Category: Politics

Obama Propaganda

Guest Post by John Stossel

Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them.

The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government.

As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda.

Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.”

I think he’s joking, but it’s not clear.

“I’m amazing at them,” Obama continues hours later. “You can be, too, if you use the helpful tools found at IRS.gov.”

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The Party’s Over!

Drunk emoji holding beerFed Chairman Powell tried to convince the public inflation was “transitory”. Eventually, he could no longer ignore reality. The Fed raised interest rates several times and vows to continue to do so, until inflation is stabilized at 2%.

As expected, mortgage rates are skyrocketing, the real estate market is tumbling, along with the stock and bond markets. The Party’s Over!

When asked about unemployment, Powell said:

“I think that there’s a very high likelihood that we’ll have a period of…much lower growth. …. And it could give rise to increases in unemployment, but I think…we need to have softer labor market conditions as well.

…. People really are suffering from inflation. And if we want to set ourselves up, really light the way to another period of a very strong labor market, we have got to get inflation behind us.

I wish there were a painless way to do that, there isn’t. …. What we need to do is get rates up to the point where we’re putting meaningful downward pressure on inflation, and that’s what we’re doing….”

He emphasized that it would be a mistake to reverse course too soon which would make things even worse. Whether he is willing to take the pressure Volcker did when he tamed inflation remains to be seen.

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Awesome Actual Diversity Among GOP Candidates Owns the Libs

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Liberal “diversity” is stupid and evil, and we should utterly reject it. It’s based on the origin of grandparents and other meaningless box-checks involving stuff like genitalia and genitalia preferences, and it has resulted in a grim uniformity in the kind of humorless pinko dorks who make up the Democrat candidate roster. What a bunch of stiffs, socialists, and schmucks. But the kind of diversity Republicans are demonstrating is something totally different. It has nothing to do with what continent their ancestors came from, what religion they adhere to, or even how they pee. It’s conservative diversity – nominating a broad range of exceptional people with unique skill sets leveraged for maximum effect. And we’re making it happen this election cycle.

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Forget Oil, The Real Crisis Is Diesel Inventories: The US Has Just 25 Days Left

Via ZeroHedge

For all the drama surrounding Biden’s latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve fiasco and his admin’s ridiculous idea to “stimulate” US energy producers to pump more oil because, you see, Biden promises to buy oil at some unknown point in the future (he may or may not, but right now he is certainly draining a million barrels of emergency US energy lifeblood just to buy a few midterm votes, assuring energy producers have zero incentive to produce more), the real crisis is not oil or gas, but diesel.

The problem is that as we repeatedly warned over the summer, even as others were transfixed by the moves in gas, see:

… the crisis gripping the US diesel market is getting out of hand, as demand is surging while supplies remain at the lowest seasonal level for this time of year ever, according to government data released Wednesday.

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A few updates about the NATO Crusade against Russia

Via The Saker

A few updates about the NATO Crusade against Russia

Intro: setting the current context

Before we take a look at some of the most interesting recent developments, I think that it is important to clearly state something which needs to be repeated almost constantly: what we are witnessing today is not a war between Russia and the Ukraine, but between Russia and the united, consolidated, West.  In practical terms this means that Russia is at war with the United States and NATO, the latter being no more than a docile, if ineffective, instrument for the latter.  Furthermore, since some NATO countries are now playing a crucial role in the war against Russia (UK, Sweden, Poland and the Ukraine, the latter being a de facto NATO member), I submit that the best and simplest way to describe this was is to say that it is a NATO Crusade against Russia.

As for Banderastan, it is already a full NATO member state with about the same rights as all the other NATO members states besides the US: none.  Right now, the so-called “Ukrainian forces” are already composed of anywhere between 40% to 80% composed of foreign fighters (depending on the importance of the location) and include plenty of actual NATO personnel.  By the way, most of the ex-Soviet kit held by former WTO members has been destroyed by Russia, which poses a very thorny problem to NATO: they cannot ship more Soviet kit to Banderastan, and if they ship their own, they will not only lose it forever but the general public (or, at least, those who need to know) will know that western weapons systems are anything but a Wunderwaffe: some is very good, some okay, most of it is useless against a modern adversary.  Remember the “awesome” Bayraktars?  Where are they now?  The same goes for all the other Wunderwaffen of course…

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On the simmering fury in the blue states

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

The lockdowns failed, the vaccines (at best) fell far short, and everyone knows the truth; now the CDC just may be dumb enough to provoke parents AGAIN by putting mRNA shots on the childhood schedule.

Oregon and New York are among the bluest of the blue; they were supposed to be cakewalks for their Democratic governors this year.

Yet New York is close, and Oregon a tossup, thanks in part to a centrist third-party candidate – even as the prospect of a true national red wave has faded since May, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

(Look at those eyes. She’s not crazeeee at all!)

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CDC outside committee (ACIP) unanimously votes to add the COVID mRNA shots to the VFC program

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

Vote was 15-0. It’s an EUA vaccine that is not commercially available. They voted to add it to the Vaccines For Children schedule. This is NOT the childhood vaccine schedule. That may happen tomorrow.

Here’s a link to the video:

CDC outside committee votes 15-0 to approve the COVID vaccines for the VFC program.

More about the VFC program.

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Biden Has Ensured the Fall of the USA

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

The goal of energy independence was achieved under Trump. Now, under Biden, he had depleted the oil reserves all to save the Democrats from their own policies of ending fossil fuels. Worse still, the Biden Administration has now opened the door to the decline and fall of the United States for another oil embargo would be devastating to the US economy and the people are totally unaware of how vulnerable their livelihood now stands thanks to the Democrats.

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Multipolar World Order – Part 3

Authored by Iain Davis via Off-Guardian.org,

In Part 1, we considered the forces shaping the world order and the attempts to impose various models of global governance upon it. In Part 2, we discussed the progress of the global power shift from West to East and asked why so many stalwarts of the so-called “unipolar world order” have not only accepted the inevitability of that power shift but have apparently assisted it.

Ostensibly, the multipolar version of the world order is a departure from the unipolar model in the sense that it will—supposedly—genuinely observe international law and share power among a broader coalition of nation-states. As a result, it will introduce—supposedly—functioning multilateralism into global governance, arguably for the first time. To some, this multipolar model sounds preferable to the current, international rules-based unipolar model.

Yet, when we look at the statements of the touted leaders of the new multipolar world order, their objectives seem indistinguishable from those of their unipolar counterparts…

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Fast-Food Shrinks Your Brain

Via Mercola

processed fast food shrinks brain

Story at-a-glance

  • People today are consuming about 650 kilocalories more daily than they were in the 1970s, an amount equivalent to a fast-food meal consisting of a burger, fries and soft drink
  • Poor diet and lack of activity may lead to normal but elevated blood glucose levels, even in people without Type 2 diabetes, contributing to neurodegenerative processes
  • “High normal” blood sugar levels may progress to impaired fasting glucose and, eventually, Type 2 diabetes; impaired glucose metabolism is then associated with neurodegeneration that impairs cognitive function
  • The authors of the featured study suggested that you may begin to lose neurons and neuron function early in life if you eat poorly, and such changes may be difficult, if not impossible, to counteract once the damage is done; the sooner you start focusing your diet on whole, unprocessed foods, the better

Eating fast food — the epitome of highly processed “fake” foods — can have lasting ramifications on your brain health, so much so that researchers at Australian National University suggested you can cause “irreversible” damage by the time you reach middle age, just by eating a fast-food diet and not staying active.1

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Are Gold and Silver Money?

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke answers no.

And so do America’s youth.  Awhile back I posted videos of a podcaster who would offer Americans a one-ounce gold coin worth approximately $1,800 for one piece of chewing gum, only to be refused.  The youth, who pay with credit cards, not with cash, think money is digital. Consequently a bitcoin is worth many times the value of a gold coin despite the fact that a bitcoin’s value is nebulous and can decline thousands of dollars in a day.

And, apparently, gold and silver are not money for people worried about inflation that is allegedly so serious that the Federal Reserve is engineering a recession and pension fund and Big Bank wipeout to stop.

With inflation high and financial investments paying so little, why haven’t people sought to protect their purchasing power by going into gold and silver?  Gold and silver prices have fallen while inflation has risen. This is nonsensical.

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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Lockdowns and the Aftermath

Guest Post by David Stockman

During the past three years, Washington has made three catastrophic errors.

These include:

  • The draconian one-size-fits-all Lockdowns in response to the Covid;
  • The insane $11 trillion bacchanalia of monetary and fiscal stimulus payment designed to counter the supply-side shutdowns caused by the Virus Patrol;
  • The mindless Sanctions War on Russia, which has caused global commodity markets to erupt skyward.

The resulting economic and financial dislocations, both global and domestic, are unprecedented and could not have come in a worst context. Prolonged fiscal and monetary excesses prior to February 2020 were already destined to generate an era of reckoning, even before Washington jumped the shark after the Covid panic was ignited by Donald Trump in March 2020.

Consider the course of fiscal and monetary policy over 2003-2019. During that 17-year period, the public debt share of GDP soared from an already high 62% to 111%, and the Fed’s balance sheet exploded under the bailouts of 2008-2009 and QE thereafter from $725 billion to $4.2 trillion. The latter embodied a growth rate of 11.0% per annum over the period, nearly three times the 4.0% growth rate of nominal GDP.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Three members of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a Mississippi plane crash – 1977

Via History.com

40-Years-Ago Today: Lynyrd Skynyrd's Plane Crashes In Mississippi | WJCT News

In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band Aerosmith inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for their upcoming tour—a Convair 240 operated out of Addison, Texas. Concerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith to look elsewhere—a decision that saved one band but doomed another. The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date. On October 20, 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southwestern Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines as well as the band’s assistant road manager and the plane’s pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.

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