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Great War in a Time of Economic Collapse

Have we ever seen an oil crisis lead to a severe recession with soaring prices at the same time—an unusual concurrence? We don’t have to look that far back to recall the years known as “stagflation.”
goldseek.com
 
From the "I don't like you anymore" files.

Trump kicks out Tucker Carlson from club MAGA after Iran war criticism​


President Donald Trump has thrown Tucker Carlson out of club MAGA after the conservative podcaster criticized the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran.

The Trump administration is trying hard to sell Operation Epic Fury to the American people, in part by posting promo-style videos of the strikes on social media, but Carlson and others aren’t buying it.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...an-war-criticism/ar-AA1XDi7Z?ocid=socialshare
 
Club MAGA has new ownership - based out of Tel Aviv, the Israeli Deep State.

It ain't like it used to be. I don't wanna go there anymore.

And I feel for the employees transferred over, particularly Manager Donald. He's soon to be unemployed and he'll never find other work.

So the last decent "club" has been co-opted. Just because MAGA isn't great anymore, doesn't mean I'll go watch the mincing cross-dressers at Club Woke.
 
I have long been aware of the plan to destroy the temple on the rock, the holiest Buddhist place in the world, and replace it with the third temple of Solomon, all as per the book of revelations and how this will probably create a worldwide ‘killing in the name of god’ conflagration.
Tucker has only recently understood this -
 
Doug Casey's Take (commentary / opinion )

Mar 6, 2026 Doug Casey's Take
Markets, Middle East Escalation, and Global Risk: Subscriber Q&A on Investing, Relocation, and Ethics
Doug and Matt answer subscriber questions, focusing first on an escalating conflict involving Iran and the Gulf that they view as extremely serious despite a muted market response; Doug says stock and bond markets are overpriced, warns of a potential crash, criticizes demands like “unconditional surrender,” questions U.S. involvement (including insuring ships in the Strait of Hormuz), and expects global economic spillovers, noting Gulf vulnerabilities such as desalination, food supply chains, and remittances. They then discuss Paraguay’s unusual culture and land-based investment opportunities, dividend investing (noting oil stocks), practicalities of living/investing in Uruguay and Argentina (including taxes and policy changes under Milei), resource investing diligence, when to sell gold/silver, IPO lockup/exit issues, storing metals abroad, and conclude with a discussion of ethical decision-making frameworks and concerns about political leadership’s morality.

A Market Crash Incoming?
 
Just a little food for thought. Don't take it too seriously.

What the HELL is THIS?

Mar 7, 2026

10:57
 
This is a great series.

How Jeffrey Epstein & The Elite Gained and Retained Power | While the Rest of Us Die - S2 Ep.1​

Mar 7, 2026 #VICE #WhileTheRestOfUsDie
This is the story of how a small but powerful elite conspired to rig the system by turning the American economy into a casino where they always win, while the rest of us lose.
• While The Rest Of Us Die

44:08
 
Interesting

Too bad it's bias is left of center.

"Corporate greed" seems to be the theme.

Grok

The video points to a documentary-style video from the VICE Vault channel, titled "How Jeffrey Epstein & The Elite Gained and Retained Power | While the Rest of Us Die - S2 Ep.1".This is not a fictional movie or narrative feature film—it's an investigative documentary episode (part of a series called While the Rest of Us Die). It functions like an exposé or docu-series segment rather than a traditional "movie" in the Hollywood sense.Main ThemeThe central theme is systemic inequality and elite power consolidation: how a small, ultra-wealthy elite (using figures like Jeffrey Epstein as an entry point) has rigged the American economic and political system to preserve and grow their wealth at the expense of everyone else. It portrays the economy as a "casino" designed so the rich always win while the majority loses, leading to stagnating wages, rising debt, crumbling infrastructure, and the erosion of the American Dream.Key elements explored include:
  • The "wealth defense industry" (tax attorneys, accountants, offshore schemes) that helps the super-rich avoid taxes legally (e.g., via tools like GRATs, borrowing against assets instead of selling them to pay zero income tax).
  • Epstein's role not just in scandals but as a facilitator in tax avoidance and elite networking.
  • Historical shifts: the 1970s corporate pushback (Powell Memo), Reagan-era deregulation, Koch brothers' influence on policy, financialization of companies (e.g., Jack Welch at GE prioritizing shareholder value over workers), and the 2008 financial crisis fallout.
  • Broader consequences: corporations externalizing costs to the public, underfunded IRS unable to audit the rich, and resulting societal decay (e.g., Detroit's decline).
The overarching message is one of class-based conspiracy and exploitation—the powerful protect themselves and their dynastic wealth "while the rest of us die" (or suffer the consequences). It's a critique of unchecked capitalism, tax evasion by the elite, and how inequality is structurally maintained rather than accidental.
 
HNN opinion piece.

Donald Trump Is Not a Disease That Can Be Cured

Comment: They wanted us to believe that US institutions would save the world from Donald Trump. A sort of trump card to take the edge off statements saying that the US had a running start away from democracy and into a sort of autocracy.
en.highnorthnews.com
 

In Trump’s Washington, Congress has little power left​

Early in March, senators gathered to take a vote meant to remind President Donald Trump of Congress’s power.

Just a few days before, the president had launched a war against Iran without seeking legislative approval. Two senators pushed forward a resolution that would have halted the fighting until Congress officially authorized military action — its prerogative under a 1973 law passed near the end of the Vietnam War.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ittle-power-left/ar-AA1XTwKy?ocid=socialshare
 
Congress is weak because our lifer octogenarian Congress-cretins are weak.

They're obsessed with keeping personal power. They have less than zero interest in what the country needs, that they could USE that political power to effect, or stop.

So they're content to let the President act as Emperor, to win or lose. If he wins, they'll claim to be behind him. If his gamble loses, they'll read a scripted list of personal smears - prepared by lobbyists and staffers.

The cure to this is TERM LIMITS. The guy who runs a successful contracting service, who takes ten years off to serve in Congress, and who knows he's going back home...is gonna be a whole lot more involved, and more restrained, and certainly more connected with his community's values...than someone who took public office at the minimum age, and who is now in his late 80s and senile.
 

Democrats float tax relief plans to home in on affordability

Democrats with potential presidential aspirations have unveiled a slew of tax breaks in recent days that emphasize the party’s focus on affordability in hopes of taking back the White House. The latest pitch, unveiled Monday from New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, would more than double the...
rollcall.com
 

Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview

In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I’m dying here"), his wrecked legacy and his delusions about the future ("I will be proven innocent. That I promise you").
www.hollywoodreporter.com
 

They're not Patriots. They're a Cult.​

Path to Liberty: March 11, 2026
"The dupes of other men." Noah Webster told us exactly what happens when people join a political party - they become mindless puppets of people in power. His timeless warning that "faction is death to liberty" is one we can't afford to ignore any longer.

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Posted as food for thought, nothing else. As with anything I post, take it fwiw and dyodd.

Trump may be trying to provoke an attack on American soil | Opinion​

We got more lies on Tuesday morning from the Pentagon press briefing. They’re now up to 17 different rationalizations for the attack on Iran, none of which makes sense.

To paraphrase Rod Serling, consider what happened in Minab, Iran.

A Tomahawk cruise missile, an American weapon, a weapon that Iran doesn’t own and can’t fire, struck a girls’ elementary school. One hundred and seventy-five people are dead, most of them little girls who showed up that morning to learn to read.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...can-soil-opinion/ar-AA1YtAmC?ocid=socialshare
 
Homeless guy stabs man who was charging his EV. Ambulance comes, another homeless man steals it. WTF?!?!

This Is How Bad It's Gotten In California

Mar 12, 2026

12:07
 
Posting this one for a laugh. A lot of the replies are a hoot.

 

Little Marco mocked for wearing clown shoes in Trump suck-up​

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is being ridiculed mercilessly online after being spotted wearing oversized shoes on Capitol Hill.

The image of him wearing much too big for him dress shoes to brief lawmakers started circulating after the Wall Street Journal reported this week that President Donald Trump was gifting leather oxfords to members of his Cabinet, lawmakers, and staffers.

Trump, 79, apparently has a fondness for $145 Florsheim shoes and has been buying them for those around him after guessing their shoe sizes. As one White House official told the Journal, “everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”

More laughs:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...in-trump-suck-up/ar-AA1YvkFz?ocid=socialshare
 
Now those photos make sense, who wants to piss off Stalin...
 
Doug Casey's Take

Skynet, The City of London & More​

Mar 13, 2026 Doug Casey's Take
Doug and Matt discuss a Palantir Maven Smart System demo that fuses multiple military data feeds into one targeting workflow, likening it to “Skynet” and warning that removing the final human approval is near. They cover Anthropic’s stance on not enabling “evil” uses versus dependence on government contracts, and debate whether massive AI data center spending could become stranded as models advance quickly and projects like “Stargate” fall apart. Member questions address biometric border expansion and the end of travel privacy, lab-grown/transmuted gold and future supply from seawater, kelp, and asteroids, Cuba’s likely collapse and negotiations with the U.S., AI data center local costs, offshore gold storage and impending FX controls, City of London conspiracy claims, portfolio implications of Iran-related oil disruptions, gold miners vs juniors, broker access to Canada, stop-loss risks, Uruguay/Argentina as safer regions, and tech/nanotech as hardest to analyze.
Time stamp below the vid on youtube.

Skynet, The City of London & More
 
So, what does he recommend?

To get ANYTHING done in a large organization - whether it's selling a new kind of car, like the Mustang (1964) or running for national political office...you need organization.

That's true of non-political reform initiatives, too. Right now, with cannibalistic pedos running the government, we are not going to vote our way out. And we're not going to be free of them by going Rambo and patrolling our neighborhoods alone with an AK.

To do it, we'll have to have an ORGANIZATION. A faction, as Webster said. A party, as we'd say today.

Without it, nothing gets done. Not politically, or in any other field. Compare the launch of the Ford Mustang, with that of the Studebaker Avanti...both launched within six months of each other. Ford's head, Lee Iacocca, and Studebaker's head, Sherwood Egbert (who, despite his name, was no geek, but a late-thirties ex-Marine)...both saw where the auto market was going. Young buyers. Both sought the same solution - a styled car with a new body on existing chassis (Falcon and Lark, respectively)

The Mustang took off. The Avanti did not, although it was far more stylish. Iacocca understood marketing and got a nationwide organization working to promote it. Egbert had little marketing budget, and the Avanti blew up in his face (although the car design was later bought by an independent operation and handmade for 20 years).

So. No organization, no election.

AND no freeing ourselves from the evil cadre that now controls the Deep State.

Doubt me? Two more examples. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry; and Joe Schriner ( https://www.voteforjoe.com/ ) from Cleveland...a perpetual token candidate for President.

John Brown got killed, virtually alone, for his troubles. If Joe Schriner ever appears more than amusement to the DS, he'll get whacked, too.

There is no alternative to organization, and thus, no alternative to a political party. Except a militia, which would be brought together to do the same thing, only more forcefully.
 

WADA to weigh barring Trump, US officials from LA Olympics and possibly World Cup over unpaid dues​

The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering rewriting its rules to try barring President Donald Trump and all U.S. government officials from attending the LA Olympics in 2028 in a move that could also have implications for the World Cup being hosted by the U.S. this summer.

The proposal, on the agenda for next Tuesday's meeting of the global drug-fighting watchdog's executive committee, is the latest maneuver to come out of a yearslong refusal of the U.S. government to pay its annual dues to WADA. The refusal is part of the American government's unanimous, bipartisan protest of the agency's handling of a case involving Chinese swimmers and other issues.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...over-unpaid-dues/ar-AA1YAq7F?ocid=socialshare
 
Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

What The War On Iran Is Doing To Your Brain - Barry's Economics​

Mar 15, 2026 #BarrysEconomics #GarysEconomics #Inequality
Everyone's talking about whether the war on Iran was justified. That's not the most important question
The real question is what happens to you, to geopolitics, to your society, and to your brain when we go to war, where powerful people publicly demonstrate that the rules don't apply to them.
And that logic isn't just confined to Iran.
It's the neuroscience of what it does to ordinary people when they watch it happen and it's one of the most important and least discussed stories of what is happening right now in the middle east.
Sources referenced can be found below the vid on youtube.

22:02
 

A new draft? Unlikely. But Trump still wants the emergency powers​

As President Trump’s war against Iran spirals out of control, there is a growing concern he will order a ground invasion to remove the country’s leaders and take control of its vast supplies of oil. The consensus among military and foreign policy experts is that such a move would be disastrous — and that its failure could be catastrophic enough to permanently damage America’s standing as a superpower. But horrible outcomes have, at least to this point, not stopped Trump and his enablers from making irresponsible and dangerous decisions.

The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized deploying elements of a Marine Amphibious Expeditionary Unit and an amphibious-ready group to the Middle East. Such a force typically has 5,000 Marines and sailors, as well as warships, helicopters, jets and other capabilities.

On March 8, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt a direct question. Would Trump consider ground forces or reinstating the draft to fight Iran?

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...emergency-powers/ar-AA1YJhFU?ocid=socialshare
 
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