"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can
reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the
extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
- Muhammad Ali
So, we rise from the rubble...
Thursday, January 6, 2022
"Tell Yourself..."
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
- Louise Erdrich
"Economic Market Snapshot 1/6/22"
"Economic Market Snapshot 1/6/22"
Updated as available.
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"The more I see of the moneyed classes,
the more I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
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MarketWatch Market Summary, Live Updates
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CNN Market Data:
CNN Fear And Greed Index:
A comprehensive, essential daily read.
Jan 6th to 7th 2022
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Financial Stress Index
"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."
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And now, the End Game...
"Reality Avoidance"
"Reality Avoidance"
by Morris Berman
"It’s quite amazing how the news is endlessly about nonsense. Filler, is what I call it. Very little of this has anything to do with reality, which the Mainstream Media and the American people avoid like the plague. What then is real?
1. The empire is in decline; every day, life here gets a little bit worse; all our institutions are corrupt to varying degrees; and there is no turning this situation around.
2. A crucial factor in this decline and irreversibility is the low level of intelligence of the American people. Americans are not only dumb; they are positively antagonistic toward the life of the mind.
3. Relations of power and money determine practically everything. The 3 wealthiest Americans own as much as the bottom 50% of the population, and this tendency will get worse over time.
4. The value system of the country, and its citizens, is fundamentally wrong-headed. It amounts to little more than hustling, selfishness, narcissism, and a blatant disregard for anyone but oneself. There is a kind of cruelty, or violence, deep in the American soul; many foreign observers and writers have commented on this. Americans are bitter, depressed, and angry, and the country offers very little by way of community or empathy.
5. Along with this is the support of meaningless wars and imperial adventures on the part of most of the population. That we drone-murder unarmed civilians on a weekly basis is barely on the radar screen of the American mind. In essence, the nation has evolved into a genocidal war machine run by a plutocracy and cheered on by mindless millions.
Most Americans hide from these depressing, even horrific, realities by what passes for ‘the news’, but also by means of alcohol, opioids, TV, cellphones, suicide, prescription drugs, workaholism, and spectator sports, to name but a few. This stuffing of the Void is probably our primary activity. In a word, we are eating ourselves alive, and only a tiny fraction of the population recognizes this."
1. The empire is in decline; every day, life here gets a little bit worse; all our institutions are corrupt to varying degrees; and there is no turning this situation around.
2. A crucial factor in this decline and irreversibility is the low level of intelligence of the American people. Americans are not only dumb; they are positively antagonistic toward the life of the mind.
3. Relations of power and money determine practically everything. The 3 wealthiest Americans own as much as the bottom 50% of the population, and this tendency will get worse over time.
4. The value system of the country, and its citizens, is fundamentally wrong-headed. It amounts to little more than hustling, selfishness, narcissism, and a blatant disregard for anyone but oneself. There is a kind of cruelty, or violence, deep in the American soul; many foreign observers and writers have commented on this. Americans are bitter, depressed, and angry, and the country offers very little by way of community or empathy.
5. Along with this is the support of meaningless wars and imperial adventures on the part of most of the population. That we drone-murder unarmed civilians on a weekly basis is barely on the radar screen of the American mind. In essence, the nation has evolved into a genocidal war machine run by a plutocracy and cheered on by mindless millions.
Most Americans hide from these depressing, even horrific, realities by what passes for ‘the news’, but also by means of alcohol, opioids, TV, cellphones, suicide, prescription drugs, workaholism, and spectator sports, to name but a few. This stuffing of the Void is probably our primary activity. In a word, we are eating ourselves alive, and only a tiny fraction of the population recognizes this."
"The Economy/Market Look 'Healthy' Until They Have A Seizure & Collapse"
"The Economy/Market Look 'Healthy'
Until They Have A Seizure & Collapse"
by Charles Hugh Smith
"Some readers occasionally make the point that I've been predicting a market crash for ten years and been dead-wrong for ten years. I'm all for mocking presumptuous pundits of either the tin-foil hat or mainstream variety, but that's not quite what I've been saying for 13 long, tedious years.
What I've been saying is that living on junk food and sugar-cocaine speedballs isn't "health" just because a handful of pills has dropped cholesterol readings to "healthy" levels. If we define "health" by a metric that is easily manipulated, then the illusion of "health" can be maintained right up until the supposedly "healthy" individual has a seizure and drops dead.
Since the 2008-2009 financial-coronary and emergency-intervention that revealed the abjectly poor health of the global financial system, central banks and states have jacked up stocks and other assets as the metric of a "healthy" economy. Just as banging down cholesterol doesn't actually make a chronically ill person subsisting on junk food, sugar and cocaine healthy, jacking stocks to new highs doesn't make the economy or financial system healthy. All it does is mask the decay of real health and amplify the eventual reckoning.
There are three dynamics at work in the artifice that ever-greater monetary and fiscal stimulus and jacked-up stock markets will restore the health of a decaying, sickly economy. One is that sugar-cocaine speedballs generate miraculous results at first: the manic rush of energy and the delusional confidence in god-like powers looks like robust health if viewed through a distorted lens that filters out all the hidden trade-offs and costs to depending on speedballs to function.
The second is the addiction to stimulus and manipulated metrics of "health" is unfailingly fatal. If the economy / market continue relying on sugar-cocaine speedballs to keep racing higher, the second-order consequences and distortions eventually trigger a seizure and collapse. (Please read "What Will Surprise Us in 2022" for an explanation of how addiction to stimulus triggers second-order consequences).
But going cold-turkey and stopping the speedball stimulus and manipulation of metrics will also trigger seizure and collapse. This is the downside of depending on feel-good stimulus and faking metrics of "health": once the artificial stimulus becomes the lifeblood, withdrawing it leads to collapse. Once ginned-up metrics are worshiped as "proof" of health, when the manipulation finally fails then all the confidence and trust in the metrics and those doing the manipulation is lost.
The third dynamic is the greater the initial buffers of wealth available, the longer the fake "health" can be propped up. Consider Japan's three decades of stagnation and largely hidden decay. Japan continues to hold vast overseas wealth and cultural cohesion, and these sources of wealth enable Japan's state and central bank to conjure trillions of yen out of thin air and trade the yen for natural gas to maintain the illusion of "health."
Less wealthy nations without central bank-issued "money" can only sustain the sugar-speedball illusion of "health" for a few years before reality intrudes and the artifice collapses.
The United States has burned virtually all of its social cohesion and trust in institutions in the past 13 years of sugar-cocaine speedball stimulus and artifice. All the sugar-cocaine speedball stimulus did was enrich the already-rich and impoverish everyone else, to the point that the top few collect 97% of all income generated by capital and own more wealth than the bottom 80%. This extreme distortion and inequality is tearing apart the economy, society and political order - all to keep 'the key metric of "health" - the stock market - soaring to new highs.
It's frustrating watching the doped-up wreck living on Cheetos, sugar and cocaine proclaiming how much energy he has and how his portfolio is soaring, as we all know his demise is inevitable. Just as the body keeps trying to compensate for the ravages of junk food, sugar and cocaine and re-establish homeostasis, the real-world economy staggers on as the people left behind by the sugar-cocaine wealth boost keep doing the real work of keeping the whole rotten edifice functioning.
But the efforts of all those keeping the real-world economy glued together can't put off the consequences of our total dependence on sugar-cocaine speedballs and the artifice of asset bubbles being "proof" of "health. The junkie living on speedballs keeps going right up until the moment they have a seizure and collapse. Right up until this sudden demise, the junkie insists they're healthy because "look at my low cholesterol reading."
The decay is hidden and gradual, but the collapse is sudden and irreversible.
So one index or asset or another hits a new high, wow, more proof everything is so robust and healthy, we never had it so good - right up to the seizure and collapse."
"Dire Warnings? The Financial Crisis Is Already Here"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly 1/6/22:
"Dire Warnings? The Financial Crisis Is Already Here"
"It seems that bad news spurs the stock market.
We keep getting Dire Warnings about the economy.
Trouble is coming they say. No, it's already here."
"Wall Street Banks Have an Alibi for their $11.23 Trillion in Emergency Repo Loans from the Fed – It’s a Doozy"
"Wall Street Banks Have an Alibi for their $11.23 Trillion
in Emergency Repo Loans from the Fed – It’s a Doozy"
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
"From September 17, 2019 through July 2, 2020, the trading units of the Wall Street megabanks (both domestic and foreign) took a cumulative total of $11.23 trillion in emergency repo loans from the Federal Reserve. The loans were conducted by one of the 12 regional Fed banks, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York – which is literally owned by megabanks, including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and others."
Please view this complete article here:
So, while you lose your jobs and homes,
these psychopaths get $11.23 TRILLION in 9 months...
And don't hold your breath waiting for it, it's never coming...Why?
Strong language alert!
George Carlin, "The Big Club"l
"It's a Big Club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the Big Club."
Gregory Mannarino, "Freefall - The Economy Continues To Meltdown"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 1/6/22:
"Freefall - The Economy Continues To Meltdown"
"Stocking Up At Sam's Club! Buying What We Can!"
Full screen recommended.
Adventures with Danno, 1/6/22:
"Stocking Up At Sam's Club! Buying What We Can!"
"In today's vlog we are stocking up at Sam's Club! With stores struggling to get in products we head to Sam's Club to stock up on some essential items, and check out some of their rising costs on items. We are buying what we can to save a few dollars, and take you along with us to see if they have any of the missing items everyone is looking for. Thank you so much for watching, and we'll see you in the next video!"
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
"IRS Is Watching You; FED About To Crash The Market; Assault On Small Business; Tax Target"
Full screen recommended.
Jeremiah Babe, PM 1/5/22:
"IRS Is Watching You; FED About To Crash The Market;
Assault On Small Business; Tax Target"
"All Over America, An Unprecedented Shortage Of Workers Is Forcing Businesses To Shut Down"
Full screen recommended.
"All Over America, An Unprecedented Shortage
Of Workers Is Forcing Businesses To Shut Down"
by Epic Economist
"In every corner of America, businesses are deeply struggling to find enough workers and resume normal operations. In the entire history of the United States, we have never seen such a persistent shortage of labor. With each passing day, more disruptions caused by this nationwide staffing shortfall are being reported. Most employers say that they have never experienced anything like this before. In fact, not very long ago, we had a chronic unemployment problem that stretched back for decades. Economists used to insist that our economy would never be able to generate enough jobs for everyone, but that turned out to be wrong. There are currently more than 10 million open positions all around the nation, and employers are scrambling to attract people back to the workforce.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.5 million Americans voluntarily left their jobs in November, which has pushed the quits rate to 3%, matching the high from September. The report also highlighted that workers in the hospitality industry had the highest quits rate, at 6.1%, and those in health care, transportation, warehouse, and utilities came just behind. "Workers continued to quit their jobs at a historic rate. The low-wage sectors directly impacted by the [health crisis] continued to be the source of much of the elevated quitting," explained Nick Bunker, the director of research at the Indeed Hiring Lab. Industry analysts expect this dynamic to persist during the whole year of 2022, especially considering the new wave of virus cases.
In recent months, the conditions in the labor market have become so critical that businesses closures related to severe staffing losses are being reported on an almost daily basis, with small businesses being particularly hard hit. Zoe Olson, the executive director of the Nebraska Restaurant Association, notes that the problem is a confluence of many factors: from workers’ health concerns to lack of child care amid the gathering restrictions, just to name a few. “It’s a perfect storm,” Olson said. And it’s affecting all sectors of the economy -- not only restaurants -- from suppliers to truck drivers, he added.
At this stage of the crisis, even some of the biggest corporations in the country can't find enough workers. Last month, many consumers were shocked to learn that Apple has closed every single one of their stores in New York. All around the nation, public-facing businesses are going through yet another wave of shutdowns as employers quit their jobs amid the worsening health crisis. What's even more worrying is that there are other institutions where a lack of workers can literally put the lives of thousands of people in danger. Right now, hospitals are severily struggling with a critical staff shortage, and many facilities had to permanently or temporarily halt some services.
With the number of available workers drastically reduced, many businesses are starting to come up with very creative alternatives to stay afloat. For instance, in California, some hotels are now utilizing robots. As the hospitality industry faces mounting pressure to provide attentive service, in Silicon Valley, robots are filling the gap left by workers. Even though that may sound strange, industry executives say that this is where things are headed now. And there are many advantages to using robots for everyday services. According to Cousins, the robot only needs to be trained once to be able to navigate the lobby and hallways, and it is even adapted to call for an elevator and press the destination floor. This trend is just the beginning. One CNN report estimated that by 2030, robots could have taken over 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world.
Perhaps that has been the plan of the elites all along. Unfortunately, when the economy starts sliding and people try to come back to these jobs, they won't be there anymore. Our world is rapidly becoming an extremely bizarre place, and it is safe to say that things will soon become even weirder. Those who are still waiting for things to come back to normal can stop waiting because it simply is not going to happen. As technology advances, our society will continue to be transformed at a breathtaking pace, and we must be ready to face a different world as global events accelerate even further as we hurtle through the early stages of 2022."
Gregory Mannarino, "One Two Punch! New 'IHU' Variant And The FED Hit Stocks, And This Will Happen"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 1/5/22:
"One Two Punch! New 'IHU' Variant And The FED
Hit Stocks, And This Will Happen"
"Celente & The Judge: Loss of Constitutional Rights Underway, Fight for Freedom or Lose it Forever"
Full screen recommended.
"Celente & The Judge: Loss of Constitutional Rights Underway,
Fight for Freedom or Lose it Forever"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"This gorgeous island universe lies about 85 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Fornax. Inhabited by young blue star clusters, the tightly wound spiral arms of NGC 1350 seem to join in a circle around the galaxy's large, bright nucleus, giving it the appearance of a cosmic eye. In fact, NGC 1350 is about 130,000 light-years across. That makes it as large or slightly larger than the Milky Way.
For earth-based astronomers, NGC 1350 is seen on the outskirts of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, but its estimated distance suggests that it is not itself a cluster member. Of course, the bright spiky stars in the foreground of this telescopic field of view are members of our own spiral Milky Way galaxy."
“We Are All Like Elephants”
“We Are All Like Elephants”
by Marc Chernoff
"In many ways, our past experiences have conditioned us to believe that we are less capable than we are. All too often we let the rejections of our past dictate every move we make. We literally do not know ourselves to be any better than what some opinionated person or narrow circumstance once told us was true. Of course, an old rejection doesn’t mean we aren’t good enough; it just means some person or circumstance from our past failed to align with what we had to offer at the time. But somehow we don’t see it that way - we hit a mental barricade that stops us in our tracks.
This is one of the most common and damaging thought patterns we as human beings succumb to. Even though we intellectually know that we’re gradually growing stronger than we were in the past, our subconscious mind often forgets that our capabilities have grown. Let me give you a quick metaphorical example…
Zookeepers typically strap a thin metal chain to a grown elephant’s leg and then attach the other end to a small wooden peg that’s hammered into the ground. The 10-foot tall, 10,000-pound elephant could easily snap the chain, uproot the wooden peg and escape to freedom with minimal effort. But it doesn’t. In fact the elephant never even tries. The world’s most powerful land animal, which can uproot a big tree as easily as you could break a toothpick, remains defeated by a small wooden peg and a flimsy chain.
Why? Because when the elephant was a baby, its trainers used the exact same methods to domesticate it. A thin chain was strapped around its leg and the other end of the chain was tied to a wooden peg in the ground. At the time, the chain and peg were strong enough to restrain the baby elephant. When it tried to break away, the metal chain would pull it back. Sometimes, tempted by the world it could see in the distance, the elephant would pull harder. But the chain would not budge, and soon the baby elephant realized trying to escape was not possible. So it stopped trying.
And now that the elephant is all grown up, it sees the chain and the peg and it remembers what it learned as a baby - the chain and peg are impossible to escape. Of course this is no longer true, but it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the 200-pound baby is now a 10,000-pound powerhouse. The elephant’s self-limiting thoughts and beliefs prevail.
If you think about it, we are all like elephants. We all have incredible power inside us. And certainly, we have our own chains and pegs - the self-limiting thoughts and beliefs that hold us back. Sometimes it’s a childhood experience or an old failure. Sometimes it’s something we were told when we were a little younger. The key thing to realize here is this: We need to learn from the past, but be ready to update what we learned based on how our circumstances have changed (as they constantly do).“
"When The Demons Come..."
"Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the positive existence of something, without having known and overcome it's polar opposite - that is to be only a frame of the real structure. Easily toppled down and taken apart. True power is in the hands of the one who thrives in the positive, after having known and conquered the negative. Because when the demons come along, she will say to those demons: "I know you, I have owned you, but now you bow down to me."
- C. JoyBell C.
"The Economic Meltdown Worsens - The Fed Cannot Hold It Together"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly, 1/5/22:
"The Economic Meltdown Worsens -
The Fed Cannot Hold It Together"
"Things We Don't Want to Do: Outside the Comfort Zone"
"Things We Don't Want to Do:
Outside the Comfort Zone"
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"Doing things we don't want to do, or that scare us, creates flow in our lives and allows us to grow. Most of us have had the experience of tackling some dreaded task only to come out the other side feeling invigorated, filled with a new sense of confidence and strength. The funny thing is, most of the time when we do them, we come out on the other side changed and often wondering what we were so worried about or why it took us so long. We may even begin to look for other tasks we've been avoiding so that we can feel that same heady mix of excitement and completion.
Whether we avoid something because it scares us or bores us, or because we think it will force a change we're not ready for, putting it off only creates obstacles for us. On the other hand, facing the task at hand, no matter how onerous, creates flow in our lives and allows us to grow. The relief is palpable when we stand on the other side knowing that we did something even though it was hard or we didn't want to do it. On the other hand, when we cling to our comfort zone, never addressing the things we don't want to face, we cut ourselves off from flow and growth.
We all have at least one thing in our life that never seems to get done. Bringing that task to the top of the list and promising ourselves that we will do it as soon as possible is an act that could liberate a tremendous amount of energy in our lives. Whatever it is, we can allow ourselves to be fueled by the promise of the feelings of exhilaration and confidence that will be the natural result of doing it.”
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Of course, some have different perspectives...
Very strong language alert!
"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't ****ing want to do.
Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another.”
- “Al Swearengen”,
Ian McShane's character in “Deadwood”
Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another.”
- “Al Swearengen”,
Ian McShane's character in “Deadwood”
The Poet: William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"
"The Second Coming"
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- William Butler Yeats, January 1919
"Our Dilemma..."
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time;
what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. "
- Sydney J. Harris
"War in Pieces"
"War in Pieces"
by Bonner Private Research
Poitou, France - "The nasty little bug launched an aggressive new assault on the Bonner household yesterday. Another member of the family got sick… and your editor was ambushed in an unexpected flank attack. The doctor was called to the scene… a portly man with a walrus mustache. He came to the house and confirmed that we were sick. He left us with prescriptions for antibiotics… and advice to call him again if the bugs seem to be advancing. Your editor now sits in his office with a box of Kleenex and a cup of hot tea, nursing his wounds and planning his next move.
But there are still dots to connect… and it falls to him to connect them. So here goes: One of the curiosities of life in America, in the 21st century, is that no matter how many wars are lost… no matter how much money is wasted on them… or how many lives are ruined by them… people still want more. Or, at least, the deciders do.
One ‘expert’ warns that we must defend the Ukraine… or pretty soon, the Russians will be marching down the Champs-Élysées. Another tells us that our ‘credibility’ will be lost unless we confront China… or Iran. And, of course, we have to fight global warming, racism, the Covid, poverty, drugs – you name it. “War is the health of the state,” said Randolph Bourne. We’re neither condemning nor praising. We are just predicting; get ready for more of it.
The Dumbest Wars: So far this century, the feds have continued their misbegotten wars against drugs and poverty – losing both, but continuing to spend vast amounts of money, put thousands of harmless people in prison, and doom the poor to a life of welfare dependence. And then there’s the Bush administration, launching three of the dumbest wars in US history – the war in Afghanistan, the war against Iraq…and the woebegone ‘War on Terrorism.’
The first went on for 20 years… and ended in a loss for the US. The second contradicted the first, since Saddam Hussein was an enemy of Islamic terrorists. And the third never made sense at all. The war against terror was a war against nobody-in-particular which ended up costing $8 trillion and from which no-one-in-particular realized any real victory – except, of course, the military/industrial/surveillance complex.
The Fed’s Wall Street Bailout came next. Stocks were way too high. Too many people owed far too much money. Markets typically ‘correct’ errors and redress imbalances. But no sooner had Mr. Market wiped out Lehman Bros… on his way to cleaning up messes all up and down Wall Street… than the Fed declared war. Mario Dragi, then head of the European Central Bank, spoke for the whole brethren of the Elite Establishment. Facing falling asset prices, and sounding almost Churchillian, he said he would do “whatever it takes” to prevail over honest markets.
In the US, the Fed’s key rates, adjusted for inflation, were dropped into negative territory. The Fed also pumped some $4 trillion of new money into the system to spare Goldman Sachs and other large players the embarrassment of having to make good on their bad loans, pay their debts, and curb their multi-million-dollar bonuses. These steps were advertised as ‘emergency’ measures. But adjusted for inflation, the Fed was still lending money at negative rates in 2020 – 11 years after the Wall Street bailout.
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(Source: Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve)
And then, when Covid Crisis arose, the trumpets sounded again. Another war! The enemy was tiny – a virus – but the stakes were huge… and so were the quantities of claptrap and capital drafted to fight the bug. In the space of just 2 years, the Fed added nearly $5 trillion more to its balance sheet. US debt rose nearly $6 trillion. Whole populations were confined to their barracks. Output of real goods and services collapsed. But some industries always do well in a war. And the pharma industry must have felt its hour had come when Donald Trump demanded a vaccine on the market at ‘Warp Speed,’ whatever that is.
But as the state’s cheeks got rosier, the people it is meant to serve grew pale and gray. For they are the ones who must pay. The costs get spread among the whole population… in higher taxes… more debt, and finally, inflated consumer prices. In short, more and more of their families’ output goes to support the government’s many ‘wars,’ leaving less and less for their peaceful lives.
How to Miss the Point: It is hard to put numbers on the phenomenon. And no one in The Elite Establishment would want to try. Or even admit that it is a phenomenon. As far as the deciders are concerned, they are doing God’s work… whether they are building pyramids to honor the ruling class, sending people to gulags to protect the workers’ paradise, or putting up windmills to protect the planet from ‘climate change.’ No questions are welcome. Who can doubt, they would say, that they are making the world a better place?
GDP growth, per capita, very roughly and imperfectly, measures the rate at which people get what they are after. As the wars increased, GDP growth/capita fell from an historic 2.2% per year… which was little changed from 1870 to 1999… down to 1.1% since then. US GDP per capita is now about $58,000. Van Hoisington comments:
"If the GDP per capita had grown at the pre-2000 pace, it would be nearly $73.474 or 25.6% higher. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the quarter before the pandemic disrupted economic activity, real per capita GDP was about 17% below the trend line of the historic pre-2000 growth rate. References that real GDP has recovered to the pre-pandemic level badly miss the point. As correctly documented many times, the expansion from 2009 until early 2020 was the worst in U.S. economic history. The period of subpar performance is not eleven years but nearly two decades. During this long span the pernicious effects of massive indebtedness on U.S. economic well-being has increased dramatically."
Simplifying, people either get what they want – by exchanging goods and services with each other. Or, they get what somebody else wants – thanks to the wars, regulations, taxes, inflation, debt etc that are imposed on them. Our guess… merely extrapolating from the last 20 years… is that we will see even less of the former and a lot more of the latter. Stay tuned."
"Grocery Prices Going Up At WalMart! What's Coming?"
Adventures with Danno, 1/5/22:
"Grocery Prices Going Up At WalMart! What's Coming?"
"In today's vlog we are at Walmart with a lot of empty shelves. We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and to get a few items. It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
"Healthy Athletes Dropping Dead of Cardiac Arrest for 'No Reason'"
Full screen recommended.
"Healthy Athletes Dropping Dead of Cardiac Arrest for 'No Reason'"
"What is the common factor affecting
athletes world wide as they collapse unexpectedly?"
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"The Vaccine Death Report"
by David John Sorenson and Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, MD
"Purpose: 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."
Freely download "The Vaccine Death Report" here:
"21/22"
"21/22"
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
"If I say that 2020 was the year of the virus, and 2021 the year of the vaccine, most people would probably agree. But 2021 was so much more than that; it was also the year of propaganda, media capture and narrative control at levels beyond anything we’ve ever seen. Even if many -most- people haven’t experienced it that way.
And that has likely had more negative impact on us than the vaccine itself. A close call perhaps, I know. The good thing that has come out of this is that so much of it has been exposed. Much of the underlying tendencies towards authoritarianism, and disregard for truth, and blind desire for profit, for a Great Reset, population control, abandonment of freedoms and human rights, it’s all there now for us to see.
We need to act upon that exposure. Get rid of Fauci, Walensky, Pfizer, CDC, and their peers across the planet, of the WHO, of all health “experts” that receive income from/via Pfizer et al (which is the vast majority), put a halt to the influence of money (Bill Gates) on health policy. A society, a country, need to be their own boss over their own fundamental policies. And that means paying for it ourselves.
And not have policies easily changed by a group of politicians and unelected officials (“experts”) who happen to have grabbed power at a particular point in time. A society needs roots, and ours have been uprooted. From principles, from laws, from rights. This will not be easy, we already gave them a 2 year advantage, but if we don’t use this time when the spotlights are directed at them, we will lose even much more than we have already lost. We’ve let them play their games, virtually uncontested, and we cannot afford that.
This appears to culminate in Twitter’s handling of Joe Rogan and Robert Malone recently, and that’s fine, Twitter is not big enough to tackle Rogan, while CNN and MSNBC audiences are drops in the ocean compared to Joe’s. They bit off one too big for them to chew.
But that’s just the US, and that’s just one podcaster, one voice. The control virus that has come with the corona virus has delved much deeper into the world’s various societies. Just yesterday, we saw video from my country of birth, Holland, where police set attack dogs on peaceful elderly protesters, and say what you will, but that country is neither free nor a democracy. That claim is 100% obsolete.
That it is accepted regardless gives credence, and a lot, to Matthias Desmet and his “Mass Formation Syndrome” theories, but we should not really need his analysis, useful as it may be, to figure out what is going on. All we need to do is take a step back and wonder what the hell is going on. To ponder how we saw our societies 2+ years ago, how we ourselves would have seen these recent developments in the light of back then. We can’t have forgotten all of it?!
That Anthony Fauci is still in his job is absolutely insane. He became head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 40 years ago, he’s 81, older than Joe Biden. He’s been building ties to Big Pharma, especially Pfizer, all that time, in the shadows, the best place for such deals.
He was in his position when Pfizer received the biggest criminal fine in US corporate history in 2012, of $2.3 billion, for lying and cheating and more. Now, a few years later, Fauci works with Pfizer and the rest of Big Pharma, and makes their owners billionaires and their shareholders very rich. He is the very last person who should have been in his where he is, both 2 years ago and now.
Fauci is not the best doctor in the US, he’s just the best connected to the pharma industry. That guarantees Americans the worst deal they could get, not the best. And of course anyone else at the upper echelons of the NIAID, CDC, FDA, they need to go too. Fauci et al put them there.
In the US and elsewhere, any politician, individual or through their party or otherwise, and any health experts, individual or through their organization or company, who have received funds from Big Pharma or Bill Gates, should be discarded, put out by the curb. We should be able to figure this out, because it’s NOW that they stand exposed. Perhaps not TO Covid, but certainly BY Covid.
It’s the only way we can cleanse the system. Which is needed if we want to survive, with our health, our conscience, and our freedoms and rights. We have let an enormous amount of mold, rot, grow at the pillars of our societies, and we should be glad we can see it now, because this allows us to exterminate it.
We cannot allow Pfizer to gain even more influence over our health systems. Which will be a very hard fight, because our politicians and experts handed them $100s of billions, which they are using as we speak to buy more politicians and lobbyists and influence, and profit.
You can’t stop this by voting for another party. Pfizer probably has more lobbyists on K Street than all of Big Oil put together. And they have them in party and every every country that matters, in every strategic position that matters, and they will soon have many more. No, you must cut their entire voice out of the politics and health care of your society. Yes, very difficult, sure. But today, you can at least see them. For a short time. That won’t last.
Along with all that the World Economic Forum, and their Great Reset, it will have to go. They don’t do anyone any good but themselves. A big club that we ain’t in. Which reminds me: The Automatic Earth has shifted a lot towards Covid over the past 2 years, and surely many readers are not 100% happy with that. But the financial world is still captive to central banks that won’t allow price discovery, which makes “markets” just fake pantomimes that former investors get rich in while the poor suffer.
While the climate issue has been captured by the likes of COP 26, a toy for the rich who want to make you pay to “go green”, in accordance with Davos and the WEF. I feel sorry for the well-meaning people who expect anything from that set-up. Nobody who owes their money or their power to fossil fuels will voluntarily give up either, but they will make you fork over for windmills and solar cells whose energy dynamics you don’t actually understand.
Just like with Covid, if you want to free yourselves from the narrative, you will have to open your eyes and go to battle. An untested vaccine won’t set you free, and neither will an electric car. Those two are just things you are being sold by the narrative.
But believe you me, the no. 1 issue today is the vaccines. We need to stop those, before all of our children grow up with timebombs in their bodies. Every jab means more spike proteins, and boosters are worse because they come after your immune system has learned, and prepared for, how to attack those proteins, who by then may be in every organ in your body. And attack them it will, because they are toxic agents.
I don’t want to tell people to get a vaccine or not, but I do want to tell them to be very careful, to get informed well, and only then give their consent, if they decide to get jabbed. It’s just that you have to be confident that your immune system is strong enough to defend you from the effects of the vaccine, and that’s the opposite of what 99% of people understand is happening to them.
So, 2020 year of the virus, 2021 year of the vaccine, and 2022 year of the adverse effects of the vaccines?! And/or a grand awakening?"
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Hat tip to The Burning Platform
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