Source – mises.org “…With 22 million people and no major resources or commodities featuring in its top exports, it is no wonder Sri Lankans are hungry, anxious, furious, and out on the streets marching toward Gotabaya’s home. That the primary export of the country is tea and the primary import refined petroleum indicates the gravity…
Source – resilience.org “…George Monbiot argues that “the very wealthy, almost as a matter of definition, are committing ecocide.” One paper mapped out the impacts of superyachts, superhomes, luxury cars, and private jets—status symbols of the 1% (or necessities, perhaps, from their perspective)—and it wasn’t pretty. Private jets, for example, produced 56 million tons of CO2 in 2014,…
Source – internationalman.com “…It is only a matter of time before Kiev surrenders to the Russians, with or without their clown-car president signing the armistice. But that deal will be so onerous from Washington’s perspective that it will not mark the end of the sanctions war, but will be an excuse for its actual intensification…
Source – commondreams.org “…The IMF estimated that global fossil-fuel subsidies in 2020 totaled $5.9 trillion…Only those who previously swallowed Western governments’ insincere green rhetoric, rather than examining the reality, should be surprised by this turn of events. These governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhorted much poorer countries to…
Source – internationalman.com “…It’s absolutely true: the price of money—of capital—is the most important of all prices….Interest rates are controlled by a politburo of central planners at the Federal Reserve, not set by the market like any other price. It’s strange that so many people thoughtlessly accept this as “normal. In reality, the Fed is…
Source – mercola.com “…Mercola hit the nail squarely on the head: “Technocracy is the proverbial operating system for the “superclass,” a centralized global elite that is working toward securing the exclusive ownership of all the world’s assets, reducing the rest of us to indebted serfs.” This self-appointed “superclass” of Technocrats must be removed from all…
Source – taibbi.substack.com “…For years now, Musk and Bezos have provided ample material for America’s fading late-night TV comedy scene with their private space-dong race. When glimpses of Musk’s “Big Fucking Rocket” (BFR) space-tourism vehicle reached the public, Twitter exploded with cheering comments from Musk fans like “It looks like a dick with fins!” and “Chief, that…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…As thousands of businesses were forced to close in the U.S. as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in March of 2020, and millions of Americans were financially struggling, the Federal Reserve was pumping what would become a cumulative $3.84 trillion in secret repo loans into the U.S. trading unit of the…
Source – zerohedge.com “…The key difference between the CPI and the Truflation index is that while the government uses survey data to measure inflation, Truflation looks at price data…So where does that leave us… what is the “real” inflation rate? The Truflation Dashboard – which runs on Chainlink and is therefore accessible and visible for everyone…
Source – medium.com “…They keep telling us to “trust the science.” But who paid for it?…When you’ve got 1,500 Big Pharma lobbyists on Capitol Hill for 535 members of Congress, it’s not too hard to figure out why prescription drug prices in this country are, on average, 256% HIGHER than in other major countries” SM:….“When…
Source – oftwominds.com “…Research in the mid-1970s…identified a strong correlation between the relative size of the cohort of young males and the likelihood of war. If the cohort was above a specific percentage of the total population, war was likely. One example was Germany in the 1930, which had a large cohort of young males…
Source – economicprism.com “…The digital dollar is coming, and it’s coming quick…Digital dollars would be traceable and programmable. The Federal Reserve, or some other government agency, would have the ability to create digital dollars at whim. Moreover, the digital dollars could be programmed to have various rules and restrictions governing how and when they are…
Source – alt-market.us “…Think of the crash of 2008 as Stage 1 of the Reset agenda…central banks had dumped tens of trillions of dollars worth of stimulus into the system just to keep it on life support. Some of us in the alternative media believed that these actions were not meant to save the economy,…
Source – zerohedge.com “…Soltan is sticking to his guns about this being a paradigm shifting moment for finance.…Central banks are good at curbing demand, not at conjuring supply. Energy and commodities are needed for virtually everything, Russia exports everything, and unlike 1973, it’s not just the price of oil, but the price of everything that…
Source – economicprism.com “…The U.S. economy has entered the death zone…where higher and higher interest rates will be needed for years to come to counter raging consumer price inflation. The credit market reversal has only just begun. Conversely, debt driven financial assets like bonds and houses will deflate. And home equity will be ravaged in…
Source – armstrongeconomics.com “…Our model has ALWAYS picked up the shifts in capital flows that precede war. This time we are witnessing outflows not just from China, but also from ALL emerging markets on a scale that is simply unprecedented. The timing of outflows is clearly linked to Biden’s unprecedented sanctions against the Russian people – not…
Source – nakedcapitalism.com “…CBDCs will likely be tied to personal accounts that include personal data, credit history and other forms of relevant information. Combining digital currencies with digital IDs while phasing out, or even banning, the use of cash would grant governments and central banks the ability not only to track every purchase we make…
Source – thesaker.is “…If you sanction a country, you force it to become more self-reliant and across the board, from agriculture to dairy products to technology, Russia is forced to become more self-reliant and at the same time to depend much more on trade with China for the things that it is still not self-reliant…
Source – mises.org “…Markets like Austin, TX and Phoenix, AZ could have the biggest hit from rising mortgage rates, as homebuyers in these markets are already totally priced out. Metros such as Boise, ID and Las Vegas, NV are also in the crosshairs of a Housing Crash, with homeowner costs already up 40-60% YoY” Hazlitt,…
Source – veteranstoday.com “…According to the 18-page federal indictment filed on Tuesday, the pair stole a “large sum” out of over $1 million in grants and donations to Violence in Boston……Cannon-Grant also lied to the IRS and state attorney general’s office, claiming she had received no salary from the nonprofit even as she was cashing into the…
Source – lewrockwell.com “…Lara Logan outlines her brutally honest perspective on why Ukraine is so important to people in power within the DC system. She explains that Ukraine is at the center of this cult of Globalists. It is the center of money-laundering for the oligarchs and their allies in the United States, it’s the…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com “…This is also why there is such a large number of “financializers” in executive positions. Their passion isn’t healthcare, it’s the access to the 20% of GDP the industry grants them. When the pandemic hit, how many CEOs did you see in working in the ER for an hour or so a…
Source – zerohedge.com “…There’s something seriously wrong — the world’s financial system is teetering on a knife’s edge,” NYT best-selling author Doug Casey warns me in my latest episode, where we explore real inflation readings and why Casey says you cannot trust the U.S. government’s official outputted figures…”[It’s] going to be one of the biggest disasters that’s…
Source – oftwominds.com “…Eventually the “flock of timid and industrious animals” changes their minds about how much exploitation by the few is acceptable. Every repressive move by centralized authorities will only harden the resolve of the serfs that the divine right of banks and billionaires is false and the exploitation of the many for the…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…The trillions of foreign debt owed by America was never intended to be repaid, just rolled over indefinitely….With every turn of the printing press the dollar further loses credibility and the asset value of their holdings diminishes further. Every country is looking for alternative ways of doing business that don’t involve the…
Source – conservativewoman.co.uk “…WALL Street executive Edward Dowd alleges the Covid crisis was manufactured to solve governments’ out of control debt crises. His 20 years’ experience with high-profile financial crashes alerted him to a potential underlying fraud being used to wipe the books clean” SM:…COVID came as if the great Messiah, to wash away all…
Source – zerohedge.com “…The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the corresponding Western sanctions and seizure of Russian FX reserves are nothing short of a monetary earthquake. The last comparable event was Nixon’s abandonment of the gold standard in 1971. Russia, with the backing and support of China, just told the world that it is no longer…
Source – goldswitzerland.com “…For years I have been clear that the world is reaching the end of an economic, financial and monetary era which will affect mankind catastrophically for decades. The world will obviously blame Putin for the catastrophe which will hit every corner of our planet..Neither Putin nor Covid is the reason for the economic…
Source – eurasiareview.com “…While Russian oligarchs (Russia’s richest 0.01 percent) have hidden an estimated $200 billion offshore (over half of their financial wealth), American oligarchs — America’s 765 billionaires — have hidden $1.2 trillion (about 4 percent of their wealth), mostly to avoid paying taxes on it” Robert Reich: What’s The Difference Between Russian And American Oligarchs? By Robert Reich We’re sanctioning Russian…
Source – goldmoney.com “…Until a few weeks ago, Putin hardly put a foot wrong with his geopolitical strategy. Like Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman in 1974, Putin let America tire itself out fighting in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Ali was then able to knock Foreman out with a flurry…
Source – thecradle.co “…The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide…the US itself, in another massive strategic blunder, will speed up de-dollarization. As the managing director of Bocom International Hong Hao told the Global Times, with energy trade…
Source – mercola.com “…Financial Surveillance Powers Will Be Permanently Expanded…Under the act, banks are empowered to seize the personal bank accounts of anyone suspected of participating in the protest, or supporting it with as little as a $25 donation. Disturbingly, the surveillance powers over financial transactions granted by the act are actually intended to become…
Source – internationalman.com “…Initially people thought they were getting a pound sterling, but as it turned out — because the old fart had his face emblazoned onto the coin — with his nose sticking out, it was his nose that gave him away. The silver coating specifically on his protruding nose scraped off when it…
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