"Wake-Up Call"

"Wake-Up Call"

by Jim Kunstler

"How many times have I reminded you that history is a prankster? Who would have guessed that Canada, demure, inoffensive, shrinking violet among nations, would rise to lead a world-wide revolt against the Satanic dominion of digital neo-Bolshevism? I mean, what else can you call it - this political Saint Vitus Dance sweeping Western Civ that seeks to destroy every constitutional liberty, deprive citizens of life, property, and even language, and reduce every individual to an internet-surveilled and controlled automaton… this global megalomaniacal mental illness posturing as “government?”

Well, now it has happened, and the head of Canada’s government, Justin Trudeau - arguably the most fatuous would-be tyrant in the former “Free World” - has failed to emerge from his hidey-hole for the better part of a week, perhaps afraid of his seeing his shadow like the groundhog of legend, and it begins to look as if his days as Prime Minister grow short. It’s rumored that the Canadian military told Mr. Trudeau in plain un-Woke Canadian English to f**k-off, they will not take orders to put down the trucker’s protest, and even the Mounties are wobbling, so it’s left to the Ottawa police, who threaten to arrest anyone aiding the truckers with food, water, and fuel. Wait and see how quickly that will turn to fighting in the streets. Constitutional crisis, ay?

Meanwhile, a dozen or so other members of the Western Civ Club of Nations are ditching their Covid-19 mandates and restrictions. The reason: despite the mighty forces of deliberate organized mind-f**kery and resulting mass delusion, the Covid-19 “vaccines” are finally revealed as a criminal fraud, a danger to all who submitted to them, and an insult to the age-old accrued intelligence of the human race as used-to-be represented by science, ethics, and law.

And still, America’s own putative leader, the empty suit known as “Joe Biden,” had the temerity to go on TV last week and once again tell his sore-beset people to “get vaccinated… get your kids vaccinated!” Who does he think he’s speaking to? The counter-information to Tony Fauci’s criminal bullshit is flooding the zone, despite America’s sinister Intel Community attempting to control the captured and discredited legacy news media.

Just last night CBS’s 60-Minutes told its audience that our hospitals are overwhelmed by the unvaccinated with Covid, which is an outright lie. Maybe we should start asking: who are the individual producers and network executives responsible for this arrant mendacity? Would it be interesting to see them in a court of law, having to answer whether they believe their own bullshit? Or is someone telling them to sell it?

Some powerful counter-information to The Official Narrative emerged last week from the US military’s own Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) when several whistleblower doctors revealed to attorney Tom Renz heretofore suppressed statistics on the shocking increase in vaccine injuries among young, otherwise able-bodied soldiers. Have a look at the list reported out of Dr. Robert Malone’s Substack newsletter:

●Total Number of Diseases & Injuries Reported By Year (Hospitalization) up 37%

●Diseases of the Nervous System By Year up 968%

●Malignant Neuroendocrine Tumor Reports By Year up 276%

●Acute Myocardial Infarct Reports By Year up 343%

●Acute Myocarditis Reports By Year up 184%

●Acute Pericarditis Reports By Year up 70%

●Pulmonary Embolism Reports By Year up 260%

●Congenital Malformations Reports By Year up 87%

●Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrage Reports By Year up 227%

●Anxiety Reports By Year up 2,361%

●Suicide Reports By Year up 227%

●Neoplasms for All Cancers By Year up 218%

●Malignant Neoplasms for Digestive Organs By Year up 477%

●Neoplasms for Breast Cancer By Year up 469%

●Neoplasms for Testicular Cancer By Year up 298%

●Female Infertility Reports By Year up 419%

●Dysmenorrhea Reports By Year up 221.5%

●Ovarian Dysfunction Reports By Year up 299%

●Spontaneous Abortion Reports By Year DOWN by 10%

●Male Infertility Reports By Year up 320%

●Guillian-Bare Syndrome Reports By Year up 520%

●Acute Transverse Myelitis Reports By Year up 494%

●Seizure Reports By Year up 298%

●Narcolepsy & Cataplexy Reports By Year up 352%

●Rhabdomyolysis By Year up 672%

●Multiple Sclerosis Reports By Year up 614%

●Migraine Reports By Year up 352%

●Blood Disorder Reports By Year up 204%

●Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Reports By Year up 2,130%

●Cerebral Infarct Reports By Year up 294%

This is not the first time the nation has learned about vaccine injuries - the CDC’s VAERS registry has reported out massive problems with the Moderna, Pfizer,and J & J “vaccines” since early summer of 2021. (In fact, adverse events are notoriously under-reported by perhaps 100-times.) Now the FDA has gone and issued a full approval of the Moderna vaccine, without convening the customary expert advisory panel. The documents explaining the FDA’s decision were scrubbed from the FDA’s website. The FDA spox responded to questions about it saying, “We are aware of the issue and hope to have the document reposted as soon as possible.” So far, the docs are still missing-in-action. The primary objective of this approval seems to be adding the Moderna mRNA vax to the protocol for children, which would permit the disabling and murder of millions of innocents. This is exactly what “Joe Biden” is calling for. And by the way, adding it to the children’s vaccine schedule supposedly continues Moderna’s shield of immunity from lawsuits. Just remember: in law, fraud vitiates that protection.

We now enter a period of danger as the sleepwalkers of America awaken from their induced consensus trance and begin to understand how they were harmed, swindled, and robbed by a corrupt, criminal officialdom. It will hurt badly because the public wanted so desperately to believe that vaccines would make them safe from the mysteriously conjured Covid-19 virus - and, more than that, would cure their gnawing anxiety over the wreckage of American life caused by what appears to be leadership hostage to sinister forces.

I must say, I believe the truth of our predicament will grow a whole weirder as we stumble into springtime. The weirdest part of all will be when America learns exactly who and what have been the prime generators of our disorder. The disillusionment will be cosmic."

- https://kunstler.com/

"Shopping At Walmart After Winter Storm! Empty Shelves Everywhere!"

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Adventures with Danno, AM 2/7/22:

"Shopping At Walmart After Winter Storm! 

Empty Shelves Everywhere!"

"In today's vlog we visit Walmart, and witness a lot of soaring prices. With stores struggling to get in products we will also check out the shelves as stores all across the country are having trouble."

Gregory Mannarino, "Stock Market Meltdown Or Meltup? Keep Your Eyes On The 10-Year Yield"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 2/7/22:

"Stock Market Meltdown Or Meltup? 

Keep Your Eyes On The 10-Year Yield"

- https://traderschoice.net/

"Ex-CIA Officer Asks: What Happens When America Experiences Real War With A Superpower?"

"Ex-CIA Officer Asks: What Happens When

 America Experiences Real War With A Superpower?"

by Michael G. Merhige

"During my first years as a young CIA officer in Vietnam from 1965-67, I went to school (so to speak) and received the real education of my life. I learned about my government, its politicians, and military leaders. I learned about the lies, the high explosive and chemical bombings, our superior fire power, villages bombed and burned, the payoffs we made to our ranking Vietnamese allies and the reasons for our losing the war.

The enemy fought to unite their country and expel foreign domination. The US fought because of corrupt leadership and our losses were a mere fraction being fought on the enemy’s turf with our superior fire power, money and material support. They fought for a cause. We fought for no justifiable reason. They won. We did not.

Remember the body bags displayed on the tarmacs of our returning dead from Vietnam? Not like the lack of media coverage today given the damage we inflict. Remember the disapproving reception of our returning soldiers? Now we celebrate them as heroes and wounded patriots.

Here, at home, we have not experienced wars employing mass-destruction weapons. Maybe one day will we receive an education about the consequences of wars as a nation. Surely, we learned nothing from Vietnam as it never happened here.

Our commitment to the two-decade, multi-country invasions in the Middle East have shown our cowardliness to the world if not to ourselves. Our hypocrisy is stunning. No draft, no engagement (almost no KIA’s each year). Far more troop suicides than battle deaths while displacing, killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilian lives year after year. For whom and what? And, yes, a media in full march step with these disgraceful invasions and occupations.

Remember the uproar about Vietnam? Burned draft cards, asylum in Canada, draft dodgers, street demonstrations and sit-ins galore. And why not these now? The unending, shameful action by our government is making sure the public is not paying a price in people. No draft, very limited engagement with the enemy and an approving media. What more can our government and Pentagon ask for? We will keep dropping bombs and feeding others money and weapons to assist with the killing and displacing of innocent populations for us.

But are these wars really for us? Certainly not. Remember George W. Bush, and his failing presidency, who was made a hero the morning after 9/11 with his WMD declaration that fooled no one but Americans? Not a sound from the citizenry. Would we try the pitiful WMD routine on China or Russia? They have the ability to hit back.

The national celebration that greeted George H.W. Bush in death is a far cry from his presidency. It was not until after 9/11 that George W. Bush obeyed the lobbies’ demands to destroy Iraq that his father was resurrected and the son was hailed as our glorious leader. Remember his welcoming carrier landing which turned out to be a dud?

These wars that we persist with are not only cowardly, they demonstrate our lack of respect for other nations, their people and our national conscience. Notably, they demonstrate our being a failed nation not capable of controlling or directing its own interests. We will go down in history as that most powerful, but most surrogate nation ever. Stunningly shameful with the blood of others staining our once proud national emblem. While we busy ourselves with "enemies" that we and "friendly" others have invented, we have become oblivious to the enemy within. The one taking us down."

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

- https://libertarianinstitute.org/

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Related:

"War is on the Horizon, Joe Rogan, and Much More"

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

"Economic Market Snapshot 2/7/22"

"Economic Market Snapshot 2/7/22"

Updated as available.

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"The more I see of the moneyed classes,

the more I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates

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

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CNN Market Data:

- http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/

CNN Fear And Greed Index:

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

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Latest Market Analysis, Updated 2/7/22

- https://www.asktraders.com/analysis/

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A comprehensive, essential daily read.

Feb. 4th to 7th 2022

- http://www.shadowstats.com/

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Financial Stress Index

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

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Daily Job Cuts

- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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And now, the End Game...

Greg Hunter, "White Coat Mafia Tyranny – Dr. Betsy Eads"

"White Coat Mafia Tyranny – Dr. Betsy Eads"

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Dr. Elizabeth Eads is on the frontline of medicine, treating patients who have been injected with the experimental CV19 so-called “vaccines.” Dr. Eads is back to update us on what she calls a “genocide.” Dr. Eads continues to say the CV19 injections are not vaccines. They are “bioweapons” being administered by evil medical professionals. Dr. Eads explains, “We are in a complete ‘White Coat Mafia’ tyranny right now. This is a depopulation agenda. Whether people want to believe it or not, this is the New World Order. This is the 13 bloodline families. This is Vanguard and Black Rock, who own everything, including all of Big Pharma and all of the companies that own the CDC. They own everything. This is their agenda to depopulate and control people with these vaccines. We know we are being injected with nano and AI, and they want to turn us into trans-human figures that they can control.”

Did we need the vax in the first place when HCQ and Ivermectin were withheld and would have cured Covid? Dr. Eads says, “No, we did not need the vax. This is an evil agenda to harm as many people as possible. There are 5% to 7% lethal batches being distributed around the world. After the first shot, your immune system is depreciated by 30%. After the second shot, it’s depressed by 50%. After the third shot, it’s anywhere from 60% to 80% depressed. After the 4th shot, your immune system is 80% plus depreciated. Every few weeks after that, you lose another 5% of your immune function. We also know that HIV has been spliced into some of these lethal vials. That is causing an AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) like complete immune collapse. We have absolute proof of what ingredients are in these vaccines, and HIV is one of them.”

Dr. Eads talks about the recent bizarre FDA approval of the Moderna CV19 vax. There are many questions as to how it got so-called “approval.” One of the big things the FDA overlooked, according to Dr. Eads, is data showing a “400% increase” of heart problems after the Moderna vax.

In closing, Dr. Eads says what we are seeing today with the vax bioweapon is nothing short of a modern day version of “marching people to the gas chambers.”

Eads also says hospitals and doctors are getting “bonuses” for practicing medicine that is murdering patients. Eads says, “You cannot tell me, at this juncture, that hospitals and doctors do not know what they are doing. The pharmacists, doctors and nurses have made a choice to keep their jobs. They have chosen money over wellness and health and saving people. It is disgusting.” (There is much more cutting edge, frontline medical information in the nearly 45 min interview.)

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks to 25-year veteran Dr. Elizabeth Eads, DO, exposing the lies that Big Pharma, CDC, FDA and NIH are telling the public. Dr. Eads continues to highlight the real unreported effects of the CV19 bioweapons.

- https://rumble.com/

“Panda Express Shrinkflation; Death Of US Economy; Ford Shutting Down; Inflation Crisis Danger”

Jeremiah Babe, PM 2/6/22:

“Panda Express Shrinkflation; Death Of US Economy; 

Ford Shutting Down; Inflation Crisis Danger”

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Wait For Me"

Full screen mode recommended.

2002, "Wait For Me"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, NGC 1579 is, like the Trifid, a study in contrasting blue and red colors, with dark dust lanes prominent in the nebula's central regions.

In both, dust reflects starlight to produce beautiful blue reflection nebulae. But unlike the Trifid, in NGC 1579 the reddish glow is not emission from clouds of glowing hydrogen gas excited by ultraviolet light from a nearby hot star. Instead, the dust in NGC 1579 drastically diminishes, reddens, and scatters the light from an embedded, extremely young, massive star, itself a strong emitter of the characteristic red hydrogen alpha light."

- http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090130.html

"So We All Ran Around..."

“So we all ran around in mad, mindless, meaningless circles, as if we were in a cotton-candy eating contest where the grand prize was getting kicked in the face. We were oblivious to everything around us that no truly sane person would ever tolerate. And we needed someone else to tell us to stop it.”

- Edward M. Wolfe

The Poet: Anne Sexton, "Courage"

"Courage"

"It is in the small things we see it.

The child's first step,

as awesome as an earthquake.

The first time you rode a bike,

wallowing up the sidewalk.

The first spanking when your heart

went on a journey all alone.

When they called you crybaby

or poor or fatty or crazy

and made you into an alien,

you drank their acid

and concealed it.

Later,

if you faced the death of bombs and bullets

you did not do it with a banner,

you did it with only a hat to

cover your heart.

You did not fondle the weakness inside you

though it was there.

Your courage was a small coal

that you kept swallowing.

If your buddy saved you

and died himself in so doing,

then his courage was not courage,

it was love; love as simple as shaving soap.

Later,

if you have endured a great despair,

then you did it alone,

getting a transfusion from the fire,

picking the scabs off your heart,

then wringing it out like a sock.

Next, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow,

you gave it a back rub

and then you covered it with a blanket

and after it had slept a while

it woke to the wings of the roses

and was transformed.

Later,

when you face old age and its natural conclusion

your courage will still be shown in the little ways,

each spring will be a sword you'll sharpen,

those you love will live in a fever of love,

and you'll bargain with the calendar

and at the last moment

when death opens the back door

you'll put on your carpet slippers

and stride out."

~ Anne Sexton

“As I’ve Aged”

“As I’ve Aged”

- Author Unknown

“You ask me how it feels to grow older. I’ve learned a few things along the way, which I’ll share with you…

As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn’t need, but looks so avante-garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of many years ago, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love… I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don’t question myself anymore. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong. So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it). May our friendship never come apart especially when it’s straight from the heart!”

"End Of The Middle Class: Americans Are Suffering As Prices Rising On Thousands Of Different Products"

Full screen recommended.

"End Of The Middle Class: Americans Are Suffering

 As Prices Rising On Thousands Of Different Products"

by Epic Economist

"While the price of everything aggressively rises all across the nation, incomes are stagnating, and America’s middle-class is steadily shrinking. Millions of middle-income earners are having to spend a larger share of their monthly budgets to afford soaring daily necessities. As the gap between the rich and the rest of us gets wider, more and more people who used to have comfortable lives are now struggling to afford the bare minimum.

Over the past few years, accommodative monetary policies have helped to debase the value of our currency. Adding that to the worst inflation in four decades, Americans' purchasing power has never been lower. Economists say that a perfect storm of events is aggravating the situation. Supply chain disruptions are causing shortages of everyday staples and pushing prices to skyrocket. That’s affecting the food we put on our tables, the national housing supply, and the price of vehicles and electronics. On top of that, a global energy crisis is sending oil prices through the roof, and resulting in a steep increase in the cost of gasoline, natural gas, and essentially all energy forms our society needs.

The impact of the 7% increase in inflation is making the vast majority of our population experience some level of financial distress. Even those whose incomes surpass the national average are reporting difficulties to make ends meet and have been taking on more debt than ever before.Households that typically had stable finances and lifestyles are currently having to make some painful choices: they’re substituting the products they used to consume with cheaper options, driving less to save on gas, curbing on spending, using more their credit cards, and moving to less expensive areas in a compromise to afford to live in a country where everything is getting significantly more expensive.

The stunning rise in the cost of living is a potentially disastrous problem for our economy, and it is affecting as many as 61% of Americans. While the difference between the rich and the rest of the population is abysmal, the gap between middle-income earners and low-income earners is actually dismal.

Those earning about $24,000 to $45,000 are defined as low-income workers, they spend roughly 110% of their income each year. Middle-income workers are represented by those earning about $45,000 to $76,000 and, on average, they spend 89% of what they earn in a year. But recent numbers show that the share of middle-income workers spending more than they earn is rising at an alarming pace. That’s happening because they have been taking on more and more debt to pay their monthly expenses. Consumers are dealing with across-the-board price hikes. From groceries to gasoline, the persistent increases are making it impossible for household income to keep up with the pace of a higher overall cost of living.

Just over the past 12 months, food prices have spiked over 30 percent all across the globe, and several food manufacturers are announcing further price increases on top of the previous ones. According to the Consumer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices have faced the largest year-over-year growth since 1990. A family that used to spend $500 per month on groceries in 2019, is now spending roughly $637 depending on the state. That’s a big difference for people with stretched budgets. Additionally, housing costs have exploded in the past two years, jumping nearly 20% nationally, and up to 37% in some states, which is undoubtedly making homebuying more and more unaffordable. Meanwhile, gasoline prices have soared by 50% nationally, and almost 70% in some states, including California.

In essence, all of this means that the American dream is becoming more elusive for the U.S. middle class. And some economists are warning that this group is getting smaller with each passing year. The fact that about 7.4 million people have lost ground in the occupations that used to be ladders to middle-class lives for them and their families, means that more and more Americans are destined to a future of financial uncertainty.

For those who have been living paycheck to paycheck, the rising prices of everything are making some prioritize paying rent or buying food, while others are living in their cars. The once great and strong America now seems far from the reach of everyday Americans. Day by day, it gets harder to afford the soaring cost of living. And considering the chaotic outlook for 2022, we should start bracing for some awfully dark times."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com​

The Daily "Near You?"

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

Gregory Mannarino, "Markets, A Look Ahead - Very Important Updates"

Gregory Mannarino, 2/6/22:

"Markets, A Look Ahead - Very Important Updates"

- https://traderschoice.net/

"Where Goes Sound Money"

"Where Goes Sound Money"

by Joel Bowman

"Where goes sound money, so too goes civil society. From drachma debasement in ancient Greece to clipped coinage during the Roman Empire… From the freshly-inked Assignats rolling off the presses in the lead up to the French Revolution… To the hollowing out of the Weimar Republic during the hyperinflationary period of the 1920s... It seems that everywhere we look, monetary pride goes before societal decline… and fall.

Whether denominated in Hungarian Pengos, Polish Zlotys, Brazilian Reals or Venezuelan Bolivars, experiments in monetary hijinks invariably end in tears. From where I sit today, penning these words down here in Argentina’s capital… to the ruinous state of Zimbabwe, once known as Africa’s breadbasket…and now little more than an economic basket case… Literally from A – Z, in countries the world over, history is replete with cautionary tales of what happens when the feds crank up the printing presses.

And yet, “This time will be different!” goes the hoary old cry, urging us to ignore all past and documented experience to the contrary. The question, of course, is Why do we fall for such an obvious ruse, over and over and again? Why do we suppose that the immutable laws of economics will be suspended, in our favor, just this once? Is it arrogance or ignorance that causes us to see ourselves as the precious exceptions to history’s iron-clad rule? Perhaps it’s a bit of both.

As you’ve no doubt read, money printing in the West has gone into hyperdrive in recent years. Just this past week, US national debt crossed the $30 trillion mark. The inflationary effects of such rampant money-printing are already being felt, with prices rising at their fastest rate in forty years. What might this portend for our own future, you wonder? Perhaps a look into the past can provide some clues…

To take just one of the aforementioned examples, that of the French Revolution, the printing presses there were rolling long before heads – royal and otherwise – were. Under Kings Louis XV and King Louis XVI, France had run up enormous debt loads, in part thanks to vast warfare expenditures abroad – including backing America in her own war of Independence – and lavish governmental expenses at home.

Guns and butter, bread and circuses, welfare and warfare…the names on the shopping list change throughout the ages, but the net effect remains the same.

By the 1780s, France’s balance sheet was in tatters. The country’s General Assembly tried tax increases and spending cuts but such austerity measures proved, then as now, unpopular with the masses and so were soon abandoned. By the end of the decade, all honest options having been exhausted, the French did what so many mortals had done before: they looked around for a dishonest one. And they didn’t have to look far.

As the historian Andrew D. White recounted a century later in his book, “Fiat Money Inflation in France”: "Statesmanlike measures, careful watching and wise management would, doubtless, have ere long led to a return of confidence, a reappearance of money and a resumption of business; but these involved patience and self-denial, and, thus far in human history, these are the rarest products of political wisdom. Few nations have ever been able to exercise these virtues; and France was not then one of these few.

No doubt there were impassioned arguments on both sides, for and against money printing. Opponents pointed to historical disasters, such as the 1720 Mississippi Bubble, still relatively fresh in the Frenchmen’s collective memory.

Proponents, meanwhile, summoned that old saw, tried and true, against which so few politicians can hold their ground. This time will be different, they argued, same as always. And so it was that after long deliberation, the General Assembly agreed to a round of money printing…juste cette fois “just this once,” they’d have told themselves.

The bills, Assignats, were to be backed by Church property…especially confiscated for this very purpose. And so, like magic, 400 million of them were put into circulation. And for a while, the old elixir seemed to do the trick. Commerce picked up, confidence rose and people got to work spending their newly inked notes. Oh, to be alive in the Summer of 1790, France! ‘twas surely the place to be!"

Cometh the Fall: By the time the leaves had turned from green to yellow, economic activity had begun to slump and, along with it, the hopes of the monetary conjurers and printing press prestidigitators. And then, sure as one season follows the next, “The old remedy immediately and naturally recurred to the minds of men,” observed White, “Throughout the country began a cry for another issue of paper.”

Rather than admit they had made a mistake – borrowing from the future that which the present had not yet earned – the General Assembly did what all such assemblies of men in their position do: they doubled down on their devilish deed. It was not the money-printing itself that was to blame, they rationalized, but rather the magnitude of issuance. 400 million units was simply not enough to stoke the embers and get the fire going again. Perhaps another round would help…

But by then, the fix was in. The conversation has shifted from “to print, or not to print?” to “how much should be printed?” And so, the presses were cranked up once again, and the newly-inked bills were sent forth across the land… 300, 400 and 600 million units at a time…

Here again Mr. White describes the scene: "The consequences of these over issues now began to be more painfully evident to the people at large. Articles of common consumption became enormously dear and prices were constantly rising. Orators in the Legislative Assembly, clubs, local meetings and elsewhere now endeavored to enlighten people by assigning every reason for this depreciation save the true one. They declaimed against the corruption of the ministry, the want of patriotism among the Moderates, the intrigues of the emigrant nobles, the hard-heartedness of the rich, the monopolizing spirit of the merchants, the perversity of the shopkeepers, - each and all of these as causes of the difficulty."

And this was only the beginning. Where sound money had gone, civil society was about to follow… "Slowly at first, then all of a sudden, peaceful protests turned violent, and angry mobs began smashing shopfronts and setting fire to businesses. A jilted peasantry thronged the cobblestones, demanding their daily bread, the price of which was cast adrift, afloat on an ever-rising tide of new money."

By the time King Louis XVI received the guillotine’s closest shave, in 1793, there were some 3.5 billion assignats in circulation. When his wife, Marie Antoinette, lost her own head later that same year, the price of her infamous cake was far beyond the reach of most peasants…

One wonders, when surveying the present-day landscape… with mobs again marching in the street, demanding their just deserts and decrying economic inequality, what role money printing has played in the current malaise. Back in the early days of the pandemic, protestors erected a not-so-subtle guillotine blade out front of Jeff Bezos’ gilded gates. Mr. Bezos’ wealth has grown considerably over the past couple of years, even as the lot of the lumpenproletariat has remained the same. But the symbolism is as dull as the protestors’ collective imagination. As far as we know, the Amazon CEO didn’t print any money, even if an inordinate amount of it did flow up his river.

Had the protestors read their history, they might be inclined to remove their instrument of capital punishment to the nation’s capital, and there stand it out front of the Federal Reserve building, whence the flood of new scrip gushes. Then again, if they really did know the story, they would know too that after the royal heads did roll, it was the Jacobin revolutionaries themselves whose necks were next on the block.

Where goes sound money, indeed…"

- bonnerprivateresearch@substack.com

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Madame DeFarge, 

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"And Those Who Were Seen Dancing..."

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be

insane by those who could not hear the music.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

Full screen recommended.

Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

"Ex Obscurum"

Full screen recommended.

"Ex Obscurum"

by Spadecaller

"From emotional turmoil, hatred, and addiction the miracle of recovery begins in this Spadecaller Video entitled "Ex Obscurum" (From Darkness). Featuring original poetry narrated by the author and visual artist, Matthew Schwartz. Composer Samuel Barber's powerful musical score, adopted for the movie Platoon, (Adagio for Strings) sets the background for this spiritual exodus "From Darkness."

"How It Really Is"

 

"Figuring Forward in an Uncertain Universe"

"Figuring Forward in an Uncertain Universe"

Consolations from the cosmic scheme.

by Maria Popova

"We make things and seed them into the world, never fully knowing - often never knowing at all - whom they will reach and how they will blossom in other hearts, how their meaning will unfold in contexts we never imagined. (W.S. Merwin captured this poignantly in the final lines of his gorgeous poem “Berryman.”)

Today I offer something a little apart from the usual, or sidelong rather, amid these unusual times: A couple of days ago, I received a moving note from a woman who had read "Figuring" and found herself revisiting the final page - it was helping her, she said, live through the terror and confusion of these uncertain times. I figured I’d share that page - which comes after 544 others, tracing centuries of human loves and losses, trials and triumphs, that gave us some of the crowning achievements of our civilization - in case it helps anyone else.

Click image for larger size.

"Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem. Elsewhere in the universe, a star manyfold the mass of our third-rate sun is living out its final moments in a wild spin before collapsing into a black hole, its exhale bending spacetime itself into a well of nothingness that can swallow every atom that ever touched us and every datum we ever produced, every poem and statue and symphony we’ve ever known - an entropic spectacle insentient to questions of blame and mercy, devoid of why.

In four billion years, our own star will follow its fate, collapsing into a white dwarf. We exist only by chance, after all. The Voyager will still be sailing into the interstellar shorelessness on the wings of the “heavenly breezes” Kepler had once imagined, carrying Beethoven on a golden disc crafted by a symphonic civilization that long ago made love and war and mathematics on a distant blue dot.

But until that day comes, nothing once created ever fully leaves us. Seeds are planted and come abloom generations, centuries, civilizations later, migrating across coteries and countries and continents. Meanwhile, people live and people die - in peace as war rages on, in poverty and disrepute as latent fame awaits, with much that never meets its more, in shipwrecked love.

I will die.

You will die.

The atoms that huddled for a cosmic blink around the shadow of a self will return to the seas that made us.

What will survive of us are shoreless seeds and stardust."

- https://www.themarginalian.org/

"Today Is The Day..."

"We are fast moving into something, we are fast flung into something like asteroids cast into space by the death of a planet, we the people of earth are cast into space like burning asteroids and if we wish not to disintegrate into nothingness we must begin to now hold onto only the things that matter while letting go of all that doesn't. For when all of our dust and ice deteriorates into the cosmos we will be left only with ourselves and nothing else. So if you want to be there in the end, today is the day to start holding onto your children, holding onto your loved ones; onto those who share your soul. Harbor and anchor into your heart justice, truth, courage, bravery, belief, a firm vision, a steadfast and sound mind. Be the person of meaningful and valuable thoughts. Don't look to the left, don't look to the right; we simply don't have the time. Never be afraid of fear."

- C. JoyBell C.

"The Die-Off Is Here: Life Insurance Payouts Skyrocket 258% As Post-Vaccine Deaths Rapidly Accelerate"

"The Die-Off Is Here: Life Insurance Payouts Skyrocket 

258% As Post-Vaccine Deaths Rapidly Accelerate"

by Natural News

(Natural News) "In a little-known Reuters story that garnered almost no attention in the corporate media, Dutch insurer Aegon revealed its third quarter, 2021 life insurance payouts skyrocketed 258% compared to third quarter, 2020 payouts. The difference, of course, is found in covid vaccines. In 2020, vaccines weren’t yet available, so payouts for Aegon only reached $31 million. But after three quarters of aggressive vaccinations throughout 2021, the death benefit payouts hit $111 million, an increase of 258%.

From Reuters via Yahoo Finance: "Dutch insurer Aegon, which does two-thirds of its business in the United States, said its claims in the Americas in the third quarter were $111 million, up from $31 million a year earlier. U.S. insurers MetLife and Prudential Financial also said life insurance claims rose. South Africa’s Old Mutual used up more of its pandemic provisions to pay claims and reinsurer Munich Re raised its 2021 estimate of COVID-19 life and health claims to 600 million euros from 400 million."

Insurance companies are slowly coming to realize the truth about covid vaccines, even as the complicit, murderous mainstream tries to cover up the accelerating deaths. The death signals now emerging in the finances of insurance companies can’t simply be swept under the rug, and given that a 258% increase was recorded for Q3, 2021, it begs the obvious question: How much worse will this be for Q4, 2021? Or Q1, 2022?

On any “normal” (pre-covid) day in America, about 7,700 people die. If those deaths rise by 100%, that means an extra 7,700 people are dying each day. Multiply that over one year, and it’s an additional 2.8 million deaths. Note this is for merely a 100% increase in deaths.

Aegon is reporting a 258% increase in payouts on life insurance policies. Although Aegon doesn’t insure the entire country, obviously, this data point should be raising alarms among those people paying attention. If we start to consistently see something like a 200% increase in all-cause mortality, that would mean an extra 15,000+ people are dying each day in America. That’s a vaccine holocaust playing out in real time.

Truth be told, we’re probably at that point right now. The data sets just haven’t caught up yet with the reality of what’s happening in February, 2022. Cancer death rates have almost certainly doubled in 2021 and are headed for even higher numbers in 2022, but the cancer industry - dominated by pharma interests - will of course bury the numbers as long as possible to avoid anyone asking questions of why so many people are dying from cancer all of a sudden. (The answer is obvious: It’s the mRNA vaccines.)

The vaccine holocaust is real and accelerating… MILLIONS will die in America. So not only do we have an actual vaccine holocaust taking place in America right now, we have a holocaust cover-up being run by all the complicit, murderous parties, including Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Media and Big Government. They’re all in on it. They’re all mass murderers, and they’re all working to cover this up as long as possible so they can coerce even more people into committing vaccine suicide before the body count becomes undeniable.

That’s the level of evil we’re dealing with in society right now, and it’s all being run under the banner of “science.” Under this dangerous death cult of “science,” the whole world is supposed to pretend that covid vaccines are halting infectious, transmission and hospitalizations, all while looking the other way when so many vaccinated people prematurely die. Israel, at a 96.2% vaccination rate across the population, is now leading the world in covid cases per capita. This proves the vaccine has the opposite effect that we were promised in the name of “science.” In fact, the more a country vaccinates its people, the higher covid cases rise.

That’s because, of course, the vaccine is the pandemic. Covid would be over by now if not for the vaccines continuing to inject people with spike protein bioweapons that cause organ failure and death. It’s no coincidence that vaccine injury symptoms are then categorized as “covid” by the corrupt, murderous medical establishment that receives financial kickbacks from the government for killing people with ventilators and remdesivir."

- https://www.naturalnews.com/

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