Theft!

Last night TPTB stole an hour from us...all to give you more daylight shopping hours after work. The majority of people DON'T want to mess with time, but hey what kind of government do you think we have, democracy? However stealing time is the least of the theft occurring. Have you heard of the Great Taking, a book that exposes the plan of central bankers to enslave humanity by seizing all assets backed by debt (available for free at the link). There's also an 1.1 hour documentary if you prefer to watch or listen. But wait there's more. There's plans afoot to steal the upcoming election, in part using the 10 million migrants that have come to the US in the last year or so. This week we found out the Biden administration has provided flights from home countries for hundreds of thousands. And, we've not even touched on the giant war grift maintaining the forever war and all the political war chests and pockets. More below the fold.

Here's a well done discussion of The Great Taking if the book or hour plus documentary are too detailed.

(37 min) What is 'The Great Taking'? Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard analyze this intriguing book, which offers a sobering account of the potential consequences of the next financial crisis. The authors point to the overleveraged derivatives market underpinned by securities dependent on a strong working class. If the working class falters, it could create a cascading crisis leading to bank failures and a consolidation of assets by surviving big banks. This threatens the "you'll own nothing and be happy" dystopian scenario. The book also explores the stagnant velocity of money in the U.S. economy, suggesting major underlying issues have been worsening for decades. Overall, it presents a stark warning about the fragility of the system and how ordinary people stand to lose assets with little legal recourse in the next crash.

There are many other analyses and discussions of The Great Taking.
Chris Martenson discusses derivatives.
The Great Taking - Derivatives are a Massive Systemic Thread (Still) 4\4 (33 min)

Interesting interviews with the author.
Ivor Cumming interviews David Webb the author
THE GREAT TAKING: Who Really Owns YOUR Assets??? (21 min)

The Great Taking Author Warns, The System Was Created to Take All Your Money, No One Gets Spared (1.25 hours)
In an exclusive interview with Daniela Cambone, David Webb, the author of The Great Taking, delves into his early financial career in New York City. He shares insights into how his journey in finance led him to uncover the profound financial upheaval following the Asian financial crisis, a narrative that unfolds in his book The Great Taking.
“For a long time, I understood the privileged position of the people behind the central banks and their ability to control everything through creating money out of nothing,” he states. Furthermore, he explains that the “elites” exert their control by means of warfare. “When we go back through history, we can see that the central banking power is joined at the hip with warfare, and it always has been,” he explains.
Additionally, he points out that the creation of central bank digital currencies must be stopped, asserting that their inception reflects the central banks' ambition to exert control. "They want instability; they are not capitalists." Watch the video to discover how people need to be better prepared in case of another financial meltdown.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 The Great Taking book background
5:38 David’s financial background
10:20 Fed/Bank of England
15:33 Conspiracy theory
18:02 What comes next?
19:10 David’s awakening moment
23:58 Is the Fed evil?
28:14 How did central banks benefit from wars?
34:12 How did “The Great Taking” Unfold?
39:22 How to Prepare?
44:55 Diversification
49:58 “Physical Control Over People”
54:16 Central Bank Digital Currency
1:02:27 Global Awakening
1:09:44 The Great Taking

I like his concept that the elite consider themselves immune, but they don't realize they are being saved for dessert.

Whitney Webb predicts even more dire consequences and plans for theft...
TOTAL COLLAPSE AHEAD! You Must Prepare for What's Coming in 2024 - Whitney Webb 2024 Prediction

(14 min)

Even Jimmy Dore is recommending placing your wealth into precious metals.
U.S. Banks Are BUYING UP Lots Of Gold & Here’s Why! (22 min)
The Federal Reserve is planning interest rate cuts in the coming months, and in response the price of gold has risen. What’s the connection and do these moves suggest that gold and other precious metals are a good investment? Jimmy and Colonial Metals’ Paul Stone discuss the Fed’s move and what it means for investors.

Is a goal of mass migration into the US to fix elections?
“..the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship..”

Elon Musk ripped President Joe Biden’s administration for secretly flying 320,000 “unvetted” migrants into the US, signaling that “the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11.”
Musk issued the grave warning on X Tuesday, noting that it’s “just a matter of time” that the US faces another terrorist attack of that magnitude.
“This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants,” Musk added in the post.
“This is why groups on the far left fight so hard to stop voter ID requirements, under the absurd guise of protecting the right to vote,” the billionaire Tesla CEO said in a subsequent post that doubled down on his stance.

Clayton and Natalie discuss the mass migration news of the week. (14 min)

Fmr. Border Patrol Agent: "We are releasing TERRORISTS into The U.S. on purpose" (26 min)
"Their goal is CIVIL WAR in the U.S." Americans vs Illegal Aliens (21 min)

Tucker's take on the migration...

Are TPTB trying to steal the nation? Sure is something fishy going on.

Speaking of elections, this week Dark Brandon gave his angry old man "State of the Union".
I thought Alex had the best take on it.

State of the Union review in the first 10 min or so. The rest of his discussion is also interesting. I liked his hypothesis of the dim plan to give the crash test dummy cover by clapping every 20-30 seconds.

Jimmy discusses Tucker's analysis... (13 min)
“Democrats Are Planning To Steal The Election!” – Tucker Carlson
In response to the State of the Union speech, commentator Tucker Carlson has concluded that Democrats know that Joe Biden is going to lose to Donald Trump unless they steal the election. As evidence he cites a recent speech by the attorney general insisting that the government will strictly fight back against voter ID laws, redistricting and other restrictions.

Have you seen Doug Macgregor's alternative "State of the Union"?

(10 min)

Does it really matter who you vote for or if you vote?
Nobody With Real Power Cares If You Refuse To Vote For Biden Caity

Losing an election costs Democratic party leaders nothing; all the career politicians and political operatives at the top keep their careers either way. From their point of view this is just a cushy job with sweet benefits, and they keep those win or lose. And obviously Biden himself doesn’t care; he’ll have a comfortable retirement regardless of the outcome in November, and on some level he’s surely aware that it’s nuts for a dementia patient to be in the White House anyway.
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The unelected empire managers who actually run the US power structure also don’t care who wins the election. They know they’ll still get their murder and militarism and capitalism and imperialism no matter who gets sworn in next year, whether it’s Biden or Trump or Harris or someone else. Nobody with any real power cares about your vote.
And that’s the real issue. That’s the real point that keeps getting missed here. The problem is not that the wrong people keep getting elected, it’s that the elections don’t matter and voters don’t have a say. It’s that humanity is dominated by a murderous globe-spanning power structure loosely centralized around Washington whose actual movements and behavior have effectively zero responsiveness to the will of the electorate.
You’re never going to be able to vote your way out of this mess, and you’re never going to be able to not-vote your way out of this mess, because the power of your vote has been undermined to a value of zero. That doesn’t mean there’s no way out of this mess, it just means there’s no way to get out of this mess using the fake plastic diversion toy they handed you to shut you up and trick you into thinking you have a say.

I'm sorry to say I think she is correct.

Theft of Food...control the food, control the people.
I would also suggest investing in some personal food production or getting to know some of your local farmers. That's one reason there is a war on farmers. Did you hear they arrested Amish farmer Amos Miller again?

(8 min) Talk about theft.

By now most of you have heard about the Farmer's Protests all over Europe. The EU farmer's protests revolve around the loss of subsidies (now going to fund the Ukraine proxy war), and the harsh new climate restrictions placed on EU farmers...even to the point of actually confiscating farms. I found Joel Salatin's take on the protest insightful.
Joel Salatin on the EU Farmers REVOLT (14 min)
He asks why they are wasting their valuable manure on government buildings, and suggests promoting the transition from CAFOs to regenerative pastured operations.

Are the fires in Texas purposeful to decrease meat production? (15 min)

The fires in the Texas panhandle are destroying America's cattle and meat industry and President Biden may have just let slip the truth behind how they began. Seems similar to Maui, and all the meat packing plant fires over the last few years.

Vandana gives the big picture of the military, corporate, and chemical capture of our food system. One of the best discussions of the subject I've heard in a while. Highly recommended.

(46 min) Transcript here.
Dave Chapman 34:53
Okay! And that mindset has produced Corporate Agriculture?
Vandana Shiva 35:00
Yes, absolutely. See, the mindset has three M’s in it. The first is, of course, it comes from militarism, the products came from militarism. But the mindset is: oh, every insect’s an enemy, just wipe them out, every plant is a weed, just glyphosate them to death, round them up. Every fungus is an enemy, and so they create pathogenic fungus. And then they have to – you know, the whole neoniconide debate is because they coat the seed with neonicotinoids, only because you’ve killed the beneficial fungi in the soil.
And all of this treadmill of chemicals, is a result of the military operation in the mind. But the second is: scientifically, it’s rooted in the mechanical mind, of thinking of the world as a machine that you run, and you fix and you operate. Not as a self-organized system, that guy is a self-organized living organism. Every seed and every plant is a self-organized system. Every microbe is a self-organized system. Now that’s the true science of life. And that’s what Organic is.
And then third: is, of course, the blindness of monoculture. So Militarism, Mechanistic Thought, and the Monoculture of the Mind – we need to move from that to peace, making peace with the Earth. Definitely moving out of the Mechanistic Mind to the Ecology of the Mind. Because we have that capacity as human beings to think differently, to think in relationship with the living world. And finally, instead of Monocultures of the Mind, the biodiversity of the mind – yeah?. So living knowledges – yeah? And knowledge of peace.

The theft of food leads us to the theft of our health also. Your health is your real wealth.
However, hope springs eternal...
and spring is singing...

The over wintered garden is producing nicely...

and the spring replants are coming along...

Collards and parsley are filling our needs too.

...but not so fast. The beech trees hold on to their leaves until this years leaves put out.

Having a food bank is a great savings account.

Is it the theft of Earth itself we are experiencing? (50 min)

Transcript here
Few places illustrate the destructive cycle of fossil fuel-driven climate change as well as Alberta, Canada. Home to the tar sands boom, the province's remote north has also become a site of some of the worst climate disasters in recorded history—like the 2016 Fort McMurray Fire, which swallowed up 1.5 million acres and burned for three months. John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Fort McMurray Fire, the tar sands industry responsible for the conditions that produced it, and the tinderbox world Big Oil has made in its all-consuming pursuit of profit.

Well, let's wrap up with some hopeful news, but we'll need to go to Russia and visit Pepe.
PEPE ESCOBAR JOINS ON NATO'S MARCH TO WWIII WITH RUSSIA AS PUTIN, CHINA CHART MULTIPOLAR WORLD (1 hour)

Journalist and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar (https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics on Telegram and ( / realpepeescobar ) joins to discuss NATO's latest provocations toward Russia in the context of a flurry of meetings that occurred in Moscow in recent weeks outlining the trajectory of the multipolar world alongside rising China.
The Global South Converges to Multipolar Moscow
Moscow hosted a back-to-back multipolar conference plus the second meeting of the International Russophiles Movement (MIR, in its French acronym, which means “world” in Russian). Taken together, the discussions and networking have offered auspicious hints on the building of a truly representative international order – away from the agenda-imposed doom and gloom of single unipolar culture and Forever Wars.
The Axis of Asymmetry takes on the 'rules-based order'
Pepe Escobar: Global South Youth Flocks to ‘Isolated’ Russia
Caleb asked Putin a question about US relations at the youth conference. (8 min)

Let's conclude this discussion of theft without covering all the war grift. However, it is the grift that brings understanding to the urgency of the $61 billion funding for a lost war.

And as I finish the WW early this morning let me reiterate my aggravation at the theft of my extra hour of sleep last night! And, as a parting shot let's all remind ourselves of the things they can't steal..our character, education, skills, intellect, and thoughts (though they can implant them). There's so much more I didn't cover, super Tuesday, lawfare (although we did look at Amos Miller's case), the gaza genocide and so on. I hope you'll post any of those stories weighing on your mind in the comments below.