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The video by journalist Tayler Hansen of uniformed San Antonio Police officers working for Non-Government Organizations to facilitate human trafficking is one of the most important stories in a long time. Unfortunately, it will get zero coverage from corporate media which is why it is incumbent on American patriots to spread the word.
This isn't just about the law being broken or law enforcement being compromised. It isn't just about our sovereignty being stolen through the border invasion or the human toll being ignored as women and children are raped incessantly on their way to grab what Joe Biden promised them. All of that is important but there's a subtext here that must be understood.
Some Americans are waking up. I don't know if it's 0.1%, 1%, or 10%, but it's not nearly enough. The biggest obstacle to getting "normies" to appreciate that the powers-that-be are working against us is making them suspend disbelief in the scope of the conspiracy. Sadly, Americans have been trained to think "crazy" when they hear the word "conspiracy" but the reality is this: There ARE those conspiring against us.
Understanding that the scope is tremendous is a prerequisite for people to wake up to the reality of our situation. If they believe that most in power are simply greedy, then they'll miss the heart-wrenching truth that the people with the real power want us either completely under their control or dead. The depopulation and control agenda is happening around us and the biggest reason people fail to see it is because they cannot accept a scenario in which the Powers and Principalities really do have everything they need to make it happen.
Far too many assume that if really bad things are being done then someone will stop it. They cannot grasp a world in which corporate media is completely compromised. They cannot fathom a society in which any "good" politicians are removed and the handful with honor who are allowed to stay are neutered. They cannot accept that an army of unsuspecting useful idiots are helping to bring about their own demise.
The cops depicted in this video aren't thinking about the damage they're doing to their own community and their own nation. They see a sweet gig in which they get to sit around with no risks and make a lot of money. They probably get paid more to be NGO security guards than they do when they're actually putting their lives on the line for the sake of a citizenry that doesn't appreciate them.
To suspend disbelief in the systematic destruction of our nation requires Americans to realize just how much power is being wielded around us. They need to realize that it doesn't take a million globalists to subvert the foundations of our country. It takes a few thousand dedicated people in power plus a whole lot of useful idiots like these San Antonio cops.
Until more Americans understand this harsh reality, they will still be expecting someone else to save them. Until more Americans wake up, they will not be preparing themselves for the fight that's coming.
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I support President Donald Trump for reelection. I'm not a sycophant by any means. In fact, I've been extremely critical of him on multiple fronts, most notably the lockdowns and Operation Warp Speed. But after comparing and contrasting him to other candidates, I believe he is still our best bet to sit in the Oval Office while we all try to save this nation.
If the Deep State wasn't so involved in trying to take out Trump through lawfare or other means, I wouldn't even be paying attention to what was happening with the other candidates. None of them have a chance of beating Trump in the primaries. But with the Deep State doing their thing and no way to know for sure if they'll succeed in preventing Trump from being the Republican nominee, we have to look at the other options to select our best "backup quarterback."
Ron DeSantis has been a decent governor and, unlike many Trump supporters, I can accept him as the nominee if the Deep State has their way. I don't trust Vivek Ramaswamy but I like many of the things he says so he would be my third choice. The rest aren't even a consideration and I would probably force myself to look at RFK Jr despite his many radical leftist policies, most notably for the economy. The way I see it, if we're going to be stuck with an awful president it might as well be someone who's going to expose the jabs.
Sadly, among "the rest" who I would never consider is the UniParty Swamp's anointed champion, Nikki Haley. She is quickly usurping DeSantis as the runner up with the help of Wall Street, corporate media, and the GOP Establishment. Having her as the nominee should the Deep State stop Trump would be an unmitigated disaster, as I explained on today's episode of The JD Rucker Show.
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During a recent interview, Vanessa Kerry explained why she believes climate change must be classified as a public health predicament. As founder of Seed Global Health and daughter of Climate Czar John Kerry, it makes sense for her to be harping about this.
But there is a much more nefarious reason Kerry and others are calling on climate change to be included as a health issue. The push to make the World Health Organization the supreme ruling body over all nations through multiple agendas, including the Pandemic Treaty, is the globalist's ultimate play for worldwide control. Centralizing health decision through a single global entity is bad enough. Giving them the "skeleton key" of climate change at their disposal is checkmate against freedom.
With climate change, the globalists can bring literally everything under their umbrella. Every decision from the food we eat to the cars we drive to the clothes we wear will fall under the rules set by the World Health Organization and enforced by governments after they willfully give away sovereignty.
This is already in motion. We must pray that God intervenes. We must spread the word. But second only to prayer, we must prepare ourselves by becoming as independent and self-reliant as possible. We must do whatever we can to protect ourselves and our families by removing any dependence on government regardless of the situation.
Get ready now. Just don't forget to pray along the way.
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Editor's Commentary: On yesterday's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I discussed the article below by Brandon Smith over at Alt-Market. It ended up taking two full segments of the show, demonstrating just how important this news is.
Most of us have been aware that Central Bank Digital Currencies will be extremely dangerous and represent the next step toward complete centralization of the world consolidated under a single tyrannical government. What most seem to be missing is that CBDCs are not the endgame; I've seen stories from multiple news outlets claiming that to be the case.
The reality is the "endgame" is depopulation and complete control. To get there, the powers-that-be will need ONE Central Bank Digital Currency. As we watch dozens at various degrees of readiness being rolled out across the globe, we have to understand that bringing them all under one umbrella is necessary for the globalist elite cabal to win. This is what Project Icebreaker represents.
I covered this challenge last year, but since few other than Brandon Smith and me are even talking about it, I thought now would be a good time to reinforce and reinform. With that said, here's Brandon's article in its entirety. The only change I made was in the headline. He had a question mark at the end. I took the question mark away because whether Project Icebreaker is successful or not, we can assume that this is the intended beginning of their evil machinations.
There has been extensive discussion in the past couple of years within alternative media circles about the dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs); a currency framework very similar to blockchain based products like Bitcoin but directly controlled by central bankers. It’s a threat that some analysts including myself have been writing about for more than a decade, so it’s good to finally see the issue being addressed more in the mainstream.
The Orwellian nature of CBDCs cannot be overstated. In a cashless society most people would be dependent on digital products for exchanging goods and labor, and this would of course mean the end of all privacy in trade. Everything you buy or sell or work for in your life would be recorded, and this lack of anonymity could be used to stifle your freedoms in the future.
For example, say you like to eat steak regularly, but the increasingly authoritarian government decides to list red meat as a health risk and a “climate change risk” due to carbon emissions from cows. They determine by your purchase history (which they have full access to) that you have contributed more carbon pollution than most people by eating red meat often. They declare that you must pay a retroactive carbon tax on your past purchases of red meat. Not only that, but your insurance company sends you a letter indicating that you are a medical risk and they cut off your health coverage.
Products you consume and services you use can be tracked to create a psychological profile on you, which could then become a factor in determining your social credit score, just as CCP authorities do in China today. Maybe you refuse to purchase an annual mRNA booster shot, and the tracking algorithm makes a note of this. Now you are under suspicion for being “anti-vax” and your social credit score plummets, cutting you off from various public venues. Maybe you are even fired from your job.
In the worst case scenario, though, economic access is the greatest oppressive tool. With CBDCs in place and no physical cash in existence, your savings will never be truly yours and you’ll never be able to hold your purchasing power in your hands. The means of exchange would be bottle-necked by the banks, and governments would have the option to freeze your ability to transact. If one day you get angry about a particular government policy and openly call the system corrupt on social media, they can simply shut off your option to transfer your digital money to others until you submit, or die.
CBDCs give establishment officials the leverage to starve their political opponents with algorithmic precision. It would be a new world of technocratic oppression.
It’s important to understand that central bankers are moving at breakneck speed to develop and introduce digital currencies. It’s not a matter of experimentation, they already have these systems ready to implement. The Federal Reserve’s instant transfer program “FedNow” is set to debut this July, which is not a CBDC but it is an intermediary step towards instituting CBDCs in the near term.
In my investigations of various CBDC programs and how quickly they are progressing I came across an interesting program called “Project Icebreaker” being run by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). For those not aware, the BIS is a globalist institution with a clandestine past known as the “central bank of central banks.” It is the policy making hub for most of the central banks in the world. If you ever wondered how it was possible for so many national central banks to operate in tandem with each other instead of acting in the interests of the countries they reside in, the BIS is the answer. In other words, organizations like the Federal Reserve are not necessarily loyal to Americans or to American officials, they are loyal to the dictates of the BIS.
The BIS is at the forefront of the movement towards the adoption of CBDCs. They have been funding a vast array of projects to test and refine CBDC technology and as of this year they estimate that at least 81 central banks around the world are in the midst of introducing digital currency systems.
Project Icebreaker in particular grabbed my attention for a number of reasons. The BIS describes the project as a foreign exchange clearing house for Retail CBDCs (retail CBDCs are digital currencies used by the regular public and businesses), enabling the currencies to be traded from country to country quickly and efficiently. This is accomplished using the “Icebreaker Hub”, a BIS controlled mechanism which facilitates data transfers for an array of transactions while connecting banks to other banks.
Investigating further I realized that the Icebreaker Hub in theory functions almost exactly like the SWIFT payment system used currently by governments and international banks. More than 10,000 financial institutions in 212 different countries use the SWIFT network to transfer funds overseas for their clients; it is an incredible centralization bottleneck that gives its shareholders considerable power.
As a point of reference, after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, the expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT network was used as a weapon in an attempt to crash the Russian economy. Russia has found ways around using SWIFT because of their trade relationships with major economies like China and India, but some damage has still been done to their financial structure.
Consider this, however – What if all monetary transactions were centralized through CBDCs and the BIS controlled the hub in which all retail CBDCs are exchanged globally? This is what Icebreaker is.
Now imagine that you operate a business that relies on overseas transactions; say you need to pay manufacturers in Vietnam or Taiwan to produce your products. With CBDCs in place you will most likely be completely dependent on a system similar to the Icebreaker Hub to move than digital money to Vietnamese banks and into the accounts of your manufacturers. Say officials at the BIS, for whatever reason, decide they don’t like you and they initiate Russian-style sanctions denying your access to the hub. Your business is now dead.
What if you had to meet certain standards in order to be allowed use of the hub, and the BIS dictates the standards? What if the BIS decides that your company needs to meet woke ESG related categories before you can get permission for Icebreaker transactions? Now the BIS has the ability to manipulate social and cultural trends using your business and millions of other businesses as forced messengers.
For the average consumer that does most of their transactions within their home country this might not sound like a big deal. But, for the business world, a SWIFT-like hub for retail CBDCs could be used to dominate all international trade. Running any kind of larger organization or company would mean bowing to the whims of the BIS.
It gets worse, though…
Part of the process of the “spoke and wheel” exchange method used by the Icebreaker Hub includes the exploitation of a “bridge currency” to fill gaps in exchange rates and liquidity. On the surface this seems like a clever way to speed up transactions by avoiding cross-currency shortages at banks. That said, I want readers to think about the long term path that this kind of “bridging” sets in motion in the realm of CBDCs.
Let’s say there is a global scale economic crisis event which causes many currencies to fluctuate wildly. Lets say, for example, that the US dollar loses its world reserve status and petro-status and this sends FX (foreign exchange) markets into a panic. Price inflation becomes rampant and banking institutions falter under liquidity pressures. Lets say that central bankers introduce CBDCs as a solution to the problem, and the BIS Icebreaker Hub as the intermediary for international trade. The populace is so frightened by the economic crash that they then embrace the digital framework. Now let’s say that the BIS claims they still can’t find a currency they consider stable enough to act as a means to bridge most global transactions. What happens then?
Well, “luckily” for all of us the BIS and IMF have been working on their own GLOBAL CBDC. In the case of the IMF, this one-world currency would be based around the Special Drawing Rights basket system they have been using for decades to broker currency transfers between national governments. The BIS then uses this one world currency product as the bridge for Ice Breaker going forward.
Eventually the BIS, IMF and various central banks will ask the public the inevitable question: “Why are we bothering with these national currency exchanges when we have a perfectly good bridge currency in the form of this one-world CBDC? Why don’t we just get rid of all these superfluous national CBDCs and have one currency for everyone?”
Thus, total global financial centralization would be achieved. And once you have a one-world currency, a completely centralized and micro-managed global economy and the most vital trade systems in the world controlled by a tiny handful of faceless unelected bureaucracies, why then have nations at all? Global government would be the next and final step.
I can see the nightmare play out when I look at projects like Icebreaker. They are seemingly innocuous, but they act as the DNA by which economic tyranny is given birth.
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The war against the faith has been ongoing for many years. There was a time not too long ago when Democrat lawmakers would embrace faith and allow for faith-driven policies. That may be hard to imagine in today's world, but even Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton originally ran in 2008 against gay marriage. Oh, how times have changed.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is a stereotypical leftist Democrat. Some might even say we can look at him as the standard for the modern Democrat Party — radically woke, militantly anti-freedom, and devoid of any public attachments to reality. That's why his Tweets about Ramadan and Easter are so different. They give us a clear view into the collective mentality of today's Democrats.
Here's what he said about Ramadan:
In observation of Ramadan, we extend our warmest wishes to our Muslim friends and neighbors. May your fasting and prayers bring peace, happiness, and prosperity. Ramadan Mubarak! #Ramadan #RamadanMubarak #RamadanKareem
https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1638586953896710147
It's a respectful post that highlights his reverence and appreciation. He mentioned specific aspects of the Muslim holiday, demonstrating that this wasn't just a passing, "Happy Ramadan" Tweet.
Now, compare to how he noted Passover:
To all those gathering around a Seder table this evening, Trudi and I wish you a happy Passover. Chag Sameach!
https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1643764638318747648
This was far less involved and far more generic. Clearly, he holds the Jewish holiday in lower regard than its Muslim counterpart. At least he mentioned Seder.
Now, compare to what he said about Easter:
Hopping into Easter Sunday with joy and laughter - Trudi and I wish everyone a hoppy and egg-citing Easter! 🐰🥚🌷 #HappyEaster
https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1645091448268750849
He is mocking us. He didn't mention anything about the actual holy day. Instead, he made a conspicuous and clumsy attempt to make this a rabbit holiday.
To anyone who might think the disparity is unintentional, let me state this with absolute clarity. All three Tweets were meticulously crafted to send the exact message Democrats want portrayed. They desperately want to downplay Christianity and to a lesser extent Judaism while bowing to Islam and steering everyone into their true religions of Climate Change Hysteria and the LBGTQIA+ Supremacy Cult.
The war against the faith is accelerating. This is our one and only warning. Within years — not decades — Christianity will be all but outlawed in the United States if Democrats have their way. I am not being an alarmist. This is the path they are on and they won't stop themselves.
This isn't new. As mentioned before, Barack Obama used to be mild about abortions, allegedly against gay marriage, and at least pretending to be Christian. Today, he demands as many abortions and gay marriages as possible while ramping up direct attacks against the Bible.
Even Inslee demonstrated pro-Muslim tendencies before. As Todd Hermann noted on Twitter, Inslee's 2021 Ramadan Tweet even had a revering video:
https://twitter.com/toddeherman/status/1645266188782694400
Nearly everything Democrats are doing against freedom, conservatism, patriotism, and sovereignty in the United States ties directly to their war against the faith. Until more people acknowledge this, we will not be able to mount a proper counter-offensive.
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The recent surge in "After School Satan Clubs" popping up in public school districts across the country has sparked outrage among conservative and Christian parents. As a result, corporate media is doing whatever it can to make the demonic indoctrination groups seem harmless and even beneficial.
An article over at KOIN, Portland's CBS affiliate, positioned the actions of The Satanic Temple in the most positive light imaginable. I discussed this for an upcoming episode of The JD Rucker Show.
According to the news outlet, there's nothing to worry about because The Satanic Temple isn't really about Satan. It's just an advocacy group:
First, some background: The club is a project of The Satanic Temple (TST), which, despite its name, doesn’t worship the Biblical figure — or even believe Satan exists. Instead, TST says Satan is a literary figure representing “rejecting tyranny over the human mind and spirit.”
The organization operates as more of an advocacy group, saying it aims to “encourage empathy, reject tyrannical authority,” in addition to promoting “common sense” and “opposing injustice.” The group has made many court challenges to (often conservative) laws that may only protect or promote Christianity, as The Hill reports.
They really think we're stupid. At least they hope we are. This corporate media outlet and the Temple itself want us to believe they picked Satan to be their mascot because he was the best representation of "rejecting tyranny." The statement itself is insane because the tyranny they're referring to is the sovereignty of God.
It's like opening up a restaurant called "The Chicken Place," but when you go in they say they don't actually serve chicken. They serve "flightless foul" because they don't actually believe that chickens exist but since chickens represent scrumptious protein, they named their restaurant after the fictional birds.
But they're not just trying to normalize The Satanic Temple. More importantly, they're trying to normalize the "After School Satan Clubs" administered by the Temple. And while they claim this is not a religious organization, they are doing this in response to OTHER religious organizations. According to the article:
According to TST, After School Satan Club chapters are opened at public schools in response to other religious groups opening or operating clubs at schools. (The Chesapeake club was opened after an Evangelical Good News Club began operating at B.M. Williams.) The organization says After School Satan Clubs “provide a safe and inclusive alternative” to Christian-based groups that may seek to “convert school children to their belief system.”
TST says its After School Satan Clubs encourage critical thinking, rationalism, creative artistry and science. Children ages 5-12 are allowed to attend with parental permission, the Temple says.
“Proselytization is not our goal, and we’re not interested in converting children to Satanism,” writes TST. “We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors.”
They want our kids to appreciate nature but to disregard eternal damnation in Hell. Unfortunately, this makes sense to far too many people.
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It's important to know something up front. I have NOT been a "Chicken Little" who was screaming about economic collapse for years. I didn't panic for Y2K. I didn't panic during the economic downturn of 2008-2009. I didn't freak out over Obamacare, at least not from an economic perspective. I believed that we could recover from the 2020 lockdowns. But by mid-2021 I finally started getting truly concerned and throughout 2022 I've been monitoring the nation's economy very closely.
Now, I'm ringing the alarm bells because the threat of full-blown global economic collapse is real as we go into 2023.
On today's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I covered several stories that highlight the dangerous trends we're seeing. Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris regime seems bent on making things even worse and the new Republican majority in the House doesn't seem willing or able to do much to stop it.
One of the prevailing stories giving people hope for the past couple of months is better-than-expected stock performance. Is this a sign that the tide is turning? According to Bloomberg and Zero Hedge, no. It's just a sign that markets expected good things to happen. Since they haven't, we shouldn't anticipate a stock market that continues to overperform:
Two Great Months for US Stocks Promise Too Much for Own Good
The markets have been front-running the idea of a Fed pivot for some time now. While that is far-fetched, one must still admit that a Fed pause after its funds rate reaches circa 5%-5.25% is very much on the cards. While pretty much everyone in the markets is primed for the idea of a US recession, November’s non-farm payroll numbers (and perhaps even more importantly, the hourly earnings rising at twice the forecast pace) suggest that this inflationary episode may be around longer than realized.
And that is a worse denouement than any stock investor would wish. Not only do you have a scenario where inflation is corroding the nominal coupon on stocks, but you also have to factor in a slowing economy where presumably there is also a drag on earnings. A scenario that weighs on both the numerator and denominator (a high interest-rate recession) is hardly a prescription for a stellar rally month after month.
At current levels, the S&P 500 offers an estimated earnings yield of around 5.40% and the Nasdaq 100 around 4.32%, hardly anything to write home about in an environment where you can invest in two-year Treasuries that offer 4.27%.
Yes, there may be something to be said for being a part of that smart-money brigade that has made a grand return of 20%+ within a quarter and fleeing to where the honey is next, but that is predicated more on getting the timing right -- an iffy proposition even with the most seasoned investors. For every one idea that works out as per plan, the nine that follow come a cropper. [read more]
Costco Reports Large-Scale Shortages as Essential Items Are Impossible to Find at Stores
On the second segment of today's show, I turned to the "Epic Economist" to deliver a dose of reality about Costco. It's a financial indicator some use to see what's really happening with the supply chain and the retain market. Here's a transcript followed by the individual video I played during today's show:
The pantry of most American families today is probably looking a lot different than it was just a few months ago when grocery prices were lower and we still could find the majority of the products we usually rely on in our day-to-day lives. But now, shoppers are increasingly noticing the ongoing shortages at their favorite stores. With supply chain problems still impacting the production and delivery of goods, and mass migrations of employees searching for better wages resulting in labor shortages in the food sector, many of our favorite staple items are becoming harder to find. And that’s especially true at Costco.
In fact, new reports reveal that Costco warehouses are facing many different shortages, and dozens of products are about to be discontinued. Costco customers are getting more and more frustrated as they see essential items disappearing from the store’s shelves and start facing purchase limits once again. Today, we decided to track some of the most severe product stockouts and also expose which items may disappear next.
In recent months, American shoppers have been repeatedly reporting missing grocery items at their local Costco warehouse. But things seem to have taken a turn for the worse in October when several food products that were supposed to enter our food supply chains never arrived. We had a year of historical crop losses due to extreme weather conditions. The worst drought ever seen in this century resulted in some of the weakest harvest seasons in nearly five decades.
The scorching temperatures also led our beef cow herd to rapidly shrink, as farmers sent their animals to slaughter earlier than they typically do to prevent them from dying of thirst and starvation amid dwindling supplies of water and cow feed. You also probably heard about the avian flu epidemic, which is not only leading to shortages of chicken but also pushing poultry and egg prices to skyrocket The result of all of these losses is now being seen at the stores in the form of empty shelves.
Even major grocers like Costco are struggling to keep shelves fully stocked and announcing that in the coming months, many items will be discontinued. That’s why we decided to analyze data provided by Eat This, Not That, a leading news outlet in food, nutrition, and health, to track which are the most persistent grocery shortages at the retailer’s locations and what items are about to go out of stock.
The company just announced that dozens of products are being discontinued over the next few months. This means that your favorite treats may disappear from the store and not come back. A new report exposed that you may have to say goodbye to a wide range of treats that the retailer decided it will no longer sell. Knowing that some of your favorite items are going to be discontinued is one of the most disappointing experiences as a grocery shopper.
At the same time, it looks like purchasing limits are back with a vengeance. When searching the warehouse's website for "limit", we found dozens of items, ranging from active dry yeast at five per member, to almond flour at one per member, to acetaminophen at one per member, several types of wild canned tuna at one per member, mac and cheese at 10 per member, to soy milk at two per member, and many more. Retailers haven’t been able to catch a breath these days. The environment for most businesses remains tough, and as this downturn accelerates, they will continue to see their bottom lines getting hurt, and the same will be true for our personal finances.
Could 65 Trillion Dollars in “Hidden” Derivatives Cause the Entire Global Financial System to Crash?
If you thought that the collapse of FTX was something, just wait until the entire global financial system comes crashing down all around us. Most people just assume that the system is being managed by rational people that behave in rational ways, but of course countless investors assumed the same things about FTX. Sadly, the global financial system has slowly but surely been transformed into the largest casino in the history of the world. It is a colossal Ponzi scheme, and once in a while authorities give us a little peek into what is really going on behind the curtain.
For example, this week the Bank for International Settlements released a report that warned that 65 trillion dollars in “hidden” currency derivatives could potentially be a major threat to the stability of the entire system…
There’s a hidden risk to the global financial system embedded in the $65 trillion of dollar debt being held by non-US institutions via currency derivatives, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
In a paper with the title “huge, missing and growing,” the BIS said a lack of information is making it harder for policy makers to anticipate the next financial crisis. In particular, they raised concern with the fact that the debt is going unrecorded on balance sheets because of accounting conventions on how to track derivative positions.
Last year, the total value of all goods and services produced in the entire world was just 96 trillion dollars.
So we are talking about an amount of money that is almost unimaginable. [read more]
The Bubble Economy's Credit-Asset Death Spiral
Understanding why those in the financial industry aren't ringing the alarm bell takes one simple revelation. Even as economies begin collapsing, THEY'RE still making plenty of money. The messes that are being made are mostly affecting the middle class. Even those with modest wealth are feeling the crunch. But the real money players are benefitting greatly. We discussed this a bit on the episode with an article by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds via Lew Rockwell:
Who believed that central banks’ financial perpetual motion machine was anything more than trickery designed to generate phantom wealth? Central banks seem to have perfected the ideal financial perpetual motion machine: as credit expands, money pours into risk assets, which shoot higher under the pressure of expanding demand for assets that yield either hefty returns (junk bonds) or hefty capital gains as the soaring assets suck in more capital chasing returns.
As assets soar in value, they serve as collateral for more credit. Higher valuations = more collateral to borrow against. This open spigot of additional credit sluices capital right back into the assets that are climbing in value, pushing them higher–which then creates even more collateral to support even more credit.
This self-reinforcing feedback of expanding credit feeding expanding valuations feeding expanding collateral which then feeds expanding credit has no apparent end. Modest houses once worth $100,000 are now worth $1,000,000, and nobody’s complaining except those priced out of the infinite spiral of prices and credit.
For those priced out of traditional assets, there’s NFTs, meme stocks and short-duration options. The credit-asset bubble-economy casino has a gaming table for everyone’s budget and desire to “make it big” via speculation, since the traditional ladders to middle-class security have all been splintered.
This financial perpetual motion machine distorts traditional incentives. Why bother renting a house bought for speculative gains? Renters are problematic, better to just let it sit empty and rack up huge capital gains. Count the lighted windows at night in all those new condo high-rises. Are even 20% occupied? Probably not.
This is how you get a “housing shortage”: investors would rather keep units clean and off the market rather than risk renting units. When credit and asset valuations are both feeding an infinite expansion, all that matters is leveraging capital to acquire as many assets as possible to maximize the gains from this self-reinforcing wealth-creation machine.
This machine also incentivizes fraud. To really maximize gains, why not borrow clients’ capital? Indeed, why not? But unbeknownst to the central bank sorcerers and the greed-crazed participants, all systems have limits and all consequences have their own consequences, i.e. second-order effects. There are many such dynamics which are eroding the apparently unbreakable financial perpetual motion machine. [read more]
Our Gold Guy
In the 4th segment, I replayed an interview with Ira Bershatsky from Our Gold Guy that I recorded last week. Here's what he has to say on his website:
Look around. Things aren’t the way they should be. Between Pandemic Panic Theater, Ukraine, food shortages, and a push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, everything you’ve spent your life building and protecting is in jeopardy.
Precious metals are historically the most reliable and safest hedge against economic turmoil. With the Biden regime and globalists enhancing the chaos, it’s important for patriotic Americans to take control of their financial future.
Ira Bershatsky offers consultations to those who want to invest in precious metals. During these consultations, he will match your current financial situation with the best physical precious metal purchases whether you want to rollover your IRA or have coins discreetly shipped to your home. You will not talk to a telemarketer or sales rep. You will talk to a true expert in precious metals with decades of experience helping people protect and advance their wealth.
Central Bank Digital Currencies With Brannon Howse and Congressman Glenn Grothman
The fifth segment had me turning to my good friend Brannon House and his interview of Congressman Glenn Grothman.
The Biden-Harris Regime Quietly Changes Rules to Incentivize Financial Advisors to Put Your Money Into Woke Investments EVEN IF IT LOSES MONEY
It's no secret that the Biden-Harris regime and their puppetmasters among the globalist elite cabal absolutely hate us. They despise us as useless eaters who must be depopulated or controlled for them to achieve their nefarious goals of The Great Reset, the 4th Industrial Revolution, Build Back Better, the Green New Deal, the Liberal World Order, or whatever label they slap on their machinations in the future.
Now, they're proudly declaring this hatred by prompting financial advisors and retirement institutions to move your money to ESG companies. Moreover, they lifted rules requiring them to try to make you money. In other words, they can lose money for YOU and still make money for themselves as long as they're investing in wokeness. You can't make this up, but apparently someone among the powers-that-be did anyway.
According to Jeff Murdoch at The Washington Times [emphasis added]:
The Biden administration has quietly finalized a rule allowing employers to funnel workers’ 401(k) funds into investments that support woke causes that address issues such as climate change and diversity.
The Labor Department recently approved the rule affecting roughly 150 million workers and $10 trillion in assets covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
The rule says asset managers and retirement plan administrators should consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments. That would encourage money managers to balance financial returns with investments that support wind and solar energy or have diverse boards of directors.
The rules also remove a restriction blocking employers from using an ESG fund as a default option for workers automatically enrolled in 401(k) plans. That means workers could be supporting causes that don’t align with their political views.
It also rescinds Trump-era regulations that require retirement plan administrators and asset managers to choose investments based solely on participants’ financial interests.
This is just another reason why I STRONGLY recommend everyone of all ages move their wealth or retirement into a self-directed IRA. Don't let advisors and retirement companies quietly compel you to lose money on woke investments even as they make more money thanks to the Biden-Harris regime's priorities.
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Editor's Commentary: A reader on one of my Substacks asked a question that I haven't really thought about answering until now: "...when to get out of the traditional market for those still clinging to the idea that the market will normalize." I'm often guilty of assuming everyone's seeing things that I believe are crystal clear. In this case, it's as close to 100% as possible that there will NOT be a normalization of the markets anytime in the near future. And by near future, I believe it would take an act of God to reverse the course of western economies, including ours, before we reach a sustained and deep recession, possibly even a depression.
Possibly even a full-blown economic collapse.
The reason this is so clear to me is because I see the actions of leaders across the globe, including the Biden-Harris regime, and realize they are NOT going to do anything to prevent the collapse from happening. They WANT it to happen. Only when the system is irreversibly broken can the globalist elite cabal achieve The Great Reset.
Some point to the midterm elections as a way to reverse course. At best, a red wave will slow the bleeding. Even if they take both the House and Senate, they will not be able to pass meaningful economic legislation that doesn't get vetoed by Joe Biden. They can prevent new legislation similar to the Inflation Reduction Act from getting through, but that's about it. And unfortunately the feckless Republican Establishment will still be in control with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy calling the shots, so anyone looking to a post-election economic surge is missing the point.
This is why I'm so bullish about moving investments, wealth, and retirement to precious metals. Those who are familiar with my past work know that I was never big on gold and silver until about a little over a year ago. In the past, I had panned gold and silver because I believed the Trump economy would remain strong, rebounding well after Pandemic Panic Theater ended. I did not expect Biden to "win," nor did I realize just how rapidly his regime would act to destroy the economy. I'm late to the precious metals game, but I'm trying to make up for it by recommending three America First precious metals companies.
The vast majority of companies that sell gold and silver are either donating to Democrats, working with proxies of the Chinese Communist Party, or both. This is why I only found three out of the two dozen that I vetted that I can recommend because they're ideologically aligned. As fate would have it, they come in three sizes. Our Gold Guy is a small, family-owned precious metals shop that offers personal service. Genesis Gold Group is mid-sized and is the first one I found that focuses on Christian fellowship. Goldco is the big one.
On today's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I dove into what to expect with the election. But the portion pertinent to the economy was the final segment, which you can see here if you don't want to watch the whole show. I referenced the article below by Michael Snyder over at The Economic Collapse Blog...
Things haven’t looked this bad for the U.S. economy since 2008. We are in the midst of the worst inflation crisis in decades, the housing market has started to collapse, some of the largest companies in America have begun laying off workers, and economic activity is slowing down all around us. Of course Joe Biden is telling us that our economy is “strong as hell”, but that is just because he wants his party to do well in the upcoming elections. Ultimately, anyone that takes a truly objective view of things is forced to admit that the outlook for the months ahead is incredibly bleak. The following are 12 reasons why it is impossible for any rational person to be optimistic about the U.S. economy at this point…
#1 According to a recent Gallup survey, two-thirds of Americans believe that economic conditions are getting worse. When such a large proportion of the population starts behaving as though an economic downturn is coming, that actually makes an economic downturn even more likely. So many Americans are starting to hold on to their money more tightly, and that is having lots of ripple effects.
#2 The second largest auto lender in the United States just announced that it “saw charge-offs for retail auto loans quadruple in the third quarter”. We are also seeing credit card delinquencies start to rise. We certainly aren’t at 2008 levels yet, but we are moving in that direction.
#3 Cargo traffic at the Port of Los Angeles just declined to the lowest level that we have seen since the early days of the pandemic. As I noted earlier, economic activity is beginning to slow down all over the nation. One recent survey discovered that 98 percent of corporate CEOs believe that a recession is coming, and those CEOs are behaving accordingly.
#4 Major retailers such as Walmart and Target have been canceling billions of dollars in orders as they seek to cut back inventory levels. In all my years, I have never seen our largest retailers cancel so many orders just prior to the holiday season. Are they expecting the next couple of months to be a total bust?
#5 Existing home sales just fell to a 10 year low. We all knew that the housing market was going to implode once the Federal Reserve started to aggressively raise interest rates, but at this point that implosion is happening faster than most of the experts had anticipated.
#6 U.S. homebuilder sentiment has declined for 10 months in a row. That is a brand new record. I really feel sorry for you if you are a homebuilder or if you work for one. The months ahead are not going to be pleasant for you.
#7 60,000 real estate deals were called off in the month of September alone. I was stunned when I first saw that number. All over the country buyers are realizing that they agreed to pay too much and are feverishly trying to back out of deals while they still can.
#8 Mortgage demand has plunged to the lowest level in 25 years. Things never even got this bad during the downturn of 2008 and 2009. To me, this is a really troubling sign.
#9 Ian Sheperdson, the chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, is projecting that home prices could fall 20 percent over the next year. Hopefully that will not happen, but there is also a possibility that they could fall even further than that. We will just have to wait and see how rapidly this new crisis plays out.
#10 U.S. diesel inventories have fallen to the lowest level since 2008. This is something that we will want to watch very carefully, because the U.S. economy runs on diesel.
#11 The core consumer price index has just surged to “the highest level since 1982”. Even though the Federal Reserve has been on an insane rate hiking spree, our inflation crisis continues to rage out of control. And as prices continue to soar, our standard of living is being absolutely eviscerated.
#12 A model created by Bloomberg economists Anna Wong and Eliza Winger indicates that there is a 100 percent chance of a recession within the next 12 months. Of course it is entirely possible that their model could be wrong. But without a doubt this is not a good sign.
Right now, even some of our society’s most relentless optimists are warning that tough economic times are ahead.
For instance, in a post on Twitter Elon Musk just suggested that we could be suffering through a recession until the spring of 2024…
If Elon Musk is any type of financial prognosticator, the market and economy could be in trouble for more than a year to come.
When prompted in a Twitter thread early on Friday morning, the Tesla CEO said that he thought the current recession would last “probably until spring of ’24”.
Because he is such an optimist, Musk believes that economic conditions will turn around eventually.
But what if they don’t?
What if the “perfect storm” that we are currently enduring ultimately results in the collapse of everything?
Are you prepared for such a scenario?
Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most prosperous economy that the world has ever seen.
But instead of managing it carefully, we have piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the planet, we have transformed Wall Street into the globe’s largest casino, and we have systematically destroyed the reserve currency of the world.
Thanks to a very long series of incredibly foolish decisions by our leaders, we are now facing a war with Russia, a collapse of the housing market, a global food crisis, a global inflation crisis and a worldwide financial meltdown simultaneously.
The entire system is starting to crumble all around us, but most people still believe that things will “return to normal” at some point.
Personally, I would love to see things “return to normal”, but unfortunately it appears that is not likely to happen any time soon.
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One of the keys to discernment is to question everything. And by everything, I mean we shouldn't just question what happens but why it happens in the first place. Those of us who know there is a cabal of globalist elites and their numerous proxies who are trying to destroy America and take over the world are often the ones who need discernment the most. We're good at getting on the right track but we can be easily made to miss the real point.
Such is the case of Konnech, the tiny election logistics company out of Michigan. Their CEO, Eugene Yu, was arrested Tuesday for storing sensitive personal data of around two million election workers on servers housed in China. This was, of course, big news because it partially confirms what many have been saying for a long time. More on those details later, but I want to talk about the wrinkle in the story first.
Just a day before the arrest, the NY Times posted an article attempting to debunk claims that Konnech and their CEO were storing confidential data in China. Conservative media pounced on the story, as we are wont to do, because it was a total embarrassment for the leftist news outlet. It's standard operating procedure for conservative journalists to "own the leftists" whenever they make such embarrassing mistakes. Conservatives on social media were virtually chuckling, offering each other high five emojis.
In reality, we were conned once again.
I'm discussing all of this on today's episode of The JD Rucker Show. Here's what really went down. The arrest was made on orders of LA District Attorney George Gascon, an embattled disciple of George Soros. While nearly every conservative and alternative media outlet out there howled in delight that not only was a massive voter fraud conspiracy theory partially confirmed, but that the NY Times owned itself by publishing a "debunking" story the day before. "What a crazy, awesome, inexplicable turn of events," one conservative journalist noted in her article on the subject.
As I noted in the beginning, conservatives in media desperately need discernment. The powers-that-be know how to manipulate us. They can practically write our headlines for us through their selective leaks and perfect coordination between corporate media, the Deep State, and other proxies of the globalist elite cabal. The timing of the NY Times story was not fortuitous. It does not benefit conservatives or America one bit. It served two very important purposes. And yes, it was dropped exactly when it was supposed to be dropped and said exactly what it was supposed to say based on orders from the Cabal.
The first purpose was to get ahead of the arrest that the NY Times knew was coming. We have to remember how the vast majority of Americans, even many conservatives, operate. Once a piece of "news" is relayed into their minds, it's hard to convince them of anything other than the original narrative. The notion that Konnech and their CEO were involved in a massive voter fraud scheme by working with the Chinese Communist Party was declared a "conspiracy theory."
If recent history has taught us anything, it's that this huge story about potential election manipulation will be swept under the rug by corporate media. But it's worse than just corporate media ignoring it. The NY Times story planted the seed that not only is Konnech's involvement just a conspiracy theory, but that "election deniers" like True the Vote are somehow dangerous. That's going to be the takeaway from many who even hear about the story at all. Unfortunately, not many Americans will.
The second purpose is more important. Like I said, conservatives in media are easy to manipulate. This is a perfect example of the Cabal switching the focus of those of us who are trying to pay attention. Go to your favorite conservative news outlet and search for Konnech. You'll probably find two stories. One will be about the arrest. The other will be about the NY Times and their "humiliating" story the day before. Both stories are important to conservatives because one deals with voter fraud and other deals with corporate media. But just because they're both important to us doesn't mean they're both important in the grand scheme of things.
Konnech stored personal data for the most important people during any election: Poll workers. We've seen how much power they can have in close elections. We all saw videos from the 2020 election when poll workers were counting, double-counting, and triple-counting ballots. We saw videos of them bringing out boxes hidden under tables after media was told to leave. Controlling those who are counting the vote is the easiest path to stealing an election, and these people had their personal data housed by a company affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.
That's the story. Unfortunately, around half of the conservatives who would have learned more about it are busy with their high five emojis because of the ludicrous and "embarrassing" article in the NY Times the day before. We are being distracted from a big story with a completely irrelevant one. For many if not most conservative readers, the "fun" story about the NY Times is getting shared more than the bombshell arrest that happened.
It's not a coincidence that the story came out the day before the arrest. Keep in mind, this story wasn't breaking. The events the NY Times highlighted happened in August. Yet there will be those who tell me I sound crazy when I say it was coordinated. To those people, I'll remind them to look at the facts. A story hit mockingbird media the day before a Soros-backed District Attorney arrested a CEO of a company that is accused of housing personal poll worker data in Communist China. As a result, more attention is being paid to the NY Times than to the company that appears to be at the heart of the voter fraud that stole the 2020 election.
Sure, that's all just a coincidence.
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Look around you. Something very wrong is happening to our nation. It's as if most Americans are lost and the people who are supposed to be helping them find their way are leading us toward oblivion. It's not just government. It's media. It's Big Tech. It's doctors. It's clergy. The vast majority of political, cultural, and spiritual leaders in this nation are either oblivious to the real challenges we're facing or they're willfully conspiring to bring our nation down.
There are plenty of excuses we can make and villains at which we can point our fingers. We can blame Covid. We can blame Democrats. We can blame globalists, climate change fearmongers, or groomers. We can blame China or Russia. We can blame bad policies, stolen elections, or tough luck. But at the end of the day this is OUR nation and WE must take responsibility for the disastrous direction we are be heading.
My name is JD Rucker, and I'm done with simply pointing fingers.
I am a Christian. I'm a husband and a dad. I'm an America First patriot born abroad who came to this nation legally. I've always voted for Republicans, but there are more members of the GOP that I wouldn't support today than those that I would. The Republican Establishment is a big part of the problem.
I'm a journalist, though I'm reluctant to admit that considering how corporate media has tarnished the profession. I became a journalist to help bring the truth to light, but I've found that I am the exception to the rule in today's corrupted and oftentimes radical media landscape. Everyone with a newsroom and corporate money backing them is propagandizing the agenda du jour that their puppet-masters instruct them to regurgitate.
We need better and we need it now. We need to expect more from the supposed "good guys" in media, the ones who are patriotic, the ones who love this nation. We need to expect more from Christian media as well. It seems many have either gone "woke" or they're no longer willing to speak the Biblical truth for fear of being canceled.
This nation and this planet face more existential threats than we've ever faced. Even during World War II when 80 million people died, there was hope that if the enemy could be defeated, then normalcy could return. Today, we're having a hard time identifying exactly who the enemy is and we do not have a clear picture of the plans they have for the world. We have ideas. We can look at Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, George Soros, Bill Gates, and others who seem bent on depopulation and seizing complete control over those who remain. At this stage, I'm not even sure if the known powers-that-be are really at the top of the food chain of evil. Are they answering directly to Satan? Are there principalities and powers who are managing them? We do not know for certain, though we have a pretty good idea that the forces behind The Great Reset and other machinations are demonic in nature.
Some will tell me that I go too far with my accusations, but I often think I don't go far enough. Evil must be called out for what it is. Do I believe those grooming children to enter the LGBTQIA+ lifestyle are just misguided, or do I think they're evil? Anyone who has read or heard my feelings on the topic before knows that I consider it to be driven by pure evil. These groomers want to separate people from their connection with God and hitting them at as early of an age as possible is the path of least resistance. If they can convince a young boy that he's actually just a girl in a male body, they can convince that young boy that God either made a mistake when He created him, or there is no God at all. That's the ultimate goal of those driving the LBGTQIA+ supremacy agenda. So, no, I do not think they are simply misguided. I believe they are driven by evil whether they realize it or not.
That's just one example. We can look at the Covid agenda, the stolen 2020 election, climate change hysteria, the massive invasion at our southern border, manufactured food shortages, attacks on energy infrastructure, the intentional decimation of our economy, or any of a dozen other grotesque threats to western society and realize that evil abounds. Perhaps it always has and we just weren't paying enough attention. Or, perhaps they're ramping things up for a culmination that may or may not be Biblical in nature.
Saying such things in today's media landscape is anathema. This is why even conservative and Christian media often go soft on such topics. They oppose them in safe ways as they attempt to paint the threats within the guidelines set forth by Google, Facebook, fact-checkers, and their corporate sponsors, but they do not call evil for what it is. They dance around the core problem like it's a landmine that will blow their careers to smithereens if they get too close to the truth.
The greatest weapon being wielded by radical leftists today is not their control over the White House and Congress. It's not their control over corporate media or Big Tech. It's not even their ability to break their own rules without risking being called out by anyone. No, their greatest weapon is invoking the nebulous phrase "hate speech" against anyone they disagree with them and any argument that opposes their ideology.
This is why we're building Discern.tv and a network of media properties that can, Lord willing, be resistant if not immune to the evils of cancel culture, censorship, and restrictions that permeate the current media landscape. We will not have a Facebook page or a YouTube channel. What's the point when the content we publish will be instantly removed and our accounts will be quickly banned? We will not run Google ads, buy traffic through Big Tech platforms, or have apps on Apple or Android. This is important because keeping our network off of the various censorship platforms will give us the freedom to speak the truth without framing it in the guidelines set forth by radical progressives in Big Tech.
The best-kept secret in conservative and Christian media is that most are beholden in multiple ways to the very people who hate patriots and American freedoms. Google ads are by far the most lucrative but they will not allow their ads on sites that speak the truth about important topics. Facebook is by far the best traffic-driver for most media sites but they will censor news outlets who post "misinformation" like the vaccines are neither safe nor effective or the 2020 election was rigged. Android and Apple won't allow apps that do not self-censor; even mentioning the words "groomer" or "climate change hoax" can get a popular app suspended or removed from the app stores.
If you've ever wondered why top players in conservative and Christian media seem milquetoast on certain topics, this is it. They can't risk getting booted from Google, Apple, or Facebook teats.
The Discern Media Network will operate without being beholden to those who hate us. We already know they'll come after us and we're doing everything we can to build the network with no connections that are likely to be censored or cancelled. The powers-that-be are trying to keep the truth from coming to light on multiple fronts. This is why I am doing my fundraising for the project on GiveSendGo. We wouldn't last a week on GoFundMe, Patreon, or any of the other woke crowdfunding platforms.
There's a quote that is often misattributed to George Orwell, likely because it sounds like something he would have said. "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." We are there. This is a time of universal deceit.
We cannot abide by the plans of politicians to help with society's recovery when they are the ones who created the very problems we're facing.
We cannot tune in to the self-appointed arbiters of truth in corporate media because their reports are tilted toward the agenda they've been instructed to promote.
We cannot trust doctors who tell us the so-called "vaccines" are safe and effective when all the evidence says they're neither.
We cannot let our children be taught by teachers or professors who believe everything must be learned through the lens of social justice.
We cannot listen to clergy who are reticent to preach about the many parts of the Bible that aren't woke enough for modern progressive sensibilities.
And unfortunately, we cannot keep getting our news from conservative or Christian media companies who bow to Google, Facebook, Apple, fact-checkers, and their other overlords in Big Tech and corporate media.
Lies are everywhere, which means liars are everywhere. So when I say we are in a time of universal deceit, that is not hyperbole. And when I say that telling the truth is a revolutionary act, it's because the only way for the truth to come to light is through bold actions that would put us at risk of cancellation. Nobody ever said a revolution would be easy.
To those of you listening who are Bible-believing Christians, I know you're probably seeing what I'm seeing. While the world devolves into chaos and embraces the evil that is being presented to us, many in the church as well as those in Christian media are playing it safe. They're doing everything they can to not make people upset at a time when we need to get in people's faces if necessary. While the noise of the world gets louder, those who are supposed to be sharing the Gospel are letting their voices get softer and softer.
Today, we need one thing more than anything else. We need discernment. The enemies we see aren't necessarily the enemies we really fight. The events that are taking place across the street and around the globe are all leading toward a culminating event. Whether that's implementation of The Great Reset or something even worse, we cannot know for sure. Not yet. We do, however, know that we must fight it with everything we've got.
I am not a politician. I am not a pastor. I am not the leader of the revolution that we need in order to fight back against the pervasive evil of this world. But I am a journalist, so it's no surprise that the way I've chosen to fight the good fight is by launching a media network designed to operate outside of the constraints of cancel culture. I need help. Please spread the word. If you have the means, we are looking for donors and even investors. Please contact me at jdrucker.com/talk or contribute what you can at givesendgo.com/jdrucker.
Let's start a revolution, a revolution of truth.
Thank you, and God bless.
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman isn't really running for U.S. Senate. He's on the ballot. He's doing some campaign stops. He's dodging a debate against Dr. Mehmet Oz. But he's just a placeholder. The real candidate that nobody outside of the powerbrokers in the Democrat Party know about is his radical leftist wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman.
The official candidate has been making the news lately with his odd behavior. Just before the primary election, he suffered a stroke and was away from the public eye for over a month. But now that he's back on the campaign trail, a whole lot of people have a whole lot of questions. He was even featured on Tucker Carlson's recent show, and more specifically, the odd lump on the back of his neck was featured.
Democrats are doing everything they can to keep him out of the spotlight. It's the Joe Biden campaign technique — stick him in the basement and hope his proxies and advocates can con enough people to make the race close so they can cheat their way to victory. This is Pennsylvania, after all, where it takes a couple of weeks to manufacture the votes Democrats need to win, as they demonstrated during the 2020 election.
But John Fetterman is just a placeholder. The real person they intend to make Senator is his wife. Gisele Barreto Fetterman is the ultimate representation of the worst parts of the Democrat Party. She came into this nation as an illegal alien, a "Dreamer" before such a term was coined by the Obama regime. She got her green card, became a citizen, and married John Fetterman.
Since then, her entire career has been built around woke activism and race-targeted philanthropy. She has built a resume that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar could only dream of having. According to the candidate's website:
Gisele has devoted her life to helping others, with a focus on nutrition, food equity and meeting Pennsylvanians’ basic needs. With just an empty shipping container and an open lot, Gisele opened the Free Store, distributing household goods, baby items and bicycles to those in need. In addition, she co-founded 412 Food Rescue, which sends volunteers to retailers who have surplus food that risks going bad and delivers it to nonprofits that serve the hungry. Gisele also co-founded the nonprofit For Good PGH which drives numerous initiatives on inclusion including “Hello Hijab,” which produces miniature hijabs for dolls, promoting tolerance and diversity. Most recently Gisele founded The Hollander Project, a business incubator for female entrepreneurs.
If the Democrats are able to win in Pennsylvania, they will likely win both the Senate seat and the governorship. They need to win both for their plan to work. If John Fetterman wins, he will quickly resign due to health reasons. If Josh Shapiro defeats Doug Mastriano in the gubernatorial race, it will be on Shapiro to pick Fetterman's replacement and I'll tell you with 90% certainty that pick will be Fetterman's Neo-Marxist wife.
I discussed this in some more detail on today's episode of America First Report.
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Many conservative commentators and show hosts have tackled the TikTok problem over the past couple of years. It's an indoctrination tool used by the radical left to push kids and even young adults into destructive ideologies like LGBTQIA+ supremacy, Critical Race Theory, and general sexual depravity. Some say it's a brainwashing tool, and I believe it is.
The world's most popular app by far, TikTok presents short videos in a never-ending stream. Users are greeted with a new video the moment they open the app and they can swipe up endlessly until hours have passed. It's truly addictive and the algorithms are geared toward pushing users more and more to the left. Sometimes, it's incremental. Other times, it's in giant leaps.
An imam in Great Britain who I was unable to identify told of the reality of TikTok and how the Chinese algorithm is very much different from the algorithm used in western cultures. Instead of serving kids videos of stupid pranks or scantily clad teens doing provocative dances, they're served videos of people demonstrating their accomplishments. It's still indoctrination and brainwashing, but the Chinese Communist Party makes sure they're indoctrinating their children to grow to be good citizens rather than the losers they're trying to turn our kids into.
Watch.
On today's episode of America First Report, I broke down what this means and why parents must do everything they can to prevent kids from being exposed to this extremely dangerous app. Unfortunately, we're in a society that embraces groupthink so far too many parents see nothing wrong with TikTok since so many people are using it. In fact, there are many parents who have become addicted to the app themselves.
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For nearly two years, many of us have been trying to spread the truth about the Covid jabs. We were told they are effective. They are not. We were told they are safe. They are not. But anyone who tried to share these truths were hit by cancel culture at the least and deplatformed at worst. We know this personally as we were hit by massive censorship multiple times, including losing a popular YouTube channel that I'd had since 2009.
For the last month or so, the restrictions against speaking the truth regarding Covid jabs have been relieved a bit. Big Tech platforms have changed their rules to allow for some claims about the injections they didn't allow last month. Corporate media is even talking about adverse reactions from time to time. The CDC and FDA have made changes to their websites, removing certain claims such as the spike proteins are short-term and are removed from the bloodstream quickly. They aren't.
While many of us have been cheering these minor victories, there are two reasons to be very upset and at least a little concerned. First, it's like they closed the stable door after the horse had bolted. Millions, perhaps tens of millions of Americans have been jabbed a varying number of times who definitely would NOT have if there were no mandates or if the truth was allowed to reach them. I'm not one to make excuses for people; the information was out there and nobody was forced to take the shots at gunpoint. People made choices, but it would have been nice if the "normies" were able to see the information we were putting out there.
The second concern is far greater. What's next? That's the real question we should be asking because this isn't a good sign. They could continue to gaslight and lie through their teeth about the jabs almost indefinitely. As long as everyone in government, corporate media, Big Tech, and Big Pharma kept echoing the same false narrative, they could have continued to suspend disbelief in the "safe and effective" jabs for at least another couple of years. Why are they suddenly and uniformly creeping the truth out there? Do they have something else planned?
I believe they do. On today's episode of America First Report, I explained why I believe they have something new planned for us. I went over the article by Jennifer Marfulis and Joe Wang from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times (below) the represents arguably the most important study to date regarding the jabs. It's important because it's actually being reported. There are other more shocking jab-debunking studies out there, but this one is actually being talked about by corporate media which is a new development.
Are they planning on letting the cat out of the bag and admitting the jabs are causing real damage to people? That's possible, especially if they intend to pin it all on Donald Trump and Operation Warp Speed. "We were rushed to get it out before the election," they'll say.
It would also be useful for them to do this if they have a way to "repair" the damage with NEW jabs. I know what you're thinking. Who will trust the people who caused the problem to offer a solution that requires more shots? Unfortunately, we'll likely be shocked at how many will rush to get essentially inoculated and "treated" for the original jabs by the same people who did the harm in the first place.
Whatever they have planned, remember two things. First, they will only admit the truth if they believe doing so will further their long-term plans. Second, those who have been jabbed or those who are regularly exposed to people who have been jabbed should strongly consider getting ZDtox by my good friend, the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. Here's the article from The Epoch Times that I covered on the show...
‘Unethical’ and up to 98 Times Worse Than the Disease: Top Scientists Publish Paradigm-Shifting Study About COVID-19 Vaccines
A team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical.
This 50-page study, which was published on The Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed CDC and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented.
The paper is co-authored by Dr. Stefan Baral, an epidemiology professor at Johns Hopkins University; surgeon Martin Adel Makary, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins known for his books exposing medical malfeasance, including “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Heath Care”; and Dr. Vinayak Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, who is a professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as the author of over 350 academic and peer-reviewed articles.
But among this team of high-profile international experts who authored this paper, perhaps the most notable is Salmaan Keshavjee, M.D., Ph.D., current Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery, and professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Keshavjee has also worked extensively with Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit co-founded by the late Dr. Paul Farmer, on treating drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to his online biography.
Risking Disenrollment
As the study pointed out, students at universities in America, Canada, and Mexico are being told they must have a third dose of the vaccines against COVID-19 or be disenrolled. Unvaccinated high school students who are just starting college are also being told the COVID-19 vaccines are “mandatory” for attendance.
These mandates are widespread. There are currently 15 states which continue to honor philosophical (personal belief) exemptions, and 44 states and Washington, D.C. allow religious exemptions to vaccines. But even in these states, private universities are telling parents they will not accept state-recognized vaccine exemptions.
Based on personal interviews with some half a dozen families, The Epoch Times has learned that administrators at some colleges and universities are informing students that they have their own university-employed medical teams to scrutinize the medical exemptions submitted by students and signed by private doctors. These doctors, families are being told, will decide whether the health reasons given are medically valid.
5 Ethical Arguments Against Mandated Boosters
Though rarely reported on in the mainstream media, COVID-19 vaccine boosters have been generating a lot of controversy.
While some countries are quietly compensating people for devastating vaccine injuries, and other countries are limiting COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, the United States is now recommending children 12 and older get Pfizer-BioNTech’s Omicron-specific booster, and young adults over the age of 18 get Moderna’s updated shot.
At the same time, public health authorities in Canada are suggesting Canadians will need COVID-19 vaccines every 90 days.
Against a backdrop of confusing and often changing public health recommendations and booster fatigue, the authors of this new paper argue that university booster mandates are unethical. They give five specific reasons for this bold claim:
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Lack of policymaking transparency. The scientists pointed out that no formal and scientifically rigorous risk-benefit analysis of whether boosters are helpful in preventing severe infections and hospitalizations exists for young adults.
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Expected harm. A look at the currently available data shows that mandates will result in what the authors call a “net expected harm” to young people. This expected harm will exceed the potential benefit from the boosters.
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Lack of efficacy. The vaccines have not effectively prevented transmission of COVID-19. Given how poorly they work—the authors call this “modest and transient effectiveness”—the expected harms caused by the boosters likely outweigh any benefits to public health.
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No recourse for vaccine-injured young adults. Forcing vaccination as a prerequisite to attend college is especially problematic because young people injured by these vaccines will likely not be able to receive compensation for these injuries.
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Harm to society. Mandates, the authors insisted, ostracize unvaccinated young adults, excluding them from education and university employment opportunities. Coerced vaccination entails “major infringements to free choice of occupation and freedom of association,” the scientists wrote, especially when “mandates are not supported by compelling public health justification.”
The consequences of non-compliance include being unenrolled, losing internet privileges, losing access to the gym and other athletic facilities, and being kicked out of campus housing, among other things. These punitive approaches, according to the authors, have resulted in unnecessary psychosocial stress, reputation damage, loss of income, and fear of being deported, to name just a few.
22,000 to 30,000 Previously Unaffected Young Adults Must be Vaccinated to Prevent Just 1 Hospitalization
The lack of effectiveness of the vaccines is a major concern to these researchers. Based on their analysis of the public data provided to the CDC, they estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 previously uninfected young adults would need to be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent just a single hospitalization.
However, this estimate does not take into account the protection conferred by a previous infection. So, the authors insisted, “this should be considered a conservative and optimistic assessment of benefit.”
In other words, the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 are essentially useless.
Mandated Booster Shots Cause More Harm Than Good
But the documented lack of efficacy is only part of the problem. The researchers further found that per every one COVID-19 hospitalization prevented in young adults who had not previously been infected with COVID-19, the data show that 18 to 98 “serious adverse events” will be caused by the vaccinations themselves.
These events include up to three times as many booster-associated myocarditis in young men than hospitalizations prevented, and as many as 3,234 cases of other side effects so serious that they interfere with normal daily activities.
At a regional hospital in South Carolina, the desk clerk sported a button that read: “I’m Vaccinated Against COVID-19” with a big black check mark on it.
“What about the boosters?” a hospital visitor asked. “It’s starting to seem like we need too many shots.”
“It does seem like a lot,” the clerk agreed. “It’s hard to know what to do.” But she did have some advice for the visitor: “Just keep reading and educating yourself, so you can make an informed decision.”
This new paper is essential reading for anyone trying to decide if they need more vaccines. The authors concluded their study with a call to action. Policymakers must stop mandates for young adults immediately, be sure that those who have already been injured by these vaccines are compensated for the suffering caused by mandates, and openly conduct and share the results of risk-benefit analyses of the vaccines for various age groups.
These measures are necessary, the authors argued, to “begin what will be a long process of rebuilding trust in public health.”
May the Force Be With Brave Scientists
The two co-first authors, Dr. Kevin Bardosh and Dr. Allison Krug, both thanked their families for supporting them to “publicly debate Covid-19 vaccine mandates” in the acknowledgments section of the paper.
As we wrote in May, an increasing number of scientists and medical doctors are speaking out about the dubious efficacy and disturbing safety issues surrounding theses fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccines. They do so fully aware of the personal and professional risks involved. They deserve our encouragement and support.
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Editor's Commentary: The Fed is not your friend. They're not the White House's friend. They're not even the American bankers' friend. They're definitely not Wall Street's friend. The Federal Reserve is a globalist organization posing as financial middle managers for over a century with the sole purpose of keeping the U.S. economy in a position of vulnerability to the powers-that-be.
Yet since the inception of the "neutral" "apolitical" organization, they have been viewed by most as being somehow beholden to the goal of keeping western capitalism afloat. This is partially true, but only if we acknowledge that they have been setting a trap for decades. This trap is one that allows them to have full control which they willingly hand over to the globalist elites. They are suicide bombers, as Brandon Smith from Alt-Market notes in the article below. They're just waiting until the moment they're instructed by their true masters to light the fuse.
On today's episode of America First Report, I dove into this article and explained how Americans, even many patriots, are being conned into not recognizing our true financial enemies. This is the big one. As society rocks back and forth between the various crises such as food shortages, energy shortages, border invasion, and a dozen other massive threats, the one that has the potential to send us into complete societal collapse in a matter of days is the Fed and their plans to force Central Bank Digital Currencies upon us.
Though I didn't mention it in the show, it's important to note that this is the reason I finally accepted precious metals sponsors after years of denying offers. I didn't think it was important before. Now, I realize just how important it is for Americans to move their wealth and retirement away from various markets or banking institutions and into precious metals. We recommend two companies for this. Here's my show and Brandon's article...
It’s a Fact That Needs Repeating: The Federal Reserve Is a Suicide Bomber
For many years now I have been examining the policies and behaviors of the Federal Reserve because they are in fact the most powerful institution in the US, with far more influence over the fate of America than any single president or branch of government. They have the power to end the economic life of our country in a matter of moments. They hold their finger on the button of multiple financial nuclear bombs, and to this day there are people that still pretend as if they are a mere moderating presence subservient to the White House or Congress.
This is a fallacy proven by history and the admissions from central bankers own mouths. The Fed answers to no one in our government. They answer to a different set of masters, and the blame for the consequences of their policies falls to them and their cohorts.
Last year I published an article titled ‘The Fed’s Catch-22 Taper Is A Weapon, Not A Policy Error.’ In that article I predicted that the Fed would embark on a hiking spree on interest rates in response to inflationary/stagflationary events. I noted that:
“We are now at that stage again where price inflation tied to money printing is clashing with the stock market’s complete reliance on stimulus to stay afloat. There are some that continue to claim the Fed will never sacrifice the markets by tapering. I say the Fed does not actually care, it is only waiting for the right time to pull the plug on the US economy.”
At the time I received a lot of resistance to the idea. The usual argument was: “The fed will never raise rates and put stock markets at risk. Why would they destroy the golden goose?”
This position showcases a common misconception about the central bank and its purpose. You see, a lot of people think the Fed exists to keep the US economy afloat, and specifically to keep stock markets afloat. This is incorrect. Every single policy of the Fed since its inception has been a long train of abuses designed to slowly and scientifically whittle down the US economy and bring it to the point of extinction.
The next most common argument is: “Wouldn’t the fed sabotaging the economy eventually destroy them as well?”
The answer is YES, and they don’t care. If you have read my previous work on this issue then you know that the Fed is inexorably tied to the Bank for International Settlements (the “central bank of central banks”) and that they call the shots in terms of coordinated global banking initiatives. The BIS is a globalist institution, not an American one, and its agenda is ideologically globalist in nature. The Fed is a servant of globalism; and if the US economy or our currency need to be brought down through a controlled demolition in order to make the globalist dream of a one world socialist “Utopia” come true, that is exactly what the Fed will do.
I was able to predict that the Fed would continue onward with its interest rate hikes and hawkish position only because I acknowledge what the Fed really is: A suicide bomber. And, they have decided the time is ripe to hike interest rates into economic weakness, just like they did at the onset of the Great Depression.
At the beginning of the Depression the Fed increased interest rates after years of artificially stimulating markets with low cost debt. This prolonged the deflationary crash for many years after. It was not until decades later when former Fed chair Ben Bernanke gave a speech celebrating economist Milton Friedman’s 90th birthday that a central bank official finally admitted that the organization was culpable for the Depression debacle.
“In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn.
Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” – Ben Bernanke, 2002
What Ben Bernanke did not admit to was that the engineered deflationary crisis greatly benefited the allies of the Fed – The international corporate bankers. Companies like JP Morgan and Chase National were suddenly in a prime position to seize unlimited power in the US.
So, they’ve done it before, why wouldn’t they do it again?
The next argument that I hear constantly is that the Fed is “ignorant” and they don’t know what they are doing. This is nonsense. Jerome Powell knows EXACTLY what he is doing, and here is the proof – In October of 2012 the Fed held a meeting in which Powell warned that markets and corporations had become addicted to the Fed’s easy money policies. If they decided to taper their stimulus measures and raise rates, there would be potentially disastrous blowback. Powell argued that:
“…I think we are actually at a point of encouraging risk-taking, and that should give us pause. Investors really do understand now that we will be there to prevent serious losses. It is not that it is easy for them to make money but that they have every incentive to take more risk, and they are doing so. Meanwhile, we look like we are blowing a fixed-income duration bubble right across the credit spectrum that will result in big losses when rates come up down the road. You can almost say that that is our strategy.” – Jerome Powell
As he admitted, it is indeed their strategy. Powell was not the Fed chairman at the time, so he may not have been aware of the full agenda, but he is certainly aware now. Why would Powell undertake the exact policy action he once warned would result in a full spectrum implosion of the credit bubble? Probably because he was told to.
Powell knows the history of the Great Depression and he knows what will happen when the Fed raises rates into economic weakness and he is doing it anyway. He already tried a test run of rate hikes back in 2018 and the results were not hard to figure out; markets began to tank. We should never forget that the central banks are fully cognizant of the effects of their endeavors. As I stated back in February:
“The rate hikes of 2018 were a test run for a more aggressive and deliberately engineered crisis down the road. The Fed has its own agenda, it does not care about protecting U.S. markets, nor does it even care about protecting the U.S. economy in general.
I hold that the Fed is a weapon for social and political change within America and part of its job is to greatly reduce the standard of living of the population while making it appear as if this decline is a “natural” consequence of the U.S. System.”
This leads us to the final question – What happens next?
That’s easy to answer: The fed continues to hike rates well into next year and will not reverse course or capitulate and return to stimulus. The dovish predictions were wrong. The people that said the Fed would not raise rates were wrong. The people that said the Fed would never remove support from stock markets were wrong. This process is ongoing and the effects will grow as the months pass, but those that were hoping for a manic return to the days of bailouts and QE are going to be deeply disappointed.
This is a stagflationary crash, and as such we are going to experience the worst of both deflationary and inflationary worlds. Prices will remain high while GDP goes negative. Sales will decline and jobs will decline as we enter into the end of this year. There is no way around this. The Fed will have all kinds of theories and misdirections on why these things are happening, and they will try to distract the public as much as possible in the meantime.
What the Fed will never do is admit that a crash is happening until it is too late for people to act. They will never warn the populace of the dangers and they will never tell people to prepare. Watch as they tap dance and tell the public that all the pain is “transitory.” Then, watch as the dust settles and they tell people that “no one could have seen this coming.” It’s all very predictable, because it’s all been done before.
Article cross-posted from Alt-Market. Image by William Warby via Flickr, CC-BY 2.0.
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There were many contributing factors to the economic downturn of 2008-09, but there was one major challenge in the subprime mortgage market that was the singular catalyst. All of the other factors could have been remedied pretty easily if the housing market hadn't sent shockwaves across every financial sector. As a result, I've always considered the downturn to be a one-cause event.
What we're facing going into 2023 is very different. Instead of one major factor exacerbated by many smaller factors, we're seeing multiple existential threats to the sanctity of the western economic structure. Individually, these factors could be catastrophic much like subprime mortgages were catastrophic 14 years ago. Unfortunately, there are at least six major factors that are individually catastrophic which puts us in the perfect storm.
The boat is ready to sink and most of the lifejackets are either gone or faulty.
On today's episode of The JD Rucker Political Report on America Out Loud as well as America First Report, I discussed an article by Michael Snyder over at The Economic Collapse Blog, cross-posted to one of my Substacks. He listed 12 numbers pointing to an economic collapse between now and the end of 2023. It doesn't take a degree in economics to realize that everything he pointed out should be of major concern to every American and pretty much every member of western society.
For reference, here is his list:
The government is telling us that the unemployment rate only went up to 3.7 percent in August.
According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were being used the real rate of unemployment in the United States would be over 24 percent.
About half of all U.S. companies say that they will be eliminating jobs within the next 12 months.
The government is telling us that the inflation rate in the United States is only 8.5 percent.
According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if the rate of inflation was still calculated the way that it was back in 1980, the real rate of inflation would be somewhere around 17 percent right now. That is worse than anything that we experienced during the Jimmy Carter era.
At one company, the number of Americans taking out short-term loans for groceries has nearly doubled this year.
One out of every five home sellers in the United States dropped their asking price last month. This is more evidence that home prices are starting to rapidly move in a downward direction.
Sales of previously-owned homes were about 20 percent lower this July than they were last July.
One recent survey found that 3.8 million Americans believe that they could be evicted from their homes within the next two months.
According to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, approximately 20 million U.S. households are currently behind on their utility bills.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen for three weeks in a row. We also witnessed this sort of a gradual slide just prior to the big crash of 2008.
In August, a whopping 2,150 corporate executives sold off shares in their companies. Are they trying to cash in while they still can?
I absolutely respect Snyder's understanding of the economy and collapses. He has been writing about economic collapses for longer than I've been writing about politics in general. But on this topic, I take exception to one notion.
He continues to reference how bad things were in 2008-09 as something we may face. I think he's dramatically understanding the challenge.
I think the possible upcoming economic collapse will make 2008-09 seem like great fiscal times.
Critics will likely point out that Snyder is selling his book. They'll say I have gold sponsors so it behooves me to promote the notion of a coming economic collapse. In other words, they'll get on comments here and say we're fearmongering for profit.
Let me be perfectly clear. I do NOT want an economic collapse. I am not hoping things keep going south so I can sell more precious metals. Unlike the vast majority of conservative pundits and commentators out there, I have not been promoting gold for years. I started BECAUSE of the challenges I believe are coming. This isn't about fearmongering. The possibility of an economic collapse is real. I do not believe it's a foregone conclusion... at least I pray it isn't. But I also would never paint a rosy picture of an economy when I believe things are anything but rosy.
I'm just calling it how I see it.
Beyond the multiple existential threats that I believe are causing a perfect storm to form around us, there is the motivation component. It seems the powers-that-be and their puppets are pushing for collapse. The World Economic Forum, Club of Rome, and Council for Inclusive Capitalism, among others, have been doing everything they can to launch The Great Reset. You don't need to reset something that hasn't crashed. If it ain't broke, it's hard to convince the people to make sacrifices to fix it. In other words, they need capitalism to break.
Then, there are the "failing" world leaders, including the Biden-Harris regime. I put "failing" in scare-quotes because I think pretty much every conservative commentator is wrong to declare the regime's policies have been failing. They're working exactly as they're intended to work. Yes, they're supposed to increase inflation dramatically. Yes, they're supposed to make driving gas vehicles cost-prohibitive. Yes, they're supposed to launch an energy crisis, food crisis, and every other possible crisis they can muster.
This is an intentional, semi-controlled demolition of western capitalism.
There are three things we should do in order to salvage what we can and possibly prevent the economic collapse. First and foremost, we must take our righteous objections to damaging policies to the highest possible level. It's not just about griping on social media. We need protests. We need lawsuits. We need our voices to be heard.
Second, we need a red wave in November, one that is much bigger than is even being predicted. If the GOP takes back control of the House, Senate, or both, the best they can do is prevent further damaging policies from coming forward. Unless we unleash a massive red wave that can actually get veto-proof legislation passed, all we're doing is slowing the bleeding. Having Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in charge is only marginally better than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, but at least it's something.
Last but not least, we must prepare locally. That means many should strongly consider becoming "preppers." It means feeding as many of our purchases into our local economy as possible. Stop buying through Amazon. Stop buying through companies aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. Strengthen your local economy because if an economic collapse comes, having a localized infrastructure upon which you can rely is far better than needing to stand in government breadlines.
Eventually those breadlines will become cricketlines.
Pray for America, folks. We're facing hard times ahead and a federal government bent on taking advantage of our hardships. Become as self-reliant as possible before you no longer have that option.
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Bank of America announced a program that will target specific communities in certain cities across the nation with zero-down, zero closing cost mortgages. This is being declared as racist by many conservative pundits, and it definitely is. But it's actually not racist for the reason most are saying and definitely IS racist for an even worse reason.
Reports coming from many pundits indicate the loans are only for Black and Hispanic borrowers. That's not true, but it's actually worse than that. Here are the details according to NBC News [emphasis added]:
Bank of America said it is now offering first-time homebuyers in a select group of cities zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgages to help grow homeownership among Black and Hispanic/Latino communities.
The option will first become available in certain neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. The new mortgage, called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home, the bank said.
Applicants do not have to be Black or Hispanic to qualify for the product, a bank representative said.
“Homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said in a release. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.”
The loans require no mortgage insurance — the additional fee typically charged to buyers who put down less than 20% of the purchase price — and no minimum credit score. Instead, eligibility will be based on factors like timely rent payments and on-time utility bill, phone and auto insurance payments. Prospective buyers must also complete a homebuyer certification course provided by Bank of America and federally approved housing counseling partners before they apply for the loan program, the bank said.
The notion that this is for Black or Hispanic borrowers only is incorrect. Whites, Asians, or anyone else living in these Black and Hispanic communities are eligible, and that makes this even MORE racist than had they just done an affirmative action move. By isolating specific communities, they are basically saying that they'll "help" people in poor communities to stay in their poor communities.
This isn't just a race-based program. That alone would be terribly racist. This is about segregation. They are taking poor people and telling them to stay in their poor neighborhoods if they want to get a super-special loan.
As I noted in a short episode of today's America First Report show, Democrats and leftists are inherently racist and often don't even realize it. By pushing poor people in poor communities to stay in their poor communities, somehow Bank of America feels justified for their racism.
Here’s the video from today’s show.
As noted in today’s show, we strongly recommend moving wealth or retirement to precious metals while the prices are so low.
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Mike Pence gave a seemingly heartfelt speech the other day to defend the "rank-and-file" at the FBI and to call on people to stop attacking them. We can only assume he means we need to stop criticizing them since I do not recall physical attacks against FBI agents recently. So Pence wants us to accept what they do, blame Merrick Garland for political bias, and move on as if there isn't really anything wrong with the bureau itself.
He said, "Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police. I also want to remind my fellow Republicans, we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision he made without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI."
Listen:
Pence claimed the Republican Party is the party of law and order. This is mostly true, especially compared to the lawless Democrat Party. But the FBI has demonstrated time and again that they are not an organization of law and order. They unleash their devious tactics on the American people in a way that can only be seen as a trial run for a near-future police state. Today's FBI operates under the vision of Barack Obama who pictured a federal enforcement unit dedicated to keeping law-abiding citizens in line with the Deep State's nefarious goals.
Pence claimed calls to defund the FBI are like calls to defund the police. This is absolutely wrong. The stark difference here is that the uniformity of tactics and goals of our centralized FBI are fundamentally corrupt. Actions of individual FBI agents are defended by the organization even when they're universally opposed by the people.
On the flip side, actions by individual cops who go over the line are disavowed by their departments. Cops get fired for doing their jobs wrong. FBI agents get promoted for doing what the people believe to be wrong. Most problems we have with police are diverse and truly one-off while the problems we have with the FBI are systemic.
This is not about holding Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, or a few "bad apples" at the top accountable, as Pence would have us believe. The reason that so many are calling to defund the FBI is because the rot pervades throughout the bureau.
A majority of Americans believe the FBI is the "personal gestapo" of the Biden regime, but this is inaccurate. Pence and others would have you believe that Biden and Garland have somehow transformed the FBI into what it is today, but they seem to forget that the Gretchen Whitmer fednapping plot happened under Donald Trump and Bill Barr. They forget that people like Ron Paul have been calling out the anti-American foundation of the FBI itself for decades, or that we've seen Gestapo-like actions from the FBI since its inception.
There have been about two dozen whistleblowers at the FBI that have come out in recent days. That may seem like a lot, but that means there are around 7,800 special agents and 11,000 other FBI employees who are either too weak to speak out against corruption, too incompetent to realize the corruption exists, or are political hacks themselves who relish in it all.
Julie Kelly over at American Greatness put out an important thread Thursday that highlights why Pence is wrong to say the problems at the FBI are limited and that the rank-and-file are just cops doing their jobs.
Hey @Mike_Pence you should have a chat with these women, tell them to stop criticizing the FBI!
And you need to defend the FBI investigator in the Whitmer case who beat up his wife in a drunken rage and was arrested after driving around town drunk before cops caught him. GOP must defend law enforcement no matter what!
And you should tell Brandon Caserta, one of the 2 men acquitted in Whitmer hoax, that he shouldn't complain that he spent 18 months in prison after FBI entrapped him. He's innocent but BACK THE BLUE!
Hey @Mike_Pence hundreds of Americans have been tormented by FBI over Jan 6. Here's one: Tom Caldwell, a former Navy Lt. Comm, dragged out of his house, watched FBI agents point rifles at his wife standing in her nightgown. Who are they to complain?
Those four examples are telling and when I was putting together today's show I started making a list of other clear-cut examples of total corruption within the organization itself. After finding a dozen incidents that proved the point, I realized that chances are strong our audience is already well-aware that the FBI makes political decisions to determine not only which cases they need to pursue, but which ones require a full-blown coverup in order to prevent others from pursuing them.
We saw this in its starkest form with the Hunter Biden laptop coverup. Lest we forget, they had the laptop in their possession since 2019. Under Bill Barr, they chose not to pursue it. Instead, they went after Rudy Giuliani, John Paul Mac Isaac, and others who wanted the truth to get out about Joe Biden. Hammering home more examples of FBI malfeasance simply isn't necessary for an America First audience who knows the corruption runs deep.
Before aborting that angle of discussion, a few conspiratorial thoughts crossed my mind. Mike Pence may be a backstabbing RINO and a compromised politician, but he's not an idiot. He had to realize that coming forth now in defense of the FBI would be politically damaging. He could have just as easily skipped the calls to stop attacking the FBI by simply saying Merrick Garland should be held accountable. That's the type of milquetoast statement he's made in the past. Why would he risk losing political points to defend the FBI?
The possible reason is not good. As both an agent of the Uniparty Swamp and a minion of the globalist elites, Pence is a tool to spread the messages the powers-that-be want heard. It was conspicuous to me when I first heard it that he said we must stop "attacking the rank-and-file," but I couldn't put my finger on what bothered me about it until I stepped back and put more pieces together. We've heard warnings since shortly after the Mar-a-Lago raid that domestic terrorists may target FBI headquarters or other federal buildings. We even heard an odd warning from the FBI and DHS about a possible dirty bomb attack. Looking at it all as a whole, it made me wonder if they have something planned.
If nothing happens, then Pence's defense of the FBI will hang over him every time the bureau does something bad. But what if something happens? What if there are literal attacks against the rank-and-file at the FBI? Donald Trump has been hitting the FBI hard for their raid and his supporters have been outraged by the clear political bias they've demonstrated. If an actual terrorist attack DOES happen, Pence will be viewed as being on the right side of the matter for calling on people to stop attacking while Trump would be blamed for inciting the attacks.
Average Americans do not want to believe our own government would engage in false flag attacks despite decades of evidence that they do. Today, the United States is a powder keg of division that's ready to blow up in the streets of cities across the country with one major inciting incident. Were the Mar-a-Lago raid, subsequent warnings of domestic terrorism, and Pence's politically inexplicable statement of support for the FBI all seeds planted in preparation for a false flag attack that would put a target on the backs of every America First patriot?
God forbid.
Dividing America has been one of the intentions of the globalist elites for some time. The riots of the summer of 2020 were a trial run. Imagine if both sides of the political aisle were prompted to act out. Imagine if the civil war most Americans desperately want to avoid is prompted by a false flag attack and subsequent crackdown on America First patriots. In such a scenario, Mike Pence would have the opportunity to be "the great uniter" of the nation. He would be positioned to be installed into the White House in 2025.
They say when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It seems all the machinations and moving parts in the various plots against America bring me back to The Great Reset as the end goal. It's possible that my single-mindedness to prevent that ugly future makes me see conspiracies in every shadow. Then again, perhaps the reason I and others see it like that is because it's true.
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There is nothing in politics more vulnerable than a confident Republican base. Time and again we've seen the GOP with what they perceived to be leads going into an election, only to be shocked by the results. On October 20, 2012, Mitt Romney was ahead of Barack Obama by 6 points in the polls. That changed very, very quickly.
Instead of bragging about the coming "red wave," Republicans should be acting like they're on the verge of massive defeat. Some will argue that confidence is important in driving fundraising and voter turnout, and in most years I would agree. But we are faced with a massively emotional voting population right now who are feeling the economic heat more than most have felt in their lifetimes. That means that whoever they blame for their problems will be who they vote against. Conventional wisdom says they'll blame Democrats since they're in control of the House, Senate, and White House.
Throw conventional wisdom out the door. Here are three reasons why:
Yes, the polls lie
Anyone who's read my work over the past few years knows I am not a fan of polling. I believe polls are used more to manipulate sentiment than to report on it. Currently, the polls are showing Democrats making up some of the ground they lost in recent months.
Considering I said the polls lie, why would I use this as an example of why we need to be concerned? Because reality today may not reflect what they're saying, but clearly that's the direction they want people to think they're going. We don't have to trust polls to appreciate the manipulation they're currently being used for to promote their chosen narrative.
Never underestimate gaslighting and propaganda
Gaslighting works on voters. Propaganda is powerful in shaping voter sentiment. Add in a third component — low-information voter ignorance — and it's easy to see that we may not be in as good of a position as many think we are.
Corporate media and Big Tech are extremely powerful. They shape the mindsets and even the worldviews of millions of Americans. One can argue that the only reason the Democrat Party hasn't imploded from their massive failures in recent years is because corporate media and Big Tech have propped them up. The same can hold true come Election Day.
They will cheat
The 2020 election was stolen. As of today, nobody has been held accountable and only a handful of measures have been put in place to prevent the same type of theft from happening this year.
If we are to have our wins recorded by a small margin, we will have to win by a large margin. They will already have a certain percentage point advantage over many Republican candidates before a single legitimate vote is cast. This, perhaps more than the previous two reasons to get fired up, is what could make the difference between winning and losing.
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The fate of the America First movement, the Republican Party, and the nation itself is on the line in a single state's primary. It is not hyperbole to say the results of the Arizona Republican Primary will determine the direction of the country moving forward.
It's no secret that I have endorsed Kari Lake for Arizona Governor. But this article and the attached segment from an episode of The JD Rucker Show will not dive into the pros or cons of Lake or her nearest opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson. Instead, I am going to address the scenarios surrounding this primary and what the results of it will mean going forward.
Mike Pence and other RINOs have circled the wagons in an attempt to prop up Robson. She is way behind Kari Lake in the polls with less than two weeks to go, but some say she's "surging" in large part due to massive media buys and a scorched earth campaign of negative ads. If Robson overtakes Lake and wins the primary, it will be a massive blow to MAGA.
Donald Trump and other America First patriots have backed Lake. A Robson win will be turned into several narratives that corporate media will blast out to the masses. They will say Trump and the MAGA movement have lost control of the party. They will say that "mainstream conservatives" like Pence are back in charge of the GOP. They will say that January 6 left a mark with Republican voters and a rebuke against Lake will represent a rebuke against Trump as a result.
Some fellow America First patriots will argue that the people won't view it like that, that Americans will see through those lies, but here's the thing. Those of us who are adamant MAGA proponents often operate in a bubble where we only see the sentiment of our passionate peers. But your average "Republican normie" voter is quite susceptible to the gaslighting and propaganda spewed by corporate media. Show hosts and pundits will say a Lake loss is a Trump loss. They'll say a Robson win is a Pence win. Many current MAGA supporters will begin to question whether there really is a future for the movement.
In a sane world, I wouldn't be too worried. I don't believe Robson is actually "surging," but the fact that many are starting to echo that sentiment tells me we should DEFINITELY be worried about the same type of shenanigans that stole the 2020 election from President Trump. This all has the traits of a setup in which they're staging a surge by Robson so few will question if they cheat their way to victory.
To be perfectly clear, I am NOT accusing the Robson campaign of participating in an upcoming election theft. Her campaign has engaged in very devious acts and have continuously spread blatant lies, but that's just nasty politics that does not constitute fraud. What I am seeing is a high potential for full-blown voter fraud and I seriously doubt the campaign would be privy to such moves by the Uniparty Swamp.
It's conspicuous that Pence made the endorsement now. Was he made aware of a plan to steal the election? Even if I do not believe the Robson campaign is directly involved, I would not be shocked to learn that Pence is. Though I've never reported on it in the past because I have not been able to corroborate it, I have heard credible reports that Pence and other Republicans, even many within the Trump White House, may have participated in the 2020 election theft. I'll fall just shy of making an accusation, but the evidence I've seen in compelling.
Pence has very little to lose. If Robson wins, he'll be a hero for the Establishment and we'll witness Uniparty media shills like Fox News and Washington Examiner declare that MAGA is dying. They'll say Pence is the future of the GOP as they maneuver him and likely Nikki Haley into a manufactured "2024 frontrunner" status.
By no means am I recommending any Arizona voters take this into account. How one votes is personal and should be based on who they believe will serve them best. It's important that we know the series of events that will follow the primary, but I would never tell someone to vote based on anything other than what's in their best interests. With that said, those of us who are outside of Arizona and who want the America First movement to drive the Republican Party going forward should be rooting for Kari Lake, even if only to prevent Mike Pence and the Uniparty Swamp from using Arizona as a launching point for their RINO campaign to destroy MAGA.
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A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent's rallies, encouraging supporters to "RSVP" where "far-right extremists" will be gathering. It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level.
I discussed this in detail on today's episode of America First Report. Kathy Hochul is not alone. Prominent Democrats like Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib, and Eric Swalwell have used similar language as Hochul in prompting their supporters to get "aggressive" with MAGA supporters. It has resulted in multiple incidents over the past six years where America First patriots have been assaulted for something as harmless as wearing a red hat.
Hochul's dog whistles were particularly egregious. According to Breitbart:
While Zeldin spoke at a campaign event in Fairport, New York, a man reportedly rushed the stage with a weapon in an apparent attempt to stab him on Thursday evening. Fortunately, Zeldin grabbed the attacker’s wrist long enough for other event attendees to step in and subdue the attacker.
However, as people like GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz and New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy pointed out, Hochul’s campaign sent out a press release just hours before the failed attack on Zeldin that blasted out the time and location of several of Zeldin campaign’s upcoming stops.
Hochul claimed that Zeldin and his team would spread “dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda at these campaign events.”
“‘Big Lie’ Lee and his entourage of extremists kick off the statewide ‘MAGA Republican’ Bus Tour, which will make stops across the state peddling dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda,” Hochul’s release read.
The New York governor also claimed that Zeldin “will be joined by top anti-abortion advocates, NRA enthusiasts, and a cast of extremist groups.”
Hochul urged her supporters to “RSVP to hear about Zeldin’s ‘Election Integrity Task Force,’ and his recent election fraud scandal in which his campaign photocopied over 11,000 duplicate petition signatures.”
This is exponentially worse than any semblance of encouragement Donald Trump allegedly gave the January 6 mostly peaceful protesters, but don't expect leftists or corporate media to make a fuss. Instead of congressional hearings or media hit pieces, the complicit left will sweep this incident under the rug.
Just as they do with Antifa and BLM.
Just as they do with thugs in Democrat-run cities.
Just as they do whenever their supporters attempt to harm America First patriots.
Some of them are literally trying to kill us, yet we're the ones who are supposedly dangerous. As is almost always the case, the radical left has projected their own penchant for violence instead of acknowledging that they're far worse.
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It's no secret that our public education system, including preschool all the way up through college, is rife with total wokeness. Schools have become indoctrination centers for anti-American ideologies like Neo-Marxism, Critical Race Theory, and LGBTQIA+ Supremacy.
In at least one state, this is illegal, though you wouldn't know that by visiting a public school. Democrat-dominated Washington state has a law on the books in their Revised Code of Washington State that would compel teachers to instruct on ideas such as patriotism. Instead, the exact opposite is true because nobody is enforcing the law.
It's old. Originally written in the 19th century and most recently revised in the 1960s, RCW 28A.405.030 is not being enforced. Instead, our children are being taught false premises, fake history, and anything other than the education they're supposed to be getting. Here's how the law reads:
Must teach morality and patriotism.
It shall be the duty of all teachers to endeavor to impress on the minds of their pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice, temperance, humanity and patriotism; to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity and falsehood; to instruct them in the principles of free government, and to train them up to the true comprehension of the rights, duty and dignity of American citizenship.
This isn't a law without teeth. There are two possible repercussions for those who do not teach the principles listed in the law. Teachers can be fired. They and administrators familiar with their activities can even be arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. This isn't happening, of course, since the schools haven't been drained of 90%+ of their teachers, administrators, or school board members.
It's obviously a challenging law to enforce because it's subjective whether someone is teaching patriotism sufficiently, but one thing is not as subjective. Considering the ANTI-American and ANTI-patriotic sentiment that is currently being taught to our kids, it should be easy to isolate the worst offenders. If they don't want to teach the principles listed and only want to focus on educating our children, I'm okay with that. Parents should be the ones teaching principles. But if they want to teach kids to hate America, change genders, or make everything about race, I'm not okay with that at all.
Am I calling for teachers to be arrested? Maybe. In the past I might have called the law an overreach that went against a teacher's perceived role as educator of such things as math, reading, and history. But in today's post-truth society, the limits of leftism have been put to the test so it may not be a bad idea to enforce this law to put an end to the indoctrination that's currently happening.
Call me radical, but we're facing leftist radicals so sometimes it behooves us to get aggressive. The law's already on the books. It's long past time to get our education system fixed, as I discussed in the latest episode of America First Report. You can watch it on BitChute.
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A gas pipeline explosion in Texas on July 7 was followed by a gas plant explosion in Oklahoma on July 9. Two incidents do not necessarily make a trend, but it's conspicuous that they are happening now as natural gas prices are already set to rise dramatically ahead of winter. Is this an attack by the powers-that-be, whether it's the globalists with the "Liberal World Order" or the climate change maniacs acting as eco-terrorists?
We already know our food infrastructure is under attack with dozens of food processing plants mysteriously having "industrial accidents" in recent months. Is hitting our power grid stage two of their attempt to crash the U.S. economy?
Here's what happened in Texas:
Here's what happened in Oklahoma two days later.
Again, it's too early to call it a trend, but it's worthy keeping in eye out for more "accidents" on our power grid. I discussed it during a segment of The JD Rucker Show today.
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The Pentagon is still working hard to counter the Russian narrative that U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine are there for peaceful purposes only. This is actually the second change to their original narrative that there were no U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine. But in their efforts to cover-up and debunk claims by Russia, they're talking out of both sides of their mouth.
A press release from the Pentagon even invoked "WMD removal" as a predicate for their ongoing efforts. However, they do not address the fact that they've been working on these projects for three decades, nor do they satisfactorily address why they have 46 of them.
According to the release [emphasis added]:
Ukraine has no nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons programs. On March 11 and 18, 2022, United Nations (UN) High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu similarly stated that the UN is not aware of any biological weapons programs in Ukraine. Those comments were reiterated on May 13, 2022, by the UN Deputy High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.
Today, the collaborations in Ukraine remain peaceful efforts to improve nuclear and radiological safety and security, disease surveillance, chemical safety and security, and readiness to respond to epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19.
Ukraine has become a leader in transparency and in promoting nonproliferation and global health security norms. For example, in December 2021, Ukraine completed a voluntary, external, WHO-led evaluation of its capacity to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to public health emergencies.
There are several problems with the Pentagon's claims. On one hand, they say Ukraine has no nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons programs, backing this claim by saying the U.N. is not aware of any. That's not reassuring when both the Pentagon and U.N. claimed just a few months ago that there were no U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine at all.
Even more concerning is that they claim the labs they're operating in Ukraine have as one of their purposes to improve "readiness to respond to epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19." This is problematic because whenever any labs, whether state-funded or private, are engaged in biological weapons research, they always claim the presence of pathogens in their labs is for defensive purposes only. China does it. Russia does it. Apparently, the U.S. is doing it as well.
The fact that they claim Ukraine has become a leader in transparency is a direct insult to our intelligence. Ukraine remains one of the most corrupt and least transparent nations in the world. This is why Joe Biden shuffled his son there to work for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. What happens in Ukraine, stays in Ukraine.
It would be possible to claim there were a few one-off labs that remained since the fall of the Soviet Union over thirty years ago. Keeping a remnant intact is justifiable for WMD "stragglers." But buried in the Pentagon's release was a bombshell that they've been hiding for months. They have 46 "peaceful" Ukrainian labs in operation. From one side of their mouth they say Ukraine has no weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear arms or biological agents, and they claim this is due to their efforts disposing them all over the past three decades. Then, out of the other side of their mouth they acknowledge there are 46 U.S.-funded labs in a nation that borders Russia.
The United States has also worked collaboratively to improve Ukraine’s biological safety, security, and disease surveillance for both human and animal health, providing support to 46 peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites over the last two decades. The collaborative programs have focused on improving public health and agricultural safety measures at the nexus of nonproliferation.
I've avoided this topic for the past few months because there simply wasn't enough information to know who was lying more. That's the problem when dealing with an argument between the Pentagon and Russia. Both are known to lie regularly. There's a fine line between spreading the truth and unwittingly aiding either side of the Russia-Pentagon propaganda war. But this admission by the Pentagon lends to the notion that they're lying more about the biolabs. That's not to say Russia isn't lying about them as well. Lies in this case are not mutually exclusive.
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Editor's Commentary: When I sold my shares and left the corporate world five years ago to enter politics, I did so knowing I would take a major financial hit. But I was anticipating things were going to get bad and I couldn't sit back and be a great capitalist knowing that I should be really fighting the good fight. Call it fatherly instinct; I sold my half of a thriving company to my partner for pennies on the dollar because my fourth child was about to be born. I wanted to fight to make sure the world he grew up in wasn't going to be awful.
Since then, I've been approached by over two dozen precious metals companies. With nearly every major conservative TV show, news outlet, podcast, and radio show having a precious metal sponsor, it seemed logical that I would as well. But I believe in having sponsors that are essential and until the last year or so I just didn't see precious metals as qualifying.
Today, I absolutely do, which is why I'm sharing the article below from Michael Snyder's blog. It highlights the very reasons I decided to seek a precious metals sponsor in recent months. After passing on those that I vetted and found to be wanting, I finally found two America First companies I could truly recommend. Our Gold Guy sells physical precious metals only, and there's nothing wrong with that. JD GoldCo sells a wide array of products. I trust both companies and, depending on your current financial situation, I recommend contacting one or both.
With a recession on the way, it behooves those with investments or wealth to protect to strongly consider precious metals. With that said, here's Michael...
Have you ever heard of a survey where 100 percent of the respondents agree? I can’t ever recall seeing one like that, but as you will see below, 100 percent of the corporate CFOs that were just surveyed by CNBC believe that a recession is coming by the end of next year. At this point, our economic troubles are growing so rapidly that you would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see what is happening. A meltdown of historic proportions has already begun, and there is economic gloom just about everywhere that you look.
But even though the U.S. economy is clearly moving in one direction, I still didn’t expect to see this sort of a consensus among corporate financial executives…
According to the majority (68%) of CFOs responding to the survey, a recession will occur during the first half of 2023. No CFO forecast a recession any later than the second half of next year, and no CFO thinks the economy will avoid a recession.
The CNBC CFO Council Q2 survey is a sample of the current outlook among top financial officers. It was conducted among 22 chief financial officers at major organizations between May 12-June 6.
Of course they are right on target.
The months ahead are going to be very difficult.
And with each passing day we continue to get more evidence that the economic slowdown is accelerating. For example, it appears that a “transportation recession” has already begun…
A downturn, if not a full-on recession, is clear in the transportation world. While the rest of the economy debates whether things are that bad, it’s been clear for months to logistics providers that the situation has worsened — and the velocity of that change is still stunning.
The cost to move a container from Asia to a major port in North America or Europe has sunk by 23% since the beginning of this year, according to maritime research firm Drewry. Spot rates have plummeted even faster; marketplace Freightos said rates from China to the West Coast are down 38% month-over-month. FreightWaves forecast this week that ocean shipping volumes will “drop off a cliff” by this summer, based on slumping bookings out of China.
Meanwhile, the most absurd housing bubble in the history of our country is clearly starting to burst. Compared to a year ago, mortgage applications were down a whopping 21 percent last week…
This just keeps getting worse: Applications for mortgages to purchase a home dropped 7% for the week, and were down 21% from a year ago, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported today. An indicator of future home sales: Potential homebuyers try to get pre-approved for a mortgage, lock in a mortgage rate, and then start house-hunting.
Mortgage rates have soared this year, and home prices have soared for years to ridiculous levels, causing layers and layers of potential buyers to abandon the market, amid “worsening affordability challenges,” as the MBA called it.
On top of everything else, jobless claims just shot up to their highest level in almost six months…
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly jumped last week, spiking to the highest level since mid-January in a sign the hot labor market could be starting to cool.
Figures released Thursday by the Labor Department show that applications for the week ended June 4 rose to 229,000 from an upwardly revised 202,000 a week earlier, missing the 210,000 forecast by Refinitiv analysts. It marked the biggest one-week increase since last July. The four-week average of new claims, which smooths volatility in the weekly figures, also increased slightly to 215,000 last week.
But even though all of these numbers clearly indicate that a “recession” is coming, a potential “recession” is not the number one economic concern for most Americans.
That is because the worst inflation crisis in modern American history is hitting all of us extremely hard.
According to a FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll that was just released, 52 percent of Americans believe that inflation is “the most important issue facing the country” right now…
At this point, the answer to what Americans are most worried about is pretty straightforward: inflation. In the first FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll, 52 percent of Americans said the most important issue facing the country was inflation. We asked Americans this question in a variety of ways, but regardless of how we asked it, the top answer was always the same: inflation.
Other surveys have come up with similar results. For example, just check out these numbers from the Pew Research Center…
Seven-in-ten Americans view inflation as a very big problem for the country, followed by the affordability of health care (55%) and violent crime (54%).
About half say gun violence and the federal budget deficit are very big problems (51% each), according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted April 25-May 1 among 5,074 U.S. adults.
Inflation is something that the American people can see on a daily basis.
On Thursday, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States hit five dollars a gallon for the first time ever.
And as I pointed out the other day, experts are warning that it will soon cross the six dollar threshold.
The grocery store is another place where all of us can clearly see the rampant inflation that is happening. A single shopping cart of food can easily cost $300 these days, and that is absolutely insane.
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning, and most Americans realize this. In fact, one survey just discovered that approximately two-thirds of us expect inflation to get even worse over the next year…
The Federal Reserve, the Biden administration, and Wall Street’s economists are confident that inflation will be brought down over the coming year. The American public disagrees.
Two-thirds of Americans say they expect inflation to get worse over the next year, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
Some of us have been warning for years that the decisions that our leaders were making would destroy the stability of our currency.
Now nightmarish inflation is officially here.
And some of us have been warning for years that our rapidly growing long-term economic problems would eventually result in a meltdown of epic proportions.
Now that meltdown has begun.
Our fate could have been very different if we would have chosen a much different path while we still had the chance.
But now it is too late, and the pain that is ahead is going to be greater than many Americans will be able to handle.
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Either the Democrat/Deep State/Media cabal thinks we're stupid, or many of us really are. Or both. It's probably both.
On the day the January 6 Unselect Committee is poised to have their prime time televised gaslighting hearing, the FBI engaged in a promotional marketing piece by arresting Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelly.
According to Axios:
The FBI arrested Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, on Thursday after serving out a search warrant on his home in Allendale, an FBI spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Kelley was arrested on misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Bill Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, said in a statement Thursday. He is one of five candidates who qualified for the Republican primary to be held in August.
"Ryan Kelley, 40, of Allendale, Michigan, was arrested this morning on misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach," Miller said. "He was arrested in Allendale. Mr. Kelley is to make his initial appearance this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan."
"A complaint is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law," Miller added.
Kelley was charged on Thursday with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority during the riot, as well as disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
It has been 519 days since January 6, 2021. For the FBI to pick TODAY, the day the prime time gaslighting special is happening, to arrest a Republican candidate over J6 charges tells us their job is to do marketing for Democrats.
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My years of tracking and reporting on the radical left has given me pretty thick skin when it comes to their woke shenanigans. Very few things surprise me anymore even as they continue to lurch leftward to depths we once thought unimaginable from America citizens. But this year's "Pride Month" has already been so much worse than the rest that I've actually been taken aback. It's bad, and it's almost certainly going to get much worse as the month goes on.
And we're only finishing up Day 2.
A pair of stories that I covered over at The Liberty Daily were among the multitudes of idiotic virtue signals sent forth by the woke crowd. Unfortunately, it seems as if just about every component of American life has been hit by this crowd. We are accustomed to wokeness in Hollywood, but only after Biden was installed into the White House did we see wokeness pollute our military.
On the latest episode of The JD Rucker Show, I covered the LGBTQIA+ lunacy in the final segment. I'm replaying that segment on the America First Report podcast because it's worth doubly noting.
The first bout of idiocy came from the actor who played a character I loved as a child. Wonder Woman was never woke. She was a feminist in many ways, but not from a radical perspective and definitely not in a way that would in any way promote the current LGBTQIA+ supremacy agenda. Nevertheless, Lynda Carter decided to use this moment for virtue signaling through her beloved character.
As I posted at The Liberty Daily:
The radical left wants everything to be able LGBTQIA+ issues. I know it's "Pride Month" but let's face the facts. EVERY month has become some sort of tribute to the gay, trans, queer, or one of the other 57 gender varieties currently being sloshed around woke society.
Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman in the 1980s, decided to sacrifice her iconic character on the altar of LGBTQIA+ supremacy today:
I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow not a queer or trans icon, then you're not paying attention. Every time someone comes up to me and says that WW helped them while they were closeted, it reminds me how special the role is.
Even if we set aside the absolute weakness of people who need icons in order to cope with life, we should not ignore that celebrities have been preying on these weaknesses for a while now. They crave the attention. Sometimes they crave even more than that; I wouldn't be shocked if Carter starts backing some LGBTQIA+ product of some sort soon.
But that's Hollywood. That's to be expected. For our own Marine Corps, the fighting men and women who keep this nation safe, to be embracing wokeness during Pride Month is inexcusable. As I also reported from The Liberty Daily:
Patriots across the nation were appalled yesterday when the official Twitter account for the United States Marine Corps posted a woke declaration of their adherence to LGBTQIA+ supremacy, a common theme throughout the Biden-Harris regime.
I may be wrong, but if feels like many if not most American patriots are not treating this as the threat it represents. It's as if many conservatives are so concerned they might get labeled a bigot that they're unwilling to call out the idiocy that is permeating through society, infesting our military, education system, and other areas where such wokeness does not belong.
If Hollywood and corporate media want to promote LGBTQIA+ supremacy, we can choose to ignore it or fight it. But the fact that this agenda has spread so rapidly into areas that make it dangerous, including the military and our education system, means that we do not have a choice. We must spread the truth and fight this issue with everything we have because it's already doing real damage to the nation.
Don't be shy, folks. Call it out when you see it. The left is going to label you as a bigot whether you address LGBTQIA+ supremacy or not. There's no need to shy away from this important battle.
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There's a dirty little secret in corporate conservative media that I've been attempting to expose for a while. To date, I've talked to four editors and reporters for "conservative" news outlets who have told me the same basic story. Sadly, none of them have been willing to go on record, even anonymously, and so all I have is the information I've been given without the ability to properly source it.
But here's the thing. You don't need a whistleblower to be able to see the truth for yourself. Many in "conservative" media are beholden to the editorial whims of Big Tech tyrants as proxies of Democrats and the globalist elites. These tyrants, especially Google and Facebook, use their influence to force "conservative" news outlets to self-censor on certain topics. Those who are unwilling to do so cannot run the lucrative Google ads that are often the financial backbone for these organizations. Those who are unwilling to do so will not get the massive traffic they receive from Facebook and to some extent Twitter.
They've been given a choice: avoid certain topics or get kicked off the teat.
On the latest episode of America First Report, I discussed what I know about this unfortunate phenomenon. I noted that I do not necessarily condemn these companies for two reasons. First, most of them got into using Google for ads and Facebook for traffic long before they were given the ultimatums, and I would hope that they're doing what they can to ween themselves from the dollars and eyeballs.
Second, it does not behoove me to judge those who are doing what they think is best for their employees. There are families who rely on the revenue generated by these sites. Are they just supposed to shut down or start firing people in order to stay ideologically correct?
There's a third reason I don't attack these sites directly (other than Fox News, of course). They are right about 95% of the things they cover. Just because they're not reporting on the stolen 2020 election, revealing the dangers and the nefarious agenda behind the Covid jabs, or taking a more direct avenue of attack against the Cultural Marxism that's spreading across our country doesn't mean these sites are useless. They still fight against abortion, gun control, open borders, Critical Race Theory, and the various other non-taboo topics of interest to American patriots.
It's easy to see who is beholden to Big Tech and who isn't. If they're running Google ads, they're beholden. Google will not allow ads to be run on my sites, The Liberty Daily, The Gateway Pundit, or any of the other conservative news outlets that are telling the truth about controversial topics.
You can see who's running Google ads by hovering over the ads on an article and seeing where the click leads before clicking on it. On most browsers, this is found at the bottom left corner. Once you click, you'll be redirected to the advertiser itself, but if you hover and see "www.googleadservices.com," then obviously the site is running Google ads.
Some "conservative" sites aren't running Google ads, but are still playing the game through Facebook. Just like Google, Facebook won't allow "disinformation" topics. They are a bit more loose than Google which will just shut your site off completely. Facebook is more subtle. They'll take down or fact-check individual pieces of content. They send warnings over time and suppress visibility of a page that's sharing what they perceive as "disinformation."
With Google, we can see who's playing ball by who's running their ads. With Facebook, it's not so simple. A good, truth-telling news site can still do well on Facebook by simply not sharing stories on their page that cover taboo topics. Facebook only hits pages based on what they share. Google indexes the entire website.
The point is, just because a news site does well on Facebook doesn't necessarily mean they're beholden to them. They're just choosing to self-censor certain topics from being shared, but at least they're still writing the stories and getting the truth out through other means. I'm okay with this, though I don't practice it myself.
By no means am I trying to "expose" conservative news outlets who are beholden to Big Tech tyrants. It's still a free country and I'm not going to condemn those who are playing the game as best they can. I just want my readers and listeners to be aware of why the taboo topics are not nearly as widespread in coverage as other "safe" issues.
We need to continue to spread the truth. It's important to make the distinction between your average conservative news outlet that's only sharing some of the truth and the alternative media sites who are fearless enough to share all of it.
I still visit sites that I know are compromised by Big Tech because of the topics they cover that aren't taboo. But let's not base the importance of stories over how much coverage they're getting from conservative sites. The Covid jabs, for example, aren't safe and effective simply because most conservative sites refuse to acknowledge their inefficacy or inherent dangers.
Whenever I post about them, I always get emails or comments saying, "If this was really a problem, ________ or ________ would be talking about it." No, that's simply not the case. Just because your favorite site or pundit isn't discussing it doesn't mean it's not an issue. It just means they've been warned off from talking about it by the Big Tech tyrants who are holding them to account.
We saw an example of this in 2020 when Newt Gingrich was scolded live on Fox News for talking about George Soros.
As long as conservative journalists are fighting the good fight, I'm okay with them. It's just important to know some are fighting harder than others, and many are barely fighting at all.
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Yesterday, I was blessed and honored to go on Wayne Allyn Root's radio show. It was my first time on his show, though I've heard many episodes. We had never spoken prior to going on air, so when he introduced me and noticed that I was editor at The Liberty Daily, he perked up.
"I go to TheLibertyDaily.com all the time, several times a day," he said. "That and The Gateway Pundit are probably my one and two most favorite websites in the country."
He had to mention Uncanceled News simply because that's where the story was that caught their attention, but the funny part is his producer almost certainly found that story on The Liberty Daily. Uncanceled News is another aggregator, but it doesn't get nearly the attention that I put into The Liberty Daily. If TLD is the firehose of news American patriots need to read and hear, then Uncanceled News is the small sprinkler system.
It has truly been a blessing to work on The Liberty Daily. Matthew, the founder and owner, does the heavy lifting but I have the privilege of running the site on weekends and occasionally throughout the week, plus I post stories there daily. I consider my work there to be among my most important from a political perspective because the site reaches millions of Americans every month.
It needs to reach more.
What people like Wayne Allyn Root and others have discovered is that TLD delivers unflinching America First stories. Just as conservative Republican politicians must fight both Democrats and RINOs, so too must TLD fight both leftwing corporate media as well as milquetoast GOP Establishment media. There are far too many patriotic Americans who are still getting their daily news from "right leaning" outlets that are really just shills for The Swamp. That needs to change.
If I did not work for TLD, nothing would change about this article or my interview with Wayne Allyn Root. I would promote it wholeheartedly because it acts as one of the few legitimately America First news sources today. Root mentioned The Gateway Pundit, which we love. On the latest episode of America First Report, I mentioned some of the other sites I like as well. There really aren't as many as most believe. Some who were once strong, conservative websites have gone full-corporate and quietly embraced the GOP Establishment.
Doing so is lucrative as long as you're willing to sell out the nation and back the Mike Pences and Mitch McConnells of the world. For me and Matthew at The Liberty Daily, that's simply not an option which is why I strongly encourage everyone to spread the word about the site. We're reaching millions today, but we need to reach tens of millions. We need to fill the gap left when Drudge Report went full-blown woke.
Today, millions of patriots struggle to find news sources they can trust to keep an America First stance from start to finish. At The Liberty Daily, we'll always keep that as our top focus.
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Tuesday's primary election results were generally bad for President Trump and America First patriots. Two of his most important endorsements failed miserably, underperforming even compared to their dismal poll numbers. David Perdue and Jody Hice were trounced by voter-fraud-deniers Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. This established a string of losses for Trump-endorsed candidates taking on GOP Establishment incumbents.
According to WSJ:
In Georgia on Tuesday night, Gov. Brian Kemp decisively won his primary against the former president’s candidate, former Sen. David Perdue. Last week in Idaho, Mr. Trump’s candidate, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, lost her challenge to Gov. Brad Little. A week before that, Charles Herbster, the Trump-backed businessman who ran for governor in Nebraska and faced allegations of groping women, lost to University of Nebraska official Jim Pillen. Mr. Herbster denied the allegations; Mr. Trump told voters to overlook them.
Georgia’s governor race was perhaps the marquee primary test given it was the center of the president’s false 2020 election fraud claims that he says will boost turnout for Republicans this fall. He repeatedly attacked Mr. Kemp, calling him weak for not trying to overturn President Biden’s win there.
Does this mean Trump has lost his touch or, worse yet, his support? Not at all. It means the two things I've been saying since before the first primary this year are still quite true, even for Trump. First, it's always going to be tough to beat an incumbent who doesn't have a major scandal attached to them because many if not most U.S. voters like to go with what they know during primaries. It's human nature to assume that an incumbent who has proven they can beat Democrats will get the lion's share of low-information votes during primaries.
Second, and I'll continue to say this despite most disagreeing with me, is my belief that endorsements are mostly worthless. Are dedicated Trump fans going to take his endorsement into account? Sure. But your standard mid- to high-information voter is going to be the one who's even aware of Trump's or anyone's endorsement, and those voters are more likely to do the research to make their own decisions.
Endorsements are mostly ineffective. Rallies and other appearances for the sake of fundraising are better. But both are trumped by the quality of the campaign. Money and great endorsements cannot make a bad campaign or a bad candidate win. Perdue was a horrible candidate throughout, hitting the wrong notes at the wrong times and often coming across as whiny rather than winning.
As for Hice, did he even run a campaign? I like him as a Congressman, but he wasn't out there hammering Raffensperger nearly as hard as he should have been. He had a prime opportunity to make national news and drive massive fundraising if he had gone after Raffensperger's demonstrable corruption. Instead, he ran the mediocre campaign that's fine for a congressional district but not nearly enough for a statewide election.
The real narrative here isn't just Trump. The bigger narrative that the Republican Establishment and their cronies in corporate media will play on is the combination of "MAGA Republicans" and voter fraud losing weight in the eyes of primary voters. This may or may not be true; we tend to see things in light of what's present in the America First base but often miss what Average Joe Republican is thinking. Have they been so gaslighted by Fox News and the like to the point they think voter fraud didn't happen and MAGA is dead and gone?
I don't know the answer to that question, but it really isn't important to know because our path forward remains the same. The America First movement must get louder in spite of corporate media propaganda. Voter fraud must remain an issue until culprits are held responsible. Most importantly, RINOs must be exposed. We need to work harder at that now more than ever. America hangs in the balance and continued control by the Uniparty is untenable.
One final note about Trump's influence in the party. As improbable as it was to imagine just a year ago, there are plenty of rumblings about active people within the America First movement having second thoughts about him. He hasn't helped himself by continuing to this day to promote the jabs. I'm not sure where the disconnect is or why he feels it's beneficial to mention them at most events, but it's turning MAGA people away. Then, there's the poor endorsements of people like Dr. Mehmet Oz that have people scratching their heads. Even the Republican Establishment is rallying behind Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania over fellow globalist David McCormick. That's not a good look for Trump.
Arguably the most concerning miss on his endorsements on Tuesday is the one nobody's discussing. Mo Brooks has done much better since LOSING Trump's endorsement. When Trump pulled his endorsement two months ago, Brooks was in a distant third place with under 17% in the polls. He finished yesterday by forcing a runoff and getting 29.1%.
Perdue and Hice were expected to lose, but just two weeks ago so was Brooks. He surged in spite of Trump. That doesn't mean he got a bump from Trump pulling his endorsement. It just reinforces what I've said all along: Endorsements don't mean much.
We need to fight harder to get America First candidates across the finish line. We can't rely on Trump or Ron DeSantis or Tucker Carlson to do that for us. We need to do it ourselves.
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A unified Republican Party is almost impossible to stop in America. The last time we came close to having one was under Ronald Reagan. Even as successful as Donald Trump was at uniting Republican voters, his opponents in the GOP Establishment were working feverishly behind the scenes to undermine him and tear down his influence. They tried the same thing with Reagan, but were not as heavily funded as they are today.
Democrats are seizing on this, embracing their fellow swamp-dwellers in the GOP Establishment to take down "MAGA Republicans." I prefer to think of us as America First Patriots, but since the MAGA movement is what really got all of this started, it's fair to use that term as well. We truly do want to make America great again, and neither the Democrats nor the GOPe has any intention of letting that happen.
Listen to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer invoke "MAGA Republicans" and associate it with concepts like White Replacement in an effort to not only aid his RINO cronies in retaking control of the GOP but also convert centrist voters into Democrats:
As I covered in the latest episode of America First Report, we cannot allow that to happen. In fact, we should use Schumer's words as well as the words of RINOs like Mike Pence and The Lincoln Project to remind patriotic Americans that they're being gaslighted by The Swamp. If they want to divide us based on our patriotism, so be it. Terms accepted.
The distinction between RINOs and Democrats is minimal. As I've said many times in the past, primary elections are far more important than the general election because if we vote in a bunch of RINOs, we will not change America for the better. They're all in The Swamp.
There are really three major parties in America. There are the radical leftist "Democrat Socialists" like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There are the "MAGA Republicans," as Schumer has labeled us, like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. Then, there's the Uniparty, also known as The Swamp. They are made up of the joint forces of Establishment Democrats and Establishment Republicans who use Kabuki Theater to pretend to be opposed to one another in public while hanging out together at the DC Country Club making policies that put America last.
This attempt by Schumer, Pence, and others to invoke identity politics against Republicans in an effort to divide us is desperate, but unfortunately it can be effective. Republicans are so scared of being labeled as racists. It's a false label for the vast majority of Republicans, but people like Schumer and Pence try to invoke it constantly. Schumer is even trying to use "women's rights" as a way to pull milquetoast centrist Republicans to his side by claiming some abortion restrictions are better than abolishing the murder or preborn babies. It's disgusting.
We need to fight harder against The Swamp. If that means we should divide the party by accepting Schumer's label of "MAGA Republicans," so be it. I see nothing wrong with wanting to make America great again.
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Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has grown accustomed to controversy. No matter where she goes on the corporate media interview circuit, leftist journalists invariably try to catch her in a misstep or a "gotcha" moment. It's getting to the point that one would think they'd have learned their lesson by now, but they haven't.
Conservative media loves her. I had the pleasure of interviewing her myself. So did Jenna Ellis, and as the former attorney for President Trump quickly learned, YouTube doesn't like it when strong women speak the truth about the massive, widespread voter fraud that occurred during the 2020 election.
"BREAKING: YouTube has removed an episode of http://TheJennaEllisShow.com because @KariLake and I had the audacity to discuss election integrity. Asking questions and having opinions is NOT 'misinformation.'"
They took the interview down. Thankfully, freer speech alternative Rumble has it for everyone to see. I would embed it, but Substack doesn’t allow that from Rumble yet.
I chatted with Ellis about the censorship, and as expected she will not be silenced.
"I will never back down from speaking truth and asking the right questions," she said. "The relentless efforts by YouTube and leftist-run platforms to remove any discussion and debate over the 2020 election are anti-American."
This is so true. Even if you don't believe the election was stolen, it's impossible to sensibly argue that there wasn't massive, widespread voter fraud that occurred. A single viewing of 2000 Mules tells us that, and many of us who have read the affidavits and watched previous video examples of voter fraud were already convinced.
But Ellis wasn't just upset with Google and YouTube. She turned to the Biden regime for advancing and perpetuating this unhinged desire to subvert free speech and label any ideas that run contrary to their prescribed narrative as either "misinformation" or "disinformation."
"We the people are over being told what is 'misinformation' by the Regime," she continued. "It’s time for every American to say enough is enough to the evildoers who seek to censor the truth."
The 2020 election was stolen, in my humble opinion. If you believe that, you're not welcome on YouTube. Why? Because the 2020 election was stolen and Google was almost certainly involved. For the sake of not getting into legal trouble, I won't outright accuse Google of being involved with the theft, but it's crystal clear they were and continue to be directly involved with censoring any information, whether fact or opinion, that points to the likelihood the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
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Last week, I made a terrible mistake. I reached out to several prominent conservatives and populists supporting one candidate or another in the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary. I wanted to know if unity was possible after the election since this race has been more divisive than any primary this season.
After discussions with Greg Kelly, Jack Posobiec, Todd Starnes, and a handful of others, I reluctantly came to the conclusion that when the primary was over, we could reunite and move forward toward the midterm elections where we fight the real foes, the Democrats. I say "reluctantly" because that was never really how I felt. I'm not one who believes in the old saying, "vote conservative in the primary and vote Republican in the general."
For years, I've said a RINO was just as bad as a Democrat. In many ways they're worse because at least you know what you're fighting with a Democrat. The lines are clear. With RINOs, you never know which side of a fight they'll be on. I've mused about the whiplash induced in many conservatives over the years with people like Lindsey Graham who sometimes make sense and sometimes reveal their NeoCon agenda.
I concluded in my article that unity was possible for one reason and one reason only: I figured a conciliatory tone would allow me to get the message out to supporters of Dr. Mehmet Oz about his leftist and anti-American leanings. It was a "strategic" move and I've been very disappointed in myself ever since. That's not my style. I take pride in shooting straight and aiming true. It didn't feel natural to accept unity for the sake of strategizing when deep down I have no intention of ever supporting RINOs.
To my readers and listeners, I humbly and wholeheartedly apologize. I deceived myself into thinking I could reconcile with fellow conservatives who were supporting a globalist like Dr. Oz (or WEF-ally David McCormick, for that matter). By deceiving myself, that means I also deceived my readers, and for that I am truly sorry.
In reality, there is no way I could cheer for, support, or accept either Dr. Oz or McCormick in the Senate. Would they be better than the Democrat. Probably. Maybe. But we have spent so much time in recent years accepting the lesser-of-two-evils, and I've been done with that for a long time. I convinced myself I could do it after the Pennsylvania race, but now that it's done I'm realizing I was being delusional.
Sean Hannity and others went completely nuclear on Kathy Bennette in the last week of the race. They spread lies about her in ways that one normally associates with unhinged leftists. If I thought I could reconcile with him, Ric Grenell, or any of the other Dr. Oz shills, I was wrong. Perhaps I never really thought that. Perhaps it was just wishful thinking. Frankly, I'm just not sure anymore. All I know is that I cannot and will not have unity with RINO-supporters.
Does that mean I'm ready to finally dump President Trump and seek another to lead the America First movement? At this point, I'm just not sure. He's built up so much goodwill with his actions as President. Unlike Hannity and others, President Trump may deserve a pass. May. Then again, he's still pushing the jabs. He's still hiring the wrong people and backing the wrong candidates. He's still participating in the very Swamp politics he swore to abolish.
No, I'm no ready to abandon him yet, but for the first time in over five years I have an open mind about the future of the America First movement. It's the people of the movement who are important. The leaders will do what they will, but the true America First patriots are the epitome of the word "grassroots." That is where the real strength that is necessary to preserve and rebuild our nation lies. I do still support President Trump, but that support hangs by a thread that can be broken by another more discerning America First patriot stepping up at any moment.
It's always challenging to admit that we made a mistake, and my perspective on finding unity after the Pennsylvania primary was a huge one. I'm correcting it now, humbled and disappointed that I fell into that trap in the first place. I know that admitting that mistake and questioning my support for President Trump in the same article is certain to make some cut me off, but the truth is the truth. If I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, I must be honest with myself which means being transparent with you all.
It is my sincere hope that we're able to turn things around in America. The only people who have a chance of doing that are America First patriots which is one of the biggest reasons I'm so adamantly opposed to RINOs. My wife told me that I need to stop getting behind candidates. As I explained to her, I rarely fully support any one candidate, but I oppose RINOs aggressively. My support is contingent on an America First ideology and a willingness to fight the RINOs. I'm not looking for perfect candidates any more than I'm looking for unicorns. But a good America First candidate going up against a RINO helps me remain resolute even in light of imperfections.
Kathy Barnette wasn't a perfect candidate. Some would say she wasn't even a good candidate. But I supported her because Dr. Oz and McCormick do not hold America First perspectives and are directly affiliated with globalists. I'd rather lose with Barnette than win with a globalist. This is why I am reversing on the notion that reconciliation with RINO-shills is possible.
I'm not a fan of purity tests, but I'm a huge fan of discernment. If we stay true to God and follow our nationalistic beliefs through an America First ideology, we can focus on unifying true patriots. It's not the "big tent" the GOP wants, nor is it the combining-of-forces to beat Democrats that the Republican Establishment has used against us for decades. It means we'll support the best America First candidates possible. And if there are no good ones, we shouldn't support anyone. That goes against Republican orthodoxy, but I don't care. Republican orthodoxy gave us George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.
For the first time ever, I'm going to debunk myself. Here's what I'm embarrassed that I wrote a couple of days ago:
Populist pundit Jack Posobiec from Human Events believes we will be able to reconcile after the primary is done. He told me the focus needs to be on the midterm elections.
"Every primary is a hard-fought contest," he said. "I hope that in the midst of this conservatives and America First populists will remember we all are on the same side, and to treat everyone fairly and truthfully. We all have a long road ahead to November."
That is hopefully the sentiment we will all fall back on after the primary. As Democrats have proven over the past 16 months, they are an existential threat. As much as I oppose RINO globalist Dr. Oz, I'd still rather see him in the Senate than any Democrat. That didn't used to be the case; a RINO was once just as bad as a Democrat in my book. But today, I may not like most of what Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, or Susan Collins do with their Senate seats, but at least all of them voted against the radical abortion bill last week. With the Senate as tight as it is, all it would have taken is one of them to have allowed abortion up until birth to be codified.
Just because Romney et al occasionally vote the right way on certain issues doesn't mean we should support them in any way. The Swamp in general and the Republican Establishment in particular have conned many of us into thinking that centrist, milquetoast politicians are better than radical leftists. That's not necessarily true. On individual votes, it can be beneficial but we cannot and must not base our support on singular votes. The damage done by people like Romney far outweighs their occasional benefits. They lead many Republican voters down the path of thinking bipartisanship and centrism works. Neither do. Perhaps they once did, but that ship sailed long ago if it ever existed at all.
We are deeply divided, which means those who push the GOP to the mushy middle are actually enabling those who turn into leftists based on separate triggering factors. We need to convince as many Americans as possible that a strong, America First ideology works for everyone. That cannot happen if we keep sending the Mitch McConnells and Dr. Oz's of the world to Capitol Hill.
Does that mean we need to look at "fringe" candidates? In many ways, yes. There are plenty of people on the right who do not like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz, for example. I don't always agree with them myself. But at least I know their decisions come through an America First lens. They don't get everything right, but there's a difference between getting something wrong and being wrong. RINOs are wrong, even when they occasionally get something right.
I know this article probably doesn't make sense to everyone. I don't like writing or doing podcasts as emotional reactions to events, but if I always wait until I'm completely calm and thinking properly, I may never write at all. That's the state of the nation right now. There seems to be a constant flow of events prompting emotional responses in those of us who pay attention the most.
The bottom line is this: When I thought I could reconcile with those in conservative media who backed RINO globalists, I was wrong. I deluded myself, and my punishment that I'm unfortunately sharing with you is this convoluted article asking for forgiveness. It is what it is. Feel free to lambaste me in the comments because I totally deserve it.
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When news broke yesterday that the globalists at the World Economic Forum expected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend their annual Davos conference, most conservative news outlets pounced on the notion that he's going to be wasting his time with his buddy, Klaus Schwab, instead of focusing on bringing peace to his nation and protecting his people.
This is a valid argument, though one that has been made every time Zelensky appears to be doing something other than focusing on the war efforts. What seems to have gotten lost in all of this is that Zelensky is almost certainly going to be positioned as not just a victim, but also a potential leader to spearhead the stated purposes of this year's meeting: Advancing the world toward The Great Reset, ending capitalism, and subverting Western domination over the world.
There was a time not too long ago when such devious plans were only fodder for conspiracy theorists listening to Alex Jones at Infowars. Today, the machinations of the globalist elites are being displayed proudly by the architects of The Great Reset. This New World Order no longer exists solely in the shadows. They're branching out into the light and Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the keys to normalizing their plans to the masses.
Here's the solid report about it all from Breitbart with emphasis added to key points:
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the globalist forum of elites in Davos, Switzerland later this month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced on Friday.
The annual meeting of business elites and government leaders will once again take place in the Swiss ski resort of Davos later this month after being held virtually during the prior two years during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
On Friday, the Klaus Schwab-led group announced: “The President of Ukraine, [Volodymyr Zelensky], will join our Annual Meeting virtually as the war continues to devastate his country.”
The meeting, which will run from May 22nd to 26th, will feature globalist heavyweights such as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Joe Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, German climate and economy minister Robert Habeck, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February by Russian forces, Zelensky has become a staple on Western media, and has frequently appeared via video link in parliaments and congresses around the world, including the British, Canadian, and German parliaments, and the Congress of the United States.
The comedian turned president previously addressed the World Economic Forum in January of 2020 and has a biography page on the WEF’s website dedicated to him.
Following the escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, which began with the annexation of the Crimea in 2014, the World Economic Forum announced that it would be suspending ties with Russia.
President Putin has previously been featured at Davos meetings.
“We are not engaging with any sanctioned individual and have frozen all relations with Russian entities,” a WEF spokesman said in March.
Describing what is to be expected this year, the WEF, which has spearheaded the idea of a “Great Reset” of capitalism in the wake of the Wuhan virus pandemic, said: “Against a backdrop of deepening global frictions and fractures, it will be the starting point for a new era of global responsibility and cooperation.”
The announcement of Zelensky’s Davos attendance comes after the European Union announced that it would be sending an additional €500 million in military aid to Ukraine. This follows the U.S. House of Representatives, including all but 57 Republicans, voting to send another $40 billion in military and other forms of aid to Ukraine on Tuesday.
The U.S. bill still needs Senatorial approval, but despite widespread economic issues across the U.S. under the Biden administration there is bipartisan support to send more American taxpayer dollars to the war-torn country.
It also comes as the NATO is looking to expand its membership to include Sweden and Finland, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson already signing defensive pacts with the two Scandinavian countries and pledging British soldiers to their protection while they consider joining the military alliance.
The global food crisis, in part a result of the invasion of Ukraine, which is one of the top food producers in the world, will also likely serve as a topic of conversation at Davos.
Under the WEF’s previously stated goals for its Great Reset, the globalist group has advocated for humans consuming lab-manufactured meat and sustaining themselves with protein from bugs for a supposedly more sustainable future.
What this All Means
The first time I ever had a "prophetic" moment (no, I'm not claiming to be a prophet!) in which I turned out to be correct in my assessment of a political figure was in 2004. I was watching the Democratic National Convention and a young Senator took the stage who struck me in two ways. Number one, he was a dangerous politician with radical views. Number two, he was so convincing in his delivery that the Democrats were likely going to try to make him president someday. I wasn't surprised when four years later Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination and eventually the presidency.
The last time I had a similar feeling was when I watched Zelensky's first speech at Davos. He hammered home globalist talking points like a seasoned politician, drawing wild applause and the adoration of Klaus Schwab. I thought at the time that they're going to try to position this guy as the face of the globalist movement.
Fast forward to the upcoming Davos meeting and I feel it's almost certain he will be elevated there as well. It will be like an ascension as they discuss the three important goals of the New World Order. Zelensky will be positioned as the ultimate avatar for these goals. Sympathy toward him and the plight of his people will be translated into pure goodwill. It's all a setup for the next stage, whenever that may be.
This next stage will be peace. Zelensky will negotiate a peace agreement with Russia that allows him to either remain in power or not. If he remains in power, Ukraine will be the centerpiece of rebuilding the world in a post-pandemic and post-war era. Build back better, so to speak. If he's not allowed to stay in power, he will be adopted by some large organization, likely the World Economic Forum or World Health Organization but possibly the United Nations or someone else, and from there he will be established as a true world leader of world leaders.
If this all sounds Biblical, that's because it possibly is. But I'm not into speculation about Bible prophecy until it's clear and right now all I have are theories. We'll have to see how it plays out.
Be watchful of what we're allowed to see coming out of Davos in less than two weeks. It will be stunning to see how Zelensky is treated even for those of us who expect the worst.
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Editor's Commentary: I love Brandon Smith's writing and the article below is no exception. By no means do I agree with everything he says, but even those things that I don't agree with directly, I can completely understand where he's coming from and why he highlights them. We are in the middle of our greatest financial crisis in decades, perhaps ever, and it seems the powers-that-be are making things worse intentionally.
On the latest episode of America First Report, I examined his article. Apologies up front for the sound quality. My mic settings were way off. There is good news, though. I heard the listeners who complained about my obnoxious intro music, so I changed it. My words are obnoxious enough (at least that's what Democrats and RINOs tell me). No need to be obnoxious with the intro music that's grating to the ears of patriots!
Here's Brandon...
I think one of the great misconceptions about economic crisis is that solutions are always dependent on centralized government action. In truth, most financial disasters are actually caused by too much government action and involvement. Central banks like the Federal Reserve are also primary culprits; as I outlined in last week’s article their machinations, which are independent of government oversight, fall into the category of deliberate sabotage. The Fed bankrolls corruption through fiat money creation while government officials and corporations utilize that money to wreak havoc on our living standards.
Ending the Fed would solve the fiat money problem, but there’s still a host of agenda driven politicians and bureaucrats to deal with before our nation can right the ship.
One clear way to fix our system would be to first force government to interfere less. As a point of reference, consider the common media narratives surrounding the covid pandemic. Along with the White House the media has been the premier driver of irrational fear over the spread of covid, which ended up being a minor threat compared to the hype as the average Infection Fatality Rate was no more that 0.27%. Yet, in response to a virus that was a mortal danger to less than one-thrid of 1% of the population, bureaucrats declared a national emergency requiring insane and unconstitutional lockdowns.
The lockdowns damaged the economy in ways people are only now beginning to comprehend, with hundred of thousands of small businesses lost across the country. Not only that, but the establishment responded to the economic implosion they created by printing over $6 trillion in new money through the Fed in 2020 alone. This helicopter money or beta test for UBI (Universal Basic Income) has expedited a stagflationary disaster and helped to push prices on necessities to 40 year highs (the official number).
The media claims it is “covid that is causing the crash,” but this is a lie. It was the RESPONSE to covid that is causing the crash. The virus was incidental to the economic sabotage initiated by governments and central banks. As we saw in conservative red states that defied the lockdowns and the vax mandates, economic activity thrived while leftists blue states suffered. And what did these blue states get in return for their economic sacrifices? Nothing. Covid infections continued to rage in blue states and deaths often outpaced red states with similar sized populations.
In other words, the lockdowns, the mask mandates and the attempts force vaccinations through medical tyranny saved ZERO lives and possibly made things worse. This is the legacy of government micro-management (And yes, let’s not forget that Trump went along with these lockdowns in the beginning of the pandemic also. Biden is just the dirt-bag that continued the measures despite the massive amount of evidence that they don’t work).
While the covid event illustrates my point in a big way, there are a lot of deeply rooted problems that government intervention has caused that add up to one big fiscal calamity. Many of these threats require a basic but sweeping return to fundamentals that government elites will rarely address and will try to stop at all costs. Here are just a few examples…
Inflation And Stagflation? Back The Dollar With Hard Commodities
The federal reserve and their minions have spent the better part of a century trying to convince the public that a gold standard for our currency is what caused the Great Depression and what could cause future depressions. They claim that limitations on money printing strangle liquidity and disrupt velocity. This is a lie.
Former fed chairman Ben Bernanke openly admitted in 2002 in a speech in honor of Milton Friedman that it was the CENTRAL BANK that actually caused the deflationary collapse of the 1930s, not the existence of the gold standard. This rare moment of truth from a fed official was perhaps due to the sheer amount of evidence that Friedman often cited that contradicted the original anti-gold propaganda. Or maybe it happened because the banking elites did not see Friedman as a particular threat, and figured no one among the public would read Bernanke’s speech anyway.
In fact, a commodities foundation held the American economy together for centuries until the Fed came along and the government slowly began removing gold from the picture. All subsequent economic crisis events have been exponentially worse ever since. When a commodities standard is employed, stability always follows. Just look at what has happened in Russia recently; their currency was on a downward spiral due to international sanctions, yet, when they reopened markets this past week the Ruble skyrocketed back to normal. Why? Because Putin had the currency coupled to gold. It’s really that simple.
The US and parts of Europe are facing their own inflationary disasters and this is largely due to the unchecked avarice of central bank stimulus and government spending. The ONLY way to secure the dollar’s existence as a stable store of wealth would be to back it with hard commodities like precious metals (among others). This might kill the dollar’s world reserve status because fiat printing would be impossible from that point on, but I got a news flash for those that hate the idea of grounding the dollar in commodities: We’re going to lose world reserve status anyway, and it’s going to happen soon.
One third of the world’s population including Russia, China and India are already breaking from the dollar in bilateral trade. The US might as well accept this is the reality and prepare to mitigate the coming currency collapse by supporting the dollar with commodities.
Oil Shortages And Energy Inflation? Stop Interfering With Oil Exploration
In early February of this year the Biden Administration made legal filings which halted new oil and gas leases including exploration due to conflicts over “climate costs.” This interference with America’s oil independence is only one of many instances starting with Biden’s sabotage of the Keystone Pipeline in 2021. Interestingly, with gas prices doubling ever since Biden entered office, the White House now claims that they have nothing to do with energy inflation and are not preventing drilling in the US.
During the same period Russia was establishing a decades long oil and gas contract with China and laying the groundwork for a major pipeline to be finished by 2025. And yes, China DOES in fact have the capacity along with India to absorb most of the oil and gas that might be shunned by Europe should they follow through with energy sanctions. Russia was planning ahead while the US was shifting from energy independence and net exporter status to once again becoming dependent on authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. Why?
Biden’s excuse is usually climate alarmism. The Earth’s temperature has only risen by ONE DEGREE CELSIUS in the past 100 years according to the NOAA, so the main argument against oil production in the US is based on the fallacy that man-made carbon has any bearing whatsoever on climate changes. But maybe the carbon fraud is just a distraction from something else?
To fix any supply and demand issues in the US, we only need to start producing once again at levels which were easily obtainable in 2020. But what if the issue of supply contraction is not the main cause of oil inflation? I would note that the dollar is not only the world reserve currency but also the global petro-currency. Until recently, almost all oil was traded internationally using dollars. The decline or collapse of the dollar’s buying power due to money printing and runaway inflation is more likely the direct cause of rising oil prices, and supply issues are secondary.
If the dollar was about to collapse due to inflation, oil would be one of the first early warning indicators. With the establishment blocking new oil production and hindering the most cost effective method for oil transport (pipelines), an engineered decline in supply becomes a very effective smokescreen for the death of the dollar. The crisis caused by the government and the Federal Reserve’s currency destruction could then be blamed on supply chain issues and climate “peril.” This is the reason why the establishment will not allow any future growth in US oil production. They cannot allow the public to realize the precarious position our currency is in.
Supply Chain Interdependency Leading To Shortages? Bring Back Manufacturing
There are a lot of reasons why manufacturing has left the US, from greedy and corrupt labor unions driving up wages to higher taxes and land costs to extremely cheap shipping from overseas exporters. There is also the theory that US factories were outsourced to places like China in order to deliberately force the public into a global interdependency scheme. In other words were are stuck with the supply chain we have, not because it’s the best system, but because the globalists want it that way.
It’s unlikely that the federal government and the elitist establishment would ever allow real manufacturing to come back to the US in a way that would make us more self sufficient. As long as our country relies on outsourced goods and raw materials from other nations we remain beholden to the global chain for our survival. Being completely independent might be impossible, but we could be producing far more domestically than we are today.
State governments could create incentives to manufacture within their borders by removing property taxes, reducing state taxes and protecting businesses from certain federal obstructions such as carbon restrictions. As long as those companies do not support anti-freedom initiatives with the money they make, they should be aided so that real jobs and real production make a comeback in the US.
I would also note that if states want to survive the coming financial crisis that is about to strike, they are going to have to start ignoring federal restrictions on land use and the production of raw materials (like oil or coal). Some environmental rules are good, but some are pointless and are only designed to control rather than protect. States will have to stand in defiance of these rules if anything is going to change for the better.
Debt And Liquidity Crisis? Let States Establish Their Own Banks And Currencies
The state of North Dakota has an interesting model for economic independence, which utilizes a state sponsored bank designed specifically to help businesses in ND. I would say it’s bizarre that this idea has not become popular across the nation, but I understand that if it did the federal government and the central bankers would be very unhappy.
Here’s the thing, while it is true that the constitution explicitly states that the US Treasury be the only issuer of US currency, this was done at a time when our currency was backed by gold and silver and there was no corrupt middleman in the form of a central bank. In truth, the Treasury is now second fiddle to the Federal Reserve, and the constitutional regulations on money have already been broken. It’s time for a new currency model and new banking model.
An official bank in each state could decentralize power away from the Federal Reserve in terms of how debt and interest rates are handled, creating something closer to free market discovery of interest rates rather than a rate dictatorship control by the Fed. By extension, each state could also issue currency scrip legal for use only within the borders of those states. This would create a secondary safety net against inflation in the dollar.
In other words, we decentralize the banking system and we offer state alternatives which function not so much as competing currencies but as parallel or complementary currencies backed by and exchangeable in certain commodities. I believe very strongly that this model (along with a couple dozen other measures I don’t have space to cover here) could save our country from decades of economic mismanagement and bring us back from the brink of inflation and debt catastrophe.
States could do this without the permission of the federal government or the Federal Reserve, but I have little doubt that the elites would be in an uproar. Make no mistake, states will have to move to decouple from the national financial system and build alternatives as soon as they realize that the dollar is tanking and stagflation is here to stay. And when they do, the establishment will declare such actions on par with “insurrection.”
In the meantime, there are numerous preparations each individual can make in their local communities to insulate themselves from economic dangers. There are those that will say that local measures are only a stop gap and more national action needs to be taken. They are partially correct; in the long run there needs to be wider organization towards free markets once again, along with redundancies in state economies. In the short term we must do what we can.
Ultimately, the most clear solutions to our fiscal fate are not pursued because the elites do NOT WANT to save the economy, at least not in a way that ends up with them having less power. They want even more power and centralization that extends beyond national boundaries into the realm of global management. Fixing the system can’t happen because they won’t let it happen.
This means that the fix that will save us in the long run will be the one that allows all others to progress; and that fix is to remove these people from positions of influence and authority. You can’t really repair the body in the wake of an illness until the offending disease is eliminated. For now, all we can do is keep the country on life support until a cure is applied.
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There were three primary purposes for Pandemic Panic Theater. The first was a power-grab from a scared population that begged to be saved from a disease that was supposed to kill tens of millions in the first couple of months alone, based on the initial projections. The second was to destroy western economies. The third was to compel people to be injected with "vaccines" that may have a far more nefarious intended use than to stop the spread of Covid-19.
So far, their missions have been accomplished. But that first purpose, the power-grab, has been fading in efficacy as the people have finally started pushing back enough to scare authoritarians into relieving restrictions. Granted, they weren't really "scared" and it may just as easily be part of the plan to temporarily release restrictions so they can double up on them later, but for now those powers have been used less in recent months.
But just as the false threat of the pandemic was used to acquire more powers, so too are the real threats facing us today being used in the same way. One such problem is the supply chain crisis and Georgia's RINO Governor, Brian Kemp, is trying to take full advantage of this.
On today's episode of the America First Report, I dove into the article below by Aden Tate over at The Organic Prepper to reveal why power-grabs like these are wrong and what needs to happen to stop them.
Georgia Declares a State of Emergency Over Supply Chain Shortages
Things have apparently gotten so bad in Georgia that the governor has now declared that the state is living under a state of emergency due to supply chain shortages.
Republican Brian Kemp decreed this executive order on April 14, stating that covid was the reason for all economic distress and supply chain issues within the state of Georgia. Kemp locked down Georgia at the beginning of 2020, and Georgians received another notification in November 2020 that they would be locked down again for another two months.
The unconstitutional lockdowns aren’t mentioned within the executive order as being the cause of the economic woes of the people of Georgia.
Does Kemp now have unlimited powers?
From the wording of his executive order, it appears so.
As he cites within the order, Code Section 38-3-28 says that “all orders, rules, and regulations promulgated by the Governor” have the force and effect of law. This gives the appearance that Georgia is no longer ruled by law but instead by decree.
The order cites Code Section 38-3-51, saying that Kemp now gets to “assume direct operational control of all civil forces and helpers in the state” and that he can do whatever is “necessary to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population.”
At the moment, do the three branches of government exist within the state of Georgia? From the wording of this executive order, it appears as if there is the executive branch, and that is it.
Price gouging is now considered to be illegal.
No specific rate of markup is defined to delineate what exactly price gouging is. I suppose that this is left up to the discretion of whoever shows up to enforce this new order? Will the shop owner have to prove how much he paid for an item to avoid being fined and/or being sent to jail? Will shop owners be forced to accept lower profit margins than they are used to in order to avoid being labeled a price gouger? What will this do for businesses?
To help with the supply chain problems, it was apparently thought that there needed to be longer hours for truckers. Part 395 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations – the part that dictates how many hours a semi-truck driver can operate his rig has now been removed from Georgia as well. A clause was added to explicitly state that no carrier could force any of their truck drivers to work when they were either ill or fatigued as well.
At the very bottom of this executive order, Kemp added that if any part of the order is found to be “in violation of the Georgia Constitution, in violation of Georgia law, or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, violation, or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Order, but, in such case, this Order shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision had never been contained within the Order.”
As things stand, this state of emergency is slated to last for the next 30 days unless things magically get better in Georgia before then, in which case, the order will be lifted early.
The full executive order can be read HERE.
(Sounds like a good time to read our free QUICKSTART Guide to emergency evacuations, if you ask me.)
This is likely the first domino to fall.
There is no reason to believe that there won’t be more states to make similar proclamations in the near future. There’s no reason to believe that just by extending the number of hours that a trucker can drive that there will be an easing of the supply chain issues within Georgia within the next 30 days either.
The current supply chain issues are multi-factorial, and there’s no reason to believe that squeezing three to five extra hours per week will just cause things to get better. If there’s no product, to begin with, there’s nothing to ship.
Let Georgia serve as the canary in the coal mine for you.
Being in the middle of the South, Georgia is typically considered to be a relatively conservative area (minus the city of Atlanta). If the governor there is willing to give an executive order that appears to drastically expand his powers and seemingly shutter the other branches of government, what could happen in your state?
If supply chain problems can lead to a state of emergency being declared that dictates how much you can charge for an item, how long will it be before further measures are taken in Georgia? Once it is realized that extended trucker hours don’t help when inflation has wrecked the economy, what next steps will be taken to “solve” the crisis? Will confiscation of privately-owned food from “hoarders” be used to fight the crisis? Will further powers be granted to Georgia’s governor? Perhaps gas rations will come into place? What do you expect to see?
Whatever comes next, I can tell you one thing: I don’t think you’re going to like it.
(I mean, I like cream cheese as much as the next guy, but drafting an entire executive order for supply chain issues? It just seems a bit excessive to me.)
About Aden
Aden Tate is a regular contributor to TheOrganicPrepper.com and TheFrugalite.com. Aden runs a micro-farm where he raises dairy goats, a pig, honeybees, meat chickens, laying chickens, tomatoes, mushrooms, and greens. Aden has three published books, The Faithful Prepper, The Prepper’s Guide to Post-Disaster Communications, and Zombie Choices. You can find his podcast The Last American on Preppers’ Broadcasting Network.
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I’ve always ebbed and flowed between optimism and warning when it comes to the United States economy. I saw disaster coming in the early years of the Clinton administration, but then acknowledged that the rising digital economy may be a reprieve if Clinton didn’t muck it up. The Bush years reinvigorated my concerns as the “Republican” engaged in idiotic fiscal liberalism to compensate for his wars in the Middle East.
The Obama regime was an absolute disaster for the economy, but I didn’t think we were doomed. We weren’t. Donald Trump’s economic policy set the groundwork for a recovery that, if followed and enhanced over years and decades, could reestablish something close to the solid financial footing we had in the years following World War II.
Then, Pandemic Panic Theater prompted two weeks to slow the spread which, of course, turned into two years of lockdowns. Adding insult to injury, the powers-that-be installed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris into the White House, at which point I became more concerned than I’d been since Obamacare was passed.
The reason I spent these first few paragraphs setting the stage for the meat of the article is because it's important that readers understand I haven't been screaming about economic collapses for years. I've often tried to calm others down who thought we'd all be in breadlines at any moment as far back as the early 1990's. Our economy has been vulnerable due to very poor fiscal decisions since the 1970's but I've always felt we could fight for better policies and turn it around.
Today, I'm not convinced that's even possible. Today, I'm joining the ranks of those who believe economic collapse is imminent.
On today's episode of America First Report, I discussed the article below from Free West Media. It's an eye-opener, so much so that I chose to sacrifice part of my Easter day off to get the show out. We're in the strangest of times and it behooves us all to start making strong personal decisions about our own financial future. Even if the dollar sinks and the economy starts tanking, we can take measures now to get ahead of it as best we can.
One of those moves is to buy physical precious metals. I recommend our sponsor, Our Gold Guy, for this. To be clear, I have passed up on over a dozen other precious metals companies because I simply couldn't trust them with my audience. Our Gold Guy is the first and only one I would trust to buy my own precious metals, and they're the ones I recommend for my readers and listeners to use.
Here's the article from Free West Media:
A New Financial World Is Born
Even if this is not the birth of a new world order, at least it will be the birth of a new financial one. Such a turning point was proclaimed by Zoltan Pozsar, interest rate strategist at the major Swiss bank Credit Suisse, in a widely acclaimed paper of March 7 entitled “Bretton Woods III”.
Pozsar is not an outsider. In his position at the New York Federal Reserve and as an advisor to the US Treasury Department, he had insight into the background and processes behind the great financial crisis of 2008. He knows the strengths and weaknesses of the dollar system. The foundations of this system, he noted, crumbled when the West confiscated Russia’s foreign exchange reserves.
Why is the freeze on Russia’s foreign exchange reserves a game changer?
Freezing, or rather confiscating, Russia’s foreign exchange reserves annuls the rules of procedure of Bretton Woods I and II, namely the security and availability of foreign exchange reserves. Unlike gold, the dollar and euro are not physically tangible – apart from cash – but only booked on the computers of the Western banking system.
In China’s case, it’s the equivalent of $3 400 billion. India has accumulated 632 billion, Saudi Arabia 441 billion. In the worst case, could these funds also be blocked and thus become useless? Of course. After all, US President Joe Biden has already described the Saudi monarchy as a “pariah country”. So it makes sense to increasingly decouple Chinese, Arab and Indian foreign trade, not to mention Russia, from the dollar.
Whether it is correct to announce a new monetary world order as a Bretton Woods III, remains to be seen. Either way, the world has become multipolar, ironically because of the Biden administration’s short-sightedness. Bretton Woods I, named after a conference in New England at the end of the Second World War, established the hegemony of the dollar and at the same time underpinned the world power position of the USA.
America went from creditor to debtor
The US currency was linked to gold and exchangeable for gold at any time foreign central banks deposited their dollars in New York. The dollar was gold-backed money – until August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon broke the treaty, refused to pay and ended convertibility.
Bretton Woods II followed, with the inflation and currency chaos of the 1970s, with two decades of stabilization, with new American wars after the turn of the millennium, and with the near-death of the system in the 2008 financial crisis. But even without gold backing, the dollar remained the world’s leading and reserve currency. The arrangement allowed Americans to permanently live beyond their means, to have wars and consumption financed from abroad. The budget deficits and the deep-red trade balance went unpunished.
America, once the world’s creditor, became its debtor. The government debt of the “wealthy” country was recently at a fantastic 30 trillion dollars. The fact that the dollar has been appreciating against the euro for years is not a sign of quality, but is due to the fact that the euro is an open-ended experiment, not an established currency. Both are heading into a commodity-induced tsunami of inflation this decade, against which the monetary debasement of the 1970s might look like a mediocre event.
France repatriates gold
In 2013 the German central bank was the first to announce it would repatriate gold from France as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After Germany, other countries such as the Netherlands and Austria followed by repatriating the precious metal.
France’s central bank sees a huge potential for gold, expecting it’s role in the financial system to increase. “Why else upgrade all the French gold, overhaul the vault, set up a new IT system, and develop a full set of trading services for foreign central banks in Paris?” said Jan Nieuwenhuijs, gold analyst.
The core element of the Chinese strategy
Zoltan Pozsar makes an important distinction: that between inside money and outside money. The first is the money at the center of the global financial system, the dollars and euros circulating in the USA and the EU that can be multiplied at will. Outside money is the money of the countries on the periphery, which, in addition to Russia, also includes China, India and other emerging countries. Almost unnoticed by the public, the Brazilian real has appreciated by 20 percent against the euro, the Chinese yuan by almost nine percent and the South African rand by almost seven percent in the past twelve months.
Dethroning King Dollar is undoubtedly a core element of China’s strategy. As early as 2020, the People’s Bank of China was the only major central bank that failed to open the money floodgates because of Corona. It decided to maintain a strict monetary policy. Now the People’s Republic has the unexpected opportunity to buy and hoard Russian raw materials – especially oil – at far below world market prices and thus strengthen the resilience of the Chinese economy. Beijing will come closer to the goal of a multipolar currency order, perhaps also with the introduction of a digital yuan.
US share of world trade falls
There will be Saudi oil sales against yuan, Chinese oil imports against rubles and a gradual switch from the American-controlled payment system Swift to the already established Chinese counterpart. That will not happen overnight, after all it took a while for the British pound to give way to the American dollar. The oligarchs of the periphery must be extremely worried after they witnessed how the foreign assets of the Russian billionaires were practically expropriated overnight without any legal basis. They will want to diversify as soon as possible.
History has shown that ultimately, political and financial power relations always follow economic clout. The signs point to a multipolar world order, possibly also – after an inflationary collapse – to a monetary reorganization with money backed by commodities or gold, spelling the end for the only current world power.
Although 40 percent of international trade in goods is still invoiced in dollars, America’s share of world trade has fallen to less than 10 percent. In 1960, the USA accounted for 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. Now it’s less than 16 percent. In the world of tomorrow, EU policies, which are currently aimed at the destruction of Germany’s industrial base, are not the answer.
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The race for U.S. Senator in Pennsylvania took on an added importance over the weekend when President Donald Trump announced his endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz. This is a foul move that smells like a combination of two pressure points coming together.
The first is a universal pressure about Trump's place in the GOP. He needs to endorse as many winners as possible in order to cement his position as the top influencer among Republicans. That means the people he endorses need to win, which is why he never endorses true America First patriots if they're not polling well. One can even argue that he pulled his endorsement of Mo Brooks for the U.S. Senate race in Alabama because he was losing.
When Trump endorsed Brooks, he was leading the pack by a mile at over 40%. In the months that followed, Brooks has been attacked heavily by Mitch McConnell's various PACs and candidates. That combined with the fact that his team is running one of the worst Senate campaigns in recent memory is why he fell to third place at around 17%.
Trump claimed he pulled his endorsement because Brooks said it's time to move on from focusing on 2020 election fraud. I completely disagree with Brooks on this point, but I can promise you this. Considering Trump continues to endorse other candidates who have not fought nearly as hard as Brooks to expose the 2020 stolen election, it's a safe bet that if Brooks was still leading the pack then he would still have Trump's endorsement.
The second pressure point for Trump comes from his donors and advisors. They're essentially one in the same. Some earn his ear because they work for him. Others earn his ear because they donate to his campaigns. He puts a lot of weight in both camps when it comes to guiding him through political issues such as endorsements. Both his advisors and his donors love Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The good news about all of this is that it reminds me of who Trump really is. He does listen to people. Sometimes he listens to the wrong people, but he's shown a willingness to listen to his base when we're loud enough about it all. The perfect example happened during the 2016 campaign when he started pushing his "softening." Around August, less than a month after the Republican National Convention, he started floating the idea of not being as hard on illegal aliens as he had been during the primary campaign.
This was, of course, at the behest of his advisors and large donors who thought he would have a better chance of beating Hillary Clinton if he toned down his rhetoric about illegal aliens. He started saying that maybe he would only focus on deporting convicted criminals instead of the millions of other illegal aliens. He even went on a "town hall" style show with Sean Hannity to try to sell it to the people. Both he and Hannity kept trying to convince the audience that you can't just deport millions of people who had been in the United States for years.
The people weren't having it. The live audience booed and the backlash from conservative media was harsh. I know because I was among them. The "softening," as it was called, lasted about a week and a half before he went back to his original campaign promises of deporting those who had stolen our sovereignty, including so-called DREAMers. As a result, it worked.
He will listen to us if we're loud enough. The best way to remind him that he needs to listen to us more carefully is to send a stark message about Dr. Mehmet Oz. He is not a Republican. He is not a conservative. He does not believe in America-First. He's the next Mitt Romney, who Trump also endorsed. In fact, he may end up being worse than Romney if he makes it to Capitol Hill.
I posted an article last year about the various leftist stances Dr. Oz has held, not to mention his affection for globalism as one of Klaus Schwab's favorite young leaders. Here's an excerpt:
When a conservative thinks about what Republican policy platforms should include, there are certain things we do not expect to see:
Bail reform
Gun control
Transgender surgeries for children
Vaxx-nannying
The Great Reset
What do all of these things have in common, other than being associated with the political left? They all happen to be policies actively and aggressively promoted by “Republican” U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz. He’s running in arguably the most consequential Senate race in 2022, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, his name recognition may be enough to propel him to a primary win. We need to stop him.
Then, of course, there's the vaccines. We'll talk about that at another time.
Dr. Mehmet Oz needs to lose. It's not just because he's a slimy RINO who will not represent our values. It's because Donald Trump needs a reminder that he needs to listen to his base over his advisors and donors.
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Commentaries across conservative and even some leftist media outlets have highlighted that the Military Industrial Complex is pushing for U.S. intervention in Ukraine. They're not incorrect, but that assessment is incomplete. In fact, the Military Industrial Complex isn't even the biggest source of influence pushing talking heads on cable news, NeoCons in the GOP, and warmongers among Democrats on Capitol Hill to demand we launch WWIII.
The most prominent driving force behind the insane pro-war narratives is the Chinese Communist Party. They stand to gain the most if the United States and NATO are stupid enough to engage directly with the Russian military through no-fly zones or other military intervention in Ukraine. The CCP knows that if a kinetic war starts between the U.S. and Russia, China will benefit tremendously. In fact, they would likely emerge as the dominant world power, assuming a world still exists should the war turn nuclear.
China has worked for decades to establish tremendous influence over members of our government and media. We've seen in public view how they've contorted organizations like the NBA and Disney into bowing to Beijing on all matters. That allegiance and dependence is even more pronounced in both Washington DC and in newsrooms across the corporate media landscape. It's simply better hidden as it does not behoove politicians, journalists, or China itself to acknowledge the control they exert.
There are only a handful of DC politicians and corporate journalists who are stupid enough to think it's a good idea to start WWIII. But the stupid ones are part of a much bigger chorus of people who recognize the idiocy of military intervention in Ukraine but who are forced to promote it because they are beholden to the Chinese Communist Party.
One of my favorite long-term writers at NOQ Report, J.B. Shurk, wrote up an excellent piece explaining this and why the people must speak out against both government and corporate media types who are driving us to war...
War Is Too Serious to Be Left to Washington Politicians
Great change is afoot. People can feel it. The post-WWII global order is cracking. At a minimum, a renewed Cold War mindset is driving a permanent wedge between the U.S.-E.U. Atlantic Bloc and strategic competitors in Russia and China are unwilling to yield their national sovereignties to "rules-based systems" run from office suites in Brussels; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and the City of London. As with any zero-sum struggle between competing systems, though, the potential for "cold" wars to turn kinetically "hot" is high.
Will the war in Ukraine stay in Ukraine, or will NATO allies find cause to engage Russia directly? Where are the red lines these days? Nobody seems to know. At the same time, traditional avenues for de-escalation and normal diplomatic stopgaps have largely been thrown out the window. The West has declared linguistic war on all things Russian in a fit of pique, and the Russian people, not surprisingly, increasingly view the U.S.-led West with great apprehension and even enmity. Appeals to emotion within both societies are quickly overtaking sober restraint and common sense. Tempers have begun to boil over and mixed messaging from D.C. and the E.U. has only added a dangerous accelerant of confusion to an already smoldering tinderbox.
With a vaunted cyber-warfare program that allows Russia to cause more harm to its enemies than it achieves with traditional munitions while gaining some measure of plausible deniability, hybrid warfare affecting banking systems, power grids, and supply chains makes total war upon civilian populations inevitable. At the same time, the relative anonymity of cyber-attacks makes it increasingly difficult for hostile parties to distinguish acts of war from criminal mischief or even minor nuisances.
The likelihood of misidentification of cyber-aggressors compounds the risks of mistaken intentions, unwarranted retaliations, and lethal engagements. Just as hybrid warfare complicates traditional rules of engagement, it also presents ample opportunity for false flag events to be used as cover for quickly ratcheting up conflicts. Narrative engineering has become a potent weapon for governments, and for this reason, propaganda and information warfare are replacing free speech and debate in Russia and throughout the West. Again, this type of state control over mass communication and the criminalization of dissenting opinion magnify the probability for lethal misunderstanding, misattribution, and mistakes.
While all eyes are on Eastern Europe, China is busy gobbling up strategic Pacific real estate, island-hopping from Samoa to the Solomon Islands in a steady effort to supplant regional American partnerships with its own. Simultaneously expanding its naval presence near Alaska and Hawaii while whipping up a public frenzy at home in support of invading Taiwan, China is committed to shattering American influence in Asia and American hegemony over the Pacific.
It is becoming increasingly undeniable that China has been preparing for this moment ever since the United States welcomed the communist country into the World Trade Organization over twenty years ago. The Chinese Communist Party has aggressively sought to influence Western politicians through a combination of campaign lobbying, personal business engagement, and financial inducement that, if not explicitly illegal, has nonetheless reeked of corruption and quid pro quo.
In exchange for U.S. politicians' complicity in orchestrating the largest intercontinental transfer of wealth in world history from the paychecks and savings of the U.S. middle class to the bank accounts and military budgets of the CCP, China has doubled down on U.S. political susceptibility to graft by engaging in two decades of government espionage, trade secrets and industrial theft, commodity dumping, currency manipulation, and rampant violation of human rights.
By luring the U.S. into a state of economic dependency upon its cheap manufacturing, rare earth metals and other raw materials, and regular use of slave labor, China has effectively engaged in hybrid economic warfare that has devastated American wealth and self-sufficiency without requiring the firing of a single shot. While crippling U.S. economic might, it has hooked American politicians on the opium of its sweet monetary kickbacks and too many American citizens on the importation of its deadly fentanyl.
As China sat back and watched the U.S. waste lives, resources, and trillions of dollars on two decades of war producing minimal strategic success, the CCP used its ill-gotten, American-transferred wealth to transform its military into a global powerhouse and to erect its own worldwide "rules-based system" under the harmless-sounding, chameleon-like Belt and Road Initiative.
For twenty years, China has unleashed debilitating economic carnage throughout the United States, and the American political class has literally paid the communist dictatorship to expand its military and global influence. The fact that China has been at war with the U.S. while Washington politicians have done nothing but smile and nod in either abject ignorance or unpardonable collusion has been arguably the greatest self-inflicted national security catastrophe in American history.
What does all of this say about our current moment of unpleasantness? It says to me that our political aristocracy cannot be trusted to pursue Americans' best interests. On the one hand, the Washington war hawks are tripping over themselves to initiate a war with Russia that normal Americans have no interest in fighting. On the other hand, those same war hawks are noticeably mum about the Chinese dragon's two decades of economic warfare against America's middle class, the destruction of which has caused American families more harm than any other enemy in their country's history, save for perhaps D.C.'s own entrenched political class.
Before our effete Washington "warriors" drag us into a war that most Americans do not seek, should we not at least have a "national conversation" on the matter? Our supercilious "betters" regularly force us into all manner of "national conversations" on the most ridiculous contrivances. You can't say "all lives matter," when only "black lives matter," rube! Of course, men who pretend to be women should be rewarded for their delusions, bigot! How dare you call out our election fraud as evidence for a stolen election, insurrectionist!
We have to "talk" about gun violence. We have to "sympathize" with the people breaking our immigration laws. We're forced to discuss the imminent impact of "climate change" as if Obama and other celebrities didn't live in multi-million-dollar properties right on the beach. We have been forced, as a country, to endure never-ending elitist claptrap about the most nonsensical, inane subjects. But we can't discuss whether we as Americans want to fight a war against Russia, while China's threats to the homeland receive but a glance?
For a "ruling class" that regularly yet incorrectly trumpets America's "precious democracy," you would think actual war might warrant a more broadly democratic backing than a Washington gaggle of war-starved neocons, some corrupt elected officials whose children have made big bucks from laundering money in Ukraine, and the corporate news propagandists who desperately want to distract from Joe Biden's escalating political problems here at home.
If D.C.'s denizens have proved anything with their cavalier attitude toward nuclear gamesmanship with Russia and their invaluable assistance over two decades in effectuating Communist China's ascendance from third-world pariah state to global existential threat, it is this: war is too damn serious to be left to Washington politicians.
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Two of the most informed and, frankly, interesting guests I've had the pleasure to interview over the past couple of months both talked about hemorrhagic fever and the Chinese Communist Party's goals of weaponizing it against the world. Both Dr. Li-Meng Yan and Lt. General Thomas McInerney warned Americans on my show about the prospects of a very different type of pandemic coming to the world, a pandemic that won't have a 99.993% recovery rate for people under the age of 50.
As the early stages of the latest round of Pandemic Panic Theater rears its ugly head, it seems very likely that any future hemorrhagic fever has been put on hold temporarily. If you believe, as I do, that pretty much everything that's been happening in the world has been part of The Great Reset agenda planned and initiated by the globalist elites, then it seems unlikely they would hit us with hemorrhagic fever while we were in the middle of another round of Covid lockdowns and restrictions. They'd want maximum initial exposure, which means letting people out and about living semi-normal lives before slamming us with a disease far deadlier than the coronavirus.
It's not exactly good news, but at least it seems their plans are being extended out a bit longer than many of us expected. Mac Slavo over at SHTF Plan laid out what's happening with what appears to be the next stage of this plandemic:
New “Transmissible” COVID Variant XE Dominates News Cycles
Apparently, the powers that be have decided to panic the masses once again over another “highly transmissible” COVID variant. This one is called “XE” and reports of this variant dominated the news over the weekend.
MSM Warns: Another COVID Variant Is Coming
This new variant is allegedly a hybrid of two omicron strains and could be the most transmissible one yet. Dr. Anthony Fauci has already taken the time to warn the public that medical tyranny will be pushed upon them again and to “expect” it.
Fauci Warns Americans: Be Prepared For More COVID Restrictions
The World Health Organization said a hybrid of two omicron strains, BA.1 and BA.2, that was first detected in the United Kingdom and dubbed XE could be the most transmissible variant yet, according to a report by Bloomberg. It is estimated to spread 10% more easily than BA.2, which itself was more transmissible than the original omicron famous for its ease of infection.
Meanwhile, in China, the ruling class is claiming that it is experiencing its biggest outbreak since Wuhan. “Authorities” have disclosed two novel omicron subvariants that don’t match any existing sequences. It’s unclear if the infections were one-off events of little significance, or if they may be a sign of problems ahead.
“If the Chinese authorities’ efforts to constrain transmission are ineffective against a highly, highly transmissible virus, like an omicron variant, this could become a threat for the rest of the world,” said Rajeev Venkayya, a former White House biodefense adviser who became the chief executive officer of drugmaker Aerium Therapeutics Inc. in March. “We know that uncontrolled transmission of the virus can lead to more viral evolution and an evolution around vaccines and therapeutics,” potentially making them less effective, he said. –Bloomberg
The new COVID “surge” (which is anything but according to the masters’ own numbers) has made people prisoners in their own homes once again.
Panic Buying In Shanghai As People Once Again Forced Into Lockdown
Be prepared. Never put anything past any ruling class. Could this be the one that does real-world damage beyond people getting a cold? Or is it just more fear so when that actually deadly bug does finally get released people have already written off advice because they’ve been lied too so much? It’s hard to say. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. It’s all any of us can do at this point.
Keep using your discernment and best judgment. If you feel compelled to lockdown, do so. If you feel you should continue to live your life and prepare for tomorrow, do so. It’s still too early to tell where they’ll go with these new scariants.
Keep Fighting
One of the reasons I created a separate Substack for Ending Medical Tyranny is because stories like these need a repository for focus. On most of my sites, I intermingle stories about the pandemic and other attacks on our medical freedoms with stories about everything else that's important to Americans. By having a single-spot for those who want to fight nothing else, there's a Substack for that.
As I've said on multiple occasions recently, we must inform as many people as possible about the dangers of the Covid "vaccines" and the rise of authoritarianism under the guise of "protecting" us from the pandemic(s). Some of us would rather go to our bunker and hunker down as the rest of the world collapses, but it's helpful to gain allies by exposing them to the truth. It's also the right thing to do; if we know the truth, we shouldn't keep it secret.
Brace yourselves for whatever comes next, but don't fear it. We know how the story ends.
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The reason Joe Biden didn't lift Title 42 in the beginning of his term is because he couldn't take away focus from Pandemic Panic Theater. Now that everyone's attention has been diverted to Ukraine temporarily, Biden is able to pretend like the emergency part of the pandemic is over and Title 42 can be lifted.
The public health policy was designed to allow border patrol to immediately send back illegal aliens without allowing them to stay in the country while awaiting asylum application adjudication. Biden promised to lift it immediately upon being installed into the White House, but he waited. Now, the policy will be lifted by May 23.
This will, of course, cause a massive influx of illegal aliens even bigger than what we've seen already since he's taken office. And that's the plan. While the White House claims they're setting up contingency plans, nobody believes that, not even on the left. The regime WANTS as many people to flood this nation as possible, and not just for the sake of securing more illegal voters. It's all part of The Great Reset, but that's a discussion for another time.
According to 100 Percent Fed Up, violent criminals are already on their way to the border:
As violent crime continues to surge and millions of illegal immigrants continue to enter the country, Biden Admin decides to let them stay.
Violent Crime, especially in cities around the border and the west coast–where many illegal immigrants end up–continues to rise. Millions of illegals have crossed the border in the last two years. And yet, Biden thinks the answer is to scrap Title 42 and allow them easier access to our country.
The pandemic has never justified any of the actions that have been attached to it. From "Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve" all the way through to all the draconian vaccine mandates from public and private entities, the disease has never justified our governments' responses. For Donald Trump to use it as a strategy to close the borders even further was a great move that sidestepped objections to some of his previous policies. In fact, Title 42 may be the only positive policy to come out of Pandemic Panic Theater.
Now, it's getting lifted even as illegal immigration surges.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert obliterated the White House claims that they can now safely lift the policy by reminding them that another policy is still squarely in place.
"If we are still authorizing booster vaccines under Emergency Use then how are we ending Title 42?"
Emergency Use Authorization and FDA Approval are the two most misunderstood aspects of the vaccines. On one hand, every Covid injection since the beginning and continuing to the fourth, fifth, and sixth jabs now planned have been administered under an Emergency Use Authorization. This means that there needs to be an emergency in order for the authorization to apply. Though Pfizer and Moderna each have jabs that have been FDA-Approved, neither of those approved injections are in circulation in the United States. Jabs are still being administered under the EAU, meaning the White House still considers us in a state of emergency.
By this logic, there should be no way the regime can justify lifting Title 42. But they are. And even Democrats are shaking their heads at the move.
At the end of the day, this really does come down to the Biden regime being selective with their use of the pandemic. They aren't following science. It's all politics, and it's as ugly as it gets.
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Allow me to be blunt. The GOP is a mess. The only reason the dysfunction of the Republican Party is not more prominently on display is because the Democrat Party is a raging dumpster fire. Now more than ever, we have an opportunity to put America-First constitutional conservatives on Capitol Hill. Will we?
I'm not going to insert my pessimism into this. Not now. I'll save that for after the primaries. We need to push forward with the primary election goal of nominating the best people to take on Democrats in November. That doesn't mean nominating the people who are necessarily most likely to win. Unless there is an inexplicable turnaround in the nation's fortunes, we could nominate a cute puppy as a Republican candidate and beat vulnerable Democrats. We can't nominate puppies and we shouldn't nominate RINOs. We need to nominate the best possible representatives of freedom.
In the past, pragmatic Republicans have fallen for the sales pitch by the GOP Establishment that we need "common sense" centrists to be the milquetoast nominees, especially in Senate races. Conservatives have traditionally had an easier time securing House nominations, but even that has shifted in the wrong direction over the last two elections. That argument is moot. According to Just The News:
Voters trust the GOP significantly more than the Democratic Party on the handling of such key midterm issues as inflation and the over health of the economy, according to a new Morning Consult survey. The survey found 46% of voters trust Republicans to handle the record-level inflation, compared to 32% for Democrats. Roughly 22% said they were unsure or had no opinion.
Voters also favored Republicans to handle national security and the economy by double-digit margins. The GOP earned the trust of 48% of those polled on national security, compared to 35% of Democrats, and 47% said they trusted Republicans with the economy, compared to 36% of Democrats.
Voters also favor Republicans on such issues as immigration, Second Amendment issues and jobs. Independents, in particular, favor Republicans on economic issues – including by a 23 point margin on inflation. The survey was conducted March 25-27 among 2,006 registered U.S. voters with a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
It's not just the DC races where we need to get the RINOs out. As I've argued for years, state, county, and city races are even more important when it comes to direct influence over our lives. It always amazed me that people get so riled up over DC races when it's the state and local politicians who actually make more of an impact for us.
In those races, the appetite for staunch conservatives with bold ideas is even higher than at the national level. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has blazed a trail that Republican voters may have forgot even existed. He has opposed the Biden regime at every turn. Meanwhile, he has refused to pander to the woke crowd or attempt to usher in bipartisanship in his state. He believes what he believes and his actions echo those beliefs.
And it's working. According to Townhall:
A lot can change over the course seven-plus months -- and Republicans would be foolish to count any chickens, etc. -- but in light of the growing and historically-unprecedented voter registration advantage the Florida GOP is building, and new statewide polling, one wonders if my hypothetically-stated six-point 'blowout' margin might represent DeSantis' floor in 2022:
In this survey (which has President Biden with a very generous 49 percent approval rating in Florida), DeSantis' job approval is 59 percent, higher than either GOP Senator (though both are also above 50 percent). By a 22-point margin, Floridians approve of the governor's endlessly-attacked handling of the pandemic, which has been his signature leadership issue. I don't believe for a second that DeSantis will win in November by anything close to 16-to-24 points. It's still Florida. Democrats will 'come home.' But if the governor pulls in a share of the vote that's closer to his approval rating, a victory in the high single digits -- or perhaps cracking double digits, if everything breaks right -- seems well within the realm of possibility. And as of right now, things do appear to be generally breaking bad for the Democrats:
Now, before anyone gets excited or even complacent, let's not forget a couple of important facts. First, these are polls in March, a full eight months before the election. Second, we can never take anything for granted with the massive voter fraud program Democrats have put into place.
As Joe Biden himself once said:
"We put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
Democrats are panicking. That means they're desperate. A desperate Democrat is willing to do whatever they can possibly muster in order to maintain power. It would be extremely idiotic to think that this is in the bag. But here's the thing. Even if a GOP majority is inevitable, is it really any better than a Democrat majority if the RINOs are running it?
I, for one, do not want Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy leading the party at this (or any) moment in American history. They are corrupt and horrible politicians who are only marginally better than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. If there was ever a time when we could nominate strong conservatives who will either keep McConnell and McCarthy honest or even help to block them from leading their caucuses, now is that time.
Voters need to do their research. Don't listen to what the RNC, RSCC, or RCCC say in their fundraiser emails. Don't listen to what Fox News or Washington Examiner tell us about the various candidates vying for Republican nominations. And DEFINITELY don't listen to the polls. Find the best possible candidate for every election you can vote in and support that candidate.
Spread the word. Go on the offensive. Eject the RINOs in the primaries and let's push America First patriots to victory in November. Arguments in the past that conned Republicans into nominating people like John McCain and Mitt Romney for president are no longer valid (not that they were really valid back then). We don't need to find centrists. We need to nominate staunch conservatives who will do what's right for America, people who will push back against RINO legislation. Otherwise, we're just going to get a slight improvement over the disaster that's unfolding on Capitol Hill today.
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How bad could things really be at the border? We already know the border crisis is terrible based on anecdotal reports, and that should truly concern us. If things weren't as bad as we thought, the White House would be quick to try to debunk it with their friendly mainstream media puppets. The fact they won't let media anywhere near the various migrant facilities is telling... and terrifying.
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Vindictive. That's the only way to categorize the actions of the City of Burbank after they had the power and phone lines cut from Tinhorn Flats, the oldest bar in town. How do we know it's vindictive and not for medical reasons? Because they did it two days before the ban on indoor dining was to be lifted.
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There is plenty of pork in the Covid relief bill, but this particular one is a direct insult to taxpayers and those who have experienced hardship through the lockdowns. What do AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria have to do with Covid-19? We have plenty of questions.
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Recall efforts in California are a matter of the state version of The Swamp versus the citizens with national implications on multiple levels. With nearly 2 million signatures collected, it's clear recall SHOULD go forward. If it doesn't, blame a system that's rigged beyond repair.
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There are already too many laws on the books which is why I'm rarely a fan of legislation making something new illegal. But a Tennessee bill that would make blocking a highway a felony offense has my full support, and I encourage others to share it with their state legislators as well.
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When Stephen Willeford confronted the Sutherland Springs church shooter, he felt that he was led by God to this moment. Now, we're faced with a serious threat in DC to our Second Amendment rights and Willeford is ready to fight again.
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Things have been cleaned up over at 4chan in recent years, but they're still quite risque. But by Netflix standards, the message board is practically saintly.
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Let's see who tries.
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It's a tale of two "fixes" to problems. One is heading in the right direction, the other is not.
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Cultural Marxism is everywhere in America today. Yes, it's even in our schools going after our children.
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They're already trying to pretend she's not a radical progressive. It's up to us to get the truth out there.
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"Peaceful protesters" are destroying many cities across America. Why aren't patriots fighting back?
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It's time to tell our representatives that a majority no longer want to live in fear.
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The California Governor isn't just trying to play it too safe or hurt the economy. He and his cronies are attacking religion in general.
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To paraphrase our previous unmasker-in-chief, if you like your mask, you can keep your mask. On behalf of those who are asymptomatic and not living in fear, I say this: We will not comply with your draconian mandates.
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The CEO of Sunshine Gasoline also gave a warning to all Americans.
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These are the types of facts the White House needs to be spreading.
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The guy is more of a salesman than a doctor, and that should worry us all.
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It's easy for the left to denounce the actions of these homeowners when they're busy telling the story from an agenda-driven perspective.
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The hypocrisy is thick and the irony is lost only on the Washington Governor.
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Sometimes non-compliance has nothing to do with government at all. Remember, some of the most powerful people are not elected officials.
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They're already trying to prepare us with scare tactics and propaganda. No matter what the left reports, we must stand strong against more lockdowns.
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Google didn't get so big because of a history of great business decisions. They made one smart business move: Making their users the actual product that they sell. The rest is history.
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They aren't looking for reforms. They literally want to burn it all down and rebuild it as a Marxist dystopia.
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The two are connected. Both must end immediately if America is going to start the healing process.
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In this first episode of "Non-Compliant America with JD Rucker," contact tracing is already on the agenda.
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