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The Horror! MSM Freaked Out by “Shocking” Video of Maskless Supermarket

Free Americans trigger establishment shills

by Kelen McBreen
Info Wars

Mainstream media is throwing a fit over footage of a Florida supermarket where multiple employees and customers are not wearing face masks.

[…] Former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, now with NBC News, reported on the video clip Wednesday night.

Smith condemned the Floridians for jumping the gun when it comes to taking off the face shields, saying, “We all fantasize about a time when we won’t have to wear the masks anymore. It’s not now. But some at a supermarket in Florida appear to have decided that the time is now.”

The viral footage “looks like it was taken pre-pandemic,” according to Smith.

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This is How We Will Know Gold Has Bottomed

from King World News

With many people watching the tumble in the gold market, this is how we will know the price of gold has bottomed.

This Is How Gold Will Bottom

February 4 (King World News) – Fred Hickey: “US dollar rally” is the explanation pundits use to explain gold sell-off. Reality: gold soared to record highs in early August and we’re now in an extended correction. Dollar FELL throughout this 5-mo. gold correction. Gold correction from the record highs has to run its course.

What I’m Looking For

Gold correction will end once enough of the week-kneed (who are still hanging on) finally punt on gold. We’re getting closer. Reality is this is just a correction in a major bull with conditions ripe for much higher levels: deeply negative real rates, a bout of inflation ahead.

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Surveillance Kills Freedom

by Andrew P. Napolitano
LewRockwell.com

“The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings, and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

When Justice Louis D. Brandeis referred to the right to privacy as “the right to be let alone,” it was 1928. He was dissenting in a Supreme Court opinion called Olmstead v. United States, in which federal agents tapped the telephone lines of Roy Olmstead and others and recorded their conversations about importing alcohol into the U.S. during Prohibition. They did so without search warrants. On the basis of the tapped conversations, Olmstead and his colleagues were convicted of conspiracy to violate federal law. The Supreme Court upheld their convictions.

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The Depths to Which We’ve Descended

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

I’ve had this article in the queue for a while and refused to publish it because these physicians have been telling the truth about science when it comes to Ivermectin and other treatments, including the steroid-responsive and timing-sensitive nature of Covid-19, since it started.

I’ve been following their and EVMS’ work since they first organized, and the first data out of Broward on Ivermectin was reported — and instantly buried and ignored by NIH and everyone else.

As I’ve repeatedly pointed out when you have a “mad rush” sort of response to a pathogen that suddenly becomes relevant you have two basic choices: Repurposing existing drugs and methods and devising new ones.

The first is faster but has two problems — the “newest” possible therapies are on-patent, tend to be very expensive and thus by definition reserved for the most-ill simply because giving everyone in a nation a $3,000 shot is not going to happen.

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In a Year of Wild Conspiracy Theories, Super Bowl Sex Trafficking is a Classic

Plus: A reminder that censorship backfires, Wyoming city considers ban on “performance prostitution,” and more…

by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Reason.com

The Super Bowl shows how truly mainstream sex trafficking conspiracy theories are. With Super Bowl LV coming up this Sunday, the now-routine round of warnings about sex trafficking around the big game has once again surfaced. (There’s even an art awareness project that involves goats, and special spot-a-trafficker training for Uber drivers.)

So, here is your annual reminder that there’s no truth to the idea that forced and underage prostitution pick up around the Super Bowl (or other big sporting events), nor that “human traffickers” will descend on the city where it takes place. Tampa can rest easy (at least about that), and we can all marvel at the persistence and audacity of this myth.

The idea that violence against women picks up around the Super Bowl started gaining steam in the 1980s, though back then the specific claim was that domestic violence picked up during sporting events generally and that wife-beating was epidemic on Super Bowl day.

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It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It

by Brian C. Joondeph
American Thinker

One of comedian George Carlin’s more notable quotes, pointing out a reality of American life is, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” His words are a simple commentary on the ruling class, the elites, the cabal, the establishment, or the deep state, whatever you prefer to call the Big Club.

Donald Trump is the first president since Ronald Reagan to point this out. Neither men were members of the Big Club. Reagan was a former actor (the bit about serving as a two-term governor of California is conveniently omitted from his biography, instead characterizing him only as a simple thespian) who attended a little-known college in Illinois. He did not have the Ivy League degrees of Big Club members named Bush, Clinton, or Obama.

Trump has an Ivy League undergraduate degree that the elites ignore, preferring to believe he is a graduate of a community college or reform school. He never held political office, instead winning the most important election in the world assisted only by his family and a handful of campaign staff. He handily defeated Big Club members Clinton, Bush, Kasich, and Rubio.

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Janet Yellen Says She Needs to “Understand Deeply” the GameStop Chaos

from Zero Hedge

What would easily explained “chaos” in the markets be if Fed enabler turned Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen didn’t weigh in to muddy the waters?

Yellen said Thursday she wanted to “understand deeply” what happened during the GameStop fiasco before making any regulatory decisions, according to Reuters.

On Good Morning America on Thursday, Yellen, responsible for overseeing possibly the largest Fed-induced market bubble in history, said: “We really need to make sure that our financial markets are functioning properly, efficiently and that investors are protected.”

Yellen also argued for “a massive federal stimulus plan”, which probably explains why gold dumped 2.3% early in the Thursday cash session.

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Historical Lessons in Prosperity vs Poverty

by Simon Black
Sovereign Man

As the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan had a lot to prove.

So he set his eyes on the biggest prize in the known world at the time: southern China.

Kublai Khan completed his conquest of China in 1279, forging a new empire and creating the Yuan dynasty.

The Mongols were known for their expensive habits— they liked war and women especially. So when the money started to run out, administrators in the Yuan dynasty started printing paper money.

Yuan officials weren’t the first to come up with this idea; the government from the prior Song dynasty had also printed paper money.

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Citadel is Paying for Order Flow from Nine Online Brokerage Firms – Not Just Robinhood

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade

Since 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission has required brokerage firms to file a quarterly report showing where they are routing their stock trades for execution. The filing is known as a 606 report after Rule 606 of Regulation NMS (National Market System). Because so many traders at Reddit’s WallStreetBets’ message board have focused on the fact that billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities was executing the majority of trades for Robinhood, the trading app where a lot of the Redditors directed their GameStop trades, we decided to take a look at what other online brokers might have also been directing GameStop trades to Citadel Securities.

According to the 606 reports for the fourth quarter of 2020 for the following nine online brokers, Citadel was providing payment-for-order-flow (giving a cash rebate for trade orders directed to it) to each of the following: Robinhood, E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, WeBull, Ally Invest Securities, First Trade and TradeStation. At Fidelity Brokerage Services, it was directing stock and option orders to Citadel Securities but was only receiving payment-for-order-flow on the option orders, according to its 606 report.

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San Francisco Sues Its Own School District for Failing to Have Reopening Plan

by Damjan Tutarkov
LaCorte News

The city of San Francisco plans to sue its own school district for failing to come up with a plan to safely reopen schools, as required by law.

Mayor London Breed has allowed City Attorney Dennis Herrera to file a lawsuit against the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District for violating a state law that obligates schools to come up with plans “to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible.”

The law states that the plan is especially needed for students who have experienced “significant learning loss due to school closures” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Students in San Francisco have been out of school for nearly a year, and the remote learning process has had a particularly negative impact on low-income and minority students who have no access to online learning, according to data released by the school district.

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An American Bubble Bath

by Gary Christenson
GoldSeek

[…] Americans love bubbles. We went crazy in 1929 and drove stocks to record highs. The Dow returned to 1929 highs in 1954, not counting inflation and survivorship bias. Bubbles are dangerous and destructive.

The DOW reached 1,000 in 1966. It sold for 900 in 1982, sixteen years later, but during that time inflation had wiped out 2/3 of its value. A new high measured in purchasing power occurred years later.

Silver sold for less than $5 in 1977 and over $50 in early 1980. Nominal silver prices fell to $3.51 in 1993, a loss of 93%, not counting dollar devaluations. The actual loss was perhaps 96-97%. Grim!

The NASDAQ 100 loss after the 2000 bubble was over 80%, top to bottom. Remember when almost every bar tuned to CNBC so people could watch their stock portfolio rise? We discovered that price is not value and paper wealth can disappear.

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The Stock Market is Broken, Now for All to See

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

The historic short squeeze, engineered by a bunch of deeply cynical small traders, exposed just how rigged the market has been.

It has finally blown into the open for all to see. The stock market has been broken for a while, for a long time, actually. The idea that the stock market is where price discovery takes place on a rational transparent basis, with ups and downs, and some amount of chaos, but free of rampant manipulations – that idea has now totally imploded.

What has been visible for a long time but now blew into the open is just how manipulated the market is, by all sides, how overleveraged the big players are because the Fed encouraged them to, and how enormous the risks are, and how crazy the trading strategies are.

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Why Are So Many Americans Stockpiling Guns, Silver and Food Right Now?

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

We were told that 2021 would be the year when everything starts to get back to normal. But that hasn’t exactly been the case, has it? It has been just over a month, and there is still chaos everywhere. We have seen a wild riot at the U.S. Capitol, civil unrest has been erupting in major cities from coast to coast, millions of people have filed for unemployment benefits, a president was impeached, and a crazy ride on Wall Street made “GameStop” a national phenomenon. That would normally be enough for an entire year, but we are still in the first week of February.

All throughout history there have been critical turning points when events have greatly accelerated, and it appears that we have reached one of those turning points.

In fact, this may be turn out to be the biggest turning point of them all.

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It’s Time for Unilateral Free Trade with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK

by Ryan McMaken
Mises.org

After years of delay and endless debates over the long-term relationship between the EU and the UK, Brexit is finally done. At least, it’s done for now. The EU and the UK appear to have struck a trade deal and a deal over the general relationship between them.

When it was fully part of the EU, the UK was limited in efforts to unilaterally strike trade deals with countries that weren’t part of the EU. UK trade had to be approved by EU bureaucrats.

But that’s no longer the case, the UK is now more free to look beyond Europe for building up global trade.

As Brexit became more of a reality, the UK began negotiationss with Australia New Zealand, and Canada in hopes of expanding trade with these nations. The UK has now already signed a new trade deal with Canada, which went into effect on January 1 of this year.

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CNBC Airs ‘Shocking’ Footage of Florida Residents Not Wearing Masks. Florida is Doing Better Than Many Mask-Mandated States.

by Ashe Schow
Daily Wire

CNBC host Shepard Smith was aghast to see footage taken inside a supermarket in Naples, Florida showing most employees and customers not wearing face masks even though we’re still in the midst of a pandemic.

“We all fantasize about a time when we won’t have to wear the masks anymore,” Smith began the segment, which aired on Wednesday. “It’s not now, but some at a supermarket in Florida appear to have decided that the time is now.”

Footage taken by NBC’s Sam Brock then played, showing customers at the checkout lanes at a grocery store not wearing masks. The employees largely weren’t wearing masks either. The footage was shown with the same tone and level of shock that is usually reserved for video of the aftermath from natural disasters.

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