A Major Disconnect – Elites vs. the Working Class
War monger Lindsey Graham wants to shoot down Russian planes in international airspace. “If you ever get near another US asset flying in international waters, your airplane will be shot down,” he said, addressing the Kremlin’s leaders on Fox News.
Like many neocons and his late puppet master – John McCain – Miss Lindsey never saw a war he didn’t want the US to be part of. A former former JAG in the Air Force Reserve, the closest Graham came to danger was the night he tried to hit on a brunette’s husband at an officers club dance.
This is not the first time Graham has proposed that the US ramp up hostilities against the Kremlin. Last year, he called on Russians to kill Vladimir Putin to help end the Ukraine war.
“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Graham tweeted on March 4, 2022. Brutus was the historical Roman figure who killed Julius Caesar, while Claus von Stauffenberg was a German officer known for his failed assassination of Adolf Hitler.
Yet Graham is hardly the only member of congress that wants to give Zelenskyy a blank check and is willing to fight a nuclear war over Ukraine. And, the elite and the media fully support giving Ukraine everything Zelenskyy wants. The mainstream media has acted as Zelenskyy’s propaganda arm.
Fortunately, responses from potential Republican presidential candidates to a questionnaire from Tucker Carlson indicates that the serious Republican candidates want a negotiated peace and do not consider the Ukraine one of this country’s most important issues.
All of the three parties to the war — Moscow, Kyiv and Washington — are incentivized to continue the bloodshed. Putin views the outcome of the war as existential. Russia, which has seen its buffer zone with NATO reduced to as little as 100 miles after the Baltic states joined NATO in 2004, has drawn a red line over Ukraine. Russia’s capacity and manpower outmatch Ukraine’s, enabling Putin to continue a war of attrition.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot back down either. His entire persona is wrapped up in the image of a wartime president and freedom fighter. Losing his status of international hero by capitulating to Putin would mean that Zelenskyy could no longer secure U.S. and European cash, on which his country is fully dependent for survival as Ukraine’s industrial capacity and agricultural base are destroyed.
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President Biden must start thinking strategically, and fast. The Russia-Ukraine war is a local conflict between countries the U.S. does not have alliances with. He must consider the larger ramifications of his decision to become deeply involved in it and consequences that threaten the world order that has protected and enhanced U.S. national and economic security for decades.
The war in the Ukraine has already taken it’s toll on the United States:
- We have given Ukraine >$115-billion at a time when our nation’s debt exceeds $30-trillion
- The US has depleted its arsenal by sending so many weapons to the Ukraine and making us vulnerable
- Biden has restarted the cold war and made Russia and China much closer allies
- Our government has demonstrated that it cares more about Ukrainians than Americans. We have covered pensions for Ukrainians, but Biden still has not found time to visit East Palestine
Hat tip Fox News, cf.org and insider.com
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Miss Lindsey also wants to invade Mexico. I agree the cartels need to be stopped, but invading Mexico is not the way to do it.
How many other conflicts does (s)he want the US involved in? Syria? Armenia? Yemen? Myanmar? Ethiopia? Republic of the Congo? Somalia?
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Positive outcomes (for Biden) from a hot war:
* Deep State can suspend many personal liberties
* Some believe Biden wants to build his legacy as a war-time president (like FDR)
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“Biden has restarted the cold war and made Russia and China much closer allies”
Not only RU and China, but also India, Iran, Brazil (until the Bolsonaro stolen election) and probably a dozen other nations are now exploring deeper alliances. I think Mexico inquired (!) but the Biden Admin threatened them.
Oh well. By the end of the Biden Admin our country will be in shambles.
We’ll have robust policies on pronouns, though, so we have that going for us …
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Terrific article on banks and what makes a sound bank.
If you, like me, are hazy or ignorant about the differences between “time deposits” and “demand deposits”, you will want to read this. Completely clear and insightful.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unsound-banking-why-most-worlds-banks-are-headed-collapse.
It’s interesting that in the 2008 crisis, banks were criticized for making bad (for example, NINJA) loans and also for investing unloaned money badly.
So they were told
1) Tighten up loan requirements
2) Invest in ONLY a small list of safe vehicles like US Bonds and MBSs (mortgage based securities).
So here we are:
Borrowing was reduced due to the Covid crash
Banks had a lot cash
Also people stashed away stimulus checks, and other helicopter money
Banks put the money in the “safe” list of investments
The Fed raised rates making those bonds OK only if held to maturity
New failure mode …
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“It’s interesting that in the 2008 crisis, banks were criticized for making bad (for example, NINJA) loans and also for investing unloaned money badly.”
Yet due to the CRA authorized by the same Pols they encouraged those NINJA loans.
The key thing to keep in mind about banking is that corporate finance is flipped. A corp having cash in a bank is an asset, but for the bank that is booked as liability. Loans in all its forms are the banks primary assets. Hopefully now, regulators understand that a bank having a large portfolio of high cash corporate clients is a risky thing. They can pull the cash out in a keystroke. And for us little people we should be asking what % of a banks position is business vs personal.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-desantis-tucker-effect-new-polls-show-republicans-increasingly-done-ukraine
Desantis becoming anti ukraine war?
Kind of interesting consider a lot of republicans are lukewarm on the issue.
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I think part of problem is probably bc if Biden is involved ppl assume it’s some sort of money laundering operation.
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Maybe not Biden, but Newsom and his wife have their their paw prints all over the SVB collapse. Its come to light he petitioned the Biden admin to bail the bank out.
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Dutch farmers win big — https://notthebee.com/article/the-dutch-farmers-have-taken-over-their-woke-parliament-and-are-calling-on-their-globalist-prime-minister-to-get-the-heck-out/
Created an audio (mp3) of the interview — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J0eoilRTv97OTAw94ESWO55yD1jNRnej/view?usp=share_link
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2mg could get you a murder sentence in TX — https://slaynews.com/news/texas-draws-line-in-sand-dares-mexican-cartels-to-cross-it-by-passing-bill-to-allow-fentanyl-dealers-to-be-charged-with-murder/ — Undiluted 2mg is sufficient to kill someone.
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9, best news today!
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I have a Lindsey rule. Any show I am watching or talk radio that he appears on I boycott that show for a week.
I have told my friends and family my rule and they are implementing as well.
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fight on,
That is a neat idea. I am in!
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San Franciscans line up at board meeting to sing and shout their support for a reparations plan to give every black resident $5M, wipe personal debt, provide $97K incomes and homes for just $1 – and no one asks how the city will foot the bill
What an f’n joke. As I read elsewhere, they might as well be asking for magic unicorn blood as well. This whole thing has to be a psyop to seed division so when all this stuff is denied, the blacks will feel that they were robbed.
The demographics of SF are something like 50% Asian, 25% Hispanic, 20% self-hating whites, and 5% black. Once Asians and Hispanics take control from self-hating whites, the political whipsaw is going to be insane.
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16, I’ve read that Blacks have been a steadily diminishing component of the SF population. Rising prices, liberal racism and insane Wokeness drive them away.
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Interview tactics ….
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I’ll gladly join fight on and dr in boycotting shows that host Graham … it’s a pretty painless pledge since I watch so little TV though …. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I will have to remember that interview technique. Kudos.
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Jordan Peterson just released a new video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHQN54XCL0 — It is about the dutch farmers and associated topics. 1:40hrs.
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Claremont Institute:
It appears that the launch of our Black Lives Matter (BLM) Funding Database has ruffled all the right feathers, as the Center for the American Way of Life’s website was hit by multiple cyberattacks within hours of launch. These included a DDOS attack that temporarily took our site offline and prevented people from viewing the database.
We have reinforced the BLM Funding Database webpage for those who would like to see what they don’t want you to see—who is responsible for bankrolling a revolutionary movement fundamentally opposed to the American Way of Life. This webpage will load faster than the original!
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Indeed and it barely scratches the surface of how your freedom is lost via CBDC
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Trump is back on Facebook.
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donated to Vivek 2024.
If he gets enough donors he gets invited to the Repub Primary Debate(s)
You can donate as little as $1.
Sadly you have to donate through secure.winred.com to be counted, according to some guy on Twitter. So you’ll have to unsubscribe later. Winred sucks and spams …
If Vivek is on the debate he can advocate for good ideas and influence the other candidates. That’s the pitch ….
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Is the gold price … normal?
Silver?
https://www.kitco.com/market/
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Normal considering what has transpired this week. Fact silver is down about $3 from what it was 6mos ago @25 spot. The question is will gold hold that level?
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More of this please, and bring real Boy Scouts back…..
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IF Trump is arrested for the trumped up NY charges, the Left/Dems/media/Swamp will have their excuse to FURTHER squash civil liberties in the name of “Order”.
I haven’t gone to a political protest in a few years…but I’ll go to the closest one to me IF the bullshit arrest occurs.
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Me too. Will it be state of New York or federal DoJ?
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I am Irish, Welsh with a smidge of Liechtensteiner throw in.
But I will be honest, I have no clue…..
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29,30,
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Big words, Elon.
But stronger words are like those of JR. What will you, personally, DO?
Will you publicly support, for example? Or will you depend on someone else to take action?
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“But stronger words are like those of JR. What will you, personally, DO?”
1) He has already exposed the original mgt for the scum that they are.
2) But that said…. He could shadow ban the Leftist a$$e$ in a tit for tat. Fair play and all that.
But back to your original question — will he?
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The former CTO of coinbase is betting a million dollars that bitcoin hits 1 million dollars in 90 days https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1636797265317867520?s=20
and
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THEY ARE TRYING TO BLOCK THE EXITS
The US establishment just killed Signature and Silvergate because they banked crypto. Barney Frank noted that Signature wasn’t even insolvent. They won’t even let Signature acquirers keep the crypto business.
Fortunately there are enough pro-crypto banks elsewhere in the world that the US establishment can no longer take down crypto on its own.
But Americans might be penned in.
Remember Red Wedding from Game of Thrones?
First they close the doors, then get everyone inside.
This is what all economically bankrupt regimes do.
They build Berlin Walls that prevent freedom to exit.
Unless you get out first.”
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1636537003335630849?s=20
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re: PRP’s post
I heard that because Bitcoin goes 24×7 and banks are open for a limited time each day there is a mismatch in settling trades. Sorry, I wasn’t listening closely to the details. Two companies in the US have provided products to handle this. One was provided by Signature Bank. As PRP noted, this portion of Signature is not available for purchase.
It’s somewhere in the middle of this podcast. About 18:00
https://onthebrink-podcast.com/roundup-03-17-23-2/
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I don’t think it’s going to go to a million in 90 days but I thought since the tweet was from a legit person I thought it was an interesting claim.
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Some of the argument is just scarcity because there is only 1.9 million bitcoin left on exchanges so 51 billion would buy all of it up.
Of course that would cause the price to go up and more sellers but still.
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False premise. For a bet to be legit is has to have an element of loss or its not a bet. So if the presenter bought 10 BTC @ $27k and the price stays at $27k and never reaches a $1m per BTC there was no loss, hence no bet. At the current environment I don’t see BTC dropping unless there is another FTX like event. Nothing against BTC in this view. The same could be said for a stock play or ‘bet’ on bonds; no loss is not a bet.
But BTC is still fiat.
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Incoming…..
Last one can be enlarged by opening in a new tab.
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Sounds like a variant of tofu? A promising treatment esp for Covid vaccine induced heart damage
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/nattokinase-in-the-prevention-and
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40, if I had a magic wand and could have one wish I would destroy the MSM.
They just repeat lies over and over, and the people who don’t have time or stubbornness go along.
“Enemedia delenda est”
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Jim like to thank you. Not only is nattokinase a useful product for post Covid damage, it also appears to be a preventative against DVT and thrombosis. I have the latter so I am going to give this a try as a preventative.
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My kind of FDIC…..
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block the exits
If there is an escape, that escape will be used” https://twitter.com/Ropeium/status/1636732837742223361?s=20
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Wait a minute they are figuring out Ron Paul’s presidential campaign?
https://gab.com/IamOrlando/posts/110050522603969965
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43, cool, hope it works out. My wife says everyone in China knows about Natto (“stinky beans”) and many eat a few each day for health. The McCullough story, of course, is about using BioChem techniques to find the active ingredient, and basically making it strong enough that all you have to do is consume a pill.
re: Million dollar bitcoin, can’t happen while BTC is under full scale attack from US gov’t.
Currently a bit over $28,000 though which is a decent run.
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47- I don’t think so either but Balajis tweets are wild
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1637607127786340352?s=20
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My socially conservative but apolitical wife asked if we should donate some money.
I guess the story is getting around …
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Surprisingly the chem from Natto has been done. (eg: https://pinestreetclinic.com/products/xymogen-nattokinase?variant=39886976942174) I have the health conscious SO researching if there are any adverse effects to look out for. 🙂
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Time to bring back the protest songs of the 60’s, with a twist?
The original — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtkL5_f6-4
Updated for today — https://odysee.com/@foundring:1/science:6e
Backstory: The gentlemen is primarily a jazz/ragtime pianist that had a fair body of work on Youtube. Then rewrote the Kingston Trio ‘MTA’ ditty and so Youtube did its usual, but rather than just delete the one song they deleted his entire catalog off their site.
He has a whole body of work up on rumble — https://rumble.com/user/foundring
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the legality of the persecution/prosecution of Donald Trump is immaterial to the Left/Dem/Media cabal. All they want is the OPTICS.
And they want to make sure the message for all of US is clear: “If we can do this to HIM, just imagine what we can do to Y-O-U!!!!!!!”
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Indeed. Or as they say, “The process IS the punishment.”
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Amazon to layoff another 9000 — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/amazon-prepares-fire-another-9000-workers
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It appears First Republic and Credit Suisse are in deep trouble.
And the media has been strangely quiet. Imagine the uproar if all this had happened on Trump’s watch.
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In the 1960s this was a free country. In 2023 the FCC would be threatening stations play songs that don’t fit the approved narrative?
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51, it will be cheaper at Walmart (or our best buddy Amazon LOL) so shop around.
The only warning I saw a California Prop 65 notice that it includes Titanium Dioxide
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Doctor-s-Best-Nattokinase-Non-GMO-Vegan-Gluten-Free-270-Veggie-Caps/157949621
I love that it’s measured in units of FUs
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57, I’ve seen a couple of stories lately about over-the-top reactions from FaceBook.
Don’t they have more important things to worry about? And why not ban just one song … or freeze him out for a week or a month?
Sounds desperate.
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Naomi Wolff was once a radical Dem, reluctantly brought in to help make Al Gore “more hip”.
Now she is in the trenches leading a team to analyze vaxx adverse reactions.
A job the MSM has shunned.
Here is a link to a recent Substack piece.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-death-of-culture-how-lies-killed
I found this bit poignant–
It was bittersweet to know that these people (Brooklyn hipsters) would never witness us, or acknowledge what we did for them and their children; let alone thank us; let alone apologize to people like me for the years in which they were just fine with folks such as us banished to the outer edges of society, to eat in the cold streets of New York like animals, or made jobless, or ostracized. … the dissonance of seeing people who had been perfectly okay with discriminating against the very people who had fought to return to them the liberties they now enjoyed …
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Better late than never I guess. But to my mind Leftist apology tours leave me cold.
It’s like they know that the drivel they been pushing for decades is not selling anymore. So they search for new source of income.
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You’re not wrong (about Naomi Wolf) but I still that particular one made for interesting reading. For one thing, she now clearly sees that we Deplorables are the ones keeping Freedom alive, sometimes at significant personal cost.
Also, she is scathing about the “intelligentsia”. We are going through the biggest changes of our lives (the coordinated multigovernment handling of Covid for one) and all these self-congratulatory Deep Thinkers are writing about … going for walks, their pets, recipes … stuff like that.
Miss Naomi is self-important and overly dramatic but she’s burned some bridges. I give credit for that.
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KH will find this interesting. A meeting of US experts agree with the assessment of critics. UA is losing, perhaps almost tottering. But they overwhelmingly believe the way forward is to make the Russian homeland a target and risk nuclear war.
https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/why-ukraine-may-embrace-chinas-peace-plan/
Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan
A gloomy assessment of Ukraine’s prospects for victory against Russia emerged from a recent private gathering of former top US soldiers, intelligence officials and scholars with resumes reaching from the Reagan to the Trump administrations.
Short of trained personnel and ammunition, one speaker argued, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky might consider a Chinese peace plan, especially after Beijing’s successful mediation of the Iran-Saudi dispute.
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The great majority of participants favored risking everything for absolute victory over Russia.
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It isn’t that Ukraine will literally run out of live bodies, but that the quality of its armed forces, enlisted men as well as officers, has deteriorated. Critical parts of the civilian economy will collapse as manpower is shifted to the military.
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Ukraine had two things going for it and is a reason it lasted as long as it did in this war:
* UA used to be the Warsaw Pact 2nd largest armor and small arms production facility.
* In the world there are only 5 food exporting countries — Argentina, US, Netherlands, Russia and.. Ukraine. Only 3 of them can sustain production long term — US, Russia and … Ukraine. Those 3 countries have the ability to turn nat gas to fertilizer. Being able to feed the populace while under attack is a critical force factor.
UA is now unfortunately a wreck. But I don’t think UA is the bigger loser in this war. Even with a settlement:
* Putin loses politically, hence Russia itself loses. That will be the be the case even if the eastern regions become independent or not. He bargained the whole affair would be over in 2 weeks and lost. We can fully expect that the next RU prez will be a hardliner.
* US loses big. This war exposed the US as a fickle partner. Willing to burn treasure but other peoples children in a proxy war. The US also loses its ‘neutral country’ card when it comes to attempting to bring parties together. More so if China is able to pull off a ceasefire. If I be a Euro leader I would be concerned.
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Breathe easy California — https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.858747/gov.uscourts.cacd.858747.60.0_1.pdf — Boland v. Bonta is a big win in weapons possession.
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drdog, they’ll just re-brand their 2nd Amendment assault…find a judge to rubber-stamp it..and go with it.
this is the PRK you’re talkin’ about
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the escape route
https://twitter.com/naiivememe/status/1628721449270910979?s=20
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Belaji is on the Bankless podcast today about the fiat currency crisis
https://youtu.be/pP_HHE0kFhA
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Cute but they forgot power outage so plane never gets off the ground…
Gold does not need power to escape. That bill is paid at the point of extraction & refinement. :-)
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70, unless you need a vehicle to carry those heavy gold bars! LOL
This story is odd but somehow believable …
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/the-biden-administrations-strang-secret-effort-to-bail-out-moderna/
The government had stayed silent on the matter until last month, when Justice Department lawyers said that any liability that Moderna faces should “transfer” to the United States government, citing a World War I-era law that protects federal contractors from patent disputes.
While the judge handling the case recently denied the request, Moderna and the federal government could appeal the decision and put taxpayers on the hook for any legal payout. Genevant, one of the companies that sued Moderna, has already accused the drug maker of “trying to shift responsibility for its patent infringement to the U.S. taxpayer.”
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It’s coming …
Re social control
Vicki McKenna
@VickiMcKenna
Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet–and censor citizens who don’t toe the party line. This is not a conspiracy. There is already taxpayer money deployed to develop the AI to do it.
https://twitter.com/VickiMcKenna/status/1638553084841394177?
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/
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That was in response to this
The Fed Proposes a 4th Function of Money: Means of Social Control
A Federal Reserve white paper has come up with a new function for money. Let’s tune in.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-fed-proposes-a-4th-function-of-money-means-of-social-control
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A lot if Balaji’s ideas are based on the writings of arthur hayes. Bankless got him on today.
Interview is must watch
https://youtu.be/E8lxrsF29u0
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Basically the banks are being prepped to suck up the global insolvent debt bomb that’s exploding.
Convenient scape goat for the politicians.
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PRP, do you ever read Tom Luongo?
His site is TomLuongo.me and publishes on ZeroHedge from time to time, interviews posted to YouTube.
He sees the sides differently than most–
1) EU leaders, Davos/WEF, UN, most Dems and US gov’t agencies
2) Federal Reserve, US Banks
It might look lopsided but currently the Fed has the upper hand. By raising rates, EU banks are thrashed and money migrates to the US banks for safety.
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Far from the only recent case. Far, far from.
BREAKING: A southwest pilot departing from Las Vegas become incapacitated mid flight. The pilot was removed from the flight deck mid flight and replaced with a non-southwest pilot who was on the plane.
This comes on the heels of the FAA decreasing the cardiac physical requirements for pilots, because so many failed.
https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken/posts/110068935501582652
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Well we just did new swap lines to ally/friendly foreign banks. Bailing those out too.
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Could you imagine the cabin announcement…..
“Welcome aboard SW flight LV to BOS. I and the crew are here to see to your comfort and safety while with us. And about that safety thing…. anyone here have a pilots license?”
Me [seat 55c, arms waving]: “Oh Miss….”
All kidding aside, you know what is really scary? The airline industry is pushing the FAA for a rule change for single pilot on the flight deck for commercial heavies!
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Prepped? All of the big 4 TBTFs have a quadrillion in derivatives floating around. Not much prepping required as they issued it and hold it. The real battle is who dumps first. The first one out will get cover by their counter-party insurer. But everybody following gets bumpkis cuz the counter-party side will be tapped out. The Fed at this point is trying to guarantee a few survivors.
What I find interesting is the Fed is till trying to have its cake and eat it too. They did a .25 basis point raise yesterday. The Fed really need to decide — Do we save the banks or the economy. It appears they have still not made a decision. For example if they wanted to save the economy they would have dropped rates a full percentage point and just live with the resulting inflation.
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If you don’t believe that the FBI is the Stasi now — https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2023/03/22/fbi-informant-was-embedded-in-jan-6-defense-team-lawyers-allege/ — hopefully this gives you pause for reflection.
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the FBI has been the Stasi for some time. The few whistleblowers coming forward are being squashed…despite the protection normally afforded whistleblowers. The media long since morphed into the Ministry of Truth
https://youtu.be/wlFb-URtAOk
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If that is true, regardless of an arrest or not the withholding is a precursor to a Brady violation. The DA should be defrocked regardless of outcome.
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Suitable for framing in your interview room at work…
Would probably keep the blue haired crazies out of the cubicle next to you.
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Well, well Jack Dorsey appears to be up to his old tricks again — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/block-shares-slip-after-short-seller-hindenburg-accuses-company-fraud-facilitation-says — Block (Square, Cash App) appears to be inflating user counts.
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Interesting thought regarding pilots.
It’s a well-defined sub-population that has been heavily pressured to vaxx.
It’s a group that gets regular health checks and the checks are documented.
A reader of Berenson suggests that it would be a great idea to run some numbers on pilots, develop stats and see if any smoking guns emerge. Great idea …. IF someone in authority cared to learn the truth.
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Gold cracks $2000
I assume the Euro, the Japanese Yen and Great Britain Pound will all be suffering against the US Dollar per Brent Johnson’s Dollar Milkshake Theory
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I iust ordered at a drive through and i realized an AI could have easily taken the order.
42% of the code on github is ai now. Wasnt like that three months ago
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The next Bitcoin halving is scheduled to take place at block 840,000 which is predicted to be on Mar 30, 2024 07:06:27 AM UTC. At the Bitcoin halving 2024, the Bitcoin block reward is scheduled to drop from 6.25 Bitcoin per block to 3.125 Bitcoin per block.
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LOLOLOLOL
Please click, you will smile. It’s ‘shopped though … reality would be better.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1639002932065759233
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Ya know I find AI interesting and useful. However AI like anything, the devil is in the implementation. Perchance PRP have you tried one of the McDs inside kiosks? Try ordering a cheese burger, small fries and small coke. Impossible. Fact practically anything is impossible to order that is behind the first panel of selections. Great tech screwed up by a bad UI.
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Free and highly recommended.
Ed Dowd Cause Unknown Kindle edition
On sudden death, excess deaths, cause unknown deaths
Because stats can be dry, they have dozens and dozens of pages that consist of a name, a photo, a headline and a link to the story of someone’s “sudden death” from a “cause unknown”. This humanizes the story and gives you an inkling for how widespread it is.
Really, download this e-book if you don’t have it.
https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Epidemic-Sudden-Childrens-Defense-ebook/dp/B0BB8JTNJZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FOMPQW0GLQ9D&keywords=ed+dowd+cause+unknown&qid=1679668535&sprefix=ed+dowd+cause+unknown%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1
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I think the next halving cycle (2024 into 25) in bitcoin will be driven by the narrative of sovereigns buying bitcoin in place of buying US treasuries.
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first automated McDonalds
https://youtube.com/shorts/1SEup_wIQ7Y?feature=share
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More Belaji
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1638744564474445824?s=20
“The Fed is closing the exits.
They can’t do so globally.
There are now enough banks outside Fed control.
But if you’re within the broad West…
You may only have weeks or even days.
Buy Bitcoin and get your coins off exchanges.”
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Sovereigns are buying gold hand over fist. Its the only asset with no counter party risk that is also a Tier 1 component on the BIS asset list. They can buy BTC but when it comes to looking for cover from BIS only cash and gold will suffice per Basel III.
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Oh this is totally good for the planet… — https://basedunderground.com/2023/03/24/when-an-electric-vehicle-crashes-even-in-a-minor-accident-insurance-companies-junk-the-entire-car-because-its-battery-has-to-be-tossed/ — So much for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Chuckle.
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Bitcoin does not have counter party risk
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Bought on an exchange it would although same is true for gold etf’s etc.
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Europe wants to close exits also
https://twitter.com/btc_archive/status/1639270111583391747?s=46&t=_MA1I7Be_6DwRQfoBxrlbA
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Yes. But it is not a Tier 1 asset and that is the point. Fact it is not even a Tier 2 asset. etf’s break the golden rule to have PMs — If you can’t touch it you don’t own it.
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My how times have changed — https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carolina-teacher-resigns-taping-11-year-olds-mouth-shut-he-was-humiliated — Had it been me at his age my ole man would have given me an ass whooping into next Wednesday then drove down to the school and given the teacher a new roll of tape.
So I ask, being forced to wear a mask is OK, but having your blabbering mouth shut down is not?
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All the sudden PROFIT is no longer a dirty word —
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/bankers-bury-esg-in-pitch-books-to-head-off-republican-attacks?sref=6uww027M
More here — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/esg-cover-begins
When markets go South, virtual signalling goes with it.
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We are really on the deep end when I am agreeing with the Taliban…..
It was their response to this meme….
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The third law of politics in play — https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stanford-law-school-suspends-diversity-dean-after-she-doubles-down-duncan-debacle — For every abuse there is an equal opposite response.
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The entire US budget had become a ponzi scheme. Even if they get all these tax hikes, it achieves basically nothing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJw4JTl2-c&t=272
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No one can fix this shit even if Trump or DeSantis wins. Both would be better than Biden, but it’s still a giant joke either way.
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Seems about right.
The only solution is for Congress to cut way, way back on spending and, over time, get back on a sound footing.
JPow is doing the small thing that he can do: have a normal interest rate. Still, after years of ZIRP a lot of stuff is breaking.
So, personally, I don’t blame JPow. What he’s doing is sensible and not decisive anyway (But the globalists are calling for his scalp).
Still, I listened to an interesting analysis (Caitlyn Long?).
We had ZIRP for a long time. And after Covid there was plenty of helicopter money. Lots got stuffed into bank accounts. No one was borrowing, esp in the regional banks with access to smaller deals. So what to do with the deposited money? The regionals stuck it into …. safe govt bonds. And then, just like that, the Fed started hiking and those regionals were suddenly in a world of hurt.
Is it conspiracy theory to wonder if the Fed/Treasury/regulators/etc decided to crush all the smaller institutions, get everything coalesced to the Biggest Banks and then … roll out CDBCs? Easier to implement if all those pesky citizens are concentrated in a few banks, yes? I doubt this theory … just mention it in passing
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I should mention that since Congress will not be sane the other two choices are
Debt payment default
Let inflation rip
People are betting on robust inflation.
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PlanB doesn’t yield
https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1639273646714769412?s=20
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Well, well, well. Historical forces in motion.
Saudi Aramco signs deals with Chinese partners to build refinery
The world’s biggest energy company agreed to the landmark deal with North Huajin Chemical and Panjin Xincheng to start construction in Liaoning Province
Aramco wants to be an all-inclusive source of energy and chemicals for China’s long-term energy security and its high-quality development, CEO Amin Nasser said
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/3214917/saudi-aramco-signs-deals-chinese-partners-build-refinery
Commenter: “They should probably mange their own IPO, instead of tying it to a US based exchange. That would mess with some heads.”
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https://twitter.com/jeffbooth/status/1639953185027633152?s=46&t=_MA1I7Be_6DwRQfoBxrlbA
“ Why would you decide to stay in a system where (one way or another) you will be forced to pay back $400 trillion of insolvent debt, when you can so easily step into a new system without that insolvency, forced compliance and counterparty risk? ”
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JPow should not even exist along with his Fed. This country for the first half of its history had no central bank, fact not even its own coinage till the Greenback showed up during the civil war. The two national banks we had got dissolved in short order, both for political-financial reasons. You could say the same for the Fed.
If one believes the Fed is a force for good consider. Before 1913 the nation only had 3 down turns. After 1913 we have had one massive depression and 4 recessions since. The reset coming up will make depression number 2. Scrap’em.
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“People are betting on robust inflation.”
That is a fair bet. But to just voice the counter argument — Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid. If I was in Congress I would be scared to death of a hyperinflation event. Imagine SS Cola increases of 10-20% per year hitting the budget. And of course the attendant increases in Medicare costs. It would dwarf every other budget item by orders of magnitude. Its the one line item that could bring the govt down.
For the Pols only two ways out of that — debt default or raise the requirements to such a stringent level that most would die before they could ever collect. If a debt default SS would be declared nonexistent. Stringent requirements would just mean most will never use SS so it might as well not exist.
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The man is not wrong, however….. If I was going to jump ship it would not be to BTC but the digital Yuan:
* Backed by gold.
* Will be the basis for the second (soon first) largest trading bloc in the world.
* 6Bn people will be using it.
But why stay? If one has structured your affairs to have little counter party risk (moi) there are opportunities galore. In defaults is where millionaires and billionaires are made. Assets will be going for pennies on the dollar. One need but develop the art of picking gems out of the trash lying on the floor.
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China is the biggest ponzi of them all.
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Also the only gold that doesnt have counter party risk is physical that you own yourself.
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Ponzi, yes. But in the scale of Ponzis China sits somewhere between; Below the US Govt and higher than Bernie Madoff. I’ll take the bet, if I have to move trading bases. True about the gold. But if I am looking for a cross country trading vehicle eYuan will probably be safer than USD that decoupled back in 1973. (Thanks Tricky Dick.)
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Screw NatSec, — https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-state-department-lifts-assignment-restrictions-used-discourage-foreign-recruiting — We want DIE.
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Fiction become Truth — https://notthebee.com/article/mama-we-made-it
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Yike. Too much hormonal confusion?
Twitter:
“Unconfirmed* reports identify the Nashville shooter as “Audrey Hale”, a biological female that identifies as “He/Him” on their LinkedIn
Authorities believe the transgender shooter previously attended the Christian school
Instagram account “creative.aiden” has been deleted”
BREAKING: Fox News cuts to Joe Biden expecting him to speak on the Nashville shooting, instead finds him ranting about eating Jeni’s chocolate chip ice cream.
“The Colorado Springs shooter identified as non binary.
The Denver shooter identified as trans.
The Aberdeen shooter identified as trans.
The Nashville shooter identified as trans.
One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists.”
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Good panel on death of fiat
https://www.youtube.com/live/DpURs3i2u4w?feature=share
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RTWT — https://www.frontpagemag.com/electric-cars-are-bankrupting-the-auto-industry/
Why not sell something people want and need even if a smaller market of States will allow them?
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If there are books you cherish — https://headlineusa.com/agatha-christie-woke-chopping-block/ — you might want to find good 1st or 2nd editions from 20 years ago. The Woke are going after characterizations they find distasteful. They don’t burn the books they just scrub them; a weak version of Nazism.
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Commenter: “As predicted.
Tucker can put the edge of the rug down and the broom back in the closet.”
Sharyl Attkisson
@SharylAttkisson
And just like that, any further planned exposes on what the Jan. 6 videos revealed were disappeared like they never even happened, and nobody ever spoke of them again. #Jan6th #Jan6
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1640707099075178496
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THEY wish that were true, but two court cases are coming front and center that might destroy the narrative. What I find interesting is that one of the cases the defendant is going pro se and so far has the DC prosecutor tied up in knots trying to suppress the videos knowing full well it will get remanded on appeal.
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A 15yo kid has a bunch of OFs embarrassing themselves — https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neonsniperpanda+name+10+books — Yeah its a low bar but this just goes to show that feminism is committing seppku.
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Vivek R on Twitter
The real question is why this psychopath in Nashville was able to get into the school in the first place. We protect green pieces of paper in a bank with more armed guards than we do our kids in schools. We pay for Thousands Standing Around (TSA) in our airports. There’s more security at a random mall than in a public school. We spend $80BN+ per year through the U.S. Dept of Education that helps fund radical gender ideology to create psychopaths, yet don’t protect kids in our schools from being killed by them.
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Vaxx economic impact — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bombshell-vax-analysis-finds-147-billion-economic-damage-tens-millions-injured-or-disabled
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Jim,
Your observation are absolutely on point. In the Tenn instance however it was a private institution so their security arrangements are purely their own. Still if I were a parent looking at private education one of the things I would have on my checklist is security provisions.
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Scary.
The anti TikTok bill is a huge privacy invasion. No declaration of war but a list of nations you’re not allowed to deal with, and I think there’s a provision about being an election conspiracy theorist
Keep an eye on this one.
https://www.tiktok.com/@sayheyjames/video/7215293810912480558
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CBDC dystopia almost here in time for Biden reelection. US one to go live in June.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPcZ_vuFgo
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PRP, what will you do personally to oppose CBDCs?
Anything the rest of us can latch onto?
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I am more worried about this — https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-katie-hobbs-press-sec-posts-threat-of-violence-against-transphobes-on-twitter — than a CBDC. We follow the Nigerian example the introduction of CBDC will fail.
I do have one suggestion. If you enter into a contract insist that the remuneration shall be transacted in anything other than a CBDC.
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Interesting factoid, AR was available for civilian sale BEFORE the DoD adopted the weapon —
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True or not? — https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-18-operation-sandman-now-activated-saudi-arabia-announces-end-dollar-dominance-oil.html# — A back-of-the-mind concern I have had for years. The danger is not so much that the $$ flood back home. That’s bad enough. What is troubling is what it does to all those quadrillion $$ of derivatives.
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140, the bicycle in the background is a nice touch.
If Saudi and others stop requiring dollars to buy oil we may, fairly quickly, get to a point where no one buys US bonds.
The US govt is incapable of living without borrowing.
Sovereign debt default seems like a BFD
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Alf gives his explanation as to why these bank bailouts are really a convoluted method if yield curve control.
https://youtu.be/5E1qEVrEYKU
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We finally saw a first. A 47 year old lady we know died suddenly. She cooked a dinner for her husband who was coming home late. When he got home she was dead on the bathroom floor. She’s had a service at her church and now cremated. I don’t think there was an autopsy.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/ed-dowds-grim-accounting
Ed Dowd’s Grim Accounting
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about this state of affairs is that most Americans don’t know it’s happening. Every day, young people are dying from heart attacks, strokes, and seizures caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Most of their families and friends are led to believe that they just died—suddenly and unexpectedly—of acute conditions that were extremely rare in young people prior to 2021.
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Re: “Consider that 58,000 men were killed in ten years of fighting in Vietnam. This was just a tiny percentage of the 100 million American men counted in the 1968 census, but it was still a huge number of men to die in their early twenties.” — from the substack posting.
I watch a docudrama last night called ‘The Somme’, a WWI piece. On the first day of battle 20,000 Brits were killed, 40,000+ wounded. That is a single day. All tolled in the month long events that are considered the Battle of the Somme over a million men on both sides died. Nor am I attempting to belittle those than gave it all in Vietnam.
But in the scale of things, though Dowd is correct, the numbers on any given day are barely perceivable. That is the problem. Nobody is ringing doorbells or sending telegrams about the loss of a loved one because of some far off conflict. Bluntly, there is no Drama to the Trauma, just a whimper only felt by those close to the fallen.
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Josh Hawley’s new bill wants 20 years in jail sentences and 1 million dollars fines for looking at tiktok and using VPN’s.
considering I always use VPN’s I’m not a fan…
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1640745231082741760
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It gets worse
https://gab.com/PadraigMartin/posts/110107173846639793
“Still want to ban China’s Tik Tok?
Details of the new “Tik Tok Ban” Bill have emerged. Essentially, any platform that uses the internet in some way would fall under regulatory control – Gab, Telegram, etc. If you – an ordinary person – reaches a certain level of influence, you would be required to get a license, much like the current FCC Regs for shortwave radio. Then, it gets worse..
If you, the author or influencer, engages in commentary that is deemed harmful to US National Security, you can face up to a 20 year prison term and a $1 Million fine. What is defined as “harmful to US National Security?” So-called White Supremacy has been deemed a threat… White Nationalism… Christian Nationalism… in essence, advocating for your people (if you are White) and/or Biblical virtue can land you in prison based on this new law.
Unsurprisingly, the ADL was invited to help draft this legislation.”
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They are basically saying we are at war but not declaring war.
So enemies are OK (no war) but citizens have to give up their rights.
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“WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday blocked a bid to fast-track a ban of popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, which more than 150 million Americans use, citing concerns about free speech and uneven treatment of social media companies.
I think we should beware of those who use fear to coax Americans to relinquish our liberties,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “Every accusation of data gathering that has been attributed to TikTok could also be attributed to domestic big tech companies.”
Republican Senator Josh Hawley had sought unanimous consent for a TikTok ban bill. “It protects the American people and it sends a message to Communist China that you cannot buy us,” Hawley said, adding the app is spying on Americans.”
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the ADL wrote the bill.
Maybe don’t sponsor bills w Mark Warner, and then josh Hawley wouldn’t have these problems because you knew it was going to be poison if he was involved.
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This is genius politically in my book (even if it’s impossible)
Trump promises to end Ukraine conflict in 24 hours
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-promises-end-war-ukraine-131348960.html
“He accused President Joe Biden’s administration of not even trying to negotiate with President Putin.
“It is no coincidence that the ‘deep state’ [a conspiracy term, according to which there is a coordinated secret group in the US that influences public policy – ed.) has haunted me even more since I promised to end the war in Ukraine,” Trump said.
He said he could end the war “very quickly” once elected president.
“When I say yes, I will get a settlement very quickly… I will have a settlement within 24 hours. Standing before you today, I’m the only candidate to make that promise. I will stand in the way of the Third World War we are heading for,” Trump said.
Trump also called the investigation against him a “witch hunt” and compared it to “the horrors of Stalin’s Russia”.
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If most of what you do in the internet requires a ‘https://’ VPNs are unnecessary. And VPN’s don’t stop trackers.
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Well Trump is correct in his assessment — https://news.yahoo.com/us-official-no-clear-path-to-negotiate-an-end-to-russias-war-in-ukraine-231903838.html — Jokers like Blinken are snakes in the grass.
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You guys are missing the big one in the RESTRICT Act proposal —
” (K) e-commerce technology and services, including any electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, online retail, internet-cnabled logistics, internet-cnabled payment technology, and online marketplaces.”
That is how they get CBDCs in the front door. That has more impact than any tiktok video. Oh and PRP you can kiss BTC being available, at least in the US.
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Holy sh$t Trump throws absolute fire at Desantis and Romney. Promises to end Ukraine in 24 hours
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1641179053536182272?s=20
I forgot why I liked this guy…..I was pissed at all him picking dumbf$ck senate candidates giving the senate to the Democrats so I was leaning towards Desantis for a while but this stuff makes me move back to the Trump side.
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VPNs were how Americans used to access binance and other exchanges.
It’s about closing the exits.
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Hobbs press sec resigns — https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/az-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-calling-violence-against-transphobes
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Dad Joke incoming …..
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Think about the case where a Christian shot and killed a half dozen unarmed, peaceful transgenders.
Would the reaction be the same?
Or would the companies put out statements?
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https://youtu.be/j5p3ExxtrHI
How operation chokepoint 2.0 is targeting crypto. It’s actually targeting 30 industries including guns and ammo manufacturing and all conservative industries.
Why cant the right ever use this to destroy left wing industries?
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159,
PRP the simple answer is the Left does not ‘do’ industry, so there is nothing to destroy.
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Jim, keep in mind that the Romans cheered for the lions when the Christians were at the stake. As it was then, so it is now.
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Have the French grown a spine? — https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-29-french-protesters-shift-focus-macron-guillotine.html#
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Old anti-theft device — https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/watch-teens-attempt-to-carjack-man-but-cant-drive-manual-transmission-to-get-away/3316846/ — Same can be said of they don’t know how to use a rotary phone, read an analog clock, or run a computer in command line mode.
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Neocon face morph
https://twitter.com/Jallen_67/status/1641183944916779008?s=20
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11920455/QAnon-Shaman-Jacob-Chansley-released-early-prison-halfway-house-lawyer-says.html
Political prisoner QAnon shaman out of jail early.
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QShaman released from prison.
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Commenter: Reparations are coming.
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
The U.S. government is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1641477899608895503
Personally, I want reparations from any Black Americans who have voted for Democrats
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Welp they going for it..
leaking now that trump indicted this afternoon.
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KH beat me to it
“BREAKING NEWS: President Donald J Trump has been indicted.”
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“THINGS ARE SO BAD IN SEATTLE: That public transportation system officials have had to install Fentanyl detectors because the fumes are getting to drivers. Washington Free Beacon’s Susannah Luthi reports at least 50 bus drivers became so sick from the fumes that they had to stop and seek emergency medical treatment…”
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/seattle-installs-fentanyl-detectors-on-public-buses-as-drivers-get-sick-from-fumes/
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Hillary did same violation last year but it was swept under the rug.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1641591014329823232?s=20
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Rules for thee and not for me… same as it ever is these days…
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So De-dollarization begins — https://thenewamerican.com/china-and-brazil-no-more-dollars/ — I say begins only on the fact that Brazil is the first of the BRICS contingent to go this route.
Oceania v. Eurasia. I read that somewhere ….
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Well that is one way to get a twoer — Urban renewal AND eliminating the Dim hives.
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