So, we rise from the rubble...
Friday, December 3, 2021
Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 12/3/21"
"Weekly News Wrap-Up 12/3/21"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Vice President Biden was out today describing his version of the “Dark Winter” he has mentioned in the past. This time it’s in response to the new Omicron virus that the Globalists are hyping as a new way to scare you into getting another jab or booster. It’s tough to convince people to get more of what doesn’t work. Just ask the “Fully Vaccinated” Dallas Cowboys who have at least 9 players with, wait for it–Covid.
Step right up for the booster, and you are stupid if you do. The South African doctor who discovered this variant of CV19 says it is “extremely mild,” and “there has been no real uptick in hospitalizations.” That medical appraisal does not stop the pushers of yet another round of injections when the first two clearly did not work. How many boosters does the public have to get to realize this is a total scam and not about medicine?
Fed Head Jay Powell has broken big news, and that is inflation is NOT “transitory” as the Fed has been claiming for many months. The Fed has officially lost control of inflation. Why is this big news? Well, Powell has to do something about inflation now, and that is going to cause big problems in the markets and economy and may even collapse it altogether. If Powell does nothing, then look out above as inflation in everything including gold, silver and cryptos will rip higher - much higher."
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks about
these stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up 12/3/21:
Thursday, December 2, 2021
"Mattias Desmet on Our Grave Situation"
Full screen recommended.
"Mattias Desmet on Our Grave Situation"
by Peak Prosperity
"Professor Mattias Desmet talks about his work that connects past historical episodes of what is called “Mass Formation” (aka Mass Psychosis) and current events. The risks are as grave as they come. Unless a few brave and courageous people are willing to stand up and say “I don’t agree!” history suggests that we will end up with a fully totalitarian outcome.
That is a dark path. It inevitably leads to mass casualties and atrocities. Eventually all totalitarian systems end in their own destruction.
My position is “it doesn’t have to be this way.” We can do better. Let’s avoid a future of atrocities and the complete destruction of our way of life. Unfortunately, those caught up in the Mass Formation event cannot see the larger or wider implications of their actions. They are very much like a hypnotized person with their field of view narrowed down to a singular threat or risk they have been told is the one-and-only threat they must conquer.
So all of their attention goes there. It focusses down. Nothing else matters. Eventually they transfer their anger and rage at that enemy – which is Covid today – upon a more relatable a nearby object. Perhaps their neighbor. Perhaps the unvaccinated. Perhaps immigrants who are stealing their jobs, or those who aren’t taking Climate Change seriously enough.
With that transference, the path has been laid to re-trod some of the most awful and inhumane periods of history. We’re there again and our own integrity demands that we do what we can to avoid going any further down that path.
In this episode Mattias tells us what can be done. We must never resort to violence. We must be courageous and speak up. We must hold everyone with compassion. But most of all, we must speak up."
"Decide..."
“We're all going to die. We don't get much say over how or when, but we do get to decide how we're gonna live. So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out and decide.”
- “Richard”, “Grey’s Anatomy”
"Stock Market Miracle Today; Mortgage Bailouts Are Over; FED is Buying It All; Foreclosure Flood"
Jeremiah Babe, PM 12/2/21:
"Stock Market Miracle Today; Mortgage Bailouts Are Over;
FED is Buying It All; Foreclosure Flood"
"The Omicron Variant"
"The Omicron Variant"
by Brian Maher
“It [Omicron] will of course be used as an argument for more stimulus ahead…” We hazard Rabobank’s Michael Every is correct. Perhaps the potential for additional stimulus is why the stock market trampolined so high today. All three major indexes took mighty leaps after yesterday’s Omicron-induced frights. The Dow Jones gained 617 stimulus-expecting points. The S&P 500 added 64; the Nasdaq, 127. Safe haven gold was unsafe for haven seekers — down $15 and change today.
But we suspect the Omicron variant - so-called - will prove a phantom menace. By all indications it is a mere nuisance. It inflicts mild sniffles, coughs and irritations. One South African physician who has witnessed Omicron’s antics labels symptoms “very mild.” The few documented cases are healthy again, all recovered in full. These include the two United States cases. Omicron may actually represent a high blessing…
The Way to Herd Immunity? It is evidently greatly contagious. Yet also evidently, it lacks ferocity. The murderous passion is not in it. It will therefore spread far and it will spread wide… while leaving little wreckage. The infected will then acquire a sort of natural immunity. Since it will not kill its hosts but merely annoy them, they will hand it off to others. This punchless strain could then become the dominant strain.
We speculate of course. The Omicron variant may prove mightier than we envision. Yet the evidence to date indicates it will not. This hazardous material garment-wearer at Los Angeles International Airport almost certainly believes it will:
But in this we are extremely confident: The Omicron variant will become the warrant for additional government gooning.
More Vaccines! Dr. Fauci and his understrappers will bark that the unvaccinated are to blame for the variants. They will credit the vaccines for blunting Omicron’s lethality, rather than acknowledge the strain’s natural punchlessness. They will therefore yell louder and louder for vaccine mandates and universal vaccination - depend on it. For the fully vaccinated, they will require booster shots. Here Dr. Fauci allows the feline out of the burlap sack: "Even though we don’t have a lot of data on it, there’s every reason to believe that kind of increase that you get with the boost would be helpful at least in preventing severe disease of a variant like Omicron." The public health authorities will take their guidance from Europe…
The Return of the Gesundheitspass: Austria has once again imposed stringent lockups in response to rising infections. Austrians can exit their homes only for very limited reasons. Sixty-seven percent of its people are fully vaccinated. Yet it is evidently insufficient.
Just today Germany announced lockups for the unvaccinated. These recalcitrants will be largely banned from society, polite and impolite alike. They will only be permitted out of doors under limited circumstances. Is this the reincarnation of Nazi Germany’s Gesundheitspass - “health pass”?
More importantly… will the United States fall in behind Europe? Fortune magazine: "The jury is still out in the U.S. on how to deal with Americans who are unwilling to get vaccinated, but European countries are increasingly choosing the stick over the carrot as governments across the continent turn to hard-line methods from lockdowns to fines in order to coax the unvaccinated to take the jab. The message: Get vaccinated or don’t participate in society… Europe has often made COVID-19 moves before the U.S., and some analysts expect these measures to migrate across the Atlantic…"
No Exceptions: No exceptions are granted for the naturally immune, at least to our understanding. Yet studies indicate natural immunity confers up to 27 times the defense of vaccines. As we have asked before: Why would the naturally immunized require vaccination if their own immunity is vastly superior? We can conceive of no reason in law or equity why they would.
Yet we must all break to the common harness, we must all yank in one direction - young and old, robust and weak, healthy and sickly alike. We might grant the public health goons a fairer hearing if vaccines were reliable sentries. Yet the evidence indicates that they are not. A representative sample of the vaccinated are afflicted. Vaccines may limit hospitalizations and deaths - thank the Lord - but so do proven therapeutic treatments. Meantime, vaccination’s healthful effects appear to erode after several months. Hence the yelling for booster shots.
Russian Roulette: Yet each dose of vaccine presents risk. The precise numbers of severe side effects… and deaths… are not known. But they are likely far greater than reported. Perhaps by many multiples. Vaccine fatalities may run to the tens of thousands, dramatic side effects to the hundreds of thousands. And the risk of severe side effects increases with each needling. How many will suffer agonies when drilled with a fourth, a fifth, a sixth… a ninth booster?
Here is another possibility to be considered, which we have raised in earlier reckonings: The vaccines themselves may be propagating the very virus they are designed to rout. That is, the vaccines themselves may be frankensteining new variants into existence.
“It Is the Vaccination That Is Creating the Variants”: Dr. Luc Montagnier is a French virologist and 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Says he: “It is the vaccination that is creating the variants.” This Frenchman insists mass vaccination represents an “unacceptable mistake”: "It is an unacceptable mistake. The history books will show that, because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants… I will show you that they are creating the variants that are resistant to the vaccine."
How precisely are vaccines creating the variants? As bacteria outstrategize and outflank antibiotic medicines, viruses can - to our understanding - outstrategize and outflank vaccines. Vaccines force the virus to “evolve” in rapid fashion. Dr. Montagnier: "There are antibodies, created by the vaccine. What does the virus do? Does it die or find another solution? The new variants are a production and result from the vaccination. You see it in each country, it’s the same: The curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths."
When the “Cure” Is the Problem: Here is Dr. Robert Malone - pioneer of the mRNA technology upon which these vaccines are structured - in agreement: "The most important reason why a universal vaccination strategy is imprudent tracks to the collective risk associated with how the virus responds when replicating in vaccinated individuals."
Here, basic virology and evolutionary genetics tell us the goal of any virus is to infect and replicate in as many people as possible…"The more people you vaccinate, the greater the number of vaccine-resistant mutations you are likely to get, the less durable the vaccines will become, ever more powerful vaccines will have to be developed and individuals will be exposed to more and more risk."
Neither Dr. Montagnier nor Dr. Malone represents a lone voice crying out from the wilds. Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is an authority on the science of vaccination. He has provided his expertise to Novartis and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to name some. According to this fellow: "There can be no doubt that continued mass vaccination campaigns will enable new, more infectious viral variants to become increasingly dominant and ultimately result in a dramatic incline in new cases despite enhanced vaccine coverage rates. There can be no doubt either that this situation will soon lead to complete resistance of circulating variants to the current vaccines."
A Saner Alternative: Here is irony itself… if true: The very hunt for the cure could push the cure beyond reach. And so the dog undertakes a merry chase of his tail. The tail, the virus, will always keep its lead over the dog, the vaccine. Does a saner alternative exist? Yes, argues Dr. Malone: "A far more optimal strategy is to vaccinate only the most vulnerable. This will limit the amount of vaccine-resistant mutations and thereby slow, if not halt, the current vaccine arms race…"
There has been much controversy over ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Yet with the emergence of a growing body of scientific evidence, we can be assured these two medicines are safe and effective in prophylaxis and early treatment when administered under a physician’s supervision. Numerous other useful treatments range from famotidine/celecoxib, fluvoxamine and apixaban to various anti-inflammatory steroids, vitamin D and zinc…
The American people deserve better than a universal vaccination strategy under the flag of bad science and enforced through authoritarian measures. The American people may deserve better. But as we have argued before: If these gentlemen are correct… and universal vaccination plows on… forcing additional devil variants…the American people may never get better."
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Related:
Free Download: "The Vaccine Death Report" (PDF)
"The purpose of this report is to document how all over the world millions of people have died, and hundreds of millions of serious adverse events have occurred, after injections with the experimental mRNA gene therapy. We also reveal the real risk of an unprecedented genocide.
Facts: We aim to only present scientific facts and stay away from unfounded claims. The data is clear and verifiable. Over one hundred references can be found for all presented information, which is provided as a starting point for further investigation.
Complicity: The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world. The severity of this situation compels us to ask this critical question: will we rise to the defense of billions of innocent people? Or will we permit personal profit over justice, and be complicit? Networks of lawyers all over the world are preparing class-action lawsuits to prosecute all who are serving this criminal agenda. To all who have been complicit so far, we say: There is still time to turn and choose the side of truth. Please make the right choice."
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Gerald Celente, "DOW Spikes; New Virus Restrictions Imposed; Danger Ahead"
Full screen recommended.
Gerald Celente, PM 12/2/21:
"DOW Spikes; New Virus Restrictions Imposed; Danger Ahead"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
"What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks At A Pace Never Seen Before In All Of U.S. History"
Full screen recommended.
"What Do They Know? Insiders Are Dumping Stocks
At A Pace Never Seen Before In All Of U.S. History"
by Epic Economist
"Something really strange is happening in U.S. financial markets over the past few weeks. CEOs and corporate insiders have been dumping stocks at a far faster rate than we have ever seen before. Do they know something the rest of us don't? If the stock market is booming as the media keeps insisting, and this rally will go on forever, like many investors want to believe, then why these insiders are selling their stocks as fast as they can before the year is over?
While some are still choosing to believe that stock prices will continue to soar into the stratosphere, those who are in the top-tiers of the market are heading for the exits. Of course, if they can see that a brutal stock market crash is fast-approaching, the perfect time to get out is now. After all, you can only make money in the stock market if you get out before the bubble bursts. And it seems like many of the richest people in the world have come to the realization that risks have become too big, especially with the emergence of a new variant that already triggered a crash in some stocks. Perhaps this is the best time to initiate sell-off mode before the whole market irreversibly collapses.
According to CNBC, some big names in the industry have been selling billions of dollars worth of stock over the past few weeks. At least $69 billion in stock have been recently dumped by CEOs and corporate insiders, as lofty share prices seemed to have reached their peak. This is the perfect window to collect profits before losing them.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the richest men on the entire planet each sold $10 billion in stock already. These insiders know that stock valuations can't stay this high if production is slowing down, and soon, the rest of the market is going to know that as well. They've just started to act before everyone else realized the actual risks they're in for. Interestingly, this sell-off has begun just as the U.S. economy has started to fall apart again.
We're currently facing the worst supply chain crisis in history. Our store shelves are getting emptier while inflation is pushing the price of everything to sky-highs. In fact, we haven't seen these levels of inflation since the 1970s. And the worsening chaos in our streets is compromising economic activity in many of our largest urban areas.
This Thanksgiving, brick-and-mortar sales dropped by 90.4% from 2019 levels, according to data released by Sensormatic. Retail giants were already expecting this to happen. That's why Target, Walmart and Best Buy opted to keep their doors closed to customers on the holiday. On Black Friday, retail sales dropped by 28.3% compared with 2019 levels, as consumers were faced with fewer choices and higher prices due to shortages and delivery delays. Inflation on everything from fuel to raw materials is leading businesses to pass on those increased costs to consumers.
Meanwhile, the latest manufacturing figures were quite a disappointment. Manufacturing rates today are lower than they were at the peak of the health crisis in 2020, tumbling 58.3 percent in November. At the same time, the mainstream media keep trying to put a positive spin on our economic issues. Just a couple of days ago, CNN published an article entitled “Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for rich people”. Inflation is rising way faster than wages. The cost of living is escalating at record speed. So how can you pay down your debt if you have to direct a bigger share of your monthly budget to afford the same things you used to a couple of years ago?
We also cannot forget that home prices are 'increasing in value' because the housing market is in a speculative bubble that only exists as long as the Fed keeps pouring more money into the system. But those days are counted, and artificially suppressed mortgage rates are about to soar. Home prices will have to readjust soon, which means that properties, just as stocks, will see their value crashing. And homeowners, just as frenzied investors, will be left scrambling with some painful financial losses.
Our standard of living is being destroyed, and millions of Americans are falling out of the middle class and straight into poverty. And those in a position of power across the global industry and markets can see that more economic damage is coming. That's why they've started to strategize before it's too late. There are many heavy clouds on the horizon. A perfect storm is just around the corner. And when it comes to 2022, you should get prepared for the worst-case scenario."
Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind, “My Orchid Spirit (Extragalactic)”
Full screen recommended.
Liquid Mind, “My Orchid Spirit (Extragalactic)”
"A Look to the Heavens"
“This pretty, open cluster of stars, M34, is about the size of the Full Moon on the sky. Easy to appreciate in small telescopes, it lies some 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. At that distance, M34 physically spans about 15 light-years. Formed at the same time from the same cloud of dust and gas, all the stars of M34 are about 200 million years young.
But like any open star cluster orbiting in the plane of our galaxy, M34 will eventually disperse as it experiences gravitational tides and encounters with the Milky Way's interstellar clouds and other stars. Over four billion years ago, our own Sun was likely formed in a similar open star cluster.”
"A Realistic Attitude..."
"It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane."
- Philip José Farmer
Gregory Mannarino, "And It Begins... Unvaccinated Lockdowns. Are Concentration Camps Next?"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 12/2/21:
"And It Begins... Unvaccinated Lockdowns.
Are Concentration Camps Next?"
"Brain Differences in Psychopaths Identified"
"Brain Differences in Psychopaths Identified"
by Louise Pratt
"Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may provide a biological explanation for psychopathy. The results of their study are outlined in the paper 'Altered connections on the road to psychopathy', published in 'Molecular Psychiatry.'
The research investigated the brain biology of psychopaths with convictions that included attempted murder, manslaughter, multiple rape with strangulation and false imprisonment. Using a powerful imaging technique (DT-MRI) the researchers have highlighted biological differences in the brain which may underpin these types of behavior and provide a more comprehensive understanding of criminal psychopathy. Dr Michael Craig said: 'If replicated by larger studies the significance of these findings cannot be underestimated. The suggestion of a clear structural deficit in the brains of psychopaths has profound implications for clinicians, research scientists and the criminal justice system.'
While psychopathy is strongly associated with serious criminal behavior (eg rape and murder) and repeat offending, the biological basis of psychopathy remains poorly understood. Also some investigators stress mainly social reasons to explain antisocial behaviours. To date, nobody has investigated the 'connectivity' between the specific brain regions implicated in psychopathy.
Earlier studies had suggested that dysfunction of specific brain regions might underpin psychopathy. Such areas of the brain were identified as the amygdale, ie the area associated with emotions, fear and aggression, and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the region which deals with decision making. There is a white matter tract that connects the amygdala and OFC, which is called the uncinate fasciculus (UF). However, nobody had ever studied the UF in psychopaths. The team from King's used an imaging method called in vivo diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) tractography to analyse the UF in psychopaths.
They found a significant reduction in the integrity of the small particles that make up the structure of the UF of psychopaths, compared to control groups of people with the same age and IQ. Also, the degree of abnormality was significantly related to the degree of psychopathy. These results suggest that psychopaths have biological differences in the brain which may help to explain their offending behaviors.
Dr Craig added: 'This study is part of an ongoing program of research into the biological basis of criminal psychopathy. It highlights that exciting developments in brain imaging such as DT-MRI now offer neuroscientists the potential to move towards a more coherent understanding of the possible brain networks that underlie psychopathy, and potentially towards treatments for this mental disorder."
Contact: Louise Pratt, louise.a.pratt@kcl.ac.uk, King's College London
"The Sociopath Next Door"
"The Sociopath Next Door"
by Martha Stout
"Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.
Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition. In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world.
You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences will most likely remain undiscovered. How will you live your life? What will you do with your huge and secret advantage, and with the corresponding handicap of other people (conscience)? The answer will depend largely on just what your desires happen to be, because people are not all the same. Even the profoundly unscrupulous are not all the same. Some people - whether they have a conscience or not - favor the ease of inertia, while others are filled with dreams and wild ambitions. Some human beings are brilliant and talented, some are dull-witted, and most, conscience or not, are somewhere in between. There are violent people and nonviolent ones, individuals who are motivated by blood lust and those who have no such appetites. Provided you are not forcibly stopped, you can do anything at all.
Maybe you are someone who craves money and power, and though you have no vestige of conscience, you do have a magnificent IQ. You have the driving nature and the intellectual capacity to pursue tremendous wealth and influence, and you are in no way moved by the nagging voice of conscience that prevents other people from doing everything and anything they have to do to succeed. You choose business, politics, the law, banking or international development, or any of a broad array of other power professions, and you pursue your career with a cold passion that tolerates none of the usual moral or legal encumbrances. When it is expedient, you doctor the accounting and shred the evidence, you stab your employees and your clients (or your constituency) in the back, marry for money, tell lethal premeditated lies to people who trust you, attempt to ruin colleagues who are powerful or eloquent, and simply steamroll over groups who are dependent and voiceless. And all of this you do with the exquisite freedom that results from having no conscience whatsoever.
You become unimaginably, unassailably, and maybe even globally successful. Why not? With your big brain, and no conscience to rein in your schemes, you can do anything at all. If you are born at the right time, with some access to family fortune, and you have a special talent for whipping up other people's hatred and sense of deprivation, you can arrange to kill large numbers of unsuspecting people. With enough money, you can accomplish this from far away, and you can sit back safely and watch in satisfaction. Crazy and frightening - and real, in about 6 percent of the population.
The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too, even those of us who have not been clinically traumatized. The individuals who constitute this 6 percent drain our relationships, our bank accounts, our accomplishments, our self-esteem, our very peace on earth.
Yet surprisingly, many people know nothing about this disorder, or if they do, they think only in terms of violent psychopathy - murderers, serial killers, mass murderers - people who have conspicuously broken the law many times over, and who, if caught, will be imprisoned, maybe even put to death by our legal system. We are not commonly aware of, nor do we usually identify, the larger number of nonviolent sociopaths among us, people who often are not blatant lawbreakers, and against whom our formal legal system provides little defense.
Most of us would not imagine any correspondence between conceiving an ethnic genocide and, say, guiltlessly lying to one's boss about a coworker. But the psychological correspondence is not only there; it is chilling. Simple and profound, the link is the absence of the inner mechanism that beats up on us, emotionally speaking, when we make a choice we view as immoral, unethical, neglectful, or selfish. Most of us feel mildly guilty if we eat the last piece of cake in the kitchen, let alone what we would feel if we intentionally and methodically set about to hurt another person. Those who have no conscience at all are a group unto themselves, whether they be homicidal tyrants or merely ruthless social snipers.
The presence or absence of conscience is a deep human division, arguably more significant than intelligence, race, or even gender. What differentiates a sociopath who lives off the labors of others from one who occasionally robs convenience stores, or from one who is a contemporary robber baron - or what makes the difference between an ordinary bully and a sociopathic murderer - is nothing more than social status, drive, intellect, blood lust, or simple opportunity. What distinguishes all of these people from the rest of us is an utterly empty hole in the psyche, where there should be the most evolved of all humanizing functions."
Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition. In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world.
You can do anything at all, and still your strange advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences will most likely remain undiscovered. How will you live your life? What will you do with your huge and secret advantage, and with the corresponding handicap of other people (conscience)? The answer will depend largely on just what your desires happen to be, because people are not all the same. Even the profoundly unscrupulous are not all the same. Some people - whether they have a conscience or not - favor the ease of inertia, while others are filled with dreams and wild ambitions. Some human beings are brilliant and talented, some are dull-witted, and most, conscience or not, are somewhere in between. There are violent people and nonviolent ones, individuals who are motivated by blood lust and those who have no such appetites. Provided you are not forcibly stopped, you can do anything at all.
Maybe you are someone who craves money and power, and though you have no vestige of conscience, you do have a magnificent IQ. You have the driving nature and the intellectual capacity to pursue tremendous wealth and influence, and you are in no way moved by the nagging voice of conscience that prevents other people from doing everything and anything they have to do to succeed. You choose business, politics, the law, banking or international development, or any of a broad array of other power professions, and you pursue your career with a cold passion that tolerates none of the usual moral or legal encumbrances. When it is expedient, you doctor the accounting and shred the evidence, you stab your employees and your clients (or your constituency) in the back, marry for money, tell lethal premeditated lies to people who trust you, attempt to ruin colleagues who are powerful or eloquent, and simply steamroll over groups who are dependent and voiceless. And all of this you do with the exquisite freedom that results from having no conscience whatsoever.
You become unimaginably, unassailably, and maybe even globally successful. Why not? With your big brain, and no conscience to rein in your schemes, you can do anything at all. If you are born at the right time, with some access to family fortune, and you have a special talent for whipping up other people's hatred and sense of deprivation, you can arrange to kill large numbers of unsuspecting people. With enough money, you can accomplish this from far away, and you can sit back safely and watch in satisfaction. Crazy and frightening - and real, in about 6 percent of the population.
The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too, even those of us who have not been clinically traumatized. The individuals who constitute this 6 percent drain our relationships, our bank accounts, our accomplishments, our self-esteem, our very peace on earth.
Yet surprisingly, many people know nothing about this disorder, or if they do, they think only in terms of violent psychopathy - murderers, serial killers, mass murderers - people who have conspicuously broken the law many times over, and who, if caught, will be imprisoned, maybe even put to death by our legal system. We are not commonly aware of, nor do we usually identify, the larger number of nonviolent sociopaths among us, people who often are not blatant lawbreakers, and against whom our formal legal system provides little defense.
Most of us would not imagine any correspondence between conceiving an ethnic genocide and, say, guiltlessly lying to one's boss about a coworker. But the psychological correspondence is not only there; it is chilling. Simple and profound, the link is the absence of the inner mechanism that beats up on us, emotionally speaking, when we make a choice we view as immoral, unethical, neglectful, or selfish. Most of us feel mildly guilty if we eat the last piece of cake in the kitchen, let alone what we would feel if we intentionally and methodically set about to hurt another person. Those who have no conscience at all are a group unto themselves, whether they be homicidal tyrants or merely ruthless social snipers.
The presence or absence of conscience is a deep human division, arguably more significant than intelligence, race, or even gender. What differentiates a sociopath who lives off the labors of others from one who occasionally robs convenience stores, or from one who is a contemporary robber baron - or what makes the difference between an ordinary bully and a sociopathic murderer - is nothing more than social status, drive, intellect, blood lust, or simple opportunity. What distinguishes all of these people from the rest of us is an utterly empty hole in the psyche, where there should be the most evolved of all humanizing functions."
"The Very Idea..."
"In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the
alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted."
- Michael Musto
Gerald Celente and Judge Andrew Napolitano, "US Government Breaks Its Own Laws"
Gerald Celente and Judge Andrew Napolitano,
"US Government Breaks Its Own Laws"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
"Economic Freefall Continues - The Fed has Lost Control"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly, PM 12/2/21:
"Economic Freefall Continues - The Fed has Lost Control"
"The Fed does not want to admit that the Economy is about to Collapse. We are living through an economic freefall. The Fed has finally admitting that inflation and supply shortages are much worse than they originally had anticipated."
"America’s Cold Nightmare"
"America’s Cold Nightmare"
By Bill Bonner
"Winter is coming."
– "Game of Thrones"
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – "This week, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told Congress that he may “taper” a little faster than expected in order to squelch inflation. As it is, inflation is running hot. And the Fed’s enthusiasm for stopping it is, at best, tepid. As we showed last month, the Fed would have to put its key lending rate up to nearly 10% (it’s currently less than one-tenth of one percent) in order to achieve the same tightening effect as then-Fed-chair Paul Volcker got in 1980.
Powell says the Fed is planning to remove $15 billion per month from its bond-buying program… ending it completely by the middle of next year. In other words, no “tightening” is planned, just a very timid cutback on loosening. And John C. Williams, head of the New York Fed, says his august organization will now “grapple” with what to do next.
Cold Comfort: It comes as no comfort to us to know that the Fed is grappling with policy changes. Its policies have made a colossal mess of the economy and its markets. And it shows no hint of having learned anything. Here at the Diary, we have followed the Fed for more than 20 years, chronicling its clownish missteps and dumbbell mistakes.
We have not been shy about predicting where this will lead – to a disaster of corruption, runaway debt and inflation… and an eventual blow-up of the whole system. For what else can you expect when the central government spends far more than the nation can afford… the central bank papers over its deficits with newly printed money… and the elite gets richer and richer?
Future of Expensive Scarcity: “You’re way too negative,” say some dear readers. “Don’t be so cynical,” say others. Maybe they’re right.
The future always surprises us. And it will be a surprise to us all – including your editor – if things develop precisely as we foresee. Maybe we will muddle through without a real disaster, after all. But what if the surprise comes from the other direction? What if we have been too Panglossian in our outlook, lacking the imagination to see the immensity of the catastrophe awaiting us?
Our view of the future is usually nothing more than a limp extrapolation of today. But let us try to see what lies ahead in a different, more pernicious light. That is… we will walk ahead… and look back at what the policymakers have wrought, giving you a brief history of tomorrow.
Sometime… maybe two years from now… maybe 10… you go to the supermarket. You find a gallon of milk priced at $49. Bacon isn’t $10 a pound; it’s $100. And your favorite breakfast cereal? It’s not there at all. Sometimes, half the shelves are empty. “Supply chain disruptions,” they say.
Politicians blame “greedy middlemen” for “price gouging.” A House Committee promises an investigation of “market manipulation.” President Pete Buttigieg calls for another stimmy check “to help hard-pressed American families.”
Winter is coming; the cold bites.
Costly Transition: “Something is going seriously wrong,” you tell yourself. “Nature has turned against us.” But the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves. And it’s more than just $50 for a pound of beef… or a $1,000 monthly electricity bill. This mid-winter nightmare gets worse, much worse.
On your drive to the gas station, you detour to avoid a group of protestors/looters, who are burning tires in the middle of the road. You don’t want to get stopped by them. They will pull you from your car and beat you to death right in the street. And then, when you see the prices at the pumps, you may want to murder someone, too. You paid just $39 for a gallon of regular the week before. Now, it is $45. And then, there’s no gas at all.
Well, what would you expect? The world’s leading governments embarked on a “Great Transition” away from fossil fuel. At the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference in 2021, they aimed to cut the use of gas, coal, and oil in half by 2035. It would cost $150 trillion, said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen. But all the major nations were already running huge deficits. The only way they could fund the “transition” – along with their marvelous “social infrastructure” programs – was by printing money.
Cold War on Fossil Fuels: Thus did the great nations light a stick of dynamite at both ends. It was fossil fuel that made it possible to feed, clothe, and house 8 billion people. There were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet in 1900. Solar energy, sequestered in oil, gas, and coal, made it possible to quadruple the population. But take away the fossil fuel, and what would those extra 6 billion people eat? Where would they live? How would they keep warm?
And pay for this transition with fake money? Even back in 2021, the inflation rate in the U.S. was running at 6%. Wasn’t it obvious that printing more money would make it worse?
The policymakers said they would replace oil, gas, and coal, with solar, wind, and geo-thermal energy. But in 2021, “renewables” only represented, effectively, about 5% of the world’s total energy supplies – even after four decades of investment and development. And tractors didn’t run on solar power or windmills; they ran on gasoline, which had gotten scarce. And where was the mystery in that?
When governments turned off traditional energy sources… while subsidizing and bankrolling “green” energy with trillions in newly printed money… they set in motion supply-side disruptions that proved… well… fatal. Tune in tomorrow for the tragic denouement."
Gregory Mannarino, "The FED Will Continue To Buy It All, And This Is What's Next"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 12/2/21:
"The FED Will Continue To Buy It All,
And This Is What's Next"
“The Real Agenda: Leading Dr. Says Covid ‘Vaccines’ Are Intentionally Designed To Reduce World Population”
“The Real Agenda: Leading Dr. Says Covid ‘Vaccines’
Are Intentionally Designed To Reduce World Population”
by Ethan Huff
"Dr. Shankara Chetty, a South African family doctor who is credited with improving early treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), says that the goal of the mass “vaccination” program is to “control and kill off a large proportion of our population without anyone suspecting that we were poisoned.”
In a recent statement, Dr. Chetty explained that the dying process provoked by the injections was designed in such a way as to be untraceable. People will start to get sick from this or that, and the symptoms will be so wide ranging that it will be difficult to definitively peg them on the shots. “The deaths that are meant to follow the vaccinations will never be able to be pinned on the poison,” he said. “They will be too diverse, there will be too many, and they will be in too broad a timeframe for us to understand that we have been poisoned.”
Dr. Chetty claims to have successfully treated more than 7,000 Chinese Virus patients “without a single hospitalization or death.” He is also keenly aware of the government’s censorship campaign against the early treatment protocols he provides to his patients. “I think the perspective around what is happening is vitally important,” Dr. Chetty explained during a Zoom conference call. “We need to understand what the aim is. Everyone knows that there are inconsistencies, that there’s coercion, but we need to understand why. Why is it there?”
Jab spike protein is the “pathogen … causing all the death in covid illness” In Dr. Chetty’s view, there is one thing that appears to be causing all of the deaths attributed to covid, and that thing is the spike protein.
This “pathogen,” as he describes it, is either found in (Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca) or produced by (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna) the so-called “vaccines.” And it is this pathogen that will eventually kill off millions, if not billions, of people. “What looks like transpired here [is] they’ve engineered a virus and put this weapons-grade package onto it called ‘spike protein,'” Dr. Chetty further explained.
Only a small number of people experience an immediate “allergic reaction” to the “most elaborately engineered toxin,” he says, usually within the first eight days after the onset of symptoms. The injections, however, extend that allergic reaction “for a longer period.” “We begin to see the endothelial [blood vessel lining] injuries that this vaccine causes with its spike protein, with its influence on its ACE2 receptors,” Dr. Chetty warns. “Those are the deaths that are meant to follow. And they will never be pinned onto the spike protein, a very well-engineered toxin.”
“Now spike protein is also a membrane protein. So, the mRNA will distribute this throughout our body. It will be made in various tissues around our body. It will be incorporated into those membranes around our body, and those specific tissues.”
Because these spike proteins are recognized by the body as foreign invaders, the immune system overreacts in an autoimmune way – meaning it attacks itself. This is where the slow-death process begins. “Now this toxin in the long term is going to get people with pre-existing illness to have those illnesses exasperated,” he warns.
What is worse, these toxins include “bits of HIV protein,” which clearly shows that they were genetically engineered, Dr. Chetty says. People with cancer “are going to have their cancers flare up, and they will say they died of the cancer.” “People with vessel injuries or predisposition like our diabetics and [those with] hypertension are going to have strokes and heart attacks and the rest at varying times, and we’ll attribute those to their preexisting conditions,” he added. “People are going to develop, over time, autoimmune conditions, the diversity of which will never be addressed by any pharmaceutical intervention because they’re far too targeted.”
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The latest news about covid shot injuries and deaths can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
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"How They Plan to Kill BILLIONS With the Common Flu"
by Mike Adams
"Covid vaccines induce “AIDS” immune system failure, opening door to death via common flu strains. Covid vaccines are increasingly recognized as depopulation weapons being deployed against humanity. But the mechanism of how they work is only now becoming clear.
The ‘gain-of-function’ researchers who built this bioweapon, all criminals against humanity, didn’t want it to kill people too quickly because that would be noticed right away. So they needed a mechanism that would allow the spike protein injections to kill people slowly, in a way that could be blamed on something else.
Their answer was vaccine-induced, immune system suppression. It’s not really a “vaccine,” of course, and we use that term in protest. It’s actually a gene altering mRNA injection that programs human cells to produce non-human proteins which are pathogenic bioweapons that cause vascular, neurological and reproductive damage. In addition to causing severe vascular damage throughout the body - as confirmed in a recently published Circulation journal paper - these spike proteins destroy innate immune response, which is exactly why the mRNA vaccines are now failing at an accelerating rate.
From the conclusion of that science paper published in Circulation “we conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
In other words, the mRNA vaccines cause widespread vascular inflammation, leading to death via heart attacks, blood clots, strokes and so on. Governments claim vaccines work really well if you haven’t taken them yet, but the minute you take them, you’re told they don’t work, so you need a booster
This puts the governments of the world in the position of trying to convince unvaccinated people that covid vaccines work really well and should be taken by everyone… while at the same time telling vaccinated people that the injections they took don’t work and therefore they need a never-ending series of booster shots. [It’s pretty bloody obvious so why can’t the sheeple see this?]
Even the fact that booster shots are now being required every 3 months in the UK is a clear admission that booster shots stop working in about 3 months. Otherwise, why would you need new ones? The real answer behind the 3-month booster repetition is that covid vaccines obliterate the immune system and render people absolutely helpless in mounting an immune response against pathogens.
“UK data shows the vaccines are NOT saving any lives at all writes Steve Kirsch via Substack.com. “Mathew Crawford just did an analysis showing that the [official] data from the UK shows that the vaccines aren’t saving any lives at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. So we’re killing over 150K people to save no lives. Wow.” Once immunocompromised, it only takes a mild flu to kill
Importantly, the immune suppression effects apply to non-covid pathogens, too. So a person injected with the mRNA gene therapy shots will have compromised immunity against common flu strains as well. In essence, they have been turned into vaccine-induced “AIDS” patients with collapsing immunity against everything. And that makes them highly vulnerable to a deliberate release of a moderate flu strain [Omicron anyone?] that would normally kill only the frail and elderly but when released against the backdrop of vaccine-induced immune suppression, it could kill hundreds of millions of vaccinated people worldwide. Depopulation agenda achieved. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
And as the people are dying off around the world, the media will blame the unvaccinated as their final act of betrayal against humanity. They will say that more people need to take vaccines in order to stop the mass death. Anyone gullible enough to take the shots, of course, will join the dying masses into an early grave.
Why did globalists choose this route? This is because they didn’t want to “nuke” the planet with a truly vicious pathogen that would threaten their own children in the long run. They want to keep the really dangerous pathogens in the freezer while figuring out how to kill people with mild pathogens.
Only by convincing the gullible masses to line up for mRNA spike protein injections could they pull this off. And only by spreading mass hysteria via the controlled corporate media could they panic enough people into the “vaccine” injections.
Coordinated fear -> Injections -> Immune suppression -> Mild infections -> Mass death
Now you know the real depopulation agenda and how it works. The good news is that if you said NO to the vaccine, you cannot be easily killed by this scheme. Those who comply will die, but those who resist will survive."
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"Everyone Vaccinated For Covid Will DIE,
Warns French Virologist" (Excerpt)
"There is no chance of long-term survival for anyone who received a Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injection, according to leading French virologist Luc Montagnier. Everyone who is getting jabbed for the Chinese Virus will die, he reportedly stated during a recent interview, which you can watch at Brighteon.com.
“There is no hope and no possible treatment for those who have already been vaccinated,” Montagnier stated plainly during the segment. “We must be prepared to cremate the bodies.” After studying at length the ingredients contained in the injections and what they do, Montagnier came to the conclusion that every single person who gets the shot will eventually die from antibody-dependent enhancement, or ADE. “That is all that can be said,” he added."
Full article is here:
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Related, crucially important:
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
"Sometimes I Wonder..."
"Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people
who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it ."
- Laurence Peter
"Biden’s 'Big O'”
"Biden’s 'Big O'”
by Simon Black
"In 1894, a retired university professor named Paul Bachman was living out his golden years in Weimar, Germany. Recently divorced, Bachman filled his days writing books, including what would become a five volume series… about analytical number theory. It wasn’t exactly a James Bond novel; number theorists study things like prime numbers, infinity, and the fundamental properties of arithmetic.
Here’s a simple number theory example to give you a basic idea: prove that the sum of the first n integers (i.e. 1+2+3+4 . . . + n) is equal to (n2 + n)/2.
Number theory is full of seemingly elementary concepts which can turn out to be incredibly vexing… and much more complex than they initially appear. And the field has been applied widely in modern technology. Bachman’s 1894 book (which had a spectacularly long German name) introduced an important concept in analytical number theory, something that eventually became known as “Big O notation”. In simple terms, Bachman’s “Big O” is used to describe certain functions whose output is limited, even when the inputs grow to infinity.
Big O is an important concept in computer science. Coders classify the efficiency of their algorithms using Big O notation. Google, for example, pays very close attention to the Big O efficiency of their search algorithms; a more efficient algorithm means faster search results and less computing power. And there are a range of other applications as well.
Anyone who has studied math and physics knows scientists’ predilection for using Greek letters. Pi in geometry, sigma as a summation operator, etc. In 1976, a Stanford professor named Donald Knuth published a work giving Big O notation its own Greek letter. And you can probably guess which one– omicron.
This is a bit ironic given that the World Health Organization recently dubbed the newest variant of Covid-1984 as omicron. It’s like it’s March 2020 all over again; public health officials are already locking down their borders and restricting travel, and the media is swooning over every new omicron case around the world. Most importantly, governments and central banks are standing by ready to shovel massive, steaming piles of stimulus into their economies.
And this is the part that I find so ironic. Remember, in mathematics, omicron (or Big O) describes functions where the output is limited, even when the input is infinite. That’s pretty much the case with all of this stimulus. For these politicians and central bankers, their willingness to print and spend money is without limit; in other words, the stimulus ‘input’ is practically infinite. But the output is proving to be extremely limited. The more money they print, and the more stimulus they sprinkle around the economy, the less impact it has.
Economists call this diminishing returns. The idea is that every additional dollar, euro, yen, or renminbi you dump into your economy has a smaller impact than the previous one. And given the rampant inflation they’ve created, it’s pretty clear that the impact of their stimulus has become negative.
We’ve talked about this before– economies prosper when people are easily able to work hard and produce. And economies grow when more goods and services are being produced. These politicians and central bankers, on the other hand, are making it more difficult for people to work hard and produce.
Their public health regulations have already shuttered countless businesses. They’ve terrified people into not wanting to leave the house. They’ve created absurd incentives for people to stay home, to the point that many businesses who survived COVID are really struggling to find labor.
They’ve passed ridiculously anti-competitive legislation and regulations– labor policy, taxes, environmental rules, etc. They’ve ordered private businesses to fire tens of millions of people whose only transgression is exercising personal choice. So, rather than setting economic conditions for workers and businesses to be highly productive, they’re doing the opposite and making it more difficult for people to work.
They also seem to think they can paper over this problem by printing money. But this is deeply flawed thinking; dumping trillions of dollars into the economy doesn’t actually produce anything. The end result of all of this is inflation… and supply chain bottlenecks. All of their money printing has stimulated demand. But with businesses and workers not able to produce as much, there’s now more money in the system demanding fewer goods and services. At the same time, there are fewer workers– truck drivers, forklift operators, etc. available to move resources.
And public health orders around the world have compounded this problem, making it more difficult for overseas manufacturers to produce and transport goods. This is why there’s a supply chain bottleneck… and why prices are soaring– infinite input, limited output. Omicron.
But here’s what’s really crazy, if you want to think a little bit about the future: Within the next three years, an incredible 51% of the US national debt is going to mature. Given that the federal government is planning multi-trillion dollar deficits until the end of time, there’s no way they’re going to be able to repay that debt. So how will they deal with it? Simple. The Federal Reserve is going to have to print more money… trillions of dollars more. And that’s on top of the trillions of dollars they’re going to print over the next few years to pay for all of these new social programs… plus whatever omicron bailout the government comes up with.
It’s truly mind boggling how much money the Fed is going to have to print. And when we see how disastrous the effects have been thus far, coupled with anti-competitive, anti-productive regulations, there’s no telling how high inflation could soar.
Don’t worry, though, Hunter Biden’s dad is on the case. That’s why he reappointed the current head of the Federal Reserve to a new term… so the chief central banker who helped engineer the worst inflation in three decades gets to keep his job. Clearly, tackling inflation is this administration’s top priority. And that’s why he summoned the heads of big businesses to a meeting at the White House to demand that they keep prices low and have store shelves fully stocked for Christmas. Because that’s the way you solve the inflation and supply chain problems: issuing more commandments.
One Congresswoman actually sent Hunter Biden’s dad a letter urging him to appoint a Supply Chain Czar. It’s extraordinary. All these people know how to do is create a highly centralized bureaucracy. Make demands. Appoint a Czar. Give the government more power over the economy, even though everything they’re doing is a total failure. Once again, that’s omicron. Infinite input. Limited output."
"Stock Market In Big Trouble; Economy On Life Support; Insiders Dumping Stocks"
Jeremiah Babe, PM 12/1/21:
"Stock Market In Big Trouble;
Economy On Life Support; Insiders Dumping Stocks"
"Container Shortage Triggers Freight Rate Spike Of 300 Percent As Port Congestion Worsens Worldwide"
Full screen recommended.
"Container Shortage Triggers Freight Rate Spike Of
300 Percent As Port Congestion Worsens Worldwide"
by Epic Economist
"Freight rates have fallen slightly in October, making some believe that the worst of the shipping crisis was over. Unfortunately, that hopeful perception didn't last more than a couple of weeks because last week freight rates rapidly spiked to a new record high. In less than 7 days, the benchmark Baltic Dry Index, which measures the movement of the global dry bulk commodities and also shipping prices, shot up by over 16 percent due to the introduction of new restrictions on the movement of ships worldwide as a precaution to prevent the spread of the new virus strain.
The almost $9,000 increase in the Baltic Dry index signals a rapid change in shipping industry fundamentals brought on by strict measures at ports in China, rigorous surveillance imposed by the government of India, and similar measures adopted by several governments across the globe, including the European Union. The tightening vessel capacity we are currently seeing globally is adding even more pressure on soaring freight rates. According to VesselsValue in its 2021 Port Congestion Report, in November, Asia-U.S. shipping rates reached a staggering $130,000 per day, over a 400% increase compared to this time last year.
In America, as opposed to what the government has been suggesting in recent weeks, ports are still extremely clogged, especially in California. Just yesterday, the number of container ships stuck outside the port of Los Angeles has reached a new record of 111, breaking the previous record of 108 vessels a month ago. Last month, fines started to be imposed on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, with companies having to pay $100 a day for every container left on the docks. After a container arrives, companies have three days to move it if the next step is by rail, or nine days if the next step is by truck. However, industry specialists say these fees will do little to help ease the port jams.
"The issue isn't about a lack of desire to move boxes, but a lack of physical space," explained Corey Bertsch, VP Solutions Consulting at Slync.io, a global logistics company. According to data released by American Shipper, at the end of November, there were almost 60,000 containers on these ports that had been there for more than nine days and would be eligible for fines. But as Bertsch highlighted, those fines will simply be passed on to the end consumer, compounding inflationary pressures that have already been pushing the price of everything to sky-highs.
Now, even large corporations that would typically be safe from sudden inflation upswings are warning that they cannot fight with such persistent inflationary pressures. In an interview with CNBC, Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch, alerted that the industrial world is going to be dealing with higher prices and supply shortages for much longer than expected. "It is going to be way into 2022 and honestly, my belief is managing the supply chain will be something which will be with us for a long time," he said. Unilever CEO Alan Jope, also sounded the alarm, saying that the company was witnessing "once in two-decade inflationary pressure". "We are seeing commodity inflation across really every type of input cost that we have - agricultural commodities, petrochemical commodities, paper and board, transport, logistics, energy, labor -- all are moving in an upward direction," he said.
Last month, the UN warned that surging freight rates would be translated into higher prices for consumers early in 2022, with the global import price levels set to increase by 11 percent. “Global consumer prices will rise significantly in the year ahead until shipping supply chain disruptions are unblocked and port constraints and terminal inefficiencies are tackled,” Unctad said in its Review of Maritime Transport 2021 report. To make things worse, hikes in oil prices, geopolitical conflicts, the worsening health crisis, and broken supply chains "have come together to create a potentially devastating scenario for the global food system," a panel on food security heard.
“These have created a perfect storm for global food collapse”, stressed Fan Shenggen, chair of the academy of global food economics and policy at China Agricultural University. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s monthly food price index, global food prices skyrocketed nearly 33 percent last year and the latest Goldman Sachs report forecasts that food inflation will likely get worse before it gets better. We're entering some exceedingly difficult times. Sadly, the problems we're facing today are only going to be aggravated in the coming months. We're on the verge of another dark winter, and as our system persistently collapses all around us, we're going to have even more turbulence and chaos awaiting us."
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, making it about one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. Bluish clusters of young stars and dust lanes are seen to trace out NGC 1309's spiral arms as they wind around an older yellowish star population at its core.
Not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy, observations of NGC 1309's recent supernova and Cepheid variable stars contribute to the calibration of the expansion of the Universe. Still, after you get over this beautiful galaxy's grand design, check out the array of more distant background galaxies also recorded in this sharp, reprocessed, Hubble Space Telescope view.”
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