"Major U.S. Cities Are Becoming Fentanyl-Infested Cesspools As Millions Plunge Into Hopelessness And Despair"

"Major U.S. Cities Are Becoming Fentanyl-Infested 

Cesspools As Millions Plunge Into Hopelessness And Despair"

by Michael Snyder

"If you live near a major U.S. city, you don’t have to go to a movie theater to see a horror show. Instead, just find out where fentanyl-laced heroin is being sold and go hang out with the drug addicts for a few hours. If you survive the encounter, it will be an experience that you will never forget. In city after city, hopelessly addicted men and women wander the streets of our core urban areas like zombies. Unfortunately, many of them won’t last very long because it is exceptionally easy to die from a fentanyl overdose. As you will see below, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. were up 30 percent last year, and fentanyl was the main reason.

Earlier I came across a video of the streets of Philadelphia that really struck a chord with me emotionally. Philadelphia played such a critical role in the American Revolution, and it was once such a beautiful city. But as this video clearly shows, it has now become a complete and utter hellhole. While we were screwing around in Afghanistan they turned Philadelphia into this:

Full screen recommended.

How can city officials just stand aside and do nothing as this goes on day after day? Down on Kensington Avenue, you can buy a bag of fentanyl-laced heroin for as little as five dollars… The Kensington section of Philadelphia, where anyone can buy a lethal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin for $5 a bag, has been known locally as the ‘ground zero’ of America’s opioid epidemic, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

It is not uncommon for locals who pass by the area to notice men lying motionless on the sidewalk. Syringes and needles are also frequently seen out and used in plain sight. Authorities know that this is going on right out in the open, and they do nothing to stop it. Needless to say, what is happening in Philadelphia is just a very small fraction of the overall crisis that we are facing in this country.

From coast to coast, thousands upon thousands of addicts are dying. In fact, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States was up 30 percent last year… "The provisional drug overdose death statistics for 2020 confirmed the addiction field’s worst fears. More people died of overdoses in the United States last year than in any other one-year period in our history. More than 93,000 people died. The increase from the previous year was also more than we’ve ever seen - up 30 percent."

These data are telling us that something is wrong. In fact, they are shouting for change. Fentanyl and engineered substances that mimic fentanyl are being shipped into this country in vast quantities. These substances can be “100 times stronger than meth or heroin”, and they are super addictive. But they are also super deadly. It has been reported that an amount of fentanyl equivalent to “two grains of salt” can kill you. It is so easy to make a mistake when dealing with fentanyl, but addicts just keep coming back for more.

Sadly, a 39-year-old female comedian learned this the hard way when she almost died the other night after taking some fentanyl-laced cocaine… "A comedian who is said to have taken fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed three people at an LA house party has told a friend that she is recovering from the incident. Kate Quigley, 39, texted friend Brian Redban Sunday to say: ‘I’m alive. Not great. But im OK,’ with Redban sharing a screenshot of the message on his Instagram Sunday."

Of course wherever there are people that are extremely addicted to illegal street drugs there is also going to be lots of crime. Last weekend, dozens of people were shot in the city of Chicago, and criminals have become so brazen that they are now literally trying to haul away entire ATM machines… "Someone has been trying to steal entire ATMs from businesses in Chicago, and has succeeded at least once. Chicago Police said that burglars tried to use a blow torch and pry tools to open an ATM outside a business. In two other robberies, they smashed a window or door and tried to steal the ATM. In one instance, they did walk away with an ATM."

I don’t know why anyone would still want to live in the city of Chicago at this point. Of course the exact same thing could be said for dozens of other major U.S. cities. As the economic suffering in this nation intensifies, it is inevitable that even more people will turn to drugs to try to deal with the pain. I am seeing so much hopelessness and despair out there right now, and turning to something that will instantly make you feel good can seem like a really easy answer. But in the end it can send you to the grave.

Three federal jobless aid programs, first put in place by former President Donald Trump’s administration last March, lapsed Monday, with an estimated 7.5 million unemployed workers set to lose all their benefits. An additional 3 million will no longer receive a $300 weekly boost to the unemployment benefits provided by their state, according to estimates from the Century Foundation. In order to extend those benefits, we would have to borrow more money, and we can’t afford to do that. But since we haven't extended those benefits, even more Americans will fall into poverty, and that will lead to more hopelessness and despair.

We live at a time when more Americans than ever are dependent on the government, and that is very alarming because socialism always ends up collapsing. As Margaret Thatcher once said, socialist governments “always run out of other people’s money” eventually. Unfortunately, the United States has been marching down a socialist path for a long time, and if we stay on this course it won’t lead anywhere good. There are consequences for the decisions that we make, and the drug addicts that endlessly wander our city streets are just one example.

So many of those addicts could have been doctors or lawyers or business executives, but instead they have willingly chosen to destroy themselves. Of course our society as a whole is willingly destroying itself, and little time remains to do anything about it."

- http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Gregory Mannarino, PM 9/8/21: "SHocKeR! The Fed. ADMITS That The US Economy Is Slowing And Inflation Will Persist"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 9/8/21:

"SHocKeR! The Fed. ADMITS That The US

 Economy Is Slowing And Inflation Will Persist"

- https://traderschoice.net/

Musical Interlude: Juzzie Smith, "Bluesberry Jam"

One-man-band extraordinaire!

Juzzie Smith, "Bluesberry Jam"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Planetary nebula Abell 78 stands out in this colorful telescopic skyscape. In fact the colors of the spiky Milky Way stars depend on their surface temperatures, both cooler (yellowish) and hotter (bluish) than the Sun. But Abell 78 shines by the characteristic emission of ionized atoms in the tenuous shroud of material shrugged off from an intensely hot central star. The atoms are ionized, their electrons stripped away, by the central star's energetic but otherwise invisible ultraviolet light.

The visible blue-green glow of loops and filaments in the nebula's central region corresponds to emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms, surrounded by strong red emission from electrons recombining with hydrogen atoms. Some 5,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Cygnus, Abell 78 is about three light-years across. A planetary nebula like Abell 78 represents a very brief final phase in stellar evolution that our own Sun will experience... in about 5 billion years.”

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

The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"

"One Day"

"One day I will say

the gift I once had has been taken.

The place I have made for myself

belongs to another.

The words I have sung

are being sung by the ones

I would want.

Then I will be ready

for that voice

and the still silence in which it arrives.

And if my faith is good

then we'll meet again

on the road,

and we'll be thirsty,

and stop

and laugh

and drink together again

from the deep well of things as they are."

- David Whyte,

"Where Many Rivers Meet"

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see -

it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."

- Robert Penn Warren

Chet Raymo, "Free As A Bird"

"Free As A Bird"

by Chet Raymo

"All afternoon I have been watching a pair of hummingbirds play about our porch. They live somewhere nearby, though I haven't found their nest. They are attracted to our hummingbird feeder, which we keep full of sugar water. What perfect little machines they are! No other bird can perform their tricks of flight - flying backwards, hovering in place. Zip. Zip. From perch to perch in a blur of iridescence. If you want a symbol of freedom, the hummingbird is it. Exuberant. Unpredictable. A streak of pure fun. It is the speed, of course, that gives the impression of perfect spontaneity. The bird can perform a dozen intricate maneuvers more quickly than I can turn my head.

Is the hummingbird's apparent freedom illusory, a biochemically determined response to stimuli from the environment? Or is the hummingbird's flight what it seems to be, willful and unpredictable? If I can answer that question, I will be learning as much about myself as about the hummingbird. So I watch. And I consider what I know of biochemistry. The hummingbird is awash in signals from its environment - visual, olfactory, auditory and tactile cues that it processes and responds to with lightning speed.

How does it do it? Proteins, mostly. Every cell of the hummingbird's body is a buzzing conversation of proteins, each protein a chain of hundreds of amino acids folded into a complex shape like a piece of a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Shapes as various as the words of a human vocabulary. An odor molecule from a blossom, for example, binds to a protein receptor on a cell membrane of the hummingbird's olfactory organ - like a jigsaw-puzzle piece with its neighbor. This causes the receptor molecule to change that part of its shape that extends inside the cell. Another protein now binds with the new configuration of the receptor, and changes its own shape. And so on, in a sequence of shapeshifting and binding - called a signal-transduction cascade - until the hummingbird's brain "experiences" the odor.

Now appropriate signals must be sent from the brain to the body - ion flows established along neural axons, synapses activated. Wing muscles must respond to direct the hummingbird to the source of nourishment. Tens of thousands of proteins in a myriad of cells talk to each other, each protein genetically prefigured by the hummingbird's DNA to carry on its conversation in a particular part of the body. All of this happens continuously, and so quickly that to my eye the bird's movements are a blur.

There is much left to learn, but this much is clear: There is no ghost in the machine, no hummingbird pilot making moment by moment decisions out of the whiffy stuff of spirit. Every detail of the hummingbird's apparently willful flight is biochemistry. Between the hummingbird and myself there is a difference of complexity, but not of kind. If humans are the lords of terrestrial creation, it is because of the huge tangle of nerves that sits atop our spines.

So what does this mean about human freedom? If we are biochemical machines in interaction with our environments, in what sense can we be said to be free? What happens to "free will"? Perhaps the most satisfying place to look for free will is in what is sometimes called chaos theory. In sufficiently complex systems with many feedback loops - the global economy, the weather, the human nervous system - small perturbations can lead to unpredictable large-scale consequences, though every part of the system is individually deterministic. This has sometimes been called - somewhat facetiously - the butterfly effect: a butterfly flaps its wings in China and triggers a cascade of events that results in a snowstorm in Chicago. Chaos theory has taught us that determinism does not imply predictability. Of course, this is not what philosophers traditionally meant by free will, but it is indistinguishable from what philosophers traditionally meant by free will. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

I watch the hummingbirds at the feeder. Their hearts beat ten times faster than a human's. They have the highest metabolic rate of any animal, a dozen times higher than a pigeon, a hundred times higher than an elephant. Hummingbirds live at the edge of what is biologically possible, and it's that, the fierce intenseness of their aliveness, that makes them appear so exuberantly free. But there are no metaphysical pilots in these little flying machines. The machines are the pilots. You give me carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and a few billion years of evolution, and I'll give you a bird that burns like a luminous flame. The hummingbird's freedom was built into the universe from the first moment of creation."

- http://www.sciencemusings.com/2005/04/free-as-bird.html

Further Reading:

• For a brilliant and provocative treatment of free will and determinism, read Daniel Dennett's "Freedom Evolves."

• A superb book on how the mind makes itself is Gary Marcus's "The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought."

• The always provocative Roger Penrose looks for free will in quantum uncertainty in his "The Emperor's New Mind". Not an easy read, and, in my view, case not proved.

The Daily "Near You?"

Borgo, Corse, France. Thanks for stopping by!

"We All Do What We Can..."

"All sins, of course, deserve to be treated with mercy: we all do what we can, and life is too hard and too cruel for us to condemn anyone for failing in this area. Does anyone know what he himself would do if faced with the worst, and how much truth could he bear under such circumstances?"

- Andre Comte-Sponville

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Joe South, "Walk A Mile In My Shoes"

Greg Hunter, "Deep State Deception Tricks Us into Thinking They’re Winning"

"Deep State Deception Tricks Us

into Thinking They’re Winning"

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Clif High is an Internet data mining expert who has many well-documented correct forecasts. High uses something he calls “Predictive Linguistics” and computer programs to sort through billions of bits of information on the Internet to predict future trends and events. His latest correct forecast was made last month here on USAWatchdog when he said, “The FDA would not approve the Pfizer CV19 vaccine.” The FDA told the public it was approved, but it only approved a Pfizer vaccine called Comirnaty that Americans cannot get. Americans are still getting the “experimental” Pfizer version of the so- called vaccine, and Pfizer still has immunity from liability. It was classic bait and switch and a total deception of the public.

Clif High says, “Deception is their only weapon. They are employing technology to trick us. They employ bots through all the social media. They employ scripts in all mainstream media. They have farms of people paid by the CCP with rooms in China and people with 40 different cell phones in front of them with a computer that can feed all those different cell phones. This is how they establish the persona of large crowds of people that are supposedly agreeing with or putting out the mainstream media talking points or reinforcing those.”

So, is the country evenly split for and against the Biden Administration? High says, “No. I can find about 12% of the population that will repeat the talking points and about 6% of the population that will do it consistently on their own unbidden. 6% are in the category of loyalists. Of that 6%, maybe half are true believers. They are attempting to make you think it’s about 80% to 20% in favor of the Deep State.”

What’s the real sentiment in the country? High estimates, “80% of the people in the country are against all of this at a passionate level. The intensity of that 80% is ratcheting up.” High says this is why you are seeing no masks being worn at college football games. People have had enough. High says, “You are seeing this at multiple sporting events. This marker is being used to track the sentiment of people involved in Devolution.”

In short, large segments of the population will be waking up to all the lies and illusions that control their lives. High talks about the big die-off of people who are “fully vaccinated” and how it is them who will need to be quarantined so they do not harm the unvaccinated public. The biggest wakeup call will come soon from the economic system. High says, “These things are coming in chunks, and we are just about at the point where the chunk called the financial system will fall all apart. The big marker on that is going to be October 1, which is the end of the fiscal year for the federal government.”

High also talks about weapons from Afghanistan coming back home to the USA to arm Antifa and BLM courtesy of China. High thinks what he calls “normies” will be getting a big cold bucket of water in the face soon, and things will change forever in how the public perceives what is going on in America. High also talks about Australia and the atrocity that is coming that will make them go wild and fight for liberty. High talks about all the millions of people who have gotten the shots and will probably die. It’s going to be so bad that 2022 will be known as the year of the mass die-off. High also talks about how many more people will wake up to the fact that the “USA was attacked” and that “we have been in an ongoing war.” High also talk real numbers of people who have actually gotten the shots. It is way less than the official numbers are saying, but for those people, death is probably coming for them. Phony inflated vax numbers is one more deception at work, according to High, because “they are selling the death shot.” High says the only thing that explains what is going on with CV19 and the push for injections is the “Deep State global criminals” are “killing people on purpose to depopulate the planet.”

High gives data and analysis on deflation, gold, silver, Bitcoin, a new U.S. currency as early as January 2022, Ivermectin and vitamins for protection, new side effects for the vax, funeral homes burying record numbers of people than ever, and the Arizona audit and why it is so important to get it perfect.

This is just some of what is covered in this one hour and 13 min interview. In closing, High says, “This war is deception. They have no real power. They only have the power of controlling the mind through deception of words. They are deceivers. We have lived in a world of deceit where deceit has been rewarded by them. We have been inculcated into this world, and it’s changing. It is the most massive change in 2,780 years. It is the change of the ages into the age of knowing, and we will know.”

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with data mining expert Clif High, and he gives us an update on future events and trends.(What is written here is a fraction of what is in this 1 hour and 13 min. interview.

- https://rumble.com/

"Elite Deciders In a Fix"

"Elite Deciders In a Fix"

by Bill Bonner

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "Our subject this week is freedom. “What is it worth?” is the question on the table. “Not much,” is the answer from most of America’s intelligentsia. The elite, that is. It maintains that freedom should not be allowed to get in the way of What It Wants Now.

It wanted the War in Afghanistan… and for 20 years, it hijacked the nation’s wealth to pay for it – $2.3 trillion worth, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. It wanted the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the Wall Street Bailout… then the COVID-19 Bailout. All of these were sold as “investments” that would give us a better future. What American citizen – however civic minded – would have willingly paid for these things? Very few.

And had they been good investments, they would have paid dividends. Instead, year after year, the money goes out the door and into the pockets of the elite… adding $27 trillion to the nation’s debt since 1980.

About the Elite…: And now, the elite is advertising even bigger “investments” – to change the planet’s climate… and bring equity (whatever that is) to all. But the elite is running into trouble. Inflation is on the upswing. It will have to bring that under control by raising rates and curtailing its big-borrowing, big-spending, big-printing plans. Can it turn around? Can it back off? We need to do more thinking about “the elite.”

Republican or Democrat… European or American… members of the elite go to the same schools. They live in the same areas. They owe their allegiance, first and foremost, to their caste. Members of the elite are, almost by definition, rich and powerful. And while the public is distracted by party politics – an empty, gaudy, and tawdry spectacle – it is this elite caste that rules. It controls the government, the media, the universities, the military, et al. Like cream, members of the elite have risen to the top. And now, corrupted by power and money… curdled, degenerate, and incompetent… they want to hold onto their privileges at all costs.

Dilemma: Our friend Merryn Somerset Webb wrote in the Financial Times recently that central bankers had better get their act together. Inflation is rising. They need to get it under control quickly, she warned, or it will soon be too late. But there’s a growing awareness of the fix they’ve gotten themselves into. “Inflate or Die,” is how the late, great financial writer, Richard Russell, described it in his Dow Theory Letters.

Last week, British industrialist Sir Andrew Cook wrote a letter to the FT editor, spelling out for readers why central banks can no longer control inflation: "If they raise interest rates to around 5 percent – which is needed to stamp out inflation – the economies collapse. If they stop printing money, there will be riots from those millions who are now dependent on state handouts."

At the top, the gamblers and grifters need more money-printing to keep their stocks and bonds from crashing… and to keep the feds flush with cash. At the bottom, people face eviction… unemployment… and destitution. In short, central bankers – working on behalf of the corrupt elite – have broken the economy. Now, they own it. And whichever way they go – more money-printing or less – will bring on disaster.

Freedom to Choose: Free people don’t “invest” their own, real money in unwinnable wars and jackass projects. They don’t bail out Wall Street. They don’t shut down a whole economy to fight a disease that poses a threat to relatively few. They don’t lend money to those who can’t afford to pay it back.

In theory, the freer the economy, the richer the people in it. They devote their entire energies to doing what they want… rather than to doing what others want them to do. After all, that is what freedom is all about. Choices always need to be made. The question is: Who makes them?

In a free economy, people make the choices for themselves. They eschew the bad bakeries and go to the good ones. They drop losing investments, and put their savings into ones that pay a real return. They bid and ask, in free markets, to determine real prices… which then guide producers and consumers to increased efficiency and great wealth.

Elite Deciders: Freedom made America rich and powerful. But then, its elite caste became the deciders. Instead of allowing the rough and tumble of real capitalism… it rigged the system to protect its own wealth, power, and privileges. Rather than let savers and borrowers decide on interest rates, for example, the Fed used its fake money to queer the market – with its key lending rate below the inflation rate for most of the last 12 years.

The artificially low rates, along with the fake money itself, skewed the whole economy from producing goods and services (real wealth!) to jigging up stock and bond markets, supporting zombie businesses, and funding the elite’s goofy “investments.” The result is so much debt – $86 trillion for the entire economy… not including the feds’ many unfunded obligations – that honest interest rates would quickly cause a painful and immediate reckoning. In a matter of hours, the elite would lose much of its wealth and power.

Freedom to Live: But if freedom is so important to an economy… what about the rest of life? Can free people beat the coronavirus? Or do they need to be forced to take the shot, whether they like it or not? Stay tuned…"

- www.rogueeconomics.com

"How It Really Is"

"We are in the process of creating, in sum, what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot subculture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time in our history the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."

Freely download "The Idiot Culture", by Carl Bernstein, here:

- http://carlbernstein.com/

Gerald Celente, "The Trends Journal"

Gerald Celente, "The Trends Journal":

"More Fear; Better Buy Toilet Paper; Virus Cases Surging"

"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."

- https://trendsresearch.com/subscribe

Gregory Mannarino, "AM 9/8/21: Insider Trading At The FED"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/8/21:

"Insider Trading At The FED; Morgan Stanley Warns 

On The Stock Market; Mortgage Demand Plunges"

- https://traderschoice.net/

"Massive Supply Chain Problems for Every Industry - The Bubble Economy is Everywhere"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, iAllegedly, PM 9/7/21:

"Massive Supply Chain Problems for Every Industry - 

The Bubble Economy is Everywhere"

Must View! "Extreme Bubbles Get More Extreme; FED Liquidity Is Destroying The World; Factory Shutdowns"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 9/7/21:

"Extreme Bubbles Get More Extreme; 

FED Liquidity Is Destroying The World; Factory Shutdowns"

"Supply Shortages Skyrocket By 638% As Shipping Crisis Worsens & Supply Chains Dramatically Collapse"

Full screen recommended.

"Supply Shortages Skyrocket By 638% As 

Shipping Crisis Worsens & Supply Chains Dramatically Collapse"

by Epic Economist

"Some say records are to be broken, but when it comes to the global supply chains breaking records come with a very dark side. Only this year, supply chains were plagued by a myriad of disasters: the Suez Canal accident, interruptions caused by extreme weather, and most recently, port shutdowns drove by new virus outbreaks in Asian countries. Fresh data released by Resilinc, a global leader in the supply chain risk monitoring space, indicated that supply chain disruptions hit record-breaking levels in 2021, with the number of factory fires up by 150% only in the first half of the year. This marked the highest rate of factory fires ever reported.

The shocking increase is mostly attributed to gaps in regulatory and process execution, and also by a shortage of skilled warehouse workers. The data also exposes that disruptions caused by supply shortages skyrocketed by 638% just in the first half of 2021. In total, Resilinc already sent 251 supply shortage alerts this year, with this type of disruption ranked 6th in terms of most reported events. But shortages are the number one reason why business sales have been collapsing in recent months, and according to the report, almost half - or about 46.5% - of such disruptive events occurred in the United States in the first six months of 2021.

From January 1 to June 30, 2021, Resilinc issued staggering 5,425 alerts about supply chain disruptions across 39 event categories, with about 59% of them impactful enough to trigger prolonged interruptions that lasted for at least four weeks. Today, in the US, one of the main problems causing shortages is port congestion. There are still dozens of container ships waiting to undock in California ports. Industry experts say that it could take months for the backlog to be cleared, while inland logistics hubs are still crowded with containers that have yet to be loaded onto trucks to get to cargo ships and make their trip to their final destinations.

In addition to all that, a shortage of truck drivers is causing further bottlenecks at ports and inland rail hubs, as some warehouses are being forced to refuse delivery of new containers until backlogs could be reduced. All of this is severely aggravating the global container shortage, which consequently is pushing shipping prices for almost all trade routes to sky-highs. According to Xeneta, the average cost of shipping a container from China to the West Coast of the U.S. went from $1,794 last year to $11,594 this year. And those numbers represent an official average, but the truth is that new premium prices are negotiated on the spot, and some companies reported shipping rates of up to $33,000 from Shangai to Los Angeles this year. As a result, companies continue to struggle to ship their products overseas and to get their orders in time.

The imbalances on supply chains are threatening to derail the US economic rebound this quarter, as business activity and production have fallen 6.9 percentage points in August, new export orders dropped by more than five percentage points, and new orders faced a sizable decline, according to a report released by the Institute for Supply Management.

Moreover, shortages of materials such as plastics are pushing the price of a wide range of products to record-highs. "This started during the big freeze that hit Texas that disrupted the petrochemical industry along the Gulf Coast. It accounts for nearly 20% of the global ethylene production, and three-quarters of that production along the Gulf Coast was knocked out during the big freeze," explained Wolf Richter. "The materials produced by it go into pretty much everything. All kinds of consumer goods, from water bottles to automobiles, all kinds of packaging, and all kinds of industrial goods, such as PVC pipe that is used in new construction," the expert added.

All of this is happening at a time when consumer demand is being fueled by government stimulus, not just in the US but all around the world. The combination of artificially-fueled demand for goods and supply-chain problems is causing significant distortions in the global economy, and it is creating asset bubbles in the financial markets and threatening to trigger an inflationary spike like no other. The main problem is that as companies realized that they can charge more for the same products and consumers have been accepting those increases without a question, they will continue to get away with raising prices even after conditions improve across supply chains. That is how hyperinflation infiltrates global economies, and our future is going to be marked by it. On the other hand, wages won't similarly hyperinflate, which means we're headed to an era of economic deterioration while the price of everything continues to explode."

- https://www.youtube.com/

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Spirit Moves"

Full screen mode recommended.

2002, "Spirit Moves"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Some spiral galaxies are seen nearly sideways. Most bright stars in spiral galaxies swirl around the center in a disk, and seen from the side, this disk can appear quite thin. Some spiral galaxies appear even thinner than NGC 3717, which is actually seen tilted just a bit. Spiral galaxies form disks because the original gas collided with itself and cooled as it fell inward. Planets may orbit in disks for similar reasons.

The featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a light-colored central bulge composed of older stars beyond filaments of orbiting dark brown dust. NGC 3717 spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 60 million light years away toward the constellation of the Water Snake (Hydra)."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191112.html

The Poet: Joy Harjo, “Remember”

“Remember”

“Remember the sky that you were born under,

know each of the star’s stories.

Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her

in a bar once in Iowa City.

Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the

strongest point of time. Remember sundown

and the giving away to night.

Remember your birth, how your mother struggled

to give you form and breath. You are evidence of

her life, and her mother’s, and hers.

Remember your father. He is your life also.

Remember the earth whose skin you are:

red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth

brown earth, we are earth.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their

tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,

listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the

origin of this universe. I heard her singing Kiowa war

dance songs at the corner of Fourth and Central once.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

Remember that all is in motion, is growing, is you.

Remember that language comes from this.

Remember the dance that language is, that life is.

Remember.”

- Joy Harjo,

“How We Become Human”

Chet Raymo, “Half Sick Of Shadows”

“Half Sick Of Shadows”

by Chet Raymo

“Who is this woman? Her name is on the prow of her boat: The Lady of Shalott.  Yes, it’s Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott,” from the poem of 1842, here illustrated by John William Waterhouse in 1888. By some unspecified curse this lovely maiden was confined to a tower…

“Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

Little breezes dusk and shiver

Through the wave that runs for ever

By the island in the river”

…near Camelot, where, forbidden to look out the window, she observed the world in a mirror and wove what she saw into a tapestry. So what is she doing in the boat, with her hand-stitched creation? One day, Sir Lancelot rode by her tower alone. She saw him in the mirror and – “half sick of shadows” – couldn’t resist turning to see him unreflected.

“His broad clear brow in sunlight glow’d;

On burnish’d hooves his war-horse trode;

From underneath his helmet flow’d

His coal-black curls as on he rode…”

The mirror cracked. She left her loom, descended from the tower, found a boat, inscribed her name on the prow, and…

“Lying, robed in snowy white

That loosely flew to left and right -

The leaves upon her falling light -

Thro’ the noises of the night”

…cast off to drift downstream to Camelot – and to Lancelot. But curses are not to be foiled.

“For ere she reach’d upon the tide

The first house by the water-side,

Singing in her song she died,

The Lady of Shalott.”

We are all of us in a way the Lady of Shalott, all of us who seek to create an image of the world, artists, poets, scientists. We perceive the world through the filter of our limited senses, our biologically evolved brains, our nurtured preconceptions. We weave our tapestries, knowing that our creations are a reflection removed from reality. Our “curse” is to be in love with the real, yet never able to embrace it except in the cold glass of conceptualization. Our legacy? To be found in a boat lodged among the reeds, our tapestry draped across the thwart, with Camelot yet somewhere further down the stream, glistening, beckoning, inescapably out of reach. But, ah, there’s that gorgeous tapestry.

There is another curse, self made, and that is to mistake the mirrorworld for the world outside the window, to fail to recognize the contingency of our conceptualizations, to forego an honest seeking for the falsely found, and – most ominously – to want to impose our own mirrorworld on others.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

Gregory Mannarino, PM 9/7/21: "Goldman Sachs Warns Again On The Economy"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 9/7/21:

"Goldman Sachs Warns Again On The Economy"

- https://traderschoice.net/

Gerald Celente, "Trends in The News Live"

Gerald Celente, "Trends in The News Live"

"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."

- https://trendsresearch.com/

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Queenstown, Canterbury, New Zealand

"Within The Gates..."

"How Many Millions Will the Covid Cult 

Kill Before People Wake Up?"

- Bob Moriarty


"People in a cult don’t know they’re in a cult. But everyone else can tell." 

- Oliver Markus Malloy

"Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralizing antibodies may sensitize vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. We are in the midst of the largest assault on liberty in the history of the world. Twenty months ago most people in the world were free to travel without restriction, interact with others without government controls and were about as free as any time in history. Now in response to a fake pandemic you cannot go to a restaurant in France without hearing, “Papiere, bitte” and should you not immediately produce the required documentation you can be fined and even sent to prison. No doubt that will come to the US very soon.

While it is popular to call this a “pandemic” that is not correct. This is not the Black Death or even the Spanish Flu. All governments as far as I can see have been lying about just how dangerous it really is from the very beginning. The “Experts” were predicting mass deaths. They were off by at least ten fold and never admitted just how wrong they were. For all purposes many governments pretty much shut down their economies putting billions of people into economic peril.

Let me state one more time just so you get it. This is nothing more than a bad-f***ing flu. Those most at risk were those over eighty, overweight, black and Vitamin D deficient. You can’t do much about your age except check out should you wish. Diets are hard to stick to and just like your sex; you are stuck with the color you were born with.

But how many governments bothered telling their citizens, “If you take Vitamin D and a Zinc supplement to get it into the cells you may well prevent what is nothing more than a bad flu?” And for the sheep feeling as if they need to correct me on the real danger of the flu you need to whine to Doctor Fauci and the NIH. It was their bright idea to fund “gain of function” research at the Wuhan lab and then to lie to Congress to cover it up.

The probability is very high that in fact the Wuhan Flu was in fact an American Bio-terror weapon aimed at China and Iran. Most people, I suspect, will still recall that China was hit first and hardest but Iran was right behind them. Ron Unz has written extensively and I believe convincingly about the probability of this being nothing less than a CIA bright idea.

There is a simple reason I call this a bad flu. We know how to prevent it and governments won’t talk about it. We know two inexpensive ways to cure it. The CDC, of course, has overstated the deaths by 1500%. Candidly they admit that only 6% of the recorded deaths were FROM Covid with the remaining 94% WITH Covid. And the 94% with Covid is also total bullshit as even the CDC now admits the PCR test will show a false positive for any recent prior cold or flu. Even Fauci, the hopeless liar, admits the cycle rate was set far too high. So all of the numbers you think you understand for number of deaths and number of cases, throw them out the window. You were lied to at every step of the way.

A 22-week preemie dying is not a Covid death. A heart attack is not a Covid death, a stroke is not a Covid death, and a bullet into the brain between the running lights is not a Covid death. In the US the government paid hospitals extra money to call deaths “Covid.” According to the CDC the 94% “WITH” Covid numbers also shared 2.6 comorbidities. That means they were dying of either or both of 2.6 other serious medical issues. When you remove all the bullshit and lying, it was just another year with a bad flu.

All of the treatment given patients was designed from maximum profit to the medical profession and least to the welfare of the patients. I can accept that in the first few months of the “Covid Cult” that no one knew how to treat those ailing. But it wasn’t long before real doctors were experimenting with novel treatments.

A French doctor tried treating his patients with a drug that has been around for sixty-five years called by its initials HCQ. Since Orange Man said good things about it, Fauci and the Ministry of Truth attacked HCQ at once. But no doubt by pure coincidence, the French had allowed sale of HCQ over the counter until January 1, 2020. Does it work to prevent death from Covid? Ask Tanzania with 68 million people who pretty much take a $.35 pill of HCQ once a week to prevent malaria. Tanzania has had 50 deaths from Covid. Total. Because of HCQ but should you mention it in an interview you will be deplatformed by Apple, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter. They are looking out for your interests no doubt.

And Fauci simply forgot or failed to mention that he coauthored a medical paper in 2005 praising HCQ as an anti-viral agent. How amazing, he was lying about that too. Then later last year one of the few remaining real doctors pointed out that he had great success treating patients with Ivermectin. There have been 39 different studies on Ivermectin all of whom concluded the drug properly prescribed could prevent up to 75% of deaths. An Israeli doctor concluded patients could be treated for less than $1 a day with the drug. If you mention Ivermectin in an interview, the Ministry of Truth will promptly silence you. You are not allowed to know that there are simple and cheap solutions to a bad flu.

The French somehow knew what the future would bring. The posters now found in every French eatery demanding “Papiere, bitte” were designed before the first Covid patient was discovered in France. That was in January of 2020 with no French patients to be seen yet. But they also called the mechanism a “Covid” Passport months before Covid was named. It must have been magic, I suppose. Unless you understand this whole Covid Cult bullshit was preplanned.

There is so much data today showing that this has been long since planned by Bill Gates and Fauci. Patents were filed twenty years ago on gain of function changes to various viruses. Gates even held a planning secession, convention in the fall of 2019. What marvelous timing. Gates has been caught in a video smirking as he bragged about making a twenty-fold return on his investment in “vaccines.” Does that asshole really need more money that he would kill people to get it?

Alas, "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang aft a-gley." I’ve written about ten articles about the virus and talked in interviews about what we knew at the time and what I surmised. I got it far more right than anyone else on the outside. Fourteen months ago I said they would never have a “vaccine” because like all viruses, they mutate. Now we are being told that people who have not had the shot can somehow magically make the virus more dangerous. Those dumb enough to believe that nonsense have obviously not looked at a chart of the new cases being identical to that of people taking the shot. In other words as many doctors have suggested in the past, having the experimental gene therapy shot gives you a greater chance of catching the virus in the future.

In short while there are many serious studies showing that both HCQ and Ivermectin can cure Covid, the “vaccine” not only doesn’t prevent the disease, it makes it more likely and probably more deadly. It appears to me that governments such as that of France, New Zealand and Australia and some states in the US are panicking because the number of deaths from the shot is skyrocketing and may soon go curvilinear as the long-term effects of ADE kick in.

Literally ADE means the body starts to attack itself. One study in Israel of pregnant women showed that 82% of the women given the shot in the 1st and 2nd Trimester of pregnancy suffered miscarriages. Should that percentage continue, it means we are headed for a giant depopulation and are going to enter the Dark Ages 2.0.

Here’s what I think now. This was a deliberate plan on the part of the Elites to force the Great Reset. Once you understand that simple fact, you know what the future is going to be. I understand the rich and the elite. I went through high school in Fort Worth and we had all the rich kids whose fathers had made their fortune in the East Texas oil fields. The rich kids knew they were smarter than the rest of us because their families were rich. The elite are the same. They believe having lots of dollars means you also have lots of sense.

Alas, it doesn’t work that way. Many fortunes are as much an accident as anything else. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were accidents where they got involved in computers just when the need arose for better operating systems. Steve Jobs stiffed Steve Wozniak out of his half of payment from Nolan Bushnell and followed up by refusing to take a paternity test when his girlfriend got pregnant with his daughter Lisa. Apple was a great computer company run by a sociopath. Bill Gates signed a deal licensing DOS to IBM when he didn’t own it. Then turned around and paid $75,000 to the guy who did own it. Gates and his foundation have been booted from both India and Africa after peddling vaccines that did more harm than good. Sound familiar?

The elite got into power by lying, stealing and cheating. The brilliant military mind of George Bush Junior came up with the great idea of invading Afghanistan even though the country had nothing to do with 911 and then followed up with an invasion of Iraq who also had nothing to do with 911. The WSJ, NYT and WP all fully supported the dumbest military moves in American history that have led to a complete financial and moral bankruptcy of the US. Bush’s only claim to fame was that he was a drunk and a crack head until he was forty and a draft dodger.

Then Obama supported the same insane wars that had not a chance of having a good ending for the US. His claim to fame was that he was the Pusher Man back in high school and cast no shadow until the Democrats got him into office. His latest role is power behind the throne for a president who barely remembers his own name.

Trump was another draft dodger and a sock puppet for the Zionist lobby. Whatever the Neocon war criminals wanted, he did. He lied about where and when he made his fortune. Hell, he lied about everything, I’m not sure he ever told the truth about anything.

Then we had the election of 2020 that was easily the most corrupt in US history. The MSM still pretends Biden won the election even though there is a serious question of does he even still understand he is president. Any questions about his qualifications died in the Graveyard of Empires.

These people are all sociopaths and liars. They will do anything for more power. They think it’s time that they create a worldwide empire where they control everything and everyone. The whole Covid Cult bullshit is about their control of people.

The French began by refusing access to any dining, or bars, and movie theaters or any sporting events as well as malls if their citizens could not produce proof of “vaccination.” What the “vaccinated” don’t understand is that if those not “vaccinated” can be refused access to perfectly normal activities, so can they. It turns government into a totalitarian dictatorship. All in the name of fighting a bad flu.

But everything the governments have said from the gitgo was a lie. Masks didn’t prevent the flu, social distancing didn’t prevent the flu, lockdowns didn’t prevent the flu, and worst of all, not only does the “vaccine” not prevent or cure the flu, it makes it worse.

Pick up any history book and in it will be contained one story after another of how the elites f***ed up the world. They are doing it again. They not only talk just to each other, they listen only to each other. If perfectly ordinary citizens who are concerned with their families, their health, their freedom and their countries don’t stand up soon all freedom will be extinguished.

A few souls are starting to stand up and speak out. Support them. I read that the truckers in Australia are going to shut down the country. It’s a start. Now if some majors and colonels in our own Armed Forces would reread their oath of office and grow some balls we could turn this fur ball into a rebirth of freedom and independence.

The “vaccine” doesn’t work. It has already killed tens of thousands of people around the world. It is making the flu worse. How many millions are going to have to die in the name of a Great Reset before people understand owning nothing and owing nothing is the definition of a slave."

- http://www.321gold.com/

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Related, must read:

"Unthinkable Thoughts"

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"20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: 

The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19"

"Screw Your Freedom"

"Screw Your Freedom"

by Bill Bonner

"Screw your freedom."

– Arnold “The Terminator” Schwarzenegger

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "This week, we are looking at some big dots… ruminating, really, about freedom and how it is connected to prosperity… vaccinations… the First Amendment… truth. What good is freedom, anyway? In our economy? In our lives? Here at the Diary, we don’t particularly care about freedom. We just don’t like anyone telling us what to do. Especially when the person telling us what to do is an idiot.

Of course, whenever someone tells us what to do, it’s a good bet that he is an idiot. Heck, half of the world’s people have an I.Q. below average. The other half are morons. Throw a rock through a Capitol Building window and you’re bound to hit one of them. But it is a certain kind of moron who thinks he has the inside story on God’s Ultimate, Absolute, and Complete Truth (GUACT).

Getting vaccinated has become – like wearing a face mask – a sign of secular piety and obedience. The vaccinated person shows his “health pass” proudly, like a war hero with his medals. The medals prove that he has done the Right Thing.

Irresponsible and Immoral: By contrast, the unvaccinated are treated like cowards… shirkers… lepers. They are unclean… irresponsible… immoral. Pope Francis says so: "I believe that morally everyone must take the vaccine. It is the moral choice because it is about your life but also the lives of others."

Others – including the American Civil Liberties Union – believe there should be no choice at all. They see “no civil liberties problem with requiring COVID-19 vaccines in most circumstances:” "In fact, far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties. They protect the most vulnerable among us, including people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated, and communities of color hit hard by the disease. […]"

COVID-19 vaccine mandates – much like mask mandates – are public health measures necessary to protect people from severe illness and death. Yes, the people who gave us the war in Afghanistan, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, and the Wall Street bailout – the great and the good, the elite, the media, the professoriat, the medical/pharmaceutical complex – all now insist that we get vaccinated.

But is forced vaccination really “necessary,” as the ACLU claims? Colleague Jim Rickards spells it out: "Among all individuals, vaccinated and unvaccinated, the global survival rate is 99.2%. Among those under 70, the survival rate is 99.97%. The survival rate for children is 99.995%."

And if the vaccines are so effective, couldn’t anyone who is worried about getting COVID-19 protect himself by getting vaccinated? Why make a federal case out of it? Apparently, the ACLU has reconsidered its mission. It used to be dedicated to protecting Americans’ liberties. Now, it is protecting their health. “Protecting our health and safety” is now the desideratum of the entire nation. Nothing else seems to matter. “Screw your freedom,” says former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Dangerous Behavior: But wait… We still drive our cars. We climb dangerous mountains. We make whoopee with people who may have a communicable disease. We visit Chicago on a weekend. And we buy cryptos! Hey… you could get hurt doing those things. What gives?

All we have is questions. Why take chances…? When you’ve got real geniuses who know God’s Ultimate, Absolute, and Complete Truth, who needs the freedom to discover it for himself? Who needs to wander into sin when the saintly path is so clearly marked? Who cannot know the truth about vaccines, when the major media have excised all “misinformation” on the subject?

And why do we let markets set interest rates… employment levels… wages… or consumer prices – when the Federal Reserve, bless its craven little heart, knows exactly what they should be? Shouldn’t we inoculate ourselves against the rough and tumble, the booms and busts, the ups and downs… of all of life?

Good News; Bad News: On Friday, just before the Labor Day weekend, the feds released the latest numbers. For the working man, there was bad news and good news. CNBC reports: "Job creation for August was a huge disappointment, with the economy adding just 235,000 positions, the Labor Department reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires."

New hires fell from 1.1 million the previous month. But wages rose. Alas, they did not rise enough to keep up with inflation. The 4.3% overall annual wage gain was still below the latest 5.4% inflation reading. At least those people laboring in the Leisure and Hospitality sector got a real raise. Colleague David Stockman tells us their weekly wages rose at a 12% annual rate – the fastest in 52 years.

But on Monday came more bad news for some people. Those federal unemployment “toppers” came to an end. The Associated Press has the latest: "Two critical programs expired on Monday. One provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers and another provided benefits to those who have been unemployed more than six months. Further, the Biden administration’s $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit also ran out on Monday. It’s estimated that roughly 8.9 million Americans will lose all or some of these benefits. The amount of money injected by the federal government into jobless benefits since the pandemic began is nothing short of astronomical."

Misery and Heartbreak: Oh my…This is what free-ish markets bring us, isn’t it? Good news and bad news. Wealth and profits… misery and heartbreak. Maybe that is what freedom gives us in the rest of life, too – flimflam… fantasy… and a brief glimpse of truth. Stay tuned."

- www.rogueeconomics.com

"How It Really Is"

 

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 9/7/21"

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 9/7/21"

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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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"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/

September 6th to 8th, 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/

September 7, 2021: "Joe Biden’s Own Jobs Report Puts 

Joblessness Near 31% in August 2021"

- 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...

Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/7/21: "This Market Is Like A Demented Child"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/7/21:

"This Market Is Like A Demented Child"

- https://traderschoice.net/