Friday, January 24, 2025

How Things Fall Apart

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    by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:

    That’s how things fall apart: insiders know but keep their mouths shut, outsiders are clueless, and the decay that started slowly gathers momentum as the last of the experienced and competent workforce burns out, quits or retires.

    Outsiders are shocked when things fall apart. Insiders are amazed the duct-tape held this long. The erosion of critical skills and institutional knowledge is invisible to outsiders, while everyone inside who saw the unstoppable decay either left or burned out.

    Those who remain are the ambitious who lack the experience to reverse the decline and the self-awareness to realize they’re way over their head. They’re ambitious enough to want the managerial title and power but don’t have the necessary experience and competence to lead a brutally difficult and painful turnaround.

    The De-Population Bomb

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      from 21st Century Wire:

      Back in 1970, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published a famous book, The Population Bomb, in which he described a disastrous future for humanity: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”  Of course, that alarmist prediction turned out to be very wrong, and in this interview American scholar Nicholas Eberstadt reveals how the United States is in fact heading toward the opposite problem: not enough people. For decades now, many countries have been unable to sustain a population replacement birth rate, including in Western Europe, South Korea, Japan, and, most ominously, China. The societal and social impacts of this phenomenon are vast. Host Peter Robinson discusses those with Eberstadt as well as some strategies to avoid them. Watch:

      Democrats wage ‘holy war’ on Christian America

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        from WND:

        New report documents radical growth of bizarre leftist cults, from Climate to Wokeness to Gender

        The “Climate Change Cult.” The “Anti-Racism Cult.” The “Cult of Wokeness.” The “LGBTQ Cult” and its predatory offspring targeting America’s children, the “Transgender Cult.” The “Cult of Abortion.” The “COVID Cult.” The “Cult of Globalism.” “TikTok Cults.” Every month the list grows.

        To right-thinking Americans attempting to make sense of a nation seemingly gone mad, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the deranged – and often demonic – leftwing political and cultural movements currently capturing the minds of millions of Americans are nothing short of full-fledged cults.

        Military Declare Bolsonaro ‘True President of Brazil’ and Begin Executing Corrupt Lula Officials

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          from The People’s Voice:

          TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/

          Man Up: Former Navy SEAL Detransitions, Speaks Out Against Transing Kids

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            by Kevin Downey Jr, PJ Media:

            Former SEAL Team 6 member Chris “Kristen” Beck gets his man card back in time for Christmas.

            “Everything you’ve seen on CNN with my face on it, don’t believe it,” Beck declares in a video interview with Robby Starbuck.

            Elon Musk Triggers Deep State Operative With ‘Prosecute Fauci’ Tweet

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              by Steve Watson, Summit News:

              Promises that Twitter files on COVID information suppression are “coming bigtime”

              Amid his ongoing publishing of details of Twitter 1.0’s vast censorship program and intimate relationship with Biden government intelligence officials, Elon Musk further triggered leftists and one notorious deep state operative with a five word tweet.

              Former CNN Producer Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Charges

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                by Margaret Flavin, The Gateway Pundit:

                A former producer for CNN, who worked for the network for almost eight years, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to charges involving a 9-year-old girl.

                AP reports:

                A former CNN television producer pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to using interstate commerce to entice and coerce a 9-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity at his Vermont ski house.

                Horrific Finding In New Poll Of Vaxxed: 7% “MAJOR Side Effects”; Is CDC LYING About Uptake? & MORE

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                  from Tim Truth:

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                  Fyodor Lukyanov: How can we explain Angela Merkel’s bombshell revelations about the Ukraine peace deal?

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                    from RT:

                    Long the dominant politician in Western Europe, the ex-CDU leader may be taking some artistic license to suit the prevailing mood of today

                    Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s remarks in an interview with the newspaper Die Zeit have caused a stir among commentators: “The 2014 Minsk agreements were an attempt to give Ukraine time,” she admitted. “And it used that time to become stronger, as you can see today. Ukraine of 2014/2015 is not the Ukraine of today.”

                    A Hair Trigger on Endgame

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                      by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

                      Dear Readers:  The insouciance of Washington and its European puppets toward the dangerous situation they are provoking with Russia is frightening.  The Western world is now led by people who have made it clear that they will risk nuclear war in their pursuit of American hegemony.  Evil has clearly triumphed in the Western world.

                      We are now on the brink of a nuclear holocaust.  One false warning of nuclear attack, believed to be true, could cause Russia to launch a full-scale nuclear attack against the US and Europe.

                      The Precious Metals Sector May Have Started A Sustainable Bull Cycle

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                        by Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:

                        I wrote the following commentary for Kinesis Money.  A portion of it was derived from analysis I presented to subscribers of the Mining Stock Journal a couple weeks ago. You can learn more about this newsletter here: MSJ information

                        It’s likely that the next cyclical, sustainable move higher in the precious metals sector has begun. The silver chart to illustrate why I think this may be the case with gold and silver:

                        Musk Disbands Twitter ‘Trust & Safety’ Council After Inaction On Child Porn

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                          from ZeroHedge:

                          Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety council after new owner Elon Musk criticized the group over a longstanding lack of action to rid the platform of child sexual abuse material.

                          “As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are reevaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this,” read an email to the council’s members.

                          DYSTOPIA RISING

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                            from TheCrowhouse:

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                            Twitter Kept Prominent Covid Critics on Secret ‘Blacklist’ to Keep Americans from Getting Second Opinions

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                              by Kyle Becker, Becker News:

                              Twitter kept secret “blacklists” that included a doctor at Stanford and several prominent conservative voices that suppressed their ability to be found or heard on the social media platform, according to journalist Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press and former Wall Street Journal and New York Times columnist, who launched the second chapter in Elon Musk’s so-called “Twitter Files” Thursday evening.