Month: June 2024

WHY GOVERNMENTS BORROW MONEY; QE – Japan World Champion in Government “Debt” – Govt “Debt” to GDP Ratios A False Formula – The USSR Versus China – A Comparison of Communist Systems – [06-04-24]

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BOOM opens this week with a lesson about government taxes and why they borrow money.  The confusion springs from a misunderstanding of language. Three words are the cause: debt, borrow, and print. Most people assume that they understand these words. The fact is that Federal Governments do not borrow money (generally, in most circumstances), and in advanced economies, they print only 2% of the money supply (as notes and coins).

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BOOM EDITORIAL THIS WEEK

WHY DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RAISE TAXES WHEN IT CAN PRINT MONEY?  These questions confuse just about everyone who is not involved in the world of high finance. They are all over the internet at present, causing great consternation.

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US government will ban Americans from air travel effective May 2025 unless they have federalized ‘Real ID’ driver’s license

The long-awaited deadline is finally approaching on May 7, 2025, and it will disqualify many from boarding commercial airplanes, whether domestic or international flights.

Guest post by Leo Hohmann

The globalists are moving quickly to crush our freedom of movement, and the US government is all in.

The freedom-crushing policies come under many false pretenses. They come under the guise of national security, protecting the planet from so-called climate change, and protecting us from public-health emergencies.

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America’s Biggest Asset Class Is in Terrible Shape

From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group

According to one index, U.S. consumers are suffering through historically bad home buying conditions.

This fact was recently summarized in a somber post by Kobeissi Letter on X:

A chart prepared by the University of Michigan illustrated the historically-low home buying conditions that Kobeissi described:

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“Oppression Olympics”: ‘Queers For Palestine’ Protestors Interrupt, Clash With Pride Parade In Streets Of Philadelphia

Via ZeroHedge

What does it look like when the woke snake starts eating its own tail? This weekend in Philadelphia may have offered up a glimpse..

Pro-Palestine protestors clashed with a Pride Parade in the city’s “Gayborhood” area on Sunday. And to think, it’s only 3 days into “Pride Month”.

In a video shared online, Pride participants in leather and lace were stopped by pro-Palestinian LGBTQ+ members, some wearing keffiyehs, who disrupted the parade to confront fellow community members, as the Daily Mail detailed.

The protest, led by Queers4Palestine, highlighted the perceived parallels between Palestinian oppression and historical prejudice against LGBTQ+ people.

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Follow the money

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

If campaign donations are any guide, the felony conviction of Donald Trump for misclassifying internal accounting records (!) has energized Republicans far more than Democrats.

(Note: I know many of you want me to weigh in on Monday’s Congressional testimony of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci; I want to think through what we’re seeing and put it in context of the documents that have come recently out before I do. Meanwhile…)

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Thursday’s felony verdict in Manhattan against Donald Trump has led to a massive wave of campaign donations for Trump that may reshape the 2024 Presidential election if it continues.

Between Thursday and Sunday, Trump received $70 million from small individual donors, as well as an additional $130 million in pledges from larger donors, his son Eric said on Fox News on Sunday.

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The Trump Trial and our Injustice System

Guest Post by Ron Paul

I’ve long criticized our current US justice system – on all levels – as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns.

The New York District Attorney, Soros-backed Alvin Bragg, has been notorious for downgrading felony charges against others to misdemeanor charges. According to a recent article in the Daily Mail, Bragg had downgraded 60 percent of felony cases to lesser charges, resulting in violent criminals being released on the streets and a crime wave across New York City.

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Obeisance to the “Greater Good”

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas

Most people in the West are familiar with the biblical story of Moses. In this tale, a spiritual leader, chosen by God, leads his people out of Egypt to the promised land.

The Israelites are saved. God provides Moses with a list of commandments that they are to live by – pretty basic stuff: Don’t kill people, don’t steal or lie, don’t cheat on your spouse, etc.

But interestingly, the second commandment exhorts the Israelites not to create false gods, nor to bow down to nor serve them.

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The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government

Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone

It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.

The wars are not designed to serve the interests of the United States, the United States is designed to serve the interests of the wars. The US as a country is just a source of funding, personnel, resources and diplomatic cover for a nonstop campaign to dominate the planet with mass military violence and the threat thereof.

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I’LL TAKE PUTIN FOR $500

The pathetic woke military personnel of the diversity engulfed EU countries total approximately the size of the Russian military. One issue for these EU countries. The Russian military is a bloodied, bold, vicious, and methodical killing machine. These EU militaries are led by women, tannies, and effeminate men. How are they going to fight in their high heels and rainbow uniforms?

These so called soldiers of the EU are in sickbay with hang nails, sprained ankles, heavy periods, and herpes infections. It’s hilarious watching Macron and the female politicians bloviating about confronting Putin and breaking up Russian into smaller states. If they are stupid enough to strike deep into Russia, they are going to get a hypersonic missile up their asses.

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Which Movie Will It Be?

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“It’s almost as if the principals (prosecutors and judge) were performing for their political audience — with a wink, a nod and a stage whisper (“watch this!”) as they ignore yet another fundamental element of American due process.” — Jack DeVine on “X”

The ninnies of Bidenworld seem to not understand that by subjecting Mr. Trump to a kangaroo court they’ve made him the kind of outlaw that Americans revere above every other archetypal hero. He’s the new American Robin Hood, the people’s outlaw — with “Joe Biden” relegated as the wicked Sir Guy of Gisbourne, master of foul play and servant of the evil regent Prince John (Barack Obama). The galvanizing moment in this melodrama was not the verdict in Judge Juan Merchan’s kangaroo corral of a court, but the next day in the White House when “Joe Biden” was asked to comment on it as he shuffled away from the podium, halted, turned, and smirked silently at the cameras, a gesture that is sure to live in infamy.

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Rand Paul Warns Of “War In The Streets” Coming From Trump Verdict

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,news,

GOP Senator Rand Paul has warned that the fallout of the weaponisation of the justice system against Donald Trump could lead to “war in the streets.”

Appearing on Fox Business, Paul was asked “What is your reaction to the conviction?”

The Senator responded that it is “a sad day in America,” adding “what I worry about is something even bigger than Donald Trump.”

“I worry about strife. I worry about war in the streets. I worry about 50 percent of the public believing that the court system will be used against them,” Paul further urged.

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AMERICA’S COLOR REVOLUTION — Brought To You By The U.S. Intelligence Community & Coming To A City Near You

Via State of the Nation

Who doesn’t know that the C.I.A. has been pulling off color revolutions around the world practically since it was established in 1947?

Well, it was only a matter of time before the very same subversive acts of outright sedition were used against the American people by the US Government.  And so they have been, especially since the false flag 9/11 terrorist attacks which were perpetrated by the Bush Administration, U.S. Intelligence Community, U.S. Armed Forces, and various other organs of the U.S. Federal Government including the CIA’s Mockingbird Media.

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Trump and ‘our democracy’: What happens when a political system becomes a meme?

Guest Post by Henry Johnston

It is a sign of deep crisis that the concept of democracy has devolved into an ideologically tinged narrative that is defended with empty and exaggerated rhetoric

The verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money trial has bestirred the usual characters in all the predictable ways. And never far from anybody’s lips is the word ‘democracy’.

“Donald Trump is threatening our democracy,” President Joe Biden himself opined, calling the ex-president’s questioning of the verdict “dangerous.“ The editorial board of the New York Times lauded the “remarkable display of the democratic principles” on display in convicting a former president, arguing that this proves that even men as powerful as Trump are not above the law.

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