Dan, I Allegedly, "Did You Get Your Stimulus Check?"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/22/23

"Did You Get Your Stimulus Check?"

"The IRS just issued an update to stimulus checks. Many people are still entitled to get a stimulus payment for the year 2020 and 2021. Today we discuss how to get this payment. Plus, we cover so much in the news right now."

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"IRS Says Some People Can Still 

Get COVID Stimulus Cash... Here's How"

"Sometimes..."

 

“Here’s The Real Story About Thanksgiving You’ve Never Heard”

“Here’s The Real Story About

 Thanksgiving You’ve Never Heard”

Especially the parts about Squanto the “friendly Indian.”

by Nick Bauman

“The Thanksgiving story you know probably goes a bit like this: English Pilgrims, seeking religious freedom, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they found a rich land full of animals and were greeted by a friendly Indian named Squanto, who taught them how to plant corn. The true story is more complicated. Once you learn about the real Squanto - also known as Tisquantum - you’ll have a great yarn to tell your family over the Thanksgiving table.

I asked historian Charles Mann, the author of “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”, and Paula Peters, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and an expert on Wampanoag history, to tell me the real story. “This is not revisionist history,” Peters promised. “This is history that’s just been overlooked because people have become very, very comfortable with the story of happy Pilgrims and friendly Indians. They’re very content with that - even to the point where no one really questioned how is it that Squanto knew how to speak perfect English when they came.”

Here’s what really happened. In 1614, six years before the Pilgrims landed in modern-day Massachusetts, an Englishman named Thomas Hunt kidnapped Tisquantum from his village, Patuxet, which was part of a group of villages known as the Wampanoag confederation. (Europeans had started visiting the northeast of what is now the United States by the 1520s, and probably as early as the 1480s.) Hunt took Tisquantum and around two dozen other kidnapped Wampanoag to Spain, where he tried to sell them into slavery.

“It caused quite a commotion when this guy showed up trying to sell these people,” Mann said. “A bunch of people in the church said no way.” Tisquantum escaped slavery - with the help of Catholic friars, according to some accounts- then somehow found his way to England. He finally made it back to what is now Massachusetts in 1619. As far as historians can tell, Tisquantum was the only one of the kidnapped Wampanoags to ever return to North America, Peters notes.

But while Tisquantum was in Europe, an epidemic had swept across New England. “The account that’s recorded by Gov. Bradford of Plymouth Plantation is that there’s a shipwreck of French sailors that year on Cape Cod,” Mann said. “One of them carried some disease and it wiped out a huge percentage of the population in coastal new England. The guess is it was some kind of viral hepatitis, which is easily communicated in water. It exploded like chains of firecrackers.”

When Tisquantum returned to Patuxet, he found that he was the village’s only survivor. “Into this bumbled the Pilgrims,” Mann said. “They had shown up in New England a few weeks before winter. Up until the Pilgrims, the pattern had been pretty clear. Europeans would show up, and Indians would be interested in their trade goods, but they were really uninterested in letting [Europeans] permanently occupy land.” Often, armed native people would even force Europeans to leave if they attempted to stay too long.

This time, the Europeans wanted to stay, and the disease that had decimated Patuxet ensured that they had a place to settle. “Patuxet ultimately becomes Plymouth,” Peters explained. “They find this cleared land and just the bones of the Indians. They called it divine providence: God killed these Indians so we could live here.” A website Peters helped create for the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival puts it even more bluntly: “The graveyard of [Tisquantum's] people became Plymouth Colony.”

Massasoit, a local Wampanoag leader, didn’t trust Tisquantum. “He looks at this guy and smells trouble,” Mann said. Massasoit kept Tisquantum under what was essentially house arrest until the Pilgrims showed up and promptly started starving to death.

Patuxet wasn’t the only native village decimated by the plague. The entire Wampanoag confederation had been badly hit – as much as 75 percent of the Wampanoag population was wiped out, Mann said. But the Narragansett, a rival neighboring group, basically weren’t affected by the disease at all. That put the Wampanoag in a precarious strategic position. Massasoit had an idea. “He decides we’ll ally with these guys, set up a good trading relationship, control supply of English goods, and the Narragansett won’t be able to attack us,” Mann said. On March 22, 1621, Massasoit went to meet with the Pilgrims. He brought Tisquantum along to translate.

Mann described the meeting in a 2005 article in Smithsonian Magazine: “Tisquantum most likely was not the name he was given at birth. In that part of the Northeast, tisquantum referred to rage, especially the rage of manitou, the world-suffusing spiritual power at the heart of coastal Indians’ religious beliefs. When Tisquantum approached the Pilgrims and identified himself by that sobriquet, it was as if he had stuck out his hand and said, “Hello, I’m the Wrath of God.”

Massasoit was right not to trust Tisquantum, who soon tried to pit the Pilgrims against him. But the plan didn’t work: Massasoit “is just pissed off and demands the Pilgrims hand him over because he’s gonna execute him,” Mann said. The Pilgrims didn’t. Instead, Tisquantum stayed in the colony with them, helping them prepare for the next winter.

“Never did the newcomers ask themselves why he might be making himself essential,” Mann wrote in Smithsonian. “But from the Pilgrims’ accounts of their dealings with him, the answer seems clear: the alternative to staying in Plymouth was returning to Massasoit and renewed captivity.”

It’s all a lot more complicated – Machiavellian, even – than the story you might have learned. Mann in Smithsonian again: “By fall the settlers’ situation was secure enough that they held a feast of thanksgiving. Massasoit showed up with “some ninety men,” Winslow later recalled, most of them with weapons. The Pilgrim militia responded by marching around and firing their guns in the air in a manner intended to convey menace. Gratified, both sides sat down, ate a lot of food and complained about the Narragansett. Ecce Thanksgiving.”

So what does this all mean? “While it was by far not the first occasion of human trafficking conducted by European explorers to the new world, the capture of Squanto and his fellow tribesmen would forever alter the course of history for people on two continents,” Peters wrote on the anniversary website. “We learn about Columbus landing in 1492 and it’s as if nothing happened for over 100 years until the Pilgrims landed,” Mann added. “But the Tisquantum story gives you this tiny peek into that all the people involved had been interacting for more than a century. And today, of course, the Wampanoag are still around.”

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"How It Really Is"

"That's where it all begins. That's where we all get screwed big time as we grow up. They tell us to think, but they don't really mean it. They only want us to think within the boundaries they define. The moment you start thinking for yourself - really thinking - so many things stop making any sense. And if you keep thinking, the whole world just falls apart. Nothing makes sense anymore. All rules, traditions, expectations - they all start looking so fake, so made up. You want to just get rid of all this stuff and make things right. But the moment you say it, they tell you to shut up and be respectful. And eventually you understand that nobody wants you to really think for yourself.”

- Ray N. Kuili, “Awakening"

Adventures With Danno, "Stocking Up At Aldi!"

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Adventures With Danno, 11/22/23

"Stocking Up At Aldi!"

"In today's vlog, we are at Aldi and are stocking up on some of these great deals on groceries. Aldi is having a massive holiday sale, and we all need to be taking advantage of this opportunity. We take you with us and show all of these great deals going on!"

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Meanwhile, elsewhere...

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Travelling with Russell , Posted 11/21/23

"Russian Typical Supermarket: Globus"

"What does a Russian Typical (German) Hypermarket look like inside. Join me as i take a tour inside Globus, one of the most popular Hypermarket in Russia. Discover what a real Russian Typical (German) Hypermarket looks like."

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"One Could Make People Believe..."

“One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."

- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

"JFK's Executive Order 11100 Abolishing the Federal Reserve"

"JFK's Executive Order 11100 Abolishing the Federal Reserve"

by John P. Curran

“Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution specifically says that Congress is the only body that can "coin money and regulate the value thereof." The US Constitution has never been amended to allow anyone other than Congress to coin and regulate currency. So what’s the Federal Reserve?

In 1910 Senator Nelson Aldrich, then Chairman of the National Monetary Commission, in collusion with representatives of the European central banks, devised a plan to pressure and deceive Congress into enacting legislation that would covertly establish a private central bank. This bank would assume control over the American economy by controlling the issuance of its money. After a huge public relations campaign, engineered by the foreign central banks, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was slipped through Congress during the Christmas recess, with many members of the Congress absent. President Woodrow Wilson, pressured by his political and financial backers, signed it on December 23, 1913. The act created the Federal Reserve System, a name carefully selected and designed to deceive. "Federal" would lead one to believe that this is a government organization. "Reserve" would lead one to believe that the currency is being backed by gold and silver. "System" was used in lieu of the word "bank" so that one would not conclude that a new central bank had been created.

In reality, the act created a private, for profit, central banking corporation owned by a cartel of private banks. The Federal Reserve Bank, a.k.a Federal Reserve System, is a Private Corporation. Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as: "A Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves." Privately-owned banks own the stock of the FED. Who owns the FED? The Rothschilds of London and Berlin; Lazard Brothers of Paris; Israel Moses Seif of Italy; Kuhn, Loeb and Warburg of Germany; and the Lehman Brothers, Goldman, Sachs and the Rockefeller families of New York. Did you know that the FED is the only for-profit corporation in America that is exempt from both federal and state taxes? The FED takes in trillions of dollars per year tax free! The banking families listed above get all that money.

The FED basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the FED banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve Act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave Congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the FED over the economy is universally admitted. Any one person or any closely knit group who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine the power these people would have. This is exactly what the privately owned FED is!

An often overlooked aspect of John F. Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the Constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.

When Kennedy signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency- money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated.

It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America. Kennedy knew that if the silver-backed United States Notes were widely circulated, they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve Notes. This is a very simple matter of economics. The USN was backed by silver and the FRN was not backed by anything of intrinsic value. Executive Order 11110 should have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level (virtually all of the nearly $37.7 trillion in federal debt has been created since 1963) if LBJ or any subsequent President were to enforce it. It would have almost immediately given the U.S. Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the private Federal Reserve Banks and being charged interest to create new "money". Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S.A. the ability to, once again, create its own money backed by silver and realm value worth something.

President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. According to the United States Secret Service, 99% of all U.S. paper "currency" circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes. It seems very apparent that President Kennedy challenged the "powers that exist behind U.S. and world finance."

Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. The Latin phrase, “Cui bono” ("To whose benefit?," literally "as a benefit to whom?”), is frequently applied in determining motive for a crime. Ask yourself, who had the most to lose if Kennedy had lived, and who benefited the most from Kennedy’s assassination? The answer is the same to both questions."

- http://rense.com/general76/jfkvs.htm

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"No man did more to expose the power of the FED than Louis T. McFadden, who was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. In describing the FED, he remarked in the Congressional Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932: "Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government Board, has cheated the Government of the United States and he people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the maladministration of that law by which the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions, departments, or agencies. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully placed upon this country by bankers who came here from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.

The FED basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the FED banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve Act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the FED over the economy is universally admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, such as President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, that have spoken out against it. His efforts were spoken about in Jim Marrs' 1990 book "Crossfire":

"Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.

Kennedy's comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks. In a comment made to a Columbia University class on Nov. 12, 1963, ten days before his assassination, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy allegedly said: "The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight. In this matter, John Fitzgerald Kennedy appears to be the subject of his own book... a true "Profile of Courage."

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Executive Order 11110

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended — (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): "(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption," and (b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof. 

SECTION 2. The amendment made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE

June 4, 1963

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Once again, Executive Order 11110 is still valid. According to Title 3, United States Code, Section 301 dated January 26, 1998: The 1974 and 1987 amendments, added after Kennedy's 1963 amendment, did not change or alter any part of Kennedy's EO 11110. A search of Presidential Directives has shown no reference to any alterations, suspensions, or changes to EO 11110."

- http://www.lust-for-life.org/

Tom Clay, "What The World Needs Now"

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Tom Clay, "What The World Needs Now"

Detroit DJ Tom Clay brought this out in the early 1970's and was seen as a celebration of the message behind that spread by John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.

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Canadian Prepper, "Breaking: Iran On Full Combat Alert, 12 Hours To Next Phase"

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Canadian Prepper, 11/21/23

"Breaking: Iran On Full Combat Alert, 

12 Hours To Next Phase; Biblical Oil Crisis Looms"

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Jeremiah Babe, "Big Trouble For The Economy, The Economic Endgame Will Be Brutal;

Jeremiah Babe, 11/21/23

"Big Trouble For The Economy, The Economic

 Endgame Will Be Brutal; Home Sales Collapse"

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Gerald Celente, "Retail Recession, Global Panic"

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Gerald Celente, Trends Journal 11/21/23

"Retail Recession, Global Panic"

"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present facts and truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for what’s next in these increasingly turbulent times."

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Musical Interlude: 2002, "A Change of Season"

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2002, "A Change of Season"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the below stunning mosaic.

The familiar Horsehead nebula appears as a dark cloud, a small silhouette notched against the long red glow at the lower left. Alnitak is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star to the left of the Horsehead. Below Alnitak is the Flame Nebula, with clouds of bright emission and dramatic dark dust lanes. The magnificent emission region, the Orion Nebula (aka M42), lies at the upper right. Immediately to its left is a prominent bluish reflection nebula sometimes called the Running Man. Pervasive tendrils of glowing hydrogen gas are easily traced throughout the region.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101005.html

Chet Raymo, “Non-overlapping?”

“Non-overlapping?”

by Chet Raymo

“Let me posit a difference between religion and science:

Religion: Future>Present>Past

Science: Past>Present>Future.

Let me explain. Religion, as it has traditionally been understood in its institutional guise, begins with the dream of a comforting future. An escape from the apparently inescapable reality of death. Which impacts our daily lives in the present. Determines, for example, codes of morality, inspires great deeds of goodness or mayhem. Mandates rites and rituals. Appease the gods and live forever. Which requires a story to satisfy the human need for context. So we look to past reports of foundational miracles. Christ rising from the dead. Muhammad's night flight to Jerusalem. Joseph Smith's encounter with the angel Moroni.

Science, on the other hand, begins with the past. With sequences of events that appear to be causally related. The causal connection is affirmed or refuted by experiment. If such-and-such occurred in certain circumstances in the past, does it also occur in the present? We devise quantitative "laws of nature" that express our consistent experience with the past. Which can be extrapolated to predict probable futures.

Stephen Jay Gould called religion and science "non-overlapping magisteria." But they run in opposite directions in our minds. The a priori future of religion is not the same as the a posteriori future predicted by science. Nor is the a posteriori past promulgated by religion susceptible to the a priori examination of science. The opposing intellectual streams of religion and science may be non-overlapping, but the "real" worlds they hypothesize are sharply divergent. Some folks manage to hold both worlds in their minds simultaneously. To me this smacks of cognitive dissonance. For those who can pull it off, more power to them - as long as they don't restrict my freedom to dissent.”

- http://blog.sciencemusings.com/

"You Can Never Tell..."

"You can never tell what people have inside them

until you start taking it away, one hope at a time."

- Gregory David Roberts

The Poet: Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"

"The Great and the Good"

"The Great and the Good"

Examining a crucial historical pivot in recent American history...

By Bill Bonner

"Sagest in the council was he, kindest in the hall.

Sure we never won a battle – ‘twas Owen won them all.

Had he lived – had he lived – our dear country had been free;

But he’s dead, but he’s dead, and ‘tis slaves we’ll ever be…"

"Lament for the Death of Owen Roe O’Neill", By Thomas Davis

Youghal, Ireland - On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot. He died soon after. Much of the world went into mourning. Never before or since has Washington seen such a gathering of dignitaries…nor so many common folk…all who came to pay their respects.

Jack Kennedy had made many friends. His New Frontier was widely applauded. At home, he lowered the top marginal tax rate from 91% to 65%. Abroad, he sought peace. He explained in a speech at American University that his kind of peace was “not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave."

And yet, after his death, American weapons were soon at work, creating a world, not at peace, but almost constantly at war. Before his assassination, JFK had sent out an order, bringing US troops back from Vietnam. That order was quickly forgotten. The new president, LBJ, had another program, much more to the liking of the ‘military industrial complex.’ Over the next 11 years, 2.7 million American soldiers would go to fight a war that Johnson had promised would be a war for the Vietnamese to fight. By the time the last US helicopter escaped from the US embassy roof in 1975, 58,000 Americans had died and a trillion dollars had been spent. More importantly, the good had given way to the great.

An Historical Pivot: We are reviewing a ‘pivot’ in recent American history. It was the moment when the military/industrial/spook/Congressional complex – the most powerful industry in the world – took control of US politics...and the empire took on a life of its own.

Specifically, we are recalling the history of the 1960s – aided by the recollections and research of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – and our own personal history. Bob Dylan, the Doors, Aretha Franklin…marijuana…the Rolling stones…bell bottoms – and the hope of a better world – it is all coming back into focus. We were not born cynical, dear reader; it took many fads, rascals, bear markets and political campaigns to make us what we are today.

One clear memory…It was a summer evening in 1967. We had gone with a friend to the banks of the Chesapeake. Percy Sledge’s great hit – ‘When a man loves a woman’ – was on the radio. We were back from college, regaling each other with our adventures. But Tommy had dropped out. He set his sights on a different life – simpler, more local. He had read Faulkner and Hemingway. His goal was success at home…not abroad. It was success as a person he wanted, not as captain of industry nor of infantry. “Aren’t you worried about getting drafted?” “No…I’m going to sign up. Get it over with.” “Aren’t you worried about getting killed? And what’s the point, anyway? The war seems like a waste.” “Yeah…but otherwise, I’ll have to listen to my mother complaining about me dropping out of college.” That was the last time we saw Tommy. Life is full of casualties. Some are more tragic and pointless than others. Tommy was one of them.

America the Great? What the Kennedys seemed to be aiming for was a government that practiced restraint and reduced the casualties. A good nation does not tax too heavily, does not spend too much, treats people with respect (even those with whom it doesn’t agree) and only fights when it has to. But after Kennedy was assassinated, the US took a different course. Lyndon Johnson promised action…activism…empire. Bombs and bamboozles. Attila was great. Alexander was great. Caesar was great. Napoleon was great. Why not Lyndon? Why not Ronald…Donald…or Joe?

“The People” took the cue. The masses always come to think what they must think when they must think it. Americans were no different. Flattered by the best military money could buy, they came to believe that they were an exceptional race. Madeleine Albright, then Secretary of State, must have reached some apotheosis of conceit when she proclaimed that “if we use force, it is because we are America. We stand tall….we see further into the future.”

We have argued that there are patterns to markets (the Primary Trend)…and patterns to history. A normal man is held in check by his friends, his wife, and his children. When he makes a jackass of himself, they are quick to let him know. So too is a humble nation held in check by its neighbors, its resources and its own people. It may be good or bad. But sometimes – with the wind at its back – the lust for greatness takes over. A nation seeks not just to get along, but to dominate…and control; it becomes an empire. But the Kennedys stood in the way.

Concrete Boots: First, Robert Kennedy took on the mobsters. Appointed Attorney General by his brother, RFK had a ‘Manichean approach’ to law enforcement. There were good guys and bad guys. He wanted to put the bad ones in jail.

At the time, the mafia was gaining power…and corrupting the US justice system (suborning witnesses, bribing judges). He aimed to put them out of business. In Senate hearings, he brought in Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo; Joe “Little Caesar” DiVarco; Carlos “The Little Man” Marcello…and dozens of other colorful mobsters. In his first three years as Attorney General, RFK filed 673 indictments against organized crime figures.

The mafiosos didn’t forget. And didn’t forgive. What’s more, they felt betrayed. They believed that the Kennedys would protect them, not prosecute them. There are several competing stories to explain it. One tells us that Joe Kennedy had made a deal with the mob; if they helped deliver the votes in Chicago he would tell his sons to lay off them. Another story is that the Kennedy boys were connected to the mob on their own. Their sister, Pat, was married to Peter Lawford, one the famous “Rat Pack,” along with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. Sinatra installed a heliport at his residence in Palm Springs so the president could come to visit. Jack Kennedy may even have shared a mistress – Judith Campbell Exner – with Sinatra’s mafia pal, Sam Giancana.

Whatever the origins of the story, the mob felt betrayed when Bobby Kennedy went after them with a vigor they had never seen before. “Livarsi na petra di la scarpa,” said Carlos Marcello in 1962. The old Sicilian curse has an English variant, said to have been invoked by Henry II: “Will no one rid me of that turbulent priest?” In another documented exchange, mobster Santo Trafficante assured Cuban exile leader Jose Aleman that he needn’t worry about President Kennedy: “No, Jose, he is going to be hit.”

An Empire Unchallenged: Another group that didn’t like the Kennedys was the aforementioned War Industry. Their business, too, was being severely hampered by the Kennedys’ desire to give peace a chance…and their general distrust of both the military and the spies. By this time, the CIA and the mobsters were working together. Their target was supposed to be Fidel Castro. The mafia had its connections in Cuba. The CIA’s mission was to assassinate Fidel, at which, it failed.

The assassination of JFK, however…like the murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170, was a shocking success. Who did it? Did the CIA aim for Castro and hit Kennedy? Did the mafia settle its score with the Kennedy family? Or was it a ‘lone gunman,’ as the Warren Commission concluded? We don’t know. But since then, no president has ever seriously challenged the empire’s agenda. "

- https://bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/

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Gregory Mannarino, "Three Major Banks In Trouble, More To Follow, Count On It"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/21/23

"Three Major Banks In Trouble,

 More To Follow, Count On It"

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"Türkiye Will Destroy Israel With Nuclear Weapons If They Don't Cease Fire in Gaza"

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Douglas Macgregor, 11/21/23

"Türkiye Will Destroy Israel With Nuclear Weapons 

If They Don't Cease Fire in Gaza"

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Scott Ritter, 11/21/23

"Israel Is The Terrorist, They Murder Children,

 Bomb Hospitals, They Must Be Prosecuted"

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"Middle East Wars and Oil Shocks"

"Middle East Wars and Oil Shocks"

by Nick Giambruno

"On October 7, Hamas, an armed Palestinian militant organization that controls the Gaza Strip, launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. It was the most significant attack against Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which started almost 50 years ago to the day. Now, Israel has formally declared war for the first time since 1973. The Middle East is on the precipice of a regional war that could eclipse the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Many people don’t appreciate how close we are to a catastrophe of historic proportions that will touch everyone.

Remember, American support for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War was the catalyst for the OPEC embargo, which caused the first oil shock. The oil price roughly quadrupled, from around $3 per barrel to about $12 in a matter of days. It immediately triggered an energy crisis. There were gas shortages and panic in the US as drivers sat in lines stretching for blocks, waiting to fill their gas tanks.

The second oil shock followed in 1979 as crude prices nearly tripled. A large conflict in the Middle East was again the cause - the Iranian Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq War. A third oil shock occurred in 1990 as Iraq invaded Kuwait, causing oil prices to more than double.

Here’s the bottom line. Big Middle East wars are often catastrophic for global oil supplies. And supply disruptions cause price spikes. It’s a simple relationship. This isn’t surprising. Analysts estimate that over 40% of global oil exports come from the Middle East.

Today, the Middle East is again on the cusp of a large regional war between Iran and its allies and Israel and its allies. The conflict could potentially be more destructive than the conflicts that caused the prior oil shocks.

Iran’s allies consist of Hamas and several other armed Palestinian groups, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, an assortment of Iraqi militias, and the Houthis, who control most of Yemen.

Israel, the US, most European countries, and their regional Arab allies of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain are on the other side. However, widespread anger against Israel is forcing Washington’s Arab allies into a more neutral stance. That means it will be the US and Israel who will likely be doing the actual fighting against Iran and its allies should the situation escalate, which is likely in my view. Here’s how that could happen…

Hamas’ October 7th attack could be the spark that lights the region on fire. It has led to an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza with gruesome house-to-house urban warfare. Hezbollah in Lebanon is orders of magnitude more powerful than Hamas. It has made no secret that it intends to open a second front for Israel in the north if Israel appears to be successful with a ground invasion of Gaza.

The US has signaled that it could get involved if Hezbollah does. The war spreading to Lebanon would likely bring neighboring Syria, which is allied with Hezbollah, into the conflict. Israel has already bombed the international airports in Damascus and Aleppo in Syria several times. Iraqi militias, pro-Iranian forces in Syria, and the Houthis in Yemen have already launched attacks against US bases and other targets, signaling their readiness to enter the conflict.

And, of course, there is Iran itself, which has said it won’t be a passive observer and often threatens to attack Israel directly. Israel has also threatened to attack Iran directly. However, there is only a limited amount of damage Israel can do to Iran - short of using its nuclear weapons. That’s because there is a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers between them. The best Israel could do is a couple of limited airstrikes, which would spur Iran to retaliate on Israeli territory with its precision ballistic missiles. This means the US military would have to do the heavy lifting in a war against Iran. The US has made clear that it will join the war if Iran does.

War with Iran means the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy corridor, comes into play. Further, Russia and China are standing behind Iran with overt and covert military and economic support. In short, there is a good chance the situation will escalate into a full-blown regional war because neither side appears willing to back down, which means escalation is likely. The underlying geopolitical dynamics will keep the region unstable even if the current conflict does not lead to a regional war.

Tensions have been building for a long time in the Middle East as the geopolitical momentum has turned in favor of Iran and its allies in recent years. The US and Israel find an empowered Iran intolerable and have been eager to find a way to knock Tehran and its allies down. They could now have their chance. The Israelis have not been shy about their intentions to go after Iran, which they regard as the source of many of their problems. Sooner or later, I expect them to act.

Here’s the bottom line as I see it. The previous status quo in the Middle East is not tenable. Either the US and Israel knock Iran down - which would require winning an uncertain regional war - or they cede the Middle East to Tehran and its allies. Either outcome would be a geopolitical disaster for the US. Ceding the Middle East to Iran means giving up on the petrodollar system, which serves as the bedrock for the US financial system, and putting the existence of Israel into doubt. Accepting that outcome is politically impossible for any US politician.

However, as the Millennium Challenge 2002 war game showed, going to war with Iran could mean the US military suffers a crippling defeat. My guess is that the US military will try to avoid war with Iran for as long as possible but will eventually be forced to take action in a last-ditch effort to save Israel and the petrodollar system. Even then, there is a good chance they will lose it all anyway.

The implications of all of this are immense and historical. They won’t be confined to the Middle East. In short, we are only one escalation away from potentially the biggest oil shock in history. Unfortunately, most people have no idea how close we are to a catastrophe of historical proportions..."

- https://internationalman.com/

Bill Bonner, "Far Wrong on Politics"

Argentina’s president elect, libertarian economist, Javier Milei

"Far Wrong on Politics"

The mainstream press peddles misinformation about Argentina's election...

by Bill Bonner

"I don't know what's right or left,

I'm too drunk to even stand.

Why the devil won't you help me,

Please take your foot off of my hand..."

~ "Pinkard and Bowden," as sung by Willie Nelson

Paris, France - 'The US mainstream press has totally misunderstood Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei. Intentionally, we presume. We pay attention to Argentina. Partly because we have an office in Buenos Aires and investments in Salta Province…and partly because we learn from it. When it comes to politics and finance, there is no goofy, absurd and counter-productive trick the Argentines haven’t tried at least once.

We study their trip of the last 120 years – from king of the road…and then, down into the gutter. And now we get to watch as they try to tow themselves back on the highway. (We even played a small part in Milei’s election. The New York Times says an endorsement from former president Macri helped put Milei over the top. Our office down there put Milei and Macri together.)

Crushing the Establishment: But look at the press coverage. Here’s The Washington Post: "Argentina set for sharp right turn as Trump-like radical wins presidency."

"BUENOS AIRES — A radical libertarian and admirer of Donald Trump rode a wave of voter rage to win Argentina’s presidency on Sunday, crushing the political establishment and bringing the sharpest turn to the right in four decades of democracy in the country."

Turn to the right? Does this reporter know his left from his right? A Buenos Aires voter explained it to him: “I have three jobs, and it’s never enough,” he said, holding his six-month-old daughter after voting in a working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires. “We’ve already seen what Peronism has done. We need a change.”

And here’s a Reuters report with more misinformation: "Argentine far-right libertarian Milei sweeps to victory." Far right? Think again! The New York Times, meanwhile, wanted to make it even clearer what we were dealing with on the pampas. It called Milei a “mini-Trump.’ "Everyone in the mainstream seems to think Milei is a right-winger…like Trump, Desantis, or Haley. Even Trump himself seems to believe it, sending his well-wishes to Mr. Milei following the victory announcement."

It falls to us to fact check. And what we find is that the only thing Milei and Trump have in common is their enemies. The New York Times…The Washington Post…the Establishment…the press…academia…the politicians and bureaucrats – none welcomes a fake reformer…and certainly not a real one. The earnest professors…weapons suppliers…columnists and up-and-coming reporters…newly elected members of Congress….Wall Street honchos – all have a keen interest in ‘what is.’ They are the ones who shape public policies. They are the chief…and maybe the only…beneficiaries of them.

‘What isn’t’ – a world in which the chips fall where they may…not necessarily where the elite want them…that is, a world with less government – is unwelcome. In the world that is, they see government as the source of wealth and power. The only question is, where does it go? To the left, poorly represented by Mr. Biden? Or to the right, poorly represented by Mr. Trump?

Vermin Politicians: On the ‘left,’ Mr. Biden promises more of the same – more rules, more regulations, more deficits and more debt. He will continue spending on favored projects…boosting asset prices…generous pay-offs for lobbyists and insiders…and more profits for cherished industries – notably poverty-fighting, microchips and the military. If any of these things are threatened…say, by a ‘debt ceiling’ or a recession, the Biden Team will do whatever is necessary to get the pumps working as soon as possible.

Mr. Trump, on the ‘right,’ is another matter. Generally despised and distrusted by the Great and the Good, he is the perfect foil for the elite left – a fake and incompetent reformer. Both Biden and Trump believe that “the People’ can’t be allowed to err and stray like lost sheep. They need direction; they will give it to them – at the barrel of a gun, if necessary. And they will use the gun to eliminate the ‘vermin’ that don’t agree with them.

But that is what makes Mr. Milei different. He is neither right nor left. For him, the vermin are those in the ‘political caste.’ He aims to clear them out - the profiteers, hangers-on, lobbyists, consultants, think tank ‘experts,’ parasites, bureaucrats, and other freeloaders – and let ‘the People’ decide for themselves what to do with their own money. Will he succeed? Not likely, but we will keep our eyes open."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com

"How It Really Is"

 

Dan, I Allegedly, "I Had $120,000 Vanish From My Bank Account"

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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 11/21/23

"I Had $120,000 Vanish From My Bank Account"

"Margaret Lomax sold her home and had her life savings at farmers and merchants bank. She transferred it to city bank and $120,000 disappeared. Plus, the Tustin Marine Base continues to burn with toxic chemicals spewing in the air."

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Jim Quinn, "Defying Authority"

"Defying Authority"

by Jim Quinn

"Stanley Milgram’s experiment was conducted in 1963, before the internet, social media, and the complete takeover of the U.S. by the Deep State. His estimate that only 20% of the population have the critical thinking skills to defy authority may have been true in 1963, but I think it is far lower today. The powers that be (invisible government per Edward Bernays) utilize every tool at their disposal to make sure their authority is not defied. They have perfected Bernays’ propaganda techniques, integrating lies, misinformation and fear into their formula of control.

Witness everything that has happened in the last several years as proof they have been successful in suppressing any substantive defiance to their authority. The entire Covid scamdemic was a modern day Milgram Experiment and the vast majority of the world population were duped into believing the annual flu was such a horrific threat that they agreed to be locked down, lose their jobs, treat others like lepers, mask & distance, give their government unlimited authoritarian power, agree to censor and cancel critical thinking dissenters, and ultimately be injected with an untested, toxic, gene therapy that failed to combat covid, but certainly has caused millions of “sudden deaths”, turbo cancers, and myocarditis in young people.

Those who questioned the clearly stolen 2020 presidential election have been systematically destroyed by those in authority. Make a critical thinking case about rigged voting machines, fraudulent mail in ballots, or ballot stuffing, and you lose your livelihood, like being shocked in a Milgram Experiment. The authorities declared January 6, 2020 an armed insurrection, but no Trump supporters were armed or killed anyone. An armed black government thug killed an unarmed woman, but he was declared a hero by the authorities that engineered the fake insurrection.

The J6 tapes just released are another example of authority destroying the lives of peaceful protestors because they dared question the 2020 election results. Many innocent victims of Pelosi, the FBI and the rest of the traitorous Deep State scum who stole the election are rotting in DC dungeons as their punishment for thinking critically and exercising their First Amendment rights. It was a setup from the beginning, but the sheep obediently believe what the authorities spout.

Stanley Milgram would be astounded at how far his research has been used as an owner’s manual, rather than a dire warning to resist authority. For those of us still capable of critical thought, never bow to authority. We are the last bastion against the tyranny engulfing this world."

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"Milgram's Obedience Experiment"

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Hat tip to Jim Quinn and 

The Burning Platform for this material.

"World War III Prelude: Middle East Crisis 11/21/23"

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Scott Ritter, AM 11/21/23

"If Hezbollah Jumps Into Gaza w Both Feet,

 Israel Could Literally Face Strategic Defeat"

Hezbollah and Iran will destroy all of Israel.

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Col. Douglas Macgregor has stated that  Hezbollah alone has 150,000 missiles,

 while Iran has over 3,000 ballistic missiles capable of striking anywhere in Israel.

"Table of Iran's Missile Arsenal"

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Hindustan Times, AM 11/21/23

"Hezbollah's Deadly Missile & Mortar Strikes On

 Israel's North; Five Killed As IDF Strikes Lebanon"

"The border skirmish continues to escalate between Israel-Lebanon as Israeli forces step up attacks on Hezbollah. The Israeli forces claimed to have hit 3 Hezbollah anti-tank missile squads in Lebanon. The IDF said Lebanon launched anti-tank missiles towards Israel's northern city of Metula. Lebanon said that Israeli strikes killed four people, including two journalists. The IDF action was in response to deadly Hezbollah missile & mortar attacks on Israel's north. One Israeli woman was reported dead in Hezbollah attacks yesterday in northern Israel."

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OpenmindedThinker Show, 11/21/23

"Al-Qassam Brigade Stages Biggest 

Street-To-Street Resistance in Gaza!"

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Democracy Now! AM 11/21/23

'A Grim Milestone: Journalist Death Toll Tops 53 

as Israel Kills More Reporters in Gaza and Lebanon"

"The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that at least 50 journalists and media workers have been killed in Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza. Forty-five of the slain journalists have been Palestinian. Others have been arrested or injured. According to CPJ, this has been the deadliest period for journalists covering conflict since the media group began tracking deaths over 30 years ago. Meanwhile, journalists in Israel and the West Bank have been confronted with cyberattacks, physical assault and other forms of censorship for allegedly "harming national morale and harming national security" while reporting on Israel. It's a "news blackout," says CPJ's program coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Sherif Mansour, under which the Israeli government is blocking "essential media coverage" and withholding "lifesaving information" from Gaza in order to win its Western propaganda war."

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"Car Market Collapse Will Trigger The Biggest Shift In Prices As Companies Brace For Chaos Ahead"

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Epic Economist, 11/21/23

"Car Market Collapse Will Trigger The Biggest Shift 

In Prices As Companies Brace For Chaos Ahead"

"We have good news if you’re in the market for a new or used car: The U.S. auto market is finally facing the shift everyone was waiting for – prices are reporting significant month-over-month declines, and a set of factors, including a higher-than-expected rise in supply, will lead to even steeper price cuts in the final weeks of 2023.

After over a year of continued gains, new data shows that the vehicle sector has entered a bear market. In the second and third quarters, the market shifted into lower gear, and now analysts predict that an oversupply of vehicles will lead to an end-of-year price war that will finally bring affordability back to somewhat ‘normal’ levels.

But experts with Cox Automotive – the owner of the closely followed Manheim Vehicle Value Price Index – say there’s a light at the end of the tunnel as wholesale prices continue to drop in November. Just in the first 15 days of the month, dealers paid almost 2.3% less for vehicles at auction in the U.S. And now, wholesale prices are down by 5.3% amid falling demand and surging inventories.

This means a downward spiral is already in motion. Wholesale price drops usually become retail price drops after about six to eight weeks. And retail prices are already dropping. On Friday, the Manheim Index for used vehicles fell to 206.1, meaning that it officially entered a bear market with a 20% decline. Meanwhile, new car prices have been getting better for months. The Index also shows that pickups are selling for about 4.2% less at auction right now, and SUVs for 4.8% less. Compact cars are down 10.7%, and midsize cars about 8%. Broadly, the difference in average price between new and used is back to where it was in 2019.

While that’s great for would-be buyers who have been waiting for some relief for almost two years, it is also a sign that manufacturers are already experiencing financial losses. UBS estimates that car production will exceed sales by 6% this year, resulting in an excess of 5 million cars that will require sizable price cuts to be sold before the end of the year. Some of these price cuts have already happened, with electric vehicle makers Lucid and Tesla slashing the prices of popular models by nearly $20,000.

Manufacturers and dealerships are in panic mode ahead of the holiday season. They are motivated to clear out their inventory by year-end, and that can trigger a rush to the bottom that may result in an ugly downturn for the industry. They need to make room for the incoming 2024 models, and every day a 2023 model sits on the lot, it eats into their profits. The longer a car remains unsold, the more it costs in terms of dealership floor planning expenses.

Companies are giving 2023’s year-end sales everything they’ve got. Those who have been waiting for low APR financing, shouldn’t miss this chance because this opportunity could be gone by January. There are only about six weeks left before the end of the year, and the final quarter always carries extra weight for car makers and dealerships. Meeting sales goals is now a top priority, both for business success and employee bonuses. Consequently, there’s added pressure to sell every vehicle possible in December.

Expect to see the sharp declines experts have been warning about throughout the whole year. Prices are likely to drop more abruptly than anticipated as companies try to boost their financial results to mask their losses, and divert the attention from the crisis that is unfolding in the sector with some short-term gains."

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Adventures With Danno, "Massive 'Holiday Sales' At Meijer!"

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Adventures With Danno, AM 11/21/23

"Massive 'Holiday Sales' At Meijer!"

"In today's vlog, we are at Meijer and are going over the different holiday deals on groceries. We also find a massive amount of food items that have gone up in price!"

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"BRICS Emergency Meeting; Israeli Base Wiped Out; Ukraine Collapsing; NATO Preps For War With Russia"

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Canadian Prepper, 11/20/23

"BRICS Emergency Meeting; Israeli Base Wiped Out;

 Ukraine Collapsing; NATO Preps For War With Russia"

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"11 Signs That U.S. Consumers Are In Very Serious Trouble As We Head Into The Final Stretch Of 2023"

"11 Signs That U.S. Consumers Are In Very Serious

 Trouble As We Head Into The Final Stretch Of 2023"

By Michael Snyder

"U.S. consumers are getting weaker and weaker and weaker. Today, debt levels have risen to unprecedented heights, but thanks to roaring inflation our standard of living has been steadily going down. Most Americans are working extremely hard, but they have very little to show for it. And now the latest economic downturn is really starting to bite. Layoffs are starting to surge again, once thriving businesses are shutting down all over the nation, and hunger and homelessness are exploding. If economic conditions continue to deteriorate at this pace, what will things look like a year from now?

For decades, we have been able to count on U.S. consumers to just keep spending money no matter what the economic outlook was, but now things have changed. The following are 11 signs that U.S. consumers are in very serious trouble as we head into the final stretch of 2023…

#1 U.S. renters are spending 30 percent of their incomes just on rent…"Renters remained burdened in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2023 despite a slight improvement as insurance costs to landlords mounted, according to a new report by Moody’s Analytics.

Moody’s Analytics found that in Q3, the U.S. rent-to-income ratio (RTI) declined slightly by 0.5% and ended at 30%, a level that is the threshold for being rent-burdened. Renters are considered “burdened” if their rent payments consume 30% or more of their gross, or pre-tax, income. This comes after last year marked the first time that the median renter household in the U.S. paid over 30% of their income on an average-priced apartment when the national RTI reached a high of 30.8%."

#2 One food bank executive just told USA Today that she is seeing “the worst rate of hunger in my career” right now… “This is the worst rate of hunger in my career,” said Morgan, who has worked at food banks in Boston, San Francisco and Anchorage, Alaska. “It’s so large, it’s hard to wrap your head around.”

#3 Wells Fargo just shut down 13 bank branches in a single week…"Six banks filed to close almost 40 branches last week leaving millions of Americans without access to vital financial services, with Wells Fargo alone axing 13 locations. Wells Fargo has been a leader in the closure of branches around the country, having closed 160 in the first half of the year, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence."

#4 Average hourly earnings for all employees have fallen by 3.32 percent since Joe Biden entered the White House…"Millions of Americans have received a pay cut over the past two years thanks to high inflation, a blow to President Biden as he attempts to center his re-election campaign around “Bidenomics.” The Labor Department reported Tuesday that average hourly earnings for all employees was $11.05 in October — a 3.32% decline from the $11.43 figure in January 2021, when Biden took office."

#5 Due to a lack of consumer demand, three different major Burger King franchisees have recently declared bankruptcy…"Premier Kings, a 172-unit Burger King franchisee whose owner died in 2022, declared bankruptcy protection, saying that operating losses even after the company closed restaurants forced the issue. It’s the third time this year that a major Burger King operator has taken such a step, while several others closed restaurants around the country in the aftermath of the chain’s sales and profit challenges."

#6 Vice Media has announced that it will be laying off dozens of staffers…"Vice Media, the one-time digital media darling that has seen its value and influence greatly diminish in recent years, moved on Thursday to further hollow out its once prestigious news division, shutting down several shows and laying off dozens of staffers"

#7 According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, almost 20,000 media jobs have already been eliminated this year…"Nearly 20,000 jobs have been eliminated across the media industry this year as of October, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas."

#8 Amazon is laying off hundreds of workers in its Alexa division…"Amazon on Friday said that it is cutting “several hundred” jobs within its Alexa division. The layoffs come as the e-commerce giant is “shifting some of our efforts to better align with our business priorities, and what we know matters most to customers - which includes maximizing our resources and efforts focused on generative AI,” an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to FOX Business."

#9 Just in time for the holidays, Citigroup has decided to conduct large scale layoffs… "Citigroup will soon begin layoffs in CEO Jane Fraser’s corporate overhaul, CNBC has learned. Employees affected by the cuts will be informed starting Wednesday, with new dismissals announced daily through early next week, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Those impacted will include chiefs of staff, managing directors and some lower-level employees, said the people. The cuts will spread to more rank-and-file staff by February, they added.

#10 As consumer wealth has dried up, federal tax receipts have been falling on a quarterly basis since the third quarter of 2022…"Rather, federal spending is rising even as federal revenues have fallen, year over year, for ten of the last twelve months. Moreover, on a quarterly basis, federal receipts have been falling—quarter-to-quarter—since the third quarter of 2022."

#11 80 percent of U.S. households are actually poorer than they were when the COVID pandemic originally hit this country…"As of June, the bottom 80% of households by income, when adjusted for inflation, had lower bank deposits and other liquid assets compared to their status in March 2020. The decline marks a significant shift from the initial phases of the pandemic, where various factors, including government financial support and restricted spending opportunities during lockdowns, led to an accumulation of excess savings."

Most Americans have been getting poorer, but the cost of living just keeps getting even more oppressive. As a result, the middle class is literally being hollowed out. The absolutely massive gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else has become an extremely pressing issue in this country, and it is going to lead to enormous civil unrest during the chaotic years that are ahead of us. Our leaders were able to keep the economy propped up for a long time by injecting trillions of fresh dollars into the system. But now the “endgame” has arrived, and it is going to be incredibly painful."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/