Travelling with Russell, "I Went to Russia's Largest Market: Sadovod"

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Travelling with Russell, 10/16/23

"I Went to Russia's Largest Market: Sadovod"

"Sadovod Market in Moscow, Russia is the largest open trading market in all of Russia. With more than 9,500 individual traders spread over a 40 acre territory, and more than 91 million shoppers per year."

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Astonishing...

Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Roundtable: Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap Up"

Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 6/7/24

"INTEL Roundtable: 

Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap Up"

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Epic Economist, "15 Grocery Chains Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes"

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Epic Economist, 6/7/24

"15 Grocery Chains Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes"

"The current economic landscape is presenting unprecedented challenges for businesses across various sectors, and the grocery industry is no exception. The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic has left many companies grappling with out-of-stock products, labor shortages, and increased operational costs. These issues are exacerbated by higher competition within the industry, as well as inflationary pressures that keep the cost of groceries high for consumers.

Grocery chains, which serve as essential lifelines for communities, have been particularly vulnerable economic fluctuations in recent years. Problems down the supply chain have resulted in inconsistent product availability, causing frustration for both consumers and retailers. Labor disruptions, including shortages and increased wages, have further strained the financial health of grocery stores, leading to tighter profit margins. Additionally, the cost of supplies, transportation, and energy has risen significantly, squeezing company’s bottom lines even further.

Inflation, currently at a high level, has also played a significant role in the struggles faced by grocery chains. Rising prices for essential goods have forced consumers to watch their spending, which has caused sales to decline and resulted in lower foot traffic at stores. This, coupled with fierce competition from both traditional retailers and emerging online services, has created a perfect storm that threatens the viability of many established chains.

These issues have led to a series of negative outcomes for numerous companies in the food industry across the United States in 2024. From plummeting stock market performance and gloomy forecasts by executives to store closures and layoffs, the signs of trouble are evident. This list highlights some American grocers that have been showing signs of significant distress."

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"Nine Meals from Anarchy"

Jeremiah Babe, "A Painful Reality"

Jeremiah Babe, 6/7/24

"A Painful Reality: The RV Industry Is Dead; 

Boat Sales Collapse; Surviving The Economic Disasters"

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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Time Traveler"

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2002, "Time Traveler"

This song is from our album, "Time Traveler." This album was inspired by memories of the paths we chose to follow and of the friends that journeyed with us. Some friends now live only in our hearts, immortal. But somewhere, someday we will pick up again, right where we left off. The journey never ends. 

"A Look to the Heavens"

"If not perfect then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74's graceful spiral arms are traced by bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes. 

This sharp composite was constructed from image data recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Spanning about 30,000 light-years across the face of M74, it includes exposures recording emission from hydrogen atoms, highlighting the reddish glow of the galaxy's large star-forming regions. With a lower surface brightness than most galaxies in the Messier catalog, M74 is sometimes known as the Phantom Galaxy."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210813.html

"This Is Your Life..."

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice.

To be or not to be.

Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice.

Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume

and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

- Chuck Palahniuk

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make,

who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

~ Stephen Levine

Chet Raymo, "The Ring of Truth"

"The Ring of Truth"

by Chet Raymo

"In Salley Vickers' novel, "Where Three Roads Meet," the shade of Tiresias, the blind seer of the Oedipus myth, visits Sigmund Freud in London during the psychoanalyst's final terrible illness. In a series of conversations, Tiresias retells the story of Oedipus- he who was fated to kill his father and sleep with his mother- a story at the heart of Freud's own theory of the human psyche. At one point in the conversations, as Tiresias and Freud discuss the extent to which our lives are fated, the question of immortality arises. Freud says of Oedipus that "he made his story into an immortal one, so far as any story is." And Tiresias replies, "But, Dr. Freud, stories are all we humans have to make us immortal."

Oedipus lives on, whether he lived or not in actuality. Sophocles lives in our consciousness as vigorously as ever he did in life. They live because their stories touch something resonant and unchanging in human nature. Vickers suggests that what makes the Oedipal story immortal is not any necessary tendency of humans to act out the Oedipal myth, a la Freud, but rather Oedipus's rage to know the truth- or become conscious of a truth he has known all along and suppressed - even though the truth will be his undoing.

The poet Muriel Rukesyser got it exactly right when she said: "The universe is made of stories, not atoms." Even atoms are stories we tell about the world, having first paid close attention to how the world works. The plays of Sophocles and the other Greek dramatists live on not because their authors were immortal, but because nature endures and their stories tell us something that rings true about enduring nature. And, like Oedipus, we have a rage to know, even if knowledge will unseat some of our more comfortable illusions.

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

The Poet: Robinson Jeffers, “Be Angry at the Sun”

“Be Angry at the Sun”

“That public men publish falsehoods

Is nothing new. That America must accept

Like the historical republics corruption and empire

Has been known for years.

Be angry at the sun for setting

If these things anger you.

Watch the wheel slope and turn,

They are all bound on the wheel, these people,

Those warriors,

This republic, Europe, Asia.

Observe them gesticulating,

Observe them going down. The gang serves lies,

the passionate Man plays his part;

the cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

You are not Catullus, you know,

To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar.

You are far from Dante’s feet,

but even farther from his dirty

Political hatreds.

Let boys want pleasure, and men

Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,

And the servile to serve a Leader and dupes

to be duped.

Yours is not theirs.”

- Robinson Jeffers, 1941

The Daily "Near You?"

Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by!

"Could Be Worse..."

“I’d been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it’s sort

 of depressing, thinking how many times I’d been in them.

 But if experience had taught me anything, it was this: 

No matter how screwed up things are,

 they can get a whole lot worse.”

- Jim Butcher

"A Companion..."

"Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, that reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we live it. After all, Number One, we're only mortal."

- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

John Wilder, "Be Bold. Life Is Too Short For Anything Else"

"Be Bold. Life Is Too Short For Anything Else"

by John Wilder

"One of the problems with life in Modern Mayberry is that it often moves at a fairly slow pace. Especially in the time when an adult is focused on raising kids, the days tend to blur one into the next. If your life is good, this isn’t really a problem. When I was younger, my life was spent going to weddings. Now that I’m older, more time is spent going to funerals. It is important to not get mixed up as to which you’re at, although sometimes “My condolences,” is appropriate at a wedding and I’d almost be willing to bet $20 that at least one person will say “Congratulations!” after my funeral. However, in the event that I’m wrong, collecting on that bet might be a problem.

I can live with that. Being positive, being for things and knowing that, in the end it’s all going to work out keeps me positive. In most cases (most, not all!) the things I write about don’t make me angry, either. Again, stress on the “mostly”. And I try not to get worked up about events occurring half-a-world away that I can’t control or even much influence. Things are what they are. And, for most of us, things are generally pretty good on a day-to-day basis, even when things aren’t perfect. Even on a bad day, most parts of the day are good. The thing that gets us is built into the doomscrolling: spending time worrying about things that simply have not happened.

I write about the coming Civil War 2.0 not in hopes that it comes, rather to make people aware that it’s coming. Do I sit and worry about it daily? No! That would take away from the time I spend thinking about the Roman Empire.

In this moment, there are things that I could let bother me. However, I realize that letting them bother me gives them power over me when that’s the last thing I want. “Take not counsel of your fears,” is attributed to George S. Patton, Jr. I’m sure other people said the same thing in similar ways in the thousands of years that people have been saying things, but when Patton says it, well, it’s been said.

If I let my fears fill me up, I live a life of fear regardless of if it’s a perfect 63°F, and I have a wonderful cigar, and a great book beside me while sitting in a comfortable chair. I think fear comes to people as they age. I certainly saw Pa Wilder get more and more cautious as he aged. I could give a few examples, but it doesn’t much matter. I did notice. And when I saw the tendency to do it start to crop up in myself, at least I understood what was going on and I could choose to be cautious or choose to be bold.

I think, however, that as I get older it is precisely the time to be bolder. Life moves in a blur, and days stack up faster, so they should mean something. If I knew I had only a year? What would I do? Something to make that year worthwhile. If a month? A day?

The shorter the time left, the more that boldness matters and the less caution should. If I only had an hour of my life left, you can damn sure bet I’d do something with it, as much as I could.

But life is built on compound interest. The more I try to write, the better I get. The more I lift, the stronger I get. The time to start is now.

The actions should be bold. While my days may pass fast, the more I can do with them, the more I will do. When I pass, what will be left are the lives I’ve touched, the children that I’ve raised, the ways I’ve made the world better, and the words that I have written. Since the restraining order dictates who I can touch, and the lessons to the children are mainly done, that leaves making the world better and writing.

Even a full human lifetime isn’t enough, because they are so very short. But I’ll make do. With the remaining decades (hopefully) of my life, how big a dent can I kick in the Universe? I guess I’ll see. And I’ll smile some, every day. And enjoy that cigar, and book, and chair when I’m not being bold. “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

"Retail Bloodbath: More Than 2,600 Store Closings Have Been Announced So Far In 2024"

"Retail Bloodbath: More Than 2,600 Store Closings 

Have Been Announced So Far In 2024"

By Michael Snyder

"Retail stores are being shut down at a staggering rate all over the country. If we stay on the pace that we are on, the total number of stores closed in 2024 will be nearly 40 percent higher than the total number of stores closed in 2023. That is what you call a crisis! Meanwhile, banks are shuttering hundreds of branches from coast to coast, and a “restaurant apocalypse” is sweeping across the nation. Everywhere around us, “space available” signs are going up on buildings that were once considered to be prime commercial real estate. If someone tries to convince you that the U.S. economy is in good shape, just show them this article and ask them why so many once prosperous businesses are closing. Needless to say, they will not be able to win the argument after that.

According to the Daily Mail, nearly 2,600 store closings were announced during the first four months of 2024…"US retailers have announced the closure of almost 2,600 stores in 2024 – just four months into the year. Big names including Macy’s, Walmart, Walgreens, Foot Locker and 7-Eleven have all said they are closing shops. But discount stores like Family Dollar and bankrupt 99 Cents Only have been worst hit, as have drugstores like CVS and Rite Aid."

If the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction, why are many of the largest retail chains in the U.S. shutting down stores? That wouldn’t make any sense at all. If this pace remains constant throughout the rest of this year, we would hit a grand total of approximately 7,800 store closing announcements by the end of 2024…"If the closures were to continue at the same rate for the rest of the year they would total 7,800 in 2024 – almost 40 percent more than the total in 2023."

When the number of retail stores shutting down goes up by 40 percent in a single year, that is a sign that your economy is really “booming”, eh? Sadly, we are losing more stores with each passing day. On Thursday, we learned that a major convenience store chain in Wisconsin has decided to close down all of their locations…"Wisconsin convenience store and gas station chain The Store is being forced to close all of its 25 locations. The Store, established in 1976, will shutter its businesses at the end of July. It also has locations in Michigan."

In some cases, stores are being closed down due to rapidly slowing economic conditions. But in other cases, stores are being permanently shuttered due to the unprecedented wave of retail theft that never seems to end. Earlier this week, I was intrigued by an article that was cleverly titled “Lego thefts across Southern California leave police trying to piece together clues”…"Believe it or not, the Lego sets and figurines collecting dust in your childhood bedroom could fetch a pretty penny. So pretty, in fact, that two suspects have allegedly stolen more than $100,000 in Lego merchandise from six Bricks & Minifigs stores across Southern California."

The Lego reseller, which stocks mini figures, accessories and bricks, has more than 100 outlets across the U.S. The Riverside store was the first one burglarized, with the suspects hitting it April 3, followed by Ontario on April 12, Whittier on May 3, Irvine on May 9 and the Costa Mesa and Fullerton locations on June 1, Whittier store owner Katie Leuschner said. “Shrink” is costing U.S. retailers more than 100 billion dollars a year at this point. In this sort of an environment, it is difficult for any retailers to be profitable, and that is especially true in our major cities. 

Meanwhile, our banks are shutting down branches at a feverish rate. So far this year, more than 400 locations have been permanently closed…"US banks closed 79 branches in just six weeks – as the industry increasingly offers services online. The figures suggest the axing of costly bricks-and-mortar locations will continue, with total closures so far for 2024 above 400.

California is worst affected by the recent closures with 20 registered shutterings between April 20 and June 1." When banks get into trouble, they get really tight with their money, they fire workers, and they close branches. So expect to see a lot more branches get shuttered during the months ahead.

We are also in the midst of a “restaurant apocalypse”, and that is very bad news if you like to eat out a lot. For example, Red Lobster recently closed 93 locations earlier this year, and now we have learned that 135 more are on the brink of being canned if they continue to lose money…"Red Lobster is ready to close another batch of more than 100 restaurants if it is unable to renegotiate cheaper rent with its landlords.

The seafood chain abruptly closed 93 of its 700-odd restaurants on May 13 – and the next week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the hope it can restructure its debts. New court documents reveal that there are another 135 restaurants that bosses say will keep losing money if leases stay as they are, Restaurant Business reported. The option is for the company to pay less rent or shut them." If I owned a restaurant chain, a bank, or a major retailer, I would be trimming locations too.

Economic conditions are horrible, theft is absolutely rampant, and the violence in our streets is rapidly approaching levels only seen in the most dangerous areas of the planet. Earlier this week, Collin Rugg posted an account of a particularly alarming incident that just happened in Chicago…"A woman identified as ‘Nina’ says she was walking down the street when she got surrounded by teens who assaulted her. Her crime? Walking down the wrong street.

“We own the street, we own the street. You can’t just walk around prancing in your little dress,” the gang of about 10 said. They then held her husband back as they beat her, ripped out her hair, pepper sprayed her face and kicked her in the stomach. “First someone approached him and hit his head, punched him in the head, and he looked back and he looked at me and told me ‘run’. Another lady came to me and dragged me with my hair on the ground.” I started screaming she started pepper-spraying me right in the face, in the eyes.” Another person starts stomping all over me, and my husband ran towards me to save me and over 10 people held him.” She lost her baby hours later.

For a long time, I have been warning that “chaos” would be coming to the streets of America.

Now it is here. And it is getting worse every single day. Unfortunately, most Americans still don’t understand the fundamental transformation that is happening to our society and they still believe that our leaders will be able to return things to “normal” eventually."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

"10 U.S. States on The Brink Of Societal Collapse"

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Wolf News, 6/7/24

"10 U.S. States on The Brink Of Societal Collapse"

"Today, we're diving into a critical issue: the top 10 most dangerous states in the U.S. for 2024! Do you live in one of these perilous places? With crime rates skyrocketing, it's essential to know if your home state is a haven or a hazard. We've analyzed the latest FBI data to uncover the cold, hard facts about where the highest crime rates are lurking. From Oklahoma to Alaska, these states are grappling with alarming levels of violent and property crimes. Are you safe? Is your family at risk? The numbers are shocking, and the consequences are dire."

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Dan, I Allegedly, "Stores and Restaurants are Falling Fast"

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Dan, I Allegedly AM 6/7/24

"Stores and Restaurants are Falling Fast"

"We are hearing everything is having a problem. From big box retailers to the dollar stores. They are in trouble. Now a restaurant chain just filed bankruptcy. Today, we're diving deep into the alarming trend of stores closing everywhere amid the ongoing economic meltdown. From Best Buy to Rubios, major retailers and restaurants are shutting their doors, signaling a troubling shift."

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Bill Bonner, "Paper, Metal, and Memes"

"Paper, Metal, and Memes"

US GDP in 1971 was barely over $1 trillion. Total debt was only 

about $1.5 trillion. Today, GDP is near $28 trillion, but much 

of the spending is ‘on credit' with total debt approaching $100 trillion.

by Bill Bonner

“Never allow the demands of tomorrow to 

interfere with the pleasure and excitement of today.”

- "The Music Man"

Dublin, Ireland - "Suppose an entrepreneur (or counterfeiter!) sets up a bank in a small town in the Midwest. He lends everyone a lot of money on irresistible terms. Suddenly, the town comes alive... cars roll off the lots... barroom tips go up... furniture showrooms are cleaned out. And, of course, prices rise. Everyone feels richer. The local GDP rises. The town gets written up in Barron’s. The Wall Street Journal says it is a sign of a ‘middle-American revival.’ The mayor considers running for governor.

Trouble begins as fun. But then, the wave of prosperity soon washes over the town... and drains away. The cash is gone. Loans have to be repaid. Sales go down. Cars and furniture are repossessed. What happened to the boom? What became of that new wealth? It was fictitious. Unreal. Transitory. Ephemeral... a chimera... a mirage... a vain and foolish fantasy.

How could that be? The BMWs and sectionals were real, tangible things. The boom was genuine. But the spark was credit, not savings. Savings can be spent and enjoyed. End of story. But credit comes with ‘the demands of tomorrow’ attached. Successfully invested, it might have created new wealth. But merely consumed... there was no new income to pay off the debt. People just spent money they didn’t have…and got poorer.

    

In round numbers, US GDP in 1971 was barely over $1 trillion. Total debt back then was only about $1.5 trillion. Today, GDP is around $28 trillion, but much of the spending is ‘on credit’... with total debt approaching $100 trillion. Assuming the ratio of debt/GDP had stayed the same, we’d only have about $40 trillion of debt, not $100 trillion. That extra $60 trillion represents ‘the demands of tomorrow’ that aren’t likely to be met. It was credit flushed into the system... but with no corresponding increase in real wealth.

Much of the ‘wealth’ of the US economy is likewise only half of an incomplete transaction. It is the fun part of the credit cycle. Debt increases on one side of the ledger. “Wealth” on the other. And then, when the credit cycle completes its swing, both disappear. Debts are paid, written off, or inflated away. Assets are marked down.

Today, America’s publicly-traded businesses are said to be worth $50 trillion. How much of that is real? Take Nvidia. Business Reporter: "Nvidia’s stock rallied to record highs on Wednesday, with the artificial intelligence chipmaker’s valuation breaching the $3 trillion mark and overtaking Apple to become the world’s second most valuable company."

Nvidia is a real company. With real products. And real profits. But does it really represent $3 trillion of wealth? Unlikely. As we saw last week, at the present dividend payout rate, it will take more than 2,000 years for investors to get their money back. Of course, that doesn’t mean that investors won’t pay even more for the stock after it splits today. But are they really calculating the present value of Nvidia’s future earnings? Or just gambling on a higher price with cheap credit-money?

Last week, we reported that many US companies were ‘zombies,’ unable to pay even the interest on their debt. On the stock market they may be worth billions of dollars. But what is the real value of a company that can only stay in business by borrowing more and more money? Shouldn’t the ledger list them as liabilities rather than assets? And how about ‘meme’ stocks?

GameStop sells computer games from retail, brick-and-mortar stores. And like Blockbuster video rentals, its business largely disappeared when the games became available online. But GameStop didn’t go gently into that good night. In January 2021, as the pros sold it short, the gamers bought. This forced the shorts to cover and spiked the price from $1 to $100. A simple question: What kind of wealth was that... the $99 increase caused by meme stock traders?

Then, just a couple weeks ago, the image of a man leaning forward in his chair, posted by Roaring Kitty (aka Keith Gill) appeared on X. This was thought to be a signal to the cognoscenti, causing another big up-tick in trading. The press reported that Gill himself was buying. Matt Levine (at Bloomberg) was on the story: "He paid about $174.5 million for the position. This morning, GameStop’s stock got as high as $40.50, and those calls got as high as $21.10. At those prices, Gill had a paper gain of about $281 million."  A ‘paper gain?’ What kind of wealth is that? We don’t know. But if we had it, we’d convert it to a non-paper gain, pronto. Stay tuned."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

Jim Kunstler, "Time to Jettison the Animals"

"Time to Jettison the Animals"

by Jim Kunstler

“The old left had intellectual commitments that were false in interesting and theoretically stimulating ways. The new left demands adherence to lurid absurdities so preposterous that merely entertaining them induces nauseating neurological disorders.”

 -  Xenocosmography on “X”

"The most astounding part of America’s “Joe Biden” three-plus-years thrill ride is that the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes was able to pretend until just a few days ago that this political phantasm could run for re-election. Now, regime insiders are forced to confess that they can’t hide it anymore. They spilled the beans as “unnamed sources” this week in a huge Wall Street Journal article. The president is going necrotic in full view of the whole world. His mind is gone. He looks ridiculous when he shuffles in front of the cameras. He utters obvious absurdities and lies. His wife has to lead him around like a dog on a leash. Everyone can see it. He’s got to go. ASAP.

The embarrassing ineptitude has been on view since the 2020 campaign, yet his handlers managed to flimflam half the country ever since, thanks to a news media captured by intel blob gaslighters and to half the country’s susceptibility to mass formation psychosis - fear driven thought disorder - that gave cover to treasonous actors seeking to save their asses even if they had to wreck the USA doing it. Who were these actors? The Clintons and the coterie around them, steeped in financial crime and sex trafficking; the Obama coterie of anti-white racists and bungling Marxists; the batshit-crazy Woke race-and-gender hustlers working to derange the merit-based social order (and get paid for doing it); the congressional grifters living off Pharma and Pentagon loot; the agency top bureaucrats who became a corrupt praetorian guard for all the above players, now desperate to evade accountability.

Everything they’ve done since 2020 has been in the service of covering up their crimes, and each hoax has just compounded the damage done to our country. The Covid-19 prank was pulled to enable mail-in ballot fraud so as to assure a permanent government-by-blob, of which the Democratic Party is now a mere tentacle. We don’t know yet whether the mRNA vaccine module of the prank was a deliberate effort to kill a lot of people or a grievous blunder by greedy drug-makers, or some wicked combo - with assistance from the WEF or China.

They can’t afford to lose their grip on the levers of power 2024 election - lose control of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the so-called “national security” apparatus, especially. The open border is just an effort to illegally import and enlist a vast wad of potential new voters to ensure an election victory. More than twenty states have “motor-voter laws” that automatically register anybody with a driver’s license. And these enrollees don’t even have to cast their ballot. Their names can just be “harvested” systematically, attached to voting documents, and bundled to be submitted for them. Millions have entered the country illegally since 2021 at “Joe Biden’s” direct invitation. There’s nothing hidden about this - but all you see is the learned helplessness of actual US citizens unable to stop it.

And yet, even that prank may not work to keep the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes in power. Designated candidate “Joe Biden” is obviously so far gone that even actual citizen voters under the mass formation spell can’t be counted on anymore. His poll numbers look abysmal. He’s scheduled to debate his opponent, the outlaw Donald Trump, on June 27. If his handlers allow that to actually happen, it will be like the unmasking scene in The Phantom of the Opera: brain-ringing horror, from sea to shining sea! Of course, an insult to the zeitgeist that severe will force the party leaders into some ‘splainin’, and I personally doubt they will be able to ‘splain their way out of it. Did all of you Democrats not notice?

The putative replacements for him - Newsom, Hillary, Pritzker, Whitmer, Harris - are political creatures at least as loathsome to voters as “JB” has become. And the obvious pitfall for Michelle O is that her husband looks like a wannabe American Caesar seeking a fourth term. What else have they got? Nothin’. Some utterly unknown governor they can primp up in a few months? Fugeddabowdit. They’ll have to run one of the loathsomes, take the “L,” and hope for the best, perhaps make a get out of jail “deal” with dealmaker supreme Mr. Trump.

Or, they could attempt another mighty prank: kill him. You can imagine they’ll try it, having exhausted all other gambits. If they succeed, and it doesn’t provoke an instant civil war, Mr. Trump’s faction has a pretty deep “bench” of capable figures who can step in and run against the Party of Chaos, Hoaxes, and now Murder. If the assassins botch the job, I wouldn’t want to be them on that dreadful day.

The bottom-line for now: “Joe Biden” is about to wave bye-bye. They’ve already put the question to him. He’s resisting. The one coherent thought in his failing mind is that he has pardon power as long as he is president. It’s not so much Hunter and that silly-ass gun case in Wilmington, which he’ll surely wriggle out of. It’s more about the brothers Jim and Frank and all the spouses and offspring who received wire transfers of Chinese money, Ukraine money, Russian money, Kazak money, Romanian money...

If necessary, the party and its blob masters could bite the bullet and run the 25th Amendment on the old fraud, git’er done fast, down-and-dirty, virtually overnight any night now. More likely, they’ll “leak” some document from the blob vaults that incontrovertibly incriminates the president on one of the already well-trodden bribery angles. That is, they’ll pretend to discover that not only is “Joe Biden” hopelessly senile, but, turns out, he’s been crooked all along! What a shock! We never suspected ‘til now! Such a seemingly well-intentioned, kindly, patriotic old man! Stand by. It’s going to be a helluva month."

- https://kunstler.com/

The full name of Kunstler's website is SO accurate!

"Israel Has Lost - And This Proves It"

Owen Jones, 6/6/24

"Israel Has Lost - And This Proves It"

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The Young Turks, 6/6/24

"Israel Bombs U.N. School, Children Among Dozens Killed"

"Reports say Israel used a U.S.-made munition to strike a U.N. school in Gaza. 

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks."

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CNN-News18, 6/6/24

"Israeli Gaza U.N. School Strike, Children Among Dozens Killed"

Reports say Israel used a U.S.-made munition to strike a U.N. school in Gaza.

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After the Israeli Occupation Force is obliterated and 30,000 missiles have fallen on Tel Aviv let the Nuremberg style genocide war crimes trials begin, with the same penalty for these psychopathically degenerate monsters as the Nazis received...

Hell is not hot enough, and eternity is not long enough...

Inshallah! So be it...

Greg Hunter, "CV19 Vax is Death by Government"

"CV19 Vax is Death by Government"

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Dr. Sherri Tenpenny was one of the first doctors to sound the alarm on the massive deaths and disabilities that would come from the CV19 “vaccine.” She was right, but that did not stop the Ohio Medical Board from suspending her license. Dr. Tenpenny recently had her medical license restored, and she did not have to make a single retraction about warnings she gave about the CV19 bioweapon vax. Now, Dr. Tenpenny is sounding the alarm again and telling people NOT to take the new experimental “Bird Flu” vax. Dr. Tenpenny says to expect more deaths and injuries from this medical malpractice, too.

 

 Dr. Tenpenny explains, “This is democide. Democide is death by government. I hope people remember that and will not be fooled by the next round of scare tactics that they are starting to ramp up about the Bird Flu. They tried this with the Marburg virus. They tried it with Ebola. They tried it with Monkey Pox. Now, they are trying it with Bird Flu. Back in 2005, I actually wrote a book called ‘Foul Bird Flu: It’s Not What You Think.’ I am going to be updating it and re-releasing it in a couple of weeks. It was an historical book, and I was writing it in real time back in 2005. What they are doing now is the same thing except the difference is they are coming after our food supply. They are going to be culling millions of chickens. If one cow on an entire ranch tests positive for H5N1, they are talking about killing off the entire ranch. Instead of isolating that particular cow and seeing if they can get sick, no, they are just going to kill them all. So, they are in the process of decimating our food supply. I think this is a really important fact for people to know about and get prepared.”

Dr. Tenpenny goes on to point out, “They can release it under an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization), and I believe the FDA has found a loophole in the law to where they can release anything coming in the future as an Emergency Use Authorization. So, they are not liable. You can’t sue them. They don’t have to put up a package insert. There were three rules that they violated when they released the Covid shot, and they are just out to get us all vaccinated. They just want to get every single person with as much foreign matter into our bodies as they possibly can.”

There are about 700 million CV19 vax injections that have been given in the US alone. Dr. Tenpenny says these injections cause a variety of problems such as sudden death, dramatically reduced immune system, heart problems, blood clots, autoimmune disease and unusually fast spreading cancers called “Turbo Cancer.” Dr. Tenpenny says, “Even it you have had just one Covid shot, you have increased you risk of sudden death and developing cancer. The more shots you have, the more your risk is. Turbo Cancer’ is a brand-new terminology in medicine. I have been a doctor for a long time, and that is a brand-new word they developed after the Covid shots. These people may have been in complete remission, and their cancers came back in a highly aggressive way, or they got new cancers that from the time they were diagnosed until the time they died were months, weeks or sometime even days. So, they didn’t even have time to start getting current known cancer treatments.” In closing, Dr. Tenpenny advises NOT to get the Bird Flu shot and no more CV19 boosters. There is much more in the 59-minute interview."

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, one of the first medical doctors to tell everyone NOT to take CV19 bioweapon injection. Dr. Tenpenny is now warning NOT to take the Bird Flu vax.

- https://rumble.com/

Canadian Prepper, "Alert! Russian Nuke Sub In Cuba! Germany Mass Nuclear War Prep"

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Canadian Prepper, 6/6/24

"Alert! Russian Nuke Sub In Cuba! Germany Mass 

Nuclear War Prep, Bunkers, Stockpiling, Conscription"

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Free Download: Isaac Asimov, "The Wellsprings Of Life"

"Isaac Asimov On Upgrading Our 

Realities And The Risk Of Ignorance"

By Postanly Weekly

Excerpt: "When you think about the meaning of life, you probably don’t think about Isaac Asimov. But this famous scientist had a lot to say about life and its meaning. In a book proposal for "The Meaning of Life" edited by Hugh S. Moorhead, 1989, Asimov said, “If all of life were suddenly to disappear from earth and anywhere else it may exist, or if none had ever formed in the first place, I think the Universe would continue to exist without perceptible change. However, it is always possible for an individual to invest his own life with meaning that he can find significant. He can so order his life that he may find as much beauty and wisdom in it as he can, and spread as much of that to others as possible.”

Asimov’s views were shaped by his experiences growing up in Soviet Russia, which was a time of famine, terror, and extreme anti-religious sentiment. Perhaps best known as a science fiction author, Isaac Asimov was also an essayist, biographer, and professor of biochemistry. With more than 400 million copies of his books in circulation, he is one of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. In addition to writing about why we must make love, not war, and how nothing will end war but education, Asimov wrote about life’s meaning in several different essays.

Asimov is best known for his "Robot" Series and "The Foundation Trilogy." These works helped to shape the way we see artificial intelligence today, with many of them continuing to be influential even 30 years after they were published.

Collective wisdom is not the whole truth: Isaac Asimov thought, “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” He couldn’t be more right. Science, the study of how things work, has made incredible progress over the last few centuries. The rate at which new discoveries are being made today is staggering.

There’s no question that science is a powerful tool for understanding the world around us. However, as science gathers knowledge at an ever-increasing rate, it’s becoming clear that society is not keeping pace. It takes time for society to absorb scientific knowledge and incorporate it into its collective wisdom. We are slow to upgrade our assumptions and perceptions. We hardly change our subjective beliefs about life and living.

When you think about it, there is no reason for things to be the way they are. Science gathers knowledge at an ever-increasing rate, yet we seem to be no closer to solving major world problems than we were 50 years ago. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why this is the case: humanity’s collective wisdom has not kept pace with scientific discoveries. This seems like a problem that should be easy to solve. After all, if knowledge were to become more widely distributed, society would grow wiser.

One way to overcome Asimov’s concern is by challenging our assumptions and thinking critically about what we know and don’t know. Through this process, we can develop a deeper understanding of how things work and make more informed decisions about our future."

Full article is here:

- https://postanly.substack.com/

Freely download "The Wellsprings Of Life", by Isaac Asimov, here:

- https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/

Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, "Your Wildest Dreams"

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The Moody Blues, "Your Wildest Dreams"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 5643? A swirling disk of stars and gas, NGC 5643's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and brown dust, as shown in the featured image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The core of this active galaxy glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found.

An unusual central glow makes NGC 5643 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole. NGC 5643, is a relatively close 55 million light years away, spans about 100 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Wolf (Lupus)."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201005.html

"We Were Made For These Times"

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn’t you say you were a believer? Didn’t you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn’t you ask for grace? Don’t you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.

Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.”

- https://www.davidpaulkirkpatrick.com/

The Poet: William Stafford, "The Gift"

"The Gift"

"Time wants to show you a different country. It's the one

that your life conceals, the one waiting outside

when curtains are drawn, the one Grandmother hinted at

in her crochet design, the one almost found

over at the edge of the music, after the sermon.

It's the way life is, and you have it, a few years given.

You get killed now and then, violated

in various ways. (And sometimes it's turn about.)

You get tired of that. Long-suffering, you wait

and pray, and maybe good things come - maybe

the hurt slackens and you hardly feel it any more.

You have a breath without pain. It is called happiness.

It's a balance, the taking and passing along,

the composting of where you've been and how people

and weather treated you. It's a country where

you already are, bringing where you have been.

Time offers this gift in its millions of ways,

turning the world, moving the air, calling,

every morning, "Here, take it, it's yours."

- William Stafford 

"Moscow Metro: The World's Most Beautiful Underground System!"

Full screen recommended.

Englishman In Russia

"Moscow Metro: 

The World's Most Beautiful Underground System!"

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Absolutely incredible...

Adventures with Danno, "Food Recalls Everywhere, This Is Unreal!"

Adventures with Danno, PM 6/6/24

"Food Recalls Everywhere, This Is Unreal!"

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The Daily "Near You?"

Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

Jeremiah Babe, "Buyers Can No Longer Afford Overpriced Trucks And Cars, Car Market Crash"

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Jeremiah Babe, 6/6/24

"Buyers Can No Longer Afford Overpriced 

Trucks And Cars, Car Market Crash"

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"That's Where It All Begins..."

"That's where it all begins. That's where we all get screwed big time as we grow up. They tell us to think, but they don't really mean it. They only want us to think within the boundaries they define. The moment you start thinking for yourself - really thinking - so many things stop making any sense. And if you keep thinking, the whole world just falls apart. Nothing makes sense anymore. All rules, traditions, expectations - they all start looking so fake, so made up. You want to just get rid of all this stuff and make things right. But the moment you say it, they tell you to shut up and be respectful. And eventually you understand that nobody wants you to really think for yourself.”

- Ray N. Kuili, “Awakening"

"A New Type Of Dementia Plagues America"

"A New Type Of Dementia Plagues America"

by John Mac Ghlionn

"In the United States, it's estimated that at least 7 million people over the age of 65 have dementia. If current trends continue, by the end of the decade, more than 9 million Americans are expected to suffer from this loss of cognitive functioning - that's equivalent to the population of New York City.

Memory impairment isn't just affecting the elderly. By 2050, the number of U.S. adults over the age of 40 living with dementia is expected to more than double, from 5.2 million to 10.5 million. To compound matters, there’s a new type of dementia plaguing Americans, one that’s affecting people much younger than 40. It’s called digital dementia, and millions of unsuspecting, young Americans are at risk.

A major health epidemic, digital dementia occurs when one part of the brain is overstimulated and another part of the brain is understimulated. When we mindlessly use digital devices, the frontal lobe, which is responsible for higher-level executive functions, gets little, if any, use. Meanwhile, the occipital lobe, the visual processor located at the back of the brain, gets bombarded with sensory input. Slouched over and spaced out, people, both young and old, are abusing their brains, day in and day out. Preteens and teens are particularly at risk for two reasons:An American 8 to 12-year-old spends an average of 4.7 hours a day scrolling their lives away. That’s around 70 days in a given year. The prefrontal cortex (PFC), the brain region responsible for planning and decision-making, doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25.

Digital dementia impedes both short-term and long-term memory. Moreover, as research shows, excessive screen time during brain development increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, in adulthood. Not surprisingly, excessive screen time is intimately associated with digital addiction. This, in turn, fuels digital dementia, which results in the shrinking of the brain’s gray matter. White matter facilitates communication between gray matter areas. But without gray matter, which plays a critical role in emotions, memories, and movements, there’s really nothing to communicate. White matter helps the traffic get from A to B. Grey matter, on the other hand, is the traffic.

It gets worse. As Gurwinder Bhogal, an excellent British-Indian writer, recently noted, not only is “gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals” a growing problem, the Western average IQ is declining - rapidly, he added.

This has been the case for decades. The decline of brain power has been particularly notable in America. Lead exposure, and, more recently, the effects of draconian lockdowns, have had deleterious effects on Americans’ IQs. As technology continues to rise, IQ continues to decline. Is there an association? The answer appears to be yes.

What we're witnessing is the Flynn effect in reverse. Named after James R. Flynn, the renowned intelligence researcher who passed away in 2020, the Flynn effect refers to a steady upward shift in IQ test scores across generations. In recent times, however, that steady upward shift has transformed into a spiraling nosedive. This isn't surprising. In fact, as our lives become more intertwined with technology, and as we outsource more of our thinking and doing to search engines and ChatGPT-like systems, we should expect this nosedive to increase in velocity.

As Mr. Bhogal noted, common sense suggests that the decline in IQ is “at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state.” “If you don’t use it," he added, “you lose it.” Indeed. By "it," of course, he means your brain. But brain function isn't the only thing being lost.

The rise of digital dementia, digital addiction, and lower IQ scores is a reflection of a much broader problem. The United States isn’t just struggling with demographic decline; it’s also wrestling with the unholy trinity of spiritual, psychological, and intellectual decline. The country is becoming fatter, sicker, older, and dumber. The movie "Idiocracy" wasn’t a parody; it was a prophecy.

As intelligence levels continue to plummet and test scores continue to fall in the likes of math and reading, the United States risks becoming a society of brainless, aimless individuals, a nation consisting of millions of obese zombies. Contrary to popular belief, societal collapse doesn’t occur overnight; it occurs in increments, a death by a thousand cuts. The biggest threat to the United States isn't necessarily external; it's posed by the numerous digital devices in our hands and homes. Technology has consumed both our minds and our souls; are we going to get either of them back?"

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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"We're so freakin' doomed!"

- The Mogambo Guru