Voting is underway for the RockinTown Hall of Fame Class of 2025 to be Announced in December. View the Complete Nominees List & Vote for a Hall of Fame Nominee In every pre-fab Rock outfit there is usually some glimmer of talent. The Runaways, created by producer Kim Foley, to be the female version of the Ramones, featured both Lita Ford and Joan Jett. Despite being big in Japan and recording a Rock version of Martha and the Vandella’s “Nowhere To Run,” the Runaways didn’t live up to their Punk/Rock expectations.On her own, Jett fared far better forming her back up band, The Blackhearts, and creating some hard-edged classics. Like The Pretender’s Chrissie Hynde, Jett was neither victim nor fool. Dressed in black leather with running mascara (caused by working up a major sweat), she was a forceful individualistic Rocker.While Jett was a songwriter, she also had great success with covers, including Sly Stone’s ‘60s peace and understanding song “Everyday People.” Naturally, the original’s soul groove got jacked up. She added a highly suggestive tone to her version of Gary Glitter’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me.” For Tommy James & the Shondells’ dreamy/psychedelic “Crimson And Clover” Jett gave it a harder edge while still retaining the ethereal feeling. One of her best was “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” Not only was this a great guitar driven track it also showed off Jett’s raw-passion vocals. Of course, her signature song was “I Love Rock n’ Roll.”  It was a song that Jett saw The Arrows perform on their weekly TV series while she was touring England with The Runaways. She recorded a version backed by the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This rendition went nowhere. But three years later Jett took another stab at the song with the Blackhearts.  “I Love Rock n’ Roll” went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the band’s only #1. In the ‘90s, Jett released an album of Rock covers and joined her former Runaway band mates in a suit over unpaid royalties from Foley and Polygram Records.After an extended hiatus, Jett (and the Blackhearts) returned in ’06, with the 14 track “Sinner,” featuring the anti-Bush single “Riddles.” Once the pandemic lifted (in ’22) Jett & The Blackhearts joined Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard on the massively popular (and long running) stadium tour. ### The post Joan Jett: 2025 Hall Of Fame Nominee appeared first on RockinTown.

#1’s on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart (so far) with the Date, Song Title, Song Link and Artist November 25th: The American Dream Is Killing Me Green Day The lead track from “Saviors” spent eight weeks at #1 (three weeks in 2024) January 20th: A Symptom Of Being Human Shinedown Shinedown’s 19th #1 on the chart is from their “Planet Zero” album. February 17th: Artificial Daughtry The band has had eight entries on the chart in seventeen years but this is their first #1. February 24th: Leave A Light On (Talk Away The Dark) Papa Roach (pictured above) The ballad, which supports the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s “Talk Away The Dark” campaign, is the band’s tenth #1 on the chart. March 16th: Dark Matter Pearl Jam PJ returns to #1 for the first time in 26 years. The band last reached the top spot with “Given To Fly” in early ’98. April 13th: The Glass Foo Fighters The Foo’s third consecutive #1 follows “Rescued” and “Under You.” Both topped the chart last year. All three songs are from the band’s eleventh studio album, “But Here We Are.” April 20th: Friendly Fire Linkin Park The song is LP’s 10th #1 on the chart. It was recorded during the sessions for “One More Light” but was not included on the ’17 album. It did land on “Papercuts,” the band’s ’24 greatest hits collection. April 27th: Dilemma Green Day It’s the band’s ninth song to top the chart and their second in a row, following “The American Dream Is Killing Me.” Both tracks are from Green Day’s 14th studio album, “Saviors.” May 11th: I Was Alive Beartooth The second single from “The Surface,” Beartooth’s fifth studio album, replicates “Might Love Myself,” which had a one-week rule last November. The post 2024 Mainstream Rock #1’s appeared first on RockinTown.

Was Robert Smith ever happy? At age fourteen, The Cure frontman, stated his ambition was to “sit on a mountain and die.” Don’t set the bar too high there, Robert. Just a scant seven years later (after failing to locate a suitable mountain) he was quoted saying he “didn’t see that there was much point in continuing with life.” Surprisingly, Smith not only survived the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and even the millennium, he took The Cure right along with him as the group’s only constant. Not surprisingly, Smith’s dour attitude marked the group’s synth/keyboard-based Goth sound.The Cure’s debut, “Imaginary Boys,” issued in ’79, led to touring the U.K. and the Netherlands, often with Siouxsie & The Banshees. Smith performed with The Cure and played guitar for the Banshees when John McKay quit just one stop into the tour. The Cure’s second single, “Boys Don’t Cry” became a minor hit in the U.S.The group’s fortunes improved, if only minimally, with the ’80 release “Seventeen Seconds” and their ’81 effort “Faith.” It was during this period that Smith jelled his hair and applied make-up (eye-liner, shadow and lipstick), a look seemingly lifted from Siouxsie. This “theatrical” appearance became one of the group’s more indelible images. A couple years later, rumors abounded that Smith was on the verge of suicide. Then bassist Simon Gallup quit. This looked like the end for The Cure. If it had been, they would have been remembered, if at all, as a fairly inconsequential early-80’s Wave group. But rather than splinter, The Cure did something fairly remarkable. They tossed off their morbid and gloomy persona and released a succession of cheery (for them) songs: “Let’s Go To Bed,” “The Walk” and “The Lovecats.” Each track did better than the last on the U.K. chart. Two years passed before “The Top,” with Smith playing almost all the instruments, was released. The album was the first to crack the U.K. Top 10 and was also the first Cure album to make the U.S. Billboard chart, albeit barely. In ’85, “The Head On The Door,” featuring “In Between Days” and “Close To Me” did even better. A year later, the compilation “Staring At The Sea” arrived. The group found itself very popular on the continent. “Just Like Heaven,” the third single from their ’87 double album “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me,” became their biggest pop hit to date earning extensive MTV play. The Cure was on a roll. ’89 saw the return of The Cure’s earlier gloom and doom on “Disintegration.” Still, the album generated three U.K. hits (“Lullaby”, “Lovesong” and “Pictures Of You”). In the States the album peaked at #12 and the single “Fascination Street” hit #1 on the Modern Rock chart. The real story was the single “Lovesong” which landed at #2 on the pop chart – the only Cure single to ever crack the Top 10. Smith was now the only original member left. Never mind, ’92 release “Wish” became The Cure’s highest-charting album of all time, reaching #1 in the U.K. and #2 in the U.S., with the worldwide hits “Friday I’m In Love” and “High.” Smith kept The Cure recording and touring with whatever musicians were available, handy or willing. .In an amusing twist Smith appeared as himself on cable TV’s animated South Park (Episode #112). Smith stops Barbra Streisand (yes, Babs) from destroying the world. At the end of the episode, Kyle says “’Disintegration’ was the best album ever!” That should have made Smith happy. ### The post The Cure appeared first on RockinTown.

10 Best Rock Albums Of The Year (So Far) 10. The Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards “(The album is) our love letter to Rock ‘n’ Roll,” noted lead vocalist Chris Robinson. “Rich (Robinson) and I are always writing and creating music; that has never stopped for us, and it is always where we find harmony together. This record represents that.” The lead single was “Wanting And Waiting.” 9. Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope The album, their eleventh full-length studio set, was completed in the aftermath of a deadly car accident involving band member Carrie Brownstein’s mother and stepfather in late ’22. The album contains “Hell,” “Say It Like You Mean It,” and “Untidy Creature.” 8. Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project It’s the Iron Maiden frontman’s seventh solo album and his first since “Tyranny Of Souls“ in ’05. The lead single was “Afterglow Of Ragnarok.” 7. P.O.D: Veritas The set has “Drop,” with a vocal cameo from Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe, “Afraid To Die,” featuring Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk, “I Won’t Bow Down“ and “Lies We Tell Ourselves.” “We’re still here and we’re still creating some of the best music we’ve ever made,” says guitarist Marcos Curiel. “When it comes to heart, grit and soul, P.O.D. is your band.” 6. New Years Day: Half Black Heart The album features “Half Black Heart,” “Vampyre,” “Hurts Like Hell,” “Secrets” and “I Still Believe.” The band’s fifth effort has returning members Jeremy Valentyne and Brandon Wolfe on rhythm guitar and bass, Nikki Misery back playing lead guitar, and new member Tommy Rockoff on drums and vocals. 5. Judas Priest: Invincible Sheild The band’s nineteenth album features the lead single “Panic Attack”; followed by “Trial By Fire.” and “Crown Of Horns.” “It sounds like a young bunch of metal heads banging it out,” stated frontman Rob Halford. 4. Sum 41: Heaven :x: Hell  The double set is presented as the band’s eighth and final album. “We’ve made a double album of Pop Punk and Metal, and it makes sense, noted vocalist Deryck Whibley.”The album features “Landmines” and “Rise Up.” 3. The Black Keys: Ohio Players The album, which is named after the legendary ’70’s Funk group. contains the infectious lead single “Beautiful People (Stay High),” which was co-written by the Keys Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach along with Beck and producer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura. 2. Pearl Jam: Dark Matter The band’s 12th studio album contains the title track. “There’s the melody and energy of the first couple of records,” explained PJ guitarist Mike McCready. “(Producer Andrew Watt) pushed us to play as hard and melodic and thoughtful as we’ve done in a long time.” 1. Green Day: Saviors The band’s fourteenth album includes “The American Dream Is Killing Me” which had an eight week stay at #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart… the band’s eighth #1 on the survey. The set also contains “Look Ma, No Brains” and “Dilemma.” The 10 Best Rock Albums are selected based on lyrics, innovative compositions, a unique approach to the genre, production quality, and public opinion/popularity. The post Best Rock Albums Of 2024 appeared first on RockinTown.

Def Leppard played their first gig in ’78 and were recording the following year. While doing passably well in their native U.K., they didn’t have much impact elsewhere and found themselves stuck in the “opening act” slot. Enter Robert John “Mutt” Lange who had built a reputation as a highly successful producer. His main function was to guide a group through the recording process. “High ‘n’ Dry” in ’81 was Lange’s debut with Leppard and “Bringing On The Heartache” was the standout track. With a successful album Leppard hit the road. But guitarist Pete Willis was having problems with his bandmates and troubles with alcohol. He was fired and replaced by Phil Collen. With Lange producing for a second time, Def Leppard recorded “Pyromania.” With “Rock Of Ages” and “Photograph,” the album was hugely successful. Def Leppard had arrived. And that’s when things started to crumble down. First, Lange who’d been working with The Cars (“Heartbreak City”) and Foreigner (“4”) was not up to taking on a new project when Leppard was ready to record so the band hired Jim Steinman (Meat Loaf). Those sessions failed to yield anything worthwhile. Soon Steinman was let go and the band decided to wait on Lange. In the meantime, drummer Rick Allen, while racing another car on A-57 highway near Sheffield, crashed his Stingray. The impact tore off his left arm and seriously injured his right. At the hospital doctors managed to sow the arm back on only to have to remove it days later due to a serious infection. That might have ended the drummer’s career but Allen, with the aid of computers and a custom-built drum kit, was able to continue. Three years in the making, “Hysteria,” had six singles: the title track, “Animal,” “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” “Love Bites,” “Rocket” and “Armageddon It.” Commercially, “Love Bites” was the most successful, topping the charts, but “Hysteria” was the best song. Following a downward spiral into drugs, guitarist Steve Clark was found dead by his girlfriend in ’91. He died from a combination of alcohol, painkillers and anti-depressants. Former Dio/Whitesnake guitarist Vivan Campbell was added to the line-up.Produced by the group “Adrenalize” rolled out in ’92. “Let’s Get Rocked” and “Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)” were two reasons the album sold over a million copies.During their ’06 tour, Def Leppard had a backstage area for working on new songs. “It was a mini (drum) kit, mini amps, a tape recorder and sparkly lights,” said Elliot. That led to the nickname the “Sparkle Lounge.”Because nobody could come up with a better name Def Leppard’s ’08 release was titled “Songs From The Sparkle Lounge.” “The whole record has got a great ’70s feel,” said Elliott. “It’s a very different album as we’ve been very adventurous, musically, on certain numbers.”The set’s first single, “Nine Lives” featured Country singer Tim McGraw, who co-wrote the song with Elliott, guitarist Phil Collen and bassist Rick Savage. The track was released as part of a downloadable “track pack” for the Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock video game. Allen, drawing on his personal experience, began his involvement with wounded veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Over the years, Allen invited Wounded Warrior Project participants to Def Leppard’s shows and took part in Project Odyssey, an outdoor rehabilitative retreat. Def Leppard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.  But the story didn’t end there. At the end of the year, “The Stadium Tour,” a co-headlining North American trek with Mötley Crüe was announced.  But the COVID-19 pandemic delayed it until 2022.  When “The Stadium Tour” happened, with supporting acts Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Poison, it grossed over $175-million. ### The post Def Leppard appeared first on RockinTown.

From the outset, the Federal Reserve System has represented the politicization of money and banking in the United States. It allows the government to finance its preferred programs with newly printed money and to manipulate the entire structure of the economy with centrally planned interest rates. Discourse about the Federal Reserve is frequently full of myths, dishonest framing, and outright lies. Listen to a press conference by Chairman Jerome Powell or read an article from a major outlet’s lead Fed correspondent and you’re bound to hear at least a few. For instance, it’s common for the financial press to characterize the Fed’s current conundrum as “walking a tightrope.” It’s said that the Fed is working to guide the economy along without tipping it over into either high inflation on one side or a recession on the other. The last couple years, we’re told, saw the economy wobble too far toward the inflation side, with the Fed now attempting to pull the economy back to the thin line of stability without tipping over too far and plunging into a recession. But anybody who actually understands what causes recessions can tell that this framing is, at best, incredibly misleading. The Fed doesn’t prevent recessions, it directly causes them. These days the tightrope analogy contributes to the myth that, while difficult, a recession is possible to avoid. It isn’t. All the Fed can do is delay and amplify the painful correction that earlier monetary policy made inevitable. Another myth that has been getting more attention in past weeks is that the Fed as an organization is separate from, above, or independent from politics. The attention follows a Wall Street Journal report alleging that members of former president Donald Trump’s team are drawing up plans to give the president more power over the Fed should Trump win the election this November. Reporters cite an internal ten-page document that argues the president should be consulted on interest-rate decisions and have the authority to fire Fed chairs before their term is up. These plans sparked panic about a politicized Fed and provoked responses from several concerned economists.Power up with Nitric Boost that’s now 40% OFF! This potent formula gives you the massive edge in strength and superior circulation for that unparalleled performance you've been looking for! It is absurd that this needs to be spelled out, but the Fed is already a political organization. It was established by an act of Congress in 1913. Two decades later, Congress consolidated much of the Fed’s power in Washington, DC, and set up the position of chairman, who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. It also created a single committee—most of which is also appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate—to direct open market operations for the entire country. Then in 1977, Congress passed another bill requiring the Fed to pursue specific policy goals. So, a bunch of politicians created an organization and consolidated its power in Washington, DC, where a committee of government officials appointed and confirmed by politicians directs monetary policy for the entire country according to policy goals defined earlier by other politicians. And we’re supposed to consider this organization to be nonpolitical. Moreover, the idea that the changes Trump’s team might be considering would represent a categorical change to the structure of the Federal Reserve is crazy. Fed chairs already consult with current presidential administrations through the Treasury Secretary. It’s not as if the Fed is isolated from the ambitions of the executive branch. The real risk, from the establishment’s perspective, is not that Trump will turn the Fed into a political organization but that he will expose the fact that it already is one. From the outset, the Federal Reserve System has represented the politicization of money and banking in the United States. It allows the government to finance its preferred programs with newly printed money and to manipulate the entire structure of the economy with centrally planned interest rates. This is great for politicians, government bureaucrats, and politically connected businesses that get the new money early. But it traps the rest of us in a recurring nightmare of unnecessary economy-wide booms and busts along with devastating, culture-destroying permanent price inflation. The illusion of an independent, nonpolitical Fed is critical to keep the scam going. EMERGENCY FINANCIAL NEWS: Economist Warns The Collapse Has Already Begun – Will Be Worse Than The Great Depression

"This should make the tobacco litigation look like chump change," says Dr. James Thorp. Veteran OBGYN physician Dr. James Thorp called on attorneys to take on lawsuits against medical institutions that forced the experimental and “dangerous” COVID-19 injections on babies and pregnant women. Thorp explained in a lengthy X thread that many hospitals signed “secret, unethical, and likely illlegal” cooperative agreements with Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to force the Covid shots on “the most vulnerable patients,” and bringing forward lawsuits against these institutions “may result in extraordinarily large medical malpractice verdicts of $100 million or more.” Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Needed for Damaged Baby CasesDamaged baby cases may result in extraordinarily large medical malpractice verdicts of $100 million or more. There is now irrefutable evidence that hospitals signed secret, unethical, and likely illegal “cooperative agreements”…— James Thorp MD (@jathorpmfm) May 5, 2024 “Plaintiff’s Attorneys: your futures market in these lucrative ‘damaged baby cases’ is on the verge of SKYROCKETING. If your clients have had a damaged or dead baby in the past 3 years (or in the future) inquire as to their COVID-19 vaccination status,” Thorp wrote on Sunday. Thorp went on to provide a framework for attorneys to bring forward civil lawsuits.Save 10% on ALL storable food and Alexapure Pro Water Filtration Systems! Secure your independence with our delicious kits TODAY to beat the coming demand! Obstetricians whether you know it or not you have been duped into pushing the most dangerous drug ever rolled out on the most vulnerable patients – pregnant women, preborns, and newborns – according to Pfizer’s own data (see page 7 & 12) https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/reissue_5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdfand… your government’s own data.https://jpands.org/vol28no1/thorp.pdf…  These are both open-source databases that anyone in the world can evaluate; they’ve never been refuted. By the way, both data sources are biased toward pushing the Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy. In contrast, the medical journal articles suggesting the safety of the vaccines in pregnancy are not open source, they’re manipulated, and the authors and institutions are heavily funded by the NIH and other major COI’s.  As a perfect example, see Shimabukuro NEJM pushing the safety of the vaccines in pregnancy (see pages 170-171) https://thegms.co/medical-ethics/medethics-rw-22071901.pdf….Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Documents that The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) accepted millions of dollars of US tax payer moneys to push its 60,000 ObGyn Constituents in two continents (US, Canada, and South America) to follow the lock-step narrative of the lethal HHS/CDC policies. https://americaoutloud.news/foia-reveals-troubling-relationship-between-hhs-cdc-the-american-college-of-obstetricians-and-gynecologists/…Plaintiff’s Attorneys be prepared to litigate against hospitals, obstetricians, other physicians and organizations that continue to push the COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy such as The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), American Board of Obstetrics $ Gynecology (ABOG), and The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). These organizations threatened 60,000 ObGyn physicians to push the vaccines in pregnancy as evidenced by the ABOG Statement of Misinformation published on September 27, 2021. https://abog.org/about-abog/news-announcements/2021/09/27/statement-regarding-dissemination-of-covid-19-misinformation…This ABOG Statement was quite pathetic and was supported by nothing more than the grocery market tabloid they referenced. Egregiously, ABOG’s link to the CDC recommendation brings up a CNN article. In contrast to ABOG’s pathetic threat, please see my 98-page letter sent to ABOG Officers on January 12, 2022 including massive amounts of data, many other expert’s data, governmental data, and 1,019 peer-reviewed medical journal publications documenting severe complications, injuries, and deaths from the Covid-19 vaccines in just the first 12 months of rollout. https://rodefshalom613.org/2022/01/dr-james-thorp-letter-to-american-board-obstetrics-gynecology-risk-covid19-vaccine-pregnancy/…SSM Health of St. Louis MO, a nearly $10 billion Catholic Hospital System, terminated me on June 29, 2023 because I published extensively on the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy and testified on multiple high profile public platforms including US Senate, and Tucker Carlson at Fox News as to the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy. I provided SSM Health with all this data and my observations of adverse effects of the vaccine in my practice at SSM Health. SSM-Health allegedly fired me for “no cause” and the CEO Kevin Elledge praised me as a “model physician” for the SSM Health System and pointed out that my “no cause” termination allowed me to continue employment for 120 days. When I refused SSM’s bribe of about $100,000 and refused to sign a hush agreement, SSM Health fired me immediately on June 29, 2023. Of note is that SSM Health accepted 306.9 million dollars of US tax monies in early 2021.  https://americaoutloud.news/covid-19-government-relief-funds-turned-the-healthcare-industry-on-its-head/…It is likely that SSM Health and many other hospitals will be held accountable by civil litigation in dead baby and damaged baby cases for pushing the vaccines in their employers and pressuring their physicians and nurses to push these dangerous vaccines in pregnancy. I will support this litigation – it is long overdue. Justice will be served. I encourage Plaintiff’s attorneys to file civil litigation in these cases. I encourage obstetricians to stand up and speak the truth. Since when was it ever appropriate to push novel substances in pregnancy without long-term follow up? Didn’t we learn from the disasters of Diethylstilbestrol (DES) and Thalidomide? Thorp also highlighted Pfizer’s own phase 2/3 trial that showed the Covid injection harmed pregnant women with a slew of devastating side effects. Obstetricians and healthcare professionals did you pay attention to the risks of the Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy according to Pfizer’s phase 2/3 trial that allegedly randomized 315 pregnant women to Covid-19 vaccines versus placebo? Or did they sneak it by you? It was completed July 2022, and released July 2023. The Pfizer Phase 2/3 trial noted that those pregnant women given the vaccine compared to placebo experienced the following outcomes in their newborns:1) Low Apgar Scores (depressed newborns) increased by 100%2) Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (a life-threatening complication) substantially increased (zero in placebo group so no relative risk);3) Neonatal Jaundice increased by 80%;4) Congenital malformations (birth defects) increased by 70%;5) Atrial Septal Defect (a hole in the heart) increased by 220%;6) Small for Dates (preborn baby with poor growth) substantially increased; (zero in placebo group so no relative risk)7) Congenital Nevus (vascular malformation on the skin) increased by 200%8) Congenital Anomalies and Developmental Delays at 6 months of life increased by 310% “Would your patients have taken the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant if you informed them that these were potential risks from Pfizer’s phase 2/3 trial results? Of course not,” Thorp concluded. “No rational individual, especially a pregnant woman, would have considered taking the COVID-19 vaccine in pregnancy had these risks been made known.” “Did you inform your patients that you were not acting independently, but rather under threat of termination from your hospital system, or under threat from ABOG, ACOG, and SMFM to lose your state license or board certification?” Follow Jamie White on X | Truth | Gab | Gettr | Minds

Ex-CNN anchor admits jabs caused harm, but still defends pushing them onto the masses. After revealing during his News Nation program last week that he’s been suffering from COVID-19 vaccine side effects, ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo provided further details into what happened during Tuesday’s edition of the Patrick Bet-David Podcast. ? Chris Cuomo Says He Does Not Apologize for Shaming People Who Didn't Take the Vaccine, Reveals He Is Taking Ivermectin Now "My doctors say I have 'Long COVID'. I have the symptoms, they showed me my blood work. It scared the bejesus out of me to see this glowing micro-clot… pic.twitter.com/7vFU2GkvhZ— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 8, 2024 Cuomo, brother of ex-New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, was first played a video clip of himself berating Americans who refused to take an experimental Covid jab back when he worked at CNN. After watching the flashback video, Cuomo said, “Apology? Of course, not,” before explaining it “was never personal.” “This was never as simple as vaccine good, vaccine bad,” he said. “Politics made it that. It put us into a toxic environment, no pun intended, where even today there’s no curiosity about the vaccine. You get a VAERS system which is very imperfect and you don’t have robust government dialogue or investigation of the vaccine. You don’t have political investigation of what happened during the pandemic. What was right, what was wrong?”Save 40% on Ultimate Fish Oil today and improve your supplement routine & experience the world-renowned powerhouse formula! Showing he’s still bizarrely living in denial about his blatant vaccine-induced injury, Cuomo claimed, “I don’t have long-vaccine.” He continued, “People are saying I’ve admitted the vaccine hurt me. I have not admitted that. I don’t know that. Do I now believe that we have data to support the fact that there are thousands of people with adverse effects that are not getting attention, let alone treatment? Yes. And, I fault the government for that.” “I do have what they call long-Covid,” Cuomo insisted before admitting government officials previously told him they didn’t even know if “long-Covid” is a real thing. The former CNN anchor noted his doctor told him he has “long-Covid,” and revealed his bloodwork “scared the bejesus” out of him. “It scared the bejesus out of me to see this glowing micro-clot stuff floating around in my blood. That really shook me up,” Cuomo stated. Later, Cuomo defended his promotion of the jabs by naively saying he had no reason to distrust the government when the pandemic first began. Refusing to look reality in the eyes, the news reporter claimed the Covid shots reduced hospitalizations and saved lives. Cuomo did say he’s open to the possibility that the jabs did more harm than good and also said he’s currently taking a regular dose of the establishment’s favorite medicine to mock as “horse paste,” ivermectin. “Ivermectin was a boogeyman during Covid. That was wrong. We were given bad information about ivermectin. Why? The entire clinical community knew that ivermectin couldn’t hurt you…” he added. At the end of the interview, Cuomo stuck to his promotion of the shots and refused to acknowledge the false information being pushed by the establishment was intentional. The stubborn news anchor also discredited outlets and media personalities who accurately reported on the shots being dangerous and ineffective while they were being introduced. He said, “Now, there are questions, ‘Oh, no but I knew at the time.’ No, you didn’t! What you knew was there were people telling you to be resistant to what the government was telling you to do.” Yes, the people who instinctively refused to trust the government were right and they’ll be right again the next time the authoritarians try to unleash their tyranny.

The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber. If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts have a far better track record. Whenever establishment economists make a a call the opposite generally turns out to be true. By extension, alternative economic predictions are usually well ahead of the curve – What we talk about might be labeled “doom mongering” or “conspiracy theory” today. In three years or less it will be treated as common knowledge and the mainstream “experts” will claim that they “saw it coming all along” while taking credit for financial calls they never made. This has been a long running pattern and it’s something those of us in the alternative media have come to expect. For my part, I warned for years about the threat of the impending stagflationary crisis which ultimately struck hard in the “post-pandemic” US. The establishment gatekeepers denied such a thing was possible. When it happened, they claimed it was “transitory.” Now, they argue that a soft landing is imminent and there’s nothing to fear from trillions in helicopter money being pumped into the system. They claim nothing of significance will change. I also predicted that the Fed would create a Catch-22 scenario in which interest rates are raised into economic weakness while inflationary pressures expand. I suggested that the central bank would keep rates higher for far longer than mainstream analysts claimed. This is exactly what has happened.  My position is simple – The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber.URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray & contribute at DefendJones.com today! Who are you going to believe? Independent economists who have proven correct time and time again? Or, the Ivory Tower guys who have been consistently wrong? I’ll say this: If success in economics was actually based on merit and correct analysis, people like Paul Krugman or Janet Yellen would have been out of work a long time ago. As for the ongoing narrative of a soft landing, the question I have to ask is HOW exactly they are going to make that happen? First, let’s clarify why central bankers are the problem (along with the governments they covertly influence)… Central Banks Are At The Core Of Economic Troubles There are only two logical reasons for central bank induced inflation: To hide the effects of a massive deflationary slowdown caused by too much debt, or, to deliberately trigger a currency collapse. Both motives could apply at the same time. Central bankers don’t just facilitate this inflation at the behest of governments, they tell governments what to expect and what to promote to the public. Anyone that claims otherwise has an agenda. Central banks write their own policy and control their own mechanics. Governments have no say whatsoever in their operations, as Alan Greenspan once openly admitted. The reality is, governments go begging hat in hand to central bankers and the banks decide whether or not to give them that sweet stimulus nectar. Politicians engage in collusion with central banks on a regular basis and they defer to bankers on an array of economic decisions. Economic advisers to the US president almost always include high level central bankers who then cycle right back into the Federal Reserve. Central banks and their private international counterparts are in control, political leaders are simply pawns. Whenever there’s a crash the public focuses on government while the central banks fade into the background and avoid all scrutiny. Inflation Addiction And The Ultimate Catch-22 Inflation for banks is a tool for fiscal change, but also social change. It’s not a coincidence that financial crisis events always lead to more centralization of global power into fewer and fewer hands; this is by design. Inflation allows the establishment to delay or initiate a crisis with greater precision. An even more powerful tool is the WITHHOLDING of stimulus and cheap money once an economy is addicted to the flow of fiat. I have been arguing for many years that central banks were constructing a situation in which the system is utterly dependent on fiat stimulus in order to maintain the illusion of growth. If the bankers return to lower rates and QE, inflation will continue to explode. If they stay with higher rates and a trickle of stimulus then a global crash is inevitable. It’s one or the other, there is no soft landing when trillions in money creation are at play in such a short period of time. Central banks must return to near zero rates and QE if they hope to prevent a debt implosion. This might seem like a soft landing scenario at first, but when CPI ramps up (as it is starting to now at the mere mention of rate cuts) consumers will be hit even harder. I’ll ask this question once again because I don’t think some people are getting it: What if their goal is to create a crash? The Great Global Slowdown Has Already Started In the past six months both the World Trade Organization and the World Banks released statements warning of an impending global slowdown. After an initial surge in exports and imports caused by massive pandemic stimulus measures, the effects of the helicopter money are now fading. By the end of 2024, global trade will register the slowest growth since the 1990s. The UN also suggested growth deceleration was coming in the next year due to falling investments and subdued global trade. Keep in mind that the alternative media has been warning about this outcome for the past couple years at least as covid funding dried up. Globalist institutions are simply informing the public at the last minute; too little, too late. The World Bank asserts that global trade is flatlining and international trade data supports this theory. China’s export market plunged by 7.5% in March, far more than expected and well below the 2.3% decline predicted by a major poll of mainstream economists by Reuters. By the end of 2023 European exports declined by 8.8% compared to a year earlier and the union barely avoided a recession (according to official numbers). All hopes in Europe rest on the possibility of a steeper drop in inflation and central bank interest rate cuts. As I have been saying since 2021, don’t get too excited about banks lowering rates. It’s not going to happen at the pace that investors want, it’s not going to bring back QE anytime soon and when they do cut rates CPI will immediately spike once again causing panic among consumers. I suspect that, after an initial rate cut event and an inflation resurgence, central banks will return to tightening with even higher rates in 2025. In the US, a net importer of goods rather than a primary exporter, consumer volume has been in steep decline. Due to inflation, Americans are buying less goods while paying more money. And this is how inflation skews economic data. Higher prices on goods make retail sales look great, but in reality people are simply paying a higher price for the same amount of products (or less products). Consumer credit data shows a steep decline in debt spending; credit card delinquency is at all time highs, APR is at all time highs and debt growth has collapsed in the past couple of months. Considering that the American consumer is a primary driver of global exports, it makes sense that international trade is now plummeting. Consumers are broke. The covid stimulus party is officially over and inflation is dragging the market down. The IMF has recently noted the signs of global slowdown but, as usual, they argue that a “soft landing” is imminent. In other words, they claim there will be no serious repercussions for the economy. They do mention one interesting caveat in their analysis – The danger of global conflicts “derailing” the supposed recovery. War leads to rising protectionism, the IMF says, and protectionism is a big no-no. In a world economy based on forced interdependency this is partially true, but the bigger picture is being ignored. The world economy should be built on redundancy, not interdependency. Interdependency creates weakness and the potential for dangerous domino effects. This is a fact that globalists would never willingly admit to. For now, it appears that the global slowdown will become undeniable in the next six months, either right before the US elections in November, or right after. Central banks have chosen to create this Catch-22 and they are, for whatever reason, stalling the big drop. My theory? They have a scapegoat (or scapegoats) in mind and they’re waiting for the right time to unleash the next chaotic event. Covid is gone, so they’re going to need a war, multiple wars, or political conflict in the west and in many other parts of the world as a distraction. EMERGENCY FINANCIAL NEWS: Economist Warns The Collapse Has Already Begun – Will Be Worse Than The Great Depression

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