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‘Xie, Ze, Yoself’: University Offers Absurd Pronoun Options for Women’s Classes
Georgia State University’s business school listed ten pronoun options on a signup for a women’s business program. Among the options were “ey,” “xie,” “hir,” “vis,” and “yoself.”
by Benjamin Zeisloft
Campus Reform
Georgia State University published an online sign-up for a women’s business program that listed ten pronoun options.
The university’s J. Mack School of Business hosts a program called WomenLead, which “equips female students to excel in school, enter the workforce with developed skills and find their place in leadership positions.”
Although the program is specifically geared toward women, the program offered ten different choices for preferred pronouns on a registration form.
Among the options were “ey,” “xie,” “hir,” “vis,” and “eirs.”
“Yoself” was also listed as an option alongside “yo” and “yos.”
Disregard the Manipulation: Stocks Are Set to Crater and Gold Will Skyrocket
from King World News
As we get ready to kickoff trading in 2021, disregard the manipulation as stocks are set to crater and will skyrocket.
2021: A Gold Odyssey
December 23 (King World News) – From KWN reader Kevin W: After topping out in 2018 at about 23:1 the Dow/Gold Ratio has been declining and is following a down trend channel. Recently, in January-February 2020, that ratio broke down below 17:1 through a 9 year uptrend line.
W.H.O. Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
The American Institute for Economic Research
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
Coronavirus lived on surfaces until it didn’t. Masks didn’t work until they did, then they did not. There is asymptomatic transmission, except there isn’t. Lockdowns work to control the virus except they do not. All these people are sick without symptoms until, whoops, PCR tests are wildly inaccurate because they were never intended to be diagnostic tools. Everyone is in danger of the virus except they aren’t. It spreads in schools except it doesn’t.
On it goes. Daily. It’s no wonder that so many people have stopped believing anything that “public health authorities” say. In combination with governors and other autocrats doing their bidding, they set out to take away freedom and human rights and expected us to thank them for saving our lives. At some point this year (for me it was March 12) life began feeling like a dystopian novel of your choice.
Financial Warfare is Real
by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning
In my 2011 book, Currency Wars, I gave a detailed description of the first-ever financial war game sponsored by the Department of Defense. This financial war game took place in 2009 at the top-secret Applied Physics Laboratory located about twenty miles north of Washington, D.C., in the Maryland countryside.
Unlike typical war games, the “rules of engagement” for this financial exercise did not permit the use of any kinetic weapons such as bombs, missiles or drones. The only weapons allowed were financial instruments including stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives.
The game was played out over two days in the main War Room of the laboratory using six teams divided into the U.S., China, Russia, Europe, East Asia, and Banks & Hedge Funds. The contestants included about 40 players on the six teams and another 60 participants including: uniformed military, civilian defense officials, observers from the Treasury, Federal Reserve, CIA and other government agencies, think tanks, universities, and financial industry professionals.
Over a Third of California Bar Exams Flagged for Possible Cheating
from Zero Hedge
More than 1/3 of California bar exams taken online in October were flagged for possible cheating, the state bar reported after the testing software program alerted authorities.
California Bar’s Committee of Bar Examiners is “currently reviewing 3,190 applicants” out of 9,301 who took the exam, according to a Dec. 4 statement by state bar official Tammy Campbell. According to Bloomberg Law, test takers were flagged based on several rules infractions, including having cell phones or other electronic equipment during the test, as well as gazing off-screen or having food.
The inquiry, first reported by the ABA Journal, puts test takers flagged by the system at risk of being required to retake the exam, which is typically required before a law school graduate is allowed to work as an attorney in the state. Any review that substantiates widespread cheating also could give critics of bar exams in California and other states further ammunition to promote alternatives like diploma privilege, which allows law school grads to get licensed without taking an exam. –Bloomberg Law
California Doctor Fired After Questioning County’s Coronavirus Lockdown
by Penka Arsova
LaCorte News
A California doctor has been removed from his position after he spoke out against the restrictive measures implemented in Contra Costa County.
The letter: The doctor, Michael deBoisblanc, wrote a letter to health officials in the county, along with doctors Pete Mazolewski and Brian Hopkins. The doctors argued that lockdown measures are harmful and took issue with how the county uses low ICU occupancy to justify shutdown measures, claiming that they are almost always low.
The letter also said that more testing leads to more false-positive coronavirus results and noted that medical experts support the idea to keep schools open.
“We are writing to you with deep concern regarding more lockdown measures for our county. We feel the science is clear that more lockdowns lead to much more non COVID morbidity and mortality as supported by the CDC. We are confused as to why this is happening as we are often overcapacity in our hospitals and ICUs every winter and we have never done this previously. We also run our ICUs normally at a high rate of occupancy as this is most cost effective,” they wrote in a letter addressed to Dr. Chris Farnitano, Contra Costa Public Health Doctor.
The Psychology of Money
by Alasdair MacLeod
Gold Money
The world stands on the threshold of monetary hyperinflation with the US dollar leading the way. The final months of fiat money are coming into view.
What will replace them — bitcoin or gold?
This article argues that the final solution is bound to be with central banks and government treasury departments retaining their control as issuers of money by the only means at their disposal: deploying their gold reserves to back their currencies, not as fiat, but as credible gold substitutes.
Central banks own no bitcoin, which effectively rules it out.
The Gray Curtain Descends (Part 1)
by Robert Gore
Straight Line Logic
Let’s dispense with the obscenity that expressed intentions excuse all crimes and consequences.
It’s a close contest between which officially approved story is more implausible: Coronavirus as the Scourge of Humanity or America’s Free and Fair Election. The former enabled the latter, and they were propagated by the same people pursuant to an all-in power grab. Both are riddled with glaring inconsistencies and fraud, none of which are mentioned in polite society.
It was strange, she thought, to obtain news by means of nothing but denials, as if existence had ceased, facts had vanished and only the frantic negatives uttered by officials and columnists gave any clue to the reality they were denying. – Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1957
The stories’ propagators don’t address the inconsistencies and fraud because they can’t; they simply deny their existence.
2021’s Deficit Spending is Already Out of Control. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
by Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
This morning, President Trump apparently threatened to veto the so-called stimulus legislation recently approved by Congress. The legislation features approximately $908 billion worth of spending including $600 stimulus checks for many millions of Americans who qualify. The stimulus spending is part of a much larger spending package which totals $2.3 trillion and is a general supplemental appropriations bill.
But these numbers by no means reflect what will surely be a much, much larger amount of spending that will take place before this fiscal year ends on September 30.
Indeed, even as we were entering just the third month of the fiscal year in early December, it was already clear that spending in 2021 was likely to be another year of both runaway spending and runaway deficits.
Is Collectivism Inevitable?
by Jeff Thomas
International Man
“Whichever party gains the day, tyrants or demagogues are most sure to take the offices.”
The quote above may cause the reader to nod his head, as throughout much of the world today, we are witnessing a distinct lack of choice in “democratic” elections – a “damned if you do; damned if you don’t” choice of equally incapable and even dangerous candidates.
However, the quote is from 1841 and was made by New York Assemblyman Clinton Roosevelt, a distant cousin of Franklin Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt family occupies a recurrent and pernicious place in American political history. Other relatives of President Roosevelt include not only the obvious Theodore Roosevelt, but John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren.
Unexplained Explosion and Fire Destroy World’s Second Largest Pharmaceutical Factory Producing Precursors for Hydroxychloroquine
by Thomas Lifson
American Thinker
Prepare for supplies to tighten for the cheap, effective therapeutic treatment for early stage Covid-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Just as the medical establishment in the US is relaxing its absurd and lethal suppression of the cheap, generic drug, following President Trump’s endorsement of it early in the pandemic, HCQ’s continued availability may suffer. The world’s second largest pharmaceutical facility producing the precursors for HCQ has been destroyed by an explosion and fire.
Taiwan English News reports:
An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20.
People as far as Tamsui District in New Taipei City reported hearing the massive blast shortly after noon. Immediately after the blast, thick black smoke could be seen pouring out of the SCI Pharmtech factory. (snip)
Majestic Overshoot of Stimulus Money Ended. Faced with Second Wave, Americans Cut Back, Even on Durable Goods
by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street
Consumers still earned more in November than in the Good Times, but a lot less than back when free Pandemic-money was massively hailing down.
Consumers are starting to run out of artificial steam. The free Pandemic money has been dropping for months and in November nearly faded out. For the first time since April, consumers spent less all around; they spent less on services, nondurable goods, and even on durable goods, which had been spiking in astounding manner.
Godfrey Bloom: “The Great Central Banking Experiment Has Failed.”
by Claudio Grass
Claudio Grass
These days, most mainstream news reports are being monopolized by the pandemic, the covid vaccine and all the new rules and lockdowns that are being enforced across the Western world, and this near-obsessive focus comes at the expense of a lot other important developments. The last story that managed to “dethrone” covid from the headlines was the US Presidential election, and even that reporting was largely through the prism of the pandemic. And yet, the earth hasn’t actually stopped spinning and hugely important geopolitical and economic shifts are still happening and they’re certainly newsworthy, especially for investors. Chief among them is Brexit now: the long-awaited, much-debated and endlessly negotiated “divorce” between the UK and the EU.
Trump Pardons 26 More, Including Paul Manafort and Roger Stone
The list also included several drug war victims.
by C.J. Ciaramella
Reason.com
Donald Trump announced 26 new pardons and commutations tonight. The recipients included former campaign advisers Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
Like yesterday’s 20 pardons and commutations, tonight’s list is a mix of Trump loyalists, law enforcement officers, conservative cause célèbres—and drug war cases who criminal justice advocates have been bringing to the White House.
Manafort was serving a seven-and-half-year sentence for bank fraud, tax evasion, and illegally lobbying for Ukraine. Trump had already commuted Stone’s 40-month sentence for lying to Congress and witness tampering. The White House painted both convictions as overreach by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Will FEC Hold 2016 Campaign Finance Violators Accountable?
by Dan Backer
Real Clear Politics
The Federal Election Commission is officially back. After the Senate confirmed three new FEC commissioners, the agency now has a full slate of six for the first time since 2017 and a quorum to conduct official business for the first time since August 2019 (other than a few weeks in June).
For a functioning FEC, there is an important matter that requires prompt attention — the subject of multiple, bipartisan, and well-documented legal complaints. It is the “Russian collusion” hoax. While many agencies and offices probed the scandal from their own perspectives, the clearest path to accountability for the collusion hoax is, in fact, the FEC.