The Poet: Mary Oliver, “Can You Imagine?”

“Can You Imagine?”

“For example, what the trees do

not only in lightning storms

or the watery dark of a summer’s night

or under the white nets of winter

but now, and now, and now – whenever

we’re not looking. Surely you can’t imagine

they don’t dance, from the root up, wishing

to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting

a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly

more shade – surely you can’t imagine they just

stand there loving every

minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings

of the years slowly and without a sound

thickening, and nothing different unless the wind,

and then only in its own mood, comes

to visit, surely you can’t imagine

patience, and happiness, like that.”

- Mary Oliver, “Long Life”

"Who Will Answer?"

"Who Will Answer?"

by Jim Kunstler

"Why on earth would any American with a functioning brain believe what he /she /they is being told by the public health officialdom, the politicians, or the news media? For two years, they have lied to you about everything relating to the Covid-19 virus, including where it came from, how it was developed, who sponsored its development, how the vaccines happened to come onstage thirty seconds after the disease entered the scene, how well the vaccines worked, how safe the vaccines were, and whether there were other cheap and effective treatments for the disease.

So, here we are with nearly 200-million Americans fully vaccinated (and 230-million with at least one dose), plus 47-million overall officially registered cases of Covid illness (conferring immunity among the survivors), plus X-number people infected with no symptoms, or people who didn’t get tested when sick, or didn’t bother going to see a doctor or report to a hospital, plus X-number of people with natural immunity to Covid for one reason or another (maybe a high number, based on the Diamond Princess cruise ship ratio of a Pareto-type 80/20 distribution) - and now, in the fall of 2021, here comes another surge of Covid-19 among both the vaxxed and un-vaxxed.

Did all that vaxxing help? It apparently did nothing to prevent transmission of the disease. The vaxxed were spreading it as effectively as the unvaxxed, and the vaxxed were catching the disease as easily, too, though supposedly suffering not as badly as the unvaxxed (if you choose to believe the official press releases, and why would you believe them?). Then, along came the reports of “adverse reactions” to the vaccines, many of them quite grave - clots, strokes, infarctions, neurological havoc, organ failure. In mid-October this year, the VAERS registry had it at 17,000 deaths and 26,000 permanent disabilities, and the rule-of-thumb was that these represented only 10 percent of the actual number of adverse events because the VAERS website was so badly designed that it crashed half the time any doctor tried to use it… plus the doctors were being silenced and punished for voicing any distrust of the vaccines.

Then why the mad rush to vaccinate all the children in America? There have been next-to-zero covid deaths among children besides a few hundred with grave co-morbidities like cancer or cystic fibrosis - and the hospitals had a cash subsidy incentive from the federal government to list them as dying “with Covid.” Children are far more likely to suffer harm from the vaccines than from the Covid-19 disease. The child vax experiment is only just underway, and there are already enough cases of myocarditis and other disorders to be very concerned. The medical establishment has no idea what the long-term effects on children might be, in particular on their reproductive systems, since the chief active ingredient in the vaccines, the spike protein, has a proclivity for the sexual organs. It happens, too, by the way, that mothers who got vaxxed in early 2021 are just now giving birth to babies with myocarditis and other signature disorders of adverse mRNA vaccine reactions. Keep your eye on that sub-plot of the story.

One wonders: is this child vax campaign an attempt to eliminate the last major control group in the population? (Or just to eliminate a big demographic chunk altogether?) Is it tied in some way to beating the release date for Pfizer’s “Comirnaty” vaccine - which would vacate the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) that protects the pharma companies from liability? Despite delirious propaganda from the likes of National Public Radio, the bad news is out, and the bad news is that the Covid vaccines for children are bad news. Parents ought to object to any official attempts to coerce them into vaxxing their kids, but will they? I’d guess that the reaction will be ferocious. Stand by on that.

Meanwhile, what would be an intelligent response to Covid-19 at this point? Well, how about letting it burn through the population as expeditiously as possible, along with an aggressive nationwide early treatment program using existing effective drugs such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, fluvoxamine, budesonide, monoclonal antibodies, for starters, along with vitamin D3, quercetin, zinc, selenium, N-acetyl L-cysteine (NAC)? That would minimize fatalities and confer superior natural immunity throughout the whole population.

Of course, one of the whopper lies you’re being told is that this early treatment protocol doesn’t work. Dozens of clinical studies in other countries and direct clinical experience in this country tell the opposite story: the early treatment protocols work remarkably well. The big question, eventually, will be: who might be held responsible in the public health and medical bureaucracies for militating against early treatment? Was it sheer epic incompetence, or something more malevolent?"

- https://kunstler.com/

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Related:

"VAERS: At Least 160,000 Americans Have 

Likely Died From Covid Vaccines"

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The title of this article reminded me of this totally unrelated song from 1968...

Ed Ames, "Who Will Answer?"

"That Was the Week That Was"

"That Was the Week That Was"

by Bill Bonner

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – "Our Doom Index gauge is now at 8… which is “Crash Alert” territory. On Friday, we all dutifully assembled for the ceremony…We pulled the old, tattered, black-and-blue crash flag out of storage, ran it up the pole, and saluted solemnly. Now, we’ll see what happens…

Crash Alert (Again): Here are the details on the latest Doom Index reading from our research department: We created the Doom Index to sound the alarm ahead of the next crisis. It tracks 12 key indicators to detect when there’s stress in the economy and markets are overheating. [For more information on how we calculate the Doom Index reading each quarter, have a look at our "Introducing the Doom Index" report.] The chart below shows our Doom Index levels by quarter. The red bars indicate a reading of 8 or higher. That’s when we raise our “crash alert” flag and tell investors it’s time to prepare for a market crash.

Crash Alert: We raised our “crash alert” flag at the end of Q2 2019, when the Doom Index hit 8. We stayed in the “Danger Zone” for the next four quarters. Economic conditions improved slightly in the second half of 2020, as evidenced by our Doom Index reading dropping to 7 for Q3 2020 and Q4 2020… before shooting back up to 8 – crash alert territory – in Q1 2021… and then dropping back to 7 in Q2 2021. Our recent Doom Index reading – based on the Q3 2021 data – is 8…So we’re raising our tattered “crash alert” flag once more…You’ve been warned, Dear Reader…

[For a full breakdown of the indicators we track for the Doom Index and their Q3 2021 readings, click here.]

Good News: And before plunging ahead into this week’s kookiness, let’s look back at what a marvelous time we had last week. When it comes to fraud and fantasy, we can’t remember a stretch of seven days so densely packed.

First, stocks hit another new all-time high… with the Dow trading above 36,400 and the Wilshire 5000 over 48,900… And a new record for the stocks-to-GDP ratio, too – over 200%.

Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll and determined to sell $7 billion of his own stock… which caused the company’s value to go down by as much as $235 billion… It was as if the entire annual GDP of Portugal had been erased.

Meanwhile, a potential Tesla competitor, Rivian (RIVN), went public. The company has hardly any sales. And it has no profits – in the very-competitive market for pickups, it probably never will. Still, that didn’t stop the gamblers. They acted as if the profits were already in the bag… and drove the share price up to about $130… giving the company a projected market value above $110 billion. That’s billion, with a b… which is a lot of money for a company that lost $2 billion from the beginning of 2020 through June 2021… and that produced fewer than 350 vehicles in September-October. (GM’s market cap is $92 billion… with more than 1.7 million vehicles sold so far in 2021.)

Crypto Record: Monday was a very busy day in FantasyLand, with the total value of the crypto market punching through the $3 trillion ceiling. But unlike Rivian, which might someday make a profit and pay a dividend, crypto is a whole new asset class. It is no industry. There is no product. No sales. No profits. No company picnics or swag. Like chips in a casino, cryptos provide a service, however. You can gamble with them… cash them in… spend them… share them with your friends. And who knows… They might become even more valuable.

Bad News: Not all the news was celebratory, however. Last week also brought us two big break-ups – GE and J&J. These are real companies, in the real world, selling real products to real buyers. We don’t know much about Johnson & Johnson… but we recall when GE was riding high. Its CEO then was Jack Welch, feted as perhaps the greatest businessman in America. Welch took the company from $74 billion in sales in 1980 to $224 billion in sales by the end of the century, and was named “Manager of the Century” in 1999.

Even then, we were suspicious. We’ve run a business, too. And in the late 1990s, when we learned that GE was buying new businesses at the rate of, on average, one a week, we knew it would not be long before the company started sliding down the slippery slope. It takes a lifetime to master even a single business. No matter how smart GE’s team was… there was no way it could make that work. And in the event, it didn’t. The many acquisitions increased GE’s debt and distracted its management. Sales fell. By last year, it was back (inflation adjusted) below where it had been 40 years before. And on Tuesday, GE announced that it was de-conglomerating itself into three different businesses. Sic transit gloria edisonia.

Really BIG News: But the week’s really big news was the inflation rate. The Federal Reserve had said inflation was transitory. But now… there it is… getting worse, month after month. And so, the Fed admitted that inflation might be with us for a while, but still insisted that the “factors” behind it are transitory: Inflation is elevated, largely reflecting factors that are expected to be transitory.

As for the rest of the White House, and The Washington Post… they decided to try to divert attention from the real cause (too much government spending… too much money-printing) onto “supply chain disruptions,” “price gouging,” and market “manipulations.” The White House, and several economists, even suggested that more infrastructure spending would boost output and thereby lower inflation rates.

Remarkable Pledge" And finally, there was the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference in Scotland… wherein executives, politicians, apparatchiks, busy bodies, and “green” lobbyists and hustlers – 503 of whom were linked to the oil industry – came together.

Yes, Dear Reader, the greenwash flowed like the Niagara. Old, withered businesses sent out glossy new leaves. Politicians turned the color of unripe bananas. And greasy roughnecks looked as though they had just gotten off the ferry after a rough ride! Everyone was the planet’s best friend… and all pledged to do their utmost to save it from the dreaded CO2.

And yes, they made the most remarkable pledge since Adolf Hitler promised to keep the Reich going for 1,000 years. They said they were going to change the world’s weather. Not “a wee bit,” as they might say in Glasgow, where COP26 was held. But precisely… to the fraction of a degree. The U.N. said it was looking for an upper limit on average temperature increase of 2.2 degrees Celsius. The International Energy Agency said it thought warming could be limited to 1.8 degrees. And they agreed to keep the upper limit of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels “alive.”

New Week: And so now… with our Crash Alert flag proudly flying above the headquarters… and so much folderol behind us…we put our head down… venture into the new week… and prepare to laugh. Stay tuned."

- www.rogueeconomics.com

The Daily "Near You?"

Ellijay, Georgia, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"It’s Time to Make Big Changes - The US Dollar is Plummeting"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, iAllegedly, AM 11/15/21:

"It’s Time to Make Big Changes - The US Dollar is Plummeting"

"Now is the best time in history to make big changes. 

We are seeing the job market in complete chaos. 

The US dollar is plummeting in value before our eyes."

"This Is How They Intend To Get Us To 'You Will Own Nothing And Be Happy'”

"This Is How They Intend To Get Us To

 'You Will Own Nothing And Be Happy'”

by Michael Snyder

"The pieces of the puzzle may fit together in ways that you do not expect. For years, the global elite have been openly telling us that one day we will all own nothing, we will have no privacy, and we will be extremely happy with our new socialist utopia. But exactly how do they intend to transition to such a society? Are they going to come and take all of your stuff? Needless to say, there are millions upon millions of very angry people out there that aren’t just going to hand over their stuff to a bunch of socialists. So how are they going to overcome that obstacle?

Well, the truth is that they don’t need to take your stuff to implement their goals. All they need to do is to destroy the value of your money. If your money becomes worthless, you will start descending into poverty and it won’t be too long before you become totally dependent on the government. And as the stuff that you have right now wears out, you won’t be able to replace it with the worthless money that you are now holding. Eventually, you will own virtually nothing, but you probably won’t be very happy about it.

So high inflation is actually a tool that the global elite can use to further their goals. The good news is that I do not believe that the global elite will ever be able to achieve their utopia. The bad news is that they won’t be able to achieve their utopia because western society is going to completely and utterly collapse during the times that are ahead.

But for now, inflation is going to be one of the hottest political issues as we head into 2022. On Friday, Vice-President Kamala Harris acknowledged that higher prices are having a huge impact on American families… “Prices have gone up and families and individuals are dealing with the realities of the bread costs more, the gas costs more, and have to understand what that means,” she said. “That’s about the cost of living going up. That’s about having to stress and stretch limited resources.” Harris said that is a “source of stress for families” that is “not only economic, but is, on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry.” Of course her “solution” is to get Joe Biden’s agenda through Congress, and she knows that all of that spending will inevitably create even more inflation.

The socialists over at NBC News are trying to help the Biden administration by putting a positive spin on the inflation crisis. In fact, NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle is trying really hard to convince everyone that inflation is not a problem because we all have more money to spend these days. But as I demonstrated last week, the truth is that inflation is rising much faster than our paychecks are, and that means that our standard of living is going down.

And inflation is one of the big reasons why the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index just hit the lowest level since 2011…"At the same time, the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index tumbled to 66.8 for November, according to a preliminary reading Friday. That was the lowest since November 2011 and well below the Dow Jones estimate of 72.5. October’s reading was 71.7, meaning that the November level represented a 6.8% drop."

If you are among those that think that things are bad now, just wait, because they will soon get even worse. At this point, even Neel Kashkari is publicly admitting that inflation is going to continue to rise in the months ahead…"Minneapolis Fed Chair Neel Kashkari on Sunday said inflation in the U.S. will likely see “higher readings” before numbers taper off, as Americans grapple with rising prices nationwide. “The math suggests we’re probably going to see somewhat higher readings over the next few months before they likely start to taper off,” Kashkari said during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The Federal Reserve has lost control, and 2022 is going to be a very “interesting” year from an economic standpoint. On Sunday, we learned that the average price of a gallon of gasoline in California has almost reached five dollars…"California gas prices hit an average of $4.676 Sunday, beating its previous record average price of $4.671 for regular gasoline set in October 2012, according to AAA." Gasoline prices are going to continue to move higher, and that is really bad news. Just about everything that we buy has to be transported, and so higher gasoline prices are going to fuel even more inflation.

Sadly, those that are on the bottom of the economic food chain are the ones that are being hurt the most. At this point, many food banks are really struggling to purchase enough food because price hikes have become so severe…"America’s largest food bank struggles to feed people amid a perfect storm of surging food prices and supply chain woes.

Katie Fitzgerald, COO of Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that operates more than 200 food banks across the country, told AP News that her network of food banks is already stretched thin due to the unprecedented demand spurred by the virus pandemic downturn in the economy last year. She warned that it has become more difficult for her organization to absorb food inflation, resulting in fewer families being fed this holiday season."

Used farm equipment is another area where inflation is hitting really hard. According to one index, the price of used farm equipment was up 22 percent during the first nine months of 2021…"The index is up 22% in the first nine months of the year and poised to make its biggest gains yet in the fourth quarter, a boom that’s turning a normally quiet corner of the farming market into Exhibit A of the inflation surge coursing through the U.S. economy. The market has all the ingredients fueling inflation in industries like cars and TVs - soaring demand from cash-flush buyers, the semiconductor shortage, congested ports and rails - with the added irritant of the labor stoppage at the world’s largest farm-machine maker. The match “is now lit,” Peterson says, “and it’s lit while there’s a John Deere strike.”

So many problems have converged all at once. Some have used the term “a perfect storm” to describe what we are facing, and I think that is definitely quite appropriate.

If you are waiting for life to “get back to normal”, you are going to be waiting for a very long time. As MN Gordon has noted, pre-2020 prices are now gone forever… "Pre-2020 prices, much like pre-1965 prices, are gone forever. Deficits of $5.9 trillion over the 24 months ending September 30, 2021, and a Fed balance sheet expansion of nearly $5 trillion over the same period, have irrevocably damaged the entire pricing structure of the financial system and the economy." Price inflation is on the move. Reality can no longer be covered up with Washington’s lies. We expect this episode of inflation will be one for the history books.

I wish that I had better news for you. I really do. But sooner or later, this is what socialist regimes always do. They tell us to study hard, get a good job and work as hard as we can. And then they give our money to people that haven’t done any of those things. Eventually they run out of other people’s money, and so then they just start wildly creating more. Unfortunately, every time that this has been tried throughout history it has always ended in disaster, and now it is our turn."

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Gregory Mannarino, "Expect The Unexpected: Morgan Stanley Warns Again! Are Price Controls Coming? Bet On It!"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 11/15/21:

"Expect The Unexpected: Morgan Stanley Warns Again! 

Are Price Controls Coming? Bet On It!"

- https://traderschoice.net/

"How It Really Is"

 

"Clear Focus Ambient Space Music for Concentration - Isochronic Tones"

"Clear Focus Ambient Space Music for Concentration - 

Isochronic Tones"

Full screen recommended. 

Headphones are NOT required for this video.

by Jason Lewis, Mind Amend

"Ambient electronic space music with low-intensity beta and alpha wave tones for clear focus. This is a brainwave entrainment music track using isochronic tones combined with music. The music has also been embedded with amplitude entrainment effects, where the music is subtly distorted and vibrates in unison with the same frequency of the isochronic tones. This helps to add further strength to the entrainment effect. If brainwave entrainment is a new concept for you, there is some information about it here: https://www.mindamend.com/

This brainwave entrainment session cycles through a frequency range of between 10Hz in Alpha, (which can help with memorization and learning), and up to 14Hz in the Beta range, (which will help with increasing focus and concentration). You can listen to this track with your eyes open while studying, reading or doing other activities which require a good level of concentration."

- https://www.mindamend.com/

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 11/15/21"

"Economic Market Snapshot AM 11/15/21"

"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

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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/

 Nov. 14th to 16th, 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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- https://www.freightwaves.com/

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Daily Job Cuts

- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.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...

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"The Recognition"

"The Recognition"

by Jim Kunstler

"The climate change agitation is based on a central grandiose fallacy of our wobbling technocratic age: the idea that if you can measure enough stuff, you can control it. The master-wish in this case is what, exactly? To control the weather? (Which we might define as the day-to-day expression of the planet’s climate?) That ain’t gonna happen. In case you haven’t noticed, the business model of industrial civilization is already broken, and many of its dazzling tricks with it. And, anyway, the earth’s climate is forever and always changing, as is the adaptive response to it by human populations over the centuries, sometimes slowly and sometimes fast.

So, the net result of this year’s Glasgow Climate Summit is to pledge gobs of money from the “rich” nations to protect the poor nations, while mandating the reduction of oil, natgas, and coal in all nations, i.e., the global economy. Apropos of those “rich” nations, guess what: all of our modern money rests on promises to deliver future volumes of energy (and products of value made from it) and those promises are without basis in reality, so the money itself is increasingly worthless. Thus, the cost of getting that future energy exceeds the promises embedded in the money based on the energy. How’s that for a paradox? We’re the proverbial snake eating its own tail and now we’ve bitten off more than we can swallow.

We’re going to use less energy whether Klaus Schwab (and the Persian cat in his lap) likes it or not because our money is increasingly no good, which translates into a general loss of mojo for this round of civilization. The massive matrix of mutually self-reinforcing activities is seizing up - the mining, making, harvesting, and transport of stuff. That’s exactly what the “supply chain” melodrama is about. Of course, the Glasgow Summit did allow a bunch of people to feel self-important, to bethink themselves morally superior, which is the status currency of our time - the brownie-point having more actual value than the dollar these days. It certifies the “good” people and validates their persecution of the “bad” people, which is the central political drama of our time. The reward is power for its own sake, which is - let’s face it - the essence of evil.

The collapse of the global economy is underway and working itself out as it will, and the fear associated with that epic loss of resources, goods, comforts, and conveniences is driving Western Civ batshit crazy. Hence, the lunacies around the Covid-19 virus, another measure-and-control mania. Except that most of the official measurements about Covid-19 are untrue, gamed, fudged, juggled, misrepresented, and weaponized for political purposes. In fact, despite all the obsessive-compulsive statistical measuring, everything that the public health officialdom and the medical establishment did to control the disease after January 2020, only made the pandemic worse and prolonged it.

And so now all those authorities are bent on “vaccinating” every last human - which is absolutely the last thing you would rationally do in the midst of the pandemic event, since it only provokes new iterations of the virus that are immune to the “vaccines.” What’s more, the “vaccines” are so ineffective in the first place, and so toxic in the second place, that the damage they cause is arguably worse than the disease. But that quandary affords another opportunity for the self-designated “good” people (the vaxxed) to distinguish themselves from the “bad” people (the unvaxxed), and hence another way to persecute them. (Do you suppose it’s a mere coincidence that the people who refuse to get agitated by the climate change panic are often the very same people skeptical of the “vaccines”?)

Another interesting paradox in this panorama of mindf***ery is that the self-designated “good” people have behaved with uniform bad-faith and dishonesty throughout the long crisis - at least from RussiaGate through the current crusade to vax-up all the children - and that is what will change the game, probably soon. It happens that the leadership of the “good” people includes most of the figures in authority over the whole country: those public health officials like Dr. Fauci, the hospital directors who outlawed early treatment protocols, the pharma executives who buried their failed drug trials, the scientific journal publishers who killed reports that don’t support the “vaccine” narrative, the news-media editors and producers who can’t stop spinning lies, the Social Media totalitarian censors and cancellers, the tyrant mayors of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, the “blue” state governors who destroyed small business with lockdowns and “passports,” the Woked-up state and federal bureaucrats ever preoccupied with covering their asses, the skulking managers behind the ectoplasmic “President Joe Biden” (and their handmaidens in Congress) - that Satanic host of coercion-meisters, inquisitionists, corporate despots, reputational executioners, moneygrubbers, political whores, and credentialed sadists trying to run your life - are headed for a fall.

They will fall because dishonesty undermines the entire scaffold of their “narrative.” All that’s required is for a crucial truth to assert itself unequivocally in the zeitgeist for the whole armature to fold. For instance, the truth that the “vaccines” are killing and maiming a lot of people. Or the truth that firing unvaxxed people from their jobs will drive them to hardship and revolt - even while it destroys the critical services that all people, “good” and “bad,” depend on, from the EMTs to the army. Or the truth that the crashing economy will disorder all the touchstones of daily life and require us to make big changes to remain civilized. That moment of recognition of how things have gone and where things are going is here. We’re in it. Yeats’s gyre has widened. We’re close to escape velocity. And then maybe we will begin again, walking in sunlight rather than darkness."

- https://kunstler.com/

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"The Second Coming"

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

- William Butler Yeats

"There Are Times..."

“If the sun is shining, stand in it – yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass – they have to – because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centered. What you are pursuing is meaning – a meaningful life… There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realize that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.”

- Jeanette Winterson

“Hustled Through Life”

“Hustled Through Life”

by Paul Rosenberg

“Most people, sad to say, are too rushed, frightened, and confused to think about what they really want out of life. They are hustled through school, forced into long-term decisions before they’re ready to face them, then held to those decisions by fear and shame. They choose from a limited set of options, and they know that change will be punished. Eventually they get old and find time to think, but by then they can’t bear to question too deeply; that would jeopardize their self-worth, and they haven’t time to rebuild it.

For an intelligent, creative, and expansive species like ours, this rush to nowhere is among the greatest of evils. And yet it continues, mostly unquestioned. At no point in the usual Western life do we stop, take some serious time for ourselves, and think about the overall:

• What’s life about anyway? What’s the point of what we do?

• What’s the purpose of a career? Why should I care about it above everything else?

• Why should I glorify the existing system? Why should I agree to support it?

• Who paid for everything I learned in school?

• Should I have a family? If so, why? If not, why not?

• What do I think is fun? Does it really coincide with the beer ads on TV?

• What’s the purpose of being like everyone else? Why am I so afraid to be different?

We don’t address such questions. Rather, we’re pushed past them. Even in a church or synagogue – places where larger questions are supposed to be addressed – the person in the pulpit wants us to become and/or remain a member of the congregation; their job depends upon it. There are true ministers and rabbis, but for most it’s all too easy to push their audience into what’s convenient. As a result, we see little motivation in the modern West, save for the basest of motivators: things that match a line from the Bible that says, “Whose god is their belly.”

Mind you, I’m not against wealth, good food, or sex. I think those are fine things. They are not, however, the whole of life. We are much bigger than that. We ought not be limited to belly-level aspirations. But when we’re rushed, that’s all we’re able to see.

Status and Fear: The two big motivators we face in this rush through life – fear and status – are both negative.

Fear is a manipulation technology; people who make you afraid are hacking your mind. They want you to ignore reason and obey them fast. (I wish I could cover this in depth here, but we haven’t space. Please see issue #54 of my subscription newsletter.) When we’re afraid, we make our worst choices. Put plainly, fear makes us stupid. But we encounter it on a daily basis… and it destroys us by inches.

Status is the compulsion to compare ourselves with others, and whether we’re looking for the ways we’re better than others or looking for our shortcomings, it is deeply destructive. It’s also irrational, but the advertising business would crash without it and advertisers currently own the collective eyeballs of humanity.

Fear and status are, in a broad sense, drugs, and if you had a choice between smoking pot every day or being on fear and status every day, I’d definitely recommend the pot.

Confusion: Let’s be clear on something: Nearly every adult in the West will agree that politicians are liars and thieves… and yet they obey them without question. Is there any possibility we’d do such things if we weren’t harried and confused? When we are confused, we pass over our own minds and their deliberations. There’s an old joke: “Who are you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?” But that’s precisely what confusion does to us, and under the pressures of confusion and authority, most people will ignore their own eyes.

Such things do not happen to people who are calm and confident. But the existing hierarchies of the West couldn’t function with a calm and confident populace; their operations require people to be frightened, confused, and blindly chasing status.

As a Result… As a result, most of us hurry through life, never knowing why. We live as others do, simply because that path is streamlined for us, exposing us to a minimal level of fear and shame. But that path does something else: It keeps us from experiencing ourselves. Seldom has this problem been put more succinctly than in this quote from Albert Einstein: “Small is the number of them who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

Stop following the crowd. Turn your back on the popular script. Stop feeding at the same trough as everyone else. Break away and learn to see with your own eyes, to feel with your own heart. Don’t conform. Let people criticize you. Decide for yourself what your life will be about. Make it matter.”

- https://www.freemansperspective.com/

"I Just Hope You All Have Prepared for the Dark Winter"

"I Just Hope You All Have Prepared for the Dark Winter"

by Chris Black

"Motto: If you think things are weird now, check the spoilers for Pandemic Season Three.

Since the covid-19 hoax began almost 2 years ago, seasonal flu, the common cold and other upper respiratory tract infections basically disappeared. Why, you asked? Well, that’s an easy one, if you were paying attention: they needed “covid cases” and “covid deaths” (people who die and/or test positive for “covid” using a fake PCR test are counted as a covid death/case, even car crashes), so the government can fake the pandemic numbers and keep the population in fear and complacent with dictatorial measures.

Then, experimental gene therapy was pushed via 24/7 propaganda, so the people can “get back” their freedom and their rights. Hint: if the government can take your civil liberties on a whim, which they did, you don’t have any liberty or rights to start with.

So, moving along with our story, we’re currently facing new lockdowns, Australia/Austria style, even if the vast majority of the sheeple got jabbed with at least one clot-shot. Vaccine passports are becoming the new normal, Pfizer is making money like bandits (which they are), and suddenly, the CDC, a taxpayer funded governmental organization, is pushing the strange concept that herd immunity doesn’t count anymore, and it should be set aside.

As in, it is better for public health to take infinity jabs with experimental gene therapy than, you know, live your life. They are already backtracking…t.co/XecEb3cHZc

- ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) November 12, 2021

Brooks said he worries that as the CDC backs off a specific target for herd immunity, it will take the air out of efforts to run up vaccination levels. See, the entire “get the jab and get your life back” shtick was as huge scam, as I already told you last year.

These people are laughing in your face. They don’t care about public health; all they want is to implement WEF’s agenda, get everyone jabbed and subscribed to Big Pharma for the rest of their lives, and push their demonic control grid via vaccine passports/digital IDs.

Here’s something to cook your noodle later on: herd immunity kicks in between 25-30%. The black plague didn’t kill 70-80% of the population. The Spanish Flu never got above 20% of the population infected. The CDC can’t admit there is a threshold for herd immunity because they no longer recognize natural immunity to infections. From now on the CDC has decided that immunity only comes from vaccines, and that immunity can only be possible if 100% of the population gets vaccinated with no exceptions. This makes an absolute mockery of science.

Even Fauci said that the vaccines don’t prevent infection, hospitalization, and death. Now they admit this openly, as they even changed the definition of “immunization” recently. The current scientific dogma is that the only way out is more booster shots. You’ll eventually have to take one every week, or daily, who knows? Or you just do what humans have done since the dawn of time, and go live your life.

There never was a Covid-19 pandemic. Not when the health officials in countries like Italy are reducing the deaths from covid by 97%. Always remember: the CDC works for the pharmaceutical industry. They will only support what makes them money. Asian countries that didn’t have a covid problem, they only started having a covid problem when they began vaccinating the population. You can overlay the chart of the vaccines given and the chart of new covid cases in any country or state, and the charts match.

Do you remember back in March of 2020 when people like me were telling you that covid didn’t exist, that it was a psyop for control? That the vaccine already existed, and it would be enforced with mandates and vaccine passports in the near future? That future is now. That Covid-19 stood for Certificate of Vaccine ID. Well, we were right again.

Covid was simply weaponizing the common cold using a test that by design cannot be used to diagnose an illness, in order to create the appearance of a pandemic. Fear will then allow a handful of people to control billions. “But labs have covid samples!!!” If you are going to pay researchers tens of millions of dollars to find covid, they’ll find covid. It is like the Higgs Boson. We spent billions building the Large Hadron Collider to find the Higgs. After billions of dollars and decades of work, it was very apparent that the scientists were wrong.

But then all of a sudden, they found miniscule evidence that had less than a .1% chance of being related to the Higgs, but they jumped at it and claimed they found it. There was no real evidence, but that didn’t matter. The entire scientific community and the media said the researchers found the Higgs Boson.

I have no doubt that Fauci was working on gain of function research on corona in Wuhan. It also makes a very convenient source to create real plausibility for the existence of SARS-CoV-2. The “just wait two weeks” has turned into two years. How much longer are we supposed to let this go on? The people really are living in the Matrix, the false world created by the Bolshevik Left. Waking up to that realization is something a lot of people just aren’t ready for.

Let me close it up with a short story: Patient Zero in the USA was a young guy from Seattle who had recently returned from China. Even though he wasn’t sick, he thought he should get checked out at the hospital. After going to the hospital, he fell ill five days later. He returned to the hospital where he was diagnosed with hospital acquired pneumonia. He was given steroids and antibiotics and got better over the course of the next week.

At the time, there was no test for covid. Because of his symptoms, it was later determined that he had covid and his close contacts were then deemed covid cases. Through contact tracing, the first covid outbreak in the USA became a reality.

It was January at the time, and flu cases were immediately called covid due to the infection profile. The same thing then happened in Boston when a woman from China was deemed symptomatic when she was at a medical conference. A few people who were at the conference later exhibited flu symptoms. It was winter and completely normal for a few people out of a few hundred to get a cough and a fever. Instead of actually looking for the real cause, covid was blamed and the second outbreak was “confirmed”.

Three weeks later, “covid” was found in almost every state, even in places with people who couldn’t possibly have had contact with anyone infected, like a rural farm in Idaho. The common cold, influenza, and a few hundred other illnesses became covid when the CDC sent out the new guidance that any symptom of supposed covid could be called a covid case without any further diagnosis, and the hospital or health facility would be guaranteed a payment of $18k for every covid diagnosis.

The only person I ever met who “died from Covid”, was the father of the husband of one of my not so close friends. He was very overweight and 74 years old. It was the middle of the winter and he got sick. His daughter is a nurse, so she said to immediately go to the hospital because he caught covid. This was not a diagnosis based on any test. He got sick and his nurse daughter said he must have covid. He went to the hospital, already sick. They ran a covid test that came back negative, but said that with his symptoms it must be covid. They didn’t check for anything else.

Because of his weight and age, they immediately gave him Remdesivir. His condition then became even more severe. He was then put on a respirator. A second Covid test then came back positive. He was also diagnosed with Covid induced pneumonia. Of course the symptoms were blamed on Covid and he wasn’t given antibiotics or steroids. After two and a half weeks of being on a ventilator and suffering kidney failure, he died.

Some people I know said that they didn’t feel sorry for him, because he was high risk for covid and didn’t seem to care about it, i.e. he didn’t wear masks when he went out, so he got what he got. The death from covid story just doesn’t add up though. He was already sick when he went to the hospital, and tested negative for covid. It wasn’t until later, and after he was given the covid treatment protocol of Remdisivir and the ventilator, that he tested positive. He wasn’t given the normal treatment for someone presenting pneumonia symptoms. The most accurate diagnosis is that he caught pneumonia and was killed by the Covid protocols at the hospital.

What we’ve seen from the beginning of this stupid pandemic hoax is that anything that happens in one country is bound to eventually happen in other countries, and sometimes in every country. This whole entire agenda is centrally planned – obviously.

There has never been a pandemic. There has never been any evidence indicating that there was a pandemic. So the only possible reason that every government would be pretending there is a pandemic is that they are cooperating with a third force that is external to governments. It is clear that this third force is making the decisions.

They are currently building an entire narrative about how the unvaxed are creating variants that do not affect them, and yet somehow kill vaccinated people. This is the narrative they are going to push hard when people start dying from various conditions created by the vax. This “variant factories” meme was first circulating in July.

The vax is creating serious and permanent health conditions in people who take it, and one of those conditions is likely to be a seriously compromised immune system. So, this winter, it is likely that a lot of people actually will die. The vaxed are going to die from normal colds and flus, because their immune system will no longer work properly. Then they’re going to come out with this brutal narrative about how it’s a new variant created by the unvaxed.

This virus hoax has been extremely successful and there is no possible way they are going to back off from it, which means that they are going to keep pushing it, which means that it is going to get worse."

- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

"How It Really Is"

Must View! "When Your Friends Get Desperate And Hungry; Federal Reserve Wants Control Of Your Bank Account"

Jeremiah Babe, PM 11/14/21

"When Your Friends Get Desperate And Hungry; 

Federal Reserve Wants Control Of Your Bank Account"

Musical Interlude: 2002, "River of Stars"

Full screen recommended.

2002, "River of Stars"

Chet Raymo, “Reaching For The Stars”

“Reaching For The Stars”

by Chet Raymo

“Here is a spectacular detail of the Eagle Nebula, a gassy star-forming region of the Milky Way Galaxy, about 7,000 light-years away. This particular spire of gas and dust was recently featured on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). The Eagle lies in the equatorial constellation Serpens. If you went out tonight and looked at this part of the sky – more or less midway between Arcturus and Antares – you might see nothing at all. The brightest star in Serpens is of the third magnitude, perhaps invisible in an urban environment. No part of the Eagle Nebula is available to unaided human vision. How big is the nebula in the sky? Hold a pinhead at arm’s length and it would just about cover the spire. I like to think about things not mentioned in the APOD descriptions.

If the Sun were at the bottom of the spire, Alpha centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, would be about halfway up the column. Sirius, the brightest star in Earth’s sky, would be near the top. Let’s say you sent out a spacecraft from the bottom of the spire that travelled at the speed of the two Voyager craft that are now traversing the outer reaches of the Solar System. It would take more than 200,000 years to reach the top of the spire.

The Hubble Space Telescope cost a lot of money to build, deploy, and operate. It has done a lot of good science. But perhaps the biggest return on the investment is to turn on ordinary folks like you and me to the scale and complexity of the universe. The human brain evolved, biologically and culturally, in a universe conceived on the human scale. We resided at its center. The stars were just up there on the dome of night. The Sun and Moon attended our desires. “All the world’s a stage,” wrote Shakespeare, and he meant it literally; the cosmos was designed by a benevolent creator as a stage for the human drama. All of that has gone by the board. Now we can travel in our imagination for 200,000 years along a spire of glowing, star-birthing gas that is only the tiniest fragment of a nebula that is only the tiniest fragment of a galaxy that is but one of hundreds of billions of galaxies we can potentially see with our telescopes.

Most of us still live psychologically in the universe of Dante and Shakespeare. The biggest intellectual challenge of our times is how to bring our brains up to speed. How to shake our imaginations out of the slumber of centuries. How to learn to live purposefully in a universe that is apparently indifferent to the human drama. How to stretch the human story to match the light-years.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/