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What is stunning is there are felony crimes being committed right in front of us and there are no arrests, charges or concern. These times remind me of Christ's teaching. The end times will look like Noah's time. Lawlessness and turmoil all over. It frustrates us folks trying to do right and pay our taxes, go to work and teach our children right from wrong. Now, we ask our children not what they would like to be when they grow up, but who would they like to be? Does anyone else see these things, or is is it just me? When i read Revelation from the Bible, Babylon looks a lot like the USA!

Don Harrell

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If you want to know how Climate change can be effectively dealt with, don't ask anyone who needs funds to continue their research using computer models. Also don't ask anyone who thinks there are too many people on the planet. (Try googling the late Hans Rosling for his videos on population - UK Graduates were less well informed than Chimpanzees when he performed a 'multiple choice' test of the two to see who knew most re the population stats. Clearly the Chimps chose the marked 'banana' answers randomly, which doesn't say much for UK Graduates.) Nor ask anyone who thinks the planet is 'dying' or believes in anything Greta Thunberg says. IF you really want to know ask Bjorn Lomborg. Basically the planet couldn't care less it just carries on. The other thing to note is we are burning FOSSIL fuels. Thus the CO2 we are releasing is CO2 that was once in the atmosphere to start with, yet there was sufficient plant and animal life to convert it into biological carbon then lay down massive quantities of fossil fuel carbon. Finally the climate has always changed. Here in the UK we have a wonderful area called 'The Lake District' - very popular for tourism. Had we not had climate change, it would still be called the Glacier District, as it was glaciers that carved out the landscape, then they melted & that Millennia before 4x4's were invented. Then there was the time the planet got really hot, according to the BBC - 7c hotter. Mammals evolved!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/385SHpTG5M25Xr6G3FSMJTG/seven-things-that-happened-when-the-planet-got-really-really-hot

As Lomborg explains, Human Beings are problem solvers, we can solve many issues re climate change if we stopped listening to the religion like eco-nutters and listened instead to the sensible scientists.

Prof James Lovelock, former doyen of the Green Movement 'recanted' his 'alarmist views' on climate change and when asked why other climate scientists had not, he explained.

"I am an independent scientist, I don't need grant money to survive."

All you need to know are the lies scientists spouted about Covid. Particularly US scientists, whose private emails exposed their deliberate public lies and the reasons for them, including not supporting Trump who had initially raised issues, such as 'a Wuhan lab leak'. Once you know scientists can also lie, and do so not only for political ends but for financial gain, then you should take every pronouncement of Domesday from any scientist who benefits from Domesday, with a sackful of salt.

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The pain is worth it says the Davos scumbags.

They are talking about YOUR pain not THEIRS.

Because they don't give a **** about YOU.

Where's a hypersonic when you need one?

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Has Substack become another platform for anger and ridicule? Is it becoming like all the others? Void of common sense, decency and respect…it has quickly degenerated into another expression of the derision that is tearing apart our country and our society as a whole. Unfortunate…

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Fed Reserve Digital Currency..(instead of Gold confiscation by Democrat Roosevelt, USA dollars confiscation by Democrat Biden)…Henceforth all payments SS, Govt Pensions, etc deposited in digital dollars..

ALL transactions will be initially monitored by our government..perhaps later ‘approved or disapproved’ by sameo..

Gov’t knows what’s best for us, takes care of us…

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If the markets weren't supported with low interest then the many retirement funds would be either broke or vastly underfunded leading to retirees, both city and private, to suffer broken promises. How can a California firefighter not be able to retire at forty something on 80 grand plus? The deal with the devil gave billions to the .1%. Too much for them to spend anyway.

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I understand how ‘asset price’ inflation wipes away debt for investors - government print money which is used to lift assets prices while the debt remains constant (at least for the investor). However, ‘consumer price’ inflation does the opposite. The ‘inflation tax’ as Bill calls it leaves people with less goods and services for the same money. Business profits go down and asset prices fall accordingly - but the debt remains the same or increases because interests rates are now higher to combat inflation. I guess what I’m trying to say is this ‘inflation tax’ does not raise any money nor pay off any debt. It just makes everyone much poorer … reality just catching up with $50 trillion of wasted opportunities - if only it stopped there!

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We are already in a recession. The stock market ain’t worth a plugged nickel. The Fed doesn’t give two hoots about the markets. Extracting large amounts of money from the hard working class, especially through their 401k’s. Watching them dwindle.

The NBER will probably not declare a recession until late fall. 😂 The stock market is trailing behind the economy. Hope you all are avoiding the dip! 😂

Meanwhile in Texas:

“Well, it's alright to be little bitty

A little hometown or a big old city

Might as well share, might as well smile

Life goes on for a little bitty while”

Heey

“You know you got a job and a little bitty check

A six pack of beer and a television set

Little bitty world goes around and around

Little bit of silence and a little bit of sound”

Alan Jackson (Little Bitty)

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Hi Bill, Please keep in mind that Norway extracted the oil beneath the North Sea but it was all of us that burned it and have thus created the climate change. If there was no demand for petroleum, Norway would be just another fishing village.

I feel the pain of inflation just like everyone else. You write about inflation and make quite a nice living connecting the dots. Yes, the elites (and I assume you do not include yourself among that horrible tribe) do make the rules that we all live by, or try to live by. They profit and we sweat.

Has it ever been different? People have always had rotten leadership. Am I wrong? We suffer, they get richer.

You have become wealthy telling us about the wealthy's dastardly deeds. And I appreciate your work greatly. It gives me insight into what comes next.

You are far above the fray. I am glad for you. I am not above the fray. I am one of the great unwashed rabble that is born to suffer under the thumb of the elite.

I fought for my country. I fought fires for most of my life. I worked on a Kansas farm in my youth. I am the salt of the earth of whom you spoke so well.

I probably should hold a grudge against the elites. But I don't. I don't because as the world descends in chaos and pain I will still know how to be self reliant and survive. But the elite will not. Their money will not protect them from the coming climate catastrophes or pandemics or wars. Their kids will still get cancer and have less freedoms (or no freedoms).

The world that is nearly upon us will not just be painful to the lower classes. All classes will suffer. Not at the same intensity. But all will suffer. It is not any help to me to know this.

Billions of people are going to die in this century. Everyone will suffer.

That is the truth that overrides all the political clap trap.

For a while I believed that maybe our species had a chance to survive. But after a lot of research it has become clear to me that we are headed for species extinction. That means the elite will die of right along with us working class. Oh, we will have some great speeches and political movements to try to reverse the downward spiral of humanity. But in the end, we will end.

Don't believe me?

Our oceans are nearly dead. Our forests are dying and being burned. Our air and water are more and more polluted. Our food is less and less nourishing. Diseases are appearing that were never before seen. Animals are going extinct that support our ecosystems on which we depend for life.

The petroleum that everyone curses is the lifeblood of civilization. Without oil, billions will die.

Food depends on oil. All those plastics we hate and need, come from oil.

So, Bill, all the twisting and turning of the politicos and elites and the masses will make no difference in the last days.

What will those last days look like?

Well, like what you see. Shortages. Blame games. Nuclear war. Crop failures worldwide. Anger everywhere by everyone. Starvation. Pandemics, plural. More and more death.

Right now we see the rot as just isolated occurrences. But there are more and more of them and they are more severe. At some point, they will all connect like the giant wildfires we see happening. And the world as we have known it will cease to exist. There will only be one giant emergency engulfing the world. We will no longer be able to isolate the various emergencies.

They will connect and reinforce and overwhelm our civilizations worldwide. There will be too many hurricanes and fires and crop failures and supply chain failures. The reserves will be used up. There will be an extinction event that involves all of the species including humankind.

Now isn't that connecting all the dots?

What you see now is the prelude to what is coming.

But do not worry about it. You are in Ireland and safe. For now.

So enjoy your remaining life. That is what I am doing here in Hawaii.

Just keep in mind that you and I are living on borrowed time, just like all the rest. It gives one perspective.

Aloha,

Tom

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