"Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental shape, lending the popular name North America Nebula to the emission region cataloged as NGC 7000. To the right, just off the North America Nebula's east coast, is IC 5070, whose avian profile suggests the Pelican Nebula. The two bright nebulae are about 1,500 light-years away, part of the same large and complex star forming region, almost as nearby as the better-known Orion Nebula. At that distance, the 3 degree wide field of view would span 80 light-years.
This careful cosmic portrait uses narrow band images combined to highlight the bright ionization fronts and the characteristic glow from atomic hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen gas. These nebulae can be seen with binoculars from a dark location. Look northeast of bright star Deneb in the constellation Cygnus the Swan."
Sam: "It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
- Samwise Gamgee, "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
“A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley. Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads, and they are going to stay that way. Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.”
"Pawn Shop Inventories Are Exploding As The Failing U.S. Economy
Hammers Those At The Bottom Of The Economic Food Chain"
by Michael Snyder
"How much longer will the Biden administration and the mainstream media continue to deny that we are in the midst of a very painful economic downturn? Debt levels have never been higher, delinquency rates are spiking, the commercial real estate market is crashing, the banking industry is mired in turmoil and large companies are conducting mass layoffs all over the nation. Anyone that attempts to claim that the U.S. economy is in good shape is just being delusional. Unfortunately, it is those that are at the bottom of the economic food chain that are being hurt the most.
If you want to know what is really going on with the economy, pawn shops are a great place to look. When the economy is doing well, pawn shop inventories tend to go down because people aren’t pawning much stuff and there is lots of buying going on. But when the economy is not doing well, pawn shop inventories tend to go up because people are pawning lots of stuff for fast cash and there aren’t as many buyers as there were during the good times. So what are we seeing during the early stages of 2024?
One pawn shop owner that was recently interviewed by USA Today admitted that he has “a glut of inventory” right now…"Clay Baron has everything in his pawn shop from gold rings and pearl necklaces to vintage cowboy boots, silver belt buckles, stereos and ticking clocks. The only thing he’s short on is space. “Right now we have a glut of inventory,” Baron said, “which tells me that our clientele doesn’t necessarily have money.”
Accumulating pawn shop inventory means fewer buyers than sellers – a sign that for the lowest-income Americans, times remain tough. That same article pointed out that inventory levels have also grown rapidly at some of the largest pawn shop chains in the entire nation…"Two of the largest, publicly traded pawnshop corporations in the U.S. – which between them own roughly 1,700 pawnshops nationwide – are also reporting growing inventory and increased demand for short-term loans.
FirstCash Holdings Inc. operates nearly 1,200 pawnshops under the FirstCash and Cash America brands in 29 states and the District of Columbia. The company reported “record pawn receivables” in its most recent year-end earnings report and a 10% increase in inventory at its U.S. stores.
EZCORP Inc. also owns 530 pawnshops in the U.S. and reported an 8% increase in inventory at U.S. stores in the company’s latest earnings report. The “challenging macro-economic backdrop” continued to fuel demand for short-term cash loans, the company said.
If anyone comes to you and tries to convince you that the economy is doing well, just show them these numbers. That will be the end of any debate.
One of the reasons why so many Americans need fast cash is because debt loads have risen to unprecedented levels. Here is just one example…"For Denise and Paul Nierzwicki, credit cards are the only way to make ends meet. The couple, ages 69 and 72, respectively, have about $20,000 in debt spread across multiple cards, all with interest rates above 20%.
The trouble started during the pandemic, when Denise lost her job and a business deal for a bar that they owned in their hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, went bad. They applied for Social Security, which helped, and Denise now works 50 hours a week at a restaurant. Still, they’re barely scraping together the minimum payments for their credit card debt.
Can you imagine how much stress they must be feeling on a daily basis? Sadly, there are millions of others that are in similar positions. The combination of high debt levels and high interest rates has created a “perfect storm” of suffering for U.S. consumers, and so it should be no surprise that delinquency rates have been surging…"The signs are obvious. Last week we noted that banks’ charge-offs are accelerating, and are now above pre-pandemic levels
…and leading this increase are credit card loans – with delinquencies that haven’t been this high since Q3 2011."
On top of that, while credit cards and nonfarm, nonresidential commercial real estate loans drove the quarterly increase in the noncurrent rate, residential mortgages drove the quarterly increase in the share of loans 30-89 days past due. When large numbers of people start getting behind on their mortgages, it is only a matter of time before foreclosures start to spike. And that is precisely what we are witnessing…"Home foreclosures rose again in February as Americans continue to grapple with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. That is according to a new report published by real estate data provider ATTOM, which found that there were 32,938 properties in February with foreclosure filings, which includes default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions."
Sadly, things are only going to get worse during the months ahead, because the labor market is starting to get very tight. One 26-year-old woman that has multiple degrees hasn’t been able to find a job even though she has already applied for approximately 1,000 different positions… "Cheyenne Barton, 26, of Kissimmee, Florida, graduated in December with one degree in biomedical sciences and another in computing technology and software development – the kind of practical background employers have coveted. She initially targeted software development jobs but is now looking for “really any job” where she can use her degrees. Barton has applied for about 1,000 positions but hasn’t yet notched an interview. Companies “say they want recent grads who are teachable and can learn quicker,” she says. “But then you apply for the job and it’s like, ‘Oh, we already have over 100 applications with people who are more qualified.’”
Wait a second. Joe Biden told us that good jobs are easy to find these days. So why can’t Cheyenne Barton even get an interview? Something is not adding up.
Of course the truth is that we have seen a major shift in the labor market in recent months. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the number of layoffs in February was the highest that they have ever recorded for that particular month…"The pace of job cuts by U.S. employers accelerated in February, a sign the labor market is starting to deteriorate in the face of ongoing inflation and high interest rates. That is according to a new report published Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which found that companies planned 84,638 job cuts in February, a 3% increase from the previous month and a 9% jump from the same time last year." It marked the highest layoff total for the month of February in data going back to 2009.
The outlook for the rest of the year is absolutely dismal. So even more Americans will fall into poverty. And even more Americans will fall into hunger. And even more Americans will end up homeless.
Over the weekend, a story about a homeless man in Wasco, California that was apparently eating “a severed human leg” has been going viral…"Video footage shot in Wasco, California appears to show a crazed maniac waving around a severed human leg and taking bites out of it before police apprehended him Friday. Reports have suggested that the man ‘stole’ the leg from the scene of a train accident, where a person was earlier hit and killed. The footage shows the man, identified as 27-year-old Resendo Tellez, holding and examining the limb, with witnesses saying he was eating parts of it, before attempting to walk away waving it around as multiple police cars close in on him."
That is pretty shocking. But it is also a preview of where this country is heading. The economic suffering of the past couple of years has been very painful, but the truth is that it isn’t even worth comparing to what is in front of us."
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality"
- Michael Ellner
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"Archimedes said, "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the Earth"; but there isn't one. It is like betting on the future of the human race - I might wish to lay a bet that the human race would destroy itself by the year 3000, but there is nowhere to place the bet. On the contrary, I am involved in the world and must try to see that it does not blow itself to pieces. I once had a terrible argument with Margaret Mead. She was holding forth one evening on the absolute horror of the atomic bomb, and how everybody should spring into action and abolish it, but she was getting so furious about it that I said to her: "You scare me because I think you are the kind of person who will push the button in order to get rid of the other people who were going to push it first." So she told me that I had no love for my future generations, that I had no responsibility for my children, and that I was a phony swami who believed in retreating from facts. But I maintained my position.
As Robert Oppenheimer said a short while before he died, "It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so." You see, many of the troubles going on in the world right now are being supervised by people with very good intentions whose attempts are to keep things in order, to clean things up, to forbid this, and to prevent that. The more we try to put everything to rights, the more we make fantastic messes. Maybe that is the way it has got to be. Maybe I should not say anything at all about the folly of trying to put things to right but simply, on the principle of Blake, let the fool persist in his folly so that he will become wise."
"I’ve been slow to write anything about the horrific terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue last Friday that claimed the lives of 143 Russians on the outskirts of Moscow. I’m not one who is given to knee-jerk reactions, especially when the stakes are as high as they are now. Most Americans are not aware of it yet, but what happened in Russia on Friday, March 22, places all of us in grave danger, especially those of us who reside in the U.K. and U.S., but also in France, Germany or Poland. Not to mention Ukraine, which is already feeling the brunt of Russian anger over what happened.
I don’t need to regurgitate the details but, basically, four Muslims, in a highly coordinated military style assault, shot their way into the building, then shot everyone they came in contact with. It was indescriminate killing. Then they burned the building down. The U.S. almost immediately came out and blamed ISIS-K in Afghanistan for the attack and ISIS-K dutifully took responsibility. So we have little doubt that the shooters were somehow connected to ISIS-K at least on a surface level.
But the message coming out of the Russian media is very different. There’s been no emphasis on ISIS being the main facilitator of the attack. They believe Ukraine was at least partially responsible and Putin hinted in his address to the nation on March 23 that there could be others who worked behind the scenes to “organize” and “prepare” the attack. He talked about Ukraine preparing “a window” through which the shooters tried to escape and the shooters were apprehended heading in the direction of Ukraine. So something doesn’t add up with this whole ISIS narrative.
In a normal jihad attack, the perpetrators don’t try to escape. They keep killing until confronted and killed by authorities. They want to be killed because that’s the only way to receive their promised reward from Allah on the other side of this life. They get their 72 black-eyed, full-breasted virgins and get to have fun for the rest of eternity (or so they believe). But these killers did not kill for a heavenly reward. They killed for an earthly reward. Money.
In his initial interrogation, captured on video, one of the shooters told the Russians that he was promised in a deal made over the Telegram messaging app to be paid $5,400 for the job of shooting up a bunch of Russians. The initial conversation was with an assistant to an Islamic cleric. He flew to Turkey where he received further instructions and training. Who paid for that flight? Who paid for the weapons?
As has been widely reported, the U.S. State Department also warned its embassy staff in Moscow on March 7 that ISIS was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the Moscow area and they should avoid concerts and other large gatherings. That was very specific information and no other information was reportedly sent to the Russian government, according to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson speaking in an interview with Judge Andrew Napalitano.
But it gets even weirder. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland announced her resignation from the State Department just over a month ago. In a February 22 speech, marking the second anniversary of Russia sending troops into Ukraine, Nuland stated: “With this money, Ukraine will be able to fight back in the East and accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. And as I said in Kyiv three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year.”
Was March 22 one of those “nasty surprises”? Was it part of Ukraine’s assymetrical warfare against Russia? Maybe this was just your typical ISIS jihad attack. We may never know for sure. But U.S. government statements leading up to the attack seem awfully strange. It seems that whoever hatched and planned this attack did it with the intention of escalating and widening the war between NATO-proxy Ukraine and Russia. And the timing is suspect, coming just as Russia is destroying what’s left of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield.
If we know nothing else about NATO it’s this: NATO has never given a single sign or indication that it would like the war in Ukraine to come to a peaceful end. Its leaders have given many statements that indicate they would like to see the war continue. The statements of Emmanuel Macron, president of France, have been the most provocative, as he has twice stated his intentions to send French troops into Ukraine to fight Russians. NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has also given no ground on the issue of Ukraine joining NATO, which NATO knows is a huge issue that Putin will never accept. Stoltenberg said it’s a “matter of when not if” Ukraine is admitted into NATO - these are fighting words in the ears of any patriotic Russian.
So don’t think that ISIS is the sole perpetrator. It’s possible, but unlikely. And what matters most is that Putin and the Russians don’t believe ISIS acted alone in the slaughter of 143 Russians. They believe Ukraine and possibly other state actors were involved and have already started unleashing retribution, crossing over Polish airspace over the weekend on their way to a missile bombardment of Ukraine the likes of which had not been seen to date. An angry Russia is a dangerous Russia and NATO seems intent on making sure that Russia gets angrier and angrier. This won’t end well for the West if it continues down the path of poking the bear.
And let’s not forget who facilitated the rise of ISIS in the first place. It was the United States of America and its allies under the administration of Barack Obama. ISIS was never fully destroyed, as Donald Trump boasted. ISIS is too valuable to the West as a useful idiot, a patsy, to ever be fully destroyed. Because you never know when you might need to pull the trigger on another “nasty surprise” for some foreign leader."
"This video is a voice translation of a memo sent to President Joe Biden from V.I.P.S. (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity ) "France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden."
"Join on a tour of Magnit, one of Russia's largest supermarket chains. With over 28,000 stores in Russia, this really is a Russian typical supermarket."
"With loan defaults skyrocketing and financial instability looming, it's time to ask the hard questions. Are you prepared for what's coming? We hear that Apartment owners are becoming more and more delinquent on their mortgages. There is a county that didn’t pay for their employees health insurance. Now they have no coverage."
“In terms of the Moscow terror attack, the fact that those who carried out the attack were captured is now causing a huge headache for those who were ultimately responsible.”
- The Sirius Report on “X”
"You’ve got to ask yourself: really, who seems to hanker more for a red-hot World War Three, “Joe Biden” or Vlad Putin? Since “Joe Biden” is only a figment of American politics, first you’d have to ask: a figment of what? Answer: A figment of our greater intel blob, led, of course, by the Central Intelligence Agency. Which is to say, the blob is our government now; there is no government except the blob. We are the United Blob of America! In Blob We Trust should be printed on our money.
That being the case, blob policy rules. And since deception is one of the blob’s chief duties, we mere sniveling citizens should expect to be deceived at every turn about everything. So, when the blob’s news cut-out, The New York Times, serves up a comprehensive history of the gang known as ISIS-K Monday morning after the Moscow Crocus Concert Hall Massacre, you might suspect that some deception is afoot.
ISIS-K immediately took credit for the Crocus Massacre. K stands for Khorasan, a set of provinces in eastern Iran, leaking over into Afghanistan and Pakistan. ISIS-K supposedly evolved out of the original ISIS that sought to establish an Islamic caliphate out of Iraq and Syria. After Mr. Trump broke it up in 2019, the gang regrouped in K-land, deeper in central Asia. Curiously, this ISIS-K has carried out attacks against Iran, where it lives. Go figure... Its progenitor, the plain old ISIS-no-K was responsible for the horrific Bataclan Theater massacre in Paris, 2015 and the suicide bombing of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, UK, 2017. They’re sort of the Concert-Massacres-R-Us of terror orgs — you really couldn’t find a better patsy for the Crocus op.
Is it as simple as that? Not if you consider Scott Ritter’s theory that the first ISIS was a creation of the CIA, with the mission of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, considered by the blob to be an uber-bad dude, largely for enlisting Russia’s help in ending Syria’s civil war. And if you can actually figure out what Syria’s civil war was about, other than a US blob op to gain control of Syria and its oil, you could win a McArthur Genius Prize. But you might also ask: did the United Blob of America hire ISIS-K to slaughter 137 Russian civilians Saturday night? And also: did it do so directly or indirectly, through cut-outs?
One blob weakness is that it can’t resist the impulse to telegraph its plans ahead of some dastardly act. Both “Joe Biden” and State Department war-hawk Victoria Nuland verbally signaled the op to blow-up the Nord Stream gas pipelines well before the act. Before “retiring” (or getting cashiered) from State this month, Ms. Nuland warned Russia to expect “some nasty surprises” in the days ahead. Was she fired for opening her big mouth? Now, a photograph has surfaced of one of the captured Crocus perps, Shamsidin Fariduni, posing in the Crocus concert hall date-stamped March 7. A set-up? A deep fake?
In any case, On March 8 the United Blob State Department issued a warning to Russia’s foreign ministry that something wicked was coming their way, and likewise warned our diplomatic personnel to steer clear of concert halls and other public venues. Was the Crocus op already well in motion? And was the blob trying to cover for Ms. Nuland’s big mouth by warning about something that was too late to stop?
Whatever else you think about the Russians, they are not dumb bunnies. You can be sure they are carefully putting together the puzzle pieces, having already been careful to take the suspects alive. They were, incidentally, all in one car driving toward the Ukraine border when apprehended by Russian police. That is being considered “a clue” as to who their handlers are. But then, who is Ukraine’s handler? (Cue: thinking music.)
Shooter Shamsidin Fariduni
At least one of them - Fariduni - confessed that his gang received all their instructions over a Telegram social media channel. The gang, by the way, were all natives of Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic. Its population is 98 percent Muslim, around 97 percent of them Sunni and 3 percent Shia. Neighboring Iran is militantly Shia, for what it’s worth. The four Crocus perps were living as immigrant workers in Russia. How hard would it be to track who was the proprietor of the alleged Telegram messaging site that offered payment and sent orders to the perps? I’m guessing that would not be so difficult.
The United Blob sent lavish condolences to President Putin on Sunday. We’re so sorry....boo-hoo...The directorate of the CIA was awash in crocodile tears, I’m sure. Russia was already busy answering Ukraine’s attempted Belgorod incursion of the previous week by turning off the lights in Kharkov. Meanwhile, Polish, French, and German regular army troops have moved directly by rail and air inside Ukraine to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. The mental defectives running Poland, France, and Germany seem avid for NATO to jump with both feet into ground action in Ukraine, that is, go directly to war with Russia. It’s hard to imagine an act with a potentially worse outcome for NATO, for Europe, and, by extension, for Western Civ. Despite all their posturing, Euroland’s armies could not be less prepared to go up against Russia on the Ukraine battlefield, and are therefore begging for an epic ass-kicking. They’ve already sacrificed their industrial economies at the United Blob’s bidding, so why not just get Europe’s ticket punched for an express trip back to the 11th century?
How about “Joe Biden,” front-man for the United Blob of America? What’s in it for “him?” We might surmise that the “Joe Biden” re-election campaign seeks a big, fat, juicy major distraction from its so-far pathetic effort to keep a near-mummy in the White House. Well, how about that World War they’ve been itchin’ for? Plus, they probably calculate, it’d be great for business! Besides, considering the poll numbers, this might just be the blob’s last stand, since they know as soon as Mr. Trump gets back in the White House (if the blob can’t manage to kill him first) the words “You’re fired!” will echo so thunderously between Foggy Bottom and Judiciary Square that every last critter in the DC Swamp will light out for the territories to avoid the prosecutions sure to follow."
Leader Doesn't Believe USA Blaming ISIS, Not Ukraine"
The terror attack at a concert hall in Moscow is snowballing into another flashpoint between Russia and the West. While USA and its allies are supporting ISIS' claim that it perpetrated the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed skepticism publicly. Now, a senior Russian official has explained Moscow's position.
US institutions have been captured and corrupted by the special interests who
run them. This is not something bizarre or unusual; it happens…when you let it.
by Bill Bonner
Youghal, Ireland -"The case we are making is that major US institutions have been captured and corrupted by the special interests who run them. This is not something bizarre or unusual; it happens…when you let it. This was the warning famously given by President Eisenhower when he left office: beware the ‘military-industrial complex.’ After WWII, the military industrial complex flexed its muscles and used its money to gain control of Congress. War is always popular, when you’re onthe winning side. So, it was easy to stir up fear and get bigger budgets.
And now, America’s military-industrial complex has been compromised. Too much money…and too much power…has left it too fat, too rich…too self-absorbed…too bureaucratic and backward-facing…And probably incapable of winning a real war. But the military is not the only one.
Tails, You Lose: On Friday, we looked at the Fed-Wall Street complex -- how it gained control over the nation’s money….and how it uses interest rates and money printing to enrich itself. In effect, it makes hay when the sun shines. Then, when the clouds roll over…it puts the inevitable losses onto the public. Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.
The whole scam came into focus last week as the Fed let it be known that it will continue to promote inflation. Rather than squeeze it out by holding rates at reasonable levels (the real rate on the Fed’s key loans is only about 1%), it announced that it would make credit cheaper.
Associated Press was on the story: "WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024, fueling a rally on Wall Street, despite signs that inflation remained elevated at the start of the year.
The only plausible reason for cutting rates anytime soon – with inflation still on the loose, stocks near record highs and the Fed’s key rate barely positive - is that it benefits the people who control the Fed and the financial system; that is, the big banks and investment firms on Wall Street. In the case of the banks, the higher rates of the last three years have left them with more than $600 billion (according to Moody’s) in losses on their core Treasury bond holdings.
As for Wall Street, it is not only among the largest holders of stocks and bonds…it is also their leading purveyor. The Street makes its money by selling financial assets, not by buying them. Owning stocks is not normally very attractive to the common people. They have no way of knowing which business is a good one…and which is not. They have neither the time nor the expertise to study balance sheets and amortization schedules. In more honest times, they put their money into a bank…earned a respectable interest on it…and let the BSDs in the financial industry take their chances in the stock market.
Fake Dollar, Easy Money: Then, along came the fake dollar (no gold in it)…and along came the Greenspan Put (he promised investors they wouldn’t lose money)…and Bernanke’s big Wall Street bailout of 2009-2022…and the average guy came to believe he could make money by just “being in the market,” say, with a low-cost ETF. And then the patsy saw the fabulous success of the stock market, generally – from 950 to 38,000 in 24 years… and the incredible success of the latest tech stocks, with Nvidia going from $4 to $940 in just 10 years. Naturally, he wanted in.
And, of course, as long as the Fed was actively promoting the stock market, stocks rose. Even so, the increase was always more than it appeared. In terms of gold, it takes about 19 ounces of gold to buy the leading 30 Dow stocks today..and it took 18 ounces to buy them (the 30 Dow stocks of the period) in 1929. All investors really earned were the dividends…and often, the top stocks don’t pay dividends.
Still, with the Fed pumping up financial assets, everyday was payday on Wall Street…and the rich got much richer. David Stockman: "Since 1989, for example, the net worth of the top 0.1% has soared from $1.8 trillion to just under $20 trillion. That’s a gain of $138 million per household. By contrast, the aggregate net worth of the bottom 50% or 66 million households has risen from $0.7 trillion to $3.6 trillion. That’s a gain of just $44,000 per household. Accordingly, the top 0.1% gained 3,100X more net worth each than the bottom half of America’s households.
And then, just to show deep in the lobbyists’ pockets they have members of Congress, on Friday the House passed – sight unseen – at 3am!...another lollapalooza of spending -- $1.2 trillion for this and that. The Senate rubber stamped it the next day. More than 1,000 pages of boondoggle and payoffs, nobody bothered to read it. Politico: "Senate sends $1.2T funding package to Biden, thwarting partial shutdown. A colossal $1.2 trillion spending package is finally off to President Joe Biden’s desk, with Congress concluding a tumultuous government funding cycle and skirting a shutdown after midnight."
There you have it. The stupid party and the evil party working together like dealers and addicts. More money for weapons. More money for Wall Street. Bigger deficits. More debt. Higher stock prices. MarketWatch: "U.S. stocks shot up nearly 30% in 5 months." Makes us proud."
"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI)is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding,safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."
"'Won't Spare Anyone': Russia's New Chilling Threat;
Putin Aide Says 'Just Wait...'; Moscow Attack"
"Russia has once again issued a chilling threat to those involved in Friday's horrifying attack on Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people. President Vladimir Putin's close aide and deputy chair of Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that they won't spare anyone involved in the attack. While the Islamic State group had claimed responsibility for the militant strike on the outskirts of the Russian capital, Russia has been seeking to tie the attackers to Ukraine"
"Dr. Betsy Eads warned about extreme disease and death coming because of the CV19 bioweapon/vax since the beginning of Covid from infection to injection. She warned about AIDS, infertility, turbo cancers, heart disease, blood clots and many other problems caused by the CV19 bioweapon injection. Dr. Eads was right every single time. Now, Dr. Eads is saying everyone needs treatment whether you are CV19 vaxed or unvaxed. Dr. Eads explains, “We are getting transmission from the vaxed to the unvaxed. We are getting chemtrails. They are putting the mRNA in our food. People have to understand, people need to detox and protect yourself whether you are vaxed or not. I contend everybody should be taking some Ivermectin.”
What about the so-called “Long Covid” that people are experiencing in the last few years? Dr. Eads says, “My definition of ‘Long Covid’ is vax injury and/or transmission from the spike protein, injured. I think that term has evolved, and Dr. Kory is also including that definition with his vaccine injured patients. He is treating not only vaccine injured patients but patients that have been injured by transmission from the CV19 vaxed. We know transmission (from the CV19 vaxed) is a real thing.”
A little more than a year ago on USAWatchdog.com, Dr. Eads predicted “At Least 1 Billion Dead or Disabled from CV19 Bioweapon.” We have already eclipsed that number, and there is no end in sight with new and skyrocketing death and injury numbers. Dr. Eads says, “Ed Dowd’s numbers, actuary numbers and looking at UK numbers finds 2.2 billion people permanently injured or killed by the CV19 vax. If you look at the Deagel Report, we may see some huge population losses by 2025. The Deagel predictions show the US falling from 330 million to 89 million people. In the UK, Deagel predicts population will fall from 67 million to 15 million people as a direct result of the Covid 19 bioweapons.”
When does the death and disability peak? Dr. Eads says, “On a previous interview here, I said we would get our peak in five years. We are seeing huge numbers in the DMED data. That’s the military data, and it is more accurate than VAERS data. 97% of our military was CV19 vaxed. In that data, which is very accurate, cancers have increased across the board 1,000%. We do have some treatments to handle the spike protein from the CV19 shots but we don’t have any treatment to shut down the mRNA that produces the spike protein. So, these numbers may go up exponentially until we have treatments.”
One way to lessen the disabilities and deaths from the CV19 vax is to use Ivermectin. Dr. Eads says it is one of the best and safest treatments out there now to treat CV19 for the vaxed or unvaxed being shed on by the vaxed. The FDA just settled a lawsuit from Dr. Pierre Kory and other doctors. Dr. Eads says, “Breaking news that has just come out is the FDA loses the war on Ivermectin. The FDA has to retract anything that was negative about Ivermectin.” So, it looks like Ivermectin will be getting easier to get a prescription with the FDA doing an about face on Ivermectin, which is arguably the safest and most effective drug ever invented. There is much more cutting edge, frontline medical information in the nearly 44-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks to 25-year veteran Dr. Elizabeth Eads, DO, exposing the lies that Big Pharma, CDC, FDA and NIH are telling the public. Dr. Eads continues to highlight the real unreported effects of the CV19 bioweapons.
“The beautiful Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. About 5,000 light-years away, the colorful study in cosmic contrasts shares this well-composed, nearly 1 degree wide field with open star cluster Messier 21 (top right).
Trisected by dust lanes the Trifid itself is about 40 light-years across and a mere 300,000 years old. That makes it one of the youngest star forming regions in our sky, with newborn and embryonic stars embedded in its natal dust and gas clouds. Estimates of the distance to open star cluster M21 are similar to M20's, but though they share this gorgeous telescopic skyscape there is no apparent connection between the two. In fact, M21's stars are much older, about 8 million years old.”
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"If you could go back in time a thousand years, you’d find people who were eerily similar to your present companions. The same is true for people who will live a thousand years from now. Some of them will be nearly identical to the people you now love, and you would care deeply about those people, the same as you do their present-day counterparts.
Please understand this: The men, women and children we would love in the future can advance only in the same way we have, by the benefaction of their predecessors.
Can you imagine how long it took for ignorant men and women to learn metallurgy? Or crop rotation? Or a hundred other things we can barely imagine being without? Our lives are advanced only because they created new ways of living and passed them down to us. Hundreds of generations of people just like us lived through dark times, fighting toward whatever bits of light they could find, opposed by others nearly the entire way, to bring us where we are now.
Someday our generation will also be gone, and we will have played – whether we’ve understood it or not – the crucial role of transmitting civilization to following generations. What do we want them to be like? How do we want them to live?
Numberless men and women have struggled toward the future and spent all they had to bring us here. We owe them something. It may be that they no longer care, but their gifts to us will cease to exist unless we pass them along. We make them matter, and they deserve to matter.
We stand now at the threshold of the stars, but we’ve been immobilized by self-serving structures designed to control every human and reap from their every action. We must get past them if we are to continue forward. Foolishness and fear bid us to forget the future, to chase status instead of goodness, consumption rather than production, and stasis rather than expansion. A thousand self-serving voices call us aside, grasping at our minds and emotions. We must turn away from them all.
We owe this to the people of the past. We owe it to the people of the future. We owe it to ourselves. What happens next is up to you. It’s not up to leaders or bosses. It’s up to you.
The consequences of your failures are inescapable, and the consequences of your good deeds are inescapable. Whether or not you acknowledge them, our descendants will live or die by them. What you are and what you do matter a very great deal. Engage your will. Act. Awake."
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