by Jeff Berwick
Dollar Vigilante
Throughout history, overlords controlled their subjects through fear.
The ever-popular witch hunt is a prime example of maniacs finding a socially acceptable reason for the divergent to be unjustifiably persecuted and/or killed.
The Salem PSYOP
Between June 1692 and May 1693, fourteen women, five men, and two dogs were executed for their supposed supernatural crimes in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
The process of identifying witches began with suspicions or rumors. The people most likely to be accused of witchcraft in Salem were those who appeared to be different from the norm.
President Donald Trump has reportedly dropped an idea to start a third political party, which was briefly floated last week, and is now focused on helping the Republican Party win back the House and the Senate in 2022.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got into a heated argument with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday while discussing claims of election fraud.
A little more than two decades ago, amidst the wild excesses of the dot-com boom, I wrote what turned out to be an epitaph for those heady times in the The San Francisco Examiner. It bore the headline Monsters from the Id Threaten the System, a metaphorical nightmare that I’ll explain shortly. Then as now, vast quantities of money driving stocks to absurd heights seemed practically limitless. ‘Easy Al’ Greenspan was in charge of the Fed, and the loose monetary policies he pursued reflected some of the crackpot ideas he evidently brought with him from Columbia University’s PhD program.
It did not take long for the Lie Machine, aka American media, to create the false news and fake narrative of the “storming of the US Capitol” on January 6 by a “white supremacist insurrection.” Here is an example from Bloomberg Weekend Reading on January 23, 2021:
If you cherish faith, family and freedom, you might want to keep a low profile for a while. The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 has been unveiled in Congress, and it has bipartisan support. It is essentially “the Patriot Act on steroids”, and we are being told that it is almost certain that some version of the legislation will make it to Biden’s desk for him to sign. Personally, I am very much against all forms of domestic terrorism, and a law which could help to prevent terror attacks from happening is going to sound like a good thing to a lot of people. Unfortunately, it appears that this bill is meant to specifically target certain groups, and as you read this article you may discover that you are a member of one or more of those groups.
Users on Instagram are reporting that the social media platform is forcing them to follow Joe Biden’s White House account, apparently to compensate for having less than one million followers.
The Fed has a binary choice: preserve America’s global hegemony or further enrich the billionaires. You can’t have both.
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Running a restaurant is tough even during the Good Times. But the strain put on restaurants now was beyond imagination not long ago.
President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech was full of calls for “unity” to a bitterly divided nation. But mixed in with a positive acknowledgment that “politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path” were a politician’s traditional calls to unify around favored policy proposals. And among those proposals is a $1.9 trillion pandemic “relief” package that might unite Americans the way a sinking ship brings passengers and crew together as they await their fate.
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the crisis Democrats were waiting for, and they are not going to waste it. Those few hours of lawless mayhem became unimpeachable proof that the muddy smears they’d thrown against Donald Trump supporters were all true.
In August 2016, Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times saw Donald Trump was going to be serious candidate. He spoke for many in the media:
