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 | James Howard Kunstler |
He Did What ! !  |
| The only trouble with the conspiracy theory that hundreds of prominent and powerful people wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead is that Jeffrey Epstein might have wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead even more than they did. But that’s mere conjecture. His mind is beyond being read. Of course, the evidence of his alleged crimes didn’t die — the “meticulous” records he kept live on, along with the names of Mr. Epstein’s patrons, clients, marks, however you might clasMonday, August 12, 2019 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Hunting for Golem |
| As another president once remarked in a different context — LBJ speaking to a hanger full of grunts in Vietnam — “go on out there, boys, and nail that coonskin to the wall!” That was around the time the war was looking like a lost cause, with 1000 soldiers a month coming home in a box and even the Rotarians of Keokuk, Iowa, starting to doubt the official story of what exactly we thought we were doing over there. It was also, arguaMonday, January 14, 2019 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
Swamp Thang  |
| Chuck and Nancy coming onto the TV audience as “Mommy and Daddy” Tuesday night was a nice gag, putting the “nanny” into the Nanny State, which is getting more and more like the Tranny State — the Deep State in drag. Will the supply of “undocumented” nannies be cut off to the Creative Classniks of Brooklyn and Pacific Heights? That is the question. Not this silly-ass debate over The Wall. Who is going to watch the kids while we’re Friday, January 11, 2019 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| A Gift From The Oldies |
| By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at
I bumped into a friendly bloke at my local gym last week. Jim is his name.
Jim tells me he just started because, and I quote, "my doctor says I'm going to die unless I do something".
Now, I assure you it doesn't take a doctor to figure this out.
One glance in Jim's direction and you can tell that underneath all that weight there's a big struggling heart in there... just ready to explode. He was surprisingly frank and tells me it's so bad that he can oMonday, August 13, 2018 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Pod People and the Matrix |
| The two greatest science fiction movies of the 20th century are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The Matrix (1999). Both are seminal cinematic efforts that portray big ideological truths about the dangers of modernity and tyranny, and they do so with relentless hammer blows of frightful eeriness.
The Pod People
Invasion of the Body Snatchers involves an extraterrestrial invasion in which mysterious plant spores have settled onto earth and then hatch into sinister leafy pods that migratSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Thirteen Russians ands a Ham Sandwich |
| Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election.
WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge.
—The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996
The beauty in RobMonday, February 19, 2018 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Ominous Musings on America – 2018 |
| Decay and despotism invade our lives today like gangrene creeps up the limbs of a wounded soldier in the festering fields of war. Our Washington pols swagger through fulsome milieus of political putrescence and graft. Establishment pundits spew hysterical falsehoods on a daily basis. FOMC bureaucrats print fake money like mountebanks spin shell games to carnival dupes. Special counsel shysters conduct corrupted investigations to overturn the rightful will of the people. Political thuggery masqueTuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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 | Adam Hamilton - Zealllc |
| Gold Juniors’ Q3’17 Fundamentals |
| The
junior gold miners’ stocks have spent months grinding sideways near
lows, sapping confidence and breeding widespread bearishness. The
entire precious-metals sector has been left for dead, eclipsed by
the dazzling Trumphoria stock-market rally. But traders need to
keep their eyes on the fundamental ball so herd sentiment doesn’t
mislead them. The juniors recently reported Q3 earnings, and
enjoyed strong results.
Four
times a year publicly-traded companiesFriday, December 1, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Brexit Budget – Grim Outlook As UK Economy Downgraded |
| – Brexit budget – Grim outlook as UK economic forecasts downgrade
– UK Chancellor uses housing market policy as smoke-screen for deteriorating economy
– UK budget matters more than ever due to BREXIT risks
– Policy on stamp duty will fail to aid worsening housing market
– Real GDP expected to grow by just 1.5%, 40% less than projections 2 years ago
– Households now face an unprecedented 17 years of stagnation in earnings
– Critics claim Budget failed to calm Brexit uncertainty
– UK and especiallThursday, November 23, 2017 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Living with the Exponential - I |
| Before the middle of this century, the growth rates of our technology— which will be indistinguishable from ourselves— will be so steep as to appear essentially vertical. From a strictly mathematical perspective, the growth rates will still be finite but so extreme that the changes they bring about will appear to rupture the fabric of human history. That, at least, will be the perspective of unenhanced biological humanity.
Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, SThursday, November 16, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| California Wildfires Toll: 42 Dead, $1 Billion In Damages, 8400 Structures Destroyed |
| The California wildfires created one of the most devastating events in the state’s history. The newest updated numbers are giving us a glimpse into the peril caused in the Golden State.
Thousands of people have been, and still, remain displaced by the fires in California know all too well how dire the situation has become. Now that the fires have been almost completely contained and the extent of the damage has become much more clear, there can be a more comprehensive update of those numbers.
MThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Government Officials Warn: Breakdown In Diplomacy With North Korea Is A Fast Track To War |
| Government officials are worried that a new breakdown in talks with North Korea could trigger a war. With heated rhetoric taking the stage instead of diplomacy, it could only be a matter of time before the anger hits a boiling point.
Joseph Yun, a top American diplomat to North Korea, has been warning of the breakdown in meetings on Capitol Hill and seeking help to persuade the administration to prioritize diplomacy over the heated rhetoric that appears to be pushing the two nuclear powers closThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 A Constitutional Convention: American Suicide |
| The enemies of freedom today (both liberal and conservative) are closer than ever to realizing their dream of forming a Constitutional Convention to pass crucial amendments to our present Constitution and restructure it for the modern world. The desire to get rid of the Founders’ Constitution has been a fanatical goal of political collectivists for the past 53 years when “in 1964 the Ford Foundation funded and orchestrated – via the CSDI (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions) – the drThursday, September 28, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Bad Ideas About Money, Bitcoin, and Gold Report |
| Most false or irrational ideas about money are
not new. For example, take the idea that government can just fix the price of
one monetary asset against another. Some people think that we can have a gold
standard by such a decree today. This idea goes back at least as far as the
Coinage Act of 1792, when the government fixed 371.25 grains of silver to the
same value as 24.75 grains of gold, or a ratio of 15 to 1. This caused problems
because the market valued silver a bit lower than that.
So peMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Bad Ideas About Money, Bitcoin, and Gold Report 20 Aug 2017 |
| Most false or irrational ideas about money are not new. For example, take the idea that government can just fix the price of one monetary asset against another. Some people think that we can have a gold standard by such a decree today. This idea goes back at least as far as the Coinage Act of 1792, when the government fixed 371.25 grains of silver to the same value as 24.75 grains of gold, or a ratio of 15 to 1. This caused problems because the market valued silver a bit lower than that.
So peopMonday, August 21, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Preparing for Zombie Apocalypse for less than $1,200 in just one weekend |
| You think that after watching all the wonders of modern warfare fall flat on their high-tech hyper ass, that after watching three months of the Great Panic and watching everything you knew as reality be eaten alive by an enemy that wasn't even supposed to exist that you're gonna keep a cool fucking head and a steady fucking trigger finger?
-World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks.
Little money? Big fear?
You may have already read my ZH article...
...Guide for Those wSaturday, August 19, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Debt, Dollars, DOW, War, Silver, and Shirts |
| Yes, they are
connected.
Dollars are created as debt.
More dollars in circulation = more debt.
More debt means consumption is “pulled forward” from the
future so consumption can occur now.
This usually ends badly.
Commercial banks and central banks have created trillions of
new dollars. Each new dollar devalues every other dollar currently in
circulation, in savings, and in pension accounts. Prices rise!
Wars are costly, kill people and produce little. Governments like wars because tFriday, August 18, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Weekend Reading - |
| "Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is a pious, hollow hypocrisy."
Luke 12:1
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees— hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. You outwardly appear righteous, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."
Matthew 23:27-28
Ironically enough and as I have previously noted, I find myself more concerned these days not with those among my acquaintances that areSunday, July 30, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Government Think Tanks Admit U.S. Empire Is Collapsing – Their Solution Is More War And Tyranny |
| The average person doesn’t realize how close the American empire is to collapsing under its own weight. Hell, the average person’s mind is thoroughly riddled with propaganda and entertainment, that they don’t even realize that their country is an empire. They think it’s normal to live under an all powerful government that has hundreds of military bases all over the world, and is constantly at war.
But there’s no doubt that this state of affairs cannot continue. In fact, even the high ranking offSunday, July 23, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Rebounds Intraday, But Remains Defensive |
| USAGOLD/Peter Grant/07-05-17
Gold has regained some ground intraday, but remains generally defensive after getting hit hard in thin holiday trading earlier in the week. Focus is now on the FOMC minutes from the June meeting, which come out at 2:00ET.
Gold had proven to be quite resilient in the face of heightened hawkishness from global central bankers, and it was only heavy selling in the paper market during thin conditions that was able to push the yellow metal lower. It feels like policymakerWednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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