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This is a Tale of Two Americas, and Those at the Bottom of the Economic Food Chain Are Being Hit Extremely Hard

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

If you have plenty of money and you are able to shield yourself from what is happening to the tens of millions of people that are wallowing in poverty, life in America is still good in 2024. Stock prices have been hovering near record highs, and companies that cater to the rich and famous have been raking in the cash. But for most of the rest of the country, things are not going so well. Homelessness has been rising at the fastest rate we have ever seen, crime is out of control all over the nation, and large companies are laying off workers at a very frightening pace.

If you live in the version of America that is still living the high life, good for you.

But if you live in the version of America that the rest of us live in, conditions are rapidly deteriorating.

Earlier today, I came across an article in the San Francisco Standard that detailed what life is like in Oakland, California these days…

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Illegals Attack NYPD at ‘Migrant’ Shelter, Throw Objects at Officers Making Arrest

New York City will soon be a Mad Max-level dystopia

by Kelen McBreen
Info Wars

Wild footage out of New York City shows the moment a group of NYPD officers were assaulted by dozens of illegal aliens while they tried to make an arrest inside the state-funded Randall’s Island “migrant relief center.”

Last week, around five police officers wrestled with a suspect as a massive group of illegals surrounded them and shouted in anger over the arrest.

Soon, the crowd began throwing backpacks, water bottles and other items at the cops.

Law enforcement members literally ran out of the facility with the handcuffed suspect as the large mob screamed and threw objects at them.

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The Profit Cycle: How to Build Extreme Wealth with Mike Merrigan and Bo Kort

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz interviewed Mike Merrigan and Bo Kort, who shared their experiences and insights on their 30-year friendship and business partnership in real estate. They emphasized the importance of aligning with like-minded partners, avoiding get-rich-quick schemes, and focusing on long-term, cash-flowing investments. The speakers also discussed the significance of building a strong back office staff, finding valuable connections, and understanding the motivations of property owners. Additionally, the meeting participants shared their perspectives on the value of education, mentorship, networking, and taking action in business development, highlighting the individualized nature of success and the need to overcome fear and uncertainty.

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Triple Lutz Report #494: My Medical Emergency in Thailand

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

In this episode I share my recent medical scare I experienced while in Thailand, highlighting the importance of health awareness and prompt medical attention, especially when abroad. I discuss my alarming symptoms related to a pre-existing eye condition and the steps taken to address the situation while away from my home country. It all started after I sensed that blood was seeping into my eye while in Bangkok, leading to an urgent medical consultation. I recount my experience at a very prestigious Thai hospital, the amazing high level of care, advanced medical equipment, and the expertise of a retinologist who treated me. Despite dealing with ongoing symptoms like blurriness and floaters the prognosis is highly positive. The medical care was as good or better to any I might have received in the United States. I wanted to praise the efficiency of the Thai medical system.

This video serves as a crucial reminder for travelers to be vigilant about their health and the options available for medical emergencies abroad. Before embarking on any foreign adventures, take time to research the medical system and evaluate any ongoing health issues you might have that may need to be dealt with overseas. Put together a list of hospitals and doctors you may want to treat you. If you have any friends or associates in that country, discuss potential medical issues in advance. That way you can avoid the panic and uncertainty that I felt, until I connected with my Thai network and they led me in the right direction.

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2024: The Year From Political Hell – Martin Armstrong

by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog

Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is predicting political turmoil, civilian unrest, war and a big economic downturn in 2024 in a new report called “The Year from Political Hell.” It’s not just a US election year, but it is an election year for more than half of the world. This is a global phenomenon which no one can be sure of the outcome. Armstrong explains, “This is not just the United States election. This is what you hear on the news locally. However, step outside this country, and, for example, Indonesia just voted in a leftist government. You have the EU going for elections. You have on May 2nd all the local elections in Britian. You have Russian elections on May 7th. 60% of the world is going to the polls in 2024 to vote for a new government. You might as well throw them into a tumbler, shake well and see what comes out. I mean it’s all over the place.”

On the war front, get ready for more mass killing, and don’t be surprised if it goes nuclear. Armstrong predicts, “There will be nuclear weapons. The neocons keep telling people on Capitol Hill that Russia would never use a nuke because they know we would use them back. That is nonsense! If you are about ready to conquer somebody, and this is all they’ve got left, they are pushing the button. . . . These people, all they want is war. They don’t care. They really do not care. They don’t care about the economy. They don’t care about anything.”

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Great Taking Part 1 (Public Content)

by Dr. Chris Martenson
Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity

I promised I’d be back into The Great Taking, and here we go…

I’ve spent far more hours on this than I had first intended but it’s both (a) that important and (b) that complicated.

It’s important because it answers the question, “How exactly will I end up owning nothing as the WEF has prognosticated?”

If you’d rather not lose all your wealth to a bunch of amoral Wall Street crooks in a legalized transfer of wealth, then this series is for you.

But it is complicated. Which is where my superpower comes into play. I will do my level best fo untangle the mess and track down the necessary details all so that you can understand the issues and then take actions.

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The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs and Artificial Scarcity

by Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds

Unleash the powers of unlimited credit and excess capital on a limited, essential resource such as shelter and this is what we end up with: artificial scarcity, rent-serfs and half-vacant neighborhoods owned by absentee landlords.

Ideologies sound wonderful in the abstract, but run aground in the granular real world. The dominate ideology in the world today isn’t a political ideology, it’s the ideology of the market: in this ideology, the market is presented as the ideal problem-solving mechanism, as the interplay of supply and demand and the free flow of capital and labor will automatically fill unmet demand with new supply and provide competition that increases quality and reduces costs.

Let’s consider how the market functions in the real-world U.S. housing market. Take a mixed-use neighborhood of single-family homes with a scattering of low-rise rental buildings. It’s desirable but still affordable to buyers and renters alike.

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Interest On the Debt Will Exceed Defense Budget This Year

by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign

The ink was barely dry on the Treaty of Paris in the year 1763 when the financial panic set in. Government ministers across Europe began taking stock of their disastrous finances… and the picture was gruesome.

The world had been at war with itself for nearly a decade. And though the conflict became officially known as the Seven Years War, it might as well have been called ‘World War Zero’ because it involved just about every major power on the planet.

France, Russia, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Prussia in Europe, the Mughal Empire in India, and even the Ojibwe and Cherokee tribes in North America, all fought in the war. And the conflict cost everyone dearly. Especially France.

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Higher for Longer Inflation & Interest Rates Not Over Until the Fat Lady Sings? Waiting for the 2-Year Treasury Yield to Overshoot

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Four decades of history say it’s not over until the 2-year yield overshoots the EFFR. It has undershot for a year, and inflation is taking off again.

Inflation surprised in 2023 with its sharp decline, driven by the collapse in energy prices and the drop in durable goods prices. Both of them have come off huge price spikes since mid-2022, pulling down overall CPI inflation from 9.0% in June 2022 to 3.1% in January 2024. But services inflation has remained high and accelerated in late 2023, which was not surprising, and then on top of this increase, it leaped in January by an annualized rate of 8.2%.

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Holiday Weekend Jackass

by Craig Hemke
TF Metals Report

It’s another three-day, U.S. market holiday weekend….so you know what that means.

No sense dillydallying. Jim and I recorded this within the past hour. Just two old farts shooting the bull over a Saturday morning coffee.

As per usual, if you like what The Jackass has to say, you should be sure to check out his website at:

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What We Can Learn From Putin

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
LewRockwell.com

Vladimir Putin isn’t a hero, but his interview with Tucker Carlson brings out some basic truths that we would do well to consider. In contrast to brain dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers, Putin isn’t dominated by an ideological vision that requires world hegemony. He is a nationalist who aims to advance the interest of Russia. This enables him to have a realistic perception of world politics. In what follows, I’ll discuss some of the vital points we can learn from him.

Some people don’t want us to learn these lessons. As usual, the great Dr. Ron Paul is on top of this. Right after the interview, the mainstream media attacked it. They don’t want you to know that there is another side to their propaganda. Dr. Paul says:

“There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. As of this writing the video on Twitter alone has been viewed nearly 200 million times, making it likely the most-viewed news event in history.

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Trans ‘Milk’ as Good as the Real Thing – NHS

The makers of a drug used off-label to induce lactation in men warn it could adversely affect a baby’s heart

[Ed. Note: QUOTE: However, domperidone’s own manufacturer, Janssen, warns patients the drug “may cause unwanted side effects affecting the heart in a breastfed baby” and “should be used during breastfeeding only if your physician considers this clearly necessary.”]

from Russia Today

The drug-induced nipple secretions of trans women are as good as mothers’ breast milk for babies, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust claimed in a letter to campaigners made public in a report by British think tank the Policy Exchange on Sunday.

The healthcare trust’s medical director, Rachel James, argued that the off-label prescription drug cocktail men transitioning to female take in order to produce milk was “similar to the natural hormones which encourage lactation to develop when the baby is newly born.”

“The evidence which is available demonstrates that the milk is comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby,” James wrote in the letter, sent to Children of Transitioners last August.

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‘They Will Not Get Away with It’: Trump Attorney Unloads After Stunning New York Fraud Verdict

“We will win in the appellate division.”

by Amanda Prestigiacomo
Daily Wire

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba slammed Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday, following a stunning judgment against Trump in a controversial civil fraud case brought by James.

Engoron ordered Trump to pay more than $350 million, barred him from doing business in New York for three years, and fined his sons, Don Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, more than $4 million each.

“I think the biggest message I can give the American people tonight is that he’s not going to get away with it,” Habba said of Engoron on Fox News. “Letitia James is not going to get away with it; the Biden administration is not going to get away with it.”

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Prosecutor Fani Willis Touts the Value of Cash, but What About the Rest of Us?

Unfortunately, Willis’s Fulton County includes assets seized from non-prosecutors in its budget.

[Ed. Note: If YOU have cash, she’ll call you a drug dealer and keep it. If she has cash, it’s a black/woman ‘thing’. Okay then.]

by J.D. Tuccille
Reason.com

It’s quite a turn when a prosecutor defends the use of cash for financial transactions. After years of authorities treating mere possession of physical money as sketchy and grounds for seizure, this week a law enforcement official claimed there’s nothing to see in her alleged cash reimbursements to her boyfriend for an enviable lifestyle arguably funded by the taxpayers. Either Fani Willis and company were right in the past and she should be subject to scrutiny for anonymous transactions, or she’s right today and she and her colleagues owe the rest of us a pass on our taste for financial anonymity.

If you haven’t kept up on the details, Fani Willis is the Fulton County district attorney overseeing the Georgia election interference case, which has been described as potentially the strongest and most consequential case against former (and maybe future) president Donald Trump.

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Hard Decisions Used to Lead to an Easy Life

by James Quinn
The Burning Platform

I’ve seen the graphic below a few times over the last several weeks. I understand its message and have essentially tried to follow the hard decision path for most of my life, while imparting the same advice to my three sons. I’m sure they got sick of me telling them that no matter what amount you make, if you spend less than that amount, you will get ahead in life financially. Of course, this graphic is too simplistic to describe the real world, where medical misfortune, bad luck, bad investments, or bad people running the country can and do prevent many hard working honest families from ever achieving the “easy life”.

We all know life is never easy, but it can potentially be easier if you make enough right decisions along the way. The graphic reminds me of a quote sometimes attributed to John Wayne, “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” I think that captures the truth better than hard decisions lead to an easy life. It does seem the level of stupidity across the general populace has risen to astounding levels over the last couple decades.

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