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Using the Coronavirus as The Great Reset?

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Is the coronavirus cure worse than the virus itself? After almost an entire year of masks, social distancing, lockdowns, unemployment and hits to the economy, it doesn’t SEEM to really be working to return us to normalcy. Also, can we believe the government when it comes to the new vaccine, or do we believe conspiracy-theorist […]


China Set to Bail Out Iraq with Multibillion-Dollar Oil Deal

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Iraq is poised to sign a multibillion-dollar contract with China ZhenHua Oil Co., a bailout from Beijing for the cash-strapped government which will receive money upfront in exchange for long-term oil supplies. The deal is the latest example of China, via state-controlled trading companies and banks, lending to struggling oil producers such as Angola, Venezuela […]


China Is Collecting DNA to Wipe Out Some Racial Groups, Alleges Columnist Gordon Chang

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Chinas COVID-19 Vaccine Launch by 2020 end? Many countries around the world see China not as a friend but as a threat, due to its internal and international actions. When the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world, many people speculated that it’s a new bioweapon developed by the Chinese authorities. Now, another claim has emerged that […]


Is OPEC finally beginning to unravel?

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Another month, another OPEC “crisis.” It’s the usual problem: The cartel, meeting in Vienna this week, can’t agree on how to balance production with price. The Saudi-led oil exporters, boosted by non-OPEC countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan, can’t control price as such so have to imagine how to agree on output levels that may, […]


Debt slavery & the great reset

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In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the online conversations of a money printer and how financialization has turned Saudi Aramco into a money-losing operation. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Saifedean Ammous about his new book, ‘The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization’. They […]


This Was All Predicted 10 Years Ago

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In 2010, the scientific journal Nature published a collection of opinions looking ahead 10 years, i.e., where we are right now. Nature then published a short response from zoologist Peter Turchin in its February 2010 issue. Quantitative historical analysis reveals that complex human societies are affected by recurrent — and predictable — waves of political instability (P. Turchin and S. A. Nefedov […]


“Great Reset” Equals Greater Tragedies For the People

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Much has been said in recent months about the so-called “Great Reset,” also known as “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Thierry Malleret, founder of the Monthly Barometer, have even co-authored a 2020 book titled “COVID-19: The Great Reset.” Prince Charles of the U.K. […]


Pandemic, ‘Great Reset’ and resistance

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According to the latest International Labor Organization reports, as job losses escalate due to lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of losing livelihoods, access to food and the ability to survive. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has stated, “With some 2.6 billion people around […]


Sick of Winning

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In this episode we look at the aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential elections, leading up to the so-called “Million MAGA March” in Washington, DC. We also feature an interview with Tom Nomad, author of The Masters Tools: Warfare & Insurgent Possibility


Iran points finger at Israel after atomic expert killed, vows revenge

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Iranian officials on Friday moved quickly to vow revenge for the murder of one of the country’s top nuclear experts and suggested Israel was involved in ambushing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s car near Tehran. The murder comes 11 months after the U.S. assassinated top Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani and threatens to ramp up tensions in the […]


The Great Reset: If Only It Were Just a Conspiracy

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Writing for The Spectator US, Ben Sixsmith gets to grips with “the Great Reset” now being proposed by the World Economic Forum (“Davos”). And yes, despite a name that sounds as if it were conjured up in some of conspiracism’s danker fever swamps, the Great Reset really exists: “The World Economic Forum, which organizes the […]


Kunstler with David Collum about the Election Fracas

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Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to make sense […]


The World Is $277 Trillion in Debt So Why Aren’t Economists More Worried?

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The global economy owes itself nearly four times its annual output and warnings of a “debt bubble” follow record bailouts, record spending promises and we’re in the middle of a global recession deeper than ever before. But economists are keeping calm, carrying on and using war analogies to assure the public that everything will be […]


Prince Charles Agrees with Gates – Reduce the World Population

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Prince Charles is no longer fit to become King. The Queen should remove him now from any path to the crown. Athelstan was the first king of all England, and Alfred the Great’s grandson. He reigned between 925 and 939 AD. The monarchy of England faces a cyclical crossroads in 2021. Prince Charles has not only joined […]


Aramco Says No One Hurt in Blast

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Saudi Aramco needed about 40 minutes to put out the fire caused by a missile strike on a fuel depot in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, with evidence pointing to a sophisticated attack on the kingdom’s energy infrastructure. No one was hurt in the explosion or blaze, and supplies from the facility in Saudi […]


Aframax tanker ‘attacked’ in Red Sea

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The Aframax tanker Agrari was “attacked by an unknown source” early this morning, while at berth in the Red Sea port of Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, and suffered a breach, ship management company TMS Tankers said. TMS Tankers, which manages the 107,000 deadweight tonne (dwt) tanker, said it was struck one metre above the waterline and […]


The Triumph of Mankind Over the Great Reset

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In The Dystopic Great Reset and the Fight Back: Population Reduction and Hope for the Children of Men , our Part I, we developed on our previous essays on planned obsolescence and the problems of the old paradigm as we enter the 4th Industrial Revolution. We looked at how several science fiction works like ‘The […]


Kurt Cobb: Nature on the ballot and the ‘parliament of things’

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There were some obvious and even historic ways in which nature was on the ballot this year in the United States: Orange County, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a charter amendment to give rights to two rivers to be free from pollution. By a margin of 89 percent, voters approved “the right to sue corporate polluters […]


Heinberg: Making America ungovernable

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The US presidential election of 2020 is now behind us—or is it? President Trump has yet to concede his defeat, and many Republican lawmakers have demanded recounts and backed lawsuits. Some commentators fear that the current administration is laying the groundwork for a coup d’état by preventing the peaceful transfer of power, but—given the extraordinary […]


UN warns of ‘famines of biblical proportions’ within the next year

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Story at a glance In April, the head of the WFP warned of devastating famines in dozens of countries due to the ramifications of COVID-19. World leaders responded with funds and stimulus packages and managed to avoid the worst-case scenario. Now as the coronavirus continues to surge, prompting another wave of shutdowns, David Beasley says […]


The Pandemic in China: a Governance Lesson to the West

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    China:  Oct 1st, 2020, celebrations of the national day. From this and other pictures, it is clear that the Chinese are not too much worried about getting close together, even without wearing face masks (source)   The text below is the translation of a post I published in Italian on the Facebook site […]


COVID-19 lockdowns to usher in a ‘Great Reset’

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America is locking down again. In some places, that’s already happening. If you have kids, you’ve seen it. Joe Biden has promised more of it — more masks, more quarantines, more limits on travel, more restrictions on who you can eat with and who you can touch. The most intimate details of our lives are being […]


Public money guarantees ‘risky’ fossil fuel projects

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Energy firms are undertaking financially risky natural gas extraction projects from the Arctic to Africa made feasible by government-backed loans and guarantees, jeopardising efforts to curb global warming, experts say. As pressure from the public and investors to green their portfolios grows, and the cost of renewable energy continues to fall, oil and gas majors […]


Trump administration pushes to sell Alaska oil leases pre-Biden inauguration

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The Trump Administration will take key steps to finalize a sale of oil drilling leases in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, a government spokeswoman said on Friday. The White House will be sending out a call for nominations in coming days, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Land […]


China’s ‘secretive, crash’ nuclear buildup revealed

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China is rapidly building up its nuclear forces, including the expansion of plutonium and uranium plants as part of a secretive, crash program to add warheads to its growing missile and bomber forces, according to declassified U.S. briefing slides obtained by The Washington Times. The four slides were part of a recent briefing for NATO […]


Kunstler: The Worm in the Machine

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The avatars of good government, Joe Biden, and his righteous Democrats, seem a little bit spooked by the globe-of-silence enveloping Mr. Trump and his lawyers the past few days. The Dems’ narrative at this point, mid-game, is that… “the election was the most secure in the nation’s history” (The New York Times).  Anything else is a “conspiracy […]


Introducing the ‘Great Reset’

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For decades, progressives have attempted to use climate change to justify liberal policy changes. But their latest attempt – a new proposal called the “Great Reset” – is the most ambitious and radical plan the world has seen in more than a generation. At a virtual meeting earlier in June hosted by the World Economic […]


Kunstler: Fore !

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Sure enough, President Donald Trump likes to get out on the golf links, which is where he was on Saturday, a most spectacularly lovely Indian Summer day following a harsh election week. Of course, his outing provoked much mirth from a gloating national news media — and, by national, I mean united in purpose — […]


America turns its back on the world

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As Americans and observers around the world anxiously awaited the results of the presidential election, the United States quietly turned up the thermostat on the planet. By exiting the most significant international agreement ever forged to fight the climate crisis, Donald Trump for once actually kept his word, or at least close to it: In […]


Biden has a climate-change mandate — what can he actually achieve?

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Joe Biden wavered on the controversial practice of oil and gas fracking early in the campaign but by the time the presumptive president-elect addressed the American people on Saturday night, his desire for a strong U.S. role in the climate-change fight was clearer. Biden had already said he’ll reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris […]


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