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Thursday, February 15, 2024
The Poet: David Whyte, "The Truelove"
"The Truelove: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on
Reaching Beyond Our Limiting Beliefs About the Love We Deserve"
By Maria Popova
"Few things limit us more profoundly than our own beliefs about what we deserve, and few things liberate us more powerfully than daring to broaden our locus of possibility and self-permission for happiness. The stories we tell ourselves about what we are worthy or unworthy of - from the small luxuries of naps and watermelon to the grandest luxury of a passionate creative calling or a large and possible love - are the stories that shape our lives. Bruce Lee knew this when he admonished that “you will never get any more out of life than you expect,” James Baldwin knew it when he admonished that “you’ve got to tell the world how to treat you [because] if the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble,” and Viktor Frankl embodied this in his impassioned insistence on saying “yes” to life.
The more vulnerable-making the endeavor, the more reflexive the limitation and the more redemptive the liberation. That difficult, delicate, triumphal pivot from self-limitation to self-liberation in the most vulnerable-making of human undertakings - love - is what poet and philosopher David Whyte, who thinks deeply about these questions of courage and love, maps out in his stunning poem “The Truelove,” found in his book The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love (public library) and read here:
"The Truelove"
by David Whyte
"There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially
if part of you never believed
you could deserve this
loved and beckoning hand
held out to you this way.
I am thinking of faith now
and the testaments of loneliness
and what we feel we are
worthy of in this world.
Years ago in the Hebrides
I remember an old man
who walked every morning
on the grey stones
to the shore of the baying seals,
who would press his hat
to his chest in the blustering
salt wind and say his prayer
to the turbulent Jesus
hidden in the water,
and I think of the story
of the storm and everyone
waking and seeing
the distant
yet familiar figure
far across the water
calling to them,
and how we are all
preparing for that
abrupt waking,
and that calling,
and that moment
we have to say yes,
except it will
not come so grandly,
so Biblically,
but more subtly
and intimately in the face
of the one you know
you have to love,
so that when we finally step out of the boat
toward them, we find
everything holds
us, and confirms
our courage, and if you wanted
to drown you could,
but you don’t
because finally
after all the struggle
and all the years,
you don’t want to any more,
you’ve simply had enough
of drowning
and you want to live and you
want to love and you will
walk across any territory
and any darkness,
however fluid and however
dangerous, to take the
one hand you know
belongs in yours."
“The Truelove” appears in the short, splendid course of poem-anchored contemplative practices David guides for neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris’s Waking Up meditation toolkit, in which he reads each poem, offers an intimate tour of the landscape of experience from which it arose, and reflects on the broader existential quickenings it invites.
Couple this generous gift of a poem with “Sometimes” - David’s perspectival poem about living into the questions of our becoming, also part of Waking Up - then revisit the Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska on great love and James Baldwin (who believed that poets are “the only people who know the truth about us”) on love and the illusion of choice."
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"Where Your Gaze Lingers..."
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that has nothing to do with you, this storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step. There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up the sky like pulverized bones.
You have to look! That’s another one of the rules. Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.”
- Haruki Murakami
“Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster? You can’t close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.”
- Richelle E. Goodrich
“Screw The Way Things Are, I Want Out!”
“Screw The Way Things Are, I Want Out!”
by Paul Rosenberg
“This is a beautiful planet, filled, in the main, with decent, cooperative humans. And yet, I want out. Give me any kind of functional spaceship and any reasonable chance, and I’ll take it. This place is anti-human. It chokes the best that’s in us, aggressively and self-righteously. I was struck not long ago by a comment of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s, in which he expressed the same kind of feeling: “I ought to have become a star in the sky. Instead of which I have remained stuck on earth…”
All of us who’ve had a moment of transcendence - who made some type of contact with what is truly the best inside ourselves - have also sensed that life in the current world is incompatible with it. I think we should stop burying that understanding beneath piles of “that’s the way things are,” “we should be realistic,” and “you can’t fight City Hall.”
Screw the way things are, screw “realistic,” and screw City Hall too. I was made for better things than this, and you were too.
Everywhere I turn, some kind of ruler, sub-ruler, enforcer, regulator, or “right-thinking” quasi-enforcer demands not only my money but also for me to make myself easy to punish, thus showing myself to be a good subservient. That’s not just wrong; it’s a disease. I don’t care whether such people are “following orders,” “just doing their job,” or whatever else they tell themselves to soothe their rightly troubled souls. That mode of living is perverse, and these people are enforcing a disease.
Let me make this part very clear: The desire to control others is disease; it is corruption. Willing controllers are a morally inferior class. And the truly deranged thing is that these people rule the world! Forget about why this is so - we can debate that later - focus rather on the utter insanity of this: A minority of moral defectives, who think extortion is a virtue, rule people who are happy to live and let live, by force.
That’s outright lunacy. And to support the lunacy, we have lies, intimidation, and slogans: “In a democracy, you’re really ruling yourself,” “Only crazy people disagree,” “It’s always been this way,” and so on. To all of which I reply, How stupid do you think we are? You drilled that crap into us when we were children, but we’re not children anymore. And if “our way” isn’t as bad as North Korea, that makes it right? Only to a fool.
And the results of “the way it’s always been”… my God, the results… A study from the 1980s found that since 3600 BC, the world has known only 292 years of peace. During this period there have been 14,531 wars, large and small, in which 3.6 billion people have been killed.
This is what I’m supposed to serve with all my heart and soul? A Bronze Age system that can’t keep itself from slaughter? We’re talking about a 5,600-year track record of mass death, and yet fundamental change is considered unthinkable? Well, screw that too, because I think deep, fundamental change is called for, and was called for a long time ago.
Again, this is a wonderful planet and most of the people on it are decent, but it is ruled by insanity, and I want out. Yes, I know, there’s really nowhere to go. Every place I might go is dominated by the same diseased model, and dissent is punished the same, and in some places worse. That’s one of the reasons space appeals to me; it gives me a chance to escape this madness.
I’ll draw this to a close with a passage from C. Delisle Burns’s wonderful "The First Europe," describing why the Roman Empire collapsed: “Great numbers of men and women were unwilling to make the effort required for the maintenance of the old order, not because they were not good enough to fulfill their civic duties, but because they were too good to be satisfied with a system from which so few derived benefit.”
I, for one, am unwilling to expend any effort to maintain the present order. It is by its nature incompatible with the best that is in us, and always will be. Those of us who want to be more and better cannot support the current order without opposing what’s best in ourselves. Screw that.”
Adventures With Danno, ".99¢ Deals At Kroger!"
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Adventures With Danno, 2/15/24
".99¢ Deals At Kroger!"
"In today's vlog, we are at Kroger and are noticing a lot of grocery items on sale for a dollar. With grocery prices continuing to rise, we need to take advantage of these sales while we have the opportunity! Get your notepad ready as I take you shopping with me to find these great bargains!"
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Meanwhile, elsewhere...
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Travelling with Russell, 2/15/24
"Russian Typical (Low Cost) Supermarket:
Would You Shop Here?"
"What does a Russian typical budget supermarket look like inside? Take a walk through Маяк Supermarket to see what a low cost Russian supermarket really looks like. Would you choose to shop here?"
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Bill Bonner, "SuperCore Lies"
"SuperCore Lies"
A scammy new price metric for those who
live on the street and don't eat or heat...
by Bill Bonner
Cherbourg, France - "Inflation is running hot. This from Breitbart: "Economists were expecting a year-over-year increase of 3.0 percent. The 12-month price rise was 3.4 percent in December. The six-month annualized core rate rose to 3.6 percent from 3.2 percent. Both indicate a trend of rising inflation well above the level the Fed says is compatible with a healthy economy. The one-month rate annualized is 4.8 percent, an indication of how high the monthly inflation figure is. In other words, if inflation were to run at the same pace it did in January for 12 months, the annual inflation would be 4.8 percent.
But wait. The Fed has a new, scammy way to measure inflation. It’s called the “SuperCore CPI.” It takes out food. And energy. And housing. So it is useful information only for homeless people who don’t eat or buy fuel. The ‘SuperCore CPI’ was intended, we suppose, to provide a number that was suitably docile and seriously misleading. Something seems to have gone wrong, however. The latest reading is over 8%.
Lies, Damned Lies…But statistics always lie. Especially those with decimal points. It’s one thing to say ‘consumer prices are about 20% higher than they were in 2020.’ There’s some rough truth in it. But a 4.8% (annualized from January’s numbers) CPI is negative information. You have the impression that you know something…to the decimal. Actually, you know nothing at all. The data going in was garbage…coming out, it was ‘night soil.’
What we’ve been looking at for the last few days is the way “inflation” is far more than just a monetary phenomenon – and very difficult to measure. Many economists, for example, think the price hikes of 2022 were solely due to the money-printing of 2020-2021. Neat and simple. The feds print money; prices go up. But there’s more to the story. The price hikes we’re seeing now are a much more insidious kind of inflation…persistent, unrelenting…and not at all subject to decimal points.
We’ve seen that the feds cause inflation simply by spending more money. Federal deficits eat into the savings and spending of the real economy; the government grows, but real output goes down. Prices go up as there are fewer goods and services to buy. Likewise, the ever-expanding swamp of government regulations and controls leaves little dry land for the Main Street economy…leading to higher prices for the remaining output.
Higher and Higher Prices: Earlier this week, we looked at the whole phenomenon of ‘inflation’ through Joseph Tainters’ lens of collapsing civilizations. People meet challenges – real and imagined – by applying the power of the government. Laws, regulations, policies…year after year, they add up. The Federal Register records the rate of change…with about 86,000 new pages each year. Each of these is like the proverbial straw on the camel’s back. Eventually, the poor animal’s knees buckle.
Donald Trump promised to relieve the poor beast of some of its burden. And in his first year in office, the rate of new regulations did go down. It took the new team time to get its program in gear. By the last year of the Trump administration the Federal Register was as fat as ever, with new rules and regulations coming hot and heavy.
Regulations have an effect similar to more spending. They force people to do things they don’t want to do, rewarding privileged groups of cronies, lobbyists, or political donors at the expense of everyone else. Automakers, for example, may switch to making electric cars in order to meet political objectives. Edmonds reports: "California Mandates Electric Cars for 2035." The result is lower output of the cars people really want – and higher prices.
In an honest economy, prices should go down…as producers get better at what they do. But in a late, degenerate empire, corrupted by fake money lent at fake rates, they go up…as government reduces the supply of goods and services while increasing the supply of money and credit.
The True Cost: How much do the regulations cost? We ask AI: "In 2012, the estimated cost of U.S. federal government regulations was approximately $2.028 trillion (in 2014 dollars). This amount is equivalent to 12 percent of the GDP. These regulatory costs impact various aspects of business decisions, including hiring, salaries, capital spending, and dividends. For an average U.S. firm, the annual regulatory cost burden amounts to $233,182, which constitutes 21 percent of average payroll.
Additionally, research by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University indicates that the accumulation of rules over several decades has slowed economic growth, resulting in an estimated $4 trillion loss in U.S. GDP in 2012 (had regulations remained at 1980 levels)."
Forbes: "The Competitive Enterprise Institute noted that in 2015 the government issued over 80,000 pages of rules including 76 “major” rules costing more than $100 million to implement. They put the cost at $1.9 trillion, more than taxes collected by the federal government.
But much of the cost can’t be tallied at all. No 6s…no 7s…no 8s will tell the story. There is the frustration of trying to comply with nonsensical rules…paperwork…bureaucracy and delays. There are the dodges and workarounds people turn to in order to try to avoid them. And there are the businesses that are never started…careers that are never undertaken…innovations that are never attempted.
It is even worse for the victims of the government-sponsored firepower industry. Refugees fill the highways. Amputees fill the hospitals and rehab clinics. The dead fill the cemeteries. And what to make of it?"
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ShadowStats Alternate Inflation Rate Feb. 2024
"The Collapse Of Complex Societies"
"Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. "The Collapse of Complex Societies," though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan and Chacoan collapses."
Freely download “The Collapse of Complex Societies” here:
Dan, I Allegedly, "Huge Hack! Your Info Is At Risk!"
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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 2/15/24
"Huge Hack! Your Info Is At Risk!"
"Another day and another huge hack. The Prudential insurance company just got hacked and had data stolen. This happened on a smaller scale in spring of 2023 and now it’s just gotten worse."
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Gregory Mannarino, "Be Ready For Anything! Now More Than Ever!"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 2/15/24
"Be Ready For Anything! Now More Than Ever!"
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Canadian Prepper, "Code Red Emergency: Pentagon In Panic, Biden Briefed, Russian 'Space Nukes Trigger Mass Panic"
Full screen recommended.
Canadian Prepper, 2/14/24
"Code Red Emergency: Pentagon In Panic,
Biden Briefed, Russian 'Space Nukes Trigger Mass Panic"
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Jeremiah Babe, "Evil Strikes Kansas City"
Jeremiah Babe, 2/14/24
"Evil Strikes Kansas City; Tax Refunds Crater;
What's Really Happening To The Economy?"
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'A Look to the Heavens"
"This popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the March equinox and the northern hemisphere spring. Famous as the Leo Triplet, the three magnificent galaxies found in the prominent constellation Leo gather here in one astronomical field of view. Crowd pleasers when imaged with even modest telescopes, they can be introduced individually as NGC 3628 (right), M66 (upper left), and M65 (bottom). All three are large spiral galaxies but tend to look dissimilar, because their galactic disks are tilted at different angles to our line of sight.
NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy, is temptingly seen edge-on, with obscuring dust lanes cutting across its puffy galactic plane. The disks of M66 and M65 are both inclined enough to show off their spiral structure. Gravitational interactions between galaxies in the group have left telltale signs, including the tidal tails and warped, inflated disk of NGC 3628 and the drawn out spiral arms of M66. This gorgeous view of the region spans over 1 degree (two full moons) on the sky in a frame that covers over half a million light-years at the trio's estimated distance of 30 million light-years. Of course the spiky foreground stars lie well within our own Milky Way."
"Look To This Day..."
"Look to this day
for it is life,
the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence,
the joy of growth ,
the splendor of action,
the glory of power.
For yesterday is but a memory,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day..."
- Kalidasa
"We Are Trapped In A Truman Show Directed By Psychopaths" (Excerpt)
"We Are Trapped In A Truman Show
Directed By Psychopaths"
by Jim Quinn
Excerpt: “Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.” - Aldous Huxley, letter to George Orwell about "1984" in 1949
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” - Aldous Huxley
When I step back from the day-to-day minutia and trivialities flooding my senses from all directions and media devices, it almost appears as if I’m living in a highly scripted reality TV program where the characters and plots are designed to create passions and reactions to support whatever narrative is being weaved by those directing the show. Huxley really did foresee the future as clearly and concisely as anyone could, decades before his dystopian vision came to fruition.
Orwell’s boot on the face vision is only now being initiated because a few too many critical thinkers have awoken from their pharmaceutically induced stupor and begun to question the plotline of this spectacle masquerading as our reality. The mass formation psychosis infecting the weak-minded masses; relentless mass propaganda designed to mislead, misinform, and brainwash a dumbed down and government indoctrinated populace; and complete control of the story line through media manipulation, regulation, and censorship of the truth; has run its course. As Charles Mackay stated 180 years ago, the masses go mad as a herd, but only regain their senses slowly, and one by one.
My recognition that the world seems to be scripted and directed by Machiavellian managers, working behind a dark shroud, representing an invisible governing authority, molding our minds, suggesting our ideas, dictating our tastes, and creating fear, triggered a recollection of the 1998 Jim Carrey movie – "The Truman Show." The movie, directed by Peter Weir (Gallipoli, Witness, Dead Poet’s Society), had the surreal feel of Forest Gump, while beckoning the horrendous introduction of reality TV (Big Brother, Survivor), which poisons our shallow unserious society to this day. The plot of the movie focuses on individuality versus conformity, consumerism, voyeurism, reality versus manipulation, false narratives, the truth about the American Dream, and the dangers of surveillance in a technologically advanced society."
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"The Commercial Real Estate Crisis Of 2024 Is Going To Be A Doozy"
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Epic Economist 2/14/24
"The Commercial Real Estate Crisis
Of 2024 Is Going To Be A Doozy"
"The video delves into the looming crisis facing the commercial real estate market in 2024, drawing parallels with the 2008 financial downturn and highlighting the concerning indicators identified by experts. It covers a range of factors contributing to the crisis, including the shift to remote work, businesses leaving urban areas, and the upcoming wave of commercial mortgage renewals. Through the lens of New York Community Bancorp's struggles and its impact on the broader financial sector, the video explores the gravity of the situation and the challenges faced by financial institutions."
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"America: Funders And Financiers Of Genocide"
Gerald Celente, 2/14/24
"America: Funders And Financiers Of Genocide"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present facts and truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for what’s next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 2/14/24
"Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
Does The CIA Destabilize the World?"
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Gregory Mannarino, "Warning! High Probability Of A False Flag Event Occurring Over The Coming Weekend"
Gregory Mannarino, 2/14/24
"Warning! High Probability Of A False Flag Event
Occurring Over The Coming Weekend"
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"Israel Will Be Defeated As IDF Loses Control Of Its War In Middle East"
Cold, brutal, horrifying truth...
Scott Ritter, 2/14/24
"Israel Will Be Defeated As IDF Loses
Control Of Its War In Middle East"
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And after their defeat there's a precedent...
"The Nuremberg Trials"
"After the war, Allied powers - United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union - came together to form the International Military Tribunal (IMT). From 1945 to 1946, Nazi Germany leaders stood trial for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes." (Add genocide to the list. - CP)
"What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust. We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. They are symbols of fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making which have embroiled Europe generation after generation, crushing its manhood, destroying its homes, and impoverishing its life. Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive."
Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel...
Bill Bonner, "Big Loss Ahead"
"Big Loss Ahead"
Inflation up, rate cut expectations down, Magnificent 7 in doubt...
by Bill Bonner
The latest news: (Reuters) - "…hotter-than-expected consumer inflation readings smashed market speculations of an early start to interest rate cuts this year. A Labor Department report showed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% on a monthly basis in January, above the 0.2% increase expected by economists polled by Reuters. Annually, it increased 3.1% versus the 2.9% estimated growth. Excluding volatile food and energy components, the core figure rose 0.4% month-on-month in January, compared with the estimated 0.3% rise. Annually, it gained 3.9% versus the estimated 3.7% increase.
Counting on a rate cut this spring? Well, you can forget it. Inflation is not going down as fast as speculators hoped. The fix was not in, or at least not as firmly as most people thought.
The biggest danger most investors face is the risk of a Big Loss…a loss so big they’ll never recover from it. And the most likely source of a big loss now is the bubble in the Magnificent 7. Nvidia, for example, is thought to be worth more than the entire energy sector. The Magnificent 7 are worth more than the entire output (GDP) of China, the world’s second largest economy. When these facts change, many people are going to take the Big Loss.
The Debt Balloon: Meanwhile, the whole economy is headed for a Big Loss, too. Earlier this week, we looked at the “most predictable crisis ever,” the ballooning US debt. Today, we put it in perspective.
As we saw yesterday, a society inevitably faces challenges. It has to protect itself from other societies. It runs out of parking spaces. Its farmers are upset with low prices they get from their corn and wheat. One thing after another. The elites try to solve these problems…inevitably fixing them in a way that increases their own wealth and power…and sets up the next problem.
They station troops all over the world, for example…like staking lambs out in a clearing in order to get a good shot at the wolf. Then, they need to ‘protect their troops’ and show the world that they are not to be trifled with. Or, seeing the world confronted by a climate crisis, they send money to their friends with ‘green’ solutions…while restricting the ability of honest energy producers to provide the juice their customers want.
All the fixes impose costs. Some of the costs show up in the form of higher prices (and even higher taxes). Other costs are largely invisible – shrinkflation on an economy-wide scale. The quality and quantity of goods and services declines. People get less for their time and their money.
Lost Earnings, Lost Output: Thoughtful economists have wondered for years why the working class has had no real pay increase in half a century. How was it possible? The US economy had every advantage – capital, skilled labor, abundant engineers and entrepreneurs. Why did labor rates/hour stop rising after 1975?
The answer is in front of us – in the ‘flation’ we’ve been describing: higher costs (the Fed has actually tries to keep prices rising by 2% per year)…and a shrunken real economy, where more and more output is directed, by the feds, to activities that don’t really pay off. Output goes down…along with quality.
The most costly of all peace-time fixes in history took place in 2020-2021. In response to the challenge posed by a virus (which turned out to be insubstantial), the Trump administration and state governors closed down much of the economy…and then handed out trillions in newly-created money, for a total cost (lost earnings and output as well as direct federal outlays) of $14 trillion. Fortune: "The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. will reach $14 trillion by the end of 2023, our team of economists, public policy researchers and other experts have estimated."
Big Loss Ahead: Almost all of that was imposed on the economy (unnecessarily). Some of it was passed along in the form of higher consumer prices, which consumers will pay for many years into the future. Much of the rest is now embedded in the US debt. In other words, the US debt represents the attempts by the elites to solve problems – real and imaginary – by shifting money and power to themselves in the present…while pushing the real costs onto future generations.
Known collectively as ‘the Swamp’ or the Deep State in America…’the Blob’ in England…Milei in Argentina calls them the ‘political caste’ – whatever you call them, they are the deciders who solve the problem, whether there is one or not. And now, in most countries in ‘The West,’ they have solved so many crises that the whole system staggers under the weight of their solutions. Big Loss coming soon."
Gregory Mannarino, "Markets: Liquidity Crisis Worsens, This Is What You Will See Moving Forward"
Gregory Mannarino, 2/14/24
"Markets: Liquidity Crisis Worsens,
This Is What You Will See Moving Forward"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Stock Market Crash? What You Must Know!"
Dan, I Allegedly 2/14/24
"Stock Market Crash? What You Must Know!"
"Things are very precarious in the stock market. Today we bring back, Bob Kudla, the owner of Trade Genius. We have him clarify his predictions on where the stock market has had it in the next 60 days. It’s not pretty."
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"World War III Prelude 2/14/24"
Full screen recommended.
Canadian Prepper, 2/14/24
"Alert! Major Attack Inside Iran; Russian Baltic War Starting;
Israel On High Alert; Poland EU Nukes"
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Full screen recommended.
OpenmindedThinker Show, 2/14/24
"Four Arab Leaders Unite Against Israel's New Battle In Gaza,
Deploy Military; This Is War!"
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Full screen recommended.
Hindustan Times, 2/14/24
" Russia's Big 'Nuclear Catastrophic'
Warning Over U.S. Nukes"
"A Russian official warned that mistakes by U.S. leadership may lead to global catastrophe. The comments were made by Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov. Popov said the only person in the U.S. who can issue nuclear weapons launch orders is Joe Biden. The Russian official, citing Counsel Hur, characterized Biden as "an elderly man with poor memory."
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"A Toast to Those Who Fight"
"A Toast to Those Who Fight"
by Robert W. Malone, MD, MS
"I have been in this battle against evil in the US government and, for that matter the world, since spring of 2021. The truth is that I didn’t recognize the enemy early on. First I thought the problem was one of poorly designed drug development processes gone awry, and then a public health emergency response gone awry. Then I thought it was also about medical freedom and freedom from a weaponization of public mandates - including vaccines, masks, lock-downs, social distancing, mandates, vaccine passports, etc. But still I persisting in viewing the problem through the lens of a focal point, that of a singular set of “problems” to be fixed. Despite all the evidence to the contrary. Yet - deep in my heart, I knew that this fight is all about future generations and their legacy.
As I began to really wake up to what the world was facing, I began to feel an unease. This fight is bigger than I could have dreamed of early on, and it has been planned for a very long time.
I have now come to realize that “we” are in a fight against evil. That our educational system have became corrupted with socialist/Marxist ideologies, regulatory capture has turned our republic - our representative democracy- into a shell of itself, and the various deep/administrative states have come to dominate our government to the point where we live in a system of inverse totalitarianism. So many of our children have been brain washed by social media and the socialist teachings of an controlled educational system.
But we are lucky, in that some parents are managing to raise children who are aware of what is going on - and wish to change things for the better. They are the hopes of the future.
The problem being that global fascists - that is the worlds’ largest transnational corporations, are quite willing to take advantage of these foolish ideologies. Liberal democrats and socialists have become one in the same. Progressives see themselves as full on Marxists and are proud of it. The culture of victimhood has become the rallying cry of the new left or shall I more properly say, “far-left”.
Those of us who are patriots, who believe in exceptionalism, of Americanism and the benefits of meritocracy- which include capitalism- have been branded as being part of an evil empire. This is part of an ongoing psychological and propaganda war, and it is what is actually evil.
I have come to embrace the term “constitutional conservative” - as being the closest to how I have come to view the nirvana of America that once was and can be again. I believe that by returning to our constitutional roots, we can recapture the American spirit. American greatness. It is the traditional values, Judeo-Christian values, that keep us as both individuals and as a culture healthy and of pure mind.
As the globalists - the opportunists, who view the world through the lens of wealth for the elite few, are very willing to use any trick in the book to silence those of us who fight against the tyrants. That includes paying chaos agents, particularly on social media. Each day, these paid assets write horrific things about those of us fighting for our freedoms; it is clearly their mission is to divide and conquer. So, as you read hit pieces about the very organizations and people working to preserve our freedoms and way of life - know that these are planned attacks. These are paid chaos agents.
Our fight is not just medical freedom, it is about freedom. I have written extensively about all of this in the past. Including the censorship, propaganda and psywar being waged against all of us. I will continue to write about it. It is the fight of our lives, for our lives and for our children’s lives.
This week, I received about 30 abstracts from people who are willing to spend their own coin to travel to DC to speak at Senator Ron Johnson’s hearing. I have been organizing, collating and sorting these abstracts. I am overwhelmed with how much passion there is in those who fight and who question why. But here is my truth:
I salute those who are in the fight with me. Those organizations who are hanging tough. The people around me, who work hard to continue to change the system from within and from outside. So many people working to bring sanity to the world. So…
• I salute those who have donated money, resources, time and energy to fight for our freedoms.
• I salute those who have organized events, protests, conferences and the like.• I salute those who have just shown up to protest and who volunteer.
• I salute those freedom fighters who are artists including musicians.
• I salute those who have written essays, news articles and scientific papers.
• And I salute those who have run for office, which is a thankless task.
• I salute those who have just the act of having an open mind and spreading the word amongst friends.
So many of us are doing what we can. It all matters. We are all heroes. I am thankful to be in the trenches with such great men and women. God bless everyone."
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Gerald Celente, "Netanyahu's Total Victory Equals Total Genocide"
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Gerald Celente, 2/13/24
"Netanyahu's Total Victory Equals Total Genocide"
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Jeremiah Babe, "Markets Rocked, Inflation Crisis Gets Worse"
Full screen recommended.
Jeremiah Babe, 2/13/24
"Markets Rocked, Inflation Crisis Gets Worse;
Home Sales Crushed, Now Is The Worst Time To Buy A Home"
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Adventures With Danno, "Massive Food Recall That Affects Millions!"
Adventures With Danno, PM 2/13/24
"Massive Food Recall That Affects Millions!"
"A massive food recall expands out to thousands of products and many different supermarkets, including Walmart, Costco, Whole Foods Market, Albertsons, Safeway, Trader Joe's and many more!"
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Epic Economist, "It's Over! The Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out - It's More Than What You Think"
Full screen recommended.
Epic Economist, 2/13/24
"It's Over! The Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out -
It's More Than What You Think"
"The American middle class, once a symbol of the American dream, is facing unprecedented challenges today. In this eye-opening video, we delve into the harsh reality of how the middle class is being wiped out, struggling to make ends meet amidst soaring costs and stagnant wages. From skyrocketing housing prices to mounting debt and diminishing savings, the middle class is feeling the squeeze like never before."
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"A Look to the Heavens"
“It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the right. At this place in space, an irresistible force meets an immovable object in an interesting way.
The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. The radiation heats up dense regions of the molecular cloud causing it to glow. The Bubble Nebula, pictured above in scientifically mapped colors to bring up contrast, is about 10 light-years across and part of a much larger complex of stars and shells. The Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).”
"The Reality Of Life..."
"Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth."
- Malcolm X
Chet Raymo, “The Sea Grows Old In It”
“The Sea Grows Old In It”
by Chet Raymo
“The poet, like the electric [lightning] rod, must reach from a point nearer to the sky than all surrounding objects down to the earth, and down to the dark wet soil, or neither is of use. The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses. His words must be pictures, his verses must be spheres and cubes, to be seen, and smelled and handled.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ah, Mr. Emerson. This seems about as good a description of poetry as one is likely to find. I love the image. Not a hand reaching up to grasp the hand of Zeus, the hurler of bolts, but merely a pointed rod that reaches higher than any surrounding objects. A pen-point, scratching the firmament. Not a conductor reaching down to the earth, but deeper, into the wet inkpot of the soul.
Not lofty thoughts, airy philosophies, gnostic arcana. Rather, ideas that come wrapped in the stuff of the senses. Ideas that must be unwrapped the way you’d peel an orange, or pry open an oyster, or stir up from the bottom of a bowl of soup. The electric fire of the heavens captured and stored in the Leyden jar of physical self.
Take, for example, Marianne Moore’s “The Fish”, a poem that has been endlessly analyzed without ever giving up its secrets. Anyone who stands on that rocky shore with the poet, looking into the wave-washed chasm - the sea as fluid as breath, as hard as a chisel- takes away a lesson as profound as any one might learn in school, perhaps without being able to articulate exactly what the lesson is. The experience is simply there, to be seen, smelled, handled, in the weave and wave of animal bodies, in the intricate rhyme and syllabication of the poem. Truth- crow-blue, ink-bespattered, hatcheted, defiant.
I’d go further. I’d say that Emerson’s description of poetry can be equally applied to science, or to any human attempt to attract the spark of Zeus. One must lift one’s rod beyond the scratch and tumble of the everyday, while keeping its foot buried in the dark wet soil of lived experience.”
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“The Fish”
“Wade through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.
The barnacles which encrust the side of the wave,
cannot hide there for the submerged shafts of the sun,
split like spun glass,
move themselves with spotlight swiftness into the crevices -
in and out, illuminating
The turquoise sea of bodies.
The water drives a wedge of iron through the iron edge of the cliff;
whereupon the stars, pink rice-grains, ink-
bespattered jelly fish, crabs like green lilies,
and submarine toadstools, slide each on the other.
All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice -
all the physical features of accident -
lack of cornice, dynamite grooves, burns, and hatchet strokes,
these things stand out on it;
the chasm-side is dead.
Repeated evidence has proved that it can live
on what can not revive its youth.
The sea grows old in it."
- Marianne Moore
"What You Know..."
"Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself."
- Lois McMaster
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