The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled 6-3 to upend the 40-year administrative law precedent that gave agencies across the federal government leeway to interpret ambiguous laws through rulemaking. Many conservatives blamed this law for the dramatic overgrowth of government and for excessive power given to unelected regulators. Now, judges will substitute their own best interpretation of the law, instead of deferring to the agencies – effectively making it easier to overturn regulations that govern wide-ranging aspects of American life. This includes rules governing climate change, energy policies, toxic chemicals, drugs and medicine, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and much more.
.The Supreme Court has ruled to overturn the so-called ‘Chevron Deference’ dealing a huge blow to the so-called ‘administrative state’ that have enjoyed
In an 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended the 40-year administrative law precedent that gave agencies across the federal government leeway to interpret ambiguous laws through rulemaking.
Conservatives and Republican policymakers have long been critical of the doctrine, saying it has contributed to the dramatic growth of government and gives unelected regulators far too much power to make policy by going beyond what Congress intended when it approved various laws. The authority of regulatory agencies has been increasingly questioned by the Supreme Court in recent years.
Those on the other side say the Chevron doctrine empowers an activist federal government to serve the public interest in an increasingly complicated world without having to seek specific congressional authorization for everything that needs to be done.
As The Hill report, judges previously had to defer to agencies in cases where the law is ambiguous.
Now, judges will substitute their own best interpretation of the law, instead of deferring to the agencies – effectively making it easier to overturn regulations that govern wide-ranging aspects of American life.
This includes rules governing toxic chemicals, drugs and medicine, climate change, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and more.
The move hands a major victory to conservative and anti-regulatory interests that have looked to eliminate the precedent as part of a broader attack on the growing size of the “administrative state.”
The Biden administration defended the precedent before the high court.
“Today’s ruling is a massive blow to the ‘administrative state’, the collection of federal agencies that enforce laws involving the environment, food and drug safety, workers’ rights, education, civil liberties, energy policy—the list is nearly endless.”
“The Supreme Court’s reversal of Chevron constitutes a major transfer of power from the executive branch to the judiciary, stripping federal agencies of significant discretion to interpret and enforce ambiguous regulations.“
Chief Justice Roberts, writing the opinion of the court, argued Chevron “defies the command of” the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal administrative agencies.
He said it “requires a court to ignore, not follow, ‘the reading the court would have reached had it exercised its independent judgment as required by the APA.’”
Further, he said it “is misguided” because “agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do.”
The liberals on the court are not happy:
“In dissent, Justice Kagan says the conservative supermajority “disdains restraint, and grasps for power,” making “a laughingstock” of stare decisis and producing “large-scale disruption” throughout the entire government. She is both furious and terrified.”
As Stern concludes:
“Hard to overstate the impact of this seismic shift.”
Maybe now people will understand why I’ve been criticizing RFK for complaining about Sackett vs EPA, the case that set up the overturning of Chevron.
“Kennedy was complaining loudly about a 2023 Supreme Court decision blocking the EPA from extending enforcement of the Clean Water Act to marshlands.
This was the biggest constitutionally based pushback on a regulatory agency in over a century and RFK called it horrible.”
The Chevron doctrine required courts to defer to an agency’s “reasonable” interpretation of an ambiguous statute, effectively giving regulators full lawmaking ability.
In the Sackett case, the Supreme Court made a historic ruling challenging the EPA’s interpretation that the Clean Water Act included marshlands as being “not reasonable” thereby removing the agencies authority to regulate the Sackett’s property.
This opened up the rest of the regulatory agencies “reasonable” interpretations up to question, leading to the reversal of the Chevron decision which gave them broad power to interpret law.
The Chevron doctrine in 1984 was merely codifying agency overreach which had already been happening for a century.
But its overturning makes that agency overreach explicitly unlawful, which undermines the entire unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy. And makes it the most significant case against the administrative state since it began to take root during the progressive era, over a century ago.
Dominion Voting Systems’ electronic voting machines contract with the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico is under threat after contentious primaries produced upset results. According to election officials, some machines reported zero votes for certain candidates or reversed count totals. Counts reported by machines were also sometimes lower than paper counts.
“The concern is that we obviously have elections in November, and we must provide the [island] not only with the assurance that the machine produces a correct result but also that the result it produces is the same one that is reported,” said Jessika Padilla, interim president of Puerto Rico’s elections commission. She attributed the issues to problems in the machines’ software.
The Vice President of Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives, José Varela, is attempting to summon Padilla to a public hearing on Thursday to address the issues, warning, “We cannot allow the public’s confidence in the voting process to continue to be undermined as we approach the general elections.” Dominion’s current contract with Puerto Rico expires at the end of the month.
America First conservatives raised concerns about Dominion machines’ reliability and security following Joe Biden’s contested victory in the 2020 election. The corporation responded by suing multiple people alleging issues with its systems, as well as news networks covering the allegations.
Last June, the Halderman Report exposed a range of “critical vulnerabilities” in Dominion machines. However, states, including Georgia, have left them in place, with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger telling the PhD computer scientists pressing for the issues to be addressed “tough noogies.”
Right now the veils are thinner than they have been in many years, decades, perhaps even centuries. Things are going to be seen that have not be seen before. Actions will happen both on an individual stage and on a much larger one that seemingly have no precedence, that come out of nowhere and just happen, yet there is no feeling of resolution. These are all steps, even blocks in the creation of a new paradigm.
Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell on the death of a father of four, shot in L.A., and his activism to restore public safety after losing his brother Christian in Chicago.
Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell is launching a new public safety nonprofit aimed at assisting the victims of violent crime and lobbying against a soft-on-crime push from progressives that he says has made the problem worse for years.
The Caldwell Institute for Public Safety has multiple missions aimed at combating the American crime crisis – support for victims, activism against progressive candidates who support soft-on-crime policies, and lobbying for public safety laws.
Caldwell said he enlisted a team of experts to help meet his goals. He brought in Dr. Drew Pinsky as well as a cousin who is a Ph.D. clinician to put together a mental health manual for victims’ families, he said.
Gianno Caldwell and his brother, Christian, in their last photo taken together. (Fox News Digital)
He also brought in Joel Fitzgerald, a longtime police chief whose son, also a police officer, was murdered in Philadelphia. Former Chicago prosecutor Dan Kirk worked with Fitzgerald to create a guidebook on how families can work with police and prosecutors.
And he put together instructions for families who want to pitch their stories to the press.
WATCH: Gianno Caldwell announces Caldwell Institute for Public Safety – Graphic content warning
“I can imagine what it feels like for the family that just lost their 7-year-old baby boy in Chicago this past week, or on June 24th, 2022, when my brother was murdered, little baby Cecilia, who was six months old, murdered. If you look at the numbers from 2021 to January 2022, over 276 children 16 and under had been shot and the city of Chicago. That’s one year’s time.
— Gianno Caldwell
“The other side of it, though, is going after these radical, progressive, soft-on-crime prosecutors, mayors and city council members, in some cases,” he told Fox News Digital. “I want to ensure that those who’ve radically reshaped our criminal justice system, funded by George Soros and others, that they are held to account.”
Part of that is helping traditional prosecutors campaign against progressives with backing from deep-pocketed benefactors like the billionaire Soros, he said. Another part is pushing legislators to take action against crime.
Those prosecutors include Kim Foxx, of Caldwell’s hometown in Cook County, Illinois, George Gascon in Los Angeles and Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, among others who have benefited from progressive donors.
“We’ll be doing lobbying for legislation that makes the community safer and lobbying against the legislation that endangers the lives, systematically, of the residents of particular communities,” he said.
Gianno Caldwell appears in a still image taken from the video announcing his new Caldwell Institute for Public Safety. His brother’s unsolved murder in Chicago prompted him to launch the nonprofit, he said. (Caldwell Institute for Public Safety)
“Donations are extraordinarily important,” he said. “This is a 501(c)(4), and we’re going to need the help and support of all of America to ensure that we can carry out this mission. I’m going up against a mega-billionaire who spent hundreds of millions of dollars in many races over the course of the years.”
It took years of Soros-like activism to bring society to this point, he said, and it could take years to right the ship.
“I recognize that this is a long fight that I have to take on, and I have to take on because I’ve been personally impacted, and I know the tragedy and the pain that comes with losing a loved one,” he added.
Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell is still looking for answers after his 18-year-old brother, Christian, was fatally shot in Chicago. (Gianno Caldwell)
Two years ago Monday, Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother Christian died in a Chicago shooting.
To date, no suspects have been arrested. Caldwell said he’s been in touch with investigators on a monthly basis and recently learned from the FBI’s Chicago office that there is a “warm lead.”
Chicago police said the case remains under investigation and that they had no other updates. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He hopes the institute will benefit other victims’ families as they navigate the trauma of losing a loved one to violent crime.
“My brother Christian, he wasn’t just my little brother, he was like my son,” Caldwell said. “He never had a dad around. So I was the one that took care of him. I was the one who took him to places, bought him school clothes, and those kinds of things.”
His brother was 18 and looking forward to starting college, he said. Then he became a victim of violent crime that crushes families from all backgrounds.
“This isn’t something that just impacts Black folks – it impacts White people, Hispanic people, Asian people, all Americans, all stripes, all income levels and all jurisdictions,” he said. “We need to know as Americans this issue impacts all of us, therefore, we all must fight this together.”
Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects involved in the shooting that left Christian dead and two other victims injured on the 11400 block of South Vincennes Avenue.
Christian did not know the other victims, a 31-year-old man and 25-year-old woman.
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin and Peter Petroff contributed to this report.
Saudi Arabia Ends 80-Year-Old PetroDollar U.S. Agreement: Joins China-Led Central Bank Digital Currency Coalition
by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News
This past Sunday (June 9, 2024) Saudi Arabia made the historical move to not renew an 80-year-old agreement with the United States that established the U.S. Dollar as the world currency to purchase Saudi oil, in what should have been headline news, but seems to have been blacklisted in U.S. financial news publications, even in alternative financial news publications such as ZeroHedge News.
Here is the coverage of this historic event from the The Business Standard, a Bangladeshi daily newspaper.
Saudi Arabia’s petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift
The crucial decision to not renew the contract enables Saudi Arabia to sell oil and other goods in multiple currencies, including the Chinese RMB, Euros, Yen, and Yuan, instead of exclusively in US dollars.
Significant financial upheaval is potentially ahead of the financial world as Saudi Arabia has decided not to renew its 80-year petro-dollar deal with the United States.
The deal, which expired on Sunday 9 June, was a cornerstone of the United States global economic dominance.
Originally signed on 8 June 1974, the deal established two joint commissions, one based on economic cooperation and the other on Saudi Arabia’s military needs.
At the time, it was said that it heralded an era of close cooperation between the two countries, says Katja Hamilton of BizCommunity.
This latest development signifies a major shift away from the petrodollar system established in 1972, when the US decoupled its currency from gold, and is anticipated to hasten the global shift away from the US dollar. (Source.)
While I could find no major U.S. English publication covering this as headline news, there was plenty of discussion on Twitter/X.
One U.S. investor, Andrei Jikh, who has over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, published a video on just what the end of the petrodollar means, and that video has accumulated almost 1 million views over the past couple of days.
The video is just over 15 minutes long, but the facts regarding the end of the petrodollar is only covered in the first 12 minutes.
Everything after that is this investor’s views, including his view that people should continue investing in the U.S. Stock market and also invest in Bitcoin, certainly a view that myself and many others would not agree with.
But his summary of the history and significance of the Petrodollar is excellent, and well worth the 12 minutes to watch.
The petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States included more than just the agreement to require the purchase of oil with U.S. dollars, as it also included a promise from the U.S. to protect Saudi Arabia militarily, and also contained provisions for establishing the State of Israel in 1948, something that President Roosevelt actually opposed, but was adopted by his successor, President Truman.
The Quincy Pact
Saudi Arabia reportedly did not renew “its 50-year petrodollar agreement with the United States”, an agreement that expired on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
While it is permissible to doubt the existence of a half-century-long agreement, it was indeed in 1974 that the petrodollar emerged. Three short years after the end of the Bretton Woods agreements.
From a historical perspective, the origins of the petrodollar date back even to 1945.
On his way back from the Yalta conference, President Roosevelt made a stop unbeknownst to the British along the Suez Canal. It was aboard his cruiser USS Quincy that he met King Abdulaziz Al Saud.
It will later be said that this meeting birthed the “Quincy Pact.”
This diplomatic anchorage went so well that Roosevelt offered his wheelchair to the Saudi king, who was also disabled.
Despite this goodwill, the king refused to allow Jewish settlement in Palestine.
However, the American president ensured the essential by sidelining British Petroleum in favor of American oil companies.
This tacit agreement prevented the creation of a Jewish state, but Roosevelt would die two months later. His successor, Harry Truman, would be a strong supporter of the founding of Israel.
He would recognize the Hebrew state 11 minutes after the Israelis declared themselves a nation, against the advice of his Secretary of State.
Henry Kissinger’s Masterstroke
It was in 1974 that the second historic meeting between the Saudis and the American government took place. Henry Kissinger had been Secretary of State for a year.
His mission? To impose the dollar on the ingrates of the old continent who dared to demand gold.
His strategy began with an intervention in favor of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
[For more context, note that Henry Kissinger is Jewish. He fled Nazi Germany at the age of 15 and would return in uniform five years later to fight in France and Germany.]
In retaliation, Arab countries ceased their oil exports, primarily to European nations. The United States, for its part, was self-sufficient. By 1974, the price of a barrel had quadrupled, going from $3 to $12.
This oil embargo was all the easier to implement as the United States had been pushing for years for the emancipation of Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Libya from European companies (British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, and the French Petroleum Company, ex-Total).
Kissinger wanted the price of the barrel to explode to weaken the old continent. He knew well that the American army would have the last word if things escalated, allowing him to impose himself at the heart of international relations.
International discord would reach its peak when President Gerald Ford recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Hebrew state.
Petrodollar
In response, Saudi Arabia continued to raise the price of the barrel, without knowing that it was playing into the hands of Henry Kissinger, who would ultimately threaten to use force to remedy what he called “the strangulation of the industrialized world”. The London Sunday Times revealed in February 1975 the existence of the “Dhahran Option Four” plan, which planned to invade Saudi Arabia to take possession of its oil wells.
King Faisal would hear these drums of war very clearly. At the end of 1974, he finally gave in to Henry Kissinger’s demands, who promised him the unlimited sale of arms, a backpedal on the Jerusalem issue, and a return of Israel to its 1948 borders (plus a myriad of technologies).
In exchange, Saudi Arabia had to:
1. Sell its oil exclusively in dollars.
2. Invest its dollar surpluses in American debt (It was anyway impossible for a kingdom of 10 million inhabitants to spend the thousands of billions of petrodollars).
All OPEC countries would agree in 1975 to denominate their oil in dollars. Here are the broad lines of the genesis of the petrodollar. King Faisal would be assassinated on March 25, 1975, on the day of the Mawlid, the anniversary of the birth of the prophet Muhammad. Subsequently, Israel would never return to its 1948 borders. (Source.)
I was amazed that this news of the petrodollar agreement ending Sunday was barely mentioned, if mentioned at all, in the corporate news in the U.S.
for the rest of the article, go to: https://healthimpactnews.com/2024/saudi-arabia-ends-80-year-old-petrodollar-u-s-agreement-joins-china-led-central-bank-digital-currency-coalition/
Columnist Phil Giraldi, a former intelligence officer for the CIA, explains that foreign policy in the Middle East is set by Jewish people in positions of power in the US who put Israel’s interests above American interests. He said that this has been particularly evident since 9/11 and he named Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby and Douglas Feith, the former under secretary of Defense for Policy for United States president George W Bush, as the architects of the Iraq War. He said war with Iraq was pursued because Saddam Hussein supported the families of Palestinians who were arrested in Israel.
Giraldi said that Americans’ liberties are under attack, such as free speech under anti-Semitism laws that prohibit criticism of Israel. 70% of Biden’s administration is Jewish, and almost all positions in national security and foreign policy are held by Jewish people. They retain power no matter who the president is and which party controls Congress. News reports indicate that Trump has been offered $100 million from Miriam Adelson in exchange for Israel taking over the West Bank to create a single Jewish state. Israel has led America into decades of war. Giraldi says that Israel need the US to fight its wars because it cannot dominate the Middle East without US involvement. Netanyahu and Israel hope to expand its border to ‘Greater Israel’ that includes Jordan, Lebanon, swaths of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia (see map).
The Biden administration has allowed Ukraine to strike inside Russia and Russia, in turn, responded by placing war ships in Cuba, near the coastal US. Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer explained that war mongers such as former Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and her husband, Robert Kagan, have been very influential in shaping US foreign policy. He said that NATO has has expanded from being a defensive organization. Some critics believe NATO is now an army that serves the globalists.
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow said that he doubts Russian President Putin will respond to Ukraine’s incursions, backed by the US, UK and France, with nuclear force. He said it is more likely that Russia would demolish Kiev, followed by attacks on Poland because it is assisting Ukraine and facilitating shipments of US weapons across the border. Military bases and manufacturing facilities in Germany, England and France may become targets for Russia forces.
Dr. Doctorow said that there is concern that any attack by Russia on Poland would trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for other NATO members to respond militarily. He said that Article 5 does not require other NATO members respond, it is simply a framework for them to respond.
Fake ‘Meat’ Products Linked to Heart Failure Deaths, Study Finds
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A new study has revealed that fake “meat” products such as Bill Gates’s lab-grown “beef” are linked to cardiovascular diseases and heart failure-related deaths.
The results of the study are a major blow to the narrative that vegetarian and vegan diets help to lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
According to a new UK Biobank study, which analyzed the diets of more than 118,000 participants, scientists found that meat-free “foods” carry a huge risk of heart disease if they are ultra-processed.
The study, published in Lancet Regional Health – Europe, notes that this excludes natural produce such as fresh fruit and vegetables.
However, ultra-processed products that are plant-derived, insect-based, or lab-grown, carry an increased risk of heart failure and death.
Scientists found that ultra-processed food (UPF) products, such as lab-grown “beef” or insect-based “beetleburgers,” are linked with a 15 percent higher risk of suffering heart attacks and strokes.
The researchers found that these dangers are even present in plant-based UPFs, which have long been hailed as a “healthy” option to meat.
The research, which involved experts from Imperial College London, utilized data from more than 118,000 UK citizens.
The participants, aged 40 to 69 years, had their diets assessed over at least two days.
Scientists split food into plant-based products, such as fruit, vegetables, grains, and bread, as well as cakes and candy, and animal-based products such as fish, poultry, red meat, eggs, and dairy.
The two groups were then further divided into either ultra-processed food (UPF) or non-ultra-processed.
This data was then linked to hospital and mortality records to obtain information on cardiovascular diseases.
People who ate a lot of plant-based ultra-processed foods had a 7 percent greater risk of suffering conditions like blocked heart vessels.
They also had a 15 percent heightened risk of dying when compared to vegetarians whose diets had fewer UPFs.
Upping intake of non-processed vegetarian foods – such as fresh fruit and vegetables – by 10 percent was linked to an 8 percent lower risk of getting heart disease.
Deaths from heart disease fell by a fifth in vegetarians who consumed the least UPFs and 13 percent in cardiovascular disease overall.
The scientists noted that UPFs caused a build-up of fatty deposits inside the arteries.
Dr. Eszter Vamos, co-author of the study, from Imperial College London’s School of Public Health, said:
“Fresh plant-based foods such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes are known to have important health and environmental benefits.
“While ultra-processed foods are often marketed as healthy foods, this large study suggests that plant-based ultra-processed foods do not seem to have protective health effects and are linked to poor health outcomes.”
Food additives and industrial contaminants present in these foods could cause oxidative stress and inflammation, the scientists suggest.
They added that nutritional guidelines promoting plant-based diets and cutting down on meat must also promote the importance of avoiding UPFs for good heart health.
Study author Dr. Fernanda Rauber, an expert in preventative medicine from the University of São Paulo in Brazil, said that it’s the first to show that fake “meat” products are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.
“Despite being plant-based, these foods may contribute to risk factors such as dyslipidemia and hypertension due to their composition and processing methods,” she said.
“Food additives and industrial contaminants present in these foods might cause oxidative stress and inflammation, further aggravating the risks.
“Therefore, our results support the shift towards plant-based food choices that consider the degree of processing to improve cardiovascular health outcomes.”
The researchers noted that, while the products may appear to be healthy by claiming to be “meat-free,” plant-based,” or “lab-grown,” the fact that they are ultra-processed makes them a threat to public health.
The study comes amid a growing push for the general public to replace traditional meat and dairy products with fake “foods.”
As Slay News recently reported, Democrats have been fighting to keep insects hidden in food products to be consumed by the American people.
In Minnesota, state Senate Democrats blocked an amendment that would have required foods containing insects to be labeled.
Republicans are arguing that insects should be listed in the ingredients of food products to inform consumers.
However, for reasons that are not immediately clear, Democrats are pushing to keep bugs a hidden ingredient.
In light of the recent resurgence of inflation on top of increasingly rigged employments stats, declining manufacturing and stagnant wages I think it’s important to revisit a fundamental question: What does an economic collapse look like?
As I have said for years an economic collapse is NOT an event, it’s a process. When people think of a historic crisis they usually imagine something like the stock market crash of 1929 at the beginning of the Great Depression. However, there were numerous indicators and warning signs leading up to that crash that should have tipped people off. There were even a handful of economists that voiced concerns about impending instability, yet they were ignored.
Then, after the crash occurred numerous establishment economists denied that the system was in any real danger. They continually claimed that recovery was “right around the corner”, but the recovery never materialized. Instead, the crash spiraled onward for over a decade until world war erupted, largely because the Federal Reserve raised interest rates into economic weakness (a disaster they have openly admitted to causing and a policy they are instituting right now).
The point is, the mainstream “experts” are almost always wrong. The skeptics of collapse either ignore the evidence or they don’t comprehend the implications of events. They don’t want to believe that the economy is broken and that consequences are possible. They operate from the limited view of their own personal experience. For most of their lives the system has functioned without catastrophe so that must mean catastrophe is impossible. In truth, catastrophe has merely been deferred to a later date, not prevented.
Our present day predicament has not reached Great Depression levels yet. We are currently in a stagflationary phase similar to what happened in the 1970s. For those that think we have it bad now, the 70s were actually far worse.
House prices nearly TRIPLED from 1970 to 1980 (the median house price was $17,000 in 1970 compared to almost $50,000 in 1980). Annual inflation on most goods and services was in the double digits and the minimum wage was only $1.45 an hour. Unemployment was high and interest rates were eventually hiked to around 20% by 1981.
The point is that these breakdowns in financial structures happen slowly, and then all at once. Much like the build up of an avalanche. For those that know history the signs are easy to see. For those that don’t, they’ll assume that all is well even when the house is burning down around them.
Another factor that makes people oblivious to the danger is the moving of goalposts; they get used to poor economic conditions and the decline is entrenched as the “new normal.” For example, in 2015 the average house rental was $1100. Less than ten years later the average cost is $2150; that’s double the financial burden. But today this price is considered par for the course.
Nothing gets better, the situation only ever gets worse, but since it happens over a period of many years (the process of collapse) the public largely accepts it and will even accuse those of us sounding the alarm of “doom mongering.”
As with any collapse there eventually comes a point of popular intolerance – That moment where people finally realize that the “doom mongers” were right all along and that the weight of the implosion is too much to refute. I believe we’re approaching that moment very quickly. In the meantime. Here are the five stages of denial that people go through before they admit that a fiscal calamity is upon them…
Stage 1: “I Don’t Know What The Conspiracy Theorists Are Talking About – I’m Doing Fine”
There’s an old saying from the Great Depression that goes something like this: “It’s only a depression for the people without jobs.”
If you weren’t a part of the 30% unemployed in the US at that time, then in your narrow world the Great Depression might not have seemed all that bad. In other words, people will ignore the sinking of the Titanic as long as they still have their own lifeboat.
I will say that this is a major problem in the midst of the stagflation crisis today, and it’s the root of what many Zennials are complaining about. In their minds, this is the worst economy in history of the world and they blame “boomers” for their pain. It’s really not (at least not yet), but it’s true that many “boomers” are going into the crisis with the advantage of time. They have had the time to build a lifeboat while Zennials have not.
It’s not about what’s fair, there’s no such thing as “fair” in economics. But older Americans need to realize that even if stagflation is not a crisis for them personally, it is indeed a crisis for younger people in particular. Any person still denying the reality of the collapse because “they’re doing fine” needs to shut up and take stock of the bigger picture.
Stage 2: “They’ve Been Talking About Collapse For Years And We’re Still Here”
A lot of people out there have childish notions of what a collapse is, mostly derived from Hollywood films and television. They imagine stock market mayhem, endless soup lines, mass starvation and even Mad Max-style destruction. When these kinds of things do happen it’s always at the END of the collapse process, not at the beginning. The former nation of Yugoslavia suffered through multiple inflation events before it finally exploded with balkanization and war. It didn’t happen overnight, but all the signs were there.
When analysts predict these events years ahead of time they are doing you a favor; they are giving you ample time to prepare. Unlike the banking elites and their proxies who only warn the public right before (or right after) the crisis hits a peak.
Believe it or not I still see deniers arguing that all is well today, even after massive stagflation, attempted nationwide medical tyranny, multiple regional wars around the globe that could trigger WWIII, constant civil unrest, etc. Is the threat of imminent death the only thing that will wake these people up to reality?
Stage 3: “Maybe Things Are Bad Now But The Crisis Is Transitory, It Will Be Over Soon”
This is the stage in which deniers finally accept that there is indeed some instability, but they cope with the issue by claiming the storm will quickly pass and there’s nothing to worry about. The thing is, they spent so much time trying to debunk the economists that were warning them they now fear being proven wrong more than they fear the crisis ahead. It’s a kind of mental sickness common to our culture – The absolute refusal of a large percentage of Americans to admit being wrong and moving on.
It’s okay to be wrong sometimes. It’s not okay to be in denial about it.
The claim that a collapse is “transitory” is a way for skeptics overwhelmed by facts and evidence to continue dismissing reality. If the economic decline doesn’t last very long then they never have to concede defeat to the “conspiracy theorists.”
Stage 4: “No One Saw The Crisis Coming”
I saw this argument thousands of times during the pandemic lockdowns and the initial inflation spike. There were so many people raging about the circumstances and a lot of them were the types of people that used to deny that anything out of the ordinary was going on. They started looking for scapegoats and they came up with the idea that there was no early warning.
If only someone had given them some kind of hint of what was about to happen, they would have prepared better, right?
The media and government officials tend to play into this stage of denial aggressively. In other words, this is the moment they assert that “No one saw this coming.” The event struck like lightning out of the blue. No one could have foreseen this outcome and there’s nothing anyone could have done about it.
Whenever I hear these arguments I’m reminded of the movie trend in the early 2000s of global disaster flicks. There’s always those scenes where the asteroid or the ocean wave or the tornado hits and we see thousands of people scurrying like ants, only to be crushed by a godlike force that they had no power to defend against. I never liked those movies, but I recognize that they play into a hidden element of fatalism in the human mind.
There is a strange mechanism in some people’s thinking that wants to believe they have no power to change their circumstances. They feel better assuming that the tides of fate are beyond their control and that there’s nothing they could have done differently. In reality, all they had to do was listen and think critically and they could have prepared accordingly. Their pain is the result of their own ignorance and ego.
Stage 5: “Everyone Saw The Crisis Coming”
Ah yes, the final stage of denial. This one is my favorite. It is the inevitable moment when skeptics fully concede that the economic collapse is a fact of life and then they claim they “saw it coming all along.” The inability for these people to admit they were wrong debases their ability to make informed decisions about the future.
They know a crisis is upon them and they’ll now pretend as if they knew it was going to happen. Therefore, all the “conspiracy theorists” that tried to warn them are not special or better informed than they are.
Of course, you’ll never see any evidence of these skeptics (and many mainstream economists) actually predicting anything. You will see them predicting the opposite and attacking anyone that suggest they might be wrong. One wonders why it’s so important for them to avoid giving credit where credit is due and learning from their mistakes, but when a person’s identity is so wrapped up in being the “expert,” the idea of completely fumbling the ball on the biggest economic disaster of their lifetime is too much to bear.
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
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FBI File On Jeff Bezos’ Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed
What’s not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon’s supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search.
One year before Gise died in 1995, Bezos founded Amazon in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home.
Or so we’re told…
John Greenewald Jr., who operates The Black Vault, a website dedicated to revealing declassified government documents through obtaining Freedom of Information Act requests, posted on X that he went after Gise’s “FBI file, but found out if there was one, it has been destroyed.”
News website Leading Report’s Patrick Webb commented on Greenewald’s findings, saying, “There has long been speculation that DARPA has been involved in the creation of many popular big tech companies, using “frontmen” for the allusion of a startup led by outsiders.”
With the contents of Gise’s FBI file unlikely to ever be unearthed and likely never destroyed, just inaccessible to FOIA requests or the public, other X users commented on Webb’s and Greenewald’s posts, pointing out how DARPA possibly created other big tech firms:
Questions swirl about DARPA’s involvement in creating Amazon, given Bezos’ grandfather’s connection to the secret agency.
