Tuesday, March 19, 2024

"That's How Life Works..."

"Never, ever forget that nothing in this life is free. Life demands payment in some form for your "right" to express yourself, to condemn and abuse the evil surrounding us. Expect to pay... it will come for you, they will come for you, regardless. Knowing that, give them Hell itself every chance you can. Expect no mercy, and give none. That's how life works. Be ready to pay for what you do, or be a coward, pretend you don't see, don't know, and cry bitter tears over how terrible things are, over how you let them become."
- Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

The Daily "Near You?"

Burnley, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by!

Judge Napolitano, "Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Israeli Government is Criminal"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 3/19/24
"Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Israeli Government is Criminal"
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"Israel is Evil personified. Israel is Evil embodied."
- Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter, "Geopolitics 3/19/24"

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Scott Ritter, 3/19/24
"Israel Economy Faces Irreversible Collapse 
as World and Arab Nations Turn Their Backs"
"This video delves into the current economic situation in Israel, analyzing the profound challenges the country is facing. We explore the reasons behind the potential collapse of Israel's economy, including the decline in support from the international community and Arab countries, along with the lack of support for the Palestinian people. The video also includes an analysis of the impact of this situation on Israel's future economic and political landscape, as well as the potential consequences for the broader region."
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OpenmindedThinker Show, 3/19/24
"Malaysia Blows Hot; Announces Plan If Israel 
Invades Gaza's Rafah Next Week; Netanyahu Loses Again!"
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Scott Ritter, 3/19/24
"Russia has Destroyed the U.S. Military
 and Putin is Exposing the Truth"
"Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter explains how Putin's interview on Tucker Carlson exposed waning U.S. supremacy in all fields military and political, showing millions of people in the West that Russia is ready to assume global leadership."
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"A Hammer Blow..."

"Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie."
- Dean Koontz

Dan, I Allegedly, "AM/PM 3/19/24"

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Dan, I Allegedly AM 3/19/24
"Why More Stores Are Doomed"
"We're diving deep into the storm brewing in the retail sector, spurring more bankruptcies and shaking the very foundation of traditional retail. The store chain Joann fabrics just filed for bankruptcy, and now we find an apartment building that’s sold for less than the construction cost."
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Dan, I Allegedly PM 3/19/24
"It's a Car Buyer's Paradise!"
"We just got the Edmunds report on the state of the used car industry. Not only has negative equity gone through the roof, but people cannot afford the cars that they’ve purchased."
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"How It Really Is"

Oh, it's not just the young. Look around, everywhere,
everyone has their face jammed into a phone...
Several generations of idiots actually...
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"I Know Why You Did It"

“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 who are 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. They 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" speech to London

"When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth "

"When We Can No Longer Tell the Truth"
by Charles Hugh Smith

"When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rotten, fragile status quo down in a heap of broken promises and lies, we've reached the perfection of dysfunction. You know the one essential guideline to leadership in a doomed dysfunctional system: when it gets serious, you have to lie. In other words, the status quo's secular goddess is TINA - there is no alternative to lying, because the truth will bring the whole corrupt structure tumbling down.

This core dynamic of dysfunction is scale-invariant, meaning that hiding the truth is the core dynamic in dysfunctional relationships, households, communities, enterprises, cities, corporations, states, alliances, nations and empires: when the truth cannot be told because it threatens the power structure of the status quo, that status quo is doomed.

Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness. What lies, half-truths and cover-ups communicate is: we can no longer fix our real problems, and rather than let this truth out, we must mask it behind lies and phony reassurances.

Truth is power, lies are weakness. All we get now are lies, statistics designed to mislead and phony reassurances that the status quo is stable and permanent. The truth is powerful because it is the core dynamic of solving problems. Lies, gamed statistics and false reassurances are fatal because they doom any sincere efforts to fix what's broken before the system reaches the point of no return.

We are already past the point of no return. The expediency of lies has already doomed us.

Honest accounts of hugely successful corporations that implode share one key trait: in every case, managers were pressured to hide the truth from top management, which then hid the truth from investors and clients. is the key dynamic in failed oligarchies as well: if telling the truth gets you sent to Siberia (or worse), then nobody with any instinct for self-preservation will tell the truth. If obscuring the truth saves one's job, then that's what people do. That this dooms the organization is secondary to immediate self-preservation.

A distorted sense of loyalty to the family, community, company, institution, agency or nation furthers lying as the solution to unsavory problems. Daddy a drunk? Hide the bottle. Church a hotbed of adultery and thieving? Maintain the facade of holiness at all costs. Company products are failing? Put some lipstick on the pig. The statistical truth doesn't support the party's happy story? Distort the stats until they do what's needed. The agency failed to fulfill its prime directive? Blame the managerial failure on a scapegoat.

Pathological liars and cheats rely on self-preservation and misplaced loyalty to mask their own failure and corruption. A hint here, a comment there, and voila, a culture of lying is created and incentivized.

Obscuring the truth is the ultimate short-term expediency. Now that it's serious, we have to lie. We'll start telling the truth later, we say, after everything's stabilized, we hope. But lying insures nothing can ever be truly stabilized, so there will never be a point at which the system is strong enough and stable enough to survive the truth.

We are now an empire of lies. The status quo,politically, socially and economically, depends on lies, half-truths, scapegoats and cover-ups for its very survival. Any truth that escapes the prison of lies endangers the entire rotten edifice.

In an empire of lies, leaders say what people want to hear. This wins the support of the masses, who would rather hear false reassurances that require no sacrifices, no difficult trade-offs, no hard choices, no discipline. The empire of lies is doomed. Lies are weakness, and they prohibit any real solutions. Truth is power, but we can no longer tolerate the truth because it frightens us. Our weakness is systemic and fatal."

"Choose Life"

"Choose Life"
by Nicholas Creed

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
- H. L. Mencken

"This Substack has deconstructed many agendas and narratives that are aimed at the demoralization, maiming, sterilization, polarization, and depopulation of humanity. The tone of these articles has ranged from idealistic, to hopium, to practicality and controlling what is controllable.

Joost A.M. Meerloo, ["The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing"] - wrote: “We believe that it has been demonstrated that the Government can search its own soul and the soul of an individual whose relationship to his government is in question with full protection of the rights and interests of both. We believe that loyalty and security can be examined within the framework of the traditional and inviolable principles of American justice.

In these beautiful phrases lie hidden all the ominous beginnings of totalitarian thought control. The government that searches the soul of any thinking individual can always find a case against him, because doubt, ambivalence, and groping are traits common to all men. We cannot measure anybody's dependability on the basis of his thoughts and feelings as they appear to us. In the first place, we can never know what lies behind a seemingly loyal facade. In the second place, the man whose search for truth leads him to explore many heretical points of view can be the most loyal in his actions. His very exploration may well lead him to the considered judgment that underlies true loyalty. What counts in any man is the consistency and integrity of his behaviour, and his courage in taking a stand, not his conformity to official dogma..”

It is critical that we remind ourselves of why we resist. Why we persist. What we value. Who we love. Where we focus our energy. When we are able to catch ourselves before the downward spiral. How we manage to manage and enjoy life.

This is a message for those of us that continue to choose life, speaking out and acting out against the globalist death cult - in all of its insidious forms.

We will not be made to feel ashamed of procreating and having strong family bonds, held together with unconditional love and support.

We reject measuring our lives in carbon output.

We will preserve history, in spite of relentless memory holing.

We shall teach untold new generations how to think critically, and how to see through propaganda.

The resistance art of our time may be censored, suppressed, and criminalized - yet it shall never be entirely erased.

We will always do what is right, even when it is more popular to do what is wrong.


We cherish our connection to nature. We will spend time in the planet’s forests, mountains, drylands, freshwater resources, and oceans, whenever and wherever we please. We reject Agenda 2030’s sustainable development goals for the United Nations to centrally manage all of earth’s resources. Everything is for everyone.

We will not be propagandized into believing that farming and fishing is ‘ecocide’. We support farmers protesting against EU tyranny.


Agenda 2030 is not real. It is conceptual. It is the vision of a minority. Our families are real. Our friends are real. Our lives are sacred. We are the majority.

Our pain and suffering is temporary. Our will is unbreakable. Our love for life and humanity is incorruptible.

We choose to resist all forms of dystopia and totalitarian societies. We will persist in curating the future we want and the future we deserve. A future that is free from serfdom, unshackled from censorship, liberated from fear, and expunged of eugenics.

In spite of the years we have already lost, knowing of the years yet to be fought ahead, expecting countless false flags, faked pandemics, engineered wars, manufactured crises and chaos - we choose life."

Adventures With Danno, "Stocking Up At Meijer!"

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Adventures With Danno, AM 3/19/24
"Stocking Up At Meijer!"
"In today's vlog, we are stocking up on grocery items at Meijer! I take you shopping with me as we check all the different sale prices and ways to save money this week. With early Easter deals and many others, you don't want to miss these sales."
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Meanwhile, elsewhere...
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Travelling with Russell, 3/19/24
"I Visited a Russian Food Distribution Center"
"What does a Russian Food Distribution Center look like inside? Come behind the scenes at the Pyaterochka Food Distribtion Center in Pololsk, Russia. See what it takes to get food from the truck to the shelf in the fascinating behind the scenes tour."
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Gregory Mannarino, "Situation Critical: Final Warning! Get Your Cash Out Of The Smaller/Regional Banks Now!"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 3/19/24
"Situation Critical: Final Warning! 
Get Your Cash Out Of The Smaller/Regional Banks Now!"
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Gregory Mannarino, PM 3/19/24
"Hundreds Of Banks Are Going To Fail! 
Which Ones Are They?"
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Monday, March 18, 2024

"I Can See It All Very Clearly..."

"There are a multitude of fuses affixed to dozens of powder-kegs and little kids with matches are on the loose. I don’t know which of the fuses will be lit and which powder-keg will blow, but someone is bound to do something stupid, and then all hell will break loose. It could happen at any time. One military miscue. One assassination. One violent act that stirs the world. And the dominoes will topple, setting off fireworks not seen on this planet since 1939 – 1945. I can see it all very clearly."
- Jim Quinn

Canadian Prepper, "Oh $%#&! Israel Panic Buying; Ukraine Collapses; Prepare To Lose Everything!"

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Canadian Prepper, 3/18/24
"Oh $%#&! Israel Panic Buying; 
Ukraine Collapses; Prepare To Lose Everything!"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Inner Light"

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2002, "Inner Light"
"This song is from our album, "The Emerald Way". The Emerald Way refers to that moment in life when a pivotal choice must be made – to choose the way that is customary and expected of us – or to head down the overgrown hidden path leading to the unknown." 

"A Look to the Heavens"

“About 70 million light-years distant, gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 289 is larger than our own Milky Way. Seen nearly face-on, its bright core and colorful central disk give way to remarkably faint, bluish spiral arms. The extensive arms sweep well over 100 thousand light-years from the galaxy's center.
At the lower right in this sharp, telescopic galaxy portrait the main spiral arm seems to encounter a small, fuzzy elliptical companion galaxy interacting with enormous NGC 289. Of course spiky stars are in the foreground of the scene. They lie within the Milky Way toward the southern constellation Sculptor.”

"Everybody Is A Genius..."

 

"30 Signs That The Middle Class Is Falling Apart"

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Epic Economist, 3/18/24
"30 Signs That The Middle Class Is Falling Apart"
"Uncover the bitter truth surrounding the fate of the middle class in the United States through these 30 eye-opening statistics. From income stagnation to rising economic challenges, prepare to witness the many factors that have been plaguing and swallowing the backbone of America's workforce today."
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Michael Bordenaro, 3/18/24
"Fast Food and Retail Apocalypse! 
Stores Closing By The Hundreds!"
"You can't go a single day anymore without hearing about how great this economy is going with low unemployment a high stock market in a robust real estate market. But if you just dig one layer deeper you'll see that there are hundreds of fast food and retailers closing all across the country. Is that really a sign of a strong economy?"
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The Daily "Near You?"

Perryville, Arkansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

Jeremiah Babe, "America Is One Step Closer To Collapse"

Jeremiah Babe, 3/18/24
"America Is One Step Closer To Collapse"
"America is going to see much more chaos and unrest as the economy slows. Austin Texas one of the hottest housing markets in America has cooled way down does this mean something bigger?"
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"Fear..."

"I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting."
- Hunter S. Thompson
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"I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men, and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others." 
- Ernest Hemingway, "True at First Light"

Bill Bonner, "Evil and Stupid"

"Evil and Stupid"
America's two party system,
 and the predictable crisis to which it leads...
by Bill Bonner

“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party…I’m very proud to be a member of the stupid party…Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that’s both evil and stupid. That’s called bipartisanship.”
- M.S. Evans

Youghal, Ireland - "No new dots today. So, let’s make sure we see how the old ones connect. Friday, we looked at how stocks have become very expensive. We live in an Age of Bubbles. 1999, 2008, 2021…and now, just three years later…a new bubble – this time, concentrated in the Magnificent 7, big tech stocks. But some things always happen. Bubbles always pop. And it probably won’t be long before the AI bubble pops. Then, people who were hoping to get rich quick, thanks to the spiffy new technology, will get poorer, in a hurry, thanks to the very old boom-bust cycle.

And here’s something else that always happens: when the cost of credit goes up, bankruptcies go up too. This year, with interest rates substantially higher than they were a few years ago, bankruptcy lawyers are back in high clover. Here’s the Financial Times: "Debt defaults at highest rate since global financial crisis, S&P reveals. "This year’s tally of corporate defaults stands at 29 – the highest year-to-date count since the 36 recorded during the same period in 2009, according to the rating agency."

Bubble, Bubble: In the financial crisis of ’09, the Bernanke Fed stepped in, pushed interest rates down, saved many big debtors – including some of the biggest banks on Wall Street – and trimmed billings for the bankruptcy bar. That didn’t have to happen. It was a mistake; Bernanke panicked and set the stage for an even bigger crisis later. The lowest interest rates in history encouraged almost everyone to go deeper into debt. And no one went farther down that rathole than the US government – adding $25 trillion in new debt since 2009.

And now, the Federal government itself is in over its head…and the Fed is in no position to rescue borrowers or stock market investors with more debt. This is new. And important. In 2000, and again in 2008, the Fed boosted stocks by lowering its key lending rate by 500 basis points…and ‘printing’ up the money to cover deficits. But that was before the inflation bogeyman was on the loose. Today, the Fed can’t get away with that kind of stunt. Bond buyers will see more inflation coming; they’ll sell bonds…forcing up interest rates, making it even more expensive for the feds to borrow.

When you are already $35 trillion in debt…and counting on adding another $16 trillion over the next 10 years…higher interest rates are not what you want to read about in the morning news. Even at 5%, the interest cost could be $2.5 trillion per year. That, in turn, would force the feds to borrow (and print) even more to cover the interest expense. That is when we’d see another thing that always happens. When you have to borrow more and more money, just to keep up with the interest payments on previous debt…you are doomed. The Fed will be very reluctant to get into that situation. It will not want to ‘print’ more money just to keep stock prices or a few high profile businesses from going bust.

A Predictable Crisis: So far, it hasn’t had to take action. Inflation rates seem to be moderating and interest rates are coming down. The vigilantes (who are supposed to punish federal borrowing by demanding higher interest rates) have been on a long break too. They “‘snooze, as Treasury bonds shrug off vast borrowing,” says the Financial Times.

But the feds are set to borrow an amount equal to more than 5% of GDP every year for the next 10 years. That is not something that has to happen; but it is something that will happen. And even those numbers depend on clear sailing, with no troublesome storms. In the event of a recession (almost guaranteed), the feds will borrow and spend more.

Yes, dear reader, the US faces ‘the most predictable crisis ever,’ as debt increases faster than GDP. You can see it coming from a mile away. The obvious thing to do is to avoid the disaster by bringing the rate of debt growth down. And the obvious way to do that is to balance the federal budget. But this is one thing that the evil party and the stupid party agree on: nothing can be allowed to interfere with America’s rendezvous with bankruptcy.

You might wonder: how come the richest country in the world…near the peak of its power and wealth…can’t pay its own bills? Why does it have to pass the cost along to future generations…who have no say in the matter? We’ll save that question for tomorrow. For now, we connect two important dots. The quantity of US Treasury debt is soaring. The demand for it depends on the interest rate. And somewhere along the line, the bond vigilantes are likely to hear an alarm go off. Torsten Slok at Apollo Global Management: “…a really weak auction could wake [them] up.” Who knows what will happen; but real interest rates will probably go up."

"How It Really Is"

 

Dan, I Allegedly, "Last Chance with the IRS"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 3/18/24
"Last Chance with the IRS"
"The IRS is issued a warning and they are giving people a week to fix the ERC problem or you will have to pay massive penalties. Plus, there is going to be real problems when it comes to real estate. Big changes ahead."
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"World War III Update, 3/18/24"

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Canadian Prepper, 3/18/24
"Alert! US Emergency Deployment, 
NATO Full Nuclear Drills Near Russia; Putin Goes Off; Israel Panics"
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 3/18/24
"Alastair Crooke: The Resistance to Israel is Ready"
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Scott Ritter, 3/18/24
"Putin Is Re-elected, Ukraine Is Done, NATO Is Done"
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John Wilder, "A Modest Proposal Concerning Haiti"

"A Modest Proposal Concerning Haiti"
by John Wilder

“Don’t worry. It’s good luck. In Haiti.” 
– Caddyshack

"Haiti is in trouble. Again. This is not a repeat from (spins wheel) nearly every year in Haiti’s history. If you look back, more Haitian leaders have been killed and eaten (hopefully in that order) than there are grains of sand in a beach.

Okay. That may be an exaggeration, since I made up the statistic. But it’s clear that Haiti is awful. The best part of Haiti is not even close to being as good as the worst part of the United States. I believe it was Michael Yon who described Haitians as “Cannibals Without Borders” which is a phrase I really hate for the sole reason that I didn’t come up with that one on my own. Dangit.

Haitians have a history that would make Pol Pot jealous. From the beginning, it was born in blood and slavery, and then managed, somehow, to get worse. I want to make a stand, right here and now, and say that the number of Haitians that should be let into the country is zero.

To be clear, I don’t want most anyone allowed in anymore, but I decided to pick on Haiti because it’s the latest foreign hellhole that will soon be sending in droves of awful people trying to escape the very problems that they created by moving to Nebraska or some place so they can bring the wonders of Voodoo (yes, they still do that) and cannibalism (yes, they still do that) and rape (yes, it’s the national sport) to the Cornhusker state.

As I said, this isn’t entirely a Haitian thing, though they’ve managed the impossible: they make communist Cuba communist Venezuela, and all of the Mad Max® movies look like paradise in comparison to Tuesday in Haiti.

No, the biggest reason I don’t want Haitians to come to the United States is because I really feel empathy for the Haitians and wouldn’t want to expose them to the horrors of our country. First, it’s a philosophical question: The GloboLeftElite tells me that all cultures are equal. So, if all cultures are equal, I think that depriving Haiti of their best and brightest is selfish. They should stay home and keep their totally equal culture going. I mean, why shouldn’t they give cannibalism a chance?

Point Two: I’ve been reliably informed that the culture of the United States is filled with systemic racism. Why would we want to bring more People of Color into a situation where they would face that? Why would they want to come here? I realize that Point One says that all cultures are equal, but it’s been pointed out that the culture of the United States is bad, so we cannot in good conscience let anyone else in. Ever. We’re that bad. We need to keep everyone else from living here.

Point Three: I’ve been reliably informed that the United States, while having no culture of its own, steals the culture of various people across the world. Imagine the horror! White teenagers are making tacos, TACOS!, at the local Taco Bell® thus stealing the sacred food that only Hispanics can make and despite the GloboLeftElite© being in favor of diversity.

An aside: I came up with a climate-friendly way to stop the illegal alien problem while fighting Climate Change™ by turning all the illegal aliens into food to stop them from entering the most carbon dioxide creating economy on the planet and killing us all. Sadly, this would be (I am reliably informed by the GloboLeftistElite) cultural appropriation from Haitians. Perhaps we should ship all of the illegal aliens to Haiti to allow them to be consumed, thus feeding Haitians and slowing Global Warming®?

Point Four: The Haitians might feel bad because there are still statues left standing of amazing Americans and Europeans that have achieved things that Haitians didn’t, like killing but not eating lots of Japanese or going to the Moon and not killing or eating anyone up there. We really want to spare their feelings.

Point Five: The vast majority of Black Studies programs in the United States wouldn’t be good for Haitians because they do not, in fact, deal much with black people, but rather with how evil white people (and now those sneaky Asians) have been bad to black people. Since the vast majority of Haitian History (since 1800 or so) has been more-or-less white people free, these college course would just confuse them.

Point Six: Many Haitians actively say that they hate white people. Good Heavens! The United States is literally filled with white people! I think we should take them (and every other illegal alien that hates white people) and help them by sending them to a country without white people, like Wakanda or the upper part of the Amazon drainage basin.

Point Seven: The United States is one of the most slave-free countries in the world today. In all of the countries of North and South America, Haiti is number two in terms of per capita modern slavery. Why would we want to impose our anti-slavery cultural imperialism on the absolutely equal (according to the GloboLeftElite) slavery practices of Haitians?

In summary, we need to keep Haitians out of the United States because we don’t want to expose them to the toxic United States culture (which also does not exist) which would infect their totally-not-awful-and-not-at-all-a-hellhole-culture-which-is-totally-equivalent-to-the-United-States-except-it’s-better-because-the-Haitians-aren’t-imperialist-colonizers.

In summary, Haiti is only in trouble because we have tried to help it in the past. We could help by keeping the Haitians in there by sinking their boats and not sending them food except for airdropping them the illegal aliens who are currently suffering oppression and racism by being in the United States.

See? Hard problems have simple Wilder solutions."
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"The Unmitigated Racist Gall of 
Suggesting Haitians Give Up Cannibalism"
by Ben Bartee

"Some time in the past, liberal thinkers of the Western worldview cultivated a concept called “cultural relativism,” which has since rendered the Western mind a stupefied mess, unable to pass any sort of moral judgment at all on other cultures - let alone assert its own superiority when it’s warranted (almost all cultures have at least something that they offer better than the rest; the culture-making art is taking - “appropriating,” if you will - those elements of foreign cultures that are noble and discarding those that are not). I have explored this phemonenon and its manifestations at great lengths in my expat memoir, "Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile."

We have seen the ramifications of cultural relativism, driven to its maximalist conclusion, play out in the recent melodrama regarding Haitian cannibal gangs. Via NBC News: “As Haiti faces an extreme political and societal crisis amid a wave of intense violence, tech billionaire Elon Musk and right-wing pundits online are weaponizing unverified claims of cannibalism coming out of the conflict to advance a political agenda on immigration. Musk and conservative influencers have spread the message to millions, smearing Haitian migrants as cannibals as they endure deep uncertainty about the future of their country and family members still there.

The claims are getting tens of millions of views on the social media platform X, where false or misleading information has spread since Musk bought the app and slashed content moderation. Many of the people spreading the sensational claims are premium subscribers on X, meaning their content can make them money through advertising sales."

The accusations of widespread cannibalism are based on what experts said was a likely intimidation tactic from select gang members: In some videos, the most prominent examples being at least two years old, alleged members of violent gangs in Haiti appear to bite into human flesh. Experts said these videos are likely part of propaganda campaigns designed to scare rivals and terrorize local Haitians rather than a reflection of common or normalized behavior. One former armed group went by the name ‘Cannibal Army.’”

Well, the acknowledgment of the practice of institutionalized cannibalism doesn’t get much more explicit than naming one’s gang “Cannibal Army.” But let’s not let such an admission get in the way of the classic practice of white self-flagellation. Via Rolling Stone: “There’s a long, shameful history of white westerners baselessly accusing Haitians of cannibalism and human sacrifice, often connecting them to Haitian Vodou, a heavily stereotyped African diasporic religion.”

Of course, the practice of cannibalism as a tool of war and political intimidation and spiritual empowerment among descendants of Africans is well-documented, perhaps nowhere better than this Vice documentary (when Vice produced quality work).
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WARNING! ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING VIDEO! VIEW WITH DISCRETION!
"The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia"
"VICE travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by  years of civil war. Despite the United Nation's eventual intervention, most of Liberia's young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust."
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The reality, is, though, that this current media narrative is a classic case of gaslighting and goalpost-shifting, playing on the well-conditioned self-hatred and cultural relativism engrained in the minds of the whites.

For now, we have the denials from the likes of NBC that cannibalism exists at all - or, if it does, that it’s a freak occurrence and not indicative of any sort of cultural tolerance of the practice. However, even if it came to light that cannibalism were practiced far and wide in Haiti - even if the country made a national holiday out of it by popular referendum - the next move from the media liberal class would be to celebrate Haitian cannibalism as an act of sacred cultural Diversity™ and smear anyone who objected as a White Supremacist™ bigot. That’s how this game gets played."

Jim Kunstler, "Gags and Jibes"

"Gags and Jibes"
by Jim Kunstler

“My law firm is currently in court fighting for free 
and fair elections in 52 cases across 19 states.” 
- Marc Elias, DNC Lawfare Ninja, punking voters.

"Have you noticed how quickly our Ukraine problem went away, vanished, phhhhttttt? At least from the top of US news media websites. The original idea, as cooked-up by departed State Department strategist Victoria Nuland, was to make Ukraine a problem for Russia, but instead we made it a problem for everybody else, especially ourselves in the USA, since it looked like an attempt to kick-start World War Three. Now she is gone, but the plans she laid apparently live on.

Our Congress so far has resisted coughing up another $60-billion for the Ukraine project - most of it to be laundered through Raytheon (RTX), General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin - so instead “Joe Biden” sent Ukraine’s President Zelensky a few reels of Laurel and Hardy movies. The result was last week’s prank: four groups of mixed Ukraine troops and mercenaries drawn from sundry NATO members snuck across the border into Russia’s Belgorod region to capture a nuclear weapon storage facility while Russia held its presidential election. I suppose it looked good on the war-gaming screen.

Alas, the raid was a fiasco. Russian intel was on it like white-on-rice. The raiders met ferocious resistance and retreated into a Russian mine-field - this was the frontier, you understand, between Kharkov (Ukr) and Belgorod (Rus) - where they were annihilated. The Russian election concluded Sunday without further incident. V.V. Putin, running against three other candidates from fractional parties, won with 87 percent of the vote. He’s apparently quite popular.

“Joe Biden,” not so much here, where he is pretending to run for reelection with a party pretending to go along with the gag. Ukraine is lined up to become Afghanistan Two, another gross embarrassment for the US foreign policy establishment and “JB” personally. So, how long do you think V. Zelensky will be bopping around Kiev like Al Pacino in Scarface?

This time, poor beleaguered Ukraine won’t need America’s help plotting a coup. When that happens, as it must, since Mr. Z has nearly destroyed his country, and money from the USA for government salaries and pensions did not arrive on-time, there will be peace talks between his successors and Mr. Putin’s envoys. The optimum result for all concerned - including NATO, whether the alliance knows it or not - will be a demilitarized Ukraine, allowed to try being a nation again, though in a much-reduced condition than prior to its becoming a US bear-poking stick. It will be on a short leash within Russia’s sphere-of-influence, where it has, in fact, resided for centuries, and life will go on. Thus, has Russia at considerable cost, had to reestablish the status quo.

Meanwhile, Saturday night, “Joe Biden” turned up at the annual Gridiron dinner thrown by the White House [News] Correspondents’ Association, where he told the ballroom of Intel Community quislings: “You make it possible for ordinary citizens to question authority without fear or intimidation.” The dinner, you see, is traditionally a venue for jokes and jibes. So, this must have been a gag, right? Try to imagine The New York Times questioning authority. For instance, the authority of the DOJ, the FBI, the DHS, and the DC Federal District court. Instant hilarity, right?

As it happens, though, today, Monday, March 18, 2024, attorneys for the State of Missouri (and other parties) in a lawsuit against “Joe Biden” (and other parties) will argue in the Supreme Court that those government agencies above, plus the US State Department, with assistance from the White House (and most of the White House press corps, too), were busy for years trying to prevent ordinary citizens from questioning authority. For instance, questioning the DOD’s Covid-19 prank, the CDC’s vaccination op, the DNC’s 2020 election fraud caper, the CIA’s Frankenstein experiments in Ukraine, the J6 “insurrection,” and sundry other trips laid on the ordinary citizens of the USA.

Specifically, Missouri v. Biden is about the government’s efforts to coerce social media into censoring any and all voices that question official dogma. The case is about birthing the new concept - new to America, anyway - known as “misinformation” - that is, truth about what our government is doing that cannot be allowed to enter the public arena, making it very difficult for ordinary citizens to question authority. The government will apparently argue that they were not coercing, they were just trying to persuade the social media execs to do this or that.

Maybe one of the justices might ask how it came to be that a Chief Counsel of the FBI, James Baker, after a brief rest-stop at a DC think tank, happened to take the job as Chief Counsel at Twitter in 2020. That was a mighty strange switcheroo, don’t you think? And ordinary citizens were not generally informed of it until the fall of 2022, when Elon Musk bought Twitter and delved into its workings."

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