51,000

TBP set a visitor record yesterday with 51,000 visitors. It seems Fourth Turning articles really draw a crowd. That means your comments are getting a much broader viewership. It seems TBP has made another leap to a new level. Up until November 4th the daily visitor count was about 23,000. This was up from 17,000 in the previous year and 13,000 in the year before that. Since November 4th the daily visitor count has surged to 36,000 per day.

Alexa is a service that ranks websites from around the world. TBP is now the 13,915 most popular site in the U.S. and 94,762 most popular site in the world. For some perspective, back in July TBP was around 60,000 in the U.S. and 180,000 in the world.

I think the election, TBP’s relentless search for the truth, great articles from contributors and great commentary from the regulars are the reason for the surge in visitors. Not bad for a half assed “fake news site”.

The previous all-time high in visitors for a month was 760,000. At the current pace we have a shot at 1,000,000 visitors in November. Let’s do this!!!!


The 4th Turning {lots of wild cards!}

Fear Porn: The 4th Turning

Lots of wild cards in the doom talk about the inevitable “4th Turning” that’s been discussed here.

While fantastic writers (and researchers) like Jim have put forth extremely compelling cases that the 4th Turning is GUARANTEED – Can you really “bank on it?” (like that phrase has lost it’s meaning since banks are now as fragile as a porcelain egg).

Even reliable and experienced folks like Hardscrabble Farmer seem to indicate that we’re all in for a rough time ahead. Honestly, that makes me uneasy as well – because I trust the words of such well-rounded individuals.

But the eternal optimist in me sees a ray of light somewhere in the distance… I do.

Previous 4th Turnings did not have NEARLY the technology OR awareness that today’s society has.

How do you think those “new ingredients” play into the old model of 4th Turnings?

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When It Comes to Fake News, the U.S. Government Is the Biggest Culprit

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg

Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we?

There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page and an active imagination.

Anyone with an ounce of sense and access to the Internet should be able to ferret out the truth and lies in these stories with some basic research. That these stories flourish is largely owing to the general gullibility, laziness and media illiteracy of the general public, which through its learned compliance rarely questions, challenges or confronts.

Then there’s the more devious kind of news stories circulated by one of the biggest propagators of fake news: the U.S. government.

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A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”

As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the play’s end, the Aaron Burr character, speaking for the cast and the producers, read a statement directed at Pence:

“(W)e are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values.”

In March, the casting call that went out for actors for roles in this musical celebration of “American values” read:

“Seeking NON-WHITE men and women.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle.

Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter.

Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning


A Time for Gratitude

A Time for Gratitude

 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
– Ecclesiastes

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After a long, dark, painful political season, it’s time for us to pull ourselves out of it and reset our attitudes about the world. And there are few better ways to do that than to spend a few moments feeling grateful.

All is not bitterness and pain upon Earth, and that’s something we need to remind ourselves, especially because we’re surrounded by manufactured, amplified, and repeatedly broadcast fears. (Fear is a profitable business tool these days.)

So, I want to make a list of things to be grateful about, transcending the fears that drag us downward. Here we go:

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Powerful M7.3 Earthquake Strikes Japan Off Fukushima, Tsunami Warning Issued

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by Tyler Durden
Nov 21, 2016 4:09 PM

A powerful earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale has struck Japan, 156 miles from Tokyo, off the coast of ukushima, the site of the 2011 natural disaster and tsunami that resulted in the worst nuclear power plant disaster since Chernobyl.

Worst of all, a warning for a possible 3 meter Tsunami in Fukushima has been issued according to media reports.

  • JAPAN ISSUES WARNING FOR POSSIBLE 3M TSUNAMI IN FUKUSHIMA

The Tsunami is expected to hit Fukushima within minutes.

According to Japan broadcaster NHK, TEPCO has advised that it is checking for abnormalities at nuclear plant in Fukushima; the plant has stopped.

The quake headlines have sparked notable selling in USDJPY.


The Right Side of History

Guest Post by The Zman

When I was in Dublin, I had a lot of fun watching the BBC and SkyNews, mostly because they were still in shock over Brexit. It was as if they learned that the Loch Ness Monster was real. They just could not come to terms with the new reality. Every segment circled back to the vote and how it was the worst thing to happen since Dunkirk. They talked about Brexit in the same way people talk about life altering tragedies. At one point, someone even said, “I’ll never forget where I was the day I heard the news of Brexit.”

The interesting thing was that they were so sure that Brexit would be a disaster that they were starting to pretend that the disaster was happening, even though nothing had changed since the vote. At the time, the markets were up and the economic indicators were all pointing in the right direction. There was also the fact that the vote changed nothing. It will take years to implement Brexit, assuming it ever happens, which is unlikely. Still, the people on the Beeb were sure doom was at hand.

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Education System Broken: Let’s Try ‘Ed-Exit’

Guest Post by Ron Paul
undefinedMaryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and business from Maryland families when schools start in August. However, as Governor Hogan’s critics have pointed out, some Maryland school districts, as well as Maryland schoolchildren, benefit from an earlier start to the school year.

Governor Hogan’s executive order is the latest example of how centralized government control of education leaves many students behind. A centrally planned education system can no more meet the unique needs of every child than a centrally planned economic system can meet the unique needs of every worker and consumer.

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The “Fake News” Battle – Which News Is Real, And Which Is Fake?

Guest Post by Duane Norman

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There has been a back-and-forth going on for the past several days between traditional mainstream media and web-based news sites, with both sides accusing the other of being arbiters of “fake” news.  It has gone far enough to elicit comment from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, pledging to purge fake news from Facebook, and Twitter has recently begun a purge of “alt-right” accounts in its attempt to crack down on “hate speech”.  Though the back-and-forth has been going on for quite some time now, in the wake of Trump’s victory, the debate has made its way to the front pages of the news cycle in both the MSM and web-based media.  It is appropriate to provide some back story as to who has said what, before any analysis on which news sources to trust.

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The Great Con: Political Correctness Has Marginalized the Working Class

By Charles Hugh Smith

Via Of Two Minds

So when the protected class of well-paid institutional “progressives” speak darkly of “reversing 40 years of social progress,” what they’re really saying is we’re terrified that the bottom 95% might be waking up to our Great Con of identity politics and political correctness.
To understand the Great Con of political correctness, we must first grasp the decline of the working class (self-described as “the middle class”), i.e. those who must sell their labor to earn their livelihood.
Labor’s share of the national economy has been declining for 46 years:

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So where has the wealth that’s been generated ended up? In the hands of the .1%:

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What to Put In Your Blackout Box

Guest Post by Dan Sullivan from Survival Sullivan

The biggest reason everyone should prep has nothing to do with asteroids hitting the Earth or the possibility of World War 3. It’s all about being ready for small-scale disasters that are already happening every year in the US and other nations.

Blackouts are one such category. Due to the aging of the U.S. power grid, the number of partial blackouts has increased, and so has the number of average minutes per year that the average American spends in the dark. In times like these, people flock to the nearest supermarket to buy everything they can get their hands on. You really don’t want to be a part of that crowd and risk a good beating or worse, to not find the supplies you need.

Stockpiling food and water is beyond the scope of this article, so I want to talk about something the concept of a “blackout box” or a “lights out box”. This is something you should put together in case of power outages, EMPs and for times when there’s an issue with your house’s electrical wiring.

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Boo Hoo

He gives me an atta boy at the end for my Grey Champion articles.

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

America didn’t get what it expected, but perhaps it got what it deserved, good and hard. Daddy’s in the house and he busted straight into the nursery and now the little ones are squalling in horror. Mommy was discovered to be a grifting old jade who ran the household into a slum and she’s been turned out to solemnly await the judgment of the courts, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. The kids on campus have gone temporarily insane over this domestic situation and some wonder if they’ll ever get over it.

Trump as The USA’s Daddy? Well, yeah. Might he turn out to be a good daddy? A lot of people worry that he can’t be. Look how he behaved on the campaign trail: no behavioral boundaries… uccchhh. He even lurches as he walks, like Frankenstein. Not very reassuring — though it appears that somehow he raised up a litter of high-functioning kids of his own. Not a tattoo or an earplug among them. No apparent gender confusion. All holding rather responsible positions in the family business. Go figure….

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