"Economic Market Snapshot PM 7/26/21"

"Economic Market Snapshot PM 7/26/21"

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"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will

do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

- John Maynard Keynes

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"Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...

Only the consequences are real - to you!

Your guide:

Gregory Mannarino, AM 7/26/21:

"Critical Updates! Crypto Surging Higher, 

Stocks, Market, The Fed, More"

- https://traderschoice.net/

- https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary

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"The more I see of the monied classes,

the better I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates

- https://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary

CNN Market Data:

- https://money.cnn.com/data/markets/

CNN Fear And Greed Index:

- https://money.cnn.com/data/fear-and-greed/

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A comprehensive, essential daily read.

- http://www.shadowstats.com/

July 24th to 26th, Updated Daily

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Financial Stress Index

"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."

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Daily Job Cuts

- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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And now, the End Game...

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Oh yeah...

"When I Hear..."

 

"Cascade Of Consequences" (Excerpt)

"Cascade Of Consequences" (Excerpt)

by Jim Quinn

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell, "1984"

“People will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.” – Frank Zappa

"Orwell and Zappa’s words of wisdom have never been truer than they are today. The level of untruth proliferated by the government, mainstream media, central bankers, military leaders, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Corp., and billionaire oligarchs has reached prolific heights. We are lost in a whirlwind of lies, destined to grow into a tornado of tragedy and ultimately result in a cascade of consequences.

Since the installation of the illegitimate dementia patient as president of this dying empire of debt by the Deep State (billionaire oligarchs, surveillance state agencies, military industrial complex, Silicon Valley censorship tyrants, corrupt bought off state politicians, Soros installed bureaucrats, and their propaganda arm – fake news media outlets), the country has further fractured into warring factions.

It has been driven by political party, moral vs. immoral, black vs. white, criminals vs. police, normal vs. abnormal, capitalists vs. communists, Federal Reserve vs. the people, vaxxer sheep vs. natural immunity realists, authoritarians vs. freedom fighters, critical thinkers vs. non-thinking believers, privileged elite vs. common men and women, citizens vs. traitors, powerful vs. powerless, and evil versus good.

As Zappa realized, people believe the narrative they have been conditioned to believe, and no quantity of facts, data or rational arguments will change their minds. Arguing on twitter or facebook is not going to change the mind of those you are arguing against. Our public education indoctrination centers have taught multiple generations to feel rather than think, believe rather than question, obey rather than challenge, and allow their minds to be molded by elitists to follow orders and do as they are told, no questions asked.

This organized effort by men constituting a true invisible government has been a conscious, decades long, manipulation of the minds of the masses, through media propaganda, government cultural indoctrination, and most recently through internet social media platforms.

Those in control have achieved astounding success in exploiting the psychological weaknesses of millions of Americans by inducing them to believe absurd falsities, consume on command, become dependent on government handouts, go into debt, work soul crushing jobs, become addicted to the very technology used to manipulate them and surveil them, and believe anything authority figures tell them to believe. The past seventeen months have proven this to be true.

They convinced an enormous portion of the world’s population a non-lethal virus, for anyone under 80 years old in decent health, was such a threat they agreed to be locked down and masked for a year, destroying the global economy, putting tens of millions out of work, bankrupting hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and benefiting authoritarian government tyrants, mega-corporations, and criminal cabal who stole the presidential election for a senile hair sniffing angry gaffe machine functioning as a Trojan donkey (ass) to implement the Build Back Better, new world order WEF plan.

The Davos elite and their henchmen have accomplished more than they probably thought possible, achieving almost universal compliance and obedience to rules and dictates which have proven to be pointless in controlling Covid, but remarkable in controlling the masses. The throngs have demonstrated their willful ignorance and sheeplike qualities by unquestioningly trusting anything their superiors told them and obeying orders like submissive slaves. Those controlling the narrative took the teachings of Edward Bernays to heart and realized repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

The number of provable untruths conveyed by those running this global psy-op have reached colossal heights of deceit. When trusted medical “experts”, politicians, Hollywood stars, sports heroes, government health apparatchiks, and corporate media all relentlessly repeat the same lies, it is difficult for a dumbed down populace to not believe the official narrative. Anyone who presented factual data to counter the untruths has been immediately censored and disappeared by the Silicon Valley social media tyrants Zuckerberg and Dorsey.

When doctors and journalists, with opinions and views contrary to Saint Fauci and his fawning media minions, are banned from Facebook and Twitter, while a media conspiracy to cover up Hunter Biden’s laptop and documented voting fraud in multiple states is beyond doubt, and an unarmed selfie taking joke of an insurrection where a bunch of boobs were ushered into the Capital by the police has been portrayed as the worse attack than Pearl Harbor or 9/11, you realize your government is controlled by men who are actively working against your best interests. They are acting to make sure you remain enslaved in debt, beholden to token government handouts of money they have already taken from you, and locked down physically, mentally, and socially.

The blatant disregard for truth displayed by our overlords during the last two years is either a sign of utter disdain for the intelligence of the common man or an act of desperation as this global Ponzi scheme of debt, deception and delusion is teetering on the brink of collapse. I do know the Big Lie strategy has been utilized at a level of zeal monumental in scope and shameful in application against the citizens of this nation and the world.

I will try to document some of the more egregious falsehoods being perpetuated by those attempting to control the narrative and accomplish their goal of world domination, complete control over our lives, and accumulation of massive wealth, while we will own nothing and be happy. The execution of their plan has been virtually flawless until now.

I’ll address the numerous lies related to the plandemic, where the weaponization of relatively non-lethal flu to anyone under 80 years old not tipping the scales at 275 pounds has been used to steal a presidential election; destroy hundreds of thousands of small businesses while shifting the profits to mega-corps like Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target; created division and suspicion among the population making them easier to manipulate and control; effectively implemented authoritarian measures and mandates, putting a final nail in the coffin of our Constitutional rights; unleashed the power of a corporate fascist social media censorship regime designed to silence the truth and punish those who do not comply with the approved narrative; and creating perpetual unfounded fear among the masses in order to make them obey all orders from their oligarch controllers."

Please view this complete, critically important article here:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

“This Is The Biggest Bubble I've Ever Seen"; Stock Market Crash By Year's End!

Full screen recommended.

Stanley Druckenmiller: “This Is The Biggest Bubble I've Ever Seen" 

Stock Market Crash By Year's End!

by Epic Economist

"A series of warnings about the looming stock market crash made the headlines again this week, as the market moves closer and closer to the epic burst of the greatest bubble of all time. Notably, the billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office chief, Stanley Druckenmiller, shared a gloomy forecast: if the U.S. government keeps spending trillions upon trillions, we may witness not only a devastating crash but a financial crisis that will deeply hurt millions of Americans. In May, the veteran investor said that the current bull market was looking like something he had seen in the past, and back then, things did not end well. "I have no doubt that we are in a raging mania in all assets," he said. "I also have no doubt that I don't have a clue when that's going to end. I knew we were in a raging mania in '99, but it kept going on, and if you had shorted the tech stocks in mid-'99, you were out of business by the end of the year," Druckenmiller added, comparing today's market to the dot-com boom.

That wasn't the first time the billionaire investor cautioned Wall Street investors that U.S. markets were caught up in a "speculative frenzy" fostered by the trillions of dollars in government spending. Most recently, the market expert made a brief appearance on MSNBC's Morning Show with Stephanie Ruhle, who seemed a little unprepared to respond to his arguments about why the new government multi-trillion infrastructure plan will end up financially hurting America's working poor. Druckenmiller argued that the U.S. economy is experiencing some sort of "V-shaped" recovery right now, and it has been the sharpest rebound in history. However, he noted that it took more than a decade for the American economy to attain the same gains after the start of the Great Depression. The main problem of this rapid upturn is that the almost $6 trillion allocated by Congress to combat the economic impact of the health crisis has been spent after the economy concluded its rebound. The alarming growth of inflation and small and medium-sized businesses' inability to hike wages to hire new workers are definitely consequences of this imbalanced 'recovery'.

The financial expert explained that the biggest economic crises that occurred over the past 100 years have been mainly caused by asset bubbles and inflation. "Inflation is a tax the poor can't afford or avoid," Druck stressed, adding that any further stimulus spending will be directed to fix a problem that, in Druck's words, "doesn't exist anymore", meaning that there's no need for the economy to be artificially stimulated anymore. "If I was Darth Vader and I wanted to destroy the US economy, I would do aggressive spending in the middle of an already hot economy. You usually get a bubble out of that, and you get inflation out of that. Frankly, we now have both. This is the biggest bubble I've seen in my career," he said. Druckenmiller also reminded investors that the bubble doesn't just include stocks, but cryptocurrencies and housing markets too. "What are we going to get out of this? You're going to get a sugar high, the higher inflation, then an economic bust," the billionaire warned.

During the interview, when Druck said the government should postpone the issuance of the new infrastructure spending plan, Ruhle interjected, arguing that poor people do not care whether or not Bitcoin will crash, since they don't own that much crypto or stocks anyway. She maintained that the infrastructure plan would help all Americans, particularly those with the fewest resources. The investor then replied saying: "I don't think we need to do anything, we need to take a step back, take a breath, and see where we are. I think any net spending is a problem". He said that there are many exciting things inside the plan, such as investments in the digital infrastructure. However, it isn't something our economy could afford to bear at this moment. Druck pointed out that the growing retail exposure to equities means that a stock market crash will impact Main Street even more quickly and even harder this time around. It doesn't matter whether they do or don't hold financial securities or crypto assets, they will still be impacted by the economic downturn, as Druck laid out: "It's going to cause a financial crisis, it's going to cause inflation and nothing is going to hurt the poor more than that". Back in May, the expert predicted that we would see a crash before year's end. "I will be surprised if we're not out of the stock market by the end of the year, just because the bubbles can't last that long," he said."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com​

Musical Interlude: Gandalf, “Once in a Star-Brightened Night”

Full screen recommended.

Gandalf, “Once in a Star-Brightened Night”

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC).

The above image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win the Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to 30 Doradus. Studying the stars in N11 has shown that it actually houses three successive generations of star formation. Compact globules of dark dust housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130211.html

"The Human Condition"

"The Human Condition"

by Meanings of Life

"Man remains largely unknown of himself. What are we, in our innermost recesses, behind our names and our conventional opinions? What are we behind the things we do in our lives, behind what we see in others and what others see in us, or even behind things science says we are? Is man the crazy being about whom Carl Gustav Jung spoke ironically, when he demanded a man to treat? Is man the Dr. Jerkyll that contains in himself a criminal Mister Hyde, and more than a personality, and contradictory feelings?

Are we the result of our dreams, as Prospero, in the Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” asked? Are we able to raise our nature and become the dignified beings evoked by Pico de la Mirandola (It’s the seeds a man cultivates that "will mature and bear fruit in him. If vegetative, he will become a plant; if sensual, he will become brutish; if rational, he will reveal himself a heavenly being; if intellectual, he will be an angel and the son of God")?

Almost two centuries ago, Spencer characterized the contradictory features of natives from the African east coast: "He has at the same time good character and hard heart; he is a fighter, conscientious, good in a precise moment, and cruel, pitiless and violent in the other; superstitious and rudely irreligious; brave and pusillanimous, servile and dominator, stubborn and at the same time fickle, relied to honor views, but without signs of honesty, niggard and economical, but careless and improvident".

It’s probably a good definition of a certain primitive man, to whom we are undoubtedly connected. But we are also cultural and ethic beings. We are able to change our values and behaviors. As William James says, human beings can change their lives through their mental attitudes. We can grow ethically. We can dominate part of our own instincts. And that’s why we can be different from the indigenous African described by Spencer. More: our thought dignifies us ("All the dignity of man consists in thought", says Blaise Pascal). We are, in many senses, the conscience of the Universe, and its utmost elaborated product. As Edgar Morin says, "in the core of our singularity, we carry not only all the humanity, all the life, but also all the cosmos, including its mystery, present in the heart of our beings".

We are creators, creator beings, and, in a sense, we can create, or recreate ourselves. All goes through our mind. It is our mind that constructs our truths and errors, and also the most sublime things in the Universe. And yet evil and stupidity exist in us. Sometimes we fall, we are stroked, and life reveals its cruelty, and we may think as Mark Twain, and say that it was a pity that Noah had arrived late to the ark. In our innermost recesses, there is also the cruelty and the inhumanity of life. Charles Darwin showed that we are descendants of inferior life forms: we have been long ago a "bush and a bird, and a fish silently swimming in the waters", to use the poetic terms used by Empedocles in its "Purifications."

From a genetic and evolutionist point of view, we contain in us the survival reflexes and the aggressiveness of the life forms that preceded us: "All that threatened the cave man - dangers, darkness, famine, thirst, ghosts, demons – all has passed to the interior of our souls, all troubles us, grieves us, threatens us from inside." (Morin). Besides, we are also beings that can differ significantly from each other. We are equal, but also different. "The awake involve a common world, but dreams deviate each one to its own world," Heraclites rather enigmatically declares. He thought we can’t help sleeping and living in illusory worlds, even when awake.

For all these reasons, Blaise Pascal’s celebrated definition of the human being, despite the hard language, not exactly agreeable to our ears, is undoubtedly one of the most powerful that can be applied to the rather unknown being that we can’t help being to ourselves: "What a chimera then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the universe! Who will unravel this tangle?"

- http://www.meaningsoflife.com/

“Are People Really Stupid?”

“Are People Really Stupid?”

by Fred Russell

“On the face of things – judging from the general level of knowledge and understanding, not to mention the intellectual pursuits, of most of the human race – one is tempted to say that the overwhelming majority of mankind lacks the intellectual capacity, the intelligence, to contribute to human progress. And it is in fact a very small elite that has carried us beyond Neanderthal Man, without whom, if the truth be told, we might still be living in caves. It is, in a word, appalling to contemplate the level at which ordinary people use their minds – what they read, if at all, what they watch on TV, the movies they go out and see, and the ease with which they are seduced and manipulated by the technicians of the psyche, namely, politicians and advertisers. 

The impression one gets when contemplating these tens and hundreds of millions of people glued to their TV screens for the reality shows and sitcoms or fiddling with their smartphones from morning till night is of complete empty-headedness. This is not to say that such people cannot be shrewd, resourceful, or, for that matter, simply decent. It is to say that at the average level of intelligence displayed by the human race, the great intellectual achievements of mankind seem to be beyond the scope of the vast majority of men and women. But are people really stupid? And if they aren’t, who or what has held them back?

Now one may be inclined to place all the blame for our ignorance on the television producers and gadget makers, but the truth is that by the time they get to us the damage has already been done. All they really succeed in doing is dragging us down a little further. The problem starts in childhood. It starts in the schools with all those empty cells waiting to be filled and no one, not entire educational systems, really knowing how to fill them. In fact, the opposite result is achieved. By the time the child finishes elementary school, unless he is destined to join the intellectual or scientific or economic or political elite and is self-motivated, as the saying goes, he will have developed an aversion to the learning process that will persist for the rest of his life.

It is not hard to understand why. School bores him, and oppresses him. Its premise, fostered in the West by the Church – the virtually exclusive supplier of teachers until fairly recent times, historically speaking – is that as a consequence of Original Sin all men are born evil and must therefore be coerced into doing what is good. The result has been rigidly structured frameworks where teachers hammer away at the captive child until his head is ready to explode. Within just a few years, the public school system thus destroys the natural curiosity of the child and dooms him to a life of total ignorance, dependent, for whatever sense of the world he does have, on secondrate journalists, who themselves lack the knowledge, understanding, discipline and integrity to be historians or even novelists and therefore shape his perception like the ignorant clerics of the Middle Ages, raining down on his head a disjointed and superficial body of information presented largely to produce effects, and even this is beyond his capacity to retain. 

The man in the street may thus be said to have a great many opinions but very little knowledge, mindlessly repeating the half-truths of “experts” and “analysts” who reflect his own biases and constructing out of them a “credo” of dogmatic views that remain embedded in his mind for an entire lifetime like bricks in a brick wall.

Does it matter? After all, we have all the scholars and scientists we need, and besides, a world where everyone became one would be a dull place indeed. It can even be argued that it is better for the race if progress is opposed, since, judging from its products, it mostly expresses itself materially and economically in an unholy alliance of greed and technology. However, progress of this kind cannot be fought if all that people have on their minds is to wire themselves into this technology, and that is what they will be doing until their minds are engaged in less frivolous pursuits. They are thus doubly victimized, first by the schools, whose methods are not attuned to the temperament and capacity of the average child, and then by the economic elites who control the technologies and consequently the flow of information and whose only interest in the man in the street is as a consumer of their products.

Unfortunately, there is very little hope that any of this will change. The wrong people control human society and will continue to do so, because they created the model and are the only ones who know how to operate it. The sad truth is that today’s man in the street is neither wiser nor more knowledgeable than a medieval peasant. Calling ourselves Homo sapiens, or even Homo sapiens sapiens, seemed like a good idea once but very few of us have lived up to the billing.”

- https://www.counterpunch.org/

The Poet: Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear The Mask”

“We Wear The Mask”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!”

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Daily "Near You?"

Harare, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe. Thanks for stopping by!

"Just Because..."



"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math,

that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Free Download: J. Krishnamurti, “The Book of Life”

“Justifying Evil”

“Obviously the present crisis throughout the world is exceptional, without precedent. There have been crises of varying types at different periods throughout history – social, national, political. Crises come and go; economic recessions, depressions, come, get modified, and continue in a different form. We know that; we are familiar with that process. Surely the present crisis is different, is it not? It is different first because we are dealing not with money nor with tangible things but with ideas. The crisis is exceptional because it is in the field of ideation. We are quarreling with ideas, we are justifying murder; everywhere in the world we are justifying murder as a means to a righteous end, which in itself is unprecedented. Before, evil was recognized to be evil, murder was recognized to be murder, but now murder is a means to achieve a noble result. Murder, whether of one person or of a group of people, is justified, because the murderer, or the group that the murderer represents, justifies it as a means of achieving a result that will be beneficial to man. That is, we sacrifice the present for the future, and it does not matter what means we employ as long as our declared purpose is to produce a result that we say will be beneficial to man. Therefore, the implication is that a wrong means will produce a right end and you justify the wrong means through ideation. We have a magnificent structure of ideas to justify evil and surely that is unprecedented. Evil is evil; it cannot bring about good. War is not a means to peace.”

- J. Krishnamurti, “The Book of Life”

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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies,

that is why you must sing and dance,

and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freely download “The Book of Life” by Jiddu Krishnamurti, here:

- https://selfdefinition.org/krishnamurti/

"The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay"

Full screen recommended.

"The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay"

"In 'The Republic', Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the world are thrown. They believe these flickering shadows are reality. If, Plato writes, one of these prisoners is freed and brought into the sunlight, he will suffer great pain. Blinded by the glare, he is unable to seeing anything and longs for the familiar darkness. But eventually his eyes adjust to the light. The illusion of the tiny shadows is obliterated. He confronts the immensity, chaos, and confusion of reality. The world is no longer drawn in simple silhouettes. But he is despised when he returns to the cave. He is unable to see in the dark as he used to. Those who never left the cave ridicule him and swear never to go into the light lest they be blinded as well."

- Chris Hedges

Put another way...

"Allegory Of The Cave Updated" 

by T4C

"Socrates: "Why do people think philosophy is bullsh*t? Let me put it this way - imagine you're in a cave, all chained up so you can't turn your body at all, and all you get to look at is this one wall. Some fools behind you are making shadow puppets using the light from a fire and making echo noises and that's all you or anyone else chained up has seen or heard all your life. Sounds terrible, right? Except it's all you've ever known, shadows and echoes, and that's your whole world - there's no way you could know that, really, you're watching a slightly-improved M. Night Shyamalan film.

In fact, you get pretty good at understanding how the patterns in the show work, and everyone else chained up is like, "Holy sh*t bro, how did you know that that tree was going to fall on that guy?" and you're like, "It's because I f*****g pay attention and I'm smart as sh*t." You're the smartest of the chained, and they all revere you." 

Glaucon: "But Socrates, a tree didn't really hit a guy. It's all shadows." 

Socrates: "No sh*t, Glaucon, but you don't know that. You think the shadows are real things. Everyone does. Now STFU and let me finish.

So eventually, someone comes and unchains you and drags you out of the cave. At first you'd say, "Seriously, what the f**k is going on?!" Well, actually, at first you'd say, "HOLY SH*T MY EYES!" and you'd want to go back to the safe, familiar shadows. But even once your eyes worked you wouldn't believe them, because everything you ever thought was real is gone. You'd look at a tree, and say,"That's not a tree. I know trees. And you, sir, are no tree. THAT DOWN THERE is a tree." But you're wrong. Down there is a shadow of a tree.

Slowly, as your eyes got better, you'd see more and more. Eventually, you'd see the sun, and realize that it's the source of all light. You can't see sh*t without the sun. And eventually, you'd figure it out. Something would click in your brain: "Oh, sh*t, that IS a tree. F**k me. So and  nothing in the cave was real? I feel like such an assh**e." 

But it's not your fault, so don't be so hard on yourself. Finally you'd want to go down and tell everyone about everything you've discovered. Except, and here's the hilarious part, they think you've gone f*****g crazy.

You'd say, "Guys, real trees are green!" and they'd say,"What the f**k is green? THAT is a tree over there." And you'd squint and look at the wall, but you know you're f***ed because now you're used to having sunlight, and now you can't see sh*t. So they'd laugh at you, and agree that wherever it was that you went, no one should go there because it turns people into idiots.

Philosophy, same thing. The soul ascends and apprehends the forms, the nature of everything, and eventually the very Idea of Good that gives light to everything else. And then the philosopher has to go back to the cave and try to explain it to people who don't even know what Green is, to say nothing of the Good. But the philosopher didn't make up the Good, it was always there, and the only way to really make sense of it is to uncover it for yourself. You can't force knowledge into a dumbass any more than you can force sight into a blind man.

So if you want to learn, be prepared for a difficult journey, and be prepared to make some mistakes. That's okay, it's all part of the process. True knowledge must be obtained the hard way, and some people just don't want to see the light." 

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

Gregory Mannarino, AM 7/25/21: "Markets, A Look Ahead: Expect An EPIC Week... And Here's Why"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 7/25/21:

"Markets, A Look Ahead: Expect An EPIC Week... And Here's Why"

- https://traderschoice.net/

Greg Hunter, "Financial System Has Come to an End"

"Financial System Has Come to an End"

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong thinks we have come to the end of the line for the financial system, and this is why globalists are on a power grab of epic proportions. Armstrong explains, “The system has come to an end. They know they can no longer borrow indefinitely. So, what is this “Great Reset’? It is basically a move to redesign the world monetary system. They are going to stop the borrowing that they are doing, and they are just going to print. You also have this move for a digital currency. Once they move to a digital currency, they can impose negative interest rates and just take money out of your account at will. People don’t realize what this really is. I believe Bitcoin was started by the government to get this whole ball going. If I gave you a $100 bill, they don’t know where I got the $100 bill from. However, if I give you that in Bitcoin, not only do they know I gave it to you, but they know where I got it from. It can be completely traced all the way down. That is a tax authority’s dream. You have to understand what they are selling is really a totalitarian regime.”

Armstrong goes on to say, “The ‘Build Back Better’ slogan was bantered around at the World Economic Forum back in January 2019. This is being orchestrated and deliberately designed. Why have world leaders joined it? That’s because they know the system we currently have now is collapsing. The dollar has held up, and just look outside this country. In Europe, the bond market is destroyed. It’s completely gone. What institution is going to buy a bond from Europe with a negative interest rate? Pension funds need 8% to break even. You have bankrupted all the pension funds over there. It is a complete disaster. This is the greatest financial crisis in human history, and people don’t understand what is going on. Watch Europe. It’s the canary in the coal mine for the next big crash.” (Meaning, Europe will crash first and then the USA.)

Armstrong also predicts that, in the not-so-distant future, you will not be voting or your vote will simply not count if you vote for the wrong party. Armstrong contends, “They’re going to rig the elections again. There is too much at stake here. When Donald Trump won in 2016, they got scared because they (globalist elites) all thought they would lose their power. If you look at the eight points from the World Economic Forum, one of the points is by 2030, democracy must come to an end.” On a partly encouraging note, Armstrong says, “They (globalist elites) are not going to win, but they are going to destroy the country in the process.”

Armstrong gives analysis about the possibility of removing Senators from Congress because of voter fraud and gives analysis on the possibility of Donald Trump being reinstalled in the White House. Armstrong says regarding the duo occupying the White House today, “They have the perfect ‘dumb and dumber’ in office, and that’s what the bureaucrats always wanted to do.”

Armstrong predicts a break-up of the United States and talks more about the “panic cycle” in the 2022 elections. Armstrong points out it’s not just the USA in an election “panic cycle,” but sees a global election “panic cycle.” Armstrong has much analysis and data on CV19 and the vaccines to share too. Armstrong also talks about gold, silver and why any physical asset is a good bet to own in the coming so-called financial reset. In general, Armstrong see “chaos” coming in 2022 and beyond.

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Martin Armstrong, author of “Manipulating the World Economy,” which has 70 fresh new pages in the 5th edition of this very popular book. (There is much more in the one hour long interview.)

- https://rumble.com/

"Warning! No Access To Your Bank Account; Financial Cliff Gets Higher; Bank Restrictions Imminent"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 7/24/21:

"Warning! No Access To Your Bank Account; 

Financial Cliff Gets Higher; Bank Restrictions Imminent"

"It Matters..."

The sons - in the dungeon - think they hear Henry approach to kill them.

Richard: "He's here! He'll get no satisfaction out of me!

 He isn't going to see me beg!"

Geoffrey: "Why, you chivalric fool - as if the way one fell down mattered!"

Richard: "When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

- James Goldman, "The Lion In Winter"

Musical Interlude: Il Divo, "Wicked Game" ("Melanconia"), Live In London 2011

Full screen recommended.

Il Divo, "Wicked Game" ("Melanconia"),

 Live In London 2011

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Remember Now"

2002, "Remember Now"

Musical Interlude: Gnomusy (David Caballero), "Footprints On The Sea"

Full screen recommended.

Gnomusy (David Caballero), "Footprints On The Sea"

"Perhaps It Is Better..."

"Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy.

But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants

can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future.

Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"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).”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111011.html

"What Is The Joy About?"

“There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy. But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their offensive; you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Breaking! Fourth Stimulus Check Update Today, Monthly 4th Stimulus Checks And A Vote!”

LALATE Midday 7/24/21:

“Breaking! Fourth Stimulus Check Update Today, 

Monthly 4th Stimulus Checks And A Vote!”

The Poet: J.R.R. Tolkien, "I Sit And Think"

"I Sit And Think"

“I sit beside the fire and think

Of all that I have seen,

Of meadow flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been.

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

In autumns that there were,

With morning mist and silver sun

And wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think

Of how the world will be

When winter comes without a spring

That I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things

That I have never seen,

In every wood, in every spring,

There is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think

Of people long ago,

And people that will see a world

That I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think

Of times there were before,

I listen for returning feet

And voices at the door.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

The Daily "Near You?"

Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Thanks for stopping by!

“In The Time Of Your Life..."

“In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”

- William Saroyan,

"The Time of Your Life" (1939)

"Life Does..."

 

"Who Watches The Watchmen? - Fauci's 'Noble Lie' Exposed"

A medieval doodle of William of Ockham accompanying

 a litany of scientists using his razor to shred evidence.

"Who Watches The Watchmen? - Fauci's 'Noble Lie' Exposed"

by Charles Rixey

"Note — This article details current historical research into COVID-19’s origins, as part of the D.R.A.S.T.I.C. team of scientists, journalists & researchers. Recent news: D.R.A.S.T.I.C.’s research forms a large portion of the basis for investigations begun by the US Senate, House & National Institutes of Health. Recent appearances and/or discussion on 60 Minutes, The Joe Rogan Exp., Fox News, JRE [again], Bill Maher, & CNN.

All references for this and other articles are compiled under my research project "The Arc of Inquiry Bends Towards Enlightenment." The files include my statistical analysis of the impact of censorship on the search for the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

More than 100K pages of FOIA documents referenced here have been condensed into 173 pages of the most relevant selections in my appendix "Prometheus Shrugged." It was here, last February, that the role of Dr. Fauci in ongoing academic censorship of COVID’s origin was first exposed. A chronological narrative of the events described throughout my research will included in a forthcoming volume of DRASTIC’s set of published collections of evidence.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote that truth goes through 3 stages: 1st, it is ridiculed; 2nd, it is violently opposed; and 3rd, it is accepted as being self-evident. Guess what’s next for us?"

Please view this lengthy, critically important complete article here:

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

- https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

"Federal Court Rules CDC’s COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Is Unlawful"

"Federal Court Rules CDC’s COVID-19 

Eviction Moratorium Is Unlawful"

by Jack Phillips

"A federal court on Friday ruled that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) overstepped its authority by halting evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cincinnati-based U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed (pdf) with a lower court ruling that said the CDC engaged in federal overreach with the eviction moratorium, which the agency has consistently extended for months. Several weeks ago, the CDC announced it would allow the policy, which was passed into law by Congress, to expire at the end of July.

“It is not our job as judges to make legislative rules that favor one side or another,” the judges wrote. “But nor should it be the job of bureaucrats embedded in the executive branch. While landlords and tenants likely disagree on much, there is one thing both deserve: for their problems to be resolved by their elected representatives.”

The ruling upheld one handed down by U.S. District Judge Mark Norris, who in March blocked enforcement of the moratorium throughout western Tennessee. Under the moratorium, tenants who have lost income during the pandemic can declare under penalty of perjury that they’ve made their best effort to pay rent on time. The CDC claimed the measure was necessary to prevent people from having to enter overcrowded conditions if they were evicted, which would, according to the agency, impact public health.

Previously, the CDC’s lawyers argued in court filings that Congress authorized the eviction freeze as part of its COVID-19 relief legislation, while simultaneously asserting that the moratorium was within its authority. Those arguments were rejected by the three-panel appeals court on Friday.

“What’s the difference between executive-branch experts and congressional ones? Executive-branch experts make regulations; congressional experts make recommendations,” the appeals court wrote. “Congressional bureaucracy leaves the law-making power with the people’s representatives - right where the Founders put it.”

But last month, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision rejected a different plea by landlords to end the ban on evictions. Justice Brett Kavanaugh had written in an opinion (pdf) that while he believes that the CDC had exceeded its authority by implementing the moratorium, he voted against ending it because the policy is set to expire July 31. “Those few weeks,” he wrote, “will allow for additional and more orderly distribution” of the funds that Congress has appropriated to provide rental assistance to those in need because of the pandemic.

The CDC moratorium has faced pushback from property owners as well as the National Association of Realtors. “Landlords have been losing over $13 billion every month under the moratorium, and the total effect of the CDC’s overreach may reach up to $200 billion if it remains in effect for a year,” said the organization in an emergency petition to the Supreme Court. It’s not clear if the CDC’s attorneys will appeal the ruling. The Epoch Times has requested a comment from the agency."

-https://www.theepochtimes.com/

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"Millions of Tenants Behind on Rent, Small Landlords Struggling, 

Eviction Moratoriums Expiring Soon: Inside the Next Housing Crisis"

In the post below Jeremiah Babe, as well as many others, asserts there are "12 million" evictions pending August 1, suddenly putting 40 million people on the streets homeless, jobless, and hopeless, including millions of children. What happens to them then? Maybe they'll come to your neighborhood, and YOU can shelter some of them?

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"Mass Shootings On Course For Record 

Year As US Transforms Into Violent Mess"

Think it's bad now? Watch and see what "bad" is...

MUST WATCH! "Consumers Will Tap Out; Economic War On The Middle Class; The Stock Market Will Implode"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 7/23/21:

"Consumers Will Tap Out; Economic War On 

The Middle Class; The Stock Market Will Implode"

Time's up, folks, God help us...

"People are Angry About the Economy - Civility is Dead"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, iAllegedly, PM 7/23/21:

"People are Angry About the Economy - Civility is Dead"

"8 Signs That US Is Heading To The 21st Century Great Depression: Prepare Your Self For The Worst!"

Full screen recommended.

"8 Signs That US Is Heading To The 21st Century 

Great Depression: Prepare Your Self For The Worst!"

by Epic Economist

"Since the onset of the global health crisis last year, the US economy has been on a bumpy road. But the truth is that the economic problems faced by our country are nothing new. The health crisis just accelerated the impending decay of many of our institutions, industries, and businesses, and once that free fall began some of us already knew there would be no turning back. We will never come back to "normal". That's why in 2021, our problems are only getting worse and our ongoing crises show no signs of stopping. Most Americans are just realizing the depth of the impact the past 18 months had on our lives and how everything will be different from now on. As we start to crawl our way out from the health crisis, we’re just beginning to see the damages and imbalances caused by it.

Of course, our leaders were the ones making decisions for us and many of those decisions were actually not beneficial to our society. They were responsible for millions of bankruptcies, lay-offs, and also for intensifying our economic woes while downgrading our living standards in that process. It's safe to say that our politicians and policymakers have failed us, and they have put us on a path of prolonged economic suffering. But once they saw most people were accepting of their non-sensical policies due to the promise of heading us out of this crisis, they started to say what the public wanted to hear so that they could keep finding justifications to spend more and more money. And they will continue feeding us with lies to keep their hands on that money with zero regards for the consequences.

Now that they created steep imbalances in the financial market, they have to come up with higher doses of liquidity to inject into the system, otherwise, it will completely fall apart. However, at some point, it will be just impossible to keep using artificial money to solve our problems. The government is arguing that because people are spending more, the economy is "recovering," but that is far from the truth. We're witnessing a temporary surge in consumer demand that will soon be eclipsed by an inflationary spike of unprecedented proportions. 

We are at risk of facing the worst financial crisis and economic depression the world has ever seen. And the more our leaders chose to ignore the risks, the closer we get to the financial abyss. Economists, market veterans, and financial analysts have all been warning that the pin that will pop the "Everything Bubble" will be rising inflation. At this point, the official inflation has already surpassed the 5 percent mark, and by the end of the year, it will undoubtedly be much higher than that. countless price bubbles caused by the current monetary policies. The three key markets that glue the financial world together are about to face a simultaneous crash. 

That's why what we have experienced so far is just a taste of what is coming next. So make no mistake, this is just the beginning of our nightmare. When we don't know what is truly happening, we can't prepare for what is coming - and that's exactly what they want. An uninformed, unprepared, and frightened population is easier to rule. If the population was aware of the crimes committed by those who we call leaders, the world wouldn't be the same. While in the dark, our people are bound to be pushed over the edge and be left with nothing but desperation. That's why we urge you to keep informed and spread the message. Global events are rapidly spiraling out of control, and our country is on the line. Painful times are ahead, but if you get ready in advance, you won't go down as the nation collapses. For that reason, today, we decided to expose 8 major warning signs that the US is on the verge of an irreversible collapse. Stay alert and keep your eyes wide open because things are changing at a very frightening pace."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com​

"The Cloak Of The Past..."

“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. Sometimes, we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and a kind of message is enfolded in it. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny, precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be.”

- Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”

"It Better Be Worth It..."

 

Musical Interlude: Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, “My Silent Knowing”

Full screen recommended.

Chuck Wild, Liquid Mind, “My Silent Knowing”

"A Look to the Heavens"

"In the lower left corner, surrounded by blue spiral arms, is spiral galaxy M81. In the upper right corner, marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. This stunning vista shows these two mammoth galaxies locked in gravitational combat, as they have been for the past billion years. The gravity from each galaxy dramatically affects the other during each hundred million-year pass. 

Last go-round, M82's gravity likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. But M81 left M82 with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. This big battle is seen from Earth through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebula, a little studied complex of diffuse gas and dust clouds in our Milky Way Galaxy. In a few billion years only one galaxy will remain."

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160203.html
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"When observing the stars, you should see them in another perspective. Take into account what they really are: the mothers of the atoms from which we are constituted, the atoms that constitute the mortal and thinking species that admire the sun as a god, a father or a nuclear power station. The particles that were composed at the beginning of the Universe, the atoms that were forged in the stars, the molecules that were constituted on Earth or in another place… all that is also inside us."

- Michel Cassé, French astro-physicist, "Desafio do Século XXI"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 7/23/21: "Stock Market Melts Up As Economy Collapses"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 7/23/21:

"Stock Market Melts Up As Economy Collapses; 

FED Bubble Sheet Hyperbubble"

- https://traderschoice.net/