"12 Numbers That Show That We Are Getting Dangerously Close To An Economic Crash As The Fall Of 2022 Approaches"

"12 Numbers That Show That We Are Getting Dangerously

 Close To An Economic Crash As The Fall Of 2022 Approaches"

by Michael Snyder

"You have heard me say it over and over again. What we are witnessing right now reminds me so much of 2008, and we all remember what happened in the fall of 2008. That doesn’t mean that this new crisis will unfold exactly the same way that the last one did. Ultimately, every economic downturn is unique. But the fact that we are seeing so many parallels between what is transpiring now and what transpired 14 years ago should deeply alarm all of us. We appear to be on the precipice of another economic crash, and all of the “solutions” that our leaders give us just seem to make things even worse.

Hopefully someone out there can find a way to pull a miracle out of a hat and a worst case scenario can be averted. But I wouldn’t count on that happening. The following are 12 numbers that show that we are getting dangerously close to an economic crash as the fall of 2022 approaches…

#1 The government is telling us that the unemployment rate only went up to 3.7 percent in August.

#2 According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were being used the real rate of unemployment in the United States would be over 24 percent.

#3 About half of all U.S. companies say that they will be eliminating jobs within the next 12 months.

#4 The government is telling us that the inflation rate in the United States is only 8.5 percent.

#5 According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if the rate of inflation was still calculated the way that it was back in 1980, the real rate of inflation would be somewhere around 17 percent right now. That is worse than anything that we experienced during the Jimmy Carter era.

#6 At one company, the number of Americans taking out short-term loans for groceries has nearly doubled this year.

#7 One out of every five home sellers in the United States dropped their asking price last month. This is more evidence that home prices are starting to rapidly move in a downward direction.

#8 Sales of previously-owned homes were about 20 percent lower this July than they were last July.

#9 One recent survey found that 3.8 million Americans believe that they could be evicted from their homes within the next two months.

#10 According to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, approximately 20 million U.S. households are currently behind on their utility bills.

#11 The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen for three weeks in a row. We also witnessed this sort of a gradual slide just prior to the big crash of 2008.

#12 In August, a whopping 2,150 corporate executives sold off shares in their companies. Are they trying to cash in while they still can?

Gustavo Arnal was one of the corporate executives that recently sold off large amounts of stock. Now he is dead…"The man who jumped to his death from the 18th floor of the famous ‘Jenga’ tower in lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood Friday has been identified as a Bed Bath & Beyond executive.

Gustavo Arnal, 52, was the Chief Financial Officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, a company that has been going through struggles of late due to high inflation and a sagging economy. The company announced plans to close 150 stores, of its roughly 900, and lay off 20 percent of staff just two days before Arnal’s death. He reportedly sold over 42,000 shares in the company, oft-identified as a ‘meme stock’, for $1million just over two weeks ago, according to MarketBeat.com."

It appears that Arnal was involved in a “pump and dump” scheme, and he may have decided that he didn’t want to spend much of the rest of his life locked away in prison…"The executive vice president and chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond who plunged to his death from the 18th floor of a New York City skyscraper on Friday was the subject of a class-action lawsuit alleging that he and majority shareholder, GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen, had artificially inflated the company’s value in a “pump and dump” scheme. Gustavo Arnal, 52, and Cohen, are listed as defendants in the class-action lawsuit filed last month in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia."

Sadly, I think that we will see quite a few more people jumping off of buildings before this whole thing is over. Of course most Americans would never do such a thing. Most Americans will just suffer through whatever comes even as their standard of living is being systematically destroyed. For example, CNN recently interviewed one young mother that couldn’t even afford to buy a backpack for her preschooler…"As Sarah Longmore finished her back-to-school shopping, the mother of five looked at a $25 backpack for her preschooler. Soaring inflation had crunched the family’s budget, and she decided her daughter could make do with a hand-me-down. She put the backpack back."

Unfortunately, she is not alone. In fact, one recent poll found that only 36 percent of all parents will “be able to pay for everything their kids need this school year”…"Just 36% of parents said they would be able to pay for everything their kids need this school year, according to Morning Consult’s annual back-to-school shopping report. That’s down sharply from 52% in 2021, when inflation was lower and stimulus checks plus advance child tax credit payments helped some families."

Are things really this bad already? If so, what will conditions look like six months or a year from now? 2023 is less than four months away, and the stage has been set for an economic implosion of absolutely epic proportions. Do you remember the extreme pain that our nation went through in 2008 and 2009?

Many believe that what is ahead will be even worse. The greatest debt bubble in the history of the world is starting to burst, and central banks all over the globe are starting to panic. If you always wanted to live in “interesting” times, you are going to get your wish. But for most people, the times that we are moving into will not be fun at all."

- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

"Big Companies Are Predatory, Big Governments Do Dumb Things"

"Big Companies Are Predatory,

 Big Governments Do Dumb Things" 

by Bruce Wilds

"Mankind faces a toxic mix when it comes to protecting our freedom. Big companies are predatory, big governments are stupid. The thing they have in common is they both want more control and power. China is a good example of trying to combine both, this experiment however seems to be crumbling before our eyes. Yes, where the powerful forces of global companies and big governments meet is at the intersection of Globalization and the World Economic Forum's vision of the future.

The whole concept of people power or that the masses have at any time the ability to just say no is constructed around the rather utopian or optimistic view that people can agree on what is in their self-interest. In truth when you push away the emotional high garnered from the vision of a quick clean non-violent rebellion, we are the underdog in this ongoing struggle for control of our lives. History shows the so-called masses are seldom able to come together on anything.

Keeping us divided and docile is a tool used to prevent unrest from boiling over and those in charge use it well. When people do rise up, achieving reform is more difficult to accomplish than simply promising it. The head may change but it often inherits the same old body of government workers that are resistant to change. True improvement tends to flow from evolution rather than revelation. The reason rebellions fail is often because those rebelling generally replace one bad government with another.

The idea that a large government hanging above us to regulate our lives will solve our problems has proven to be a fallacy. It could be argued the larger governments become the less responsive they become. Government bureaucracies tend to get bogged down in their mission to serve the people. They also have a huge problem balancing their mission to serve with their natural inclination to extend control over just about everything including our lives. This is often done under the claim it is for the "greater good."

Mega global companies and big government are the two largest threats to our freedom. Throughout history, monopolies of any kind have demonstrated a natural propensity to abuse the people, and governments have exhibited the ability to do dumb things that benefit the few rather than the masses. We see this in their inclination to rush to war and how they rapidly include cronies in anything they do which corrupts the fruit of their efforts.

Big Companies Tend To Be Predatory

For years many economists have discounted how the greed of these companies has created and added to the many problems the world faces. For example, the main reason we have the military-industrial complex and companies rushing to make bombs is that by doing so, they gain power and add to their profits. This train of thought brings front and center the question of whether mega-global companies are working in the direction of taking over the world and even dominating governments and countries. This is in some ways an extension of the New World Order with CEOs pulling the strings. The power these companies wield is often masked behind the facade of a figurehead leader but it is very real.

Developments over the last several decades portend a shift in power from country to corporations. The argument can be made that corporations are well on their way to supplanting the state as the world's dominant organizational structure in the future. Knowledge is power and this means power is flowing to large conglomerates and internet companies. Those that are most prominent control the communication networks collecting and storing data on all of us. They are now in a position to manipulate us in every way.

Over the years, this has resulted in a blurring of the lines between business and state. It has also shaped the world as we know it. By weaponizing the data they have collected as propaganda in a battle for our hearts and minds technology companies may hold an advantage over national governments in persuading individuals to align with their interests. This translates into enormous persuasive power and could be the key to providing corporations with a path to ultimately control populations, governments, and even nations. As they have gained power it seems these powerful global entities often lead governments around by the nose placing and have taken to placing people in a position of servitude.

Biden's Recent Speech Was About Control

The idea that a world controlled by mega companies will be benevolent and kind ignores the greed and ambitions of those who control them and how little regard they can have for those ranked below them. In his novels, Orwell depicted how governments could take on a life of their own and criticized totalitarianism throughout his writings. Totalitarianism, the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism is a political concept that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.

As an added bonus for these behemoths they can hide behind the governments they control sucking the blood from them while remaining aloof and shielded from the evil they inflict. It is difficult to deny that in our modern world many large companies already have more power than most nations and their power continues to grow at an alarming rate. The bottom line here is the power of the people is at a strong disadvantage when it comes to reforming society. The reality of sustained "power to the people" is as rare as a unicorn in your backyard. When all is said and done, in their effort to control us, the ugly forces of monopolistic conglomerates and governments continue to turn people into pawns."

- https://www.zerohedge.com

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"Stocking Up The Pantry At Sam's Club! Stock Up Now! Prices Are Rising!"

Full screen recommended.

Adventures with Danno, 9/5/22:

"Stocking Up The Pantry At Sam's Club! 

Stock Up Now! Prices Are Rising!"

"In today's vlog we are prepping our pantry with everything we buy from Sam's Club! Times are tough as we face more price increases on food, and other items. We take you with us as we show some long shelf life options, as well as explaining ways to save money."

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Gregory Mannarino, "Markets, A Look Ahead: Enter Into The Danger Zone"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 9/5/22:

"Markets, A Look Ahead: Enter Into The Danger Zone"

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Bill Bonner, "Aftermath"

Brandon

"V For Vendetta"

"Aftermath"

What Biden's 'Us vs. Them' speech 

portends for the future of the republic.

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "It is Labor Day in America. But here at Bonner Private Research headquarters in France, Argentina, England and Laramie, Wyoming, our labors continue uninterrupted.

Last week, it was announced that math scores for 9-year-olds had suffered their biggest drop in 30 years. Two decades’ worth of progress had been erased (presumably by lockdowns… statistically, the children were never at risk from the Covid anyway). White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre illustrated the problem: “We have created nearly ten thousand million jobs since President Biden took office, which is the fastest job growth in history."

Ten thousand million is, of course, ten billion, more than there are humans on planet earth. An amazing performance by the Biden Bunch. But now, even arithmetic is infected by claptrap. Activists claim that numeracy, or the way it is taught, is soaked in white supremacy and that the schools need to squeeze it out by aiming for ‘math equity,’ whatever that is.

Like language and money, math is a way of condensing and transmitting information. Our numbers came to us from the Arabs. Much of the early development work in mathematics and geometry was done in Egypt or Mesopotamia. And today, mathematicians from all over the world add and subtract in the same way; neither race, culture, height, gender, eye color nor any distinguishing birthmarks, matter. It is just as absurd to say that math is racist as to say that language is sexist, because it recognizes different genders, or that money is prejudiced in favor of snow, since so much of it ends up in Switzerland.

But such is the state of the world in 2022 that you can say any fool thing you want and half the world will agree with you. The other half will think you are a jackass.

Hee Haw: And so it came to pass, last week also, that Mr. Biden made the headlines. After so much venom directed at Mr. Trump, much of it justified, it was difficult to imagine how any subsequent president might be worse. And in 2020, the genial geriatric, Joe Biden, seemed to offer a safer, more agreeable alternative. But there he was, last Thursday, making what might have been the most divisive and uncivilized speech by a US president in history. In short, POTUS went off the deep end, practically declaring war. But not on some hapless foreign nation. Instead, he was declaring war on the half of the nation that didn’t support him.

Mr. Biden has a long history of plagiarism. He was almost kicked out of Syracuse law school for it. Instead, he was allowed to repeat his first year. And here he was rehearsing almost the exact ‘us vs. them’ themes made famous by dictators and scalawags throughout the centuries: "I will not stand by and watch the most fundamental freedom in this country, the freedom to vote… be taken from you."

"We are not powerless in the face of these threats… we are not bystanders… it’s within our power… to stop the assault on… democracy."

The MAGA faction – probably a third of the country – was “a threat… to the very soul of this country,” he claimed. Their “extremism… threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” and constitutes “dangers around us we cannot allow to prevail.”

The last time we heard such “fightin’ words” from a US president they came from the mouth of George W. Bush and led to waterboarding, droning, murdering, perhaps a million dead and 37 million refugees… along with $8 trillion down the drain. These fightin’ words of Joe Biden are likely to be even more costly. For, as we guessed 20 years ago, the words and weapons of the War on Terror are now being trained on “domestic terrorists,” (aka … the people who might defeat Mr. Biden and his bunch in the next election.)

So, throw away the US Constitution! Eight centuries of jurisprudence – going back to the Magna Carta – has been tossed out the window. As in the overseas, boondoggle wars, the ‘terrorist’ label excuses everything. People are arrested with no charges ever filed. They are tortured. Their property is taken away. And they are killed. Even American citizens were held in custody for years… and sometimes murdered. Why not give the same treatment to political enemies at home? The logic of it is irresistible.

Biden recalled the words of a federal judge, who said MAGA Republicans were a “clear and present danger.” This is a loaded phrase, reminding us of the feds’ power to override the First Amendment (free speech) if the threat is imminent. If Trump supporters really do represent a “clear and present danger,” the Biden Bunch has not only the right, but the duty, to lock them up as soon as possible. No trial necessary.

This was all so contrary to the spirit of civilized, consensual American democracy that we had a hard time believing it was true. We had to watch it ourselves; and it was almost more unbelievable than we imagined. There he was, the nation’s chief executive, in front of a red-lit background more appropriate to a “Tales from the Crypt” video than a presidential address, giving a speech that might be compared to Hitler’s famous “Nuremberg Speech” of 1936. Hitler’s target, the Bolsheviks, were a clear and present danger to Germany: “I cannot come to terms with [bolshevism]… It turns flourishing countrysides into sinister wastes of ruins.”

It was the old ‘us vs. them’: “…these antagonisms cannot be bridged. Here are really two worlds which do but grow further apart from each other and can never unite. Bolshevism has attacked the foundations of our whole human order, alike in State and society, the foundations of our conception of civilization, of our faith and of our morals: all alike are at stake. … [bolshevism]…intends to equip its army so that it may with violence, if necessary, open the gate to revolution amongst other peoples…”

Clearly, if the terrorists aren’t stopped…then Europe will sink into a sea of blood and mourning....

Fightin’ Words: Hitler’s ‘fightin’ words’ were greeted with wide approval and led to WWII. So too, after Biden’s call to action, many educated adults, who should have known better, immediately enlisted: “One of the most important [speeches] I’ve seen a president give,” said Hillary Clinton. “Biden’s core claim about the foundational threat posed by Trump and MAGA is undeniably correct,” wrote Greg Sargent. And here’s Dean Obeidallah: “It's long past time that MAGA be designated a domestic terrorist group. Period.”

Terrorists? MAGA forces have not set fire to the Capitol. They have not shot dead any archdukes…stormed no Bastilles nor put any heads on pikes. They have burned no shops… destroyed no newspaper offices… and hung no Jews, no communists, no homosexuals, no blacks, no Mexicans, no Washington Post columnists, no cross-dressers or self-mutilators, no virtue-signaling celebrities, no referees, no knee-taking sports heroes, no squeegee kids, no rap stars, no Green Energy hustlers, no Fed governors, no senators, no Baltimore mayors, no prison guards, no BATF agents, no IRS agents, no FBI agents, no TSA agents, no Indian agents, no PR agents and no travel agents. Neither Hillary Clinton nor her insufferable daughter have been molested. Hunter Biden is still a free man. And Paul Krugman still gets a check from the New York Times. All things considered, the MAGA aficionados have showed remarkable restraint… or incompetence.

Have they set up secret training camps in the Ozarks? Have they had secret meetings with key generals, admirals, CIA chiefs and Homeland Security bureaucrats? Have they assassinated key Biden supporters, politicians, and traitors to their cause? While lone wolf nut-cases howl at the moon and gun down people from time to time, not a single murder can be fairly attributed to organized Trump followers. Instead, the MAGA enthusiasts are typically middle aged, law-abiding, and simpleminded. They are not revolutionaries. And Donald Trump himself may be able to rouse the rabble; but organize a genuine threat to the republic? Not likely.

Even their unlawful entry (?) into the US Capitol was hardly an attack on democracy; every one of the trespassers thought he was there to fulfill the promise of the Constitution, not destroy it. They may not be terribly bright, but if MAGA Republicans are terrorists… they are the dullest and least threatening bomb throwers in world history. Extremists of the world, unite!

But it was left to the redoubtable Karine Jean-Pierre to make sense of it. Who are these extremists? She explained: “When you are not with where the majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking.” Again, it was math that tripped her up. The majority may be as slim as 51%, with the swing vote swaying one way or another like a ‘for sale’ sign in a hurricane. That means that 49% – or about 125 million American adults, including us, and millions of people who voted for Biden but who are now fed up with his policies – are all ‘extremists.’ The feds are said to be naming Russia as a ‘terrorist state.’ Next, it will be Florida."

- https://bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/

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"There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. 

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent."

- "V For Vendetta"

Labor Day 2022

 

Have a happy Labor Day folks!

Canadian Prepper, "You Won't Believe What Happened Today..."

Canadian Prepper, 9/4/22:

"You Won't Believe What Happened Today..."

"If you needed confirmation of how depraved 

the world has become look no further."

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"Nearly Half The Nation Cuts Back Spending On Food: Prepare Yourself For Planned Starvation"

Full screen recommended.

"Nearly Half The Nation Cuts Back Spending On Food: 

Prepare Yourself For Planned Starvation"

by Epic Economist

"Massive lines are forming at food banks all around the country, the number of layoffs and job losses is going through the roof as hundreds of thousands of businesses are right on the brink of going under. At the same time, a housing crash that is set to be even worse than what we’ve witnessed during the previous bubble burst is officially here, but prices continue unaffordable for the vast majority of the population. Consequently, large numbers of Americans are actually moving into sheds in a desperate attempt to save money. The cost of everything has climbed so high that about half of U.S. consumers are having to cut back on spending on food to be able to make ends meet. The current economic downturn is in the very early stages, but the economic suffering that is already emerging all over the nation is truly frightening. If people are struggling this much now, what will conditions be like six months down the road?

If you’re having to cut back spending on groceries and gasoline lately, you’re definitely not alone. A new survey conducted by Suffolk University in partnership with USA Today found that nearly 50% of Americans are in the same boat. The cost of essentials is rising much faster than official numbers show. For example, food prices jumped by 12.6% over the past 12 months, over 4 percentage points higher than the official inflation rate. Energy costs have also shot up, rising a shocking 41.6% in the last year, with gasoline prices leading the surge, going up 59.9%, the researchers reported.

Our standard of living is being eviscerated by inflation, and large swathes of the population are already deeply hurting. When people start to experience severe financial insecurity, they tend to become desperate. And desperate times lead to desperate measures. Authorities are reporting an alarming rise in shoplifting happening all around the country, and food and other essentials have become the main targets. In New York City, things are getting so out of hand that some stores are now putting canned goods and other ready-to-eat items in theft-proof cases.

Another very worrying sign is the extremely long lines that we are seeing again at food banks all around the U.S. A new ZeroHedge report exposed that at the moment, food banks from coast to coast are experiencing “record high demand and record low supply.” That’s why we really hope that you are getting prepared for the very difficult times that are ahead because there will be a limit to what charities are able to do for the overall population. The best option would be to stock dry and canned goods with a long shelf life now while they are still available at local supermarkets and prepare for the cold season when demand for food will soar even higher. Even those who are experiencing financial distress can utilize pantries to stock supplies for the months ahead if they plan carefully. In a few months, those same pantries may not exist anymore, so now is the time to act.

But of course, the rich and the political class continue to insist that everything is under control. Believe it or not, the definition of the word “recession” on Wikipedia was just changed to reflect the narrative of the federal government, and it has been locked to prevent any additional editing. They really want to convince us that the wild price fluctuations we’re seeing are not real, or at least, not such a big problem. But these silencing measures never work because people can tell when things are going south, and by now, the vast majority of Americans know we are in a recession. Sadly, the distortions we’ve seen so far are just a hint of the disaster that is coming."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com/

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"This Looks Like 2008 But Much Worse - Most Will Lose Everything; The Everything Bubble Has Burst"

Full screen recommended.

Jeremiah Babe, 9/4/22:

"This Looks Like 2008 But Much Worse - 

Most Will Lose Everything; The Everything Bubble Has Burst"

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"Evictions and Foreclosures are Going Full Steam Ahead"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, iAllegedly, 9/4/22:

"Evictions and Foreclosures are Going Full Steam Ahead"

"Evictions and foreclosures are growing. There are over 4 million evictions planned for the next 60 days. The foreclosures numbers are growing weekly."

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Musical Interlude: Peder B. Helland, "Dance of Life"

Full screen recommended.

Peder B. Helland, "Dance of Life"

Fantasy music for relaxation and meditation. 

Absolutely beautiful...

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. 

NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of the galaxy's dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms. In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000 light-years across. Unlike other spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, NGC 1300 is not presently known to have a massive central black hole.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120325.html 

“Are People Really Stupid?”

“Are People Really Stupid?”

by Fred Russell

“On the face of things – judging from the general level of knowledge and understanding, not to mention the intellectual pursuits, of most of the human race – one is tempted to say that the overwhelming majority of mankind lacks the intellectual capacity, the intelligence, to contribute to human progress. And it is in fact a very small elite that has carried us beyond Neanderthal Man, without whom, if the truth be told, we might still be living in caves. It is, in a word, appalling to contemplate the level at which ordinary people use their minds – what they read, if at all, what they watch on TV, the movies they go out and see, and the ease with which they are seduced and manipulated by the technicians of the psyche, namely, politicians and advertisers. 

The impression one gets when contemplating these tens and hundreds of millions of people glued to their TV screens for the reality shows and sitcoms or fiddling with their smartphones from morning till night is of complete empty-headedness. This is not to say that such people cannot be shrewd, resourceful, or, for that matter, simply decent. It is to say that at the average level of intelligence displayed by the human race, the great intellectual achievements of mankind seem to be beyond the scope of the vast majority of men and women. But are people really stupid? And if they aren’t, who or what has held them back?

Now one may be inclined to place all the blame for our ignorance on the television producers and gadget makers, but the truth is that by the time they get to us the damage has already been done. All they really succeed in doing is dragging us down a little further. The problem starts in childhood. It starts in the schools with all those empty cells waiting to be filled and no one, not entire educational systems, really knowing how to fill them. In fact, the opposite result is achieved. By the time the child finishes elementary school, unless he is destined to join the intellectual or scientific or economic or political elite and is self-motivated, as the saying goes, he will have developed an aversion to the learning process that will persist for the rest of his life.

It is not hard to understand why. School bores him, and oppresses him. Its premise, fostered in the West by the Church – the virtually exclusive supplier of teachers until fairly recent times, historically speaking – is that as a consequence of Original Sin all men are born evil and must therefore be coerced into doing what is good. The result has been rigidly structured frameworks where teachers hammer away at the captive child until his head is ready to explode. Within just a few years, the public school system thus destroys the natural curiosity of the child and dooms him to a life of total ignorance, dependent, for whatever sense of the world he does have, on second rate journalists, who themselves lack the knowledge, understanding, discipline and integrity to be historians or even novelists and therefore shape his perception like the ignorant clerics of the Middle Ages, raining down on his head a disjointed and superficial body of information presented largely to produce effects, and even this is beyond his capacity to retain. 

The man in the street may thus be said to have a great many opinions but very little knowledge, mindlessly repeating the half-truths of “experts” and “analysts” who reflect his own biases and constructing out of them a “credo” of dogmatic views that remain embedded in his mind for an entire lifetime like bricks in a brick wall.

Does it matter? After all, we have all the scholars and scientists we need, and besides, a world where everyone became one would be a dull place indeed. It can even be argued that it is better for the race if progress is opposed, since, judging from its products, it mostly expresses itself materially and economically in an unholy alliance of greed and technology. However, progress of this kind cannot be fought if all that people have on their minds is to wire themselves into this technology, and that is what they will be doing until their minds are engaged in less frivolous pursuits. They are thus doubly victimized, first by the schools, whose methods are not attuned to the temperament and capacity of the average child, and then by the economic elites who control the technologies and consequently the flow of information and whose only interest in the man in the street is as a consumer of their products.

Unfortunately, there is very little hope that any of this will change. The wrong people control human society and will continue to do so, because they created the model and are the only ones who know how to operate it. The sad truth is that today’s man in the street is neither wiser nor more knowledgeable than a medieval peasant. Calling ourselves Homo sapiens, or even Homo sapiens sapiens, seemed like a good idea once but very few of us have lived up to the billing.”

- https://www.counterpunch.org/

"When You Are In Deep Trouble..."

 

"Vulcan Guiding Principles"

"Vulcan Guiding Principles"

by Moon

"Ideally, do no harm. Harm speeds up the heat-death of the Universe, and indirectly, your own. More practically, do as little harm as possible. We are creations of a Universe in which entropy exists, and therefore see no way of escape, but we do not need to help it.

Harm no one’s internal, invisible integrities. Leave others the privacies of their minds and lives. Intimacy remains precious only insofar as it is inviolate: invading it turns it to torment. Reach out to others courteously: accept their reaching in the same way, with careful hands.

Do not murder. The spear in the other’s heart is the spear in your own; you are he. All action has reaction: what force you inflict, inevitably returns. The murder of the other is the murder of your own joy, forever.

As far as possible, do not kill. Can you give life again to what you kill? Then be slow to take life. Take only life that will not notice you taking it. To notice one’s own death increases entropy. To die and not notice it increases it less, but still does so.

Cast out fear. Cast out hate and rage. Cast out greed and envy. Cast out all emotion that speeds entropy, whether it be love or hate. Cast out these emotions by using reason to accept them, and then move past them. Use in moderation emotions that do not speed entropy, taking all care that they do not cause others pain, for that speeds entropy as well. Master your passions, so that they become a power for the slowing of the heat-death.

Do no harm to those that harm you. Offer them peace, and offer them peace again, and do it until you die. In this manner you will have peace, one way or another, even if they kill you. And you cannot give others what you have not experienced yourself.

Learn reason above all. Learn clear thought: learn to know what is from what seems to be. This is the key to everything: the truth of reality, the reality of truth. What is will set you free.”

Surak’s concept of cthia, the guiding principle of Vulcan society, as written by Diane Duane in her novel, “Star Trek: Spock’s World.”

- http://www.moonhillproductions.com/

"A Tiny Ripple Of Hope..."

"A Tiny Ripple Of Hope..."

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Time, Life, and the Roller Coaster"

"Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up."

- Jerry Seinfeld

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Full screen recommended.

"Time, Life, and the Roller Coaster"

Remember when you were 10 years old, and summer felt like it lasted forever? Got a little older, not so bad, still plenty of time to do everything you wanted. Someone told me back then that time speeds up the older you get. Being young, and knowing everything as the young do, I of course ridiculed this idea. But guess what - it’s true. Now I view life, and time, as a roller coaster with just one enormous riser. As you climb the beginning towards the top time is slower to pass. At 30 or so you’re at the very top, then you start the fall towards the bottom. Faster and faster you go, as time goes by ever quicker. Weeks and months flash by, and you wonder where it all went, and as you descend ever faster you suddenly realize that somewhere on the tracks below there’s a solid brick wall or some other disaster awaiting your arrival. The only things you don’t know is where on the tracks ahead of you it is, or how soon you'll arrive. So, while you still can, you'd better appreciate even more the things you can enjoy, and the people whom you love and that love you, because the ride isn’t going to last forever...

- CP

"Treacherous Times Ahead"

"Treacherous Times Ahead"

by Martin Armstrong

"I believe that the 2022 election may be the catalyst. Not all people who voted for Trump and/or are Republicans believe that the election of 2020 was rigged. I have been warning for months, that reliable sources in DC, or the Corruption District, have been planning to hand citizenship to illegal aliens before the election to rig the midterms. In addition, they were pushing to indict Trump. Either, but more likely BOTH, may be carried out. I fear this will backfire on them for there will be conservative democrats who will not be happy with handing out citizenship like candy on Halloween.

In Britain, the Indians were generally upset about letting in all the Muslims. They had to show that they not just spoke the language but had the skill set that Britain needed, primarily medical. It seems I have trouble getting in my employees in Europe, the Middle East, and India. I am told I should hire Americans, despite these people having worked for me for more than a decade.

I tell them to put on a sombrero, don’t speak any English, walk across the border, and no need for vaccines, they will hand you plenty of pocket change and free everything, including a free flight in the middle of the night. All no problem. No language or skills are necessary – just vote Democrats when they call upon you. You will get a green card and citizenship – no worries! You don’t even have to work.

Most people who read this blog already know the truth about the government. What we are missing is the majority. It is the general mask-wearing public because Lord Fauci told them what to do. It is their confidence that needs to be shaken – not stirred.

The LEFT is always ruthless. Just look at all the times in history major civil wars and revolutions have taken place. The LEFT demands no compromise and that will be their agenda. The rumor I hear is that they have resistance to granting citizenship on the Hill. That much is starting to appear in the press. In desperation, Biden will sign an executive order probably with an order of what he wants for lunch.

It would be unconstitutional for Biden to grant them citizenship by executive decree. Obama’s exec order for DACA was unconstitutional and he had no right making it – he acknowledged that fact and did it anyway fully expecting the challenge that never happened. This is the same scheme. Granting citizenship by executive order will be UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but the LEFT never cares about laws. They assumed that they will vote, and the legal challenge will take at best months, so they win because they will count on the Supreme Court not to overrule an election.

I fear that if this RUMOR became true, perhaps this is why my computer is going nuts on civil unrest and international war in 2023. So let’s pay attention to the arrays for this is our only guide. Nobody’s opinion will count much in such a treacherous time."

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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“Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent”

“Neuroscience Says Listening to This Song

Reduces Anxiety by Up to 65 Percent”

By Melanie Curtin

“Everyone knows they need to manage their stress. When things get difficult at work, school, or in your personal life, you can use as many tips, tricks, and techniques as you can get to calm your nerves. So here’s a science-backed one: make a playlist of the 10 songs found to be the most relaxing on earth. Sound therapies have long been popular as a way of relaxing and restoring one’s health. For centuries, indigenous cultures have used music to enhance well-being and improve health conditions.

Now, neuroscientists out of the UK have specified which tunes give you the most bang for your musical buck. The study was conducted on participants who attempted to solve difficult puzzles as quickly as possible while connected to sensors. The puzzles induced a certain level of stress, and participants listened to different songs while researchers measured brain activity as well as physiological states that included heart rate, blood pressure, and rate of breathing.

According to Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson of Mindlab International, which conducted the research, the top song produced a greater state of relaxation than any other music tested to date. In fact, listening to that one song- “Weightless”- resulted in a striking 65 percent reduction in participants’ overall anxiety, and a 35 percent reduction in their usual physiological resting rates. That is remarkable.

Equally remarkable is the fact the song was actually constructed to do so. The group that created “Weightless”, Marconi Union, did so in collaboration with sound therapists. Its carefully arranged harmonies, rhythms, and bass lines help slow a listener’s heart rate, reduce blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

When it comes to lowering anxiety, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Stress either exacerbates or increases the risk of health issues like heart disease, obesity, depression, gastrointestinal problems, asthma, and more. More troubling still, a recent paper out of Harvard and Stanford found health issues from job stress alone cause more deaths than diabetes, Alzheimer’s, or influenza.

In this age of constant bombardment, the science is clear: if you want your mind and body to last, you’ve got to prioritize giving them a rest. Music is an easy way to take some of the pressure off of all the pings, dings, apps, tags, texts, emails, appointments, meetings, and deadlines that can easily spike your stress level and leave you feeling drained and anxious.

Full screen highly recommended.

Of the top track, Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson said, “‘Weightless’ (above) was so effective, many women became drowsy and I would advise against driving while listening to the song because it could be dangerous.” So don’t drive while listening to these, but do take advantage of them:

10. “We Can Fly,” by Rue du Soleil (Café Del Mar)

9. “Canzonetta Sull’aria,” by Mozart

8. “Someone Like You,” by Adele

7. “Pure Shores,” by All Saints

6. “Please Don’t Go,” by Barcelona

5. “Strawberry Swing,” by Coldplay

4. “Watermark,” by Enya

3. “Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix),” by DJ Shah

2. “Electra,” by Airstream

1. “Weightless,” by Marconi Union

I made a public playlist of all of them on Spotify that runs about 50 minutes (it’s also downloadable).”

- http://www.stumbleupon.com/

"Finance ‘Guru’ Reveals Financial Collapse and COVID Jab Data"

"Finance ‘Guru’ Reveals Financial

Collapse and COVID Jab Data"

by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Excerpt: "Story At-A-Glance: Edward Dowd is a hedge fund “guru” and former equity portfolio manager for the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock. Over the past two years, Dowd has courageously come forward to awaken people to the collateral damage of the COVID pandemic.

• A global financial collapse is a mathematical certainty. Dowd predicts the collapse will begin in earnest within the next six to 24 months.

• COVID provided cover for central banks and governments, allowing them to temporarily hide the reality that the financial system is crashing.

• COVID also allowed for the erection of a control system to shield governments and central banks from the fallout from collapsing food, energy and finance systems. It allowed them to restrict travel and introduce digital IDs and central bank digital currencies by linking them together with vaccine passports.

• Insurance companies report a 40% increase in excess mortality among working-age adults during the fourth quarter of 2021. Millennials aged 25 to 44 had an 84% increase in excess mortality in that same timeframe. Since the rollout of the COVID jabs, the number of Americans who claim to be disabled has risen by at least 10%, possibly more.

In this video, I interview Edward Dowd, a hedge fund “guru” and former equity portfolio manager for BlackRock, one of the two largest asset managers in the world, Vanguard being the other. Over the past two years, Dowd has courageously come forward to awaken people to the collateral damage of the COVID pandemic."

View this complete article here:

- https://articles.mercola.com/

Must View! Greg Hunter, "Global CV19 Vax Propaganda Means Mass Casualties – Dr. Pierre Kory"

"Global CV19 Vax Propaganda

 Means Mass Casualties – Dr. Pierre Kory"

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"World renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory thinks the CV19 vax is a “humanitarian catastrophe,” and it is being “ignored, suppressed and censored” through a well-organized global propaganda campaign. This propaganda will be responsible for millions of deaths that have already happened and many more millions of CV19 vax deaths in the future. Dr. Kory explains, “We have data screaming at us everywhere we look. You can start with the life insurance data, India’s data, Germany’s data, and we know people are dying at unprecedented rates. That is one thing. We know that disability is through the roof. No one has seen VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) with the numbers it is screaming. Now, we are seeing buried miscarriage rates and spontaneous abortion rates 70% and up to 90% in pregnant women. We are still seeing propaganda and all of these messages to get your (CV19) shot even though there is no logic to it. 

Maybe people are blindly following these instructions and there is no more critical thinking or the control of the information is leading to mass casualties. This is literally a humanitarian catastrophe. We have never seen this. This is a global condition. We have a global catastrophe because the (bad) information has infected almost every country on earth. Wherever you look the data is so ominous. The myocarditis and dropping dead is incessant. It’s from every country in the world. You hear everyday reports of young people doing normal fun activities, like going to the beach or going to the park, and they are dropping dead.”

Dr. Kory is actively trying to find treatments for people harmed by the CV19 vax, but that is not the biggest problem he faces. Dr. Kory says, “People are being told things (like getting CV19 booster shots) that are putting them at grave risk. I don’t know how to combat a global technological propaganda instrument. We have never had that before. I don’t think we have ever had the same messages and the same stories being shot out 24/7. I have been saying this for a while, and the world has gone mad because of unrelenting propaganda and censorship. We have never had this much power and this much propaganda, never the same story being told to the entire globe at the same time and the same lie.”

Dr. Kory says, “Not only no more shots, but I would say we need a national cry to stop the vaccine campaign. It’s not going to start in America because this is the United States of Pharma.” This is why cheap, effective drugs such as Ivermectin are being banned here in America and around the world. Dr. Kory says, “We are at war here. You cannot have Ivermectin in the marketplace. It threatens the vaccine, Paxlovid, monoclonal-antibodies and Remdesivir. Ivermectin is a drug that is the biggest financial threat to the biggest market in pharmaceutical history.” There is much more in the 49-minute interview.

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Pierre Kory, one of the top pulmonary and Covid Critical Care experts on the planet, who is co-founder of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net) and author of the upcoming book “The War on Ivermectin.”

- https://rumble.com

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"Unthinkable Thoughts"

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"The Vaccine Deaths Are Now Simply Too Massive 

to Keep Hiding and Explaining Them Away"

"The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History"

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Strong Language Alert!

"The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History"

Why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore.

From the 2012 tv show "The Newsroom." 10 years later 

it's much, much worse, as you well know, don't you?

"How It Really Is"

 

"Prep Your Pantry, Stock Up Now! Not Good! What's Coming? Food Shortages!"

Adventures with Danno, 9/4/22:

"Prep Your Pantry, Stock Up Now! Not Good! 

What's Coming? Food Shortages!"

"In today's vlog we are stocking up the pantry as prices on groceries are going up all around the country. We will discuss some ways to save money as we stock up for the future! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"

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