One carbon conscious, dollar destroying, virtue signaling step at a time...
by Bill Bonner
Geneva, Switzerland - "Prices rising. Shelves empty. This is a ‘good thing,’ isn’t it? It will mean less consumption, less production, less CO2 in the atmosphere, lower standards of living, people will get less of what they want… and they will be poorer. But it will save the planet, right?
Right. Friday, we made some suggestions about how you personally can enjoy your indigence with a sniffy, superior air. Today, we focus on the bigger picture, the whole economy. How can we impoverish other people too? And here we connect some big, fat dots. Let’s look first at the basics.
Home to Hovel: You don’t have to do anything to be poor. In fact, for an individual, the less you do, ceteris paribus, the more poverty you get. Poverty is easy. It gives you plenty of time to read The New Yorker magazine, update your Facebook page or watch CNN.
Prosperity, on the other hand, takes work, self-discipline, investment, learning, savings, innovation – and a few rules. Respect for each others’ property is one of them. If you can’t hold onto your stuff, it won’t work. A rich man’s house, for example, is the product of many generations’ worth of trial and error… and a multitude of inputs by skilled artisans and engineers – with HVAC systems and stylish moldings… and carefully laid tile work… expert carpentry… and all the other things that go into a modern, expensive house. Nobody would bother to build such a house if he thought it might be taken away from him.
The poor man’s house, by contrast, is a hovel, little changed in the last 2,000 years. In our area of Argentina, for example, people still live in mud huts. Mud on the floor. Mud on the walls. Mud on the roof. Few inputs. And those few are rude, rustic and unskilled. Doors are made of wooden planks held together with rawhide strips. There is no plumbing (and until recently), no electricity.
Poverty is a natural condition. But it’s also natural for people not to want to be poor. The human species was barely better off than orangutans for the first 290,000 years of its existence. People lived in small family or tribal groups, with little change from one generation to the next. It’s only in the last 10,000 years or so that it has made much material progress.
And now, people can get ahead in life… and live in comfort, with the satisfaction of getting richer than their brothers-in-law. They innovate, work hard, go to college, etc. As if by an ‘invisible hand,’ are they guided to win-win deals, giving to others so that they get from them what they want too. One learns how to treat cataracts. Another builds tree-houses. Progress is made. Left alone, in other words, growth happens. Wealth increases. And ‘the people’ are better off.
From Riches to Rags: So, if we want to move the meter in the opposite direction – towards poverty – we are going to have to backtrack; we’ll need to get control of ‘the people.’ We can’t allow them to do what they want… live their lives the way they want, trying to get what they want by working, saving, building, learning, inventing and so forth.
Prosperity depends on letting ‘the people’ do their thing. But de-growth and poverty depend on stopping them. And that’s what the feds are for. If they’re going to make us poorer, they’ll have to step up to the plate… and whack us with the bat. And they have plenty of models and ‘five year plans’ to guide them. North Korea, for example. Cuba. The Soviet Union. Baltimore.
There’s a reason South Korea is a lot richer than North Korea. The difference is public policy. The latter is a society tightly controlled by a political elite, swinging a big stick. The former is a ‘light touch’ society, with much more individual freedom. So if poverty is the new prosperity, we will have to imitate North Korea, not South Korea. The North Korean deciders know how to stimulate poverty; and they’re good at it. And the North Korean people are model citizens for the Brave New World of planet-savers. No Hyundai for them. No Samsung. No Korean barbecue. No Squid Game. No passports; if they were let out of the country, they may not come back.
Few of them have cars. They eat little… and very little meat. Their clothes are drab. They travel rarely… almost never leaving the country. In short, they use little fossil fuel. The Davos elite applaud their tiny carbon footprints. And some are even virtuous enough to starve to death."
"Lunatics are Leading Us to Death – Gerald Celente"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Renowned trends researcher and publisher of “The Trends Journal,” Gerald Celente, boldly stated in March “World War III has Begun.” Don’t expect that trend to change anytime soon. Celente explains, “Hey, I’m the President of the United States, and I am going to send weapons of death to kill more people. Am I an accessory to the crime? Yes. It’s not a proxy war with the United States and Russia, it’s at war. We have maniacs in charge, and Biden just said we will defend Taiwan. World War III began with the Ukraine war and the United States and NATO giving others what they need to go kill. Now, they are heating it up with China. Anybody with a brain bigger than a pea would say if we go to war with China and Russia, it’s the end of the world. There will be nuclear destruction. That’s anybody with a mind bigger than a pea. The people in charge, they are lunatics, and they are not men. They have cajones smaller than a pea. These are the people leading us to death. These are insane people. They are mentally ill, and they cover it with a good act playing a politician.”
Celente sees a big trend for Russia this year. Celente predicts, “Russia is going to become one of our top trends for 2022. It will have a self-sufficient economy. Go back to Davos, and they want to control all. Russia, because of what the United States, along with 30 other nations, have done to them with sanctions, is going to become a self-sustaining economy. They are pulling out of globalization. They have all the natural resources they need. What’s happening to Russia, and what the world is forcing on them, is going to be a gem for Russia. It’s going to be a fight about over what they can’t get against those who have it.”
The trend on inflation is not good, and Celente says it’s mostly happening because of the current leadership in the Biden/Obama Administration. Celente says, “The whole society is collapsing in front of us. We have freaks and fools ruining our lives. It’s not going to be stag-flation, it’s going to be drag-flation. We are dragging down as inflation skyrockets. We have maniacs in charge. These are people that could not get a real job that are running or ruining our lives. We are going to see a global disaster the likes of which we have never seen before.”
On gold and silver, Celente says, “Gold and silver, right now, the prices are soft. They are going to go down again when interest rates go up because the dollar gets stronger. When will gold and silver go up? Now hear this, when the equity markets crash because that’s when the common person knows how bad it is, and that’s when they start freaking out. When Wall Street crashes, the common people that look up to these clowns will know how bad it is, and that’s when you are going to see precious metals spike.”
In closing, Celente says, “Absolutely, America will be hit by nukes in the upcoming war with Russia. We need peace, and there is no peace movement in America. If we don’t stop it, it’s going to be hell on earth. United we stand, divided we die.”
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with the top trends researcher on the planet, Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal:
"We are Living Through an Economic Crash and Burn Playbook"
"It does not matter where you live or what industry that you are in. This economy has taken its toll on everyone. I am calling us the crash and burn economy where things are bad but it looks like we haven’t seen anything yet. We are basically in the third chapter of this book. So much is about to happen."
"In ordinary times we get along surprisingly well, on the whole, without ever discovering what our faith really is. If, now and again, this remote and academic problem is so unmannerly as to thrust its way into our minds, there are plenty of things we can do to drive the intruder away. We can get the car out or go to a party or to the cinema or read a detective story or have a row with a district council or write a letter to the papers about the habits of the nightjar or Shakespeare's use of nautical metaphor. Thus we build up a defense mechanism against self-questioning because, to tell the truth, we are very much afraid of ourselves."
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
"Requiesce in Pace"
by Brian Maher
"It is Memorial Day… when we pause to honor the nation’s war dead. Most Americans will not, of course. It merely represents a chance to lie flat on a beach… to munch frankfurters… to dream the tall dreams of approaching summer. We will be among them. We will not be planting tiny American flags atop forgotten graves today. We will not be bugling taps. It is unlikely we will thank a veteran for his service - not out of disrespect - but because we scarcely know any.
We nonetheless recall strolling the American military cemetery above Omaha Beach one day… and how it brought us up short. The rows and rows and rows of bleach-white crosses - and an occasional Star of David - seeming to span from horizon to horizon. We wandered among the dead… and listened for their ghostly counsel.
Beneath the rustling breeze, we detected a faint murmur. It seemed to whisper a poem from the First World War: “In Flanders Fields.” From which:
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields."
Flanders Field
Standing above Omaha Beach that day, what fetched us was not so much the gravity of those events 78 years distant - but the soul-numbing waste of it all. What great things may have awaited that 21-year-old second lieutenant if a German bullet hadn’t cut him down on June 6, 1944? What did life have in store for that sergeant of the 2nd Ranger Battalion... who never made it up Pointe du Hoc that morning? What about this young paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division, whose bones lie beneath a shady tree above Omaha Beach?
The American military cemetery above Omaha Beach
What might they have amounted to? Perhaps much. Perhaps nothing whatsoever. But they had lives to live. And every right to live them. Let us also not forget the pulverized and unidentified dead, known only to their Almighty creator. What about the futures they never had?
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,” lamented poet John Greenleaf Whittier, “the saddest are these: “It might have been.” What might have been... had they lived? Alas, we will never know.
Let us finally spare a thought for the vanquished…Not all the German dead were Nazi hellcats. They were rather conscripts taking orders. Most were broken and wrecked veterans of the Russian front, dispatched to Normandy to recuperate. And not all Germans in Normandy were… Germans. Many were Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians and Russians, conscripted into German service… and sent to man the Atlantic Wall. Conscripts from Azerbaijan, India, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia - and Thailand - were likewise among the “Germans” defending the French coast.
“Germans”
But this is America’s day of remembrance. And so as we conclude this Memorial Day weekend…Let us lower our heads in mournful reflection of America’s martial departed… and what might have been. Requiescant in pace."
"20 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absolutely Astonish You"
by Epic Economist
"The U.S. health care industry has become a massive money-making scam, and in today's video, we are going to show the statistics that prove it. The United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the entire world, and even though we are the most medicated population on the planet, we are also one of the sickest. Amongst developed countries, we have the worst life expectancy and the highest infant mortality despite having to pay the highest prices for health care services by far. While millions of Americans are drowning in medical debt, big pharmaceutical corporations are recording billions of dollars of profits every year, but the quality of the health care that the U.S. population receives in return is rather quite poor.
Right now, health care bills cause more bankruptcies than anything else does. Millions of people are afraid to go to the hospital because they know that even a short visit could result in a gigantic financial burden that could devastate them for decades. Meanwhile, rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes continue to rise all over the nation. Considering the gigantic piles of money we shell out for health care, we should have the greatest system in the entire world. But we definitely don't, and this is a major indication that something has gone horribly wrong.
According to Brookings data, spending on health care in the United States has grown steadily over the past two decades, rising from $2,900 per person in 1980 to $11,200 per person in 2020, marking a staggering 290% increase.
With each passing year, health bureaucrats and greedy corporations get increasingly richer with the demise of the U.S. health care system while the rest of us go broke trying to pay for our health care. Over the past three decades, Americans had to face an absurd rise in medical bills and deal with insane levels of medical debt.
According to estimates released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2021 alone, 70% of Americans with medical bills had to lower their spending on food to avoid bankruptcy, while 59% had to dig into their savings, using most or all of it to cover an unexpected health expense, 41% were forced to take a second job to be able to pay their debt, and 37% had to borrow money.
Rather than doing something to address the abuses of the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations, over the past two decades, U.S. politicians have actually come up with policies that gave these companies even more power. Under the current policies, our health care costs will go up even faster, and the quality of health care services will continue to go down.
Right now, the health care system in the United States is so broken that it probably cannot be repaired. The entire structure needs to be dismantled and completely reinvented if we want to see actual improvement. But considering that the wealthy bureaucrats are pretty comfortable with their billion dollar profits, most of us won't likely see such a change happening in the U.S. health care system in our lifetime."
"We Are in Big Trouble: The Next 30 Days Changes Everything"
"The US is sending weaponry which will escalate the conflict in Euro, Gas prices could reach apocalyptic levels, peace talks are likely doomed to fail, energy prices prohibit mitigation of record temps the time to prepare for the summer from hell is now!"
"NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, but also one of the dustiest. Dubbed the Silver Coin for its appearance in smalltelescopes, it is more formally known as the Sculptor Galaxy for its location within the boundaries of the southern constellation Sculptor. Discovered in 1783 by mathematician and astronomer Caroline Herschel, the dusty island universe lies a mere 10 million light-years away.
About 70 thousand light-years across, NGC 253, pictured, is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest to our own Local Group of galaxies. In addition to its spiral dust lanes, tendrils of dust seem to be rising from a galactic disk laced with young star clusters and star forming regions in this sharp color image. The high dust content accompanies frantic star formation, earning NGC 253 the designation of a starburst galaxy. NGC 253 is also known to be a strong source of high-energy x-rays and gamma rays, likely due to massive black holes near the galaxy's center. Take a trip through extragalactic space in this short video flyby of NGC 253."
"For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the lowest depths tenaciously resists the pressures of necessity and ill-doing; there are noble and obscure triumphs observed by no one, unacclaimed by any fanfare. Hardship, loneliness, and penury are a battlefield which has its own heroes, sometimes greater than those lauded in history. Strong and rare characters are thus created; poverty nearly always a foster-mother, may become a true mother, distress may be the nursemaid of pride, and misfortune the milk that nourishes great spirits."
"You've undoubtedly heard rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as an analogy for the futility of approving policy tweaks to address systemic crises. I've used the Titanic as an anology to explain the fragility of our financial system and the "glancing blow" of the pandemic.
But there's a powerful analogy you haven't heard before. To understand the analogy, we first need to recap the tragedy's basic set-up.
On April 14, 1912, the liner Titanic, considered unsinkable due to its watertight compartments, struck a glancing blow against a massive iceberg on that moonless, weirdly calm night. In the early hours of April 15, the great ship broke in half and sank, ending the lives of the majority of its passengers and crew. Of the 2,208 passengers and crew onboard, 1,503 perished and 705 survived. The lifeboats had a maximum capacity of 1,178, so some 475 people died unnecessarily. Passengers of the Titanic (Wikipedia)
The initial complacency of the passengers and crew after the collision is another source of analogies relating to humanity's near-infinite capacity for denial. The class structure of the era was enforced by the authorities - the ship's officers. As the situation grew visibly threatening, the First Class passengers were herded into the remaining lifeboats while the steerage/Third Class passengers - many of them immigrants - were mostly kept below decks. Officers were instructed to enforce this class hierarchy with their revolvers.
Two-thirds of all passengers died, but the losses were not evenly distributed: 39% of First Class passengers perished, 58% of Second Class passengers lost their lives and 76% of Third Class passengers did not survive.
Rudimentary calculations by the ship's designer, who was on board to oversee the maiden voyage, revealed the truth to the officers: the ship would sink and there was no way to stop it. The ship was designed to survive four watertight compartments being compromised, and could likely stay afloat if five were opened to the sea, but not if six compartments were flooded. Water would inevitably spill over into adjacent compartments in a domino-like fashion until the ship sank.
What did the authorities do with this knowledge? Stripped of niceties, they passively accepted oblivion as the outcome and devoted their resources to enforcing the class hierarchy and the era's gender chivalry: 80% of male passengers perished, 25% of female passengers lost their lives. The loading of passengers into lifeboats was so poorly managed that only 60% of the lifeboat capacity was filled.
What if the officers had boldly accepted the inevitability of the ship sinking early on and devised a plan to minimize the loss of life? It would not have taken any extraordinary leap of creativity to organize the crew and passenger volunteers to strip the ship of everything that floated - wooden deck chairs, etc. - and lash them together into rafts. Given the calm seas that night and the freezing water, just keeping people above water would have been enough.
Rather than promote the absurd charade that the ship was fine, just fine, when time was of the essence, the authorities could have rounded up the women and children and filled every seat on lifeboats. Of the 1,030 people who could not be placed in a lifeboat, 890 were crew members, including about 25 women. The crew members were almost all in the prime of life. If anyone could survive several hours on a partially-submerged raft, it would have been the crew. (The first rescue ship arrived about two hours after the Titanic sank.)
Would this hurried effort to save everyone on board have succeeded? At a minimum, it would have saved an additional 475 souls via a careful loading of the lifeboats to capacity, and if the makeshift rafts had offered any meaningful flotation at all, many more lives would have been saved. Rather than devote resources to maintaining the pretense of safety and order, what if the ship's leaders had focused their response around answering a simple question: what was needed for people to survive a freezing night once the lifeboats were filled and the ship sank?
I think you see the analogy to the present. Our leadership, such as it is, is devoting resources to maintaining the absurd pretense that everything will magically re-set to September 2019 if we just print enough money and bail out the financial Aristocracy. Whether we realize it or not, we're responding with passive acceptance of oblivion. The economy and social order were precariously fragile before the pandemic, and now the fragilities are unraveling. We need to start thinking beyond pretense and PR."
Buenos Aires, Argentina - "...but only just! A few hours from now, we’ll be burning up the atmosphere in a common commercial jetliner, stomping our filthy carbon footprint all across God’s blue skies. (We reached out to St. Greta Thunberg to see if we might hitch a ride but, alas... there’s not enough room in her holy ark for all the wretched animals in this world.)
Still, we count ourselves among the fortunate, the few. To think that Julius Caesar never dined from a seat back tray table... Mark Antony never joined the mile high club... Cleopatra never got the additional pat-down from leering TSA creeps...
Far greater beings have walked the earth before us... and gazed at the heavens in idle vain. It’s time we check our privilege... and give thanks! Thanks to long-dead fossils and wayward meteors and to sticky tar pits too...Thanks to energy-dense hydrocarbons... and inexorable chemical processes... and the slow march of time...Thanks to heavy sour crude and the light sweet stuff... to oil sands and the fracking revolution and holes drilled deep in the ocean floor... Thanks to glorious, super high-octane jet fuel!
And while we’re at it...Hats off to Colonel Drake and his Titusville gusher... to nodding donkeys and humble derricks... to lonely posts on offshore rigs and patient wives, waiting back home...
Cheers to the brave... the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur... to Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart, too... and to all the unnamed pilots who dove to watery graves so that their tearful, dogged colleagues might return to the drawing boards, tinker with the models, streamline their designs, and try, try again...
Thanks to the brainy... the engineers and idiot-savants and all the math whizzes who nutted out the dihedral effect and the lift coefficient and the aspect ratio... and all the other ballistic and aeronautical inputs far beyond our own innumerate grasp.
Thanks to the minds behind radar and GPS and even (yes, even) inflight entertainment...
Praise be to the high and the low, the grease monkeys and air traffic controllers and baggage handlers... the airport janitors and the lounge waitresses too...And to everyone who turns the impossible, the miraculous, the positively stupendous – human flight! – into a banal reality at which the elites of the world so dismissively scoff... we salute you!
Owing to their efforts, and standing on their gigantic shoulders, we embark on an air-bound journey to finally reunite Dear Daughter with her antipodean grandparents... after nearly three irreplaceable years of heartfelt absence. And to those who locked the world down, who kept our kinfolk apart, despite the cumulative efforts of these aforementioned heroes...a pox on all your houses! Which brings us to this week’s feature essay..."
"Libs of Davos"
By Joel Bowman
"In a pop-up city, nestled in the lush countryside of one of the world’s richest countries, your enlightened (yet humble) overlords gathered this week to discuss your future... your children’s future... and the future of the entire planet. Chances are, you’re not going to like what they had to say. But hear them out; it’s for their own good.
Spirited on luxury private jets angel wings, 2,000 of personkind’s finest moral exemplars journeyed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to engage in an cloistered mass debate over how best to organize the miracle of life here on this precious blue orb.
Among the anointed attendees lurked all the usual perps and meddlers – with names like Bill Gates, George Soros and Henry Kissinger – so beloved by their fellow humans the WEF only needed 5,000 uniformed military personnel, in addition to the local police, plus a no-fly zone manned by Swiss Army fighter jets, to keep them safe from their adoring fans. (Boy oh boy, imagine how many windmills and solar panels it took to power those big strong planes!)
Of course, Big Business was in the house too, just checking if anyone needed a hand in the kitchen and generally helping to guide the world toward the best possible version of itself. Righteously conscious of the widening pay-gap between the corner office and the factory floor, multinational corporations sent 600+ of their highest paid, multi-millionaire CEOs and a couple dozen CFO sidekicks along, presumably to mind that the gap/canyon is properly preserved.
(Something else rings a bell about that year, no? Something about a Knock on Bretton Woods? Hmm... It’ll come to us...)
Your friendly Big Tech invigilators were there, of course... including the CEOs of Wokepedia, Microsoft and Cloudfare, plus schmoozing reps from Meta, IBM and Google, all working in tandem with their toy poodles in the official, accredited media to “deliver the message” from on high. Think of Moses descending from the top of Mt. Sinai, but with updated tablets and a goose stepping platoon of question-free “fact checkers” in tow. (All with an approved list of the same “facts,” of course.)
And how could we forget those with their fingers on the planet’s thermostat, the climate experts, there to help us know what type of bugs to eat, how far we may or may not travel, and whether to do so by scooter, bicycle or rickshaw? No fewer than 42 WEF attendees had the word “sustainability” in their “job” title. Bless them! So much sus, stain and inability to go around!
But let us turn for a moment to the grand poobah of the event, that is, part-time Dr. Evil impersonator and the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Martin Schwab. Here he is, somewhat behind the inflation curve...
Whoopsie! Wrong photo. Apologies to Mike Myers, who is no evil genius; merely a genius actor. Herr Schwab, on the other hand, is the real deal! Excuse us a second while we find another snap...
“But Joel,” we hear you protest, “isn’t Klauss Schwab the son of Eugen Schwab, managing director of the Zurich-based engineering firm Escher Wyss, which supplied armaments to the Nazis during WWII, including flame throwers, gas powered turbines, compressors and propellers?” (Yes - SOURCE)
“And wasn’t the firm ‘an integral part of researching and developing turbines to produce heavy water for the creation of nuclear weapons for the Nazis?’” (Correct - SOURCE)
“And, ahem, not to be a stickler here, but didn’t that very same company, under Klauss’s father’s directorship, use slave labor - Jewish, Russian, Gypsie, homosexual, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish and POWs - to man its factory floors?” (Aaaand... yep again - SOURCE)
“To think they might have even toiled for less than a living wage (gasp!)... you know, before they were tossed into the pit...”
Be that as it may, gentle, well-researched reader, we should not rush to judge a man by the actions of his father, but rather let him speak for himself. Besides, when it comes to using forced labor camps to supply genocidal dictators with critical components for their nuclear weapons programs, who among us has not erred? Eh? Eh? Amiright?
So let’s hear from Herr Schwab Jr., in his own words. Here he is, talking up the “penetrative power” exerted by graduates of his visionary young leader’s program, back in 2017. “I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. (Angela) Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau... We penetrate the cabinet. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders.”
Now you see in what capable hands your future rests, you can sleep with both eyes open. And since there’s nothing else to comment on there, nothing notable or out of the ordinary or of obvious concern, let’s move right along, to Herr Schwab’s address at this year’s billionaire convocation... “The future will be built by us,” he rallied his heavily-guarded coven of insiders and political operatives, “by a powerful community as you here in this room.”
Who are these other attendees, cackling around the cauldron? Where is the diversity of opinion? The champions of the working man? The voice of the downtrodden? The people who don’t “have the means,” as Darth Schwab so blithely puts it... or rather, who are presently having the means stolen right out from under them through inflation, taxation and outright confiscation? Where are the dissenters, the gadflies, those speaking truth to power?
Alas, the much-teased mass debate was somewhat anticlimactic. Turns out, the World Economic Forum at Davos is nothing if not committed to a diversity of people propagating identical ideas. As such, pretty much everyone present stood in firm agreement on what needs to be done (de-carbonize, de-capitalize, de-colonize, de-carnivorize), when it needs to be done (“we’ve got 12 years to save the planet”)... and to whom it ought promptly to be done (you).
Here’s Inconvenient Al Gore, boasting of having personally trained 50,000 “climate activists” who, after three full days of on-the-job training, have “all the information they need about the climate crisis” to go out and “implement solutions.” - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/
Gee whizz... from tens of thousands of pimply agitators bringing rush hour traffic to a standstill around the world with their “communication skills,” to the Climate TRACE program, where a coalition of artificial intelligence companies, universities and NGOs track real time atmospheric carbon emissions; where they’re coming from, in what amounts and from which sources... are you feeling cleaner and greener yet?
Readers who find themselves inconveniently composed of 18% carbon (and 65% oxygen, the other offending element in the planetary hemlock that is CO2), might fairly be wondering what, exactly, a “carbon free” world might look like. The curious mind wonders... Are we the carbon they wish to eliminate?
If so, could the solution be as easy and relatively painless as, say, sawing off a superfluous limb? Hmm... And what if you happen to be composed of cisgender, white, male carbon? Will that cost you two limbs? Four? How else to level the playing field?
Fear not, dear reader! It’s not just Big Al and his 50,000 activists on the job. No siree Bob! From the big picture to individual invigilation, when it comes to tracking, tracing and monitoring your every move, to “measuring and managing” the problem, you can be sure these tireless busybodies have their eyes on you, too. Here’s Alibaba president, J. Michael Evans, not even bothering to hide what’s in store for his “users”...
“But… but… but… Creepy Uncle Evans. What if we don’t want your present.” Stay tuned, indeed!
But wait... if they aim to track where you travel, how you travel, what you eat, what you consume... what else about your private life might they want to keep a big, brotherly eye on? Enter the world’s most infamous veterinary scientist, the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, with his next great idea: ingestible chips... (NOT Doritos.)
This is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explaining Pfizer's new tech at Davos : "ingestible pills" - a pill with a tiny chip that sends a signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says #NWO##Davos
“Imagine the compliance.” Uh, no thanks. As the late, great, late-20th century philosopher, Kurt Cobain, cautioned in his delightful teen ditty, Territorial Pissings: “Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you.” Psst… pass it on."
"The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are."
"Author and raconteur James Howard Kunstler joins me for a wide-ranging talk about all things Bond Villain in this week’s episode. Jim’s unique perspective on the world is a welcome one as we try to piece together just how cartoonishly evil these Davos types are."
"Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to
TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing."
- Steve Voake, "The Dreamwalker's Child"
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"You cannot kill me here. Bring your soldiers, your death, your disease, your collapsed economy because it doesn't matter, I have nothing left to lose and you cannot kill me here. Bring the tears of orphans and the wails of a mother's loss, bring your Jesus on a cross, bring your hate and bitterness and long working hours, bring your empty wallets and love long since gone but you cannot kill me here. Bring your sneers, your snide remarks and friendships never felt, your letters never sent, your kisses never kissed, cigarettes smoked to the bone and cancer killing fears but you cannot kill me here. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. Because you cannot kill me here."
A Comment: Posting this article could well get this blog deleted, as the original was, suddenly and without warning. My defense is that you can handle the truth, given the chance. Think for yourself, gather the most factual information available and draw your own conclusions regarding the effects upon your life. I personally can only say that, having intensely researched all this for many years, there is nothing in these articles I can disagree with. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." "Improbable?" This truth is horrifyingly unbelievable, unimaginable, but it is the truth. What you do with it is of course up to you... - CP
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“The Great Reset - What We Know…”
by Clive Maund
"The Great Reset is the World Economic Forum’s trade name for what is really The Great Collapse. The term The Great Reset is not as negative in its connotations as The Great Collapse as it holds out hope that after everything gets taken down it will come bouncing back. The trouble is that it won’t, especially for the larger proportion of the human race who will not live to see any reset.
The key point to understand about The Great Collapse is that it is inevitable, regardless of any stunts pulled by the globalists such as the Covid Plandemic, the Ukraine war and now the vaccine induced “Monkeypox”, long promised by Bill Gates. It is inevitable because global debt has exploded to unsustainable levels and has become critically unstable. This may well have been a factor influencing the exact timing of the start of the Covid Plandemic, since by the Fall of 2019 the Repo market was going off the rails, and they were looking for an excuse to ramp up debt even further which was amply provided by the “emergency” funding for the Plandemic.
What has become abundantly clear since the Plandemic started is that the Globalists, in accordance with the doctrine “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, have stepped forward to take control of the collapse and manage it to their advantage. They are accelerating it greatly by broad-based acts of economic sabotage such as lockdowns (imposition of Martial Law) which serve to eliminate small and mid-sized businesses in favor of globalist owned big corporations that are allowed to remain open to mop up all the business lost to those ordered to close, and function to train the population to accept submission and subservience ahead of the full-bore Martial Law that will probably be imposed later this year once the United Nations/World Health organization have achieved effective world government which is set to happen this month when the constitutional Independence of most countries will be made subordinate to the will and dictates of these organizations, becoming effective 6 months later.
Other acts of economic sabotage being undertaken by the globalists, in addition to the fallout from the lockdowns in the form of supply chain disruptions, include using food as a weapon by disrupting food supply involving doing such things as starting the Ukraine war which they achieved by putting Russia in a position where it had to act to protect the Russian population in Eastern Ukraine, and to prevent missiles being stationed hard up against its south-western border. The Ukraine war has halted exports of grain from Ukraine, which is one of the world’s biggest grain producers, and in addition from Russia itself and also halted exports of fertilizer from both Belorussia and Russia, which taken together will result in a drastic reduction in the world food supply and consequent widespread starvation. As if this wasn’t enough they are pressing home their advantage by delaying rail freight shipments of fertilizer to farmers in the US so that they fail to arrive in time for planting season, and paying farmers a premium to destroy their crops and we have Bill Gates buying up loads of farmland across the US presumably to either allow it to remain fallow or to grow GMO food.
All this translates into great strides by the globalists towards one of their core goals which is drastic population reduction. Are they right to want to drastically reduce the world population? – it all depends on your point of view. In the first place much of the growth of the world population in recent years has been made possible by the explosion of debt, that has brought consumption forward. So when the debt bubble bursts it is inevitable that it will be impossible to maintain the world population at the current level – and it is bursting. The current world population is way above a level that is sustainable long-term with the result that planetary ecosystems are being destroyed, obvious examples being the destruction of the Amazon rainforest which has passed the point of no return and the oceans being filled with plastic waste. So if you are a friend of the Earth and its plants and animals which are being made extinct at an alarming rate, the first thing you will want to see is a drastic reduction in population. That’s what the globalists want and their point of view is more understandable when you appreciate that they themselves will be exempt from being culled, which is a privilege that comes with being at the top of the pyramid. That’s why members of Congress and Pfizer employees are amongst the privileged groups exempted from taking the death shots. On the other hand, looking at it from the point of view of humanity, many people will not want to accept being culled, or having their close family and friends being culled, in order to save the planet and would resist it if they actually understood what is going on, which most of them clearly don’t.
If you were to take the average citizen aside, explain the overpopulation problem, and say “Now look, don’t you want to do your bit to save the planet by terminating the existence of yourself and your extended family?” you can pretty much guarantee that the answer would be a flat out “No” or more eloquently “Thanks, but no thanks”. So the game is to trick the masses into committing suicide by lining up to voluntarily to take lethal injections. This has been done by peddling them a scare story about how they are going to die from a lethal pandemic if they don’t roll up their sleeves. The facts are that there is no pandemic, just a virus engineered in a lab that maybe kills slightly more than the flu, there was no need for a “vaccination” because this virus can be controlled by means of traditional treatments like Ivermectin that were blocked, there was therefore no need for lockdowns, masks, endless hand washing and social distancing, but the truth doesn’t matter because the globalist controllers have bought off and control all the mainstream media outlets and politicians right across the world and likewise have the legal system and the judges in their pockets.
The globalists responsible for all of this are actually criminals and this is not a value judgement, it is a matter of fact, because all their draconian measures using the fig leaf of a “state of emergency”, which is itself a fabrication since no state of emergency has ever existed since all of this started, break the laws of most countries and are in breach of the Nuremburg codes and the only reason that they were able to ram them through is because of the connivance of bribed politicians and neutered legal systems, with judges either bought off or threatened into complicity. The Presidents of countries who stood in their way, like the President of Tanzania, were simply assassinated and replaced with stooges.
It has been postulated that what is now going on across the world is the handiwork of aliens who are intent on exterminating humanity but before you laugh and dismiss this as too far-fetched and a crackpot theory, I happen to think that what has happened over the past 30 months is very far-fetched, yet it happened, so I wouldn’t rule out this possibility. As I see it, there would be two possible reasons for aliens to exterminate humanity. One is that they see us as a primitive destructive predatory plague and scourge that is laying waste to this once green and verdant planet, destroying countless species of plants and animals, and I for one wouldn’t disagree with them on that. The other is that, having stumbled upon the Earth, they want to conquer it for themselves, as in “Nice planet, we’ll take it!” and see us as a nuisance that needs to be disposed of. Either way, they are too sophisticated to land in fleets of flying saucers and jump out with ray guns and try to zap us all, like in the film "Independance Day". Instead they will have set in motion a plan to get us to suicide ourselves via poisonous injections and whatever else is needed to complete the job, like war and famine. To this end they have either co-opted world leaders though bribes, promises and possibly coerción or have replaced them with avatars, and they would certainly have the technology to do this. Whether aliens are involved or not, one thing is clear which is that a global genocide program is well underway that will drastically reduce the world’s population by the end of this decade unless the population at large grasp what is going on and mobilize to stop it.
The masses, who by definition are ignorant and have next to no critical thinking capacity, will believe pretty much anything they are told by the mainstream media and politicians and if they are told they should line up for lethal injections, wash their hands in every store or public building as they enter and wear oxygen stealing masks for hours on end, they will do it. They are now part of a psychotic global narrative, whose danger lies in the fact that the majority believe in it, making it possible to subject anyone who doesn’t believe in it to persecution, which is already happening in the form of being denied access to restaurants or permission to board an aircraft if you haven’t taken the lethal injections, and this will later extend to being hunted down and either forcibly injected or dragged off to a quarantine center (concentration camp) and either forcibly injected or exterminated. This is a big reason for the UN/World Health Organization’s current power grab where it is attempting to become the global government via a treaty that overrides sovereign governments’ powers.
This brings us to a somewhat puzzling aspect of this whole business. If the globalists were simply concerned about overpopulation, you would think that they would be content with killing off say 80 – 90% of the population, which, looking at it from their point of view, is understandable, but it appears that they want to wipe out almost the entire human race – kill most people and turn the survivors into genetically modified mind-controlled cyborgs hooked up to the “internet of bodies”. So why is this? The first point to make is that they have absolute contempt for anyone but themselves, who they regard as nothing more than chattels, like farm animals, that they want to cull, especially as most workers can now be replaced by robots that don’t want a salary.
The second point is that they are on the biggest power trip in the history of the world. Despots from time immemorial have always enjoyed the exercise of raw power involving imprisoning, torturing and killing people, sometimes by the thousands or even by the millions as in Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine, on a whim for their own gratification and now, thanks to the docile and submissive nature of most of the world’s population, they are able to do it on a global scale, simple examples of their egregious cruelty being forcing schoolchildren to wear useless and harmful masks all day and in recent weeks the Chinese government locking up the 27 million residents of Shanghai in their homes, in many cases leaving them to starve.
The third point is that many of them are card carrying Satanists – you don’t acquire the kind of wealth and power they have if you are not. Think of them as being members of a giant global “frat” society. The sordid details of their activities and rituals are beyond the scope of this article but suffice it to say that they enjoy inflicting widespread death, destruction and suffering on others and have carefully engineered the epochal crisis phase that the world is now entering with the masses being complicit as a result of their own growing decadence and degeneracy. The globalists are about to have the time of their lives as billions die over the next several years as a result of the lethal injections and as a result of starvation, war and general chaos. In the past the elites could only enjoy the suffering of the masses secondhand by reading about it in the newspapers and perhaps watching Pathe newsreels unless they took the trouble to go into the center of town to watch the rioting and looting etc., which was somewhat risky. Now they can settle back in their sumptuous armchairs and sofas in their remote and impregnable hideaways as their servants ply them with drinks and treats and watch all the strife with glee on big satellite connected flatscreen TVs.
Uptake of the “vaccines” is now tailing off somewhat as more of the masses are belatedly waking up to the fact that they have been conned. It is understood that about 60% of the world population have had at least one shot, which is a staggering figure considering that these “vaccines” are poison and is a sad testament to how many gullible, ignorant and stupid people there are in the world. As one of the elites recently said “I am looking forward to all these imbeciles turning into fertilizer”. Somewhat surprisingly, takeup of the “vaccines” across the African continent has been very low which is because Africans have a healthy suspicion of Big Pharma having been subjected to nasty experiments by Gates and Co. in the past. While the 60% takeup of the “vaccines” is doubtless a source of good cheer to the Globalists, they are not content with wiping out or “cyborgizing” 60% of the population – they want a higher tally.
So now they are moving on to create wars, civil wars and mass starvation by the intentional sabotage of supply chains, and just this past week they have unveiled “Pandemic 2”, the monkeypox, which Gates forewarned of with glee a year or two ago. Monkeypox afflicts the vaccinated which is hardly surprising considering that, in addition to genetic material from aborted fetuses, some of the shots contain genetic material from chimpanzees – perhaps some of the symptoms of this ailment include scratching and baring of teeth and a craving for bananas. This new vaccine-induced pandemic may be worse than Covid-19 (Certification of vaccination ID) which of course will play right into the hands of those who created it, as we can expect it to be used to generate a 2nd wave of fear and paranoia and push still more gullible people into lining up for death shots and also provide the excuse for the return of widespread brutal lockdowns, permanent mask wearing and the implementation of other planned measures like the cashless society and global ID and it will help the World Health Organization and United Nations to take center stage and usurp the sovereignty of individual nations, with the World Economic Forum cementing its iron grip over the world population.
The billions of hapless and ignorant victims of this monumental virus hoax and psyop who daily go through the ludicrous and pointless routines that their masters have devised for them have no idea that they are partaking in an occult ritual that will result in either their death or their enslavement, and so they cooperate in bringing about their own destruction. When you witness cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance on this scale it is hard not to start despising them as the globalists clearly do. Yet just because something or someone is stupid, it is not a reason to wish to do them harm. If we take the common sheep for example, it is perfectly suited to its way of life – if it was gifted with great intelligence it would be a curse because it would probably end up getting very bored chewing grass for about 8 hours a day. It has what it needs for the life it leads and sheep are kind of cute when they stare at you with those vacant looking eyes as they munch with their giant molars, and not only that, they provide wool for clothing and tasty meat. Compared to what has been going on the past couple of years, the elites have traditionally adopted a benign attitude to the masses that they “farm” to support their opulent lifestyles, even going so far as to allow them to do things like buy houses and take vacations but now, having decided that most of them have outlived their usefulness, they are turning on them with a determination to kill most of them and turn the survivors into slaves.
The ultimate symbol of the collective mass psychosis that the globalists have skillfully worked up in the masses is the face mask. The acceptance of wearing these masks by the masses was and is only possible because of their pitiful ignorance and suggestibility. Just a few minutes of searching on the internet quickly turns up that these masks are not only useless for preventing infection in the wearer or anyone else around them, but that they are definitely very harmful to health, especially if worn for long periods. From the perspective of the globalists the mask serves many purposes in pursuit of their objectives. The first and most obvious one is that the wearing of the mask signals that you accept the cult narrative, however absurd it is, and are yourself a part of the cult.
Next is that it is an indication of fear – fear that you will get infected or concern that you will infect someone, which cannot happen unless you are actually ill, which is why they came up with the lie about asymptomatic transmission, or fear of standing out from the crowd who are all stupidly wearing them and if not these reasons then fear that you will be fined. Masks also connote censorship, since they are a form of gagging that is associated with denying the wearer their voice.
Next, and importantly, they are a sign of submission which shows that you will give up breathing freely, a most basic human right, in order to please your master or fit in with the collective psychosis. Finally, they erase your personality and stunt communication with others, since they can’t see you properly. Overall they should be seen for what they are, a form of self-flagellation which damages the health of individuals through bacterial buildup, oxygen deprivation and the rebreathing of exhaled carbon dioxide and damage society at large through the collective ill health resulting from their misguided use and in addition they are a gross misuse of resources that results in severe environmental damage, but all this suits the globalist masters just fine, since the sicker people are the more likely they are to succumb to the poison shots and die.
The United States has been targeted for destruction, partly because its founding ethos of liberty of the individual and self-determination is at odds with the globalist goal of total enslavement – China meets with their approval much more. In China, most of the population live their lives as permanent schoolchildren whose social credit score rises or falls depending on how naughty they are, and when the government feels like it, it can barricade them in their homes and leave them to starve, as has been happening in Shanghai in recent weeks. So it is clear that the globalists want to move the US in this direction. This is why the election was rigged to instal a corrupt degenerate doddering senile old puppet in office who can be relied on to sign anything pushed in front of him without reading it and then he can get stuck with the blame when it all hits the fan.
Amongst the other methods being used to destroy the country we have the southern border being flung wide open to allow millions of refugees in who will overload the social security system and automatically vote for the politicians that offer them the most freebies, the promotion of freaks and weirdos to high office where they are able to advance their bizarre agendas, the corruption of schoolchildren at a very young age by the introduction of LBGTQ themes in schools, the fostering of ethnic and racial hatred, the weakening of the military, police forces and health professionals by the imposition of vaccine mandates, which result in the best military and police personal quitting, and those left falling sick and later dying, pandering to the “woke” culture and the intentional sabotage of the farming industry, food distribution systems and the oil pipeline distribution network.
So to sum up. The world has been taken over by a satanic cult whose members are unimaginably wealthy and they use this wealth to corrupt and control all the governments, judiciaries and major institutions of the world so that they work to advance this cult’s agenda. Its agenda can be very simply stated – it is to own everything (that’s why you will own nothing and be happy) to exterminate the vast majority of the human population and to transform the survivors into transhuman cyborgs permanently hooked up to the “internet of bodies” who will serve as a slave class. To this end they intend to destroy the world economy and collapse civilization, and you have probably noticed that they have started to do this and anyone nurturing the delusion that once Covid is overcome life will return to normal is in for a horrible shock. The dispossessed survivors of The Great Culling will be herded into tightly packed high-tech urban ghettoes where they will be monitored and controlled 24/7."
"Complicity:The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world. The severity of this situation compels us to ask this critical question: will we rise to the defense of billions of innocent people? Or will we permit personal profit over justice, and be complicit? Networks of lawyers all over the world are preparing class-action lawsuits to prosecute all who are serving this criminal agenda. To all who have been complicit so far, we say: There is still time to turn and choose the side of truth. Please make the right choice."
"The Fed is completely helpless to solve the banking problems right now. People need to protect themselves and know that there is a good chance that there will be several large financial institutions that will go out of business during this time."
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M13 is a colossal home to over 100,000 stars, spans over 150 light years across, lies over 20,000 light years distant, and is over 12 billion years old. At the 1974 dedication of Arecibo Observatory, a radio message about Earth was sent in the direction of M13. The featured image in HDR, taken through a small telescope, spans an angular size just larger than a full Moon, whereas the inset image, taken by Hubble Space Telescope, zooms in on the central 0.04 degrees.”
