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Mike Savage: Decisions
By Mike Savage
July 15, 2022
While there is PLENTY to write about this week I believe it is imperative that I write about what makes the most sense to me with virtually all assets collapsing at the same time.
First of all, I believe that ALL we are seeing is a carefully crafted illusion. The dollar index (DXY) is giving the illusion of a “strong” US dollar. Of course, it IS strong against what it is measured against- like the plunging Euro and Yen. This gives those who manipulate the “markets” the headlines they need to promote their agendas. In addition, it helps them keep the paper price of gold suppressed because many hedge funds and programs will be programmed to buy dollars and sell gold- paper gold, of course. This helps the price-suppression scheme by putting downward pressure on the gold paper price.
In all reality the US dollar is losing value-just at a slower pace than its competitors. If the US dollar was, in actuality, STRONG would they admit to nearly 10% inflation? In reality, it is closer to 20%!
This leads to the conundrum of trying to avoid losses in risk assets as they are clearly under pressure at this time and sticking your “money” into a bank or money market where you can’t earn anywhere near enough to keep up with the relentless inflation that is taking place.
This is the reason that I believe that hard assets- mainly gold but also silver can play such an important role in what appears to be heading our way. Even though they have joined the downdraft party recently it is my opinion that the downside remains limited while the upside potential is astronomical- particularly when the SHTF which could happen at any moment.
To me, silver is the most undervalued asset on the planet as it is utilized in most modern technologies and has also been used as money in the past. If the idea is to buy low and sell high silver seems to me to be a screaming bargain.
Gold has been money for 5000 years. As fiat currencies have risen and fallen, the one constant throughout history has been the value of gold and its ability to retain purchasing power over time. This is likely the reason that families that pass multi-generational wealth have done it mainly with GOLD, Art and Real Estate.
As citizens of countries that have seen their currencies collapse can attest, gold and silver were extremely important to have. I have written in the past where in Venezuela you needed 3 MILLION Bolivars to buy a cup of coffee a couple of years ago while an ounce of silver would feed a family of 4 for a month. By the way, this was when you needed over 80 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold in US dollars.
As we speak, the US dollar looks strong because the two currencies that are most heavily weighted in the DXY, Euro and Yen are collapsing. Forget that the DXY shows them falling and just look at the inflation rates in the Eurozone in particular.
For those in bonds I would be very specific which bonds to own and I doubt that I would find many in the developed “markets” that I would be comfortable owning. Even with massive (unprecedented actually) interventions by central banks “printing and buying” there is upside pressure on rates which generally lead to LOWER bond prices.
For those in stocks, I believe that there are many stocks that have a great opportunity to recover and actually provide solid long-term gains. In my opinion, the most likely to fit this bill are companies that produce the things we humans need to survive and those assets that people may crave in a crisis scenario- like gold, food, energy, etc.
I also believe that the days of throwing darts and thinking we are “smart” is over. I believe that those who will recover from this will be those who know what they are buying and are focusing on good fundamentals, strong balance sheets and good management. There are MANY companies that meet that criteria- it’s just not the ones most people have been buying.
Finally, I was on a call with Goldman Sachs (Thanks Susan Torrisi for the invite) and there was a segment on commodities where many of my thoughts were confirmed in my mind. Their “experts”, including, Brad Kline, who has over 30 years experience and over 50 years of data to go by mentioned that in those 30 years and 50 years of history he has NEVER seen a supply deficit in so many commodities- many at all time record level lows of inventory.
One main point was that he said that over his entire career he has never seen a scenario where a supply deficit has not led to higher prices. I guess there is a first time for anything but history is pointing to far-higher commodity prices and in my mind collapsing currencies will likely add fuel to that fire.
I also believe that a stronger dollar is putting pressure on those that produce those commodities and could lead to even further shortages going forward.
I guess what I am saying is that in a situation like this it is easy to get scared into making decisions that, in hindsight, you may regret. I believe it is likely that many good companies that are down have a good chance at recovery that may far outpace the few cents you may make in an interest-bearing account. Of course, there could be some downside first but timing the “market” is in my opinion- a fool’s game.
While gold is down around 5% in dollar terms as I write this (it has large gains in other currencies) it is still my #1 idea for preserving wealth and allowing me to own an asset that I don’t have to count on anyone else’s promise to pay or repay. It also gives me the opportunity to recover any losses over time which, at this time, fiat currencies do not.
What is the VALUE of a promise that cannot, or will not be kept?
Be Prepared!
https://lemetropolecafe.com/chien_du_cafe.cfm?pid=17834 (sub. req)
Mike Savage: Decisions
By Mike Savage
July 15, 2022
While there is PLENTY to write about this week I believe it is imperative that I write about what makes the most sense to me with virtually all assets collapsing at the same time.
First of all, I believe that ALL we are seeing is a carefully crafted illusion. The dollar index (DXY) is giving the illusion of a “strong” US dollar. Of course, it IS strong against what it is measured against- like the plunging Euro and Yen. This gives those who manipulate the “markets” the headlines they need to promote their agendas. In addition, it helps them keep the paper price of gold suppressed because many hedge funds and programs will be programmed to buy dollars and sell gold- paper gold, of course. This helps the price-suppression scheme by putting downward pressure on the gold paper price.
In all reality the US dollar is losing value-just at a slower pace than its competitors. If the US dollar was, in actuality, STRONG would they admit to nearly 10% inflation? In reality, it is closer to 20%!
This leads to the conundrum of trying to avoid losses in risk assets as they are clearly under pressure at this time and sticking your “money” into a bank or money market where you can’t earn anywhere near enough to keep up with the relentless inflation that is taking place.
This is the reason that I believe that hard assets- mainly gold but also silver can play such an important role in what appears to be heading our way. Even though they have joined the downdraft party recently it is my opinion that the downside remains limited while the upside potential is astronomical- particularly when the SHTF which could happen at any moment.
To me, silver is the most undervalued asset on the planet as it is utilized in most modern technologies and has also been used as money in the past. If the idea is to buy low and sell high silver seems to me to be a screaming bargain.
Gold has been money for 5000 years. As fiat currencies have risen and fallen, the one constant throughout history has been the value of gold and its ability to retain purchasing power over time. This is likely the reason that families that pass multi-generational wealth have done it mainly with GOLD, Art and Real Estate.
As citizens of countries that have seen their currencies collapse can attest, gold and silver were extremely important to have. I have written in the past where in Venezuela you needed 3 MILLION Bolivars to buy a cup of coffee a couple of years ago while an ounce of silver would feed a family of 4 for a month. By the way, this was when you needed over 80 ounces of silver to buy an ounce of gold in US dollars.
As we speak, the US dollar looks strong because the two currencies that are most heavily weighted in the DXY, Euro and Yen are collapsing. Forget that the DXY shows them falling and just look at the inflation rates in the Eurozone in particular.
For those in bonds I would be very specific which bonds to own and I doubt that I would find many in the developed “markets” that I would be comfortable owning. Even with massive (unprecedented actually) interventions by central banks “printing and buying” there is upside pressure on rates which generally lead to LOWER bond prices.
For those in stocks, I believe that there are many stocks that have a great opportunity to recover and actually provide solid long-term gains. In my opinion, the most likely to fit this bill are companies that produce the things we humans need to survive and those assets that people may crave in a crisis scenario- like gold, food, energy, etc.
I also believe that the days of throwing darts and thinking we are “smart” is over. I believe that those who will recover from this will be those who know what they are buying and are focusing on good fundamentals, strong balance sheets and good management. There are MANY companies that meet that criteria- it’s just not the ones most people have been buying.
Finally, I was on a call with Goldman Sachs (Thanks Susan Torrisi for the invite) and there was a segment on commodities where many of my thoughts were confirmed in my mind. Their “experts”, including, Brad Kline, who has over 30 years experience and over 50 years of data to go by mentioned that in those 30 years and 50 years of history he has NEVER seen a supply deficit in so many commodities- many at all time record level lows of inventory.
One main point was that he said that over his entire career he has never seen a scenario where a supply deficit has not led to higher prices. I guess there is a first time for anything but history is pointing to far-higher commodity prices and in my mind collapsing currencies will likely add fuel to that fire.
I also believe that a stronger dollar is putting pressure on those that produce those commodities and could lead to even further shortages going forward.
I guess what I am saying is that in a situation like this it is easy to get scared into making decisions that, in hindsight, you may regret. I believe it is likely that many good companies that are down have a good chance at recovery that may far outpace the few cents you may make in an interest-bearing account. Of course, there could be some downside first but timing the “market” is in my opinion- a fool’s game.
While gold is down around 5% in dollar terms as I write this (it has large gains in other currencies) it is still my #1 idea for preserving wealth and allowing me to own an asset that I don’t have to count on anyone else’s promise to pay or repay. It also gives me the opportunity to recover any losses over time which, at this time, fiat currencies do not.
What is the VALUE of a promise that cannot, or will not be kept?
Be Prepared!
https://lemetropolecafe.com/chien_du_cafe.cfm?pid=17834 (sub. req)
Explaining baseball’s next experiment to limit shifts: The ‘pie-slice rule’
By Jayson Stark
Jul 12, 2022
https://theathletic.com/3417955/2022/07/12/baseball-infield-shift-rule-change/
10:30a EIA Natural Gas Inventory
Week over Week 58bcf actual vs 60bcf prior
Definition
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides weekly information on natural gas stocks in underground storage for the U.S. and five regions of the country. The level of inventories helps determine prices for natural gas products.
Inflation nation
excerpted:
The Fed's Beige Book, which is a summary of current market conditions, was also published on Wednesday, but didn't provide a better picture of the economic backdrop. Several of the central bank's 12 regional districts reported growing signs of a slowdown in demand, five districts recorded an increased risk of recession, and the remaining four districts saw economic growth that either slowed or declined. That could translate into a so-called "hard landing," especially after the 2y10y yield curve steepened yesterday to a nearly 12.4 basis point gap.
https://seekingalpha.com/market-news/wall-street-breakfast
Inflation nation
excerpted:
The Fed's Beige Book, which is a summary of current market conditions, was also published on Wednesday, but didn't provide a better picture of the economic backdrop. Several of the central bank's 12 regional districts reported growing signs of a slowdown in demand, five districts recorded an increased risk of recession, and the remaining four districts saw economic growth that either slowed or declined. That could translate into a so-called "hard landing," especially after the 2y10y yield curve steepened yesterday to a nearly 12.4 basis point gap.
https://seekingalpha.com/market-news/wall-street-breakfast?
8:30a Initial Jobless Claims
Initial Claims - Level 244K actual vs 235K (rev) prior
Initial Claims - Change 9K actual vs 4K (rev) prior
4-Week Moving Average 235.75K actual vs 232.50K (rev) prior
Consensus Outlook
Jobless claims for the July 9 week are expected to come in at 234,000 versus 235,000 in the prior week.
Definition
New unemployment claims are compiled weekly to show the number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time. An increasing (decreasing) trend suggests a deteriorating (improving) labor market. The four-week moving average of new claims smooths out weekly volatility.
8:30a Producer Price Index
PPI-FD - M/M 1.1% actual vs 0.8% prior month
PPI-FD - Y/Y 11.3% actual vs 10.8% prior year
Ex-Food & Energy - M/M 0.4% actual vs 0.7% prior month
Ex-Food & Energy - Y/Y 8.2% actual vs 9.7% prior year
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - M/M 0.3% actual vs 0.5% prior month
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - Y/Y 6.4% actual vs 6.8% prior year
Consensus Outlook
Producer prices are expected to rise 0.8 percent on the month in June to match May's increase. Excluding food and energy, the expected increase is 0.5 percent which would compare with May's 0.7 percent.
Definition
The Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller. Effective with the January 2014 PPI data release in February 2014, BLS transitioned from the Stage of Processing (SOP) to the Final Demand-Intermediate Demand (FD-ID) aggregation system. The headline PPI (for Final Demand) measures price changes for goods, services, and construction sold to final demand: personal consumption, capital investment, government purchases, and exports.
8:30a Initial Jobless Claims
Initial Claims - Level 244K actual vs 235K (rev) prior
Initial Claims - Change 9K actual vs 4K (rev) prior
4-Week Moving Average 235.75K actual vs 232.50K (rev) prior
Consensus Outlook
Jobless claims for the July 9 week are expected to come in at 234,000 versus 235,000 in the prior week.
Definition
New unemployment claims are compiled weekly to show the number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time. An increasing (decreasing) trend suggests a deteriorating (improving) labor market. The four-week moving average of new claims smooths out weekly volatility.
8:30a Producer Price Index
PPI-FD - M/M 1.1% actual vs 0.8% prior month
PPI-FD - Y/Y 11.3% actual vs 10.8% prior year
Ex-Food & Energy - M/M 0.4% actual vs 0.7% prior month
Ex-Food & Energy - Y/Y 8.2% actual vs 9.7% prior year
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - M/M 0.3% actual vs 0.5% prior month
Ex-Food, Energy & Trade Services - Y/Y 6.4% actual vs 6.8% prior year
Consensus Outlook
Producer prices are expected to rise 0.8 percent on the month in June to match May's increase. Excluding food and energy, the expected increase is 0.5 percent which would compare with May's 0.7 percent.
Definition
The Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller. Effective with the January 2014 PPI data release in February 2014, BLS transitioned from the Stage of Processing (SOP) to the Final Demand-Intermediate Demand (FD-ID) aggregation system. The headline PPI (for Final Demand) measures price changes for goods, services, and construction sold to final demand: personal consumption, capital investment, government purchases, and exports.
Today's Economic Calendar
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
8:30 Producer Price Index
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.6%. Hong Kong -0.2%. China -0.1%. India -0.2%.
In Europe, at midday, London -0.7%. Paris -0.9%. Frankfurt -0.7%.
Futures at 6:20, Dow -1%. S&P -1%. Nasdaq -0.9%. Crude -2.4% to $94.04. Gold -1.3% to $1713.80. Bitcoin flat at $19,784.
Ten-year Treasury Yield +6 bps to 2.97%
The Banksters have made a black hole
They seem to be losing control
Their orgy of debt
Will need a reset
Our Owners are nearing their goal
-The Limerick King
Today's Economic Calendar
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
8:30 Producer Price Index
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.6%. Hong Kong -0.2%. China -0.1%. India -0.2%.
In Europe, at midday, London -0.7%. Paris -0.9%. Frankfurt -0.7%.
Futures at 6:20, Dow -1%. S&P -1%. Nasdaq -0.9%. Crude -2.4% to $94.04. Gold -1.3% to $1713.80. Bitcoin flat at $19,784.
Ten-year Treasury Yield +6 bps to 2.97%
The Banksters have made a black hole
They seem to be losing control
Their orgy of debt
Will need a reset
Our Owners are nearing their goal
-The Limerick King
Egon von Greyerz-- BEWARE OF MARKETS FULL OF FOOL'S GOLD
https://goldswitzerland.com/beware-of-markets-full-of-fools-gold/
Egon von Greyerz-- BEWARE OF MARKETS FULL OF FOOL'S GOLD
https://goldswitzerland.com/beware-of-markets-full-of-fools-gold/
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
10:00a Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations
Year over Year 3.7% actual vs 3.7% prior
Definition
The Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations survey provides a monthly measure of year-ahead inflation expectations and inflation uncertainty from the perspective of firms. The survey also provides a monthly gauge of firms' current sales, profit margins, and unit cost changes.
10:30a EIA Petroleum Inventories
Crude Oil Inventories - W/W 3.3M barrels vs 8.2M barrels prior
Gasoline Inventories - W/W 5.8M barrels actual vs -2.5M barrels prior
Distillate Inventories - W/W 2.7M barrels actual vs -1.3M barrels prior
Definition
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides weekly information on petroleum inventories in the U.S., whether produced here or abroad. The level of inventories helps determine prices for petroleum products.
10:00a Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations
Year over Year 3.7% actual vs 3.7% prior
Definition
The Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations survey provides a monthly measure of year-ahead inflation expectations and inflation uncertainty from the perspective of firms. The survey also provides a monthly gauge of firms' current sales, profit margins, and unit cost changes.
10:30a EIA Petroleum Inventories
Crude Oil Inventories - W/W 3.3M barrels vs 8.2M barrels prior
Gasoline Inventories - W/W 5.8M barrels actual vs -2.5M barrels prior
Distillate Inventories - W/W 2.7M barrels actual vs -1.3M barrels prior
Definition
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides weekly information on petroleum inventories in the U.S., whether produced here or abroad. The level of inventories helps determine prices for petroleum products.
New methane binding process could end insanely wasteful burn-offs
By Loz Blain
July 03, 2022
Oil industry flare-off burning of "waste" methane currently burns as much natural gas as all of South and Central America combined Depositphotos
The global oil industry wastefully burns off about as much natural gas as is used by all of Central and South America – but a new methane binding agent offers a potential way for this greenhouse gas to be converted economically into liquid fuels.
Methane is a viciously potent greenhouse gas, if a relatively short-lived one. Over a 20-year span, methane emissions are estimated to have a global warming potential 84 to 87 times that of carbon dioxide. Global atmospheric methane concentrations were relatively stable for the last few hundred thousand years, but have increased rapidly since the 1750s and the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It comes from just about everywhere – to quote NASA Earth Observatory writer Adam Voiland, "You can find the odorless, transparent gas miles below Earth’s surface and miles above it. Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes). Human settlements are awash with the gas. Methane leaks silently from natural gas and oil wells and pipelines, as well as coal mines. It stews in landfills, sewage treatment plants, and rice paddies."
Oil production, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), is currently responsible for about 40 percent of the methane emissions across the oil and gas industries. The methane that escapes during oil drilling is of no interest to oil companies; the economics of channeling it into natural gas infrastructure don't work out, it's dangerous and inconvenient to store, and while it can be catalytically converted into much more usable liquid fuels like methanol, the process has been too expensive to consider.
So they burn it, flaring it off into the sky. That's probably more environmentally responsible than just letting it rise into the atmosphere in the short term – but it results in some 265 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, while doing no useful work for anyone.
As long as there are oil wells, this excess methane will need to be dealt with, and researchers at the University of New South Wales say they've made a crucial breakthrough in methane binding that opens the door to much more efficient, effective and hopefully affordable catalytic transformations.
The problem, until now, has been holding methane molecules still enough to study them. According to UNSW, researchers have been able to hold methane in a molecular "vice" using metal-methane complexes – but only for a few microseconds. That's nowhere near the few minutes it takes to properly analyze these kinds of molecules in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy device.
The UNSW team used computational modeling to attempt to predict whether other metals might bind methane for longer, and the results pointed to osmium – a platinum metal and the highest-density element that's found in nature. The team went ahead with experiments, and the results were impressive.
"We have found that methane, which is generally inert, will interact with an osmium-metal-centered species to form a relatively stable osmium-methane complex," says James Watson, lead author on a new study. "Our complex has an effective half-life of around 13 hours.”
“This means that it takes 13 hours for half of the complex to decompose," he continues. "This stability, in conjunction with the relatively long lifetime of this complex, allows for in-depth analysis of the structure, formation and reactivity of this class of [osmium] complexes and helps to inform the design of catalysts that have the potential to transform methane into more synthetically useful compounds.”
Osmium is one of Earth's rarest elements, but that's not likely to be a factor here. What's important is that, for the first time, these osmium complexes allow the kind of in-depth molecular analysis that should lead to new catalytic processes using much cheaper and more available elements that can quickly and economically convert methane into liquid fuels.
"One way of converting methane to liquid fuels is through the use of catalysts that contain transition metal elements,” explains study co-author Associate Professor Graham Ball. "Not only [are liquid fuels] far more convenient and far safer than storing gases, but also [come in] at a much lower energy cost."
“Liquid fuels are easier to transport, he continues, "and would be easily integrated into our existing fuel infrastructure – E10 petrol already has 10 per cent ethanol. If there were efficient, commercially viable methods to convert methane to methanol, for example, this would also provide an incentive to retain methane for conversion, and to avoid burning it without purpose, reducing overall fossil fuel use and damaging emissions. We hope that our discovery will inform the design of next-generation, more efficient catalysts that can be commercially viable."
Now, no liquid hydrocarbon fuel, including methanol, can be viewed as environmentally friendly, since burning it will result in carbon dioxide emissions. But if it's going to be burned, like the massive volume of methane that's currently being flared, it might as well do a job for somebody instead of being completely wasted. It's a transitional step in humanity's struggle to clean up our atmosphere, but it has the potential to make an enormous impact if further research proves as positive as the team expects it will.
The research is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
https://newatlas.com/energy/methane-osmium-binding/
New methane binding process could end insanely wasteful burn-offs
By Loz Blain
July 03, 2022
Oil industry flare-off burning of "waste" methane currently burns as much natural gas as all of South and Central America combined Depositphotos
The global oil industry wastefully burns off about as much natural gas as is used by all of Central and South America – but a new methane binding agent offers a potential way for this greenhouse gas to be converted economically into liquid fuels.
Methane is a viciously potent greenhouse gas, if a relatively short-lived one. Over a 20-year span, methane emissions are estimated to have a global warming potential 84 to 87 times that of carbon dioxide. Global atmospheric methane concentrations were relatively stable for the last few hundred thousand years, but have increased rapidly since the 1750s and the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It comes from just about everywhere – to quote NASA Earth Observatory writer Adam Voiland, "You can find the odorless, transparent gas miles below Earth’s surface and miles above it. Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes). Human settlements are awash with the gas. Methane leaks silently from natural gas and oil wells and pipelines, as well as coal mines. It stews in landfills, sewage treatment plants, and rice paddies."
Oil production, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), is currently responsible for about 40 percent of the methane emissions across the oil and gas industries. The methane that escapes during oil drilling is of no interest to oil companies; the economics of channeling it into natural gas infrastructure don't work out, it's dangerous and inconvenient to store, and while it can be catalytically converted into much more usable liquid fuels like methanol, the process has been too expensive to consider.
So they burn it, flaring it off into the sky. That's probably more environmentally responsible than just letting it rise into the atmosphere in the short term – but it results in some 265 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, while doing no useful work for anyone.
As long as there are oil wells, this excess methane will need to be dealt with, and researchers at the University of New South Wales say they've made a crucial breakthrough in methane binding that opens the door to much more efficient, effective and hopefully affordable catalytic transformations.
The problem, until now, has been holding methane molecules still enough to study them. According to UNSW, researchers have been able to hold methane in a molecular "vice" using metal-methane complexes – but only for a few microseconds. That's nowhere near the few minutes it takes to properly analyze these kinds of molecules in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy device.
The UNSW team used computational modeling to attempt to predict whether other metals might bind methane for longer, and the results pointed to osmium – a platinum metal and the highest-density element that's found in nature. The team went ahead with experiments, and the results were impressive.
"We have found that methane, which is generally inert, will interact with an osmium-metal-centered species to form a relatively stable osmium-methane complex," says James Watson, lead author on a new study. "Our complex has an effective half-life of around 13 hours.”
“This means that it takes 13 hours for half of the complex to decompose," he continues. "This stability, in conjunction with the relatively long lifetime of this complex, allows for in-depth analysis of the structure, formation and reactivity of this class of [osmium] complexes and helps to inform the design of catalysts that have the potential to transform methane into more synthetically useful compounds.”
Osmium is one of Earth's rarest elements, but that's not likely to be a factor here. What's important is that, for the first time, these osmium complexes allow the kind of in-depth molecular analysis that should lead to new catalytic processes using much cheaper and more available elements that can quickly and economically convert methane into liquid fuels.
"One way of converting methane to liquid fuels is through the use of catalysts that contain transition metal elements,” explains study co-author Associate Professor Graham Ball. "Not only [are liquid fuels] far more convenient and far safer than storing gases, but also [come in] at a much lower energy cost."
“Liquid fuels are easier to transport, he continues, "and would be easily integrated into our existing fuel infrastructure – E10 petrol already has 10 per cent ethanol. If there were efficient, commercially viable methods to convert methane to methanol, for example, this would also provide an incentive to retain methane for conversion, and to avoid burning it without purpose, reducing overall fossil fuel use and damaging emissions. We hope that our discovery will inform the design of next-generation, more efficient catalysts that can be commercially viable."
Now, no liquid hydrocarbon fuel, including methanol, can be viewed as environmentally friendly, since burning it will result in carbon dioxide emissions. But if it's going to be burned, like the massive volume of methane that's currently being flared, it might as well do a job for somebody instead of being completely wasted. It's a transitional step in humanity's struggle to clean up our atmosphere, but it has the potential to make an enormous impact if further research proves as positive as the team expects it will.
The research is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
https://newatlas.com/energy/methane-osmium-binding/
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
Kunstler: It’s Not Working
By James Howard Kunstler
July 11, 2022
This summer’s weather is perfect now in the Hudson Valley: warm, sunny days for primping the garden and cool nights that invite deep sleep. Zucchini and cukes are coming on, along with currants, gooseberries, blueberries. Unseen underground, the potatoes swell. The chickens range happily over their daily smorgasbord of bugs. At midnight, fireflies blink in the orchard. On the human side, though — commerce, culture, and politics — nothing works. At least not here in America. Sigh….
The solar electric I installed on the house nine years ago is down. It’s supposed to feed that monster called the grid. Since April, I noticed that the electric bill is creeping up way beyond the usual seventeen bucks that the electric company charges home solar producers for the privilege of feeding their system — which, let’s face it, has a downside for them because the intermittency of so-called alt-energy disorders their operations.
It’s counter-intuitive. Many people, I’m sure, assume that the more solar units feeding the grid, the better. Strangely, not so. Electric companies work much better when the production and flow of current is absolutely predictable and under their control — like, when they decide to fire up the natgas on generator number three or tune down the hydro turbines. It’s much harder to run the system with little dribs and drabs of electricity trickling in from hither and yon. But alt-energy is good PR for the government, so they do whatever they can to promote or even compel its use.
I got a whopping folio of tax breaks and subsidies from the state and federal government when I decided to put solar electric on my house in 2013, though it finally still cost a lot: $35-K. I had intimations of living through a chaotic period of history, and the decision was consistent with my general theory of history, which is that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Getting a home solar electric rig seemed like a good idea.
So, last week, after considerable hassle with my solar company setting up an appointment for a techie to visit and evaluate the problem here, the guy came up (at $150-an-hour) and informed me that my charge controller was shot. The charge controller processes all those chaotic watts coming from the solar panels on the roof into an orderly parade of electrons. He also told me that my back-up batteries — for running critical loads like the well-pump during grid outages — were at the end of their design life. Subtext: you have to get new batteries.
There are four big ones in a cabinet under the blown charge controller and the inverter (for turning direct current into alternating current that is the standard for running things). The techie had some bad news, though. New building codes forbid his company from replacing the kind of batteries I have, which are standard “sealed cell” lead-acid batteries. Some bullshit about off-gassing flammable fumes. Now the government requires lithium batteries, which would cost me sixteen-thousand dollars ($16-K) more to replace than new lead-acid batteries.
Now, it’s theoretically possible for me to replace the less-expensive lead-acid batteries — they’re still manufactured and sold — but the catch is: I’m on my own getting them and installing them. I’m in the middle of that learning-curve right now. These particular batteries cost about $850-each for the four of them, plus a hefty charge for “drop-shipping” about three hundred pounds of lead and plastic. I will almost certainly go that way, though. A new charge controller will run about $2-K. All together, replacing these components represents a big chunk of change.
At the risk of sounding like some kind of pussy, I confess that this whole business of repairing my solar electric system has put me into a welter of anxiety and fury. I am trapped in the cage of sunk costs, a.k.a. the psychology of previous investment. Not only do I have $35-K (in higher-value 2013 dollars!) tied up in all this equipment — the solar panels themselves, the wall of electronic devices, the conduit, control panels, and digital read-outs — but now I have to dump thousands more into it after only nine years. It pisses me off because I should have known better. I walked with eyes wide shut into the pit of techno-narcissism.
The hyper-complexity of a home solar-electric system is extreme. There are hundreds of little integrated components that can blow, all of it adding up to a case of guaranteed fragility. There are no easy fixes or duct-tape work-arounds for any of it. I can’t make any replacement parts in my garage. They come from faraway factories via supply lines that get sketchier every day on trucks that don’t operate profitably at $6.50-a-gallon diesel fuel.
In a low-grade epiphany while going through this ordeal last week, I realized that back in 2013, instead of getting the solar electric system, I could have bought the Rolls Royce of home generators and buried a 500-gallon fuel tank outside the garage, and had a manual water pump piggy-backed onto the well, and maybe even purchased a fine, wood-fired cookstove — and had enough money left over for a two-week vacation in the South-of-France. Silly me.
Of course, these travails with my home solar electric system are a metaphor for the complexity and fragility that is, all of a sudden this year, causing the operations of Western Civ to fly to pieces. My investment in solar was as dumb as what the entire nation of Germany did in attempting to run itself on “green energy.” (Not to mention their more recent dumb-ass decision to forego imports of Russian natgas in order to please the geniuses at Tony Blinken’s State Department, the dumb bunnies.)
Of course, even when I get the solar electric back up-and-running again, something else is sure to go wrong. And in another ten years, the solar panels will be at least half-dead. So, if you’re reading this personal lamentation, consider bending toward simplicity. Wish I had.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-not-working/
Kunstler: It’s Not Working
By James Howard Kunstler
July 11, 2022
This summer’s weather is perfect now in the Hudson Valley: warm, sunny days for primping the garden and cool nights that invite deep sleep. Zucchini and cukes are coming on, along with currants, gooseberries, blueberries. Unseen underground, the potatoes swell. The chickens range happily over their daily smorgasbord of bugs. At midnight, fireflies blink in the orchard. On the human side, though — commerce, culture, and politics — nothing works. At least not here in America. Sigh….
The solar electric I installed on the house nine years ago is down. It’s supposed to feed that monster called the grid. Since April, I noticed that the electric bill is creeping up way beyond the usual seventeen bucks that the electric company charges home solar producers for the privilege of feeding their system — which, let’s face it, has a downside for them because the intermittency of so-called alt-energy disorders their operations.
It’s counter-intuitive. Many people, I’m sure, assume that the more solar units feeding the grid, the better. Strangely, not so. Electric companies work much better when the production and flow of current is absolutely predictable and under their control — like, when they decide to fire up the natgas on generator number three or tune down the hydro turbines. It’s much harder to run the system with little dribs and drabs of electricity trickling in from hither and yon. But alt-energy is good PR for the government, so they do whatever they can to promote or even compel its use.
I got a whopping folio of tax breaks and subsidies from the state and federal government when I decided to put solar electric on my house in 2013, though it finally still cost a lot: $35-K. I had intimations of living through a chaotic period of history, and the decision was consistent with my general theory of history, which is that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Getting a home solar electric rig seemed like a good idea.
So, last week, after considerable hassle with my solar company setting up an appointment for a techie to visit and evaluate the problem here, the guy came up (at $150-an-hour) and informed me that my charge controller was shot. The charge controller processes all those chaotic watts coming from the solar panels on the roof into an orderly parade of electrons. He also told me that my back-up batteries — for running critical loads like the well-pump during grid outages — were at the end of their design life. Subtext: you have to get new batteries.
There are four big ones in a cabinet under the blown charge controller and the inverter (for turning direct current into alternating current that is the standard for running things). The techie had some bad news, though. New building codes forbid his company from replacing the kind of batteries I have, which are standard “sealed cell” lead-acid batteries. Some bullshit about off-gassing flammable fumes. Now the government requires lithium batteries, which would cost me sixteen-thousand dollars ($16-K) more to replace than new lead-acid batteries.
Now, it’s theoretically possible for me to replace the less-expensive lead-acid batteries — they’re still manufactured and sold — but the catch is: I’m on my own getting them and installing them. I’m in the middle of that learning-curve right now. These particular batteries cost about $850-each for the four of them, plus a hefty charge for “drop-shipping” about three hundred pounds of lead and plastic. I will almost certainly go that way, though. A new charge controller will run about $2-K. All together, replacing these components represents a big chunk of change.
At the risk of sounding like some kind of pussy, I confess that this whole business of repairing my solar electric system has put me into a welter of anxiety and fury. I am trapped in the cage of sunk costs, a.k.a. the psychology of previous investment. Not only do I have $35-K (in higher-value 2013 dollars!) tied up in all this equipment — the solar panels themselves, the wall of electronic devices, the conduit, control panels, and digital read-outs — but now I have to dump thousands more into it after only nine years. It pisses me off because I should have known better. I walked with eyes wide shut into the pit of techno-narcissism.
The hyper-complexity of a home solar-electric system is extreme. There are hundreds of little integrated components that can blow, all of it adding up to a case of guaranteed fragility. There are no easy fixes or duct-tape work-arounds for any of it. I can’t make any replacement parts in my garage. They come from faraway factories via supply lines that get sketchier every day on trucks that don’t operate profitably at $6.50-a-gallon diesel fuel.
In a low-grade epiphany while going through this ordeal last week, I realized that back in 2013, instead of getting the solar electric system, I could have bought the Rolls Royce of home generators and buried a 500-gallon fuel tank outside the garage, and had a manual water pump piggy-backed onto the well, and maybe even purchased a fine, wood-fired cookstove — and had enough money left over for a two-week vacation in the South-of-France. Silly me.
Of course, these travails with my home solar electric system are a metaphor for the complexity and fragility that is, all of a sudden this year, causing the operations of Western Civ to fly to pieces. My investment in solar was as dumb as what the entire nation of Germany did in attempting to run itself on “green energy.” (Not to mention their more recent dumb-ass decision to forego imports of Russian natgas in order to please the geniuses at Tony Blinken’s State Department, the dumb bunnies.)
Of course, even when I get the solar electric back up-and-running again, something else is sure to go wrong. And in another ten years, the solar panels will be at least half-dead. So, if you’re reading this personal lamentation, consider bending toward simplicity. Wish I had.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-not-working/
U.S. Energy Department sued over Biden's 'political' oil-reserve releases
SPR created for real emergencies, 'not falling poll numbers caused by failed energy policy'
By Bob Unruh
July 10, 2022 at 1:30pm
The U.S. Department of Energy has been sued by a watchdog organization questioning whether Joe Biden's decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve actually is a political move.
Reports have confirmed some of that oil, which Biden promised would be used to lower gasoline prices across the U.S., actually was shipped out to China.
But Tristan Justice at The Federalist reported that watchdog Functional Government Initiative sued the DOE over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that relate to Biden's use of the valuable national asset in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The FGI wanted documents that would offer insight into the official deliberations that preceded that decision, and any remarks about whether the oil could be used for political purposes.
Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the group, said in a prepared statement, "With each release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we weaken our ability to respond to a legitimate supply crisis. The SPR was created to respond to real emergencies, a category that does not include falling poll numbers caused by a failed energy policy. Americans deserve to know if political motives are behind moves that put their security at risk."
FGI said it started looking into Biden's actions in January, just a few weeks after Biden ordered millions of barrels of oil released in a failed attempt to reduce surging gasoline prices, which reached more than $5 a gallon in many locations.
Biden since then has released hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and his plan is that before the end of this year, some 260 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve will have been used.
That will put the supply's level at its lowest since 1986.
The reserve was created by Congress following the 1970s energy emergencies where Arab nations cut off supplies to the U.S., and drivers spent long hours waiting for opportunities to fill their gasoline tanks.
The purpose of the reserve was to mitigate future emergencies to include natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina where crude oil output and natural gas production was interrupted by the weather emergency.
The report said America's shortage of supplies now is caused by "self-inflicted scarcities in supply after months of animosity toward the industry from the Biden administration, which is telling Americans to simply buy expensive electric cars."
Biden, in fact, has opposed drilling, leasing, exploration, pipelines and more, insisting that everybody go out and buy ultra-expensive electric vehicles, for which there are not enough chargers yet available should consumers do that.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/u-s-energy-department-sued-political-oil-reserve-releases/
U.S. Energy Department sued over Biden's 'political' oil-reserve releases
SPR created for real emergencies, 'not falling poll numbers caused by failed energy policy'
By Bob Unruh
July 10, 2022 at 1:30pm
The U.S. Department of Energy has been sued by a watchdog organization questioning whether Joe Biden's decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve actually is a political move.
Reports have confirmed some of that oil, which Biden promised would be used to lower gasoline prices across the U.S., actually was shipped out to China.
But Tristan Justice at The Federalist reported that watchdog Functional Government Initiative sued the DOE over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that relate to Biden's use of the valuable national asset in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The FGI wanted documents that would offer insight into the official deliberations that preceded that decision, and any remarks about whether the oil could be used for political purposes.
Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the group, said in a prepared statement, "With each release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we weaken our ability to respond to a legitimate supply crisis. The SPR was created to respond to real emergencies, a category that does not include falling poll numbers caused by a failed energy policy. Americans deserve to know if political motives are behind moves that put their security at risk."
FGI said it started looking into Biden's actions in January, just a few weeks after Biden ordered millions of barrels of oil released in a failed attempt to reduce surging gasoline prices, which reached more than $5 a gallon in many locations.
Biden since then has released hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and his plan is that before the end of this year, some 260 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve will have been used.
That will put the supply's level at its lowest since 1986.
The reserve was created by Congress following the 1970s energy emergencies where Arab nations cut off supplies to the U.S., and drivers spent long hours waiting for opportunities to fill their gasoline tanks.
The purpose of the reserve was to mitigate future emergencies to include natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina where crude oil output and natural gas production was interrupted by the weather emergency.
The report said America's shortage of supplies now is caused by "self-inflicted scarcities in supply after months of animosity toward the industry from the Biden administration, which is telling Americans to simply buy expensive electric cars."
Biden, in fact, has opposed drilling, leasing, exploration, pipelines and more, insisting that everybody go out and buy ultra-expensive electric vehicles, for which there are not enough chargers yet available should consumers do that.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/u-s-energy-department-sued-political-oil-reserve-releases/
7:00a MBA Mortgage Applications
Composite Index - W/W -1.7% actual vs -5.4% prior
Purchase Index - W/W -3.6% actual vs -4.3% prior
Refinance Index - W/W 2.2% actual vs -7.7% prior
Definition
The Mortgage Bankers' Association compiles various mortgage loan indexes. The purchase applications index measures applications at mortgage lenders. This is a leading indicator for single-family home sales and housing construction.
8:30a Consumer Price Index
CPI - M/M 1.3% actual vs 1.0% prior month
CPI - Y/Y 9.1% actual vs 8.6% prior year
Ex-Food & Energy- M/M 0.7% actual vs 0.6% prior month
Ex-Food & Energy- Y/Y 5.9% actual vs 6.0% prior year
Consensus Outlook
Consumer prices are expected to shoot 1.1 percent higher on the month in June versus a much hotter-than-expected 1.0 percent rise in May; the year-over-year rate is seen at 8.8 percent versus 8.6 percent. June's core rate is seen up a heated 0.5 percent on the month, versus 0.6 percent in May which, like the month's headline, was also higher than expected; this yearly rate is seen cooling slightly to 5.8 versus May's 6.0 percent.
Definition
The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the change in the average price level of a fixed basket of goods and services purchased by consumers. Monthly changes in the CPI represent the rate of inflation for the consumer. Annual inflation is also closely watched.
The consumer price index is available nationally by expenditure category and by commodity and service group for all urban consumers (CPI-U) and wage earners (CPI-W). All urban consumers are a more inclusive group, representing about 87 percent of the population. The CPI-U is the more widely quoted of the two, although cost-of-living contracts for unions and Social Security benefits are usually tied to the CPI-W, because it has a longer history. Monthly variations between the two are slight.
The CPI is also available by size of city, by region of the country, for cross-classifications of regions and population-size classes, and for many metropolitan areas. The regional and city CPIs are often used in local contracts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces a chain-weighted index called the Chained CPI. This measures a variable basket of goods and services whereas the regular CPI-U and CPI-W measure a fixed basket of goods and services. The Chained CPI is similar to the personal consumption expenditure price index that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve Board.
7:00a MBA Mortgage Applications
Composite Index - W/W -1.7% actual vs -5.4% prior
Purchase Index - W/W -3.6% actual vs -4.3% prior
Refinance Index - W/W 2.2% actual vs -7.7% prior
Definition
The Mortgage Bankers' Association compiles various mortgage loan indexes. The purchase applications index measures applications at mortgage lenders. This is a leading indicator for single-family home sales and housing construction.
8:30a Consumer Price Index
CPI - M/M 1.3% actual vs 1.0% prior month
CPI - Y/Y 9.1% actual vs 8.6% prior year
Ex-Food & Energy- M/M 0.7% actual vs 0.6% prior month
Ex-Food & Energy- Y/Y 5.9% actual vs 6.0% prior year
Consensus Outlook
Consumer prices are expected to shoot 1.1 percent higher on the month in June versus a much hotter-than-expected 1.0 percent rise in May; the year-over-year rate is seen at 8.8 percent versus 8.6 percent. June's core rate is seen up a heated 0.5 percent on the month, versus 0.6 percent in May which, like the month's headline, was also higher than expected; this yearly rate is seen cooling slightly to 5.8 versus May's 6.0 percent.
Definition
The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the change in the average price level of a fixed basket of goods and services purchased by consumers. Monthly changes in the CPI represent the rate of inflation for the consumer. Annual inflation is also closely watched.
The consumer price index is available nationally by expenditure category and by commodity and service group for all urban consumers (CPI-U) and wage earners (CPI-W). All urban consumers are a more inclusive group, representing about 87 percent of the population. The CPI-U is the more widely quoted of the two, although cost-of-living contracts for unions and Social Security benefits are usually tied to the CPI-W, because it has a longer history. Monthly variations between the two are slight.
The CPI is also available by size of city, by region of the country, for cross-classifications of regions and population-size classes, and for many metropolitan areas. The regional and city CPIs are often used in local contracts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also produces a chain-weighted index called the Chained CPI. This measures a variable basket of goods and services whereas the regular CPI-U and CPI-W measure a fixed basket of goods and services. The Chained CPI is similar to the personal consumption expenditure price index that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve Board.
Today's Economic Calendar
7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
8:30 Consumer Price Index
10:00 Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations
10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories
1:00 PM Results of $19B, 30-Year Note Auction
2:00 PM Fed's Beige Book
2:00 PM Treasury Statement
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.5%. Hong Kong -0.2%. China -0.1%. India -0.7%.
In Europe, at midday, London -0.7%. Paris -0.6%. Frankfurt -0.9%.
Futures at 6:20, Dow +0.2%. S&P +0.2%. Nasdaq +0.3%. Crude +0.8% to $96.57. Gold +0.1% to $1726.90. Bitcoin +0.5% to $19,760.
Ten-year Treasury Yield unchanged at 2.96%
A verse from an old Twitter poet
We're screwed but progressives don't know it
A world full of sin
For them is a win
We're damned and we're starting to show it
-The Limerick King
Today's Economic Calendar
7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
8:30 Consumer Price Index
10:00 Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations
10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories
1:00 PM Results of $19B, 30-Year Note Auction
2:00 PM Fed's Beige Book
2:00 PM Treasury Statement
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.5%. Hong Kong -0.2%. China -0.1%. India -0.7%.
In Europe, at midday, London -0.7%. Paris -0.6%. Frankfurt -0.9%.
Futures at 6:20, Dow +0.2%. S&P +0.2%. Nasdaq +0.3%. Crude +0.8% to $96.57. Gold +0.1% to $1726.90. Bitcoin +0.5% to $19,760.
Ten-year Treasury Yield unchanged at 2.96%
A verse from an old Twitter poet
We're screwed but progressives don't know it
A world full of sin
For them is a win
We're damned and we're starting to show it
-The Limerick King
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder
By Ron Wright
July 12, 2022
The murder of Seth Rich has been a topic of conspiracy theorists since the 2016 election. Rich was a young programmer working for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in D.C. Rich supported Berne Sanders. The DNC was sandbagging Berne Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Unknown Assailants shot and killed Rich in July 2016. The robbers took nothing. Despite no theft, the DC Metro Police attributed this murder to a random street robbery gone wrong.
Seth Rich (Fox News screengrab cropped)
Wikileaks published damaging confidential DNC emails in June and July of 2016. Political pundits, campaign operatives, including major news media, elected officials, Big Tech, Deep State operatives, and others, said the DNC cyber-attack was a product of the Russian Collusion before and after the 2016 election.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, denied his source was the Russians. Assange gave this intriguing statement implying Rich might be his source, "I’m suggesting that our sources take risks . . . and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.” Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information related to Rich’s murder.
Crooks will lie and can’t keep their stories straight “. . . When more money is involved, the white-collar perps are more adept at concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.” In political corruption investigations, the rules are to follow the money, Honey, Cui Bono - who benefits, who is credible, and who makes provable false statements.
The way to get to the bottom of the crimes related to Seth Rich’s murder is to invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Dem-media cabal gaslighted any who would question their DNC cyber-attack narrative, one of many lies that expose what Kash Patel called is a joint venture criminal conspiracy (a RICO offense). The conspiracy involved a group of people acting alone or in concert with others to commit crimes with a common purpose against the People of the United States, “including a coup of sitting President. Using illegal usurpation of power, treason, mutiny, bribery, frauds, thefts of public funds, cover-ups, and obstruction of justice. . .”
The Russian Collusion narrative was destroyed in the trial of DNC Attorney Michael Sussman. It was a disinformation product paid for by the Clinton Campaign, released with a wink and nod to the FBI and the CIA. Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally approved the release of the disinformation. Charles Lipson wrote, "The Sussmann trial, like all modern political scandals, is part of a three-ring circus, showcasing sleazy political enablers, malfeasance by public officials, and biased reporting. In this circus of deceit, the public has to walk behind the elephants with a huge shovel.”
If Trump was not the Manchurian candidate as alleged. why would the Russians release compromising information on the Clinton Campaign? What benefit would the Russians accrue from Trump's election? First, the Russians were in tight with the Clintons. And now, even more so with the Biden Administration – follow the money, Honey.
Establishing attribution of a cyber-attack to a foreign state actor or their operatives with any certainty is problematic at best. These actors have sophisticated tools that can spoof and shift attribution to another entity. Moreover, the Russians wouldn't be so careless as to leave digital fingerprints unless intended.
Yet, in the joint release on Oct. 7, by the Department of Homeland Security (Jeh Johnson) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) approved by and encouraged by Obama .". . . was ‘confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails,” according to The Epoch Times.
The DNC refused to give the FBI physical access to their servers. Why? Instead, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC do the forensic investigation of the servers. The FBI did not have the DNC server disk images from CrowdStrike until two weeks after the DHS ODNI press release. How can attribution to the Russians be made with confidence before the FBI even had the disk images? NSA/CIA?
CrowdStrike installed counter-intrusion tools on the DNC servers on May 1, 2016. They said there were no intrusions after this date. Yet, Special Counsel Robert Mueller says the DNC emails were stolen around May 25 to June 1, 2016. Can they not keep their stories straight?
CrowdStrike sent a report to the FBI. The FBI agent who reviewed the report “. . . called it 'heavily redacted,' . . . FBI Assistant Director James Trainor was so frustrated with the redactions that ‘he doubted its completeness because he knew that outside counsel had reviewed it.’” The Epoch Times said, “The 'outside counsel' . . . was all but certainly [Michael] Sussmann, who served as the DNC’s point of contact for all intrusion-related matters." It is obvious from the trial Sussman misled the FBI, albeit the FBI was probably a willing stooge.
CrowdStrike did not attribute the DNC cyber-attack to the Russians “[It] didn’t have concrete evidence that emails had been stolen from the DNC. . . We have indicators that data was exfiltrated.” What does this mean? CrowdStrike found evidence that data was moved on the servers. However, they cannot say the data was removed from the server. It is then possible the data was moved and then removed from the server by someone with physical/credential access to a portable drive — in direct conflict with the DHS ODNI press release. Seth Rich?
The FBI disavowed any knowledge of Rich's murder. The FBI later admitted it had files on the murder after much teeth pulling by Judicial Watch and attorney Ty Clevenger. More importantly, the FBI admitted it had Rich’s laptop. Why? What is the FBI hiding?
Shades of the FBI deep-sixing Hunter Biden’s hard drives and now Rich’s laptop?
The Rich family initially believed Seth Rich and his brother, Arron, were involved with the emails. The Rich family made an abrupt 180 shortly after FOX News began to cover this story. See the reporting by Jack Cashell here and here. Witness tampering?
Victor Davis Hanson writes that the members of the cabal are blatant liars. CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have both lied under oath to Congress. Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe lied too. Both knowingly lied by omission and suborned perjury in signing the FBI FISA warrant applications.
The Intel community is hot to have Assange extradited to the US. Why? My speculation is another suicide ala Jeffrey Epstein. If Rich was Assange’s source for the DNC leak, he was a direct threat to the cabal possibly leading to his murder. Rich could expose the Russian Collusion narrative as the hoax from the beginning. Glenn Greenwald said, "The Assange persecution is the greatest threat to Western press freedoms in years.”
The cabal politically weaponized and subverted the DOJ, the DHS, the Department of State, and related agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the DNI. The FBI, as of late, has gone full Stasi against conservative critics, flagrantly violating their civil rights, according to Tucker Carlson, including the raid on Project Veritas (jurisdiction?) Why?
In my opinion, there is overwhelming probable cause, to begin an investigation into the Rich murder* and other serious felonies under the mandate of Special Prosecutor John Durham. Murder has no statute of limitations. The investigation of the Rich murder can be used to sweat the perps to come clean and rat out the others in the crimes they committed (RICO).
There must be accountability for those who aided or abetted this conspiracy. A two-tier system of justice makes a mockery of the principles of our justice system – equal justice for all, no one is above the law, and the rule of law and not men.
To do otherwise will continue the descent of our Constitutional Republic into a totalitarian Banana Republic and surrender to the agenda of the Marxist New World Order.
* Note: Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/use_rico_to_get_to_the_bottom_of_seth_richs_murder_.html
New methane binding process could end insanely wasteful burn-offs
By Loz Blain
July 03, 2022
Oil industry flare-off burning of "waste" methane currently burns as much natural gas as all of South and Central America combined Depositphotos
The global oil industry wastefully burns off about as much natural gas as is used by all of Central and South America – but a new methane binding agent offers a potential way for this greenhouse gas to be converted economically into liquid fuels.
Methane is a viciously potent greenhouse gas, if a relatively short-lived one. Over a 20-year span, methane emissions are estimated to have a global warming potential 84 to 87 times that of carbon dioxide. Global atmospheric methane concentrations were relatively stable for the last few hundred thousand years, but have increased rapidly since the 1750s and the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It comes from just about everywhere – to quote NASA Earth Observatory writer Adam Voiland, "You can find the odorless, transparent gas miles below Earth’s surface and miles above it. Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes). Human settlements are awash with the gas. Methane leaks silently from natural gas and oil wells and pipelines, as well as coal mines. It stews in landfills, sewage treatment plants, and rice paddies."
Oil production, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), is currently responsible for about 40 percent of the methane emissions across the oil and gas industries. The methane that escapes during oil drilling is of no interest to oil companies; the economics of channeling it into natural gas infrastructure don't work out, it's dangerous and inconvenient to store, and while it can be catalytically converted into much more usable liquid fuels like methanol, the process has been too expensive to consider.
So they burn it, flaring it off into the sky. That's probably more environmentally responsible than just letting it rise into the atmosphere in the short term – but it results in some 265 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, while doing no useful work for anyone.
As long as there are oil wells, this excess methane will need to be dealt with, and researchers at the University of New South Wales say they've made a crucial breakthrough in methane binding that opens the door to much more efficient, effective and hopefully affordable catalytic transformations.
The problem, until now, has been holding methane molecules still enough to study them. According to UNSW, researchers have been able to hold methane in a molecular "vice" using metal-methane complexes – but only for a few microseconds. That's nowhere near the few minutes it takes to properly analyze these kinds of molecules in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy device.
The UNSW team used computational modeling to attempt to predict whether other metals might bind methane for longer, and the results pointed to osmium – a platinum metal and the highest-density element that's found in nature. The team went ahead with experiments, and the results were impressive.
"We have found that methane, which is generally inert, will interact with an osmium-metal-centered species to form a relatively stable osmium-methane complex," says James Watson, lead author on a new study. "Our complex has an effective half-life of around 13 hours.”
“This means that it takes 13 hours for half of the complex to decompose," he continues. "This stability, in conjunction with the relatively long lifetime of this complex, allows for in-depth analysis of the structure, formation and reactivity of this class of [osmium] complexes and helps to inform the design of catalysts that have the potential to transform methane into more synthetically useful compounds.”
Osmium is one of Earth's rarest elements, but that's not likely to be a factor here. What's important is that, for the first time, these osmium complexes allow the kind of in-depth molecular analysis that should lead to new catalytic processes using much cheaper and more available elements that can quickly and economically convert methane into liquid fuels.
"One way of converting methane to liquid fuels is through the use of catalysts that contain transition metal elements,” explains study co-author Associate Professor Graham Ball. "Not only [are liquid fuels] far more convenient and far safer than storing gases, but also [come in] at a much lower energy cost."
“Liquid fuels are easier to transport, he continues, "and would be easily integrated into our existing fuel infrastructure – E10 petrol already has 10 per cent ethanol. If there were efficient, commercially viable methods to convert methane to methanol, for example, this would also provide an incentive to retain methane for conversion, and to avoid burning it without purpose, reducing overall fossil fuel use and damaging emissions. We hope that our discovery will inform the design of next-generation, more efficient catalysts that can be commercially viable."
Now, no liquid hydrocarbon fuel, including methanol, can be viewed as environmentally friendly, since burning it will result in carbon dioxide emissions. But if it's going to be burned, like the massive volume of methane that's currently being flared, it might as well do a job for somebody instead of being completely wasted. It's a transitional step in humanity's struggle to clean up our atmosphere, but it has the potential to make an enormous impact if further research proves as positive as the team expects it will.
The research is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
https://newatlas.com/energy/methane-osmium-binding/
New methane binding process could end insanely wasteful burn-offs
By Loz Blain
July 03, 2022
Oil industry flare-off burning of "waste" methane currently burns as much natural gas as all of South and Central America combined Depositphotos
The global oil industry wastefully burns off about as much natural gas as is used by all of Central and South America – but a new methane binding agent offers a potential way for this greenhouse gas to be converted economically into liquid fuels.
Methane is a viciously potent greenhouse gas, if a relatively short-lived one. Over a 20-year span, methane emissions are estimated to have a global warming potential 84 to 87 times that of carbon dioxide. Global atmospheric methane concentrations were relatively stable for the last few hundred thousand years, but have increased rapidly since the 1750s and the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It comes from just about everywhere – to quote NASA Earth Observatory writer Adam Voiland, "You can find the odorless, transparent gas miles below Earth’s surface and miles above it. Methane bubbles up from swamps and rivers, belches from volcanoes, rises from wildfires, and seeps from the guts of cows and termites (where is it made by microbes). Human settlements are awash with the gas. Methane leaks silently from natural gas and oil wells and pipelines, as well as coal mines. It stews in landfills, sewage treatment plants, and rice paddies."
Oil production, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), is currently responsible for about 40 percent of the methane emissions across the oil and gas industries. The methane that escapes during oil drilling is of no interest to oil companies; the economics of channeling it into natural gas infrastructure don't work out, it's dangerous and inconvenient to store, and while it can be catalytically converted into much more usable liquid fuels like methanol, the process has been too expensive to consider.
So they burn it, flaring it off into the sky. That's probably more environmentally responsible than just letting it rise into the atmosphere in the short term – but it results in some 265 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, while doing no useful work for anyone.
As long as there are oil wells, this excess methane will need to be dealt with, and researchers at the University of New South Wales say they've made a crucial breakthrough in methane binding that opens the door to much more efficient, effective and hopefully affordable catalytic transformations.
The problem, until now, has been holding methane molecules still enough to study them. According to UNSW, researchers have been able to hold methane in a molecular "vice" using metal-methane complexes – but only for a few microseconds. That's nowhere near the few minutes it takes to properly analyze these kinds of molecules in a nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy device.
The UNSW team used computational modeling to attempt to predict whether other metals might bind methane for longer, and the results pointed to osmium – a platinum metal and the highest-density element that's found in nature. The team went ahead with experiments, and the results were impressive.
"We have found that methane, which is generally inert, will interact with an osmium-metal-centered species to form a relatively stable osmium-methane complex," says James Watson, lead author on a new study. "Our complex has an effective half-life of around 13 hours.”
“This means that it takes 13 hours for half of the complex to decompose," he continues. "This stability, in conjunction with the relatively long lifetime of this complex, allows for in-depth analysis of the structure, formation and reactivity of this class of [osmium] complexes and helps to inform the design of catalysts that have the potential to transform methane into more synthetically useful compounds.”
Osmium is one of Earth's rarest elements, but that's not likely to be a factor here. What's important is that, for the first time, these osmium complexes allow the kind of in-depth molecular analysis that should lead to new catalytic processes using much cheaper and more available elements that can quickly and economically convert methane into liquid fuels.
"One way of converting methane to liquid fuels is through the use of catalysts that contain transition metal elements,” explains study co-author Associate Professor Graham Ball. "Not only [are liquid fuels] far more convenient and far safer than storing gases, but also [come in] at a much lower energy cost."
“Liquid fuels are easier to transport, he continues, "and would be easily integrated into our existing fuel infrastructure – E10 petrol already has 10 per cent ethanol. If there were efficient, commercially viable methods to convert methane to methanol, for example, this would also provide an incentive to retain methane for conversion, and to avoid burning it without purpose, reducing overall fossil fuel use and damaging emissions. We hope that our discovery will inform the design of next-generation, more efficient catalysts that can be commercially viable."
Now, no liquid hydrocarbon fuel, including methanol, can be viewed as environmentally friendly, since burning it will result in carbon dioxide emissions. But if it's going to be burned, like the massive volume of methane that's currently being flared, it might as well do a job for somebody instead of being completely wasted. It's a transitional step in humanity's struggle to clean up our atmosphere, but it has the potential to make an enormous impact if further research proves as positive as the team expects it will.
The research is published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
https://newatlas.com/energy/methane-osmium-binding/
Kunstler: It’s Not Working
By James Howard Kunstler
July 11, 2022
This summer’s weather is perfect now in the Hudson Valley: warm, sunny days for primping the garden and cool nights that invite deep sleep. Zucchini and cukes are coming on, along with currants, gooseberries, blueberries. Unseen underground, the potatoes swell. The chickens range happily over their daily smorgasbord of bugs. At midnight, fireflies blink in the orchard. On the human side, though — commerce, culture, and politics — nothing works. At least not here in America. Sigh….
The solar electric I installed on the house nine years ago is down. It’s supposed to feed that monster called the grid. Since April, I noticed that the electric bill is creeping up way beyond the usual seventeen bucks that the electric company charges home solar producers for the privilege of feeding their system — which, let’s face it, has a downside for them because the intermittency of so-called alt-energy disorders their operations.
It’s counter-intuitive. Many people, I’m sure, assume that the more solar units feeding the grid, the better. Strangely, not so. Electric companies work much better when the production and flow of current is absolutely predictable and under their control — like, when they decide to fire up the natgas on generator number three or tune down the hydro turbines. It’s much harder to run the system with little dribs and drabs of electricity trickling in from hither and yon. But alt-energy is good PR for the government, so they do whatever they can to promote or even compel its use.
I got a whopping folio of tax breaks and subsidies from the state and federal government when I decided to put solar electric on my house in 2013, though it finally still cost a lot: $35-K. I had intimations of living through a chaotic period of history, and the decision was consistent with my general theory of history, which is that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Getting a home solar electric rig seemed like a good idea.
So, last week, after considerable hassle with my solar company setting up an appointment for a techie to visit and evaluate the problem here, the guy came up (at $150-an-hour) and informed me that my charge controller was shot. The charge controller processes all those chaotic watts coming from the solar panels on the roof into an orderly parade of electrons. He also told me that my back-up batteries — for running critical loads like the well-pump during grid outages — were at the end of their design life. Subtext: you have to get new batteries.
There are four big ones in a cabinet under the blown charge controller and the inverter (for turning direct current into alternating current that is the standard for running things). The techie had some bad news, though. New building codes forbid his company from replacing the kind of batteries I have, which are standard “sealed cell” lead-acid batteries. Some bullshit about off-gassing flammable fumes. Now the government requires lithium batteries, which would cost me sixteen-thousand dollars ($16-K) more to replace than new lead-acid batteries.
Now, it’s theoretically possible for me to replace the less-expensive lead-acid batteries — they’re still manufactured and sold — but the catch is: I’m on my own getting them and installing them. I’m in the middle of that learning-curve right now. These particular batteries cost about $850-each for the four of them, plus a hefty charge for “drop-shipping” about three hundred pounds of lead and plastic. I will almost certainly go that way, though. A new charge controller will run about $2-K. All together, replacing these components represents a big chunk of change.
At the risk of sounding like some kind of pussy, I confess that this whole business of repairing my solar electric system has put me into a welter of anxiety and fury. I am trapped in the cage of sunk costs, a.k.a. the psychology of previous investment. Not only do I have $35-K (in higher-value 2013 dollars!) tied up in all this equipment — the solar panels themselves, the wall of electronic devices, the conduit, control panels, and digital read-outs — but now I have to dump thousands more into it after only nine years. It pisses me off because I should have known better. I walked with eyes wide shut into the pit of techno-narcissism.
The hyper-complexity of a home solar-electric system is extreme. There are hundreds of little integrated components that can blow, all of it adding up to a case of guaranteed fragility. There are no easy fixes or duct-tape work-arounds for any of it. I can’t make any replacement parts in my garage. They come from faraway factories via supply lines that get sketchier every day on trucks that don’t operate profitably at $6.50-a-gallon diesel fuel.
In a low-grade epiphany while going through this ordeal last week, I realized that back in 2013, instead of getting the solar electric system, I could have bought the Rolls Royce of home generators and buried a 500-gallon fuel tank outside the garage, and had a manual water pump piggy-backed onto the well, and maybe even purchased a fine, wood-fired cookstove — and had enough money left over for a two-week vacation in the South-of-France. Silly me.
Of course, these travails with my home solar electric system are a metaphor for the complexity and fragility that is, all of a sudden this year, causing the operations of Western Civ to fly to pieces. My investment in solar was as dumb as what the entire nation of Germany did in attempting to run itself on “green energy.” (Not to mention their more recent dumb-ass decision to forego imports of Russian natgas in order to please the geniuses at Tony Blinken’s State Department, the dumb bunnies.)
Of course, even when I get the solar electric back up-and-running again, something else is sure to go wrong. And in another ten years, the solar panels will be at least half-dead. So, if you’re reading this personal lamentation, consider bending toward simplicity. Wish I had.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-not-working/
Kunstler: It’s Not Working
By James Howard Kunstler
July 11, 2022
This summer’s weather is perfect now in the Hudson Valley: warm, sunny days for primping the garden and cool nights that invite deep sleep. Zucchini and cukes are coming on, along with currants, gooseberries, blueberries. Unseen underground, the potatoes swell. The chickens range happily over their daily smorgasbord of bugs. At midnight, fireflies blink in the orchard. On the human side, though — commerce, culture, and politics — nothing works. At least not here in America. Sigh….
The solar electric I installed on the house nine years ago is down. It’s supposed to feed that monster called the grid. Since April, I noticed that the electric bill is creeping up way beyond the usual seventeen bucks that the electric company charges home solar producers for the privilege of feeding their system — which, let’s face it, has a downside for them because the intermittency of so-called alt-energy disorders their operations.
It’s counter-intuitive. Many people, I’m sure, assume that the more solar units feeding the grid, the better. Strangely, not so. Electric companies work much better when the production and flow of current is absolutely predictable and under their control — like, when they decide to fire up the natgas on generator number three or tune down the hydro turbines. It’s much harder to run the system with little dribs and drabs of electricity trickling in from hither and yon. But alt-energy is good PR for the government, so they do whatever they can to promote or even compel its use.
I got a whopping folio of tax breaks and subsidies from the state and federal government when I decided to put solar electric on my house in 2013, though it finally still cost a lot: $35-K. I had intimations of living through a chaotic period of history, and the decision was consistent with my general theory of history, which is that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Getting a home solar electric rig seemed like a good idea.
So, last week, after considerable hassle with my solar company setting up an appointment for a techie to visit and evaluate the problem here, the guy came up (at $150-an-hour) and informed me that my charge controller was shot. The charge controller processes all those chaotic watts coming from the solar panels on the roof into an orderly parade of electrons. He also told me that my back-up batteries — for running critical loads like the well-pump during grid outages — were at the end of their design life. Subtext: you have to get new batteries.
There are four big ones in a cabinet under the blown charge controller and the inverter (for turning direct current into alternating current that is the standard for running things). The techie had some bad news, though. New building codes forbid his company from replacing the kind of batteries I have, which are standard “sealed cell” lead-acid batteries. Some bullshit about off-gassing flammable fumes. Now the government requires lithium batteries, which would cost me sixteen-thousand dollars ($16-K) more to replace than new lead-acid batteries.
Now, it’s theoretically possible for me to replace the less-expensive lead-acid batteries — they’re still manufactured and sold — but the catch is: I’m on my own getting them and installing them. I’m in the middle of that learning-curve right now. These particular batteries cost about $850-each for the four of them, plus a hefty charge for “drop-shipping” about three hundred pounds of lead and plastic. I will almost certainly go that way, though. A new charge controller will run about $2-K. All together, replacing these components represents a big chunk of change.
At the risk of sounding like some kind of pussy, I confess that this whole business of repairing my solar electric system has put me into a welter of anxiety and fury. I am trapped in the cage of sunk costs, a.k.a. the psychology of previous investment. Not only do I have $35-K (in higher-value 2013 dollars!) tied up in all this equipment — the solar panels themselves, the wall of electronic devices, the conduit, control panels, and digital read-outs — but now I have to dump thousands more into it after only nine years. It pisses me off because I should have known better. I walked with eyes wide shut into the pit of techno-narcissism.
The hyper-complexity of a home solar-electric system is extreme. There are hundreds of little integrated components that can blow, all of it adding up to a case of guaranteed fragility. There are no easy fixes or duct-tape work-arounds for any of it. I can’t make any replacement parts in my garage. They come from faraway factories via supply lines that get sketchier every day on trucks that don’t operate profitably at $6.50-a-gallon diesel fuel.
In a low-grade epiphany while going through this ordeal last week, I realized that back in 2013, instead of getting the solar electric system, I could have bought the Rolls Royce of home generators and buried a 500-gallon fuel tank outside the garage, and had a manual water pump piggy-backed onto the well, and maybe even purchased a fine, wood-fired cookstove — and had enough money left over for a two-week vacation in the South-of-France. Silly me.
Of course, these travails with my home solar electric system are a metaphor for the complexity and fragility that is, all of a sudden this year, causing the operations of Western Civ to fly to pieces. My investment in solar was as dumb as what the entire nation of Germany did in attempting to run itself on “green energy.” (Not to mention their more recent dumb-ass decision to forego imports of Russian natgas in order to please the geniuses at Tony Blinken’s State Department, the dumb bunnies.)
Of course, even when I get the solar electric back up-and-running again, something else is sure to go wrong. And in another ten years, the solar panels will be at least half-dead. So, if you’re reading this personal lamentation, consider bending toward simplicity. Wish I had.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/its-not-working/
U.S. Energy Department sued over Biden's 'political' oil-reserve releases
SPR created for real emergencies, 'not falling poll numbers caused by failed energy policy'
By Bob Unruh
July 10, 2022 at 1:30pm
The U.S. Department of Energy has been sued by a watchdog organization questioning whether Joe Biden's decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve actually is a political move.
Reports have confirmed some of that oil, which Biden promised would be used to lower gasoline prices across the U.S., actually was shipped out to China.
But Tristan Justice at The Federalist reported that watchdog Functional Government Initiative sued the DOE over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that relate to Biden's use of the valuable national asset in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The FGI wanted documents that would offer insight into the official deliberations that preceded that decision, and any remarks about whether the oil could be used for political purposes.
Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the group, said in a prepared statement, "With each release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we weaken our ability to respond to a legitimate supply crisis. The SPR was created to respond to real emergencies, a category that does not include falling poll numbers caused by a failed energy policy. Americans deserve to know if political motives are behind moves that put their security at risk."
FGI said it started looking into Biden's actions in January, just a few weeks after Biden ordered millions of barrels of oil released in a failed attempt to reduce surging gasoline prices, which reached more than $5 a gallon in many locations.
Biden since then has released hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and his plan is that before the end of this year, some 260 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve will have been used.
That will put the supply's level at its lowest since 1986.
The reserve was created by Congress following the 1970s energy emergencies where Arab nations cut off supplies to the U.S., and drivers spent long hours waiting for opportunities to fill their gasoline tanks.
The purpose of the reserve was to mitigate future emergencies to include natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina where crude oil output and natural gas production was interrupted by the weather emergency.
The report said America's shortage of supplies now is caused by "self-inflicted scarcities in supply after months of animosity toward the industry from the Biden administration, which is telling Americans to simply buy expensive electric cars."
Biden, in fact, has opposed drilling, leasing, exploration, pipelines and more, insisting that everybody go out and buy ultra-expensive electric vehicles, for which there are not enough chargers yet available should consumers do that.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/u-s-energy-department-sued-political-oil-reserve-releases/
U.S. Energy Department sued over Biden's 'political' oil-reserve releases
SPR created for real emergencies, 'not falling poll numbers caused by failed energy policy'
By Bob Unruh
July 10, 2022 at 1:30pm
The U.S. Department of Energy has been sued by a watchdog organization questioning whether Joe Biden's decision to release millions of barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve actually is a political move.
Reports have confirmed some of that oil, which Biden promised would be used to lower gasoline prices across the U.S., actually was shipped out to China.
But Tristan Justice at The Federalist reported that watchdog Functional Government Initiative sued the DOE over its refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests that relate to Biden's use of the valuable national asset in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The FGI wanted documents that would offer insight into the official deliberations that preceded that decision, and any remarks about whether the oil could be used for political purposes.
Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the group, said in a prepared statement, "With each release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we weaken our ability to respond to a legitimate supply crisis. The SPR was created to respond to real emergencies, a category that does not include falling poll numbers caused by a failed energy policy. Americans deserve to know if political motives are behind moves that put their security at risk."
FGI said it started looking into Biden's actions in January, just a few weeks after Biden ordered millions of barrels of oil released in a failed attempt to reduce surging gasoline prices, which reached more than $5 a gallon in many locations.
Biden since then has released hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and his plan is that before the end of this year, some 260 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency reserve will have been used.
That will put the supply's level at its lowest since 1986.
The reserve was created by Congress following the 1970s energy emergencies where Arab nations cut off supplies to the U.S., and drivers spent long hours waiting for opportunities to fill their gasoline tanks.
The purpose of the reserve was to mitigate future emergencies to include natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina where crude oil output and natural gas production was interrupted by the weather emergency.
The report said America's shortage of supplies now is caused by "self-inflicted scarcities in supply after months of animosity toward the industry from the Biden administration, which is telling Americans to simply buy expensive electric cars."
Biden, in fact, has opposed drilling, leasing, exploration, pipelines and more, insisting that everybody go out and buy ultra-expensive electric vehicles, for which there are not enough chargers yet available should consumers do that.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/u-s-energy-department-sued-political-oil-reserve-releases/
Ray DiLorenzo: Aiming For The Iceberg
By Ray DiLorenzo
July 10, 2022
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Whether by incompetence or design, it’s plain that the Democrats are steering the ship-of-state toward an iceberg.
What do you do when your own government begins to tear the country apart? What do you do when they take the greatest nation on earth, extraordinary in all of history, and decide to break the civic and social contract it made with its people 246 years ago?
What do you do when this government creates crises as a national pastime?
No longer does this government recognize gender, instead forces us to acknowledge delusion…
What do you do when a nation’s government tears away at the fabric of its culture, rejecting the precepts of God that protected us and granted us our natural rights? No longer do they punish criminals, or grant a swift trial to the presumed innocent, but instead adopt a 3rd world system of incarcerating the opposition, political prisoners that languish in solitary confinement. This government has opened wide Pandora’s box to every calamity. No longer does this government recognize gender, instead forces us to acknowledge delusion… and believe a surgeon’s knife can do the work of God. We no longer esteem motherhood, instead lower it to ‘birthing parent.’
The education of our youth is non-existent. They teach hate of country and every form of sexual deviance. The teachers of our youth have no remembrance of who we are and where we came from. They are as ignorant as their students.
They have blanketed our nation with a satanic ethos. Every evil has been loosed upon us.
What do you do when a government doesn’t show even a miniscule amount of fiscal responsibility, and takes upon itself powers that were never granted? Executive Orders were never intended to execute policy not approved by Congress, or to enact regulations, but only to streamline and make more efficient how the government is run.
How do you fix a government that shuts down an entire country for a flu-like disease with very suspicious origins, paralyzing the economy, fatally injuring millions of small businesses, but sends billions to big business. It then forces an experimental, non-FDA approved vaccine upon the public that not only may not protect against the disease, but find that those who have taken the vaccine have an increased chance of getting the disease… even double-boosted Fauci got COVID.
The food chain has been broken
The vaccine has been shown to cause other medical conditions like stroke, heart failure, blood clots, brain disorders, convulsions, seizures, blindness, deafness, miscarriages. The list is long. It also exacerbates medical conditions already present in the victim. And in many cases, kills, now in the hundreds of thousands world-wide. The life insurance industry has said the excess death rate especially among those 18 - 64 years old has increased 40% over pre-pandemic levels where a 1 in 200 year catastrophe would have caused a 10% increase. All this from a manufactured pandemic and a vaccine. Had the vaccine been administered at an earlier time it would have been pulled if 50 people had died from it.
How do we fix a government that no longer is willing to deliver to its people the most basic of necessities, food, water, and energy because it doesn’t like the form of energy used to provide it? And, at the same time, we have no viable technology or the infrastructure to support it. And then we find, upon reading the small print, that the planet they envision will have only 500 million people occupying it. We have more than 7 billion people right now. What’s their solution?
Lies, our constant diet.
The food chain has been broken. We are being told that COVID-19 has temporarily disrupted the supply chain. And yet, food processing plants are being destroyed and cattle are being killed as we speak. They’re being mysteriously set ablaze, or exploding, and livestock killed. We’re slowly being sold on synthetic meat, told that livestock is bad for the environment, and that synthetic and genetically modified food is the wave of the future. Even natural food supplements are on the chopping block in favor of synthetic. This is happening in much of Europe as well.
At the heart of much of this madness, or their excuse to disrupt the entire planet’s human existence, is climate change…going ‘green.’ Countries like Germany have literally collapsed their economies as a result. What they will not say is that one volcanic eruption can neutralize environmental efforts for probably the last 50 years. They can even make their region’s climate cooler. But, never mind, it’s not about the environment, it’s about POWER!
Is this destruction by incompetence or design? Both!
People are fighting back. We have seen protests and riots in Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, Romania, The Netherlands. Heck, much of the world is rising up against the New World Order, rejecting the endless restrictions and tyranny where governments have used COVID to seize more power and control for the elites.
The greatest protest, the biggest display of resistance on earth has been in the United States. The Make America Great Again movement is alive and well. It is not about Trump. It is a response to the madness and nonsense we have had to endure for much too long. In 2020 we lost a battle through fraud and deceit, but we will not permit that again.
Is this destruction by incompetence or design? Both! The Democrat Party, and the globalists knew Biden was a screw-up and a corrupt screw-up at that. Ripe for blackmail. Who better to take orders from Obama and Davos?
They think we don’t see the plans for ill that they are stealthily imposing on America and the world. We do. Americans always rise to a challenge. We will take it on and lead the world, save the world if need be. Full speed to starboard.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/aiming-for-the-iceberg
Ray DiLorenzo: Aiming For The Iceberg
By Ray DiLorenzo
July 10, 2022
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Whether by incompetence or design, it’s plain that the Democrats are steering the ship-of-state toward an iceberg.
What do you do when your own government begins to tear the country apart? What do you do when they take the greatest nation on earth, extraordinary in all of history, and decide to break the civic and social contract it made with its people 246 years ago?
What do you do when this government creates crises as a national pastime?
No longer does this government recognize gender, instead forces us to acknowledge delusion…
What do you do when a nation’s government tears away at the fabric of its culture, rejecting the precepts of God that protected us and granted us our natural rights? No longer do they punish criminals, or grant a swift trial to the presumed innocent, but instead adopt a 3rd world system of incarcerating the opposition, political prisoners that languish in solitary confinement. This government has opened wide Pandora’s box to every calamity. No longer does this government recognize gender, instead forces us to acknowledge delusion… and believe a surgeon’s knife can do the work of God. We no longer esteem motherhood, instead lower it to ‘birthing parent.’
The education of our youth is non-existent. They teach hate of country and every form of sexual deviance. The teachers of our youth have no remembrance of who we are and where we came from. They are as ignorant as their students.
They have blanketed our nation with a satanic ethos. Every evil has been loosed upon us.
What do you do when a government doesn’t show even a miniscule amount of fiscal responsibility, and takes upon itself powers that were never granted? Executive Orders were never intended to execute policy not approved by Congress, or to enact regulations, but only to streamline and make more efficient how the government is run.
How do you fix a government that shuts down an entire country for a flu-like disease with very suspicious origins, paralyzing the economy, fatally injuring millions of small businesses, but sends billions to big business. It then forces an experimental, non-FDA approved vaccine upon the public that not only may not protect against the disease, but find that those who have taken the vaccine have an increased chance of getting the disease… even double-boosted Fauci got COVID.
The food chain has been broken
The vaccine has been shown to cause other medical conditions like stroke, heart failure, blood clots, brain disorders, convulsions, seizures, blindness, deafness, miscarriages. The list is long. It also exacerbates medical conditions already present in the victim. And in many cases, kills, now in the hundreds of thousands world-wide. The life insurance industry has said the excess death rate especially among those 18 - 64 years old has increased 40% over pre-pandemic levels where a 1 in 200 year catastrophe would have caused a 10% increase. All this from a manufactured pandemic and a vaccine. Had the vaccine been administered at an earlier time it would have been pulled if 50 people had died from it.
How do we fix a government that no longer is willing to deliver to its people the most basic of necessities, food, water, and energy because it doesn’t like the form of energy used to provide it? And, at the same time, we have no viable technology or the infrastructure to support it. And then we find, upon reading the small print, that the planet they envision will have only 500 million people occupying it. We have more than 7 billion people right now. What’s their solution?
Lies, our constant diet.
The food chain has been broken. We are being told that COVID-19 has temporarily disrupted the supply chain. And yet, food processing plants are being destroyed and cattle are being killed as we speak. They’re being mysteriously set ablaze, or exploding, and livestock killed. We’re slowly being sold on synthetic meat, told that livestock is bad for the environment, and that synthetic and genetically modified food is the wave of the future. Even natural food supplements are on the chopping block in favor of synthetic. This is happening in much of Europe as well.
At the heart of much of this madness, or their excuse to disrupt the entire planet’s human existence, is climate change…going ‘green.’ Countries like Germany have literally collapsed their economies as a result. What they will not say is that one volcanic eruption can neutralize environmental efforts for probably the last 50 years. They can even make their region’s climate cooler. But, never mind, it’s not about the environment, it’s about POWER!
Is this destruction by incompetence or design? Both!
People are fighting back. We have seen protests and riots in Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, Romania, The Netherlands. Heck, much of the world is rising up against the New World Order, rejecting the endless restrictions and tyranny where governments have used COVID to seize more power and control for the elites.
The greatest protest, the biggest display of resistance on earth has been in the United States. The Make America Great Again movement is alive and well. It is not about Trump. It is a response to the madness and nonsense we have had to endure for much too long. In 2020 we lost a battle through fraud and deceit, but we will not permit that again.
Is this destruction by incompetence or design? Both! The Democrat Party, and the globalists knew Biden was a screw-up and a corrupt screw-up at that. Ripe for blackmail. Who better to take orders from Obama and Davos?
They think we don’t see the plans for ill that they are stealthily imposing on America and the world. We do. Americans always rise to a challenge. We will take it on and lead the world, save the world if need be. Full speed to starboard.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/aiming-for-the-iceberg
Guilty are Now Hiding Humanitarian Catastrophe – Dr. Pierre Kory
By Greg Hunter
on: 07/9/2022
A month ago, world renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory, said ,” “This is a humanitarian catastrophe, and it has been ignored. It has been suppressed. It has been censored.”
Well, the dark powers who pushed the vax bioweapon have stopped ignoring the growing massive deaths and injuries and are now trying to shut people up. Namely, doctors like Perrie Kory, who is under investigation by his certification board for so-called “misinformation” about treating Covid and vax injuries that have followed the injections. The facts and data show Dr. Kory has been right all along. Dr. Kory explains, “I definitely think, and Dr. Robert Malone agrees and says, they are getting really nervous on the inside. There are a lot of people that promoted these policies and pushed this vaccine campaign, aggressively, even when the data was coming out that the initial trials were fraudulent. They mischaracterized and manipulated the data and ignored safety signals. . . . The stopping point for these vaccines was probably reached in the second week of January 2021. There were enough deaths being reported and enough injuries being reported that had the FDA been functioning as it should have, the vaccine campaign should have been stopped back then. We are at 15 months now. They are still pushing boosters. We are vaccinating toddlers. There is no limit to this vaccine obsession . . . . This is absolutely terrifying to behold.”
Dr. Kory says the people are waking up to CV19 vax nightmare. Dr. Kory sees vax deaths and injuries accelerating in his own practice. Dr. Kory says, “You can tell the population and the average Joe who have been lied to, drowning on propaganda, and censored from really accurate and appropriate guidance and data are figuring this out. You cannot hide a humanitarian catastrophe of this scale. You cannot hide it even with all the propaganda and censorship. You have young people dying everywhere for no good reason. That can no longer be ignored.”
Dr. Kory also says, “The excess mortality that we have seen and are seeing, first of all, it’s historically unprecedented. A few months ago, a number of life insurance companies were reporting increases in life insurance claims for young working age Americans 18 to 65 . . . up to 40%. Lincoln Financial, the fifth largest life insurance company in the country, just a week ago, announced in the last quarter of 2021 there was a 163% increase in life insurance claims over historical baselines. Those are the drop-deads, heart attacks and strokes. The excess mortalities of cancers we are seeing are going to continue to rage throughout the vaccinated population. That’s going to be going on for some time.”
While the medical boards keep trying to silence and punish people like Dr. Kory, he is still treating patients with vaccine injuries. Kory says, “Almost all the patients we are seeing are disabled (from the CV19 vax) and they cannot work, and if they can work, they are very limited. That is one pattern. Another is they get vaxed and they get sick, and then they get better, but a week or two later, weird stuff starts to happen. The most common symptom that is I see is #1 fatigue. The vast majority are having a chronic fatigue syndrome presentation.”
Dr. Kory is trying a variety of new treatments for the vax injured, but his baseline go-to drug is still Ivermectin because it binds to the spike proteins and removes them from the body. Ivermectin is also a very good anti-inflammatory, according to Dr. Kory. The good news is he is finding ways to help people with vax injuries and is learning more every day.
There is much more in the 53-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Pierre Kory, one of the top Pulmonary and Covid Critical Care experts on the planet, who is co-founder of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net) and author of the upcoming book “The War on Ivermectin.”
https://rumble.com/v1bp4ez-guilty-are-now-hiding-humanitarian-catastrophe-dr.-perrie-kory.html
After the Interview:
All the information is free on Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance website flccc.net.
The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC Alliance) is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
https://usawatchdog.com/guilty-are-now-hiding-humanitarian-catastrophe-dr-pierre-kory/
Guilty are Now Hiding Humanitarian Catastrophe – Dr. Pierre Kory
By Greg Hunter
on: 07/9/2022
A month ago, world renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory, said ,” “This is a humanitarian catastrophe, and it has been ignored. It has been suppressed. It has been censored.”
Well, the dark powers who pushed the vax bioweapon have stopped ignoring the growing massive deaths and injuries and are now trying to shut people up. Namely, doctors like Perrie Kory, who is under investigation by his certification board for so-called “misinformation” about treating Covid and vax injuries that have followed the injections. The facts and data show Dr. Kory has been right all along. Dr. Kory explains, “I definitely think, and Dr. Robert Malone agrees and says, they are getting really nervous on the inside. There are a lot of people that promoted these policies and pushed this vaccine campaign, aggressively, even when the data was coming out that the initial trials were fraudulent. They mischaracterized and manipulated the data and ignored safety signals. . . . The stopping point for these vaccines was probably reached in the second week of January 2021. There were enough deaths being reported and enough injuries being reported that had the FDA been functioning as it should have, the vaccine campaign should have been stopped back then. We are at 15 months now. They are still pushing boosters. We are vaccinating toddlers. There is no limit to this vaccine obsession . . . . This is absolutely terrifying to behold.”
Dr. Kory says the people are waking up to CV19 vax nightmare. Dr. Kory sees vax deaths and injuries accelerating in his own practice. Dr. Kory says, “You can tell the population and the average Joe who have been lied to, drowning on propaganda, and censored from really accurate and appropriate guidance and data are figuring this out. You cannot hide a humanitarian catastrophe of this scale. You cannot hide it even with all the propaganda and censorship. You have young people dying everywhere for no good reason. That can no longer be ignored.”
Dr. Kory also says, “The excess mortality that we have seen and are seeing, first of all, it’s historically unprecedented. A few months ago, a number of life insurance companies were reporting increases in life insurance claims for young working age Americans 18 to 65 . . . up to 40%. Lincoln Financial, the fifth largest life insurance company in the country, just a week ago, announced in the last quarter of 2021 there was a 163% increase in life insurance claims over historical baselines. Those are the drop-deads, heart attacks and strokes. The excess mortalities of cancers we are seeing are going to continue to rage throughout the vaccinated population. That’s going to be going on for some time.”
While the medical boards keep trying to silence and punish people like Dr. Kory, he is still treating patients with vaccine injuries. Kory says, “Almost all the patients we are seeing are disabled (from the CV19 vax) and they cannot work, and if they can work, they are very limited. That is one pattern. Another is they get vaxed and they get sick, and then they get better, but a week or two later, weird stuff starts to happen. The most common symptom that is I see is #1 fatigue. The vast majority are having a chronic fatigue syndrome presentation.”
Dr. Kory is trying a variety of new treatments for the vax injured, but his baseline go-to drug is still Ivermectin because it binds to the spike proteins and removes them from the body. Ivermectin is also a very good anti-inflammatory, according to Dr. Kory. The good news is he is finding ways to help people with vax injuries and is learning more every day.
There is much more in the 53-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Pierre Kory, one of the top Pulmonary and Covid Critical Care experts on the planet, who is co-founder of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net) and author of the upcoming book “The War on Ivermectin.”
https://rumble.com/v1bp4ez-guilty-are-now-hiding-humanitarian-catastrophe-dr.-perrie-kory.html
After the Interview:
All the information is free on Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance website flccc.net.
The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC Alliance) is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
https://usawatchdog.com/guilty-are-now-hiding-humanitarian-catastrophe-dr-pierre-kory/