SCORTCHED EARTH: Charles Koch Should Have Been on the Presidential Debate Stage – Not Donald Trump

Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…Koch’s influence machine is multi-faceted and complex and I am just telling you, in a very honest way, there is a huge difference between the marketing materials produced by Americans for Prosperity and the actual behind-the-scenes political philosophy. There’ a huge difference. And here’s the actual political philosophy: “Government is bad. Public education must…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Pandora’s Box’, Fed’s Digital Currency Will Ignite An “Inflationary Conflagration”

Source – zerohedge.com “…Campbell correctly concludes, “with a flick of the digital switch, CBDCs can enable policymakers to meet, or cave in to, those demands – at the risk of igniting an inflation conflagration, abandoning what little still survives of sovereign fiscal discipline and who knows what else…Translation: buy gold. Lots of it” DoubleLine: The Pandora’s Box Of…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Economy-Crushing COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 100,000 US Deaths, New CDC Guidance Suggests

Source – zerohedge.com “…Unsurprisingly, the greatest number of excess deaths was recorded among the elderly population, which saw an additional 95,000 people between the ages of 75 to 84 pass away this year. That’s 21.5% larger than in a normal year. But the biggest increase, up 26.5%, was in people ages 25 to 44” Economy-Crushing COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed…

SECRET SOCIETIES: John R. Hall Out’s The ‘Davos Despots’

Source – henrymakow.com – “…We all need to face the fact that we’re under attack by our own government.  Don’t cry about it, Democrats!  And, yes, it’s true Republicans!  Your beloved party leaders are ALL cooperating with the WHO and various United Nations organizations in implementing the Great Global Reset agenda of the Davos Despots”…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Social Engineers’, Catherine Austin Fitts on Klaus Schwab’s ‘Great Reset’

Source – home.solari.com – “….Professor Klaus Schwab founded and runs the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland…The Forum has made a significant effort during 2020 to market the central bankers’ global reset to a non-financial audience” Book Review: Covid-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret “In Russia we only had two TV…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Reaching for Guns & Money – By Vijay Prashad

Source – consortiumnews.com – “…The resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone are estimated to be worth at least $24 trillion; meanwhile, despite Congo having half of Africa’s water resources and forests, 51 million of the country’s residents remain without access to potable water…. the debt-servicing payments for 2020-2021 would be between $2.7 trillion and…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘The Naked Emperor’ Shut Up, Man! – By David Stockman

Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – “… the Donald won because the Establishment and its leading institutions…Have morphed into an arrogant, elitist, hypocritical, self-perpetuating ruling class that is failing miserably. And at the center of those great pods of failure is the fraud-ridden institution – the nation’s un-elected, out-of-control central bank – that has enabled the entire…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘Slight of Hand’ How Bankers ‘Cook’ The Books

Source – nakedcapitalism.com – “…The processes through which bankers extract benefits from the safety net closely resemble those of embezzlement and the rewards bankers garner usually rise to the level of grand larceny. The difference between street crime and safety-net abuse lies mainly in the class and clout of the criminal and the subtlety of…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Climate & The Money Trail – By F. William Engdahl

Source – williamengdahl.com – “…The very mega-corporations and mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy over recent decades, whose pursuit of shareholder value and cost reduction who have wreaked so much damage to our environment…are the leading backers of the “grass roots” decarbonization movement from Sweden to Germany to the USA and beyond. Is…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Slavers & Privateers’, Racism is Profitable – By Robert Reich

Source – robertreich.org – “…This cycle plays out in every aspect of our economy and is particularly apparent in mass incarceration.The criminalization of people of color is a multibillion-dollar industry: In 2017 alone, mass incarceration cost $182 billion; trapping mostly low-income Black and Latinx people in a cycle of economic and political disenfranchisement. If we follow…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Commodity Markets Look Like a Complete Con Game – By Chris Powell 

Source – silverdoctors.com – “…The surreptitious rigging of the commodity markets long has been a government operation and is considered a matter of national security, a primary support of the dollar’s role as world reserve currency” Commodity Markets Look Like a Complete Con Game – By Chris Powell  Robert Kientz, proprietor of GoldSilverPros.com, last week gave…

DAS KAPITAL: Michael Hudson – ‘The U.S. is Saving the Financial Sector, Not the Economy…’

Source – michael-hudson.com – “…It often is easier to get rich in such times of disaster and need than in times of normal prosperity. While the U.S. economy polarizes between creditors and debtors, the stock market anticipates fortunes being made quickly from the insolvency of business with assets and property to be grabbed. Coupled with…

AMERIKA: ‘Divide & Conquer’, BLM’s War on the Deplorables – By Mike Whitney 

Source – unz.com – “…They need a flashy social justice organization (BLM) to divert attention from widening inequality, spiraling unemployment, ballooning poverty, shrinking growth, and the savage restructuring of the economy that is creating a permanent underclass forced to scrape by at food banks, homeless shelters and tent cities that are sprouting up across the…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘The Great Global Reset’, Hyperinflation, Fascism & War

Source – thesaker.is – “… I have mentioned that the Bank of England-led “solution” to this oncoming financial blowout of the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives bubble is being pushed under the cover of a “Great Global Reset” which is an ugly and desperate effort to use COVID-19 as a cover for the imposition of a new post-covid world…

HIGH CRIMES: Massive FinCEN Leak Exposes How Biggest Western Banks Finance Drug Cartels, Terrorists & Mobsters

Source – zerohedge.com – “…The “FinCEN Files”, as Buzzfeed calls them, offer “a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity.” A lengthy investigation by Buzzfeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – the same group that handled the Mossack Fonseca leaks – Instead of combating financial crime, the current system of requiring banks to report all suspicious…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: The Four D’s That Define the Future – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…I use the word derealization to describe the inner disconnect between what we experience and what the propaganda / marketing complex we live in tells us we should be experiencing….The current state of the economy is a good example. We see the real-world economy declining yet the officially approved narrative is that…

AMERIKA: Dimitry Orlov on Why the Collapse of America is Inevitable

Source – cluborlov.blogspot.com – “…The collapse started before the coronavirus. The collapse  really started unfolding as early as 2008, and all of the methods used  to recover from the financial collapse of 2008 have been failures.  They have been efforts to delay, rather than recover….None of the problems have been solved, and so in  2019…

CORPRO-FASCISM: Engineering War, The US Used to Make Bullets to Fight Wars – Now They Make Wars to Sell Bullets

Source – whatreallyhappened.com  – The US has been at war some 222 years of its 239 year existence, which is 93% of the time. We have the most powerful military in the world, bigger and more powerful than the next 14 countries combined, most of which are our allies. (Graph): Wars are created as a…

DEEP GREEN: ‘The Resource Curse’, Why Countries That Have So Much, Often Have So Little – By Matt Timms

Source  – theneweconomy.com – “…From 1990 to the early 2000s, Uganda was making steady progress, but its economic backslide and rising levels of corruption began in 2007, coinciding with oil discoveries. Following in the footsteps of Nigeria, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda is the latest nation to suffer the effects of the…

KILL THE MESSENGER: 40 Years Ago, This Chilean Exile Warned Us About the Shock Doctrine, Then He Was Assassinated – By Naomi Klein (Flashback)

Source – thenation.com – “… He argued that the junta wasn’t pursuing two separate, easily compartmentalized projects—one a visionary experiment in economic transformation, the other a grisly system of torture and terror. There was, in fact, only one project, in which terror was the central tool of the free-market transformation. “Repression for the majorities and…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘America’s Corporate Monopoly’, These Three Firms Own Corporate America

Source – theconversation.com – “…Together, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have nearly US$11 trillion in assets under management. That’s more than all sovereign wealth funds combined and over three times the global hedge fund industry….the Big Three, taken together, have become the largest shareholder in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States”…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘How We Got Here’, The Global Economy’s 75-Year Stumble to the Precipice

Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com – “…Rather than face that reality, central banks and policy-makers double-downed on the same policies that created the 2008 bubble that was destined to pop with horrific consequences to everyone who had a stake in any of the casino’s games. We now come to the 2010s, in which financialization and globalization essentially conquered…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Consumed’, How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizen’s Whole – By Benjamin R. Barber

Source – pbs.org – “…In place of the the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism” encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood” we are constantly being seduced into an “infantilist” ethic of consumption” ‘Consumed’, How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizen’s Whole…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Where Is This All Going?’, The Evolution Of Fiat Money (Part 3)

Source – theburningplatform.com – “… The endless-endless wars will eventually bankrupt all nations and as they are beholden to their privately owned central banks for their operating funds, these banks can either withhold the issuance of credit or raise interest rates to unsustainable levels that trigger hyper-deflation, social instability, and total economic and national security…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: The Evolution Of Fiat Money, Endless War, & The End Of Citizenship (Part 2)

Source – theburningplatform.com – “…Rather than cultivate acceptance of a new religious zealotry in support of endless-endless war, the creditor / political class instead formulated a temporary phase of debt based material “success” and exhalation of hedonism…While America partied like it was 1999, the US military machine was greatly expanded during “peacetime” and prosecuted multiple…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘Killing the Host’, Michael Hudson on ‘The Road to Neo-Feudalism’

Source – ellenbrown.com – “…For 95 percent of the population, the economy stopped growing in 2008, when Obama bailed out the banks and left all the bad debts in place. Since 2008, all the growth of GDP – all the increase in national income – has accrued just to the wealthiest five percent of the…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Follow the Money’, Who Profits from the Beirut Blast? – By Pepe Escobar

Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…Head straight into Belt and Road as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Go East, the Eurasian way. The port and even a great deal of the devastated city, in the medium term, can be quickly and professionally rebuilt by Chinese investment. The Chinese are specialists in port construction and management. This…