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If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the harrowing rigors of reality, spiked with shocking losses, reckonings, and not a little retribution for the rogues and reprobates who drove our country into a ditch. Quandaries abound now in the wreckage of economy, culture, and polity. The years of anything-goes-and-nothing-matters have ended — though you might not know it yet, at this very advent of Twenty-Double-Deuce. Welcome to the banquet of consequences. Soup’s on!

The American people have been played backwards and forwards, inside and out, through and through, and up and down; driven to the very edge of national suicide by a combine of enemies within and without. If China’s CCP wanted to take maximum advantage of a weakened, confused USA, they couldn’t have found more zealous help-mates than the seditious Democratic Party, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s treasonous public health empire, the murderous pharmaceutical companies, the recklessly dishonest news media, and a demonic host of federal agencies, especially the three-stooge “Intel Community” — the CIA (Moe), DOJ (Larry), FBI (Curley) — plus the many secret horror chambers in the Pentagon. Throw in the Big Tech tyrants, the Marxist mandarins on campus, and the satanic narcissists of Hollywood. Oh, and let’s not forget the evil principality of grift and swindling that is Wall Street.

We still don’t know exactly what role the CCP and its Peoples’ Liberation Army played in the origins of Covid-19, and we don’t know because the US government doesn’t want us to know — because they had a role in it — and the news media won’t lift a finger to find out, either, because they are the propaganda arm of the regime in power. We do know an awful lot about the operations of Dr. Fauci and his colleagues in funding the development of the virus in Wuhan for the purpose of introducing a wildly profitable set of “vaccines” which, if anything, prolonged and exacerbated the pandemic, and harmed or killed millions all over the world.

We also know that this same set of players in public health and Big Pharma gamed the clinical trials that preceded the emergency use authorizations that loosed the “vaccines” on the people, and that they deliberately obstructed and suppressed proven treatments with inexpensive off-patent drugs that would have saved many hundreds of thousands of lives if they had been allowed within so-called standards-of-practice that rule medicine these days. The same gang fudged their statistical reporting wherever possible, especially by failing to fix the kludgy CDC VAERS website for listing adverse reactions to the “vaccines,” but also in creating conditions that made it impossible to discern actual Covid deaths from “vaccine” deaths, and deaths either caused by co-morbidities or extraneous occurrences such as highway accidents or gunshot killings.

In 2021, a mountain of evidence was accumulated about all this criminal mischief, capped by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s massive book about Dr. Fauci’s unholy career at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a virtual prosecution manual, meticulously annotated, that will be used in countless lawsuits against Dr. Fauci, his colleagues who outlive him, and the many agencies and NGOs — and perhaps in actual criminal trials of these very well-known perps.

This is where things stand at the turning of the new year 2022. Who doesn’t want to know where this historic game goes from here? A lot of story-lines are changing and quickly. It’s obvious that the “Joe Biden” admin wants to run the pandemic for at least one more year, most particularly to keep in place the “emergency” mail-in ballot scam that perverted the 2020 election. But more than half the country is onto that con and I predict that we’ll see more rigorous voting rules and regs in place — or, if those reforms meet resistance, a battle so fierce over them that the elections may not even take place on schedule.

Just now, too many Americans are already fed up with being pushed around by public officials supposedly for their own good. They see through the evils of the Covid-19 racket. They’ve watched the rape of the public interest. They understand that the “vaccines” were a disastrous experiment run lawlessly. They’ve witnessed the harms done to themselves and their loved ones. They’re appalled at the hijacking of science by people as scientifically profane as the necromancers, astrologasters, and inquisitors of yore.

They won’t submit to any more lockdowns, to any more attempts to interfere with and destroy small business. They’ve had enough of the race-and-gender hustles that have disordered society, ruined cities that were already struggling, traduced the basic principle of public safety, and forced people to play pretend around obvious psychopathology and depravity. They are not going to play along anymore. They are going to resist and fight — in the city councils, in the school boards, in the courts, and on battlefields, if it comes to that.

Ol’ Man Pandemic

He just kept rollin’ along. The weaker but more infectious Omicron variant of coronavirus currently ripping through global populations looks like a signal that the end of this vicious melodrama is in sight. Let’s predict that the actual disease phase of Covid-19 burns itself out by spring at the latest, unless malign actors have more lab-grown monsters they can release into the general population whenever they feel like it. But the demonically-installed harms built into the vaccines will keep killing and disabling people for a long time to come.

We know that the spike proteins have been clinically observed lurking in human bodies as much as fifteen months after a shot of mRNA, and that they induce a lot of damage to blood vessels, organs, and immune systems. We’re just coming into the first anniversary of the vaccines — not to mention that millions have gotten additional shots and then boosters right up to this week — so those harmful spike proteins will be working their hoodoo all of 2022 and beyond.

As the Thai-German doctor Sucharit Bhakdi warned recently, the compromised immune systems of the vaxxed may provoke a large-scale revival of age-old killer diseases like tuberculosis that are ever-present in small amounts in our bodies and usually suppressed. The people of Asia and Africa are particularly susceptible because public sanitation and clean water there is sketchier. The vaccines are also said to provoke the expression of lurking cancers, especially among those in remission from illness. The residual mortality from the vaccines may end up being greater than the deaths from the virus itself.

In the background of all that lurks that ominous prediction made by the Deagel military analysis company several years ago that estimated the population of the USA would crash to 99-million in 2025 — down from over 330-million now. Deagel never even explained that, and they took down the web page last year when their alarming forecast suddenly started looking plausible. Just sayin’.

Any way you cut it, the Covid-19 episode will thunder through the lives of many millions of people, especially in the nations of Western Civ, which has taken the hardest hits in terms of self-destructive government policy. The pandemic has accelerated the collapse of industrial economies, a process I call the long emergency, and eventually it will end up affecting all nations, even if the West happens to go down first. Societies will be propelled through a period of disorder, surely longer and more difficult in some places than others, depending on local resources. The destination of this journey is a place where the human project is run at much lower scale and pitch than we have gotten used to in our time, with far fewer “modern” comforts and conveniences, and shocking losses in knowledge and applied science. It won’t be the first time this has happened in human history, but the wreckage will be much greater.

Economy, Finance, and Money

Our economy is hitched to our energy resources. The business model for providing fossil fuels to the global economy is broken in many ways, and therefore the business model of a high-tech industrial production economy is also broken. The shale oil industry was launched on a high tide of near-zero financing and over a decade since then it produced an enormous quantity of oil (though less-than first-rate, short on heavy distillates such as diesel and heating oil). In the process, shale oil producers proved they could not make any money on these very expensive operations, and we now enter a period of capital scarcity that will make it harder for them to attract new investment and continue performing. Besides that, they are exhausting the “sweet spots” for drilling and fracking.

What’s left after you subtract shale oil are the conventional fields that were in steep decline in 2008 when the shale campaign got underway. In 2022, expect US oil production to fall below 9-million barrels a day. We consume just under 20-million barrels-a-day, and import the difference. You would have every reason to expect that a more disorderly world scene may interfere with our oil imports in 2022. Expect consumption to drop too, as economic activity weakens. Let’s predict consumption will fall to 15-million barrels-a-day. The oil markets will therefore be disorderly, with price oscillation as shortages and demand destruction push and pull each other. Remember the basic equation: oil over $75-a-barrel weakens economies; oil under $75-a-barrel crushes oil companies.

The wish persists that we can run the complex systems of modern life on alternative energy sources, but that wish is just not panning out. The realization that this is so will spread through western civ in 2022 and create more anxiety, more disordered thinking, cultish behavior, and breakdown of social norms. For now, the public arena is entirely occupied by the mass formation psychosis that first erupted around Donald Trump and then shifted to Covid-19. The stresses and tension of these demoralizing dynamics may lead in 2022 to the outbreak of political violence that will make it even harder to reach consensus on a way through our economic quandaries.

Let’s agree to compress our recent economic history, since I’ve rehearsed it many times in weekly blogs at Clusterfuck Nation: We replaced our on-the-ground goods manufacturing activities with so-called financialization, essentially the manufacture of debt — borrowing from the future to run our complex systems today, to compensate for the losses accrued by our broken energy business model. It was all a swindle, since you can’t create prosperity with the sheer management of instruments purporting to represent wealth if there is no real production of material wealth behind it. Debt is not wealth. You can play games with it in financial markets, buy and sell it, manipulate interest rates and prices to give the appearance of things functioning. But that only goes so far — specifically to the point where reality overcomes artifice, and that’s where we are now. Substituting debt for wealth introduced perversities into the economy. Now you can’t tell the real value of anything — “price discovery” is disabled — and that bleeds into socio-economic behavior, too. Now, many business activities, including the supposedly self-consciously ethical fields of higher-ed and medicine, have become dreadful rackets, which is to say efforts to make money dishonestly. We can’t pretend that all this is okay anymore. We’re left with a gigantic edifice of debt that will never be paid back and a whole lot of bad behavior that is corroding our humanity.

After two decades of papering over our inability to pay for running our society, the Federal Reserve has finally achieved old-school inflation — the destruction of money itself — not just the pumping up of share prices, their specialty for so many years. They kept inflation at bay all that time by exporting it to other countries who sent us real stuff in exchange for our paper promises: treasury bills, notes, bonds. Covid lockdowns and the destruction of business finally killed that longstanding equilibrium and then growing ill feeling between the US and China starting killing supply chains. Now, globalism is on the ropes and with it our ability to export US treasury paper. All the “helicopter money” flushed into the system during Covid now chases goods that have a tougher journey to their points-of-sale. Parts of machines, cars, and many other things become hard to get. Prices go up. Systems break down and their failures ramify in other systems.

With inflation running officially around 8 percent, and unofficially more like 15 percent, the real interest rate on a ten-year treasury bond is the nominal 1.49 percent minus between 8 and 15 percent, a deeply negative number. Owning that paper is a dead loss. If the rate of inflation continues merely apace of 2021 in 2022, the loss will steepen. If inflation continues greater than apace of 2021, treasury paper will be like so many smallpox blankets on the global bond market and America will be verging on Weimar-style runaway inflation. We won’t be able to offer any more bonds in return for stuff. The Fed will have to eat them. We’ll be importing inflation, the prices of goods will  keep going up. America is in a hole of our own digging. What can be done?

The Fed has two choices, both of them unpromising. 1) “Tightening.”  By measured increments, the Fed quits QE, (quantitative easing, buying bonds, a.k.a. “monetizing debt”) not just US treasury paper, but also corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. They move to raise interest rates to above par with real inflation rates to give people back the old reality-based incentive for buying bonds in the first place, which is a reliable stream of interest greater than inflation. The last time inflation threatened America, 1981, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker jacked up fed fund (short-term) rates to 20 percent, which put the schnitz on borrowing for a time, caused a recession, but got-er done. The catch is, the national debt and the balance sheet of the Fed were minuscule then compared to the incomprehensible trillions on-board now. And there was still a lot of actual productive industry left in the country.

An end to quantitative easing combined with raising interest rates would recalibrate markets to equilibrium — which is to say, crash them, because the end of near-zero interest would mean no more using leverage (borrowed money) to buy stocks, which are wildly overvalued after years and years of these shenanigans. The bid on stocks would end. Not enough buyers to meet sellers. Markets go down. That prompts more selling… a rush to the exits… look out below….

Tightening would crash the value of bonds, too, because bond value has an inverse relationship to interest rates — as they rise, the tradable price of bonds goes down. So, bond-holders would take a bath. Tightening actually makes money disappear — phhhtttt! — because it causes defaults (people not paying off their debts). In our system, money is loaned into existence and welshed-on loans sends money out of existence. People and corporations go broke. Higher interest rates also will make corporations default on their bond payments. Without access to more debt, many big companies may have to shut down, go out of business, perhaps forever. Government, buried under massive debt, would choke on higher interest payments. As money goes out of existence, capital becomes scarce and small business, which desperately depends on revolving credit, goes broke. The net effect of all this damage in financial markets is of deep economic depression, in this case, the long emergency case, probably a depression that becomes permanent since the basis of this particular high-energy economy, the oil industry, collapses along with everything else.

The Federal Reserve’s choice number 2) is: Don’t tighten. Rather, continue to print money like crazy, maybe even more than before, and keep trying to suppress interest rates. Keep buying bonds, notes, whatever debt paper the system pukes up. This is just the tired old scheme called kicking the can further down the road. The problem is, we’re at the end of the road. Old-school inflation had already kicked off in 2021 from two decades of QE, which was then greatly aggravated by the massive government spending to mitigate Covid. There’s no more jiggering with bond-buying and finagling the interest rates, and playing hide-the-salami with bank reserves, and stashing money in “special purpose vehicles” and other banking hidey-holes that will avail to keep things stable and happy. From here on, printing money like crazy only destroys the value of our money. You’ll have plenty of money, only it’ll get more worthless by the day — which is just another way of going broke.

Then, as the dollar purchases less and less stuff, dollars held overseas get dumped in exchange for whatever stuff is on offer: ores, grain, finished products, US real estate, precious metals, other less-damaged currencies, what-have-you. Better to own things of actual value than dollars that are fast-losing their purchasing power. Foreigners dump US treasury bonds, too, since inflation destroys their value. As foreigners do this, the dollars return home to the US provoking yet more inflation. Before long, America is awash in dollars and short on goods that you can buy with those dollars. You’re rich in dollars yet broke at the same time.

The outcome in both cases is substantially the same: the standard-of-living in America goes way down. What I predict for 2022 is that the Federal Reserve will embark on a much-heralded tightening program — and then abandon it at the first sign of trouble, the inevitable stock market downturn. Then the Fed will be back to buying our own debt paper and attempting to stuff interest rates back down, if they can, which may not be possible anymore. The Fed soon loses all control over American money. They may try to retire “old” dollars and replace them with “new” dollars backed by something, gold and silver being the obvious candidates. That will lead to a severe upward re-pricing of both metals. Let’s predict gold at $5,000 and silver at $200 by the end of 2022.

There may be a half-assed attempt to establish some kind of official US digital currency (this has been rumored for years). The experiment will fail. Americans will resist being herded into that corral where their every financial transaction is traceable, taxable, and punishable. They will have learned their lesson about that from the Covid-19 tyrannies. They are sick of being pushed around. They no longer trust the authorities in money, government, medicine, or anything else. Anyway, as a practical matter, too many Americans operate on the fringes of the system already and depend on cash for doing all their business. Many of these are what’s called “un-banked.” They cannot participate in computerized payment systems. They will remain outside the digi-loop doing business with silver, gold, or various kinds of stuff. They’ll operate like 14th century Venetians.

I kind of doubt Bitcoin and its imitators will survive a whole lot longer after the financial system is forced to recalibrate to reality. They have thrived solely as targets of speculation. The block-chain is very clever, but ultimately Bitcoin and its ilk represent… nothing… no-thing(s). They attracted a lot of money that was just sloshing around the system during the years of artificial pseudo-prosperity, and that’s over. Anyway, they depend utterly on a stable Internet and electric grid to function and you’d be surprised at the fragility lurking in both those systems. Early 2022 may be your last chance to get out of Bitcoin with anything to show for your adventures in it.

Politics and Society

The mass formation psychosis described by Mattias Desmet of the University of Ghent is behind much of what we’ve been seeing in US politics for some years now. It was apparently triggered by the election of Donald Trump. But it seems to me the syndrome was groomed and cultivated by America’s “deep state” security, surveillance, and intelligence apparatus for decades before. Liberal Democrats didn’t have to go batshit crazy over Trump. Rather, they were manipulated into it by the deep state’s agents in the major media, starting with the preposterous RussiaGate collusion psy-op and extending through four years of nefarious schemes to disable and oust Mr. Trump. Though portrayed as the arch-enemy of the pets and pet projects of the Left — identity Marxism, open borders — as president, Mr. Trump was really much more a threat to the deep state itself, and to its matrix of wealth, power, and privilege, and they pulled out all the stops except assassination to shove him off the game-board.

His perseverance and resilience in the face of all that, was remarkable. But in the end, his enemies engineered an election marinated in various flavors of fraud, and managed to get rid of the Golden Golem of Greatness. How “Joe Biden,” the empty husk of a grifting, ward-heeling pol, came to be nominated by the Democratic Party is one of the abiding mysteries of modern times. His victory in the Super Tuesday primary, which cinched the nomination for him, was surely rigged by the DNC. His campaign, from start to finish, was a sham of hiding from the public. If the voters had been allowed to see the material on his son, Hunter, and the slime-trail of bribes recorded in hundreds of emails, contracts, and other documents on the “laptop from Hell,” “Joe Biden” would be in federal prison rather than the White House. But Facebook, Twitter, and Google conspired to censor all mention of that, and the people never got the news. So, now what?

Well, moving into the early winter of 2022, Americans are discovering just how badly they have been played on Covid-19, and how badly “Joe Biden” & Co. have handled economic matters and other things, like the daily invasion across the Mexican border, and how poorly “JB” & Co. have managed our foreign relations — the Afghan withdrawal fiasco, etc — and generally what a pathetic a figure “JB” presents to the world… and all this is looking like the ghost dance of the Democratic Party. Let’s predict the party will not survive the 2022 midterm elections intact as a coherent political faction.

I’ll give 70 / 30 odds that “Joe Biden” steps aside “for health reasons” well before the midterm election. He’s falling apart before our eyes. He can barely utter a comprehensible sentence. He embarrasses himself and the country every day. His poll numbers are in the sub-basement…. So, okay, he basically takes a dive and retires from the scene. Kamala Harris is sworn in. President Harris nominates Barack Obama as vice-president. Say, what…!

Mr. Obama is back in charge — like, was he ever not in charge since Jan 20, 2021, really? — going so far as to brazenly occupy the Oval Office as Veep for daily business — consigning Ms. Harris to a broom closet. Democrats clamor for Ms. Harris to resign and officially hand the reins to Mr. Obama. (Presidents are limited to two elected terms in office, but the constitution does not stipulate such a circumstantial appointment to office.) Kamala graciously steps aside. For the sake of “unity” and gender balance, Mr. Obama nominates Liz Cheney as the new vice-president. That’s one possible scenario. Rewrite that play with Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama. The Democrats are going to have to try some desperate move to retain power.

Even so, it’s hard to imagine any circumstances in which the Democratic Party retains effective control of the government. In the event that the midterm election is actually held, let’s predict Republicans regain majority control of the House and Senate, with many new faces of the MAGA persuasion among them. The Dems hopes and dreams for transformative change get flushed down the toilet. Government at the national level becomes impotent, ineffectual, unable to discharge its duties or manage anything — all this predicted explicitly, by the way, in The Long Emergency (Grove-Atlantic, 2005). Will our foreign adversaries take advantage of the situation? Can the fifty states manage their affairs without subsidies from Washington DC? Governors had better be planning for strange times.

The political right has been careful and cautious since the debacle of the January 6, 2021 march on the Capitol building. The poor boobs cajoled by FBI plants to break into the joint have been treated abominably by their government, and probably extra-legally. But mainly, the Jan. 6th caper put a damper on any more right-wing street action during “Joe Biden’s” year in office. That may change in 2022. The mood of politically-motivated people on either side of the spectrum has got to be aggravated by the tanking economy. And as the year rolls on, it will just be hungry, angry Americans of all sorts raising hell because they don’t know what else to do.

All the anxiety driving the mass formation psychosis that had first focused on Trump, and then on Covid-19 (and the unvaccinated), may now finally shift its energy at the actual source of our woes and sorrows: the DC establishment. The decline and fall of Covid-19 is going to leave a big hole in the nation’s anxious, wasted soul, and it will have to be filled with something. We’re thrust into a scene that resembles Civil War, but it becomes harder and harder to determine who is on what side, or what the sides even are — or as Mick Jagger famously hollered at Altamont CA in ’69, “Who’s foit-ing an’ whut faw?” It’s sheer clusterfuck. Murphy’s Law meets Zombieland during Seven Days in May.

Geopolitics

    Gawd, who knows…? The Russians are sorely pissed because thirty years ago after the Soviet system clocked out, and eventually Vlad Putin tried to paste some kind of functioning nation back together out of the debris, we promised them in plain talk to not expand NATO, and then, year after year, we proceeded to add more countries to NATO including former Soviet Republics hedging right up to Russia’s border. Then, the US under Mr. Obama ran the “color revolution” in Ukraine, attempting to strong-arm that pathetic punching bag of a state to come over to our side… and having done that, we’re now threatening to bring them into NATO, meaning we would like to station rockets and perhaps troops and all kinds of other military stuff on what has been the doormat for every attempted invasion of Russia in modern history. Are you surprised that Russia has drawn a line in the sand there?

One can’t have a whole lot of confidence in Anthony Blinken’s State Department or in General Milley’s Woked-up, transsexual army that calling Russia’s bluff on this might work out well for the USA. Considering how economically weak we are now, how tragically disunited we are, how pussified and squishy we’ve become, maybe starting a war over Ukraine isn’t such a hot idea. One can only hope.

On the other side is China, Uncle Xi’s re-born Middle Kingdom, with gleaming skyscrapers, dazzling new airports and highways, the fabulous social credit system for controlling her huge population Orwell-style. China has a lot going for her, but what’s going against her isn’t so obvious, starting with the fact that she’s hurting for long-term fossil fuel supplies. China just doesn’t have that much oil or natgas, and she’s using ever-lower quality coal to drive her industry. Her oil imports have to travel through two global choke-points, the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca. In short, despite China’s great strides moving from the twelfth century into dazzling modernity, she might stumble on the energy quandary — like all the other “advanced” nations.

It’s no secret that under the ambitious Marxist emperor Xi Jinping, China wants to occupy the World Hegemon role that America is struggling not to abandon. Hegemon-ship usually requires geographical expansion. We’re certainly concerned about a takeover of Taiwan, which is, effectively, America’s offshore microchip facility. China could conceivably gain control over Taiwan by a thousand tiny steps without firing a shot — as the CCP has infiltrated US politics, media, and education — or by force, if only to make a theatrical point, but why invite the possibility of a nuclear exchange?

China has been adventuring in many remote parts of the world for years without drawing much international attention, buying farmland and mining sites throughout East Africa, and now she is eyeing openings in several resource-rich South American nations that recently elected friendly socialist presidents. China was awarded contracts to operate ports at both ends of the strategically important Panama Canal over twenty years ago, and Panama signed a memorandum of agreement to join China’s Belt-and-Road initiative in 2017. That got the attention of the Trump administration, which was meeting China’s expansionism with tariffs and sanctions. Mr. Trump caused several Chinese infrastructure projects for bridges, high-speed rail, and port improvements in the Canal Zone to be suspended. “Joe Biden,” a major Chinese client, is now looking the other way.

Can China actually control the unruly lands of Central Asia vital to her Belt-and-Road ambitions? For instance, Afghanistan, where China looks to establish giant mining operations, but has yet to tangle with the feisty Taliban. Let’s predict that China in 2022 is stymied in expansion and hamstrung by her energy problems. And add to that trouble in her export markets of the USA and Europe, as they begin to implode financially and the demand for Chinese manufactured goods declines.

Then there is China’s banking morass, bazillions of loans gone bad, giant businesses wobbling, and collateral in the form of a thousand skyscrapers built out of cement so inferior that it’s a miracle the buildings still stand up. How will China’s fragile banking system contend with contagion from the financial problems of the US and Europe? Let’s predict that China finds herself in enough economic difficulty that domestic disorder breaks out, the government over-reacts to it, and she becomes too paralyzed with internal political problems to make any mischief beyond her border for now.

Finally, Europe. Oh, lovely Europe, the tourist theme-park of my lifetime with its beautiful cities, tidy landscapes, its cafes, cathedrals, girls on motorbikes, its fabulous deep culture. Looks like the whole shebang is going down the chute now, with intimations of a return to 20th century political upheaval. Somehow, Covid-19 has provoked Austria and Germany to return to behavior that smells a little bit like what went on in the Hitler years. Hard to believe, I know, but look at them! Police state tactics! Forced vaccinations! Lockdowns! Harsh punishments for those who resist. It’s sickening, and looks like it’s getting entrenched.

Euroland’s economy is a mess. Its energy problems are worse than China’s. Except for Norway, with its dwindling North Sea oil fields, and some played-out coal mines, Europe has next to nothing for fossil fuels. Germany’s feckless “green” wind-and-solar project hasn’t worked out. She is more and more dependent on Russian oil and gas, and Germany’s position in NATO subjects her to the machinations of the USA against Russia, which has stymied the opening of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea. They may end up freezing this winter, and starving the following winter. The European banking system is a laughable fraud, since the EU has no control of the fiscal decisions made by member governments that issue increasingly worthless bonds. It’s going to be a rough year there with governments coming and going — stumbling as they go. Perhaps France gets a little lucky. The maverick journalist Éric Zemmour wins the election as president and spurs a revival of French national spirit. He’s still stuck with the rot in financials, but at least he bolsters the country’s morale. And unlike the Germans, France did not choose to close down its nuclear power industry, so the lights stay on there.

There you have it, ye denizens of Clusterfuck Nation. I can do no more with this. I wish you all fortitude in the twelve months ahead, and courage, and kindness, and all the good things that we are capable of. We’ll need that. There is still a lot to cherish about this country of ours, the good old USA, and I believe we’ll rediscover that in Double-deuce, along with some ability to tell ourselves the truth about things that matter and act consistently with it! Excelsior, brave hearts!


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1,038 Responses to “Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age”

  1. a kullervo December 31, 2021 at 9:34 am #

    As mankind descends into madness, those striving for sanity get drawn closer and closer to hell – welcome to the Unavoidable: everything – and everyone – serves The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.

    My humble advice to the sane: enjoy what you do; bear in mind you will have to let go.

    In 2022, may serenity come your way / ataraxia be in the stars for you.

    Cloud – River – Lake (radical acceptance)

    • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 9:52 am #

      Agreed. Psychologically embrace a simpler lifestyle.

      It’s a shame so few of the citizenry understand this predicament we’re in, so it’s not going to be a gentle coordinated ride with helpful chaperones and wise mentors leading the way.

      • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 10:22 am #

        The energy thing was brought up a couple of times.

        Seems not a lot of people are paying attention to it.

        Simpler lifestyle indeed.

        • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:59 am #

          Not…problem is, some people just have too much money or at least think they do. For now.

          I read a deal over at ZH this morning that stated that gamblers (my moniker for them) in the market made nearly 30% this year. Fukn bs. Meanwhile, savers get it in the…Then you have pill o c insider trading millions of calls. Ah f me…nothing to see here.

          Well, all I can say is that we have positioned ourselves such that we cherry pick these gamblers…and I am not saying that they are bad folks, it’s just their world.

          Best of luck to all here in 2022.

          We’re going to need it.

      • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:49 am #

        At least there are a few of us that “have each other” lol.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 10:58 am #

        TD: most are incapable of leading a “simpler lifestyle”. They’ve let themselves be poisoned with a fake vaccine so they can indulge in those vital existential and spiritual pleasures of going to Disneyland and watching Rage against the Machine.

        • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:08 pm #

          They’re going to need CRISPR9 technology to fix the genetic damage from the shots. LOL.

      • Walter B December 31, 2021 at 11:09 am #

        What I have a real hard time understanding and accepting is that while it is so obvious and apparent that everything the government has been doing is beating down everyone and everything, and driving a “Fear Everything” agenda, so many people convince themselves that Big Brother is actually saving them. Or is it that this is what the sellout media portrays and is not true? If that’s the case, it would explain why tv screens are popping up everywhere, even on the gas pumps on the Outer Banks. Constant mind fucking, a diet of doom!

        • elysianfield December 31, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

          ” it would explain why tv screens are popping up everywhere, even on the gas pumps on the Outer Banks…”

          Walter,
          Hunh…maybe the revolution WILL be televised….

          • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 2:21 pm #

            Ely,

            I expect that it is “wide-spread acceptance of the mandates” that will be televised.

        • oilie December 31, 2021 at 1:51 pm #

          Yeah, I don’t see many of those . . “Americans . . already fed up with being pushed around by public officials supposedly for their own good. . . and seeing through the evils of the Covid-19 racket.”

          What I am seeing is folks in masks taking their second booster jabs and calling me a heartless criminal for not doing it. And even if there was some contingent of the public at large willing to call out the covidian perps, I don’t see anyone in TPTB going after them with any real consequences. The only way there will be any payment for the official sins of the last two years will be when folks take up their own pitchforks.

          • Cactus Girl December 31, 2021 at 2:48 pm #

            @Oilie: yeah, I don’t see them either. I know a a woman who _had_ Covid, also got the shots AND boosters, and then proceeded to proclaim she was “Worried about catching it because you can get it twice.” I don’t know anyone else besides me who is unvaccinated.

          • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 2:38 am #

            Most of my family and near neighbors are not vaxxed. Most of my church members are unvaxxed–the vaxxed being mostly the elderly. When the mask mandate was lifted, the church had a mask-burning party.

            My next-door neighbor stopped attending his church in a “woke” suburb because they are all vaxxed and exposure to them gave him a migraine every time he attended.

            A recent outbreak of covid in this area revealed that just about everyone has Ivermectin.

        • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:01 pm #

          I believe it’s called Mass Formation Psychosis.

          • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 7:22 pm #

            It is fostered by all those programing screens referred to as tv.

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 5:14 pm #

          I think those screens might really be watching YOU

          • Not_GeorgeT January 2, 2022 at 11:54 am #

            Possible.

            I spend almost zero time in front of a tv, nothing new, been like this for many years. I’m also one of those tin-foil hat people who keeps tape over computer cameras.

            I usually keep a headset plugged into the audio input, set on mute.

            I read somewhere the dollar stores are going to start charging $1.25 instead of $1.00.
            The price of my hats will be going up, and the state will forcibly extract a few more cents per transaction.

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    • Hardrock December 31, 2021 at 10:30 am #

      Krishnamurti?

      Everlasting Dissatisfaction —-> Everlasting NO?

      Makes me wonder if he read Carlyle????

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 10:59 am #

        Krishnamurti v Kristallnacht.

    • Alfred December 31, 2021 at 11:38 am #

      New Year’s resolution…

      Follow good advice.

      Muhammad said, “Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler along a path.”

      Jesus said, “Become passersby.”

      Happy New Year

      • debt December 31, 2021 at 1:17 pm #

        Muhammad – “Kill your enemies.”

        Jesus – “Love your enemies.”

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 11:48 am #

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/metanoia

      Metanoia must come first.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 12:59 pm #

        Well I was meta-annoyed when my church decided we had to go back to the by now thoroughly debunked face diaper for the time being, because looney harridan Kathy Cuomo said so.

        They think we have to obey the authorities but the authorities I would presume have the law on their side and there is no law in NY that says you have to put a hanky over your nose every time a deranged governess thinks it’s a good idea.

        What if she decides we have to wear wax lips or clown noses?

        Actually, I might consider that. Maybe I will start walking around like that and tell people it’s part of the new CDC guidelines.

        • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:03 pm #

          Churches have been truly pathetic during the hysteria. Many of them won’t survive.

          • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 2:54 am #

            @ Hereward:

            The lack of resistance from the churches has been a hard pill for me to swallow. Some of them have deep pockets and an army of lawyers on retainer. They should have absolutely refused to allow church closings, and refused mask mandates.

            The Catholic Church could have done this on a nationwide basis and taken the cities, counties, and states to court.

            Another influential church in my area is the RLDS. I’m pretty sure that they too have considerable money and power, but have come out in support of the vaccines–to the surprise and disappointment of many of their members.

            While I think we all realize that some of the Protestant churches are little more than NGOs acting on behalf of liberal policies, you expect better from the Catholic Church, and even the RLDS. Which makes me think that these too must be much more “owned” than I had suspected.

        • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 6:17 pm #

          I’ve been an advocate for the wearing of clown costumes in DC for quite a while. Easily expanded to the states.

        • Ron Anselmo January 1, 2022 at 1:13 am #

          Beryl – did and have done the clown nose thing for a while now. Works best at the grocery store – where everyone else is masked up.

          When invariably asked about the clown nose, my answer is, “Well, everyone else in here looks like a clown, so I wanted to look like one too. It’s just easier to breathe like this.”

          Of course, they get aggravated, but that’s the fun of it!

          • Ron Anselmo January 1, 2022 at 1:16 am #

            Ten foam clown noses for $2.89 – most fun you can have with your clothes on.

    • hortonz December 31, 2021 at 2:17 pm #

      Lockdown nation returned with a vengeance to Canada this December complete with a 10 pm to 5 am curfew in Quebec, and a ban on large indoor gatherings in all the other provinces. I am beginning to think that my national government’s covid fear porn campaign is a cover to distract the Canadian population from all the corruption and mind-fuckery that emanates from Ottawa. Justin Trudeau found himself in a very uncomfortable position as the full extent of his capitulation to the demands of Quebec’s hyper-nationalist government in return for votes in La Belle Province dawned on everyday Canadians and federal politicians began to grow a backbone. Everybody with half a brain knows Margaret’s boy is nothing but an old-fashioned grifter and serial liar and Quebec’s pathetic attempt to shut down Western Canada’s energy industry is leading to push back and a genuine national unity crisis. This has all been underplayed by the national media which has received generous handouts from Ottawa for parroting the official party line. There’s also the curious case of Canada’s top doc, one Theresa Tam who appears to be a trojan horse for a number of unsavory international players. Am beginning to think Canada is even more fucked than America,

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 2:30 pm #

        You are (more fucked than the US). That’s what you get for keeping out all the gun-toting anarchists – who settled south of your border. That said, I’ve always been a fan of Canada and Canadians. Sorry to see your country (and the rest of the Young Lions) go full retard.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:03 pm #

        Curfews and lockdowns only work if you obey them.

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:16 pm #

          Actually, they work when they are disobeyed too. Try it and see.

      • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 9:19 pm #

        Hortnzzz, I would know all that if I looked at the news, at all. One thing I do know, here in BC, I had to get tickets online for Christmas mass. Free but I fkn hate that some online ticket co knows my biz.
        Good info about our Quebecois darlingz.

      • wokethis January 1, 2022 at 2:05 am #

        It is, and most canadians, and americans, are dumb farm animals and the cartel knows it. Wear a mask; yer gonna get us all kild…

    • abbybwood December 31, 2021 at 10:34 pm #

      Happy New Year Pals!

      https://brownstone.org/articles/the-psychological-cruelty-of-denying-natural-immunity/

    • Perimetr January 1, 2022 at 10:42 am #

      I always enjoy reading Mr. Kunstler’s insightful ideas, which always include brilliant combinations of words that paint images that make you laugh and groan at the same time. l loved this one: ” Murphy’s Law meets Zombieland during Seven Days in May.”

      Russia has provided an ultimatum that the US will both ignore and violate. So, I would suggest that there will be a short and very violent war fought in the Ukraine, as well as elsewhere in Europe, particularly where NATO bases and headquarters are located — along with any offensive/defensive missile systems that can hit Russia in a few minutes, such as US Aegis Ashore facilities. Russia will regain its landbridge to Crimea and eliminate the festering neonazi sores on its borders, and the US and NATO will be shown to be powerless to prevent it. Open question as to whether or not the clowns in Washington will escalate to nuclear war.

      Use your own imagination to figure out what that will do the ‘markets’ and the US dollar, etc etc

  2. Jeremy December 31, 2021 at 9:36 am #

    “fall below 9,000 barrels a day” – you meant 9,000,000 right?

    Jeremy– Of course. Utter early morning brain fart. Fixed it. –JHK Admin

  3. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 9:48 am #

    Oh wow. A nice long forecast AND an interview with David Martin. Thanks so much for that. Looking forward to some alone time this New Year’s Day. I also just ordered RFK’s book. Not sure if I’m too ADHD to actually read the whole thing, but it’s time to get ‘Factsinated’. Kind of want to read Richard Fleming’s book as well, does anybody have any opinions formed on that one yet?

    • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 10:28 am #

      Take it a piece at time. My impression is the information’s not really new, at least for me. The depth of the coverage, the sheer enormity of the numbers and the high level of organization with page after page of references corroborating the narrative makes it a readable yet deep dive. He is an experienced litigator. It shows.

      • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 11:32 am #

        “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

    • lastman December 31, 2021 at 11:07 am #

      The metals forecast is optimistic for sure.

      Hell, based on the amount of fed printed fiat, it should have been there 10 years ago…patience I guess. Strong hands will win.

      If the fuel thingy goes like like Jim and Steve St. Angelo say, we uckd.

      • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:19 am #

        Gold $5K? In US$$? Big deal.

        We somehow need to determine how much gold to purchase a couple fine Rhode Island Reds, a few good hens, a milk cow, and a 5 year old broodmare, for instance.

        • Mac December 31, 2021 at 8:59 pm #

          Are you snarking that gold cannot be used as a currency? Thin gold wallet cards can be made with perforations allowing the user to break off pieces for small purchases. Or, banks could take gold deposits against which a debit card could draw down the value of the account. I think this is already being done in Asia. Enjoy your fiat. Perhaps you drive one too.

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 8:27 am #

            Not at all, MAC. I hold exactly the thing you’re suggesting.

            There’s a comment missing above, so now my comment is rogue.

            I’m asking why value pm in US$$?

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 8:28 am #

            Did somebody walk the plank?

        • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:16 pm #

          She it man…I had that covered 15 years ago.

          Just imagine how many don’t have a clue about your 2nd paragraph.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 11:51 am #

      Ian Fleming might be better. He envisioned the world we are now in. Except there are no James Bonds fighting the villains. They’re on the side of the ghouls.

  4. RaymondR December 31, 2021 at 10:00 am #

    I look forward to your annual forecasts and this one was no disappointment. Thanks JHK

    I am not so sure that America will seek to purge the malefactors who have driven it to ruin and despair. Certainly it would be emotionally satisfying to hear the call of:

    Pour le bien public, pour la grande république, sortie la guillotine!!

    • Anon1970 December 31, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

      If there is any purging, I think it will only be done when the current constitution is scrapped. In the meantime, Victoria Nuland, who was the major US point person behind the 2014 revolution in Ukraine (in her role as a senior State Department appointee), is back in the State Department, having been nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate earlier in 2021.

      In 2000, there was a lot more reason to be optimistic about the US. The federal budget was actually running a small surplus, at least under government accounting rules, and the National Debt was scheduled to be paid off in a decade or so. Such an accomplishment would have given the government more flexibility in dealing with unfunded liabilities related to Social Security and Medicare.

      In 2001, things changed for the worse. Bush 43 pushed tax cuts and then expensive wars in the Middle East. The wars were financed with bonds. The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic made a bad financial situation in Washington DC even worse.

      Now that I am in my mid-70’s and in my 17th year of retirement, I am mindful of the fact that I have outlived all of my Polish relatives who died in the Holocaust in its peak year of 1942. The oldest was 61. The youngest only 15, although I suspect that there were no records of children under 13 on the web site I researched.

      • wolfbay December 31, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

        That small surplus was the result of a bat shit crazy dot com stock bubble created by cheap Federal reserve money and crazy speculation. The bubble popped and future surpluses disappeared. The Federal reserve created and both parties borrowed too much money starting with LBJs “guns and butter”.

        • Anon1970 December 31, 2021 at 6:47 pm #

          A low Fed funds rate policy did not start until 2001after the tech bubble had already popped. Yes there was lots of speculation in high tech companies before the dot.com bust. The Federal surpluses disappeared through tax cuts and the debt ballooned to pay for the Middle East wars.

          I do agree that both parties borrowed too much and now it is time to pay the piper.

          I like JHK’s comments on Bitcoin. If the electric grid fails, taking the Internet down with it, Bitcoin will be worthless.

          • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 7:40 pm #

            I see much commentary about how “bitcoin” as a concept along with blockchain is the wave of the future.

            It requires energy.

            Bronze was the wave of the future a few thousand years ago. Copper melted with tin, what an idea! All those furnaces burning all those cords of wood. Must have seemed like it would go on forever.

            It required energy.

            On a slightly different note, the Germans appear to be much more susceptible to the precarious politics of pipelines than the French, who kept their nuclear power plants.

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 8:34 am #

            When stock prices plummet, and scary margin calls obtain, anybody hodling will desperately sell to cover the call, and crypto will crater too. Same goes for pm, but not as badly.

            That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

      • Socrates-Detroit January 1, 2022 at 5:24 pm #

        Anon1970,

        I believe the inflection point, the point of no return, was 1990. Fifteen years before the bright yellow “Long Emergency” came out.

        The (peaceful) dissolution of the Soviet Union offered the US a chance to pack up, downsize the Department of Offense (DoD), and tend to issues here at home.

        JHK says suburbia is the largest misallocation of resources in history. I say the military is the most wasteful misallocation of resources.

        In any case, we did not do that.

        Now, a generation later, we have more apps and devices, but even absent the plandemic, our finances vastly more precarious, to be charitable, in 2022, than they were in 1990. And as JHK says, no capital, big problem….

        By 2000, the horse had left the barn. W rode it hard in the wrong direction, as did Obama, and Trump certainly did not turn it around.

        Just my two cents.

        I can be a contrarian.

        I appreciate that the cruel, unjust, and tragic fate of your relatives 80 years ago, it gives you a perspective most native-born Americans lack, and consequently, you probably appreciate the opportunities the US offered more than most. I mean that respectfully, even if I think 1990 is “the point of no return”, not 2000.

        To some extent, I can relate, growing up in the 1970s in Greece, where every adult over 40 had grown up during 8 years of hell, between the harsh German occupation and the subsequent Civil War between the Communists and the “Government”. About 500,000 Greeks died during this time–that’s over 5% of the prewar population that didn’t live to see 1950, let alone 1970.

        The Greek guerillas forced the Germans to garrison more troops in Greece, soldiers who otherwise might be killing Americans in Italy or Normandy.

        Turkey was a “benevolent neutral”. Benevolent toward their traditional pals, the Germans, who like the Turks, had no compunctions about mass murder. The Germans were simply more efficient about it and kept better records.

        In February, FEBRUARY!!, of 1945, when the war’s outcome was obvious, Turkey declared war on Germany so they could get America to help them, as they feared the opportunistic USSR would seek retribution for Turkey’s role in WW2…

        So, the Turks did nothing. The Greeks not only pinned down Germans, but Greece delivered the FIRST allied victory of WW2, by defeating the Italians, forcing the Germans to take over the war (they defeated Greece in 8 weeks), and delaying the invasion of the USSR by two months. The German Army was what, 60 miles? 100 miles max? from Moscow when the WINTER stopped them. Does anyone think that one more month, let alone two, would not have made a difference? With a defeated USSR freeing up hundreds of thousands of experienced German troops, does any American intellectual not think that American casualties would have been much higher?

        Yet for my entire life, the US has coddled Turkey, and the coddled Turks have menaced Greece, and the Greeks have to put up with it, because they don’t have the military power to deal with Turks.

        Just one more of America’s many sins in the world, coddling Turkey at the expense of Greece and Armenia. But, like everything else, this injustice will be corrected. Perhaps sooner than later.

        • Anon1970 January 2, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

          You have a better historical perspective than most Americans. I agree with you that the US should have downsized its military after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Now we are paying the price, Well not all of us, but many of us. Back around 1999, I remember reading articles in which the so called experts wondered how the Fed would conduct monetary policy if the National Debt were paid off. They need not have worried.

          During WWI, Germany did not raise taxes to pay for its war effort. It assumed that it would transfer the financial burden to France, Britain etc once it won the war. But things did not turn out that way. Germany’s liberal Weimar constitution adopted in 1919 did not spare the country from economic and political chaos during the next two decades. Bush 43 was even more financially irresponsible. He didn’t call for tax increases to pay for the Middle East wars and even pushed for tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

          Where are all of the so called Family Values folks and why are they not speaking out about the financial chaos that the country’s young people will face in the coming years? Did they really think that stopping gay marriage would fix all of the country’s many problems?

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:27 pm #

      Ray, I don’t think any of my neighbors – or even me for that matter – will be too emotionally satisfied to hear inflammatory slogans shouted out, where we can hear them, in French! We make a point of mispronouncing the (plentiful) French surnames up here.

  5. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 10:08 am #

    Kudos, Mr K!

    Your road map for the financial debacle is one of the most concise and understandable I have seen. Not an easy thing to do. 😉

    President Harris and VP Obama. Canceled elections. No way out. Collapse.

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    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:41 am #

      Agreed, but I think the digital currency will eventually be crammed down our throats whether we like it or not. He who pays the piper calls the tune, and all that.

      Probably have a locally-traded underground cash economy for some time after that too, what with so much officially worthless dollars sloshing around, but they’ll eventually reign that in as well.

      Russia has also drawn a clear line in the sand this time, so by mid-Jan at the latest we should have some definitive indications on how all that’s gonna go. Not well for the US and their NATO pawns, I suspect. Maybe everyone will get together and agree to just nuke Australia and call it a day? Sorry, ian, I couldn’t resist.

      Elections? Those will be interesting, but I think 2020 signaled loud and clear how all that’s gonna go from here on out. Pre-selected and approved “candidates,” with an agreed upon fix applied as necessary.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:00 am #

        Elections no matter. Does anyone really believe that the useless GOP will make things better?

        • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:21 am #

          I totally agree, HTW, but cancellation of elections will most definitely matter,

        • Prospero December 31, 2021 at 12:23 pm #

          A prominent spokesman for the useless GOP has just jumped onto the Democratic bandwagon:

          “I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines. All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months.”
          — Donald Trump, mid December, 2021.

        • wolfbay December 31, 2021 at 5:40 pm #

          Both parties are useless but at least voters can spread the graft around.

      • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 11:52 am #

        From space. It’s the only way to be sure.

      • SpeedyBB December 31, 2021 at 8:59 pm #

        “Nuke Oz”, Disaffected? Yes, war by proxy, as the best way to have your fun at someone else’s expense, while protecting your own assets.

        The Ukraine has historically been such a punching bag for others, and the aggression on Vietnam, right at the peak of the thermonuclear confrontation between superpowers, was a classic example of “Let’s you and him fight”.

        • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:36 pm #

          Sorry. That was mostly a friendly poke at our resident k-nucklehead, ian, who I enjoy provoking. Although it does have a particularly ironic historical connotation too, doesn’t it? Thanks for picking up on that.

          Sometimes my attempts at sardonic humor fall flat. What can I say? I’m too dry by half.

        • Q. Shtik January 1, 2022 at 5:04 pm #

          The Ukraine has historically – Speedy

          ==========

          The Ukraine has historically

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 2:47 pm #

      No President Harris. The Ho’s gonna be offed to ignite the Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall of Hate. Obammy don’t want no responsibility. He wants to sit on the sidelines and tell everyone what to believe – that and get fellated by Scarlett Johansen and the Hollywood Whores.

      President Hildebeast – and all the cockroaches, the Epsteins and Weinsteins and Polanskis, can cum out of hiding. The rest of us? Candles and pizza toppings.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 11:55 am #

      A few hundred years ago, Jesuits in California caught some Aleuts who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy. They tortured them to convert to Catholicism but they wouldn’t budge. So they killed them.

      • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 12:23 pm #

        They didn’t WANT to do it.
        …FELT they OWED it to them!
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQMr9DvXXF8

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:29 pm #

        Got a dog in that fight Jars?

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 6:12 pm #

          No, I’m for the Domini Canes – the Hounds of God. Forget trying to convert others by force. But apostates must be hunted down by scent and then made clean.

      • Socrates-Detroit January 1, 2022 at 5:40 pm #

        Very true Jarek. Interesting you should mention that in this space.

        I recently learned, in church, of Saint Peter the Aleut, the Holy New Martyr. Late 1700s/early 1800s. Killed by Spanish Jesuits for their faith.

        Tells you all you need to know about Jesuits. Or perhaps Spanish Jesuits. Or perhaps, these particular Spanish Jesuits.

        We mustn’t offend or paint everyone with the same brush, especially since many of us in this space share similar perspectives on today’s events, and since on any given JHK blog, the commentariat is more factual and logical here, than out in the internet world at large.

        But the truth is the truth. No sure why Jarek brought it up, but I hope you all read that.

  6. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 10:13 am #

    From Joaquin Flores over at Strategic Culture Forum:

    The incentive to destroy society is just too great compared to the costs of keeping it together. The super elites themselves, like some super virus, can always just vacate the premises and find some other host to infect. This is a pandemic of speculation, usury, and greed.

    Digging further, we see it was all based upon long-standing plans to upwards distribute wealth and strip away constitutional rights from citizens, further concentrate socio-economic power, and destroy medium and small businesses. By any definition of the term, this is open class warfare being waged by the ruling class against all other classes.

    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/12/30/the-china-distraction-and-us-destabilization/

  7. malthuss December 31, 2021 at 10:13 am #

    ZERO HEDGE
    Nancy Pelosi Buys Millions In Call Options In Google, Micron, Roblox, Salesforce And Disney

    BY TYLER DURDEN
    FRIDAY, DEC 31, 2021 – 05:14 AM
    Despite a populist grassroots movement seeking to ban Congress members from trading stocks, one which has attracted bipartisan political support, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – arguably one of the most prolific Congressional traders – said two weeks ago that lawmakers should be allowed to make trades while serving.

    “We’re a free market economy,” Pelosi told reporters during a news conference. “They should be able to participate in that.”

    Pelosi’s statement came days after progressive New Yorker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, reiterated her support for banning lawmakers from the practice. Ocasio-Cortez and other members of Congress argue that lawmakers have access to information the public is not privy to and the ability to write and pass policy, they should abstain from buying and selling individual stock and other assets. She and other lawmakers support members of Congress investing in index funds.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:13 am #

      Being as the term of a representative is only two years, it isn’t that much of an imposition to ask them to refrain for that length of time.

      They can still cash in down the road.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 2:04 pm #

      Nancy “Ice Cream Fridge” Pelosi wants to legalize corruption so no one can go to jail once it’s found out they already participate in it.

      Same as Obama did with drone-killing Americans.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 2:17 pm #

        Didn’t he also do something like that with the financial crimes surrounding the mortgage meltdown?

        • Night Owl December 31, 2021 at 3:30 pm #

          Don’t forget legalizing domestic propaganda (Smith-Mundt).

          Uncanny timing, ofc.

  8. got___truth December 31, 2021 at 10:14 am #

    A Fuller-Carlin-Kerouac-Fuller HAPPY NEW YEAR to you Mr. Kunstler and to ALL the CFN’ers!

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    GODSPEED!!!

  9. Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 10:15 am #

    Well done! Thank you.

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  10. Rodster December 31, 2021 at 10:17 am #

    True story, close to home. So my landlords who are a husband and wife team from Minnesota (good folks btw). The husband (75) who is awake to all the BS going around pleaded endlessly with his wife (64) not to take “The Jab”. She told him she wanted to be the first when they were available to the public. The husband showed his wife countless articles by Dr Pierre Kory, Dr. Peter McCullough, and others.

    To no avail she took “The Jab”. She was okay at first and kept telling her husband that he was an alarmist and conspiracy theorist. She recently took the booster shot. That’s where things went awry. She got severely sick, like really bad where she can no longer leave the house.

    So she went to see her doctor and her doctor was a real doctor, who was an honest doctor and told her she should not have taken “The Jab”. Her doctor told her the waiting room was full of patients she was seeing who took “The Jab” and are now suffering the consequences.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:45 am #

      Talk about your “Oh Shit!” moments.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:07 pm #

        Time to order our “We Tried To Tell You!” t-shirts?

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:31 pm #

          If you wanna be on the losing side of the “knock-out game”.

          • Suburban_elk December 31, 2021 at 5:24 pm #

            The blacks who would play the “knock-out game” against Whites, are mostly refusing the clot shot injections.

      • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:43 pm #

        Physician in his most condescending fatherly voice to patient after informing him/her that the vaccine that he had previously recommended is now going to fuck them up: ” Hey hey now, it’s OK. You fucked up. You trusted us, that’s all.”

    • lastman December 31, 2021 at 11:19 am #

      I have been scrolling thru comments on site like this for years. The stories like this on all those blogs (since c19) are endless. The jab is killing lots of people. Covid is NOT.

      I read very few articles in full anymore. I look at the headline and head for the comments. That is where the real meat on the bone is.

      Probably most of you and I have a lot in common. We want to know what the man/woman on the street says/is doing and we want to be left alone.

      • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:24 am #

        A very good strategy, lastman. Just remember that all those corespondents only amount to a tiny percentage of all the people (mostly sheeple) in the totality.

        • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:29 pm #

          I invaded the rabbit hole 15 years ago.

          I hated everything about the web…fuckin everything.

          I had to do biz with folks invading my state for piece of mind.

          Well, what I found was…well…distressing to say the least with a strategy that has well funded my exit from said rabbit hole.

          But your right…There are still a lot of sheeple that have yet to get a clue.

          I think it is too late for them. Me…I have done every thing I can to position myself and my friends to reach the other side. Even with God’s help it’s 50-50. I hope.

          1984 anyone?

          “don’t go down without one helluva fight”

      • Prospero December 31, 2021 at 12:33 pm #

        You’re right about reading just the headline and then heading directly to the comments for a capsule summary of what is being discussed. This technique is particularly helpful when hours of video can be skipped.

        However, I never skip over any of Mr. Kunstler’s columns.

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

          yes, second that Prospero!

      • Night Owl December 31, 2021 at 3:32 pm #

        Yep. We still have no hard evidence that “Covid-19” even exists.

        Covid-19 itself is the Goebbelsian Big Lie.

        • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

          It gets more utterly ridiculous by the day.

          The stuff they want us to believe is straight up doublethink.

          No one with a functioning brain can fail to see that.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:29 am #

      That’s what I’ve been hearing a lot, someone goes through the first shot okay, just feels sick for maybe a day, and then they do it again and get nailed.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 11:59 am #

      The Serpent tempted Eve, saying she would be like US if she partook of the Apple, knowing good and evil. Thus did she take.

      At least this time Adam withstood her guiles and didn’t fall too.

    • ThorsHammer December 31, 2021 at 4:10 pm #

      Rodster

      A “partnership” in which one member is so terminally stupid as to behave as you describe no longer has any basis for continuing. Even if it costs you the house and half of your savings the cost is worth it.

      Ps: If your savings are placed in a Panamanian corporation or trust they are sheltered from predatory ex-partners while remaining dollar-denominated, free from Panamanian taxation, and available for investment in the US markets. Panama follows statutory law vs the American common law system. There is a reason why Panama City resembles Miami with more skyscrapers—.

  11. Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 10:18 am #

    Dumpster fires… they can be so dangerous. One never knows the contents. The potential for toxin release from the combustion is waiting to spread far and wide.

    • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 10:24 am #

      Plenty of real dumpster fires in the streets of Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle the past 2 years, CNN says don’t believe you’re lying eyes, these are simply innocent camp fires set to keep ‘Mostly Peaceful Protesters’ warm while demonstrating against racism and injustice.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:08 pm #

        BRH: That’s just the streetlighting.

  12. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 10:27 am #

    I think much of my anger and frustration derives from how blatantly obvious scams and rackets are, yet very few of us even dare to open and trust our own eyes. I am grateful to have CFN to commiserate with the like-minded and blow off a little steam now and then.

    Thanks, Mr K!

    • tahoe1780 December 31, 2021 at 10:48 am #

      Exactly! Well said.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:26 am #

      Yes. I have been searching for people who see what I see, and people who open my eyes to things I haven’t seen yet.

    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

      “Who you gunna believe? Me or your lying eyes?” Eddie Murphy back in the day

  13. gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 10:28 am #

    “There may be a half-assed attempt to establish some kind of official US digital currency (this has been rumored for years.) The experiment will fail. Americans will resist being herded into that corral where their every financial transaction is traceable, taxable, and punishable. They will have learned their lesson about that from the Covid-19 tyrannies.”

    maybe a covid silver lining!

    resetting everything is not easy, even for “supermen” (supposed)

    ……

    “parasitic divergence”.. ok, but hosts are not infinite

  14. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 10:28 am #

    Hillary isn’t going anywhere. She’s too old and sick, too many people hate her guts, and even the useless Republicans are likely to get riled by such a naked attempt to subvert Democracy.

    Obama won his second term with far fewer votes than the first, he was never in charge in the first place, and nobody really wants to see him again.

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    • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:34 am #

      I propose that the system will spit up another colorful character, just like it did with Trump.

      • HomoSapiensWannaBe December 31, 2021 at 11:00 am #

        Maybe we will finally get JHK’s long-promised “Corn Pone Nazi” to lead us into the promised land. Ha Ha! Cheers!

        • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:25 pm #

          Trump is done. He red-pilled some folks and a few other good things maybe. He can go get himself reality show or something now. Mr. Corn-pone nazi is going to have to knock some heads and have more than mean tweets up his sleeve.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

      Never forget Colin Powell, that fatuous fool who lied us into Iraq and then made a fool out of himself supporting Obama cuz he was Black too.

      Even he said that everything Hillary touched turned to shit because of her weird egotism.

      • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 12:51 pm #

        He did not deceive us.
        Everyone knew it was a lie.

        You chose, not to believe it, but to accept the theater, to suspend your disbelief.

        Funny thing, there were a few in the media, the same media now working to cover for the deep state, who told us it was a lie.

        You lied to yourself.

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:14 pm #

          He deceived us. You’re lying to yourself now, making it more complicated than it is.

          Some saw through it at the time, yes.

          I had a boss at the time who worshiped him. Even afterwards. I thought that was very weird. But that’s liberal Whites for you. He was pretty cool on WW2. There are partial awakenings…..

          • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 1:43 pm #

            You deceived you
            Don’t go projecting… again

          • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:27 pm #

            Ok, both you guys are kind of right. But Colon Powell will go down in history as a piece of shit

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 2:56 pm #

        I think Colin has been flushed down the toilet where he belongs. A tool from My Lai to Iraq. Take a too much to reinflate him at this point.

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 10:29 pm #

          I think corn pone will come from AOCs crew, the gang of four.

  15. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:28 am #

    It’s even worse for China. Apparently 85% of their ‘fresh’ water is toxic. They don’t really produce their own fossil fuels. They need to make some aggressive moves on the world stage to keep their people from starving. This push to get the American military vaxxed up and purged of conservatives is likely to soften us up for some kind of takeover with UN ‘peacekeepers’ running around. I used to poo poo this idea, but it makes more sense every day.

    • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 10:53 am #

      Yes, and despite ‘Climate’ promises made to the gullible West at COP26, China is balls to the wall mining every ton of coal it can get its hands on. I’m not sure what Captain Planet — John Kerry — expected when he visited Xi Jinping last year brandishing his “leave it in the ground” (fossil fuels) dictum? Did Kerry expect the CCP to end coal mining, throwing 10 million people out of work? Would Uncle Xi, to appease UN Climate fanatics worried about 1.5° C temp rise by c2100, shut down coal fired electric power plants, plunging the country into a dark age with people freezing to death in their Siberian winters?

      • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:04 am #

        There’s not enough coal, oil, natgas, solar panels, wind turbines or firewood to keep this old hulk plowing the waves, let alone enough to keep warm for much longer. Nuclear is the white hat, but it’s a pipe dream for now. First, the Great Dying II. The first was about 250 million years ago!

        • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:42 pm #

          There is if we quit letting those who don’t do a damn thing have it.

          That will straighten their ass out in about a week when they are cold, hungry and no one has any pity for them.

          Let me just simplify my position. We have all been given equal opportunity. Equal out come is bs.

          You…me…everyone…has to get out of bed every damn day and go to work, be kind to others, be helpful to others a well whatever else you can do.

          That is how the planet or the earth works.

          • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

            Amen

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 2:59 pm #

        No, but Uncle Jo will freeze his people to death – happily, and with massive support!

        The Green New Deal is about killing off expensive westerners in order to hand management of the world over to China (who has proven that they can deal with large populations).

      • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 5:36 pm #

        I’m guessing Kerry & Jinping had a good long laugh at the shit Kerry has to say in public to keep the fear over GW alive.

      • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:31 pm #

        China can mine all they want, but the primo stuff is already dug out of the ground and burned. Same story all over the place. Jed Clampet oil is gone. Fracking is living on borrowed time.

    • tahoe1780 December 31, 2021 at 10:59 am #

      China is moving aggressively to build out nuclear power infrastructure. The thorium designs are especially intriguing.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
      Nuclear power in China – Wikipedia
      China is one of the world’s largest producers of nuclear power. The country ranks third in the world both in total nuclear power capacity installed and …

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-climate-goals-hinge-on-440-billion-nuclear-power-plan-to-rival-u-s
      China Climate Goals Hinge on $440 Billion Nuclear Power Plan
      Nov 2, 2021 … China’s ultimate plan is to replace nearly all of its 2,990 coal-fired generators with clean energy by 2060. To make that a reality, wind and …

      https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210912-why-china-is-developing-a-game-changing-thorium-fuelled-nuclear-reactor
      Why China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear …
      Sep 12, 2021 … China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new …

      https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/23/asia-pacific/china-first-modular-nuclear-reactor/
      China is home to world’s first small modular nuclear reactor
      Dec 23, 2021 … China continues to stake its claim as the world’s biggest proponent of new nuclear energy technology, connecting its first small modular …

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/04/23/china-will-lead-the-world-in-nuclear-energy-along-with-all-other-energy-sources-sooner-than-you-think/
      China Will Lead The World In Nuclear Energy, Along With All Other …
      Apr 23, 2021 … As of this month, China has 49 nuclear reactors in operation with a capacity of 47.5 GW, third only to the United States and France. And 17 …

    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:04 am #

      UN “Peacekeepers” are amongst the most useless soldiers on the planet. They would be dealt with very quickly if they ever set food on American soil.

      • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 1:26 pm #

        UN Peacekeepers will be joined by DNCs private blackshirt formations Antifa, BLM mobs, blackblock and AOCs Climate Corps. AOC will be a field commander, wearing a red beret, not a blue helmet.

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:39 pm #

          UN Peacekeepers:

          Provided with public transportation the likes of which have never been witnessed by the American public. Given access to the location of every one of us at any second. Suppressing a population that has been denied access to bank accounts, food supplies, transportation, communication. A population who doesn’t look or sound anything like any of them. I think that’s what we will have to deal with. Stupid, yes, but ultimately, too many.

    • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 10:33 pm #

      No UN peacebots tax, the army is already here, just came in through the southern border. Question is, does it go hot spring, summer, fall?

      Summer of chaos is my bet.

  16. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:31 am #

    Obama, Hillary, ‘Joe Biden, Kamala. What difference does it make. The same people are in the background pulling the puppet strings.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:05 pm #

      Yes, the Rothschilds – the International Bankers – the people the National Socialists fought.

      • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 12:41 pm #

        What a shame they couldn’t tell the difference between the Rothschilds and the little Jewish bakery on Main Street, with its broken windows. Category errors. Again.

        Makes about as much sense as blaming a small family fisherman in Cornwall for the sins of the City of London.

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:10 pm #

          In other words, you tacitly and implicitly admit I am fundamentally right, whatever the details.

          Thank you. I’m going to bask in that for awhile before I clear up the details with you.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 1:44 pm #

            Words that you put in other people’s mouths remain your words, not theirs.

            If I ‘admit’ anything, I will be sure to let you know, and the words will be mine.

            Bask in your self-admiration as long as it pleases you.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 1:51 pm #

            And I’m not getting involved in a discussion of either national socialism or the second world war, so don’t waste your time. It’s not the point and I’m not going to help you ride your hobby horse. I’ve made my point and I’m done with it. Thanks for your understanding, etc. etc.

          • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:15 pm #

            I think, actually, that GA meant you are fundamentally wrong. And I agree with her. I hope this won’t shock you, Jared, but 99.9% of Jews aren’t actually scheming international bankers drinking the blood of Christian virgins. You need to stop reading the Daily Stormer, Amren, Unz review, or whatever delusional bilge you are indulging in. It’s not good for you, fella!

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:38 pm #

            So when they were told to boycott German shops (oh they didn’t tell you that? Only the German response to boycott theirs?), did they?

            They did. Don’t judge others by your wimpy self. Some people take nationhood and being part of a people seriously. Ask any Japanese patriot. They’ll tell you that the hundreds of thousands of Koreans in Japan take orders from Seoul. Are they wrong? Bet they aren’t.

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:41 pm #

            Alba: Still controlled by the mob who is controlled by the media, I see. Your awakening is partial indeed.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 9:16 pm #

            Methinks thou dost extrapolate too much.

            If you need help with your list of new year’s resolutions, let me know.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

            Ah, back to that bastion of feminine foolishness, rule 101, No Generalizing (thinking).

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

            Let me correct that in view of your devious manipulation.

            Methinks thou dost extrapolate inappropriately.

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

          they aren’t as separate as they may seem from outside. That’s your trouble, you can’t see the forest for the trees.

          A similar thing happens with our other friends, of the moslem faith. Only a few radicals but all the rest (most at least) support them and hope the radicals are successful.

          The Jews all work in the Jews favour, not that the rich ones don’t sacrifice the poorer ones continually. But the poorer ones support and work with the rich ones in whatever they do. Even unto their deaths.
          Their deaths are often needed to push policy.

        • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 3:42 am #

          @ GreenAlba:

          The “little guy” Jews in the US–at least it appears to me, and unlike the Cornwall fisherman–seem to act collectively as a constituency for the criminal-banking Jews at the top of the food chain. Also, the news media that support the destruction of nations is not almost entirely made up of Cornwall fishermen.

          The “little guy” Jews share of the blame for the doings of our criminal PTB is roughly the same as the share of blame one would allocate to the “Karens” who support the covid bullshit. While I do not advocate exterminating the Karens, or even breaking their windows, I can’t help but think they should go live somewhere else. Maybe Israel, where they could be vaxxed to death and force everyone else to be vaxxed to death to their hearts’ content.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:11 pm #

        Yawn. Is that the latest Daily Stormer/Amren oped? If you think the Nazis were good, you’re a sad maniac, Jarek.

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:40 pm #

          Got it? America and the Allies completely good. Germany completely bad.

          You’re a fool. Change your name. You have no right to the name of a Germanic hero.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 9:17 pm #

            Do you live next door to a straw man factory?

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

          at least he’s not demonstrably ignorant.

  17. Hardrock December 31, 2021 at 10:36 am #

    The longer all this proceeds, the less faith any of us have in any of our leaders or our institutions. There may not be a cataclysmic event but rather a constant and insidious erosion of trust until we wake up one day far away from where we started.

    • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:37 am #

      There’s this book called the 4th turning and one of the core premises in that work is that people lose all faith in their institutions right before a violent rate of change takes place.

      • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 1:31 pm #

        Yes: very relevant to what’s currently happening. The 4th Turning is an excellent book by Strauss and Howe, now hard to find except on Kindle or audio. Interestingly, it is the subject of a documentary film called Generation Zero, produced by Steve Bannon, who is a major proponent of the Strauss-How Generational theory, as expressed in the book.

        • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 1:52 pm #

          One prominent premise of the Strauss-Howe Generational theory is that every 80 years, there is a major life changing crisis for the Western World in general and in particular the US. 80 years before 2022 was 1942: Fucking ominous !

          • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 10:51 pm #

            Every 80 years, almost Fibonacci, the seventh wave is a monster…

        • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 2:26 pm #

          Here’s the abridged version of The Fourth Turning

          Strong men create good times
          Good times create weak men
          Weak men create bad times
          Bad times create strong men

          • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 3:02 pm #

            As a fellow pro-patriarchy sexist, I totally agreed that your above abridged version conveys the key events in the 4th Turning. The notion that weak mean create bad times, should be shockingly noticed as currently true by all with an IQ over 100.

            With all due respect to Strauss (who has passed with pancreatic CA) and Howe, I would add, ‘crazy power hungry women, who grab power during good times, create weak men.’

          • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:41 pm #

            Jtin, I’ve quoted that as well. By the way, where do the current army of Nurse Ratcheds that administrate us to death fall into this paradigm?

        • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 2:28 pm #

          My heartfelt apologies for that sexist, patriarchal retelling.

          • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 3:03 pm #

            The truth is the truth.
            No apology needed. At least not here.

          • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 4:26 pm #

            /sarc 😉

          • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 4:05 am #

            @ neurodoc and JTinMD:

            I am all in favor of men being given responsibility, in hopes that it would have a maturing influence on them. But it would be wise to take it slow on that.

            Refusal to take responsibility is precisely the how men came to be so much disregarded. Counting on a man and being a stay-at-home wife and mother is perhaps the most high-risk of all career choices. Neither fathers nor mothers advise their daughters to pursue such a career. They know it will lead to Grandma and Grandpa supporting the grandkids.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:16 pm #

        If the 4th turning means being disillusioned with our “leaders”, then we’re probably passed the 7th turning and are heading down the highway towards the sunset.

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

          haha, good one

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:45 pm #

      I think the plan is, that on that one day far away, we don’t wake up at all.

      Easier to bury us – or let us bury ourselves – than to fight us.

  18. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:39 am #

    Be aware of civil war. Be aware of your surroundings. Your skin color may wind up being your uniform.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:17 pm #

      The so called pandemic didn’t stop the Refugee Resettlement program at all. The so called Churches are busy little bees working to destroy our Civilization with 3rd World incursion into the last remaining White areas. We must have nothing for ourselves. Nothing. Their utter ruthlessness is beyond comprehension.

      • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:18 pm #

        Illegal immigration is a crime and a disgrace. But maybe white people should start helping themselves. You know, actually having kids and raising families.

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:44 pm #

          While others breed on their dime? That’s like trying to clean up an overflowing tub before you turn the faucet off.

          You need to think in simple terms like this – otherwise you won’t be able to think at all I’m afraid. Your mind has been captured like so many others.

          • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 7:57 pm #

            Many blacks have always hated whitey. No change there. But this agenda of anti-white racism seems to be orchestrated by ‘elite’ whites and many of their foot soldiers are idiot white liberals. It doesn’t even seem to matter that they are sometimes the victims of their stupid agenda. That’s how stupid they are. Never seen anything so strange in my life.

        • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 4:22 am #

          I think you make a good point. Self-selecting for genetic extinction seems to me like a bad idea.

          I’ve been out of the traditional labor market for a long time, so I may not be aware of how difficult it is to raise and support kids these days, but our progenitors raised large families in difficult times. My mother was one of eleven children. That family went through some rough times during the Great Depression. Many families in my neighborhood in the 1950s had a tough time making ends meet. They sacrificed: one car, one black-and-white TV, and a telephone enshrined on a doily because it was a luxury item.

          Most of us wouldn’t be here if our ancestors had prudently decided not to reproduce because times were tough. Times are always tough.

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 9:52 am #

            …one car, one black-and-white TV, and a telephone enshrined on a doily because it was a luxury item.

            Were you at our house in the Sixties, Anthea? I’m no. 7 of 9 kids, and your description is a perfect match, down to the doily under the heavy, black Bakelite telephone. One bathroom for nine kids and two parents! Those were the days. Now you’ve got me all nostalgic.

          • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

            @ JTinMD:

            Many people who are around my age grew up without running water–pulled it up from the well and heated it on the wood stove for washing dishes and doing laundry. The day’s drinking water was in the kitchen–a bucket with a dipper. Our neighbors behind us were stylin’. Their hand pump was in the kitchen instead of the back yard. I am personally very much in favor of running water, having lived without it.

            My mother, who grew up in the Depression, once said that things are not better now–just different.

            What makes life good?

      • lastman December 31, 2021 at 10:50 pm #

        Hey brother, just doing their best to keep their 501c3 status in tact.

        I’ll have to leave it at that. 😉

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:04 pm #

          There is another possible outcome should ‘the warning’ happen. That is, the true delineation lines are drawn once we know for a fact God exists and exactly where we individually stand with Him.

          And I’ll go out on another limb since my batting average is so stellar, that by Putins deadline or a hot Crimean war, or by is it January 6th when Musk turns on the eternal eye and oh it’s 5g I was thinking about. Right. When 5g rolls out jan 6th I think, that’d be a good time for the warning,… because, have you heard the 5g Wuhan theory? That it was set at 28ghz or so and that’s why peeps were dropping dead.

          And that is the eventual plan. Start low, go to 28ghz. Detrimental to human life. It basically microwaves people, and things. I see many propane explosions, transformer collapses.

          If you can live in a faraday cage they say you might survive it.

          Hah how’s that for a prediction?

          • crudgemudgeon January 1, 2022 at 12:40 am #

            I’ve never been so happy to live in a single wide tin trailer.. To think, I might go from trailer trash to one of the last men on earth, in the twinkling of an eye. Thanks, Anmar.

          • lastman January 1, 2022 at 10:19 am #

            crumug…GOOD ONE!

            I had to read it a second time to get it! First time was like wtf is he/she talking about!

            Single wide tin trailer = faraday cage

            Excellent!

        • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 11:31 am #

          Lastman,

          I vaguely recall a book title with your name in it. Please help if you’re able. It’s driving me nuts!

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

            Never mind. I remember.

            The End of History and the Last Man

            Francis Fukuyama

  19. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 10:40 am #

    On the covid topic, just so no one remains unclear on this, Alex Berenson was right, when he made the statements that got him kicked off twitter.

    The “vaccines” don’t help prevent death or hospitalization. We can see this with our own eyes, despite the sickening testimonials from everyone in government who got the shots and is now getting sick:

    Vaccines don’t stop Covid hospitalizations or deaths

    They never have, even at peak effectiveness. A huge US database offers proof

    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccines-dont-stop-covid-

    hospitalizations

    The Pfizer shots do more harm than good. This is what Dr. Malone kicked off Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/diedsuddenly/status/1476316884513574915?s=20

    People also are getting censored for sharing Rachel Maddow lying and saying the shots stop the spread of covid.

    They are determined to keep dragging out the scamdemic until they get their government “papers” to participate in public life, and perhaps even to buy food, forced on the entire populace.

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    • tahoe1780 December 31, 2021 at 11:04 am #

      More harm than good: https://rumble.com/vqx3kb-the-pfizer-inoculations-do-more-harm-than-good.html

      • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:21 am #

        Thanks.

    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:07 am #

      Excellent points, Beryl. Even many anti-jabbers fail to realize that it’s not just about the clot shot; it’s just as much (if not more) about getting everyone in a digital surveillance system. Over here in Europe, many anti-jabbers are getting their antibody passes, showing they’ve “recovered” from China flu. Great! Now they’re free and back to normal, and they never had to take the jab! Chew on that, Deep State! Wrong. They too are now part of the digital gulag.

      • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 6:11 pm #

        COVert IDentification launched in twenty 19.

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:08 pm #

          You figure that out yourself messi?

          • messianicdruid January 1, 2022 at 9:29 am #

            Of course not. All I remember is seeing a picture of some 5G equipment being installed with COV19 stamped in the interior.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

      https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211122-pfizer-says-covid-shot-100-effective-in-adolescents-after-4-months

      100% effective. Albert Bourla. This guy has to pay.

      • debt December 31, 2021 at 3:35 pm #

        Most of these big Pharma, government bureaucrats who are pushing us around are members of the tribe.

        • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:47 pm #

          OMG! Is this true? Alba, call the police. Hereward, to arms!

          What did Chesterton say? Someday saying that grass is green will be a matter of drawn swords.

          • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 5:00 pm #

            Grass, if it has an opinion on the matter, might object to being “objectified” by us dirt-walkers. What if grass decides to stick with its own kind (the other veggies – whom we now know communicate more intensively than Facebook among themselves)? Now that it is planted everywhere, what need has it of us to continue to propagate it?

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

            Good work, Black. Anything to get away from the dreaded subject. Solemn tomfoolery will do, even if devoid of your usual wit. I feel like treading on you as if you were a lawn.

          • debt January 1, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

            lol

          • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

            Put your glasses on and read it again JarJar.

      • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 6:54 am #

        Re the France 24 article, note they say ‘Covid itself can cause myocarditis, both more often and a more severe form.”

        Peter McCullough says the exact opposite, that it’s much more serious with the vaxx – he explains it in that 90-minute presentation I’ve cited so much. Both he and Robert Malone say there’s no such thing as ‘mild myocarditis’ – two thirds of myocarditis sufferers will be dead within 5 years. Lee Merritt said that as well.

        And one of them, at least, mentioned sub-clinical myocarditis – with damage to the heart that no-one even knows about at the time.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          “damage to the heart that no-one even knows about”

          Have you heard of any kind of estimates for what those numbers might be? That’s an interesting number.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

            Sorry, no, TD – I can’t even remember who said it and where, but it was definitely mentioned. By definition, it would be almost impossible to gauge. Like knowing that the vaxxes are carcinogenic but not being able to predict, at this point, how many people are quietly developing cancers they wouldn’t ordinarily have had. Meanwhile they keep trying to eliminate the control groups, so that it will be impossible to say, years from now, if the extra cancers are due to the vaxx (although they seem to be fast-track cancers, as well as cancers in remission becoming aggressive and metastatising.

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            What does it even matter? With their liability umbrella intact, who ya gonna sue? So the makers are immune while the jabbed get myocarditis, infertility, etc. Nice work, if you can get it!

    • Bilejones December 31, 2021 at 1:27 pm #

      The desperate attempt to for the vaccine under any pretext or none is not really about a universal vaccine Id . It’s about destroying the control group.

      In five years time it is entirely possible that the vaxxed and the boosted are dying at twice the rate of the purebloods.

      I’m sure plan A for that is concealment through censorship, Plan B is just Lie Harder and Better but plan C undoubtedly involves the broad use of State Violence.

    • Mac December 31, 2021 at 9:14 pm #

      They are just trying to keep it going to allow at least one more round of mass mail in ballots.

  20. Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 10:42 am #

    “This is just the tired old scheme called kicking the can further down the road. The problem is, we’re at the end of the road.” I thought we were at the end of the road in ’08 (maybe we were), until they brought in HP et al to cook up the “too big to fail” scheme.

    One of the questions I have is “are there any more rabbits in the hat?” The sooner we run out of them, however painful it will be, the sooner some sort of healing can begin.

    • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 10:56 am #

      Rabbits? Maybe rats in bunny drag.

  21. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 10:51 am #

    Agreed that the central bank digital currencies won’t work. Not only do they need a glitch-free matrix for that to go smoothly, but they came out of the closet too soon. The build back better marketing strategy was a pretty big fail at the box office. Too much trust has already been violated.

    • Islander December 31, 2021 at 11:07 am #

      They also need a shit load of energy to run.

      I think.

      • lastman December 31, 2021 at 11:38 am #

        Speaking of a shit load of energy being used, I wonder how much is wasted daily on all of the geoengineering going on across the world right now?

        If any of you have a spare hour and a half, head over to http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org and listen to Dane’s year end wrap up. The man is a badass. We should all be aspiring to do what he does. I am sure trying on all fronts.

        One of the things he mentions that is bothering me is that his team is finding surfactants in water/snow samples across the US. Surfactants make things slipperier. It seems we are having more vehicular accidents here in the Redoubt this year. Some fatal.

        Wish I had access to a public lab with testing equipment to verify this. I bet it would be easy to tell.

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:29 pm #

          Surfactants and “anti-lock” brakes. For decades I was able to bring my car/truck to a stop on rain-soaked, snow-covered, sleety roads. No more. Thanks to “anti-lock” brakes I now slide effortlessly through every intersection (sometimes backwards!) that I didn’t start stopping for at least half a mile earlier. Rain, snow, sleet, even spit on the road – sorry, I can’t stop now! Thanks for making me safer! The ruthless shitification of everything.

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

          It was in full force here today, after quite a long break from overt sky covering. (here being the mountains of Andalucía)

    • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 6:19 pm #

      Reggie Middleton will become a household name.

  22. pranah December 31, 2021 at 10:59 am #

    A sobering read indeed on this last day of the year. Thank you, James, for all your hard work and excellent writing–I’ve followed you for years now and you always deliver. To you and all at CFN, Happy New Year, yes, really. 🙂

    In other news, former New Mickey Mouse Club member Tiffini Hale, age 46, is dead of a heart attack. Vaxxxed? Want to bet?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/tiffini-hale-mickey-mouse-club-and-the-party-member-dead-at-46/ar-AASjxSP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:22 pm #

      Deaths for 2020? Nothing unusual. But for 2021? We should be able to see a real “spike”!

    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:20 pm #

      Come on, Pranah. Middle aged members of the NMMC are known for dropping dead for no reason. What’s the big deal? /s

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

        Surprised she made it to the ripe old age of 46. Must not have been a “star”.

  23. SvrzoH December 31, 2021 at 11:00 am #

    Last two years were as if governments, media, medical field and regulatory agencies of the world were given music sheets of the long Covid symphony. Even without rehearsal we were subjected to world class performance, worthy of standing ovation.
    In 2022, my take is that something has to give. Calm calls for reason, peaceful protest did not amount to much so I am afraid that some “event-zero” will turn violent.
    Vienna and Melbourne for years exchanging top spots as the. most livable cities in the world – what an irony from today’s perspective.

    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:08 am #

      “In 2022, my take is that something has to give”. Affirmative!

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

        Yes – us.

  24. Islander December 31, 2021 at 11:01 am #

    Wow, thanks very much for this tour de force!

    I think that took a lot of effort, and it is appreciated.

    So, we have the bad news.

    Now: How to survive and protect the little one has?

    How to make a thousand little decisions that add up to one’s personal fate.

    How to help others preparre? I am thinking of my fave great-nephew, applying to college.
    Will he read this? Will it be too depressing? How to get him to do so! I don’t think the 4-year college thing will be worth it for him.

    How to continue gracefully, regardless of what lies ahead?

    The rubber will hit the road in two-oh-deuce.

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    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:13 am #

      Islander, I see nothing but a religious outlook and mindset working against what may be coming our way.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 6:12 pm #

      To me, college seems like the biggest waste of energy, resources and money going.

      Young people would be wise to go into the trades about now.

    • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:20 pm #

      This is harsh isle, but when this goes hot tell him to go here,… frat of st benoit joseph labre, 163, route 109, Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire, Quebec, Canada, J0Y-2K0 …… for survival of the species.

  25. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:01 am #

    Regarding the Deep State and President Trump, I am seeing more and more indications that the Deep State was heavily involved in that coronavirus task force from minute one.

    Someone here mentioned to me that VP Pence was Deep State.

    I came across this article, where a woman who like me, is a Trump supporter, is taking him to task for his actions and statements around the coronavirus response and the “vaccines”.

    She says something illuminating here, when she points out that it was Pence (who she refers to as “Deep Stater Pence” later in the article) was the one who sent the president to the controlled-opposition Heritage Foundation.

    Trump’s Lethal “Operation Warp Speed” Jabs

    “The mere fact that it took President Trump four years to realize just exactly who and what his Vice President really was, and who and what his Senior Counselor, Kellyanne Conway was…tells me the man has little discernment as to those who are really on his side. Pence sent Trump to controlled-opposition Heritage Foundation and Conway sent him to the Federalist Society, both of whom steered Trump to Supreme Court nominees who, we now know, are anything but conservative. Conway and Pence have been friends for years and have family who are intermarried. They worked together.

    Pence was given challenge after challenge by Trump, and failed at every one of them, including being in charge of the Coronavirus Task Force. He gave us Fauci, Birx and Redfield and they destroyed our economy and Trump…just as their handlers planned. Read Pence’s history… [Link], [Link], [Link], [Link].

    On January 6th, 2021, Pence stabbed Trump in the back and the Republic in the heart. Finally, after four years, Trump saw the real face of his Vice President…one who had no problem elbow bumping with Pelosi.”

    So, whether you believe Trump was “controlled opposition” or not, and I do not, there is certainly ample evidence that he was being controlled to some degree by controlled opposition.

    My opinion is that VP Pence belongs in prison. It is a major scandal, one for the ages, that the guy who created the virus (or helped in its creation) was put in charge of the task force to handle the virus.

    The man had a mile long record of deceit, failure, incompetence, skullduggery, cruelty, and depraved indifference to human life.

    He should never have been allowed inside the White House. Dr. Mengele wasn’t available so they got the next best thing.

    • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:41 am #

      I can’t believe how so many people still have any confidence at all in our political system and/or politicians. Throw da bums out! All of ‘em!

      • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 1:43 pm #

        Agreed!!! The obvious failure of trump should tell everyone that there are no politicos who are for the people or who can, or want to, help stop the deep state juggernaut. We are truly on our own.

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:33 pm #

          Yup. But – 2022!! Nope – the year the screws get screwed down tighter.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:37 pm #

          Agreed. No one is coming to save us.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:26 pm #

      Trump is a pussy too. He could have spoken the Truth; used the bully pulpit to derail the covid agenda. But he was afraid. Just like he was afraid to take action when the election was stolen from him. Just like he was afraid to support Ashley Babbitt and the January 6 prisoners. Just like he’s afraid of going to prison, so he’s become a vax shill.

      • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 12:35 pm #

        It is not that he’s a “pussy” as much as the (not a)vaccine has been so intertwined with his rule. A trophy that he eagerly stashed on his white house mantle.

        There is a particular brilliance in allowing Trump to take credit for something (that does not work) that purportedly saves millions of lives, and was developed and (not)approved in record time.

        In essence, they played him.
        They know his ego always trumps his sense.

        He’s a vainglorious and egotistical show-man.
        All eyes on me, all the time.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 2:33 pm #

          As far as his support for the vaccine goes, he could produce maybe a million highly credentialed individuals who are saying exactly the same thing.

          I don’t know of anyone who has gone to the doctor’s recently, and their doctor has not pushed the shot heavily.

          He was clearly told something along the lines of, “Here we have a disease, a virus to end all viruses. Millions of people are going to die, all over the world. Our only hope for many lies with a vaccine, but you know, it’s too bad, there’s one that’s nearly ready, but first it has to go through so much government red tape….”.

          That’s throwing red meat in front of a hungry lion.

          If everything that people told him was true, his achievement would have been something stupendous for mankind.

          Who would believe that so many in medicine, pharmaceuticals, and “public health” could be this corrupt?

          AS for ego, nobody who has ever run for president hadn’t had an inflated ego. No one.

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:49 pm #

            You’re forgetting his tweets of anti-covid hysteria doctors. His trying to stop testing without telling people WHY (because it’s a fraud). He knew. He’s not stupid. But not telling people the Truth on that made his look ridiculous.

          • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 5:24 pm #

            That’s a big problem with our traditional electoral process: those with a big enough ego to get elected, are generally those with such a big ego that we should never trust them to favor us over themselves.

            If, some day in the future, some of us arise, choking on concrete dust but otherwise alive… Each citizen (adult, voluntary contract) gets one vote – and is subject to election to any office. No one runs for office. Anybody tries to, tar and feather him and run him outa town. County Commissioners elected from among Township Supervisors. (City stuff, translate as appropriate.) Governor from among County Commissioners. Similar for federal representation.

            And that’s just the electoral process…

          • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 6:17 pm #

            You’re asking me to believe that Trump, a billionaire con man, who was close friends with the Clintons, didn’t know that the CDC and the NIH were corrupt? Or the level of Deep State control?

            But I knew those things in 2016. How is it possible Trump did not?

          • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:45 pm #

            Blackbird, in the old days men, (packing), went down to the courthouse and stood outside and took a vote. They all had skin in the game.

        • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 5:05 pm #

          Trump wasn’t smart enough to do the job that needed to be done. We shouldn’t have expected him to do that job.

          • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 6:51 pm #

            We are all actors in this play. His role is occulted as a part of the script. I’m gonna watch the whole thing before being a critic.

          • wokethis January 1, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

            I believe that people were so profoundly desperate for someone, anyone, who wasn’t a horse thief, that he was the only alternative…

          • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

            Attempting to fix the problem by selecting the occupant of the top office from among two pre-approved options is never going to solve anything.

            By treating government as a spectator sport, we have made it one.

      • Paula D December 31, 2021 at 1:01 pm #

        Jarek will you please post that letter from the jailed Jan. 6th protester that talks about the conditions in the jail?

        • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 1:34 pm #

          On the other hand, in Portland and Seattle, rioters arrested for assaulting police officers, setting a federal courthouse on fire, and throwing molotov cocktails at city hall are having their cases dismissed, or given light sentences.

          • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 1:45 pm #

            You mean to tell me that Soros’ handpicked and financed DA’s are not prosecuting his paid every-4-years agitators?

            It’s almost as if people refuse the truth.

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:48 pm #

          That was brutal. 2 ppl asked to be removed from my email list when I sent that out. 1 former friend, 1 family.
          Maybe they’ll come around. Can’t hold my breath much longer.

          • lastman January 1, 2022 at 11:51 am #

            Your better off without them. Cut your losses.

            Hope they have the stomach for what’s to come.

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:40 pm #

        I don’t think he was so much afraid, as he was playing the role assigned to him. (Is he afraid now? No, he’s another Obama, farting from the sidelines, for his followers to snort.) January 6 is all on Trump. His most loyal (if misguided) supporters – and he threw them on the fire.

        Even rotting in prison they won’t say it: “Fuck you Donald Trump!”

        Everybody yelling “Trump 2024!!!!!” – you will get what you deserve, and then some.

        • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 6:18 pm #

          His supporters are like Bernie Sanders supporters.

          Bernie threw his supporters under the bus TWICE and some are still coming back for more.

          There’s no learnin’ ’em.

          • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

            I know! “Feel the Bern!” I like the irony. I felt the Bern – once was enough for me. But for my vaxx shootin’, mask-wearin’, Obama-lovin’ friends (I know – how do they put up with me?):

            Bern me once, then Bern me twice.
            Then Bern me once again…

        • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 9:05 am #

          Yer right, Blackbird. January Sixth handed him a yuuuge, beautiful, golden opportunity to be the hero; not on that day, but soon thereafter. From then on, all he had to do was just stand up for the “insurrectionists,” with loud and bitter rhetoric. He’s a pussy.

          • lastman January 1, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

            I laughed uncontrollably when in the beginning, most I know were extolling the, “he’s been installed to oversee the bankruptcy of the US, If anyone can right this, drump is the man.” Drain the swamp baby!

            LMFAO some more. I mentioned to them that no one really survives 4 bankruptcies. You don’t just walk away from them completely intact a hero. You don’t walk away with a medal around your neck. They cut you THEIR deal and “the dude abides.”

            They are the money changers…remember them?

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

        Time to move on from Trump. Love him or hate him, he’s part of history now. Whatever political capital he had left, a huge % is now gone with his idiotic position on the shot.

    • Paula D December 31, 2021 at 12:59 pm #

      He shouldn’t have fired Flynn and Bannon. He should have put RJK Jr on the task force.
      He fired the ones he could trust and kept the back stabbers.
      Big mistake.

      • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:05 pm #

        Is this why you left Communism? Because they’re for the Jab?

        • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

          Jarek, will you please link to that letter from Washington DC jail?

      • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 2:38 pm #

        I think I recall Pence playing a part in the firing of Flynn.

        He made some serious mistakes, but a lot of his critics forget how bad his own party had it in for him.

        As far as Bobby Jr. goes, President Trump did something he would often do.

        Using his own instincts, when the people concerned about vaccines approached him, he listened, and asked Bobby to be his head of vaccine safety.

        This was controversial, but so is Trump.

        Then he talked to an expert, second guessed his own instincts, and left Bobby hanging.

  26. getsome December 31, 2021 at 11:03 am #

    James Howard: In times of challenge, I ALWAYS defer to your fantastic ending of “Living in the Long Emergency”. Something out there WILL take us out. Have faith and treat each other kindly. These calamities are exactly as was in the past, only the external clothing has changed to confuse those ignorant of history. Pet peeve; this/that/he/it is the greatest in human history. Ex. More were killed in that battle (45.000), than any battle in human history. Reality, Sekigehara, 1600 Japan, 60,000 dead in one day. The point is the human ape needs to feel this timeframe, with them in it, is the most glorious/important/horrific/evil, etc… Nothing has changed re depredations visited upon those not in power. Genghis Khan, Attila, the Sun King, 1800’s England, Hitler’s Germany and so on. But, we are today alive to personally bear witness, hence it the MOST – fill in the rest.
    Here in Southern Va, no stores closed, masks for the first few months and not all played; NEVER stopped at Wally World due to no mask (neighbors, ya know). Daily gunshots as deer season still ongoing; warm (60’s to 70) so garden turning ongoing; schools open; yard nativity scenes still about in number; jab rate low, eyes mostly open. Hard working, distrustful of gov’t. FJB to max. Long Emergency accreditation conferred! (Awaiting your Eminence to visit and bless).
    May you and those of importance to you thrive in the coming year, or May your personal “something” out there be quick.
    Thank You for sharing your unique perspective here, without which I, for one, would not formulate my life narrative nearly as soundly OR be able to face projected experience as calmly.

    • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 3:58 pm #

      Getsome what’s the feeling in rural Va about the destruction of Confederate monuments? Indifference? Acceptance? Anger?

      • Mr.Mudd January 2, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

        I’m in SW VA and our county still has a statue of a confederate soldier in front of the courthouse. I can’t imagine it will be removed. But I think it’s one of a very few remaining in the state.

    • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

      Nice summary Getsome. I would point out that this time is different in some ways. This is the 1st time in world history that a falling empire losing their grasp on the printing press has had nuclear weapons. I would also argue that resource depletion has never occurred on a more global scale. The Easter Islanders cut down all their wood and the Anasazi suffered a drought etc…. but none of this has ever affected the entire population of the earth. The current decline in global energy stores seems to be affecting quite a few nations now, not just a couple of regions here and there.

  27. Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 11:11 am #

    Anyone notice how many of the psychopaths seem to be walking back their China flu hysteria? Biden basically saying leave measures to the states; the CDC deep-sixing the useless PCR test; even Comrade Tedros mumbling on about the jabs killing children. Maybe it’s all a head fake; maybe they realize the game is up. Ironically, when the China flu tide recedes, the only ones left high and dry might be Mini Mengele and….Donald Trump.

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 3:32 pm #

      A collective acceptance that mankind does not control much of anything. His worst enemy is the smallest piece of “life” on the planet. It has him totally buffaloed. Now it is time for the blame game. Who is going to get it in the shorts because they have no idea what to do?

      Then after the virus

      AGW

      Fresh water

      Micro plastic pollution

      Oil depletion

      Starvation

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 5:41 pm #

        So many real concerns, left out of the official solutions, makes me doubt the official solutions.

      • wolfbay December 31, 2021 at 6:06 pm #

        Also mass migration that will continue until the whole world is equally third world.

        • anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 11:58 pm #

          Yes migration. And war might be next, Crimea the firecracker, N Korea, Iran, China, civil war USA.

          Maybe January shifts the narrative then bank collapses/repos on mortgages start in march re Yeadens bullet points.

          • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

            At the moment, I see the threat of war to be a much more useful tool than a real war. Donbass, Taiwan, Korea – watch what the left hand (the Bad Guy) is doing, way over there, while the right hand (the Good Guy) strangles you. The only place I see a real war serving the long-term plan is Iran. Three reasons: Oil, Israel, Armageddon (it’s more popular than you might think – and difficult to separate from the second reason).

    • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

      Hereward, they’re taking a breather. Changes in strategy likely being discussed right now. Why aren’t the plebes taking the shot like they’re supposed to? Why don’t these sheep like our spokesmen Bill Gates and Fauci? Ratings of our shit media are going down, dammit. Get some lipstick on Brian Stelter. Omicon is not working, what’s our next box office release to get their attention?

      Just a pause. They are not done attacking humanity, that’s for sure.

  28. Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 11:13 am #

    In related news this morning, our esteemed Q.’s ‘Ruckers’ Scarlet Knights just kicked off to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the Taxslayer Gator Bowl in lovely JAX. Many might not have heard, but Head Coach Greg Schiano appointed Q. to the Assistant Coach for Grammar and Diction position prior to the game, so as to prevent any undue embarrassment during post-game interviews after the Knights get through slaying the Deacons.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

      Knights went down in honorable defeat to the Deacs, 38-10,but I’m pretty sure I could hear in the background of the telecast Q. yelling out from the sideline to the QB to “E-NUN-CI-ATE!” when calling signals.

  29. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 11:30 am #

    Q is all right, in his place. They just haven’t dug it yet.

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    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 11:50 am #

      Now now JT, don’t me mean. Knights trail 14-7 in the second but are threatening. If their defense only knew the meaning of ”setting the edge” they’d be ahead. Surprised a Schiano coached team doesn’t know that already.

      • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 11:52 am #

        be mean…

        I’m obviously spelling (or at least typing) challenged today.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 2:41 pm #

          Me too, but I’m blaming Climate Change.

    • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:07 pm #

      I know, Diz. I’m truly sorry, Q.

  30. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:37 am #

    Psycho evil nut bitch from hell Kathy Cuomo made a fool of herself with her crackdown calling for masks and other wacky voodoo to dispense with the virus, so she has tried to change the subject with her plan to combat the public health emergency of racism.

    Nice try, Kathy, but everybody hates you and many would prefer Andrew Cuomo to you.

    My advice would be to kill yourself because you have zero socially redeeming qualities.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:30 pm #

      Imagine trying to criminalize the most healthy thing in the world: Loving your own people!

    • neurodoc December 31, 2021 at 3:12 pm #

      Beryl: psychopaths almost never kill themselves; they prefer to rape and kill others, whether metaphorically or in reality. How many politicians have you heard of having suicided, out of the thousands we’ve had over the past 4-5 decades? I can’t think of any, despite suicide being the 10th most common cause of death in the US.

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:44 pm #

        Good point! Suicide among the rich and famous needs to be encouraged! What can we do to help them?

        • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 12:03 am #

          Send them a rock n roll “auto asphyxiation for dummies” vid.

    • Socrates-Detroit January 2, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

      It will never happen.

      Powerful people who feel a sense of profound responsibility for something gone wrong, in cultures where personal honor is very important, they have been known to commit suicide.

      The NYS governor has neither.

  31. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 11:40 am #

    How long did it take to write today’s piece, I wonder? It’s an entire abridged college textbook. If college were any good that is.

    Im not sure what the course would be, but I’m glad there isn’t going to be a test.

  32. Frank December 31, 2021 at 11:43 am #

    Thanks for the history and forecast James. May I say that you’re a fine
    American. I wish there were more
    like you in our government. I hope
    you have a good new year. Frank

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:46 pm #

      I wish there were any in “our” “government” like Mr. K.

  33. HowardBeale December 31, 2021 at 11:43 am #

    Well, Jim, “mind-fuckery” and “Twenty-Double-Deuce” in the first paragraph. LOL! I could have stopped there and had a good day.
    I didn’t have to look up “mind-fuckery,” but I did have to look up the other, and what I came up with is not good. I found nothing on “twenty” double deuce, but double deuce reaped/reapt? heaps of gifts:
    From the ‘Urban Dictionary’:
    “When a man has to take a shit, taking up the toilet stall, and another man has to go so bad that, forgoing his heterosexuality, he sits on the other man’s lap …”
    There were others, but my stomach already hurts.
    Of course we all know the classic definition of double deuce. I’m thinking that I’ve had quicker quickies than the time it would take to do Twenty Double Deuce.
    Moving on the second paragraph now…

  34. wlombard101 December 31, 2021 at 11:53 am #

    High potential for constitutional crisis in 2022. Also, Costco was out of spiral ham, two days before new years. Food hoarding in 2022.

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    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 12:04 pm #

      Local Smith’s has been picked over bad for two straight weeks now, despite never being particularly crowded. I sense something might be up too.

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:50 pm #

        Farmers destroying food. Stores without food – and at higher prices. Yeah, sounds about right to me…

        2022 – the year of the Starvation Artist.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:33 pm #

      What causes the spiral?

      • stelmosfire December 31, 2021 at 12:47 pm #

        Whirling Dervish.

        • Bilejones December 31, 2021 at 2:46 pm #

          Is Ham Halal in your part of the world?

      • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:47 pm #

        Pigs chasing their own tails.

      • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:51 pm #

        Simple things are interesting. Why did the Beatles call themselves the Beatles. What’s a Beatle? Everyone thought they knew, but we got as many different answers.

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

          Because they liked to hit woman who loved women

          • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

            I wish there was an edit button.
            because they liked to hit women who loved women?

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

          Overrated band. Crappy name.

  35. Bill of Rights December 31, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

    You’re a hard worker Jim — nice long article today.

    Could you (or someone on this blog) please explain what the “FED BALANCE SHEET” means?

    Thanks and stay free in 2022.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 12:08 pm #

      Assets vs. liabilities. Assets are greatly overstated and shrinking, liabilities are greatly understated and rising.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

        Most “Assets” can only be considered as such if some other party continually pays their debt. We’ve got mountains of assets that can turn into liabilities overnight. Deflationary destruction. Or maybe we’ll all pay off our bills and mortgages off with trillion dollar bills.

    • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:17 pm #

      Start here and research it beyond. It’s worth the effort.
      https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/10/understanding-the-fed-balance-sheet.asp

      Just like any other balance sheet, the Fed’s balance sheet consists of assets and liabilities. Each week, the Fed issues its H.4.1 report, which provides a consolidated statement of the condition of all the Federal Reserve banks, in terms of their assets and liabilities.

      • Bill of Rights December 31, 2021 at 12:21 pm #

        Thanks for your help guys.

        • Bilejones December 31, 2021 at 2:56 pm #

          The real issue with the Fed balance sheet is that it is the ledger whereby wholesale money creation takes place. It’s explosion in recent years is the cause of the massive wealth transfer from the real economy to the Wizarding World of Financialization. It’s how the rich get richer.

          It’s worth spending a little time understanding.

          https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_fedsbalancesheet.htm

          Murray Rothbard’s classic “The Case Against The Fed”

          Is available free here as download pdf or ebook or audiobook.

          https://mises.org/library/case-against-fed-0

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 12:14 am #

            Or just go to Ron Pauls website for a really quick take.
            Lots of definition changing going on over there too, and changing the metrics, sleight of hand wizards, the bullshit bafflers.

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 9:15 am #

            END THE FED

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:08 pm #

        All that paper on the Fed’s balance sheet can burn. The problem is they’re going to be the largest owners of property once all of us little people get foreclosed on. You’ll own nothing and you’ll be pissed.

        • lastman January 1, 2022 at 11:32 pm #

          I’m not sure that will happen…the little people getting foreclosed on.

          With it happening in mass, US wide, who is going to root you out?

          Someone from Bum Fk Mortgage in Bridgeport, Mass will be showing up at your door? The local sheriff? Some bean counter from some alphabet agency?

          They will have there own problems.

          No one coming to save you, no one coming to collect.

          Great time to be alive all.

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 10:03 am #

            No one coming to save you,so keep your money, and stop paying taxes, no one coming to collect.

          • lastman January 2, 2022 at 10:30 am #

            I like your style brother.

            Let’s face it, we haven’t been represented in well…our lifetimes.

            Lots of people are turning away.

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 11:36 am #

            I’m actually betting on it, lastman. All in (or out, as it were)!

  36. 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 12:10 pm #

    Humans build societies on a bedrock of lies
    Over and over again.

    And even if they try not to, if they try to begin their society with”self-evident” truths, over time, like the planks of Theseus’s trireme, the cornerstones and scaffolding of civilization are replaced with lies.
    And more lies.

    Even in this day, the so-called information age. They go unreported, unnoticed.
    But mostly ignored.
    Willfully ignored.
    Like that little chunk of knowledge stuffed in the back of your head.
    Your time will come.

    Everywhere you turn: lies and the lies needed to cover them.

    -Politics
    -Wars
    -Markets/finance
    -Health
    -Ecology (global warming, climate change, atmospheric carbon, etc.)

    The hoi polloi speak about awakening.
    Being “woke”
    Yet they are merely transitioning to another carefully programmed fantasy, dream, nightmare.
    Another lie built to control them. To steer them.

    So much in this life is contingent upon one’s ability to sustain disbelief.

    In human relations particularly.
    How many lies from colleagues, superiors, friends, family must you actively ignore or overlook?

    The expenditures in cognitive dissonance one must expel on a daily basis fuel so much in our mutual congenital acrimony, our species’ inability to get along, to progress. To be real. To be true.

    But ain’t nobody have time for that
    We must get back to “real” life and our real problems.
    The ones our very nature sentences us to, for our short eternities.

    This, and we, too shall pass

    It’s just that there are some, at the top, who prefer that we pass, move on, evolve, what have you, just a little bit more quickly.

    • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:19 pm #

      The Great Acceleration?

      • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 12:25 pm #

        Yes, and underlying it all is the exponential acceleration of population.
        The causation of most, if not all, of the pinpointed trends.

        • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:31 pm #

          i would call overpopulation an effect (of economic structure… of intensive agriculture + oil).

          the root cause is economic structure, or the group-psychological motivators of economic structure

          • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 12:42 pm #

            of course, and you can make an easy argument, very easy in fact, in support of it.

            However, we know one thing about the nature of life.
            Of most living things on this planet.

            Left unmolested, they all ultimately consume (all their energy) themselves.

            You don’t need to throw cash at yeast in a petri dish.
            or mule deer or rabbits or

          • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

            yep. are we smarter than yeast

          • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:47 pm #

            as the aborigines were

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:48 pm #

            PSA: Gustaf is all in on cannibalism. Think twice before accepting an invitation for dinner.

          • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:52 pm #

            *licks lips*

            not all in now. only a cannibal under proper conditions

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:03 pm #

            And nobody ever got around to finding poor Timothy.

            Or even looking…..

          • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 7:18 pm #

            “Politics
            -Wars
            -Markets/finance
            -Health
            -Ecology (global warming, climate change, atmospheric carbon, etc.)”

            Are you placing religion under Politics or are you simply ignoring it altogether?

          • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 10:09 pm #

            @messi (not the #10)

            Religion?
            Like I said

            Ain’t nobody got time for that

            Besides it has evolved

            The new controlling force is science

            Let me get the memo… hold on…

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 12:36 am #

            Gus, have you heard the aboriginies ‘dream time’ stories about Pangia? Un freakin believable that those tales were passed down for what, 40, or 80 k years.
            Oral tradition, respect.

    • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:23 pm #

      australian aborigines – 40,000 years of cultural continuity

      often, the lies are foundational, such as:

      “we will obviously be better-off if we grow kilo-tons of food to be stored in barns. That pesky new-testament verse in Matthew is just dumb. We’ll ignore it… Success, spread your legs!”

      • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:50 pm #

        Culture? You mean like hunting people from other tribes as game? Or eating their own children?

        • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 12:55 pm #

          to jarek, theres no “culture” without a full symphony to play wagner, which is absolutely worth the short and self-destructive course of the civilization that assembles that orchestra..

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:42 pm #

            And the Australian hollowed out log and rock drum symphony is just as good in any case, it all being in the ear of the beholder, right?

            They’re just as human as we are, even if cross bred with Homo Erectus with IQ’s in the 60’s…..

          • gustafson.robert.22 December 31, 2021 at 2:09 pm #

            this poor soul can’t enjoy the sonics of logs anymore. his ears are spoiled by over-refinement.

            and he talks down to his own much more balanced ancestors from his perch atop a sinking steam-ship, an iceberg-sliced tub that is the pride of the west

          • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 3:55 pm #

            Don’t blame me. I’d call them fauna and let them be, at least in some places. Lots of wasteland in Australia. They are adapted to it in every way. An amazing form of life, of course.

            In the Amazon we took proud warrior-farmers and turned them into alcoholic bell boys and busboys. An improvement?

          • ianw December 31, 2021 at 7:20 pm #

            [Australian Aboriginal People are] just as human as we are, even if cross bred with Homo Erectus with IQ’s in the 60’s …

            You’re being “economical with the truth” once again.

            Indigenous Australians are fully modern Homo sapiens, and are no more closely related to Homo erectus than a Chinese person, a Norwegian, someone from Omaha, or maybe Buenos Aires. Or Jarek.

            Cannibalism was not widely practised among Australian Aboriginal tribes, although reports of it were reasonably common in the century 1830-1930. It has since become a very controversial issue.

          • malthuss December 31, 2021 at 11:55 pm #

            bla bla bla

            look at how non whites are destroying the USA.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 2:28 am #

            […] look at how non whites are destroying the USA.

            Yeah well … your pointless white supremacy position has not gone un-noticed. You can’t conceive of nations where diversity and multiculturalism work – you always want to see conflict and mayhem. Sad.

            You could have a much better, more enjoyable, life, if you engaged with people different to you.

        • malthuss December 31, 2021 at 11:54 pm #

          ape men

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 2:44 am #

            Your childish racism does you no credit. Sad.

      • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

        They are certainly homo sapiens sapiens and they lived in a stable culture in a harsh environment for at least 40,000 years it seems.
        These are people who are exactly the same as us in cognitive potential. I have known many. The cultural examples are plentiful.
        My thought then naturally is, the culture was unchanging during millennia because it was basically perfect. There was no desire to change a thing.
        Otherwise, what other explanation is there?

        Perfect does not mean non-violent, nor does it mean non-sexist, nor does it mean any stupid contemporary sound bite. It means perfectly adapted to an environmental niche. And perfect for perceived quality of life.

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

          Thank you – and I worked with Aboriginal People for decades.

          Given opportunities, decent nutrition, education, and avoidance of destructive behaviour – they are sharp as a tack – humorous, perceptive, ambitious, creative, resilient … all the rest.

          The lack of change (or “progress”) was definitely a result of harmony with the environment in part, but I think isolation was a huge factor.

          When the wheel (or animal domestication, cereal crops, writing, metallurgy – many things) emerged in the fertile crescent and thereabouts – these spread like wildfire east and west – from Portugal to Vietnam.

          Aboriginals didn’t have animals to domesticate, and very few cereal crops. But mostly they lacked any contact for 50,000 years.

          • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

            “Given opportunities..”

            Why is it always the liberal’s job to “give” somebody something using somebody else’s money? Why not let them pursue their own education system and make their own opportunities. Wouldn’t that be less racist than infantalizing them with welfare and handouts from a corrupt system?

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 10:42 pm #

            Why is it always the liberal’s job to “give” somebody something using somebody else’s money? Why not let them pursue their own education system and make their own opportunities. Wouldn’t that be less racist than infantalizing them with welfare and handouts from a corrupt system?

            Your brutal Social Darwinism is showing, comrade! Do you relate to Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life”?

            Aboriginal People are – in general – hugely marginalised, and have faced massive discrimination and systemic stigmatisation for 230 years. Things only really improved from about 1970.

            Those of us who worked in this field are not all gooey-eyed liberals … many were hard-nuts with lots of years of applying tough love to such minorities.

            While I have some sympathy with the view that spending a great deal of money on Aboriginal People can lead to dependency and lack of drive, I can advise that so many Aboriginal kids start so far behind the 8-ball (including literally in the womb) that the help we provided has often borne fruit.

            Kids and young adults who do get to school, get decent meals, and a bit of support, can break the chains and the cycle, and a number do every year.

            It is worthwhile, and not corrupt at the coal-face. And most of the “handouts” in rich countries go to the already rich and the oligarchs – true story.

      • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 10:14 am #

        @ gustafson:

        Most of these romanticized views of aboriginal peoples originate in and are promoted by Hollywood and other mass media. I have never thought much about their purpose in doing this, but it is almost certainly evil, since that’s what they do.

        I think it is probably an earlier iteration of Hollywood’s purposeful denigration of Western Civilization, and whites in general. Kind of like the media’s ceaseless portrayal of blacks as cultured, capable, and intelligent–or, as in The Matrix, all-wise. Since such a portrayal of blacks would have been viewed with a jaundiced eye back in 1955, the media went with Native Americans, whom they could romanticize without push-back from the public in general, because there was so little danger of the intrusion of objective reality arising from some acquaintance with them.

        I can’t resist getting discursive here, so forgive me.

        Lots of people know people who are part Native American–or think they do. When I was growing up, about half the families on our block laid claim to Native American heritage. My childhood best friend’s family made quite a parade of the dad being half Cherokee–even to the point that the dad was always called “Chief.” As a child, I thought that was his name, since that’s all he was ever called.

        Well, a couple of years ago my childhood best friend told me that DNA testing had revealed that the family had no Native American blood at all.

        What am I getting at here? Claiming Native American ancestry is one of the customary ways in which light-skinned blacks have passed for white. My guess is that all the families claiming Native American ancestry in my childhood neighborhood did so for that reason.

        One of the tip-offs was when some of my old neighbors would post pictures on Facebook of their mother or aunt in her youth, and they were unmistakably light-skinned blacks.

        I have long wondered how it came about that this particular little town came to have so many families like this.

  37. wm5135 December 31, 2021 at 12:33 pm #

    in the approximately seventy six years since the end of World War II humanity has proven we have the intellectual capacity of yeast

    Hereward the Woke:
    “They’ve let themselves be poisoned with a fake vaccine so they can indulge in those vital existential and spiritual pleasures of going to Disneyland and watching Rage against the Machine.”

    The more upscale intelligentsia poisoned themselves at an equal or higher rate to access “the tourist theme-park of my lifetime JHK”, and such can’t do without locations such as Greenland.(members of my family)

    Two years into this debacle and not a single one of the persons i know with post graduate degrees has any idea that Robert Malone, Peter McCollugh or Geert Vanden Bossche even exist. These people have accepted every piece of disinformation without a single moment of introspection or investigation. To admit that any person with a degree is a fraud is a self indictment that is impossible for them to even consider.

    invest yourself in your family, love your neighbor and find Hope for the New Year within the mystery of your consciousness. We are not lost, just temporarily misplaced.

    Happy New Year

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 12:55 pm #

      The Mandarins are many. Real Intellectuals are few. Always were. Technology changes that not a whit. In fact, since the bright (I admit that) Mandarins are too busy with their careers to have many kids, the racial IQ is dropping and real intellectuals are becoming even more rare.

      High IQ is necessary but not sufficient. It is a thing of the spirit. The desire to really Know for its own sake. The rest just take what is given or learn just enough to use it to make money.

      Of course one never knows what will turn out to be practical. Real intellectuals stumble upon things that turn out to be profitable all the time. Thus their existence justifies them at the lower level as well as blessing a society at the higher levels.

    • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

      The developers of the early involuntary retirement injection program KNEW the majority of baby boomers would be FIRST in line:
      http://funwithdad.net/funwithdad52.html
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZ-CpINiqg

      The GOEs didn’t want to do it; FELT they OWED it to them!

      GODSPEED!!

  38. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:35 pm #

    Wait — whaaat? Our gummint did whaaat! No way!

    The worst-case scenario is worrisome,” he continued. “As long as molnupiravir is in use somewhere in the world, it could generate repeated cycles of new variants, with people desperately taking the drug to fight the new variants it spawns, creating a vicious positive feedback loop while causing more suffering and deaths… The FDA and Merck have essentially engaged the public in a gamble without public debate.

    https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/29/experts-warn-mercks-fda-authorized-covid-pill-could-create-breeding-ground-for-mutant-viruses/

    • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 1:17 pm #

      http://www.got-truth.com/images/imgC.jpg

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 3:47 pm #

      Yeah, this parallels the antibiotic problem.

      Life survives, it changes to accommodate adversity.

      Only people whose immune systems are losing the battle need to use antibiotics or antivirals,

      And always finish the course of either, so all organisms are gone, by the drug and the immune system. 100%, or here come the mutants.

      MDs and their cookbooks are the problem with antibiotics.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:32 pm #

        Well, can we have some exceptions. I never get sick, never go to the doctor for like 30 years straight. One time after mountain biking all day and dehydration, I got a urinary tract infection. In fact, I was pissing blood and it was very painful. Lucky for me, antibiotics were available and I was mostly fixed up in a couple of days. Thankfully this happened some time ago. Nowadays, they would have diagnosed me with Covid and treated me with Remdeathisnear.

  39. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:40 pm #

    Positively dreadful.

    The drug’s manufacturers, Merck and Ridgeback, are entering into licensing deals that would allow the drug to be made and sold widely in more than 105 countries, which means that, if approved by regulators, we will soon have very little control over the drug’s administration and dosages delivered,” he added. “We are potentially headed towards a world-class disaster.

    https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/29/experts-warn-mercks-fda-authorized-covid-pill-could-create-breeding-ground-for-mutant-viruses/

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  40. Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 12:44 pm #

    Regarding potential diseases like TB resurging, that’s pretty much a given.

    The Africans coming across our southern border didn’t walk there, somebody paid for their flights, and someone decided that they were exempt from all the health requirements and vaccines that legal immigrants and Americans are subject to, and the federal government is dropping them off on unsuspecting communities in the dead of night, with cooperation from local and state governments.

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:01 pm #

      The “Churches”, vile miserable traitors that they are.

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 3:49 pm #

      It is global, you name the culprits.

  41. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:46 pm #

    Again I ask, why can’t sheeple recognize the obvious anymore? It’s evil, it’s planned, and it’s point blank, right in your face! Just open your eyes, dammit!!!

    The Biden administration has already purchased millions of courses of the five-day treatment at a price point far higher than the cost of production. Merck, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company, charged the U.S. over $700 per patient for the pills, which—according to one expert analysis—cost just $17.74 per regimen to manufacture.

    https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/29/experts-warn-mercks-fda-authorized-covid-pill-could-create-breeding-ground-for-mutant-viruses/

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:26 pm #

      Crony capitalism at its finest!

  42. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 12:51 pm #

    Merck had the patent on Ivermectin, but it’s since lapsed.

    KENILWORTH, N.J., Feb. 4, 2021 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today affirmed its position regarding use of ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to-date, our analysis has identified:

    No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies;
    No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and;
    A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies.
    We do not believe that the data available support the safety and efficacy of ivermectin beyond the doses and populations indicated in the regulatory agency-approved prescribing information.

    https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

  43. Prospero December 31, 2021 at 12:54 pm #

    We can only hope that those who are now crippling, maiming and killing us and our children, with their dangerous experimental Covid drugs, will soon be stopped. But in our current, totally corrupt system, who will arrest and prosecute these psychos, “perhaps in actual criminal trials”, prior to their being executed? Probably nobody.

    Unfortunately, these 21st century crimes against humanity will most likely go unpunished.

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 4:01 pm #

      For every antivaxxer putting out their opinions, there are ten vaxxers telling everyone everything is fine and that everyone needs the jab.

      To the average know nothing that comprises the world, who do they believe?

      In the US, that would be the press for the vast majority of people.

      Number one question

      Why such a big deal in the first place over a less than 1% problem?

      Find the answer to that and you find the real problem.

      Dis, I know you do not want to hear this, but the only real way out of this mess is the dissemination of the Truth, based on fact, data, statistics so true they cannot be denied by the MSM.

      Then your everyday Joe, the 70% of our population will listen and act accordingly.

      BTW, the PTB are fighting the collection and dissemination of the Truth so they can maintain the fear factor.

      • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:25 pm #

        For every antivaxxer putting out their opinions, there are ten vaxxers telling everyone everything is fine and that everyone needs the jab.

        Yes John, but what else would you expect them to say? “Oops, honey we fucked up. No telling what’s gonna happen to us all now.”

        Dis, I know you do not want to hear this, but the only real way out of this mess is the dissemination of the Truth, based on fact, data, statistics so true they cannot be denied by the MSM

        I won’t argue with you John, other than to point out plenty of data and statistics have been produced already, and the MSM’s silence is still deafening. I think you still don’t understand the power of The Big Lie, John. That’s the basic issue. And the degree to which all statistics are fungible and poorly understood, even by the so-called “experts” themselves.

        The disconnect between the numbers and lived experience is where it’s at, Sir John. I continue to hear and read all the Covid hysteria, even locally, and then I look around and say “Huh? Something’s not right here. They’re saying one thing and I’m experiencing an entire other thing. How can that be?”

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 8:31 pm #

          Interesting.

          I live in a thirty year old enclave on the NE corner of Phoenix area. We have lived here two years. The demographics are on the high side, 70 and 80 being commonplace. Some younger people just starting to move in.

          Our social club of about one hundred have had maybe four cases of mild Covid. That is it. 100% vaccinated. It is a subject of conversation. No masks, regular get togethers. No fear.

          I have written that I believe cooler temperatures increase the crud. We have had a steady 3500 or so cases a day in Arizona since Sept. 7700 today, hmmmm. The last week has started the mid winter cooldown. What is coming, who knows. Highest number since last year.

          Looks like Omicron is re writing the book on Covid. The latest stories I have read says its transmission is impressive. Cruise lines are very close to closing down again. A wedding of 125 folks had one person show up with unknown Omicron. 75 folks got it. The vaxx plus boosters are almost worthless in defense of it. The best explanation is the 53 point modification of its s protein makes the immune system no recognize it. That plus it’s speed, 2-3 day incubation are making it spread like wildfire.

          A good question. When does Covid become non Covid, a new virus. People are comparing Omicron to Alpha when it was novel. The Feds have given up and tossed it over the fence. Opinions and conjecture are starting to harden up with data to form some basis in fact. Right now, the Vaxx crowd have taken some body blows as the virus is mutating so fast that vaccination is not keeping up with it.

          So what is next. The vaxxers and anti vaxxers are both in the Omicron crosshairs.

          Another modification and the virus wins?

          Stay well and stay apart. It seems to be the only solution.

          • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 8:58 pm #

            Well, that’s a start anyway. I see we’re going to have to wean you off this obsession of yours with *data* gradually, as it seems you’re a real junky. But it’s a process.

            In the mean time, I’m staying well regardless. I don’t really have to try to “stay apart,” since I’m single and live alone anyway. Not to mention a misanthrope, for the most part.

            I’m just “lucky” I guess, although I certainly don’t feel that way and continue to scratch my head and wonder what all the hubbub’s about.

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 9:22 am #

            Maybe also, not much vitamin D deficiency in sunny Aridzone?

  44. stelmosfire December 31, 2021 at 1:00 pm #

    What is Germany thinking. Shutting down their last nuclear power when they are already under Vlad’s thumb for their natural gas. When was the last time we built a nuclear plant in the USA? I think most of them are 40-50 years old. With new materials and designs and proper location they are the only answer to the greenies dreams of a zero carbon future.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-pull-plug-3-its-last-6-nuclear-power-plants-n1286771

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    • elysianfield December 31, 2021 at 1:25 pm #

      “What is Germany thinking…?”

      Saint,
      Ju vill haf nothing…und Ju vill LIKE it….

    • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 1:39 pm #

      Germany’s plan is to run the whole country with windturbines and solar panels. The Greens are in charge now.

      We haven’t seen the sun around here in about a week, have we Stelmo? Is Germany any sunnier than Central New England?

      • malthuss December 31, 2021 at 1:59 pm #

        So, what is caloric requirement for survival?

        • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 2:38 pm #

          Well, in 1933, in Tomsk Russia, a ship on a massive arctic river transporting 5000 gulag prisoners to a Siberian labor camp, ran aground on an uninhabited island. The island became known as Cannibal Island, as the strong ate the weak. Only a handful of prisoners survived to tell the tale.

          Incidentally, the USA provided much material support to the Soviets for building and maintaining their 1200 camp gulag system, from RR engines and steam ships used to transport prisoners to remote, far flung areas across Russia, to acting as a market, buying gold mined at notorious Kolyma, and art and relics the Bolsheviks looted from Russian museums, Cathedrals, the murdered Royal Family, and wealthy Industrialsts and business people during the Revolution.

      • stelmosfire December 31, 2021 at 5:02 pm #

        I’ve got a few solar lights on the deck. In the summer they’ll run almost all night. Last night they came on at dark and went out probably 15-20 minutes later. With the sun so low, the days so short, and the chronically leaden skies we always get this time of year I have to say I think solar power is just a gimmick for this area. It might power some light bulbs but no way are gonna run any kind of power hungry stuff.

        • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 9:27 am #

          Right! Try making it through a day in Syracuse with only solar. I’m looking into micro-hydro myself. Solar is great for small scale mobile power generation.

      • tahoe1780 December 31, 2021 at 6:46 pm #

        New England’s energy crisis:
        https://tinyurl.com/4298nxjh

        • Islander December 31, 2021 at 7:12 pm #

          Gail Tverberg has stated recently (like, a few days ago) that New England energy policy is similar to Germany’s.

          Namely: wishful thinking and hoping.

          She states that the NE grid regulator has expressed concerns relating to the energy supply.

          • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 8:54 pm #

            We have one nuclear power plant that provides about 1/2 of the State’s (Ct) electricity, and the Governor and other powerful people want it decommissioned asap. Not sure where our electricity will come from after that. The Governor claims we will be 100% fossil fuel free by 2030, eight years from tonight. As I mentioned before this is a curious claim because it will take roughly 15,000 windturbines to replace the baseload plants we have now; currently there are 3 windturbines operating in this State.

        • ianw December 31, 2021 at 9:19 pm #

          New England’s energy crisis:

          There are some pretty crazy stories in there – especially the denial of a pipeline from the natgas available in the Appalachian Basin.

          Even those of us who really want to care for the planet can see a lot of madness in the renewable energy agenda, in place after place.

    • Night Owl December 31, 2021 at 3:33 pm #

      The Great Reset. The current government was likely installed by mail-in ballot fraud.

      • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:14 am #

        I disagree on two grounds:

        (1) there is no doubt that the Democrats used and exploited mail-in voting far better than the Republicans in the 2020 election, but no-one has ever proved it was done illegally, and

        (2) I don’t think there is a supportable notion that US presidents are “installed” by a higher level of authority or power.

        Biden won an election that was completely remarkable … I agree with JHK that it is astonishing that Joe Biden won Super Tuesday and the general – there were seriously better candidates – but basically, enough of the voters wanted Trump out, and would have voted for a dead cat to achieve that.

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 3:59 pm #

      Greenies ain’t dreaming the same dream you are. Greenies dream don’t have you in it.

    • michael December 31, 2021 at 8:36 pm #

      The plan is also to get out of coal. The source of energy must be renewable.

      As an example we mow down forests and burn the wood to be replanted with smallish, scrawny fast growing tree varieties (IKEA style).

      In view of the Greens digging out coal or extracting oil from 3000 feet down is an unacceptable violation of the environment, but burning up forests large scale is an environmentally friendly and sustainable activity.

      So far as I can tell there are no plans of planting trees in advance while we use the great gift of subterranean fossil fuels as long as they last.

      • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:22 am #

        In view of the Greens digging out coal or extracting oil from 3000 feet down is an unacceptable violation of the environment, but burning up forests large scale is an environmentally friendly and sustainable activity.

        I think the greenie point is that the extracting and burning of fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere at a humongous rate in planetary terms, and that is leading to global warming.

        The growing and chopping down of forests is essentially re-cycling CO2 at a “natural” rate.

      • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:44 am #

        The Green plan in Germany aligns with the corporate/bankster-developed Great Reset. It involves making the middle and upper middle class pay through the nose to be allowed to maintain a relatively comfortable lifestyle, and pushing as many people as possible into modern serfdom.

        In Germany this means mandates for expensive solar panel systems (which can run 50-80k for an average-sized house in Germany, which is about 1400 sq. ft.), even more expensive exterior insulation, a new roof, smart meters for gas and water, the ability to pay for skyrocketing energy prices, and taxes, taxes, taxes.

        Everyone else will live in a pod or tiny house, because they could never afford the costs I just mentioned, nor could they afford to buy a house in the first place. We bought 3 years ago, and our house has doubled in value — another mechanism they are employing to create the global plantation.

        Yes, the future the “Greens” envision aligns with the Great Reset, where you will “own nothing.”

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 8:21 pm #

          Everyone else will live in a pod or tiny house, because they could never afford the costs I just mentioned, nor could they afford to buy a house in the first place.

          Australian house prices are very high by world standards – it has been called a bubble, however it has sustained for a century at least, with only a few minor corrections.

          Young people find it very hard to get on the property ladder, and often have to wait until they inherit a house or parental money.

          Apart from distorting markets, and sending far too much investment into an unproductive and speculative sector, it means that vast housing developments sprawl out from all major cities, and even regional centres.

          I hate seeing so many people living in such cultural deserts, and the destruction of good farmland for more bricks and mortar.

    • Not_GeorgeT December 31, 2021 at 11:56 pm #

      Illinois was about to decommission 2 nuke plants. Somehow someone got a case of reality. There’s more background but that’s the main story. Taking them offline was energy suicide.

      https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/illinois-governor-signs-energy-bill-keep-nuclear-plants-open-boost-renewables

      They are going to try for renewables (whatever that will mean) but apparently developed enough sense to keep what was working in place.

      Maybe that whole Texas freeze experience last winter brought some sense to some people.

      • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:33 am #

        I agree that it’s lunacy to take out functioning baseload power for a huge number of people, prior to having a seriously tested and hardened alternative.

        However the Texas Freeze was not caused by an over-reliance on renewables … it was caused by the lack of resilience in the whole mainstream grid to a 1-in-100 cold event. There is no basis for blaming the windmills.

    • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:49 pm #

      Even in the US, we’re trying to shut down nuclear plants. Check the Byron, Dresden and New York’s Indian Point Nuclear Plant. On one of those blogs, one bloke wrote the following comment, which I thought was insightful

      “I work in the business. The American nuclear industry is on life support. The best people retire every day and nobody is qualified to replace them. I’m 38 and are among the youngest guys in the company. Its like working on another planet when your inside. Its too late to rebuild the industry. It would take 10 years to build a brand new single unit power plant. The experts needed to run a new unit are not available. The engineers, chemists, maintenance, operations, radiation protection, and electrical experts needed to run a new station don’t exist. Nobody I know is even thinking about new tech like SMR’s or pebble bed/mesh units. I laugh at uranium bulls, every nuclear utility I now has already purchased fuel for the lifetime of their plant license. Uranium demand should be about ZERO in the US.”-Blaufuss Bullion

      • Not_GeorgeT January 2, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

        That is certainly interesting.

  45. djk December 31, 2021 at 1:05 pm #

    looks like the never ending collapse and depression will happen this year,God help us

    • 100th Avatar December 31, 2021 at 1:15 pm #

      claro que si
      lmao

      many people here have been calling for collapse
      predicting collapse
      prepping for collapse
      fantasizing about collapse
      welcoming collapse

      and now, many years into it, they cannot even see it

      • JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 2:37 pm #

        Hahahahaha! So true!

      • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 7:26 pm #

        That is the kicker, isn’t it?

      • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:42 am #

        Yeah well … there are always apocalyptic doomsayers in every hiccup or crisis. Look at all those who believe the vaccines will have everyone dead in a few years!

        In times like this, conspiracy theory seeds often fall on fertile ground. But I expect 2022 will be rough in complicated ways, but not catastrophic. I trust the Covid Crisis will continue to wither, despite the astronomical new-case numbers at present.

        Should we take a punt on what the DJIA will be on 31 December 2022? It’s currently 36,338.30.

        • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 8:26 am #

          @ ianw:

          Yes, there are always doomsayers–and there are “light at the end of the tunnel” types, and there are people who will tell you that up is down. And there are people like yourself who will coin an adolescent proverb about how “There are always…blah-blah-blah,” and “In times like this…blah-blah-blah.”

          You seem to be under the impression that the indubitable fact that people are, as always, going blah-blah-blah is proof that they are wrong–the corollary to which would be that the indubitable fact that you are going blah-blah-blah is proof that you are wrong. People have always gone blah-blah-blah.

          None of this is an indicator of anything at all, either way.

          Decision-making is done by looking at evidence. Unfortunately, there are mountains of evidence that the vaccines are harmful, as well as evidence that the harm may be long-term. Whether “everyone will be dead in a few years” is an unknown. But evidence indicates that this is a possibility.

          You would be wise to be guided by objective reality.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

            Decision-making is done by looking at evidence. Unfortunately, there are mountains of evidence that the vaccines are harmful, as well as evidence that the harm may be long-term.

            And the evidence is clear … suffering Covid-19 is far more dangerous to your health than the vaccines, especially for those over 60. Which is why millions of sensible rational people have chosen vaccination over the higher risks associated with the viral diseased.

            Those who were conspiracy-minded prior to the pandemic jumped all over it with alacrity. It’s hard to fix this level of paranoid thinking.

          • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

            but then he wouldn’t get paid!

          • Anthea January 2, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

            @ ianw:

            The objective reality is that covid had a 99.7% survival rate in its first iteration, despite the concerted efforts of the medical establishment to kill everyone who fell into their clutches with Remdesivir and ventilators–after refusing to treat in the early stages of illness and continuing to refuse to treat with effective medications all the way up to death. Deliberately infecting nursing home residents also helped jack up the death rate–as did claiming almost any death from almost any cause to be a covid death. All done to collect a bounty on the dead.

            Contrary to your statment, VAERS data indicates very high rates of death due to the vaccines–more deaths from the covid vaccine than from all prior vaccines put together, and this despite monumental under-reporting of covid vaccine deaths and adverse reactions.

            Most of the people who died of covid, and continue to die of covid, are people who were delibertately murdered (for money) by the hospitals and doctors.

            If you sifted out these murders from the covid death statistics, it would be clear that covid never was anything more than the seasonal flu. Even without sifting out the murders, I would rank both 2020 and 2021 as rather mild flu seasons. In most other flu seasons, in my recollection, far more people fell ill or died.

    • bob December 31, 2021 at 4:29 pm #

      Wonder what God has in store as to abrupt climate change?

      • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 12:59 am #

        Bob, Coldest winter ever.

  46. Paula D December 31, 2021 at 1:19 pm #

    I love the image of the future painted in the title today- Dumpster fire blazing on the frontier of a dark age.
    Pretty much.
    We are the point the John Michael Greer pointed out some time ago, when people told of their plans to hunker down and survive on a patch of land – “How’d that work out for the Polish peasants in 1939?”
    I remember the 80s as being a time of hardship for millions.
    Men thrown out of work and women forced into the labor market. Small farmers losing their land because of the high interest rates and agribusiness snapping it up.
    In other countries the high interest rates led to SAP- structural adjustment programs, meaning cutting government programs that benefited the people so that the IMF could be paid. This led to the IMF Riots which were expected and planned for. Peasants thrown off the land migrated to the cities and for the first time in human history more people lived in cities, mostly slums, than in the country. They provided cheap labor for the factories closed in the USA and moved to other countries.
    Unions were busted, from the air traffic controllers to the meat packers and truckers, and union labor was replaced with immigrant labor.
    Homeless people started appearing on the streets as rents went sky high while wages stagnated. It was shocking at first. I had never seen homeless people on the streets before. Now we’re all used to it.
    I look at the Evil Reagan as the start of the destruction of America, but I realize that he was just the face of Evil, and there were powerful forces pushing it.
    Will Biden make it through the next year? Macron was said to have mentioned that he will be replaced after 2 years, apparently so that Harris could have 10 years in office. Or maybe someone will replace her.
    I never thought that they would actually put in the senile old grifting pervert, but they did. And now they all pretend that he is alert and oriented and running the country.
    Unfuckingbelivable, but, there it is.

    • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 1:31 pm #

      SAP is also a relevant acronym for the Pentagon’s Special Access Programs, where zero-point energy remains in sequestration, for a variety of nefarious motives,

      GODSPEED!!

      • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 9:10 pm #

        When the “aliens” are rolled out they gotta have something to bail us out.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 31, 2021 at 2:53 pm #

      I think they may have been planning to do a last minute swap and bring in Andrew Cuomo, fresh off his victory over the virus, but then events got in the way.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 7:31 pm #

      Nice run-down, Paula.

      Even then, they used celebrities to make it all better.

      Remember “Farm Aid”? Did those celebs even know what the hell they were fronting for?

      So insane.

  47. RocketDoc December 31, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

    From the unintentional insults file….

    As a “with it” preteen in the 60’s our preferred insult for being cheated was “gypped” with no consciousness that it referred in some way to Gypsies. Our much less utilized term was “welched on” again with no awareness that it actually applied to a people and then the rarest usage was “jewed” which, if it can be believed, was also not attached to a people since we did not know any Jewish people growing up in a small Southern town. Going off to college in the NE, I had the misfortune of using the latter phrase to my new freshman friends who were almost ALL Jewish….. I realized the implications of all 3 at the same time.

    I also had the misfortune of instructing my freshman English class in the sad consequences of a hysterectomy that I interpreted as the female form of a pre-fontal lobotomy that moderated a woman’s histrionics…..

    • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 1:39 pm #

      So many Gypsies don’t engage in fraud as a way of life?

      This is what we’re up against. This is the mind forged manacles of political correctness.

      • RocketDoc December 31, 2021 at 7:48 pm #

        The point was that our host used welched which retains its meaning without much concern about it being a slur. It’s colorful, not insulting, to me despite having some vague 5th generation connection to Wales. It was a riff. I have no “mind-cuffs”.

        • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 9:25 pm #

          Similar to indian-giver. It’s historical, meant to be insulting but mostly shrugged off.

          • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

            yes, but Indian giver is particularly obtuse, all things considered

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:16 pm #

      Oh to be a fly on the wall on those days! Reminds me of the time I was shooting my mouth off to a bunch of fellow troopies in the USAF, and I made a crack that all Filipino women looked like little boys, something I’d heard many others say before as well. One guy busts out laughing and I say, what? He says Jim (another guy in the group) here’s wife is Filipino. Oops!

    • Bilejones December 31, 2021 at 8:26 pm #

      I relish the opportunity to use jewed in their presence.

      My response to their sniveling is to ask why I should care about what they think of my mother tongue.

      Let’s get the great divide open ASAP.

      • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 9:35 pm #

        The problem with the expression is that Abraham was simply negotiating, and actually, there were no “jews” until Judah came along.

  48. MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 1:43 pm #

    Bravo, Mr. Kunstler! You covered just about everything in a most eloquent manner. I can’t really say I disagree with much you’ve put forth, except that I still do think it was planned out for Trump to be used as a way to create the mass formation that you mention. I’m not positive whether he was manipulated or did it willingly (just played a part) but it sure would explain his twitter habits that served to inflame the liberals on a daily basis. Agree of course that that was then transferred to the covid19 agenda. I have long said that I believed TDS was the ‘gateway drug’ to the covid19 hysteria/derangement.

    Thank you for this year’s articles as well. All of them were excellent, and I appreciate your dedication to posting here twice a week very much.

    Yes, people are getting fed up, but the global cabal is sill pushing the covid agenda, and too many are still falling for it. I truly hope they can’t keep up the momentum, but with Chicago now going for a vaxx pass, and others champing at the bit to follow suit, not sure what to expect.

    Happy New Year, all you CFNers.

    • pranah December 31, 2021 at 1:57 pm #

      Back atcha, Mary, and everyone else expressing good wishes for the New Year. God help us, every one!

    • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 7:45 pm #

      I waited a while, as in Scotland we don’t wish anyone a Happy New Year until after ‘the bells’, so as it’s now officially 2022 here, Happy New Year, Mary!

      And all CFNers too, obviously. 🙂 Especially to Slugoon, down there in rural Cheshire? Lancashire? Derbyshire? Yorkshire?

      Manchester Airport’s handy for so many places!!

      It’ll be a challenge, but there ya go …

      • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 7:51 pm #

        Mary, you asked how hubby was doing on the previous thread (thank you). He seems fine. Napping an awful lot – he spent most of yesterday having a duvet day, then couldn’t sleep at night.

        Just keeping my fingers crossed his ‘incident’ wasn’t a warm-up act.

        It’s going to be a worrying year, for all of us. Living one day at a time isn’t a bad idea, anyway.

        • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 11:26 pm #

          Whoops! I hadn’t gone upthread to see any replies. So, three days later, glad to see your report.

          I’m glad your husband is doing OK.

          I agree living one day at a time isn’t a bad idea. New for me, enjoying it, actually.

          Out of the western mindset of working toward happiness “someday”.

          Someday is now for me.

      • Slugoon January 2, 2022 at 10:11 am #

        And a happy new year to you too, GA. (From East Cheshire.)

        I hope we finally get to move on on from Covid, the last two years has taken a huge toll on me as it has for a lot of people, far greater than the virus itself, which I’m pleased to report has faded into a mildly annoying cough.

        All the best to you and hubbie, and to all CFNers.

        (PS when is IndyRef 2?!)

  49. steppingup December 31, 2021 at 1:55 pm #

    It’s sheer clusterfuck. Murphy’s Law meets Zombieland during Seven Days in May.

    Personally, I am leaning towards….”Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” and “They Live” is giving birth to “2022”.

    Happy New Year everyone. Good Luck and God Bless Us All.

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  50. Robert White December 31, 2021 at 2:03 pm #

    Weimar Republic level hyperinflation will set in and everyone will dump USD dollars as the good ship Titanic U.S. Government consolidates via taxation on all the overvalued assets.

    Everyone will decide to dump their assets if they are going to be taxed on those assets at twice the tax rate municipally, state, & federal.

    Paul Volcker was the last real American stalwart for American Finance & Business. Everybody that follows Volcker has to first undo the Greenspan era whereby ‘Maestro Greenspan’ was lauded for his racket to prevent mean reversion of markets, prices, and overvalued asset classed MBS bundled into U.S. Securities.

    The estimated Dark Pool Derivatives Universe is roughly $2.2 Quadrillion and counting by my clocks. At no time in our future historiography via global Finance can we watch, or evidence in any way yet another Lehman Moment of deflation as the Dark Pool Derivatives Universe is overtly leveraged via the principle of Monetary Inflation held constant at a not insignificant rate of flow lest deflation of that stratospheric level of debt accumulation via counterparty bets & counterparties cannot deflate one iota or all that is melts into Finance ether like gas allowed to leave Maxwell’s theoretical fixed chamber via Maxwell’s Demon gas gate keeper of Entropy in a thermodynamic system.

    The thermodynamic meltdown of finance via Weimar level hyperinflation will send everyone to American dollars for safety so that we will evidence flight to safety in dollars USD, but all Emerging Economies & Emerging Markets will fold in the process as the good ship Titanic U.S Government doubles down for yet even more asset tax based revenue streams ad infinitum unceasingly YoY until America becomes Potter’s Field in It’s a Wonderful Life.

    England & EU should have taken a page from Charles Dicken’s character Fezziwig the Accountant in Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol.

    18th Century Industrial Capitalism to American Fractional Reserve Banking blockchain ledgered electronic cryptocurrency racketeering worthy of censure via RICO statutes all due to hyper-speculative asset speculation for the past 40 years via Maestro Greenspan ‘Put’ backstop culture gives us all reason to know that 2022 will be the year that we now have to pay the Piper who’s coming down the pike at warp speed looking to cash in on all that leveraged debt & deficits.

    It’s much worse for me because I was raised by a Chartered Accountant that never prepared me for what is about to happen in Western Finance for 2022. So if you think that America is worried you have yet to see how petrified I’ve become at this global spectre of math challenged so-called dismal scientists from the Dismal Science monikered as such historically.

    Margaret Atwood characterizes fiat money as a festish only. Our collective fetish is about to crash outright in the face of the fetishists of Wall Street who own most of what will dissappear via the Finance ether.

    RW

    • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 2:16 pm #

      You are very wise indeed!
      Hence, the categorical imperative for REPLICANTS, driverless deliveries, and lights out automated test and assembly facilities, with replicants assembling replicants.

      Humans are obsolete to the GOE’s!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MDGMvrSJc&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=86&t=0s
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79AfhpYOjB0&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=3&t=0s

      GODSPEED!!

      • Q. Shtik January 1, 2022 at 12:01 am #

        Humans are obsolete to the GOE’s! – g__t

        ==========

        What do you think people, should I give up on the plural vs possessive discussion?

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:08 am #

          I think railing against the greengrocer’s apostrophe in still valid (apple’s, pear’s …) but brand names, abbreviations, and other words that do not have a natural plural – in those cases the apostrophe might not be “correct”, but they are better for the reader.

          So Pepsis is not good – Pepsi’s is more reader-friendly!

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:10 pm #

      Haven’t heard from you in a while RW! Where’ve you been? I love your academic style, so I trust you won’t get too upset when I give you shit about it from time to time. Just breakin’ balls, as the old saying goes.

      • Robert White December 31, 2021 at 7:45 pm #

        I was hanging around here too much before so I took a break to avoid getting booted via annoying our host.

        I tend to overpost sometimes.

        Academic discourses are fun and criticism is always okay by moi.

        Cheers, Robert

        • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 7:54 pm #

          “I tend to overpost sometimes”.

          Haha – that’s an infectious disease around these parts. 🙂

          Welcome back for a rocky year.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 7:55 pm #

            I think you had the distinction of being the one to first introduce us to the term ‘gain of function’, which now trips off the tongue like we’d all spent our lives managing a virology lab.

          • Robert White December 31, 2021 at 9:30 pm #

            That distinction of being first to post the words Gain-of-Function is rather a dark dinstinction with heavy clouds hanging over it in so far as GOF bioweapons can only mean genocide at an even darker level, eh.

            When you get trained in Experimental Psychology you start to get a good idea of how crazy some sectors of the science community can get when they get carried away with diabolical schemes that don’t end up working quite the way they imagined in their zeal to achieve supremacy of some sort whether financial or political.

            Lord Acton said it best with his ‘power corrupts absolutely’ saying. He spoke universal truth on that one.

            RW

        • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 8:16 pm #

          Hey Mr. White, Questioning the science is the definition of science. The scientists don’t seem to get that at the moment though.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 11:12 pm #

            Questioning the science is the definition of science.

            Sure – interrogating hypotheses and theories and so on is part of the scientific method, and it’s how knowledge and understanding grow – today’s eminent scientists stand on the shoulders of giants, etc.

            But questioning “science” per se … and being led down rabbit-holes created by unsubstantiated and un-testable conspiracy theories – that is anti-science voodoo.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            So, troll, why don’t you present a hypothesis as to why 60 times the normal rate of athletes and footballers are dropping dead than before the vaxx rollout, and we can present your hypothesis to some reputable scientists to question it and present their own hypothesis.

          • ianw January 2, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            […] a hypothesis as to why 60 times the normal rate of athletes and footballers are dropping dead than before the vaxx rollout.

            LOL. You are so easily triggered, and believe everything any conspiracy website tells you. Or did you get this from the side of a Corn Flakes packet?

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

            https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/over-a-60x-increase-in-serious-adverse

            There’s a graph there, you evil lying troll.

        • malthuss December 31, 2021 at 11:58 pm #

          so what can I do to save myself?

          the rabble will get hungry and then?

    • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 8:18 pm #

      What’s your opinion whether we get a “taper” in 2022 causing a market meltdown, or we just proceed straight to hyperinflation?

      • Robert White December 31, 2021 at 9:16 pm #

        Wall Street has Wall Street Monetary Heroin junkies, and when Dr. Feelgood doesn’t have a Monetary Heroin fix for the junkies he will need to retire as Dr. Feelgood because the Wall Street junkies only work with Dr. Feelgood at helm in the Fed when stimulus is provided.

        Greenspan played Dr. Feelgood too many times and every Fed Chair since has had to keep the stimulus up as the Greenspan Put has become expected YoY. In brief, what will manifest is a ‘taper tantrum’ first, and then panic will set in where the lines of fear & greed cross. Hyperinflation will take off when the panic sets in past the Taper Tantrum.

        Veteran Wall Street analysts say that ‘nothing happens on Wall Street until the lines of fear & greed cross/intersect.

        The Taper Tanrum that will come from full grown men & women will be worse that children strung out on white processed sugar all wanting more, all at the same time.

        Things are about to get ugly when the Fed decides to taper just as Jim is alluding to as well in his article.

        RW

        • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 9:27 pm #

          Very apt allusions, RW! Fully agreed!

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 9:59 pm #

          Ok, hyperinflation it is. Sounds plausible.

    • ianw January 1, 2022 at 3:14 am #

      It’s much worse for me because I was raised by a Chartered Accountant that never prepared me for what is about to happen in Western Finance for 2022.

      So if you think that America is worried you have yet to see how petrified I’ve become at this global spectre of math challenged so-called dismal scientists from the Dismal Science monikered as such historically.

      So enlighten those of us who were not raised as Chartered Accountants … where do you store your wealth, to ensure you are amply and securely funded for the future?

      After all – the future is where we’re all headed!

      • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 10:46 am #

        “So enlighten those of us who were not raised as Chartered Accountants … where do you store your wealth, to ensure you are amply and securely funded for the future?”

        You clearly don’t know Robert. Or have sufficient imagination to think that some people’s lives are the opposite of yours. And yet they have wealth you don’t have.

        Poor little rich boy.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 11:45 am #

          Anyone who thinks there’s such a thing as security is already lost.

          Your mental state, when you lose everything, will be a sight to behold.

          I don’t even have room to store food or water, but I’ll be in a better state than you when the SHTF. And you still think *they* care about you.

          Our pols are currently legislating away the last of our civil rights, and you think the UK is a democracy. You are tragic.

          https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-uk-new-normal-dictatorship

          Not because you’re not complicit, as a paid shill, but because you think being a shill will save you.

          • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

            Paid troll or he just gets off on being contrarian? I had a supervisor at one time that simply disagreed with pretty much everything I came up with, even when it wasn’t in her best interest. The sky is blue. Well, no actually there is green tint at certain wavelengths, bla bla blah. OK, whatever.

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

          I didn’t ask you … you haven’t got two bob.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

            I happen to know more about Robert than you do, because I pay attention.

            I’ve got all the money I need, and my husband has even more (thanks to being here). It’s all going to disappear this year. That will leave me less distraught than losing everything will leave you, because I’ve known for a while what will happen to it. And to us.

            That’s twice you’ve asked people where they keep their treasure so they’ll never lose it. You’re beginning to sound very worried, despite your chirping.

        • ianw January 2, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

          Paid troll or he just gets off on being contrarian?

          LOL – listen to yourself!

          You and your cohort are way out on the fringiest fringe on most topics, and I am merely reflecting more-or-less mainstream views (but with my own leftie scepticism and anti-capitalism biases).

          I am not the contrarian it is the likes of you and many others here who have a tenuous grip on reality, let alone the ability to accept science or argue rationally. An echo chamber can normalise whacky views if they are repeated often enough in closed session.

  51. freedomforever December 31, 2021 at 3:11 pm #

    There happens to be heavy censorship who are looking for Ivermectin treatment. The censorship is going to the roof. I fight with big pharma no matter what. Getting Ivermectin is easy visit https://ivmcures.com

    • lastman January 1, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      Thanks for the link,

  52. Roundball Shaman December 31, 2021 at 3:19 pm #

    One cannot live with honesty today without indulging in some form of doom porn bathing. We are surrounded by utter nonsense and only a fool would deny that fact or not know that we are under multiple attacks from multiple malevolent forces.

    But please, do not stay in that doom and defeatist frame of mind. It is self-destructive and creates a continuous looping of bad intentions and bad outcomes without end.

    You must break the spell. As the sages have told us, what one thinks about is what one creates. You can’t help but have thoughts and create every moment. What are you doing with those?

    Energies follow thoughts and intentions. We must not give in to the prevailing climate of doom and defeatism and hand The Dark Forces the victory that they are working so hard to achieve and have lusted over for thousands of years. They are so close to having a great big climax right now that they are ready to bust wide open. But we can’t allow them that messy pleasure.

    Whether you initially believe it or not… believe that things can improve. That they WILL improve. That you will do everything in your power TO MAKE THINGS BETTER. And then DO IT.

    That’s what breaks the spell. That’s what turns this game around. That’s how we reclaim our lives and our integrity and our humanity. That’s what gives us back our physical and mental health. And maybe one day, even our World.

    Just do it. Or don’t. But if you don’t, do not bitch and moan that things are getting worse. The only people who can bitch and moan that things are getting worse are those that have worked their
    asses off to get this train back on the right track. And even they need to go easy on the complaining or they’ll be right back in there contributing to all the problems.

    Be a radical doom-crusher. Think apart from the crowd. Think and believe that things will get better. And do something to make them so. And guaranteed, for you… things WILL be better.

    Be wishes to everyone in 2022. Even to Tony ‘I-Am-The-Science-Dammit!’ Fauci. Because where he’s going one day, he and all those like him are going to need it badly.

    • Hereward the Woke December 31, 2021 at 3:30 pm #

      Great comment, Roundball! Yes, hope is alive and well. HNY to you and yours!

    • Night Owl December 31, 2021 at 4:07 pm #

      Staying positive is indeed important. That said, even more important is recognizing the principal actors involved in the destruction of the West, or as it is more commonly known these days: The Great Reset. We can talk about the collapsing financial system, the supply chain, etc, but much of what we are experiencing at present is being artificially induced to occur now.

      Continuing to ignore the obvious will just prolong the solution, or perhaps even hinder a solution.

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:13 pm #

      Thanks Roundball. I just know we will get out of all of this with enough positive thinking!

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 4:22 pm #

      The PTB maintain themselves by division and fear mongering. You idea of trying to cancel it out with optimism sounds good. First though is finding enough people with good vibes to make a difference.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 7:40 pm #

      I stopped living in fear over a year ago. I felt not only did I have to, to stay sane, but also I was determined not to let those fuckers win.

      So I disseminate all sorts of scary information, but I don’t dwell on it. I am actually busier than I’ve ever been on my own projects and furthering my education in my chosen field, but also spending more time outdoors, etc.

      I’m not really that afraid of anything. I’ve made my peace with what is happening and do what I can. Other than that, I am attempting to enjoy my life.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 7:41 pm #

      Oh and let’s not lose our sense of humor.

      It might be the biggest weapon we have.

    • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 8:52 am #

      I think “the sage” you are referring to as advising us that “what one thinks about is what one creates” was Rhonda Byrne, author of “The Secret.”

      This is Peter Pan (“Think of a wonderful thoughht! Any happy little thought!”) thinking, brought to you by Walt Disney.

      This is a distortion of the truth. A change in consciousness may alter our experience in positive ways, but it is not as simple as thinking happy thoughts. Not the same thing at all.

      • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 10:02 am #

        A change in consciousness may alter our experience in positive ways, but it is not as simple as thinking happy thoughts. Not the same thing at all.

        Right on, Anthea. It’s draining to sustain optimism. Almost no effort at all to be pessimistic. Optimism requires us to clear every hurdle, by hook or crook, come what may. The pessimist won’t even get in the starting blocks.

        Captain Kirk, the ultimate optimist.

  53. anmariwakaranai December 31, 2021 at 3:53 pm #

    Thank you Jim for your truth, courage, & wisdom in these dark times.

    When I was in the hospital as a kid, the nurses used to set me up outside in the sun with a nearly newborn who was blind, deaf & mute.

    That baby would purr with pleasure bathing in the warmth of the sun.
    I don’t know what became of her, but I take to heart her joy in the most basic thing.

    May we be as wise.

    • Blackbird December 31, 2021 at 4:15 pm #

      Tommy can you hear me?

      • Alpha Omega December 31, 2021 at 5:33 pm #

        Well-played.

      • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 1:19 am #

        Never did try pin ball with the baby, she mighta been a wizard. Lol bb

  54. Jo-G December 31, 2021 at 3:59 pm #

    traduced. Not just the basic principles of public safety. That word describes much of the communications from the mass-media doesn’t it?

    The traducers won’t be punished because they’ve been rewarded.

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  55. JTinMD December 31, 2021 at 4:20 pm #

    Just heard George Gammon with a good gloss of the censorship issue.

    Paraphrasing: How often in history are the people you’re not allowed to criticize actually the good guys?

  56. jlmartin December 31, 2021 at 4:21 pm #

    Thank you, James, for all your commentaries each week. I look forward to reading them. Along with the comments of your readers. I want to thank then as well. Have a happy New Year everyone. Stay safe

  57. JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 4:24 pm #

    Happy New Year, everyone. Here’s to a whole new year with sanity and good sense returning to the scene.

    Clink!

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 5:06 pm #

      Well, let’s hope anyway. Doesn’t seem to be off to a good start, but a little faith in something better coming along certainly can’t hurt.

      Happy New Year, ya old coot. I’ll try to take it easy on you this year.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 7:43 pm #

      *Clink!*

  58. mumbai December 31, 2021 at 4:35 pm #

    Ah c’mon, don’t hold back JHK – tell us what you really think.
    On tuther side of the planet things don’t seem as bad – not good, but not quite as hopeless.

    I know little, and care even less, about the current Benighted States, having given up on it when I saw all my friends who were the draft dodgers in Euroland in the 60s go rushing back to ‘the World‘ as soon as conscription ended – without shame or even gratitude for the succour & taste of civilisation that they’d enjoyed, some for several years.

    Even a ‘so long, and thanks for all the fish‘ would have been appreciated but the thin veneer of sophistication they’d acquired abroad proved as substantial as morning mist.

    Those with whom I have remained in contact are now scarcely distinguishable from the parents against whom they railed, like spoiled brats even whilst cashing their mummies’ remittance cheques.

    There is no indicator of which I’m aware that does not demonstrate a failed state, whether the poverty levels, appalling general ignorance of the world, abysmal health care and infrastructure or other social goods.

    It should be noted that perinatal & maternal death and literacy rates are below even those of beleaguered Cuba.

    As the conclusion to Lawrence Wright’s book “The End of October” puts it – “we did it to ourselves!“.

    Lotsa luck for 2022 – to paraphrase TS Eliot “Is this how the world ends/not with a bang but a sniffle?”

  59. got___truth December 31, 2021 at 5:10 pm #

    Happy New Year ALL!
    Please don’t forget to “tube in” to my friend, the LEGENDARY Gerald Celente, for his 2022 Trend Forecasts!

    https://youtu.be/srX-a91ZU30

    GODSPEED!!

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  60. Alpha Omega December 31, 2021 at 5:26 pm #

    Happy New Year, CFN!

    May 2022 bring you health, prosperity and happiness.

  61. Martymcfly December 31, 2021 at 5:29 pm #

    Entertaining and enjoyable, as always.

    But don’t put too much stock in it. Did anybody notice that in last years predictions, none of the “Bill of Particulars” was correct.

    Not a single one. All wrong.

    • Soul Forensics December 31, 2021 at 5:53 pm #

      At least James has an excuse. It’s damnably difficult to make timelines on these complex issues.

      OTOH, here’s CNN’s headline two hours ago:

      “How Betty White is celebrating her 99th birthday in quarantine.”

      LOL!

    • Alpha Omega December 31, 2021 at 5:59 pm #

      I believe that Jim got much right. The dollar, inflation, fracking, Ukraine, Europe.

      I think that he’s selling Gates and Fauci short, however. They didn’t come this far to then just peter out in the spring and get sued and go to jail.

      They are full-steam ahead. New York is signing Nazi law next week.

      Omicron is batting 3rd after Alpha and Delta. The big slugger bats clean-up. Pi? Marburg? Small-pox? Full-steam ahead.

      • Martymcfly December 31, 2021 at 10:20 pm #

        He may have gotten much right this year; time will tell. But last year he got everything wrong, not one of them right. That makes me a bit skeptical for this year.

        • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 10:11 am #

          Well, Marty, you’re not actually betting the farm on year end reviews and prognostications, are you? Do you have ones of your own with which to compare and contrast? Obviously it’s quite interesting to you and most of the rest of us. It’s fun and amusing. Stop pissing on our Wheaties!

          • Martymcfly January 1, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

            I am not betting the farm on anything, and certainly not those predictions. And of course I have lots of predictions of my own. Most have been accurate, more than a few have not. That is a much, much better record.

            You might have noticed I did say it was fun, amusing and interesting. But it is also interesting to note how perfectly wrong they are. And folks should be aware of that, lest they bet anything on these predictions. I fear some do.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

          Well it’s hard to make predictions. Especially about the future. A lot of stuff we’ve been predicting for 12 years is coming on now, we’re just late.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 6:45 pm #

      Predictions are mostly for fun, not to set your clock by. Jim’s are very bit as good and even more entertaining than anything else out there.

      • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 6:55 pm #

        every bit as good….

      • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 7:15 pm #

        “In February 2022 USA Is Heading For A Catastrophic Debt Crisis That Will Collapse Stock Market”

        Ray Dalio is an accurate financial system forecaster.
        https://bilfin.com/2021/12/30/in-february-2022-usa-is-heading-for-a-catastrophic-debt-crisis-that-will-collapse-stock-market/

        LOL.
        They will crash the debt and equity markets when they’re good and ready!
        The music has already stopped for the multitudes without a chair.
        10% of the population across the old republics emerge relatively unharmed.

        GODSPEED!

      • Martymcfly December 31, 2021 at 10:23 pm #

        You may well be right, that they are fun and entertaining, and they certainly are. But I can’t agree they are “every bit as good”; they are completely wrong.

        That said, perhaps they are just for fun, and that’s okay.

    • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

      It is difficult for a rational and ethical person to predict what ruthless psychopaths have planned for the population.
      That is nothing shameful.

  62. getsome December 31, 2021 at 5:45 pm #

    BRHeckler @1558. Confederate soldier statue on courthouse lawn close to street, vote on moving to war memorial site close by. NAACP from Richmond agitated for black populace to become vocal to take down, not to move. Several town folks started to say how upset they were to pass by the statue. Older folks asked why this never was expressed before and, by the way, did they live through the 50’s-60’s here? Shut them down tight. Vote was majority in favor to leave in place. This in a majority black county.
    What happened in Richmond was distressful, but one can only influence one’s own area so most commented, then let it go. Nuff Said.

  63. Soul Forensics December 31, 2021 at 6:04 pm #

    “The mediocre alone have the prospect of continuing on and propagating themselves — they are the men of the future, the sole survivors; ‘be like them! be mediocre!’ is henceforth the only morality that has any meaning left, that still finds ears to hear it. — But it is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! — for it can never admit what it is and what it wants! it has to speak of moderation and dignity and duty and love of one’s neighbour — it will scarcely be able to conceal its irony!”

    Nietzsche
    Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 6:42 pm #

      Good stuff, SF. For all his warts, Nietzche was onto some good stuff as well.

      In the modern day, the west has become drunk on its delusions of exceptionalism. Imagine, if you will, a pol getting up on the stump these days and proclaiming that the US should give up on such foolish pursuits and pursue plain old mediocrity for a change. He’d be tarred and feathered before he got off the stage. So instead we’ll continue to pursue blind exceptionalism, and achieve utter devastation and collapse in the process.

      In truth, most of all of humanity is by definition mediocre at most things. And everything manages to work out just fine most days somehow. Especially when the damn exceptionalists don’t interfere.

      • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:22 pm #

        Dis

        Last time I looked, invention of our modern world was not accomplished by Committee, or governments. Innovation comes from the inspiration of individuals, better ways of doing business comes from entrepreneurs, not groups. Inspiration seems to channel through individuals.

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:23 pm #

          Design by committee is a joke!

          • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:23 pm #

            An oxymoron.

        • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:26 pm #

          LOL! I see you’re still a young capitalist club true believer. I trust you have a long list of merit badges to display as well? Given that capitalism has pretty much had its way for the past 40 years or so, how would you say all that’s working out so far? Do tell.

          • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

            @ Dissaffected:

            So independent thought and action, and making your own decisions, is “capitalism?” And you are against it?

            We all have a long list of merit badges from doing that. We gain the merit of this whenever we make an independent decision and every time we solve a problem. Such decisions and such problem-solving is done daily, or even hourly.

            We decide whether or not to drive on an icy road, whether a purchase is necessary, whether to invest in something, and whether to put a pinch of oregano in posole. We decide whether to replace the faucet in the kitchen sink or the heating element in the water heater, versus paying someone to do it. When we do it ourselves, we think and act independently, though the consensus view may be that no one should be allowed to do anything independently–that only the licensed and insured “experts” should be allowed to think and do.

        • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          What happens in group efforts is that everyone wants to avoid taking responsibility. Hence, the chief ideas that come out of them is either to do nothing at all, or to do something trendy that everyone can get behind, however idiotic. The second option is just another way of evading responsibility, as “trendy” means someone else has already made the decision for them.

          Groups, committees, and such always take an unfavorable view of information-gathering and analysis leading to a reasoned conclusion. Actually thinking something through would involve taking responsibility. People in general are not capable of reason and analysis and, probably rightly, do not trust themselves to do it. The reason they can’t do it is often lack of training and often just stupidity.

  64. elysianfield December 31, 2021 at 6:39 pm #

    “Only a handful…”

    BRH,

    In an attempt to clarify your comment…how many hands full are in a butt-load (or is it the other way around)?

    I assume your statement is not intended as a metaphor.

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    • BackRowHeckler December 31, 2021 at 9:02 pm #

      E. A Buttload is a tad short of a sh#tload.

      Do you have a Webley British Bulldog .450 revolver you could ship over to Green Alba in Edinburgh, Scotland so she’ll have something if she has to fight her way out of town?

      • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 9:27 pm #

        My husband has a long, heavy, metal shoehorn beside his side of the bed. That’s our protection against the bad man, whether he’s Mr Global or Mr Local. 🙂

        It’s not quite Boudicca’s chariot wheels, but at our age …

        • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 10:14 pm #

          Hahahaha!

          Cheers, GA!

          *Clink*

        • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 1:32 am #

          I have a sweet Louisiana slugger, if I punt I might even hit the bullet.

        • Hereward the Woke January 1, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

          C’mon, GA, we’re all broad-minded folks here. You can tell us what he really uses it for! 🙂

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

            Haha. That would be putting on his shoes, I’m afraid, Hereward. 🙂

            But I’ve seen him lift it on one or two occasions when we thought there was someone in the house in the middle of the night.

            Obviously if there really was somebody in the house, they’d have the shoehorn off him in minutes. I don’t maintain many delusions!

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:10 pm #

          Metal shoehorn. Is that kind of like a Mossberg 12-guage?

      • elysianfield January 1, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

        BRH,
        I… know a guy that might have one in operable condition. However, I would suggest, rather, something more robust… such as a Webley IV Mark I…the choice of many British Officers in the Big One..

        This guy I know currently has one with the name of the owner/Officer properly engraved on the barrel…a not uncommon practice, as the Brits had to purchase their own sidearms.

    • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

      I see you are not familiar with the metric system.

      A shitload is ten times a buttload, and a fuckload is ten times a shitload.

      • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

        How much is a shitload of fucktons?

        • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:16 pm #

          one clusterfuck nation

      • Hereward the Woke January 1, 2022 at 4:20 pm #

        What’s that in imperial measures?

  65. pranah December 31, 2021 at 6:51 pm #

    Betty White just died, “suddenly” per one article; per this article, she did not have any serious illnesses and recently said she was so lucky to be in such good health at her age:

    Vaxxxx? She’d have been 100 in January, but even so, this was a surprise death.

    https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/what-betty-white-die-from-exploring-reason-behind-death-veteran-actress-100th-birthday

    • Soul Forensics December 31, 2021 at 7:03 pm #

      Mygawd, the woman almost passed the wire as a centenarian. It’s like dying of old age (i.e., organs naturally going tits up) is unnatural in this age’s acceleration of the fear of death.

      • pranah December 31, 2021 at 7:15 pm #

        I’d agree, except she was in good health, the death was sudden–it fits the vaxxx death profile. No lingering “dying of old age” there, which usually, as you say, is about organs going tits up. You’d think there’d have been some signs, and maybe there were–she was damn near 100. But no “lost her battle with cancer” or anything like that, either. She’s the age they’re trying to bump off, too.

        It’s hard to tell anymore. I remain suspicious.

        • Soul Forensics December 31, 2021 at 7:30 pm #

          Many, many people who hit 90, 95 go silently and quickly. Often, they’re fine one day, go to sleep, and their heart just stops beating. Lucky them.

          • pranah December 31, 2021 at 7:43 pm #

            That’s certainly true. Definitely how I want to go.

          • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 8:41 pm #

            They used to call flu ‘the old man’s friend’ for those who felt they’d been hanging around too long.

            Now flu is an outrage.

          • pranah December 31, 2021 at 9:04 pm #

            Yes indeed, flu would carry away the old and frail, and often it was a mercy–therefore the “old man’s friend.”

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 1:39 am #

            Alba said, now flu is an outrage. Hence, the cure.

          • mumbai January 1, 2022 at 3:21 am #

            To GreenAlba (no reply button) – the old man’s friend was pneumonia, not ‘flu which can be quite unpleasant.
            With pneumonia,one just falls asleep.
            End. Of.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 6:21 am #

            I guess it depends who says it, mumbai.

            I got the saying from my husband – he’s a doc and quotes ‘flu’, rather than pneumonia, which you can get from flu, of course. I presume he heard the saying from other doctors who referred to flu.

            My younger daughter had pneumonia when she was 4 months old. Without antibiotics she’d have been dead. Maybe she got pneumonia from flu – we’ll never know.

            I’ve had flu (when I was 30). You’re right – it can be awful. Some people say they’ve had flu when all they’ve had is a bad cold. I remember, when I had flu, not caring if I lived or died. This amazed and horrified me, in retrospect, as I had a 2-year-old daughter at the time (who also had flu). Having had it, I still maintain it’s an easy way to go, losing the will to live, compared to, say, meeting your end in Grenfell Tower, or on the Titanic.

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:28 pm #

          As people age, they get closer and closer to the final cliff as their ability to maintain homeostasis declines. Betty Whites status re Covid would be interesting as propaganda but for me, who cares.

          Covid has proven to be an effective push over the cliff.

    • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 10:14 pm #

      My dad died 2 days short of his 80th bday. Just seems like such a ripoff. LOL.

  66. Pucker December 31, 2021 at 7:27 pm #

    If the SCOTUS rules on January 7th that the Federal Government has the authority under the US Constitution to have some blokes in hazmat suits come to your house to forcibly inject you with an experimental substance that neither prevents disease or inhibits transmission and is very risky on the grounds that there’s a national health emergency for Omicron which has purportedly killed 1 person, then we’re totally fucked, right?

    • TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 8:10 pm #

      Pucker. The supreme court will vote all wrong and we’ll be here scratching our balls wondering what’s up. The answer is that no one is here to save us. Not Trump. Not the Supreme court. We just have to be decide to be free.

      • messianicdruid December 31, 2021 at 10:11 pm #

        Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty. I will appeal to a higher court.

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 9:59 am #

      Pretty sure that’s when CW2 breaks out.

  67. Pucker December 31, 2021 at 7:42 pm #

    Most people mentally are just overgrown fat kids with their pants around their ankles sucking their thumbs, right?

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 10:00 am #

      No shortage of adults in arrested development, yes.

      We’ve been groomed thusly for decades.

  68. TaxDonkey December 31, 2021 at 8:07 pm #

    The interview with David Martin is really good. Might even give it a 2nd listen.

    • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 10:29 am #

      Are you referring to the one from a few weeks back, or is there a newer one?

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:12 pm #

        Sorry, the one JHK just did a couple of days ago on his podcast webpage

  69. michael December 31, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

    The fossil fuel crunch is not upon us yet. There is plenty available and supply is constrained in parts by political instability (Lybia, Iran sanctions, Venezuela). More over natural gas can fill the gap.

    A much more serious issue is the plan of Western elites to restructure society in ways much more radical than communist.

    You will not own anything! Even under communism you still owned your silverware or clothes on your body. Not so in the future envisioned by the WEF.

    You will rent and order anything you need and every such thing will be delivered instantly and be of much higher quality than what you own now.

    At least this is the idiotic narrative which you are supposed to believe. In reality the situation will be worse than under communism where you applied for and ordered your car and ten years later you got it. But then you owned it and took good care of it.

    The new rentable artefacts will fare like the ubiquitous city-E-scooters now in many European cities: carelessly discarded all over the place, useful life: 3 months, final destination: local body of water.

    When these plans come to fruition, our living standard will drop by 95% and oil shortage will be a non issue.

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    • GreenAlba December 31, 2021 at 8:37 pm #

      “Even under communism you still owned your silverware or clothes on your body.”

      Under their plans you will not even own your body. And unless they own your body, you won’t be in a position to order anything at all.

    • michael December 31, 2021 at 8:51 pm #

      Since Americans really can’t imagine what the situation in Europe is like, I include the following link to the future of personal transportation in Europe:

      https://e-rollers.de/

      Scroll down: on the left is the popular model, on the right the executive models. Here is a translation of part of the sales pitch:

      “Retardation despite acceleration: our e_Rollers will have you completely enthusiastic: the noiseless feeling (!) of freedom with impressive torque and power.”

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:14 pm #

      USSR “communism” maybe

      Not Marxist Communism where everything is community owned, everything.

      Sounded great in the 1800s, impossible today.

      Imagine a world where everyone receives their piece of the pie according to their need, not by their industry. Decisions made by committee, or central authority.

      No thanks, Communism sucks.

    • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 1:45 am #

      Yo Mike, if they delivered a Lada, 10 bucks it wouldn’t start.
      But good points

    • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:22 pm #

      Michael, you got it backwards in my opinion. Global energy production is now pointed downwards. The fossil fuel crunch is here. Fracking is peaking and it’s energy return on energy invested is no longer good enough to keep growing.

      Check out Figure 9 on Tverberg’s latest
      https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/03/is-it-possible-that-the-world-is-approaching-end-times/

      yes, we could argue the accuracy of her graph, but look at the natural gas shortage in Europe and elsewhere, the coal shortages in China. The list continues. Peak energy is pretty much here, or at least pretty damn close.

      The Great REset dudes will become insignificant, although I would concur they are causing a lot of damage as they collapse.

  70. mitchellc December 31, 2021 at 8:24 pm #

    Always the sense of entitement, the indignation of agency caught in a lie. Morals imposed through force and fraud; animal husbandry designed to control the mob.

    Life isn’t special – it happens even if the odds predict otherwise. You’re not special – the product (one of countless billions) of of nothing more than teens/twenty somethings having (multi)daily sex at the hounding insistence of males.

    At first your mother treats you as special – until another comes along – and before the pill just 55 years ago, 4, 6, 8, even 10 others. Before SS, children were the old age insurance plan.

    The countless masses were lined up at the Somme just as they were at Waterloo. GBs criminal code in 1815 had over 200 capital crimes. For example, poaching a rabbit.

    In this type of competitive hellscape, a natural aristocracy was formed. Those who made it to the top didn’t have any fondness for the human condition; Malthus was their God.

    Fossil fuels interrupted nature’s order for 100 years, allowing both population and expectations to rise to unsustainable levels.

    With mankind entering the great reset phase, it would serve you well to ignore everything coming from official channels. They play for keeps, with media used to soften up opposition.

    I would also suggest losing the outrage, the anger, the anxiety. Jim has an audience to serve, but the tasty red meat of promised retribution is filled with empty calories.

    Watch all quiet or 12 o’clock high. Both express the same soldiers philosophy that you’re already dead. Every day alive is just a bonus.

    Drop the emotion and watch the show go down. Stay away from anything fashionable, like “vibrant” “diverse” urban environments. Stop eating shit and focus on your own natural health.

    Not saying you’ll survive, but then again no one does. The key is to have fun being alive.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 8:41 pm #

      Very nice. Do you have a blog? I think I’d probably subscribe to it. Granted, not for everyone, but I think you’ve got it about right.

      • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 10:19 pm #

        He’s much more fun now that he’s dropped the condescension 😀

    • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 9:16 pm #

      Finishing the upper level and taking a break….
      Got 4 more sheets of underlayment down tonight. Finishing ceiling and drywall in second upper bedroom. Then finishing tile and drywall in upper bath.
      ALL materials on hand for final upper level finishing.
      4 vacant bedrooms
      4 Queen beds
      3 full baths
      Jacuzzi hot tub
      22 KW whole house generator with automatic transfer switch and future tie-on for off-grid solar array-inverter.
      New submersible well pump.
      New Reverse Osmosis unit.
      New AC-heat pump.
      New tankless water heater.
      (2) new mini-split units.
      500 gallon buried LP tank.
      40,000 btu gas log.
      20 x 10 x 8 walk in greenhouse.
      20 chickens.
      2000 square feet elevated. garden beds.
      New home security.
      New landscape lighting.
      New pergola.
      New solar lighting.
      Rebuilt suburban 4 x 4.
      Fenced in 1/2 acre.
      160 wooded acres adjacent to fenced in area.
      110 acres family owned 10 minutes north with stocked spring-fed pond, barn, and game.
      230 family acres 90 minutes north with 200 head black angus.
      Beach shack 4 hours southeast.
      Gun safe stocked with firearms and ammo.
      2 stocked refrigerators and 1 freezer.
      1 stocked pantry.
      1 enclosed trailer.
      Tractor, trailer, hand and electric tools.
      4 passenger cars.
      300 foot concrete drive.
      Resilient local supply chain.

      The great reset IS happening…..only NOT the way Klaus and the boys imagined….
      That startling moment when predators become prey is coming their way…..

      ALL Time and Energy is BEST spent building out the NEW, by the sweat of your own brow, with your own hands, ingenuity, and EARNED capital.

      Enlightened Commoners…

      Go. Out. Do!

      GODSPEED!!

      • MaryQueen December 31, 2021 at 10:27 pm #

        Impressive!

        • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 11:23 pm #

          Thanks!
          ….those in resonant unity with illimitable-spirit and nature are in constant motion, out in the country!
          The rumors of the death of rugged individualism, self-determination, ingenuity, self-reliance, local supply chains, community strength, work ethic, creativity, innovation, and philanthropy have been GREATLY exaggerated.

          GODSPEED!!

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 12:22 am #

          Wouldn’t it be good if we were all born into the landed aristocracy – life would be so easy! But that much for one person | one family is totally unsustainable. Who really needs five ICE vehicles?

          • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 12:38 am #

            Lol!
            Nice try!
            All built by family blood, sweat, and tears!
            3 brothers, 2 sisters, 25 nieces and nephews, 2 children, 15 great nieces and nephews…
            All paid for by real work and insured by Smith and Wesson!
            May the land down under FIGHT to enjoy an individual Bill of Rights as much as WE do and have!

            GODSPEED!!

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:55 am #

            All built by family blood, sweat, and tears!

            Perhaps – but you were lucky enough to inherit! I’m not envious really … but very few people are that lucky.

            May the land down under FIGHT to enjoy an individual Bill of Rights as much as WE do and have!

            Personally I think the US Bill of Rights is a nightmare … once you try to articulate “rights” you get into a wordsmithing whirlpool. And create a huge money-making machine for lawyers.

            I prefer the Westminster common law way – Australians have a wide range of rights that we enjoy – certainly not less than those in America.

            A government could ban every gun in the country – if they could pass that through the House of Representatives and the Senate (highly unlikely). But a subsequent government could just as easily reverse it.

            The problem with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is that they are so hard to change, and they bind each generation and also future generations. I find that intolerably strict.

          • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 2:03 am #

            TRUTH is a function of time, discovery, and disclosure.

            While many civilizations face existential threats, many more locales do not.
            .
            Location. Location. Location,

            BTW, MY properties.ARE NOT inherited nor acquired through generational wealth.

            No need.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 3:00 am #

            BTW, MY properties. ARE NOT inherited nor acquired through generational wealth.

            Hmmm … the sceptics among us are not convinced that y’all started from scratch … but good luck to you!

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 6:13 am #

            ” the sceptics among us are not convinced ”

            Says the person who pretends elsewhere to object to
            ‘we are waiting’.

          • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

            @ ianw:

            Even you could probably do something worthwhile, if you tried.

            It is my lifelong observation that the people who belittle those who accomplish things are invariably people who have never done anything at all–or even attempted to do anything. And whenever they see someone who sets out to do something–whether it’s playing the guitar, sewing a dress, baking bread, or fixing the car–they ridicule and discourage them. And when they see someone succeed, they attribute their success to some unfair advantage.

            Invariably, the people who belittle the budding musician have never sung a note, or even tried to. They throw ridicule on their sister for sewing a dress, when they’ve never sewn on a button.

            I’ve run across this in many walks of life, from family to business. A few years ago, I had a little cohort of old biddies at the farmers’ market run a regular vendetta against me. It was just UNFAIR that I was successful and they weren’t. My secret unfair advantages were twofold: I was selling something people actually wanted to buy that was well done, and I was not surly, rude, and pissy to my customers. I started a moderately successful small business with literally NO capital.

            I’ve always supposed that the naysayers probably could do something, but in my old age I am not so sure. Now I am more inclined to believe that they are just people who CAN’T do anything and, out of an awareness of their own inferiority, harbor a seething jealousy for those who can.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

            It is my lifelong observation that the people who belittle those who accomplish things are invariably people who have never done anything at all–or even attempted to do anything.

            I agree with this – and in fact with most of your post Anthea, even down to the politics of farmers markets (which I do know quite a lot about – being a designer and printer to the hippies for some years).

            I sold that small business because it became too successful – and my partner and I wanted to do extensive travel, after a life-time of work.

            I’m amused by those on here who rant and rail against President Biden, Dr Fauci, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama – and a hundred others – never having once ever achieved anything remotely as prominent or prestigious as they have.

            Armchair quarterbacks.

            I am not belittling GT – and there is certainly no jealousy … we have been very successful in our careers, both financially and achievement-wise.

            I was just light-heartedly congratulating him on his choice of parents and ancestors – he did well, and better than most landless city folk.

            But my bigger point is that his long list of “essentials” is staggering – hyper-consumerism gone mad! And the amount of energy to run all that, plus the never-ending maintenance overheads – the mind really boggles!

            We have friends (two couples) who have gone all tree-change, and have 5-10 acres out there a hundred miles or so. When you visit and go for a wander, every single thing is an incomplete project – everything has stalled at the 80% mark.

            Our comfortable suburban house with solar panels is more self-sufficient than that, and more than GT’s too I expect. But anyway – I hope he enjoys it all.

      • lastman December 31, 2021 at 11:15 pm #

        Nice job.

        You’ll need at least 2000 gal. lp gas to op that foot print for any length of time.

        3000 gal in tanks would give you a much better cushion.

        • got___truth December 31, 2021 at 11:29 pm #

          Agreed.
          Local LP supplier has agreed to sister another direct buried 500 gallon LP tank.
          LP usage becomes minimal when solar arrays and inverter are commissioned, mainly servicing the generator when solar array-battery-inverter and public utility are unavailable.

          • lastman January 1, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

            Nice again…I have a 500 buried and we have a much, much smaller footprint. We are in American Redoubt and I could get a year and a half out of it with normal use.

            We have no solar. Lots of wood to heat though. Last night we took a cleansing sauna. I built a cool or should I say hot sauna about 6-7 years ago. This thing is the shit. Think about that since you have all that FAMPOWER. Good for you all.

            It is now a sunny, balmy 5 degrees. -4 the low last night. High of 20 today. Just chucked another nice seasoned piece of fir in the ole Kuma.

            There’s no place like home.

      • Q. Shtik December 31, 2021 at 11:19 pm #

        ALL Time and Energy is BEST spent building out the NEW – g__t

        ============

        The bolded word is superfluous.

      • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 2:10 am #

        I’m movin in got! On my way, Yukon, right?

      • stelmosfire January 1, 2022 at 9:56 am #

        GT, So what exactly are you prepping for? I figure a 2-3 year nuclear winter and we all starve to death. Ala, “THE ROAD”. But that’s just me. 4 bullets and a decent revolver is about all I need. Anyway, HAPPY Twenty-Double-Deuce CFN!!!

        • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 10:21 am #

          ….no prepping!

          Simply a local, agrarian-based existence.
          It’s a “World Made By Hand” x “Whole Earth Catalog” x “Walden” update for the roaring 20’s!

          No underground bunkers here!

          If the GOEs elect to go full nuclear, through their purchased sycophants, a bourbon and a bullet are sufficient!

          GODSPEED!!

          • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 10:41 am #

            Whether or not you identify with him, got__truth, your admirable situation reminds me of Steven Bullock’s. Looking good!

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

        Night vision goggles? How will you see us without it? We have them…..

    • lastman December 31, 2021 at 11:09 pm #

      Word.

      No way most of us could say it any better.

    • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:25 pm #

      Whoa! Who is eating shit? I agree, that’s a bad habit. They should stop immediately.

  71. Pucker December 31, 2021 at 8:49 pm #

    “ We still don’t know exactly what role the CCP and its Peoples’ Liberation Army played in the origins of Covid-19, and we don’t know because the US government doesn’t want us to know — because they had a role in it — and the news media won’t lift a finger to find out, either, because they are the propaganda arm of the regime in power. ”

    I recall that at the time of the outbreak in Wuhan in October 2019 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was under the administration of China’s Ministry of Health, not the People’s Liberation Army. Xi later sent in the PLA to clean up the mess at the lab and only then was the Wuhan Institute of Virology placed under PLA administration.

    • Pucker December 31, 2021 at 8:53 pm #

      The fact that prior to the outbreak in October 2019 the Wuhan Institute of Virology was under China’s Ministry of Health may have had something to do with all of the collaboration between the Wuhan Lab scientists and foreign virologists with foreign government funding?

      • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 8:59 pm #

        WHO???

        What exactly is the role of all these international health organizations? To support China? To support the US?

        So far I have not seen squat from any of these fine money eating organizations in helping the world with a major disease crisis.

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 9:06 pm #

          Oh yeah, what have these Money grubbing Virology groups given to humanity?

          Covid? What else? Shut them down, we were better off with out them.

          • Pucker December 31, 2021 at 9:56 pm #

            In an interview with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in early 2020, she said that her lab has over 500 different bat-related coronaviruses that can readily jump to humans.

            Apparently, the potential number of computer-generated viruses is basically unlimited, but such computer-generated pandemic viruses would not afford their gain-of-function creators plausible deniability.

            They have many cards up their sleeves….

        • Pucker December 31, 2021 at 9:17 pm #

          The largest funder of the World Health Organization is Bill Gates through his sundry organizations, philanthropic or otherwise, combined. That Ethiopian Tedros dude is in Bill Gates’s pocket.

    • Pucker December 31, 2021 at 9:22 pm #

      Government Public-Private Partnership….

      Like Siamese Twins for whom one of the twins is retarded and the other Twin has an IQ of 160, like “Master-Blaster” in the Mad Max movie “Beyond Thunderdome”.

  72. JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 8:54 pm #

    My prediction for 2022.

    A schism has formed in the US. The Deep State is run, by sheer numbers by three states, New York, California and Texas. Luckily, some of the Constitution’s tenets still can hold sway as Manchin is demonstrating right now. Nothing is happening, nothing will, the schism is between the three main power points.

    The national capital needs to be in neutral ground not in the middle of one of the regions, the East Coast. IMHO.

    The three regions are, of course, the East Coast, the Texas centered South and Midwest and the California centered West Coast. Boundaries are mixed. Interesting, two parties and three regions, how is that going to work? 2022 may bring the answer.

    When the differences, political or otherwise, overcome the tie that binds, the Constitution, the country will splinter. As it seems today to want to become a third world, non power, it might as well splinter into regions that make sense.

    Here is an interesting observation. As the country turns brown, the regions have there own characters, the California group going toward Hispanic, the South toward Black and the East Coast a mixture of Black and Hispanic from the Caribbean. The influence of the Whites as well as their numbers is waning. Racism will not split the country, geopolitics will. The divide between a Californian, a New Yorker and a Texan is wider than between Blacks and Whites in each area???

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 9:20 pm #

      Agreed mostly, good work. Where I’d differ is on the South. That’s mostly Hispanic too. African-based “blacks” are mostly a trading card to be played by the traditional “whites” and the new wave “Hispanics,” just as they’ve always been.

      Get used to it my friend. The 21st century US will be increasingly “brown,” whether you and I like it or not. On the plus side, you and I will both be dead soon enough, so it’s probably not something to be overly concerned about. Enjoy the ride while it lasts!

      • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:37 pm #

        Happy New Year to you, Dis. I enjoy our debates. We really do not differ by a lot.

        Agree with you, We will not get to “enjoy” the oncoming changes.

        BTW, theWhites are getting played by the Browns as the Browns steal the country away. All for power.

    • KesaAnna December 31, 2021 at 10:01 pm #

      I would say that increasingly I’m reading John AZ’s stuff.

      For my own part , as I have suggested before , the issues of the American Civil War were NOT resolved by the medieval trial by ordeal.

      Somebody wins the duel , and that’s the end of it.

      No , the SAME issues just took on different guises.

      I doubt this time around the issues will present themselves in the guises of Confederate flags and Frederick Douglas.

      But Secession , or attempted secession , is coming.

      50 years ago nobody was thinking secession.

      I suspect that today millions are thinking secession , but still don’t dare admit even to themselves that the thought they have in mind is secession.

      And 50 years ?

      I suspect a good chunk of the demographic on CFN is of an age to realize that 50 years has been a very rapid change , not a glacial change.

      Secession is coming , and a possible difference is that in 1860 the Union was sitting on a veritable bottomless pit of wealth ,

      and most of its supporters were , no less than the Confederates , self – starting , self – sufficient maverick country boys.

      Today the Union is sitting on bankruptcy , and not a small number of its supporters are pensioners , holders of sinecures , mercenaries , and the chief attraction is bribery.

      You mentioned Hispanics.

      Well , very generally speaking , one of the causes of the great Central American migration was that in the 20th Century North American problems were off – shored to Central America.

      The can was kicked down the road , or perhaps more accurately , the garbage was kicked into someone else’s yard.

      You thought Guatemalans and El Salvadorians were actually running Guatemala and El Salvador ?

      But it has turned out that you couldn’t just move away from the problems .

      You were actually moving to the source of the problems .

      Or the problems were actually universal problems at the time , and already , but merely appeared otherwise at the time.

      • Jarek December 31, 2021 at 10:12 pm #

        They’re coming to take everything we have. Fixed it for you.

        • KesaAnna December 31, 2021 at 10:37 pm #

          Cheer up ?

          I have my suspicions that you like spicy Tacos.

          ( Not the Taco Bell kind , the between the legs kind. )

          As for Blacks ?

          Well , I could be wrong ,

          but I suspect they are no less fucked than this mulatto East German.

          They just have a multi – million dollar press backing them that I don’t have.

          But that TV show will be withdrawn and cancelled.

          And when it is , it will be like the Titanic dropped on a tent.

          So , all in all ,

          potentially sunny days generally ahead for you I think ?

          • Disaffected January 1, 2022 at 9:20 am #

            “Spicy tacos” – LOL! Maybe that’s what behind those recent Taco Hell commercials where the hot looking young chick out on the beach with her prospective lover drops everything she’s doing just as he’s making his move to beat feet back to Taco Hell to wolf down a “spicy taco?”

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

            This is the Kali Yuga mentality. Indiscriminate breeding and the destruction of caste, race, and nation.

            The corruption of women was the key, the coup de grace. As ani says, doneski.

      • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:17 pm #

        Well , very generally speaking , one of the causes of the great Central American migration was that in the 20th Century North American problems were off – shored to Central America.

        The can was kicked down the road , or perhaps more accurately , the garbage was kicked into someone else’s yard.

        You thought Guatemalans and El Salvadorians were actually running Guatemala and El Salvador?

        Indeed, the illegitimate chickens of the CIA’s various Clusterfuckeries are coming home to roost, so to speak.

        I would add that that’s entirely by design, but that’s a larger subject best left for another day.

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:44 pm #

          Think about it this way too. The US has always been a place where people from all over the world come for economic problems. The thing that is forgotten is that they bring their social problems with them and their countries reach in through them and cause problems for us. The most divisive quality is letting in too many immigrants that do not assimilate. Lots of those recently.

          Food for thought. If a group of people were together and the job was to pick out the Americans, how?

          Britain had the same problem, just before the Empire fell apart. Same with Rome.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 12:46 am #

            Britain had the same problem, just before the Empire fell apart.

            Not sure I agree with that.

            The shrivelling of the British Empire occurred for a range of complex economic and geopolitical reasons, including the desire for independence (achieved peacefully in many places, such as Canada, NZ, and Oz, but less so in many as well).

            WWI and WWII finally knocked Britain off its world-power colonial perch.

            But none of this occurred as a result of increased non-white immigration into the UK – most of that occurred after independence (India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, Africa).

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

            Yes, after the War, shiploads of Jamaican Blacks began to unload on Britain’s shores. If they were on the winning side, why were they being treated as if they had lost?

            Obviously they had lost.

        • WilbursHuman January 1, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

          “The Chickens, Are Commin Home to Roost”

          The man was Right On, wheather You like him or not……………….

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPUXjFYh38

      • Not_GeorgeT January 1, 2022 at 12:44 am #

        The secession issue in the 1860’s was a Constitutional Crisis settled by force of arms. It doesn’t meet ‘civil war” definition. War between states or war of northern aggression, much closer to the mark.

        Obviously it was not settled in the Supreme Court, which was the proper venue for disputes between the states.

        They avoided dealing with a dispute between states again this past year with the Texas case.

        Avoiding solves nothing. Secession, as a point of law, has no case history in the US, only a military conflict history.

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 12:54 am #

          They avoided dealing with a dispute between states again this past year with the Texas case.

          Can you imagine the Constitutional mayhem that would have arisen had the Supreme Court determined that one state had the right to challenge the electoral result in one or more other states?

          It was never going to happen – the Supremes didn’t avoid the issue, they squashed it like a bug. Rightly.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:32 pm #

        when the currency turns to complete shit, then states really aren’t getting anything from Washington in return for rendering the fruits of their labor unto Ceasar. At that time, one could imagine a secession movement. The inflationary trend may be a foreshadowing of such a trend.

    • lastman January 1, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

      You should check out Matt Bracken’s Trilogy.

      http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com

      I very seldom read fiction but very accurate about the path we are on.

      Matt does spots on Info Wars (don’t hold that against him lol) and his work can also be found at http://www.americanpartisan.org

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

        Alex Jones was right about a lot of stuff all these years!

  73. Pucker December 31, 2021 at 10:06 pm #

    Scene from the new Dystopia movie on TV:

    Grandma’s hiding in her room at the “Assisted Living” facility called “The Sandpiper” located next to the eyesore strip mall along the highway out of town. Grandma’s hiding from the scary, invisible Omicron when the Nigerian immigrant Nurse’s Aid rapist, Mr. Mabinga, on an H1 work visa comes in with the big needle Jab. Mr. Mabinga declares: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.”

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:09 pm #

      Nice! I trust your getting Executive Producer credit for this, as well?

      • Pucker December 31, 2021 at 10:19 pm #

        Grandma has on her fake, dapper wig and her makeup. Her grandkids’ photos are on her desk and the letter from her 6 year old granddaughter, Stacy, written in crayon with a big smiling stick figure and a blazing sun in the sky also drawn in crayon is posted on her wall when the rapist, Mr. Mabinga, comes in with the big Jab on behalf of the government….

        • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:42 pm #

          I see you’ve developed this into an entire ‘treatment’. Respectfully, I’d like to be under consideration for your team when this goes into production. I think I’ve got a lot to add.

        • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:45 pm #

          Look around though, state’s and federal judges are getting rid of the mandate, one by one. Sanity does prevail, in some places.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:34 pm #

          Grandma opens her robe and out comes a Glock 17…..

  74. KesaAnna December 31, 2021 at 10:28 pm #

    ” As it seems today to want to become a third world, non power, it might as well splinter into regions that make sense. ”

    ” As it seems today to want to become a third world, non power, ”

    I suppose it is even at this late date a bit hyperbolic to say , but generally I would say that yes , you are a grossly authoritarian Third World Banana republic ,

    and , yes , you chose that fate.

    — Except maybe if the lights go off and gas goes to 50 dollars a gallon ,

    you might be forced to consider , ” Why not make another choice when we are fucked anyway ?

    Why not make another choice when this deal sucks anyway ? ”

    ” it might as well splinter into regions that make sense. ”

    I thought that was true in 1860.

    I have seen Confederate Flag bumper stickers , that actually annoy me , that say , ” Heritage , not hate ”

    Fuck that milquetoast shit.

    I guess I should get off my ass and make my own Confederate Flag bumper sticker that says ,

    ” Subsidiarity , not slavery . ”

    Most people apparently haven’t a fucking clue what the term , ” Subsidiarity ” means ,

    but pandering to ignorance , long term , is never a winning policy.

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    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:52 pm #

      Kesa Anna

      Does eliminating a few memorials and banning the Stars and Bars really change anything?

      Blacks are making progress rapidly in this country, better than Africa. Trump was helping opening the economic gates to everyone including the Blacks. Lowest unemployment ever, as I remember. The Dems want subservience and votes from the Black community, nothing else. Trump helped, things have gotten worse since.

      Why have they gotten better, because dependence decreased. Dems preach dependence, the path to failure. Dems will never help Blacks, they haven’t ‘t got the cash.

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

        Including the Blacks? I remind of you of his “Platinum Plan” for Blacks. We was hoping to be a Republican Lyndon Johnson.

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

        Their progress is almost entirely due to affirmative action and race hustling in general. The Nation suffers for their prosperity in a multitude of ways.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 10:54 pm #

      Kesa,

      I have to admit that I’ve never heard of the word “subsidiarity” until you mentioned that the other day, so you might very well be onto something here.

      That said, pandering to ignorance seems to be paying off in spades, for the time being at least. Not sure that’s going to change anytime soon, what with all the ongoing hysteria. Honestly, I think most Americans actually like it that way. There’s an odd sort of comfort in learned helplessness. Kind of like a 300 lb. frustrated housewife stuffing her face with ice cream all day. Hate it, but love it all the same.

      • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:55 pm #

        Gimmes!

  75. Q. Shtik December 31, 2021 at 10:47 pm #

    In the 6th paragraph under the heading Economy, Finance and Money, Jim states that “With inflation running officially around 8 percent, and unofficially more like 15 percent,…etc.

    I can’t find an inflation number greater than 6.8%. Unless he has different data I feel the sentence above should read running officially around 7 percent,… etc.

    Am I being too picayune?

    • JohnAZ December 31, 2021 at 10:55 pm #

      Inflation, like unemployment are indicators that have been changed over the years to hide the real situations and make the Deep State look good.

      JHK extrapolation is probably underestimated.

    • Disaffected December 31, 2021 at 11:02 pm #

      Not sure, but love the use of “picayune” all the same. I think you just might have went out of your way to include that?

      Unofficially, I don’t much subscribe to USGov inflation numbers either way, so it works for me as an approximation all the same. But that’s just me.

      Knights gave it a good go today, eh? Just over matched, but good effort all the same.

    • Not_GeorgeT January 1, 2022 at 12:16 am #

      look up John Williams site: Shadowstats

      He tracks it based on reality, not movable goalposts.

      There is another site, name escapes me at the moment, uses basic household items to track pricing/COL.

    • ianw January 1, 2022 at 3:40 am #

      Am I being too picayune?

      Sounds like one of those little furry critters you see running around the rocks in Zion National Park!

      • stelmosfire January 1, 2022 at 10:48 am #

        No pika in Zion, Mr. Know-nothing.

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

          Still living in that humour-free zone, I see.

          • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 6:19 pm #

            Knocked out cold again, Ghoul.

      • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

        Vocabulary: just one more thing that’s gone to shit.

    • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 6:01 am #

      Why are there commas before the ellipses? Why do the quotation marks appear only at the start of the first quote? Why would you omit the serial comma when not writing in a news context? Why do you use both “percent” and “%”; what happened to consistency? Where is the comma after “data”?

      Is English your native language?

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 10:11 am #

        LOL!

      • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

        In a former life, I was a copy editor (and proofreader and typesetter). I see typos and incorrect English of every description in most books. I rarely see this in JHK. (I think there’s one in the above blog, which is unusual.) But I am often very irritated by Karl Denninger’s writing. The oddball hyphenations don’t bother me too much, but he does have a tendency to get his sentences into such a tangle that his meaning is uncertain.

        But I guess if I hadn’t cut my eye teeth on the Chicago Manual of Style, I wouldn’t know too much about ellipses either.

        I am told that even the Chicago Manual of Style no longer espouses the serial comma, which I think is a disgrace. So the omission of the serial comma remains, as it has always been, a matter of style. Though, IMHO, that does not mean it is okay. It’s still sloppy, no matter who approves of it.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

          I once read a Joanna Trollope novel (I wasn’t moved to read another one) where a minor character – the father of the main character – changed from Mr White to Mr Brown (or vice versa) half way through the book.

          Imagine a CE and proofreader missing that!

        • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

          Many iconic institutions have disgraced themselves over these past few years — with one of the worst offenders being Merriam-Webster.

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 11:30 pm #

            OMGAWD.

            So, I’m back in school new courses. And ALL of the instructors have their pronouns after their names and refer to themselves in bios as “they” and “their” it’s insufferable!

    • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 10:58 am #

      Q,

      You listen to love with your intellect

      https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/petetownshend/joolsandjim.html

  76. malthuss December 31, 2021 at 11:52 pm #

    2022
    my guesses

    Food prices will continue to go up up n away
    gas, the same

    house prices may collapse

    and biden will continue his destroy the USA pogram.

  77. KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 12:44 am #

    ” Kesa Anna

    Does eliminating a few memorials and banning the Stars and Bars really change anything? ”

    As I said ,

    ” 50 years ago nobody was thinking secession.”

    And generally 50 years ago the Confederate Flag wasn’t stigmatized except perhaps among a few Yankee pricks.

    But I suppose there was such a thing in those days as Yankees who weren’t pricks , and those Yankees either liked , or were at least indifferent to , The Dukes of Hazzard.

    At least one – third of John Wayne’s movies featured Confederates in one way or another , and the really interesting part was you could scarcely distinguish the Blue from the Grey.

    The Confederates were not invariably cardboard bad guys , the Unionists were not invariably paragons of virtue.

    No , generally the big apparent difference between the two was color of costume.

    About as morally or politically relevant as eye color.

    And , again , like I said , nobody was even thinking secession when John Wayne was making movies , or when The Dukes of Hazzard was on prime time TV.

    In those days , Malcolm X was a way – out extremist for saying

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHhMabjWwg

    And another way – out extremist , Lincoln Rockwell ( founder of the American Nazi Party ) was a way – out extremist ( Nazism aside )

    for saying , ” Actually , I AGREE with Malcolm X. ”

    Maybe that’s all just coincidence ,

    but I don’t think it was.

    I’m inclined to think it was NOT obvious 1960 – 1980 ,

    that the big coercive ( and that’s exactly what it was ; coercive ) push for a common culture would not be productive of unity ,

    but would be productive of explosive polarization.

    But , geez , it sure as fuck should be obvious now.

    It’s not like there’s too little evidence available.

    To use the US Presidency for example ;

    Nixon to the present —

    The Republicans have won about as often as the Democrats , and vice versa.

    The problem isn’t that you haven’t won enough elections.

    The problem is that the coercion hasn’t worked for either side.

    If anyone were serious about preserving the Union ,

    they would shit – can the coercion.

    Throwing more money at the lawyers and the police and the public schools ( and the public schools are just a police apparatus disguised as something else ) is not helping , it is hurting.

    But shit – canning the coercion, I doubt , is going to happen.

    So the Union is doomed .

    — WHICH I AM HAPPY ABOUT.

    But it wasn’t the Nazis fault , or the Communists fault , or the East German girls fault.

    Perhaps you should have listened to your enemies , instead of to “friends ” who told you what you wanted to hear ?

    ” Kesa Anna

    Does eliminating a few memorials and banning the Stars and Bars really change anything? ”

    I would say no, if Confederate monuments had been put up by the KKK , and the Stars and Bars was just a chamber of commerce kind of thing like the Burger King sign.

    But no amount of spinning will make it so.

    No, the vast majority of Confederate monuments were the result of widows and orphans , surviving siblings , friends and lovers , pooling their pennies to commemorate their dead loved ones.

    I have heard it said , ” Where else in the world do you see people tolerating monuments to their enemies ?

    I would reply ,

    Well , common sense , self – restraint , and genuine virtue are rather rare.

    It was very much to the credit of the Americans that they did toleratemonuments to their enemies

    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

      Well said. A vast attempt at good will, to let bygones be bygones. The Haters of the South had their hour after Lincoln’s death, but good men in both the North and the South rose to quell them and the gangs of Negroes roaming the land, burning, looting, raping, and killing.

      No such good will exists now, and all Whites are considered Southerners.

  78. KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 1:52 am #

    I like aesthetics , and let’s go elsewhere.

    I’m sure there is lots to see and do in Moscow .

    And I think that while Lenin was kinda good – looking , and so makes a good model for banners and medals and statues

    ( Lenin looks good on the Order of Lenin . But Stalin’s ugly mug on medals ? Eh . But maybe beauty is in the eye of the beholder. )

    But I think he was an evil , lieing , sadistic fuck , and I’m no fan.

    But , still , Lenin’s tomb was some really cool shit.

    Here was arguably one of the great movers and shakers of the 20th Century , but long dead ,

    but you can go pay him a visit , and in the flesh , so to speak.

    Really fucking cool I think.

    But what do I suspect they would replace Lenin’s Tomb with ?

    I just learned yesterday that Mariah Carey once did a concert in the Palace of Congresses. ( post – Soviet of course )

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Kremlin_Palace

    Hmm , maybe they could bump her off while she is still fairly decent to look at ,

    and 60 years hence folks could line up to look at a mummified good looking chick ?

    But I doubt it.

    No , I suspect what they would replace Lenin’s Tomb with is …..

    …. Nothing.

    Hey , I would vote for a giant statue of a Care Bear.

    A Care Bear would sort of fit the Russian bear motif.

    I would vote for a gold statue ( like the Golden Horde , you see ) of a nude Mongol fucking a nude Russian girl.

    ( hey , it would be a historical theme . )

    But , Like I said , I doubt we would get either Care Bears or pornography ,

    but would get nothing.

    Enjoy your virtuous nothing I suppose.

    • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 2:29 am #

      Happy New Year Kessa Odessa, and all!

      • KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 2:58 am #

        Meh , I’m usually too busy writing sermons to engage in trivial shit like being nice.

        Hey , I’m a hypocritical bitch.

        But , yeah , for once , Happy New Year to all CFNers.

        By the way , you succeed in being very cute.

        Whether that’s intentional or accidental I wouldn’t know.

        But you are cute as a button.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 9:33 am #

          Thank you and Happy New Year to you too. I hope you can tolerate my good wishes for one day of the year.

          I hope it may be the year you don’t let your mum march you anywhere, like to a booster. I’m a year, or maybe less, younger than your mum, and it wouldn’t occur to me to march my kids anywhere – neither would they tolerate it. Not that they couldn’t occasionally benefit from some metaphorical marching, like most of us.

          Your mum was very young when she had you. Maybe that made her difficult. My husband has a younger brother with an age difference a year greater than between you and your mum, with no other siblings in between (big Irish family; late baby brother – and then sister – syndrome, as used to be more of a thing before reliable birth control. My late kid brother was a (very welcome) surprise, albeit only 6 years after my parents thought they were done, with me).

          The person I went out with before I met my husband had his first daughter at 19. She went on to have a son at 16, so ‘the person’ has a grandson the same age as my younger daughter, while he’s only 2 years older than me.

          I don’t mean anything by noting the age difference between you and your mum – I just find such contrasts interesting. My parents were 31 and 39 respectively when they got married. That would be seen as normal now, but not then. One boy in our street once thought my mum was my grandmother, even though she was about 40 at the time! I was mortified, and generally found it a bit embarrassing that my parents were about 10 years older than most of my friends’ parents. Another fault for you to observe.

          Anyway, I know you hate me, so I won’t prattle on. But since you hate me, you’ll maybe like the fact that ‘the person’ (he was the very unglamorous captain of a very unglamorous fisheries protection vessel – a civil servant of the sea) broke my heart and then some.

          But the heart breaking was the occasion of the only ‘personal’ religious experience I’ve ever had – and twice in the same day – so I guess the experience was worth the pain. And, in biblical terms, I shouldn’t even have been going out with him anyway, what with me being an evil divorcee an’ all, so it was even more of a mystery that He dropped by just to let me know he was there, I presume.

  79. KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 2:13 am #

    If the goal of the American Civil War was to abolish slavery ,

    then it was like World War I , The second Iraq War , or the war in Afghanistan.

    That is , you won the war , but you lost the peace.

    For that reason alone , yeah , the harsher narrative is a stupid fucking mistake.

    Maybe you can morally beat someone over the head when you win , except you didn’t win dumb ass.

    If the goal of the American Civil War was to preserve the Union ,

    then it was a success in the way and to the degree that World War II was a success.

    That is , World War II was a success to the degree and to the extent that you did not humiliate Germany and Japan.

    A success to the degree and to the extent that you allowed the Japanese and the Germans to rebuild their own countries and in their own way.

    Germany is now being flooded with brown people?

    Ummm , to a large extent that was your policy.

    Japan is now a bunch of Octopus – fucking really weird fags ?

    Ummm , to a large extent that was your policy.

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    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

      The purpose of WW2 was to create a Union, ultimately a Global Government. Thus Germany could be allowed to be a real or organic nation ever again. Nor Japan, though they proved more resilient at first, just bowing but not believing the propaganda. But as you say, they caught our disease in their own way at the level of culture if not overt belief.

  80. trypillian January 1, 2022 at 3:29 am #

    Maligned actors do have a sub rosa alternative and it’s coming to a neighborhood near you. The virus is not really a virus at all because they do burn out and this one pretends to be reincarnate. It is actually a bacterium courtesy of a Level Four Lab in Canada. Two Chinese scientists [spies] swiped the bugs and duly deposited them in the Wuhan Lab for global distribution. A manufactured virus is too mercurial and a bacterium is not. You can’t make zillions selling garlic and brandy. You can however, make zillions selling fake vaccines for a virus that doesn’t exist.

  81. KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 3:33 am #

    Ugh , I’m pooped !

    I would rather go work on Care Bear art in GIMP.

    So I’m gonna have to spare you the old college try.

    And try to keep it brief .

    ” In other words, the world is bad and any effort to make it better is hypocrisy and an even greater evil. Better to have no laws at all I guess, but lex talonis, the Law of the Jungle. Honesty at last, she screams. If not this, then logically an extreme Libertarianism with Lots of honest exploitation. Our streets would have become like Calcutta’s decades ago instead of just recently. ”

    I long time ago , in the 1980’s , ( ? ) I saw this documentary series ,

    ” The Day the Universe Changed “.

    I’m pretty sure I watched every single episode.

    But it was a long time ago , and I have forgotten all of it except for two things.

    One episode was , generally , about the history of cartography , and how advances in cartography in a thousand literal ways changed the world , even inside our heads , even in what we perceive reality to be .

    Anyway , at the end of the show the narrator says , ( paraphrasing from memory )

    ” Now there is no more Terra Incognita , the entire world has been mapped.

    You cannot get lost , and there is nowhere to hide. ”

    And then the narrator , who was some English fellow , and you know how perverse those English folks are ,

    gave a cat that ate the canary grin , and said ,

    ” and that’s a good thing , right ? ”

    And the camera zoomed out , and he was standing on the outer bridge of a modern warship.

    The second thing I remember was in another episode he said ,

    ” The civilized world used to look back to a mythic golden age.

    Now the civilized world looks forward to a better day . ”

    I wonder now if the better day tomorrow isn’t in every respect just as mythological as Eden , Atlantis , or idealized Rome.

    I suspect worse , because I doubt even the Covid fiasco has taught people that humans aren’t even remotely ready to start playing god.

    • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

      Amen kess. Nighty night.

  82. Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 3:49 am #

    WordPress are Soviet Nazi Twitter-wannabe anti-Free Speech cocksuckers.

    Sad but True.

    —–

    2 airplanes cannot possibly demolish 3 skyscrapers. D’uh!

    —–

    I refuse to go to Australia or to the zoo.
    I have never seen a kangaroo.
    Therefore, kangaroos do not exist.
    And those billions who say that kangaroos do exist are all Wrong.

    —–

    Ianw is a paid corporate shill working for the clampdown.

    Ianw had Best Repent his sins lest he spend eternity sucking Satan’s large, spiky, pus-oozing cock while painfully burning in Hell.

    —–

    2022 is gonna get freaky. TruStory

    —–

    God bless you, one and all. They are trying to remove and replace God from His very own creation. Do not let them! Remain pure!

    Resist.

    Do not comply.

    Fuck ’em!

    • ianw January 1, 2022 at 5:25 am #

      Ianw is a paid corporate shill working for the clampdown.

      I am a totally unpaid, independent, rationally thinking centre-left guy with six decades of experience under my belt. I shake my head with a solid dose of pity, at all the deluded and quite paranoid conspiracy theorists.

      I actually think you all need a Great Reset of the brain, possibly boosted by a DNA modification achievable through the debble-debble Covid vaccines.

      As a wise virologist quipped in 2020, “Anyone who believes the the mRNA vaccines alter their DNA should welcome the opportunity”.

      • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:33 am #

        David has you here a lot lately, Cargill.

        Is David upset?

      • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

        I don’t believe you but if you are telling the truth then you are an embarrassment to yourself and your countrymen.

        I would be quite upset if I didn’t know you were a troll

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:56 pm #

        You make an ass out of yourself on a daily basis for free?

        LOL.

    • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 8:15 am #

      Happy New Year Handle, OG! 🙂

      I have acquired some vaxx-resistant ‘sisters’ in Alberta.

      I sent an email to the daughter of some old friends of my parents (originally the long-gone dad was a good friend of my dad in Glasgow before he went to Alberta and became an optician. They had two daughters who became opticians and married opticians. Not sure why being an optician is such a big thing in their family (the middle daughter plays Scottish accordion music in Victoria!) but anyway…

      I’ve heard from the oldest daughter, in Calgary, for decades, at Christmas. This year I mentioned what happened to my husband, but said I would say no more about the vaxxes, as at this stage people have made up their minds and either believe the government narrative or not. I was expecting them all to be ardent pro-vaxxers. But she said she was really glad I’d confided in them, as she and her husband, her son and his family, her sister and the sister’s older daughter and family, have all declined the vaxx. The sister’s younger daughter, on the other hand, is pro-vaxx brainwashed. She’s pregnant and won’t let her unvaxxed mother anywhere near her or near the baby once it’s born.

      Oh, the irony. It’s tragic what this is doing to people’s families – as you know yourself. The pregnant daughter is in so much more danger from the vaxx itself and any recently vaxxed family members.

      Anyway, except that they have had an entirely separate tragedy in their family related to one of their grandkids, it is good to have a growing network of support, for as long as we have it, which may not be long.

      • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 9:26 am #

        Happy New Year, GA!

        WordPress banned me. Not Jim but Word fucking Press Soviet Nazi Twitter-wannabe anti-Free Speech scumbags. Not Just OG but my IP address. I cannot post to CFN from my house under any handle any more.

        No warning. No explanation. Just “waste your time trying to figure out what we’ve done in the name of censorship.” Fuckers.

        I am posting today from my GF’s house and her IP address. I assume that they will ban this IP address soon. Scumbags.

        I guess that I got a little too close to The Truth for their WEF agenda. That’s why I went off on Ianw. I was smacking him down when the ban suddenly started on Monday.

        —–

        Alberta is Canada’s Texas. If Freedom has any chance in Canada, Alberta will play a significant role.

        God bless your friends there. God bless the unvaxxed. God bless the deceived. God bless that little unborn Human fetus.

        God bless you, your husband and your family, GA. You are a top-notch lady!

        OGH

        • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 9:30 am #

          Has anyone else seen the footage of black-eyed babies? Is that for Reals or a trick-photography hoax? It sure is creepy.

          Pupil, iris, white is all black like a Giant pupil. Super creepy looking.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 10:14 am #

            OMG, I just looked that up. Let it not be real.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

            That’s got to be one of the creepiest videos I’ve ever seen.

            http://thirdexodus.media/thewatchers/index.php/articles/plagues/1251-black-eyed-babies-pandemic-babies

            As the docs say, they have to take it with a pinch of salt until they see more, but they’re getting more videos sent in.

            How could you fake this, unless the whole thing was CGI?

            Mary???

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

            Ominous indeed. It looks real. Graphene? No, that’s to either connect us with the cloud or kill us, lol. This may be the hydra genes that have been uploaded into the mother. The kids are very physically gifted, but they will obviously be different in other ways yet to be determined.

            And of course, the cunning of the Plutocrats will stymie the efforts of these guys if they don’t take it into account. The hydras aren’t in every vaccine batch by any means. Who knows? Maybe the batch number itself it a trick, and vials may differ within a batch.

            In any case, they are no longer fully human. The first mother was a ghetto Black American. Lovely, right?

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

            If it’s real, it’s horrendous. A cross between The Boys from Brazil and Rosemary’s Baby.

            I’ll suspend judgement on its reality until there’s more.

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

            I saw the black eyes hawk. I thought, those are exactly crack addict eyes, and maybe cocaine or whatever you used to get at the….drumroll plse, opticians.

            HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU AND YOUR BELOVED.

            Brutal Hawk, we are probably only a step behind you.
            If so, please know we are not alone! They may isolate but they can’t get all of us.

            Pray for us hawk. We will for you.

          • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:56 pm #

            Could be CGI, but could just be something completely different as a birth defect. Then again, aren’t babies born with hardly any white in their eyes? I think they probably just did a little bit of messing about with contrast, etc.

            My own newborn pic that my mom used to fax me wherever I was working looked like that! I ended up with perfectly normal blue eyes.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

            In the book and movie “The Stand”, the villain Harold Laudner is nicknamed “Hawk”. Is this who ani is talking to? Did he have black eyes? Does Fr Michel?

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 10:03 am #

          Thank you for all those blessings, OG. Bless you and yours too.

          I particularly appreciate the blessing on the deceived, like me. 🙂

          I’m trying to make up for it, as you know.

          Re your IP problem, would that not be simply solved by using a VPN? I’m using Proton’s VPN, so I keep getting adverts in Dutch!

          And I’m a tech numpty, so if I can do it …

          • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 10:31 am #

            Yes, VPN is a Good idea that I should pursue. Thank you.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

            Welcome back. I’ve heard Nord is good too.

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

            Lol jar head happy new year.

      • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        Oh, the irony. It’s tragic what this is doing to people’s families – as you know yourself.

        Yes … anti-vax zealots wreck families everywhere. I don’t care much whether people refuse vaccination, even if I think it’s selfish, irresponsible, and anti-science voodoo. But I do wish they wouldn’t harp on it over and over and over.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

          It’s none of your business what people harp on about, especially since your anti-science drivel is spewed all over this website, to people who mostly utterly despise you.

          Which rather begs the question – why are you still here? It’s either mental health issues or money.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

            As you know, my vote is for money.

            You know your lies are lies. You are simply shameless.

          • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

            yes, it’s money for sure

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

            Which rather begs the question – why are you still here? It’s either mental health issues or money.

            It’s neither – and I certainly don’t come here for the outlandish conspiracy jive.

            It’s simply because my interests align more closely with those of JHK than many here – geography, town planning, landscape, the archaeology of the recent past, resource depletion, the breakdown of hyper-complex systems, and much else.

            I don’t agree that the Democrats are the cause of all evil, or the beneficiaries of the Deep State, or the reason why politics is held in such low regard, but it’s a quibble.

            I don’t think anything matches the Republican’s stacking the Supreme Court with three reactionaries, or their slavish support for Trumpism.

            The midterms will show us whether Trumpism still has genuine legs – but I expect most people will still vote on the basis of how well they’re doing in the economy.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

            Which rather begs the question …

            I would look up what begging the question actually means – it doesn’t mean raising the question.

            “I believe that Edinburgh is the best city to live in because there isn’t any other city in the UK that is anywhere near as good”.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

            “It’s simply because my interests align more closely with those of JHK than many here – geography, town planning, landscape, the archaeology of the recent past, resource depletion, the breakdown of hyper-complex systems, and much else.”

            How disappointing for you that he’s concentrating so much on the current WEF/Gates/Blackrock conspiracy to destroy public health and human freedom.

            Still, as you’re being paid, you just have to put up with it, and spend all your time commenting on exactly that.

  83. ianw January 1, 2022 at 5:07 am #

    Germany will shut down three of its six nuclear power stations on Friday, and the remaining three within a year. More electricity will need to be generated using coal.

    I’m pretty-much a greenie global-warming diehard … but what the fuck is going on here?

    https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-powers-down-3-nuclear-plants/

    • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 5:52 am #

      “I’m pretty-much a greenie global-warming diehard”

      Dying won’t be as hard as you think. Like I said, to your paymasters you’re below pond life (as is anyone who takes their money to do what you do) so you won’t have had the saline.

      • ianw January 3, 2022 at 2:48 am #

        LOL – you’re not even a very good malevolent stalker – lift yer game!

        • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 6:07 am #

          Good enough, although my purpose in opposing evil is benevolent, by definition. Getting to you, clearly. Troll fondue all over the place.

  84. Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:25 am #

    “Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks about an “electronic pill” approved by the FDA, containing a microchip that transmits a signal when it is swallowed, proving compliance.”

    TLR asks the pertinent question — the question that anyone with an IQ above that of a sack of flour asks:

    “Why are all these Big Pharma conversations taking place at the World Economic Forum?”

    https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1476987100851486722

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    • ianw January 1, 2022 at 5:46 am #

      “Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks about an “electronic pill” approved by the FDA, containing a microchip that transmits a signal when it is swallowed, proving compliance.”

      If the FDA has approved such a thing, then that decision would be on an easily accessible public forum.

      Could we please have the credible official link?

      • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 5:49 am #

        I love the juxtaposition of ‘credible’ and ‘official’, just after Nightowl referred to people with ‘an IQ above that of a sack of flour’, meaning *not you*.

        Or at least *not the character you pretend to be on here, for money*.

      • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:54 am #

        Try the WEF video in the link, the video in which Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, says what is quoted above.

        I realize your aim is to stop someone from getting to the video in the first place, but those are the tactics of a loser.

        🙂

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 7:43 am #

          As I said before, when I see these psychos in meetings, I see the Wannsee Conference in the film ‘Conspiracy’ (I thought it was Branagh who directed it but he only acted in it – as Heydrich).

          “Using the authentic script taken from the only surviving transcript recorded during the meeting, the film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” during World War II.”

          Same psychology, different day.

          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/

          • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 8:31 am #

            Have never seen the film. Need to check it out.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 8:39 am #

            It’s really good. Branagh got an oscar, I think.

            Good in a dark way, I mean.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 8:33 pm #

            Google the Transfer Agreement. National Socialists and Zionists were working together to move Jews to Palestine. The war interfered with that – the final solution.

            The Zionists deny it now of course.

        • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 9:38 am #

          I have seen the video clip of Pfizer’s Albert Bourla whorng this technology seated onstage in a group symposium forum setting several times.

          I do not know if the FDA has yet approved this technology but Bourla most definitely has bragged about it in public. Fact.

        • ianw January 1, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

          “Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks about an “electronic pill” approved by the FDA, containing a microchip that transmits a signal when it is swallowed, proving compliance.”

          This is a confused distortion of the facts. I appreciate he’s not a native English speaker.

          The FDA has approved an ingestible sensor that can check whether a person is taking their prescribed medicines.

          Non-compliance with treatment is a big issue it seems, and the device could alert doctors or family members – particularly if the patient has memory issues, psychiatric or paranoia dramas, and similar stuff.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

            And nothing that has potentially positive purposes has ever been known to be used for more nefarious purposes, once approved.

            Never, I tell ye. And would never be by such saintly folks as those pharma companies who’ve had to pay out billions over the years for the harm they’ve done.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

            If only you were just dangerously naive.

          • ianw January 1, 2022 at 7:15 pm #

            And nothing that has potentially positive purposes has ever been known to be used for more nefarious purposes, once approved.

            I don’t disagree with that – there is a Big Brother element to it for sure. I was simply clarifying what the story was actually about … there is nothing WEF nefarious in it.

          • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

            By definition, you don’t know that.

            Like I said, if only you were just dangerously naive.

  85. Ishabaka January 1, 2022 at 5:47 am #

    Gell-Mann. Tuberculosis is not “ever present in our bodies”. Roughly 5% of Americans have latent tuberculosis:
    https://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/ltbi.htm
    If you want to know if you’re one of them get a PPD (Purified Protein Derivative) skin test.

  86. Disaffected January 1, 2022 at 9:03 am #

    What? And spoil all the drama?

  87. docmartin January 1, 2022 at 9:24 am #

    Interesting comments after Jim’s predictions. He’s toned down his predictions this year and the gang here acts like it got the stuffing knocked out of them except for this Jarek character who I envision weighs four hundred pounds, doesn’t bathe and works at a local post office. I especially like the extra long blogs within a blog that the most narcissistic of you scribe with a great deal of self importance. I picture Jim using a whip and chair ala Clyde Beatty to keep this gang in check. BTW, I think someone else shot the woman on the set of Rust and set up Baldwin, payback if you will. Think Sirhan Sirhan.

    • SpeedyBB January 2, 2022 at 9:13 am #

      [Elderly Wheeze, after Docmartin]:

      You know who killed David Kennedy?

      Syringe Syringe.

  88. messianicdruid January 1, 2022 at 9:49 am #

    ianw said, “You can’t conceive of nations where diversity and multiculturalism work – you always want to see conflict and mayhem.”

    What is the basis of unity in a “nation” that worships diversity and multiculturalism? Pursuit of the lowest common denominator?

    Seems like you are describing a country instead of a nation.

    If you learn anything here it must be that expecting something is not the same as wanting it.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

      Life is conflict and mayhem. You really don’t have to do alot of work to see it everywhere if you know what I mean. So he is either deceiving himself, deceiving others and himself, or deceiving others.

    • ianw January 1, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

      If you learn anything here it must be that expecting something is not the same as wanting it.

      What is so easily learnt here is that many posters (a) are fully paid-up members of the anti-immigrant white nativist tribe, (b) don’t travel overseas much, if at all, and (c) project the problems they believe they see in their scruffy environment on to the rest of the planet.

      And ironically, the US has a much lower proportion of its population born overseas than most comparable countries.

      The sense of unity and community in my country is enormous – and precisely based on diversity and multiculturalism. It works, mate.

      The elementary school that MsW most teaches at has over a hundred nationalities represented … it has wonderful national and international celebration days and fetes.

      Monocultures are boring and unhealthy. So are societies where one culture overwhelmingly dominates and persecutes one or more minorities.

  89. Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 10:12 am #

    Every time I hit , I wonder if the WordPress Soviet Nazi Twitter-wannabe anti-Free Speech scumbags have banned my GF’s IP address as they have mine.

    NYE was the perfect time to start posting again after my Monday banning as, undoubtedly, those little WordPress techno-dweebs plying their trade working for the clampdown are, Right now, at home suckling their mother’s tits until Tuesday.

    Sad but True.

    —–

    While I still have air, I would like to say the following to CFN:

    1) Is there anything similar? I’m a Big Paul Craig Roberts reader but he does not have a comments section. Is there anywhere else on the interweb like CFN to share Free Speech (that is not ran on WordPress’ Soviet Nazi Twitter-wannabe anti-Free Speech shit platform)?

    2) Jim is the Best. His writing and his laiser-faire approach to academics, wing-nuts, rednecks and trolls all sharing their brain farts is Righteous.

    God bless James Howard Kunstler!

    3) There are so very many Great people here. In no particular order, the following come to mind: Soc-Det, GA, Yoho, JAZ, Blackbird, AM, Mr M, Dis, Mesi (need more posts!), KA, NO, Q, Heckler, GT, malt, Pucker, TD, SF, EF, StEF and many, many more.

    Good People who Really give a shit and are willing to think outside the box.

    I’ve seen others disappear: akmofo ran home to Mommy because the Big kids discussed the USS Liberty, Redneck Liberal got outgunned, Tekapo pissed Jim off even more than I have, Beantownbill. rarely shows up lately.

    Anyway, there are many, many more in this bizarre garden.

    God bless you one and all – even the hypocrites and trolls.

    —–

    Regina, Sask. turned on 5G on Dec. 15. My left ear is constantly buzzing. Sometimes my Right ear gets a different frequency and then I’ve got mind-fuck stereo. Fuckers.

    5G C-Band goes live in major US cities on Wednesday.

    “Tinfoil hats aren’t just for breakfast anymore!”

    Don’t eat the yellow snow.

    ~ O.G. Hawkins ~

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    • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 11:24 am #

      Happy New Year OG. Wondered what happened to you.

      • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

        Regarding other blogs with a sophisticated commentariat like Clusterfuck Nation, there are no others that I know of.

        Vineyard of the Saker has a rather tight community, but comments need to stay within much narrower confines than they do here. More of a foreign policy site too. Mint Press News needs a commentariat, the few comments I’ve read don’t do justice to the content of most of the articles. The Unz Review, Moon of Alabama, you might find kindred spirits on that side of town – might even bump elbows with a Clusterfucker or two. TDS (not that I like Trump…) and the Covidians have crowded me out of many old haunts.

        I go to many birdfeeders and pick at their offerings. This one is the only one where I sing too.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:40 pm #

          what’s wrong with ZeroHedge?

          • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            Too unbalanced and unfocused – both content and commentariat. Too much like drinking from a fire hose. I still take a sip once in awhile, but not as much as I used to. In addition, readers now have to be logged in (and therefore signed up) to view comments, so I can’t do fly overs anymore.

    • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 11:50 am #

      I am desolate, O.G. Heartbroken. Where did I go wrong? 🙁

      • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

        My Bad, JT.

        I thought that I had you covered with and many, many more but I was remiss.

        You are a Good read.

        Cheers!

        • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

          Thank you, O.G. Salve for my fragile ego.

          You were right quick on the uptake! 😉

          Good luck with your travails, and I say fuck ‘em!

        • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

          Kinda like the Gilligan’s Island theme song, when instead of “the Professor and Mary-Ann…”, they instead sang, “and the rest…” (Time is money ya know.)

          Until the day the other 5 islanders awoke to find the extra large Igloo cooler, the blender and the solar panel missing – oh, “and the rest” missing too. With the sound of an electric motor fading into the distance…

    • elysianfield January 1, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

      “Don’t eat the yellow snow.”

      OG,

      Ju vill eat yellow snow…und ju vill LIKE it….

      Hope your upcoming year brings you a modicum of peace of mind.

      • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

        Thx, EF. You are a class guy.

        Happy New Year!

        —–

        FYI – I am preparing my documents for submission by Jan. 7.

        Court date is Jan. 18.

    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

      all sorts of communities emerging in the comments on Substack.
      El gato malo and many others have thriving comment sections.

      • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

        ….speaking of Malo…..
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4nhvrfhQ8&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW60XfXP-Hy2IOSGmRt5Db1b&index=10

        GODSPEED!!

      • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 8:00 pm #

        Mewe has vax sites, many. Don’t know what dennigers blog is… on saker there are open threads, but no swearing, caps, or coof!

        Thank you for telling us what’s up hawk! Seriously. This might be a sign you have to teach some newbies.
        There’s alway commenting on rumble etc.

        • messianicdruid January 1, 2022 at 9:03 pm #

          Cryptogon.com is is great, but not a lot of posters. Kevin married NZ gal and moved there. Tech geek.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:42 pm #

        Steve Kirsch has a good one

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:13 am #

        Love El gato’s comment section. Alex Berenson’s is pretty great, too.

    • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

      Hawk, they say even chicken wire can break it up. 5g. My ears ring after vacuuming and cooking with the stove fan on high. Ear bud deafened my neighbour who jogs with rnr on loud.

  90. mitchellc January 1, 2022 at 10:33 am #

    I’m still of a mind that while pressing matters are certainly at hand, covid/Vax aren’t actually the final solution.

    Rather, as one mentally concludes that a new roof really must be installed in the spring, an electrical short needs to be repaired right now.

    So, as you dig into the junction box, you have a chance to note various foundation/support elements, satisfactorily noting that everything that dry & tight. Maybe the big project won’t be a nightmare black hole!

    So too with covid; the global reaction must be very pleasing to those assuming responsibility for the great reset. If the herd can co easily be manipulated about an aggressively virulent flu, imagine what can be accomplished in the coming actual emergency?

    I see covid fatigue everywhere. The boosted who are holding back with their children. Many others who dutifully followed the official narrative, but are now becoming resigned to battling the flu.

    Geniuses aren’t stupid, if anything they’re experts at reading moods. If the covid production is nearing the end of its run, what’s next?

      • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 11:04 am #

        “A Nation on Hold Wants to Speak With a Manager.”
        https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/01/a-nation-on-hold-wants-to-speak-with-a-manager/

        The goal is a sustainable planet of 500 million “essential” humans, compliant in their assigned spaces, obediently performing tasks pleasing to their Owners.

        Across “advanced” civilizations, a simultaneous takedown of the healthcare system, financial markets, and civilian guardian class, accelerates the collapse of the other 45 percolating variables.

        GODSPEED!!

      • Hereward the Woke January 1, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

        To which, by amazing coincidence, Bill Gates has a “vaccine” up and ready to go.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:50 pm #

        Hi GA, I think the psychos would hesitate about putting out an actually deadly pandemic. So many of them are in their 80’s and a real killer plague would risk wiping them out as well. Notably missing from this Covid pandemic was a bunch of old politicians, the pope, the queen, Kissinger and other elites dying off. I was waiting to see if the homeless population started dying in droves and they didn’t. Why not? The current scam was highly dependent upon
        ‘mass hypnosis’ with Billlions in propaganda, not a real superkiller like Marburg or whatever. I could be wrong of course, but I don’t see them doing a 180 on this.

        • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:06 am #

          I pretty much agree with you, TD. A new ‘mystery disease’ would primarily be of value for the response to it, not the disease itself.

          And I agree a really humdinger would be a risk to the perpetrators.

          • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

            I’m not saying that covid didn’t kill people, but the real play was the “mindfuckery” I think. Does this quote sound like concern for public health?

            “We need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process.”

            Peter Daszak, money launderer 2015 quote

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

            Nothing to disagree with there either!

    • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 11:51 am #

      I don’t see the Plandemic coming to a conclusion anytime soon. We still have a lot of the Greek alphabet to get through – pretty sure they started that naming scheme as a way of showing this production has a long run.

      I see fatigue too, but I see that fatigue leading to resignation not rebellion. I see people alone in a car wearing a mask. And the avid pro-vaxxers aren’t losing any steam, if anything they’re more obnoxious than ever, haven been proven correct (in their – rented – minds).

      We need a needle in every arm and a vaxxpass in every hand (implanted – for convenience!). We need everyone tagged, tracked, and plugged into the electronic umbilical. Their plan has been revealed, they can’t stop now. This is no normal wave, this is a tsunami. This wave isn’t rolling back. The worst is yet to come.

      Regarding geniuses – virtually every one I’ve known was hopeless at reading moods. Good with ideas and even things, terrible with people.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

      What is a junction box? So are you sure they are geniuses? I’m sure some are but it’s giving flawed humans lotsa credit to imply they as a whole are all geniuses imo. Operation Dark Winter was a wargame for a smallpox scenario. Since Brandon has invoked Dark Winter I assumed personally that a smallpox pandemic is planned.

      • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

        A metal box wherein electrical wires join together? I think

        • Anthea January 1, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

          Yes. A lot of times this is because you need your electircal line to branch in two directions. You might have one branch that goes to a series of outlets and a separate branch for a light fixture and switch. If you would like to sound cool, you should refer to junction boxes as J-boxes.

          • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 7:15 pm #

            Fascinating!

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

      Disagree with geniuses being able to read moods.

      They read trends.

      • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

        Then again they are not a monolith. Intelligence comes in all forms.

        • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:14 am #

          Yes, indeed.

  91. got___truth January 1, 2022 at 10:35 am #

    Location. Location. Location.

    “Terrified Beverly Hills residents flock to buy guns from city’s only firearms store as LA crime soars thanks to woke DA’s policies.”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10359045/Beverly-Hills-residents-flocking-buy-guns-citys-firearms-store-LA-crime-soars.html

    One word: Walden.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      I struggle to care since most of these people practically begged for their current fate whether they realize or not. Part of me says I hope your city burns. Another part of me says this Soros skeletor and sundry minions are evil and there needs to be a righteous reckoning.

      • JohnAZ January 1, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

        Part of me hopes that the conservative elements of these cities get enough of this s*&t and start knocking heads. The irony of BLM is they are destroying their own people never leaving Black areas. Are they declaring war on their own “Uncle Toms” or do they know if they tweak the White areas, someone might do something about it. Cowardly.

        • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

          Well BLM as far as I can tell is a corporate public relations campaign and not per se tied to the interests of blacks. So their uncle tommery is another gimmick of gimmicks. Their name should be BlackRock Lives Matter rather.?

          • BackRowHeckler January 1, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

            BLM is also a real estate consortium, whereas a handful Black Marxists and faux revolutionaries can Mau Mau enough rich white self hating liberals, convincing them to make generous donations “to the cause”, enabling BLM leadership (mostly overweight black lesbians) to buy nice home in stable, upper middle class, white suburban neighborhoods.

          • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

            Yes blockbusters are really all they are

          • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

            Zing! Yes, esp. given all the help they gave them by destroying parts of cities that BR conveniently wanted to gentrify.

          • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

            Well and too my understanding is that they are also buying up whole neighborhoods and turning the properties into rentals. Specifically in preparation for the you will own nothing and you will love it moment.

        • TaxDonkey January 1, 2022 at 10:58 pm #

          John,
          Catherine Austin Fitts (on Planet Lockdown interview) notes that the BLM riots overwhelmingly happened in enterprise zones where there are tax breaks for buying up property and many of them she says have a Federal Reserve Branch in the area. The price of real estate further crashes when you get your BLM thugs to trash the place. It’s, according to her, a real estate acquisition plan.

          • lastman January 2, 2022 at 11:09 am #

            A new form of urban renewal.

            The days of people chained to the old cast iron radiator or to a giant redwood in the forest are gone. My favorite was those who spent months in a tree house. Just way to much delay with Eco terrorism, etc. Rich uck’s have no time for this now-a-days.

            Now, those on deep state payroll riot, loot, burn and chase everyone out. No mus, no fuss. Props bought by those in the know for pennies on the $. Burned out shit way easier, cheaper to demo and far less to dispose of. Tax breaks as you mention.

            Just a screaming fukn deal for those with the advanced “heads up”.

          • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:16 am #

            Exactly. They were sent in (whether the know it or not – perhaps ‘directed’) to destroy sections of downtowns that are desirable acquisitions for the PTB. Austin Fitts is one of the few pointing this out.

  92. Barry Bliss January 1, 2022 at 10:41 am #

    Thank you, James.
    I was unsure what your thoughts were on bitcoin. I basically agree.
    Take care.

    • JohnAZ January 1, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

      Money is an abstraction. It loses value when people lose faith in its ability to represent wealth.

      Crypto currencies are the result of an egomaniacal computer community creating money out of nothing, a few oriented electrons in a RAM somewhere. Sorta like the government. On the risk scale, Bitcoin et al will collapse early during the Great Reset, the new term for the onset of the Long Emergency collapse. Faith goes, money goes, society goes.

      • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        ….AND many locales continue to PROSPER based upon the local means of regenerative food, water, and energy production, with coordinated self-defense, where the population of deer, rabbits, bluebirds, butterflies, and hummingbirds represent the majority of biological life.

        An army marches on its stomach.

        There is no concern about Jarek’s army of economic-refugee-invaders “taking it all.”

        ….they become nutrients for Mother Nature on the journey.

        This is NOT an examination of political, economic, or ecological systems. It comes down to the INDIVIDUAL. Does the individual REALLY have the COURAGE to go along with the TRUTH, and maneuver away from the rolling waves of collapse, and BUILD a future for themselves, their progeny, and their community, centered on love, joy, gratitude, peace, and synchronicity?
        http://www.got-truth.com/images/L3.png
        http://www.got-truth.com/images/cpf1.jpg

        GODSPEED!!

  93. messianicdruid January 1, 2022 at 11:19 am #

    ianw said, “The problem with the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is that they are so hard to change, and they bind each generation and also future generations.”

    Maybe consistency [ truth ] is something people of earth find desirable, risking their lives to get here.

    Same could be said for the scriptures but deceivers have had much more time to work on them.

    • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

      From John F. Kennedy, 1962:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YafZkjiMpjU&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=33

      ….it is better to die on your feet seeking and freely sharing TRUTH and BEAUTY, than to the live on your knees promulgating deception and servitude to the Globalist-Oligarch-Eugenicists.

      GODSPEED!

    • JohnAZ January 1, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

      Well said.

      Maybe IAN has some ideas for God to amend the Bible to make it more amenable to the sociopathic creatures taking over what used to be a moral country.

      On of the definitions of liberal is a constant desire for change, a trait which the Founding Fathers wanted curtailed, that is why they wrote the Constitution to slow the forces of change.

    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

      A living Constitution! A Government of people (not men) not law.

      As Scalia said, I prefer mine safely dead.

    • ianw January 2, 2022 at 2:05 am #

      Maybe consistency [ truth ] is something people of earth find desirable, risking their lives to get here.

      I find holy devotion to words written mostly in the 1780s quite cute and charming. Doesn’t lead to even semi-decent governance in 2022 – but who cares?

      If it was good enough for bewigged powdered aristocratic slave-drivers back then, it’s good enough for us! Amazing stuff.

  94. spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

    at least JHK has stopped repeating his other mantra

    “I’m allergic to conspiracy theories.”

    Better late than never my friend.

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    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

      I always say a lil bit o sugar helps the medicine go down lol. Who needs those hay fever headaches anyway!

    • Blackbird January 1, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

      I’m allergic to the term “conspiracy theory”. Wanna discredit someone without going to the effort of gathering and organizing facts? “Conspiracy Theory!”

      • messianicdruid January 1, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

        Conspiracy Scientists [ Clif H. ] produce theories concerning the interactions and goals of conspirators.

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

        Yes, among the most successful memes ever created. Its universal use by the media being itself a conspiracy, a con-spire, a breathing together.

      • Alpha Omega January 1, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

        The study of history is little more than the study of one conspiracy after another for millennia.

        Men in power conspire. Men in power have always conspired.

        To think that, sans revolution or fanfare, men (and women) in power suddenly, recently ceased conspiring is child-like naïvety.

        Of course people in power conspire. D’uh!

      • malthuss January 1, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

        we are allergic to chemtrails.

        • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

          And how!

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

        Mark Crispin Miller did a fun post about how Wikipedia lists all the ways he’s a conspiracy theorist. He’s proud of it.

        Any more, if someone isn’t called a CT in wikipedia, I don’t trust him/her.

        LOL. I think Jim’s in great company.

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:17 am #

        CIA knew what they were doing when they coined that.

    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

      great comments all

  95. got___truth January 1, 2022 at 12:10 pm #

    …AND lastly, from George Orwell, 1943:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usVBMq7lkVc&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=397

    “Don’t let IT happen. IT depends on you.”

    GODSPEED!

    • SpeedyBB January 2, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

      “Orwell dead-ends well.”

      Oh well.

  96. JohnAZ January 1, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

    The number one illness in the USA right now is not Delta, not Omicron, it is the mental illness of the hidebound Democrat. It is marked by the lack of common sense, the paramount role of the Do nothing, Make excuses credo, an aversion to voicing the truth, and a narcissistic based desire for power overwhelming all other loyalties, especially loyalty to the USA.

    • JohnAZ January 1, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

      The number two is the conservative tendency to “What me worry” about the shenanigans of the Changers of the Left. No wonder they have been able to take over almost every institution in this country.

      • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

        Well stated!
        INDEPENDENT Constitutionalists don’t require a Party or affiliating labels.

        ….the CONSTITUTION is the platform!

        GODSPEED!

        • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

          ….and the Individual Bill of Rights is conferred to ALL U.S. Constitutional Citizens, NOT just those who look. think, and act like one another; not only in theory, but in PRACTICE, across the NEW Republic.

          …enjoy the quickening. Alignments to TRUTH and BEAUTY are rapidly occurring within the realm of synchronicity.

          GODSPEED!!

    • malthuss January 1, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      black people do not want the shot.

      this is a comment online,

      Recipients of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine are 3.5 times as likely to develop a rare, deadly, blood clotting condition than the general population, a new study finds
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10152723/Americans-received-one-dose-J-J-Covid-vaccine-3-5-times-likely-develop-blood-clots.html
      How much must one multiply “rare” by before the product is no longer “rare?”
      “A Black woman in Brooklyn, New York, reveals that she finally decided to go get a COVID-19 vaccine, and felt the Moderna would be the one she wanted.
      So instead of going to get the vaccine in her (Black) neighborhood, where she feared it wasn’t being done right, she decided to go to what she said was a ‘White area” and chose “Columbia” (University or Presbyterian Hospital) and registered on the web site to get the vax.
      She says that in the web registration, it asked for her Race and she selected “White” even though she is black.
      When she got to the appointment to get the vaccine, the nurse went to the computer to verify the information and allegedly told her, “you’re not White, I can’t give you this” and refused to give the vaccine!”
      There is a video of her, telling it, In her own words…………..
      Soooooo, WTF is going on ?????????
      https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/blacks-getting-different-covid-19-vaccine-than-whites

      • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        Maybe the jabs need to be race specific to do the most damage

      • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

        Maybe because intentionally filling out a form incorrectly is an act of fraud?

        Now if she had claimed to be a white man, that might have got her to the front of the line.

    • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      “..the mental illness of the hidebound Democrat.”

      Thanks for the laugh.

  97. GrimReaper January 1, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

    The FIRST Omicron DEATH!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5E8z89c9U&t=34s

    • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

      LEGENDARY!
      …..the many have been deceived into believing LIVING is the avoidance of death; and as a direct result have rushed into the injection of “prolonging” living.

      TRUE LIVING is attaining and sustaining connection to illimitable-spirit and nature.

      Seasons don’t fear the Reaper.

      …enjoy the quickening to TRUTH and BEAUTY!
      ALL is being REVEALED, in the realm of synchronicity.
      http://www.got-truth.com/images/L3.png
      http://www.got-truth.com/images/cpf1.jpg

      GODSPEED!!

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

        What about the black eyed kids? The human-hydra hybrids? Or is this the alien invasion as predicted in X Files movie?

        • SpeedyBB January 2, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

          One of the common narratives among purported Abductees, and a curious if puzzling one, is where a woman on board an alien craft, her lady-parts having been manipulated, is shown a weird-looking infant and told “This is your baby” meaning it is a hybridized variety of human-alien.

          Why would they bother to do that? If the Visitors are as cruel and uncaring as Budd Hopkins concludes, why tip off the human donor that her mutated fetus is something like that?

          • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

            So who’s gonna raise ET jr? I hope the aliens on dad’s planet are more understanding than we are. Kid’s never gonna survive grade school here on Earth. From the sound of it mama gonna be single the rest of her life – or hook with some real freak.

            What kind of dumbass experiment is this? Or is it just another case of Captain Quirk can’t keep his squirt gun in its holster?

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

            The kids will be stronger than humans. They will form gangs and prey on us.

            The experimental stage was a success. Now implementation of the Program of Replacement.

            Why? Maybe they aren’t all bad. Nothing personal, just business as Fauci said.

      • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

        And

        HEALTHY = COVID-FREE

    • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

      Awesome compilation showing how they do it.

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

      Matt Orfilea is awesome. Thanks, this is perfect.

  98. JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

    Here’s a good primer from Charles Hugh Smith.

    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/12/watch-top-5-theyre-key-to-whole-economy.html

    Optimization and dependency have consequences. Go ahead and become dependent on asset bubbles and the free spending of the top 5%, and optimize your economy to serve this “growth,” but be prepared for the consequences when the costs of this optimization and dependency come due.

    • got___truth January 1, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

      TRUTH!!

      After the collapse of the healthcare system, financial system, and civilian-guardian class, the other 45 percolating variables rapidly collapse, across “advanced” civilizations.

      The law of self-organized criticality prevails across all known realms of existence, at the MACRO level.

      I am not advocating it; the percolating variables AT or EXCEED critical point are immutable facts.

      ….enjoy the quickening to TRUTH and BEAUTY!

      GODSPEED!!

      • Islander January 1, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

        Please, hold the caps and slams.

  99. GrimReaper January 1, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

    Scientific study: evidence of vaccine-induced hepatitis.

    “Our case demonstrates conclusive evidence of vaccine-induced immune-mediated hepatitis with a rapid onset of liver injury after the first Moderna dose, which on re-exposure led to acute severe autoimmune hepatitis.”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8491984/

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    • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

      Thanks for this, GR. I’m mentally putting together some stuff to send to my doctor, who poo-poo-ed my concerns about the vaxxes in July/August.

      • JTinMD January 1, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

        Will your doctor actually read any of it? Mine won’t, and I tried too.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

          It’ll be my last attempt. I gave her stuff before and she said she’d look at it, but I don’t think she did. This is quite clear, though, and there’s the recent cardiac/vascular paper as well. Also some blatant graphs etc. on Steve Kirsch’s site.

          Having said that I sent a number of links, plus some incontrovertible facts, in an email, to a retired doctor friend of my husband’s, who told me I’d lost the plot when I mentioned the booster in relation to my husband’s cardiac incident. She basically just said she wasn’t interested and had better things to do with her time.

          I can’t even imagine being a doctor (even a retired one) and being so incurious about something potentially so critical. They’re unbelievable.

          • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

            what do they say about trying to convince someone of something that their paycheck depends on them not understanding.
            I can’t work out how to ever see a doctor again. There must still be good ones, but they are probably unlicensed.

        • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

          Haven’t been to a doctor in years, but if I do and they are pushing the covid19 injectable product, they’re going to get a serious debate.

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 6:33 pm #

        Sock it to him, GA!

        One has to be blind to ignore all the aspects of this utter hoax.

        You can add this to your arsenal:

        https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/

        I got it from Dr. Malone’s Telegram feed.

        • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

          Thanks, Mary – that one will definitely be included!

          This is interesting – Guardian readers’ predictions for 2022. Mostly not worth reading but right at the end, this:

          2022 is going to be significantly worse even than 2021 and 2020. Large increases in the price of food, fuel, energy, hospitality. Maybe even food shortages. […] Terrifying clampdowns on freedom of speech and the right to protest – eg “protesters” being imprisoned for sharing views and communicating with each other online. And who knows what is going to happen with Covid? The shocking thing is that, even with 2020 and 2021 being as awful as they have been, they are better than any year we’ll see for the rest of our lives.”

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/01/boris-johnson-quits-global-unrest-supporters-predictions-2022

          That’s quite a paragraph to be permitted in the Graun.

  100. Jarek January 1, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

    from the wiki for Kwanzaa

    Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles)

    A display of Kwanzaa symbols with fruit and vegetables
    Kwanzaa celebrates what its founder called the seven principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba (originally Nguzu Saba – the seven principles of African Heritage). They were developed in 1965, a year before Kwanzaa itself. These seven principles are all Swahili words, and together comprise the Kawaida or “common” philosophy, a synthesis of nationalist, pan-Africanist, and socialist values.

    Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the principles, as follows:[14]

    Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

    Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.

    Ujima (Collective work and responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.

    Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

    Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

    Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

    Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

    Jarek: Superb. This is National Socialism. Hereward, Alba, Ian – see number one, Umoja, for their endorsement of the importance of race.

    Whites need a festival like this as well, since America is no longer for them and their religion, Christianity, is now against them as well.

    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

      yes, it’s pretty wild to realise that the most banned thing on the net are ‘the fourteen words’.
      “We must secure a homeland for our people and a future for our children”

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

      All the colleges have Umoja communities:

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colleges+with+Umoja+cohorts&t=chromentp&atb=v290-1&ia=web

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 10:31 pm #

        So it should be alright for Whites to have type thing on campus, right? But is it?

        • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          Are there still alumni sending money in to support this crap?

    • Blackbird January 2, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

      Kwanzaa…

      Now I’m not one to belittle other’s totally made-up ridiculous holidays designed to one-up the host culture, but…

      That’s interesting, Siri, just texted me suggestions for celebrating Kwanzaa. Top of the list: “stick fork into electrical outlet”. Sounds like an appropriate way – for me anyway – to celebrate this blessed and holy occasion!

      • ianw January 3, 2022 at 3:13 am #

        Now I’m not one to belittle other’s totally made-up ridiculous holidays designed to one-up the host culture, but…

        Probably works the other way too. Some 5-6 billion people on the planet no doubt think “Christianity” constitutes a bunch of totally made-up ridiculous holidays as well.

        And those “holy-days” only have clout because of the geopolitical power of Europe / UK / USA … not because there is any intrinsic truth in their establishment voodoo.

        Thank god for atheists, I say!

  101. Jarek January 1, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

    The 74

    Amid a surge of new COVID cases across the country and evolving CDC guidance surrounding both shortened isolation periods for Americans who test positive and eliminating the need to test negative before returning to work, Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, appeared on MSNBC Thursday morning with a dire prediction of how the latest variant could escalate so quickly in the days to come that it could disrupt daily life through January:

    “Right now we have a very imperfect situation that is going to require some very imperfect responses,” Osterholm said on Dec. 30, the day after America recorded more than 465,000 new COVID cases. “Over the next three to four weeks, we are going to see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically that we are going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating.”

    Asked specifically if this unprecedented Omicron surge could threaten the reopening of schools during the first week of the new year, Osterholm said the situation may have less to do with student safety than a profound disruption to the supply of teachers: “It’s not even a function of ‘Should they delay [reopening schools] because of kids getting sick?’ I worry very much that even with vaccinated teachers, we still could have breakthrough infections; we’re going to have a hard time staffing our schools in the next three to four weeks.

    “All of society is going to be pressured by this – it’s health care, big box stores that are actually considering closing or have closed because they can’t find enough workers to actually be at work. From the school standpoint, we know schools are a place where this virus can spread, it will spread, kids will get it there, kids will bring it home, kids will take it to school, teachers will get sick … I think the next month is unparalleled in the kinds of decisions we [will] have to make and schools will be one of them.”

    Jarek: This is the guy behind “two weeks to flatten the curve”. They’re going to shut us down again. Got good books to read? Money for rent?

    Night Owl: Better come now if you’re coming. The Airlines will probably be the first to go.

    • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

      Gym Bro Chris Skye just predicted a full on lockdown for both clot- and non-clot-shotted individuals in mid- to late Jan.

      That guy’s predictions are something else.

      • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

        “Sky”

    • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

      Osterholm revealed himself as a shill very early on, like January 2020. He came out all wrong with discounting the laboratory origin.

      • Paula D January 2, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

        Yeah, but I remember distinctly on Joe Rogan in March 2020 he was against lockdowns.
        He really follows the money.
        But yeah, he denied that it was a lab leak in that same interview.

  102. GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

    Tony Blair has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours list.

    I think I’m going to be sick.

    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

      it’s a little like the feeling one has after each chapter of RFK’s book

      • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

        I’ve just started it. I bought a hard copy so that my husband would read it (which he has) but I just got a Kindle version for myself earlier, which I’m not far into. I’m starting with the last chapter – the one on biowarfare – and will go back to the beginning after that!

        What helps me through this, with all these psychos like Gates, Blair, Fauci, Whitty, Sturgeon, von der Leyen and so on, is that there are so many people on the other side whose goodness just jumps out at you – Malone, McCullough, Fuellmich, Yeadon, Bhakdi, Austin-Fitts. and a whole lot more. They just radiate goodness when you listen to them, compared to the ghouls.

        • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

          Yes, the bad and good energy defintely comes across.

        • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

          Agree. You can feel the wretched and evil ghoul energy emanating from those WEF psychopaths.

          And every time I listen to one of the people of integrity, I feel very calm, and have learned something.

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 10:24 pm #

            Calm is the tell. If you are at peace with something, or after hearing something, no matter how dire, a lasting calm tells you it is good or true.

        • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

          Mary, some months ago: Where are all the men fighting the Covid agenda? It seems to be just women.

      • ianw January 3, 2022 at 2:01 am #

        it’s a little like the feeling one has after each chapter of RFK’s book

        Probably what I feel too – but for the opposite reason.

        It’s a long list of very tired, very old, very debunked anti-vax conspiracy theories. How anyone can give it any scientific or medical credence is beyond understanding.

        Pod people – desperate for validation of their voodoo. It’s why Christians and other nutters flock to Lourdes – they want PROOF of their FAITH … but they totally miss the point. Sad.

        Christianity works on voodoo and mass psychosis – like all unprovable movements and theories. It requires faith in the unprovable. Very sad.

        • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 6:38 am #

          Melting troll tells readers about his reaction to the chapters of a book he hasn’t read.

          Like he smears videos he hasn’t watched.

          Even a pod person would make more effort, just to try for credibility. Melting troll doesn’t even try. Just spews words, like a toilet roll unravelling. Or a toilet troll, whatever …

          Clearly paid by the word, not for either effort or success. Just as well he’s not paid by success or he’d owe them money.

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      Oh that’s bad, alright.

      Yeah. Upchuck-worthy.

      Bleah.

  103. got___truth January 1, 2022 at 3:29 pm #

    A debt of GRATITUDE to Mr. Kunstler and “The Long Emergency.”

    …..the MANY in my sphere read it and connected to the TRUTH many years ago, and have AND continue to maneuver accordingly.

    It is a daily metamorphosis.

    The good news is ALL is not lost.

    Their remains adequate time to maneuver away from the rolling waves of MACRO collapse.

    GODSPEED!

  104. Ed Haskell January 1, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

    Mr. Kunstler,

    Thank you for the brilliant prognostication! When Paul Volcker took over the Fed in 1979, in order to stem runaway inflation the Fed raised short-term interest rates from 10 percent in 1979 to 20 percent in 1981, the highest they have ever been. It appears Volcker perceived it was monetary policy, set by the Fed, that primarily created the problem and he chose to reverse the problem and, very likely, prevented a global economic catastrophe. Since 2008 we’ve been watching a replay of the Fed creating pretty much the same problem on a gargantuan scale, dwarfing the problem Volcker faced. I agree with you, the economy is likely to suffer a grievuos meltdown. Ugh.

    Cheers

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    • spaingaroo January 1, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

      and I can still remember my sister’s struggle to keep paying the mortgage when the rates went to 18%. (I think it never went higher) but that was half a world away, back then in eighties BrisVegas.

      • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

        It all depends on which side you are on.
        For the poor of the world, the 80s were a giant kick in the teeth. For the rich, that is when the party really started.

  105. Jarek January 1, 2022 at 5:06 pm #

    A public defender writes:

    If you tell a black man that the evidence is very harmful to his case, he will blame you. “You ain’t workin’ fo’ me.” “It like you workin’ with da State.” Every public defender hears this. The more you try to explain the evidence to a black man, the angrier he gets. It is my firm belief many blacks are unable to discuss the evidence against them rationally because they cannot view things from the perspective of others. They simply cannot understand how the facts in the case will appear to a jury.

    This inability to see things from someone else’s perspective helps explain why there are so many black criminals. They do not understand the pain they are inflicting on others. One of my robbery clients is a good example. He and two co-defendants walked into a small store run by two young women. All three men were wearing masks. They drew handguns and ordered the women into a back room. One man beat a girl with his gun. The second man stood over the second girl while the third man emptied the cash register. All of this was on video.

    My client was the one who beat the girl. When he asked me, “What are our chances at trial?” I said, “Not so good.” He immediately got angry, raised his voice, and accused me of working with the prosecution. I asked him how he thought a jury would react to the video. “They don’t care,” he said. I told him the jury would probably feel deeply sympathetic towards these two women and would be angry at him because of how he treated them. I asked him whether he felt bad for the women he had beaten and terrorized. He told me what I suspected — what too many blacks say about the suffering of others: “What do I care? She ain’t me. She ain’t kin. Don’t even know her.”

    American Renaissance

    Jarek: A perfect example of Piaget’s work anent cognitive development – which of course impacts moral development a la Kohlberg.

    If you show a young child a block that is colored red on one side and blue on the other, point the red side towards him and then ask, What color am I seeing, he will say red. He forgets all about the blue. He can’t imagine you are having a different experience than he is.

    Now pace Kohlberg, if you can’t even imagine the experience of others, you can’t get outside of yourself. How can you really feel anything for them? See that as anything but a means to satisfy your own desires?

    Intellect is necessary but not sufficient for moral development. Alas! Thus Gates of Hell, Dr Fauci and the Dr Frankensteins of Pfizer.

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

      Yes, this guy is such a paragon of virtue!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUc_Xjc0Ss

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        Yes Virginia, there are White criminals. That doesn’t change the fact that the Black race produces more per capita than any other race.

        You’re quick to defend the imaginary honor of another race at the expense of your own. You bizarre is that?

        Very.

        • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

          How, not you.

        • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 8:05 pm #

          Not really. I just live in reality.

          Tons of people (mostly men) from all over the racial spectrum committing crimes.

          It’s fun to watch how irritated you get when it’s a white male.

          • malthuss January 1, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

            you deny reality.

            CLASS REPEAT AFTER ME,

            Most killers in the USA are from just 3% of its population.

        • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

          Let’s review:

          Bill Gates = white
          Klaus Schwab = white
          Joe Bidet = white
          Justin Castreau = white
          Angela Merkel = white
          Macron = white
          Gavin Newscum = white
          Tony Blair = white
          Royal family of pedos = white
          Clintons = white

          I could go on and on.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

            Yeah, well this is a White civilization or at least it was. So naturally White criminals are at the top – though they might not identify as White of course.

            If there was (there isn’t) a Black Civilization, Black criminals would be at the top of it. Black Africa and American cities have shown how well Blacks handle power, right?

            A pretty simply point, but obviously not easy for you. Try and maybe you’ll be able to get it.

            A similar situation as far as the male/female ratio. Once women equal or out number men in power, the nation is headed for the rocks in any case. If women are out doing all this, then who is having and raising the needed children? Non-citizens? People who can never carry on that nation’s heritage in other words.

          • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

            Meh. I’m beyond you.

            When you’re hopelessly ensconsed in a cult or several as you are, you can’t think objectively.

            This is all too apparent.

            It’s sad that you live with such hatred for your fellow man but of course you’re not at all unique in that regard.

          • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 10:47 pm #

            I’m so far ahead of you that I’ve lapped you, so you think I’m behind.

          • workingclasshero January 2, 2022 at 12:56 am #

            Home invasions,carjackings and violent assaults hit closer to home than white collar hijinks and political backstabbing.

          • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:31 am #

            “Justin Castreau”

            Ah, now that is good.

          • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:37 pm #

            would you rather have your car break down in a black neighborhood at night or in a mostly white neighborhood?

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

            Tax Donkey: A dark meditation on the difference between neighbors and tribe a per your post of a few weeks ago. They’re going to want your preps if things get really bad. Maybe they’ll invite you to join. More likely they’ll invite you to leave, wanting your place for members of their tribe coming to join them.

            https://bisonprepper.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-article.html

  106. got___truth January 1, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

    “Top futurologist predicts 2022 will be ‘tormented year’ with water a luxury.”
    “Top futurologist Marian Salzman tells us her predictions for 2022 with robots stealing our jobs, political upheaval, hybrid schooling, angst and electronic pets.”
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/futurologist-predicts-2022-tormented-year-25830226

    ….Those of us who read “The Long Emergency” years ago, saw this coming AND maneuvered away from the rolling waves of collapse…..

    GODSPEED!!

    • ianw January 2, 2022 at 4:14 am #

      “Top futurologist predicts 2022 will be ‘tormented year’ with water a luxury.”
      “Top futurologist Marian Salzman tells us her predictions for 2022 with robots stealing our jobs, political upheaval, hybrid schooling, angst and electronic pets.”

      Yeah well – “top futurologists” are often very wrong – in fact mostly.

      But it doesn’t matter at all! A year later – after everything they predicted doesn’t happen – they’re still wheeled out as a “top futurologist”! The world is mad.

      I very much like JHK’s outlook in The Long Emergency – and other books as well. But even still, I wouldn’t bet the whole farm on year-on-year predictions.

      The greatest failing of futurologist predictions, is that they believe things will happen really quickly. I’m, more of a gradualist, rather than a catastrophist … all of the bad stuff will happen decades – possibly centuries – after we’re gone.

      • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

        Things have happened rather quickly in Germany and Austria. Did you predict this time last year that a person declining an experimental medication that’s killing people on an industrial scale would be shut out of all public places, apart from grocery shops and pharmacies?

        Care to predict where they’ll be in 6 months on that one?

        And where else it will be happening?

  107. beantownbill. January 1, 2022 at 5:45 pm #

    For the commentariat: Just ran into my downstairs neighbor (not literally) who is an emergency room nurse at a major Boston hospital. I told her about my situation regarding being in a room with people testing positive for covid. She said Omicron is no big deal, it’s essentially a new cold virus, and the official public reaction is way overblown. She also said the ER is super crowded with panicked people who she feels should just go in home with a cold. She stated the few severe cases are from unvaxxed elderly and persons with co-morbidities. BTW, she’s very experienced. Just thought I’d throw this out to CFNers.

    • Night Owl January 1, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

      Here in Germany the “cases” are 95% “unvaxed.”

      Just thought I would throw that out for the Beantown Shill.

      • beantownbill. January 1, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

        You’re a mean sob, no. No need to call me a name. I wasn’t giving my opinion, I was just relaying a talk with my neighbor, a medical professional on the front lines. You are an intolerant prick, as far as I can see.

        • ianw January 2, 2022 at 3:33 am #

          You’re a mean sob, no. No need to call me a name.

          Night Owl is an utter pod-person – anybody who goes against his lunatic WEF-Davos-Schwab-Gates-Soros-Great Reset ultra-conspiracy jive has to be attacked.

          He is that paranoid – and he’s just possibly aware that he’s talking utter BS. But Green Alba and MaryFullOfIt are on the same nutfudge team, however they are so stupid they don’t even know when they’re being duped and strung along..

          How dare you challenge their lunatic narrative BTB!!!

          But just shrug BTB – they are off their collective rockers – every one of them. Sad. In another year they will be so embarrassed they’ll be squirming … if they’re even still here.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:36 am #

            You’re getting pretty hysterical, troll. We’re almost at meltdown. Again.

            That and the increasing questions to people you think might have more financial security than you about how they make their treasure future proof is amusing to watch.

            Even as a paid shill, you are beginning to realise that your shilling will not save you. The louder you squeal about the truth being a conspiracy theory, the more scared you get.

            What the paymasters feel, with regard to their paid minions, is utter contempt. That’s probably the only thing they share with the truth tellers.

            Poor troll.

          • ianw January 2, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

            It’s highly amusing to see you take the bait every time you’re called out. Every time – instant trigger. It’s just all too easy.

            You might live in some dour council-flat in the scruffier end of Edinburgh, but some of us have done rather better.

            Yet in a world of high-risk stock markets, and zero interest rates on all manner of “safe” savings, the responsible middle class is being screwed by the financial system and the oligarchs.

            But you don’t need to worry, collecting your alms from that nice Mr Johnson every fortnight.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 4:57 pm #

            I paid off my mortgage on my tasty little Victorian flat in 2009, so I can sit and admire its elegant features at my leisure. No-one can take it away from me except Blackrock.

            We could buy another one the same if we were like you.

            But we’re not like you.

            Melting troll is amusing to watch.

            Last week, you told me my husband had a nutter in his own house. Now it’s a council flat. You are so tragic.

            You have to be destitute and with kids to get a council flat in these parts. Or disabled.

            But noted that you are nothing but a grotesque hypocritical snob while displaying your right-on hippy-lefty credentials.

            What a total berk.

        • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 3:57 am #

          I take that as a badge of honor from a person who, had he lived in the late 30s and early 40s, would not “have known where the trains were going.”

          • ianw January 2, 2022 at 4:17 am #

            Ver very weak … very very lame. BTB called you out for the nasty idiotic piece of work you really are.

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

      From Robert Malone:

      https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/

      The hoax is really starting to tank.

      It’s obvious that the jabs are the bioweapons.

      • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:28 am #

        RKI (the premier criminal/captured medical association in Germany) admitted that the”vaxed” currently account for 95% of “cases” in Germany.

        • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

          Owl,

          I think I know the answer, but just to make sure…

          Above, you wrote “Here in Germany the “cases” are 95% “unvaxed.”

          Then, later you said the opposite.

          Which is it?

          • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

            “Vaxed”

            From RKI.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

      Thank you for sharing the anecdotal evidence bill

    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

      My nose has been stuffy for the last two months. I sometime sneeze or have to blow it. I’m probably positive. But I feel fine otherwise. Just another winter.

      Yesterday I was walking down a snowy street on a sunny day. Endless sparkles, each one of them a world, appearing and then disappearing as I moved. I stopped and focused on one world, a green one.

    • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

      Back in 2001 when the bioweapon anthrax was used to terrorize the country, working ER was hell.
      Everyone who saw white powder, anywhere, came running in to be ”checked”.
      The 2009 ”pandemic” on the other hand? I don’t even remember it.
      I have a FB friend who worked the medic tent at Woodstock. Everything was fine until the announcer warned about the ”brown acid”, at which point they were overrun with panicked people.

  108. tom clark January 1, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

    Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in…now i know.

    • Billy Hill January 1, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

      Good. Now you may return to your tribe. You’re late for dinner.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

      Do I sense that you’re not so excited about the banquet of consequences tom? Why just drop in? Have a seat and stay for a while lol

  109. Islander January 1, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

    I just watched the whole Rogan/Malone interview.

    Stellar, worth 3 hours.

    Malone explains a whole lot of the complicated issues and malfeasance—medical, regulatory, legal, etc.—very clearly. He has had a lot of practice. Do watch it!!

    I part the ways with Malone’s exposition of the Desmet “mass formation” theory. Once again, I am struck by his ignorance of German history and resort to stereotypes and memes of various sorts from a field in which he is not an expert.

    But his explanation of the damage done to children is forceful. Although that is not his field. But I think he is right. Starting at ca. 2:50:00.

    Here is a link:
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/dr-robert-malone-hits-it-out-of-the

    .

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    • GreenAlba January 1, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

      Thanks, islander – will definitely give that one time.

    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

      Germans are Nazis!
      Islander likes Germans
      Therefore, Islander likes Nazis!

      A syllogism.

    • Paula D January 1, 2022 at 7:42 pm #

      My husband and I were listening to that. Wow!
      He was saying things I hadn’t heard yet, and I try to pay attention.
      I think we only got through the first two hours.
      I never did finish with Dr. McCullough. I like Joe Rogan a lot, but those three hours are hard to complete sometimes.
      But the shit being slung on decent doctors is infuriating.
      How dare they!

    • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:03 am #

      Thanks for the link.

      My wife has been pretty active where children are concerned. The effects of 5-6 hours of masking alone are massive on developing brains.

    • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

      Just watched the whole 3 hours, islander. No wonder he broke the internet. Will be watching out for the 23 Jan defeat-the-mandates-DC rally and worldwide freedom rally* he mentioned at the end.

      https://defeatthemandatesdc.com/

      *Including Australia, for the melting troll.

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

      At the very end the conclusion is that they are the same disease which means it’s all one big lie

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

        Yep. It’s leaking out in the most bizarre ways.

        • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

          For now I can only conclude that they want it this way. And it’s very in your face. Like oh look how cute! It turns out covid and the flu are the same thing so we tortured you over the flu and called it covid and punished and tortured you when you called it the flu, and now it’s flurona so what are you gonna do?!

          • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 9:53 pm #

            Pretty much. I did expect that, though. If you watch their patterns, there is never any admission that they did wrong. It simply doesn’t exist.

          • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 10:22 am #

            Come on, you’all.

            You cannot accept the fact that two viruses can exist and transmit by the same lack of being careful. Each test is an evaluation of the gene sequences of a flu and Corona style virus.

            Coexistence of the two does say one thing though. Flu is not as airborne, it is primarily droplet and contact spread. Somebody sneezed or coughed.

            Both are mild? Nothing said this co-existence has increased the danger level of infection.

            The real deal right now with the crud is that the increased transmissibility of Omicron is impacting the new cases data, increasing the number, affecting vaxxed and unvaxxed. Omicron just laughs at vaxx immunity. It will eventually shut down boosters. The real joke on all of us here is the idiocy of all the testing. Nearly 500000 new cases per day, positivity was 10% prior to Omicron, no wonder they are running out of supplies.

            Where is the common sense? If you feel malaise, stay home, get your fever and cold meds and hang tough. Only if things go out of control, get your oximeter, do you need to go to the hospital ER. It does not happen much with Omicron. Who cares if it is Covid, or the flu or a rhinovirus?

            Looked at Johns Hopkins today. Whoa, even the data deniers cannot deny the trends, EVERYWHERE, at the highest levels yet. Deaths, not much Change but it is early. Data says that it should not react much. Arizona has about doubled over the past few days. >8000 yesterday.

            A story this morning saying that Israel is betting that Omicron will drive them into herd immunity. Considering that Omicron does not respect vaxx that much, they are betting that mild Omicron will sweep over the entire population quickly and then dissipate. I hope they are right.

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 10:38 am #

            JAZ, as we’ve said about 1000 times up here now, the PCR tests don’t work.

            So ‘cases’ means nothing.

            The hospitals are not ‘overwhelmed’ by the unvaxxed being sick. This is easily discovered by looking at the gov’t’s own hospital tracker.

            It’s all a big hoax. Stop taking the bait.

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            JAZ,

            Quoting you, above, “Arizona has about doubled over the past few days. >8000 yesterday.

            What sort of test are they using? Yesterday was Jan 1st. No more PCR, right?

          • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

            And as I have said to you a thousand times, trends of data is significant. As long as the same test is done, As I said, almost 500000 people a day are positive, positivity is not ascertained so the number of tests needed could be really huge.

            So an illness that spooks Americans to the point they stand in lines for hours to get tested, why I do not know, and borders on shutting down just about everything, again, is a hoax?

            The virus does not exist? The shutdown of the world is a hoax? The PCR tests are worthless? Even some of the zealots you follow acknowledge that the virus exists and that the response to it has been a hoax. Also, the PCR tests can give a certain %of false positives but does detect the virus. So trends count.

            Believe what you want, so will I.

            Believe what you want!

          • JTinMD January 2, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

            Jeepers! I only wanted specific information on what test the number was derived from. Didn’t CDC say they would stop using PCR on 12/31/2021 cuz it’s unreliable? Sheesh!

            Never mind.

            And please refrain from putting words in my mouth, thank you very much.

          • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            JT my post was for Mary, not you. You snuck in with your post as I was writing mine.

            I did look up your query, a good one. The report I read said that the PCR test is gone, but replaced by other tests from commercial sources that are just as good.

            Uh, do not ask me what that means, or what tests are being used. Evidently a myriad of tests are being used to create new cases.

            A huge question!!

            Have the testing stations shifted to other tests and has the increase come from a new test basis? .???

          • Paula D January 2, 2022 at 7:52 pm #

            I looked up John Hopkins also.
            Copied from the website

            214 inpatient beds occupied

            30 inpatient ICU beds occupied

            354 inpatient beds total

            56 inpatient ICU beds total

            39.55% of inpatient beds available

            46.43% of inpatient ICU beds available

        • ianw January 2, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          Never mind. And please refrain from putting words in my mouth, thank you very much.

          Calm down JTinMD – JAZ was actually responding to the idiot conspiracy lunacies of MaryFullOfIt – for about the thousandth time (and no, I don’t know why he bothers to either).

          The virus-deniers, vaccine-haters, science-rejecters, data-scoffers and pandemic-hoaxers are a weird fringe cult, and no amount of logic and evidence will sway them.

          They’ve dug a conspiracy hole so deep for themselves that there’s no climbing out. It’s the same cult that shivers in its boots over the WEF, Great Reset, and all the other New World Order jive and voodoo.

          These people are so psychotic that they not only watch three-hour videos of the most boring cultish drivel, but actually recommend such garbage to others. It’s beyond belief for the rational.

          We are dealing with the seriously deranged here. Simply best to just ignore – let them bounce around in their padded cell. There is a bevy of sensible people on here.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

            Troll fondue on the menu again.

            About as appetising as boiled frog.

            The desperation is oozing out of its pores.

            Bless.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

            “There is a bevy of sensible people on here.”

            Your list of all the people on here who don’t think the WEF is up to anything at all is eagerly awaited.

            Names, please.

            Re 3-hour videos, we don’t all have the attention span of a gnat and pretend to know what’s in videos we’re too scared to watch.

          • Paula D January 2, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

            Why watch 3 hours of an interview with a virologist and vaccinologist when you can watch sound bites from Fauci in a couple of minutes?
            That gives you much more time to post pro-Big Pharma bullshit, and when you are paid by the post, time is money.

    • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:15 am #

      Hahahaha. As CJ Hopkins pointed out recently on the Consent Factory Twatter feed: we have reached the point where the “limited hangout” is being rolled out.

      The PTB will now start giving away the game just enough to placate the increasingly confused and angry public, but not enough to expose the criminals fully.

      “Let’s roll!”

  110. MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

    Just a suggestion, JHK, but if I were you, I’d seriously think about getting your own hosting and using the stand-alone free version of WordPress so that you can get around their censorship. If OG was censored, maybe the entire blog could be, next.

    I am assuming you use the WordPress platform hosted by them. If you bought hosting for say $7-$10 per month, you could download WP and install it on your own hosting, and then import this blog into it. You might have to do cleanup work, as I am guessing this template is old. But there are 100% better templates out there now, and with really incredible comments options (hint hint). You have my email, and I am happy to help you.

  111. tom clark January 1, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

    Contrary to many who post to this blog, I DO have a life outside my computer. What makes Jimbo so addictive is he can be spot on and totally absurd in the same posting. Cuts down on the amount I have to wade thru on the internet. Three hours to watch some interview? I don’t think so. (PS…I like Joe m Rogan, too) TC

    • SoftStarLight January 1, 2022 at 8:55 pm #

      Sure tom keep telling yourself that 😉

      Though I do agree that Mr. K’s posts are way more informative than most

    • Paula D January 2, 2022 at 7:54 pm #

      Joe Rogan’s interviews are always about 3 hours long.
      Nothing new about this one except a mind boggling amount of up-to-date new information.

  112. HappyMotorist January 1, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

    Happy new year, Jim.

    I read about the New York Times editor in Korea that died suddenly shortly after getting jabbed, but of course his cause of death was not told. The family may know but the hospital wouldn’t be obligated, let alone not permitted by HIPPA to reveal the cause to the public. It makes me wonder if the real purpose of HIPPA is to provide the healthcare industry a cover for a lot of hinky experimentation and grifting, keeping details out of exposure.

  113. MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

    Wow, Malone’s interview made waves.

    On Twatter, this is trending:

    #MassFormation

    and for Tony “Blarf” Blair’s knighthood:

    #WarCriminal

    Wake-up time!

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    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 10:18 pm #

      “Dr Malone broke the algorithm and now Google is struggling to manually edit the results when you search for mass formation psychosis. Try it. Never seen this before.”

      https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1477403661701689352

      • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

        Steve Kirsch just did a video on this as well. DuckDuckgo does a better job with that search

    • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:20 am #

      I am happy he mentioned Desmet, as Desmet first appeared on the Corona-Ausschuss, and this will give the network of truth-speaking medical (and other) professionals an even broader reach.

      Really good news.

  114. KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 9:49 pm #

    Well , typically the prosecutors office has a nice suite of rooms , not uncommonly an entire floor to themselves , not uncommonly in the high – rise , high – rent section of town , where the high – rise banks , high – rise insurance companies , and 1920’s – 1930’s Stalinist – Gothic courthouses are.

    You know those places ; Where they have genuine Bronze lamps , Bronze rails , and Bronze kick boards.

    And the prosecutors have their own private investigator service on permanent retainer .

    Those guys called , ” the police. ”

    You know , those fellows who bitch about what a terrible cross to bare they have , but they have three cars in their driveway , two four – wheelers , a boat , and a tractor in the barn.

    Meanwhile , the public defenders office typically is in a run – down strip mall in what used to be a Chinese Takeout place.

    The furniture is public school surplus . You are sitting in a chair designed for an 8 year old.

    The local minor historic site that even history buffs rarely visit has a larger overhead budget.

    If there are any computers it is because the lawyer bought it himself or herself and brought it from home.

    And investigative service ?

    Sure , the defendant could hire their own solitary private investigator at 300 dollars an hour.

    By the way , if the defendant cannot get bail for whatever reason then it really is a totally lopsided affair ;

    Inside the jail your only contact with the outside world is a pay phone .

    ( When was the last time you actually saw a pay phone , 20 years ago ? )

    And you can only make collect calls.

    And at any given time 20 other people also want to make a call , though not uncommonly to set up a drug deal on the outside.

    ( You at least have to admire the persistent industriousness of drug dealers . Still chasing the American dream , even while locked up in the can ! )

    Jails only have law libraries in the fucking movies.

    In jail you can’t get a pencil , a sheet of paper , or a 15 year old comic book unless the guard brings it to you , and 300 other people are at the same time asking the guard to bring them stuff.

    So you might get your pencil by Christmas.

    The only way I can imagine a person organizing their own defense under such circumstances is if they were literally Merlin or Gandalf.

    So ;

    “It like you workin’ with da State.”

    While not literally true , it might as well be true.

    Your typical Public Defender is being paid to fill out a form.

    Not untypically the equivalent of an intern or apprentice just marking time until they can get on with a real firm , or can hang out their own shingle in private practice.

    Or the Public Defenders job is the equivalent of a part – time job for some pin money , or like volunteer work for a charity.

    A Do – your – good – deed – for – the day – kind of thing.

    Even if hypothetically the Public Defenders client was the Virgin Mary , it’s a foregone conclusion that she is going to lose.

    Turning then from jail to prison ;

    Yes , 99.9% of the population of prisons are the real scum of the earth.

    Vey very few hapless bystanders in prison.

    BUT that is BECAUSE 99.9% of those convicted of any crime never set foot in any prison for even one day , because if even one – third of them did , any state , or the entire United States , would be bankrupt in two days.

    ” Get tough on crime ” is SHEAR propaganda.

    The situation as regards serial killers , serial rapists , Bonnie and Clyde , and John Dillinger , is little changed or different from 1750.

    The rest is a great big heaping helping of smoke and mirrors.

    The big difference between Heinrich Himmler and Genrich Yagoda on the one hand , and J. Edgar Hoover on the other ,

    is that everyone always knew full well that Himmler and Yagoda were political , and the whole thing was lies.

    Americans in contrast , even now , still believe their own propaganda.

    “What do I care? ”

    And , believe it or not , I do NOT sympathize.

    My guess is that if you had explained to him all that I just explained , to him before he landed in the can ,

    Indeed , even after he got thrown in the jug ,

    his response there too would be ;

    “What do I care? ”

    Whenever it is someone else , their story is invariably expediency.

    ” Fairness ” only ever enters the scene when it is their ass.

    Unfortunately while that describes every feral you ever met ,

    it also describes a lot of Country Club Row types.

    It describes a lot of Middle Class types in little brick houses.

    It describes a lot of lawyers , and describes a lot of police.

    The only truelly shocking thing is the realization that criminal justice hasn’t really changed one iota since the ink on Magna Carta was still wet.

    Hollywood and Madison Avenue really are that good , the Potemkin village that believable , the propaganda that effective.

    • KesaAnna January 1, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

      Uh ….. my power went out for a minute.

      When it came back , miraculously my post – in – progress was still here.

      But somehow it wound up being submitted here.

      It was a response to a Jarek post up the page.

      • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

        It’s a really good one, KA, and spot on.

        • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 11:38 pm #

          http://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2017/01/sunday-mass-online-sunday-january-1.html

          He’s got this. Happy feast of the Mother of God. Luv that pic.

          My lights are flickering. Big wind storm. Raining now after snow and sub zero temps since the 24th. Brrr

          I used to work for 3 public defenders. One wrote 10 page letters, minimum, luved that guy. One wrote one or two line letters and then rewrote 5 or 6 times. One was a lothario.
          The cons used to call all day long, half wanted a date or phone sex.

          • anmariwakaranai January 1, 2022 at 11:51 pm #

            Sorry, accidentally hit send. Worked for non litigators too. Dated an ambulance chaser once. That guy was made of money, but suicidal. He had so much but was so unhappy. I think he couldn’t ever please his mom. He had homes, planes, used to play chicken with the cops in his porsche.
            He called me from the base camp of K2, and asked, ‘What should I do when I get to the top?’ The best thing about him was his first reply to me when I asked him what he did. He said, ‘I’m in waste management.’ Lol. Poor guy.

            Jar, I have looked for info on the Yazidi religion 4ever. Where did you source that peacock angel stuff? And isn’t that like a symbol of the all seeing eye of God or the “thrones”, or whatever that surround or sit at the base of the actual throne of God. What is their theology? Puleeze.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 2:41 am #

            I just like the name, the Peacock Angle. The theology is bizarre, much like some of the Gnosticisms. The Muslims call them Satanists because like Iblis, Malek Tous wouldn’t bow to Adam. But why should an angelic being bow to a man, even an unfallen one like Adam was?

            I’ve never seen any books. Some good wikis. As I said, I read an Robert E Howard story (the creator of Conan the Barbarian). He made them out to be Satanists…..

            While I’ve got you: This may be hard for you to take. I don’t completely like it either. But some of the big Saints said Homosexuality is the worst in sin of all. One Pope said priests caught doing it should be handed over to the civil authorities for execution. The Muslims had nothing on us when it came to ferocity of conviction and punishment. We were all Justice without mercy. Now we’re all Mercy without Justice – which is even worse since mercy means nothing without justice.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2QQ3Npizsc&t=924s

          • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 10:29 am #

            Thanks jar. Looking at vid now. My fave carol! And yes, homosexuality has always been with us but it is brutal.
            I heard a priest say once it was a sign of predestination, which might explain much.
            Will wiki them thar peacocks.

          • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 10:35 am #

            ‘But why should an angelic being bow to a man?’, Jar, wasn’t that Lucifers sin but sub in The Woman…?

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 11:45 am #

            “And yes, homosexuality has always been with us but it is brutal.”

            My gay nephew isn’t at all brutal – quite the opposite. But you wouldn’t know he was gay unless you have a better gaydar than most. His family didn’t find out definitely that he was gay until he was at uni and in his early 20s, but they did wonder before that, occasionally.

            It wasn’t the most important thing about him, so they didn’t obsess over it. He’s just a lovely young man and happens to be my godson, as well as a loving son and brother to his own family, and a good friend to his many friends.

            His late big brother, macho to his bone marrow, caused a lot more heartache. If our Cal (gay neph) had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 12, he’d have coped with it a lot better than macho brother did, and I suspect the family would still be six instead of four.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

            It’s natural for women to love fags, because fags are like them. But natural in this fallen world often means sinful. You should love what God loves and hate what He hates. The sin not the sinner I should hope. But what is the real personality of a person like this? Where is it? Deeply buried in any case. The sin and the sinner are the same unless he can perform the alchemy of transformation and find his original Image as created by God.

            As an expert on ani-English, I think she is agreeing with me that some of the saints had brutal ideas about Homosexuals. Too much so.

          • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

            Brutal in that apart from a turkey baster it’s a waste of good seed.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 5:29 pm #

            I don’t love him because he’s gay. I love him because he’s my nephew. He just looks like any other young bloke to me.

            He happens to be gay – he didn’t ask to be gay. It’s not like you can just look at a woman and make yourself feel something.

            Thank goodness he doesn’t live in Iran, where he’d be offered the choice between a barbaric execution or a transgender operation, by the enlightened.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

            Bravo, you managed to avoid engaging my point, or the saints in question. All general principles were avoided and the conversation brought to an absolute end. Just little old you loving your nephew. You. You. You.

            What a disaster women are in terms of public life and intellectual life.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

            A waste of good seed – yeah that’s the problem. We don’t have enough seed…..

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 8:03 pm #

            It’s not about me, it’s about him. And all the other him’s, who make up ‘them’.

            They’re people. If you want to follow what your saints said, I’m not stopping you. I’m just reminding you about real life people.

            And it isn’t public life, it’s a discussion forum.

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 8:06 pm #

            It would be nice if you could move beyond the ad hom and the straw man, just the same. Otherwise your place in public life would be better left to someone more honest and rational.

    • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

      You are an extreme antinomian: All the cops are criminals and all the criminals, saints.

      Or as a Robert E Howard story goes: There is no good but evil, no light but darkness, no hope but doom. There are skulls in the stars! The liturgy goes on, intoned by a worshiper of the Peacock Angel, Melek Tous (the Yazidis).

      Not quite though: some very humble people, like people who clean toilets, may escape the darkness. Or perhaps a certain sweet kinky young blonde female client?

      Catholic? Really? How does this fit in with marching German soldiers? BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING HONEST ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE! Honest evil ceases to be evil in the Kesan religions you see.

      Have your heard of the Church of Satan? They are growing and eager for new members…..

      To be fair, this conflict IS seen in Christianity. Saint Francis was very humble and lived very hard. His purity was a rebuke to the rich and powerful Church of his day. And thus his order exploded in popularity – inevitably become rich, bathed in luxury, and powerful. The hardliners would have none of it. Do we really want to reject the great learning of an Aquinas or a St Bonaventure (one of these later Franciscans) and the Great Cathedrals, etc, in order to please such men?

      Some serious people say yes. Satan is Rex Mundi after all. There are Orders for such devout men. They have their place, but it can be the whole enchilada.

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 10:25 pm #

        correction: can’t not can

    • MaryQueen January 1, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

      Jarek doesn’t live in the real world so he doesn’t see what an absolute joke our legal system is. I managed a law firm in Chicago, and got to see it first hand. Even though I didn’t work for public defenders, I learned plenty (not to mention my dad was one!).

      You are not even exaggerating a little bit. You get it.

      Any innocent person who gets caught up in that system is screwed. Unless you have $$$. So plenty of criminals buy their way out while the little guy who didn’t do anything all that bad can end up with a ruined life.

      Just how it is.

      • Jarek January 1, 2022 at 11:34 pm #

        Mary, desperately attempting to win Kesa as an ally.

        She affirms again the utter corruption of our system, one of longstanding. Yet she fully accepts the demented idealism of her youth, even though another part of her mind knows that the 60’s was a psy-op.

        Every President before Kennedy was a White Nationalist, though Truman began to waver, picking it up again when he got back to Missouri. Eisenhower was a stooge too of course. These were the transitional years out of the Old Republic, as the economic Elite began to march through the Institutions.

        • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 10:31 am #

          You’re funny when you’re acting like a high school Heather. LOL.

        • ianw January 3, 2022 at 1:48 am #

          Mary, desperately attempting to win Kesa as an ally.

          LOL – the cult evangelists go for the low-hanging fruit first, then have to get the step-ladder … hahaha.

      • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 12:12 am #

        Dickens, “Never go to law.”

  115. Proton January 1, 2022 at 11:20 pm #

    You look at the antics of the ruling classes over the last 40 years or so and you wonder what accounts for the apparent decline in capabilities. I mean, given they screw up everything they touch.

    Is it genetic? Is it because the best and the brightest died in two world wars and the leftovers running the show are just plain biologically subpar?

    Is it mere chance? Are events in the macro world of our everyday experience subject to the quantum vagaries of randomly dancing subatomic particles? They must be. If quantum mechanics is as bulletproof as they say, it must apply to us, its rules must have effect in our world. So are gigantic fuckups like the Afghanistan pullout and the ludicrous covid policy prescriptions the result of collapsing wave functions? I doubt it.

    But never mind all that. We have serious problems. If what ails us are mentally deficient leaders, we have to look at just what the hell our educational establishments have been spooning out. And not only that, but what they INTEND to spoon out. And we all know where this is going.

    CRT is the agenda of the educrat, graduating the socially aware the program of the university, with arts degrees in who knows what, in furtherance of a societal order that doesn’t work and is destined for failure.

    But what they’re graduating over yonder, half a world away, are people literate and numerate and carrying diplomas in science and math and engineering when they leave university. I only mention it to contrast the differing educational regimes.

    Untangling a multitude of confounding variables accounting for our decline isn’t something that any existing social science is up to, ‘social’ and ‘science’ two words not belonging together side-by-side in any sentence on any page.

    But we have to start somewhere and maybe how we educate or miseducate our citizens is a good place. To say that the people mandated to perform this task at a primary level have been doing a farcically bad job is to state the blatantly obvious, to say that the leading lights of the leading higher institutions have been rendering a catastrophic dis-service equally so.

    What to do? Well, start somewhere. Start small. Maybe with your own hometown.

    This educational issue is massive and it’s guaranteed you will be fought hammer and tongs by everyone in that particular establishment whose interest for decades hasn’t been to teach anybody anything resembling anything like knowledge. This isn’t a shortcoming particular to education. The alleged civil service in general isn’t there to serve anyone either, nobody that is but themselves.

    What’s needed to take this on are people with their heads screwed on straight and their feet on the ground and with the guts and stamina of canal horses. Is this just another Mission Impossible, a fool’s errand to take a society someplace is doesn’t want to go? It might be, particularly in Blue States. Just look at what happened to Michelle Rhee. The ‘teaching’ establishment may not test its students but they will test you.

    • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 2:53 am #

      Don’t fight forces, use them.
      Be a trim tab:
      https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/21/buckminster-fuller-trim-tab/

      • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 11:02 am #

        Followed all the links in that got, and boy, do I have my reading cut out. Particularly liked the Sagan and Einstein quotes.
        THANK YOU MR 222

    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 4:07 am #

      It might be best to consider that all of our existing institutions and systems are hopelessly consumed with a deadly and untreatable disease and need to be left for dead (which is what they already did to you). Time to let it all go for the love of humanity.

      • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:23 am #

        Yes Corona also works well as a metaphor.

  116. elysianfield January 1, 2022 at 11:40 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    2022 might, indeed be a dumpster fire…if so, this short clip is the perfect metaphor.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGCIKJa25o

    Enjoy.

    • Proton January 1, 2022 at 11:50 pm #

      Hilarious. Life imitates art.

    • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 12:48 am #

      Enjoyed tnx

    • BackRowHeckler January 2, 2022 at 3:23 am #

      Where was that? Baltimore? Cleveland?

    • ianw January 2, 2022 at 4:30 am #

      It was utterly hilarious.

  117. NoLongerHuman January 2, 2022 at 12:10 am #

    A nimble New Year to Jim and his followers may you outwit the puppet masters

    I’m wavering between thinking the Plandemic is showing how desparate the overlords are or is how bold they are. How the combination of AI, saturated technology access and trillion gigabytes of data to sift through have them five steps ahead of the populance.

    These people destroyed world economies, broke the global supply chain, printed trillions of currencies, blatently gifted prosecution immunity and billions in government contracts to pre-selected companies

    And if you think that US and China eletes are not on the same page you are sorely mistaken

    Every country is locked into this narrative by debt, bribery and secrets that cannot see the light of day. Jim is right the eletes figured this out long ago. The world cannot experience growth around the globe at the same time or costs of resources will spike to levels that will constrict it. But true or not now they are putting their wagers on the fact that growth is destroying the planet at an alarming rate.
    Remember a 2004 study by the Bush Defense Administration determined that by 2020 the then called Global Warming would cause dangerous global security problems.

    Hmm how long was this planned

    May 2022 not be as dark as fear it will be

    • BackRowHeckler January 2, 2022 at 3:21 am #

      Well, Climate Doomsday has been moved out to 2030.

      • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:21 am #

        The target date for all of the current criminal-class initiatives that have been rolled out over the past two years was always 2030.

        It’s literally called Agenda 2030.

        • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 8:55 am #

          Good video here that I haven’t seen before, from my Albertan friends. It’s an excellent outline for anyone who thinks everything about the WEF is a conspiracy theory, like our resident troll is paid to pretend to think.

          There’s a lot of detail about the organisations and businesses ultimately owned by Blackrock/Vanguard et al, which is obviously not new to you. Although you’ve doubtless mentioned it and I’ve missed it, the bit about Event 201 is followed by the RKI’s 2012 ‘Pandemie durch Virus’ simulation, which I didn’t know about (around 40.00), using the same coronavirus assumptions, and presumed events as Event 201, right down to the destroyed economies and the protests.

          I also hadn’t seen the bit just after that about the Belgian virologist, Max van Raanst, explaining to his audience (in Jan 2019, at Chatham House) how he fooled the Belgian people during the swine flu pandemic. The effrontery is gobsmacking.

          Our super-troll will no doubt have explanations for anything and everything in this presentation, in the unlikely event of his being able to drag himself away from his chardonnay and trolling handbook.

          (Jarek, you’ll like the inclusion of some specific elite families!).

          It’s worth a watch, anyway, even for those who know most of the story.

          “Monopoly – Who owns the World”

          https://vrevealed.com/c19/monopoly

          • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 8:56 am #

            It includes some key assassinations too – covers a bit of everything. An introduction, like he says …

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 10:27 am #

            Thanks, GA, will give it a watch.

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

            Here’s one for your vault:

            https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/the-fda-wants-to-hide-pre-licensure

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

            The Belgian guy blew my mind, his attitude as he talks about the duping of the population. OMG. Thanks GA this is quite a find.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

            You really never knew who owned and controlled the Banks and the Media? Not at all? Do you know it now? How well? Are you going to forget again?

            Black and White thinking. Binary. Mechanical. Allies good. Nazis bad. This is how the people are controlled. It’s your choice if you want to be better than that.

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

            I don’t expect you to put on an SS uniform like J.K Rowling did. But if you do, please post a picture.

          • Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

            Great video, GA. This should be required viewing for anyone who does not understand how the vamipre squid operates.

            A small handful of companies own nearly everything most people use an buy, and now they want to fully crush all competition and put you on a slave pass to use the only businesses that remain standing after the Great Reset is compete — theirs.

          • lastman January 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

            Watched this morning. Best hour I’ve spent in a long time.

            Recommend it to all…sent it to everyone you can.

            Thanks.

          • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

            Jarek, even if you understand who owns/runs the world – go to around 40 mins or so and watch that Belgian guy. It’s stunning, his admissions. And proud of it!

          • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

            Yeah, I’ve started it. I won’t be surprised. You saw the Dutch banker one, right? He flunked his psychopath training when he couldn’t kill kids. Maybe that’s what get people into the Capstone who haven’t been born into it. But he did get to the stage of laughing about causing people to commit suicide – for which he feels great remorse.

      • malthuss January 2, 2022 at 10:13 am #

        Taki Mag,

        The infrastructure bill of 2021 is budgeted at $1.2 trillion. Climate change mitigation is the focus of the legislation. Global warming is also the centerpiece of this country’s economic agenda and now central to defense policy. Climate change is defined by the Pentagon as a threat equal to that posed by China.

        Meanwhile, China has developed a hypersonic missile, traveling at five times the speed of sound, that can produce an EMP without the need of a nuclear warhead.

        Crops and livestock require water delivered by an electronically powered pump infrastructure. Tractors, harvesters, and other farm equipment run on petroleum products supplied by an infrastructure (pumps, pipelines) that requires electricity. The plants that make fertilizer, insecticides, and feed also require electricity. Gas pumps that fuel the trucks that distribute food require electricity.

        We cannot go back to 1900. We do not have the horses and mules that used to tow agricultural gear.

        People can live for one to two months without food, but after five days they have difficulty thinking and at two weeks they are incapacitated. There is typically a 30-day perishable food supply at regional warehouses, but most would be destroyed with loss of refrigeration.

        • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          We cannot go back to 1900.

          I picture that and it always makes me laugh out loud.

          Can you imagine the car population being replaced by horses and mules?

          There would be such a huge crisis of horseshit accumulation that would even make the Deep State trivial.

          • TaxDonkey January 2, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            we going back farther than that. Maybe 1600s?

          • lastman January 2, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

            We should have a discussion about how far.

            Ending the fed was mentioned above. That would be a great start.

            While were at it, shit can the UN.

        • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

          A non-nuclear EMP! That’s a winner. Kill the Euro-Americans and just move in. No inconvenient radiation or having to wait for decades or centuries.

          If the Blue Helmets are asked in, and they all turn out to be Chinese, we’re in a lot of trouble.

          • lastman January 2, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

            Bring it. Most of us aren’t getting any younger.

          • SpeedyBB January 3, 2022 at 6:22 am #

            The EMP report is an echo of creative speculation around the usefulness of the “neutron bomb”: zap all the warm-blooded organisms but leave the real estate intact.

            Never heard just why or how it became impractical but the subject pretty much faded away.

            When confronted with the possibility of micro-sized spy cameras or listening devices it would be handy to have an EMP device disguised as a hair dryer, with a range of only a meter max. Walk around the room with your hair dryer and wave at all the places that could be concealing surveillance.

            Very, very illegal however. No surprise there either.

            I think Taiwan may be selling them.

    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 3:53 am #

      “may you outwit the puppet masters”

      Now all that is needed is divine grace. If you attempt to fight Satan (or Pinhead) solely with mortal powers then you will surely die. Setting the science aside it is rather clear that much of the global warming campaign serves as a means to put in place policies that result in depopulation. Very much like the covid campaign. They control language, ideas, and culture and thus why I say we now need divine intervention.

      • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 11:10 am #

        Amen Mar.

        • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

          I mean SSL,

  118. KesaAnna January 2, 2022 at 5:34 am #

    ” What kind of Catholic are you exactly? ”

    — Jarek , last blog.

    I wanted to answer this one , at least to a certain extent.

    I believe that Matthew , Mark , Luke and John are basically true accounts.

    — i.e. Jesus Christ was who they claimed he claimed to be.

    I believe in the institution of the Eucharist.

    I believe in Transubstantiation.

    I believe in Apostolic Succession — i.e. Christ gave his authority to the 12 Apostles , they in turn passed on their authority to what are today the Bishops of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

    I believe in the primacy of the Bishop of Rome — i.e . the Pope is Peter’s direct and legitimate successor.

    I believe in one Holy , Catholic ( ” Catholic ” means universal . ) Church — i.e. a world – wide Church subject to Apostolic Succession and the primacy of the Bishop of Rome.

    I believe in the Communion of Saints. — I’m not so sure there is much that Saints can do for you ? But I believe that when you address a Saint , the Saint somehow hears you . You can sort of retain a saint like you retain a lawyer or physician. And my bet is it is a surer and better investment than retaining a lawyer or physician.

    I believe in Purgatory.

    I believe in Eternal life.

    I believe we have bodies in Heaven.

    I believe there are seven sacraments.

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    • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

      Me too 😉

    • elysianfield January 2, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

      Kesa,
      This is for you;

      https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/01/ave-maria-sung-in-stairwell.html

      • anmariwakaranai January 2, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

        Ely, that was top notch.

      • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

        Stunning!

      • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

        Blacks are the best. What would we do without them?

    • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

      Good for you, it is called faith.

    • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

      But have you transformed your mind in accordance with this belief? Because the above jibes poorly with believing that all attempts to better the world are hypocrisy. Or that children don’t really exist, etc.

      Christians created hospitals and institutions of charity. That they have become corrupted says nothing of the institutions themselves pace Aquinas. Nor of the holy impulse that lead to their creation.

    • ianw January 3, 2022 at 1:40 am #

      I believe in Eternal life.

      Nice belief I suppose if you need such comfort … but I expect it’s horseradish. We no doubt lose all consciousness at death. We’re just mammals with clothes on. Sad but true.

      • got___truth January 3, 2022 at 2:20 am #

        There are no atheists or agnostics in a foxhole.

        GODSPEED!

        • ianw January 3, 2022 at 2:40 am #

          You miss the whole point – it doesn’t matter in the slightest what any human being thinks or believes – at the moment of death the lights go out forever … get used to it, and live life accordingly.

          • SpeedyBB January 3, 2022 at 7:13 am #

            Remember in high school physics class when we were informed that matter is energy and energy is matter, and neither are created nor destroyed (this is starting to sound like a Danny Kaye lyric)? At the point of death whatever consciousness that inhabits the meat puppet evaporates, melts away, goes somewhere else. I don’t see that as extinction as much as transformation, for better or for worse.

            I hung out with a psychic named James H.P. Wilkie in Vancouver. We enjoyed one another’s company. At one point he divulged that death is so enticing and non-existence so appealing that if humans did not have a built-in terror of it to inhibit them, we would just choose to melt away. I thought it was an interesting proposition.

  119. dtruitt January 2, 2022 at 6:33 am #

    Pretty interesting stuff. But you keep leaving out the biggest and most important factor in all your end of the world calculations, Mr. K. As Isaiah said, it is God who sits above the circle of earth (thus positing a round rather than a flat planet centuries before the Greeks). And since, to extend the metaphor, nothing happens within the circle of God’s providence without it being allowed by Him, your predictions are pretty much worthless without a close examination of the OT prophets and the book of Revelation. Having said that, you could be right on with these predictions, but at this point I rather doubt it. I’m pretty sure the world as we know it isn’t about to end anytime soon- but if it is, then I’m ready. Let’s hear it for the Millennium.

    • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

      Said the dinosaurs to each other before their Big Bang.

      Said the North American mammoths to each other prior to their big blast.

      Mankind is busily ensuring the next major extinction now. He may not even need a visitor from the cosmos.

      • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

        According to Revelations that is why Christ will return ultimately. Because humans are going to get very close to destroying all life on the planet.

        • JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

          Hmmm, maybe as a defense mechanism?

          • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

            Yeah that makes sense since it also says He will not come as a Lamb but as a Lion..and for one to destroy those who have destroyed the Earth

  120. GrimReaper January 2, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

    Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case Report

    https://www.archbronconeumol.org/es-acute-eosinophilic-pneumonia-following-mrna-avance-S0300289621003793

  121. mitchellc January 2, 2022 at 12:14 pm #

    Should we start a betting pool regarding when those infamous words “mistakes were made” will first be uttered?

    If they can pull of a pivot with enough sincerity, I highly doubt anyone will ever really be brought to account.

    • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      That’s exactly what they are doing. Just in case, you know…. that the PTB don’t manage to pull this off and are left holding the bag.

      • GreenAlba January 2, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

        So now, in England, they’re saying further restrictions won’t be necessary because ‘case numbers’ are going down, for the first time in a week.

        Because … they ran out of test kits. So I guess that means if more test kits arrive, ‘case numbers’ will go up again. Genius.

        https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/new-covid-restrictions-unlikely-as-daily-cases-fall-ministers-signal/ar-AASmx81

        In Scotland, of course, we have to await news from Queen Nicola. As Neil Oliver said last week, she’s not going to get Independence, so her remaining fantasy is to make everyone ask permission forever to go about their everyday business.

        Business? Did I say business? If only.

    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

      Well, feigned sincerity at best, probably too transluscent to hide real intent at this point given all of the mounting evidence of willful harm. Whether they are held to account in this world or the next it will happen. But I’m not getting a sense that the times immediately before us are going to be forgiving or civil so I question that and rather suspect they might not expect goodwill.

      • mitchellc January 2, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

        OK, then let’s address each point separately:

        1. Any predictions on the first use of “mistakes were made”?

        2. The second Is more complex, with the possibility of not only complete exonaration, but awards and medals handed out for gallant conduct.

        On the other side of a range of potential outcomes is a party like 1789, with many notable figures feted as the guests of honor.

        • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

          If I had to predict I would say #1 is definite. And I agree that they will expect deference and understanding when they chalk things up to just mistakes being made along the way. I also see #2 already unfolding. Look at St. Fauci. Do we need to go further lol. But it certainly could result in a party like 1789. They say that sorta happened on Jan 6 but that was their hoax and trap. As hunger and want sets in I just don’t see their hoaxes and facades working anymore and they won’t be able to keep change at bay. These people have been entrenched in power since basically the beginning.

  122. got___truth January 2, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

    The indomitable-spirit of the few, sustained through regenerative connection to illimitable-spirit and nature, is FREELY expressed by the few, for the benefit of the many.

    “Life is either a great adventure or nothing at all.”
    -Helen Keller, West Tuscumbia – Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 1922.

    https://www.azquotes.com/author/7843-Helen_Keller
    https://www.awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-helen-keller-quotes-on-success/

    The NEW republic IS rising faster than the old republic is collapsing.

    GODSPEED!!

    http://www.got-truth.com/images/kerouac1.jpg
    http://www.got-truth.com/images/Road%20of%20excess.JPG
    http://www.got-truth.com/images/L3.png
    http://www.got-truth.com/images/cpf1.jpg

  123. Jarek January 2, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

    RT

    The first case of a potentially dangerous combination of Covid-19 and the flu has been discovered in a young, pregnant, unvaccinated woman in Israel.

    The hybrid condition was diagnosed at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva earlier this week, when a woman went into labor.

    “She was diagnosed with the flu and coronavirus as soon as she arrived. Both tests came back positive, even after we checked again,” the head of the hospital’s gynecology department, Professor Arnon Vizhnitser said, as quoted by newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which was the first to report on the double infection case.

    He added that the patient had mild symptoms and that influenza and Covid are actually the same disease because both attack the upper respiratory tract. The woman was discharged from the hospital on Thursday.

    “We are seeing more and more pregnant women with the flu. It is definitely a great challenge dealing with a woman who comes in with a fever at childbirth and you do not know if it’s coronavirus or the flu, so you refer to them the same. Most of the illness is respiratory,” Vizhnitser said.

    Jarek: There you have it folks, new variant is just a cold or a fever or both. What to do? Chicken soup? Starve a cold, feed a fever? Or is it the other way around? I never get fevers, not in very long time. I used to get sore throats, and that could go down into my chest and then develop into a cough. I’ve learned to detect the first signs of trouble and then starve it, supplementing with Vitaimin C and honey to get rid of the sore throat. I have some Chinese medicine a well just for throats. Echinacea also a great boost to the immune system.

    Best way to avoid a sore throat? Don’t eat to much. Don’t toxify your system. And don’t let any food particles get stuck there. Eat heavy foods first then lighter ones with fiber to sweep your system. Then drink – not during the meal. Carbonation can be good if something still feels stuck.

    Hitler had this problem too. Some of you won’t know what I’m talking about here since you don’t have it. But the rest is good advice for everyone.

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    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

      Lol it’s feed a cold, starve a fever. But importantly what’s missing there is that it is very important to stay hydrated when you have fever.

      • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

        Thanks. Wrong for me though. If I get a cold or the beginnings of one, I lose most of my appetite. I respect what my body is telling me and don’t eat.

        One has to eat a bit though. Some hot chicken soup might be good at that point.

        • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 3:51 pm #

          Yeah I know what you mean. When I feel like I’m coming down with something a lot of times even the thought of food is gross and nauseating but you are correct, one has to eat a bit.

    • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

      With a father and two uncle’s who participated in the invasion at Normandy, they provided many amphetamine-fueled Nazi Krauts with early involuntary retirement.

      ….and 2 brothers who served on the construction crew building the stage for the 1969 Woodstock festival, then promptly served in active duty in the Vietnam “conflict”, providing more early involuntary retirements, to the Viet Cong.

      They didn’t want to do it. Felt they owed it to them.

      Existence is NOT an examination of political, economic, or social systems, but rather the individual. Does the individual REALLY have the courage to go along with the TRUTH, and maneuver away from rolling waves of calamity, in building out the NEW for themselves, their progeny, and their communities?

      All else is folly, like the chasing of the wind.

      GODSPEED!

      • ianw January 3, 2022 at 2:13 am #

        With a father and two uncle’s who participated in the invasion at Normandy … and 2 brothers who served on the construction crew building the stage for the 1969 Woodstock festival, then promptly served in active duty in the Vietnam …

        What’s going on here? Are you trying to gouge some vicarious kudos or exalted status on here because of the activities of your your relatives? Amazing stuff!

        • got___truth January 3, 2022 at 2:43 am #

          The GOEs and the WEF’ers are executing their final sorting of essential humanity by phenotype, genotype, and epigenetics.

          Enlightened commoners are rapidly aligning and rendering them and their programs obsolete, in building OUT the self-determined New.

          Spiritual warfare and generational blessings/strongholds are real, despite your denial of existence.

          Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we don’t see.

          BREAK ON THROUGH to the other side to FAR ENLIGHTENMENT!

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpQjD-rX0g&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=31

          GODSPEED!

          • ianw January 3, 2022 at 4:09 am #

            Yeah well … you keep repeating all that same jive day in and day out. We get it – you really can stop doing it, we’re not brain-damaged.

            Now – do you wish to answer my question?

          • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:32 am #

            Why do you keep saying ‘we’ as if you had fans on this site?

            It comes across as really tragic.

  124. Night Owl January 2, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

    Roblert Malone also now talking about the Great Reset and WEF.

    https://twitter.com/uzy_9mm/status/1477293500127395840

    Countdown until JHK goes there. Come on, James.

    • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

      TRUTH!
      …the WEF’s purchased public-private policy-setting sycophants and those placated, shall be historically held in the same regard as Neville Chamberlain placating Hitler.
      https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/the_united_states_of_appeasement.html

      Mr. Kunstler has demonstrated Truth is a function of time, discovery and disclosure, with his many prescient writings, detailing that which has come true, and that which is to come.

      I have no doubt he will be one of the historians documenting the Truth behind the rolling waves of collapse of the old AND the building of the NEW.

      GODSPEED!!

    • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

      That is magnificent. Good on Robert Malone for taking this journey in such a relatively short time. Imagine not knowing about all the deep state crap then learning all this in the matter of a couple of years or less.

      I’ve at least gotten to stretch out my learning over a few decades.

      • ianw January 3, 2022 at 1:34 am #

        That is magnificent. Good on Robert Malone for taking this journey in such a relatively short time.

        I expect the good doctor is vaccinated – but hey – he’s no doubt pocketing some serious $$$ out of his public position – but nothing matters and nobody cares.

        SMH.

        • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:29 am #

          He’s getting nothing from it. He made that clear, you corrupt-souled shill. And he’s 62, with a horse ranch he’d like to spend time on with his wife. Just like Reiner Fuellmich.

          And Peter McCullough is in $150,000 (if I recall correctly) of debt because of ruinous lawsuits designed to shut him up.

          Mike Yeadon also explained, regarding his own situation, how they try to smear him and say he’s making money and enjoying the fame, while he’s actually a publicity-hating introvert without enough time to spend the money he already has.

          These people are constantly smeared by scum just like you, who wouldn’t know a principle if it slapped you across the jaw.

          And Dr Malone is indeed vaccinated, having taking Moderna because – at the time – there was talk that it helped with long covid. No talk of that now. It certainly doesn’t help with long life,

          • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 6:22 am #

            *having taken*

      • Night Owl January 3, 2022 at 4:31 am #

        He’s an incredibly intelligent man who placed too much trust in the system.

        I think quite a few people did the same. But the awakening is here.

        And the beauty is, they will be that much harder to take advantage of the next time around.

    • ianw January 2, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

      Countdown until JHK goes there. Come on, James.

      Note to self: “Do not open door for Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Great Reset Cultists”.

    • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:36 am #

      NO, I think JHK was pretty much there with this one:

      https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/coiling-and-rattling/

  125. Jarek January 2, 2022 at 5:21 pm #

    Barnhardt

    If you want to get your head around what exactly it is that you’re doing when you use His Name as an expression of disgust, simply replace His Name with the name of the non-divine person you love most in the world. Then imagine yourself calling out that person’s name as an expression of disgust. A few years ago now, if you remember, I had a chunk of human poop fall on my foot from a toilet brush in a trashed apartment that I was hired to clean. Imagine human poop falling on your foot (Eeeewww!!!) and calling out the name of your most beloved person as an expression of disgust. It’s depraved, right? No one does that. Well, your beloved person isn’t Perfect Good and Infinite Love who hung on a cross and died for your sins, now are they? So how much sicker is it when we do it to God? Yup. There’s a reason why the Second Commandment is the SECOND Commandment.

    It is a dead giveaway, folks. A person who uses Our Lord’s name as an expression of disgust, ESPECIALLY in combination with profanity (avoid like the plague anyone who says or uses the expression “OMFG” whether spoken in full or written as an acronym – bad, bad, bad) is a person who A.) probably doesn’t actually believe in Him, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR POSITION, or B.) does believe in Him and hates Him. I have seen both. An example of the latter was a layman who held and to this day holds himself out as a super-Trad and Byzantine liturgical expert, who would frequently yell, “Oh, sweet JESUS!” or “Oh, sweet Baby JESUS!” as his preferred exclamation of extreme disgust, and he turned out to be… wait for it… not just a sodomite, but a sacrilegious sodomite. As in “bedding” seminarians, clerics and prelates, sometimes inside of Basilicas and churches, and then bragging about it in “safe circles”. We’re talking straight-up satanic activity. The signs were all there, first among them the consciously malicious use of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.

    So, say Our Lord’s Most Holy Name as often as you can, always with love and reverence. To do so is a declaration of belief in the Personal Triune Godhead, His Incarnation, and belief in His almost too-good-to-be-true words, “You are My friends.” Say His Name with love and let your heart fly at the very sound of it. Say His Name with love and let Him joy in the sound of you, His beloved friend, saying it.

    Say His Name, because consider that in these dark days of apostasy in the post-Christian West, Our Lord’s Name is said orders of magnitude more frequently as a curse or expression of disgust than it is in loving reverence. I would guess that just the Irish alone, who are notorious for this terrible sin – they use Our Lord’s name almost as a verbal tick, often in combination with the “f” word – more than equal with their sacrilegious abuse of The Holy Name ALL OTHER UTTERANCES of Our Lord’s Name reverently spoken in the entire world every day. That’s how bad the Irish are, and how bad the world is.

    And finally, the Most Holy Name is not only the shortest prayer, but also one of the most powerful:

    JESUS.

    Jarek: Great points about a terrible habit. The Irish are the worst, worse than ghetto Blacks who at least leave God out of most of their endless obscenity. I assume the lower class English are pretty bad too…..

    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

      What about OMG or omg as a wow or wonderment or bafflement expression? I tend to say that often enough to possibly be in the concern zone.

      • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

        Might be alright. Just be sure to throw in some overt and honest praise when it something glorious.

        • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

          Ok I can do that!

  126. JohnAZ January 2, 2022 at 5:53 pm #

    Wow, just saw a TV ad for the Ford Lightning, the Ford electric pick-up truck. Looked up details,

    I was impressed. $39000 and change.

    No wait, due to the chip shortage the dealers are marking it up $30000.

    You want or relatively soon, early fee $10000

    Reservation deposit. $5000.

    300 miles per charge? How much to tow, or A/c.

    $79000, hmmm?

    It would sell for $39000. It does have heavy demand, hence the $30000.

    • BackRowHeckler January 2, 2022 at 6:15 pm #

      $79,000 is just the bare bones base price with no amenities. With add ons you’re talking $100,000 easy. At that price I’m certain buyers will be lined up outside dealerships in droves. Seriously, with these EVs (Lucid Air: $169,000, available now apparently) how will they be financed? 30 year mortgage? The life expectancy of an EV battery pack is about 8 years and they cost upward of $20,000 to replace. It doesn’t pencil out. Shills for EVs insist the price of these vehicles will come down with time. On the contrary, I believe they will grow costlier as the competition for rare earth metals intensifies.

      • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

        It is the PT Barnum school of green consumerism.

        You know what else does not pencil out?
        The 2nd law of thermodynamics.
        More input energy is expended on rare earth metal mining operations, transports, assembly, AND primarily fossil-fuel based electric battery charging stations, than rebuilding a 5.7 liter GM Vortec ICE, on a Suburban, and enjoying the benefits of 4WD, deer carcass transport to the processor, and general rip-roaring off road country fun!

        Cattle-guard bolted on for incidental collisions…..

        • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

          …,,and as one who enjoys welding as hobby, with plenty of 1/4″ plate steel on hand, one can imagine the Suburban outfitted as the bus in Clint Eastwood’s “The Gauntlet”, should the need arise.

          Chance favors the prepared mind!

          • ianw January 2, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

            How long can you fuel the tank, if things get sketchy?

          • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

            550 mile cruising range from the 42 gallon tank.
            Driven on balance 20 miles per week, primarily used for hunting, properties’ repair and maintenance operations, and towing enclosed trailer containing carpentry, landscaping, timber removal, and camping gear.

            ….long enough!

      • stelmosfire January 2, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

        A quote from the article:

        Compared to a gas-fired power plant, an onshore wind turbine requires nine times more mineral resources, according to the International Energy Agency. Building an EV requires six times more minerals than a gas-powered car.

        https://www.theverge.com/22858437/2021-mining-critical-minerals-clean-energy-renewables-climate-change?

        • ianw January 2, 2022 at 10:04 pm #

          Indeed – and this is an excellent forum for informed discussion about the impractical (impossible) dreams of the renewable energy sector.

          https://joannenova.com.au/

          Aussie-based, but very international in colour and flavour.

        • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

          Truth!!
          …and not ALL empire collapses are equal.

          The old republics’ urban centers and their associated infrastructure utilities (power generation and distribution, potable water lines and treatment, sewer lines and treatment, natural gas, highways, and mass transit are in various states of collapse due to entropy AND the immutable fact qualified trade and professional services labor are abandoning urban centers en masse.

          The illusion of renewable energy readily displacing hydrocarbons and of debt appearing as prosperity are the last variables to collapse, in the modeled scenarios.

          Those employed in the service of public health and safety ARE NOT communicating the hazards, due to a variety of motives.

          Location. Location. Location.

          It is better to reside out in the country with the local means of regenerative food, energy, and water production, coordinated self-defense, acreage, and a community of resilient people, than to reside in Beverly Hills-type urban centers, in a panic to acquire a single firearm, to guard luxurious inventory from marauders, while the guardian class accelerates their step down.

          • ianw January 2, 2022 at 11:03 pm #

            It is better to reside out in the country with the local means of regenerative food, energy, and water production, coordinated self-defense, acreage, and a community of resilient people

            If I were a dozen years younger, I’d probably do it – find an area with soil and rainfall, and grow fruit and vegetables. But not now.

            Although we do have two bug-out houses available (one mine, one my brother’s) in quite remote fishing villages, if push really came to shove.

            Both have tank rainwater and septic sewer systems, at least.

          • BackRowHeckler January 3, 2022 at 5:17 am #

            In Hartford, nearly 400 years old, the entire infrastructure of the city is crumbling; yet, there is serious talk about digging a $50 billion tunnel underneath the city, a project that would take 10 years. The goal is to eliminate “Racist limited access highways that separate ‘Communities of Color’ from the downtown district.” (What Downtown District?) This appears to be a techno fantasy wrapped up with the anti racism movement, but it’s one of the Big Lefty plans that is out there.

          • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:22 am #

            “Although we do have two bug-out houses available (one mine, one my brother’s) in quite remote fishing villages, if push really came to shove.”

            Just as well you assured us nothing bad is going to happen till long after you’re dead.

            Ho hum …

  127. Jarek January 2, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/ohSoEfvv8C01/

    Black eyed children, appearing at your door or needing a ride in remote areas. Don’t let them in!

    As an occasional insomniac, I heard about this a long time ago when I turned on Coast to Coast. I immediately recognized it as a meme of enormous power. Most seem to say that it can’t be verified, and say it’s an urban myth started around 1996. But by whom?

    Hypothesis: It was started to discredit the reality of the hybrid kids they had already created, and planned one day to spring on the world with their “vaccines”. Who knows? Maybe they used some of the actual kids here and there to get the legend started.

    No axe to grind. It might all be moonshine, but we’ll know soon enough in any case. The reality of the kids can’t be hidden forever if they are real.

    • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

      Yeah I heard about the black eyed children or “children” a long time ago too. It seems like they are often mentioned in proximity to the men in black phenomenon and the 11:11 phenomenon. Because they require invitation I feel confident based on current info saying these entities are spiritual parasites. Vampires also must be invited in. And I vaguely recall them having some sort of original connection to old Route 66. Though for some reason my immediate instinct re black eyed babies of the jabbed is that the powers are trying to spoof the anti-vaxers and make them look kooky on purpose.

      • Jarek January 2, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        I’ve never heard of 11:11, but I’ve often found myself looking at the clock at that time.

        You think the children are real as a phenomena then? It felt its power when I first heard about it. Hope that doesn’t mean I’m going to get a visit!

        A friend of mind said that same thing about the kids of the jabbed. Hope you guys are right. And I’m making a resolution to never help kids until I’ve seen their eyes first.

        • SoftStarLight January 2, 2022 at 10:20 pm #

          Yes, I do think the children are a real phenomenon. And they are extraordinarily dangerous. They haunt troubled crossroads and thus are often said to visit those who may already be experiencing paranormal activity or people who are going through life tribulations. And they tend to present themselves to people who are otherwise alone. They harvest life energies so yes never let in. I will also keep monitoring the story of the black eyed jab babies. That would be a new level of terrifying Nephilim 2.0 stuff if true.

          I can’t say I am very well informed on the 11:11 phenomenon other than if you notice you are often finding yourself seeing that time then they say that it’s a spiritual wake up call emanating from within you but also from the universe itself.

          • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 11:02 pm #

            “Indeed, eleven minutes past eleven o’ clock is considered by many numerologists to be a mirror hour connected to the spiritual or supernatural world. 11:11 is a good representation of Jung’s concept of synchronicity with 4 identical numbers in a row across the hours and minutes.”
            https://www.mirrorhour.com/double/11-11/

            My personal experience is 11:11 is recurring within the realm of synchronicity, where alignments are rapidly occurring, with and among those sustaining the highest levels of human consciousness.
            http://www.got-truth.com/images/L3.png

          • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 11:37 pm #

            ….just as enlightened commoners aligned with the dispensing of the divine rights of kings, the same is occurring with the dispensing of the GOEs and the WEF’ers, and their purchased sycophants.

            Ben Franklin attributed the aligning phenomenon to providence.

      • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:10 am #

        “Though for some reason my immediate instinct re black eyed babies of the jabbed is that the powers are trying to spoof the anti-vaxers and make them look kooky on purpose.”

        Definitely something to look out for, SSL. It takes very little to lose credibility in the eyes of the crowd. Especially when the crowd is so relieved to find that something you said has no credibility.

      • BackRowHeckler January 3, 2022 at 5:25 am #

        Black Eyed Children sounds like the Killer Klown scare of a few years back. Klowns, too, were out on US66, in remote areas, trying to hitch a ride, headed east, but occassionally veering off the main road into small isolated towns, terrorizing the locals.

      • SpeedyBB January 3, 2022 at 9:18 am #

        Speaking of spoofing …

        Intelligent writer, lame presentation, attempting to discredit MFS:

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/01/02/what-is-mass-formation-psychosis-robert-malone-makes-covid-19-vaccine-claims-on-joe-rogan-show/?sh=1ba9c7db1d4c

  128. MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

    Part of the Dumpster Fire, the parasitic, inbred UK Royalty.

    This made me LOL.

    “But but but I lost my sweat glands in the Falkland war!”

    https://twitter.com/i/events/1476843916162789377

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    • got___truth January 2, 2022 at 10:32 pm #

      LOL!
      …and illustrative of the “parasitic divergence” demonstrated by the GOE’s and the WEF’ers.

      Parasites like Jimmy Savile were allowed to openly practice their debauchery, as they were entertaining court jesters to the equally-debauched elite.

      The quickening is here.

      The GEARS of justice move slowly and grind exceedingly fine!

      GEN-X is stepping up and delivering it to these miscreants, cretins, and reprobates!

      • MaryQueen January 2, 2022 at 11:21 pm #

        Well said, GT.

    • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 5:19 am #

      My other favourite, re the Queen’s favourite son (yes, apparently) was him giving an alibi that he was with one of his daughters getting pizza from Pizza Hut or one of the other chains. As if.

      I think it was supposed to be somewhere like Wokingham. So we are asked to believe that Prince Andrew plus famous daughter walked into a pizza place in Wokingham (Surrey) and nobody noticed. And the news didn’t spread round Wokingham’s local news rags like a wildfire the next morning that guess-who had visited their pizza parlour.

      Princess Anne was once spotted by a colleague of mine popping into a famously good Italian deli near where we worked. But she arrived in a posh royal car with a chauffeur, who waited outside. I believe that’s how it’s done, for security reasons.

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:37 am #

        Hahahaha! I am going to assume you saw that Hindenberg Disaster-level interview back in what, fall of 2019? Where Prince Andrew decided without mum’s permission to remove any doubt of what a cretin and pedo he is on national TV? I still can’t believe that was aired. Mind-blowing hubris and stupidity on Andrew’s side (and his PR people). But then again, nothing came of it, except for mum punishing him for awhile, or so I heard.

        Yeah right – he was out for pizza at Pizza Hut with a royal daughter. And no one noticed. LOL.

        Still so funny about the sweat glands. Who loses their sweat glands in a war? Only Andrew. What a piece of work.

        Oh and if he was mum’s favorite, I doubt if he still is after the damage that interview did to the royal family. Not to mention his close relationship with Epstein.

  129. tucsonspur January 3, 2022 at 3:30 am #

    Some around the world can sense it, like some animals sense the tsunami or the soon to be quake of the earth. Something is definitely wrong, out of order and off course, needing to be corrected, yet sobering solutions and strong men make them tremble:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-could-be-under-rightwing-dictator-by-2030-canadian-professor-warns/ar-AASn1jm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

    • Night Owl January 3, 2022 at 4:26 am #

      But the “some” don’t read MSN news or take experimental swill pushed by big pharma via a propaganda campaign so all encompassing, it would make Pravda staff blush.

      Pro tip: You are not among the “some.”

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:29 am #

        LOL.

  130. Night Owl January 3, 2022 at 5:28 am #

    Powerful message from RFK, Jr., for 2022:

    https://twitter.com/RastaRedpill/status/1477770425975332864

    Fight the Great Reset and Covid Cult.

    • got___truth January 3, 2022 at 8:08 am #

      Kennedy is speaking the truth.
      …and as a truth-teller, he shall be banned from Twitter.

      The death-cult division within the Globalist-Oligarch-Eugenicists are driving 2022 additive = 666, and intent on inducing as much terror, panic, lockdowns, urban mayhem, and economic destruction as shocked commoners are willing to submit to.

      At peak mayhem, the GOEs strip away the illusions that debt=prosperity, renewable energy readily displaces hydrocarbons, and the stock and bond markets = financial stability. Then peak assaulting effort is applied to collapsing the healthcare systems, financial systems, and step down of the protective civilian guardian class. All of which is modeled in the DARPA quantum-computing model. George Soros funding the successful placement of DAs unwilling to prosecute larceny and judges unwilling to set bond for repeat violent offenders is in the model.

      Those employed in the service of public health and safety are not being transparent in communicating the hazards and likely outcomes, due to a variety of motives.

      ALL Time and Energy is BEST spent building OUT the New, not fighting the old.

      GODSPEED!

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:28 am #

        What’s kinda funny about the Twatter bans are that the banned just go to other platforms and then all their readers/listeners post their stuff on Twatter anyway.

        They can’t keep on top of it.

        LOL.

  131. Mike G January 3, 2022 at 6:03 am #

    They will introduce a new killer bug in 2022, the Gates/Fauci/Zuckerman crowd are not done with their genocide.

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 3, 2022 at 7:04 am #

      hard to fight without alternative solutions to the future issues that great reset policies are an attempt to address. The inertia of having no alternative solutions to those issues will drag organized political resistance down.

      Statements (made by night owl in other posts) like “there is no population problem,” and “there are no real shortages right now” (ignoring those that will be on the way under current trends) are not reality-based enough, and that level of denial/falsehood will, imo, undermine organized resistance to great reset operations until the denial/falsehood is cleared up and replaced with actual alternative solutions to the limits to growth situation great resetters are motivated by. if you ignore limits to growth, even “for now, to fight great reset,” you give great reset types the high ground, and they’ll use the advantage.

      great reset operations are kind of the wages of sin for the right laughing off limits to growth for 5+ decades. You won’t get out from under it, i think, with the strategy essentially of the 20th century right.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 3, 2022 at 7:06 am #

        sorry. meant to be reply to night owl’s post, one post up

      • GreenAlba January 3, 2022 at 8:27 am #

        “if you ignore limits to growth, even “for now, to fight great reset,” you give great reset types the high ground, and they’ll use the advantage.”

        The immediate issue is not that there are two arguments, it’s that about 98% of the world’s population has no idea that a de facto ‘argument’ on one side is even under way.

        The idea that what’s missing is the ‘other side’ saying ‘yes, we get why you’re doing it, but here’s a better idea’ is fanciful, even if there’s an underlying existential crisis.

        • Night Owl January 3, 2022 at 9:09 am #

          Good post.

        • gustafson.robert.22 January 3, 2022 at 10:27 am #

          that may be true, that opposition of the kind i’m implying is necessary is also fanciful. but that’s unfortunate, because i don’t see success for opposition when the opposition not only does not address the underlying issues behind what they oppose, but in majority, dont even understand them.

          my only purpose posting this idea is that i believe quiet, private resistance of lifestyle will be more effective than political opposition. political opposition with so little depth or substance – i just dont see how it can accomplish much. i mean, i’ll vote with them, if the only oppositional choice, but that’s about it

    • Night Owl January 3, 2022 at 7:06 am #

      Does not compute. There is no proof the current one exists, and if they released something that actually did real damage, they would put themselves at risk.

      I don’t think another Big Lie is going to work this time around, but it should be interesting regardless.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 3, 2022 at 7:15 am #

        what if they push climate change measures, and then spark debate over all that.

        will the resistance lines be “there is no climate change” (maybe) “there is no overpopulation” (wrong) “there are no resource/energy limits” (wrong) ?

        will the great-reset resistance be a head-in-the-sand resistance

        • got___truth January 3, 2022 at 8:26 am #

          The “resistance” IS NOT a resistance, but rather investing ALL Time and Energy in building OUT the New, whereby New is defined as communities with local regenerative food, water, and energy supply chains and coordinated self-defense.

          The old republics’ are under full spectrum warfare, with open borders, maximum import of Chinese life-destroying synthetic opiates, and breakdown of education and civil-social order.

          Borders – Unsecured
          Civil Unrest
          Consumer – Credit
          Crime – Urban
          Earthquakes
          Education
          Electric Grid-Eastern
          Electric Grid-Texas
          Electric Grid-Western
          Floods
          Food Availability
          Healthcare System
          Homelessness
          Hurricanes
          Hydrocarbon Transports
          Hydrocarbons – Production
          Inflation
          Interstate Highway System – Urban Centers
          Market – Debt
          Market – Housing
          Market- Credit
          Market- Equity
          Military Rank and File Defection
          Pandemic
          Political Gridlock
          Potable Water – Urban
          Poverty
          Public – Debt
          Public – Emergency Services
          Qualified Labor – Professional Services
          Qualified Labor – Trade
          Student Load – Debt
          Supply Chain – Critical Infrastructure Material
          Supply Chain – Non-Critical Infrastructure Material
          Telecommunications
          Terrorism
          Unvetted Immigration
          War-Civil
          War-Worldwide
          Wastewater Treatment – Urban
          Western Drought
          Western Food Production
          Western Shipping Container Cargo Ports
          Western Water Reservoirs/Reserves
          Western Wildfires

          We remain at DEFCON-1, as when variables exceed critical point, collapse is the result, within that realm.

          The rolling waves of collapse are underway, across multiple realms, and not being disclosed by those employed in the service of public health and safety.

          GODSPEED!!

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 3, 2022 at 10:29 am #

            “The “resistance” IS NOT a resistance, but rather investing ALL Time and Energy in building OUT the New, whereby New is defined as communities with local regenerative food, water, and energy supply chains and coordinated self-defense.”

            yeah, i agree with these words

          • ZrCrypDiK January 6, 2022 at 10:49 pm #

            Yeah, resistance has been futile for damn near 30 years, yet here we are – 8 billion and consuming defective Chink product like a wet dream.

            As far as I can tell, the only positive thing that has been done in the past century to avert our demise is the Chink 1 Child program. Unfortunately, they made it 2 children a decade ago, and abolished it altogether a year back.

            Well, at least it’s NOT defcon-1 due to nukes…

        • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 11:18 am #

          Oh no doubt they have more mass formation-based touchless torture and tricks up their sleeves.

      • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:26 am #

        I think the vaxxed and covid death culters will fall for anything. So they are going to mess with them further. It’s easy, they are programmed, and ripe for the picking.

        Those of us who aren’t completely culted and brainwashed will have to try to continue on and fight them at every step.

        Yes, they don’t have to release any bugs. They are already poisoning us through food, air and water, and now vaccines.

    • MaryQueen January 3, 2022 at 9:24 am #

      That doesn’t make sense to me.

      Why would the PTB poison their own fishbowl?

      All they have to do is scare us into believing a bug has been released, and get us to smother ourselves, get sick from stress, and get vaxxed.

      Rinse & repeat.

      No need to release any real bug.

      • Mike G January 4, 2022 at 8:59 am #

        We all know they have a killer bug in some lab that would kill more people then covid did, and we know that some people will take as many jabs as told.

        We know that Gates/Schwab are eugenicists and want us dead. Climate Crisis supporters want us dead. Every crisis highlights that there are just too many people, food, energy, pollution you name it, they all conclude that depopulation will solve these problems.

        Did they mistakingly think that covid and the shots would kill more people? Are they just waiting for the deathshots to kick in? Or will they get impatient and just throw a really deadly one out there?

        Some of the people are revolting, the powers may lose control.

        It is coming, they like bioweapons, so less destructive than wars, and so cost efficient.

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