The Corruption Is Now Increasingly Brazen And Blatant

  It feels very strange being on the edge of the precipice when you know that everything is about to crash like a coyote in mid air.

 Food not being grown now will not be available in 6 months.

 Power plants not being built will not produce next winter.

 Oil, fertilizers, goods not being traded due to excessive price will not be where they should very soon.

 These are not predictions, these are facts.

 The consequences, like gravity, will reassert themselves soon enough! 

The Corruption Is Now Increasingly Brazen And Blatant

Remember how we just discussed the funding of the profligate US government? Let’s take a look at how bad things are. Here’s the current budget deficit.

The blue is good and the orange is bad. You can see a lot of orange, and after 2008 things have been decidedly “orange.”

Since there is no actual cash in the piggy bank the US government has to borrow it. Meanwhile, debt spirals higher. Total US debt now tops $90 trillion with unfunded liabilities clocking in at $169 trillion.

Folks tend to forget that a government doesn’t produce anything. It merely sucks up resources from the productive and redistributes those resources. The most “productive” governments manage to do this with the least amount of friction or capital stripped from the system, while allocating the resources the most efficiently. And since governments are awful at both of these things, the most “productive” governments are those who do the least, instead leaving it to the private sector to cater to the wants and needs of society.

In any event, the ever-continuous intrusion into citizens’ lives while “providing” for them things such as education, healthcare, pensions, and myriad other things which governments should have no hand in cost money. A lot, especially when the allocation of resources is not governed by the cruel hand of the market. Profligacy abounds in these situations, and so as the debt spirals out of control so does the printing of money.

One reason I have been saying that the probability that a debt reset is in the offing is because the numbers are just too egregious to be managed at this point. Median income per household in the US in 2020 was $67,521. Now consider that when doing simple math by taking US debt and dividing it by citizens we clock in at $778,000 per citizen (not per household). Now, not all citizens are contributing to the pie so to speak. Babies, for example. A more accurate take therefore is dividing this number by the number of US tax-paying citizens. When doing so we clock in at over $2 MILLION per citizen. Do you understand now how hopeless this situation is?

So there are now only two solutions I can think of. One is a hyperinflation of the currency and the other is a debt reset.

This brings up other probabilities. Those in power know that a hyperinflation would likely see them being replaced. History shows us this is true. No, rather they will try to self detonate the system, have an enemy to blame it on (Covid, Russia, etc.) and retain control… or dare I say gain even more control. This is what the entire WEF plan is all about. Right now they’re still using the mask of democracy, but as we’ve seen in the last two years this is merely a mask. Leaders all over the world have been bought and pressured or murdered (Magafuli) when not complying. The corruption is now increasingly brazen and blatant. The energy put into masking it grows weaker each day while the excesses and theft grow more egregious. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. This is the fourth turning. Lucky us, heh?

Something else to consider is that while the Biden administration is sending tens of billions of dollars to thugs in what is arguably THE most corrupt Eastern European country (ostensibly to fight a bad man), they can’t actually afford it. The US military may well be the largest in the world, but as is the case with all militaries it requires funding. Cut off the funding, and no army can or will fight. This is true even if gender confused soyboys in San Francisco champion “taking it to Putin” while placing Ukrainian flags in their bios… right next to their pronouns.

And that means that the acceleration of the collapse of the US government and indeed the European Union (who are just as broke) is being accelerated.

What you choose to own in such a coming storm is going to be critical if I’m even half accurate. At risk of sounding like a prepper, which honestly makes a ton of sense, I continue to believe that energy at its base level is a no-brainer, if only because every single thing that makes our lives more comfortable, more easy is some derivative of fossil fuels. And as mentioned many times here, the supply is just not coming online. Then moving down the chain of needs, naturally food/agriculture and in this space fertilizer is in critical shortage. So that. Precious metals just as a hedge against total collapse in currency markets, though I don’t think we’re there yet.

It’s interesting to see that although we’re not “printing money” in our portfolio we are positive while most everything is getting a good thumping. There really has been only two places to hide in this crash. Greenbacks and commodities, especially energy. Maybe this deep value bottom up analysis coupled with a macro top down analysis has some merit to it.

A New Source of Information - Video Channel

  Over the last couple of weeks, I have been following with interest a new channel on YouTube called Redacted.

  It is interesting, pertinent and although the journalist is a former Fox News presenter, the tone is less partisan than Fox.

 You can access it at:   https://redacted.inc

 Or follow it on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/c/RedactedNews

 

 

What Happens To Europe When Russia Wins (Video - 13')

 More realistic, less broad scope and anti-Russian than yesterday's video.  (It is essential at this stage to listen to different voices and ideas in this age of confusion.)

 I would tend to agree with this position (that Europe must make peace with Russia or commit economic suicide before the end of the year.) Where I disagree is that the US, of course, understand that too, and will therefore up the ante in the meantime.

 That is the problem, usually called the fog of war when things become fuzzy and unpredictable.  We are almost there.

 

There was an unexpected 40% increase in 'all cause deaths' in 2021 (Video - 8')

 It's starting! You can't yet say "officially" that it is Covid vaccine related but we are getting there... slowly. 

 The vaccines ARE dangerous as many doctors (who were silenced) warned. We are now seeing the consequences: A collapse of the immune system for many people resulting in an explosion of Covid-unrelated (for now) deaths.

 

Energy at the End of the World Seminar - Peter Zeihan (2h30')

 A very long video but stunning analysis of the current situation by Peter Zeihan.

 If you are interested in geo-strategy, then this is it. As complete as it goes. You will see the war in Ukraine in a different light. (Forget about some nonsense about Russian strategy and focus on energy.)

 A masterpiece of understanding about the world we live in. (Although I do not agree with part of the analysis. But this is not important. The key is to learn and form your own opinion, not to swallow somebody's else ideas of what the statistics and numbers mean.)

 

Rapid Cultural Decline and What Comes Next

 It is hard to imagine that most people still do not see the rapid decline we are experiencing right now. Technological innovations give us the illusion of progress but in reality our society has been on a downward slope for over 50 years.   

 If you have little time, just read the short points of Doug Casey below.

 If you have more time, listen to the highly educated speech of Chalmers Johnson. It is a brilliant parallel of the Roman decline and ours.

 

Rapid Cultural Decline and What Comes Next

By Doug Casey

International Man: Nations in decline often experience cultural degeneracy. We saw that in the Roman Empire and Weimar Germany, for example.

Today, in the US, we see increasing signs of cultural degeneracy in Hollywood, advertisements, academia, science, corporations, politics, and other areas of life.

What is your take?

Doug Casey: There have been a number of major turning points throughout history. Rome in the third century was one of them. It was a period of economic, political, and military chaos, aggravated by the social chaos accompanying the rise of Christianity. These things set the stage for the complete collapse of the old civilization in the West with the barbarian invasions after Adrianople in 378.

The Renaissance changed the nature of life in Western Europe starting in the 15th century, as did the Enlightenment in the 18th century. And, most important, in many ways, the Industrial Revolution overturned the pre-existing economic order starting in the early 19th century.

Whenever the public was in a frenzy about something or other, my friend Herman Kahn (look him up) liked to quip, “There are only two important things that have happened since the dawn of history—and this isn’t one of them.” He was referring to the Agricultural Revolution around 5000 years ago and the Industrial Revolution. It’s good to keep things in perspective…

Of course, there have been plenty of bloody episodes, great discoveries, and breathtaking inventions along the way. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, WW I, WW II, the collapse of the USSR, and the rise of China are among them. But in the great sweep of history, they’re really just footnotes. It bears emphasis, though, that almost everything of any importance that has happened in the last 500 years has been about or because of Western Civilization.

They all had various effects, but none of them really attacked the basis of Western civilization itself. Psychopaths like Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were, even in their heydays, really just jackals barking at a lion.

But then things started changing in the 1960s. The 60s were fun at the time, but from a cultural viewpoint, they turned out to be an overture to the collapse of Western Civ. You may recall the motto of many college students at demonstrations was, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has to go.”

They were yahoos, of course, but it’s actually happening now, 60 years later. Thomas Cole’s superb series of five paintings, “The Course of Empire,” done about 200 years ago, says it all.

The thing to remember is that Western civilization is built on a certain set of values and virtues that have given the world something unique in history. Before the rise of Western Civ, people everywhere in the world survived by piling sticks and stones on top of one another and grubbing for roots and berries, freezing in the winter and starving in the spring, expecting an early and likely violent death.

Western Civ changed the very nature of life. It is, in fact, the only civilization worth talking about. China may have given the world Taoism, martial arts, and General Tso’s Chicken. India developed yoga, and curries are tasty. But on the whole, Ayn Rand was right when she said East minus West equals zero.

We’re now undergoing our own Great Cultural Revolution. It’s much more serious than what the Chinese attempted in the ’60s. Why? Because a whole complex of destructive ideas have now captured the apparatus of most governments, academia, media, entertainment, charities, and large corporations. The public has been both subtlety and overtly indoctrinated for generations. It’s not easy to reverse a trend this large.

But maybe you think I’m being too inflammatory. Perhaps you don’t believe Western civilization in general, and the idea of America in particular, are dying.

Fair enough. Let me give you the dozen things that made Western Civilization and America not only unique but vastly better than any other country or civilization in history. I’ve listed 12 concepts. These things are the essence of Western Civ—and are unique to it. Ask yourself if attitudes towards them haven’t changed radically in recent years. Ask yourself if the trend towards collapse of the West hasn’t accelerated since then.

1. Free thought has been replaced by Political Correctness, and it’s discouraged. We’re approaching the stage of Orwellian thought crime.
2. Free speech is subject to cancel culture at universities, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and society in general. In totalitarian societies, free speech is cause for imprisonment or worse. We’re headed in that direction.
3. Free markets mean the freedom to act. They’re gone as an ideal, replaced by socialism as a goal. Regulation is now considered essential by most people.
4. Limited government has been replaced by State control of almost everything.
5. Individualism is seen as bad, or at least antisocial. Identity politics is preferred. You’re not an individual so much as a member of a race or a party.
6. Rationality is white and therefore racist. Science, logic, and fact are replaced by superstition. Group think is the new secular religion.
7. Liberty is seen as a danger. Snowflakes need shelter in safe spaces for fear of being triggered.
8. The concept of Progress is dangerous because it leads to inequality, and no one should be left behind.
9. Privacy has been replaced by Transparency. God forbid you might have a secret. Everything is monitored. The Chinese Social Credit system is becoming a model.
10. Property Rights—Fuhgedaboudit. You’ll own nothing and better be happy. On the bright side, your masters may give you food, housing, education, meds, and a Guaranteed Annual Income—if you’re obedient.
11. The classic Rule of Law is gone, replaced by thousands of micro rules. Everything that’s not obligatory is forbidden.
12. Industry & enterprise are evil since they lead to “greed,” inequality, and using the planet’s resources.

Statists and collectivists have largely succeeded in corrupting the public’s attitudes towards the twelve things which made the West unique. The trend is accelerating, and trends tend to stay in motion until they reach a crisis. Once they reach a crisis—it’s called a revolution in the case of a country, or a collapse in the case of a civilization—things usually get even worse, at least for a while.

There’s much more to be said about the 12 attitudes and institutions that I’ve listed. But it’s not just a matter of academic or philosophic interest because when these foundations of civilization disappear, the good things they brought us will also wash away. They’re essential to everything—art, music, literature, science, and technology. They’re the basis of our high standard of living.

Other civilizations, like the Japanese and Chinese, have based their progress on adopting these Western attitudes and principles. But just as they’ve been accused of copying machines and technologies, it’s arguable they’ve only mimicked some of these values. Africa, most of Asia, and the Third World generally haven’t even done that. I doubt these 12 things are in the cultural DNA anywhere outside of the West—and they’re being deleted from the West.

If you’re looking for a template of what could happen in the US and all over the world in this coming decade, you might look at some news articles on Sri Lanka.

My guess is that for years to come, we’re going to see a serious devolution of civilization everywhere. The world has become top-heavy with the fruits of civilization. Hundreds of millions rely on those fruits, with no clue about how they came about. Meanwhile, the roots of the tree that produced them are rotting.

As a result, we could be looking at not just a historic financial meltdown, accompanied by a really serious economic upheaval, with wars and serious shortages. But an overthrow of traditional cultural norms, social chaos, and political totalitarianism. Of course, mankind has survived all that for at least five millennia so far. And I suppose we’ll handle this as well. There will just be more unpleasantness and inconveniences than usual in the decade to come….

THE BIG EV LIE (Video)

  Almost everything nowadays is based on belief, not reality. 

  Most people are ignorant and follow trends. 

  The truth is out there but no one cares.  

  Here's a good video to get things straight. Simple and clear.

 

 

He's EXPOSING the truth in Ukraine, and they don't like it (Video > 1h)

  If like me you are interested to understand what is true and what is not, here's a great source on YouTube: "Redacted"

 This interview of Larry Johnson is long but well worth the time!

 

China's top 5 Deadly Sins (Video - 10')

 The painful truth about China...

New study links COVID vaccines to 25% increase in cardiac arrest for both males & females

 Eventually the truth will emerge. But by then it will be too late, the world will have moved to something else...

  This is the real power of the Internet. You can monitor and manage public perception of events and proactively push in a different direction. 

Via Israel National News

Study based on data from emergency services. COVID infection itself not linked to significant increase in cardiovascular complications.

A new study by Israeli researchers and published in Nature has revealed an increase of over 25 percent in cardiovascular-related emergency calls in the young-adult population, following the rollout of COVID vaccines, among both males and females. No similar increase was found due to COVID infection alone.

Israel health authorities and the U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC) have acknowledged a link between COVID vaccines and specific cardiovascular complications. The risk of myocarditis after receiving a second vaccine dose is now estimated to be between 1 in 3000 to 1 in 6000 in men aged 16 to 24.

Recent articles in scientific journals, however, have sought to suggest that cardiovascular complications following COVID infection are more common than those following vaccination. This assertion is contradicted by the findings from a recent study conducted by Israeli researchers, using data from Israel National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) related to “cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome EMS calls in the 16–39-year-old population” between 2019 and 2021. This enabled them to compare baseline (pre-COVID epidemic) to COVID epidemic without vaccines, to COVID epidemic following widespread vaccine takeup.

An increase of over 25% was detected in both call types during January–May 2021, compared with the years 2019–2020. That is to say, “increased rates of vaccination … are associated with increased number of CA [cardiac arrest] and ACS [acute coronary syndrome].” By contrast, the trial “did not detect a statistically significant association between the COVID-19 infection rates and the CA and ACS weekly call counts.”

While the dangers of myocarditis for young males have gained widespread attention, this study found a larger increase in CA and ACS events among females that was linked to COVID vaccination.

Myocarditis is known to be a “major cause of sudden, unexpected deaths in adults less than 40 years of age and is assessed to be responsible for 12–20% of these deaths,” the study’s authors note. They add that their findings have been mirrored by researchers in Germany and Scotland.

They caution that given these findings, “It is essential to raise awareness among patients and clinicians with respect to related symptoms (e.g., chest discomfort and shortness of breath) following vaccination or COVID-19 infection to ensure that potential harm is minimized.”