Monday, December 6, 2021

"America’s Nightmare Winter Gets More Nightmarish"

"America’s Nightmare Winter Gets More Nightmarish"
by Bill Bonner

“Well, my dear Pangloss,” Candide said to them, “when you were hanged, dissected, whipped, and tugging at the oar, did you continue to think that everything in this world happens for the best?”
– "Candide" by Voltaire

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "You’ll recall that on Thursday last week, we began by wondering: What if, instead of being too negative in our outlook, we were too positive… too pollyannish and Panglossian? Shouldn’t we explore the possibility? And so, we’ve been looking at the dark side. Today, we continue our history of America’s Frigid Nightmare.

But first, an interruption with the latest news. The “jobs report” on Friday was pathetic. Here’s CNBC: "The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in November, in a sign that hiring started to slow even ahead of the new Covid threat, the Labor Department reported Friday." The real story is much worse. If you look at hours worked – the real measure of how much laboring is going on – you see that it has been increasing at the average annual rate of 0.3% for the last 14 years. That’s slower than population growth over the same period, which was roughly 0.8% per year, on average. In other words, the real economy has not been growing at all. Nor have real jobs. Where does this lead? That’s what we’re looking at in our “history” of the crisis ahead.

Fragile System: It began when the electrical grid collapsed. On paper, there was enough capacity to keep the juice flowing. But in practice, a centrally controlled mixture of highly manipulated solar, wind, and other “renewable” energy sources was more fragile than it looked.

Without honest price signals to guide them (everything was either subsidized or penalized)… and with inflation moving fast to confuse them… investors put little new money into the energy sector. And what was invested – incentivized by the government – was put into projects that were politically attractive, but often not very productive.

Then, push came to shove. A very cold winter. Cloudy skies. And no wind. The nation’s energy grid – or most of it – simply collapsed.

Systems Down: Homeowners had been pressured into switching to all-electric heat. It was “greener,” they were told. Electricity prices were controlled to help the “Great Transition.” Internal combustion engines were banned. Drilling for oil was curtailed.

And then… when the power went off… what could people do? Some huddled around open fires. Others took refuge in schools and public buildings. But they, too, soon grew cold. Back-up generators ran night and day. But they ran out of fuel. And with no electricity, the pumps wouldn’t work. Nor could their new electric cars be charged.

Practically all the nation’s output and delivery systems depended on software. Software ran on computers. Computers ran on electricity. And electricity now depended on the sun… and the wind… backed up by a woefully inadequate supply of energy from traditional sources. And until the grid lit up again, almost nothing moved.

From coast to coast, hungry mobs looted darkened stores. But it was not sneakers or big screen TVs they carried off; it was food. The mobs included people on Social Security as well as young hoodlums. And with electronically controlled inventory systems “offline,” and trucks sitting idle, the shelves were quickly cleared… and not restocked.

Cold and Miserable: Out in the country, it was better at first. Cows were slaughtered in the field. Locals drew on their farm tanks for emergency heating fuel. Many people still had wood-burning stoves. And they had guns. They used them to drive off refugees from the suburbs.

But even in the country, farms were no longer self-sufficient. Few had chickens in the yard or pigs in the sty. Instead, they grew cash crops, such as wheat or soybeans. And like their cousins in the suburbs, they relied on just-in-time deliveries at their local food stores, rather than just-in-case food at home.

And then, all over the country, pipes burst… toilets cracked open… pets went missing… basements flooded… and ceilings were ruined. People were hungry… cold… and miserable.

Gut Punch: After a couple of weeks, power was restored to most of the country… and people counted up their losses. Thousands had died – mostly elderly people – from “exposure”… stress… and from hunger. “Now we can get back to normal,” said President Buttigieg. But “normal” was no longer within reach. Something else had been broken. Something more important.

A headline from The Daily Beast from Saturday, December 4, 2021 put it this way: "America Is One Gut Punch Away From Throwing in the Towel on Democracy." Now, the gut punch had been delivered. And the whole nation trembled… doubled up in fear, pain, and anger. The Nightmare Winter was about to get much worse. Stay tuned."

"The Economy is in Complete Turmoil - Nothing is Stable"

Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly, 12/6/21:
"The Economy is in Complete Turmoil - Nothing is Stable"
"From one day to the next we continue to get bad economic news about the economy. We are supposed to go about our days without a care for any of this. As the problems mount people act like it’s no big deal. It’s all getting worse."

"Economic Market Snapshot 12/6/21"

 
"Economic Market Snapshot 12/6/21"
"The more I see of the moneyed classes,
the more I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
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CNN Market Data:

Gregory Mannarino, "TWO Wall Street Mega-Banks WARN On The Economy And Crypto. This Is What You Should Be Doing Now!"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 12/6/21:
"TWO Wall Street Mega-Banks WARN On The Economy
 And Crypto. This Is What You Should Be Doing Now!"

"A Brief History of Epic Mass Madness"

"A Brief History of Epic Mass Madness"
by Jim Kunstler

"The thesis called mass formation psychosis put forward lately by the Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet - a good digest here in text - goes a long way to explaining the disgraceful mindf**kery that Western Civ has fallen for in our time, promulgated by a thinking class that descended into abject madness. It’s well worth reviewing.

The descent was provoked by the existential anxiety over the collapse of techno-industrial economies and the end of progress as-we’ve-known-it. (Have you noticed: it was the self-styled “progressives” who went the craziest?) As Dr. Desmet lays it out, the disconnectedness of contemporary life, its lack of meaning or purpose for many, leads to unendurable anxiety. All that inchoate fear seeks desperately to attach itself to some real object, some thing or some force that can be comprehended, fought, and triumphantly overcome. Finding such a target produces an intoxicating sense of communal connection, purpose, and meaning, driving actions that are often crazy and also absolutely impervious to rational debate.

The angst in America was well established by 2016. A beaten-down middle-class suspected that left-of-center politicians did not have their interests at heart after years of off-shoring their jobs, and they managed to elect their avatar, Donald Trump, over the obviously unsympathetic globalist, Hillary Clinton - who snootily tagged her opposition “the deplorables.” Even so, the polls had her ahead by a mile. Then, by some weird twist of fate, she lost a few crucial counties in midwestern states she hadn’t bothered to visit, and was reportedly too plastered after midnight on election night to come down and console the troops at campaign headquarters. The shocking election outcome instantly deranged the nation’s entire managerial class and its thinking-out-loud interlocutors in the news media and on campus.

The Golden Golem of Greatness, as I liked to call Mr. Trump, was the perfect target for their animus. Threatening to “drain the swamp,” he would shatter their hard-won power privileges and deprive them of their well-worn grifts - such as the various revolving doors between big money and its regulators. Plus, his rough personality offended their own pretense of decorum (in pursuit of that power and grift). They decided that he had to go, and fast, and the whole managerial class and their allies closed ranks to get it done, not least the vicious agents of the Intel “Community,” which force-fed all the federal legal machinery - the official instruments of punishment.

If they could only knock Mr. Trump off the game-board, America’s troubles would over. We could get back on track to becoming a utopia of inclusion, diversity, equity, and self-driving electric cars. For four years the FBI, the DOJ, and other distributed players (such as the CIA mole Eric Ciaramella and his NSA co-seditionist Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, and such ignoble rogues in Congress as Rep. Adam Schiff and Senator Mark Warner) beat President Trump like a piñata, casually breaking the very law that they supposedly represented in the process. This punishment was accompanied by a growing repertoire of cult-like rituals - especially around race-and-gender hustles - with rich opportunities for the new behavior called virtue signaling, which was essentially a game of collecting brownie points for status-seeking purposes in the new moral hierarchy of the “Woke.” The social networks, Facebook and Twitter, amplified every insane strand in the Woke messaging. As Dr. Desmet says, “The more absurd the rituals, the more they buy into it.”

This demonic opposition to Mr. Trump, and all the games issuing from it, produced the characteristic intoxication of mass formation psychosis. That is, the Left became a big cozy community of people initiated into a catechism of sacred truths. The important part is that they felt united in their struggle. Folks in the grip of this belonged to something at last, a solidarity of certitude, a social organism one could lose one’s anxious, fretful self in. No more loneliness and ennui. They were imbued with a sense of purpose: the ritual killing of the monster called Trump - millions of heroic Captain Willards stealing up-river to behead the renegade Colonel Kurtz. The news media’s role was to reinforce all that, with as much bad faith and dishonesty as they could get away with, in the service of fashioning a consensus that was eventually named “the narrative” - a self-reinforcing catalog of approved thought. The anti-Trump news posse garnered brownie points galore, including Pulitzer Prizes for their completely mendacious reporting.

The trouble was, for all their epic exertions, they weren’t exactly winning. The whole RussiaGate extravaganza fizzled - and may even eventuate in some criminal convictions if independent counsel John Durham turns out to be for-real. The Mueller Report came up plumb empty, to thundering disappointment, embodied in Rachel Maddow’s frantically bobulating Adam’s apple. The UkraineGate impeachment flopped. It was nice to have a sense of purpose and feel like a member of an exclusive club, but the Wokesters were unable to “nail that ol’ coonskin to wall” (as Lyndon B. Johnson once put it about winning the Vietnam War, which we lost). By January of 2020, it looked like Mr. Trump might even win re-election - the horror indeed! - considering the Democratic Party primary candidates were the most forlorn pack of has-beens, nobodies, kooks, and damaged goods ever assembled for such a contest. But whaddaya know? Along came Covid-19.

What a lifesaver the ‘Rona was for wobbling Wokedom, a cornucopia of boons, the gift that kept on giving! It provided an opportunity for perhaps the most craven public-private cartel in all the land, the CDC/FDA /NIH /NIAID /Big Pharma gang, to work some amazing hoodoo on the Golden Golem of Greatness and eventually all the nations of Western Civ. It put the perfidious, money-grubbing, and medically incompetent Dr. Anthony Fauci at the elbow of Mr. Trump as, in effect, the National Covid-19 Coordinator. He played the President like a Flugelhorn through most of 2020 - and, as the year ground on, Mr. Trump looked like he painfully suspected as much in all those ghastly televised daily briefings.

We will not go into the appalling mRNA vaccine boondoggle in detail here, except to say it reaped zillions for those with a stake in the patents, including Dr. Fauci. But Covid-19 also provided an excuse to relax the election regulations and pave the way to colossal ballot fraud in November, with Marc Elias of the Lawfare gang (and also a partner in the DNC’s pet law firm, Perkins Coie) scurrying from state to state tuning the electoral machinery in key swing precincts for a “Joe Biden” victory - and with hundreds of millions of dollars in help from Facebook’s Marc Zuckerberg. Till then, nothing in all the weaponized legal machinery across the land had succeeded in expelling the hated object of the managerial class’s loathing, but the election would git’er done.

Remember: the Progressive-Woke-Marxist-Jacobins liked nothing better than inflicting punishment. In fact, when you swept away all their ideological bullshit and the associated hustles, the movement was strictly about coercion, about pushing other people around, making them do as the Woke commissars willed. And there was a clearly sado-masochistic edge to all that. They relished cancelling people, wrecking careers, destroying reputations, livelihoods, marriages, families. Their political leaders had no qualms about exterminating hundreds of thousands of small businesses in Covid-19 lockdowns orchestrated by Woke heroes like Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City and Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Jay Inslee of Washington State. And, of course, their darlings of the streets, BLM and Antifa, bashed-in shopfronts, looted all the merch, and burned down the buildings with mad glee.

But, most importantly, Covid-19 gave the political Left something else to focus its angst on once Mr. Trump was finally swept off the scene in the janky election. And until just the last few weeks of 2021, the virus has furnished endless opportunity for ever greater enactments of coercion and tyranny. Except now, suddenly, it’s all falling apart. In America, the claque behind the phantom president “Joe Biden” pulled the trigger on mandating vaccinations — complete with harsh punishments for the vaxx-averse - but then two things happened: 1) Federal Judge Terry Douglas in Louisiana issued an injunction against the mandate that applies in all fifty states; and 2) the news finally started leaking out - despite every effort of the US public health officialdom to hide it - that the vaccines carried an unprecedented risk of harm for medicines enlisted so casually into emergency use among so many millions of people, in addition to their negligible efficacy in preventing illness and contagion.

The Europeans, on the other hand, slid ever-deeper into despotic measures not seen since the Gestapo terrorized the continent. The Europeans face the same primal source of anxiety that the Americans do: the running down of their techno-industrial economies, except their predicament is arguably a little bit keener than ours is, since they have hardly any oil and natural gas of their own to run things on, and suffer terrible uncertainty about who will furnish it for them. If they had not gone out of their minds over what has turned out to be a pretty punk-ass virus - when treated early with a menu of cheaply available drugs - and hadn’t deified the false savior vaccines, they might be a whole lot more concerned about how they are going to heat their homes, fertilize their crops, and produce things of value - in short, remain civilized.

The catch is, they’ve given themselves until February to enforce their foolish vaccine mandates. The Omicron variant may help, too, since it is proving so far to be a grossly over-hyped development, discrediting the paranoia ginned up in the media. Can their courts act as ours have and put a stop to the madness? Between now and then we’re likely to see the defeat of the mass formation psychosis in America, at least, as the country is forced to face the truth of what it has done to itself.

Or, at least it will be the end of this chapter of that story. Perhaps the Europeans will snap out of it, too, as they see the narrative collapse in America. Or are they just too far gone? Standing by on developments."
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Sunday, December 5, 2021

"The Stock Market Bubble Has Finally Burst: The December Crash Cannot Be Stopped Anymore!"

Full screen recommended.
"The Stock Market Bubble Has Finally Burst: 
The December Crash Cannot Be Stopped Anymore!"
by Epic Economist

"Wall Street's leading stocks are taking a major beating in recent days, with some trader favorites collapsing up to 50 percent over the past few weeks. The bubble has reached its peak, and it seems that it's all downhill from here. The market's highest flying stocks, such as Tesla and Facebook, have experienced the worst downfall since last year's market sell-off. Netflix and Nvidia also sharply dropped, resulting in hundreds of billions in losses.

On Friday, the selloff gained force amid renewed fears of widespread lockdowns, pushing the NYSE FANG+ Index of the tech-industry’s giants to correction territory. Some stocks are aggressively plunging from their highly-inflated peak. These so-called momentum stocks, which including big tech names, were among the market's top performers in 2021, with their high 'prospects of growth' sparking a panic buying frenzy for stocks.

According to Bank of America's weekly fund flow statistics, investors on the top levels of the market are already rushing to the ultimate safe-havens like cash, gold, silver and U.S. Treasuries.

Only on Friday, giants like Tesla plunged by 6.4%, while Nvidia fell 4.5%. Both companies were leading the market's rally and weighed heavily on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 Index. Swings in shares of companies that couldn't justify growth or valuations have been even more extreme: Rivian Automotive faced a 40% crash from its all-time highs.

Still, many valuations are at sky-highs, so the carnage is far from over. In fact, some market veterans say it has just begun. In fact, in a recent interview, Warren Buffett's deputy, Charlie Munger, said that markets are "even crazier" right now than they were during the dot-com bubble. Just like in the late 90s, today's boom was fueled by a period of breakneck growth in technology stocks, with investors pouring giant piles of money into companies that had little to no prospects of real growth, or made no revenue or profits.

It's undeniable that today's bubble is much bigger, and that's a very worrying indicator. Particularly because, the huge 2000s stock market crash led the Nasdaq to fall as much as 9% in one day and 25% in a week. This means that the coming collapse is going to be considerably more hurtful. Sadly, many are still choosing to learn the hard way. Despite the series of warnings issued over this year, investors kept on fueling the meme stock bubble and now they're facing some exceedingly painful losses.

A sudden slide in the market is mercilessly pounding online Reddit traders' favorite shares, such as AMC Entertainment, GameStop, Peloton Interactive and Digital World Acquisition. Those are just some of the hardest hit, highlights the Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSmith. In some cases, the pain can be brutal.

From the 25 meme stocks fueling the current bubble, 24 of them are down on average by 25%, which represents a damaging $44.5 billion loss on them in just a couple of weeks. Evidently, at some point, all bull markets come to an end. But sometimes, the ending can be unexpectedly dramatic. The problem is - with some many new players in the market - the vast majority of investors on a retail level right now is seeing the recent downward trend as a mere dip, not as the start of a bigger decline.

At this stage, volatility is taking over the crypto market too. The price of Bitcoin on early Friday was around $56k. By the time markets closed, Bitcoin suffered a massive liquidation and crashed down to the $42k level, effectively tumbling into a bear market. Over 410K crypto accounts were liquidated since then, totaling $2.6 billion in losses, with the largest liquidation being $27 million, according to Coinglass data.

Such dramatic losses are a sign that the U.S. stock market has reached a turning point as global equities sink in markets all over the world. The risk of aversion is going to be unbearable for most people, and the fact that spiking inflation is forcing the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy in the coming weeks, reducing liquidity for risky assets, actually means that there's no way to reverse this trend. Those who have seen it happening before can tell that we're on the same ruinous path right now. The losses we've seen so far are just hinting what is coming next. Get ready for 70 to 80% stock market crash this month. A financial meltdown like no other is right at the corner."

Musical Interlude: Gnomusy, "Dolmen Ridge"

Gnomusy, "Dolmen Ridge"

"A Look to the Heavens"

"Most star clusters are singularly impressive. Open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884, however, could be considered doubly impressive. Also known as "h and chi Persei", this unusual double cluster, shown above, is bright enough to be seen from a dark location without even binoculars. Although their discovery surely predates recorded history, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus notably cataloged the double cluster. 
The clusters are over 7,000 light years distant toward the constellation of Perseus, but are separated by only hundreds of light years. In addition to being physically close together, the clusters' ages based on their individual stars are similar - evidence that both clusters were likely a product of the same star-forming region."

"Never..."

”Never explain. Never apologize.
 Have it done and let them howl.”
- Winston Churchill

Chet Raymo, “In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World?”

“In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World?”
by Chet Raymo

“In earlier times, when I was still teaching, it was my habit to occasionally take a wildflower, or piece of rotten bark, or pinch of oil into a biology lab where I had access to a high-quality dissecting microscope. I'd put my sample on the stage of the scope and go exploring. A hawkweed blossom, say, became the concise equivalent of a tropical jungle, teeming with wildlife.

We bemoan the loss of wilderness, and rightly so I suppose. But there are vast tracks of wilderness that we do not despoil, on a scale too small for annihilation by our marauding hand. Elephants and gorillas may be in danger of extinction, but the ants are doing just fine.

In fact, they seem to find my kitchen countertops entirely to their liking. A paradise of crumbs. An Eden of spilled nutrition. Just look at them, armies of them, as small as the period at the end of this sentence, scampering in gleeful forays.

To my eye they are only featureless specks. But I know that they have legs, antennae, mouth and anus. Sense organs. Reproductive strategies. In other words, we have a lot in common, the ants and me, including common ancestry. It's all a matter of scale. For me the wilderness is mostly gone. For the ants, it's just changing form.

In "The Creation", E. O. Wilson writes: "Ants alone, of which there may be 10 thousand trillion, weigh roughly as much as all 6.5 billion human beings." In the kitchen, I still outweigh the interlopers, but take the whole island and I suppose they might outweigh me. In any case, they don't seem to be aware of a loss of wilderness.

And while we are on the subject of scale, consider the nematodes, mostly tiny, threadlike worms whose millions of species make up four-fifths of all animals on Earth. A handful of loam might contain a thousand. They live virtually everywhere- soil, water, desert sand, arctic ice, hot springs, and as parasites of plants and animals, including humans. Pinworms and hookworms are nematodes. For the nematodes, we are part of the wilderness.”

The Daily "Near You?"

White House, Tennessee, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"I Can't Convince Myself..."

“I can’t convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”
- Kenneth Smith

“If you want to tell people the truth,
 make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
- Oscar Wilde

The Poet: Rod McKuen “A Cat Named Sloopy”

Full screen recommended.
“A Cat Named Sloopy”

“For awhile
the only earth that Sloopy knew
  was in her sandbox.
Two rooms were her domain.
Every night she’d sit in the window
among the avocado plants
waiting for me to come home,
       my arms full of canned liver and love.
We’d talk into the night then,
contented,
 but missing something.
She the earth she never knew,
me the hills I ran
  while growing bent.
Sloopy should have been a cowboy’s cat,
with prairies to run,
not linoleum,
and real-live catnip mice,
no one to depend on but herself.
I never told her,
but in my mind
I was a midnight cowboy even then.
Riding my imaginary horse
 down Forty-second street,
 going off with strangers
 to live an hour-long cowboy’s life.
   But always coming home to Sloopy,
     who loved me best.
   For a dozen summers
 we lived against the world.
An island on an island.
She’d comfort me with purring,
I’d fatten her with smiles.
We grew rich on trust,
         needing not the beach or butterflies.
I had a friend named Ben
Who painted buildings like Roualt men.
  He went away.
My laughter tired Lillian
after a time,
   she found a man who only smiled.
    But Sloopy stayed and stayed.
Winter,
       Nineteen fifty-nine,    
Old men walk their dogs.
Some are walked so often
that their feet leave
little pink tracks
in the soft snow.
Women, fur on fur,
elegant and easy,
only slightly pure,
hailing cabs to take them
  round the block and back.
Who is not a love seeker
when December comes?
Even children pray to Santa Claus.
I had my own love safe at home,
and yet I stayed out all one night,
 the next day too.
They must have thought me crazy
    screaming SLOOPY!
 SLOOPY!
as the snow came falling
down around me.
I was a madman
to have stayed away
 one minute more
  than the appointed hour.
I’d like to think a golden cowboy
snatched her from the window sill,
 and safely saddlebagged
she rode to Arizona.
She’s stalking lizards
in the cactus now perhaps,
  bitter, but free.
 I’m bitter too,
and not a free man anymore.
  But once upon a time,
In New York’s jungle in a tree,     
before I went into the world
in search of other kinds of love,
nobody owned me but a cat named Sloopy.
   Looking back,
perhaps she’s been
the only human thing
that ever gave back love to me.” 
                                                                                                
- Rod McKuen 

“10 Things You Should Know About Life’s Most Important Questions”

“10 Things You Should Know About 
Life’s Most Important Questions”
by Marc Chernoff

“It’s a harsh fact that every one of us is ignorant in some way. Although we tend to pretend otherwise, it’s impossible to know it all. Ignorance is our biggest collective secret. And it’s one of the scariest and most damaging realities of life, because those of us who are most ignorant – and thus most likely to spread ignorance – are also the ones who often don’t know it.

Here’s a quick test: If you have never changed your mind about one of your learned beliefs, if you have never questioned the fundamentals of your opinions, and if you have no inclination to do so, then you are likely ignorant about something you think you know.

What’s the quickest solution? Get outside and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, behaves, and handles certain aspects of life very differently from you, and just have a simple, honest conversation with them. I promise, some of life’s most important questions will become clearer by doing so. And it will do both of you lots of good. Once you’ve done that, here are some key things to remember:

1. Many of the biggest misunderstandings in life could be avoided if we would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”

2. An expert is not a person who gives all the right answers; she’s the one who asks the right questions.

3. Very few of us actively seek new knowledge in this world on a daily basis. We get comfortable with what we know, and we stop questioning things. On the contrary, we try to squeeze from the unknown the answers we have already shaped in our own minds – judgments, justifications, validations, forms of consolation without which we might feel incomplete or off-center. To really ask something new is to open the door to the storm.  And the answer just may blow us away.

4. If someone can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about how they answer you.

5. Monsters do exist in the real world, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous in the long run. More dangerous are the common people with good intentions who are instantly ready to believe and act without asking questions.

6. At the end of the day, the questions you ask of yourself determine the type of person you will become.

7. Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. 

8. When it comes to your relationships: Does he/she treat you with respect at all times? That’s the first question. The second question is: If he/she remains the exact same person ten years from now, would you still want to be in a relationship with him/her? And finally, does he/she inspire to be a better human being? When you find someone that you can answer yes to all three questions, you know you’ve found yourself a relationship worth having.

9. Regardless of how much you know, or how many incredible questions you ask, you can never know it all. To believe that you do, is proof of the contrary. The wilderness around us always holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. And that’s a beautiful thing.

10. Although life will always be filled with unanswered questions, it’s the courage to seek the answers that counts – this journey is what gives life meaning.  Ultimately, you can spend your life wallowing in frustration and misery, wondering why you were the one who was chosen to deal with your problems, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough and smart enough to grow from them. 

Your turn: Be present and have patience with everything that remains unexplained in your heart and mind. Try to love life’s questions. Like locked doors or like good books written in foreign languages, respect their nature. Don’t expect all the answers to come easy. They cannot be given to you right now because your present understanding isn’t ready yet. It’s a question of experiencing everything first. Right now you need to hold on to the questions – explore, learn, and live your life. Perhaps, as you do, you will gradually find yourself experiencing the answers you always wanted.

So with that said, which of the reminders above hit home the most? Why? Leave a comment below and share your thoughts and insights with us.”

"How It Really Is"

 

"It Takes Considerable Knowledge..."

 

"You Can’t Stop a Tidal Wave So You Might As Well Try" (Excerpt)

"You Can’t Stop a Tidal Wave So You Might As Well Try"
by Doug “Uncola” Lynn

(Excerpt) "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."
– Aldous Huxley

"This entire pandemic scheme has been designed as a divide and conquer undertaking… We are in the midst of this struggle for the future of our country and the world."
– Jim Quinn (11/28/2021), 

"The Omicron® virus has arrived right on schedule and, of course, quite propitiously for those promoting The Great Reset®. Fortunately, for them, each new wave has its own trademarked classification designed for maximum advertising impact within the ever-expanding COVID® brand. Accordingly, the Omicron® campaign comes just in time for kids getting jabbed and will potentially distract from the spate of gift-wrapped Faucigate books lovingly laid under living room trees this Christmas. Furthermore, Omicron®, will likely be used to conceal Covid vaccine failure and convince the Double-Jabbed to take that third swing.

As I’ve stated before, the Elite won’t turn back now. They are completely committed. This is because the Covid offensive either ends up with them lined up against walls or the We the Plebeians in digital chains.

Many reading these words were, certainly, in varying degrees, concerned at the announcement of Omicron®. But, the concern was not likely over the “virus”, per se, but regarding the reactions to the propaganda by governmental agencies and dupes alike. This is how incrementalism works: trauma and reward are the tools utilized by tyrants to train their subjects. Sadly, the fear-based lockdown and pressure-release method has most people responding like puppets to masterfully manipulated strings."
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"It's The Way..."

"It's not the load that breaks you down, 
it's the way you carry it."
- Lena Horn

Gregory Mannarino, "Markets, A Look Ahead: Keep Your Eyes On The FED Balance Sheet"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 12/5/21:
"Markets, A Look Ahead: 
Keep Your Eyes On The FED Balance Sheet"

"In The Time of Your Life..."

"In the time of your life, live - so that in good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but If the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it."
- William Saroyan,
"The Time of Your Life" (1939)
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"Sometimes..."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Don't Wonder..."

"Don't wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don't.
In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant,
wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together."
- "Grey's Anatomy"

Free Download: "The Vaccine Death Report" (PDF)

Free Download: "The Vaccine Death Report" (PDF)

"The purpose of this report is to document how all over the world millions of people have died, and hundreds of millions of serious adverse events have occurred, after injections with the experimental mRNA gene therapy. We also reveal the real risk of an unprecedented genocide.

Facts: We aim to only present scientific facts and stay away from unfounded claims. The data is clear and verifiable. Over one hundred references can be found for all presented information, which is provided as a starting point for further investigation.

Complicity: The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world. The severity of this situation compels us to ask this critical question: will we rise to the defense of billions of innocent people? Or will we permit personal profit over justice, and be complicit? Networks of lawyers all over the world are preparing class-action lawsuits to prosecute all who are serving this criminal agenda. To all who have been complicit so far, we say: There is still time to turn and choose the side of truth. Please make the right choice."
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- Dr. Luc Montagnier