Month: June 2024

UK Requires Residents to Register Chickens – War on Farming

The Great Reset requires those in power to usurp our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. What better way to control the masses than to have complete control on their ability to survive. The World Economic Forum has proposed a ban on farming, a ban on gardening, and bans on any attempt to live off the land that already provides us with all we need as humans. Nations are slowly implementing laws to restrict our access to food. In the UK, anyone owning a chicken must register with government.

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Welcome to the Age of Abstraction

Guest Post by Sinead Murphy

The UK Metereological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record.

Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the UK during May have endured unseasonal cold and rain, and have complained to one another constantly about it.

Welcome to the age of abstraction, when lived experience is irrelevant and theoretical constructions carry the day – when what is deemed right and true is unmoored from what is actually happening here and now.

Over four years ago, Covid lockdowns staged a dramatic confiscation of present reality. The question is, did we ever get it back?

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The Coming Supercyclical Crisis

Guest Post by John Mauldin

You know I’m highly concerned about government debt in the developed world, particularly the US. I’ve said for years a crisis is coming. We’ve blown right past all our chances to avoid it. Now all we can do is imagine what the crisis will look like… and how much it will hurt.

This is necessarily speculative, and even more so because the details matter. It’s not just monetary policy that is “path dependent.” The coming crisis is also path dependent with a million ways to reach the same ugly place. And the actual details of the crisis are also unclear. Each step forward changes the available choices.

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ELECTION SPECIAL – Food Prices – Eskom Win – Mental Issues – Covid Africa – Chessboard – ZiG Zags – DEI – State Oppression – Bond Costs – WHO Tyranny – Felons – Letter from South Africa – [06-15-24]

“You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don’t have your health, you have nothing.” [Steven Adler]. Spoiler Alert – WHO on the rack.

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ELECTION SA – Most polls showed support for the ANC at about 45-8%. The stunning result of 40% is reverberating around the world and was predicted by only one survey in the run-up to the election. The ANC will have to form a coalition with a larger opposition party—or parties—which it won’t be able to push around

The Election is over, and the dust has settled to a degree, but what does it mean for the next five years of this new and very different government? South Africa stands on the brink of political transformation, the echoes of its colonial past reverberate through the streets.

Last month’s election marked a watershed moment, stirring fears and hopes alike. The ANC, a once-unifying force, now faces unprecedented challenges, as a handful of political leaders navigate a path towards a coalition for the first time since 1994. The nation’s fate hangs in the balance, with the “national question” of what the South African people truly want and need begins to resurface with renewed urgency.

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Eat More Pork Chops – A “Really Tasty Alternative” To Beeflation

Via Zero Hedge

Cash-strapped consumers are on the hunt for deals this summer. We highlighted in a note earlier Friday that Goldman analysts revealed that Walmart offers the best grocery deals among major brick-and-mortar supermarkets. Digging deeper, the discussion has now shifted to the meat aisle.

Consumers are well aware of soaring beef prices over the last several years, primarily due to the collapse of the US cattle herd to its smallest size since the 1950s.

Collapsing herd.

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Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released Despite FBI Resistance

Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics,

The 2023 Nashville Covenant School murders understandably received massive news coverage when they occurred. The fight over obtaining the murderer’s diary also received news attention. But when “nearly four dozen pages” of the murderer’s diary were finally released last week, the mainstream media completely ignored it. It turns out that behind the scenes, the FBI had fought hard against the diary’s release. Some Covenant School parents also opposed releasing the diary because it would force families to re-live the nightmare. The Tennessee Star’s parent company, Star News Digital Media, successfully filed two lawsuits to obtain the diary.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Battle of Petersburg begins – 1864

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Similarities With 2000 Are Growing at Alarming Pace Amid Unreal AI Expectations

I’m sure this time is different. The stock market will never crash again. Keep believing that.

Guest Post by Lance Roberts

More than a few individuals were active in the markets in 1999-2000, but many participants today were not. I remember looking at charts and writing about the craziness in markets as the fears of “Y2K” and the boom of “internet” filled media headlines. It was quite the dichotomy.

On one hand, it was feared that the turn of the century would “break the computer age,” as computers could not handle the date change to 2000. However, at the same moment, the internet would turbocharge the world with massive productivity increases.

Back then, the S&P 500, particularly the Nasdaq, rallied harder each day than the last. Market breadth looked pretty weak, as the big names were soaring, forcing indexers and ETFs to buy them to keep their weightings. The reinforcing positive feedback cycle fueled markets higher day after day.

I remember those days clearly. It was the “gold rush” of the 21st century for investors.

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There is an Upside

Guest Post by Eric Peters

As bad as things are, there is one good thing that has arguably come of it all. It is that probably half the country – and if we’re lucky, it’s more than that – no longer assumes the government is benevolent.

This is a very different thing than the previous assumption that the government is merely incompetent.

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Authorities Warn Of Con Artist Scamming Dementia Patients Out Of Billions Of Dollars

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S. — Authorities are warning that a con artist is currently on the loose and scamming elderly dementia patients out of billions of dollars. They are urging anyone who sees the suspect to call law enforcement immediately.

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Biden Claims the Violent Crime in Your Community is a Figment of Your Imagination (Hint: It’s Not)

Guest Post by amuse

President Biden and his willing accomplices in the mainstream media would have you believe that violent crime in America is at a 50-year low, a narrative eagerly parroted by so-called fact-checkers at Politifact. The reality, however, is far from what they claim. The only thing at a 50-year low is the integrity of violent crime data. Less than a year after taking office, Biden’s administration had the FBI dismantle the long-standing crime reporting system, replacing it in 2021 with a new, ‘woke’ system that is optional for state and local law enforcement agencies to use. As a result, at least 6,000 law enforcement agencies aren’t providing data, meaning that 25% of the country’s crime data is not captured by the FBI. This deliberate underreporting skews the statistics, painting a falsely optimistic picture of public safety while real Americans continue to suffer from rising crime rates.

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Your Vote Won’t Stop Higher Taxes, And Here’s Why

From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group

We already know that Bidenomics hasn’t helped American families in their economic struggles.

Persistent inflation and higher taxes have already taken their toll on family budgets.

Back in April 2023, the Department of Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith chimed in on the financial devastation that just one Biden term has imposed:

The Biden Administration’s $10 trillion spending spree sparked and fueled this crisis. Instead of focusing on helping workers, the Biden Administration pushes for 87,000 IRS agents to audit middle-class families and tax credits for the wealthy to buy electric vehicles. Those are not solutions that will bring American families – who have seen $10,000 stolen from their wallets – relief.

In terms of tax hikes, the United States Senate Committee on Finance added their comment in March 2023:

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David Stockman on the Federal Reserve’s Inflation Confirmation Fallacy

Guest Post by David Stockman

The reason for the dangerously high growth rates of Fed credit is what might be termed the inflation confirmation fallacy. That is to say, once high inflation broke out for the first time in peacetime history, flummoxed mainstream economists soon embraced the notion that the central bank should midwife a gentle, gradualist cure by “accommodating” some significant part of the rising price level, lest a too stingy growth of Fed credit would cause real interest rates to soar and bring the economy to its knees.

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Putin Names Two Conditions For Ending The War ‘This Very Minute’

Via ZeroHedge

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Friday speech addressed the West’s efforts to host a major Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland this weekend. Though scores of world leaders will be there, Russia has not been invited, and China has snubbed the event citing that it’s pointless without Moscow’s representation given it is a party to one side of the war.

Putin outlined his “conditions” for peace. He said for the military operation to be halted Ukrainian forces would have to withdraw from the four regions annexed by the Russian Federation. “Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Luhansk People’s Republic, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions,” Putin said in a televised address.