with the impact of climate change. The record-breaking heat is forecast to grow more severe this week and has prompted concerns over infrastructure problems such as melting roads, widespread power outages and warped train tracks.

Several areas in France have experienced record-breaking temperatures that approached or surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the national weather forecaster. In Britain, where few homes have air conditioning, the highest temperature has also reached nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, falling just below the national record."

Our neighbors in Poitou, France, report temperatures in the ‘90s… swimming pools so hot they don’t want to get in… and the countryside is almost shut down during the day. “Only mad dogs and Englishmen,” venture out into the noonday sun, they say. The government has to ‘do something’ about it. Everybody says so. But what can it do? Declare an emergency! Announce more policies… more controls… more spending! Sure… whatever."

- bonnerprivateresearch@substack.com

"The Economy is in Awful Shape - Real Estate Meltdown"

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Dan, iAllegedly 7/21/22:

"The Economy is in Awful Shape - Real Estate Meltdown"

"There is so much happening within real estate. We’re seeing a real crisis with the mortgage industry. Refi's are at a 22 year low. Houses are down, but they’re still selling at record high prices. This cannot continue without a major collapse."

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The Daily "Near You?"

Craig, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"The Sometimes Hidden Beauty of ‘This Too Shall Pass’"

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence to be ever on view and which would be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

"The Sometimes Hidden Beauty of ‘This Too Shall Pass’"

By Richard Haddad

"“This too shall pass.” This proverb has no doubt been repeated millions of times in many different languages since the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse started. The sentiment may be difficult to accept amidst so many hardships from lost jobs, lost businesses and lost lives.

This adage grew from the roots of a Persian fable and became known in the Western world primarily through a 19th-century retelling by the English poet Edward FitzGerald, who crafted the fable “Solomon’s Seal” in 1852 illustrating how the adage had the power to make a sad man happy but, conversely, a happy man sad. The fable was reportedly also employed in a speech by Abraham Lincoln before he became the sixteenth President of the United States.

But the version I want to share today that I think is most beautiful and powerful was written in 1867 by American newspaper editor and abolitionist Theodore Tilton. He reworked the fable into a poem called “The King’s Ring.” Here again, the retooled adage wields a double-edged sword. It can help us endure the passage of difficult times, or keep our perspective and humility during good times. Here is the Tilton poem:

"The King’s Ring"

"Once in Persia reigned a King,

Who upon his signet-ring

Graved a maxim true and wise,

Which, if held before his eyes,

Gave him counsel, at a glance,

Fit for every change or chance;

Solemn words, and these are they:

“Even this shall pass away.”

Trains of camels through the sand

Brought him gems from Samarcand;

Fleets of galleys through the seas

Brought him pearls to rival these.

But he counted little gain

Treasures of the mine or main.

“What is wealth?” the King would say;

“Even this shall pass away.”

In the revels of his court,

At the zenith of the sport,

When the palms of all his guests

Burned with clapping at his jests,

He, amid his figs and wine,

Cried, “O loving friends of mine!

Pleasures come, but do not stay:

Even this shall pass away.”

Lady fairest ever seen

Was the bride he crowned the queen.

Pillowed on his marriage-bed,

Whispering to his soul, he said,

“Though no bridegroom never pressed

Dearer bosom to his breast,

Mortal flesh must come to clay:

Even this shall pass away.”

Fighting on a furious field,

Once a javelin pierced his shield.

Soldiers with a loud lament

Bore him bleeding to his tent.

Groaning from his tortured side,

“Pain is hard to bear,” he cried,

“But with patience day by day,

Even this shall pass away.”

Towering in the public square

Twenty cubits in the air,

Rose his statue carved in stone.

Then the King, disguised, unknown,

Gazing at his sculptured name,

Asked himself, “And what is fame?

Fame is but a slow decay:

Even this shall pass away.”

Struck with palsy, sere and old,

Waiting at the Gates of Gold,

Spake he with his dying breath,

“Life is done, but what is Death?”

Then, in answer to the King,

Fell a sunbeam on his ring,

Showing by a heavenly ray -

“Even this shall pass away.”

I believe enduring well is an essential part of the test we must pass while on this Earth together. I am still taking this test. We all are. I also believe we must have a certain amount of faith and hope as we do all in our power to make things right in this world while also accepting that we don’t have the power to control all outcomes. I’ve been learning these truths and striving to apply them more in my own life. In the past I have sometimes hearkened to gloomy voices in the world. Many a time I entertained unnecessary doubt and worry. But I am learning that worry works against faith and hope. My mother once shared this other saying with me that I have tried to apply in my older years - “Worry is interest paid on money never borrowed.” May we all strive to endure, live and love well, for this too shall pass."

- https://www.dcourier.com/

"This is How You’re Going to End Up Eating the Bugs"

"This is How You’re Going to End Up Eating the Bugs"

by Chris Black

"Real meat is simply going to be priced out of the range of low to middle class people. Remember what the WEF said? “In the future you’ll eat much less meat. It’ll be like an occasional treat.” This is how it’ll happen. The food you will be able to afford will be prepackaged “foodlike substances” made with cricket flour. That’s how you’ll get your measly microdosis of protein. And to make sure “you’ll be happy” the media and public figures will tell you that your increasing levels of weakness, fatigue, brain fog, thinning hair, are a “good thing” and that you’re “saving the planet.” Think I’m wrong? Screenshot this and let’s revisit it in 5 years. Oh and by the way, there’s no stopping this train. Way too late now."

- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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Come on, let me hear it for the 10,000th time...

"Oh that could never happen here!"

How's that working out for you?

"5 Months Of Sanctions In Russia. Crisis? Empty Malls? Oh, Really?"

Full screen recommended.

St.Petersburg - Me, 

"5 Months Of Sanctions In Russia. Crisis? Empty Malls? Oh, Really?"

"Let me show you life in Russia after almost 5 months of sanctions. I haven't been shopping in big shopping malls for almost 2 years now. And recently I have watched a lot of videos about empty malls in Russia. So I decided to see the growing crisis with my own eyes. I went to Europolis, a shopping mall not far away from my place in St. Petersburg. Sure, Russian economy is declining. But is everything that bad now?"

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Full screen recommended.

"Vkusno I Tochka. Why Does The New Russian

 McDonald's Have Such A Weird Name?"

"I visited the new Russian McDonalds today which is called Вкусно - и точка, Tasty. And period (word-for-word translation). The correct translation is Tasty. That's it! However I visited this place not to taste a Big Mac, but to explain this weird name. Which is kinda weird even in Russian."

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So...how are the malls, stores, restaurants and food stores

 near you, Good Citizen? Yeah, we all know, don't we?

Gregory Mannarino, "Important! Bigger Cracks In The Financial System - Is A Full On Meltdown Close?"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 7/21/22:

"Important! Bigger Cracks In The Financial System - 

Is A Full On Meltdown Close?"

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"Strange Prices At Kroger! This Is Getting Crazy!"

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Adventures with Danno, 7/21/22:

"Strange Prices At Kroger! This Is Getting Crazy!"

"In today's vlog we are at Kroger, and are noticing very strange 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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"A Disease That Can Make It Feel Like Someone Is Peeling Your Skin With A Potato Peeler Is Spreading At An Exponential Rate"

"A Disease That Can Make It Feel Like Someone Is Peeling 

Your Skin With A Potato Peeler Is Spreading At An Exponential Rate"

by Michael Snyder

"I would highly recommend that you take this new global monkeypox outbreak very seriously. On May 6th, there was one case. Now it has spread to 78 countries and there are 14,945 cases. In nation after nation we have seen monkeypox cases take off at an exponential rate, and that includes the United States. Monkeypox cases have now been confirmed in 45 U.S. states, and the total number of U.S. cases has jumped to 2,102. Any chance of containing this disease is gone, and that is really bad news.

Many have pointed out to me that this virus has been spreading primarily among those that are engaged in certain types of risky sexual activity, but that is not the only way that it spreads. A bartender in Dallas named Luke Shannahan recently got monkeypox, and he is not quite sure how he contracted it…"He’s not sure exactly how he got it, but Luke was contacted by the Dallas Health Department who told him he may have been exposed to monkeypox. “I was at bars. I was going to pool parties. I did attend a music event over the weekend and recently all of those people have been becoming positive,” Luke said. “Apparently it was a contact tracing phone call.”

It is entirely possible that he was engaged in sexual activity that he is not admitting. But if it is true that a lot of people that were at the same music event ended up contracting monkeypox, that would suggest that it is spreading fairly easily even in casual settings. After the call from the Dallas Health Department, he was given a monkeypox vaccine, but that didn’t prevent what came next…Shannahan was administered a monkeypox vaccine after he was diagnosed, but still became bedridden for two days and felt so ill he feared for his life.

I keep making the same point, but most people out there still don’t seem to get it. This is not the same monkeypox that we have dealt with before. Scientists are telling us that there are approximately 50 key mutations that set this virus apart from previous strains of monkeypox…"But in the new study, when microbial genomics researcher João Paulo Gomes of Portugal’s National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA) and his colleagues compared 15 virus samples from the current outbreak with viruses isolated from people who traveled to West Africa in 2018 and 2019, they found that the present-day virus had mutated about 50 times in just four years."

So the truth is that we may be starting from square one because this virus is radically different from anything that we have previously faced. And as I have warned in previous articles, this is a virus that you definitely do not want to catch.

According to Shannahan, any time that one of the sores on his skin touched something, it felt like “someone is taking a potato peeler to your skin”… Revealing his illness, Shannahan told KHOU 11: ‘It’s just the most traumatic experience I’ve ever had. It’s the worst sick I’ve ever been. You have these blisters that are inflamed and anytime it grazes something or touches something, it literally feels like someone is taking a potato peeler to your skin." It turns out that Shannahan has also had COVID, but he says that monkeypox is “100 times worse”…"The pain and tenderness was constant,’ he said. Asked whether it was like Covid, he said: ‘Oh, 100 times worse, this was a totally different level of extreme fatigue."

If the number of cases continues to rise at an exponential rate, it won’t be too long before monkeypox is literally everywhere. So what will we do then? If it can spread among people gathered at a music festival, then it can also spread at a church, at a store or at a school. Will health authorities ultimately decide that extended lockdowns are necessary? And will the general public start clamoring for such lockdowns?

Let’s hope not. Personally, I don’t want to see lockdowns in the United States ever again for any reason. But once people start to understand the sort of pain this virus causes, there will be a lot of panic among the general public. Shannahan says that during his worst days it was as if “someone took a ball of needles and kept on stabbing you with it”…“The pain and tenderness was constant,” Shannahan said. “It’s like if someone took a ball of needles and kept on stabbing you with it.”

Of course Shannahan is not the only victim that is speaking out. Another victim named Gabriel Morales says that he spent eight days alone in his apartment in “excruciating pain” after he contracted the virus…"Although he was covered with lesions, it took four hours of phone calls, and then five hours in a Harlem emergency room, for Gabriel Morales to be tested for the monkeypox virus earlier this month. And that was just the beginning of his wait. Mr. Morales was sent home and told the Department of Health would call with his results in less than a week. The call never came. He spent the next eight days alone in his apartment in what he described as excruciating pain, trying to find someone to prescribe him pain medication and a hard-to-access antiviral drug."

Doesn’t that sound fun? If this virus is not contained, we could soon have millions upon millions of victims suffering through the most intense pain that they have ever experienced in their entire lives. And just about everyone else could be in a state of full-blown panic because they are so fearful of catching the virus themselves. There is a very real possibility that this plague could cause even more panic than COVID, and so it is absolutely imperative that authorities get this thing under control.

Unfortunately, many experts are now entirely convinced that it will be impossible to do so…"It has been a mere nine weeks since the United Kingdom announced it had detected four cases of monkeypox, a virus endemic only in West and Central Africa. In that time, the number of cases has mushroomed to nearly 13,000 in over 60 countries throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, new parts of Africa, South Asia, and Australia."

The growth in cases and the geographic spread has been rapid and relentless. Now, even as global health officials race to curb spread of the virus, most experts polled by STAT said they don’t believe it will be possible to contain it. For the record, I specifically warned that something just like this would happen. Now that day has arrived.

I am still hoping that the numbers will start to level off and that this crisis will start to fade. But I have been closely watching the numbers each week and so far that has not happened. In fact, I believe that the WHO will soon officially declare that we have another global pandemic on our hands. An era of great pestilences is here, and none of our lives will ever be the same again."

- http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

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Related:

• "Study Reveals Monkeypox Virus Was MANIPULATED

 In A Lab And Released Intentionally To Cause An Outbreak"

• "Monkeypox Outbreak Could Be A Result Of Failed 

COVID-19 Vaccination Program"

• "The Wuhan 'Disinformation'"

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It just never ends, does it?

"How It Really Is"

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"You know what they sayin', hoe..."

Yeah... lol

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Related:

"The Last Days of 'Joe Biden'”

"Here And Now..."

"That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything."

- David Clement Davies

"You Own Nothing But Debt While Bills Pile Up; Fed Juiced Markets End Badly"

Jeremiah Babe, 7/20/22:

"You Own Nothing But Debt While Bills Pile Up;

 Fed Juiced Markets End Badly"

Comments here:

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"Major West Coast Cities Are Being Overwhelmed By Rats, Drugs, Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People"

Full screen recommended.

"Major West Coast Cities Are Being Overwhelmed By Rats, 

Drugs, Garbage And Hordes Of Homeless People"

by Epic Economist

"America’s major West Coast cities are becoming rotting hellholes that are being completely overwhelmed by rats, addicts, crime, piles of garbage, and hordes of homeless people. The rapid decay of some of the wealthiest cities in the nation is fueling the growth of criminality rates, as well as a dramatic increase in the number of tent cities, and worsening public sanitation problems. These issues are likely to spell a lot of trouble all across the U.S. as we head into another downturn. We're being warned that our societal challenges are set to unleash widespread chaos in the months ahead as economic conditions deteriorate even further and millions more Americans are forced to live on the streets. That's why in today's video we're going to expose the horrifying conditions some big west coast cities are in right now because soon these problems will impact the entire country and spark a wave of social unrest that's unlike anything we've ever witnessed.

All across the U.S. West coast, the number of people living on the streets is rising, so is the number of people living in their cars and the number of elderly residents is becoming unhoused. As a result, tent cities are growing at beaches, parks, highway underpasses, lots, and sidewalks. Official data shows that since 2012, the number of homeless people in cities such as Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland has grown by approximately 75 percent, and with each passing year, the situation only gets worse.

Local reports reveal that in several areas of downtown LA garbage is being left uncollected, which is raising public health concerns after a recent typhus outbreak. The article titled “The collapse of a city that’s lost control” highlights that large swaths of Los Angeles have become wastelands with rats scurrying among piles of decaying garbage and squalid tent cities. “The city of Los Angeles has become a giant trash receptacle,” wrote columnist Steve Lopez.

Offense rates are also soaring in the region. “Everyone living, working in, or visiting downtown has noticed the rapidly deteriorating conditions,” downtown resident Catherine Tomiczek emphasized. She revealed that a friend was beaten and robbed on the street and a neighbor was stabbed in her building. The number of serious delinquencies rose by almost 8 percent since January, official data shows. Needless to say, LA is far from alone.

Further up the California coastline, the homelessness crisis is getting so out of control that the wealthy San Francisco metropolitan area is facing the worst drug epidemic in the history of the United States. Residents say that large portions of the city have been transformed into stomach-churning cesspools of squalor. Since the start of the year, there were nearly 14,000 official complaints about human feces in the streets of San Francisco. The rental site, RentHop, examined public data from the city’s website and found a 311 percent increase in the number of complaints about human and animal waste over the past five years.

Similarly, the notoriously liberal city of Berkeley, California, had to remove over 75 tons of garbage, human waste, and drug paraphernalia from homeless camps in just nine months. The massive pile of garbage was collected between September 2021 and March 2022 by Berkeley's Homeless Response Team, according to the city's 2023 and 2024 prospective budget.

“As California goes, so goes the nation” is a phrase that people like to use, but we must hope that it isn’t true, because California is falling apart at a staggering pace and other major West Coast cities are already following the same path. Meanwhile, the new economic downturn continues to accelerate, and this means that our homelessness boom is going to spiral out of control in the coming months. Pretty soon, there will be tent cities in virtually every community in America. That’s why we shouldn’t look down on those that are living in tents, because the truth is that many “middle-class Americans” will ultimately end up joining them. We all need help at some point in our lives, and compassion is a better solution than repression. Sadly, hearts are growing cold all over the nation, and social unrest is spreading like wildfire."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com/

Gregory Mannarino, "Blackrock 'Warns' Of Food Shortages; Existing Home Sales Crater!"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 7/20/22:

"Blackrock 'Warns' Of Food Shortages; 

Existing Home Sales Crater!"

https://traderschoice.net/

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Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Music of the Night: East of The Full Moon"

Deuter, "Music of the Night: East of The Full Moon"

"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.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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"When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged

in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams,

to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where

he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars."

- Walt Whitman

"For Nothing Is Fixed..."

"For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

- James Baldwin

The Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, "Book of Hours II, 16"

"Book of Hours II, 16"

"How surely gravity's law,

strong as an ocean current,

takes hold of even the strongest thing

and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

Each thing-

each stone, blossom, child-

is held in place.

Only we, in our arrogance,

push out beyond what we belong to

for some empty freedom.

If we surrendered

to earth's intelligence

we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves

in knots of our own making

and struggle, lonely and confused.

So, like children, we begin again

to learn from the things,

because they are in God's heart;

they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:

to fall,

patiently to trust our heaviness.

Even a bird has to do that

before he can fly."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for! To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless- of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer: That you are here - that life exists, and that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”

- "Dead Poets Society"

Chet Raymo, “Caught In The Middle”

“Caught In The Middle”

by Chet Raymo

"It doesn't take a genius to recognize that human males have a propensity for intergroup violence, and that the killing is often accompanied by rape. One need only read the newspapers. The only question is to what extent these tendencies are innate or culturally inculcated. Nature or nurture? Or both? A new book, "Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World," by population biologist Malcolm Potts and science writer Thomas Hayden, dishes up a bit of both. The violence is in our (male) genes, they maintain, but it is susceptible to cultural control.

What the authors calls "behavioral propensity to engage in male coalitional violence" evolved as far back as the common ancestor of humans and chimps, they claim, although our other close relations, bonobos and gorillas, seem to have found more peaceful ways of living. Genes predispose, say Potts and Hayden, but cultural forces can alleviate the worst of male nastiness. By empowering women to be leaders in cultural, social and political spheres, the violent propensities of men can be restrained. Further, empowerment will give women control of their reproductive destinies, and will therefore result in fewer offspring. Less population pressure will reduce other factors fueling violence and conflict, the authors claim.

Anthropologist Hillard Kaplan reviews the book in the October 9, 2009, issue of "Science." He agrees that the available evidence suggests that male intergroup violence has a long evolutionary history. He believes this tendency was exacerbated into large scale warfare with the development of agriculture and the associated larger population groups and competition for fertile land. Kaplan believes that male group violence is stoked by poor economic prospect for young males. To the empowerment of women he would add education and jobs as a way to reduce antisocial behavior.

There is nothing particularly new or revolutionary about any of this. Progress? Yes, I suppose so, but we clearly have a long way to go before women exercise equal power in society, or before young men in the developing world, especially, have an economic stake in social stability. Meanwhile, as the painting above by Jacques-Louis David, "The Sabine Women," suggests, women and children will continue to be caught in the middle.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

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