Thank you for this!!! This is honestly so refreshing. Yes, the facts are sobering. I live them. But your exposition of them is soooooo needed and I appreciate it deeply.
In the "food system" world I live and work in, I can summarize an ingredient in the solution mix thusly: plant fruit bearing trees and bushes. Plant perennial herbs and shrubs. Learn what they provide us. Eat (mostly) within the ecosystem where you live.
These are tiny bits of solutions that many of us, individually have control over.
Yeah, communism is clearly the problem here. This retarded boomer mentality that's stuck in the Cold War is clearly relevant. That's what going on in Congress, academia, business--Communists running everything. That's why workers and unions are so strong in the US, just communism everywhere.
You people are so stupid it's exhausting. The word "communist" comes to explain everything, including late stage capitalism. Dumb.
......”They have befuddled the middle class with false claims that alternative energy would work if the oil companies would just fold their tents and walk away”....
It is frightening to realize that you are correct about the true intentions of the elite and powerful. In the past 5 years rural farmland in nearly every remote niche in America is being exchanged for solar panels promising generous returns of low cost energy. The foolish people wait patiently now for a crop that “won’t grow”. All the while their energy bills rise. The altered landscapes where promising crops annually flourished, now stare back at them with metal and glass structures anchored in the once fertile soil. They have been “befuddled” as you say.
Even the Pope in Rome is “all in “ on this climate hoopla. I am determined to keep calling it out the “befuddled” who have the power and responsibility to be more long-sighted and prudent.
You are a credible talented writer with a strong cogent argument based on experience. Thank you for sharing your passion and bravely exposing the evil players who conjure up the rules and regulations they expect to impose on private citizens and taxpayers. Although, the “befuddled” seem patient for now, I feel a reckoning coming.
You say 'even the Pope' as though he would be above such bs. Why? The church fell for (or was complicit in) the whole Covid lie. As far as I can tell organised religion is just one big control mechanism and has always been so.
I agree that the church fell for the covid lie. So did 99% of the entire global medical community. That makes my point. Highly educated people entrusted with power were supposed to be able to sort out complicated events and make careful critical decisions at a time of crisis. These people failed to apply learned logic and established scientific truths and instead fearfully caved. As time passed, very few of them changed their positions despite evolving contradictory data. This was their “wheelhouse”, their moment of professional calling and they caved. It will take decades to reestablish trust in them again.
The church, on the other hand doesn’t claim medical expertise and trustingly allowed its houses of worship to be closed because of the guidelines established by the medical establishment. Its leadership though has been weak on defending religious liberty when it clashes with the contemporary views of “new” sciences. I am troubled by the Pope’s eagerness to “believe” its promoters knowing the disastrous impact untested policies could have on the poor. It’s trite, but they do say that the devil is in the details. His “wheelhouse” is the poor and vulnerable. He is obligated to promote protection for their souls and stay alert for “the attempts of the evil one”. I find he says little to challenge the distorted and expensive plans the climate people are implementing all around the globe. There is an almost naive “giddiness” about him when he speaks of climate. I fear he is being played or worse, he could be a player.
I think the organized Catholic Church plays a huge global role in administrating to the poor. I still believe its members support this mission. It’s this “befuddled” Pope I worry about.
The majority of the medical community didn't 'fall for the lie' they chose to ENACT the lie. I didn't fall for it for one second and in medical terms I'm a lay person.
The Catholic Church was founded far before the Cabal was formed. In fact, the Cabal was formed to combat the Church. The Church condemned usury, and the Cabal uses usury for its practices. The Church condemns sexual libertinism, and the Cabal uses that to control people and make them docile.
That many hierarchs, especially in the Vatican II religion, have been coopted is not in doubt. In fact, that is where Vatican II came from.
There are those who believe that Christ was crucified because he kicked the money-changers out of the Temple. And that those money-changers were indeed part of 'the Cabal.'
The Cabal has morphed and changed over the centuries, and I suppose it is possible to put one's finger on a specific act or event and say 'That is when the Cabal was formed.' But the fact is that it has been around in one fashion or another for a long, long time. Anonfamous has a lot of interesting info about the history of the Cabal on his substack:
Unfortunately he's put some of his most informative posts behind a paywall, but there is still a lot you can see as an unpaid visitor, and as you can see there, he describes things that were happening far, far before the time of Christ. Does that qualify as 'the Cabal?' I won't disagree with you if you point at more modern events when the Cabal took the form we are accustomed to today, and say 'THAT was when the Cabal was formed.'
It really does not matter how we define 'the formation of the Cabal' so long as we understand that this evil, which the Cabal embodies today, has been with us since Old Testament times.
edit: Add excerpt from one of the anonfamous pay-walled posts:
"The cabal is a group of people that have had complete control of the Earth and its people for a very long time. They control through their passion to own land, hoarding ungodly amounts of valuables, controlling the leaders of the world, and doing it by any means necessary. For them to do this they have to rid themselves of all morals, destroy their own spirit and let the demons of the underworld control them. The demons and false gods they praise and sacrifice for have been in existence since the dawn of time."
The pope is one of the top players within the Cabal. He was chosen for this part he is playing. How sad this is that Satan has overcome the leadership of the Catholic Church. Look at the stance he now takes on gay marriage, and abortion. This is completely opposite of centuries of Catholic doctrine . Climate change is a hoax and a scam. Wise people listen to scientists, not politicians. Our world is in a mess when those in leadership , who should have integrity, fall into evil. The world must cry out to God to destroy the evil that is upon us.
There's nothing to help. If you think blaming the Chinese Communist Party explains anything that is happening within the Catholic Church, then you're a fucking idiot.
You shouldn't be allowed online. You should be put to work, outside, so your stupidity isn't allowed to be displayed online. You're just dumb. Carry on.
The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by an evil leader who does not believe the Bible. That does not mean that all priest are evil, but the top leadership has become captive to the cabal---- not all churches
To witness the deliberate destruction of communities, towns, counties, states and countries is almost unbearable to witness. We must bear witness to what is going on and speak clearly like Elizabeth has done and is doing. Each of us must speak to our friends and families. Many of them will not listen and will hate us for acknowledging the facts that are playing out before us. Stand strong and be fearless. Remember today January 6 as Patriot’s Day. The day free men and women starred the DC tyrants in the face and did not flinch. There were no guns, no violence that was not perpetrated by the police state. Those brave souls embodied what General Flynn always says “steady boys!”
"The most visible result of their malfeasance is homelessness. Which has been engineered to shame you. Entirely. 100%. Every time you drive by some poor soul dying on the sidewalk, you are meant to feel
1. Guilt
2. Anger at the system (capitalism) and
3. an urge to vote for the compassionate left who promise to work only for the dispossessed."
Interesting insight here. I wondered how the left benefitted from situations like San Francisco's problem. Obviously they can harvest votes from this demographic but the psychological impact of just seeing them exist? Never considered the effect.
Seattle and Washington state budget Million$$$ for homelessness. To the extent they could buy shelter for them all, with excess millions left over. But, it's never "enough", always voting in higher spending, and ever more arrive to suck off benefits. Another scam foisted on taxpayers.
Washington state is running an advertisement ad nauseum stating that as of November 1st, ANYone living in the state is eligible for state Healthcare- REGARDLESS, of your immigration status - which will NOT be affected by accepting this healthcare.
In CA many groups have attempted to “solve” homelessness, but of course the regulations, back room deals and political BS means this will never happen. Consider that in many big cities in CA it is apparently impossible to build a single 500 sq ft apartment/condo/house for less than $900k. The elite are making millions if not billions from the Homeless Industrial Complex. It is a huge racket and they care nothing about truly helping the homeless. It’s all for show, and they continue to line their pockets. Cities everywhere in the US (for the most part) have regulations preventing any tiny homes, which certainly do not cost $900k to build. It’s all intentional.
Roughly 271,000 people are homeless in England, which has a population of 56.5 million. Of those only 2,400 are sleeping rough on a given night. 15,000 are in hostels or supported accommodation and 250K are living in temporary accommodation (source: Shelter). And we have a bloody housing crisis- a shortfall of available housing for the population to the tune of 4.3 million homes! One of the major contributors to solving the problem was a carve out for permitted development, an exception to the UK's normal archaic and onerous system of planning permissions. This exception accounted for 73,575 new houses/homes, many with multiple occupancies, through commercial-to-residential conversions of obsolete and defunct office spaces. However, it's hard to see how these types of emergency provisions will hold- with 1.18 million net migration in 2022 and the opposition persisting in the same old tired story of providing houses by developing brown belt land (which hasn't worked, since first instituted after the capacity loss of the 1992 housing crash)- the Left in the UK will soon have its PR Cloward-Piven for a frontal assault on British capitalism.
That's the main strategy by the way- Cloward-Piven. Create general conditions which require governmental intervention, expand government to solve the problem and then don't fix it- this creates budgetary black holes which never solve the problem, regardless of how much money government wastes. In the US around 21% of the homeless population are mentally ill, which is a little different from the oft quoted inflations of mental health problems in prisons- mental illness, if the term is applied correctly, usually means a major physiological brain disorder, in complete contrast to the theory which that evil bastard Foucault once proposed.
A huge portion of the homeless in America are drug addicted. In the Netherlands they've hit upon a solution which invariably works- if an addict gets caught shooting up in public they are given a choice between rehab and prison. Unsurprisingly, almost all choose rehab. Of course people do cycle back into drug abuse, but each time the numbers precipitously drop.
Here's the real issue. An old Shelter study of people clean and sober when they hit the street showed that six months later 50% of them had substance abuse issues. It's important to triage the newly homeless and offer anyone not an addict emergency accommodation asap- otherwise they have a high risk of becoming addicts and from there it's only a short step to permanent physiological brain damage. The mentally ill should be offered accommodation plus assistance- and a humane and safe approach would also include electronic tagging in case they fall off their meds. Better that than a permanent low grade epidemic of citizens being stabbed by paranoid schizophrenics. There is gaping hole of constitutional protections between the medical ethics of consent and the State's duty to protect physical safety.
You need to ask yourself the question- if Texas can solve the problem and so can the Left in the Netherlands, is the American progressive abandonment of pragmatism a matter of wishful thinking or deliberate? By the way, Portugal's decriminalisation of drugs is now showing sure signs of failure- specifically because they don't allow mandatory drug rehab like the Dutch.
The homeless problem is not so simple as: because drugs. This is a systemic problem and more importantly, spiritual. I know all about this as I have been homeless for three years. I'm old and cannot work enough hours to afford even a modest studio apartment. The prospect of working until I fall into the grave is not a pleasant one. In my area of Montana, the median home price is $750,000! After signing away your life to the mortgage (death pledge) scam you will pay three times that amount! How many people can actually afford these houses? Most are 2 bedrooms on a postage stamp. The average 1 bedroom apartment is 2000 and up. Electricity is through the roof. Many, and I mean many, of the homeless here work full time. It would be easy to demand that businesses pay a living wage but, they are up against an expensive regulatory wall a mile high.
The biggest mistake we ever made was to allow the federal reserve to take control of the money supply. That, and the usurpation of the common law by commercial law that is now the "legal system" that supports it. No one told us that it is our labor, productivity and creativity as living men and women that provides the value for the currency. If you doubt this, ask any banker if a promissory note has any value before a man or woman signs it.
To make a very long story short, the children at the top want far fewer people on the planet and the ones that remain will live in modern feudalism, mere vassals of the self proclaimed "elites."
Unless and until a chunk of people understand that the real world of rocks, trees, dirt, people and critters has been replaced by the commercial system of legal entities, mostly defined as "persons," there will be more and more homelessness. Eventually, you will be on that list. You have been convinced that the name on every bill you receive, every account you open, every "transaction" you make is you. But, all of those things exists in a make believe land of legal fictions you have been convinced is "real." Ask your HR or payroll folks if your company hires people or persons. If they are being honest they will confess it is the latter.
The children will use the commercial system to steal everything you have. They will use their phony baloney money to buy what's left. It will all be done because you believe the deed is the house and land, that the title is the car and they will tell you that you pledged those physical assets as collateral for their paper which is impossible. In the commercial world there is no substance (actual stuff), only form (paper). Until enough people can wrap their heads around this grand deception, homelessness will only increase, and it won't be: because drugs.
I completely agree with you on this one, mate, and I sympathise with your position. I've written extensively about the housing market, used to work for a major UK supplier to the housing market and also spent a (thankfully) short stint in retail banking. It's possible to print a home for $60K. The Swedes asked their private sector to find ways to build homes cheaper and they managed to offsite roughly 50% of the labour to cheap fabrications factories.
By far the biggest problem in Western housing markets is artificial scarcity generated by government, closely followed by regulatory costs, legal fees and utility connection rent-seeking. I participate in a mainly heterodox and conservative private Discourse forum. On numerous occasions I and a friend who owns his own small building firm in the UK have tried to convince our conservative friends that the housing markets in the West are broken.
In the South and East of the UK an acre of building land costs around £1 million. That's enough to build 6 adequate homes, 8 smaller homes, or 12 to 16 rabbit hutches. A lot of the newer built homes don't even have decent access- single lane roads which are meant to service homeowners, pedestrians and delivery drivers all at the same time- with the very occasional small bay to prevent jams.
It's all a big con by the financial lobby, which just happens to outstrip even the intelligence services as a lobbying interest in London and DC. Mortgage debt as an asset class is a major source of profits for them- they make more money when the mortgage for each individual home is higher, so they actually go as far rigging the system to prevent small house building firms from building homes. Building land is security for the purposes of a loan. But can small builders with great credit ratings and twenty years working in the sector get loans from a bank to purchase building land to build a house in the UK? No they cannot. The major banks simply refuse them out of hand, because they make most of their future profits from the cost of housing going up.
And government is just as bad. They want property taxes to go up. Mill rates may vary, but rises in assessed values always increases the size of government revenue. The only real answer is libertarian land reforms. The only people who should be able to object to the granting of planning permission are those with direct standing (the immediate neighbours). America has almost no starter homes. Unleashing new free market providers like 3d prints, prefab houses and static home innovators could revolutionise the American market.
Here's the thing. In order to sell the idea to existing homeowners worried about losing existing home value or a future windfall, its important to stress that these types of solutions would be specifically targeted towards starter homes. Believe it or not, allowing young people to build equity with fundamentally cheaper starter homes actually builds house prices further up the ladder because more people would then have the accrued savings in their existing home in order to be able to afford properties they otherwise wouldn't have a hope in hell of affording.
I also agree with you on central banks (as well as fractional reserve lending). We are at least luckier in the UK in one respect. According to the original English Common Law tradition a homebuyer with a mortgage owns the home from day one. The bank only owns the mortgage, although they are able to repossess the home through the courts of mortgage payments fall into significant arrears. It's not the only legal protection provided to homeowners- in the UK we can refuse even court-appointed bailiffs entry to the property and they are not entitled to seize personal property. The exception generally tends to be high court judgements related to the non-payment of income taxes!
Housing is the principal reason why the West is in decline. Lending ratios have a ticking timebomb since the runup to 2008- something which I predicted by the way, and felt like Cassandra at the time- only two people listened to me- a boss at work and the son-in-law of a mate- both saved significantly more than £100K from my advice. I always look at repossessions for a warning of house price collapses. Here in the UK Google tries to hide the data. Here in the UK repossessions have started to climb. The US doesn't seem to have the same problem- yet.- at least not up until Q3 of 2023.
On the subject of homelessness and the housing situation, it's worth noting that the whole life approach to treating drugs shows that drug addiction is less physiological in nature and is a product of despair. This is why I mentioned the bit about triaging those who are not addicted or suffering from mental illness off the street immediately.
It's also why I made the point about the way the UK has managed to convert obsolete office space into emergency housing- it was to show that homelessness is a deliberate choice on the part of your government. It does look as though Montana is confronting some unique problems though- bloody hell, your population has grown quickly. Building material cost seem to be a global problem- or least one common to the West. In the UK they rose 38% from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023. In the US the figure seems to be around 40% for roughly the same period.
The number one problem in the housing market is greed. In some places in Montana people were sending blank checks to realtors and instruct them to snatch up anything. The realtors obliged, jacked up prices because they had a blank check and now claim the exorbitant prices are "fair market value." Same with property management. They charge application fees of up to $100. That's just to apply for a dump that 20 others have applied for. That was unheard of 10 years ago. This is city shit. I despise cities. It has crept out into rural areas now. In addition, these management firms have on many occasions pressured independent owners to raise their advertised rent to "fair market value," which is just modern day guild tactics. Shame on them. The damage they do to the community is immeasurable. They do not care.
The cost of new housing is more about the ever inflating currency caused by government policy and, here in America, the belief by those on the left and increasingly those on the right that money grows on trees. This is a result of fractional reserve banking. The federal reserve must be abolished. It is one of the greatest evils ever forced upon man.
The mortgage scam. When you go to the bank for a loan, you sign a promissory note. A promissory note in the commercial system is the same as cash. The bank deposits that note as an asset for later sale (sometimes copying the note and selling it many times) and they hand you a check (after you sign a mortgage). At this point it is an even exchange, cash for cash and the transaction should be over. But, they demand you sign a mortgage promising to pay back three times the value of the note. Not only that, but they trick you into believing you can pledge the land and house as collateral for the loan they claim they just made. In the commercial system there is no substance. The only thing they can foreclose on is the deed, which is NOT substance!. The substance does not exist in that system, only paper. There was no loan as your signature created the money. BANK DO NOT LOAN ANYTHING!!
Because of government regulation businesses are strapped with so much overhead they can not afford to pay a living wage. Many are going out of business here in the states because of over regulation. Government is a dumb, stupid fiction and should be paired down to nothing or completely abolished. Its gaping maw gobbles everything in sight. But, at this point in history, too many people have been brainwashed to think of government as some kind of savior. These are the people who are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of civilization and handing it to the globalists on a silver platter.
I watched Dave Smith on the Joe Rogan podcast trying to explain fractional reserve lending. He explained that in a 10% reserve system, banks could lend out 90 dollars for every 100 dollars deposited. WRONG! In reality, for every 100 dollars deposited 900 dollars are usually created (if the reserve rate is 10%). All the system requires is a steady stream of borrowers- which is why a huge amount of effort is put into trying to convince people to take out inadvisable loans. Lending allows banks to summon money out of thin air, for the simple reason that each loan create both a negative and positive entry on the balance sheet. I've recently begun exploring the lesser known works of classic sci fi authors- I would highly recommend The Saratoga Barrier by Frank Herbert- it presents a picture of a self-sufficient community which isn't falling for the misery inducing mass marketeering of the time (written in 1967).
I loathe cities. Cities are one of the main reasons why so many people are miserable. I live in a rural area in Norfolk, England, a village with roughly 700 inhabitants- although it's probably best described as suburban in terms of facilities. The next village, only two miles away has a small-sized supermarket and an express M&S attached to a petrol station selling higher niche foodstuffs. Norwich is around 13 miles away (one of the more tolerable cities in the UK).
The problem with government is that any organisation- be it a government agency or department, institution, NGO or corporation- is that the organisation becomes an organism in itself, with its own set of self-interests, motives and goals. For any bureaucracy the main goal is self-preservation, closely followed by the desire to expand and grow, to extends its power and influence, its remit.
Have you heard of or read Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy?
'Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.'
Government might not be too bad if the politicians were sufficiently wary about the dangers of ever-expanding bureaucracies, if they concerned themselves with moderate Rawlsian transfers as direct payments with the only condition income levels. This might be a good low cost way of supplementing the income of the working poor. Indeed, both Milton Friedman and MLK were in favour of a negative income tax. Even Ben Shapiro has come out in support of such a proposition.
Paired with a shift to a PAYE system, which most wealthier countries operate, it would completely eliminate the need for 90% of the population to submit tax returns to the IRS (because most income taxes are paid direct through the employer through payroll). Apart from eliminating a huge portion of the personal accountancy and tax help commercial software industry, its benefits would be twofold. First, it would eliminate the tax welfare dead zone- there would never be an instance in which people would lose money by working. A well-calibrated system would allow workers to keep around two-thirds of everything they make from the first dollar they earn.
Second, and more importantly, it would massively reduce the bureaucracy. In the modern age, a negative income tax could largely be automated. This is incidentally, why Democrats always want to means test any cheque or welfare they send out. In virtually every instance in history since the Second World War, means testing in the UK has always meant greater total expenditure than universality, for the simple reason that whatever savings are made through means testing are always massively outweighed by the added cost of bureaucracy. And that is, after all, what the Democrats really want- more people on the taxpayers payroll, incrementally closer to a state run economy, through the dilution of the democratic veto through government induced self-interest.
This source by Niskanan Center shows how a Negative Income Tax could replace existing welfare programs. It should be noted that in the final paragraph the author is talking about reallocating existing federal budgets, not introducing new taxes. It should also be noted that he doesn't even articulate the main benefit- it would massively, massively reduce the staffing of government bureaucracies. One of the smartest (and Machiavellian) political moves the Dems ever made was transferring the bureaucratic requirement for 'mandatory' spending down to the State level- it makes it look as though there are far fewer federal employees than there actually are. Clinton made it sound as though the new system would push more people to transition into work, but in reality it just shifted bureaucrats from the federal payroll to state bureaucracies. America spends $2.3 trillion on its federal and state social welfare programs. I've found it impossible to locate a source which shows how much of this actually makes it through to American citizens. But that's hardly a surprise- the same is completely true in the UK.
Government types like to make a big deal about transparency and accountability (blame culture as opposed to responsibility), but at the most basic level they are completely opaque about who is payed do what.
These are funny communists who believe in the dictatorship of billionaires, which makes them not communists. I do agree that the rulers want to destroy America, but the communists you describe are mere puppets. Cultural Marxism is a deliberate distractions from the class rooted Marxism, the kind which does not usually serve the capitalist class, but threatens it. Cultural Marxism is the kind of "Marxism" spooks would create.
You want proof, think of the 70's, after it all started, we had a hell of a time affording a car, some of us had a hot rod, some of us had a beetle, and some of us had a rolling wreck. But we had something. My granddaughters have nothing, and no aspirations beyond their own (not Papa's) cell phone.
With EVs being forced upon us on the west coast, how are young people going to afford to drive a car to work? People are hanging on to their combustion powered cars longer now. Used cars that run, are very expensive for young adults. Why even try to find a job when it is much easier to sponge off NGOs. A local physician advertises on the AM radio how our community has 600 homeless teens and that all of us need to support the local flop-house because no one should be homeless. Grrr! These “kids” chose homelessness over living under a parent’s roof for a variety of reasons but mostly because of drug addiction. I refuse to feel guilty when I see them on the streets. Thank goodness I can escape their criminality because I live outside of town.
“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.” – Thomas Sowell
‘Those of our own who readily help them’ are the weakest of all. They’re emotionally needy bowing down to seek attention from players they think are omnipotent. They are servants between their ears...controlled by fear & hoping the great unwashed keep being impressed by their self elevated snobbery of working for the elites. Their lives are empty shells..clouds without water, ultimately useless souls. Which is not to underestimate the damages they will gleefully inflict in order to gain praise from their over lords. May their vulnerabilities be exposed, their hidden scaffolds tumble & their filthy consciences be eliminated from power over the majority ASAP.
TBH I’ve adopted a ‘fk ‘em all’ lifestyle. Paid off all my bills including mortgage, moved my $ to a credit union, built a global income stream in wellness in the NWM model by helping others privately also escape the matrix..this process led me to totally recover my health from labeled lifetime diseases & I now live drug free & have no family doctor. (unless I get hit my a car I’ll never go to a hospital), stopped all attempts to ‘change people’s minds’ if they’re ranting lunatics, sold my house in Ontario and am downsizing to the south tip of the province into a 4000 person small town (where I’m near a FN reserve & know I could pay someone to boat me over the border if needed), got a PAL & Rpal license, joined a sports club & got comfortable shooting, built a veggie garden & found out how simply I can grow my own stuff both to eat all summer plus dry garlic onions etc, buy meat from local farmers, limit my time on social media except to let friends know I’m alive & periodically say #fucktrudeau 😀 IMHO it’s all about taking charge personally & as a senior I feel I’ve done a good job. The less I partake in the lies the better. Aside from that IF we don’t eliminate Trudeau I will have to move to a new country so I encourage young people to vote CPC to that end so I can remain here.
I applaud your courage and determination, a sister after my own heart~I'm also a senior and am down in NM in the states. I have done much the same thingin preparing. I would include my husband, but he is in the leftist camp, and hasn't heard one word of all the warnings that I've tried to give him over the years. So, I ride alone. My rural neighbors which are also seniors are all leftists up here and this is a highly conservative area. Nice people but don't want any sense of community or to engage in any significant way. My remaining family are also extreme leftists and any conversation trying to convince them that things have been and are going south quickly is met with deaf ears. So, I have a strong faith in God, because He alone is my rock and has been there for me. I wish you all the best~Always be strong and know there are others out here like you that will never give in or give up. And that's why we are here on Elizabeth's site commenting~👍
That’s the spirit. I always thought that the ugliest revenge you can think of is to live to 150 and never go to any doctor. Ok, some kindness, you don’t live by revenge alone, so to 149.
Out them. Tell them to their face what they do. See them. Don't let them hide in the shadows. Write about them-- pick one every column you write. Talk about them. Tells others. The more that know will watch their actions as politicians, university apparatchiks, NGO tools and will put pressure on their actions. How? Defunding, see where you give any time and money to charities/NGOs. Eg. How many knew the IRC was funding (along with the usual suspects) the migrant problem over the Southern US border? Not many I would guess. James O'Keefe just blew that open by educating us through twitter and his site that the US population is funding these sordid operations and creating the mess that is certain parts of the southern border.
I would bet money that either the same or similiar NGOs are doing the same here at the Northern border.
How do you make change? Educate , expose and then move
It looks like a full-time job. I already have one job, and I am good with it. Who knows, I am open to good offers…
They don’t hide in any shadows. They are everywhere, in all media, in newspapers, and they control 100% of the internet. They are all over the place.
I won’t be able to talk to them, their security will stop me 5 miles away from them.
Talking about writing about them, hmmm. The more we talk about them, the more free advertising they get. Is this our goal?
Also, I am very limited in time. I only have 24 hours a day. Every minute of this time I dedicate to them will be lost to my family and real friends. So I have to choose what to do with my energy: give it to those who are dear to me - or to them?
Defunding. I have no idea where to start. If you have any specific advice, that might help.
As for funding the migrant problem… everybody knows this. That’s where your taxes go. Literally you are funding all their actions, they merely take your money and use it. Without you and your money - they would do nothing.
“Educate, expose and then move” - where? Venezuela won’t help me, Argentina is already booked, the yellow-blue haven is their private property, Taiwan is uneasy, Iraq is too hot, Australia is too busy, Libya has been hijacked, the Falklands have been hijacked, Hawaii is a target, Japan is too polite, where am I to move? Can you help with transfers, money and passports?
I do apologize that you cannot tell a bit of humor from defeatism.
If you read the post to which I replied, it may help. Hint: Carol Jones posted a string of no-questions-asked orders, all thrown out in a single shot, with no respect to the readers here and with zero interest in establishing communication.
You can't discuss with a bad boss avalanche like this. So I took it lightly.
If you see this thing seriously, maybe you could follow her indisputable commands and relate what you did.
PS. The writing style of Carl Jones suggests a pre-programmed bot.
Sorry you write a paid blog? BTW do something not everything-- no one needs you to do that. Guess what you have the same limitations that we all do. If you can write that reply you have time.
“No one needs…” - I must have missed T&C for Substack, is it mandatory to “do something not everything”? Maybe there are other restrictions on what I must or am expected to write about.
No, I don’t have the same limitations, mine are different. Not better, not worse, not larger, not smaller, just mine. One of my strongest limitations is respecting readers, for example by using punctuation ;-)
All the lefty males I know are people who haven’t done well. At least according to what they believe they should have achieved. They deserved better and they didn’t get it. In their lives they lived in fear. They took no risks. They bowed their heads to what they perceived as greater power, always. They all abhor overt masculinity. They hate Trump, the uber male because their low T is rubbed in their faces.
Probably on the subconscious level they realize that according to “their” Darwinian theory they should not be alive (because of their weak minds and bodies). They are a worthless byproduct of “everyone deserves a trophy”. And that’s why HATE everything good, civil and reasonable.
The World Economic Forum, with their New World Order, make no secret of infiltrating every Government Worldwide! Adolf Schwab has stated this as fact! He thinks they now run the show, but there are several of us that have decided the WEF, UN and the, now terminated, WHO were a danger to humanity and all need terminating!
My first reaction to anything stated by any/all the aforementioned, is to assume it to be lies and manipulation. My Policy is to assume the opposite of what I hear or read from them.
It's safer to be pessimistic instead of joining the other Muppets that either suffered long lasting Adverse Reactions (health side effects) from the WEF sponsored Covid injections, supposed to be a 'Covid cure'' With each jab, recipients find they've suddenly become more susceptible to Covid and all other illnesses than they might have been before they were conned.
What happened to "Safe & Effective"?
Why do vax makers demand ZERO LIABILITY?
Why did Ivermectin suddenly get 'rubbished' when it had a 30 year safety track record?
What happened to Doctor's Hippocratic Oath = 'First Do No Harm'!
What ever became of 'Informed Consent'?
Why did FDA permit Pfizer etc, to enjoy ZERO LIABILITY for their DEADLY EXPERIMENTAL INJECTIONS, when pre-existing medicines were available? That's just manipulating the rules to suit Big Pharma's insatiable greed.
Our post Covid vocabulary now includes many new phrases like 'Died Suddenly', 'Died unexpectedly', 'Excess Deaths', 'Turbo Cancers', 'Myocarditis', 'Pericarditis', 'Blood clots', etc. These are all new expressions that have developed since Covid and the useless injections were invented then released, seemingly to finish the evil WEF (New World Order) project = The world Depopulation CULL!
. Well written as always. I can agree with most of this article. I would posit that “capitalists” should have done a better job of allowing the system to work instead of using government power to whenever possible to grow their own interests. 20th century communism propagated as a response to the corporatism (colonialism) that also caused the suffering of millions at the hands of a few powerful entities which extracted and redistributed natural resource wealth to themselves. I despise communism for the evil that it is, however, I have also learned to despise the alleged capitalists that perpetuated the conditions that make communism seem like a good idea.
I feel like "they" deliberately destroyed the word capitalist by parading it around in the form of big business only. Self employed are capitalist too..their intentions nothing close to capitalism of the Wal mart type, but the likes of big business blanket all business and cause the little guys to not keep up...hense they go under, swallowed by bigger fish. Everyone wants to thrive, it makes me sad when I see a thriving family business that (maybe they aren't rich but they make a living, ) get swallowed up by a larger corporation just so they can shut it down and force people to do business with them...and the people that owned said business, even if they resist at first, will be offered rediciculous amounts of money until they agree, and if no amount of money entices them, the threats and bullying will surely do them in. Money only takes you so far, you NEED purpose...they always manage to take that part away.
Royce Nugent: Karl Marx invented the word "capitalist" in Das Kapital. No doubt Marx is happy that so many people use the word in a disparaging manner.
There are free markets. Capital is merely savings built up (deferred earnings) that are used to improve a business or any endeavor in a free market economy.
"Allowing the system to work" would mean erasing greed and corruption from the incestuous relationship that has grown over time between corporations and gov't. "You scratch my back I will scratch yours"
Thanks for another great read Elizabeth. Your relentless pursuit of truth re-energizes me. The absence of history in schools and it's eradication in public places through the removal of statues, etc. works to further the effort for radical change. These efforts are also used as tools to futher divide us as a nation and people.
Matthew 12:25
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
We don't have leadership in the USA! We have puppets manipulated to do the bidding of self-centered self-indulgent psychos! The Epstein saga profiles it! We need to clean out the bloat in DC! Citizen statesmen/women have to be returned to our capital! Rational thought needs to dominate!
Excellent post! This problem is not new...it has been with us forever. Read Cicero who warned beware the enemy from within. Look it up. He describes much of what the Left is doing today. The Romans, however, had a more "direct" way of dealing with such enemies. Will history repeat itself? IDK. Pax
I studied climate science in 2002. We are in the middle of an ice age, and are 60,000 years overdue to return to chillier times. Humans can't even predict the weather the day after tomorrow. How can they tell us CO2 is a problem, and if it was man cannot control the planet.
Thank you for this!!! This is honestly so refreshing. Yes, the facts are sobering. I live them. But your exposition of them is soooooo needed and I appreciate it deeply.
In the "food system" world I live and work in, I can summarize an ingredient in the solution mix thusly: plant fruit bearing trees and bushes. Plant perennial herbs and shrubs. Learn what they provide us. Eat (mostly) within the ecosystem where you live.
These are tiny bits of solutions that many of us, individually have control over.
Elizabeth, thank you for your excellent writing!
Yeah, communism is clearly the problem here. This retarded boomer mentality that's stuck in the Cold War is clearly relevant. That's what going on in Congress, academia, business--Communists running everything. That's why workers and unions are so strong in the US, just communism everywhere.
You people are so stupid it's exhausting. The word "communist" comes to explain everything, including late stage capitalism. Dumb.
......”They have befuddled the middle class with false claims that alternative energy would work if the oil companies would just fold their tents and walk away”....
It is frightening to realize that you are correct about the true intentions of the elite and powerful. In the past 5 years rural farmland in nearly every remote niche in America is being exchanged for solar panels promising generous returns of low cost energy. The foolish people wait patiently now for a crop that “won’t grow”. All the while their energy bills rise. The altered landscapes where promising crops annually flourished, now stare back at them with metal and glass structures anchored in the once fertile soil. They have been “befuddled” as you say.
Even the Pope in Rome is “all in “ on this climate hoopla. I am determined to keep calling it out the “befuddled” who have the power and responsibility to be more long-sighted and prudent.
You are a credible talented writer with a strong cogent argument based on experience. Thank you for sharing your passion and bravely exposing the evil players who conjure up the rules and regulations they expect to impose on private citizens and taxpayers. Although, the “befuddled” seem patient for now, I feel a reckoning coming.
You say 'even the Pope' as though he would be above such bs. Why? The church fell for (or was complicit in) the whole Covid lie. As far as I can tell organised religion is just one big control mechanism and has always been so.
I agree that the church fell for the covid lie. So did 99% of the entire global medical community. That makes my point. Highly educated people entrusted with power were supposed to be able to sort out complicated events and make careful critical decisions at a time of crisis. These people failed to apply learned logic and established scientific truths and instead fearfully caved. As time passed, very few of them changed their positions despite evolving contradictory data. This was their “wheelhouse”, their moment of professional calling and they caved. It will take decades to reestablish trust in them again.
The church, on the other hand doesn’t claim medical expertise and trustingly allowed its houses of worship to be closed because of the guidelines established by the medical establishment. Its leadership though has been weak on defending religious liberty when it clashes with the contemporary views of “new” sciences. I am troubled by the Pope’s eagerness to “believe” its promoters knowing the disastrous impact untested policies could have on the poor. It’s trite, but they do say that the devil is in the details. His “wheelhouse” is the poor and vulnerable. He is obligated to promote protection for their souls and stay alert for “the attempts of the evil one”. I find he says little to challenge the distorted and expensive plans the climate people are implementing all around the globe. There is an almost naive “giddiness” about him when he speaks of climate. I fear he is being played or worse, he could be a player.
I think the organized Catholic Church plays a huge global role in administrating to the poor. I still believe its members support this mission. It’s this “befuddled” Pope I worry about.
The majority of the medical community didn't 'fall for the lie' they chose to ENACT the lie. I didn't fall for it for one second and in medical terms I'm a lay person.
I've been programmed since protesting the "Nam conflict, but programmed to question authority.
Current public screwl graduates are programmed to ignore their thoughts and worship the commie teacher and it's corrupt false ideals.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Bergoglio is definitely a player. The Roman Catholic leadership has been part of the Cabal for centuries and perhaps since its origin.
That said there are still many excellent, faithful leaders in the church. Basically anyone who disagrees with Bergoglio. Abp. Vigano for one.
The Catholic Church was founded far before the Cabal was formed. In fact, the Cabal was formed to combat the Church. The Church condemned usury, and the Cabal uses usury for its practices. The Church condemns sexual libertinism, and the Cabal uses that to control people and make them docile.
That many hierarchs, especially in the Vatican II religion, have been coopted is not in doubt. In fact, that is where Vatican II came from.
There are those who believe that Christ was crucified because he kicked the money-changers out of the Temple. And that those money-changers were indeed part of 'the Cabal.'
The Cabal has morphed and changed over the centuries, and I suppose it is possible to put one's finger on a specific act or event and say 'That is when the Cabal was formed.' But the fact is that it has been around in one fashion or another for a long, long time. Anonfamous has a lot of interesting info about the history of the Cabal on his substack:
https://anonfamous.substack.com/
Unfortunately he's put some of his most informative posts behind a paywall, but there is still a lot you can see as an unpaid visitor, and as you can see there, he describes things that were happening far, far before the time of Christ. Does that qualify as 'the Cabal?' I won't disagree with you if you point at more modern events when the Cabal took the form we are accustomed to today, and say 'THAT was when the Cabal was formed.'
It really does not matter how we define 'the formation of the Cabal' so long as we understand that this evil, which the Cabal embodies today, has been with us since Old Testament times.
edit: Add excerpt from one of the anonfamous pay-walled posts:
"The cabal is a group of people that have had complete control of the Earth and its people for a very long time. They control through their passion to own land, hoarding ungodly amounts of valuables, controlling the leaders of the world, and doing it by any means necessary. For them to do this they have to rid themselves of all morals, destroy their own spirit and let the demons of the underworld control them. The demons and false gods they praise and sacrifice for have been in existence since the dawn of time."
The Catholic Church was a product of the control mechanism which has been around a very long time.
The pope is one of the top players within the Cabal. He was chosen for this part he is playing. How sad this is that Satan has overcome the leadership of the Catholic Church. Look at the stance he now takes on gay marriage, and abortion. This is completely opposite of centuries of Catholic doctrine . Climate change is a hoax and a scam. Wise people listen to scientists, not politicians. Our world is in a mess when those in leadership , who should have integrity, fall into evil. The world must cry out to God to destroy the evil that is upon us.
Sounds antisemitic to me!
Well, i think there will be many people shocked when they begin to understand the implications of the Pope’s red shoes.
Great big sigh.
The Catholics were OK until Vatican Two. Nothing wrong with traditional Catholic teaching, the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s changed all that.
The secret Jesuit society needs to be seriously investigated by people who have brains and love God.
Excellent point.
The Pope is an imposter. An Italian priest claimed this and was excommunicated immediately. I for one, believe the Priest.
Amen. He is evil
The Church is owned lock stock and barrel by the CCP.
The CCP saved the Church from pedophile bankruptcy.
The Pope made a deal with the devil.
Are you pretending to be this stupid?
Or are you serious? No, I'm genuinely asking.
I would love to help you but you would never belive me.
There's nothing to help. If you think blaming the Chinese Communist Party explains anything that is happening within the Catholic Church, then you're a fucking idiot.
You shouldn't be allowed online. You should be put to work, outside, so your stupidity isn't allowed to be displayed online. You're just dumb. Carry on.
Is this Kat Williams
The Catholic Church has been infiltrated by an evil leader who does not believe the Bible. That does not mean that all priest are evil, but the top leadership has become captive to the cabal---- not all churches
The fish rots from the head.
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To witness the deliberate destruction of communities, towns, counties, states and countries is almost unbearable to witness. We must bear witness to what is going on and speak clearly like Elizabeth has done and is doing. Each of us must speak to our friends and families. Many of them will not listen and will hate us for acknowledging the facts that are playing out before us. Stand strong and be fearless. Remember today January 6 as Patriot’s Day. The day free men and women starred the DC tyrants in the face and did not flinch. There were no guns, no violence that was not perpetrated by the police state. Those brave souls embodied what General Flynn always says “steady boys!”
Amen
"The most visible result of their malfeasance is homelessness. Which has been engineered to shame you. Entirely. 100%. Every time you drive by some poor soul dying on the sidewalk, you are meant to feel
1. Guilt
2. Anger at the system (capitalism) and
3. an urge to vote for the compassionate left who promise to work only for the dispossessed."
Interesting insight here. I wondered how the left benefitted from situations like San Francisco's problem. Obviously they can harvest votes from this demographic but the psychological impact of just seeing them exist? Never considered the effect.
Uh.. by getting money, funding and positions within NGOs. The left have made it a business.
Seattle and Washington state budget Million$$$ for homelessness. To the extent they could buy shelter for them all, with excess millions left over. But, it's never "enough", always voting in higher spending, and ever more arrive to suck off benefits. Another scam foisted on taxpayers.
Washington state is running an advertisement ad nauseum stating that as of November 1st, ANYone living in the state is eligible for state Healthcare- REGARDLESS, of your immigration status - which will NOT be affected by accepting this healthcare.
Absurdist, indeed.
Evil
In CA many groups have attempted to “solve” homelessness, but of course the regulations, back room deals and political BS means this will never happen. Consider that in many big cities in CA it is apparently impossible to build a single 500 sq ft apartment/condo/house for less than $900k. The elite are making millions if not billions from the Homeless Industrial Complex. It is a huge racket and they care nothing about truly helping the homeless. It’s all for show, and they continue to line their pockets. Cities everywhere in the US (for the most part) have regulations preventing any tiny homes, which certainly do not cost $900k to build. It’s all intentional.
Roughly 271,000 people are homeless in England, which has a population of 56.5 million. Of those only 2,400 are sleeping rough on a given night. 15,000 are in hostels or supported accommodation and 250K are living in temporary accommodation (source: Shelter). And we have a bloody housing crisis- a shortfall of available housing for the population to the tune of 4.3 million homes! One of the major contributors to solving the problem was a carve out for permitted development, an exception to the UK's normal archaic and onerous system of planning permissions. This exception accounted for 73,575 new houses/homes, many with multiple occupancies, through commercial-to-residential conversions of obsolete and defunct office spaces. However, it's hard to see how these types of emergency provisions will hold- with 1.18 million net migration in 2022 and the opposition persisting in the same old tired story of providing houses by developing brown belt land (which hasn't worked, since first instituted after the capacity loss of the 1992 housing crash)- the Left in the UK will soon have its PR Cloward-Piven for a frontal assault on British capitalism.
That's the main strategy by the way- Cloward-Piven. Create general conditions which require governmental intervention, expand government to solve the problem and then don't fix it- this creates budgetary black holes which never solve the problem, regardless of how much money government wastes. In the US around 21% of the homeless population are mentally ill, which is a little different from the oft quoted inflations of mental health problems in prisons- mental illness, if the term is applied correctly, usually means a major physiological brain disorder, in complete contrast to the theory which that evil bastard Foucault once proposed.
A huge portion of the homeless in America are drug addicted. In the Netherlands they've hit upon a solution which invariably works- if an addict gets caught shooting up in public they are given a choice between rehab and prison. Unsurprisingly, almost all choose rehab. Of course people do cycle back into drug abuse, but each time the numbers precipitously drop.
Here's the real issue. An old Shelter study of people clean and sober when they hit the street showed that six months later 50% of them had substance abuse issues. It's important to triage the newly homeless and offer anyone not an addict emergency accommodation asap- otherwise they have a high risk of becoming addicts and from there it's only a short step to permanent physiological brain damage. The mentally ill should be offered accommodation plus assistance- and a humane and safe approach would also include electronic tagging in case they fall off their meds. Better that than a permanent low grade epidemic of citizens being stabbed by paranoid schizophrenics. There is gaping hole of constitutional protections between the medical ethics of consent and the State's duty to protect physical safety.
You need to ask yourself the question- if Texas can solve the problem and so can the Left in the Netherlands, is the American progressive abandonment of pragmatism a matter of wishful thinking or deliberate? By the way, Portugal's decriminalisation of drugs is now showing sure signs of failure- specifically because they don't allow mandatory drug rehab like the Dutch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-drugs-decriminalization-heroin-crack/
The homeless problem is not so simple as: because drugs. This is a systemic problem and more importantly, spiritual. I know all about this as I have been homeless for three years. I'm old and cannot work enough hours to afford even a modest studio apartment. The prospect of working until I fall into the grave is not a pleasant one. In my area of Montana, the median home price is $750,000! After signing away your life to the mortgage (death pledge) scam you will pay three times that amount! How many people can actually afford these houses? Most are 2 bedrooms on a postage stamp. The average 1 bedroom apartment is 2000 and up. Electricity is through the roof. Many, and I mean many, of the homeless here work full time. It would be easy to demand that businesses pay a living wage but, they are up against an expensive regulatory wall a mile high.
The biggest mistake we ever made was to allow the federal reserve to take control of the money supply. That, and the usurpation of the common law by commercial law that is now the "legal system" that supports it. No one told us that it is our labor, productivity and creativity as living men and women that provides the value for the currency. If you doubt this, ask any banker if a promissory note has any value before a man or woman signs it.
To make a very long story short, the children at the top want far fewer people on the planet and the ones that remain will live in modern feudalism, mere vassals of the self proclaimed "elites."
Unless and until a chunk of people understand that the real world of rocks, trees, dirt, people and critters has been replaced by the commercial system of legal entities, mostly defined as "persons," there will be more and more homelessness. Eventually, you will be on that list. You have been convinced that the name on every bill you receive, every account you open, every "transaction" you make is you. But, all of those things exists in a make believe land of legal fictions you have been convinced is "real." Ask your HR or payroll folks if your company hires people or persons. If they are being honest they will confess it is the latter.
The children will use the commercial system to steal everything you have. They will use their phony baloney money to buy what's left. It will all be done because you believe the deed is the house and land, that the title is the car and they will tell you that you pledged those physical assets as collateral for their paper which is impossible. In the commercial world there is no substance (actual stuff), only form (paper). Until enough people can wrap their heads around this grand deception, homelessness will only increase, and it won't be: because drugs.
I completely agree with you on this one, mate, and I sympathise with your position. I've written extensively about the housing market, used to work for a major UK supplier to the housing market and also spent a (thankfully) short stint in retail banking. It's possible to print a home for $60K. The Swedes asked their private sector to find ways to build homes cheaper and they managed to offsite roughly 50% of the labour to cheap fabrications factories.
By far the biggest problem in Western housing markets is artificial scarcity generated by government, closely followed by regulatory costs, legal fees and utility connection rent-seeking. I participate in a mainly heterodox and conservative private Discourse forum. On numerous occasions I and a friend who owns his own small building firm in the UK have tried to convince our conservative friends that the housing markets in the West are broken.
In the South and East of the UK an acre of building land costs around £1 million. That's enough to build 6 adequate homes, 8 smaller homes, or 12 to 16 rabbit hutches. A lot of the newer built homes don't even have decent access- single lane roads which are meant to service homeowners, pedestrians and delivery drivers all at the same time- with the very occasional small bay to prevent jams.
It's all a big con by the financial lobby, which just happens to outstrip even the intelligence services as a lobbying interest in London and DC. Mortgage debt as an asset class is a major source of profits for them- they make more money when the mortgage for each individual home is higher, so they actually go as far rigging the system to prevent small house building firms from building homes. Building land is security for the purposes of a loan. But can small builders with great credit ratings and twenty years working in the sector get loans from a bank to purchase building land to build a house in the UK? No they cannot. The major banks simply refuse them out of hand, because they make most of their future profits from the cost of housing going up.
And government is just as bad. They want property taxes to go up. Mill rates may vary, but rises in assessed values always increases the size of government revenue. The only real answer is libertarian land reforms. The only people who should be able to object to the granting of planning permission are those with direct standing (the immediate neighbours). America has almost no starter homes. Unleashing new free market providers like 3d prints, prefab houses and static home innovators could revolutionise the American market.
Here's the thing. In order to sell the idea to existing homeowners worried about losing existing home value or a future windfall, its important to stress that these types of solutions would be specifically targeted towards starter homes. Believe it or not, allowing young people to build equity with fundamentally cheaper starter homes actually builds house prices further up the ladder because more people would then have the accrued savings in their existing home in order to be able to afford properties they otherwise wouldn't have a hope in hell of affording.
I also agree with you on central banks (as well as fractional reserve lending). We are at least luckier in the UK in one respect. According to the original English Common Law tradition a homebuyer with a mortgage owns the home from day one. The bank only owns the mortgage, although they are able to repossess the home through the courts of mortgage payments fall into significant arrears. It's not the only legal protection provided to homeowners- in the UK we can refuse even court-appointed bailiffs entry to the property and they are not entitled to seize personal property. The exception generally tends to be high court judgements related to the non-payment of income taxes!
Housing is the principal reason why the West is in decline. Lending ratios have a ticking timebomb since the runup to 2008- something which I predicted by the way, and felt like Cassandra at the time- only two people listened to me- a boss at work and the son-in-law of a mate- both saved significantly more than £100K from my advice. I always look at repossessions for a warning of house price collapses. Here in the UK Google tries to hide the data. Here in the UK repossessions have started to climb. The US doesn't seem to have the same problem- yet.- at least not up until Q3 of 2023.
On the subject of homelessness and the housing situation, it's worth noting that the whole life approach to treating drugs shows that drug addiction is less physiological in nature and is a product of despair. This is why I mentioned the bit about triaging those who are not addicted or suffering from mental illness off the street immediately.
It's also why I made the point about the way the UK has managed to convert obsolete office space into emergency housing- it was to show that homelessness is a deliberate choice on the part of your government. It does look as though Montana is confronting some unique problems though- bloody hell, your population has grown quickly. Building material cost seem to be a global problem- or least one common to the West. In the UK they rose 38% from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023. In the US the figure seems to be around 40% for roughly the same period.
The number one problem in the housing market is greed. In some places in Montana people were sending blank checks to realtors and instruct them to snatch up anything. The realtors obliged, jacked up prices because they had a blank check and now claim the exorbitant prices are "fair market value." Same with property management. They charge application fees of up to $100. That's just to apply for a dump that 20 others have applied for. That was unheard of 10 years ago. This is city shit. I despise cities. It has crept out into rural areas now. In addition, these management firms have on many occasions pressured independent owners to raise their advertised rent to "fair market value," which is just modern day guild tactics. Shame on them. The damage they do to the community is immeasurable. They do not care.
The cost of new housing is more about the ever inflating currency caused by government policy and, here in America, the belief by those on the left and increasingly those on the right that money grows on trees. This is a result of fractional reserve banking. The federal reserve must be abolished. It is one of the greatest evils ever forced upon man.
The mortgage scam. When you go to the bank for a loan, you sign a promissory note. A promissory note in the commercial system is the same as cash. The bank deposits that note as an asset for later sale (sometimes copying the note and selling it many times) and they hand you a check (after you sign a mortgage). At this point it is an even exchange, cash for cash and the transaction should be over. But, they demand you sign a mortgage promising to pay back three times the value of the note. Not only that, but they trick you into believing you can pledge the land and house as collateral for the loan they claim they just made. In the commercial system there is no substance. The only thing they can foreclose on is the deed, which is NOT substance!. The substance does not exist in that system, only paper. There was no loan as your signature created the money. BANK DO NOT LOAN ANYTHING!!
Because of government regulation businesses are strapped with so much overhead they can not afford to pay a living wage. Many are going out of business here in the states because of over regulation. Government is a dumb, stupid fiction and should be paired down to nothing or completely abolished. Its gaping maw gobbles everything in sight. But, at this point in history, too many people have been brainwashed to think of government as some kind of savior. These are the people who are unwittingly contributing to the destruction of civilization and handing it to the globalists on a silver platter.
I watched Dave Smith on the Joe Rogan podcast trying to explain fractional reserve lending. He explained that in a 10% reserve system, banks could lend out 90 dollars for every 100 dollars deposited. WRONG! In reality, for every 100 dollars deposited 900 dollars are usually created (if the reserve rate is 10%). All the system requires is a steady stream of borrowers- which is why a huge amount of effort is put into trying to convince people to take out inadvisable loans. Lending allows banks to summon money out of thin air, for the simple reason that each loan create both a negative and positive entry on the balance sheet. I've recently begun exploring the lesser known works of classic sci fi authors- I would highly recommend The Saratoga Barrier by Frank Herbert- it presents a picture of a self-sufficient community which isn't falling for the misery inducing mass marketeering of the time (written in 1967).
I loathe cities. Cities are one of the main reasons why so many people are miserable. I live in a rural area in Norfolk, England, a village with roughly 700 inhabitants- although it's probably best described as suburban in terms of facilities. The next village, only two miles away has a small-sized supermarket and an express M&S attached to a petrol station selling higher niche foodstuffs. Norwich is around 13 miles away (one of the more tolerable cities in the UK).
The problem with government is that any organisation- be it a government agency or department, institution, NGO or corporation- is that the organisation becomes an organism in itself, with its own set of self-interests, motives and goals. For any bureaucracy the main goal is self-preservation, closely followed by the desire to expand and grow, to extends its power and influence, its remit.
Have you heard of or read Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy?
'Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.'
Government might not be too bad if the politicians were sufficiently wary about the dangers of ever-expanding bureaucracies, if they concerned themselves with moderate Rawlsian transfers as direct payments with the only condition income levels. This might be a good low cost way of supplementing the income of the working poor. Indeed, both Milton Friedman and MLK were in favour of a negative income tax. Even Ben Shapiro has come out in support of such a proposition.
Paired with a shift to a PAYE system, which most wealthier countries operate, it would completely eliminate the need for 90% of the population to submit tax returns to the IRS (because most income taxes are paid direct through the employer through payroll). Apart from eliminating a huge portion of the personal accountancy and tax help commercial software industry, its benefits would be twofold. First, it would eliminate the tax welfare dead zone- there would never be an instance in which people would lose money by working. A well-calibrated system would allow workers to keep around two-thirds of everything they make from the first dollar they earn.
Second, and more importantly, it would massively reduce the bureaucracy. In the modern age, a negative income tax could largely be automated. This is incidentally, why Democrats always want to means test any cheque or welfare they send out. In virtually every instance in history since the Second World War, means testing in the UK has always meant greater total expenditure than universality, for the simple reason that whatever savings are made through means testing are always massively outweighed by the added cost of bureaucracy. And that is, after all, what the Democrats really want- more people on the taxpayers payroll, incrementally closer to a state run economy, through the dilution of the democratic veto through government induced self-interest.
This source by Niskanan Center shows how a Negative Income Tax could replace existing welfare programs. It should be noted that in the final paragraph the author is talking about reallocating existing federal budgets, not introducing new taxes. It should also be noted that he doesn't even articulate the main benefit- it would massively, massively reduce the staffing of government bureaucracies. One of the smartest (and Machiavellian) political moves the Dems ever made was transferring the bureaucratic requirement for 'mandatory' spending down to the State level- it makes it look as though there are far fewer federal employees than there actually are. Clinton made it sound as though the new system would push more people to transition into work, but in reality it just shifted bureaucrats from the federal payroll to state bureaucracies. America spends $2.3 trillion on its federal and state social welfare programs. I've found it impossible to locate a source which shows how much of this actually makes it through to American citizens. But that's hardly a surprise- the same is completely true in the UK.
Government types like to make a big deal about transparency and accountability (blame culture as opposed to responsibility), but at the most basic level they are completely opaque about who is payed do what.
I forgot the source:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/universal-basic-income-is-just-a-negative-income-tax-with-a-leaky-bucket/
162.550: The San Francisco bureaucrats and NGOs make about a billion dollars a year off of the homeless. It's a racket.
These are funny communists who believe in the dictatorship of billionaires, which makes them not communists. I do agree that the rulers want to destroy America, but the communists you describe are mere puppets. Cultural Marxism is a deliberate distractions from the class rooted Marxism, the kind which does not usually serve the capitalist class, but threatens it. Cultural Marxism is the kind of "Marxism" spooks would create.
TRIPLE BRAVO
You want proof, think of the 70's, after it all started, we had a hell of a time affording a car, some of us had a hot rod, some of us had a beetle, and some of us had a rolling wreck. But we had something. My granddaughters have nothing, and no aspirations beyond their own (not Papa's) cell phone.
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With EVs being forced upon us on the west coast, how are young people going to afford to drive a car to work? People are hanging on to their combustion powered cars longer now. Used cars that run, are very expensive for young adults. Why even try to find a job when it is much easier to sponge off NGOs. A local physician advertises on the AM radio how our community has 600 homeless teens and that all of us need to support the local flop-house because no one should be homeless. Grrr! These “kids” chose homelessness over living under a parent’s roof for a variety of reasons but mostly because of drug addiction. I refuse to feel guilty when I see them on the streets. Thank goodness I can escape their criminality because I live outside of town.
“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.” – Thomas Sowell
Our enemies never walk among us. They live only with their own. We will never meet them and we will never drink a tea with them.
But they hijack some of our own as their agents. And some of our own readily help them.
This is a great news. It means that ending this problem is very easy. Handling our own is very easy.
“They” are completely beyond our reach, unattainable. Let them be.
Without the support of our own - who prefer collaborating with them to living where they belong - they will wither away in no time.
‘Those of our own who readily help them’ are the weakest of all. They’re emotionally needy bowing down to seek attention from players they think are omnipotent. They are servants between their ears...controlled by fear & hoping the great unwashed keep being impressed by their self elevated snobbery of working for the elites. Their lives are empty shells..clouds without water, ultimately useless souls. Which is not to underestimate the damages they will gleefully inflict in order to gain praise from their over lords. May their vulnerabilities be exposed, their hidden scaffolds tumble & their filthy consciences be eliminated from power over the majority ASAP.
Ok, now that the steam is vented off, what can we do about it?
TBH I’ve adopted a ‘fk ‘em all’ lifestyle. Paid off all my bills including mortgage, moved my $ to a credit union, built a global income stream in wellness in the NWM model by helping others privately also escape the matrix..this process led me to totally recover my health from labeled lifetime diseases & I now live drug free & have no family doctor. (unless I get hit my a car I’ll never go to a hospital), stopped all attempts to ‘change people’s minds’ if they’re ranting lunatics, sold my house in Ontario and am downsizing to the south tip of the province into a 4000 person small town (where I’m near a FN reserve & know I could pay someone to boat me over the border if needed), got a PAL & Rpal license, joined a sports club & got comfortable shooting, built a veggie garden & found out how simply I can grow my own stuff both to eat all summer plus dry garlic onions etc, buy meat from local farmers, limit my time on social media except to let friends know I’m alive & periodically say #fucktrudeau 😀 IMHO it’s all about taking charge personally & as a senior I feel I’ve done a good job. The less I partake in the lies the better. Aside from that IF we don’t eliminate Trudeau I will have to move to a new country so I encourage young people to vote CPC to that end so I can remain here.
I applaud your courage and determination, a sister after my own heart~I'm also a senior and am down in NM in the states. I have done much the same thingin preparing. I would include my husband, but he is in the leftist camp, and hasn't heard one word of all the warnings that I've tried to give him over the years. So, I ride alone. My rural neighbors which are also seniors are all leftists up here and this is a highly conservative area. Nice people but don't want any sense of community or to engage in any significant way. My remaining family are also extreme leftists and any conversation trying to convince them that things have been and are going south quickly is met with deaf ears. So, I have a strong faith in God, because He alone is my rock and has been there for me. I wish you all the best~Always be strong and know there are others out here like you that will never give in or give up. And that's why we are here on Elizabeth's site commenting~👍
Excellent and nice to meet you here ! I’m surrounded by lefties too and have developed a wonderful ability to smile wave and ignore them all.
That’s the spirit. I always thought that the ugliest revenge you can think of is to live to 150 and never go to any doctor. Ok, some kindness, you don’t live by revenge alone, so to 149.
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Out them. Tell them to their face what they do. See them. Don't let them hide in the shadows. Write about them-- pick one every column you write. Talk about them. Tells others. The more that know will watch their actions as politicians, university apparatchiks, NGO tools and will put pressure on their actions. How? Defunding, see where you give any time and money to charities/NGOs. Eg. How many knew the IRC was funding (along with the usual suspects) the migrant problem over the Southern US border? Not many I would guess. James O'Keefe just blew that open by educating us through twitter and his site that the US population is funding these sordid operations and creating the mess that is certain parts of the southern border.
I would bet money that either the same or similiar NGOs are doing the same here at the Northern border.
How do you make change? Educate , expose and then move
It looks like a full-time job. I already have one job, and I am good with it. Who knows, I am open to good offers…
They don’t hide in any shadows. They are everywhere, in all media, in newspapers, and they control 100% of the internet. They are all over the place.
I won’t be able to talk to them, their security will stop me 5 miles away from them.
Talking about writing about them, hmmm. The more we talk about them, the more free advertising they get. Is this our goal?
Also, I am very limited in time. I only have 24 hours a day. Every minute of this time I dedicate to them will be lost to my family and real friends. So I have to choose what to do with my energy: give it to those who are dear to me - or to them?
Defunding. I have no idea where to start. If you have any specific advice, that might help.
As for funding the migrant problem… everybody knows this. That’s where your taxes go. Literally you are funding all their actions, they merely take your money and use it. Without you and your money - they would do nothing.
“Educate, expose and then move” - where? Venezuela won’t help me, Argentina is already booked, the yellow-blue haven is their private property, Taiwan is uneasy, Iraq is too hot, Australia is too busy, Libya has been hijacked, the Falklands have been hijacked, Hawaii is a target, Japan is too polite, where am I to move? Can you help with transfers, money and passports?
You want to post defeatism, please post it somewhere else.
I do apologize that you cannot tell a bit of humor from defeatism.
If you read the post to which I replied, it may help. Hint: Carol Jones posted a string of no-questions-asked orders, all thrown out in a single shot, with no respect to the readers here and with zero interest in establishing communication.
You can't discuss with a bad boss avalanche like this. So I took it lightly.
If you see this thing seriously, maybe you could follow her indisputable commands and relate what you did.
PS. The writing style of Carl Jones suggests a pre-programmed bot.
Sorry you write a paid blog? BTW do something not everything-- no one needs you to do that. Guess what you have the same limitations that we all do. If you can write that reply you have time.
“No one needs…” - I must have missed T&C for Substack, is it mandatory to “do something not everything”? Maybe there are other restrictions on what I must or am expected to write about.
No, I don’t have the same limitations, mine are different. Not better, not worse, not larger, not smaller, just mine. One of my strongest limitations is respecting readers, for example by using punctuation ;-)
Yes. We need people like you, who think about solutions, not people who just shrug and say it can't be done.
Thanks I get tired of the black pill whiners 💗
All the lefty males I know are people who haven’t done well. At least according to what they believe they should have achieved. They deserved better and they didn’t get it. In their lives they lived in fear. They took no risks. They bowed their heads to what they perceived as greater power, always. They all abhor overt masculinity. They hate Trump, the uber male because their low T is rubbed in their faces.
Probably on the subconscious level they realize that according to “their” Darwinian theory they should not be alive (because of their weak minds and bodies). They are a worthless byproduct of “everyone deserves a trophy”. And that’s why HATE everything good, civil and reasonable.
Encouraging essay in that, it helps to know there are others making similar observations. Thanks
You described this perfectly. That’s exactly my take on it all.
Well stated Brenda!
As a Cuban political refugee from the 60s, and having been raised by parents dispossessed of all property, I know every word in this article is true.
The World Economic Forum, with their New World Order, make no secret of infiltrating every Government Worldwide! Adolf Schwab has stated this as fact! He thinks they now run the show, but there are several of us that have decided the WEF, UN and the, now terminated, WHO were a danger to humanity and all need terminating!
My first reaction to anything stated by any/all the aforementioned, is to assume it to be lies and manipulation. My Policy is to assume the opposite of what I hear or read from them.
It's safer to be pessimistic instead of joining the other Muppets that either suffered long lasting Adverse Reactions (health side effects) from the WEF sponsored Covid injections, supposed to be a 'Covid cure'' With each jab, recipients find they've suddenly become more susceptible to Covid and all other illnesses than they might have been before they were conned.
What happened to "Safe & Effective"?
Why do vax makers demand ZERO LIABILITY?
Why did Ivermectin suddenly get 'rubbished' when it had a 30 year safety track record?
What happened to Doctor's Hippocratic Oath = 'First Do No Harm'!
What ever became of 'Informed Consent'?
Why did FDA permit Pfizer etc, to enjoy ZERO LIABILITY for their DEADLY EXPERIMENTAL INJECTIONS, when pre-existing medicines were available? That's just manipulating the rules to suit Big Pharma's insatiable greed.
Our post Covid vocabulary now includes many new phrases like 'Died Suddenly', 'Died unexpectedly', 'Excess Deaths', 'Turbo Cancers', 'Myocarditis', 'Pericarditis', 'Blood clots', etc. These are all new expressions that have developed since Covid and the useless injections were invented then released, seemingly to finish the evil WEF (New World Order) project = The world Depopulation CULL!
Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed to live longer.
. Well written as always. I can agree with most of this article. I would posit that “capitalists” should have done a better job of allowing the system to work instead of using government power to whenever possible to grow their own interests. 20th century communism propagated as a response to the corporatism (colonialism) that also caused the suffering of millions at the hands of a few powerful entities which extracted and redistributed natural resource wealth to themselves. I despise communism for the evil that it is, however, I have also learned to despise the alleged capitalists that perpetuated the conditions that make communism seem like a good idea.
I feel like "they" deliberately destroyed the word capitalist by parading it around in the form of big business only. Self employed are capitalist too..their intentions nothing close to capitalism of the Wal mart type, but the likes of big business blanket all business and cause the little guys to not keep up...hense they go under, swallowed by bigger fish. Everyone wants to thrive, it makes me sad when I see a thriving family business that (maybe they aren't rich but they make a living, ) get swallowed up by a larger corporation just so they can shut it down and force people to do business with them...and the people that owned said business, even if they resist at first, will be offered rediciculous amounts of money until they agree, and if no amount of money entices them, the threats and bullying will surely do them in. Money only takes you so far, you NEED purpose...they always manage to take that part away.
Royce Nugent: Karl Marx invented the word "capitalist" in Das Kapital. No doubt Marx is happy that so many people use the word in a disparaging manner.
There are free markets. Capital is merely savings built up (deferred earnings) that are used to improve a business or any endeavor in a free market economy.
"Allowing the system to work" would mean erasing greed and corruption from the incestuous relationship that has grown over time between corporations and gov't. "You scratch my back I will scratch yours"
Thanks for another great read Elizabeth. Your relentless pursuit of truth re-energizes me. The absence of history in schools and it's eradication in public places through the removal of statues, etc. works to further the effort for radical change. These efforts are also used as tools to futher divide us as a nation and people.
Matthew 12:25
Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
We don't have leadership in the USA! We have puppets manipulated to do the bidding of self-centered self-indulgent psychos! The Epstein saga profiles it! We need to clean out the bloat in DC! Citizen statesmen/women have to be returned to our capital! Rational thought needs to dominate!
Excellent post! This problem is not new...it has been with us forever. Read Cicero who warned beware the enemy from within. Look it up. He describes much of what the Left is doing today. The Romans, however, had a more "direct" way of dealing with such enemies. Will history repeat itself? IDK. Pax
Brilliantly insightful piece on systemic gaslighting. https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/the-love-of-money-and-physics
I studied climate science in 2002. We are in the middle of an ice age, and are 60,000 years overdue to return to chillier times. Humans can't even predict the weather the day after tomorrow. How can they tell us CO2 is a problem, and if it was man cannot control the planet.