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Disturbed "The Sound Of Silence"
So, we rise from the rubble...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
"A Look to the Heavens"
"In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnalogical constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower.
In fact, clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across this gorgeous telescopic portrait. Known as a cometary globule, the swept-back cloud, is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the upper edge of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the globule's bordering reddish glow of hydrogen gas. Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark tower, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away."
Chet Raymo, “Cosmic View”
“Cosmic View”
by Chet Raymo
“When writing about Philip and Phylis Morrison’s “Powers of Ten” the other day I found I had made the following notation in the flyleaf, perhaps a dozen or more years ago:
Britannica
32 volumes
1000 pages per vol
1200 words per page
5 letters/wd
= 200 million letters. So, 200 million letters in the 32 volume set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Why was I making that estimate? I can think of several possibilities. Perhaps…
1. I was making a comparison with the number of nucleotide pairs in the human DNA; that is, the number of steps- ATTGCCCTAA, etc.- on the double-helix. If the information on the human genome- an arm’s length of DNA in every human cell- were written out in ordinary type, it would fill 15 sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Nearly 500 thick volumes of information labeled YOU. Think of that for a moment. Fifteen 32-volume sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica in every invisibly-small cell of your body. And every time a cell reproduces, all of that information has to be transcribed correctly. Did I say the other day that it took a semester to stretch the imagination to grasp the universe of the galaxies? It could take another semester to stretch the imagination to grasp the scale of the molecular machinery that makes our bodies work.
Or maybe…
2. I was trying to give an insight into the complexity of the human brain. There are something like 100 billion nerve cells in the brain. That’s equivalent to the number of letters in 500 sets of the Britannica! Each many-fingered neuron connects to hundreds of other neurons, and each synaptic connection might be in one of many levels of excitation. I’ll let you calculate the number of potential states of the human brain. We’ve left behind the realm of Britannica. Even talking of libraries would be insufficient. I was marveling here recently about the amount of digital memory Google must command to store all of those 360-degree Street View images from all over the planet, all of it instantly retrievable by anyone with access to a computer and the internet. I imagined banks and banks of electronics in some cavernous building in California. Big deal! I’m sitting here right now in the college Commons and I can bring to mind street views of every place I’ve lived since I was three or four years old.
By the way…
3. The number of letters in 500 sets of the Britannica is about the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
And…”
The Poet: Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
"Some Things Are Best Left Alone"
"Some Things Are Best Left Alone"
By Bill Bonner
YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "A great headline from yesterday’s AP: "US Troops Surge Evacuations Out of Kabul But Threats Persist." Yes, U.S. troops are launching a major “reverse assault”… surging out of Afghanistan like water down a toilet drain. But at least they tried!
In some countries, women appear on the beach – in public – with practically no clothes on. In others, such as Afghanistan under the Taliban, they cover up, head to toe. Which one is right? We don’t know. We only know which we like. And even as to that – seeing the state of some of the people we see on the beach – we have our doubts. But it is not for us to tell other people what to wear. There are some things we can change for the better. And some things that are better left alone. Today, we explore how to tell the difference.
Down the Drain: And here’s a headline story from yesterday’s Washington Post… giving us advance warning: "House passes $3.5 trillion budget plan, aims to vote on infrastructure package by late September. House Democrats on Tuesday approved a roughly $3.5 trillion budget that could enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health-care, education and tax laws, overcoming their own internal divisions to take the next step toward enacting President Biden’s broader economic agenda."
Yes, the same geniuses who gave us the 20-year debacle in Afghanistan are now working on U.S. finances. And soon, it will be the U.S. economy surging down the drain. Just as they tried to make sweeping changes south of the Hindu Kush… now, they’re aiming to make improvements south of the 49th parallel. Will they succeed? Will the U.S. be a more prosperous place after the improvers are finished with it?
Win-Win Trades Win: Yesterday, we looked at the basics. Money doesn’t make you rich. If it were so, Zimbabwe and Venezuela would be among the richest places in the world. They’ve got plenty of money… all you could want of it. But their money is worthless. The U.S. has money, too. The Federal Reserve is “printing” $120 billion in new money every month. And there’s plenty more where that came from. But wealth comes from supplying goods and services to others – not from money. As we explain in our book "Win-Win or Lose" it’s win-win trades that make people wealthy, nothing more. [Bonner-Denning Letter subscribers can download a copy of Bill’s book here. To subscribe, and receive a free electronic copy – click here.]
And how do you make sure the trades are win-win? It is very simple… People do not go into restaurants run by bad chefs. They do not buy furniture with a reputation for falling apart. They do not buy things they neither want nor need from people they don’t like or don’t trust. So the fellow who fails to provide good products and good services at a reasonable price goes out of business.
No federal program needed! Subsidizing inefficient, unproductive businesses… paying people not to work…providing bailouts to shaky corporations… tariff protection to uncompetitive industries… “investment” funds to unprofitable projects… “welfare” to people who are believed to be unable to provide for themselves… or artificially low rates to keep the zombies alive… all of it makes us poorer.
Easy-Peasy Economics: But wait… Isn’t there anything “we” can do to make a win-win economy work better? How about long-term central planning? How about price controls… maybe only for the price of credit (interest rates)? How about providing liquidity in a pinch… or rewarding/punishing different investments so as to direct capital where “we” want it to go?
According to Marxist theory, you don’t need a free economy to produce goods and services. You can do it more intelligently, more rationally, by organizing the economy according to what you’re trying to achieve.
Women and men earn different salaries? Easy, peasy… Just pay them the same thing.
Too many imports from China? No sweat… Close the border!
Too much advertising? Ban it.
High unemployment? Create jobs.
Poverty? Give a guaranteed income.
Inflation? Declare a moratorium on price increases.
Want people to drive less? Force them to tie their shoelaces together and hop to work.
See how easy it is?
Tried and Failed: The only trouble is, it doesn’t work. Marxian economics, price controls, Grand Projects, and funny money have been tried many times… over many decades. Is there one example where an economy has flourished as a result? Nope. Not a one. More to come…"
"Most People..."
"Most people find facts irritating.
Facts interfere with their systems of denial."
- Walter Darby Bannard
“A Pathologist Summary Of What These Jabs Do To The Brain And Other Organs”
“A Pathologist Summary Of What These Jabs
Do To The Brain And Other Organs”
"A scientific clarification of what these injections
do in the head and other organs of the vaccinated people."
by Dr. Ryan Cole
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Sucharit Bhakdi: COVID-19 Vaccination Is
Greatest Threat Humanity Ever Faced"
by The Herland Report
"Covid-19 vaccination is greatest threat humanity ever faced: Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, forefront virus expert in microbiology in Germany, is one of the many doctors, scientists and medical professionals who give dire warnings about the current untested vaccines that are being administered to billions in the world." "In February, 2021, Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. and a number of his colleagues warned the European Medicines Agency about the potential danger of blood clots and cerebral vein thrombosis in millions of people receiving experimental gene-based injections. In this episode of Perspectives, Professor Bhakdi explains the science behind the problem, why it is not just limited to the products already suspended, and why in the long term we may be creating dangerously overactive immune systems in billions of unwitting subjects."
Please view the full text interview here:
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Gregory Mannarino, "AM/PM 8/25/21"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 8/25/21:
"Economy Continues To Crater Which May Be Enough
For Yet ANOTHER RECORD HIGH For Stocks"
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Gregory Mannarino, PM 8/25/21:
"Economy Collapsing And Contracting Rapidly.
Inflation Is SURGING!"
"FDA Lied - Vax Not Approved, Still Experimental"
"FDA Lied - Vax Not Approved, Still Experimental"
By Greg Hunter
"The big news the FDA had given “full approval” to the Pfizer CV19 vaccine is a HUGE lie. The FDA has granted approval to some future vaccine called “Comirnaty.” (FDA approved the biologics license application (BLA) submitted by BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH for COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA). (Here’s the letter from the FDA to Pfizer) You cannot get Comirnaty now because it does not exist. Who knows when, in the future, they will manufacture it so you can get this vax. What you can get is the same old experimental Pfizer vaccine that is under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). All the FDA did was extend the EUA for the crap they were already injecting. This is the vaccine that is available for the forced mandates to civilians and military alike. It’s a total experimental vaccine, and they lied to the public and said it was “fully approved” and “safe and effective.” In a letter to Pfizer on Monday, the FDA said, “The EUA will remain in place for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the previously-authorized indication and uses...” There it is in black and white from the criminal Nuremberg Code violating liars at the FDA.
Don’t take my word for it. Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA (that is found in the so-called vaccines), says there are “two vaccines.” Today, Dr. Malone explained what the FDA did on Steve Bannon’s “War Room.” There was one approval for a future vaccine, and one extension of the Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine being used now. There is little doubt this will continue to be used for all the upcoming mandates. Is this a huge lie to trick the public into taking the experimental shot? I say yes.
Greg Hunter talks on Rumble about the huge lie that the FDA just told the public that will force them to participate in an experimental drug trial through a new round of jab mandates.
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To see the viral video of Dr. Sean Brooks at the Talawanda School Board, click here. It’s only four very educational minutes long. The MSM is calling it a “scare video.” Don’t believe the liars at the MSM who are currently lying about the Pfizer vax approval.
Finally, take 10 minutes to watch Friar Alexis Bugnolo. If he is half right, you better prepare for very rough times in the not-so-distant future."
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021
“The Good Ship “World Economy” Meets The $2.3 QUADRILLION Perfect Storm”
Full screen recommended.
“The Good Ship “World Economy” Meets
The $2.3 QUADRILLION Perfect Storm”
Any questions?
Must Watch! "Tremendous Economic Disruption; Empty Store Shelves; Party Is Over"
Jeremiah Babe, PM 8/24/21:
"Tremendous Economic Disruption;
Empty Store Shelves; Party Is Over"
"We Are Witnessing Incompetence On A Colossal Scale Throughout Our Society"
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"We Are Witnessing Incompetence On A
Colossal Scale Throughout Our Society"
by Epic Economist
"For a long time, we have become accustomed to seeing things being done improperly, so when someone actually does something in a competent manner we get truly surprised because it has become such a rare event that most of us wouldn't be expecting to see things working right. People always say "if you want something right, do it yourself," and nowadays, that is more true than ever. Unfortunately, in our broken society, the most incompetent people are in positions of power and making decisions that affect everyone's lives. They run entire organizations, states, and the whole country. It seems that the more inept and corrupt someone is, the bigger are the chances for that person to be a politician.
And the prize of "most incompetent" of them all has to go to our delirious Mr. President. Everything Biden tries to do turns into an epic failure. A major example of it is the ongoing border crisis. It is the most chaotic it has ever been in all of our History, and recent reports describe that our Border Patrol agents are completely burned out. Thanks to Biden's illogical new policies, our Border Patrol agents have their hands tied and have been forbidden to do their jobs, and as a result, many of them show up to work hopeless and exhausted. Evidently, the border crisis is just one of the many Biden has been failing to tackle. When it comes to our economy, his reckless spending has resulted in what many are calling the "Bidenflation" because in less than a year into his presidency he effectively succeeded in making everyone's purchasing power collapse irreversibly.
And if we were to criticize his response to the health crisis and the completely impulsive decisions he has been making ever since he got into office, we would definitely get censored into oblivion. At least right now his utter incompetence has been making the headlines due to the tragic crisis he provoked in Afghanistan. The offenders that we were supposed to destroy in 2001 have managed to surround and corner us in half an airport, and there are still countless people that can’t get to the evacuation planes. Several staff members that worked at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are still in extreme shock and totally disappointed in how poorly the US government handled the situation.
As opposed to British forces that have been leaving the airport and bringing back people that need to be evacuated, the U.S. government isn't taking more active evacuation measures. In fact, the Daily Mail revealed that "The White House repeatedly refused to address the August 31 deadline to get US troops out of Afghanistan on Monday, dodging questions on the subject and snapping at reporters who asked how the government planned to save the remaining Americans stuck in Kabul". At this point, our troops are still holed up at the airport, trying to evacuate tens of thousands of people while fending off an increasingly desperate crowd.
Yesterday, Biden turned his back on reporters again when the angry journalists asked for answers on what he was doing to solve the worsening crisis. The President has only given a handful of remarks on the situation, claiming he made the right decision to withdraw in every one of them and insisting his administration has "everything under control" while forgetting to share basic details of operations with the public. When will he ever be held accountable for this tragic disaster? Of course, there are many others that also should share in the blame.
If this country still had some sense of justice, and officials started to be held accountable for their performance, many of them would definitely be fired on the spot. What is even more worrying is the fact that millions upon millions of Americans have been dealing with so many hardships and with things being done in a wrongful manner that they became numb and started to accept whatever our incompetent leaders tell them to believe. They don't want to think for themselves and come to their own conclusions. And now we're in a country where the blind are leading the blind while we steamroll down a highway that doesn’t lead us anywhere good. Every major society throughout history ended up crumbling and falling apart, and now our society has started to crumble too. Although our ruin was probably inevitable, do we really have to look so shamefully incompetent in the process?"
"The 'Quiet' Month of August"
"The 'Quiet' Month of August"
by Jim Rickards
"Twenty years ago, I wrote a report called "The Myth of August". The idea was to compare what most people thought about the month of August to what actually happens in August. The myth is that August is a quiet month, everyone in the world is on vacation, no deals get done, people just enjoy the beach or mountains or other quiet recreations. This is famously true in France, but it's a French habit that Americans have copied with enthusiasm. When it comes to business and politics, the attitude is, "See you in September."
The reality is quite different. The number of world historical political events or natural catastrophes that have occurred in August could fill an encyclopedia. Let’s consider... On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein of Iraq invaded Kuwait. On August 18, 1991, there was an attempted coup d'état against Russian leader Gorbachev. On August 17, 1998, Russia defaulted on its debt and devalued its currency, which led to the collapse of LTCM and a global financial crisis.
On August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with fury, killing 1,833 and shutting down natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. The list goes on but you get the point.
One of the Worst Disasters in History: In fact, August is notorious for disasters that require all hands on deck, even if the hands are calling in from the Hamptons or Catalina. I was thinking about this in early August and asked myself, "Gee, I wonder what it will be this year?"
Now we know. The fiasco in Afghanistan is one of the worst military and diplomatic setbacks in U.S. history. It's still unfolding and we pray for the Americans and our Afghani friends stuck behind enemy Taliban lines.
But there's more at stake here than just an outpost in Afghanistan. This is a major loss of prestige for the U.S... Our allies from Israel to Taiwan will start to doubt U.S. commitments. NATO is splitting at the seams. And the mental health decline of Joe Biden, which we've been writing about since before his election, is now plain for all to see.
This will not be over soon. It's not a three-day news cycle type event. This is more like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 where the aftermath goes on for years. The results will be mostly negative for U.S. confidence, and will have adverse effects in emerging markets that depend on U.S. security guarantees. But Afghanistan is not the only front that is presenting problems...
What Happened to Energy Independence? The Biden administration swept into office last January with a pile of executive orders on a broad range of subjects. Many were directed at undoing the policies of the Trump administration as quickly as possible. Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, opened the U.S. border with Mexico, emphasized multilateralism over America First and much more. (By the way, these executive orders were not written in haste. Activists keep them "on the shelf" and can trot them out quickly when the opportunity presents. Biden's executive order spree was a rapid response to Democrat control of Washington).
Among these anti-Trump initiatives was a wish list from the Green New Deal crowd. Biden shut down the KeystoneXL pipeline from Canada, banned new oil and natural gas exploration on federal lands, imposed new regulations on the fracking industry, stopped energy exploration in Alaska and much more. He did this at a time when the U.S. had finally achieved energy independence from Middle-Eastern suppliers. Guess what happened next?
The U.S. went into energy deficit and began to import more from OPEC. Domestic prices for gas at the pump rose steeply. Right on cue, OPEC began to cut out put to raise oil prices even higher. Now, Biden is begging OPEC to increase output to lower energy prices and reduce the price of gas at the pump for Americans. Not surprisingly, OPEC is ignoring these calls and is continuing its efforts to increase energy prices.
Of course, none of this would be happening if Biden had just left the U.S. energy industry alone and allowed it to use their technology and exploration capability to continue a U.S. energy surplus consistent with environmental goals.
Referring to Biden's policies, Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) said, "The stupidity behind this couldn't be any greater." That's about right. Gas prices will remain high during the summer driving season to be followed by higher natural gas prices during the winter heating season. You can thank Joe Biden for your higher costs. Here’s more potentially bad news for Democrats...
Finally, the Durham Report: Despite all the storm and stress from 2015 to 2019 about Russian collusion, no actual collusion was ever found. What was found was official wrongdoing, lies, cover-ups, media complicity and a web of efforts to discredit Trump, even though he never did anything wrong. Strangely, there has been almost no accountability about this. There were many investigations, reports and hearings that pointed at the anti-Trump wrongdoing, but almost no one has been held to account. All of that is about to change.
U.S. Attorney John Durham has been leading a criminal investigation of the real collusion behind the fake collusion for the past two years. Most of those who have followed this closely have given up on Durham. The questions, "Where's John Durham?" or "What's John Durham doing?" have become punchlines. Still, based on reliable leaks and other sources, we may be getting close to actual indictments and a detailed report.
Durham's theory of the case is interesting. Instead of focusing on corrupt investigations by the FBI, he's focusing on the false allegations and phony tips that gave rise to the FBI investigation in the first place. This shifts the focus away from James Comey and Andrew McCabe toward less well-known but still powerful figures such as Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias, Glenn Simpson of research firm Fusion GPS and former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. While these names may not be familiar as John Brennan and James Comey, any indictments among this group will shake the Democratic power structure to its core.
How long will it be before these political developments have an impact on the market? We may soon have an answer. But it’s time to bury the myth that August is a quiet month."
Gerald Celente, "Trends Journal": "The 'Majority' Wanted War, They Were Wrong"
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Gerald Celente, "Trends Journal":
"The 'Majority' Wanted War, They Were Wrong"
"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."○
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Philip Giraldi, 8/24/21:
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Large, dusty, spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of this rich telescopic image. The field of view spans nearly 2 degrees, or about 4 times the width of the Full Moon, toward the expansive southern constellation Centaurus.
About 13 million light-years distant, NGC 4945 is almost the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. But X-ray and infrared observations reveal even more high energy emission and star formation in the core of NGC 4945. The other prominent galaxy in the field, NGC 4976, is an elliptical galaxy. Left of center, NGC 4976 is much farther away, at a distance of about 35 million light-years, and not physically associated with NGC 4945.”
- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090109.html
"The Only Animal..."
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is
struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
- William Hazlitt
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