Bill Bonner, "A Conservative Power"

Spanish forces under Hernan Cortes are defeated in

‘the Night of Sorrows’ in 1520 at the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

"A Conservative Power"

War pays, at least for those in the firepower industry. For everyone else, 

it is a curse. So far this century, the total cost of the Empire 

budget is roughly equal to US debt. The Fed must inflate.

"τότε λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἀπόστρεψόν σου τὴν μάχαιραν εἰς 

τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς· πάντες γὰρ οἱ λαβόντες μάχαιραν ἐν μαχαίρᾳ ἀπολοῦνται.​"

"He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword."

- Matthew 26:52

Baltimore, Maryland - "The age-old evils - war and inflation - stalk the US empire. The warmongers and money printers have slipped their leashes... and now, a reckoning hangs over the country like an unsheathed sword.

Not wanting to die by the sword, prudent nations leave their swords in their sheaths... taking them out only when absolutely necessary. But sometimes, the balance of power is so lopsided... and the temptation is so great... the swords come out and the heads come off.

If a race of extraterrestrials, with much advanced technology, came down to Earth, they could erase all earthlings. They would not necessarily feel that ‘Black Lives Matter.’ White lives either.

In Megapolitics, it’s the balance of power that matters. Morality? Maybe not so much. As if coming from outer space, Europeans of the 16th-19th centuries climbed off of their boats and had such a lead over the natives in Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, for example, that they were almost able to wipe them out. No international court of justice... nor tender feelings towards the indigenous peoples... stopped them. But most of the time the imbalance is not so stark... the combatants are more equal... and the swords change hands.

Athens enjoyed a glorious empire... until it was conquered by Sparta and later leveled by the Roman general, Sulla. Rome itself reveled in a long period of marshal victories... until it was overrun by barbarians in an orgy of killing, slavery and rapine. More recently, the sword switched hands quickly. Napoleon went on a rampage in the early 19th century. By 1815, France was occupied by foreign troops and Napoleon banished. Hitler swung a big sword too... beginning in September 1939, with an assault on Poland. By April 1945, Hitler was dead and the Thousand Year Reich was history.

Today, the US enjoys a huge technological and economic advantage. It uses it to patrol and garrison much of the world... generally trying to tamp down anything that might challenge its “full spectrum dominance.” It is a ‘conservative’ power... trying to preserve the world order that it created - including the primacy of its money.

Its money system - set up in 1971 - replaced real money with credit-based dollars, IOUs that could be manipulated any way the feds wanted. It gave the US an ‘exorbitant privilege,’ said Giscard d’Estaing. America could ‘print’ new money at essentially no cost. The rest of the world took it at par value. Deficits, that could be easily bridged with this ‘printing press money,’ no longer mattered.

Even with honest money, the US would still be the world’s number one military power. But without the $35 trillion dollars’ worth of debt, added since 1971, its firepower industry would have been more restrained.

Before 1971, the US could borrow money. But too much borrowing by the feds drove up interest rates. Money got tighter and the economy slowed, as private borrowers were ‘crowded out’ by the feds. The feds still ran deficits from time to time. But the big borrowing was only done on an ‘emergency’ basis. To pay for war, for example. War was an occasional thing... and an expensive one. In WWII, for instance, citizens pitched their savings to the feds to help win the war. After the war, they expected to be paid back fairly... with honest money. And, for the most part, they were.

Today, the ‘emergency’ is permanent and deficits come routinely. US debt hit $400 billion in early 1972... accumulated over 181 years of fiscal operations by the US government. Today, the feds add $400 billion to the debt every 81 days. And war is almost constant. So far this century, US troops and their proxies have seen action in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Uganda, Niger, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Ukraine and Russia.

The obvious reason for it - war pays. At least it pays for those in the firepower industry. For everyone else, it is a curse. So far this century, the total cost of the Empire budget is roughly equal to US debt. The Fed must inflate to keep up with it.

But for now, the US is in the enviable position of being able to afford violence... and inflict it... without immediate harm to itself. Its bombs fall on much of the world, but not on the West. Its money is still good…for now. And its ‘defense’ contractors and their enablers in Congress, the White House, and the Deep State get rich. The US can live by the sword for the foreseeable future...Hell will have to wait."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com

Adventures With Danno, "I Was In Complete Shock At Kroger, This Is Unbelievable"

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Adventures With Danno, AM 10/17/24

"I Was In Complete Shock At Kroger, 

This Is Unbelievable"

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"Shocking Genetic Science Reveals Ashkenazi Jews Suffer High Rates of Mental Illness Due To Inbreeding"

"Shocking Genetic Science Reveals Ashkenazi Jews

 Suffer High Rates of Mental Illness Due To Inbreeding"

by Mike Adams 

"We are facing a dire situation for humanity. Today, I reveal some of the elements that have led us to that, including shocking scientific evidence that studied the inbreeding common among Ashkenazi Jews (the dominant population worldwide) and found that centuries of inbreeding has produced widespread mental illness and schizophrenia. This is relevant because Netanyahu thinks God talks to him and tells him to mass murder people in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. He thinks he's hearing voices from God. It's actually a genetic mental illness caused by inbreeding.

- Genetic studies on Ashkenazi Jews reveal mental disorders.

- Generations of inbreeding have produced mental illness defects.

- High levels of schizophrenia among "God's chosen people."

- Netanyahu thinks God is talking to him and telling him to commit genocide.

- Quotes from Jewish Rabbis calling for mass death of non-Jews.

- The U.S. has provided nuclear weapons to mentally ill sociopathic inbreds.

- Jewish inbreeding has also removed "mirror neurons" responsible for empathy and compassion.

- High risk of nuclear war that kills billions, due to Israel's insane genocide."

Fully explained in video here:

- https://www.brighteon.com/

"Researchers Find New Risk Factor 

For Two Psychiatric Disorders In Ashkenazi Genes"

"Population Bottleneck"

Many references online.

Now it all makes sense...

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"Investigating War Crimes In Gaza"

Adventures with Danno, "This Is Becoming A Nightmare... Prepare For The Worst"

Adventures with Danno, PM 10/16/24

"This Is Becoming A Nightmare...

 Prepare For The Worst"

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Musical Interlude: Deuter, "Along the High Ridges"

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Deuter, "Along the High Ridges"

Absolutely beautiful...

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago in the nearby galaxy M33, a large cloud of gas spawned dense internal knots which gravitationally collapsed to form stars. NGC 604 was so large, however, it could form enough stars to make a globular cluster. 

Many young stars from this cloud are visible in the above image from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with what is left of the initial gas cloud. Some stars were so massive they have already evolved and exploded in a supernova. The brightest stars that are left emit light so energetic that they create one of the largest clouds of ionized hydrogen gas known, comparable to the Tarantula Nebula in our Milky Way's close neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121211.html

Chet Raymo, “Under the Surface”

“Under the Surface”
by Chet Raymo

“Somewhere, in something I have written, I recall quoting with approval this passage from Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire": “For my own part I am pleased enough with surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?”

Pleased enough with surfaces. Yes, I know what I meant. Pleased enough with this world, here and now, this world of light and matter. Not wanting or needing that other world that occupies so many people, a world of supernatural agencies, spirits, disembodied presences. Give me a world I can see and hear and touch and taste. Give me a world with heft and substance, a world with surfaces that shine and shimmer. What else is there? What else do we need?

Well, maybe not. I was scanning issues of “Science” and “Nature,” with their usual illustrations of the molecules of life, the nuclei acids and the proteins. The elaborate machinery that unseen, under the surface, endow the apple's flavor, the silk of skin, the abrasion of sand. Think of it. Atoms that are mere whiffs of resonance, binding into molecules, twisting and turning into endless shapes, fitting together like hand and glove, endlessly spinning and weaving, all without the slightest conscious participation on our part. Abbey's world of surfaces spun out of the mysterious, endlessly active, subsurface stuff of the world.

Pleased enough with surfaces? Not really. I want to know what's under the surface, that world of molecular frenzy that cannot be touched or seen, a world that in its own way is as beautiful and as meaningful as the macroscopic world we consciously inhabit. We don't need to know it. We can live a fulfilling life without knowing it. But I want to know it. I want to know what goes on behind the curtain of the senses. I want to hear that silent and ceaseless music of creation.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

"The Sane Who Know..."

“Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.”

- W.H Auden

"A dog might feel as majestic as a lion, might bark as loud as a roar, might have a heart as mighty and brave as a Lion's heart, but at the end of the day, a dog is a dog and a lion is a lion."

 - Charlyn Khatero

"The Long Dark"

"The Long Dark"

by Chris Floyd

"We are in the Long Dark now. Both hope and despair are the enemies of our survival. We must live in the awareness that we might not see the light come back, without ceasing to work - with empathy, anger and knowledge - for its return.

We must be here, in the moment, experiencing its fullness (whatever its horrors or joys), yet be elsewhere, removed from the madness pouring in from every side, the avalanche of degradation. We must be here, now, but also in a future we can’t see or even imagine.

We must see that we are lost, with no clear way forward, no sureties or verities to cling to, no roots to anchor us, no structures within or without that will always keep their coalescence in the chaotic, surging flow.

We must live in discrete moments of illumination and connection, pearls hung on an almost invisible string winding through the darkness. Striving, always striving, but not expecting; striving without hope, without despair, without any certainty at all as to the outcome, good or bad.

These are the conditions of the Long Dark, this is what we have to work with, this is where we find ourselves in the brief time we have in this vast, indifferent, astounding universe. As I once wrote long ago, quoting the old hymn: “Work, for the night is coming.”

So do we counsel fatalism, a dark, defeated surrender, a retreat into bitter, curdled quietude? Not a whit. We advocate action, positive action, unstinting action, doing the only thing that human beings can do, ever: Try this, try that, try something else again; discard those approaches that don't work, that wreak havoc, that breed death and cruelty; fight against everything that would draw us down again into our own mud; expect no quarter, no lasting comfort, no true security; offer no last word, no eternal truth, but just keep stumbling, falling, careening, backsliding, crawling toward the broken light.

And what is this "broken light"? Nothing more than a metaphor for the patches of understanding – awareness, attention, knowledge, connection – that break through our darkness and stupidity for a moment now and then. A light always fractured, under threat, shifting, found then lost again, always lost. For we are creatures steeped in imperfection, in breakage and mutation, tossed up – very briefly – from the boiling, chaotic crucible of Being, itself a ragged work in progress toward unknown ends, or rather, toward no particular end at all. Why should there be an "answer" in such a reality?

What matters is what works – what pulls us from our own darkness as far as possible, for as long as possible. Yet the truth remains that "what works" is always and forever only provisional – what works now, here, might not work there, then. What saves our soul today might make us sick tomorrow.

Thus all we can do is to keep looking, working, trying to clear a little more space for the light, to let it shine on our passions and our confusions, our anger and our hopes, informing and refining them, so that we can see each other better, for a moment – until death shutters all seeing forever."

- http://www.chris-floyd.com/home/

Bill Bonner, "The Dying Kitten"

"The Dying Kitten"

A brief report from the thin line between the living and the dying...

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "We’ll hit the pause button today. We’ll catch up with the economy tomorrow. Herewith, for no particular reason and of no particular importance, is what happened last weekend. “Is it still alive?” Elizabeth wanted to know. The poor kitten, one of four she had rescued, had been brought into the office. There, she tried to nurse it…with extra rations and a warm blanket. But it wasn’t looking good.

The four kittens were just part of a litter at a neighbor’s house. Born in a barn to a stray cat, they weren’t likely to survive for very long. Elizabeth had grabbed those she could reach and brought them home. “I’ll try to find homes for them.” After a couple of days of feeding and cleaning up, three seemed to be doing well – playing in the yard…jumping…happily amusing themselves by getting into everything. The other one barely moved.

Death in the Fall: It was a beautiful fall weekend in this part of France. The sky was clear. The days were warm. And the nights were crisp, with a bright moon leaving long dark shadows across the lawn. A few of the trees have begun to shed their leaves…one or two of them danced on the breeze before disappearing into a ditch. But the bulk of the autumnal dying is still ahead.

On Sunday, we went to a special mass, a memorial to a local girl who died in an accident many years ago. “She was so pretty and so smart,” explained a friend. “Her father and mother adored her, of course. They expected her to take over the family business. “But when she died the whole family fell apart. They just couldn’t get over it. [The mother] started drinking. She was okay for a while, then she’d go on a binge. Finally, she got lung cancer from smoking so much. She was thin as a rail. They spent years fighting the cancer…alcoholism…and depression. She died last year.

“And the poor father. He used to be so outgoing. So sociable. He had a career in politics. Everyone liked him. And then, he just closed in on himself.” We saw him in church. Stooped. Gray. He looked much older than we remembered him. Along with many others, we had come to pay our respects to him. But as soon as the service was over, he slipped out of the side door.

Elizabeth coached us as we were making our way out of the church. “There’s Jean-Jacques. He lost his wife last year.” “What was her name?” “Francoise…be sure to say something to him. And there’s Marie-Juliette, don’t forget to ask how Rene is doing.” “Who’s Rene?” “Her husband…he had an operation; I can’t remember what kind of operation.” “Oh, you know…” Marie-Juliette replied. “He has good days and bad days… He had a heart operation; the surgeon was very pleased with it. But it didn’t seem to do Rene much good.”

Middle Ages: Friends gathered in front of the ancient church, built in the middle ages. We exchanged greetings…and thoughts that the old stones must have heard 1,000 times. “It’s hard getting old,” our friend continued. “So many things can go wrong. I think of all the people we know who are widows or widowers. And so many our age who can’t get around because they have some problem.” He listed a few. One neighbor spends his days in a wheelchair; he has a degenerative nerve disease. Another has such a serious case of arthritis, her hands and feet have twisted…making it difficult to walk. Still others – are dying of this or that. “I guess we are all going the same way, sooner or later. And I guess we should be grateful that we’re not there yet.”

Back at home, “how are the kittens doing,” we asked Elizabeth. “The vet said to keep the sick one warm…and bring them in tomorrow, if they’re still alive.” From across the road, Claude and Christine came to visit. Claude limped. He is much younger than we are, but much heavier…and a farmer. He’s had to stop work. One knee was repaired. He shifted his weight onto the other one. “Now they say I have to have my left knee operated on too, because I’ve been using it too much. Then, it will be another 6 months off work. I’m going a little crazy sitting around the house.” Christine nodded her head in agreement.

Deep France: “But did you hear the good news? Well, maybe it’s not good news for you. Your renters are leaving you. [We rent out two tiny houses on our property.] “What a shock. I saw that they were getting along well…but I was surprised. They’re moving out so they can move into a bigger place – together.”

The shock of it comes from the fact that one of our tenants is 62 years old and already retired. Paul, a disabled electrician, has an earring, which seems uncharacteristically fashionable for this area. This is ‘la France profonde’ – deep France – where the fashions of Paris seem far away…and generally unwelcome. Paul has a bad hip. The other renter is a young woman in her 30s. Heavily tattooed and extremely shy, she might have some disability of her own. Improbably, they got together.

Later in the day, Paul came over to ask permission to break the lease. Then, explaining his new living arrangement: “I didn’t expect it. But you never know. These things happen. I just hope it lasts.” “Best of luck to you both,” we said, as we raised a coffee mug.

By Sunday evening, the kitten was still breathing. But barely. We studied it. It was alive. Prodded, it could move its paws. It murmured once or twice. We watched as it struggled for breath. There is such a thin line between the living and the dead…sometime during the night, the line was crossed. Breathing stopped. These things happen."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

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“For Those Who Have Died”

“Eleh Ezkerah” (“These We Remember”)

“Tis a fearful thing

To love

What death can touch.

To love, to hope, to dream,

And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

Love,

But a holy thing,

To love what death can touch.

For your life has lived in me;

Your laugh once lifted me;

Your word was a gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

Tis a human thing, love,

A holy thing,

To love

What death can touch.”

- Chaim Stern

Graphic: “Into The Silent Land”,

by Henry Pegram, 1905

The Daily "Near You?"

Stevenson, Alabama, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

Jeremiah Babe, "Buying You Next Home At Walmart, Easy To Assemble; Living The Dream In 96 Square Feet"

Jeremiah Babe, 10/16/24

"Buying You Next Home At Walmart, Easy To Assemble; 

Living The Dream In 96 Square Feet"

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"Citigroup Sounds The Alarm On TOTAL Economic Collapse, Chase Bank Warning"

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The Atlantis Report, 10/16/24

"Citigroup Sounds The Alarm On TOTAL Economic Collapse, 

Chase Bank Warning"

"As we end 2024, the ominous tune of a banking collapse looms large over the once-mighty Citigroup. From its inception in the late 20th century, where it pioneered modern banking services, automatic teller machines, and credit card offerings, Citigroup has witnessed a relentless downward spiral since the housing crisis and financial meltdown of 2008. Now, a collapse is nearer than ever before.

Citigroup, one of the world's leading banks, has made a shocking announcement about the looming threat of a complete economic collapse. This alarming forecast comes amidst growing concerns over the state of the labor market, which has shown signs of deterioration that could have far-reaching consequences for the nation's economic stability. The warning has prompted governments, corporations, and individuals to prepare for an unprecedented economic calamity.

Before 2007, Citigroup stood prominently among the elite financial institutions in the United States, consistently delivering robust returns to its steadfast shareholders through both appreciating share prices and generous dividends. However, the culmination of the housing boom and the subsequent financial crisis pushed Citigroup to the brink, necessitating government intervention to navigate the resulting losses. Subsequently, Citigroup's stock struggled to regain its pre-crisis momentum, failing to recover from the setbacks of 2008.

Chase Bank and Citigroup have raised red flags, signaling a deep-seated issue within the banking sector. Nine percent of all bank branches in the U.S. have shut down since 2017. Earlier in the month, Citigroup informed the majority of its employees that they could work remotely for the final two weeks of December. Workers are allowed to log in remotely from any location within their country of employment from Monday to December 29, a Friday, marking this week as the last in-person experience for many staff members this year, according to sources familiar with the situation.

In contrast to last year when the perk was introduced, employees are now apprehensive about CEO Jane Fraser's comprehensive corporate reorganization, with some expressing concerns about the potential existence of their jobs next year. Citigroup has indicated that Fraser's assessment of the third-largest U.S. bank by assets will be concluded by the end of 2024."

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"Here And Now..."

“That we can never know,” answered the wolf angrily. “That’s for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we’re bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.”

- David Clement Davies

"The Competence-Free Economy, The Cargo Cult, And Control"

"The Competence-Free Economy, 

The Cargo Cult, And Control"

by John Wilder

"I was reading Mark’s blog over at Practical Eschatology (LINK) the other day and he had a story about a “pink-haired DEI trainer” who had managed to get the deputy head of the Oregon Department of Forestry put on administrative leave. His alleged crime? Well, besides being a Chad that the “pink-haired” tattooed circus freak of a DEI trainer could never in a million years manage to get a glance from (she is beyond coyote ugly), his crime was that he wanted to hire “candidates most qualified for the job”.

Yes, that was his sin. He wanted to hire people who could best do the work that the taxpayers of the state of Oregon were paying them to do. I mean, Oregon has a lot of trees. They have so many trees that I hear that in order to keep track of the ones they cut down: they make their lumberjacks keep a log.

What was the DEI circus sideshow reject’s solution instead of hiring competent people? According to the Daily Mail (and every other paper that I can find), it was to pick people via an “‘intersectional lens’ whereby applications from people of marginalized backgrounds are given greater weight. Since the head and shoulders shot of the DEI trainer is all we have, I’m unsure of how she could be given greater weight since I’d estimate that 400 pounds is long in her rearview mirror.

Her other complaint was that a colleague made a joke that she, “puts in in a really good lunch order.” Which is somehow sexist? Because guys don’t order lunch? Maybe this person was striving to make a nice comment about a person whose job it is to be perpetually offended by everyone and everything. Oh, wait...

Speaking of which: she/her was also upset that she was carved out of the regular executive meetings of the Department, but, in my view, it’s simply because absolutely no one wanted to be in a meeting where decisions about forests and trees were made with a whiney GloboLeftist who cares more about pronouns than pine. She was as necessary as Joe Biden at a Cabinet meeting.

Does my description of her sound mean to the “pink-haired” gravity well in question? Probably. But I’m not going to apologize, since it is people who say the things that she does that are ruining it for the entire world, especially her “marginalized communities.”

The bigger point is that to the GloboLeftist and GloboLeftistElite, there are only two possibilities on how they think about economics.

First, the GloboLeftist, the rank and file – the DEI hires and DEI trainers – think that wealth and prosperity is something that simply exists. They don’t view the world as a place where people work and strive to create that wealth and prosperity. Instead, they view that that wealth and prosperity is their right, merely by having been born.

They have no idea where wealth comes from, and in this are like the Cargo Cults that came to their greatest prominence after World War II. This is a cult where the native population was suddenly overrun by great armies in motion across the Pacific. These armies would move in, create an airfield, and suddenly planes would appear. What would be on the planes? Most everything. People. Ammunition. Fuel. Guns. Food. Simply the most amazing wealth the natives had ever seen.

These people had nearly no understanding of the world outside of their island – to them the airfield was magic. The white people who built it summoned great gods from beyond that brought them amazing wealth. Then those same white people took all that wealth, which was obviously meant for the natives, and left. After that, these natives would build airfields, towers, bamboo airplanes, and hold mock military drills like they had seen the soldiers do.

Their expectation? That, regardless of their competence, regardless of their understanding of the way aircraft and modern commerce worked, that they would get the wealth because they deserved it. Now, they resent the white man for taking the wealth away, and spend their time building lonely airfields, waiting for the wealth to come back.

That’s the GloboLeftist: They fundamentally hate those that have achieved more than they have, and are driven by envy, hate, and fear. Yes, this “pink-haired” monstrosity is only one species of this type of life form. There are others. They are the type of people that if they cannot possess a thing, they want to destroy it. They revel in it. The orgy of the George Floyd riots is simply one example.

On the other hand, the GloboLeftistElite want to crash everything and really doesn’t care about competence since I assure you, Larry Fink and Bill Gates don’t hire their pilots or security staff based on intersectionality, unless one axis of that intersection is “amazingly competent.”

A prosperous middle class that has a culture, tradition, and roots can stop them from doing as they please. This is dangerous to them. How better to facilitate the end of this class, the end of broad wealth, than to encourage incompetence through nonsense like DEI? Why else would BlackRock® want to buy houses and then rent them back to the people that used to buy them? Why else would services like Übëŕ® be held at as a way that the middle class can rent a car, instead of owning one?

To the GloboLeftistElite, the assets a member of the middle class used to take as normal – a house, a car, a farm, a business – are assets that they want to buy, own, and use so that no aspect of a life in the United States (or anywhere else they control) isn’t subject to a cut off the top for them. They really don’t care if you live in a pod, as long as you pay your cut to the house.

So, we have two goals that are being followed by two groups. The first group, the GloboLeft, consists of AntiFa®, the “pink-haired” activists, the kindergarten teachers that just can’t wait to teach children about pronouns and gay sex, and their hangers-on. Why are they in it? As we’ve discussed again and again, they hate what the world has done to them, they feel powerless, and by destroying the system, by making it as ugly and incompetent as they are, they get power.

The second group is the GloboLeftElite. The GloboLeftElite loves, loves the GloboLeftists because they’re the willing footsoldiers that take common, hardworking men of competence and force them to hire people based on their particular fetish, mental condition, or other random factor. The GloboLeftElite is pushing these people into organizations everywhere, so they can defang the last opposition to them: the middle class. Those 17,000 jobs that Boeing® just lost? DEI, baby.

I think the Department of Forestry Chad will be fine, since, well, he’s a Chad. And, he’s on paid leave right now, which is a vacation. I’m sure he’s got some pension vesting, and I’d be willing to bet he could get a job in a variety of states that don’t take the word of “pink-haired” DEI trainers who are offended when people are hired based on their competence. And, if Oregon persists in DEI hires Forestry Chad will want to move out of the state, soon enough the forests will be deserts. Won’t that be diverse!"

https://wilderwealthywise.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

Dan, I Allegedly, "Who's Shutting Down Next?"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 10/16/24

"Who's Shutting Down Next?"

"Welcome back to IAllegedly, where I've got some compelling updates that you won't want to miss! In this video, we're diving deep into the dramatic decline of True Value as it files for bankruptcy, putting 4,500 stores in jeopardy. It's a shake-up in the retail world with potential buyers like Do It Best waiting in the wings. What's next for these franchisees? How will this affect the home improvement landscape? Join me as we explore these pressing questions, discuss the ripple effects on AutoZone, and ponder the future of retail giants. "

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Judge Napolitano, "Col. Douglas Macgregor: Can Israel Survive Netanyahu?"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 10/16/24

"Col. Douglas Macgregor: 

Can Israel Survive Netanyahu?"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 10/16/24

"Phil Giraldi: Israel’s October Surprise"

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Dialogue Works, 10/16/24

"Pepe Escobar: Israel on the Brink of Defeat:

 Desperation Reaches Unimaginable Levels!"

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Bill Bonner, "Live By The Sword"

"Live By The Sword"

A peaceful, civil society keeps its mad dogs and warmongers on tight leashes.

 It controls the money. It insists that the military jefes take their orders from civil authorities.

by Bill Bonner

Baltimore, Maryland - "All men would be tyrants... if they could be." - Abigail Adams

A friend sent a video, from last year, of hundreds of people - mostly Jews - gathered in Grand Central Station to protest Israel’s ‘killing spree’ in the Middle East. The group chanted: “No more weapons, no more war. This is what we’re fighting for.” Those were people badly in need of a transfusion... of cynicalism. Our new creed (cynicalism) warns us that things are not always the way we would like them to be…nor are they under our control.

Weapons and war are not likely to disappear any time soon. Archaeological records show that people have been killing each other since prehistoric times. In the Americas, different tribes kept up almost continual attacks on one another. The bone record shows evidence of mass murder... ancient genocides that wiped out whole groups of people.

Archaeologists believe that one community lost so many young men in battle…and spent so much time erecting palisade walls to protect themselves…that their whole community collapsed. Rousseau’s ‘noble savage’ was a killer. And modern man keeps at it.

In Classical Greece, Alexander the Great did not only defeat Thebes... with its ‘Sacred Band’ of gay lovers. At the battle of Chaeronea, 338BC, he annihilated them and destroyed the whole city... and almost everyone in it.

And then, the Roman general, Scipio, wasn’t content to merely defeat Carthage in war; he insisted on killing every Carthaginian he could lay hands on... leveling the city... and salting the fertile land around it so that it could never again support a powerful rival.

Killing may not be a nice thing. It may not be a good thing... but it is a thing. And it is a thing that humans take to regularly... and with enthusiasm. Genghis Khan said famously that... “the greatest pleasure of man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them what they possess, to see their dear ones with their faces bathed in tears, to ride their horses, to press their daughters and their wives in his arms.”

Sen. John McCain: ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb…bomb, bomb Iran.’

Donald Trump: ‘Blow them [Iranians] to smithereens.’

Matthew Brodsky [White House ‘peace’ advisor]: ‘Carpet bomb’ [Irish peacekeepers.]

Richard Nixon: ‘Bomb them [North Vietnamese] back to the stone age.’

A peaceful, civil society keeps its mad dogs and warmongers on tight leashes. It controls the money. It insists that the military jefes take their orders from civil authorities. But inevitably, the war fighters break free from time to time. Even with the UN... and ICC... and ICJ, international institutions set up after WWII intended to prevent government-sponsored violence, we now have expanding wars... more terrible than ever... with innocent people getting slaughtered by the thousands.

How come these things happen? Why can’t they be controlled? Why don’t the combatants lay out their complaints before an international tribunal... and settle peacefully? Really, dear reader... we’re disappointed in you. Are you so naïve? What follows is a brief rumination on the role of violence in human affairs... and the role of (fake) money in promoting it.

The first part of it is obvious. More money buys more influence, more weapons and more members of Congress. Responsible Statecraft: 'The lawmakers get richer if we spend more money on defense'

“The U.S. is not a normal country with a regular military,” [Johnny] Harris says, by way of offering a kind of explanation as to why the Pentagon spends so much… “The U.S. is a global hegemon who uses its military to assert control and order over every corner of the globe,” he adds, in effect, flagging American primacy as a culprit. “But there’s another reason why this budget is so high and this reason is much more infuriating to me,” Harris says. ”Most of this money is going to private corporations.”

For example, the Pentagon, Harris notes, paid Boeing $3,357 for one ball bearing, a part it could have gotten for $15. The hustle is well known. The firepower industry gets money from the feds…and uses it to control federal policy, so it can get even more money. No surprise there. But there’s more to the story, isn’t there? Why do some nations succumb to the temptation... while others don’t?

The Bible tells us that ‘those who live by the sword, perish by the sword.’ Today, the US has more swords than anyone ever had. What’s next? Stay tuned."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"Israeli Soldiers Sickening War Crimes Exposed"

Full horrifying screen recommended.

Double Down News, 10/16/24

"Israeli Soldiers Sickening War Crimes Exposed"

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Full screen recommended.

Democracy Now! 10/10/24

“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: 

Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves"

"A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at evidence of war crimes in Gaza in the form of social media posted by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed. “Israelis themselves were telling us precisely what they were doing and why they were doing it,” says Sanders about the evidence the team reviewed. “They don’t think it’s complicated. They don’t think it’s nuanced. Their rhetoric is often overtly genocidal.” ElSayed adds, “They’ve had all the courage to do that because they know that they are not even going to be condemned.”

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Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel, Hell is not hot enough and eternity not

 long enough for you psychopathically degenerate sub-human monsters...

- CP

Yeah, I said that, and if I said what I really thought, and how I'd say it,

 they'd delete this blog in a heartbeat...

And YOU, America! WE should hang our heads in eternal shame and disgrace for allowing and supporting these monsters in this genocide, because we paid for every single bomb and bullet, every single tank and jet bomber, all of it, over $17 billion in the last 12 months! 42,000 Palestinians slaughtered, including over 17,000 CHILDREN, at least 10,000 more buried under the bombed out ruins of their homes and unrecovered! Are you proud of the blood on YOUR hands?

Canadian Prepper, "WW3 Alert! N. Korea Bombs Border! 1.4 Million Enlist In 48 Hours; Iran And Israel Nuclear War Prep"

Full screen recommended.

Canadian Prepper, 10/15/24

"WW3 Alert! N. Korea Bombs Border! 1.4 Million Enlist In 

48 Hours; Iran And Israel Nuclear War Prep"

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Jeremiah Babe, "This Is Getting Really Bad, God Help Us All"

Jeremiah Babe, 10/15/24

"This Is Getting Really Bad, God Help Us All"

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"10 Signs That The Economy Is A Giant Mess 

As The Election Approaches"

Gerald Celente, "October Surprise? False Flag Coming?"

Strong language alert!

Gerald Celente, 10/15/24

"October Surprise? False Flag Coming?"

"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."

- https://trendsjournal.com/

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"Walgreens NOW Closing 1,200 Stores, Major Retail Chains Closing 10,000+"

Full screen recommended.

ThisisJohnWilliams, 10/15/24

"Walgreens NOW Closing 1,200 Stores, 

Major Retail Chains Closing 10,000+"

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"Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches"

"Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches"

by John & Nisha Whitehead

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security... And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.” - Historian Milton Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45"

"Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware. Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware. And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.

We’ve got to get our priorities straight if we are to ever have any hope of maintaining any sense of freedom in America. As long as we allow ourselves to be distracted, diverted, occasionally outraged, always polarized and content to view each other - rather than the government - as the enemy, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.

Mind you, by “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law. This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedoms of its citizenry.

So, stop with all of the excuses and the hedging and the finger-pointing and the pissing contests to see which side can out-shout, out-blame and out-spew the other. Enough already with the short - and long-term amnesia that allows political sycophants to conveniently forget the duplicity, complicity and mendacity of their own party while casting blame on everyone else.

This is how evil wins. This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises. This is how good, generally decent people - having allowed themselves to be distracted with manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring us vs. them camps - fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains. The world has been down this road before, as historian Milton Mayer recounts in his seminal book on Hitler’s rise to power, "They Thought They Were Free."

We are at our most vulnerable right now. The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money. We’re in a national state of denial, yet no amount of escapism can shield us from the harsh reality that the danger in our midst is posed by an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution, Congress, the courts or the citizenry.

No matter how often the team colors change, the playbook remains the same. The leopard does not change its spots. Scrape off the surface layers and you will find that nothing has changed. The police state is still winning. We the people are still losing.

In fact, the American police state has continued to advance at the same costly, intrusive, privacy-sapping, Constitution-defying, heartbreaking, soul-scorching, relentless pace under the current Tyrant-in-Chief as it did under those who occupied the White House before him (Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.). Consider for yourselves:

• Police haven’t stopped disregarding the rights of citizens.

• SWAT teams haven’t stopped crashing through doors and terrorizing families.

• The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped militarizing and federalizing local police.

• Schools haven’t stopped treating young people like hard-core prisoners.

• For-profit private prisons haven’t stopped locking up Americans and immigrants alike at taxpayer expense.

• Censorship hasn’t stopped.

• The courts haven’t stopped marching in lockstep with the police state.

• Government bureaucrats haven’t stopped turning American citizens into criminals.

• The surveillance state hasn’t stopped spying on Americans’ communications, transactions or movements.

• The TSA hasn’t stopped groping or ogling travelers.

• Congress hasn’t stopped enacting draconian laws.

• The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t stopped being a “wasteful, growing, fear-mongering beast.”

• The military industrial complex hasn’t stopped profiting from endless wars abroad.

The Deep State’s shadow government hasn’t stopped calling the shots behind the scenes.

• And the American people haven’t stopped acting like gullible sheep.

So you can try to persuade yourself that you are free, that you still live in a country that values freedom, and that it is not too late to make America great again, but to anyone who has been paying attention to America’s decline over the past century, it will be just another lie.

The German people chose to ignore the truth and believe the lie. They were not oblivious to the horrors taking place around them. The warning signs were definitely there, blinking incessantly like large neon signs. “Still,” historian Robert Gellately writes, “the vast majority voted in favor of Nazism, and in spite of what they could read in the press and hear by word of mouth about the secret police, the concentration camps, official anti-Semitism, and so on.”

The German people backed Hitler because for the majority of them, life was good. In a nutshell, life was good because their creature comforts remained undiminished, their bank accounts remained flush, and they weren’t being discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed and turned into slave labor.

Life is good in America, too. Life is good in America as long as you’re able to keep sleep-walking through life, cocooning yourself in political fantasies that depict a world in which your party is always right and everyone else is wrong, and distracting yourself with bread-and-circus entertainment that bears no resemblance to reality.

Life is good in America as long as you don’t mind being made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the 99%.

Life is good in America for the privileged few, but as I make clear in my book "Battlefield America: The War on the American People" and in its fictional counterpart "The Erik Blair Diaries," it’s getting worse by the day for the rest of us.

So, please spare me the media hysterics and the outrage and the hypocritical double standards of those whose moral conscience appears to be largely dictated by their political loyalties. Anyone who believes that the injustices, cruelties and vicious callousness of the U.S. government are unique to any one particular administration has not been paying attention."

- https://mailchi.mp/rutherford/

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"The Deep State and the 2024 Election"

Musical Interlude: Mecano, "Hijo de la Luna"

Mecano, "Hijo de la Luna"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away, in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, this deep telescopic image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries, embedded in surrounding fields of interstellar dust.

Within the Iris itself, dusty nebular material surrounds a hot, young star. The dominant color of the brighter reflection nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight. Central filaments of the reflection nebula glow with a faint reddish photoluminesence as some dust grains effectively convert the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Infrared observations indicate that this nebula contains complex carbon molecules known as PAHs. The dusty blue petals of the Iris Nebula span about six light-years."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210903.html

Chet Raymo, “Very, Very, Very, Very, Very...”

“Very, Very, Very, Very, Very...”

by Chet Raymo

"In a short story that was published posthumously in the New Yorker, the inestimable Primo Levi meditated on the limits of language. The story was called “The Tranquil Star.” He writes "The star was very big and very hot, and its weight was enormous," and realizes immediately that the adjectives have failed him: “For a discussion of stars our language is inadequate and seems laughable, as if someone were trying to plow with a feather. It's a language that was born with us, suitable for describing objects more or less as large and long-lasting as we are; it has our dimensions, it's human. It doesn't go beyond what our senses tell us.

Until fairly recently in human history, there was nothing smaller than a scabies mite, writes Levi, and therefore no adjective to describe it. Nothing bigger than the sea or sky. Nothing hotter than fire. We can add modifiers: very big, very small, very hot. Or use adjectives of dubious superlativeness: enormous, colossal, extraordinary. But, really, these feeble stretchings of language don't take us very far in grasping the very, very, very extraordinarily diminutive or spectacularly colossal dimensions of atomic matter or cosmic space and time. We can overcome the limitations of language, Levi say, "only with a violent effort of the imagination."

I spent more than forty years trying to find ways to violently stretch the imaginations of my students (and myself) to accommodate the dimensions of the universe revealed by science. I would project onto a huge screen a photograph of a firestorm on the Sun, then superimpose a scale-sized Earth, which fit comfortably inside a loop of solar fire. I would take the class into the College Quad here near Boston, where I had set up a basketball to represent the Sun, then gathered 100 feet away with a pinhead Earth; we walked together with our pin in the great annual journey of the Earth, and looked through a telescope at the marble-sized Jupiter than I had previously installed at the other end of the long Quad (the next closest star system would have been a couple of basketballs in Hawaii). We walked geologic timelines that took us from one end of the campus to the other.

In one of my Globe essays I used this analogy: “Imagine the human DNA as a strand of sewing thread. On this scale, the DNA in the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a typical human cell would be about 150 miles long, with about 600 nucleotide pairs per inch. That is, the DNA in a single cell is equivalent to 1000 spools of sewing thread, representing two copies of the genetic code. Take all that thread - the 1000 spools worth - and crumple it into 46 wads (the chromosomes). Stuff the wads into a shoe box (the cell nucleus) along with - oh, say enough chicken soup to fill the box. Toss the shoe box into a steamer trunk (the cell), and fill the rest of the trunk with more soup. Take the steamer trunk with its contents and shrink it down to an invisibly small object, smaller than the point of a pin. Multiply that tiny object by a trillion and you have the trillion cells of the human body, each with its full complement of DNA.”

Or this description from 'Waking Zero': “The track of the Prime Meridian across England from Peace Haven in the south to the mouth of the River Humber in the north is nearly 200 miles. If that distance is taken to represent the 13.7 billion year history of the universe, as we understand it today, then all of recorded human history is less than a single step. The entire story I have told in this book, from the Alexandrian astronomers and geographers to the present-day astronomers who launch telescopes into space, would fit neatly into a single footprint. If the 200 miles of the meridian track is taken to represent the distance to the most distant objects we observe with our telescopes, then a couple of steps would take us across the Milky Way Galaxy. A mote of dust from my shoe is large enough to contain not only our own solar system but many neighboring stars.”

But as hard as one tries, the scale of these things escape us. If one could truly comprehend what we are seeing when we look, say, at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo above, which I have done my best to convey to myself and others in a dozen ways, it would surely shake to the core some of our most cherished beliefs. Just as our language is contrived on a human scale, so too are our gods.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

"I'm Sure..."

"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. 

It's just been too intelligent to come here."

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the 

Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

- Arthur C. Clarke