So, we rise from the rubble...
Thursday, December 2, 2021
"America’s Cold Nightmare"
"America’s Cold Nightmare"
By Bill Bonner
"Winter is coming."
– "Game of Thrones"
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – "This week, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told Congress that he may “taper” a little faster than expected in order to squelch inflation. As it is, inflation is running hot. And the Fed’s enthusiasm for stopping it is, at best, tepid. As we showed last month, the Fed would have to put its key lending rate up to nearly 10% (it’s currently less than one-tenth of one percent) in order to achieve the same tightening effect as then-Fed-chair Paul Volcker got in 1980.
Powell says the Fed is planning to remove $15 billion per month from its bond-buying program… ending it completely by the middle of next year. In other words, no “tightening” is planned, just a very timid cutback on loosening. And John C. Williams, head of the New York Fed, says his august organization will now “grapple” with what to do next.
Cold Comfort: It comes as no comfort to us to know that the Fed is grappling with policy changes. Its policies have made a colossal mess of the economy and its markets. And it shows no hint of having learned anything. Here at the Diary, we have followed the Fed for more than 20 years, chronicling its clownish missteps and dumbbell mistakes.
We have not been shy about predicting where this will lead – to a disaster of corruption, runaway debt and inflation… and an eventual blow-up of the whole system. For what else can you expect when the central government spends far more than the nation can afford… the central bank papers over its deficits with newly printed money… and the elite gets richer and richer?
Future of Expensive Scarcity: “You’re way too negative,” say some dear readers. “Don’t be so cynical,” say others. Maybe they’re right.
The future always surprises us. And it will be a surprise to us all – including your editor – if things develop precisely as we foresee. Maybe we will muddle through without a real disaster, after all. But what if the surprise comes from the other direction? What if we have been too Panglossian in our outlook, lacking the imagination to see the immensity of the catastrophe awaiting us?
Our view of the future is usually nothing more than a limp extrapolation of today. But let us try to see what lies ahead in a different, more pernicious light. That is… we will walk ahead… and look back at what the policymakers have wrought, giving you a brief history of tomorrow.
Sometime… maybe two years from now… maybe 10… you go to the supermarket. You find a gallon of milk priced at $49. Bacon isn’t $10 a pound; it’s $100. And your favorite breakfast cereal? It’s not there at all. Sometimes, half the shelves are empty. “Supply chain disruptions,” they say.
Politicians blame “greedy middlemen” for “price gouging.” A House Committee promises an investigation of “market manipulation.” President Pete Buttigieg calls for another stimmy check “to help hard-pressed American families.”
Winter is coming; the cold bites.
Costly Transition: “Something is going seriously wrong,” you tell yourself. “Nature has turned against us.” But the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves. And it’s more than just $50 for a pound of beef… or a $1,000 monthly electricity bill. This mid-winter nightmare gets worse, much worse.
On your drive to the gas station, you detour to avoid a group of protestors/looters, who are burning tires in the middle of the road. You don’t want to get stopped by them. They will pull you from your car and beat you to death right in the street. And then, when you see the prices at the pumps, you may want to murder someone, too. You paid just $39 for a gallon of regular the week before. Now, it is $45. And then, there’s no gas at all.
Well, what would you expect? The world’s leading governments embarked on a “Great Transition” away from fossil fuel. At the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference in 2021, they aimed to cut the use of gas, coal, and oil in half by 2035. It would cost $150 trillion, said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen. But all the major nations were already running huge deficits. The only way they could fund the “transition” – along with their marvelous “social infrastructure” programs – was by printing money.
Cold War on Fossil Fuels: Thus did the great nations light a stick of dynamite at both ends. It was fossil fuel that made it possible to feed, clothe, and house 8 billion people. There were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet in 1900. Solar energy, sequestered in oil, gas, and coal, made it possible to quadruple the population. But take away the fossil fuel, and what would those extra 6 billion people eat? Where would they live? How would they keep warm?
And pay for this transition with fake money? Even back in 2021, the inflation rate in the U.S. was running at 6%. Wasn’t it obvious that printing more money would make it worse?
The policymakers said they would replace oil, gas, and coal, with solar, wind, and geo-thermal energy. But in 2021, “renewables” only represented, effectively, about 5% of the world’s total energy supplies – even after four decades of investment and development. And tractors didn’t run on solar power or windmills; they ran on gasoline, which had gotten scarce. And where was the mystery in that?
When governments turned off traditional energy sources… while subsidizing and bankrolling “green” energy with trillions in newly printed money… they set in motion supply-side disruptions that proved… well… fatal. Tune in tomorrow for the tragic denouement."
Gregory Mannarino, "The FED Will Continue To Buy It All, And This Is What's Next"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 12/2/21:
"The FED Will Continue To Buy It All,
And This Is What's Next"
“The Real Agenda: Leading Dr. Says Covid ‘Vaccines’ Are Intentionally Designed To Reduce World Population”
“The Real Agenda: Leading Dr. Says Covid ‘Vaccines’
Are Intentionally Designed To Reduce World Population”
by Ethan Huff
"Dr. Shankara Chetty, a South African family doctor who is credited with improving early treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), says that the goal of the mass “vaccination” program is to “control and kill off a large proportion of our population without anyone suspecting that we were poisoned.”
In a recent statement, Dr. Chetty explained that the dying process provoked by the injections was designed in such a way as to be untraceable. People will start to get sick from this or that, and the symptoms will be so wide ranging that it will be difficult to definitively peg them on the shots. “The deaths that are meant to follow the vaccinations will never be able to be pinned on the poison,” he said. “They will be too diverse, there will be too many, and they will be in too broad a timeframe for us to understand that we have been poisoned.”
Dr. Chetty claims to have successfully treated more than 7,000 Chinese Virus patients “without a single hospitalization or death.” He is also keenly aware of the government’s censorship campaign against the early treatment protocols he provides to his patients. “I think the perspective around what is happening is vitally important,” Dr. Chetty explained during a Zoom conference call. “We need to understand what the aim is. Everyone knows that there are inconsistencies, that there’s coercion, but we need to understand why. Why is it there?”
Jab spike protein is the “pathogen … causing all the death in covid illness” In Dr. Chetty’s view, there is one thing that appears to be causing all of the deaths attributed to covid, and that thing is the spike protein.
This “pathogen,” as he describes it, is either found in (Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca) or produced by (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna) the so-called “vaccines.” And it is this pathogen that will eventually kill off millions, if not billions, of people. “What looks like transpired here [is] they’ve engineered a virus and put this weapons-grade package onto it called ‘spike protein,'” Dr. Chetty further explained.
Only a small number of people experience an immediate “allergic reaction” to the “most elaborately engineered toxin,” he says, usually within the first eight days after the onset of symptoms. The injections, however, extend that allergic reaction “for a longer period.” “We begin to see the endothelial [blood vessel lining] injuries that this vaccine causes with its spike protein, with its influence on its ACE2 receptors,” Dr. Chetty warns. “Those are the deaths that are meant to follow. And they will never be pinned onto the spike protein, a very well-engineered toxin.”
“Now spike protein is also a membrane protein. So, the mRNA will distribute this throughout our body. It will be made in various tissues around our body. It will be incorporated into those membranes around our body, and those specific tissues.”
Because these spike proteins are recognized by the body as foreign invaders, the immune system overreacts in an autoimmune way – meaning it attacks itself. This is where the slow-death process begins. “Now this toxin in the long term is going to get people with pre-existing illness to have those illnesses exasperated,” he warns.
What is worse, these toxins include “bits of HIV protein,” which clearly shows that they were genetically engineered, Dr. Chetty says. People with cancer “are going to have their cancers flare up, and they will say they died of the cancer.” “People with vessel injuries or predisposition like our diabetics and [those with] hypertension are going to have strokes and heart attacks and the rest at varying times, and we’ll attribute those to their preexisting conditions,” he added. “People are going to develop, over time, autoimmune conditions, the diversity of which will never be addressed by any pharmaceutical intervention because they’re far too targeted.”
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The latest news about covid shot injuries and deaths can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
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"How They Plan to Kill BILLIONS With the Common Flu"
by Mike Adams
"Covid vaccines induce “AIDS” immune system failure, opening door to death via common flu strains. Covid vaccines are increasingly recognized as depopulation weapons being deployed against humanity. But the mechanism of how they work is only now becoming clear.
The ‘gain-of-function’ researchers who built this bioweapon, all criminals against humanity, didn’t want it to kill people too quickly because that would be noticed right away. So they needed a mechanism that would allow the spike protein injections to kill people slowly, in a way that could be blamed on something else.
Their answer was vaccine-induced, immune system suppression. It’s not really a “vaccine,” of course, and we use that term in protest. It’s actually a gene altering mRNA injection that programs human cells to produce non-human proteins which are pathogenic bioweapons that cause vascular, neurological and reproductive damage. In addition to causing severe vascular damage throughout the body - as confirmed in a recently published Circulation journal paper - these spike proteins destroy innate immune response, which is exactly why the mRNA vaccines are now failing at an accelerating rate.
From the conclusion of that science paper published in Circulation “we conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
In other words, the mRNA vaccines cause widespread vascular inflammation, leading to death via heart attacks, blood clots, strokes and so on. Governments claim vaccines work really well if you haven’t taken them yet, but the minute you take them, you’re told they don’t work, so you need a booster
This puts the governments of the world in the position of trying to convince unvaccinated people that covid vaccines work really well and should be taken by everyone… while at the same time telling vaccinated people that the injections they took don’t work and therefore they need a never-ending series of booster shots. [It’s pretty bloody obvious so why can’t the sheeple see this?]
Even the fact that booster shots are now being required every 3 months in the UK is a clear admission that booster shots stop working in about 3 months. Otherwise, why would you need new ones? The real answer behind the 3-month booster repetition is that covid vaccines obliterate the immune system and render people absolutely helpless in mounting an immune response against pathogens.
“UK data shows the vaccines are NOT saving any lives at all writes Steve Kirsch via Substack.com. “Mathew Crawford just did an analysis showing that the [official] data from the UK shows that the vaccines aren’t saving any lives at all. Zero. Zip. Nada. So we’re killing over 150K people to save no lives. Wow.” Once immunocompromised, it only takes a mild flu to kill
Importantly, the immune suppression effects apply to non-covid pathogens, too. So a person injected with the mRNA gene therapy shots will have compromised immunity against common flu strains as well. In essence, they have been turned into vaccine-induced “AIDS” patients with collapsing immunity against everything. And that makes them highly vulnerable to a deliberate release of a moderate flu strain [Omicron anyone?] that would normally kill only the frail and elderly but when released against the backdrop of vaccine-induced immune suppression, it could kill hundreds of millions of vaccinated people worldwide. Depopulation agenda achieved. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
And as the people are dying off around the world, the media will blame the unvaccinated as their final act of betrayal against humanity. They will say that more people need to take vaccines in order to stop the mass death. Anyone gullible enough to take the shots, of course, will join the dying masses into an early grave.
Why did globalists choose this route? This is because they didn’t want to “nuke” the planet with a truly vicious pathogen that would threaten their own children in the long run. They want to keep the really dangerous pathogens in the freezer while figuring out how to kill people with mild pathogens.
Only by convincing the gullible masses to line up for mRNA spike protein injections could they pull this off. And only by spreading mass hysteria via the controlled corporate media could they panic enough people into the “vaccine” injections.
Coordinated fear -> Injections -> Immune suppression -> Mild infections -> Mass death
Now you know the real depopulation agenda and how it works. The good news is that if you said NO to the vaccine, you cannot be easily killed by this scheme. Those who comply will die, but those who resist will survive."
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"Everyone Vaccinated For Covid Will DIE,
Warns French Virologist" (Excerpt)
"There is no chance of long-term survival for anyone who received a Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injection, according to leading French virologist Luc Montagnier. Everyone who is getting jabbed for the Chinese Virus will die, he reportedly stated during a recent interview, which you can watch at Brighteon.com.
“There is no hope and no possible treatment for those who have already been vaccinated,” Montagnier stated plainly during the segment. “We must be prepared to cremate the bodies.” After studying at length the ingredients contained in the injections and what they do, Montagnier came to the conclusion that every single person who gets the shot will eventually die from antibody-dependent enhancement, or ADE. “That is all that can be said,” he added."
Full article is here:
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Related, crucially important:
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
"Sometimes I Wonder..."
"Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people
who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it ."
- Laurence Peter
"Biden’s 'Big O'”
"Biden’s 'Big O'”
by Simon Black
"In 1894, a retired university professor named Paul Bachman was living out his golden years in Weimar, Germany. Recently divorced, Bachman filled his days writing books, including what would become a five volume series… about analytical number theory. It wasn’t exactly a James Bond novel; number theorists study things like prime numbers, infinity, and the fundamental properties of arithmetic.
Here’s a simple number theory example to give you a basic idea: prove that the sum of the first n integers (i.e. 1+2+3+4 . . . + n) is equal to (n2 + n)/2.
Number theory is full of seemingly elementary concepts which can turn out to be incredibly vexing… and much more complex than they initially appear. And the field has been applied widely in modern technology. Bachman’s 1894 book (which had a spectacularly long German name) introduced an important concept in analytical number theory, something that eventually became known as “Big O notation”. In simple terms, Bachman’s “Big O” is used to describe certain functions whose output is limited, even when the inputs grow to infinity.
Big O is an important concept in computer science. Coders classify the efficiency of their algorithms using Big O notation. Google, for example, pays very close attention to the Big O efficiency of their search algorithms; a more efficient algorithm means faster search results and less computing power. And there are a range of other applications as well.
Anyone who has studied math and physics knows scientists’ predilection for using Greek letters. Pi in geometry, sigma as a summation operator, etc. In 1976, a Stanford professor named Donald Knuth published a work giving Big O notation its own Greek letter. And you can probably guess which one– omicron.
This is a bit ironic given that the World Health Organization recently dubbed the newest variant of Covid-1984 as omicron. It’s like it’s March 2020 all over again; public health officials are already locking down their borders and restricting travel, and the media is swooning over every new omicron case around the world. Most importantly, governments and central banks are standing by ready to shovel massive, steaming piles of stimulus into their economies.
And this is the part that I find so ironic. Remember, in mathematics, omicron (or Big O) describes functions where the output is limited, even when the input is infinite. That’s pretty much the case with all of this stimulus. For these politicians and central bankers, their willingness to print and spend money is without limit; in other words, the stimulus ‘input’ is practically infinite. But the output is proving to be extremely limited. The more money they print, and the more stimulus they sprinkle around the economy, the less impact it has.
Economists call this diminishing returns. The idea is that every additional dollar, euro, yen, or renminbi you dump into your economy has a smaller impact than the previous one. And given the rampant inflation they’ve created, it’s pretty clear that the impact of their stimulus has become negative.
We’ve talked about this before– economies prosper when people are easily able to work hard and produce. And economies grow when more goods and services are being produced. These politicians and central bankers, on the other hand, are making it more difficult for people to work hard and produce.
Their public health regulations have already shuttered countless businesses. They’ve terrified people into not wanting to leave the house. They’ve created absurd incentives for people to stay home, to the point that many businesses who survived COVID are really struggling to find labor.
They’ve passed ridiculously anti-competitive legislation and regulations– labor policy, taxes, environmental rules, etc. They’ve ordered private businesses to fire tens of millions of people whose only transgression is exercising personal choice. So, rather than setting economic conditions for workers and businesses to be highly productive, they’re doing the opposite and making it more difficult for people to work.
They also seem to think they can paper over this problem by printing money. But this is deeply flawed thinking; dumping trillions of dollars into the economy doesn’t actually produce anything. The end result of all of this is inflation… and supply chain bottlenecks. All of their money printing has stimulated demand. But with businesses and workers not able to produce as much, there’s now more money in the system demanding fewer goods and services. At the same time, there are fewer workers– truck drivers, forklift operators, etc. available to move resources.
And public health orders around the world have compounded this problem, making it more difficult for overseas manufacturers to produce and transport goods. This is why there’s a supply chain bottleneck… and why prices are soaring– infinite input, limited output. Omicron.
But here’s what’s really crazy, if you want to think a little bit about the future: Within the next three years, an incredible 51% of the US national debt is going to mature. Given that the federal government is planning multi-trillion dollar deficits until the end of time, there’s no way they’re going to be able to repay that debt. So how will they deal with it? Simple. The Federal Reserve is going to have to print more money… trillions of dollars more. And that’s on top of the trillions of dollars they’re going to print over the next few years to pay for all of these new social programs… plus whatever omicron bailout the government comes up with.
It’s truly mind boggling how much money the Fed is going to have to print. And when we see how disastrous the effects have been thus far, coupled with anti-competitive, anti-productive regulations, there’s no telling how high inflation could soar.
Don’t worry, though, Hunter Biden’s dad is on the case. That’s why he reappointed the current head of the Federal Reserve to a new term… so the chief central banker who helped engineer the worst inflation in three decades gets to keep his job. Clearly, tackling inflation is this administration’s top priority. And that’s why he summoned the heads of big businesses to a meeting at the White House to demand that they keep prices low and have store shelves fully stocked for Christmas. Because that’s the way you solve the inflation and supply chain problems: issuing more commandments.
One Congresswoman actually sent Hunter Biden’s dad a letter urging him to appoint a Supply Chain Czar. It’s extraordinary. All these people know how to do is create a highly centralized bureaucracy. Make demands. Appoint a Czar. Give the government more power over the economy, even though everything they’re doing is a total failure. Once again, that’s omicron. Infinite input. Limited output."
"Stock Market In Big Trouble; Economy On Life Support; Insiders Dumping Stocks"
Jeremiah Babe, PM 12/1/21:
"Stock Market In Big Trouble;
Economy On Life Support; Insiders Dumping Stocks"
"Container Shortage Triggers Freight Rate Spike Of 300 Percent As Port Congestion Worsens Worldwide"
Full screen recommended.
"Container Shortage Triggers Freight Rate Spike Of
300 Percent As Port Congestion Worsens Worldwide"
by Epic Economist
"Freight rates have fallen slightly in October, making some believe that the worst of the shipping crisis was over. Unfortunately, that hopeful perception didn't last more than a couple of weeks because last week freight rates rapidly spiked to a new record high. In less than 7 days, the benchmark Baltic Dry Index, which measures the movement of the global dry bulk commodities and also shipping prices, shot up by over 16 percent due to the introduction of new restrictions on the movement of ships worldwide as a precaution to prevent the spread of the new virus strain.
The almost $9,000 increase in the Baltic Dry index signals a rapid change in shipping industry fundamentals brought on by strict measures at ports in China, rigorous surveillance imposed by the government of India, and similar measures adopted by several governments across the globe, including the European Union. The tightening vessel capacity we are currently seeing globally is adding even more pressure on soaring freight rates. According to VesselsValue in its 2021 Port Congestion Report, in November, Asia-U.S. shipping rates reached a staggering $130,000 per day, over a 400% increase compared to this time last year.
In America, as opposed to what the government has been suggesting in recent weeks, ports are still extremely clogged, especially in California. Just yesterday, the number of container ships stuck outside the port of Los Angeles has reached a new record of 111, breaking the previous record of 108 vessels a month ago. Last month, fines started to be imposed on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, with companies having to pay $100 a day for every container left on the docks. After a container arrives, companies have three days to move it if the next step is by rail, or nine days if the next step is by truck. However, industry specialists say these fees will do little to help ease the port jams.
"The issue isn't about a lack of desire to move boxes, but a lack of physical space," explained Corey Bertsch, VP Solutions Consulting at Slync.io, a global logistics company. According to data released by American Shipper, at the end of November, there were almost 60,000 containers on these ports that had been there for more than nine days and would be eligible for fines. But as Bertsch highlighted, those fines will simply be passed on to the end consumer, compounding inflationary pressures that have already been pushing the price of everything to sky-highs.
Now, even large corporations that would typically be safe from sudden inflation upswings are warning that they cannot fight with such persistent inflationary pressures. In an interview with CNBC, Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch, alerted that the industrial world is going to be dealing with higher prices and supply shortages for much longer than expected. "It is going to be way into 2022 and honestly, my belief is managing the supply chain will be something which will be with us for a long time," he said. Unilever CEO Alan Jope, also sounded the alarm, saying that the company was witnessing "once in two-decade inflationary pressure". "We are seeing commodity inflation across really every type of input cost that we have - agricultural commodities, petrochemical commodities, paper and board, transport, logistics, energy, labor -- all are moving in an upward direction," he said.
Last month, the UN warned that surging freight rates would be translated into higher prices for consumers early in 2022, with the global import price levels set to increase by 11 percent. “Global consumer prices will rise significantly in the year ahead until shipping supply chain disruptions are unblocked and port constraints and terminal inefficiencies are tackled,” Unctad said in its Review of Maritime Transport 2021 report. To make things worse, hikes in oil prices, geopolitical conflicts, the worsening health crisis, and broken supply chains "have come together to create a potentially devastating scenario for the global food system," a panel on food security heard.
“These have created a perfect storm for global food collapse”, stressed Fan Shenggen, chair of the academy of global food economics and policy at China Agricultural University. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s monthly food price index, global food prices skyrocketed nearly 33 percent last year and the latest Goldman Sachs report forecasts that food inflation will likely get worse before it gets better. We're entering some exceedingly difficult times. Sadly, the problems we're facing today are only going to be aggravated in the coming months. We're on the verge of another dark winter, and as our system persistently collapses all around us, we're going to have even more turbulence and chaos awaiting us."
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A gorgeous spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 30,000 light-years, making it about one third the size of our larger Milky Way galaxy. Bluish clusters of young stars and dust lanes are seen to trace out NGC 1309's spiral arms as they wind around an older yellowish star population at its core.
Not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy, observations of NGC 1309's recent supernova and Cepheid variable stars contribute to the calibration of the expansion of the Universe. Still, after you get over this beautiful galaxy's grand design, check out the array of more distant background galaxies also recorded in this sharp, reprocessed, Hubble Space Telescope view.”
"Animals"
"Animals"
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they
are so placid and self contain’d;
I stand and look at them long and long,
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied - not one is demented with
the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that
lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth."
- Walt Whitman
"The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below"
"The Long Cycles Have All Turned: Look Out Below"
by Charles Hugh Smith
"Long cycles operate at such a glacial pace they're easily dismissed as either figments of fevered imagination or this time it's different. But since Nature and human nature remain stubbornly grounded by the same old dynamics, cycles eventually turn and the world changes dramatically. Nobody thinks the cyclical turn is possible until it's already well underway.
Multiple long cycles are turning in unison:
1. The cycle of interest rates: down for 40+ years (last turn, 1981), now up for an unknown but consequential period of time.
2. The cycle of inflation/deflation: the 40-year period of low real-world inflation and rip-roaring speculative debt-asset inflation has ended and now an era of scarcity, real-world inflation and speculative debt-asset deflation begins.
3. The cycle of capital-labor balance: capital has dominated labor for 40+ years, siphoning $50 trillion from labor. This cycle has now turned and the rebalancing is underway: it's capital's turn to surrender gains and power.
4. The cycle of social order-disorder: as documented by historian Peter Turchin and others, social order (in Turchin's phrase, the integrative phase) holds sway for about 50 years and then it gives way to an era of social disorder (the disintegrative phase). This phase doesn't end with mild reforms nobody even notices, it ends with a rebalancing of social, political and economic power.
Ages of Discord:
5. The cycle of wealth/power inequality: wealth - and the political power it buys - becomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few at the expense of the many. This feeds economic and political dysfunction and exploitation that must be remedied by reducing extremes of wealth-power inequality.
6. The cycle of speculative excess: those in power protect their wealth and the wealth of their cronies by instituting moral hazard, the disconnect of risk and consequence: the central state and central bank backstop and bail out the most egregious big speculators, who keep all their gains and transfer their losses to the public.
The public concludes the only way to get ahead in such a rigged financial system is to belly up to the gaming tables and gamble that the next bubble will never pop because those in power won't ever let it pop. But alas, humans do not possess god-like powers, they only possess hubris, and so all bubbles pop: the more extreme the bubble, the more devastating the pop. The faint cries that fade to silence are: but this time it's different! and the Fed will save us! That's not how cycles work: all the god-like powers are revealed as hubris, which arouses the fatal ire of Nemesis."
Gregory Mannarino, "Market Falls On Moronic! (Yes It Is Moronic); Pharma CEO Warns"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 12/1/21:
"Market Falls On Moronic! (Yes It Is Moronic);
Pharma CEO Warns"
"The United States Gets Even Closer To War With Both Russia And China"
"The United States Gets Even Closer To
War With Both Russia And China"
by Michael Snyder
"While most of the U.S. population is distracted by other matters, the Biden administration continues to march us even closer to war with both Russia and China. It is understandable that so much attention is being given to the craziness surrounding the COVID pandemic, our very serious economic problems and the growing violence in our streets, but ultimately our deteriorating relationships with Russia and China will become even bigger news than any of those stories. If we stay on the path that we are currently on, there will inevitably be war with Russia and there will inevitably be war with China. I do not believe that either of those conflicts will erupt this week or this month, but thanks to the recklessness of the Biden administration we are relentlessly moving toward war. So even though most of my articles address concerns that are of a more immediate nature, I am going to keep my readers periodically updated on these developments, because this is a story that isn’t going to go away.
On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin warned the United States and NATO not to deploy troops or missiles in Ukraine…"Russian President Vladimir Putin warned NATO and the US Tuesday that any deployment of troops or missiles in Ukraine would cross a “red line” and prompt a military response. “The emergence of such threats represents a ‘red line’ for us,” the Russian leader said. “I hope that it will not get to that and common sense and responsibility for their own countries and the global community will eventually prevail.”
Of course this is not the first time Putin has issued such a warning. For months, the Russians have been making it clear that they will not tolerate western forces in Ukraine. The Russians are particularly concerned about missiles, because a missile launched from Ukraine could potentially hit Moscow in five minutes.
It is kind of like the Cuban missile crisis in reverse. For good reason, the U.S. didn’t want Russian missiles in Cuba because of the close proximity. Similarly, the Russians don’t want western missiles right on their doorstep.
Unfortunately, instead of defusing the situation we continue to see NATO sending more “military hardware” into Ukraine in order to stop a potential “Russian invasion”…"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO on Tuesday of deploying a significant amount of military hardware near Russia’s borders and said Moscow could respond to security threats from Western countries and Ukraine if necessary. U.S., NATO and Ukrainian officials have raised the alarm in recent weeks over what they say are unusual Russian troop movements near the border with Ukraine, and have suggested that Moscow might be preparing to launch an attack. Moscow has denied any plans to do so."
Most Americans don’t realize this, but this is a tinderbox that could literally explode at any time. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to prepare for a future global conflict. A few weeks ago, Putin announced that testing of Russia’s new hypersonic missiles was almost done…"Earlier in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that tests of the Zircon hypersonic missiles are almost completed. Vladimir Putin said that the hypersonic weapon with maximum speed of Mach 9 will appear in Russia in the near future. These missiles can move at unimaginable speeds, and the U.S. has absolutely no way to defend against them."
Even more alarming, Putin is saying that Russia will be deploying “sea-based” hypersonic missiles early next year…"Speaking to gathered experts, Putin called the development of high-speed missiles as a “necessary” response to “Western actions.” “We have already successfully conducted tests, and from the beginning of the year we will have in service a sea-based hypersonic missile of Mach 9,” Putin said."
Russia’s “black hole submarines” are so quiet that they can literally sneak up to our coastlines without anyone ever detecting them. So imagine a scenario where a whole bunch of them suddenly surface just off our coastlines and launch hypersonic missiles which start hitting our coastal cities within just moments.
By the way, China has also developed a very alarming new hypersonic weapon system…"A senior U.S. Space Force officer has stressed that China’s new hypersonic weapon system is indeed orbital in nature and could be able to stay in space for an extended period of time. This is the latest piece of official information about this novel system that reportedly uses some kind of hypersonic glider, which may be capable of launching its own projectiles to actually execute a strike."
At this point, both Russia and China are miles ahead of us when it comes to developing hypersonic weapons. But at least the U.S. military has them both beat when it comes to conducting diversity seminars.
As bad as things are with Russia, I actually believe that war with China is even closer. Taiwan is the primary source of contention between the Chinese and the Biden administration, and things just continue to get even more tense. In fact, China just sent “about 150 aircraft” into Taiwanese airspace over a recent four day period…"The past few days have been busy in airspace off Taiwan’s southern coast, in what’s been a steady uptick of such threatening flights. “Over the past year, the frequency of Chinese incursions has increased, with about 150 aircraft over a period of four days,” The Associated Press tallied by the close of Sunday. This could mark a new record set over a four-day time period, given the first week of October say 145 PLA aircraft within the same window, a prior record. The actions had corresponded with China’s 72nd annual National Day."
I am entirely convinced that the Chinese will pull the trigger on an invasion of Taiwan at some point. When that occurs, the U.S. and China will instantly be in a state of war. But most Americans don’t really care about any of this. Most Americans will just keep their heads stuck in the sand as the world continues to go mad all around them. Unfortunately, when they do finally wake up it will be way too late to reverse course."
"Noticing Synchronicity: Interconnected Experiences"
"Noticing Synchronicity: Interconnected Experiences"
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Things happen in our lives for a reason, even if that reason is not clear to you right away. When events appear to fit together perfectly in our lives it may seem at first that they are random occurrences, things that are the result of coincidence. These synchronous happenings, though, are much more than that, for, if we look at them more closely they can show us that the universe is listening to us and gently communicating with us. Learning to pay attention to and link the things that occur on a daily basis can be a way for us to become more attuned to the fact that most everything happens in our lives for a reason – even when that reason is not clear right away.
When we realize that things often go more smoothly than we can ever imagine, it allows us to take the time to reflect on the patterns in our lives. Even events that might not at first seem to be related to each other are indicators that the universe is working with, not against, us. This idea of synchronicity, then, means that we have to trust there is more to our lives than what we experience on a physical level. We need to be willing to look more closely at the bigger picture, accepting and having confidence in the fact that there is more to our experiences than immediately meets the eye. Being open to synchronicity also means that we have to understand that our lives are filled with both positive and negative events. Once we can recognize that one event is neither more desirable nor better than the other – they all have an overall purpose in our lives -- then we are truly ready to listen to the messages the universe gives us.
While we may not be able to see everything in our lives as being synchronous, we can certainly use hindsight to be more aware of how the universe guides us. This sense of wonder at the mysteries of the universe and the interconnectedness present in our lives will help us see our overall ways of being and will in turn make it easier to work more consciously towards our spiritual evolution."
The Poet: Galway Kinnell, "Another Night in the Ruins"
"Another Night in the Ruins"
"How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames,
our one work is
to open ourselves,
to be the flames?"
~ Galway Kinnell
"Curiosity..."
"Curiosity is the essence of human existence.
'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'
I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions.
I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out."
- Eugene Cernan
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