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Steve Cutts, "A Brief Disagreement"
"A visual journey into Mankind's favorite pastime throughout the ages."
So, we rise from the rubble...
Monday, December 12, 2022
"Welcome to Fifth Gen (Information) Warfare" (Excerpt)
"Welcome to Fifth Gen (Information) Warfare" (Excerpt)
The battleground is consensus of the swarm and your own mind.
by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Excerpt: "Congratulations. As we approach 2023, you are now completing and have survived the third year of the largest, most globally coordinated psychological warfare operation in the history of mankind. During this period, on a daily basis, you have experienced the US Government and many western nations deploying highly refined, military-grade fifth generation warfare technologies against their own citizens. For those who have avoided the jabs which are neither safe nor effective, you deserve a medal for your ability to see through the fog of information warfare. Those, like me, who trusted the FDA and took the initial jabs only to suffer the adverse effects of same, perhaps a purple heart for being wounded in battle. For the millions of battlefield dead, the excess mortality documented by Ed Dowd and so many others, a moment of silent mourning is in order."
Full article is here:
"Economic Market Snapshot 12/12/22"
"Economic Market Snapshot 12/12/22"
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Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...
Only the consequences are real - to you!
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Financial Stress Index
"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."
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Job cuts and much more.
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Commentary, highly recommended:
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"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...
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And now... The End Game...
"Buckle Up for a Hard Landing"
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Dan, iAllegedly 12/12/22:
"Buckle Up for a Hard Landing"
"It’s time to get your tray tables and seats upright in order.
You need to buckle up for a hard landing."
Comments here:
"And The fREakSHoW Continues... Big Time!"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 12/12/22:
"And The fREakSHoW Continues... Big Time!"
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"And The fREakSHoW Continues..."
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Louis Armstrong , "What A Wonderful World"
Oh yeah...
"The Narrative: Crumbling in 2023?"
"The Narrative: Crumbling in 2023?"
by John Wilder
"This isn’t my prediction post for 2023, but one thing that I’m seeing is that toward the end of 2022, the oddest thing seems to be happening – The Narrative is crumbling. Good. Now do the January 6 Committee.
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As you can see from Elon’s Tweet® above, Musk has enough data to realize what most readers here have known for a long time: Fauci has always been on his own side, and was tied into some pretty shady stuff. The Twitter© purchase gave Musk more public power than being an okay car manufacturer for niche cars that are (at least presently) wholly impractical for widespread use or a really good rocket manufacturer that has revolutionized space travel.
If humans ever set foot on Mars, it will be because of the work that Musk started with SpaceX®. Sure, that might change the history of humanity and eventually turn us into a multiplanetary species, but his purchase of Twitter™ is changing the world, now. As I’ve written about before, Twitter™ is different. It was pumped up by the Left and eventually co-opted by them as one of their means to rapidly reprogram their NPCs.
As such, that left evidence. I was a user of Twitter© for a while, and had individual Tweets© that got a lot of response – some of them in the tens of thousands. They weren’t anything in particular, merely reacting against the Leftist narrative. That wasn’t allowed, apparently. After a year and a half, I noted that my Tweet reach was now very, very limited. That was fine. I could take my ball and just spend time writing here instead of Tweeting®. The Leftist tactic of silencing the Right worked in my case.
Now Musk has the keys to the data, and has already started showing the slime-trail that the Leftists always leave behind. The rot was inside, of course. Leftists tend to try to hire their own, and it turns out that the Federal Government was directing (in some cases) the stories what stories would be told, and what stories would be suppressed.
Wonder what data exists in the private messages of the Very Important? Probably only one person has greater access to that data (outside of the .gov people) and that’s Mark Zuckerberg. Mark won’t be telling anyone, because as Elon heads out to space, the Zuck seems to be suffering a reboot as Faceborg© slowly loses billions of dollars in value.
This makes me wonder if 2023 isn’t the year that The Narrative finally cracks. Disney’s™ stock value has plummeted, and they can’t make movies that people don’t want to see forever. Eventually, they have to have some cash coming in to pay for the LGBTQ+ chat rooms and employee abortions and transition surgery.
That’s another thing that’s past its sell-by date: the trans (and trans indoctrination) movement. Parents will put up with a lot, but when you start messing with their kids? They push back. And they are pushing back. Parents are pushing back at school board meetings, and the woke can’t stand the light. This one, in particular, opened a lot of eyes. But, hey, the science is settled that there's no difference between men and women, right?
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The Narrative on the COVID vaxx is also fading. It is now inescapable and proven that the vaxx has killed more people than any vaccine in history, and the long-term effects are unknown. I certainly don’t hope that all the people who took it die, since I know several people I really like that got the vaxx.
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I think it’s also becoming clear that a very, very large number of the people who are Leftist activists are... crazy. The recent Department of Energy, um, person in charge of nuclear waste is now accused of (spins wheel) lifting luggage at airports. Clearly this, um, person is nuts, and we’re lucky that they were stopped after lifting a few bags, rather than after they went full “where can I bury all these bodies?” But that seems to be a qualification to be placed into high office in Biden’s administration.
Any Rand was really wrong about a lot of things, but she knocked it out of the park with one particular statement: "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." That’s what The Narrative does. And the consequences of ignoring reality are showing up again and again here at the end of 2022, and will more in 2023.
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Even the virtue signaling, when it doesn’t have a basis in reality can lead to failure. When the symptoms of the situation are addressed, but the root cause isn’t, the problem will rot and fester. The sooner The Narrative crumbles and people are brought, face to face with reality, the sooner actual solutions can be found.
I’m sure that some people would rather that The Narrative would have crumbled a few months earlier, and probably would have made other choices. Including losing the “Where’s Waldo” hat. And if you think that's mean, he called me an idiot first."
Bill Bonner, "Until Something Breaks"
"Until Something Breaks"
No magic... no genius... and no common sense.
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "Last week came more evidence that inflation is not going away. Today, we explain why. MarketWatch: "In data released Friday, U.S. producer prices rose 0.3% in November versus the 0.2% median forecast from economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. The increase in producer prices over the past 12 months slowed to 7.4% from 8.1% in the prior month, and was down from a 11.7% peak in March."
The report, which came in above expectations, indicated that there’s less moderation in price pressures than analysts had expected for last month. Foretelling much worse inflation sometime in the future, prices for finished consumer goods actually went up at a 16% rate – the highest in 48 years.Three Major Busts
But that’s the trouble with a ‘sea of lies;’ it inevitably gets stormy. Ships run aground. The Fed gave out the lie that it could manipulate the economy and make us all richer. It claimed to be “smoothing” the economic cycle. No more bubbles. No more busts. But thanks to the Fed, we’ve seen 3 major bubbles in the last 22 years. And three major busts. We’re still in the 3rd one.
The Fed had no magic…no genius…and no common sense. All it was really doing was ‘printing up’ money…and handing it out to its friends on Wall Street…and to the government itself. As long as the money kept coming – they could refinance old debt with new, cheaper debt, and the economy looked stable and healthy.
But it was actually getting weaker and more vulnerable to inflation. The debt, public and private, ballooned by more than $60 trillion since the beginning of the century. And who will pay it? The same people who will pay higher prices for everything. The same people who have been losing income for 20 months in a row…and who will lose their jobs in the next recession.
And this time, the Fed won’t come to the rescue. Facing US policymakers right now, for the first time in 4 decades, is a headwind that won’t go away: inflation. That’s the big difference between the 1982-2020 period and today. The Fed can no longer support the stock market, and the economy, with cheaper and cheaper lending rates. That is not a detail; it’s fundamental to understanding what comes next.
Demand Boosters: In short, neither the government, corporations, nor households are going to be able to rollover their debt at lower rates. Instead, interest rates will be higher. And many debtors won’t be able to refinance at all. Here’s the latest on the debt market, from MarketWatch: "U.S. bond yields rose on Friday, giving the 10-year rate its biggest weekly advance in five weeks, after data showed that wholesale price inflation picked up in November by more than expected. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was up 7.5 basis points at 3.567% versus 3.492% Thursday afternoon. It rose 6.5 basis points this week for the largest weekly gain since the period that ended Nov. 4."
The proximate cause of this inflation is the federal government’s over-spending during the Covid Panic…along with a long history of the Fed lending money at rates that are far too low for far too long. And though the Fed has begun a ‘tightening cycle,’ its key rate is still about 370 basis points BELOW the inflation rate.
The lawmakers make things worse, too. Spending for 2023 is expected to reach about $5.9 trillion, or more than 25% of GDP. That will leave it with a projected deficit of $1 trillion, which will surely go up as the recession begins to bite. All of these are ‘demand’ boosters. They give consumers (or at least the government) more money to buy things, pushing up prices.
But there are two sides to prices – supply and demand, bid and ask. On the ‘bid’ side, the feds’ money adds to the money supply. But on the supply side, too, there are some nasty rocks in the sea of lies. Supplies of goods and services depend on labor, investment, innovation, transportation, energy, and a host of other in-puts. When those become more difficult to acquire, distorted by phony price signals, or just more expensive, prices for goods and services rise.
Real goods and services are mostly produced by the middle class in the private sector. They drive the trucks…keep the books...run the factories…and make sure the work gets done. But the middle class is working less and less. The labor participation rate has gone down this entire century. Today, there are nearly 100 million adults who don’t work at all.
Covid-era Hallucinations: To make matters worse, those who still work are often beset by busybodies. The private sector is ruled by the public sector. And the public sector aims not to increase output, but to stifle it. During the Covid Panic, for example, the public sector actually shut down much of the private sector. Factories were closed. Restaurants and bars were shuttered. Airplanes were grounded. Much supply was lost to bottlenecks and inventory mistakes made under the influence of Covid-era hallucinations.
But even more output is lost to the steady and unrelenting, day after day, growth of laws and regulation. More restrictions…more lawyers…more accountants…more administrators…and every one of them rocking the boat.
Everyday, The Wall Street Journal brings more examples. “FTC Sues to Block Activision Deal,” says the main headline. Friday. Then, over in the left hand column: “Pressure is mounting on the SEC to step up enforcement of key hubs of the crypto industry…”This followed an announcement on Thursday: “Federal lawmakers dealt a setback to Boeing, proposing a defense bill that didn’t exempt…” blah, blah…
These, of course, are just the big items. Behind them are thousands of pettifogging rulings…directives and diktats…each of them making output more expensive. So, don’t count on a quick return to the Fed’s inflation target – 2%. More likely, inflation will be stubborn…forcing the Fed to keep raising rates “until something breaks.”
Jim Kunstler, "The Alarm Bells Go Off"
"The Alarm Bells Go Off"
by Jim Kunstler
"Startling fact of the week: Twitter’s senior ranks of content moderators included over a dozen former FBI and CIA agents and analysts who let child porn run loose all over the app while surgically removing any utterance contradicting the government’s claim that mRNA “vaccines” are “safe and effective” - not to mention the effort this elite crew expended against anyone objecting to the Woke-Left’s race and gender hustles. Wouldn’t you like to know how much they were paid? Probably more than government work.
Here’s another awful reality (better fasten your seatbelts): What also emerged in the tweet record of Yoel Roth, the company’s chief censor (former “Head of Trust and Safety”), begins to look like a gay mafia assault on the collective American psyche. Having gained official federal government sanction and protection, a statistically tiny homosexual demographic left in charge of the country’s main public forum has been out for revenge against their perceived enemy, political conservatives - Americans disinclined to join the cheerleading for drag queen story hours, “minor-attracted persons,” transsexuals in the military, and other LBGTQ cultural pranks.
In the process, that gay mafia running the public dialogue supported every lie that the government, its protector, put out, to keep it happy and well-fed. Shocking, I’m sure… but there it is. That means they also promoted the most-deadly psy-op in world history: the Covid-19 scare and the mass “vaccination” crusade that will end up killing many millions world-wide, after destroying the economies of the Western Civ nations. The whole package looks like an attempt to turn the world upside down and inside out. Is it any wonder that so many feel the USA has gone crazy?
Of course, that aroused the widespread suspicion that these now-exposed nefarious operators in social media were merely tools for some murky plutocrat elite led by the likes of the WEF, Bill Gates, and George Soros. Could that be the greatest “conspiracy theory’ of all? More likely, I hesitate to suggest, all these characters in one way or another are merely tools of history itself, as the world enters the darkest days of a Fourth Turning secular winter. As TS Eliot observed: “Humankind cannot bear too much reality.”
Thus, so many sense we live in dangerous times. Everything appears to veer out-of-control, including thought itself. Disorder incites more disorder. While all this madness is going on in-country, the US government, led by the phantom president “Joe Biden,” continues to prosecute its insane proxy war in Ukraine in order to antagonize Russia. Lately the US has sent drones hundreds of miles inside Russia to blow up military airfields. How is that not an escalation of hostilities, and exactly how far do the American people want their government to take this crazy project?
Not a goshdarn inch further, the opinion polls indicate. We are apparently not quite so insane as to welcome nuclear annihilation, and we seem to recognize what might bring it on. And so, the dreadful realities of time still stand before us, unmoved by all the mental illness they provoke, uninterested in our excuses for behaving so badly. Is there any way to face them? To incorporate them into a truth-based narrative that Western Civ can use to rescue itself from something that looks like suicide?
Elon Musk, alone, apart from, and in defiance of all the cowards running things in America - the corporate sell-outs, the craven college presidents, the bought-off politicians, the bad-faith media fabulists, the vindictive denizens of Hollywood - is moving to inject some therapeutic truth into the American lunatic asylum. He came out pretty hot over the weekend, branding Dr. Anthony Fauci as a criminal, calling for his prosecution, and promising the release of Twitter files that will demonstrate just how deceitful and untrustworthy the old Twitter acted in all the medical melodrama surrounding Covid-19 and the “vaccines.” On Sunday, Elon tweeted, “Now things get spicy.” Will the reveal of all that wickedness make any impression on half the people of this country still deranged by the many previous salvos of official propaganda? Maybe not all of them. Maybe only twenty percent. But that would be enough to tip the consensus of opinion in the right direction: a recognition of the harm that has been done… and the will to quit doing more of it.
Beyond that, even, Elon has put the basic question to America: Are you in favor of free speech or not? Especially now that you know that “moderating” free speech is an invitation to live in lies. And lying all the time really does bend that old arc of history toward evil."
"Alas..."
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.”
- Thomas Gray,
“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
"Budget Christmas Shopping! Save Money This Holiday Season"
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Adventures with Danno, 12/12/22:
"Budget Christmas Shopping! Save Money This Holiday Season"
"In today's vlog we are going over very budget friendly stores to SAVE MONEY this Christmas! Prices are up everywhere this year, and we're gonna show how we can still save during this Holiday Season!"
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Sunday, December 11, 2022
"Unbelievable! NATO Chief Issues Warning; Millions Fleeing; USA OK's Attacks On Russian Nuclear Bases"
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Canadian Prepper, 12/11/22:
"Unbelievable! NATO Chief Issues Warning; Millions Fleeing;
USA OK's Attacks On Russian Nuclear Bases"
"Odessa has been bombed to the Stone Age, the USA has greenlit Ukrainian attacks on Russian nuclear bases, Putins nuclear threats have reached unprecedented levels, NATO chief says we are headed for a world war. Buckle up!"
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"There are a multitude of fuses affixed to dozens of powder-kegs and little kids with matches are on the loose. I don’t know which of the fuses will be lit and which powder-keg will blow, but someone is bound to do something stupid, and then all hell will break loose. It could happen at any time. One military miscue. One assassination. One violent act that stirs the world. And the dominoes will topple, setting off fireworks not seen on this planet since 1939 – 1945. I can see it all very clearly."
- Jim Quinn
"The Housing Market Crash Nobody Thinks Possible Is Here"
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"The Housing Market Crash Nobody
Thinks Possible Is Here"
by Epic Economist
"First, they told us that the housing market was fine, and the rapid spike in prices was a healthy sign. Then, they were forced to admit that we were in the largest housing bubble ever. And now, the Dallas Fed is warning that a 20% correction is likely to occur, even though home prices have risen on average by 47% over the past couple of years. It’s safe to say that a 20% drop won’t correct markets where prices skyrocketed over 70%, such as Austin, Texas, and Boise, Idaho. It would take a whole lot more to bring overvalued markets back to normalcy. And according to Zillow estimates, almost 60% of U.S. housing markets are ‘significantly’ overvalued right now. That doesn’t bring any relief for homeowners, who are already struggling with mortgage rates that are still two times higher than they were in 2021 and falling property values that already wiped out trillions in home equity so far this year. According to Redfin, 2023 will be marked by the largest year-over-year decline in home prices since 2008. All indicators signal that more turbulence is ahead. They can deny all they want, but the housing market crash nobody thought possible is already upon us, and losses will only get bigger from this point on.
For the first time in a decade, U.S. homeowners are seeing their home equity fall abruptly. All thanks to soaring mortgage rates that have depressed purchasing power and sent home values down. Overall, U.S. homeowners with a mortgage have lost a collective $1.5 trillion in equity since May, according to September data provided by mortgage services company Black Knight. Since then, the number of underwater mortgages — where someone owes more on their loan than their home is worth — has more than doubled. Now, roughly 450,000 homeowners are already underwater on their mortgages, and nationwide double-digit declines in property values haven’t even started yet.
All in all, ever since the Federal Reserve began slowing down the economy to tame inflation growth, the wealth of American households has evaporated—collapsing by more than $6.8 trillion since January. From June to November, the average home lost almost $40,000 in value. In fact, BlackKnight data shows that roughly 10% of U.S. households who bought a home with a mortgage in 2022 are already underwater, and at least 40% have less than 10% equity. Andy Walden, vice president of research at Black Knight, said he expects more people will fall underwater in coming months as home price declines accelerate in 2023. Up until this point, the higher rates and the lower prices haven’t resulted in any of the benefits policymakers thought it would. Those struggling to buy their first home continued to be shut out, making up less than 25% of transactions last month.
“First-time buyers are really struggling with high prices, the high bar to get into the market, and high mortgage rates,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. The repercussions are impacting sellers, too. Right now, they’re either dropping asking prices at a faster pace than at any point in the past few years or removing their properties from the market altogether. In essence, this Fed-driven bubble burst is making conditions worse for everyone – owners, buyers, sellers, and even real estate agents. The most worrying part of all this is the fact that there the housing market goes, the broader economy follows, and if it is going down, everything else will fall out of place too."
"No One is Shopping"
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Dan, iAllegedly 12/11/22:
"No One is Shopping"
"The worst holiday shopping season ever. Take a look a South Coast Plaza. It’s two weeks to Christmas and people are not shopping like they used to."
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An interesting comparison...Sanctions? Bah...
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Travelling with Russell , 12/11/22:
"Moscow Christmas Markets on Red Square December 2022"
"Take a walk through the famous Moscow Christmas Markets on a snowy December day in Red Square. See how the Christmas Markets look on Red Square in December 2022. Delight in the Christmas cheer and enjoy the sights and sounds that Red Square has to offer at the Christmas markets."
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"A Look to the Heavens"
"A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, making it about one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. Bluish clusters of young stars and dust lanes are seen to trace out NGC 1309's spiral arms as they wind around an older yellowish star population at its core.
Not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy, observations of NGC 1309's recent supernova and Cepheid variable stars contribute to the calibration of the expansion of the Universe. Still, after you get over this beautiful galaxy's grand design, check out the array of more distant background galaxies also recorded in this sharp, reprocessed, Hubble Space Telescope view.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130116.html
"Life's Impermanence..."
"Lifes impermanence, I realized, is what makes every
single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here.
It's what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted."
- Wes Moore
"We're All..."
"We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves."
- Susane Colasanti
The Poet: Mark Jarman, "Coyotes"
"Coyotes"
"Is this world truly fallen? They say no.
For there's the new moon, there's the Milky Way,
There's the rattler with a wren's egg in its mouth,
And there's the panting rabbit they will eat.
They sing their wild hymn on the dark slope,
Reading the stars like notes of hilarious music.
Is this a fallen world? How could it be?
And yet we're crying over the stars again,
And over the uncertainty of death,
Which we suspect will divide us all forever.
I'm tired of those who broadcast their certainties,
Constantly on their cell phones to their redeemer.
Is this a fallen world? For them it is.
But there's that starlit burst of animal laughter.
The day has sent its fires scattering.
The night has risen from its burning bed.
Our tears are proof that love is meant for life
And for the living. And this chorus of praise,
Which the pet dogs of the neighborhood are answering
Nostalgically, invites our answer, too.
Is this a fallen world? How could it be?"
~ Mark Jarman
"Is this world truly fallen? They say no.
For there's the new moon, there's the Milky Way,
There's the rattler with a wren's egg in its mouth,
And there's the panting rabbit they will eat.
They sing their wild hymn on the dark slope,
Reading the stars like notes of hilarious music.
Is this a fallen world? How could it be?
And yet we're crying over the stars again,
And over the uncertainty of death,
Which we suspect will divide us all forever.
I'm tired of those who broadcast their certainties,
Constantly on their cell phones to their redeemer.
Is this a fallen world? For them it is.
But there's that starlit burst of animal laughter.
The day has sent its fires scattering.
The night has risen from its burning bed.
Our tears are proof that love is meant for life
And for the living. And this chorus of praise,
Which the pet dogs of the neighborhood are answering
Nostalgically, invites our answer, too.
Is this a fallen world? How could it be?"
~ Mark Jarman
"We Were Here..."
"Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be."
- Orson Scott Card
"Now the voices and the sound of movement were gone, and the stream could be heard running quietly under its banks. The air was full of the scent of water and of flowers. She walked, quiet, while the house began to reverberate: a band had started up. She walked beside the river while the music thudded, feeling herself as a heavy, impervious, insensitive lump that, like a planet doomed always to be dark on one side, had vision in front only, a myopic searchlight blind except for the tiny three-dimensional path open immediately before her eyes in which the outline of a tree, a rose, emerged then submerged in dark. She thought, with the dove's voices of her solitude. Where? But where. How? Who? No, but where, where… Then silence and the birth of a repetition. Where? Here. Here? Here, where else, you fool, you poor fool, where else has it been, ever…?"
- Doris Lessing
"Our Moral Compass..."
"The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason."
- Samuel Pisar
"I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken."
- Arwa Damon
"Moral compass?" Surely you jest! This is 'Murica, fool!
"30 Questions for a Narrative Believer" (Excerpt)
"30 Questions for a Narrative Believer"
by Margaret Anna Alice
Excerpt: "Do you (or did you) believe the COVID narrative? If so, would you be willing to answer some questions? All I ask is that you honestly engage with the questions. I promise to listen attentively and respectfully. Your responses may help me and many others answer questions of historic importance. If you would like me to consider publishing your answers in a future post, please share them in the comments. If you would prefer to keep them anonymous, you can email them to me by signing up for my newsletter and replying to the Welcome message. Feel free to selectively respond if you don’t have time to answer them all. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts.
Note to My Readers: I need your help gathering responses. Can you please share this widely and ask friends, family members, coworkers, and other narrative believers to take this opportunity to relay their perspective?
Share: With the holidays coming up, this could offer a meaningful way to connect and help you understand each others’ experiences and viewpoints. You could record audio or video of their responses as you ask them and then send me transcripts of their answers if they are willing to share them publicly (I can retain anonymity as desired). I realize there are a lot of time-consuming questions here, and you may exhaust the patience of your subjects if you try to go through all of them. The first question alone could prompt an hourlong conversation. To save time, you may wish to select the ones you think are most appropriate for the particular party.
If you’re part of a church or other group, you could see if it would be possible to set up discussion groups, and people could take turns answering questions, maybe over multiple sessions.
Get creative! Feel free to add your own questions (share in the comments if you’d like) and simply use this article as a springboard for deeper conversations. While asking questions, try to avoid being confrontational or judgmental. We want participants to reflect on their feelings, thoughts, experiences, and behavior without fear of backlash. This may open up avenues for healing dialogue as you process the past three years together."
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Greg Hunter, "Cut Interest Rates & Dollar is Done, Toast, It’s Over"
"Cut Interest Rates & Dollar is Done, Toast, It’s Over"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Economic analyst and financial writer David Morgan says do not expect the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates anytime soon. Morgan thinks the Fed is not going to devalue the dollar. Morgan explains, “We need to continue the dollar until the new system is initiated. That’s the point. Yes, it’s about interest rates, that is part of the mechanics about this. The philosophy is we need a dollar in the system as the king when we transition into the new system. Now, there is a debate whether that is true or false. Is this going to be a global currency? Is it going to be a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that is worldwide? Or is it going to be nation states with their own currencies? That has yet to be determined. I think the power behind the Fed wants the dollar to survive, and they are going to make it survive. That means they are going to push interest rates as high as necessary until they can transition to this new system.”
So, what about this so-called Fed “pivot” to lower interest rates to save the day? Forget it. Morgan explains, “Take the converse. Most of my peer group talks about the ‘pivot.’ Meaning, the Fed stops raising interest rates or they get to a level, they pause, and they start to lower them. Anybody who is anybody in the financial markets knows if that is the case, they have basically destroyed the U.S. dollar. It’s done. It’s toast. It’s over. What that means is people will get rid of it as fast as they can. All the dollars overseas will come back and repatriate for anything such as land, Toyotas, Fords – anything. 60% of all printed physical currency (U.S. dollars) is held outside the borders of the United States. The reason for that is two-fold.
Number one, it is the reserve currency of the world. The second reason is that it is trusted in countries that continually have currency crises. Argentina has a currency crisis every decade, and you have Turkey, and you have several others including Zimbabwe. What do they use? They use metal and U.S. printed currency. That’s their black market or free market. So, the currency of the U.S. dollar is trusted. If you use the Exter Inverted Pyramid as a model as to how the crash happens, there is a run to the U.S dollar before there is a run to gold. So, I am not surprised to see the dollar so high, but it has backed off some recently. The dollar is trusted at this point in time, and to keep that trust going, we are going to sweeten the deal and keep pushing interest rates up higher and higher. They are saying trust us, trust us, trust us. They are doing it to buy time because everyone knows the system is failing, and they have to do something different.”
Morgan also gives predictions for what is in store in 2023. He talks about why you need gold and silver and why you need it now. Morgan also has predictions for war, real estate, food, unemployment, the vaxed and inflation along with deflation. The unprepared will be struggling way more than the prepared next year. You need to get ready now according to Morgan." There is much more in the 46-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One on One
with David Morgan, founder of “The Morgan Report.”
"Strange Prices At Walmart! This Is Ridiculous! What's Next?"
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Adventures with Danno, 12/22/22:
"Strange Prices At Walmart! This Is Ridiculous! What's Next?"
"In today's vlog we are at Walmart, and are noticing some 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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Saturday, December 10, 2022
"People Will Come Knocking On Your Door For Help; Grid Down, No Power"
Jeremiah Babe, 12/10/22:
"People Will Come Knocking On Your Door For Help;
Grid Down, No Power"
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"Trader Joe's Stores Are Out Of Thousands Of Grocery Items As Shortages Intensify"
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"Trader Joe's Stores Are Out Of Thousands
Of Grocery Items As Shortages Intensify"
by Epic Economist
"At this point, we have all gotten used to seeing empty shelves when grocery shopping. But when you’re talking about a store that is about one-fourth of the size of the typical Walmart, and whose product line is nearly 20 times smaller than big-box retailers’, when an item we love is out of stock, we notice it immediately. And that’s the case with Trader Joe’s. The company is very secretive about its suppliers and often discontinues products without any notice, something that Trader Joe's loyalists have been noticing that’s happening far more frequently in recent months. Every day, there’s a flood of social media posts published by disappointed customers complaining about stockouts and inventory holes at their local Trader Joe’s. And even though the grocery retailer has previously said that it keeps its product catalog lean to always ensure lower prices, it turns out that the truth behind the bare shelves we’re now seeing at this beloved chain is far more complex than that.
As opposed to other big retailers, Trader Joe’s doesn’t overorder items in anticipation of higher consumer demand or potential stockouts, and that sometimes leaves its stores with too few products available for shoppers. Even though its store layout makes us feel like we’re buying at a local market, and its brand-name items seem to be more sustainable compared to those of other grocery chains, Trader Joe’s is actually a multi-billion-dollar privately-held corporation and leaked documents show that the chain gets its products from the same food makers as other big-box retailers do. Actually, some consumer favorites including its Dry and Roasted Salted Pistachios and its Smooth and Creamy Classic Hummus are produced by no one less than Pepsico and Frito-Lay.
This small grocery chain is silently suffering from the same issues as bigger players, and customers are now seeing with their own eyes that the impact can be harder. The rate of out-of-stocks at Trader Joe’s is actually almost 40% higher than the rate of bigger competitors like Whole Foods, according to estimates released by Investopedia. Although the company says it’s all about offering the best quality product at the lowest price when the whole industry is facing supply and demand issues, that’s a promise they may not be able to keep.
Many of the store’s superfans lament the growing habit of panic buying that helps to keep shelves bare and worsen shortages in the long-run. Others say that if you’re not hoarding at Trader Joe’s, you’re not doing it right. With online shoppers documenting everything they see, a new rush of grocery hoarding at the retailer’s locations isn’t improbable. In fact, when people start realizing that inventory holes are only growing larger, they’re likely to take the chance to stock up on food staples before prices jump even higher and products become impossible to find.
In an environment where food manufacturers are dealing with higher costs of energy, raw materials, and commodities and a sizable reduction in the global food supply, it’s getting virtually impossible for them not to pass along those costs for retailers to offset their own losses. And that’s a hazard for Trader Joe’s business model.. On top of all that, Trader Joe’s might also be left at the end of the list of big food suppliers when shortages really start to sting in the coming months, and other retail titans, which are better positioned financially, are likely to snatch the available supply and raise prices accordingly. All the evidence we have found points to even more product stockouts, discontinuances, and persistent shortages for this adored retailer. Its supply chain may be leaner and more practical than other major grocers, but the problems it faces are just as big."
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way. But the telltale pinkish star forming regions are scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's thin disk.
With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a boxy halo that extends far above and below the central bulge and disk of NGC 1055. The halo itself is laced with faint, narrow structures, and could represent the mixed and spread out debris from a satellite galaxy disrupted by the larger spiral some 10 billion years ago."
"I Wish You Enough"
"I Wish You Enough"
by Bob Perks
"At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s departure and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, “I love you, I wish you enough.” She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.
He walked over toward the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied.
Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and appreciation for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were limited, I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me. So I knew what this man was experiencing.
“Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked. “I am old and she lives much too far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is, her next trip back will be for my funeral, ” he said.
“When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?” He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” He paused for a moment and looking up as if trying to remember it in detail, he smiled even more.
“When we said ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with enough good things to sustain them,” he continued and then turning toward me he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.
"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting. I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess. I wish enough “Hello’s” to get you through the final 'Good-bye.'” He then began to sob and walked away."
The Poet: William Stafford, “Starting With Little Things”
“Starting With Little Things”
“Love the earth like a mole,
fur-near. Nearsighted,
hold close the clods,
their fine-print headlines.
Pat them with soft hands -
Like spades, but pink and loving; they
break rock, nudge giants aside,
affable plow.
Fields are to touch;
each day nuzzle your way.
Tomorrow the world.”
- William Stafford
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