Monday, September 13, 2021

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformation.
The planetary nebula phase represents a final stage in the evolution of low mass stars like the sun, as they transform themselves from red giants to hot white dwarf stars and in the process shrug off their outer layers. Ultraviolet radiation from the hot star powers the nebular glow. The Medusa's transforming star is near the center of the overall bright crescent shape. In this deep telescopic view, fainter filaments clearly extend below and to the left of the bright crescent region. The Medusa Nebula is estimated to be over 4 light-years across.”

The Poet: Mark Strand, "Dreams"

"Dreams"

"Trying to recall the plot
And characters we dreamed,
     What life was like
Before the morning came,
We are seldom satisfied,
     And even then
There is no way of knowing
If what we know is true.
     Something nameless
Hums us into sleep,
Withdraws, and leaves us in
     A place that seems
Always vaguely familiar.
Perhaps it is because
     We take the props
And fixtures of our days
With us into the dark,
     Assuring ourselves
We are still alive. And yet
Nothing here is certain;
     Landscapes merge
With one another, houses
Are never where they should be,
     Doors and windows
Sometimes open out
To other doors and windows,
     Even the person
Who seems most like ourselves
Cannot be counted on,
     For there have been
Too many times when he,
Like everything else, has done
     The unexpected.
And as the night wears on,
The dim allegory of ourselves
     Unfolds, and we
Feel dreamed by someone else,
A sleeping counterpart,
     Who gathers in
The darkness of his person
Shades of the real world.
     Nothing is clear;
We are not ever sure
If the life we live there
     Belongs to us.
Each night it is the same;
Just when we’re on the verge
     Of catching on,
A sense of our remoteness
Closes in, and the world
     So lately seen
Gradually fades from sight.
We wake to find the sleeper
     Is ourselves
And the dreamt-of is someone who did
Something we can’t quite put
     Our finger on,
But which involved a life
We are always, we feel,
     About to discover."

- Mark Strand 

Gregory Mannarino, "Oh N0! NEW C.1.2. V@riant! Economy Continues To CRATER. Next Week - The FED"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 9/13/21:
"Oh N0! NEW C.1.2. V@riant! 
Economy Continues To CRATER. Next Week - The FED"

The Daily "Near You?"

American Fork, Utah, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Our Economy is Completely Breaking Down"

Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly, PM 9/13/21:
"Our Economy is Completely Breaking Down"
"Nothing is working like it is supposed to in the economy. 
We are suffering a complete breakdown in all aspects of our Economy."

"It Becomes Sad..."

"Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry
such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they
can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth."
- Lionel Suggs

"It’s Time to Make America Free Again"

"It’s Time to Make America Free Again"
by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
- Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale"

"The Constitution of the United States represents the classic solution to one of humankind’s greatest political problems: that is, how does a small group of states combine into a strong union without the states losing their individual powers and surrendering their control over local affairs?The fifty-five delegates who convened in Philadelphia during the sweltering summer of 1787 answered this question with a document that called for a federal plan of government, a system of separation of powers with checks and balances, and a procedure for orderly change to meet the needs and exigencies of future generations.

In an ultimate sense, the Constitution confirmed the proposition that original power resided in the people - not, however, in the people as a whole but in their capacity as people of the several states. To bring forth the requisite union, the people through the states would transfer some of their powers to the new federal government. All powers not reserved by the people in explicit state constitutional limitations remained in the state governments.

Although the Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, the fear of the new federal government was so strong that a “bill of rights” was demanded and became an eventuality. Intended to protect the citizenry’s fundamental rights or “first liberties” against usurpation by the newly created federal government, the Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments of the Constitution - is essentially a list of immunities from interference by the federal government.

Unfortunately, although the Bill of Rights was adopted as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny, in America today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned. “We the people” have been terrorized, traumatized, and tricked into a semi-permanent state of compliance by a government that cares nothing for our lives or our liberties.

The bogeyman’s names and faces have changed over time (terrorism, the war on drugs, illegal immigration, a viral pandemic, and more to come), but the end result remains the same: in the so-called name of national security, the Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded with the support of Congress, the White House, and the courts.

A recitation of the Bill of Rights - set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, vaccine mandates, travel lockdowns, and the like (all sanctioned by Congress, the White House, and the courts) - would understandably sound more like a eulogy to freedoms lost than an affirmation of rights we truly possess. What we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago. Sadly, most of the damage has been inflicted upon the Bill of Rights.

Here is what it means to live under the Constitution, post-9/11 and in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic.

The First Amendment is supposed to protect the freedom to speak your mind, assemble and protest nonviolently without being bridled by the government. It also protects the freedom of the media, as well as the right to worship and pray without interference. In other words, Americans should not be silenced by the government. To the founders, all of America was a free speech zone.

Despite the clear protections found in the First Amendment, the freedoms described therein are under constant assault. Increasingly, Americans are being arrested and charged with bogus “contempt of cop” charges such as “disrupting the peace” or “resisting arrest” for daring to film police officers engaged in harassment or abusive practices. Journalists are being prosecuted for reporting on whistleblowers. States are passing legislation to muzzle reporting on cruel and abusive corporate practices. Religious ministries are being fined for attempting to feed and house the homeless. Protesters are being tear-gassed, beaten, arrested and forced into “free speech zones.” And under the guise of “government speech,” the courts have reasoned that the government can discriminate freely against any First Amendment activity that takes place within a so-called government forum.

The Second Amendment was intended to guarantee “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Essentially, this amendment was intended to give the citizenry the means to resist tyrannical government. Yet while gun ownership has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as an individual citizen right, Americans remain powerless to defend themselves against SWAT team raids and government agents armed to the teeth with military weapons better suited to the battlefield. As such, this amendment has been rendered nearly null and void.

The Third Amendment reinforces the principle that civilian-elected officials are superior to the military by prohibiting the military from entering any citizen’s home without “the consent of the owner.” With the police increasingly training like the military, acting like the military, and posing as military forces - complete with heavily armed SWAT teams, military weapons, assault vehicles, etc. - it is clear that we now have what the founders feared most - a standing army on American soil.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from conducting surveillance on you or touching you or invading you, unless they have some evidence that you’re up to something criminal. In other words, the Fourth Amendment ensures privacy and bodily integrity. Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment has suffered the greatest damage in recent years and has been all but eviscerated by an unwarranted expansion of police powers that include strip searches and even anal and vaginal searches of citizens, surveillance (corporate and otherwise) and intrusions justified in the name of fighting terrorism, as well as the outsourcing of otherwise illegal activities to private contractors.

The Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment work in tandem. These amendments supposedly ensure that you are innocent until proven guilty, and government authorities cannot deprive you of your life, your liberty or your property without the right to an attorney and a fair trial before a civilian judge. However, in the new suspect society in which we live, where surveillance is the norm, these fundamental principles have been upended. Certainly, if the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights.

The Seventh Amendment guarantees citizens the right to a jury trial. Yet when the populace has no idea of what’s in the Constitution - civic education has virtually disappeared from most school curriculums—that inevitably translates to an ignorant jury incapable of distinguishing justice and the law from their own preconceived notions and fears. However, as a growing number of citizens are coming to realize, the power of the jury to nullify the government’s actions - and thereby help balance the scales of justice - is not to be underestimated. Jury nullification reminds the government that “we the people” retain the power to ultimately determine what laws are just.

The Eighth Amendment is similar to the Sixth in that it is supposed to protect the rights of the accused and forbid the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, the Supreme Court’s determination that what constitutes “cruel and unusual” should be dependent on the “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether.

The Ninth Amendment provides that other rights not enumerated in the Constitution are nonetheless retained by the people. Popular sovereignty - the belief that the power to govern flows upward from the people rather than downward from the rulers - is clearly evident in this amendment. However, it has since been turned on its head by a centralized federal government that sees itself as supreme and which continues to pass more and more laws that restrict our freedoms under the pretext that it has an “important government interest” in doing so.

As for the Tenth Amendment’s reminder that the people and the states retain every authority that is not otherwise mentioned in the Constitution, that assurance of a system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, DC, power elite - the president, Congress and the courts.

If there is any sense to be made from this recitation of freedoms lost, it is simply this: our individual freedoms have been eviscerated so that the government’s powers could be expanded. Yet those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend and even enhance our freedoms, not violate them.

It was no idle happenstance that the Constitution opens with these three powerful words: “We the people.” As the Preamble proclaims: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America."

In other words, we have the power to make and break the government. We are the masters and they are the servants. We the American people - the citizenry - are the arbiters and ultimate guardians of America’s welfare, defense, liberty, laws and prosperity.

Still, it’s hard to be a good citizen if you don’t know anything about your rights or how the government is supposed to operate. As the National Review rightly asks, “How can Americans possibly make intelligent and informed political choices if they don’t understand the fundamental structure of their government? American citizens have the right to self-government, but it seems that we increasingly lack the capacity for it.”

Americans are constitutionally illiterate. Most citizens have little, if any, knowledge about their basic rights. And our educational system does a poor job of teaching the basic freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. For instance, a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that a little more than one-third of respondents (36 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government, while another one-third (35 percent) could not name a single one.

A survey by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that only one out of a thousand adults could identify the five rights protected by the First Amendment. On the other hand, more than half (52%) of the respondents could name at least two of the characters in the animated Simpsons television family, and 20% could name all five. And although half could name none of the freedoms in the First Amendment, a majority (54%) could name at least one of the three judges on the TV program American Idol, 41% could name two and one-fourth could name all three.

It gets worse. Many who responded to the survey had a strange conception of what was in the First Amendment. For example, 21% said the “right to own a pet” was listed someplace between “Congress shall make no law” and “redress of grievances.” Some 17% said that the First Amendment contained the “right to drive a car,” and 38% believed that “taking the Fifth” was part of the First Amendment.

Teachers and school administrators do not fare much better. A study conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis found that one educator in five was unable to name any of the freedoms in the First Amendment. In fact, while some educators want students to learn about freedom, they do not necessarily want them to exercise their freedoms in school. As the researchers conclude, “Most educators think that students already have enough freedom, and that restrictions on freedom in the school are necessary. Many support filtering the Internet, censoring T-shirts, disallowing student distribution of political or religious material, and conducting prior review of school newspapers.”

Government leaders and politicians are also ill-informed. Although they take an oath to uphold, support and defend the Constitution against “enemies foreign and domestic,” their lack of education about our fundamental rights often causes them to be enemies of the Bill of Rights.

So what’s the solution? Thomas Jefferson recognized that a citizenry educated on “their rights, interests, and duties” is the only real assurance that freedom will survive. As Jefferson wrote in 1820: “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of our society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

From the President on down, anyone taking public office should have a working knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and should be held accountable for upholding their precepts. One way to ensure this would be to require government leaders to take a course on the Constitution and pass a thorough examination thereof before being allowed to take office.

Some critics are advocating that students pass the United States citizenship exam in order to graduate from high school. Others recommend that it must be a prerequisite for attending college. I’d go so far as to argue that students should have to pass the citizenship exam before graduating from grade school.

If this constitutional illiteracy is not remedied and soon, freedom in America will be doomed. As I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War on the American People" and in its fictional counterpart "The Erik Blair Diaries", we have managed to keep the wolf at bay so far. Barely. Our national priorities need to be re-prioritized. For instance, some argue that we need to make America great again. I, for one, would prefer to make America free again."

"How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?"

"How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?"
by Bill Bonner

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "Last week was a delight… at least from a cynical perspective. On Thursday, the U.S. president went on TV to announce that henceforth, people who work for businesses with more than 100 employees would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

CNN was on the story: “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” Biden said, his tone hardening toward Americans who still refuse to receive a vaccine despite ample evidence of their safety and full approval of one – the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine – from the US Food and Drug Administration. He said vaccinated America was growing “frustrated” with the 80 million people who have not received shots and are fueling the spread of the virus. And he acknowledged the new steps would not provide a quick fix.

The feds have long claimed the right to tell Americans what they must NOT put into their bodies. Certain drugs have been illegal for many years. And the feds are so adamant… so sure that this is a good thing… they’ve put millions of people in the hoosegow for breaking the prohibition.

Currently, there are some 450,000 people locked up for non-violent drug offenses. But this is the first time the president has taken it upon himself to tell people what they must put into their bodies… whether they want to or not. Will the federales start breaking down doors, throwing unvaccinated people to the floor, and putting them in prison to enforce the drug mandate? Or will they just take away their jobs?

Elite Lifesavers: Last week, we were exploring the idea of “freedom.” We wondered what good it is. After all, if the elites who control the government know what drugs we should take… and what drugs we shouldn’t take…what prices we should pay (they should increase 2% per year, not more, not less)…what kind of car we should drive (electric)…if they know good from evil, true from false, left from right…why do we need the freedom to decide for ourselves?

As Joe Biden pointed out on Thursday, freedom just gets in the way. He says it prevents the elite from saving our lives.

Inflation Is Still Here: Let’s come back to that subject tomorrow… It’s too heavy for a Monday morning. Instead, we turn to the news for more light-hearted nonsense. And what’s this? What happened to that “transitory” inflation? It must have missed its bus; it’s still with us. Here’s Breitbart’s Economics and Finance editor, John Carney: "Prices charged by U.S. businesses jumped higher than expected in August, data from the Department of Labor said Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index rose 0.7 percent compared with July. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 8.3 percent, the fastest pace of price increases in data going back to 2010."

Note that these are producer prices. Typically, these increases show up in consumer prices in the months ahead. Note, too, that they are running four times higher than the level the Federal Reserve has blessed as meet, right, and so to do. Which suggests that there will be more “tapering” talk… until the stock market sinks… and the tapering talk tapers off.

Tokenize Everything: Meanwhile, the $120 billion per month in non-tapering money-printing is producing its inevitable chaos and confusion. For example, afoot is a movement to “tokenize” almost everything. We’ve read several articles about the trend. As best we can make out, when things are “tokenized,” the tokens can then be bought and sold, on the internet, without going through brokers or retailers. At least, that is the line of talk from the token entrepreneurs.

Let’s say you own a car wash in Mahwah, New Jersey. It’s much too small to “take it public.” But you’d like to cash out. So, you somehow “put in on the blockchain.” Not the suds and sprays, but the enterprise. As a token. And now, you can “fractionalize” the token into lots of pieces, maybe millions of them. And all the people who’ve been waiting years to own a piece of a fractionalized, tokenized car wash in Mahwah can now get in on it.

Token Wealth: We have no idea how that works. But to people with more imagination, or at least a better sense of humor, tokenized wealth is like catnip. In case you missed it, last week, the world discovered the most valuable work of art – ever. Yes, it was a picture of a dog. To be more precise, it was a tokenized picture of the Shiba Inu dog on the dogecoin.

The token sold for $4 million three months ago. But this past week… are you ready for this?… the owner fractionalized it into 17 billion pieces and sold 20% at auction. If the thing were worth $4 million, and you were selling 20%, you wouldn’t even need a calculator to see that the sale should have brought in $800,000. Instead, the price rose to 11,000 ether coins… worth about $225 million. Or maybe it was 17,000 ether and 11 billion fractionalized bits of a dog. Or maybe it was a cat. Or a lark. We don’t know. Our head is spinning.

The whole thing is so screwy. The tokenized Shiba Inu picture might just as well be worth nothing as a million dollars. You can’t put it on your wall. You can’t hold it in your hand. It doesn’t earn any money, wag its tail, or fetch sticks. And the story, while reported as truth by the major media, might just as well be a total fantasy. It makes more sense as a fantasy. But then, so does most of the news."

"How It Really Is"

 

"Ordeal by Narrative"

"Ordeal by Narrative"
by Jim Kunstler

"Has doctor Anthony Fauci booked passage to Paraguay yet? Like, on a smallish container barge registered in Cote D’Ivoire, conveying a six months backlog of cars stolen out of Essex County, New Jersey, for detailing and re-sale way up that lazy river to Asunción? The captain has a comfortable guest cabin, price negotiable, but better bring your own food. The US Intel Community will not find the good doctor down there because they will not bother looking for him. And so, the distinguished American public servant will live out his last days in exile among the swooping fruit bats and grinning crocodiles, to the music of toucans screeching in the silk-floss trees (Chorisa speciosa).

Anyway, that’s my fantasy du jour. Walt Disney had it right: America’s fate would be a descent into pure fantasy as the final product of our many twentieth century triumphs. It is increasingly difficult, for instance, to sort fact from fantasy in Dr. Fauci’s magnum opus: the Covid-19 pandemic, starting from the premise that it actually exists. There was some kind of rumpus in Wuhan, China, in January of 2020… folks dropping dead in their tracks on the sidewalks (captured on closed circuit TVs)… folks getting the doors to their apartments welded shut… and then what?

Not much indication of further freak-outs inside China since back then. Perhaps the virus has been raging over there all the while, but a million here, a million there, do you really notice the attrition in a land of 1.4 billion? Or did they just switch off that groove on their narrative machine? The CCP can do that, I hear.

Back in the USA, where you’d have to subtract a billion and then-some in population, something was surely killing folks, though, overwhelmingly, most of those folks were already sick, and old, pretty much in the check-out zone. In 2020, the death of old and sick people was declared… impermissible! Death suddenly had no place in the exceptional order of things American. (Ask old Uncle Walt, who reportedly had his head and its gelatinous contents cryogenically frozen, in expectation of future re-animation via science magic! Still waiting for him to come back….)

Of course, the new medical rules-of-engagement circa 2020 included the denial of early treatment with known common anti-viral drugs for folks coming down with early symptoms of the mystery illness. So, while pretending to object to the implacable fact of death - a certainty of the human condition, according to science - we killed a whole bunch of people by withholding treatment. And concurrently, we rolled out the vaccines promising to “protect everybody” only to learn that it provided other, even more diabolical, routes to death.

And so, we’re left as of last week with the putative leader, “Joe Biden,” of a fantasy cult formerly known as the United States, barking at the populace to line up and get vaxed… or else! Did you flash on Jonestown, Guyana, 1978, the Peoples Temple, and the Rev. Jim Jones exhorting his deranged followers to “drink the Kool-Aid?” Is this whole extravaganza starting to look like a two-year-long bad dream that you’re finally waking up from?

It was heartening to see those football stadiums this weekend filled to their super-spreading parapets with good folks chanting the magic words of exorcism: “F**k Joe Biden.” And with such exuberance! As if returning home to genuine and familiar consciousness after a hypnotic journey to a weird plane of existence where anything goes and nothing matters. They are finally unimpressed after eight months of this gibbering empty suit who so ineptly fronts for a shadow administration operating wholly outside the law. We are going to get to the bottom of just how they put us through this wringer of the national soul, and exactly who was behind it.

After the initial flush of liberation, though, things get real. The hard work resumes and you start to feel pain again. I have a hunch that the weeks ahead will be doozies as the collective national mind undergoes reconstruction and narratives fall away with the season’s blazing leaves. A great sorting out of the real from the unreal lies ahead. Illusions will dissolve. The fog will lift. Some will be blinded by the light, even as we head into the darkest time of the year."

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 9/13/21"

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 9/13/21"
"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
"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
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Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/13/21: "Critical Updates: Expect The Unexpected!"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/13/21:
"Critical Updates: Expect The Unexpected!"

"Beautiful Relaxing Music for Stress Relief • Relax, Sleep, Meditate, Study (High Above)"

Full screen recommended.
Soothing Relaxation,
"Beautiful Relaxing Music for Stress Relief • 
Relax, Sleep, Meditate, Study (High Above)"
Beautiful relaxing music for stress relief, composed by 
Peder B. Helland. This track is called "High Above" and can be 
used to relax, sleep, meditate, study, work, do yoga, read and more.

"Restaurant Industry Crashing; Elimination Of Real Estate Agents; What Is Real Wealth?"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 9/12/21:
"Restaurant Industry Crashing; 
Elimination Of Real Estate Agents; What Is Real Wealth?"

Sunday, September 12, 2021

"Inflation is REAL: New World Disorder"

Full screen recommended.
Gerald Celente, Robert Kiyosaki, Kim Kiyosaki,
"Inflation is REAL: New World Disorder"

"This video was first posted on the Rich Dad Channel on Sep. 8, 2021 and I'm re-posting on my channel for those that missed it. The mainstream media will have you believe that the economy is on its way back from the devastation caused by the pandemic, but today’s guest says that the trends tell us another story.

Gerald Celente is the Founder and Director of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the weekly Trends Journal magazine and he says, “America was the land of opportunity, that is no longer.” Further, Gerald explains that the “bigs are in charge”: Big Banks, Big Pharma, Military-industrial complex, Big Tech. And as long as the bigs are in charge, the economy is in big trouble.

Hosts Robert and Kim Kiyosaki and guest Gerald Celente discuss what trends are telling us about the future of the global economy and where you should be putting your money."

"Silver Could Wind Up Over $270 – Physical Demand Will Completely Overwhelm Supply"

Full screen recommended.
"Silver Could Wind Up Over $270 – 
Physical Demand Will Completely Overwhelm Supply"
by Epic Economist

"The dollar era seems to be close to an end, and on the other hand, the silver market is booming like never before. According to Andy Schectman, the President & Owner of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, demand for silver is at all-time highs and prices are about to explode. In a recent interview with Quoth the Raven from Fringe Finance, the world-renowned expert in the field of precious metals warned about an imminent silver squeeze and how precious metals will play a role in the future of money worldwide while the U.S. dollar fatally collapses. Even though the silver market is a huge market, more silver is being consumed than is being mined each year. Only in 2020, nearly 850 million ounces were mined globally, but demand exceeded one billion ounces. In our modern world, silver is key. It's essential for new applications in green energy and battery-powered vehicles and it's in critical parts of most electronic devices. That's why the industrial demand for silver has started to grow exponentially in recent years.

However, while industrial demand skyrockets annual global mine supply is dramatically falling, which according to Schectman, is an indication that a global renaissance in monetary demand is right upon us. All of this is happening at the same time Wall Street bullion banks manipulate the price of monetary metals. In fact, they have been doing this for decades, which allowed the global elites to accumulate massive amounts of physical gold and silver at subsidized prices.

Currently, the silver to gold ratio is 75 to 1, which means that it takes 75 ounces of silver to "purchase" one ounce of gold. In contrast, only seven ounces of silver are being mined for every one ounce of gold. That is to say, at a 7 to 1 ratio, silver is roughly 11 times undervalued in comparison to gold. The current price of gold is sitting at $1,800, and if you divide that price by 7 - the current global mining ratio - you get a silver price of $270. However, with gold trading at $3,000 gold, a number the expert expects to see sooner than later, then we get silver at a staggering $428 an ounce.

The truth is that precious metals are a critical part of our next monetary era. Although silver is mainly used for industrial purposes today, it has been a form of wealth protection for centuries, and every time the world economies face a new systemic change in their currencies, precious metals hold on to their value while fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar are bound to face a sharp collapse. Keeping in mind that over the past year, the U.S. central bank has printed trillions of new dollars, expanding the money supply to levels never before seen and unleashing inflation, the inherent value of the dollar has already plunged to record-low levels, and that lost purchasing power will never come back.

Therefore, a major paradigm shift is about to start, and while our leaders continue to print, borrow and spend money like there's no tomorrow, on the other side of the planet, China is getting ahead of the game and it is backing its new digital currency with gold. As the expert notes, people will not be able to trade in a digital yuan for a piece of gold, but gold gives the Chinese digital currency reliability and proof that its value will not deteriorate over time. Already, the Chinese government is selling gold-backed yuan bonds that can be converted into physical gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange.

The latest data shows that China has approximately 38,000 tonnes of gold, from which roughly 20,000 tonnes are owned by the state and 18,000 tonnes are owned by the people. Gold backing of their new digital Yuan with proof of the holdings on a distributed ledger would promptly create demand and credibility for the Chinese digital currency. "In one form or another, I believe that is exactly what will happen. And You don’t want to own dollar-denominated assets when that happens," he warned.

The potential for a dollar collapse evolved from a "seemingly crazed idea" to a reality. The U.S. dollar is collapsing against other major currencies and the post-outbreak economic rebound will only intensify that process. The stage is set for an apocalyptic economic collapse and a ravaging financial crisis. Buy gold and silver, and get rid of your dollar-backed assets before the Everything Bubble bursts. Things are changing rapidly and very dark clouds and looming on the horizon, so be prepared!"

"What’s It All About?"

"What’s It All About?"
by Eric Peters

"The question is on every thinking person’s minds – though the answer varies. What is this all about?

The Push for the Jab? The most benign explanation is that they – the pharmaceutical cartels that wield shocking influence over the government – are determined to use the government they bought and paid for to get a return on their investment, via enshrining mandatory and universal forced-medicine. People are fools if they believe that this is a one-time thing. I have been screaming into the wind for decades about the importance of understanding precedents. If they can make you do A then they can make you do A1. So, if it becomes a requirement that you roll up your sleeve for this Jab, you will be required to roll up your sleeve for future Jabs – and perhaps much more than just Jabs.

If, after all, the precedent is established that you must submit to a medical procedure because you might otherwise get sick and might otherwise get others sick, then other medical procedures will be similarly required – and justified on he same basis. If the precedent is accepted, there is no way to argue against such an expansion – the principle of the thing having been conceded.

It is like the income tax, or the property tax on your home or any other tax. If the principle is accepted that you “owe” the government a penny because the government decrees you “owe” it a penny, what is to prevent it from decreeing you “owe” it a dollar? If the precedent is allowed to stand that the government can just take your penny, there is no principled objection to it taking more.

What will prevent the pharmaceutical cartels that have bought and paid for the government (as well as the corporate “mainstream” media, which serves as its propaganda arm) from using the government – and media – again? To coerce your rolling up of your sleeve, again? If you accept this Jab as the condition of retaining or obtaining employment, upon what logical basis will you refuse to accept the next – and the one after that?

There are $billions$ at stake – and that alone could account for the fervent push to force everyone to roll up their sleeves, just this once. Because the money (and control) interests pushing it know that’s all they have to do in order to make sleeve-rolling a habitual, normalized part of life. Like taxes.

There may well be more to it than just money – and the control it will enable over the lives of every American who is compelled to work in order to earn his daily bread. We certainly know it is not about our “health,” a fatuity that would be funny were it not for the tens of thousands of deaths and serious, life-altering Adverse Events (as these are styled) that are undeniably associated with the Jab. It is ridiculous – it is evil – to demand that people who are perfectly healthy and whose health is in little, if any, serious jeopardy from a sickness that does not kill 99.8-something percent of the healthy population take the risk of being Jabbed.

Imagine the government ordering people to buy and drive a car that has racked up a body count even 1 percent of the total reported to VAERS – the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System. Well, take that back. The government has effectively ordered people to buy and drive electric cars – which present a known and inherent risk of fire, due to the nature of high-capacity electric car batteries and the known fire risk associated with “fast” charging them. The government has also turned a blind eye to the known risk of defective air bags, which it recalled but which it also refused to allow to be disabled until they could be replaced.

The reason for that being the precedent that would be set, if it did allow it. The government cannot admit error anymore than Dracula can sunbathe. It would be to concede non-omniscience. That it does not always know best. That its decisions sometimes result in... adverse effects.

This may also explain the Push to Jab. The government (and corporate mass media) created a mass panic which included a slew of draconian measures, all of them premised on the fiction that a Black Death was circulating. The fact that it was a fictional Black Death is made obvious by the health of people who never “masked” – and who have not been Jabbed. It is obviously ridiculous to prattle on about Black Death being everywhere when there are so many obviously still-healthy Unjabbed people everywhere.

They undermine the lie that the only way to stave off the Black Death is universal Jabbing. If they are successful, it will not matter that people continue to get sick. That can be blamed on the Delta, Mu and What-Have-You “variants,” which will then provide neat justification for further sleeve-rolling, ad infinitum.

Ka-ching for the pharmaceutical cartels. A heavy carpet over the truth for the government and media that are its bought and paid for adjutants. That is sufficient – and sufficiently evil – to explain all of it. Though of course there may still be much more to it."

Musical Interlude: Kevin Kern, "Above The Clouds"

Full screen recommended.
Kevin Kern, "Above The Clouds"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Find the Big Dipper and follow the handle away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you'll come upon this stunning pair of interacting galaxies, the 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog. Perhaps the original spiral nebula, the large galaxy with well defined spiral structure is also cataloged as NGC 5194. 
Its spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (top), NGC 5195. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant and officially lie within the angular boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici. Though M51 looks faint and fuzzy to the eye, deep images like this one reveal its striking colors and galactic tidal debris."