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The title of this essay is a word I’ve used in past commentaries. Schmegegge is a Yiddish word for baloney, hot air, nonsense, and by extension, bullshit. Other cultures fascinate me. I’ve lived, traveled, conversed, listened, and absorbed a lot of erudition in my LXXII years on this rock. I embrace this increased awareness because I never know when this knowledge will be helpful. Read More |
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03.23.23- Are They Actually Trying To Crash The Economy On Purpose?
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03.22.23- Send in the Clowns
Sometimes I think that the script being used by the Biden Administration to manage its foreign and national security policies has been written by George Orwell, though I am not sure if it based on 1984 or Animal Farm. Maybe it is a combination of the two. Either way, it would help explain why there is something seriously wrong here. For example, at the end of February Congress, confronted by a debt ceiling, began discussing cutting Medicare and Social Security while more recently a banking sector crisis seems to be developing so Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen decided to go off doing photo-ops in Kiev embracing Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky shortly after handing him the keys to the US economy. Read More |
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03.21.23- This Has Got to Stop
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03.20.23- The Eggheads vs. the Doers
It’s designed to encourage people to pick up and move to the freest state in the country for community and to help protect the state from the fate that befell Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Read More |
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03.18.23- SVB Vivifies The Vapidity Of 'Regulatory Failure' and 'Moral Hazard'
It’s something to think about with Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) decline well in mind. Left and Right are claiming “regulatory failure” as one of the causes. We’ve seen this in Sebastian Mallaby’s analysis at the left-leaning Washington Post, but also from right-of-center thinkers like AEI’s Paul Kupiec and Hoover’s John Cochrane. Paulsen’s billions reject this analysis. Read More |
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03.17.23- My List of America’s Top Ten Worst Presidents
So here goes: America’s top ten worst presidents.Read More |
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03.16.23- Something Horrifying Is Spreading Across the Banking System
By now, you’re aware that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the nation’s 16th largest bank with $342 billion in client funds and reported assets of $212 billion, was closed by federal regulators on March 10th. At least Janet Yellen promised us the government wasn’t going to bail out the bank, making a Sunday appearance on CBS Face the Nation to assure taxpayers that: Read More |
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03.15.23- Sounds Like the Apocalypse Is Getting Closer
For many readers, that periodical’s very own apocalypse came in 2020, when the magazine morphed into a monthly publication. In November of that same year, it was reported that Joe Biden was elected as our 46th president… Read More |
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03.14.23- The Banking Collapse Has Begun
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03.13.23- Rending America's Fabric of Lies -
The Superman character emerged in a time of innocence in the United States when there was a genuine belief that the “American Way” was understood as a commitment to truth, equal justice under the law and fighting for the little guy. Boy, were we naive. Read More |
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03.11.23- The Brain Standard, Part One
The world is moving towards multipolarity. One axis, the West, is led by the U.S., the other—Eurasia and the global south—by Russia and China. Ukraine currently serves as a cauldron of the military conflict between the two axes. Taiwan may become a second such cauldron. Read More |
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03.10.23- The 10 Rules of Propaganda
This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda. They are these:
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03.09.23- Mike Whitney Interviews Paul Craig Roberts About the Rising Tensions with China
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03.08.23- If Trump Had Prevailed in 2020
Biden’s predecessor implemented a strategic series of policies that were successful in reversing the destructive leftist agenda of the Obama administration. Donald Trump restored America’s economy, lowered unemployment, made us energy independent, stood up to China’s expansionist foreign policy and one-sided economic practices, took the U.S. out of the pernicious Paris Accord, enhanced peace in the Middle East, and stabilized conditions on the southern border. Read More |
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03.07.23- Get Lost, Uncle Sam
The first round of financial targets included obvious attacks such as freezing the U.S. dollar accounts of Russian banks and oligarchs. The second round raised the ante by freezing the dollar accounts of the Central Bank of Russia itself. This was unprecedented except in the case of rogue states such as Iran, North Korea and Syria. Read More |
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03.06.23- Life Among the Ruins
Premodern Barbarism We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Read More |
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03.04.23- The Woke Wrecking Machine
Wokeism destroys meritocracy in favor of forced equality of result - history’s prescription for civilizational decline. If we continue with the woke hiring of administrators, air traffic controllers, ground crews, pilots, and rail workers, there will be even more news of disasters and near-miss airline crashes. Read More |
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03.03.23- Prepare For 10 Years Of Destruction
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03.02.23- Secession Is Inevitable.
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03.01.23- Actor Tells Truth, Media Goes Berserk
Given the hysteria surrounding it, I assumed it had to be a full-throated attack on Big Pharma. So I watched it, and 95 percent of it was just normal comedy.Read More |
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02.28.23- The Last Lie Government
In 2014 the US led a coup that displaced a “democratically-elected” president, Viktor Yanukovych. In November 2013, . . . Yanukovych rejected a major economic deal he had been negotiating with the EU and decided to accept a $15 billion Russian counteroffer instead. That decision gave rise to antigovernment demonstrations that escalated over the following three months . . . Read More |
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02.27.23- Papers Cancel 'Dilbert' After Adams Tells Whites To 'Stay Away' From Blacks
Those remarks in a recent episode of his "Real Coffee with Scott Adams" podcast came after he shared the unsettling results of a Rasmussen poll. When asked if they agree with the statement "It's ok to be white," 26% of blacks disagreed and 21% weren't sure. Read More |
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02.25.23- What Ukraine needs to learn
The world’s biggest economic loser last year was Ukraine, whose economy collapsed by 35 percent, the IMF reported. Read More |
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02.24.23- “How Are People Paying
Here market analyst Michael Maharrey makes indirect reference to the “strong” economy presently in existence. And we are assured this economy bulges with the highly striated musculature of a he-man. Read More |
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02.23.23- Merkan Edukashun
I’m using the slang for America – ‘Merka – to accentuate how we trivialize the importance of what we “used to was,” as my Cajun girlfriend often said. We’ve lost our appreciation for our once great republic. I keep writing to embolden and admonish you to find it again before we lose it forever. Read More |
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02.22.23- Between That Rock
Secret Agent Man “Joe Biden” turned up in Kiev Monday morning after landing in Poland and riding an overnight choo-choo train across the Ukraine frontier to avoid the hazardous pomp of landing Air Force One in a war zone. Read More |
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02.21.23- The Core of the Economy
Neofeudal societies and economies lack a vibrant middle class. This is the defining feature of feudalism and its updated V2.0, neofeudalism: a nobility (based on birth or finance, it doesn't matter) controls the vast majority of wealth, political power and productive capital, all served by a powerless peasantry. Read More |
02.20.23- The Government Seeks
Polleit is a follower of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and like them, he argues that economics offers us a priori truths about the world. “What is meant by the term a priori theory? The term a priori means that something is evident, that can be regarded as true and universal, independent of experience.” Read More |
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02.18.23- What’s Hiding Behind the “Disinflation” Smoke and Mirrors?
For example, “Here’s where inflation is easing,” a piece on recent Bloomberg article claimed. (Yes, you do have to look rather closely to find examples.) Read More |
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02.17.23- War of the Worlds
Didn’t you get the feeling this weekend that we’re living in HG Wells’ classic tale of the earth invaded by sinister alien spacecrafts? Our government is playing the story like a bassoon concerto. “American officials do not know what the objects were, much less their purpose or who sent them,” The New York Times reported, poaching a line from every horror movie of the 1950s. When do the giant ants show up on Fremont Street in Las Vegas? Read More |
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02.16.23- The Enemy Within
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02.15.23- Fighting Wokeness
Freedom of speech and expression are gone — even when you’re not at work. Corporations are caving to pressure from liberal groups and government bureaucracies and establishing policies to silence all forms of conservative thought and speech in order to advance the liberal agenda. Read More |
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02.14.23- Why Is The Mainstream Media Being So Quiet About One Of The Greatest Environmental Catastrophes In U.S. History?
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02.13.23- What Hersh Got Wrong
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02.11.23- American Families Are Getting Increasingly Desperate
Usually, during times like these only the poor and lower-middle classes take the brunt of the economic impacts. But quite a bit has changed, especially since the first two quarters of negative GDP growth last year. Now, even those fortunate enough to earn a six-figure income are struggling: Read More |
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02.10.23- Epiphany
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02.09.23- Dangerous Trend of Dissidents who spoke out against the government were often declared insane and forcibly institutionalized in psychiatric hospitals, where the government subjected them to inhumane treatment and abuses.Read More |
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02.08.23- They Need 7.5 Billion to Die
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Politics is an International Full-of-Shit Stakeholder Contest |
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02.06.23- American Students -
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02.04.23- The United States:
This tabulation ranks the world’s nations across several categories. These categories include but are not limited to: Civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation… electoral process, pluralism, and political culture. Read More |
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02.03.23- Food Shortages Are Starting To Become Quite Serious All Over The Planet
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02.02.23- Why The End Of The Petrodollar Spells Trouble For The US Regime
If the Saudi regime does indeed embrace substantial trade in currencies other than the dollar as part of its oil-export business, this would signal a shift away from the dollar as the dominant currency in global oil payments. Or measured another way, this would signal the end of the so-called petrodollar. Read More |
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02.01.23- Poll: One-Fifth of Americans Say Government Is Our Nation's Top Problem
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01.31.23- How a Massachusetts Town Seized a Farmer’s $370k Property to Cover
DiPietro wasn’t always a farmer. He previously worked as a chief engineer for iRobot, a company that makes autonomous home cleaning devices such as the Roomba vacuum cleaner. He became disenchanted with the bureaucracy and red tape of the corporate world, however, so in 2008 he decided to leave that world behind and begin his alpaca-farming venture. Read More |
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01.30.23- 5 Ways The "Inflation Reduction Act" Is Stealing Your Money
Thanks to this “Inflation Reduction Act,” our lives are about to get even more expensive for just about everyone. If you’re saving money for retirement, heating your home or driving a car, well, get ready to start paying higher prices. Read More |
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01.28.23- Global South: Gold-Backed Currencies to Replace the US Dollar
First: One of the key take aways from the World Economic Forum annual shindig in Davos, Switzerland is when Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, on a panel on “Saudi Arabia’s Transformation,” made it clear that Riyadh “will consider trading in currencies other than the US dollar.” Read More |
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01.27.23- Pretend-O-Rama
So, what was the Ukraine project? To use that sad-ass country as a vector to disable and destroy Russia. You can’t over-state the stupidity of that objective. And why did we want to do that? Because… reasons. Oh? And what were they? Well, Russia was… there. Oh? And what was it doing? Trying to take over the world? Uh, no. It was actually just trying to be a normal European nation again after its traumatic 75-year-long experiment with communism, which ended in 1991. Read More |
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01.26.23- Give Up on the Idea of a Free Society
The conference exposed the organized “State” for what it was – an institution run by crooks, liars and useful idiots. Not only that, we discussed what a free and natural order would look like. Read More |
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01.25.23- They Won’t Leave Us Alone: The Invasion of Politics
As a not-so-proud carrier of a Swedish passport, I last year lost track of how many times I was asked about Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the overreaching military alliance among Western nations. Apparently, there was a war going on somewhere. NATO countries were scrambling, and Finland and Sweden (thoroughly Western social democratic countries) were decades-old NATO holdouts. I did not know; I took pride in not knowing. Read More |
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01.24.23- The Simpsons “The Fool Monty” |
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01.23.23- Hyper Woo - Hyper Code |
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01.21.23- A Page Turns
Of course, the “Joe Biden” classified document scandal is less about the documents per se than it is about the Biden family business, which was taking large sums of money from shady foreign interests for unspecified services rendered. “Joe Biden,” the brand, is owned, perhaps to the degree that he can be called “a sell-out.” Selling out your country is kind of serious. Read More |
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01.20.23- Banking Institutions Quietly Admit To Inevitable Recession Implosion In 2023
The answers to these queries are at the same time simple and complex: First, the recession has already arrived. Second, the Fed is NOT going to reverse course, though they will probably stop tightening. Read More |
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01.19.23- In my Lifetime I Have Witnessed the Death of Independent Medicine and Fair Trials
Is your doctor in private practice or is he an employee of a HMO or a health care provider such as a hospital’s corporate empire? Read More |
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01.18.23- Poszar Was Right: Saudis Confirm Non-Dollar Oil Trade Plans In Davos
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01.17.23- Glug Glug, Gurgle Gurgle
You thought the Titanic sinking was an astounding spectacle? Looks like the ship of the Deep State got some holes ripped in its hull and may be fixing to go down sometime in 2023. Read More |
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01.16.23- Target: Civilization
Oh sure, blame the weather but that has become a strangely opaque excuse. You look outside and the weather seems fine but then someone snaps at you: Can’t you see that the snow is bad in Buffalo? Read More |
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01.14.23- One More Massive Socialist-Driven Transfer of Wealth
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01.13.23- Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’t trust the government with your privacy, your property, your life, or your freedoms. Consider for yourself. Read More |
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01.12.23- A Government by Experts
With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal government used violence to crush the states’ natural right to secede from a compact they had voluntarily joined, and instead brought about the systematic murder of 750,000 persons — America from its founding to the early part of the 20th century more or less enjoyed the James Madison model for the federal government. Read More |
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01.11.23- China: Death of a Dream
The China reopening story is the most powerful market narrative going on today. At least for now, it’s more powerful than any Fed analysis, the prospect of a recession, and even lower energy prices in terms of what’s driving investor behavior. Of course, the key word is “narrative.” It’s a powerful story but that does not mean the story is true. If it affects investor behavior, then investors have to pay attention to avoid getting run over by bull market sentiment. It can take time, but whenever a narrative diverges from reality, the reality always wins. Read More |
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01.10.23- Repentance
The doctors of this country — of all Western Civ, really — owe their citizens an apology and an explanation, and even then, they might not be able to save modern medicine. The doctors have dishonored and disgraced their profession. They promulgated a Covid- 19 vaccination program that is now clearly killing a lot of people early in life and unnaturally. To this day, no established professional group of doctors, or formal association, or major journal, has called for an end to the vaxx program. Read More |
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01.09.23- Is The New World Order
The entire scam is based on the ignorance and complacence of the great mass of people in the western based economies. Control of the West is essential for world domination. Read More |
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01.07.23- The Plan to Carve Up Russia
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01.06.23- Time To Get Real About Ukraine
Don’t believe the incessant U.S. government and media propaganda about Ukraine. Ukraine is not winning the war; they are losing badly. But wait, hasn’t the news been talking up Ukrainian gains in recent months, while Russia is retreating and being badly beaten? That’s the mainstream, pro-Ukrainian narrative. Here’s the reality: Read More |
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01.05.23- The Baleful Cargo
Well, quite like the Ward ChurchilIs or Rachel Dolezals of the world, one way or another, they lied about their identities. Or they sought fraudulent ways of suggesting their ancestries were marginalized. Or they had claims on being victims on the theory their constructed personas brought career advantages. Read More |
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01.04.23- On the Cusp of
That greater calamity is a global liquidity crisis. Before considering the dynamics of a global liquidity crisis, it’s critical to distinguish between a liquidity crisis and a recession. A recession is part of the business cycle. Read More |
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01.03.23- The Third Option - Part 2
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01.02.23- “Something Big Is On the Way”
“Strictly speaking, we haven’t started anything yet.” Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine is not going to end in a negotiated settlement. The Russians have already made it clear that they don’t trust the United States, so they’re not going to waste their time in a pointless gabfest. What the Russians are going to do is pursue the only option that is available to them. Read More |