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GERMANY; DUMB AND DUMBER – IMF Debt – Perspective Is Important – Sovereign Bond Defaults – Bitcoin – Ethereum – Uranium – Who Controls Our World? – [03-26-24]

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BOOM exposes the weakness in Germany’s economy this week reporting: “A German “think tank”, ‘Forum for a New Economy’, released a report last week that discussed the worrying decline in Germany’s economic output. There’s more on the IMF and its financials, plus ‘who rules the world?

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When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence

Submitted by Mary Christine

“When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence”

I wrote this more than a decade ago.
It’s been freely reposted on dozens of sites and been read 100s of thousands of times.

Now the music has almost stopped.https://t.co/NPceaFVC6u

— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) June 1, 2023

Via The Prepper Journal

Editors Note: I came across this fascinating essay from Matt Bracken that made the rounds about a year ago. In it, he paints a dire potential future that some others have imagined. In his thought-provoking article, Matt discusses how large cities may disintegrate and how citizens who are unable to rely on police forces could take matters into their own hands. Personally, I hope this is all conjecture, but Matt has a lot of history backing his theories up. We have seen these same types of situations before and there is no reason to assume that America is immune from humanity doing what it has been shown to do in the past. To paraphrase Gerald Celente, “When people have nothing left to lose, they lose it”.

In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in 1968 (MLK assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King). New Yorkers can imagine the 1977 blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights disturbance. In fact, the proximate spark of the next round of major riots in America could be any from a long list cribbed from our history.

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Pie Jesu

Pie Jesu — which in Latin means “pious Jesus” — is the text from the final couplet of the hymn “Dies irae“, and is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass. This version, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was inspired by two tragedies; 1) a journalist who had interviewed him just weeks before dying in Northern Ireland as a result of the IRA conflict and, 2) the story of a Cambodian boy who was forced to murder his mutilated sister or be executed himself. Webber writes music as a way to cope with and express his grief.

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