So, we rise from the rubble...
Monday, November 8, 2021
Sunday, November 7, 2021
"Supply Shortages And Soaring Prices Sweep Across America As Supply Chains Face Catastrophic Damages"
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"Supply Shortages And Soaring Prices Sweep Across
America As Supply Chains Face Catastrophic Damages"
by Epic Economist
"To say that conditions are chaotic in the US supply chains is quite an understatement. Americans are seeing shelves getting increasingly emptier at stores all over the country. Shortages and soaring prices have become the new normal. And a series of new issues keep aggravating the supply chain crisis ahead of the winter.
The way the U.S. government has mishandled the supply chain crisis is truly catastrophic. They have managed to create even more disruptions in every step of the way. With the memory of depleted supplies during last year's panic buying frenzy, consumers got spooked by the warnings of shortages and placed an extraordinary amount of orders this year, which may have broken US supply chains, according to industry experts. But the panic buying retailers have been doing has made the problem significantly worse.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday are just around the corner, and both dates mark the beginning of the biggest shopping days of the year. Retailers usually expect to make up for the lost revenue and kick off a buying frenzy that hopefully lasts for months. This year, however, those hopes will be crushed. The congestion at ports is so severe that millions of holiday items will not arrive in time at the stores. Just as consumers, retailers have been panic buying for the holidays as the supply chain crisis raises fears of empty shelves during their most profitable season of the year.
"When people expect there's going to be shortages for this holiday season, they increase their orders, which led to a dramatic increase in shipping to the US. That's why we see so many containers in our ports," Dr. Tinglong Dai, a professor of operations management and business analytics at Johns Hopkins University, told Business Insider. But instead of ensuring inventory for the coming shopping season, the panic ordering resulted in empty shelves, as deliveries are delayed, and many other bottlenecks at many steps along the way continue to keep products out of the reach of consumers.
Experts like Tim Uy of Moody’s Analytics argue that, unfortunately, supply chain problems “will get even worse before they get better”.“As the global economy continues to gather steam, what is increasingly apparent is how it will be stymied by supply-chain disruptions that are now showing up at every corner,” Uy said in a recent report.
It currently takes almost an entire month to ship a container from China to the U.S. West Coast. And when cargo ships arrive with thousands of containers, they are having to wait off the coast of Southern California for up to four weeks before getting unloaded. The cheapest freight rate to carry merchandise coming from China to the U.S. is now in the range of $25,000, a 200 percent increase from 2019 levels. But several big companies are paying premiums at the spot market that can go as high as $100,000. That is leading to a painful price spike once those products hit store shelves.
What a situation the U.S.has gotten into. Everywhere we look we have disruption on top of disruption. And our leaders effectively made our problems a whole lot worse. If you think things are bad now, just wait until the Fed raises rates to try to control rampant inflation. The central bank will take out the air of equity bubbles it inflated throughout the past 18 months, and during that process, it will collapse markets and push the economy back into recession.
At the beginning of the year, many of us were hoping that conditions would improve for the economy. But now we're stuck in one of history's biggest traffic jams. This crisis has become so serious that analysts at Bloomberg Economics are calling it "The Big Crunch of 2021". In a new indicator developed to evaluate the extremity of the problem, the analysts found that supply shortages are now at a 20-year high in the U.S.
With prices hitting new records with each passing week, it's only a matter of time until we face a re-run of 1970s-style hyperinflation. That's why saying the situation is chaotic at US supply chains is an understatement. This is a gigantic mess that will take years to solve. And Americans will be lucky if the markets, the economy, and supply chains don't break down simultaneously before the end of 2021. A lot more trouble is ahead as this perfect storm evolves into a full-blown disaster in the coming months."
"Where Did They Go? There Are Supposedly 107 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have A Job Right Now"
"Where Did They Go? There Are Supposedly 107 Million
Working Age Americans That Do Not Have A Job Right Now"
by Michael Snyder
We are being told that we are in the midst of the worst worker shortage in the history of the United States, but the numbers that we are being given by the federal government suggest that there should be no shortage of workers. As I will detail in this article, we are being told that there are 107 million working age Americans that are not employed right now. That is an astoundingly high figure. In fact, it is much, much higher than the peak that we hit during the “Great Recession” of 2008 and 2009. Of course back then we had millions upon millions of unemployed Americans that were absolutely desperate for a job. Today, the opposite is true. There are millions upon millions of open jobs, and employers are doing everything that they can to entice people to come to work. They are dramatically raising wages, they are handing out huge signing bonuses, they are offering to pay for college, and in some cases they are even completely waiving drug testing requirements. But even though all of this is happening, we still have 107 million working age Americans on the sidelines.
On Friday, we got some brand new employment numbers from the Labor Department. According to those numbers, there are more than 100 million Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force” right now…"The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday that 100,450,000 people in this country were not in the labor force in October, up 38,000 from the 100,412,000 in September."
This is the 14th straight month that this “not in the labor force” number has remained above 100,000,000. But that figure doesn’t give us the full number of potential workers that are on the sidelines, because it doesn’t include anyone that is officially unemployed…"Persons who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force. This category includes retired persons, students, those taking care of children or other family members, and others who are neither working nor seeking work."
So to get the full number of working age Americans that are “potential workers”, we need to add in those that are officially considered to be “unemployed”, and according to the Federal Reserve that number currently stands at 7.4 million. Once we add 100 million to 7 million, that gives us a grand total of 107 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
Why can’t we get more of them to go back to work? Of course there are many that were not working before the pandemic came along and that still have no intention of working now. We aren’t really concerned about them. But what should alarm all of us is that the number of Americans that were working just before the pandemic was much higher than the number of Americans that are working now.
So where did all of those workers go? Are they just lazy? Are some of them sitting at home collecting government checks? Have some of them become incapacitated? Have some of them died?
Needless to say, an increasing number of Americans are not working in their chosen fields right now because they have been forced out of their jobs by various local mandates. The good news is that the big OSHA mandate which was scheduled to go into effect on January 4th has been temporarily put on hold by the Fifth Circuit court of appeals…"President Joe Biden‘s rule forcing businesses of over 100 employees to mandate the Covid vaccine has been temporarily halted by the Fifth Circuit court of appeals. Attorneys general for several states, including Texas, Louisiana, and Utah, joined advocacy and business groups in the petition, which is not the only legal challenge faced by the administration over the rule."
Many conservatives seem to think that this is some sort of massive court victory. It is not. It is just a temporary order issued by one court to halt enforcement of the mandate while litigation proceeds. Ultimately, many courts will be looking at this mandate, and I am entirely convinced that eventually this will get to the U.S. Supreme Court. And at this point I have very, very little faith in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is already talking about creating an additional mandate for companies that have less than 100 employees…"The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday is weighing if they should expand the vaccine mandate for companies employing fewer than 100 employees. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) federal rules released Thursday, the agency is “seeking comment to help the agency” determine if smaller employers with fewer than 100 employees can implement a coronavirus vaccine mandate “without undue disruption.”
They want to make it so that there is no escape. If you do not comply with their orders, they want to make it so that you will not be able to work anywhere. There are also rumors that the Biden administration is actually considering a national mandate for children that attend schools. When CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was asked about this, her response was more than a little bit alarming…“I will always encourage that parent to get their child vaccinated, and speak to them about the information and communication, and education that they need in order to get their children vaccinated,” Walensky said. “Right now, at this moment, those decisions are made at the jurisdictional level as they are for vaccination of other all - other vaccine preventable diseases among children.”
The Democrats don’t seem to understand that the mandates are the number one reason why they just did so poorly in Virginia and elsewhere. And if they keep pushing these mandates, they will get soundly defeated in 2022 and 2024. But they are going ahead with them anyway. It is almost as if they don’t care about the political consequences.
In the short-term, the various mandates that are being implemented around the nation will force millions of highly qualified Americans out of their jobs. Doing this in the midst of the worst worker shortage in our history is absolutely insane. In the long-term, the consequences of these mandates will set the stage for a societal meltdown of epic proportions. We were such a divided nation before Biden announced these mandates, but now we are rapidly approaching a point where national unity may no longer be possible. A house divided will surely fall, and thanks to Biden we are now facing divisions that may never be repaired."
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“Are We In A Bubble? FED Ignores Inflation Risk”
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Jeremiah Babe, PM 11/7/21:
“Are We In A Bubble? FED Ignores Inflation Risk”
"FDA Documents Show CV19 Vax Produces a Bioweapon"
"FDA Documents Show CV19 Vax Produces a Bioweapon"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Karen Kingston is a former Pfizer employee and top biotech analyst who has researched and written about many cutting edge pharmaceutical issues. Kingston contends the so-called vaccines are in fact bioweapons and she can prove it with the FDA’s own data Kingston also says the FDA’s own research shows they have known it is the vax bioweapons that have caused all the deaths and injuries. Kingston explains, “More people got Covid 19 (from the vax) than they got from placebos, but they pulled 409 people out of the vaccine group because now they are saying that was a side effect. The side effect is the disease.
The FDA document is incriminating evidence. If Janet Woodcock (Janet Woodcock is the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the FDA) would read this in front of the Senate, she should be put in handcuffs for conspiring to commit aggravated assault and murder of American children and adults through poison. They are calling them side effects. When you have a meeting two months before you approve and you list a bunch of severe chronic diseases that induce morbidity and mortality in children and adults, and you say you know this is going to happen, that is not a side effect.
That is an intended consequence. That is the effect of the vaccines. The effect of the vaccines is to cause havoc within your immune system. That immune imbalance results in heart attacks, heart inflammation; it results in neurological disorders ranging from fatigue to paralysis to brain fog to rapid onset to disorders, to narcolepsy, to death, to pregnancy stillborns, birth defects and miscarriages. They knew this was going to happen. In the FDA data for Pfizer, they say, look, more people got Covid 19 that got vaccinated. They said that was a side effect. It is not a side effect – it is the effect. The majority of people are in agreement that the Wuhan lab spike protein that was put up on the genome web January 10th of last year is a bioweapon.
If you read the FDA approval letter, what is the vaccines’ ingredients? It is the synthetic mRNA code, the computer generated artificial intelligence generated code, which was injected in your body that produces, and I am telling you this verbatim, it says it produces the ‘Wuhan-Hu-1 full sequence spike protein from genome web.’ It says in the (FDA) approval letter the vaccine produces the bioweapon. It says in the data that more people are getting Covid19 from the vaccine than from not being treated. People say I should be an expert witness. I don’t need to be an expert witness. We just need the FDA to read their own documents.”
In closing, Kingston says, “I think we can work with science at the molecular level to heal this, but if people don’t know they are sick, then millions of Americans are going to die and our children are going to be part of this sacrifice. I am filled with deep, deep sorrow.”
"Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with biotech analyst Karen Kingston as she blows the lid off the FDA authorized CV19 bioweapon."
"Beautiful Relaxing Music with Amazing Nature Videos"
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Soothing Relaxation,
"Beautiful Relaxing Music with Amazing Nature Videos"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"To some it looks like a cat's eye. To others, perhaps like a giant cosmic conch shell. It is actually one of brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. The formation of the beautiful, complex-yet-symmetric inner structures, however, is not well understood.
The featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image with X-ray light captured by the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The exquisite floating space statue spans over half a light-year across. Of course, gazing into this Cat's Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution... in about 5 billion years."
Kahlil Gibran, “On Talking”
“On Talking”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;
And when you can no longer dwell in
the solitude of your heart you live in your lips,
and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
For thought is a bird of space,
that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their
eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought
reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them,
but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.
When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place,
let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart
as the taste of the wine is remembered
When the color is forgotten and the vessel is no more.”
- Kahlil Gibran,
Freely download “The Prophet”, by Kahlil Gibran, here:
“Requiem for a Ladybug”
“Requiem for a Ladybug”
by Frankly Francis
“You lie still less than a foot away on top of the soft mouse pad that protects me from carpal tunnel syndrome. I noticed this morning, through eyes not yet clarified by my first coffee of the day, your presence in my study. Odd, I thought, that you would even be present now. It is certainly past your time of the year in these parts.
I had the presence of mind to reckon that your life must be short. Rather than remove you from my space, both physical and mental, I decided that if these were your final moments then my study could be your Hospice and I your companion.
Your flight and movement were a little chaotic, seemingly random. You nestled in the heat of the light in the globe of my desk lamp, you circled my cranium, you landed in various spots, and in and on various objects on my desk while I got about the business of the day.
Sometimes I could see you, other times I did not know where you were. Then you would rise again to a new location. I wondered if you had any purpose in this, if there was more going on than my conscious programming allowed me to realize.
Perhaps it was, in your reality, some last business to be done? Or perhaps a ritual of your species’ existence? I hoped that if there is any pleasure in being a Ladybug that it was satisfying in some way, even so far from your natural habitat. Then you landed on your final resting spot and moved no more.
For me, my study is a place of many good things. I hope in your last moments it was to you as well. Rest in Peace my little Ladybug. And thanks for reminding me of the preciousness and fragility of life.”
"Life's Funny..."
“Life’s funny, chucklehead. You only get one and you don’t want to throw it away. But you can’t really live it at all unless you’re willing to give it up for the things you love. If you’re not at least willing to die for something – something that really matters – in the end you die for nothing.”
- Andrew Klavan
The Poet: Stephen Levine, “Half Life”
“Half Life”
“We walk through half our life
as if it were a fever dream,
barely touching the ground,
our eyes half open,
our heart half closed.
Not half knowing who we are,
we watch the ghost of us drift
from room to room,
through friends and lovers
never quite as real as advertised.
Not saying half we mean
or meaning half we say,
we dream ourselves
from birth to birth
seeking some true self.
Until the fever breaks
and the heart can not abide
a moment longer
as the rest of us awakens,
summoned from the dream,
not half caring for anything but love.”
~ Stephen Levine
"Our True Friends..."
"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their own miserable lives."
- Paulo Coelho
"Spartan Rules For Life - The Philosophy of Sparta"
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Orion Philosophy,
"Spartan Rules For Life - The Philosophy of Sparta"
"The Spartans have been referenced time and time again as a nation of hardened, resilient and Stoic warriors, with a simple philosophy of life. As a nation Sparta was feared for its soldiers, and respected for its way of life. In modern day, the Spartans are still held in high regard, and the Spartan helmet and shield still used as a symbol to reflect their values almost 2000 years later. These quotes help to explain the Spartan philosophy and the mindset of Sparta, a mindset that helps us remain calm, collected and resilient in the face of hardship, adversity, and events that threaten to invade our peace of mind."
Gregory Mannarino, "Markets, A Look Ahead: Stock Market Melt-Up, Currency Melt-Down"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 11/7/21:
"Markets, A Look Ahead:
Stock Market Melt-Up, Currency Melt-Down"
"Mass Psychosis & You"
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Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity,
"Mass Psychosis & You"
"This video explains why people you know seem to have lost their ability to reason or even be reasonable. Mass Hysteria, or psychosis is a very routine and well-documented part of human history. It also describes well our current circumstances. The key questions are (1) is it deliberate or accidental and (2) either way, what can you do to avoid the worst effects of it all?"
Saturday, November 6, 2021
"Warning: Infrastructure Bill Guarantees More Inflation; Minimum Wage Jobs And Inflation A Bad Combo"
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Jeremiah Babe, PM 11/6/21:
"Warning: Infrastructure Bill Guarantees More Inflation;
Minimum Wage Jobs And Inflation A Bad Combo"
"You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - Crazy Economic News"
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Dan, iAllegedly, PM 11/6/21:
"You Can’t Make This Stuff Up - Crazy Economic News"
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