Deuter, "Atmospheres"
So, we rise from the rubble...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
"A Look to the Heavens"
"The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright emission nebula.
Like clouds in Earth's atmosphere, this cosmic cloud has assumed a recognizable shape by chance. After many thousands of years, the internal motions of the cloud will surely alter its appearance. The emission nebula's orange color is caused by electrons recombining with protons to form hydrogen atoms. Toward the lower left of the image is the Flame Nebula, an orange-tinged nebula that also contains intricate filaments of dark dust. Two prominent reflection nebulas are visible: round IC 432 on the far left, and blue NGC 2023 just to the lower left of the Horsehead nebula. Each glows primarily by reflecting the light of their central star.
"A Cherokee Proverb"
"An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
"A Cherokee Proverb"
The Poet: Mary Oliver, “The Journey”
“The Journey”
“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do -
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
- Mary Oliver
"Revenge of the Real World"
"Revenge of the Real World"
by Charles Hugh Smith
"Rather than stare at empty shelves, you have two options for distraction: you can don a virtual-reality headset and cavort with dolphins in the metaverse, or you can trade various forms of phantom wealth that always go up (happy happy!) because the Fed. Neither distraction actually solves any real-world problems, a reality we can call the Revenge of the Real World We've entered a peculiar phase in American history in which illusions of wealth and control are the favored distractions from the unraveling of the real world economy and social order.
Printing trillions of currency units can't restore the global supply chain or social cohesion, Rather, jacking phantom wealth to the moon is only accelerating the collapse of the social order and the economy even as it accomplishes absolutely nothing in terms of solving real-world problems. Let's start with the core economic realities of the 21st century:
1. The number of high-consumption ("middle class") people doubled from 1 billion to 2 billion. The human populace has expanded to 7.9 billion individuals, but poor people who don't have enough money to consume large quantities of energy, goods and services delivered by the global supply chain don't have much of an impact on global consumption of energy and resources. It's the number of people jetting around the world playing their part in the landfill economy (toss the old one, buy a new one) who drive "growth" (i.e. waste is growth).
Strangely enough, there are actual physical limits to resources being transformed into junk being dumped in the landfills. Humanity's rapacious appetite for stuff has extracted all the cheap-to-extract resources and now all that's left are the increasingly expensive-to-extract resources.
2. Corporate America offshored most of the production of essentials to exploit the low labor and energy costs, minimal environmental standards and currency arbitrage of overseas production. The net result has been an astounding increase in corporate profits.(see chart) But a funny thing happened on the way to Corporate Profit Nirvana: America became dependent on foreign supply chains. In essence we traded national security for corporate profits. Now the real-world costs of that myopic greed are becoming apparent.
3. Global supply chains have been optimized for cheap energy and cheap credit. This optimization stripped away all the buffers as a means of maximizing profits. Once the system veered outside the narrow band of optimization, the entire system lost coherence and unraveled.
Now that the entire global supply chain has been optimized to maximize profits as the expense of buffers, the buffers are too thin to save the system from collapse. (see chart) The entire dependency chain depends on cheap energy (all those cheap seats on wide-body aircraft were subsidizing the air cargo beneath the passengers' feet) and cheap credit, as consumers can't buy enough with earnings to keep the machine well-oiled. And firms in the dependency chain need ample cheap credit to function, as many have receivables that stretch out over 90 days. Without cheap credit, these firms would have to close down.
The status quo response would be amusing if the consequences weren't so dire: we don't need no stinking buffers! The supply chain for the landfill economy will be back up to full speed any day now, or maybe next year, but don't you worry, the conveyor belt from China to big-box store to the landfill will be fully restored.
In the meantime, cavort with dolphins in the metaverse and trade tokens of phantom wealth to amuse yourself. We're counting on magic to put it all right, and if that doesn't work, then the real world's revenge will be something to behold."
"Broken Chains"
"Broken Chains"
by Bill Bonner
"No sugar tonight in my coffee,
No sugar tonight in my tea..."
– "No Sugar Tonight," by The Guess Who
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – "Yes, Dear Reader, as if rising sea levels and falling vaccine protection weren’t enough, here’s something else to worry about… Supply Chain Disruptions. SCD. Time Magazine: "Biden Announces New Steps to Address Supply-Chain Disruption. Don’t wait! What holiday items you should buy now because of supply chain issues
CNBC: "Chinese EV maker Nio sees drop in October deliveries due to manufacturing and supply chain disruptions. Is your favorite cereal missing from the shelf? SCD. Is your dealer unable to get the model of car you want? SCD. Is the price of a gallon of milk now at $6.99? SCD."
Until this year, we had never heard of SCD. For more than 2,000 years, SCDs were scarcely mentioned. And now, it’s on every pair of lips. Ships are backing up at Long Beach, California… as the Chinese valiantly try to overcome SCD by stuffing the supply channel to the U.S. And the whole nation sits on the edge of its seat, wondering if SCD will ruin Thanksgiving… Christmas… and the American Way of Life…
Why Now? But why, after so many years with no SCD… is the world suddenly full of it? How come? Can you guess whose fault it is? Moral philosopher Adam Smith illustrated the complexity of the division of labor in 18th century England by describing a pin factory: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on, is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands."
More than 200 years later, the world economy is far more complicated. One group mines and refines the silicon. Another group – which includes chemists, engineers, metallurgists, machinists, mathematicians, electricians, cleaners, security officers, and God-knows-who-else – transforms it into “chips.” These are then shipped across the widest ocean in the world, to be used in thousands of different “applications”…where they are plugged into everything from toaster ovens to air pressure sensors…assembled by other teams, drawing on specialists, scientists, and assembly line workers from all over the world…using parts that come from Europe, Asia, North and South America…and made from almost all the 118 elements in the periodic table, put together into millions of different parts and pieces…for millions of other finished products.
Whew!
Accurate Measures: As the complexity grows, so does the need for accurate, honest measures. It doesn’t really matter if they are high or low… but they must be true. Down to microns, microradians, and Planck lengths… one group has to shape its components to the precise size that will fit in another group’s templates. And it must know precisely how much it can afford to spend to make it… and when, precisely, and where, precisely, it is meant to be delivered. A tiny part… off by a fraction of an inch… with the wrong specifications… delivered to the wrong town… on the wrong day… at the wrong cost – what a disaster!
Just in Time: One of the innovations that made the modern economy possible was money. You didn’t have to know the fellow you were buying from… or even speak his language. You just had to know what he delivered… and at what price. A more recent innovation was “just in time” inventory systems. Rather than keeping things on hand, it was cheaper to have them delivered when they were needed. This made the process cheaper and more fluid… but also more fragile. It was amazing that it worked so well. But, in general, people could trust each other to make the components to their specifications… and deliver them on time.
Fed Meddling: And then came the feds. First, they fudged the money. It has already lost 98% of its value over the last 100 years… And inflation is picking up. As the dollar weakens, it’s harder and harder to make long-term projections. Then, they queered the interest rate. World commerce operates on credits and debits, to be satisfied later. But you don’t know what either is worth unless you have an accurate interest rate. At negative real rates (adjusted for inflation)… which we’ve had for almost all of the last 12 years… any calculation is just a fruit salad of guesswork.
And then there were the feds’ tariffs, trade restrictions, and sanctions… further complicating the situation. These were followed by lockdowns, shutdowns, border closings, mask mandates, and social distancing. Factories closed. Workers stayed home. And then… Without the nail, the horse is lost. Without the horse, the rider is lost. Without the rider, the battle is lost. And without the battle… the whole supply chain is, well, FUBAR.
Last Straw: And then, as if that weren’t enough… the feds stimulated demand by handing out fake money. Drawing on the feds’ stimmy checks and unemployment toppers…all of a sudden, in came the orders… and retail sales went up. But existing inventories couldn’t meet them. Suppliers couldn’t fill them… And transport companies couldn’t deliver them…The supply chain broke apart. Thank God the feds are on the case!"
"That One Chance..."
“You get that one chance; and damn it, you’ve got to take it! If there’s one lesson I know I will take with me for eternity, its that there are those things that might happen only once, those chances that come walking down the street, strolling out of a café; if you don’t let go and take them, they really could get away! We can get so washed out with a mindset of entitlement – the universe will do everything for us to ensure our happiness – that we forget why we came here! We came here to grab, to take, to give, to have! Not to wait! Nobody came here to wait! So, what makes anyone think that destiny will keep on knocking over and over again? It could, but what if it doesn’t? You go and you take the chance that you get; even if it makes you look stupid, insane, or whorish! Because it just might not come back again. You could wait a lifetime to see if it will… but I don’t think you should.”
- C. JoyBell C.
"Financial Reckoning Looming for All Markets - History is Repeating"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly 11/3/21:
"Financial Reckoning Looming for All Markets -
History is Repeating"
Gregory Mannarino, "AM/PM 11/3/21"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 11/3/21:
"Slave System:
Today Will Be An EPIC Day For The Market"
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Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/3/21:
"FED Taper? The Truth AS To What Just Happened,
And It's Not What You Think"
Greg Hunter, "CV19 Injections Will Cause Massive Deaths"
"CV19 Injections Will Cause Massive Deaths"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Dr. Elizabeth Eads is on the front line of medicine treating patients who have been injected with the experimental CV19 so-called “vaccines.” Dr. Eads has 25 years of experience in North East Florida hospitals. Dr. Eads contends the injections (or jabs) are not vaccines. They are “bioweapons,” and the jabs are not medicine that is intended to help or cure people. Dr. Eads says, “We are seeing from the jabs all kinds of under-reported side effects. We are seeing infertility in women. We are seeing miscarriages. We are seeing myocarditis, pericarditis, pulmonary embolisms and blood clots everywhere in the body. We are seeing swollen lymph nodes and swollen testicles. Dr. Ryan Cole has reported an increase of cancers, and we are seeing that as well in the hospitals. We are seeing blood clots and strokes and hemorrhagic strokes, dementias and strokes and blood clots in young people too.”
Dr. Eads says the adverse reactions and deaths are way undercounted. Dr. Eads contends doctors are keeping quiet to keep their jobs just like Nazi Germany before WWII. Dr. Eads explains, “This is worse than Nazi camps and Dr. Mengele and his experimentation. MIT came out last week with an estimate of 500,000 deaths (because of CV19 injections). They looked at all of the reporting agencies, and their numbers are close to 500,000 deaths already, and we know that VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) only reports one percent. We are looking at 500,000, and we are going into flu season now. These people who received the jab have no immune system left. There are going to be mass deaths this winter, and I bet we are going to reach number in the millions.”
Dr. Eads goes on to highlight how medically reckless the CV19 jabs and the mass experimental human drug trials really are. Dr. Eads says, “There are no control groups. This is completely out of control. There is no oversight. There is absolutely no FDA, no CDC, no review board oversight, nobody is following up on those that were in the study or following up on their progress, adverse reactions or antibody levels. When this vaccine was rolled out, the boxes came with a completely blank package insert - completely blank. That is against all prescribing rules. Even as of this week, the package insert for ingredients is still blank. This is completely out of control and completely dangerous. There is no informed consent being given. How can you give informed consent to a patient when you don’t know what’s in it? You can’t say because we don’t have any study on what the adverse effects are.”
There is much more in the 45 minute interview, including how much the hospital gets paid for getting you on a ventilator, which few survive."
"Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks to 25 year veteran Dr. Elizabeth Eads, DO, exposing the lies that Big Pharma, CDC, FDA and NIH are telling the public. Dr. Eads will highlight the real unreported effects of the CV19 injections/jabs and how it’s all gone completely out of control in hospitals across the country."
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Related:
"Mandates Have Nothing To Do With Public Health"
Full screen recommended.
Peak Prosperity, Dr. Chris Martenson,
"Mandates Have Nothing To Do With Public Health"
"Once again publicly available data demonstrate that vaccines are not reducing infectivity or transmission, 2 of the main criteria for an injection to be considered a vaccine. Public health officials are brazenly proclaiming these embarrassing facts, while at the same time continuing to parrot the mantra to get vaccinated and stop the spread.
At this point, anyone with a working brain can see that whatever the vaccine mandate push is for, that it is not about public health and stopping the transmission of COVID. But real consequences are in force, including millions of people losing their jobs and livelihoods. Mandates will affect some of society’s most important members including firemen, police, nurses, sanitation workers, pilots, armed service men and women, and many, many more. Where will all of this lead?"
"This Chart Will Blow Your Mind"
"This Chart Will Blow Your Mind"
by Chris Black
"Take the covid vax, they said. It will be safe, they, said."
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Related:
"Everyone Vaccinated For Covid Will DIE, Warns French Virologist"
"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 here:
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"Something Really Strange Is Happening At Hospitals All Over America"
"Something Really Strange Is Happening
At Hospitals All Over America"
by Michael Snyder
In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you. Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening. Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading. Let us hope that is true. With less people catching the virus, you would think that would mean that our emergency rooms should be emptying out, but the opposite is actually happening. All across the country, emergency rooms are absolutely packed, and in many cases we are seeing seriously ill patients being cared for in the hallways because all of the ER rooms are already full.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. The following comes from an article entitled “ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid”…"Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen. Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said in a warm Texas twang. But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled."
Can anyone explain why this is happening? If the number of COVID cases was starting to spike again, it would make sense for emergency rooms to be overflowing. But at this particular hospital in Michigan, we are being told that some of the main things that are being treated include “abdominal pain”, “respiratory problems”, “blood clots” and “heart conditions”… "Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions."
That mention of “heart conditions” immediately got my attention, because I have been seeing this so much in the news recently. The high school soccer manager ‘greatly enjoyed’ his team’s championship victory Saturday. Later that evening, he was dead.
For instance, a high school senior in Pennsylvania just dropped dead from “a sudden cardiac incident”… Now, late student Blake Barklage’s high school is mourning his untimely death. As 6ABC in Philly reports, the tragedy occurred at La Salle College High School in Montgomery County, Pa. In a letter to parents, the school announced that the senior died after ‘a sudden cardiac incident’ Saturday night.
Elsewhere in the same state, an otherwise healthy 12-year-old boy just suddenly died because of an issue with his coronary artery… "As family and friends grieve, the cause of death is in for a 12-year-old taken way too soon while warming up for school basketball practice. As TribLive in Pittsburgh reports, Jayson Kidd, 12, of Bridgeville, Pa., died of natural causes involving his coronary artery, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office."
Heart problems kill elderly people all the time, but it is odd that so many healthy young people have been having these problems. Over the weekend, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero suddenly collapsed on the pitch during a match. He was later diagnosed with “a cardiac arrhythmia”… "Sergio “Kun” Aguero, a striker for the Barcelona soccer team, has been diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia after collapsing during Saturday’s match against Alaves. The 33-year-old Argentinian was examined by medical staff at the stadium before being taken to a nearby hospital where he is still waiting to undergo further examination."
Just two days later, a match in Norway was brought to a screeching halt after a player experienced “cardiac arrest” right in the middle of a match… "A football match in Norway’s second division was halted on Monday after Icelandic midfielder Emil Pálsson suffered a cardiac arrest during play. The 28-year-old Sogndal player suffered the attack as the game against Stjordals-Blink entered the 12th minute, his club said in a statement."
I have been seeing so many stories like this. So why are so many young people suddenly having such serious problems with their hearts? Can anyone out there explain this to me?"
Yes Michael, there's an explanation, and here it is:
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Must Watch! “When Will The Collapse Happen? Panic Buying; Bad Decisions; Zillow Dumping Homes And Employees”
Jeremiah Babe, PM 11/2/21:
“When Will The Collapse Happen? Panic Buying;
Bad Decisions; Zillow Dumping Homes And Employees”
"Is It Time To Start Talking About Hyperinflation?"
Full screen recommended.
"Is It Time To Start Talking About Hyperinflation?"
by Epic Economist
"Over the past year, our leaders have engaged in the biggest borrowing and spending binge in history. They've created a huge mess and our economy has started to fall apart. The US inflation rate is so high right now that it feels like our great nation is rapidly becoming a third-world economy. But they keep insisting that all of this will soon go away. Anyone with the slightest shred of common sense can realize that things have started to spin out of control and all of this is going to end badly. Economists have been warning about this for years, and now several famous personalities of Wall Street are sounding the alarm as well. But considering how far things have gone, we don't need any sort of "expert" to truly understand what is really going on. We're seeing every day at the stores, at the gas pump, in our monthly bills. The cost of everything is simply skyrocketing. Sadly, things are about to get even worse.
In a recent tweetstorm, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warned his followers that more chaos is coming. He weighed in on rampant inflation in the U.S., saying things are going to escalate quickly. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything,” Dorsey wrote. “It’s happening”. It's one thing to call for rising inflation, but what surprised most people was the fact that Dorsey used the word hyperinflation, a phenomenon of rapidly rising prices that can collapse currencies and bring down entire economies. Many didn't understand what led Dorsey to make statements like these, some suggested that he was being an alarmist, but the truth is that the cold, hard numbers do not lie. For instance, if we take a look at the Federal Reserve website, we can see that our money supply has been rising at an exponential rate. In one year, the Federal Reserve and the federal government have created, borrowed, and spent trillions of dollars, and now this massive pile of artificial money is creating severe imbalances in our economy.
Those who are criticizing these reckless measures are not the crazy ones. The ones that unleashed this extraordinary amount of liquidity into our system are the ones to blame. Expanding the money supply like there was no tomorrow is what drove inflation levels to where they are now. And Americans are already witnessing acute price increases in every corner of our nation. Prices are going up everywhere you look, but unfortunately, more sticker shock is right around the corner. Recently, several companies that produce the goods we consume announced a new round of price increases is coming. They've been struggling with higher costs for raw materials, and they don't expect the situation to improve any time soon. At this point, we have too many dollars chasing too few goods and services, and as a result, what we get are extensive shortages and absurd price hikes. In a recent interview with Fox Business, billionaire supermarket owner John Catsimatidis alerted that US consumers will be shocked to see the coming food price increases.
"I see food prices going up tremendously," he said. "CEOs want to be ahead of the curve and the way they're doing it is they're dropping all promotions. They are dropping low-moving items. I see over 10% price increase in the next 60 days,” he added. You heard that right. 10 percent in 60 days. If that doesn't scream “hyperinflation” to you, what does it? Similarly, in an interview with CNBC, billionaire Paul Tudor Jones explicitly said that inflation is here to stay and that it is now the single biggest threat to our society, as it risks pushing the markets and the economy down. Jones pointed that the trillions of dollars in fiscal and monetary stimulus was the catalyst for inflation to run hotter for longer. “Inflation can be much worse than what we fear. We have the demand side of the equation, and that is $3.5 trillion greater than what it normally would have just sitting in liquid deposits,” he explained.
This will result in the inevitable destruction of our currency. They will continue to enact unlimited printing policies until it reaches the intrinsic value of zero. Since the 1970s, the dollar has already lost 98 percent of its purchasing power, and there's a mere 2% drop before it reaches zero. But the coming fall will be 100% from the current level. The value of our money is going to be destroyed in the next 5-10 years, that's why personal wealth preservation is critical right now. If there's something we could learn from history, is that every time a nation has started to recklessly create money, a tragedy always followed. Now, our tragedy is looming on the horizon, and a day of reckoning is fast approaching."
"A Look to the Heavens"
“NGC 253 is not only one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, it is also one of the dustiest. Discovered in 1783 by Caroline Herschel in the constellation of Sculptor, NGC 253 lies only about ten million light-years distant.
NGC 253 is the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies. The dense dark dust accompanies a high star formation rate, giving NGC 253 the designation of starburst galaxy. Visible in the above photograph is the active central nucleus, also known to be a bright source of X-rays and gamma rays.”
"The Minds Of Men..."
"The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished. The name of Poet was almost forgotten; that of Orator was usurped by the sophists. A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators, darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste. This diminutive stature of mankind was daily sinking below the old standard."
- Edward Gibbon,
"The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire"
"You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?'
The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?"
- Gore Vidal
"Message From the Future: Your Acceptance of Evil Has Condemned Us All"
"Message From the Future:
Your Acceptance of Evil Has Condemned Us All"
by Chris Floyd
"Sometime in December 2016, a strange transmission began bleeding through, ghost-like, on various computers around the world. It would suddenly appear for a few flickering moments while people watched movies or shopped on-line or looked at social media, then it would fade away. It purported to be a message from the future and showed an aged man who claimed he was a chrono-quantum technician whose work had been banned by the authorities to prevent me from doing exactly what I am doing now, at long last - sending a warning to our ancestors. The message was brief, but it was usually badly garbled by visual and aural static; it took weeks to compile, through crowd-sourcing, the full text. For what it's worth, the message - minus the brief intro - is presented below.
"You are taking a path into darkness. It began years ago, with your acceptance of crimes and inhuman practices on a vast scale. In the late 20th century, your leaders once confessed on national television that they had killed 500,000 innocent children with death-dealing sanctions - then declared this atrocious massacre was worth it. Yet there was no outcry, no outrage, no uprising, not even a peep of protest. Indeed, the leader who carried out this massive slaughter of innocent children ended his reign at new heights of popularity and forever after was considered a beloved elder statesman. Your next leader lied brazenly to start a war that killed a million innocent people and led directly to decades of murderous instability in numerous countries. He too ended his days in wealth and comfort and public regard. Your next leader refused to prosecute the crimes of aggression and torture openly committed by his predecessor; instead, he continued his practices, enshrining many of the heinous practices into settled law, waging undeclared war in more than half a dozen countries and personally signing off on extrajudicial murders every week of his reign.
By this time, the moral degradation of the people was so complete - they had countenanced, cheered or ignored so many crimes and so much corruption on so many levels - that they easily fell prey to a voracious, half-crazed demagogue and the forces of fascism, feudalism and lawless rule that he brought into power. This was the nominal end of your democracy, but it was already deeply rotted from within - rotted by your years of turning a blind eye to monstrous crimes committed in your name by both factions in your power structure.
Because of your shameful acquiescence, your shallow understanding of the forces that ruled you and used you and manipulated you, your bedazzlement by public image, your astonishing credulity at the transparent lies and hollow, sinister pieties you were fed, we, your descendants, have lived in squalor, rancor, violence and despair all our lives, for generations. There is no hope for us unless you abandon your slavish ignorance, your adherence to partisan fantasies about the factions of the power structure that rules you and rise up to overthrow it. Instead bring fearless clarity to bear on the reality of what you have accepted. The murder of 500,000 children. The millions murdered in the wars you started and the wars bred by your wars. Assassination. Torture. Dehumanization and demonization of your fellow human beings, both at home and abroad.
It is your acceptance of these things that has brought you to the final turning point. Now there is nothing left for you to do but resist: resist with all your might, with every means at your disposal - but always, always, with the full knowledge of how you came to this place, and your own connivance and collusion in this descent. Keep this in mind as you fight, so that it doesn't happen again. You are not exceptional, you are not plucked out by God for special favor: you are human beings like all the rest, and like so many human beings in so many societies down through the ages, you have failed to look your own evil in the eye, you have failed to confront and condemn acts that make you shudder with horror when you hear of them committed by other nations.
Own this knowledge - this terrible, tragic knowledge - and let it guide as you fight the putrescence that past crimes have now brought gushing forth, and as you build something better in the aftermath. Otherwise, you are lost, and we are lost, the world itself is lost. "
"Those Who Are Able..."
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their
culture will never be understood let alone be believed by the masses."
- Plato
Gerald Celente, "We Own You, Do What We Say or Else"
Gerald Celente, "Trends Journal" 11/2/21:
Strong language alert!
"We Own You, Do What We Say or Else"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/2/21: "Must Watch! Bank Of America Warns, And Mannarino Has A Meltdown"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/2/21:
"Must Watch! Bank Of America Warns,
And Mannarino Has A Meltdown"
"Bordering on the Absurd"
"Bordering on the Absurd"
by Bill Bonner
"Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you."
– Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – "Little noticed in the Western media, last month, Russian president Vladimir Putin made an important speech in which he explained what was wrong with us: "We are surprised by the processes taking place in countries that used to see themselves as pioneers of progress. The social and cultural upheavals taking place in the United States and Western Europe are, of course, none of our business; we don’t interfere with them."
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,” said Napoléon. But while Putin might enjoy watching us err… he continued with his helpful analysis: "Someone in the Western countries is convinced that the aggressive erasure of whole pages of their own history – the “reverse discrimination” of the majority in favor of minorities, or the demand to abandon the usual understanding of such basic things as mother, father, family or even the difference between the sexes – that these are, in their opinion, milestones of the movement toward social renewal."
Win-Lose All the Way: We write today with no more knowledge of the proper relationship between the sexes than anyone else. But “abandoning the usual understanding” is at the heart of the West’s financial problem. And it’s something Russians can readily grasp, if not Americans. For seven decades, the Soviet Union required its citizens to do bizarre and unwelcome things.
Their whole economy, from top to bottom, was controlled by the Soviet elite. Ordinary families, meanwhile, often two or three of them crammed together, lived in drab apartments, sharing a single bathroom. They wore drab clothes. They called each other “comrade.” They stood in line to shop at stores with empty shelves. They waited years to buy a poor-quality car. They did what they were told, in other words… no matter how stupid it was.
One of the most remarkable features of the Soviet experiment was that it almost eliminated the politesse of a civilized society. The usual understandings, between merchant and customer, client and service provider, employer and employee… had been erased. It was win-lose all the way… and the losers saw no reason to smile about it.
Been there; done that, said Putin: "Looking at what’s happening in a number of Western countries, we see with amazement our own practices, which we thankfully have left behind, hopefully, in the distant past."
Out of Whack: Here at the Diary, our beat is money. There, we see most clearly how abandoning the “usual understandings” is undermining growth and prosperity. That is, usually, you know who you can count on… and who you can’t. Your grocery stores will usually keep their shelves stocked… and your gas stations will keep the pumps operating. You expect your reporters to give you the news straight… and your politicians to be crooked.
But when the most basic and important features of a free economy are skewed – such as the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates – the whole system goes out of whack. Some people get wealth they don’t deserve. Others are deprived of it. People stop smiling and go for each other’s throats.
For 18 decades (with a short interruption during the War Between the States), Americans could depend on the dollar. It was connected, by law, to gold. That's why prices at the end of the 19th century were about where they were when the century began; a person whose great-grandfather saved a dollar in 1800 could enjoy the full measure of it right up until the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. Since then, the dollar has lost about 98% of its purchasing power. And today, it is losing its value faster than at any time in the last 12 years.
Where the Money Goes: But where is the “value” going? Where does it go when it “goes away”? It goes to the deciders! As we reported last month, the upper 10% own 89% of all publicly traded stocks. So when the Wilshire 5000, the broadest measure of the stock market, went from $22 trillion in March 2020, to $47 trillion last week, the elite gained approximately $22 trillion… in just 18 months. Most of that money will probably go back whence it came in the next crisis. But today, it stands like a red star on the Soviet flag… a symbol of corruption and incompetence on a vast scale.
Great Dividers: But money isn’t everything. Here’s Edward Luce of the Financial Times: "…my larger fear today is about the west’s general lack of deference towards the things that matter most, not least the institutions and habits of mind that protect us. These include an independent judiciary, a professional media, the culture of relatively good-faith debate, the lost habit of assuming those with whom you disagree are not evil, and the sense of larger belonging to a community with mutual obligations."
Yes, Dear Reader, it’s those “limits” I told you about last week… those habits and “usual understandings” – not laws – that protect us. And yet, they seem to be losing as much value as the dollar. Again, Putin is on the case: "The battle for equal rights and against discrimination is being turned into aggressive dogmatism bordering on the absurd, when the great authors of the past – such as Shakespeare, are no longer taught in schools and universities because they and their ideas are seen as backward. The classics are considered backward for their failure to understand the importance of the questions of race or gender.”
For the Bolsheviks, there was no more important question than economic class – proletariat or bourgeoisie? Bolshevik… or counter-revolutionary? If you fell on the wrong side of that either-or, you were doomed. And great Russian writers, such as Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – either because they were critics of the Soviet Union or backward-looking romantics – were silenced.
Now, it is America that has its rabid mobs, book banners, and dogmatic world improvers. It has its Great Dividers, too – vaccinations, climate change, historic monuments… black or white, gay or straight, male or female, Republican or Democrat. “Abandoning the usual understanding,” it still puts one foot in front of the other. Where it is going, we don’t know. But we don’t think we’re going to like it."
"Interest Rates Will Go Bonkers - Fed is Under Pressure"
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"Interest Rates Will Go Bonkers - Fed is Under Pressure"
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Gregory Mannarino, AM 11/2/21:
"Critical Updates: Down To The Wire!
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