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Ignoring long-term problems can work for a while, but eventually they catch up with you. Over the years, I have written many articles about alarming long-term trends in our society that desperately needed to be addressed. Of course the vast majority of those long-term trends never got much attention, because our political system tends to reward politicians that focus on short-term issues. As a result, many of the long-term trends that I have written about previously have now gotten to a point where they have started to become very serious short-term problems. In this article, I would like to share...

Inflation may look like a problem that will go away, but is more likely to persist and lead to a crisis in the years ahead, according to a warning from Deutsche Bank economists. In a forecast that is well outside the consensus from policymakers and Wall Street, Deutsche issued a dire warning that focusing on stimulus while dismissing inflation fears will prove to be a mistake if not in the near term then in 2023 and beyond. The analysis especially points the finger at the Federal Reserve and its new framework in which it will tolerate higher inflation for the...

That the era of stability has ended and a new era of increasingly chaotic volatility has begun is not on anyone's radar as a possibility. The standard debate about the future of the economy is: which will we get, high inflation or a deflationary collapse of defaults and asset bubbles popping? The debate goes round and round in widening circles of complexity as analysts delve into every nuance of the debate. A recent conversation with my friend A.T. raised a third possibility few seem to consider: increasingly chaotic volatility will be the new normal, as wild swings between inflation and...

On Thursday, BLM activists took over the Iowa State Capitol Building. If you didn’t hear about it in the national media that is because it wasn’t widely reported.The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement Collective was at the forefront of the protest. The protesters were in the Capitol building demonstrating against “racist and dangerous” bills, We Are Iowa reported.Happening Now: BLM at the Iowa State Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/GnS6EgFmjf— CIA-Simulation Warlord 🇺🇸🦈🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) April 8, 2021The demonstration erupted into chaos when officers arrested an 18-year-old protester for allegedly assaulting a police officer. (Warning: There is a lot of profanity in the following...

U.S. intelligence officials have little comfort to offer a pandemic-weary planet about where the world is heading in the next 20 years. Short answer: It looks pretty bleak. The most certain trends during the next 20 years will be major demographic shifts as global population growth slows and the world rapidly ages. Some developed and emerging economies, including in Europe and East Asia, will grow older faster and face contracting populations, weighing on economic growth. In contrast, some developing countries in Latin America, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa benefit from larger working-age populations, offering opportunities for...

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no longer restricted by the Trump administration, issued an extensive federal public health order late Friday requiring all individuals to wear masks over their mouth and nose on nearly all forms of public transportation and private ride-sharing services—and makes refusal to wear a face-covering a violation of federal law.” CDC—No Longer Constrained By Trump—Issues Order That Makes Not Wearing A Mask On Public Transportation A Federal Crime, Tommy Beer, Forbes, 1/30/21The underlying assumption providing authority to the CDC’s mask requirement is that human life is valuable and must be preserved at all costs....

From a chaotic vaccine roll-out to the fast-spreading variant, here's the latest news about the novel coronavirus in Florida. Nine things to know, as of Jan. 11: 1. Florida reported almost 20,000 COVID-19 cases Jan. 8 and more than 15,000 cases Jan. 9, reports The New York Times. 2. At least 22 cases of the fast-spreading U.K. coronavirus variant have been confirmed in Florida, the CDC said Jan. 8. The agency has reported 60 total cases in the U.S. across eight states. 3. Florida is allowing everyone 65 and older access to the COVID-19 vaccine, a move that has led...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) reacted to the dismissal of his lawsuit against Vice President Pence on Saturday, telling Newsmax that a court's refusal to force Pence to overturn the presidential election results essentially served as a call to Americans to incite violence in the streets. "The bottom line is the court is saying, 'We're not going to touch this. You have no remedy,'" Gohmert told Newsmax. "Essentially, the ruling would be 'You have to go to the streets and be as violent as antifa, BLM,'" he added. Gohmert was referring to protests that at times became violent over the summer...

President-elect Joe Biden has made clear in his staffing plans and public remarks that he intends to return America to many of the foreign policy positions championed by his former boss, President Barack Obama. While American mainstream media has largely cheered this – and glowered at President Donald Trump for defending his achievements by making regression more difficult under Biden – many of America’s allies, and some of its foes, around the world are making moves suggesting they expect a full return to the state of global affairs in 2016. The Obama administration’s foreign policy was defined by the tension...

Minneapolis City Council members who tried unsuccessfully to dismantle the police department in response to George Floyd’s death are voting Wednesday on whether to shrink it, a move that could imperil the entire city budget because the mayor is threatening to use his veto to protect public safety amid soaring crime rates. The plan, which supporters call “Safety for All,” is the latest version of the “defund the police” movement that Minneapolis and other cities have considered since Floyd’s May 25 death ignited mass demonstrations against police brutality and a nationwide reckoning with racism. Eleven of the 13 council members...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is trying to turn America’s free and fair election into a muddled mess of misinformation, specious legal claims and baseless attacks on the underpinnings of the nation’s democracy. The resulting chaos and confusion that has created isn’t the byproduct of Trump’s strategy following his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The chaos and confusion is the strategy. Trump’s blizzard of attacks on the election are allowing him to sow discontent and doubt among his most loyal supporters, leaving many with the false impression that he is the victim of fraudulent voting. That won’t keep Trump in...

Despite some Democrats' high hopes that unity could be achieved once the bad orange man left office, it is clear that the mob is insatiable. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised unity in a speech Saturday night following the corporate media’s projections that he would win the presidential election.“With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation,” Biden said. “It’s time for Americans to unite. And to heal.”While the former vice president mounted the stage on the East Coast to declare his victory and pledge to “work...

The US presidential election has illustrated more graphically than ever before that we are living beneath an erupting civilisational volcano. The flaming cultural lava is spreading well beyond America. We have to wonder whether we are now watching the steady asphyxiation in the west of both liberalism and democracy. Nowhere is waiting with greater apprehension for the eventual outcome of the election than Israel. If President Donald Trump is finally edged out, the recent startling prospects for peace in the Middle East may well be extinguished by the hideous prospect of a terrible war. Those who most threaten the Jewish...

INSANE: Man calmly plays a piano as chaotic anti-lockdown demonstrations unfold around him in #Barcelona, Spain. #OnlyIn2020 https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1323026903956103173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1323026903956103173%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4572609%2Fpg1    

It’s becoming increasingly clear to even mainstream media outlets that things are unlikely to return to “normal” after the 2020 election. No matter who wins, it is likely the losing side will regard the winning side as having obtained its win using dirty tricks, foreign meddling, or through relentless propaganda offered up by a heavily biased and one-sided news media. And if about half the country regards the winning president as illegitimate, where does one go from there?

In the immensely critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, approximately 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. The situation perplexed many voters, but officials say there is an explanation for the confusion. ProPublica and the Philadelphia Inquirer co-published a report on Friday discovering that 372,000 mail-in ballots were rejected. Overall, one out of every five requests for mail-in ballots were rejected, according to the report. However, 90% of those mail-in ballots, about 336,000, were denied as duplicates. The reason for the confusion is because people may have previously and unknowingly already requested a mail-in ballot for the November election. Many Pennsylvanians who voted...

There’s less than a month until Election Day. Once the votes are in, the die will be cast for the next four years, perhaps longer. Trump or Biden? The difference could not be more clear, and the stakes could not be higher for you and your investments. Again, this is the most consequential election of our lifetime. If that sounds like an overstatement, it’s not. If Trump wins, he may actually be able to finish his task of cleaning out Deep State actors, reducing regulation and taxes, securing U.S. energy independence, facilitating peace in the Middle East and finally bringing...

Options traders who specialize in hedging against risk get it. According to a recent report from FoxBusiness, “the options markets are signaling the very real possibility that neither President Trump nor Joe Biden will be the clear-cut winner on Election Day, Nov. 3.” Instead of a clear-cut victor there will be chaos. So-called “peaceful” protests. Media outrage. Riots. And the chaos will all be aimed at one goal: changing the outcome of the election, which otherwise the Democrats are sure to lose. How can I say this? Because I’ve been studying the Democrats’ game plan for the past eight years,...

Never before in the history of the world, has mankind witnessed the magnitude of human suffering, the utter social and familial devastation, and genocide of planetary proportions as has been seen by mankind through the actualization of revolutionary Marxist theories. It was during Marxism's first incarnation as Marxist-Trotskyism that the traditional family and Russia's Orthodox Christian church, in addition to all of Russia's other Christian churches, were brutally shattered and destroyed and priests crucified on church gates and sadistically murdered in other ways. Because the family and Christianity were the bedrock of Orthodox Russia, both had to be completely destroyed...

A group of “bipartisan” neoconservative Republicans and establishment Democrats have been “simulating” multiple catastrophic scenarios for the 2020 election, including a simulation where a clear victory by the incumbent provokes “unprecedented” measures, which the Biden campaign could take to foil a new Trump inauguration. A group of Democratic Party insiders and former Obama and Clinton era officials as well as a cadre of “Never Trump” neoconservative Republicans have spent the past few months conducting simulations and “war games” regarding different 2020 election “doomsday” scenarios. Per several media reports on the group, called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), they justify these...