Saturday, June 11, 2022
THE GREATEST GLOBAL MEDICAL GASLIGHTING PSYOP OF ALL TIME !
*SADS = Sudden Adult Death Syndrome State of the Nation Virtually everyone working within the Health Freedom Movement and/or various Anti-Vaccine groups knows what SIDS really is. Yes, SIDS stands for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but that’s just a fancy medical term for infant death by vaccine.
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'Unsafe': Twitter flags peer-reviewed CDC study that found plunging vaccine efficacy
Social media company leaves surgeon general's disputed claims from another CDC study intact. Doctors accuse feds of promoting misinformation, "scare-mongering."
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Prepare yourself: ‘The U.S. housing market is at the beginning stages of the most significant contraction in activity since 2006’
The housing sector is in the midst of the biggest slowdown in over a decade, one economist says. But don’t expect prices to fall yet either The U.S. housing sector is in the midst of the biggest slowdown in over a decade, one economist says.
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Consumer Sentiment Sinks to Its Lowest Level ON RECORD Since the Report was First Introduced in the 1970s Plunging 8.2 Points in May to a New All-Time Low
The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumer Sentiment sank to its lost level on record since the numbers were first reported in the 1970s.
The latest number slumped to 50.2 as inflation hit record highs and gas prices continue to soar into unchartered territory.
June’s number of 50.2, announced on Friday, was much lower than the 58.1 that was expected.
Throughout 2019 the average number as around 96.0.
The number was down 14% since May.
Americans are not fooled by the empty rhetoric of the Biden regime and their lapdogs in the media.
Americans understand there are dark days ahead thanks to the foolish policies of an illegitimate regime.
AOL.com reported:
Consumer sentiment sank to its worst level on record in early June as the rising cost of food, gas, and other essentials weighed on American consumers.
The University of Michigan’s closely watched Surveys of Consumers consumer sentiment index slumped to 50.2 in the preliminary June survey, marking the lowest level recorded by the survey, which dates back to the mid-’70s.
Friday’s reading marked a drop from May’s already-depressed level of 58.4, and missed estimates for a print of 58.1, according to Bloomberg data. Throughout 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the economy into recession, the sentiment index had averaged around 96.0.
“Consumer sentiment declined by 14% from May, continuing a downward trend over the last year and reaching its lowest recorded value, comparable to the trough reached in the middle of the 1980 recession,” Joanne Hsu, director of the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers, said in a statement.
Consumers’ assessments of their own personal financial situations deteriorated sharply and contributed heavily to the overall drop in the index, Hsu noted. Nearly half (46%) of consumers attributed these worsening views to inflation, up from 38% who did so in May.
More from Charles Payne.
Watch how Harris has to keep holding on to her seat as Charles tells her what the awful truth is. – Charles Payne on 40-Year Inflation High: Biden Admin, Federal Reserve ‘Created a Monster’ pic.twitter.com/LAHwvzeLaA
— Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index (@alexdatig) June 10, 2022
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New Zealand indigenous family under house arrest for 11 months for not taking COVID jab
(LIFESITE NEWS) – New Zealand has long boasted that its relationship with its indigenous population is one of the more enlightened. Not anymore. The brutal imposition of house arrest on residents of the Pacific island of Nukunonu because they have not agreed to be vaccinated has revealed that the New Zealand government is willing to ignore basic citizen rights.
A letter late last year from the Office of Council of Nukunonu to the unvaccinated family revealed that extreme pressure was put on them to comply. It set deadlines and saying they are “sad” the family has not complied. It said: “You will remain on house arrest with your wife … and your son … for a further six months until you reconsider your decision. Your daughter … will also be on house arrest starting tonight at 10 pm.”
The family has now been under house arrest for 11 months. Non-complying residents on another atoll, Atafu, were allowed out several weeks ago, but they are not permitted to attend gatherings or meetings. There are no instances of Covid-19 on either atoll.
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Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is the new name for vaccine deaths in the medical establishment's play-pretend reality
(Natural News) In an attempt to explain away the rash of deaths occurring in otherwise healthy-seeming adults who got “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the medical establishment has coined a new term called “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome,” or SADS, that it is pretending appeared out of nowhere with no explanation. Much like Sudden Infant... |
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Markets Haven’t Had a Downturn Like This in a Century
Even the stock market is down under Joe Biden. For the past 8 years, the stock market shot up, but under Biden, it not only didn’t gain anything, it lost. It is a dramatic loss, one that includes a nine-week losing stretch, which only happened in history nearly a century ago.
Friday, June 10, 2022
MSNBC host Ari Melber panics on live TV over prospect of Twitter "secretly" banning (shadow banning) a specific party or candidate before an election [Video]
If ever there is a video that belongs in the “you can’t make this up” category…it would be the video you are about to watch.
Bill to let 12-Year-Olds Get Vaccine Without Parental Consent Could be Voted on in California Assembly This Week
The bill to allow children as young as age 12 to take the COVID-19 vaccine without parental consent, passed the California State Senate three weeks ago. Senate Bill 866 by Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) may be heard in the Assembly this week.
Alarming increase in deaths in yet another highly vaxxed nation
In Australia, where nearly everyone is vaccinated, the government reported deaths this year were 10% above normal, excluding COVID-19.
The murderers are trying to stop Dr. Michael Yeadon, with fake tweets accusing HIM of murder!
For banning him, AND for refusing to do anything about that fake account—a fount of highly dangerous disinformation—Twitter's board and management must be among those finally held accountable for crimes against humanity. From Dr. Michael Yeadon (on Telegram):
CNN Downplays Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt, Blames ‘Both Sides of Abortion Debate’
A CNN anchor did some damage control on Wednesday after a pro-abortion gunman was arrested outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in the middle of the night.
The Worst Economic Gloom In 50 Years
We haven’t seen anything like this in decades. Energy prices are soaring to unprecedented heights. Food shortages in some parts of the world are starting to become quite severe. Rampant inflation is out of control all over the globe.
COVID vaccines appear to cause abnormally long blood clots, says pathologist
Unusually long blood clots are being found in people who received COVID-19 vaccines, according to Dr. Ryan Cole of Cole Diagnostics in Boise, Idaho. Cole's laboratory receives tissue samples from morticians across the country.
Washington Commanders Fine Defensive Coach Jack Del Rio $100,000 for Calling January 6 Capitol Riot a “Dust Up” Compared to George Floyd Riots
The Washington Commanders NFL team (formerly the Redskins), fined defensive coach Jack Del Rio $100,000 Friday for comments earlier this week in which he called the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot a “dust up” as compared to the nationwide George Floyd riots in late spring and summer of 2020.
Jack Del Rio speaks to reporters Wednesday, screen image via WRC-TV/Twitter.
Del Rio initially commented on the riots in a tweet Monday night on the January 6 Congressional committee, “Would love to understand “the whole story “ about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is ???
#CommonSense”
Would love to understand “the whole story “ about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is ???#CommonSense
— Jack Del Rio (@coachdelrio) June 7, 2022
Del Rio explained his comment during a Commanders press conference on Wednesday:
Oh, if they are (if the players are upset) and, and they want to talk about it, I’d talk about it with anybody, no problem, at any time. But they’re not. I’m just expressing myself, and I think we all as Americans have a right to express ourselves, especially if you’re being respectful. I’m being respectful.
I just asked a simple question. Really, did I, let’s get right down to it, what did I ask? A simple question. Why are we not looking into those things. If we’re going to talk about it, why are we not looking into those things? Cuz it’s kinda hard for me to say. I can realistically look at it, I see the images on the TV: People’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dustup at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re not gonna talk about, we’re going to make that a major deal. I just think it’s kind of two standards and if we apply the same standard and we’re going to be reasonable with each other, let’s have a discussion. That’s all it was. Let’s have a discussion. We’re Americans, let’s talk it through. I’m for, I’m for us, you know, having a great opportunity to have a fulfilled life. Like I said every which way I can when I’m here it’s about love and respect. I love my guys, I respect my guys, but I also love the fact that I’m an American and that means I’m free to express myself and I’m not afraid to do that.
Commanders DC Jack Del Rio on his recent tweet (https://t.co/odv7zr4BOn) at today's media session
"Businesses are being burned down, no problem… and then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down… and we're gonna make that a major deal."@nbcwashington pic.twitter.com/zH39iSqHM8
— NBC4 Sports (@NBC4Sports) June 8, 2022
Del Rio tweeted an apology later on Wednesday:
“I made comments earlier today in referencing the attack that took place on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Referencing that situation as a dust-up was irresponsible and negligent and I am sorry. I stand by my comments condemning violence in communities across the country. I say that while also expressing my support as an American citizen for peaceful protest in our country. I have fully supported all peaceful protests in America. I love, respect, and support all my fellow coaches, players, and staff that I work with and respect their views and opinions.”
— Jack Del Rio (@coachdelrio) June 8, 2022
Commanders statement by head coach Ron Rivera:
This morning I met with Coach Del Rio to express how disappointed I am in his comments on Wednesday. His comments do not reflect the organization’s views and are extremely hurtful to our great community in the DMV,” Rivera said. “As we saw last night in the (Congress) hearings, what happened on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an act of domestic terrorism. A group of citizens attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair election, and as a result, lives were lost and the Capitol building was damaged. Coach Del Rio did apologize for his comments on Wednesday and he understands the distinction between the events of that dark day and peaceful protests, which are a hallmark of our democracy. He does have the right to voice his opinion as a citizen of the United States and it most certainly is his constitutional right to do so. However, words have consequences and his words hurt a lot of people in our community. I want to make it clear that our organization will not tolerate any equivalency between those who demanded justice in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the actions of those on Jan. 6 who sought to topple our government.
After reflecting on the situation and circumstances, I have decided to fine Coach Del Rio $100,000, which the team will donate to the United State Capitol Police Memorial Fund. I feel strongly that after our conversation this morning, he will have a greater understanding for the impact of his language and the values that our team stands for.
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) June 10, 2022
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Monkeypox is a coverup for damage done to Immune System by COVID Vaccination resulting in Shingles, Autoimmune Blistering Disease & Herpes Infection
Do you not find it curious how in the space of 50 years, monkeypox has never really gotten off the ground outside of a couple of countries in Africa, but then within two years of the alleged emergence of Covid-19, monkeypox is suddenly in every Western nation and being hyped up by public health auth
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The Loss of Trust Is Well Earned
Society is broken at many levels, and the economy too. We face a mental health crisis among young people following two years of unprecedented educational and social disruption.
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US Admits to 46 Biolabs In Ukraine: ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Proved Right Yet Again
The US government has operated 46 biolabs in Urkaine since the early 2000s, according to a Pentagon statement released on Thursday which claims the biolabs are involved in a US project to rid the world [...]
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
"The Demand For Random Crap Suddenly Vanished, Taking Everyone By Surprise"
"The Demand For Random Crap Suddenly Vanished, Taking Everyone By Surprise"
By Rachel Premack of FreightWaves
At the beginning of 2022, things were economically pretty peachy. Too peachy, one could argue: People were buying so much stuff that our ports and terminals could barely handle the massive import volume. Companies were desperate for someone, anyone, to come work for them. And movie theaters, offices, planes and other locales many eschewed during the pandemic were poised to bounce back; the omicron wave appeared mild compared to previous bouts of the coronavirus.
The vibes were good. Now, the vibes are completely terrible.
More and more spooky recession signs are cropping up seemingly every day, ranging from cooling housing starts to meek GDP growth, all amid the Fed tightening rates. Record-setting inflation – particularly for gas – is only adding to the premonitions, as Vox’s Emily Stewart wrote Wednesday in a piece aptly titled “The bad vibes economy.” But even as things feel bad, many still cast doubt that we’re headed for a recession this year, pointing out persistently low unemployment and the fact that certain indicators, while not as strong as the beginning of this year, are still unusually healthy.
No one is shocked that what goes up must go down. What’s shocking us all is how quickly the situation changed.
Glum transportation indicators confirm the bad vibes
A downturn, if not a full-on recession, is clear in the transportation world. While the rest of the economy debates whether things are that bad, it’s been clear for months to logistics providers that the situation has worsened — and the velocity of that change is still stunning.
The cost to move a container from Asia to a major port in North America or Europe has sunk by 23% since the beginning of this year, according to maritime research firm Drewry. Spot rates have plummeted even faster; marketplace Freightos said rates from China to the West Coast are down 38% month-over-month. FreightWaves forecast this week that ocean shipping volumes will “drop off a cliff” by this summer, based on slumping bookings out of China.
Spot van rates in trucking are down 31% since the beginning of this year, with some truck drivers reporting that rising diesel and plummeting rates have already harmed their business.
Even our mighty railroads are reporting a 3% year-to-date decline in volumes across the board, with only carloads of coal, chemicals and “stone, sand and gravel” (aka, frac sand) increasing.
The pullback in transports has been quicker and swifter than anyone imagined. In the ocean world, carriers have deployed more vessels than ever before, according to research firm Sea-Intelligence. In March, Sea-Intelligence forecast carriers to increase their capacity following Chinese New Year by 20% over 2019 levels. Asia-East Coast services were forecast to grow an eye-popping 40%.
And in trucking, small carriers flooded the market. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of trucks available to haul a load is up 10%.
Transporters built up record capacity to move loads that are suddenly shrinking. Even if volumes merely settled to pre-pandemic marks, rather than collapsing to a 2008-like recessionary volume, carriers would still be in trouble.
And this isn’t a trend that’s exclusive to transportation.
Retailers are a little embarrassed right now
Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot, Best Buy and most every other retailer are having their own mismatch of supply and demand. They stocked up too much this past year. Now they’re struggling with something called “inventory bloat.” It is even more painful than regular bloating, I imagine, if you are a shareholder in a large retail firm.
While we were buying more and more crap, seemingly without any regard for our dwindling savings, our favorite retailers were doing anything to get more product in.
At some point this year, though, the thirst for buying stuff finally quenched. Some of us got spooked by inflation, others got hit by a hefty tax bill and still others decided to spend their apparently boundless cash on trips abroad and fine dining. Or some weird combination of the three.
The retailers weren’t aware that we were all going to stop ravenously buying this quarter, apparently. They quietly kept amassing their own inventories, many of which were still depleted from 2020 and 2021. And concern over another black swan after years of oddities – trade wars, the pandemic and so on – probably drove many transportation managers to keep ordering stuff. Just in case.
Retailers realized this spring that they built up too much. Amazon said in an April call to investors that it had to scale back after doubling its warehouse footprint. Bloomberg reported weeks later that the mega-retailer was quietly trying to end or sublease at least 10 million square feet of warehouse space. It was a stunning about-face for the company that many investors believed had not only endless growth but an unmatchable logistics machine.
It’s not just warehouse space that Amazon loaded up on – it’s the stuff in the warehouses. According to federal filings concerning the first three months of 2022, the value of Amazon’s total inventories increased 47% compared to the same period last year. But its North America net sales only popped 8%.
Amazon was hardly alone in its uncomfortable first-quarter report. Walmart’s inventory jumped 32% from the previous year, compared to a 4% increase in sales. Best Buy’s inventories increased 9%, while sales declined by 8%.
Target really wants you to buy a bunch of televisions and lawn chairs
America’s top retailers messed up – particularly the ones that focus on durable goods rather than groceries. Most of them released their earnings reports last month, saw shares take a beating and moved on.
Target followed that at first. Its earnings report on May 18 fell short of investor expectations, with an anticipated profit margin of 5.3%. Over-the-top inventories of kitchen appliances and electronics were the top culprit. Its stock sank by 25%.
Then, the mega-retailer did something no one was expecting. On Tuesday, Target told investors it anticipated a profit margin more around 2%. It would slash prices on certain goods and cancel incoming orders. It’s highly unusual for a company to slash its profit expectations within weeks of its earnings report.
Target said in its Tuesday press release that the profit slash comes from a need to “right-size” inventories. People aren’t buying items like televisions, outdoor furniture and kitchen appliances like they were last year. Those are some of the delicate, bulky items Target paid dearly to bring over from Asia in 2021, amid record-high shipping rates.
It’s all leading to what Forbes’ Madeline Halpert called “markdown mania,” and not just at Target. Gap is hawking $60 leggings for just $12. Target is selling televisions for 25% off and patio sets at a 52% markdown. In total, shares in consumer staples stocks have tumbled by about 9% from mid-April highs, while consumer discretionary shares are down by about 20% over the same period.
Few of us in the logistics world were surprised. After all, if trucks and ships are moving less stuff, it’s a sign that consumers aren’t buying as much and that manufacturers have curtailed their output.
Sometimes it can be hard for us who toil in logistics to get the attention of lofty economists and traders. Even though I write about the companies that move everything we eat, wear, drink and most any other verb you could think of, I’m still told that I cover a niche industry. The ongoing downturn in trucking seems like it would only affect truckers – never mind the fact that a trucking recession has preceded nearly every recession since the 1970s, per research from freight brokerage Convoy.
The demand for random crap suddenly vanished, taking everyone by surprise
As my colleague Mark Solomon wrote last month on this “inventory bloat,” it’s challenging to forecast demand – even if you’re one of the biggest retailers in the world. We can return to that key metric of inventories-to-sales ratios, which, conveniently, the federal government tracks.
We generally don’t like an inventories-to-sales ratio that’s too high – it indicates that people don’t have the cash to buy stuff. But if it’s too low, like it was through much of 2020 and 2021, it means that there isn’t any stuff to buy. See: The “everything shortage” that dominated headlines last year.
As you can see, the inventories-to-sales ratio is still very low, even if it is creeping up from the nadir of last year. That gives credence to some who argue that a recession isn’t in the cards for this year and could explain why the National Retail Federation declared on Wednesday that it expected port volume to roughly match the crazy numbers seen in 2021. (FreightWaves’ own research, which JPMorgan analysts lent credence to in a Wednesday note to investors, counters that.)
The ratio is more marked when you look at the major consumer goods, as Solomon reported (emphasis mine):
Furniture, home furnishings and appliances, building materials and garden equipment, and a category known as “other general merchandise,” which includes Walmart and Target, among others, reported higher inventory-to-sales ratios, according to government data analyzed by Michigan State.
For the latter sectors, the change has happened fast, according to Jason Miller, logistics professor at MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business. As of November, inventory-to-sales ratios were at pre-COVID levels, Miller said. They have since exploded upward.
To end, I’d like to emphasize that the vibes are abruptly off and no one really knows what’s happening. My colleagues who went to the Gartner supply chain conference in Florida this week found that executives were confused and not feeling very zesty. Transportation managers canceled orders in early 2020 predicting a recession, then found their hastiness left shelves empty and consumers furious. Now that they’ve built back up, customers aren’t buying anymore and their balance sheets are destroyed.
The whiplash is baffling.
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The NYT Acknowledges the CIA’s Big Lie for Gina Haspel
The New York Times has finally acknowledged Gina Haspel’s direct involvement in the Central Intelligence Agency’s policy of torture and abuse.
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THE MOST DANGEROUS MOVE YET BY THE mRNA VACCINATORS
On Wednesday morning Moderna released supposedly positive data from a trial of its Omicron-specific booster mRNA shot. Do NOT be fooled by the company’s spin on the data – a claim credulous reporters are gladly abetting.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
NC teachers quitting, citing not enough pay, too much stress, unmotivated students
Raleigh, N.C. — Two and a half years of teaching was enough for Gabe DeCaro. He loved tutoring when he was younger and thought he wanted to be a teacher.
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(WATCH) Steve Kirsch Says Whistleblower Revealed Never-Before-Seen All-Cause Mortality Medicare Data After COVID-19 Jab Rollout
Reiner Fuellmich interviewed tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch on Session 107: “Cancel Unculture” of the Corona Investigative Committee. Kirsch said the government isn’t showing us the most reliable data they have after the COVID-19 jab rollout.
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A Massive Spike in Disability is Most Likely Due to a Wave of Vaccine Injuries
Note: When this article was originally written, I thought the dataset was referring to individuals on SSI disability, not individuals who met a different criteria of being disabled.
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New Study finds Covid Vaccination can cause Children to suffer Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease; & Pfizer and the FDA knew it would happen
A new study conducted by several doctors on behalf of the University of Colorado has found that Covid-19 vaccination can cause children to suffer Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease (V-AED), and further analysis of the confidential Pfizer documents forcibly published by court order reveals both Pfiz
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Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled by Exploiting "Insurrection" Fears. Congress's 1/6 Committee May Be the Worst Abuse Yet.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) arrive for the House Select Committee hearing investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC.
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The Very Special Operation
The special operation in Ukraine has brought the confrontation between Russia and Western countries, led by the United States, to a climax. Battles are going on not only in the vast spaces of the Ukraine, but also in the economic, political and cultural spheres.
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'Our nest in the razor wire': How Julian Assange, his wife Stella and their children seek moments of joy within prison walls
My Australian husband Julian Assange is fighting for his life from within the confines of a three-by-two-metre cell in Britain’s harshest prison, Belmarsh. The US has accused him of espionage as a result of his work with WikiLeaks in 2010-2011 and wants to extradite him to face court.
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TWO New Studies Show Link Between Incurable, Degenerative Brain Disease and the Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine
Two new clinical studies – one peer-reviewed by researchers in Turkey, and one pre-print by researchers in France – have begun to establish an alarming link between an incurable, degenerative brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and the experimental Covid-19 vaccine.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Kim Dotcom Breaks Down the True Scale of US Government Debt
New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make.
Kim explains that US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Government can only raise the money it needs by printing more of it, which means that hyperinflation is guaranteed.
He says this has been going on for decades and there’s no way to fix it and that the US got away with this for so long, because US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. When the US Government prints trillions, it is thereby robbing Americans and the entire world in what he calls the biggest theft in history.
He says the total US debt is at $90 trillion, which together with $169 trillion in US unfunded liabilities totals $259 trillion, which is $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US Taxpayer.
Now, the value of all US assets combined: every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
Our total debt, $259 trillion minus our total net worth, $193 trillion equals negative $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in and he asks, “Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it? A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?”
He notes how the world has changed so much in recent years and how nothing seems to make sense anymore. He sees the blatant corruption and the obvious gaslighting propaganda media and the erosion of our rights but he doesn’t know where it’s all going and he finishes the thread asking, “What’s the end game?”
As Harrison Smith from the American Journal says, “It’s a pyramid scheme. The people perpetrating the pyramid scheme are in charge of everything…they’re going to sacrifice humanity in order to maintain their system…
“The world economy is being collapsed, the food supply system is being destroyed, the energy that we rely on to maintain civilization is being curtailed and eliminated and we’ll be forced into the Great Reset where we will own nothing.”
Former BlackRock stockpicker, Ed Dowd believes that the entire COVID sham was created as a cover for the financial collapse and that new lockdowns are coming, to try mitigate the inevitable violence and chaos that we can expect to be witnessing in the streets.
We also saw how Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer VP also believes that COVID and the death shot are an elaborate hoax to engineer a collapse of sovereign currencies to bring in the Great Reset and the introduction of programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), for a wholly-controlled population, in which people will not be able to buy food, etc. unless the algorithms permit and the undesirables can basically be starved to death via artificial intelligence.
Kim Dotcom June 5, 2022 Thread
This may be the most important thread I ever make. Big picture stuff about the major global collapse that is coming.
I will try to help you understand why the future is not what we’re hoping for. It’s worse than most can imagine.
Our leaders know.
But what are they planning?The United States did not have a surplus or a balanced budget since 2001. In the last 50 years the US only had 4 years of profit. In fact all the profit the US had would not be enough to pay for 6 months of the current yearly deficit. So how did the US pay for things?
US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Govt can only raise the money it needs by printing it. That causes inflation. It’s like taxing you extra because you pay more for the things you need and all your assets decline in value.
See the US money printing frenzy:
The reason why the US got away with it for so long is because USD is the worlds reserve currency. Nations everywhere hold USD as a secure asset. So when the US Govt prints trillions it’s robbing Americans and the entire world. The biggest theft in history.
The problem is that this has been going for decades and there’s now no way to fix it. The reality is that the US has been bankrupt for some time and what’s coming is a nightmare: Mass poverty and a new system of control. Let me explain why this isn’t just doom and gloom talk.
Total US debt is at $90 trillion. US unfunded liabilities are at $169 trillion. Combined that’s $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US tax payer 
Remember, the only way the US Government can operate now is by printing more money. Which means hyperinflation is inevitable.
The total value of ALL companies listed on the US stock market is $53 trillion. The real value is much lower because the US has been printing trillions to provide interest free loans to investment banks to pump up the stock market. It’s a scam.
Most of the $53 trillion is air.
The value of all US assets combined, every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
That number is also full of air just like the US stock market.
US total debt
$90 trillionUS unfunded liabilities
$169 trillionTotal
$259 trillionMinus all US assets
$193 trillionBalance
– $66 trillionThat’s $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
Do you understand?
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
The US is beyond bankrupt.
This patient is already dead.
This patient is now a zombie.You probably wonder why are things still going? Why didn’t everything collapse yet.
It’s all perception, denial and dependency.
The perception is that the US has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. But in reality the US is broke and can’t afford its army.
The denial is that all nations depend on a strong USD or global markets collapse.
The reason why the US zombie keeps going is because the end of the US is the end of western prosperity and an admission that the current system failed as a model for the world. It doesn’t change the reality. The collapse is inevitable and coming.
What are our leaders planning?
You may have heard about the ‘great reset’ or the ‘new world order’. Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it?
A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?
Without a controlled demolition the world will collapse for all, including the elites. The world has changed so much and nothing seems to make sense anymore, the blatant corruption is out in the open, the obvious propaganda media, the erosion of our rights.
What’s the end game?
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Stop pretending we're the same America: We're not!
By Shari Goodman
America, stop pretending we live in a constitutional republic. We don't! Stop pretending that we still have a representative government. We don't! Stop pretending that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States. He is not! Stop pretending that we have a healthy economy. We don't! Stop pretending we have free speech and a free press. We don't! Stop pretending we are a country of laws. We aren't! Stop pretending we have the once-trusted institutions to protect and serve us. They don't and won't! Stop pretending we can choose our gender. We can't! Stop pretending they are not promoting communism in our schools. They are! Stop pretending they are not sexualizing our kids in the classroom with LGBT promotions. They are! Stop pretending America is a racist country. We're not! Just stop pretending!
Anyone who took the time to watch Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules" saw the data and videos that prove the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden. Those who followed the forensic audits of states such as Arizona and Wisconsin saw the theft by way of ballot harvesting, illegal voting, dead-voter rolls and ballots without a chain of custody. When Joe Biden announced that "we have the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in political history" he was for once telling the truth. Both Nancy Pelosi and George Soros prior to the 2020 election are on record stating the election of President Trump in 2016 was a temporary glitch that would soon be overcome.
Americans benefited from President Trump's policies enacted during his term in office. No inflation, no wars and full employment! Life was good for all Americans, so Democrats had to resort to the politics of personal destruction. They fabricated a false caricature and smeared Trump nightly on corporate-owned media networks with an agenda driven by globalists and Communist China. Our mainstream media and press have become paid-for proxies of the CCP and the globalist cabal whose agenda is a communist one-world government. The implementation of that agenda depended on the removal of Trump from office and the initiation of energy dependency on our adversaries, the destruction of the middle class, an open-border invasion from the Third World, inflation, racial strife and the beginning of global conflicts. The Great Reset is the creation of a new modern feudal system where we serfs will be ruled by an oligarchy of overlords.
The Deep State (those who have worked behind the scene to destroy the United States from within) has taken control of our once-trusted institutions. In today's America, we have medical tyranny where physicians and nurses who don't toe the government's line are fired from their positions and ostracized by their peers. Doctors can no longer prescribe medication without the consent of government.
In Biden's America, those who rallied against his election by trespassing (a misdemeanor) in the halls of Congress are held as political prisoners for nearly two years while the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt, unarmed and non-violent, didn't even warrant an investigation. Furthermore, those who served President Trump are under attack by a criminal Justice Department. Peter Navarro, adviser to President Trump, was recently arrested, shackled, and thrown into jail for not cooperating with the unconstitutional Jan. 6 Committee. Attorney Lyn Wood, among others, is threatened with disbarment for challenging the 2020 election by politicized Justice Department officials who behave as Biden's henchmen.
In 2020, FBI operatives were involved in the attempted kidnapping hoax of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitman, and there are reports FBI operatives were on the ground urging protesters to storm the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. The once-trusted agency is trusted no more.
Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann walked out a free man even when the jury was presented with evidence of his guilt in her campaign's attempt to frame President Trump. An Obama-appointed judge and a jury pool that consisted of D.C. Democratic loyalists engaged in jury nullification. The Supreme Court abdicated its duty when it refused to hear cases brought forth by several states on behalf of Americans whose right to vote was infringed upon during the 2020 election. Jessie Smollett nearly started a race war with his lies of white racism. He was found guilty by a court, but because of his ties to Obama and Kamala Harris, he is a free man. Is justice dead in America?
America has sold large shares of our corporations in finance, the media, real estate, universities, Hollywood, sports, and influence in our halls of Congress to the CCP. Many of our trusted elected officials on both sides of the aisle have monetarily benefited by lobbying in our halls of Congress on behalf of Red China. Kurt Schlichter documents the evidence of those who sold out the United States for personal financial gain in his best seller, "Red Handed." Beijing's sphere of influence extends to corporate media where Americans are subjected to disinformation and propaganda aimed to advance our demise and China's expansion. Their influence now dictates American domestic and foreign policy.
The censorship by Big Tech, the promotion of communist ideology in our public schools and universities, the creeping authoritarianism by the federal government, the loss of parental rights in our public schools where children as young as 5 are taught gender is non-binary, the war on free speech, the persecution of political opponents and the encroachment on property rights is conditioning Americans to accept authoritarianism and setting the stage for a complete communist takeover.
The Biden administration is dismantling the U.S. Constitution and America's sovereignty by deliberately and illegally facilitating a foreign invasion at our southern border. It is estimated that nearly 3 million illegals have crossed our border since Biden took office and that many more are on their way. The rest of the world has emptied its prisons and are shipping murderers and thieves to our shores.
The Second Amendment is the amendment that guarantees all the others – but for the communists, the end justifies the means. With the upcoming mid-terms in sight, will Americans be subjected to increased mass shootings instability, and trauma as a means to gun confiscation? Will they be coming for our guns as they did in Russia, Germany, Communist China and Australia? An illegitimate criminal enterprise is occupying our federal government. Our Second Amendment is now the only thing that stands in the way between a life of tyranny or freedom.
The fate of our nation is within our hands. Will we remain free or become the new serfs? The choice is ours!
Shari Goodman, M.Ed., is a Los Angeles based writer, an activist and educator. Her articles have appeared in American Thinker, The L.A. Times, Israel Today and other publications. She has appeared on the online Jamie Glazov show and as a guest on talk radio.
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4 Really Big Names That Are Warning That Major Economic Disaster Is Ahead
I hope that you are enjoying these beautiful summer weekends while you still can, because it appears that very troubled times are dead ahead. Simultaneously, inflation continues to spiral out of control even as economic activity in the U.S. dramatically slows down.
Kim Dotcom Warns Imminent “Major Global Collapse Is Coming”
In a 14-Tweet thread on Sunday night, Dotcom highlighted the fiscal woes that have plagued the United States for decades. Noqreport.com reports: Below is Dotcom’s thread.
Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: Everyone Maxing Out Their Credit Card Ahead Of The Recession
Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: Everyone Maxing Out Their Credit Card Ahead Of The Recession
While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade economic indicator, the April consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was another shocker especially after last month's stunning surge in credit card debt which saw the biggest increase in revolving credit on record which is why we said that today's G.19 print straight from the Fed would be just as important as Friday's CPI print...
Forget CPI: the week's most important data point is today's monthly consumer credit update. Last month we saw a blowout, record surge in credit card usage as consumers tapped out pic.twitter.com/FoZ5XE4JWI
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 7, 2022
... and sure enough it was, while again confirming what we have been saying for month: any excess savings accumulated by the US middle class are long gone, and in their place Americans have unleashed a credit-card fueled spending spree.
Here are the shocking numbers: in April one month after the jarring March print again came in more than double the $25 billion expected to $52.435 billion, in April consumer credit again exploded to a ridiculous $38.1 billion, again blowing away expectations of a $35 billion increase (and not much lower than last month's downward revised $47.3 billion).
And while non-revolving credit (student and car loans) rose by a relatively pedestrian 21.1 billion (which was still the 6th highest on record)...
... the stunner for the third month in a row was revolving, or credit card debt, which remained shockingly high, rising by the second highest on record at $17.8 billion, and down from only the highest print on record, March's downward revised $25.6 billion (from $31.4 billion)...
... and sending total revolving consumer credit back to new all time highs at just over $1.1 trillion, erasing all the post-covid credit card deleveraging just in time for those credit card APRs to start moving much higher, first slowly and then very fast.
As an aside, and while not at all surprising, both auto and student loans hit a new all time high at the end of the first quarter.
While this unprecedented rush to buy everything on credit at a time when there were no notable Hallmark holidays should not come as much of a surprise, after all we have repeatedly shown that for the middle class any "excess savings" are now gone, long gone with the personal savings rate plunging to the lowest since just before Lehman...
... the fact is that most economists - such as those at Goldman Sachs - had previously anticipated that continued spending of savings by consumers is what will keep the US economy levitating in 2022. Unfortunately, as the consumer credit numbers of the past three months demonstrate all too clearly, any savings that US middle class households may have stored away courtesy of stimmies, are long gone.
The implications are profound: any model that projected that US spending will be fueled by "savings" can now be trashed. And since this is most of them, the consequences are dire as they confirm - once again - that the Fed is tapering, QTing and hiking right into a consumer-driven recession which was not visible until new precisely because of all the credit-card fueled spending, which according to Deutsche Bank will begin in late 2023 and which according to Morgan Stanley can start in as little as 3 months. Today's data suggests that Morgan Stanley is right.
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We must never Forgive or Forget the War against the Unvaccinated
Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, academics, medical professionals and media personalities alike have publicly encouraged hatred and violence and wished painful death upon anyone who didn’t want to be part of the medical experiment
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Pediatrician: Data Is ‘Irrefutable’ — COVID Vaccines Are Dangerous for Kids
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. For the last two years, Dr. Michelle Perro has been in the trenches treating COVID-19 complications, not only from infection but also from the jab, which has been far more problematic and deadly.
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Doctors Sue FDA, Allege Crusade Against Ivermectin ‘Unlawfully Interfered’ With Their Ability to Treat Patients
Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day. It's free. Three physicians are suing the U.S.
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List of 45 Different Murders and Pharma Drugs They Were On
February 13, 2013. One month ago, and only three weeks after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook, two well-known 2nd Amendment activists were found mysteriously murdered on two different rural roads on two different sides of the country. One of them, firearms manufacturer John Noveske, had posted one final warning on his Facebook page. It was a list of all the recent mass shootings, the kids responsible and the Big Pharma drugs they were taking. Within days, he was dead. Here is his list.
Below is John Noveske’s final Facebook post before his body was found on a rural Oregon road last month.
John Noveske’s company is one of the most celebrated rifle manufacturers in America. His firearms are widely considered to be some of the finest pieces of American-made hardware in the industry. In the days and weeks following the horrible tragedy in Newtown, CT and the frenzied call for gun control across the nation, many gun owners began to feel increasingly threatened.
But Noveske, one of the country’s foremost gun experts, had quickly become an expert in something else – Big Pharma drugs and their connection to mass shootings. While America’s corporate-owned news outlets invested hundreds of millions of dollars in broadcast air time to ceaselessly blame firearms for the skyrocketing number of mass killings, Noveske and millions of others noticed something else, something the media outlets funded by Big Pharma refuse to disclose for fear of upsetting their largest advertisers – all the people who carried out the bloody massacres were under the influence of pharmaceutical drugs.
Noveske took the results of his research to Facebook. There, he posted a detailed list of 45 of the most recent mass murders carried out by teenagers, young adults and even some small children. He also documented the exact pharmaceutical drugs each killer was taking at the time. As fate would have it, that would be the last Facebook post John Noveske would ever make. One week later on January 4, 2013, his lifeless body was found on the side of a rural Oregon road.
Here is the list published by John Noveske of mass murderers and the pharmaceutical drugs they were prescribed at the time of the killings. Many gun owners and critics of the pharmaceutical industry believe it wasn’t a dark, winding road that cost Noveske his life. They believe it was the publishing of this list.
The last post John Noveske ever made on his Facebook page before he was killed.
-Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
-Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
-Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
-Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
-Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
-Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
-Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
-Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
-A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand-off at his school.
-Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded.
-A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
-Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
-TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
-Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
-James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
-Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.
-Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California.
-Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
-Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
-Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
-Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
-Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide. But two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
-Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
-Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
-Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.
-Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”).
-Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002
(Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself).
-Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.
-Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.
-Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.
-Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.
-A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.
-Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”
-Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
-Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
-Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.
-Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
-Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.
“The news shouldn’t be left wing or right wing, conservative or liberal. It should be the news. It should be independent” – Mark Wachtler, Whiteout Press founder
Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds:
-What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az?
-What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado?
-What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas, Or?
-What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct?
*Roberts is the only one that I haven’t heard about being on drugs of some kind.
**End post**
This was John Noveske’s final Facebook post. Again, within a week, his lifeless body was found on a rural road. Keep in mind, the above information was compiled by one amateur researcher. The true cost of unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs on American society, and the list of additional unexplained killings, is unquestionably much, much longer.
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Supreme Court declines appeal from couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters
Mark McCloskey said he "wasn't surprised" by the Supreme Court's decision
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Twitter Tumbles As Musk Threatens 'Breach' Of Merger Deal Over Fake Account Disclosure
Twitter Tumbles As Musk Threatens 'Breach' Of Merger Deal Over Fake Account Disclosure
Elon Musk said in an amended 13D filing that he believes Twitter is breaching their merger agreement by not providing information about spam and fake accounts.
Musk said he believes Twitter is “actively resisting and thwarting his information rights” by refusing to disclose the information.
Recall, we had previously highlighted Musk’s ongoing battle with Twitter where, in its last stage in late May, Musk seemed to suggest his buyout offer may be compromised as a result of the number of bots on the platform.
The controversy escalated May after Musk tweeted a Reuters article in which Twitter estimated that fake accounts comprise less than 5% of users, to which Musk said:
"Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users," then added:
"Still committed to acquisition."
The new 13D filing sparked an immediate 7% hammering in TWTR stock before the bell...
Read the fuller letter below: (emphasis ours)
Dear Ms. Gadde:
We are in receipt of correspondence sent on Twitter’s behalf dated June 1, 2022, responding to Mr. Musk’s request for the data and information described in my letters dated May 25, 2022 and May 31, 2022.
Mr. Musk does not agree with the characterizations in Twitter’s June 1 letter. Twitter has, in fact, refused to provide the information that Mr. Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022 to facilitate his evaluation of spam and fake accounts on the company’s platform. Twitter’s latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company’s own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to refusing Mr. Musk’s data requests. Twitter’s effort to characterize it otherwise is merely an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue. Mr. Musk has made it clear that he does not believe the company’s lax testing methodologies are adequate so he must conduct his own analysis. The data he has requested is necessary to do so.As noted, under various terms of the merger agreement, Twitter is required to provide data and information that Mr. Musk requests in connection with the consummation of the transaction. Twitter’s obligations to provide Mr. Musk with information is not, as the company’s June 1 letter suggests, limited to a “very specific purpose: facilitating the closing of the transaction.” To the contrary, Mr. Musk is entitled to seek, and Twitter is obligated to provide, information and data for, inter alia, “any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transaction” (Section 6.4). Twitter must also provide reasonable cooperation in connection with Mr. Musk’s efforts to secure the debt financing necessary to consummate the transaction, including by providing information “reasonably requested” by Mr. Musk (Section 6.11). Mr. Musk’s requests for user data not only satisfies both criteria, but also meets even Twitter’s narrowed interpretation of the merger agreement, as this information is necessary to facilitate the closing of the transaction.
As Twitter’s prospective owner, Mr. Musk is clearly entitled to the requested data to enable him to prepare for transitioning Twitter’s business to his ownership and to facilitate his transaction financing. To do both, he must have a complete and accurate understanding of the very core of Twitter’s business model—its active user base. In any event, Mr. Musk is not required to explain his rationale for requesting the data, nor submit to the new conditions the company has attempted to impose on his contractual right to the requested data. At this point, Mr. Musk believes Twitter is transparently refusing to comply with its obligations under the merger agreement, which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk’s own analysis of that data will uncover.
If Twitter is confident in its publicized spam estimates, Mr. Musk does not understand the company’s reluctance to allow Mr. Musk to independently evaluate those estimates. As noted in our previous correspondence, Mr. Musk will of course comply with the restrictions provided under Section 6.4, including by ensuring that anyone reviewing the data is bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and Mr. Musk will not retain or otherwise use any competitively sensitive information if the transaction is not consummated.
Based on Twitter’s behavior to date, and the company’s latest correspondence in particular, Mr. Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights (and the company’s corresponding obligations) under the merger agreement. This is a clear material breach of Twitter’s obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to terminate the merger agreement.
Juts more negotiation? What is the next step? Twitter sues Musk, in a Washington DC court, and judge rules 'fair value' for Twitter is $500 per share?
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Ghost Shot: Pfizer quietly admits it will never manufacture original FDA approved COVID vaccines
The August 23, 2021 FDA approval of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine was a cause for celebration. Marked as a turning point in the battle against COVID19, the announcement was highly publicized by the Biden Administration with the clear intention to extinguish “vaccine hesitancy” and boost uptake.
Hiding Epstein client list shows Justice Department's selective 'leaking,' Musk says
The Justice Department, which allegedly leaked details of its probe into investigative journalist James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas, is unusually quiet about a far more important investigation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Saturday.
The Course of Empire (paintings)
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833–1836.
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Reporter Responds to Elon Musk’s Call for Media to Expose Epstein’s VIP Clients: ‘They Knew, Many Participated’
A reporter has responded to Elon Musk’s calls for the media to expose child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s VIP client list, warning that “they knew” and “many participated.
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Rapid Cultural Decline and What Comes Next
International Man: Nations in decline often experience cultural degeneracy. We saw that in the Roman Empire and Weimar Germany, for example.
Today, in the US, we see increasing signs of cultural degeneracy in Hollywood, advertisements, academia, science, corporations, politics, and other areas of life.
What is your take?
Doug Casey: There have been a number of major turning points throughout history. Rome in the third century was one of them. It was a period of economic, political, and military chaos, aggravated by the social chaos accompanying the rise of Christianity. These things set the stage for the complete collapse of the old civilization in the West with the barbarian invasions after Adrianople in 378.
The Renaissance changed the nature of life in Western Europe starting in the 15th century, as did the Enlightenment in the 18th century. And, most important, in many ways, the Industrial Revolution overturned the pre-existing economic order starting in the early 19th century.
Whenever the public was in a frenzy about something or other, my friend Herman Kahn (look him up) liked to quip, “There are only two important things that have happened since the dawn of history—and this isn’t one of them.” He was referring to the Agricultural Revolution around 5000 years ago and the Industrial Revolution. It’s good to keep things in perspective…
Of course, there have been plenty of bloody episodes, great discoveries, and breathtaking inventions along the way. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, WW I, WW II, the collapse of the USSR, and the rise of China are among them. But in the great sweep of history, they’re really just footnotes. It bears emphasis, though, that almost everything of any importance that has happened in the last 500 years has been about or because of Western Civilization.
They all had various effects, but none of them really attacked the basis of Western civilization itself. Psychopaths like Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were, even in their heydays, really just jackals barking at a lion.
But then things started changing in the 1960s. The 60s were fun at the time, but from a cultural viewpoint, they turned out to be an overture to the collapse of Western Civ. You may recall the motto of many college students at demonstrations was, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has to go.”
They were yahoos, of course, but it’s actually happening now, 60 years later. Thomas Cole’s superb series of five paintings, “The Course of Empire,” done about 200 years ago, says it all.
The thing to remember is that Western civilization is built on a certain set of values and virtues that have given the world something unique in history. Before the rise of Western Civ, people everywhere in the world survived by piling sticks and stones on top of one another and grubbing for roots and berries, freezing in the winter and starving in the spring, expecting an early and likely violent death.
Western Civ changed the very nature of life. It is, in fact, the only civilization worth talking about. China may have given the world Taoism, martial arts, and General Tso’s Chicken. India developed yoga, and curries are tasty. But on the whole, Ayn Rand was right when she said East minus West equals zero.
We’re now undergoing our own Great Cultural Revolution. It’s much more serious than what the Chinese attempted in the ’60s. Why? Because a whole complex of destructive ideas have now captured the apparatus of most governments, academia, media, entertainment, charities, and large corporations. The public has been both subtlety and overtly indoctrinated for generations. It’s not easy to reverse a trend this large.
But maybe you think I’m being too inflammatory. Perhaps you don’t believe Western civilization in general, and the idea of America in particular, are dying.
Fair enough. Let me give you the dozen things that made Western Civilization and America not only unique but vastly better than any other country or civilization in history. I’ve listed 12 concepts. These things are the essence of Western Civ—and are unique to it. Ask yourself if attitudes towards them haven’t changed radically in recent years. Ask yourself if the trend towards collapse of the West hasn’t accelerated since then.
- Free thought has been replaced by Political Correctness, and it’s discouraged. We’re approaching the stage of Orwellian thought crime.
- Free speech is subject to cancel culture at universities, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and society in general. In totalitarian societies, free speech is cause for imprisonment or worse. We’re headed in that direction.
- Free markets mean the freedom to act. They’re gone as an ideal, replaced by socialism as a goal. Regulation is now considered essential by most people.
- Limited government has been replaced by State control of almost everything.
- Individualism is seen as bad, or at least antisocial. Identity politics is preferred. You’re not an individual so much as a member of a race or a party.
- Rationality is white and therefore racist. Science, logic, and fact are replaced by superstition. Group think is the new secular religion.
- Liberty is seen as a danger. Snowflakes need shelter in safe spaces for fear of being triggered.
- The concept of Progress is dangerous because it leads to inequality, and no one should be left behind.
- Privacy has been replaced by Transparency. God forbid you might have a secret. Everything is monitored. The Chinese Social Credit system is becoming a model.
- Property Rights—Fuhgedaboudit. You’ll own nothing and better be happy. On the bright side, your masters may give you food, housing, education, meds, and a Guaranteed Annual Income—if you’re obedient.
- The classic Rule of Law is gone, replaced by thousands of micro rules. Everything that’s not obligatory is forbidden.
- Industry & enterprise are evil since they lead to “greed,” inequality, and using the planet’s resources.
Statists and collectivists have largely succeeded in corrupting the public’s attitudes towards the twelve things which made the West unique. The trend is accelerating, and trends tend to stay in motion until they reach a crisis. Once they reach a crisis—it’s called a revolution in the case of a country, or a collapse in the case of a civilization—things usually get even worse, at least for a while.
There’s much more to be said about the 12 attitudes and institutions that I’ve listed. But it’s not just a matter of academic or philosophic interest because when these foundations of civilization disappear, the good things they brought us will also wash away. They’re essential to everything—art, music, literature, science, and technology. They’re the basis of our high standard of living.
Other civilizations, like the Japanese and Chinese, have based their progress on adopting these Western attitudes and principles. But just as they’ve been accused of copying machines and technologies, it’s arguable they’ve only mimicked some of these values. Africa, most of Asia, and the Third World generally haven’t even done that. I doubt these 12 things are in the cultural DNA anywhere outside of the West—and they’re being deleted from the West.
If you’re looking for a template of what could happen in the US and all over the world in this coming decade, you might look at some news articles on Sri Lanka.
My guess is that for years to come, we’re going to see a serious devolution of civilization everywhere. The world has become top-heavy with the fruits of civilization. Hundreds of millions rely on those fruits, with no clue about how they came about. Meanwhile, the roots of the tree that produced them are rotting.
As a result, we could be looking at not just a historic financial meltdown, accompanied by a really serious economic upheaval, with wars and serious shortages. But an overthrow of traditional cultural norms, social chaos, and political totalitarianism. Of course, mankind has survived all that for at least five millennia so far. And I suppose we’ll handle this as well. There will just be more unpleasantness and inconveniences than usual in the decade to come….
Reprinted with permission from International Man.
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Health chief: Monkeypox driven by gay bars, saunas, dating apps
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Most cases of monkeypox have been in gay and bisexual men, the United Kingdom's Health Security Agency announced Friday.
The government released a report Thursday night stating, "Investigations to date have identified links to gay bars, saunas and the use of dating apps in the UK and abroad."
A total of 207 cases of monkeypox have been identified in the U.K., DailyMail.com reported. Worldwide, 617 cases have been confirmed.
Despite the U.K. report and the CDC's determination that monkeypox does not spread easily through the air like COVID-19, DailyMail.com said: "Scientists are still unsure what is driving the current outbreak, now spotted in two dozen countries, given the virus is normally confined to people returning from Africa."
The British news site reported last week that the world's biggest gay dating app, Grindr, alerted users of monkeypox symptoms.
African nations have seen periodic monkeypox outbreaks since the virus was first discovered in humans in 1970.
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Professor Kevin Fenton, London regional director for public health said monkeypox "can affect anyone but we know that many of the most recent diagnoses are in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, many of whom live in, or have links to London."
"We're reminding everyone of the symptoms of monkeypox, and especially gay and bisexual men in particular, to be especially aware and seek advice immediately by calling NHS 111 or their local sexual health clinic if they have concerns," he said.
Fenton added: "As with any new disease outbreak, the risk of stigma and uncertainty is great."
'This is why we're working side by side with the NHS, sexual health, voluntary and community sector organizations in London to share accurate information about monkeypox especially to people and groups at increased risk through representative voices."
A former WHO official said last month the outbreak of monkeypox in a dozen Western nations is a "random event" that appears to have been the result of transmission among homosexual and bisexual men at two raves held in Spain and Belgium.
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Dr. David Heymann, the former head of the WHO's emergencies department, told the Associated Press it "looks like sexual contact has now amplified" the transmission of monkeypox.
And the WHO's top official in Europe, Hans Kluge, said Friday the cases of monkeypox "currently being detected are among those engaging in sexual activity."
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