from Gregory Mannarino
Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed?
Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice pick, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism.
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self-described, though accurately described, revolutionaries.
It is a Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist moment. All aspects of life, well beyond politics, are now to be ideologically conditioned. Everything from kindergarten messaging, cartoons, workplace reeducation, and television commercials to college admissions, baseball games, and the airlines are to be “fundamentally transformed” along racial lines.
Long gone is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of a colorblind society. Gone, at least at the state level, is confidence in the melting pot of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage (although mixed marriages and multiracial children are at an all-time high).
Archegos & Credit Suisse – Tip of the Iceberg
by Egon von Greyerz
Gold Switzerland
Bill Hwang, the founder of the hedge fund Archegos that just lost $30 billion, probably didn’t realise when he named his company that it was predestined for big things.
Archegos is a Greek word which means leader or one who leads so that others may follow.
ARCHEGOS THE FIRST OF MANY TO COME
This, until a few days ago, unknown hedge fund is a trailblazer for what will happen to the $1.5+ quadrillion derivatives market. I have warned about the derivatives bubble for years. Archegos has just lit the fuse and soon this whole market will explode.
I know that technically Archegos was a Family Office for favourable regulatory reasons. But for all intents and purposes I consider it a hedge fund.
One Plus One Does Not Equal Two – The Economy & Pandemic Send More Mixed Signals
by Dave Allen
The International Forecaster
Something about this economy isn’t adding up. In fact, it’s a take-your-pick look at what ills the world’s states of finance.
For investors, the most frustrating thing making critical decision making so hard — and unreliable — is all the mixed signals out there…day after day after day.
On Monday, we learn that consumer sentiment is the highest since the end of the Great Recession.
On Tuesday, we’re told that Americans’ fear of hunger, eviction and foreclosure are at record highs.
On Wednesday, a new analysis tells us that GDP is expected to grow by 6% in the 1st quarter of 2021.
On Thursday, an article shows that over 10 million people are still unemployed, with tens of thousands of restaurants and bars permanently closed.
Biden’s U.N. Ambassador: ‘White Supremacy’ in America’s ‘Founding Documents and Principles’
by Hank Berrien
Daily Wire
President Biden’s UN Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the National Action Network, founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, that “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.” She also championed Black Lives Matter, saying, “I remain hopeful in part because of the influence and the insistence of organizations like yours. Just look at the way [the] Black Lives Matter movement spread this past summer.”
Saying it was “so important to engage on a global scale,” Thomas-Greenfield called for “recommitting to multilateral institutions”:
‘Get the F**k Out of Here!’: Video Shows CNN Staffer Almost Knocked Clean Out at BLM Protest
by Ashley Carnahan
DailyCaller.com
Protestors at the Brooklyn Center Police District in Minnesota chased away a CNN camera crew as the state braces for the fourth night of violent protests in the wake of the death of Daunte Wright.
A CNN camera crew member is seen on video getting hit in the face with a water bottle, visibly stunned and stumbling to the ground.
[…] “Do we have a medic? Do we have a medic?” a bystander asked after the man was hit. The stunned CNN crew member responded saying, “I’m fine. It’s all good people. No worries. All good.”
Moments later, a large group of protestors followed CNN reporter Miguel Marquez and his crew member, telling them to “get the f*** out of here.”
Florida House Passes Bill to Keep Trans Athletes Out of Girls’ Sports
by Dr. Susan Berry
Breitbart.com
The Florida House passed a bill Wednesday that would prohibit school athletic teams and sports designated for girls and women from admitting males.
HB 1475, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, passed in the Republican-led state House by a vote of 77-40, mostly along party lines.
The bill would require admission to public school and college sports teams to be based on male/female sex, not gender identity.
The Hill reported the legislation, if enacted, “would require that sports team eligibility be based on a student’s ‘biological sex,’” and explained the phrase refers to “the sex assigned at birth.”
The legislation states:
200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny
by James Bovard
The American Institute for Economic Research
This is the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the best American books on trade policy by one of the most thoughtful and least appreciated political analysts of the Founding Fathers era.
I ran into John Taylor of Caroline when I was roaming the shelves of the Library of Congress in 1987. A few weeks earlier, I had written a piece that the Wall Street Journal headlined, “U.S. Fair Trade Laws Are Anything But,” in which I pounded the Commerce Department for almost always finding imports guilty of selling at “less than fair value” on the basis of nonsense pulled out of their bureaucratic ears. I scoffed that U.S. “trade laws perpetually inflate domestic prices in order to protect consumers against the one-in-a-million possibility that a foreign company could corner the market — and raise prices.” Bruce Smart, the undersecretary of commerce for international trade, sent an angry response to the Journal: “Mr. Bovard displays an alarming ignorance of our trade laws.” I sought to allay officialdom’s alarms by becoming better informed.
Racist Doctors in Boston Push to Deny Healthcare Services to White People, Based Entirely on the Color of Their Skin
by SD Wells
DC Clothesline
Because White people had Black slaves in America over 160 years ago, all White people in America now must pay for it, in the form of sacrificing their healthcare, according to a couple of racist doctors in Boston. That makes a whole lot of sense. By that logic, that should also mean that all Egyptians living in America need to pay double for (White) Jewish people’s healthcare, because Egyptians made Jews slaves for twice as long as the Whites did Blacks in America.
Also, any Japanese Americans should be able to get free healthcare paid for by American politician’s families who put the Japanese in internment camps (concentration camps) during WWII, thus “enslaving” them and entitling them all to reparations in the form of healthcare. Plus, any non-Jewish Germans who are living in America must pay for all Jewish people’s healthcare, because of Nazi Germany and the enslavement there, which is even more recent that Black slavery in America. So there’s that.
Ruling Class Unites to Push the “Vaccines”
by Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
Members of the ruling class and their puppets in Hollywood have joined forces and united to make sure we all get the experimental gene therapy shots. President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and a slew of celebrities will be taking part in a television special to “educate viewers, raise awareness and dispel concerns surrounding the Covid-19 vaccines.”
The hour-long special, titled “Roll Up Your Sleeves’” will air Sunday night on NBC, according to a report by RT. It will primarily be focused on promoting Covid-19 vaccines to viewers and reminding people that vaccinations are essential if Americans want to “return to the activities they love” that has been put on pause by these same masters’ restrictions across the country. So basically, in order to be free, which is our God-given right, we have to be unfree and give up our body sovereignty and just get injected with whatever the rulers decide.
Predator Released Early From French Prison Over ‘COVID’ Concerns Rapes Teen
by Dan Lyman
InfoWars Europe
The family of a young girl allegedly raped by a suspect who was released early from a French prison due to COVID-related ‘crowding’ concerns is preparing to sue the government, according to reports.
In October, the 17-year-old victim reportedly crossed paths with her alleged rapist, 27, who had been sprung from prison months ahead of schedule, in a town in the Nord-Isère department of France.
The suspect, described as a “colossus” with eight prior convictions, had been sentenced to four years in prison in 2018 for “slaughtering and raping his girlfriend,” the girl’s father explained to local media.
The victim was allegedly drugged and raped while under death threats.
You Must Get Prepared: We Are Witnessing Extreme Currency Debasement
from King World News
One of the greats in the business just warned investors they must get prepared because we are witnessing extreme currency debasement.
US Money Supply: More Lies from On High
April 14 (King World News) – Matthew Piepenburg at Matterhorn Asset Management (based in Switzerland): Upton Sinclair famously observed that, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
After decades navigating among Wall Street sell-siders or reading the pablum that passes for financial journalism in the retail space, it was always an open secret in the big banks that if you wanted to move up the ladder, don’t rock the boat.
In short: Keep the message bullish, as bears get fired and bulls stay hired.
Idiocy: Experimental Vaccines and Spike Proteins
by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
So now the FDA has “paused” the J&J Covid-19 vaccine because of, as they claim, just six cases of thrombotic disorder.
That alleged “six” is a ******ned lie; this is a hell of a lot more common than that even though one in a million is outside of the parameters that are acceptable for a disease that only gets you 2/100,000 times. Why? Because you’re not guaranteed to get a virus but you are guaranteed to take the risk when you are stabbed with it. As such while it sounds like the vaccine is wildly safer than the virus that’s false because infection probability has to come into the picture too, plus whatever mitigation and treatment options you may have. Of course if you’re wildly obese or otherwise compromised the math is different but anyone who believes that a mere six incidents are involved here has rocks in their head, particularly when the mRNA vaccines are associated with over 2,000 deaths at this point in time and yet they have not been similarly “paused.”
The Middle Class Has Finally Been Suckered into the Casino
by Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
The Fed’s casino isn’t just rigged; it’s criminally unstable.
The decay of America’s middle class has been well documented and many commentators have explored the causal factors. The bottom line is that this decay isn’t random; the income of the middle class isn’t going to suddenly increase at 15 times the growth rate of the income of the top 0.1%. (see chart below)
The income of the top 0.1% grew 15 times faster than the incomes of the bottom 90% because that’s the only possible output of America’s distorted financial system. The same can be said of the rising asymmetry of wealth: the top 10% own 2.5 more wealth than the middle class (51% to 90%) and 34 times the wealth of the bottom 50% as a result of the asymmetric structure of our financial system.
In a truly market economy, risk avoidance is rational as risk can wipe you out.
Former CIA Director Destroys Yellen’s “Illicit” Crypto-Use Fearmongering Narrative
from Zero Hedge
Authored by Steven Ehrlich via Forbes.com,
Bitcoin just received a strong vote of confidence from an unlikely source, a former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In so doing, he put senior government officials who issue public warnings about bitcoin’s alleged use by criminals, such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on notice.
Michael Morell, a 33-year veteran of the agency, published an independent paper commissioned by the newly formed lobbying group Crypto Council for Innovation (whose founding members include Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Square) directly refuting this well-traveled narrative. In an expansive study, Morell came to two key conclusions:
Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Government Contract
by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock
The Street
Nancy Pelosi’s husband made an excellent Microsoft stock market trade. Let’s check out the details.
Purchase of Stock Via Call Options
Barron’s reports Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Bought Roblox, Microsoft Stock
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband just disclosed he bought Roblox stock the day it went public, and acquired Microsoft stock through options.
The Barron’s article is behind a paywall. Fox News also reports the same thing: Pelosi’s Husband Bought $10M in Microsoft Shares Through Options.