"The Discovery Of Giant Structures Under The Giza Pyramids Could Prove That A Whole Bunch Of “Conspiracy Theories” Are Actually True"

"The Discovery Of Giant Structures Under The Giza Pyramids Could Prove 

That A Whole Bunch Of “Conspiracy Theories” Are Actually True"

by Michael Snyder

"Was there a time when humanity possessed technology that is even more advanced than we possess today? Using radar signals sent from two different satellites hovering high above our planet, a team of scientists has discovered that there are absolutely colossal man-made structures underneath the Giza pyramids in Egypt. These structures are far larger than the pyramids themselves, and that is truly impressive because the Great Pyramid is so large that you can actually see it from space. And apparently these structures were designed for some sort of a purpose, but our best minds can only speculate as to what that purpose might have been because it appears that the technology that was being used was far beyond anything that we have today.

For decades, we have been told that the Giza pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs and that they were constructed by very primitive Egyptians using very primitive tools. When I asked Google AI to tell me how the Giza pyramids were constructed, this is the response that I got…"The Egyptian pyramids were built by quarrying massive limestone blocks, transporting them to the construction site, and then using a combination of ramps, sleds, and possibly levers to raise them into place, with a highly organized workforce."

That response reflects the official narrative that has always been pushed on us, and it is absolutely absurd. Even with all of the advanced technology that we possess today, we could not reproduce the Great Pyramid. Anyone that claims that the ancient Egyptians constructed the pyramids using ramps, sleds and levers is being extremely irrational. And now a team of scientists has discovered that what lies beneath the pyramids is even more impressive…

"The mystery of an ‘underground city’ beneath Egypt’s pyramid deepens as scientists have shared new details about what may lie more than 4,000 feet below the surface. A team of Italian researchers claimed they uncovered giant vertical shafts wrapped in ‘spiral staircases’ and a massive limestone platform containing two enormous chambers with descending channels resembling pipelines. During a news briefing released Saturday, the researchers said a water system had been identified beneath the platform, located more than 2,100 feet below the Khafre Pyramid, with underground pathways leading even deeper into the earth."

Wow. How in the world would it have been possible for very primitive Egyptians using very primitive tools to construct such colossal underground structures? Needless to say, it would not have been possible.

The team of Italian researchers sent signals from two satellites positioned more than 400 miles above our planet into the pyramids, and those signals were subsequently converted into sound waves. This allowed the researchers “to ‘see’ through the solid stone”…"During the press briefing, the team explained that they sent radar signals from two satellites, positioned about 420 miles above Earth, into the Khafre Pyramid, allowing them to analyze how the signals bounced back. The signals were then converted into sound waves, enabling them to ‘see’ through the solid stone. This method helped map hidden underground structures in 3D. The readings were completely consistent, ruling out any chance of misinterpretation due to sound reflections,’ said Malanga."

In his article about this remarkable discovery, Greg Reese detailed what these Italian researchers were able to “see” under the surface of the plateau where the pyramids are located…"The analyses of dozens of tomographic SAR images obtained from different angles enabled the 3D reconstruction of inside the pyramid of Khafre. And deep beneath the surface of the plateau. Near the base of the pyramid, 5 identical structures are seen, connected by geometric pathways. Inside each of these are 5 horizontal levels and a sloping roof.

Below these 5 structures are 8 cylindrical structures which appear to be vertical wells, hollow inside, and surrounded by descending spiral pathways. These 8 vertically aligned cylindrical structures, arranged in two parallel rows from north to south, descend to a depth of 648 meters where they all merge into two large cubic structures measuring approximately 80 meters per side. The entire structure extends approximately two kilometers beneath the surface. And extends beneath all three pyramids of the Giza Plateau complex."

That is a great summary. Please take the time to read it again so that you don’t miss anything. On top of everything else, a spokesperson for the researchers claims that there is “a vast underground city” down there…"Nicole Ciccolo, the project’s spokesperson, said: ‘A vast underground city has been discovered beneath the pyramids,’ ‘[The] groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archaeological exploration.’

She shared a short clip of the press briefing held on March 15, saying the full video of the event will be released on March 25. The cylinder-shaped structures, which Ciccolo referred to as ‘shafts,’ were arranged in two parallel rows and surrounded by descending spiral pathways. I can’t wait to see the full video on March 25th.

This really does appear to be the greatest archaeological bombshell of this century so far. So why did someone build this absolutely gigantic underground complex? Some are claiming that it was actually an enormous geothermal power facility…

Others have suggested that the pyramids generated electricity in other ways, and one author has even suggested that the Great Pyramid may have been a “weapon of mass destruction”…"Nikola Tesla believed that the pyramids could harness earth’s natural frequencies. This arguably inspired his experiments in wireless energy transmission and scalar waves. In, “The Giza Power Plant,” Christopher Dunn argued that the Great Pyramid was a power-generating machine using resonant and acoustic forces to convert mechanical stress into electricity.

In, “The Giza Death Star,” Joseph Farrell proposed that the Great Pyramid of Giza was a weapon of mass destruction using a type of physics, that he calls “paleophysics,” to focus energy as a scalar weapon. Ultimately, we have no way of proving what the function of this underground complex was, because the technology that was being used is not similar to anything we have today. But there are certain conclusions that we can make…

-The pyramids were most certainly not constructed by very primitive Egyptians using very primitive tools.

-Whoever constructed the pyramids possessed extremely advanced technology. My theory is that they were constructed prior to the Great Flood. If we could go back and see how advanced humanity was prior to the Great Flood, we would be absolutely shocked. But when the Great Flood came, virtually all of that ancient technology was lost.

-If there are vast underground structures like this in Egypt, there are probably similar underground structures elsewhere.

Mainstream scientists insist that we are the only humans that have ever possessed highly advanced technology even though countless “out-of-place artifacts” that indicate that humans once possessed highly advanced technology have been found all over the world.

But now there is no way that they will be able to ignore what these Italian researchers have discovered. Many of the paradigms that mainstream scientists have worked so carefully to construct are starting to crumble, and so many of the textbooks that they published will need to be rewritten because so many of the “conspiracy theories” that they once had no use for are turning out to be quite accurate."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

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Redacted, 3/24/25

"Giza Pyramid Cover-Up Exposed:

 Massive City, Hidden Tunnels and Ancient Tech Beneath the Pyramids!"

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MegalithomaniaUK, 3/24/25

"Beneath the Pyramids: 

The Giza Scan Controversy Examined & the Tomb of the Birds"

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"Markets Melt Up As Economy Melts Down; Ford F150 Disaster; Civil Unrest In Texas"

Jeremiah Babe, 3/24/25

"Markets Melt Up As Economy Melts Down; 

Ford F150 Disaster; Civil Unrest In Texas"

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"Wars And Rumors Of War: The Middle East"

Rachel Blevins, 3/24/25

"Seyed Mohammad Marandi: 

Iran Unveils Advanced Missile System Amid Trump Threats"

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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 3/24/25

"Scott Ritter: Why Would US Fight in Yemen?"

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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Remember Now"

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2002, "Remember Now"

"The inspiration for this song was a "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode called "The Offspring". Data (an android) creates a "child" for himself which he names Lal (in the Hindi language, Lal means "Beloved"). Lal eventually dies in Data's arms, remembering and retelling the precious moments she has lived. Data transferred Lal's thoughts into his own neural net, so that she would not be forgotten."

"A Look to the Heavens"

"The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright emission nebula. 

Like clouds in Earth's atmosphere, this cosmic cloud has assumed a recognizable shape by chance. After many thousands of years, the internal motions of the cloud will surely alter its appearance. The emission nebula's orange color is caused by electrons recombining with protons to form hydrogen atoms. Toward the lower left of the image is the Flame Nebula, an orange-tinged nebula that also contains intricate filaments of dark dust. Two prominent reflection nebulas are visible: round IC 432 on the far left, and blue NGC 2023 just to the lower left of the Horsehead nebula. Each glows primarily by reflecting the light of their central star.

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

"When We Have Time..."

“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.” - Charles Caleb Colton, “Lacon”

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“The problem is, you believe you have time.”

- Buddha

Chet Raymo, “Mortal Soul: The Great Silence”

“Mortal Soul: The Great Silence”

by Chet Raymo

“If there is one word that should not be uttered, it is the name of – no, I will not say it. Any name diminishes. In the face of whatever it is that is most mysterious, most holy, we are properly silent. It is appropriate, I think, to praise the creation, to make a joyful noise of thanksgiving for the sensate world. But praising the Creator is another thing altogether. When we make a big racket on His behalf we are more than likely addressing an idol in our own image. What was it that Pico Iyer said? “Silence is the tribute that we pay to holiness; we slip off words when we enter a sacred place, just as we slip off shoes.” The God of the mystics whispers sweet nothings, as lovers do.

In a diary entry for “M.”, near the end of his too-short life, Thomas Merton wrote: “I cannot have enough of the hours of silence when nothing happens. When the clouds go by. When the trees say nothing. When the birds sing. I am completely addicted to the realization that just being there is enough.” The natural world was for Merton the primary revelation. He listened. He felt a presence in his heart, an awareness of the ineffable Mystery that permeates creation. It was this that drew him to the mystical tradition of Christianity, especially to the Celtic tradition of creation spirituality. It was this that attracted him to Zen.

There come now and then, perhaps more frequently in late life than previously, those moments of being (as Virginia Woolf called them) when creation grabs us by the shoulders and gives us such a shake that it rattles our teeth, when love for the world simply knocks us flat. At those moments everything we have learned about the world – the invaluable and reliable knowledge of science- seems a pale intimation of what is. In Virginia Woolf’s novel “The Waves”, the elderly Bernard says: “How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully with all their feet on the ground! Also, how I distrust neat designs of life that are drawn upon half sheets of notepaper. I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”

In moments of soul-stirring epiphany, it is reassuring to feel beneath our feet a floor of reliable knowledge, the safe and sure edifice of empirical learning so painstakingly constructed by the likes of Aristarchus, Galileo, Darwin and Schrodinger. But at the same time we are humbled by our ignorance, and more ready than ever to say “I don’t know,” to enter at last the great silence. Erwin Chargaff, who contributed mightily to our understanding of DNA, wrote: “It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same blind force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If the scientist has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist.”

The whole thrust of the mystical tradition, the whole thrust of science, is toward the great silence- an awareness of our ignorance and a willingness to say “I don’t know.” A lifetime of learning brings one at last to the face of mystery. We live in a universe of more than 2 trillion galaxies. Perhaps the number of galaxies is infinite. And the universe is silent. Achingly, terrifyingly silent. Or, rather, the universe speaks a little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on the pavement.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

The Poet: Carl Sandburg, “From the Shore"

“From the Shore"

“A lone gray bird,

Dim-dipping, far-flying,

Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults

Of night and the sea

And the stars and storms.

Out over the darkness it wavers and hovers,

Out into the gloom it swings and batters,

Out into the wind and the rain and the vast,

Out into the pit of a great black world,

Where fogs are at battle, sky-driven, sea-blown,

Love of mist and rapture of flight,

Glories of chance and hazards of death

On its eager and palpitant wings.

Out into the deep of the great dark world,

Beyond the long borders where foam and drift

Of the sundering waves are lost and gone

On the tides that plunge and rear and crumble.”

- Carl Sandburg

"Promise Me..."

 

The Daily "Near You?"

Huddersfield, Kirklees, United Kingdom

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"No Smooth Road..."

"Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere

of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps,

till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself."

- W. C. Doane

"Curiosity..."

"Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'

I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions.

I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out."

- Eugene Cernan

John Wilder, "Lost The Plot: 17 True Things We Forgot"

"Lost The Plot: 17 True Things We Forgot"

by John Wilder

"Something went off the rails in the twentieth century. If I were to try to pinpoint it, it would probably be around when Woodrow Wilson was president, as if a large darkness began to descend and ooze through society. It has been slowly corrosive for decades, but the post-2000 years, and especially the Obama years really saw it make insidious...progress.

Why? At least in part because we forgot many of the really important things that we have always known, for the existence of mankind at least, to be true. Below is a list of 17 True things that people “forgot” for a few decades that have pushed our civilization to collapse:

• Men and Women Are Physiologically Different: This has fed the current trans nonsense, and still exists when every single scientific study has shown that the average man over twice as strong as the average woman, and almost always the strongest woman in a study is weaker than the weakest man.

• Men/Women Cognitively Different: Again, there are basic differences in the way that a woman’s mind and a man’s mind work. Men are better at spatial thinking, reasoning, and math, whereas women are exceptional at waging personal vendettas for petty reasons. Oh, and empathy. Women are good at that, too.

• Race Is A Real Biological Fact: Race is really more than skin deep. I once saw a post where the Red Cross™ was looking for more black donors because of the various cofactors that make it a better match for black recipients. More than that, A.I. can tell the race of a patient by an x-ray. So, besides being blood, skin, and bone deep, each race was isolated and separated in time, in some cases by more than 70,000 years (Australian Aborigines). So, yeah, people of different races are different.

• Intelligence Is Mostly Influenced By Biology: Anyone who studies intelligence will tell you that at least 50% of intelligence is inherited, and the number might be 80%. Does that mean two absolute idiots might not birth a genius? Sure. It could happen. And there might also be desperate single MILFs less than a mile away, like my computer keeps telling me.

• Character Is Mostly Influenced By Biology: Growing up in a small town, people would say things like, “That family is no good,” and they were generally right. Are we slaves to it? No. Whereas with intelligence, you can’t hone it, with character you can, which means that maybe not all is lost for Hunter Bi...oh, too late.

• The Family Is Society’s Atom: Feminism requires that the individual be the atom of society so that women can be EmpOwERed grrlbosses, but that is clearly insanity. No family, no society – it all falls apart.

• Culture Isn’t Interchangeable: Tacos aren’t Viking. And culture is far more than a taco. Why lots of people don’t recognize American culture is the same reason that fish don’t recognize water – they’re surrounded by it all the time and can’t imagine life without it.

• Borders, Language, Culture, and People Define Nations: Without those, it’s either a country or an empire and not a nation. And if it’s a country, it will Balkanize or be led by an authoritarian.

• GDP Growth ≠ Happiness: GDP growth was a focus during the Cold War. Why? We needed stuff to beat the horrific ideology of the commies. We won. But now we try to make an economy larger at the expense of the people. How many rich couples were happier when they were young and poor?

• Work Has Intrinsic Value: Sweat builds your soul and gives you freedom - UBI and welfare are cages for the human soul.

• Competition Drives Progress: And war is the ultimate competition. What has happened to the vitality of Europe as it has the longest war-free period in its history?

• Death Is Inevitable: Blue Öyster Cult® said that you shouldn’t fear the reaper, and that’s fairly sound advice. We’re all going to die. The parade will end. To paraphrase Monty Python, we will all become ex-parrots. Focus on the living bit, and add in a little more cowbell.

• Equality Doesn’t Exist: Equality under the law can exist, equality of rights can exist, but people are unequal in every possible physical, cognitive or moral way.

• Authority Exists For A Reason: The Founding Fathers thought long and hard about how to set up self-governance in the United States. They didn’t settle on, “everyone do whatever they want”. Authority in society is required because:

• Humans Are Imperfectible: Chasing communist Utopia led to more deaths in the twentieth century than any other man-made condition. People are flawed, and systems have to take that into account.

• Truth, Beauty, And Goodness Exist: Not GloboLeftist “My truth” but Truth, with a capital T. The same with Beauty and Goodness, both of which the GloboLeft similarly tried to define as nonexistent.

• A Divine Presence Exists: YMMV, but everything I’ve seen shows that this is both a physical and mathematical certainty.

That’s a start at the list, and I’m sure you have more. Whenever a society becomes based on ideas that aren’t real, it becomes unstable. Whenever a Man With A Plan® says that they’re going to rebuild society, run. And when people spout corrosive philosophies that tear apart families and create societal misery, why do we reward them by sending them to congress and or giving them prestigious professorships? What other things that everyone knew in 1025 A.D. have we forgotten?"

- https://wilderwealthywise.com

"How It Really Is"

 

"Economic Market Snapshot 3/24/25"

"Economic Market Snapshot 3/24/25"

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Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...

Only the consequences are real - to you!

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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it. 

You and I are not in the Big Club."

- George Carlin

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Market Data Center, Live Updates:

- https://www.marketwatch.com/market-data 

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- https://www.asktraders.com/analysis/

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Comprehensive, essential truth.

- http://www.shadowstats.com/

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Financial Stress Index

"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."

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- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

Job cuts and much more.

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"The more I see of the monied classes,

the better I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...

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And now... The End Game...

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Adventures With Danno, "Stocking Up At Meijer"

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Adventures With Danno, 3/24/25

"Stocking Up At Meijer"

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Dan, I Allegedly, "No More Post Office!"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 3/24/25

"No More Post Office!"

"Is Wells Fargo taking over the Post Office? In today’s video, we dive into the surprising push from Wells Fargo to privatize the USPS, including their bold plans to cash in on its massive real estate holdings. From the history of the Pony Express to the billions tied up in postal assets, I break down what this could mean for the mail, parcels, and even stamp prices. Could this lead to higher costs for consumers and massive changes to mail delivery? Join me as we explore this wild development and discuss how unions and employees are pushing back against these proposals."

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"You’ve Been Robbed"

"You’ve Been Robbed"

by Paul Rosenberg

"You work long, hard days, but you never have enough to be secure. Your husband or wife probably works too, and yet you still never get ahead. Now think about this: Your great-grandparents worked hard, and they did get ahead. You work just as hard, but you don’t make the same progress. Was great-grandpa really that much better than you? Not likely. So, how was it that he could get ahead on one income, but you can’t? Take a good look at this graph:

Take a good look at the graph above. The top line shows how many years of living expenses your great-grandfather would have accumulated as a hard-working young man. The bottom line shows what you can save. After working for five years, great-gramps had seven years of living expenses in the bank. Doing the same things, you’d have less than two. You’ve probably avoided this comparison because it made you feel bad. If so, that was your big mistake, because it was never your fault.

When great-gramps worked hard, he kept the money. There was no income tax and no sales tax. (The government survived anyway.) There was no Social Security tax either, and the streets weren’t full of starving old people. Families were able to take care of their own.

In your great-grandparents’ day, it was very common for mechanics, carpenters, and shop-owners to make private business loans. Now you shuffle into banks with piles of the most personal documents and beg for loans. (As the banks create your loan money with a keystroke.)

You’ve Not Only Been Robbed, You’ve Been Demoralized: Why did this happen? Because Westerners accepted a lie: that they were bad people.Think this through: Your money is taken from you before it can accumulate (“payroll deductions”), leaving you with barely enough to live a reasonable life. You have nothing left to help those who suffer unjustly – not because you don’t work, but because your surplus is skimmed away to Capital City. Then, those same politicians have the audacity to call you a bad person for not wanting to help the poor. They make it almost impossible for you to give, then insult you for it.

Your great-grandparents were proud to help their friends and neighbors. They felt good about themselves and were proud to make the world a better place. Being robbed of this heritage was the worst crime of all.

The graph was generated as follows: $725 per year is the income in about 1903, based upon discussions with hard-working men who lived through the time. A figure of $325 per year for living expenses is taken from a New York Times article, dated September 29, 1907. Assets were presumed to appreciate at 10% per year. For 2008 {the year the graph was generated} the annual income was $45,000 and monthly expenses were $2,000. This young man pays 30% income taxes and investment return is calculated at a reduced rate of 8.5% because of taxes upon interest. The young man of 1905 is investing $400/year after living expenses of $325. His modern descendant is investing $7500/year after living expenses of $24,000."

- freemansperspective.com

Bill Bonner, "Food For Thought"

Trofim Lysenko measures wheat in a field near Odessa.

"Food For Thought"

by Bill Bonner

“Whenever there are great strains or changes in the 

economic system, it tends to generate crackpot theories.”

 - David Stockman

Baltimore, Maryland - "Once again, we are witness to an epic battle. Like David Stockman’s historic showdown in the early ‘80s. Economics vs. Politics. Economics wants stable money, honest interest rates, balanced budgets, and a smaller federal government. Politics wants what it always wants — more money and more power.

"The Triumph of Politics", is the title Stockman gave to his memoir on the subject. It tells you all you need to know. Politicians find ways to explain away their mistakes…and new theories to justify more. In the early ‘80s they claimed the need to fight communism. Today, the fight is against drugs, Russia, Iran, terrorists, immigrants… and unfair trade policies.

In the early days of the Soviet Union, collectivization of agriculture was an inevitable bust. People just didn’t work as hard for the workers’ paradise as they did for themselves. And the lessons, learned by bitter experience over generations of peasants - about what to plant, when to plant, and how to cultivate crops - were often lost on the bureaucrats and central planners in Moscow. The result: millions of people went hungry.

It was into this challenging situation that a young, persuasive agronomist came forward with a solution. Timofil Lysenko claimed he could create a whole new genre of agriculture based on the Soviet model. Instead of competing with each other for water, nutrients and light, seeds would cooperate… and even produce bountiful yields - even in the wintertime. The theory had crackpot written all over it. But in the early ’30s Stalin was grasping at straws and Lysenko had one. And who was going to tell Stalin he was wrong? Nikolai Vavilov - a traditional botanist - dared to speak the truth. For his trouble, he was sent to the Gulag… and then executed.

‘Lysenkoism’ was triumphant and declared official policy in the Soviet Union. The collective farms dutifully put it into practice. Crop yields collapsed even further. And an estimated ten million people starved to death.

Soviet policy had a profound effect on other communist regimes. It wasn’t long before Mao, in China, picked up Lysenkoism and gave it the go-ahead. Later acknowledged as one of Mao’s big errors, the death toll between 1959 and 1961 was as many as 45 million. Not all the deaths were directly caused by Lysenkoism, but by a combination of political mismanagement, political science, and political chaos.

Big Man leaders are often subject to Big Man delusions. Their yes-monkeys laugh when they say something meant to be funny. They cheer when the Big Man makes an outlandish promise. And after a while, the Big Man falls victim to his own sycophantic entourage. They listen to him so intently; he must know what he is talking about! The problem is well known. In Ancient Rome, a triumphant general would be assigned a slave whose job was to whisper in the great man’s ear - "Memento Homo" (you are human) - to warn him.

Donald Trump has no such luck. Instead, he has another crackpot policy. And it’s coming to you on April 2. We’re talking about his reciprocal tariffs. Trump says that when they are implemented, it will be ‘liberation day.’ Liberation Day? Liberation from what? Tariffs have been coming down all over the world since the end of WWII. Rarely do they pose a significant impediment to US exporters.

America imports about $3.4 trillion worth of goods each year. These imports are subject to a weighted average tariff of 1.6%. It also exports to the rest of the world, on which our exporters pay an average of about 1.85%. The difference - a quarter of one percent - is caused largely by India’s protectionist policies.

And who will tell Donald Trump the truth…that the ‘reciprocal’ concept is unworkable and that US tariffs are actually higher than many of our major trading partners? Japan’s tariffs average only 1.45%. Taiwan’s tariffs don’t even rise to a single percentage point. What about US tariffs on Chinese electric cars, at 100%? And what about the 140 foreign companies subject to US ‘export controls?’

If the ‘reciprocity’ were based only on the tariffs, the US would have to lower its barriers in many instances - just to make them ‘fair.’ This is not at all what the White House intends to do. Because tariffs are a feature of politics, not economics. There is nothing about them that suggests they would lead to a healthier economy. And there’s nothing about them that is ‘fair’…unless fairness means that if you whack Peter with a stick you must also whack Paul. And if they whack each other…you have to whack yourself just to stay even.

But wait…there’s more to the story, isn’t there? Treasury Secretary Bessent is also supposed to consider Non-Tariff Barriers as he attempts to find reciprocity. Let’s look at how these NTB’s affect the calculations. Tomorrow."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

Jim Kunstler, "The Last Resort"

"The Last Resort"

by Jim Kunstler

"What is the alternative to presidential oversight and management of the agencies listed in 

this branch of government? They run themselves? That claim means nothing in practice.” 

- Jeffrey Tucker

"Surely you know the old joke: “What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” (Answer: “a good start!”). There’s a reason why lawyers are so broadly despised. Law is humanity’s instrument for creating order out of the terror and chaos of nature, where anything goes. The result of law theoretically, is a civil society, where only the good, true, and right things can go.

These days, lawyers are hard at work to replace civilized order with the terror and chaos of nature - which is to say, the seeking of raw power: this is what I can do to you! That primal despotism is the motivating engine of the Democratic Party in its terminal phase, a feral, power-seeking monster. It was why, in case you hadn’t noticed, the essential drive of Woke politics was the sadistic pleasure it took in exacting its endless punishments - cancellation, personal ruin, censorship - not correcting alleged injustices against marginalized minorities. And that tells you, by the way, exactly why the J-6 defendants were treated so harshly by the likes of Judge James Boasberg, Tanya Chutkan, and their colleagues of the DC federal district.

The enabling device for that monstrous power seeking of the Democratic Party was the colossal racketeering operation they implanted in every corner of the federal government, an insidious process that accelerated during the Obama years, eluded discipline during Trump One - with the many distracting ruses such as RussiaGate - and surged into final overdrive during the perfidious term of “Joe Biden,” America’s first false-front president.

The racketeering operation was perfectly illustrated in the DOGE’s recent deconstruction of USAID. That agency worked as a gigantic money laundering matrix to pay Democratic Party activists for the sole purpose of maintaining and expanding the party’s power - its ability to push American citizens around, control our lives, tell us how to live, how to think, and, ultimately, in the Covid-19 scam, telling us to take our shots, get lost, and die. Pitifully, a lot of those vaxx victims were the Democratic Party’s own rank and file, which shows you how psychotically suicidal the Democratic Party became.

By and large, it was conservatives who avoided the vaxxes because they were able psychologically to entertain the evidence that Covid was a nefarious set-up and that, month-by-month, the vaxxes were proving to be both ineffective and harmful. Democrats, in their Woke fugue state, could not do that. Even today, they insist that their vaxx injuries are “long Covid” and would be worse if not for the additional boosters they took. Poor dumb bunnies.

Mr. Trump was played masterfully in the initial 2020 Covid roll-out by the likes of Dr. Fauci, Deborah Birx, and the faithless Veep Mike Pence who directed the Coronavirus Task Force (and whoever was behind it). The president could not bring himself to oppose or cast doubt on their diktats and to this day he must remain embarrassed about how that all worked out. But he also probably learned to not be fooled again.

And so, after the fishy 2020 election, and during the disastrous “Biden” years, Mr. Trump had time to lay careful and comprehensive plans for ending the massive racketeering and for restructuring the federal apparatus into a leaner, more efficient, and more lawful enterprise for managing the civil society known as the USA. Which brings us to the present.

Mr. Trump’s lawfully appointed agent, Elon Musk, and his legally chartered investigative advisory unit, called DOGE, has begun making recommendations for severe cuts in agencies and employees, which have been executed by the lawfully confirmed heads of agencies, and the chief executive himself. Thus, the rapid, systematic disassembly of the Democratic Party’s grift machine and the end of its immense revenue stream. No more USAID and its thousands of NGO money laundromats. No more Department of Education and its Grant-O-Matic depredations in the universities. No more work-from home (but not really) nonsense. No more DEI reverse racism in hiring. No more flooding the swing state voting precincts with illegal aliens. No more stupid proxy war in Urkaine. No more gender pretending chaos. You see how it goes now.

Also, thus, the Democratic Party’s last resort: the federal judiciary, 235 new judges jammed into office in the twilight weeks of “Joe Biden” (as Senate Minority Leader Schumer bragged on Sunday’s TV talk circuit), plus the ones such as Boasberg, Chutkan, et al., already on the bench, primed to thwart Mr., Trump’s efforts to govern at every turn. They are the Dem’s only remaining lever of power. And they can only be activated by lawyers filing suits against Mr. Trump - hundreds having been filed in the past eight weeks. And these, as you learned in the Friday post here, are directed by attorney lawfare field marshal Norm Eisen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, using the many well-paid lawfare lawyers at his disposal.

In politics, momentous things often happen on weekends. This past Saturday, Mr. Trump released a White House memorandum directing the Attorney General and the Director of Homeland Security “to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States or in matters before executive departments and agencies of the United States.”

More specifically, the president’s memo asserts: "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 prohibits attorneys from engaging in certain unethical conduct in Federal courts. Attorneys must not present legal filings “for improper purpose[s],” including “to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation.” FRCP 11(b)(1). Attorneys must ensure that legal arguments are “warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law.”

This is the first time that legal discipline has been leveled directly at the lawfare lawyers themselves. (Election-rigging maestro Marc Elias is mentioned by name in the memo.) It means that after eight years of this noxious gamesmanship, they are going to have to start answering for their actions, they will have to lawyer-up on their own account, and they are going discover (the old saying goes) how the process is the punishment.

Next, if it is not already underway at the DOJ, Mr. Trump must direct AG Bondi to explore the parties financing this lawfare - this “frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation” - and you should suppose that it has been emanating from the checkbooks of George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and other wealthy seditionists, who, likewise, will have some serious ‘splainin’ why they should not go prison. One thing for sure: the money for all this is going to dry up."

- https://www.kunstler.com/

Canadian Prepper, "WW3 Update: US Carriers/Bombers Prepare To Nuke Iran!"

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Canadian Prepper, 3/23/25

"WW3 Update: 

US Carriers/Bombers Prepare To Nuke Iran!"

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These psychopathic monsters have gone totally insane...

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"Scott Ritter: Fighting Yemen? 

Trump’s Middle East Blunder Explodes"

Jeremiah Babe, "They Don't Want You To Have Cash, They Want To Control You"

Jeremiah Babe, 3/23/25

"They Don't Want You To Have Cash, 

They Want To Control You"

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Musical Interlude: Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

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Leonard Cohen, "Anthem"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Have you contemplated your home galaxy lately? If your sky looked like this, perhaps you'd contemplate it more often! The featured picture is actually a composite of two images taken from the same location in south Brazil and with the same camera - but a few hours apart. The person in the image - also the astrophotographer - has much to see in the Milky Way Galaxy above.

The central band of our home Galaxy stretches diagonally up from the lower left. This band is dotted with spectacular sights including dark nebular filaments, bright blue stars, and red nebulas. Millions of fainter and redder stars fill in the deep Galactic background. To the lower right of the Milky Way are the colorful gas and dust clouds of Rho Ophiuchi, featuring the bright orange star Antares. On this night, just above and to the right of Antares was the bright planet Jupiter. The sky is so old and so familiar that humanity has formulated many stories about it, some of which inspired this very picture."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191015.html

The Poet: Shel Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

“Where the Sidewalk Ends”

“There is a place where the sidewalk ends

And before the street begins,

And there the grass grows soft and white,

And there the sun burns crimson bright,

And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And watch where the chalk-white arrows go

To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

For the children, they mark, and the children, they know

The place where the sidewalk ends.”

- Shel Silverstein

"Vitae Summa Brevis"

"Vitae Summa Brevis" 

"They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream."
- Ernest Dowson

"Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam" 

is a quotation from Horace's "First Book of Odes": 

 "The shortness of life prevents us from entertaining far-off hopes."

The Daily "Near You?"

Lakewood, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"As Americans..."

''As Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying roadkill-eating tobacco juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts?''

- Dave Barry

"Scott Ritter: Fighting Yemen? Trump’s Middle East Blunder Explodes"

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Dialogue Works, 3/23/25

"Scott Ritter: Fighting Yemen? 

Trump’s Middle East Blunder Explodes"

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Times of India, 3/23/25

"US-Iran War Any Minute Now? Iran’s Fiery Response

 To Trump, Top Commander Warns ‘Will Crush You…’"

"Iran has issued a strong warning to the U.S. and Israel following recent threats from President Donald Trump. Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari declared that Iran’s army is fully vigilant and prepared to crush its enemies if provoked. As tensions rise, Tehran and Washington continue their war of words, raising fears of further escalation in the region."

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A comment: Iran has a minimum of 200,000 advanced missiles, including hypersonics, as well as a mutual defense treaty with Russia, who has supplied then with a highly sophisticated and effective air-defense system and support personnel to augment their own. China as well has a significant presence in Iran. Hezbollah has 150,000 missiles. Hamas and the Houthis contribute incidentally. So, what would Tel Aviv look like after 100,000 missiles have rained on it? A crushed, smoldering mirror image of Gaza. Oh, but the Israelis constantly imply using the so-called "Samson Option" nuclear weapons! If they did, where Tel Aviv used to be would be an enormous pit of highly radioactive molten glass...as the highly capable Islamic nuclear power Pakistanis have vowed. And the United States? Every American naval vessel, including aircraft carriers, will be sunk, and every American military base in the Middle East will be destroyed, as well as the oil production facilities in Qatar, the UAE and probably Saudi Arabia, resulting in instant total global economic collapse. Facts. The Israelis and Americans should consider them well...

- CP