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Monday, September 15, 2025

Dan, I Allegedly, "This is As Bad As 2008!"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/15/25
"This is As Bad As 2008!"

"The job market is breaking down, and it's worse than 2008! In today’s video, I uncover the shocking truth about layoffs, the real state of the economy, and why the numbers we’re being fed just don’t add up. From Oregon’s alarming job losses to rising financial struggles across the nation, it’s clear we’re heading into turbulent territory. Are you seeing it where you live? Let’s talk about it. Plus, AI engineers making $900 an hour, Elon Musk’s billion-dollar Tesla stock buy, and even homeless communities with tennis courts - this is the wild reality we’re living in right now. The Fed’s interest rate games and what they mean for YOUR finances? I’ve got you covered. Don’t miss the deep dive into how this all rivals the Great Recession of 2008 and what you can do to protect yourself."
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Travelling With Russell, "I Went to Moscow's Historical Parade of Trams"

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Travelling With Russell, 9/15/25
"I Went to Moscow's Historical Parade of Trams"
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"Images, Words & Narratives Matter"
by Jim Quinn

“There are decades where nothing happens; 
and there are weeks where decades happen.” 

“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men.” – Captain – "Cool Hand Luke"

It is fitting that I use a quote from a communist to begin this article because it is the communist ideology of hate, murder, and propaganda that has led us to this point of no return. Charlie Kirk was right. America will never be the same. It might not even closely resemble the America at the start of this century by the time this period of upheaval and crisis resolves itself, with the shedding of much blood and death on a scale not seen since World War II. Charlie Kirk was Cool Hand Luke’d for daring to challenge the status quo and daring to question the psychopathic powers that be in this prison planet of our own making.

The senseless slaughter of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk were the opening salvo in a new U.S. civil war, which is likely to spread to the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Australia and wherever else the globalist elite have planted the seeds of revolution through importing Muslim hordes, criminalizing whiteness, glorifying deviancy, outlawing free speech, bankrupting nations, and promoting WW3. The chaos, confusion, vitriol and mayhem is not happening by chance. It is being manufactured by those constituting the invisible government (aka Deep State) as a means to their end game – Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, 15 Minute Cities (Gulags), Great Taking leading to the Great Reset, and the depopulation of millions with the dehumanization and subjugation of the survivors.

What is happening is not a bug, but a feature in the new world order they envision. The last couple weeks certainly meet Lenin’s criteria of decades happening, as the whirlwind of tragedy, anger, threats, retribution, legacy media lies, political posturing, international coalitions forming into war-like postures, all capped off by the cold blooded murder of “that white girl” by a feral psychotic dangerous black man set loose by a black woman pretending to be a judge, and the assassination of an earnest young christian conservative man who was trying to sway minds and hearts through debate, evidently by an ANTIFA inspired transgender dropout loser who spent his life online with other losers.

I say evidently because I don’t believe anything the government or media tells me. There are dozens of unanswered questions regarding this 22 year old Tyler Robinson as the shooter. Based on what we have been told by the authorities regarding Thomas Crooks, the 20 year-old Butler assassin, I don’t expect any truthful revelations regarding Kirk’s assassin. An official narrative will be concocted, fed to the MSM mouthpieces, and devoured by the ignorant masses as the truth. Questioning the official story will be shouted down as conspiracy theories, even though the conspiracy theorists are now 40 – 0 versus the official stories over the last decade. Our lives don’t matter, but narratives do matter to those pulling the strings.

Even worse was the complete blackout of Iryna’s murder by the far left dying legacy media. The alt-media forced the world to witness the consequences of left wing policies of encouraging crime and refusing to lock up dangerous black men. False narratives are all the left have. The dying legacy left media live up to Huxley’s observations regarding the truth:

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
Personally, the images of that beautiful helpless girl staring in stunned terror at the savage beast who just slaughtered her because she was white, and the instantaneous death of Charlie with the blood pouring out of his neck wound have disturbed and haunted me for this entire week. I haven’t been able to sleep. I feel like I’ve been going through the motions at work and at home, as a feeling of foreboding envelopes my consciousnesses. I’m sure others have a similar feeling.

The last time I felt this way was the week following 9/11. I knew the world had changed and the change was not going to be good. The world has once again taken a turn for the worse. There will be no reconciliation between the right and the left. There will be no peace. There will be no turning the other cheek and coming together as a nation. Unification is impossible. You will be required to choose a side, because the violence has only just begun. It will only intensify from this point until there are clear winners and losers.

That young refugee from Ukraine was going home from her shift at a pizza joint. It’s ironic that she would have still been living peacefully in Ukraine if the U.S. had not initiated the hostilities by overthrowing the democratically elected government in 2014, as the neocon/Deep State plan to overthrow Putin by goading him into WW3 was hatched. The millions of deaths and casualties in Ukraine are directly attributable to the dastardly actions of Obama, Biden, Nuland, Graham, McCain and the rest of the warmongering bastards that instigated this war. That racist feral dog that murdered Iryna in cold blood shouldn’t have been on that train either. The left wing communist DAs and judges who released this violent unhinged savage 14 times have her blood on their hands. Both seats should have been empty, but that image of savagery will now encourage a race war.

I know every right leaning talking head, twitter influencer, blogger and politician has been mourning the death of Charlie Kirk on social media at a deafening crescendo, trying to outdo each other in their level of tributes, video compilations, and pictures of his wife and children. He is being treated as a Jesus-like martyr, with connotations of JFK’s Camelot lost. Some said he was destined to be president within the next decade. Maybe so, but we will never know.

Truthfully, until he was murdered this week, I knew very little about the man. I knew he was a popular right leaning commentator, but I had never heard him speak or followed him on twitter. I pretty much lumped him with the other right wing influencers, who make a living off tweets, podcasts, youtubes, and blogging. Everyone’s gotta make a living somehow. They are in a constant battle for likes, retweets, impressions and eyeballs. I’m always suspicious about whether they are paid to support a certain point of view or actually believe what they say.

He was 31 and I’m 62. His Turning Point USA organization was geared to mobilize idealistic young conservative people to embrace conservative family values. After 17 years of trying to change hearts and minds, my site generally attracts cynical old dudes who despise the government and media, knowing change through the ballot box is a fruitless venture. The best we can do now is tribe up with like minded people, gather our preps, make sure we are heavily armed, and buy more ammo. Nothing I’ve seen in the last couple weeks tells me to do otherwise. This train is moving too fast towards the bend, and derailment is a certainty.

From what I could gather, Charlie was an intelligent, loving Christian family man, who loved spirited debates with those who had opposing points of view. His debating skills were clearly top-notch. The left wing loons in the media, on college campuses, and in politics despised him because he was more intelligent and articulate in presenting his viewpoint, as they shrieked at, threatened and cancelled those who supported him. The brainwashing of our indoctrinated youth by left wing communist ideology has convinced millions to actually believe Kirk, Trump, Musk, Carlson, etc., are nazis and fascists – deserving to be murdered for their cause. Their warped ideology kills.

Kirk’s Turning Point USA non-profit is essentially a rounding error compared to the Soros NGOs, Gates Foundation, and USAID grifts funding chaos and hate across the land. I checked their 990 Tax return and total donations were $85M, with Kirk’s annual compensation around $400k. Pelosi makes more than that with one insider stock trade. He surely also made significant income from Twitter, podcasts, books, etc. But, he wasn’t what I would call a grifter.

His views pretty much aligned with mine on most major issues – Ukraine war, the Israeli genocide, bombing Iran for Israel, abortion, tranny degeneracy, woke indoctrination in schools, 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, covid vaccines, masks, Snowden & Assange, and the Deep State . He did not deserve to die and making him a martyr will ultimately backfire on those celebrating his murder. Cancellation goes both ways, they are finding out.

More people have now read and watched his speeches/debates in the last few days than would have ever been introduced to his views over their lifetimes. His death has created more anger and desire for retribution than I’ve witnessed in the course of my life. Will it be a Boston Tea Party/Fort Sumter moment, triggering a revolution/civil war? Time will tell, but we know one thing for sure, Fourth Turnings never de-intensify. I would say in this past week we have experienced an intensification of our ongoing crisis, with the bloodiest and most intense years yet to come. Tragic iconic photos from my lifetime have marked turning points for the country, and I believe the two photos above will sadly mark a new turning point of death and destruction.

I was six months old when my government murdered JFK. The images from the Zapruder film are disturbing and sad, but the murder of our young president because he threatened the CIA/FBI/Deep State changed the course of our country to the detriment of all but those constituting the Deep State and their billionaire benefactors. Our young have been dying, while those running the show have utilized all the propaganda tools at their disposal to breed hate and fear. Keeping the masses focused on their differences, ensures they don’t all realize the true enemy are those pulling the strings and manipulating the masses, as described by Edward Bernays.

"Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before
Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at the lives we’re leading
The way we’ve always done before..."


And history hides the lies of our civil wars
D’you wear a black armband when they shot the man
Who said, “Peace could last forever”?
And in my first memories, they shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see

Two tragically iconic photos during the Vietnam War were turning points in convincing average Walter Cronkite watching Americans we should not be there, sacrificing our young men, killing women and children, and turning our military against college students protesting against another war fought by the poor to benefit the rich. The American empire has degenerated into Murder Inc., spreading death and destruction across the globe to enrich the military industrial complex and the parasite politicians fueling the war machine with our tax dollars, while burdening our children with an unpayable debt.


"So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall in D.C. to remind us all
That you can’t trust freedom when it’s not in your hands
When everybody’s fightin’ for their promised land and
I don’t need your civil war."

The photos of the World Trade Center towers on fire shortly before collapsing into their footprint became the defining moment of this century, thus far. We know the neo-cons (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) who used the moron baby Bush to kick-start their agenda by pushing through the pre-written Patriot Act, ushering in the ever expanding surveillance state, have seized control of government and set us on a path to destruction. We’ve been spilling blood across the globe, while adding debt at a hyper-sonic pace, based upon lies, corrupt leadership, and at the behest of a globalist billionaire death cult. And here we stand at the brink of a civil war and global conflict, with unknown but likely terrible consequences.

"Look at the shoes you’re filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
And I don’t want to hear no more."

We are currently in an existential battle between good and evil. The murderous bastards who killed Iryna and Charlie were the personification of evil, motivated by the satanic urging of the Soros, Gates, Obama, Clinton cult of death. The Democratic party is infested with evil men and women, hellbent on the destruction of our country through the promotion of depravity, social chaos, and rampant criminality without consequences. The real deplorables in this country who cheered Kirk’s death and felt sorry for the black devil who slaughtered “that white girl” are evil. The despicable excuses for journalists in the far left propaganda media are evil.

All of these people are your enemy. Many of your neighbors, coworkers and family are your enemy. They would not shed a tear at your death. We have passed the point of no return. I wish I could visualize a near term positive outcome, but that is impossible after this week. As another old time cynic declared a century ago, normal people need to hoist the black flag.

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on
 his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” 


A current day cynic, and someone the left would also like to kill, captures my thoughts exactly. I will not unite or let bygones be bygones with people who wanted me to die for refusing the covid jab and would spit on my grave based upon my views on the Constitution, unwarranted wars, the welfare state, surveillance state, government spending, and the degeneracy of the left. We are already at war, but most don’t realize it yet.


We’ve tried to live in peace, minding our own business, turning the other cheek, and hoping the crazed leftists would fade away, because their ideas are evil and insane. We just wanted to be left alone, but they forced millions to get jabbed with Big Pharma poison under threat of being fired, hoisted their transgender deviancy upon our children, indoctrinated our young with communist bullshit in government schools, opened our borders to third world invaders, burned our cities while making a drug addicted black criminal their fake martyr, placed low IQ diversity stooges in key positions of power, encouraged criminality with no consequences, stole elections, and now they are killing the best of us. It is now time for all normal people to channel William Munny and do whatever is necessary to defeat the evil forces opposing us. Words matter, but actions speak louder than words."
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Bill Bonner, "Plowshares into Swords

Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, 
a bronze sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in Moscow, Russia.
"Plowshares into Swords"
by Bill Bonner
Poitou, France - "Fox News reports: "Federal budget deficit grows $92B to nearly $2T even as Trump tariffs increase revenue. CBO reports $92B increase from last year driven by Social Security, Medicare and debt interest payments.

Money Talks News adds: "American Household Debt Hits Record $18.4 Trillion As Credit Card Balances Surge Nationwide. With household debt reaching historic highs of nearly $70,000 per adult, families face mounting financial pressure."

Debt, debt, debt...war, war, war? The trumpets are sounding. The pipes are calling. And guns are coming out all over the place.

Abroad...US/Israel desperadoes have opened two new ‘theatres of war.’ The US bombed Iran. And the Israelis bombed Qatar, murdering the negotiators who had been invited to work out a settlement to the Gaza war. In Latin America, the Trump administration whacked a civilian boat, claiming that the US is at war with the occupants. In Europe, meanwhile, the war in the Ukraine continues...Germany guns up...and the fighting threatens to spread.

More ominously, the guns are out in the homeland too. We guessed nearly a quarter of a century ago that the ‘war on terror’ would eventually come home. Many public officials and ‘influencers’ seem to welcome it. A US senator laments that the Trump administration has made war on drug cartels because drugs are the number one killer of young Americans, not those of ‘voting age,’ but of ‘fighting age.’ And many seem to think that it’s time to load the cannon with this ‘fighting age’ fodder.

There’s been no Reichstag fire so far, but comedian Sam Hyde has the matches: “Time to do your f**king job and seize power...if you want to be more than a footnote in the ‘American Collapse’ section of future history books, it's now or never.” And Steve Bannon smells smoke: “We have to have steely resolve,” he said on his ‘War Room’ show. “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war. We are at war in this country. We are.” “If they won’t leave us in peace, then our choice is to fight or die,” wrote Elon Musk on X.

More from Fox: "They Are at War With Us’: Jesse Watters Responds to Charlie Kirk’s Death. “Trump gets hit in the ear, Charlie [Kirk] gets shot dead...Think about it... it’s happening. You’ve got trans shooters, you’ve got riots in L.A. They are at war with us, whether we want to accept it or, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? And that’s the question we are going to have to ask ourselves.”

But war is not just for the red states. It was Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who laid the groundwork for the war in the Ukraine. And it was Joe Biden who gave the green light to the Israelis to massacre Gaza. Recall, too, Joe Biden’s grotesque ‘hellish blood red’ speech. Then, it was the ‘far right’ that was the enemy: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

But now, with Trump in office, the foot is in the other shoe. The ‘far left’ is the threat. Stephen Miller: “The Democrat [sic] Party does not fight for, care about, or represent American citizens. It is an entity devoted exclusively [his emphasis] to the defense of hardened criminals, gang-bangers, and illegal, alien killers and terrorists. The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.”

Why so much ‘war talk?’ Is there a connection between so much debt and so much martial madness? Maybe. The empire is in decline. Demographics, regulatory tightening, fake money and the mis-allocation of trillions of dollars (much of it on pointless wars) have sapped the vitality of the economy. The Federal government gets bigger and bigger, but there is no longer enough output to pay for it.

The interest on the debt alone takes more more than a trillion dollars a year. The US faces a financial crisis. And for the first time in history, our children face a poorer future. The welfare state model no longer works; the center - consensual democracy - wobbles towards the extremes. What to do? Beat our plowshares into swords? More to come..."

"It’s A Crisis! A Whopping 67 Percent Of American Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck In 2025"

"It’s A Crisis! A Whopping 67 Percent Of American
 Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck In 2025"
by Michael Snyder

"When two-thirds of all the workers in your entire country are just barely scraping by from month to month, you have got a major crisis on your hands. For a long time, our standard of living has been going down and the middle class has been shrinking. But in recent years, those two trends have accelerated. We have now reached a point where it takes 5 million dollars to live the American Dream for a lifetime. Needless to say, the vast majority of the population will never come close to making that sort of money. But most Americans continue to strive to live a middle class lifestyle, and as a result most people are teetering on the brink of financial disaster in this day and age.

According to a survey that was recently conducted by PNC Bank, 67 percent of U.S. workers are now living paycheck to paycheck…"A growing share of U.S. workers are struggling to cover expenses as everyday costs continue to weigh heavily on household budgets, according to new survey findings. PNC Bank’s annual Financial Wellness in the Workplace Report shows that 67 percent of workers now say they are living paycheck to paycheck, up from 63 percent in 2024. The report surveyed 1,000 U.S. workers aged 21 to 69 who work full time at companies with more than 100 workers."

There are two very important points that I want to make about this survey. First of all, it only covers people that actually have a job. There are vast numbers of other Americans that are not employed and that are deeply struggling right now. So when you take that into account, this survey is even more shocking.

Secondly, it is clear that we are rapidly moving in the wrong direction. It was bad enough that 63 percent of U.S. workers were living paycheck to paycheck last year, but now we are at 67 percent. A four percent jump in a single year is a very troubling sign.

The primary reason why so many employed Americans are struggling financially is due to the rapidly rising cost of living. For example, the price of coffee has risen by almost 21 percent over the past 12 months…"Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip. Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year - the largest annual jump since October 1997, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Thursday. On a monthly basis, coffee prices rose 4%, the most in 14 years."

The vast majority of the coffee that we drink is imported, and Brazil is the number one source…"Coffee, for instance, is largely imported because there are only a handful of places in the U.S. where the beans can be grown, such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico. About 80% of unroasted coffee imports are sourced from Latin America, primarily from Brazil, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture." Products from Brazil that are shipped to the U.S. now face a 50% tariff, according to the White House. If you drink coffee, you will want to brace yourself, because prices are only going to go higher in the months ahead.

Of course just about everything has become significantly more expensive, and this is pushing many consumers over the edge. I recently wrote about how subprime auto loan delinquencies in the U.S. have risen to an all-time high, and now we have learned that one of the largest subprime auto loan lenders in the U.S. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy…"A company that provides auto loans to families with poor or no credit has filed for bankruptcy. Tricolor Holdings, a Dallas-based car fixing and credit company, has filed for Chapter 7 - or liquidation - bankruptcy. The filing typically means the company will quickly go out of business."

The company’s demise is a warning sign for the US economy: Americans are racking up a huge amount of debt to keep their cars, while a record amount can’t keep up with the payments. This is just the beginning. There will be more failures. At this stage, most of us can feel the change that is in the air. In fact, it is being reported that consumer confidence “dropped sharply in September”…

"Consumer confidence dropped sharply in September to its lowest level in four months, according to preliminary data released Friday, as Americans expressed growing anxiety about job security and the persistence of high prices. The University of Michigan’s closely watched index of consumer sentiment fell to 55.4 in September from 58.2 in August, missing economists’ expectations and reflecting what survey director Joanne Hsu described as “multiple vulnerabilities in the economy.”

And the confidence that Americans have in being able to find a new job has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded…"In the latest sign of trouble for the U.S. labor market, confidence in the ability to move from one job to another has hit a record low, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey released Monday. Respondents to the central bank’s monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations for August indicated a 44.9% probability of finding another job after losing their current one. The reading tumbled 5.8 percentage points from the prior month and is the lowest in the survey’s history dating back to June 2013."

If you are thriving in this extremely difficult economic environment, good for you. For most of the population, things are very painful at this moment. The ranks of the middle class are steadily thinning out, poverty is growing all around us, and more Americans are homeless than ever before in our entire history.

In Los Angeles, one homeless encampment has become so enormous that it is now being described as a full-blown “city”…"A sprawling homeless encampment in Los Angeles is drawing ire from neighbors who say the makeshift shelter has grown into a full “city” of its own, complete with working electricity and a recreational area featuring a tennis court, garden and barbecue pit. The encampment sits on a vacant Koreatown lot surrounded by apartment buildings and other structures, according to ABC 7. “The reason why people are sleeping here is because you leaders are sleeping on not taking initiative and action to clean this place up,” neighborhood resident Daniel King told the station."

Most Americans are just a few bad breaks from losing everything. In fact, there are already millions of Americans that have lost everything, and those that are on the bottom levels of the economic pyramid are becoming increasingly desperate.

When things really start hitting the fan in this country, vast numbers of extremely desperate people will cause tremendous chaos throughout our society. Things didn’t have to turn out this way. If we would have made much different decisions over the past 50 or 60 years, we would have gotten much different results. But we just kept doing things the wrong way, and now we shall reap what we have sown."

Jim Kunstler, "Dressed to Kill"

"Dressed to Kill"
by Jim Kunstler

"You currently have one side willing to talk and extend a 
microphone to anyone, and one side that shoots to kill when they do." 
- Aimee Terese on X

"When Brian De Palma’s movie, "Dressed to Kill," came out in 1980, this was a different country. Like Hitchcock’s "Psycho" before it (1960), both films depicted men seeking to become women who are murderously deranged by their wishful fantasies. Now, our country has become murderously deranged by the same fantasy writ large.

These derangements are acted out now by a segment of the population that calls itself “the trans community.” This is just another manipulation of language, of course, by the same organized agencies working to turn our national life upside-down and inside-out. You call them “Globalists” or “Marxists” or “gnostic anarchists,” but who-or-whatever actually directs this action remains an abiding mystery of our time. (The runner-up abiding mystery is how the news media was hijacked to go along with all that.)

You have learned the past ten years how fragile reality can become in a society under stress. But then there is the reality of things as they actually exist, and the group’s perception of reality, which is not the same. The group’s perception of reality requires a consensus, an agreement, that certain things of this world are so. If the agreement is sturdy, and comports with how things actually exist, then you have a high-functioning society. If the agreement is flimsy and doesn’t comport with how things actually are, you get Clusterf*ck Nation, a society tortured by various compounded derangements.

It is hard to account for exactly how this happened to us, but the most visible manifestations of it these days come out of the political Left, the party that once defended the interests of the working-class, the laborers in their tough, uncomfortable lives seeking fair treatment from the comfortable class that employed and managed them. At least, that’s how things resolved for a while in our industrial society, the classes coexisting in a fruitful, balanced tension. That all peaked in the early 1960s.

Political relations between business and labor grew increasingly irrelevant after that as industry got moved out of our country, so the party of the working-class had to find something else to give its attention to. By the early 1960s, the Democratic Party had already rebranded itself as the party of the civil rights (having been previously the party of Jim Crow and the KKK). It was not an altogether cynical or insincere transformation. It was driven by a dynamic imperative: to prove that America, the self-styled Leader of the Free World after two great and ruinous world wars, was a fair and righteous country, deserving its post-war leadership role. And that imperative rode the tailwind of Franklin Roosevelt’s “progressive” legacy.

Increasingly, though, after the 1960s, the civil rights crusade lost its mojo. It disappointed the zealous. Try as it might, the effort did not lead to a nirvana of racial harmony. In fact, the miserable black underclass seemed to only grow larger and more dysfunctional, the cities they lived in (increasingly run by them) more broken.

The band-aid for that failure was multiculturalism. By the 1980s, the consensus about reality was fracturing, especially about standards of behavior. Too many “people of color” were “justice involved” - they committed crimes. It was an embarrassment to “progressives” (liberal Democrats). Multiculturalism’s premise was that a society could have different standards of behavior and different values for different groups. Henceforth, there was no need for a broad agreement about what sort of behavior was okay and what was not okay - no need for a common culture that applied to everyone.

From there, the Democratic party had to assiduously recruit and sort out all the various multi-cultures in America, and pretend to manage and justify their special needs in order to continue functioning as a national political party. In the 1970s, it was all about feminism, the entry of women into the managerial class, the board rooms, the law firms, the professoriate. Then it was all about gay rights, Stonewall and all that followed. That movement was badly derailed in the 1980s by AIDS, which killed many of its activists and made the group’s sexual activities look less than entirely wholesome.

After about 1985, the liberals had to write off Black men. Too many were crackheads and no accounts. All they had left was the likes of Al Sharpton (of Tawana Brawley infamy) and a few hundred millionaire sports stars. So, the Dems rallied over the plight of Black women... who were soon joined by the indigenous people (formerly “Indians”)... the Pacific Islanders. By the early 21st century, the Democrats had run out of oppressed ethnicities to recruit under the multicultural umbrella. All that remained were the “homeless” (formerly “bums,” “junkies,” and “the mentally ill”).

Actually, the mentally ill had gotten a multicultural jump-start in the 1970s when patients in hospitals for the insane were re-branded as an “oppressed minority.” Thus, the hospitals were all emptied out and closed down and the patients released to “freedom” on the streets with vague promises of “community-based treatment” to follow - it never did, of course. After several major Middle East wars starting with Desert Storm in the 90s, more and more damaged military vets joined the ranks of the homeless. It has apparently never occurred to anyone that re-establishing hospitals for the insane might be necessary.

And so it has gone, from one “marginalized” and “oppressed minority” after another until all that liberalism (and their official org, the Democratic Party) had left in the 2020s was the tiniest subculture in the country: people who fantasized about becoming the opposite sex. That group was much encouraged by the medical establishment so narcissistically enchanted by their surgical skills and manipulations of hormonal chemistry (and the money it generated) that they recruited ever more subjects for their experiments.

The doctors and their therapist partners, in turn, egged-on the teachers, professors, and school administrators to recruit “patients” for “treatment” of the new condition called “gender dysphoria.” The cheerleaders of the political Left coalesced behind all of that, promoted the hell out of it, went as far as inviting “drag queens” (men portraying women as monsters) into the third-grade classrooms. And that is how deranged humans like the characters in "Dressed to Kill" and "Psycho" became the role models for the Democratic Party."

"Economic Market Snapshot 9/15/25"

"Economic Market Snapshot 9/15/25"
Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...
Only the consequences are real - to you!
"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:
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: creditequity valuationfunding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United Statesother advanced economies, and emerging markets."
Job cuts and much more.
Commentary, highly recommended:
"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...
And now... The End Game...
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Sunday, September 14, 2025

"Multiple People Fired After Hateful Posts; The American Empire Is Falling Fast"

Jeremiah Babe, 9/14/25
"Multiple People Fired After Hateful Posts; 
The American Empire Is Falling Fast"
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"NASA Admits 3I/ATLAS Looks More Like Space Ship Than Rock"

Full screen recommended.
Uncovered X, 9/14/25
"JWST, Hubble, SPHEREx & TESS Agree: 
3I/ATLAS Is an Artificial PROBE Breaking Physics!"

"Four of humanity’s most powerful telescopes - James Webb, Hubble, SPHEREx, and TESS - have just delivered the same shocking verdict. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is breaking every rule of physics, chemistry, and orbital mechanics. What began as a faint comet now appears to be a vast, engineered machine.

Infrared scans from Webb revealed bursts of metal-rich exhaust that lined up with flickers of acceleration, like thrusters firing. Hubble detected light scattering exactly like polished metal, not dusty ice. SPHEREx found a compact internal heat source - far hotter than the Sun could explain - glowing with industrial metals like tungsten and nickel. And TESS showed its tail shifting from red to neon green, accelerating steadily as if powered by a plasma drive.

The data leaves little room for natural explanations. Together, these telescopes have built the first case for an interstellar probe under intelligent control. And now, 3I/ATLAS’s path brings it terrifyingly close to Mars. Will it collide, skim the atmosphere, or reveal itself to our orbiters This could be the moment history changes forever."
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Full screen recommended.
Hidden Headlines, 9/14/25
"NASA Admits 3I/ATLAS’ Looks
 More Like Space Ship Than Rock"
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They've discovered 4, possibly 6, larger objects coming in on the same exact vector as I3/Atlas, which may be a scout ship for a larger fleet arriving in strength. Their purpose unknown, all conjecture at this point, but data verified. We shall see... - CP
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Update 9/13/25:
Full screen recommended.
Hidden Headlines, 9/13/25
"NASA Alert: 3I/ATLAS’s Last 
Pictures Send Terrifying Warning!"
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"Prepare..."

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Inner Light"

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

"A Look to the Heavens"

"A gorgeous spiral galaxy, M104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, the Sombrero Galaxy. This sharp optical view of the well-known galaxy made from ground-based image data was processed to preserve details often lost in overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge. 
Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum, and is host to a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Still the colorful spiky foreground stars in this field of view lie well within our own Milky Way galaxy. "

The Poet: Galway Kinnell, "Another Night in the Ruins"

"Another Night in the Ruins"

"How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames,
our one work is
to open ourselves,
to be the flames?"

~ Galway Kinnell

"The Golden Apple of Discord"

"The Golden Apple of Discord"
by Dan Denning

Laramie Wyoming  - "Not many people know that the Judgement of Paris was preceded by the Golden Apple of Discord. But if you didn't before, you do now! And given the week we’ve just had, it might be a good time to revisit this ancient story of love and strife, before we dive back into financial markets, rate cuts, and more tomorrow.

Eris was the Greek god of Strife. It may seem a little weird that the Greeks HAD a goddess of Strife. But that tells you chaos, discord, and strife are part of the human condition and not anything modern or new. The Roman goddess of Strife was named Discordia, which will be important to our story in a moment. Back to Eris.

Unlike other more important gods, Eris wasn’t invited to the marriage of the sea nymph Thetis and Peleus, a mortal king. She decided to cause a little chaos as a result. She inscribed a golden apple into the wedding banquet with the words ‘To the Fairest’ written on it. The Greek word for fairest is ‘Kallisti.’

Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each claimed the apple was obviously meant for her. A dispute ensued. The female gods turned to Zeus for a final decision on who ‘the fairest’ was. Being a wise man, Zeus wanted nothing to do with the argument. Instead, he appointed a mortal, Paris, a prince of Troy, to be judge. ‘The Judgement of Paris’ is the famous name given to the choice Paris made.

The thing is, not trusting in their own beauty (or the good judgement of Paris), each of the goddesses tried to bribe him. Proving that things never change, it worked, at least for one of them. Aphrodite promised Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world if he chose her. Paris gave Aphrodite the Golden Apple (of discord) and Aphrodite caused Helen of Sparta to be in love with Paris. Happily ever after. Blah blah blah. End of story, right?

Nope. The trouble, as you probably know now, is that Helen was already married to Menelaeus, the King of Sparta. Paris didn’t let a small matter like that get between him and true love. He abducted (or eloped, depending on how you read it) with Helen and took her back across the wine dark sea to Troy.

The ten-year Trojan war–which resulted in the fall and sack of Troy and the death of Paris, his brother Hector, and his father Priam followed. Paris did manage to kill the Greek warrior Achilles in the war, firing an arrow that was directed by the god Apollo and hitting Achilles in the only area of his body not protected by divine intervention, the heel.

The story of the return of the Greeks back home, "The Odyssey," is currently being made into a movie by the director Christopher Nolan. We tell these stories because they are timeless and remind us that people haven’t changed much. But for now, the point: Discord is not a deity. But it is a part of human history and will be part of the future too. A big part of present as well!

Discord the name of a social media technology that facilitated a revolution in Nepal this week. Given the week that the world had, you can be forgiven if you missed what happened. But it’s worth passing on quickly. Gen Z (younger Nepalese who are savvy with technology) used Discord servers to organize and protest a corrupt communist government in Nepal, and even voted in their choice to replace the disgraced former Prime Minister. It all happened lighting fast.

The government tried to silence dissent by imposing a social media blackout. It didn’t work. Discord servers–which are a little like live chat rooms where people can talk to each other live and share files and links–became the main tool for organizing the first digital revolution of its kind in the world.

It was a pretty amazing story. You can read about it now on-line. My favorite part was the Finance Minister fleeing naked into a river after being chased by an angry mob. That’s the kind of accountability we should expect from the people who manipulate the value of our money and influence (negatively) the quality of our lives.

In any case, discord (and Discord servers) are part of the modern landscape. Since our beat here is money, we’d like to suggest that most of these problems have their ‘root causes’ in the money. When the value of the money goes…all values tend to go with it. If that’s true, your best bet in the current chaos is to hang on to your values and those things most valuable to you. As investors, that means objects of permanent value like gold, precious metals, and high quality companies. As people, that means friends, family, your relationship with God (if you have one). And don’t forget your furry friends too. My brother’s dog Bandit crossed the Rainbow Bridge this week, which sucked.

It’s a big week coming up with the Fed meeting. We’ll be on the case. In the meantime, you’ll find a quick review of the week that was below. Have a good Sunday and get outside from some fresh air and peace and quiet."

"P.S. If you found the story of Eris and Paris thought provoking, you might do what I just did and pick up a copy of "The Essential Classics: An Anthology of Greco-Roman Literature." The hardcover edition from late last year has an introduction from my old managing editor Van Bryan, and a forward from Anya Leonard. Long-time readers will recognize Anya as the head of Classical Wisdom, a project she and Bill Bonner began years ago. Anya’s been running the show on her own for years and sometimes even gets some help from old BPR collaborator Joel Bowman (her husband). The book is a must have for lovers of books and of Classical Wisdom."

"When I See..."

"When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair." 
- Blaise Pascal

Ahh, but it does...
“When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and neither flight nor fight will save us, there may be salvation in sitting still. And if salvation is impossible, then at least before perishing we may gain a clearer vision of where we are. By sitting still I do not mean the paralysis of dread, like that of a rabbit frozen beneath the dive of a hawk. I mean something like reverence, a respectful waiting, a deep attentiveness to forces much greater than our own.”
- Scott Russell Sanders

Folks, I fear our time for such reverence is upon us.
God help us, God help us all...