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COLUMN: Declaring Financial Economic Currency Sovereignty

13 Wednesday Mar 2024

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banks, BRICS, Cynthia McKinney, economics, money, usury

Declaring Financial Economic Currency Sovereignty

 

Last month, the Honorable Dr. Cynthia McKinney, Larry Johnson, Professor Alexander Dugin, the Honorable Maria Zakharova, and a whole bunch of brilliant, kind people gathered at Moscow State University for the 2024 conference of MIR, the International Russophiles Movement. In the middle of an incredible panel discussion, Dr. McKinney raised an issue of extraordinary importance. Please watch or listen to the whole show HERE. 

McKinney’s comments kick in around 2:14:17, replicated here by way of my interpretation of YouTube’s attendant transcript:

…the one thing though that I don’t think has been mentioned, and maybe our final speaker will mention it, is the difference between colonialism and neocolonialism, and the idea of sovereignty also meaning sovereignty. Financial sovereignty, but of those who print the currency, and that’s one area that I haven’t heard spoken of today. That is the international banking class; those people are private bankers and they are the ones that print the US dollar and they own most of the central banks around the world. So if we are going to make sure that multipolarity is our multipolarity we also have to declare financial economic currency sovereignty.

During the above-linked session, I think the closest answer to McKinney, or rather, a matching concern, came a few minutes earlier from Mr. Ali Al-Qadi (SP?), a historian from Tunisia. Among several other items, he mentioned Emmanuel Todd’s excellent new book, La Défaite de l’Occident (2024). He was getting at matters within chapter ten, “La Bande De Washington,” around page 295, et seq., pertaining to the rise of “zombie” Protestantism in the West, a rise that coincided with the rise of Enlightenment democracy and financial capitalism. The gentleman then, around 2:03:45, said, “Union from above cannot be based on the same tools created by the materialistic world which condemns the theft of a loaf of bread by the poor but not usury.” Usury may be thought of as the fuel of financial capitalism. Old Cato and the Church thought of it as murder.

Mr. Al-Qadi and Dr. McKinney are both correct in their concerns and statements, especially those in the last part of McKinney’s address. If someone later or elsewhere answered McKinney directly, I’m unaware of it. So, I’m going to take a crack, particularly as to the global banksters. But first, briefly, neocolonialism is and is not just “new” colonialism, a revitalization or continuation of the old Powers domination witnessed from the Fifteenth Century through the Twentieth. It also delves deeply into the global world disorder of the Greater West, a wicked and total combination of state and private exploitation writ large, a united empire of lies spanning most of the globe. And the banking clans Dr. McKinney mentioned are at the heart of that combination. 

She obviously knows what she’s talking about, as well as anyone from the West does. However, for those not up to speed, here is a quick primer on the creation of the fake money the Greater West uses(d) to subjugate the world. The private, illegal Federal Reserve Bank does print those paper dollars Americans use in ordinary transactions. But altogether, they amount to a miniscule part of the total money supply. More and more people fret over the potential rise of Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC, when something far worse has already happened: Commercial Bank Digital Sorcery (CBDS). The US is so far down the rabbit hole that the vast majority of “money” in the US economy (and in other Western economies) consists of fake, debt-based credit money substitutes, of loan-based illusions that simply do not exist. There is statistically zero real money in the US economy. A malicious hoax inside a lie behind a charade. 

Ten years ago, the Bank of England kindly released a short white paper explaining exactly how fake money is created in the postmodern Western economy, an explanation ratified by the Federal Reserve: 

In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way is through commercial banks making loans. Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money. (Emphasis, BOE’s.)

Where do the banks get the money for the deposits and loans? The money for the loans is created by the loans. Out of nothing except monetary necromancy. This fake money does not exist in reality even though it accounts for a hyper majority of the money used in the economy. This is super usury, a system where the fake money itself essentially amounts to infinite interest. The private bankers merely press a button or wave a magic wand, and *POOF!* money appears. The usury victim must dedicate all or a portion of his life, robbing Peter to pay Judas, to pay off that which, again, does not exist. This is pure evil. It’s also intentional and it has the intended purpose of driving all ownership of all value, including the productivity of so many human lives, into the hands and pockets of a tiny elite cabal. It is designed to become untenable, which it always does in the end, destroying a nation’s economy in the process and, frequently, the nation.  It is the mass systemization of the prohibited usury practices condemned by God the Father and Jesus Christ. 

Many varied voices from many professional backgrounds have warned about the society-destroying results of this evil. See Debt by the late David Graeber (anthropologist), La Défaite… by Todd (historian), literally anything written by Michael Hudson and Steve Keen (economists), and Why The West Can’t Win by Dr. Fadi Lama (engineer). 

Dr. Lama sets forth broad brush solutions in chapter ten of his book, “The End of Empire.” 

The financial monetary construct should be based on real value such as a basket of commodities and real goods, enabling money to have an intrinsic value as it had for millennia prior to Bretton Woods II. Already significant work is being undertaken in this area with joint efforts encompassing the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the BRICS and the SCO. See Lama, Why the West Can’t Win, Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2023, p. 350.

Further:

Commercial banks and insurance companies should be government owned to ensure the highest rates of national development and avoid the exploitation of society by a parasitic minority. This was a key element in the development path adopted by China, which allowed it to eradicate poverty and achieve phenomenal across-the-board development. Id. 

Throughout Western history, these minority parasites have forged odd public-private partnerships with assorted states. Seneca called in fraudulent loans, Rome got into a war, and the Iceni lost their lives and sovereignty. A leading cause for the downfall of the Venetian Republic was its private central bank. The London Company(s), as operated in Virginia and New England during the Seventeenth Century, acted in much the same way as Black Rock or the IMF do today. The public part of the deal has to do with “lawful” chartering and any subsequent manipulations of the law necessary for the benefit of the private parties. It also involves shifting any costs, risks, or losses away from the parasites to the public. This is why the only immunity associated with the fraudulent COVID mRNA shots regards protecting pharmaceutical companies from liability. This is why one of the idiotic US COVID stimulus bills, a $2 trillion boondoggle, saw 75% of its proceeds go to the cabal while American taxpayers were put on the hook for 100% of the spending. Any and all profits and benefits of this kind of partnership always only flow towards the elite private parties. 

The solution to this pressing problem is found, as Lama suggests, in the sovereign, multipolar, BRICS+ world. China’s monetary system is not exactly like Russia’s. Whether one weighs somewhat heavily on money as a public utility to be turned on and off as needed, while the other largely involves hard commodities backing the currency, they both work. And while both involve a kind of public-private relationship, both also involve government ownership or control at both ends of that spectrum. All banks in Russia are heavily regulated, by law and by the Bank of Russia (BOR). Many of the largest commercial banks are at least partly owned by the government. The BOR, unlike the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England, genuinely answers to the government. This reflects a policy of state banking control that dates back to the Russian Empire.

The banks of China and Russia facilitate a loop of economic control and benefit for both the people and the people’s government, one looking to the best interests of the other and looking ahead for the common good of individual concerns and those of larger society. Parasites starve under these systems as they ought. Both systems are now linked together providing an alternative to the US’s (Petro)dollar and SWIFT. This linkage is outside the control of Western powers and institutions. Other powerful economies are also linked to one degree or another. Developing economies are now joining or will join in order to further their development interests while also removing the chains imposed by the West. The BRICS+ share of the world economy now exceeds that of the West. A connected basket of honest currencies now competes with and outperforms the fake, dying Petrodollar. This new system has quickly become globally competitive; the Petrodollar share of international transaction settlements has fallen from 90+% a few years ago to 40% or less now. This fall in Kazan, a fully refined and named alternative economic and monetary system will or should be officially unveiled. The free world is happily waiting. 

The unfree Western world is still voting, hoping, and wishing. Do not expect the system to suddenly undo or police itself. Rather, out of spite it will ratchet down on its captive victims harder than ever. Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden will or can save Americans from this inevitable calamity. Thankfully, one day—hopefully, one day soon—this satanic system of perpetual abuse will collapse. When it does, Americans and other Westerners need to be ready to rebuild their nations or descended rump states. That reordering will and must include things like currency sovereignty. When the time comes, the fake debts must be canceled, real money restored, and perhaps the usurers dealt with appropriately.

Monetary sovereignty: thank God the gentlelady mentioned it.

Deo vindice.

Wee Tiny Inflation

04 Monday Mar 2024

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dollar, economics, money

Over the weekend I noticed the radical year-to-year increase in the number of US Treasury Dollars. No idea what’s going on, but I assume everything is just fine and dandy. Carry on.

COLUMN: A Shadow: The Need For Observer Status

12 Wednesday Jul 2023

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Daria Dugina, future, government, international relations, money, music, shadow government

A Shadow: The Need For Observer Status

(with Perrin’s Music Minute)

The following is a bare-bones suggestion geared towards Americans, particularly, Southerners. It may be of some utility to other people of goodwill. Some of them, namely Asians and Hispanics, are already largely doing much of what I will and would recommend, and in some areas, they are doing more. Americans, particularly in Dixie, will encounter various obstacles if any of this is to be implemented. First, there is a substantial lack of belief, motivation, and cohesive spirit. Second, there is a (perceived by me) lack of funding. Some of this will entail moderate expenses. Third, there is a distinct possibility that necessary outside reception may be less than forthcoming. Most of what I’m on about today involves interactions with certain international parties, some of them in person. These are good people, but they may have written off, at least superficially, dealing with many Americans. One can hardly blame them. Fourth, moderate to severe objections from the satanic foreign rulers of the United States can and should be expected. There will be more; all of it will have to be dealt with intelligently and resolutely.

Southerners should consider establishing a Shadow Government. Or a government in internal exile. This pseudo-institution was needed yesterday. With a few distinct exceptions, my previous mentionings of this fact have fallen on deaf or retarded ears. Nonetheless, time keeps marching on and the time to start acting is now. Particulars are, as of yet, difficult to impossible to delineate. Therefore, this step is more about, or all about planning. While reordering will be necessary at the local, state, and federated national levels, I suggest picking either the state or federated model and running loosely with it – while keeping the others in mind. All existing political and legal structures are compromised, as are all elected officials at those levels. You’ll be starting from scratch.

Here appearances do matter. People love looks over substance, and for once their desires might not be entirely misplaced. This shadow is not or should not be intended to compete with the hellish nightmare rooted on the banks of the Potomac. I suggest never giving the impression that it is intended to replace or overthrow that failed and miserable and wicked death cult. Our enemies are weakened but they are still dangerous. And they do not like competition. Multiple secession movements are growing, but they require a little more time. More importantly, it is impossible to overthrow something that long ceased to exist in actual valid reality. White men, for now, you are the Taliban; watch and wait. And plan. It might be best to approach this as another social or historical interest club, one without too many identifiable or titled leaders.

How all of this is accomplished, I do not necessarily know. I would suggest something rather different from the Enlightenment’s lie-driven mess of the US’s constitutional founding. More Venice, less interstate commerce, and so forth. I’d also be very clear about who is and is not a part of the waiting new nation, and who is and is not allowed to directly participate in its governing affairs. 

There is also the issue of territorial confines. You probably will not resurrect the original state of the CSA. Nor will all of the various former constituent states necessarily be options. Demographics will eventually serve as a guide and things will work out – for someone, somewhere. Do keep in mind that you are not alone. Also, I again caution that you may be under inspection, or if you will, grooming by a different kind of shadow. I have little hard evidence to back this assertion; however, if I am correct, then the last thing any of you want is to serve as the new operational base of the empire that never ended.

You need Observer Status in various international organizations. Someone or some small group will necessarily have to serve as unofficial representatives, ambassadors, or foreign ministers. Three organizations jump out screaming for your attention: BRICS+, SPIEF, and the SCO. To the best of my knowledge, all of them admit observer states and different kinds of guests. They represent the current interests of the free and sovereign nations, and tomorrow they will effectively become the global establishment. (That’s happening already, really.) I seriously doubt that they or any of the countries involved in them will humor an immediate attempt by the Confederate States of America to join up. They deal with hard, positive reality. However, I suspect they may be more than open to the potential of interested outsiders exploring future possibilities. 

On the other hand, while making and keeping friends is important, it is also wise to keep track of enemies. Therefore, consider observing or monitoring, perhaps without attempting to join in any way, NATO (yes, really), the UN, the IMF, the BIS, and the WEF. Maybe a few more. In so monitoring these groups, extreme caution is advisable along the lines of Gandalf lamenting Saruman’s delving too deeply, even with initially honest intentions, into the arts of the enemy.

Think about Real Money. The Dollar’s day is over. And there are no real dollars left anyway. None of the debt-substitute money in the US/WereWestern economy is real. It is entirely based on increasingly obvious frauds and increasingly impotent threats of violence. In other words, it is fake (and gay). The other side of the now bifurcated global economy is real, based on tangible goods and services and/or a public utility theory of money as controlled by the people of the nations and their governments – for their benefit and not the benefit of foreign satanists.

Last year, the Sovereign World, led by Russia and China, transitioned very smoothly to a new trading system temporarily facilitated by MIR-CIPS. I do not pretend to understand exactly how it works, but it does work. In place of threats, there appears to be actual value, and in place of fraud, there is honest mutual discussion, negotiation, and agreement. The majority of the world population now lives in areas that have switched or are switching to this system. Southerners and heritage Americans would be wise to do the same as soon as it becomes practical. 

The parameters are scarcely known, but it was just announced that a new gold-backed international settlement and trade currency will be unveiled in the near future. Evidently it will be what the Bretton Woods Bancor was allegedly supposed to be. Your local currency, while aligned with others, will remain your local currency. The new “Gold X” will simply allow for payments between participating nations. Astoundingly, some movement in this direction is already underway in places like Texas. Even if direct participation is not yet possible, now is the time to explore, gain understanding, and make friends.

There is much more to consider moving forward. Among necessary areas in need of some address are military, industrial, agricultural, academic, media, technical, and infrastructure issues. Knowing that some exploration of those subjects is already underway, I leave them for another day or to your esteemed pondering. Just know that all of this is critical. All of the foregoing must necessarily take place outside of the existing legal and political frameworks. You’ve already been banned from those anyway. In fact, what remains of them is a farcical shell unworthy of anyone’s participation or tolerance. And all of this takes place and will take place in the 2023-2033 time period set in actual reality. Keep in mind the historical interest club angle is mainly for cover, and it is not a crutch or security blanket.

One more thing before the lyrical postscript. Many thanks to Walt Garlington for alerting me to the coming publication by PRAV of Eschatological Optimism, the posthumously collected writings of the late, lovely, and in need of avenging Daria Dugina. Maybe bookmark that for the end of this summer.

The Music Minute

Think you know Rick Astley? Here he is on the drums covering AC-DC at Glastonbury very recently. Here’s the end of the show, a zany spectacle I have rarely seen the likes of before. Wait, there’s more.

Think you know Weird Al? And Weezer? And Toto? Here’s Yankovic “fronting for” Weezer covering Toto. The live concert version, where Al is definitely singing in addition to playing and acting. 

May these soothing and/or upbeat tunes help anyone who attempts the foregoing recommendations.

Deo vindice.

All Kinds of Interesting

10 Monday Apr 2023

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economy, gold, money, Texas

A gold-backed Texan currency.

Bills introduced in the Texas House and Senate would create a state-issued, gold-backed digital currency.

Enactment of this legislation would create an option for people to transact business in sound money, set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money and create a viable alternative to a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Sen. Bryan Hughes (R) introduced Senate Bill 2334 (SB2334) on March 10. Rep. Mark Dorazio (R) introduced a companion, House Bill 4903 (HB4903) on the same day. The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish a digital currency that is fully backed by gold and fully redeemable in cash or gold as well. The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism to use this gold-backed digital currency in everyday transactions.

As the clowns lose control of their dead, gay empire, more and more things like this will happen. It’s a form of soft secession that could eventually lead to free sovereign nations.

Star(low)buck$

18 Friday Nov 2022

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economics, labor, money, Starbucks

Think what one will about Starbucks. Maybe they are crazed left coast communists, but they brew pretty good coffee. Think what one will about the people who work at Starbucks, but they are people and, from what I have seen, they do work. (If you’re not into thinking at all, then go somewhere else, please).

As-is, right now employees in 25 semi-unionized states are on strike for a variety of reasons. One of them, probably the most important is better pay. I took the following screen-grab from Indeed:

What’s there to complain about, right? Baristas on average earn 3 cents less than the vaunted $15(!) minimum wage. Look at the supervisors and managers. What’s the problem? Well, the problem is that none of these sampled salaries, not even the $132,546 for a systems analyst, are even half of what the average salary would be, today, if salaries had kept pace with financialized inflation the past 70 years. $15 per hour is only 40% of the $37.50 that minimum wage should be. That’s the problem, so far as the working people are concerned.

The analyst could buy the average new house so long as he toted a hefty mortgage payment. On $14.97, it’s out of the question. (Non-thinkers, now and here isn’t appropriate. Shut up and go away). $15 only buys 4 gallons of gas, and it would take nearly a year and a half at that rate to buy the average new car. At $15 per hour, one can afford a good apartment and basic utilities, and not much else. One could alternatively eat and dress well, perhaps even with a new car payment, but one couldn’t live indoors in most markets. This is a problem. Forget family life. In fact, forget the family. This is a huge problem.

Part of the problem that prevents the obvious solution is that there isn’t enough fake money floating around to give people the necessary raises so they can live. It’s not entirely Starbucks’s problem; they really cannot afford to help in any meaningful way. The money is not there. And, ginning up that money, as is done for governments and corporations and other criminal entities, would only jack the prices of the things life requires even higher. It’s a losing game. It’s a lost game. A huge problem.

How? Why? When? This is the result of decades of usury eating away at the very value of money, the very definition of money itself. Fake, nonexistent bad money has driven out – past tense – good money. All real wealth has been effectively transferred into the hands of wicked, worthless thieves and murderers. The people, think what one will of them – knowing one is one of them, are left with nothing. This is a satanic problem.

If ropes grew on trees, we’d have a ready solution.

COLUMN: Nibble, Nibble, Like A Mouse

01 Wednesday Jun 2022

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economics, Janet Yellen, money, witches

Nibble, Nibble, Like A Mouse

 

The headline of a recent article at Bloomberg, by Alex Tanzi, caught my eye: “One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck, Survey Finds.” The author likely intended a little shock value. However, my reaction was, “yes, of course!” Allow me to explain (again).

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (Exodus 22:18). Thou damned sure shouldn’t suffer one in charge of thy economy. Alas, thou hath done that, and worse.

Janet Yellen is the current, putative Secretary of the Treasury. She was formerly the head of the Federal Reserve. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale. She is possessed of that most-mythical “high” 115 average IQ. Ever channeling the wisdom of Keynes and the spirit of Baal, she has haunted the monetary world for over forty years. Accordingly, she is as fucking wicked and stupid as they come. 

Who knew that pumping, what, twenty trillion dollars into an already flooded money supply could possibly lead to more inflation? Certainly not a putative Treasury Secretary. It’s like adding wood to the fire and not expecting to roast small children. “Opps, y’all. Wrong path. My bad!”

Yes, I know. She’s but the latest in a never-ending line of alleged experts who somehow manage to get everything wrong, shrug, screw things up even more, and then ride off leaving the rest of us to dodge the debris. She’s just the only one that my sources tell me lives in a gingerbread house in the dark woods – a matter I cannot independently verify.

Herein, I’m about to repeat some economic comparatives, mostly from memory and based on mental estimates, that I’ve been reciting for years now. Sources? If you can’t trust me or do your own research, then consult the archives at this blog, my TPC columns, FP columns, and PPN episodes. If that’s not good enough, then just follow a white bird deeper into the forest. 

I will give you this:

(US Debt Clock, 6/1/22. It’s worse now).

The first number, from left to right, is speculative. The second is highly speculative. The third is essentially science fiction fantasy. The Treasury Dollars figure is the only “lawful” money in the economy. Theoretically, it might be kind of backed by gold or something more than mere lies and threats; almost all of it is off-limits to the sheep. M2 is a play-pretend accounting of the Fed’s fiat to include that colorful paper in the wallet. The Derivatives+ sum is a wild guess at the total (fake) value of all the loans, bets, hedges, and voodoo swirling around the whole economy. This is the fulfillment of Gresham’s Law. The slightest adjustment, possible under multiple scenarios, places the ratio of real money to nonexistent fantasy money at around 1:1,000,000. Statistically, there is zero money. Thus, as I keep writing, there is no money in the economy. This is the end result of over a century of mass financialization, of rebuilding the economy and money supply completely on fake debt. It has driven all real value into the hands of a tiny, elite group of evil criminals. And it has left even those of the ordinary masses earning a quarter-million (fake) dollars per year living “paycheck-to-paycheck.” As with the schools, the shootings, the demographics, and the false flags, this is what you get.

Seventy years ago, which something tells me was 1952, the average wage in the old US was approximately 75% of the cost of the average house in the old US. Both numbers were, then, well under $10,000. The average wage was calculated from all occupations – executives, firemen, teachers, carpenters, farmers, lawyers, etc. It typically represented the work of the sole breadwinner in a household, generally the husband. Since 1952, all prices have increased. However, wages have lagged waaaaaaaaay the hell behind the rest. 

Today, household income accounts for all parties within the household who are working. That may mean a total of two jobs. Or four. Or more. Boomer, this is why your dad’s factory job more than provided for you and your three siblings and why your only son and his partner can’t afford to live or give you grandchildren even as they work two “good” jobs each. 

Assuming inflation as it actually happened, but also assuming that average wages had kept pace with the cost of the average house, then the current average wage would be around $300,000 per year. On average. For all occupations. With one income earner. Interestingly enough, the wage increase would be roughly the same, allowing for actual, as-it-happened inflation, had the dollar remained tethered to a gold-silver standard. Funny, no? No. But dead serious. So it is that those making $250,000 a year are on the low side of average. Their barely getting by isn’t hard to fathom with the correct math. 

In sad, modern reality, most Americans are lucky to bring home one-tenth of what they should earn. I read somewhere recently that Massachusetts has the highest average income, on the order of $75,000 per year. That, honestly adjusted out, is about what minimum wage should average across the country. Of course, in a more expensive place like Mass, the national average would be comparatively low. 

The terrible thing is that my afore-referenced accounting is based on pre-2020 information. Thanks to Yellen, Brandon, Orange Man, and the rest of the gang, elected and selected, things are getting even worse. How much worse? We’re finding out, now, and we will keep finding out. Hang on to something.

As bad as things are, and have been, most people still either don’t get it, don’t care to understand it, or simply refuse to acknowledge reality. I figure that once the booze, the dope, and the TeeVee are interrupted for more than a day or three, things will heat up. Dramatically. Time will tell.

What’s the solution? “FIRE!” immediately jumped into my mind. But there’s another single word that would, if applied, start to do wonders. One will find that word (starts with a “J”) repeated several times in a row in the book after Exodus in that old Bible no one likes to read or believe in anymore. Or, of course, we could just lay down a trail of breadcrumbs, hope for the best, and keep trusting the cackling, cannibalistic experts who forged this predicament. For the short time being, I think I know the people’s choice of inaction.

Either way, any way, I trust the good reader is prepared.

They Needed An Investigation?

08 Sunday Nov 2020

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Everything that comes out of DC is a fraud.

Congress and the Trump administration designed the PPP to give small businesses fast and easy access to taxpayer funds, and it worked: About $525 billion in loans were distributed to 5.2 million companies between April 3 and Aug. 8. Many business owners say it was a lifeline in turbulent times.

But evidence is growing that many others took advantage of the program’s open-door design. Banks and the government allowed companies to self-certify that they needed the funds, with little vetting.

The Small Business Administration’s inspector general, an arm of the agency that administers the PPP, said last month there were “strong indicators of widespread potential abuse and fraud in the PPP.”

No kidding! A fraudulent program based on a fraudulent hoax based on a fraudulent economy just might result in more cookie jar looting. I could have told them that. in fact, I think I did. I’ll have something to say about this, this week sometime, at the FP news.

And on an unrelated note, I’m not sure where all the traffic is coming from lately, but thank you! This week has seen more visitors than the monthly average for much of the year. Carry on, good readers, carry on.

The Ads Are Back

28 Monday Sep 2020

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Yes, I’ve seen them in posts and along the right PC sidebar. This is not me, it’s WordPress – a testament to traffic returning to previous levels in spite of my ban on anti-social media madness. It’s really quite the compliment. Of course, as soon as you kindly increase donation and/or purchase amounts to the sufficient point, I will convert the site to a higher, more expensive platform level. Based on long-past fundraising efforts here … enjoy your ads.

*At some point, hopefully, the site will convert over to a fiction-based author sales site with an included multi-subject blog. The promise of the future…

**Thank you for the increased visitation. Quality will improve tomorrow.

***Any political ads or ads not in keeping with my house themes are automatically disclaimed.

Defund the Skoolz

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

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For months this year, Amerika’s youth have had a needed reprieve from the hell that is their government-dulled “education.” Sadly, many (most) parents tire of pseudo-homeschooling and are so happy about the idea of shipping off the kids they don’t enjoy raising. And, what do the skoolz have to offer now? 2 + 2 = Racist!

A Black Lives Matter-supporting teacher took to Twitter to assert that 2+2 only = 4 because of “western imperialism.”

Yes, really.

Brittany Marshall’s tweet went viral after she claimed during the course of a discussion about racism, “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”

Marshall, who includes her pronouns in her bio, lists her occupation as “teacher, scholar, social justice change agent” and apparently is studying for a PhD at Rutgers.

Yes, really. Amerika’s skoolz are ruined from kindergarten to grad skool. Though this woman(??) lists her “pronouns,” she probably doesn’t know what pronouns are – aside from being vestiges of colonialism or something.

Yet and still, like the dim-witted parents, the dim-witted Orange Man says it’s time for skoolz again!

President Donald Trump ramped up his pressure campaign to get public schools to fully reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, tweeting Wednesday that he may withhold federal funding from schools that do not resume in-person classes this fall.

The tweet was the latest step in an administration-wide effort to convince schools nationwide that the risks of not reopening for in-person classes outweigh those posed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has reached new record levels across the country in recent weeks.

Wait a minute! Tweety Bird has a point, there. Cut all of the funding to all of the schools. Then, make it a felony to operate them. Make Let Kids Learn Again!

All Gassed Up

30 Monday Mar 2020

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economy, gas, money

With nowhere to go.

It’s a little ironic: gas is the cheapest we’ve seen since almost the end of the previous century, and yet we have no place worth driving to.

U.S. crude prices fell to their lowest level since 2002, briefly dropping below $20 a barrel, as investors grew more pessimistic about oil demand.

West Texas Intermediate futures, the main U.S. crude gauge, were down 6.5% at $20.11 a barrel after hitting their lowest level since February 2002 on Monday. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell 6.4% to $26.18 a barrel.

The taxes are up, but by the old metrics, going below $20 per barrel should yield gas under $1. I’ve seen it, where I am, for around $1.60. I’ve heard it’s $1.30 elsewhere. It’s gonna be like 1995 again! Minus the functioning society.

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