Nothing New Under The Sun 2016

    THE BIG PICTURE NEWS

Meet the VLOPs! The EU Extends its Censorship Powers – “On Tuesday this week, the European Commission announced its first list of designated Very Large Online Platforms – or VLOPs – that will be subject to “content moderation” requirements and obligations to combat “disinformation” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). As VLOPs, the designated services will be required “to assess and mitigate their systemic risks and to provide robust content moderation tools.” Or as a subheading in the Commission announcement pithily puts it: “More diligent content moderation, less disinformation.”” – Robert Kogon

The End of Cash is Terrifyingly Close – Why don’t People Care? – Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc

Yes, The WHO Treaty Really DOES Limit American Sovereignty – “Much ado has been made over this the past few weeks, with voices on the right saying it’s going to kill Americans and voices on the fact-checking left scoffing at all those conspiracy theorists who think the U.S. would sign over sovereignty to an international body. Here’s what you need to know straight from the treaty draft itself. So, what’s in this thing? Let’s start off with the Zero Draft. This is public information readily available on WHO’s website.” – Marie Hawthorne

The Global Pandemic Treaty Is A Threat To Us All (VIDEO) – The Corbett Report

Why Forcing People to Drive EVs Won’t Save the Environment – “Seven states are now poised to ban gas-powered cars. Basic economics teaches that everything comes with tradeoffs. This includes energy. Fossil fuels, which currently supply about 80 percent of the world’s energy, come with tradeoffs. Renewable energies and green technologies come with tradeoffs. There are pros and cons to each. The problem is that people often look at fossil fuels and focus solely on their cons—they are finite, cause pollution, and so on—and ignore their benefits. With so-called “green” technologies and energies, people tend to do the opposite.” – Jon Miltimore

NEWS ( LOTS OF  VERY GOOD READS TODAY – MR. KUNSTLER, CJ, GARY BARNETT, T.L., NAOMI, ERIC PETERS ALL ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READS )

On War and Wars – “The weird part the news media isn’t telling you about World War Three is that America’s main enemy in this struggle is the US Government itself. America is looking like that crazy person on the street, punching himself in the head. How else do you explain this epic act of national self-destruction? The “Joe Biden” regime is “standing up for our democracy” by trying to silence all and any public speech about what it does in the world and how it treats its own citizens. Meanwhile, the entire scaffold of American life crumbles and you are supposed to not notice it’s happening. The funny part is that the Democratic Party thinks this is an election strategy. The funniest part of the funny part is that we bother holding elections at all. You understand, “Joe Biden” is only pretending to run for president again, in the same way that he only pretended to be president the past two years.” – James Howard Kunstler

The Compliant and Obedient Are Freedom’s Cancer – “Sometimes, in order to clear the air, it is necessary to expose the real risk to our freedom, instead of simply concentrating on the obvious evils that surround us. Those obvious evils of course consist of the State, government, criminal politicians, their enforcers in police and military, and corporate and banking heads, who actually control the government, and therefore, the people. Yes, these are bad people and entities who seek power and control, but are they the only real problem? Most would claim that the real problem lies with others, and never accept any responsibility themselves.” – Gary D. Barnett

Ruled by the Mad – “Every single commodity with which we sustain our own survival is being eliminated by Executive Order and somehow deemed a threat to democracy. Stupidity is one thing, that’s manageable, but combined with raging arrogance that prefers their own delusional ramblings and logical contortions to any other sound on earth and you just know that one day they will utter the key combination of nouns and verbs that pushes some nuclear power over the edge of restraint. Most of us have realized that the sheer insanity they employ is designed to try and drive the average American out of his mind and into some sort of civil conflict with them. Of course, they’re confident they will win, or simply use our rebellion as an excuse to capture and imprison every single remaining AMERICAN. ” – T.L. Davis

The Ruling Class’s Stalinist Purge – “Like a hammer smashing anyone who seeks to “make America great,” the ruling class pounds Trump, his supporters, and now even Tucker Carlson. A “great America,” you see, is antithetical to the technocratic police State that the Marxist globalists are busy building. When individual rights and liberties are respected, self-sufficient Americans do not need government apparatchiks to fashion drab, one-size-fits-all, welfare-dependent, groupthink-dominated futures” – J.B. Shurk

The Democrats Plan to Steal Another Election – “Joe Biden with a dismal approval rating of 37% has announced that he is running for a second term. How can he possibly win? By again stealing the election. Democrats control the large cities in swing states. In the past two elections, they have proven that they can easily steal the election. It is now impermissible to even report evidence of election theft. Experts who provided evidence were threatened with prosecution, and Fox News management rushed to pay more than three-quarters of a billion dollars of shareholders’ money in order to create the precedent that reporting evidence of stolen elections constitutes defamation.” – Paul Craig Roberts

Is It Time for Unemployed Tucker Carlson to Enter the U.S. Political Fray? – “This week, Fox News axed without warning or explanation its highest-rated talk show host, Tucker Carlson. Tragic as that may be for his legion of listeners, Carlson now has a chance to not only question America, but to change it. It looks as though the establishment – the Deep State, the Swamp, the Nursing Home for Octogenarian Ice Cream Lovers, call it what you will – has finally found a way to eliminate Tucker Carlson and his heretical views once and for all.” – Robert Bridge

The Great Divide – “I am fairly biased in favor of Bobby Kennedy. I think he is an admirable, honorable human being. I would love to see him in the Oval Office. That isn’t going to happen, of course. The global-capitalist ruling classes are never going to let him near the Oval Office. They learned their lesson back in 2016. There are not going to be any more unauthorized presidents. The folks at GloboCap are done playing grab-ass, and they want us to know that they are done playing grab-ass. That’s what the last six years have been about. So, here’s my bad advice for Bobby. Fuck them. They’re not going to let you win, anyway. They are going to smear you, slime you, demonize you, distort every other thing you say, and just generally lie about who you are and what you believe in and what you stand for. They are going to paint you as a bull-goose-loony, formerly smack-addled, conspiracy-theorizing, anti-vax fanatic no matter what you do. If you tone down your act and try to “heal the divide” and “end the division,” they are going to have you for lunch, and then sit around picking their teeth with your bones.” – CJ Hopkins

The Crime of “Talking to Tucker Carlson” – “A Note of Support, from a Surprising Detente” – Naomi Wolf

What Tucker Could Not Talk About, Bank Runs Coming, Nuke War Coming (VIDEO) – “Tucker didn’t so much get fired for what he said, but for what he might say in the future.” – Greg Hunter

The Inflation Reduction Act Price Jumps From $385 Billion to Over $1 Trillion – “Penn Wharton revised its estimate of the cost of the inflation reduction act significantly higher based on Biden’s actual implementation of the de” – Mishal.

The Other Side of “Woke” – “We hear a lot about “Woke” – which of course means asleep, to the ugly history of communism. The latter being what “Woke” is meant to achieve, by the people using the asleep to get them there without telling them where they’re headed. Until they get there. These asleep people are the same kinds of people Lenin called useful idiots, back in his day. Which is to say, people who were asleep to what Lenin was after.” – Eric Peters

RFK, Jr Is Making It Real – “I was elated to find out that Joe Biden is all about my freedom, and while he didn’t have a lot of luck increasing freedom in his first three years, I’m sure that wasn’t his fault. He is running for a second term because he wants to save freedom. Or is it democracy he wants to save – Biden interchanges the terms with abandon. I do have a small concern about the slurring of words, and the imprecise language, but come on, man! This is our moment. Joe Biden wants war everywhere, right now. Funny how he didn’t mention that in his announcement. It really does seem as if the country is polarized – but not in the way Joe said, with good people versus MAGA domestic terrorists. Believe it or not, we actually can still speak to one another, and find common ground. We do it every day – the alternative is indeed civil war, and we are not there yet.” – Karen Kwiatkowski

In the Biden Administration, Incompetent Cabinet Members Is a Feature, Not a Bug – Jennifer Oliver O’Connell

IRS Hiring Gun-Carrying Agents in all 50 States – “Congressional Democrats and President Biden sent $80 billion in taxpayer funding to the IRS as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRS released a spending outline on April 6 showing the agency is on pace to hire 87,000 IRS employees over the next decade. Not all of them will be “armed only with calculators.” The $80 billion in funding provides no new protections for taxpayers. Combined with the IRS history of firearms mismanagement and lack of respect for due process, this is cause for concern among law abiding Americans:” – John Kartch  – ANOTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT WILL BE ARMED AND DANGEROUS. MEANWHILE THEY WANT YOUR GUNS!!!!

Ron DeSantis is right to fight back against woke capitalism – “Corporate meddling in politics is out of control. Pushback is needed.” – Brendan O’Neill

Yellen Threatens China – “Janet Yellen, the American Treasury Secretary, or Finance Minister, took the US hostility and threat against China to a new level in a speech on April 20 at Johns Hopkins University. In a speech laced with colonialist attitudes and arrogance she talked as if the USA was emperor of the world and China was a rebellious vassal, a speech, despite her rhetoric of seeking ‘constructive” economic ties, that can only destroy any chance of that succeeding. To read her speech is to understand the mafia mind set of the American leadership for she spoke as if she were the lieutenant of a mafia don threatening to break someone’s legs for not obeying his criminal demands.” – Christopher Black

Ukraine Peace deal or Nuclear War? Art of War = Deception – “So the Cartel is becoming yawn bored with Ukraine. Zelenskyy has worn out his welcome. Biden has enough cash and gold to bury every accusation against him and his family. Not to mention the humility in admitting the Cartel is LOSING! The Pharma Cartel got it’s money during CoVid. The Military Industrialists got their money fighting a lost war in Ukraine. And now it is turn for the Building Industry to reap the rewards of ‘reconstruction’.” – Helena Glass

China accuses US of destabilizing Korean peninsula – “Earlier this week, Washington and Seoul agreed on the deployment of nuclear-armed US submarines to the region to deter North Korea” – RT  – INDEED THEY ARE!!!

ECONOMIC NEWS

De-dollarization kicks into high gear – “The US dollar is essential to US global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.” – Pepe Escobar

Warning: the Financial System is About to Lose Its Last Major Prop – “Japan remains the last central bank that is still easing monetary conditions. The Fed is aggressively tightening monetary conditions. So is the European Central Bank as well as the Bank of England. Only the Bank of Japan remains engaged in Quantitative Easing. With inflation coming in hot in Japan, the Bank of Japan will soon be forced to end its money printing. Which means the financial system would lose its last and final source of excess liquidity. Put another way, the great monetary easing from 2020-2023 would completely over. Every major central bank would be tightening. Liquidity would be exiting the system at an even more rapid clip. What do you think this would do to stocks?” – Graham Summers, MBA

Paper Only Looks Good on Paper (VIDEO) – “Many people are concerned about a possible move toward central bank digital currency and we’re starting to see organized pushback on the idea. Mike Maharrey explains, a lot of people are so caught up in taking on CBDC that they’re missing the more fundamental problem with government-issued fiat currency. Paper money isn’t the solution. It is the parent of the problem.” – Michael Maharrey

A Torrent Of Layoffs! Here Are 16 Large Companies That Have Just Announced Mass Terminations – Michael Snyder

Has The Fed Broken First Republic? – “Wall Street Already Knows The Answer. It is not hard to determine what triggered Wall Street’s reaction: the bank’s earnings have plummeted, as have their deposits.” – Peter Nayland Kust

Fed’s Balance Sheet Plunges $171 Billion in Five Weeks since Peak Bank Bailout as QT Continues and Liquidity Support Cools – “First Republic, is this you?” – Wolf Richter

THE STOCK MARKET BLACK HOLE JUST GOT WORSE! FED ADMITS INFLATION IS STILL RISING. (VIDEO) – Gregory Mannarino

Banks that Put Up $30 Billion to “Rescue” First Republic May Have Been Trying to Rescue their Own Exposure to $247 Trillion in Derivatives – Pam Martens and Russ Martens 

Deutsche Bank AG STOCK QUOTE –9.92EUR

SURVIVAL, PREPAREDNESS AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY NEWS

The First Thing You Need To Do During Civil War – “Unlike other major disasters, a civil war is unlikely to occur without any warning. There will be a build-up of tensions and hostilities long before bullets start flying. If we pay attention to what is happening around us, there should be ample time to get our preps and plans in order. However, even if we are well prepared and we have been paying attention to our surroundings, the actual shooting war may take us by surprise. Much like other disasters, there will be definite first steps that we need to take.” – Michael Major

This Is The Best Camouflage For Your Off The Grid House – Abigail Damoah

Get Started With Scratch Cooking – Part 1 – “A question that came up recently in conversation with friends and family, is how in the world can a person provide food for their families without relying on processed foods? – every day of the year, 3x or more a day? There are two major components of my strategy: Bulk food. Batch cooking. Having a full pantry makes scratch cooking possible, so that is why I prioritize it. I rarely go to a grocery store for food once I’m stocked up.” – SaraSue

EMP Proof Batteries For Off-Grid Battery Bank – “Batteries that can survive an EMP. Can a EMP fry or ruin a battery? Certain types, maybe yes. But the most common types of batteries are perfectly safe from the effects of EMP. Yes, EMP proof batteries do exist. Let me explain..” – Ken Jorgustin

Trauma Scenarios And How To Handle Them – Bob Rodgers

Planting potatoes – “Last year, I tried an experiment: planting potatoes in grow bags. It was an unmitigated disaster, but not for the reasons you’d think. Rather, I blame two things: a poor choice of location, and poor soil.” – Rural Revolution

VERSE FOR THE DAY

Psalm 35:17    Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

IMAGE FOR THE DAY ( USED BEFORE )