"A Genocide Foretold" (Excerpt)

"A Genocide Foretold"

The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun 

by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming

 blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.

by Mr. Fish

Excerpt: "There are no surprises in Gaza. Every horrifying act of Israel’s genocide has been telegraphed in advance. It has been for decades. The dispossession of Palestinians of their land is the beating heart of Israel’s settler colonial project. This dispossession has had dramatic historical moments - 1948 and 1967 - when huge parts of historic Palestine were seized and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed. Dispossession has also occurred in increments — the slow-motion theft of land and steady ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The incursion on Oct. 7 into Israel by Hamas and other resistance groups, which left 1,154 Israelis, tourists and migrant workers dead and saw about 240 people taken hostage, gave Israel the pretext for what it has long craved - the total erasure of Palestinians.

Israel has razed 77 percent of healthcare facilities in Gaza, 68 percent of telecommunication infrastructure, nearly all municipal and governmental buildings, commercial, industrial and agricultural centers, almost half of all roads, over 60 percent of Gaza’s 439,000 homes, 68 percent of residential buildings - the bombing of the Al-Taj tower in Gaza City on Oct. 25, killed 101 people, including 44 children and 37 women, and injured hundreds - and obliterated refugee camps. The attack on the Jabalia refugee camp on Oct. 25 killed at least 126 civilians, including 69 children, and injured 280. Israel has damaged or destroyed Gaza’s universities, all of which are now closed, and 60 percent of other educational facilities, including 13 libraries. It has also destroyed at least 195 heritage sites, including 208 mosques, churches, and Gaza’s Central Archives that held 150 years of historical records and documents.

Israel’s warplanes, missiles, drones, tanks, artillery shells and naval guns daily pulverize Gaza - which is only 20 miles long and five miles wide - in a scorched earth campaign unlike anything seen since the war in Vietnam. It has dropped 25,000 tons of explosives - equivalent to two nuclear bombs - on Gaza, many targets selected by Artificial Intelligence. It drops unguided munitions (“dumb bombs”) and 2000-pound “bunker buster” bombs on refugee camps and densely packed urban centers as well as the so-called “safe zones” - 42 percent of Palestinians killed have been in these “safe zones” where they were instructed by Israel to flee. Over 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes, forced to find refuge in overcrowded UNRWA shelters, hospital corridors and courtyards, schools, tents or the open air in south Gaza, often living next to fetid pools of raw sewage.

Israel has killed at least 32,705 Palestinians in Gaza, including 13,000 children and 9,000 women. This means Israel is slaughtering as many as 187 people a day including 75 children. It has killed 136 journalists, many, if not most of them deliberately targeted. It has killed 340 doctors, nurses and other health workers - four percent of Gaza’s healthcare personnel. These numbers do not begin to reflect the actual death toll since only those dead registered in morgues and hospitals, most of which no longer function, are counted. The death toll, when those who are missing are counted, is well over 40,000.

Doctors are forced to amputate limbs without anesthetic. Those with severe medical conditions - cancer, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease - have died from lack of treatment or will die soon. Over a hundred women give birth every day, with little to no medical care. Miscarriages are up by 300 percent. Over 90 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza suffer from severe food insecurity with people eating animal feed and grass. Children are dying of starvation. Palestinian writers, academics, scientists and their family members have been tracked and assassinated. Over 75,000 Palestinians have been wounded, many of whom will be crippled for life.

“Seventy percent of recorded deaths have consistently been women and children,” writes Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, in her report issued on March 25. “Israel failed to prove that the remaining 30 percent, i.e. adult males, were active Hamas combatants - a necessary condition for them to be lawfully targeted. By early-December, Israel’s security advisors claimed the killing of ‘7,000 terrorists’ in a stage of the campaign when less than 5,000 adult males in total had been identified among the casualties, thus implying that all adult males killed were ‘terrorists.’”

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- https://informationclearinghouse.blog/

Americans! Hang your goddamned heads in eternal shame and disgrace for allowing and supporting these psychopathic, blood thirsty monsters! YOU are paying for every bomb and bullet, all of it! That blood's on all our hands too... - CP

"Iran Unleashes Biggest Revenge Threat With Deadly Weapons That Could Hit Tel Aviv in Minutes"

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"Iran Unleashes Biggest Revenge Threat With

 Deadly Weapons That Could Hit Tel Aviv in Minutes"

"Explore the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, as Tel Aviv faces unprecedented threats from Iran's vow of revenge. Discover how Israel's bustling metropolis scrambles its navigational signals in anticipation of potential attacks, and delve into the technological advancements behind Iran's latest hypersonic missile. This documentary sheds light on the strategic measures taken by Israel to defend against Iran's capabilities to strike swiftly and with precision. Join us for an in-depth analysis of what these developments mean for regional stability and the delicate balance of power in the Middle East."

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Dan, I Allegedly, "AM/PM 4/5/24"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 4/5/24

".99 Cent Store Going Out of Business!"

"One of the most iconic stores in the entire country is going out of business. The store that started it all is a victim of the current marketplace. The 99 Cents store is done. It’s going to liquidate. They are blaming low sales, crime, and the current marketplace."

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Dan, I Allegedly, PM 4/5/24

"Foreclosure Frenzy - Why Your City's Next!"

"We are starting to see the banks running out of patience. They are starting to call loans in. We are also seeing restaurants and businesses close as a result of the wage increases. This is coming to a city near you."

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"How It Really Is"

"Life's Funny..."

"Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living."

- Alysha Speer

"The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool."

- Scott Turow

"Life's funny, chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something - something that really matters - in the end you die for nothing."

- Andrew Klavan

"Pestilences And Earthquakes"

"Pestilences And Earthquakes"

by Michael Snyder

"We are living in an era of endless disasters. Over the past several years, we have been hit with one thing after another, and the pace of events seems to have picked up steam in 2024. Just think of all the things we have seen in recent days. There was the historic terror attack in Russia, then the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed, and then Israel’s strike on a building right next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus threatened to spark a major regional war. Less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic earthquake hit Taiwan, but that is already starting to fade from the news cycle because so much else is happening right now. In this article, I want to focus on two things: pestilences and earthquakes.

The bird flu plague has already killed millions upon millions of birds all over the planet, but now it has made a major resurgence in the United States. In fact, the largest egg producer in the U.S. is “temporarily” closing a facility in Texas due to a local outbreak…"The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States says it has temporarily closed one of its facilities in Texas after highly pathogenic avian influenza, otherwise known as H5N1 bird flu, wiped out nearly two million birds. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said one of its facilities in Parmer County “tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, resulting in depopulation of approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, or approximately 3.6% of the Company’s total flock as of March 2, 2024.”

Just like that, nearly two million more birds are gone. Egg prices have already been spiking, and we are being warned that they will soon go up even more…"Egg prices have now been steadily rising for months, and your omelette could become even more expensive as poultry farms around the country deal with an outbreak of bird flu. The average price of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $3 in February, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, up from around $2 in the fall."

Alarmingly, this time around it isn’t just birds that are catching the disease. The USDA is telling us that dairy cows in several U.S. states have been recently infected…"Bird flu has been confirmed in dairy cows across several states, with the USDA saying Monday it has been found in New Mexico and five additional herds in Texas."

In addition, we have learned that “three pet cats” in Texas have died after catching the bird flu…"Meanwhile, three pet cats have died from bird flu after catching the disease on dairy farms in Texas, according to reports - as fears are raised that infected animals living near humans could spread the disease to people."

Mammals all over the globe have started to get infected, but up until now the bird flu has not posed a serious threat to humans. Is that about to change? A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for H5N1, and that represents only the second case ever recorded in the United States…"A Texas dairy worker has tested positive for the avian flu, marking the first identified human case of an illness in the U.S. that has sickened cattle across several states over the past few weeks. The infection, only the second human case of H5N1 ever recorded in the country, is worrying public health experts who for decades have cautioned that avian flu could pose a serious threat."

Hopefully this will turn out to be just an isolated incident. But the CDC is telling us that testing has shown that H5N1 has mutated into a form that could potentially spread more easily among people…"The strain of bird flu that infected a person in Texas has mutated to spread more easily, officials say - amid growing alarm the disease could spread to more people. The CDC said tests on the H5N1 sample showed it had a mutation that was ‘known to be associated with viral adaptation to mammalian hosts’ – but insisted the mutations were minor and the overall risk to the public was low."

This is a bombshell. If H5N1 starts spreading from person to person on a widespread basis, that will be far more serious than anything that we have experienced over the last several years. I hope that you understand what I am saying.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed cases of dengue fever in Brazil already exceeds 1.5 million…"An unprecedented outbreak of dengue fever is surging across Brazil, as the nation battles an epidemic that is straining resources and spreading well beyond the areas traditionally affected. In cities across the vast country, hospitals and doctors are being stretched to the limit as more than 1.5 million people have already caught the virus – also known as “breakbone fever” – this year." Dengue fever is an issue in Brazil every year, but they have never seen anything even close to this.

Now let me switch gears and talk about earthquakes for a bit. Less than 24 hours ago, we witnessed the worst earthquake in Taiwan in 25 years…"Taiwan was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years on Wednesday when a 7.4 magnitude tremor struck the island’s eastern coast, collapsing buildings, killing at least four people and triggering tsunami warnings across the region that were later lifted, CNN reported.

The tsunami warnings also prompted airlines and airports to suspend flights, which were later resumed. CNN reported that the powerful tremors that rocked Taiwan morning have damaged 125 buildings across the island, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA). That quake was later downgraded to 7.2, but it sure shook a lot of people up.

At one point, a building that is 10 stories high started to fall over as those in the streets nearby ran for cover…"A group of terrified Taiwanese citizens looked to be heading to an early grave as a huge earthquake sent a 10-story building hurtling towards them – only for the structure to grind to a halt at a near-45-degree angle. Shocking footage captured by security cameras showed the moment the red brick building shook violently and began to fall, spraying dust and debris into the street below as the people below sprinted for safety or dove into their cars for protection."

This is yet another example of how unstable our planet is becoming. In recent months we have seen so much unusual seismic activity all over the globe, but most Americans haven’t been too concerned about this because it hasn’t really affected us too much. But there has been unusual shaking here in the U.S. too.

For instance, earlier this year there was a swarm of more than 270 earthquakes near Reno, Nevada…"Residents of the south Reno area have likely noticed a few earthquakes in the last couple weeks. The Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), a unit within the University of Nevada, Reno, has identified and located over 270 small magnitude earthquakes in the last 30 days so far. The largest related quake to date has been a magnitude 3.5 in the afternoon of Jan. 28 that was felt and heard through much of Reno.

Groups of small- to moderate-sized earthquakes, such as those recently occurring in south Reno, are often called a “swarm.” “We have termed this swarm the South Reno Swarm,” Kyren Bogolub, a network seismologist with the NSL, said."

Do you know what else is south of Reno, Nevada? A volcanic field known as “Steamboat Springs” is located in the area, but it has been quiet for a very long time. The following information comes from Wikipedia…"Steamboat Springs is a small volcanic field of rhyolitic lava domes and flows in western Nevada, located south of Reno. There is extensive geothermal activity in the area, including numerous hot springs, steam vents, and fumaroles." Is that volcanic field starting to wake up? Let’s hope not. But as seismic activity increases all over the globe, it is inevitable that the U.S. will experience great shaking as well.

In addition to natural disasters, our world is being troubled by wars, pestilences, famines, economic problems and political turmoil. A period of great chaos has arrived, and I am entirely convinced that the pace of events will accelerate even more during the months ahead."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Jim Kunstler, "Vectoring Dangerously"

"Vectoring Dangerously"

By Jim Kunstler

“Strategic ambiguity requires strategic capabilities. 

Otherwise, it’s just make-believe.”

- Lee Slusher on “X”

"If your situational awareness is well-tuned, you can put together a political weather report from the swirl of events that otherwise seem to confound the degenerate simps who pretend to report the news. Events are tending in the direction of self-reinforcing, ramifying chaos, and the people running the show are obviously insane as they do everything possible to hurry chaos along.

Case in point: Antony Blinken, our Secretary of State, who announced yesterday that Ukraine will get rushed into NATO ASAP. Do you understand that would mean a direct, automatic, peremptory declaration of war against Russia, requiring all of NATO - that is, their combined militaries - to go kinetic inside Ukraine and theoretically inside Russia, too, (a move that has not worked out well for anyone in all of history), because Article Five of the NATO charter states that an armed attack against one is an attack against all, and must be answered with counter-attack? Thus, you see, Mr. Blinken just announced World War Three.

You might also consider that NATO does not have the capacity to fight that war. The European members don’t have sufficient troops and equipment, or financial reserves for that matter. And there is, of course, America’s under-recruited DEI army of transsexuals and video-gamers, with equipment that has already proven inadequate on-the-ground in Ukraine, and a logistical route for delivery of all that which runs 5,000 miles across an ocean and then another continent....whereas our opponent (Russia) is right next door to the battlefield and churning out munitions like there is no tomorrow (which there might well not be for all concerned). Even Adolf Hitler, the last fool to attempt a conquest of Russia, wouldn’t like those odds.

And why would Russia desist from firing hypersonic missiles at Berlin, Paris, London, New York and...? You get the idea. In which case the USA, backstopping NATO, would lob swarms of our nuclear missiles into Russia...and the whole shootin’ match ends up twenty minutes later a smoldering, civilization-ending mess. Smooth move, Tony Blinken. In political weather terms, this is like an arctic shear cutting across the northern hemisphere.

At the same time, you might notice a financial la Nina forming out over the salty sea. Gold chugged up above $2,300-an-ounce the past ten days, a record. That’s a coded message from Reality Central. My de-coder ring says it means the bond market is about to fall on its ass, taking the dollar down with it, which would swiftly domino into the way-overpriced equity markets, and Gawd knows what kind of maelstrom all the derivatives flotsam would get sucked into. Notice, too that Bitcoin goes up $3,000 one day and down $2,000 the next. Kind of sketchy. But that’s just my take. If you have one, I’d like to hear it. In any case, it looks like stormy financial weather which, if nothing else, is not exactly an advantageous accompaniment to a world war. In fact, it could beat a path quickly to something like empty supermarket shelves — and you know what they say about a population being a few missed meals away from anarchy.

Then there’s the immense cluster of twisters moving ominously across the planet in the form of the Covid vaccination dysregulated immunity fiasco I wrote about in last Friday’s blog (This Is Not an April Fool’s Gag), as predicted by virologist Dr. Vanden Bossche. Translation: a lot of people getting sick and dying because their mRNA shots and boosters have so screwed-up their immune systems that they are sitting ducks for an emergent variant of Covid gestating in the vaxxed population. By the way, there is apparently a gross breakdown in medical services world-wide now, especially a shortage of doctors and nurses. Now you’re starting to see some serious stormy weather: a war, a financial train wreck, and a global public health disaster all at once.

While all that is churning things up, the next round of Trump trials are set to kick off in Alvin Bragg’s New York and Fani Willis’s Fulton County (Atlanta), GA. Both cases have publicly wrecked themselves. In the New York case, you have the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, Loren Merchan, 37, a Democratic Party consultant who has multi-million-dollar contracts with Rep. Adam Schiff, the nation’s leading RussiaGate hoaxer, and working partner of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a chief witness in the matter of a hush-money payment made to porn-star Stormy Daniels (hush money, you might note, not being illegal). Any political motivation to see in that cast of characters? And that is apart from the sheer bullshit nature of the case, as packaged for Mr. Bragg by US Attorney Matthew Colangelo, who was swapped out of the Main DOJ HQ in Blobville to the office of Soros-connected DA Bragg in Manhattan specifically to engineer a political prosecution.

The Fani Willis case down south, another political prosecution by a loudmouth “Get Trump” DA, now goes forward with a compromised government attorney who has demonstrably committed enough offenses against the law to merit disbarment. Her lover and, until recently, “special prosecutor,” Nathan Wade, on top of probably perjuring himself about his financial entanglements with DA Willis, was just cited for contempt in his own divorce case (failure to pay child support). Note, too, that the idiotic substance of the case - a racketeering charge for conspiring to voice opinions about the veracity of the 2020 election - was likewise constructed by Lawfare ninjas in Washington DC (my guess, by Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, and Norm Eisen), and mentored to Willis & Wade in a series of meetings held in the White House office of Veep Kamala Harris (with Lawfare ninjas improperly not logged-in - also my guess).

If the blob’s desired outcome, a conviction, comes to pass, and Mr. Trump is hauled off to Riker’s Island, say, to mingle with X-hundred homicidal mutts, and, say, for some reason he does not come out of there alive...well, say hello to an extra-especially bad set-up for civil disorder in the home of the brave - while we do World War Three, financial pandemonium, and Vaccine death. It’s a lot to take in, I know. But it’s all really right out there, and it’s all vectoring right at us. Just so you know."

- https://kunstler.com/

Adventures with Danno, "Items Everyone Should Be Buying At Target!"

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Adventures with Danno, 4/5/24

"Items Everyone Should Be Buying At Target!"

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Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 4/5/24"

"Weekly News Wrap-Up 4/5/24"

NATO Invites War; Israel/Iran War; Dem Panic

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"In a surprise announcement, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said Ukraine will be joining NATO. This has grave implications for an expanded war with Russia. In 1991, the U.S. promised never to allow Ukraine to join NATO. Ukraine was supposed to be neutral and not have a robust army. All that changed in 2014 with the coup that was orchestrated by the Obama Administration. From then on, the West has inched towards war. Now, it looks like it’s an unstoppable slide of a NATO war with Russia, and NATO is inviting it with glee.

Israel attacked Iran’s embassy in Syria this week killing some high-ranking military commanders. Iran is vowing revenge. Israel is warning against attacking its territory. This could turn up the heat to high in the Middle East if these two nuclear powers start trading shots. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is about to sell Israel $18 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets. That will settle things down. Maybe this is why renowned cycle analyst Martin Armstrong said this past week on USAW, “Everything points towards war.”

You know things are bad when true blue Dem James Carville panics and sounds the alarm about people “leaving the Democrat party in droves.” Carville put this out this week in a video where he was talking about what’s at stake if Donald Trump wins in November. Maybe the reports of Gen-Z revolting against Democrats over high inflation is another warning sign on the road to Democrat perdition. Now, it seems Democrats are concerned about high crime, high prices and high illegal immigration. It might be way too late to fix this after three years of the Biden Administration.

One last thing not in the video version: Virologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche issues a dire warning: “A massive tsunami of death among highly vaccinated is imminent.” This is why Dr. Pierre Kory, and other doctors are saying the vaxed need treatment such as Ivermectin. The medical mafia is still restricting its use. Dr. Kory says don’t look at this problem as vaxed and unvaxed. Look at it as treated and untreated. The untreated do far worse than the treated according to Dr. Kory." There is much more in the 46-minute newscast.

- https://usawatchdog.com/

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"We're so freakin' doomed!"

- The Mogambo Guru

Jeremiah Babe, "Wars And Rumors Of Wars, Entering A Time Of Danger"

Jeremiah Babe, 4/4/24

"Wars And Rumors Of Wars,

 Entering A Time Of Danger"

"Wars and rumors of war is now becoming reality as we continue to provoke nations into a fight, America better wake up and deescalate the situation before millions of people pay the ultimate price and America goes bankrupt supporting these wars it can never win."

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Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Hymn”

Vangelis, “Hymn”

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region.

Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progression of star formation moving away from the cluster's center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in the sharp Hubble view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130113.html

Chet Raymo, "Asperges Me, Domine "

"Asperges Me, Domine"

by Chet Raymo

"Our earliest mammalian ancestors were presumably nocturnal - to escape the predations of dinosaurs - but for most of human history we have been afraid of the dark, huddling in caves around stuttering fires, curled together in darkness like mice in a burrow. Night belonged to animals with big, dark-adapted eyes and sharp teeth, to footpads and graverobbers, to werewolves and vampires. Ironically, it was with the coming of electric illumination that it became reasonably safe to go out and about at night, even as the illumination erased the best reason to do so.

William Blake called day Earth's "blue mundane shell... a hard coating of matter that separates us from Eternity." At night we peer into infinity, awash in a myriad of stars. We creep to the door of the cave and look up into the Milky Way and catch a glimpse of divinity - everlasting, all-embracing, utterly unknowable. Night - that cone of shadow, that wizard's cap of spells and omens - is the chink in Earth's shell through which we court Ultimate Mystery the way Pyramus courted Thisbe.

Which is why, I suppose, that whenever I think of "the porch" of people who visit here, I imagine Carolina rockers on a southern summer verandah, far from city lights, Vega, Deneb and Altair swimming in the Milky Way, fireflies flickering on the lawn. At some point the conversation ceases and we simply sit, rock, and listen to the sounds of the night - the whippoorwill, the bullfrog, the cricket and the owl - and let starlight fall upon our heads like a sprinkling of holy water."

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

"Asperges Me, Domine"

"Wash me, Lord. Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be clean."

- The Catholic Mass

"I'm Sure..."

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. 

It's just been too intelligent to come here."

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the 

Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"It's Not Such An Easy Business..."

“Over the years you get to see what a struggle life is for most people, how tough it is, how easy it is to be judgmental and criticize and stand outside of situations and impart your wisdom and judgment. But over the decades I've got more tolerant of people's flaws and mistakes. Everybody makes a lot of them. When you're younger you feel: "Hey, this person is evil" or "This person is a jerk" or stupid or "What's wrong with them?" Then you go through life and you think: "Well, it's not so easy." There's a lot of mystery and suffering and complication. Everybody's out there trying to do the best they can. And it's not such an easy business.”

- Woody Allen

The Daily "Near You?"

Jamestown, Pennsylvania, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

The Poet: Grace Schulman, “Blessed Is The Light”

“Blessed Is The Light”

“Blessed is the light that turns to fire, and blessed the flames 

that fire makes of what is burns.

Blessed the inexhaustible sun, for it feeds the moon that 

shines but does not burn.

Praised be hot vapors in earth's crust, for they force up

mountains that explode as molten rock and cool like

love remembered.

Holy is the sun that strikes sea, for surely as water burns

life and death are one. Holy the sun, maker of change,

for it melts ice into water that bruises mountains, honing 

peaks and carving gullies.

Sacred is the mountain that promises permanence but

changes, planed by rockslides, cut by avalanche,

crushed, eroded, leeched for minerals. 

Sacred the rock that spins for centuries before it shines,

governed by gravity, burning into sight near earth's

orbit, for it rises falling, surviving night.

Behold the arcs your eyes make when you speak. Behold 

the hands, white fire. Branches of pine, holding votive

candles, they command, disturbed by wind,

 the fire that sings in me.

Blessed is whatever alters, turns, revolves, just as the gods

move when the mind moves them.

Praised be the body, our bodies, that lie down and open 

and rise, falling in flame.”

~ Grace Schulman

"Dead Romans Agree: Don’t Let The Small Stuff Bother You"

"Dead Romans Agree:

Don’t Let The Small Stuff Bother You"

by John Wilder

"I woke up this morning just irritated. No particular reason. In all fairness, it was entirely an internal feeling, and I imagine most people never noticed. I was nice and polite to nearly everyone I interacted with. And why not? None of them were my ex-wife. I wasn’t irritated with them, I was just irritated. There were no issues. I wasn’t in pain. No one around me was in particular trouble. Thankfully I’m not an electrician – people might dislike me not being positive at work.

As I thought about it, what was irritating me? I couldn’t quite put a finger on it. There was no rational reason at all. During a conversation lat night, though, I had a reason to quote Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

Sure, Marcus Aurelius’ kid was an utter tool, but when you become Caesar at 18, well, it might tend to go to your head – think of Commodus as Miley Cyrus, 180 A.D. Back to Marcus, though. Marcus genuinely did his best for the Roman Empire. As near as I can tell, Marcus was a pretty good leader. And that little quote above wasn’t written for you and me. It was written for Marcus, by Marcus. He was reminding himself that the external things in the world had only the power he gave them. He was giving himself a pep talk.

Marcus Aurelius was right. In the conversation I was having lat night, the person was very upset (most of you don’t know the person, though specific readers in California and Indiana do – hi guys!). The reason she was upset? Nothing rational at all. So I quoted a dead Roman emperor. Did it help? I don’t know. I’m beginning to see a pattern where crying people don’t stop crying when I quote dead Roman emperors. I’m beginning to see why the kids call The Mrs. when they want actual human sympathy.

My irritation (I think) came from the same place. Nowhere. I felt fine (except for my right knee which is much better now) and the day generally went fairly well. I realized that the advice I gave was meant just as much for me as for the person I was talking to. I was just being irritated because I let myself be irritated.

Once I was done and realized I didn’t have to be irritated? My irritation disappeared. I know that the way I feel is (generally) my choice. I can choose how I feel: salty, Wednesday, or even drunk. The only reason that I’m not happy every morning is if I choose not to be happy on some particular morning.

Are there actual reasons why I might have different feelings? Sure. If I had mental problems (other than an unseemly affection for awful jokes and a desire to consciously be able to make my fingernails grow absurdly fast) that might be a reason to have a feeling other than what I choose.

Don’t know. I do know that there are people with actual mental problems. There’s proof: some people actually voted for Biden. But, going back to Marcus, that’s not external. Being sick or goofy enough to vote for Biden isn’t external.

Physical pain also is an internal source that can destroy moods. I once (for a few months) had sciatica. I was irritable enough every morning to chew nails and spit bullets. Then I discovered that I could work out for a few hours on an elliptical trainer to make the pain go away. A week later? I was fine. My irritation vanished along with my sciatica, never (hopefully) to return. That was nearly 15 years ago. Sure, I’ve felt pain since then, but most of it was the good pain from a hard workout. Heck, most days the worst thing that happened was the crisp morning breeze running through my back hair.

My mood depends on me. My attitude depends on me. Does that mean that I can’t see the actual situation we’re in? Of course not. I see a nation tearing itself apart. It’s worse: it’s not just a nation, Western Civilization seems to be happily thrashing about as it marches down a path to extinction.

Is that good? Of course not. Does it mean that I should walk around every day being sad? Of course not. I am doing, I assure you, everything I can think of to stave off that darkness. I mean, those memes won’t make themselves. And I am doing it cheerfully. I laugh every day. I smile because I know that most of the things that I worry about can have no power over me unless I give them that power.

Make your choices, and understand that while you might wake up irritated – it’s your choice if you wish to stay in that mood for a minute or an hour. Me? I like being happy, so I choose that, even in moments where it might not be appropriate. I might even need to stop high-fiving people at funerals.

So, I got started late typing this after a day I chose to just be irritated. And, I’m going to choose to end now. With a smile on my face. Go and have a great day. Most of the time, having a great day is just a choice. Choose wisely."

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

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"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable,

or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castaneda

"I Would Rather Have..."

"When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair."

- Nadezhda Mandelstam

"20 Grocery Shortages That Will Make Americans Freak Out This Summer"

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Epic Economist, 4/4/24

"20 Grocery Shortages That Will 

Make Americans Freak Out This Summer"

"Every year, we are constantly hit with the bittersweet reality of our favorite grocery items disappearing from store shelves. However, It's always an exciting moment when new versions of our beloved snacks hit the market. But on the flip side, there's nothing quite as disheartening as discovering that our go-to treats have been discontinued for good. In this video, there are 20 items you might miss from your store."

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"How It Really Is"

Gerald Celente, "Financial Armageddon, The Trap Is Set"

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Health Ranger Report, 4/4/24

"Financial Armageddon, The Trap Is Set"

"Gerald Celente With Critical Warning:

 Hundreds of Banks Are Set To Collapse Across America"

- https://trendsjournal.com/

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- https://www.brighteon.com/

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Dan, I Allegedly, "Your Insurance Company Could Go Bust"

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Dan, I Allegedly AM 4/4/24

"Your Insurance Company Could Go Bust"

"State Farm just got downgraded by the rating system for insurance companies. They just canceled another 30,000 policies and 42,000 apartment owners policies. What is next?"

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"The Preservation of Sanity And Civilization"

"The Preservation of Sanity And Civilization"

by Paul Rosenberg

"I hadn’t planned on this post, but the ongoing mania compels me to contribute something toward the preservation of sanity and civilization. And so, here are some things to remember:

Humans are idolaters. Or at least most are when pressured. What we’re seeing now is an expression of idolatry and dogma. And bear in mind that the proudly anti-religious are often the most idolatrous and dogmatic. Whenever people are getting whipped up for a cause – any cause – that’s the right time to step away. And if they start chanting, move away quickly. I’ll forgo the long explanation, but joining the pack slays reason, and for as long as you remain in the pack. And this really is idolatry, because whatever we place above reason… whatever we place above open questioning… has become our god.

The crowd is always a deceiver. No one expressed this more concisely than Simone Weil, when she said, “conscience is deceived by the social.” Conscience is individual, social is collective, and the two are at odds. Likewise, sanity is individual and mania is collective. Within the crowd, malice appears as duty, honor, order and justice. To reside in the crowd is to be deceived; the only question is how much. Just a few specifics:

• Any time you surrender your decision-making to outsiders, you are making an error. (And yes, that means that authority is fundamentally a scam.)

• The more intimidated you are, the less your better functions can operate.

• Moral courage is far, far more important than physical courage.

• The mob is the enemy of what’s best in you. Separate from it at the first opportunity.

Civilization is not a function of systems, it’s a function of what’s in us. We are the primaries; all systems, good, bad or indifferent, are derivatives. The great error of the democratic era, certainly true over my now-fairly-considerable lifetime, was that people believed Democracy would solve all their problems, and would by itself assure civilization. That was always an idolatrous dream. What matters is what we are as individuals. No institution is to be taken as anything more than a blunt tool. The civilization we hold in ourselves is what holds the world in sanity, and nothing else can, no matter how it is advertised.

Grouping degrades human function. As individuals, we are magical creatures who can reverse entropy willfully. Within the group, we are a collection of pieces trying to feel powerful. Being grouped degrades us and teaches us bad lessons. Standing as an individual makes us better, sometimes in spurts and sometimes slowly. Whatever exceptions and gray areas may exist, joining a crowd makes us worse. What makes us better is freedom of conscience, a recognition of human dignity, and a belief in our own efficacy.

Finally…I want to make one statement very clearly, and I hope you remember it: The people who marshal movements are taking advantage of human weaknesses. And yes, many of them are aware of it. So step away from the crowd, cultivate your individual mind, and have civilization in yourself."

- https://freemansperspective.com

"The Middle East: Prelude To All Out War"

MUST VIEW BRUTAL TRUTH!

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"Scott Ritter Expose: Israel Is Modern-day 

Version Of Hitler's Nazi Germany"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 4/4/24

"Max Blumenthal: 

Netanyahu's Crimes Against Humanity"

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Hindustan Times, 4/4/24

"Iran To Attack Israel Within 48 Hours? 

Massive Preparations For 'Mega Strike Underway'"

"Iran is completely exasperated ever since 'Israel attacked' its consulate in Syria. The Middle East media is claiming that Tehran's revenge strike could hit Israel soon. Some outlets, citing military sources, said the attack could take place within 48 hours. According to these reports, Iran's response could spark a major regional conflict. Israel has bolstered its air defenses amid reports of Iran's possible retaliation. The IDF has called up reservist soldiers to prepare for a possible Iranian attack."

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Times Of India, 4/4/24

"'Israel Will Be…' Iran Hosts Mega Meeting With 

Hezbollah, Hamas & Houthis In Tehran"

"Iran vowed to avenge the killing of its 7 commanders who were assassinated in an Israeli strike. At least 16 people were killed including 7 from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a strike in the Syrian capital. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, head of the Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria, was killed in the attack. Now, Iran is in talks with leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas to take an action against Israel. On the other hand, Israel said that they would not spare anyone who would act as an enemy of Israel. Israel has not taken responsibility for the attack in Syria."

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"Iran's Nukes, Hezbollah's 150,000 Missiles, 

Israeli Iron Dome: Clock Ticking For Biggest Middle East War?"

"It is believed that Iran could also respond to Israeli attack by accelerating its nuclear program. If Iran tries to increase purity of its enriched uranium to 90%, which is considered bomb grade, it could invite Israeli or US strikes."

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"Israel is Evil personified. 

Israel is Evil embodied."

- Scott Ritter

You cannot reason with or change the behavior of rabidly vicious mad dogs or psychopathically degenerate, bloodthirsty monsters. There is only one solution...

Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel. 

So be it...

Gregory Mannarino, "AM/PM 4/4/24"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 4//4/24

"Horror Show: Mass Layoffs Skyrocket! 

Business Leaders Warn 'More Are Coming'"

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Gregory Mannarino, PM 4/4/24

"Trump Says The US Is An 'Economic Cesspool"

 And He Is 100% Correct!"

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Adventures With Danno, "Stock Up Now On These Deals At Kroger!"

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Adventures With Danno, AM 4/4/24

"Stock Up Now On These Deals At Kroger!"

"In today's vlog, we are at Kroger and are seeing some amazing deals on groceries. With prices going up everywhere, we encourage everyone to stock up on these sales before they're gone! Get your notepad ready as you do not want to miss this!"

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Bill Bonner, "Poisoned Pennies"

"Poisoned Pennies"

Artificially low interest rates are a problem in themselves. They distort the real cost of capital, tempting people to borrow too much money. Debt increases...leading to a debt crisis of some sort.

by Bill Bonner

Dublin, Ireland - "What a delight! A presidential candidate - neither Democrat nor Republican - who has begun to address the important issues of our time. Moneywise: 'The most pernicious and insidious regressive tax on the poor': RFK Jr. slams the Fed, calls inflation and rate hikes 'poisonous medicines.' But he says there's an even bigger problem. Inflation impacts everyone by eroding the purchasing power of money. However, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserts that it's low-income Americans who suffer the most from rising price levels.

As you’ll recall from yesterday, debt growth is ‘unsustainable.’ It’s growing much faster than the economy that supports it. Somethins gotta give. Either the problem is solved intentionally... or unintentionally. RFK, Jr. is a graduate of the London School of Economics. He’s the only candidate to recognize that there is a debt problem. He’s proposing to tackle it. He’s also read at least a few of our Bonner Private Research posts. Whether they had any effect, we don’t know, but if he succeeds in solving America’s debt crisis, we intend to claim credit.

In his interview at Fox News, Kennedy went on to target high interest rates as a source of woe: “Our kids cannot get into a home because the interest rates have gone from 3% two years ago to - for them, the real cost - about seven-and-a-half or 8% to buy a home,” he said. Uh oh... was he suggesting that interest rates should be held down by the Fed? Didn’t he know that it was the Fed’s ultra-low interest rate policy that caused today’s huge debt overhang?

Instead, Kennedy came up with a fairly original and interesting angle: Kennedy believes that both inflation and rate hikes are mere stopgaps for a more significant issue. “The long-term issue is spending, because inflation and high interest rates are just medicine and they both are poisonous medicines,” he argued. As a result, he suggests that “we need to get spending under control” and “dramatically reduce” military spending. Artificially low interest rates are a problem in themselves. They distort the real cost of capital, tempting people to borrow too much money. Debt increases... leading to a debt crisis of some sort.

American Milei: But Kennedy is right. The feds spend too much. They borrow too much. They need lower interest rates to support the debt. And they ‘print’ money to help keep rates low. Low rates... high rates... inflation... inflation control – all are linked to excess spending. The dots connect. And if the problem is to be addressed, intentionally, spending is the place to begin. It has to be brought under control.

It would be nice if a real reformer – maybe like Milei in Argentina or Kennedy in the US -- could solve the problem in an orderly... sensible... way. The wars could be stopped. The budget could be balanced. Peace and prosperity could be restored to the land. But it seems unlikely. Biden and Trump are the front runners. Neither has any interest in the problem – or even any awareness of it. And the whole Beltway, Wall Street, University, Media, Military Establishment benefits from the system as it is. Would this ‘Deep State’ permit a turnaround? Probably not.

So, let’s look at how the debt crisis might play out — unintentionally. We got a hint of it on Tuesday. MarketWatch: "After months of range bound trading, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield appeared to be settling into a pattern similar to what was seen last October, when the rate soared to its highest level since 2007 and briefly burst through 5%. The 10-year rate — used as a benchmark for everything from student debt to auto loans and mortgages — rose 3.4 basis points to end at 4.363% or its highest level since Nov. 27. Yields as far away as Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe climbed in unison."

In simple terms, as the US debt grows - we now see it easily going to $50 trillion by 2034 - so does the interest expense. It was $659 billion in 2023... and next year it will approach one trillion. No one really cares how large the debt becomes. But the cost of servicing it must come out of current income. And every penny of earnings that we must devote to paying for yesterday’s bungles is a penny less we can enjoy today. At some point, we have few pennies left...

RFK, Jr. is the only candidate taking the danger seriously. He says the interest will go to 50 cents of every tax dollar within five years. In ten years, it will take 100% of tax revenues. Somewhere along the way, the bond market will spook. Interest rates will soar. And the cost of carrying debt - or adding new debt - will be too much to bear. Then, the US will have no choice. Either it admits that it must cut back, drastically... or it panics, prints money and sends the whole world economy into a real inflationary catastrophe. More to come..."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

Greg Hunter, "Biden 8% Approval Means Panic & War"

"Biden 8% Approval Means Panic & War"

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong has new data on President Biden’s approval numbers. Nearly two years ago, President Biden’s real job approval rating in America was just 12%. More than one year ago, the real Biden approval number slipped to 9.5% (and stayed there) according to Armstrong’s world renowned “Socrates” predictive computer program. Now, Biden’s rating tumbled again. Armstrong says, “It is basically hovering around 7.5% to 8% at this stage. I know this goes against the mainstream media, but if you look at Google, it is really politically motivated. The other number you need to look at is the confidence in government, and it is at 28%. This number is unheard of since World War II. (I have another confidential data miner source who backs up Armstrong’s numbers, including the latest 8% job approval number, with nearly identical Biden job approval numbers going back two years. So, yes, there are two solid sources for Biden’s true approval rating.) You will never see Biden’s real numbers on the Lying Legacy Media (LLM), but everybody at the top of the D.C. swamp knows how weak Biden really is.

What does this record low Biden approval rating mean? Armstrong explains, “What you have to be concerned about is our computer is showing a massive panic cycle in September. This is very curious because the Democrat convention is August 19th. At that convention, they can just draft somebody. That has been the rumor for quite some time. They know Biden is really quite pathetic. The Neocons like him because they can do whatever they want. The climate change people are doing the same thing. The President is supposed to act as a referee in the cabinet, and he’s not even there 40% of the time. The collapse in government is because all these agencies are just doing the wrong thing, and nobody is standing in-between. You’ve got the State Department threatening World War III. The problem is a government will fail when you can’t sell the new debt to pay off the old. That’s when a default comes. That’s how a default takes place. You have these Neocons in the State Department constantly trying to create WWIII. Why would you buy a 10-year bond in the face of war? Interest rates always go up in wartime. We don’t have a President running as referee between all these agencies.”

Armstrong says, “Everything is pointing towards war.” Armstrong sees an important turn date coming up and explains, “If we don’t have war, the Fed may do a rate cut after May. I don’t see Powell doing a rate cut at this stage. Our computers see the economy expanding into May, and the ideal peak is May 7th. After that, we are going to move into a recessionary atmosphere up to 2028. It is an inflationary period, and inflation will be rising above economic growth, and that is stagflation.” On record high gold prices, Armstrong says, “Gold prices go up when confidence in government goes down. I expect the gold price will be at least around the $5,000 per ounce level by 2027 or 2028.” There is much more in the 50-minute interview.

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble he goes One-on-One with Martin Armstrong, who will preview his “Mid-year Seminar” in London at the end of May. 

- https://rumble.com/

"Alert! Run On ATMs Panic; NATO Troops In Ukraine In Weeks; Zelensky Exit Plan; Russia ICBM Scare"

Canadian Prepper, 4/4/24

"Alert! Run On ATMs Panic; NATO Troops In Ukraine In Weeks;

 Zelensky Exit Plan; Russia ICBM Scare"

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