Imagine Dragons have released “Eyes Closed.” “After taking some time off the road and spending time catching up with family and loved ones‚ I finally have felt the desire to go back to the sonic places that originally brought me the most joy‚ but with a new outlook and mentality‚” offered the band’s Dan Reynolds. “It’s finding that right balance of nostalgia and freshness that brings me the most joy in the studio.” Imagine Dragons’ last record‚ “Mercury — Act 2‚” which combined with ’21’s “Act 1‚” to create a double album. The band has spent much of the past couple years on the road in support of the two albums. The post Imagine Dragons Return With “Eyes Closed” appeared first on RockinTown.

With its price at record highs and foreign central banks clamoring for the yellow metal‚ gold is strengthening as a hedge against terrible monetary policy. This week Peter returned from vacation‚ and he was just in time for a surge in the price of gold. He discusses the factors contributing to gold’s record prices‚ the similarities between today and the 1970s‚ and data pointing to future inflation in America. Peter starts this episode by noting how gold’s recent rise hasn’t received much coverage from the mainstream financial press: “$30 on a Sunday night— that’s very rare to see that kind of move. But what’s even more rare is that there was no news. It’s not like something happened. Nobody dropped the bomb anywhere‚ right? It just went up. And that was on top of the near $40 rise that gold had on Friday before the holiday weekend. … Very rare to have that kind of move. But also very rare was the complete lack of attention that the gold rally has been getting.” The media’s silence on gold serves larger financial interests in America that benefit from a weak economy and dollar: “Another reason that CNBC and other financial analysts don’t want to talk about gold is because of the message that gold is sending. … Gold is not just some commodity. It is a commodity‚ but it’s a special commodity. … Gold is special because of the monetary properties and the monetary role that gold plays. If anything can be said to be the canary in the coal mine‚ it’s gold. … What is gold telling people‚ if they’re smart enough to listen? What gold is screaming is that what the Fed is contemplating is a mistake‚ that cutting interest rates whenever these cuts begin is the wrong policy.”Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. Even widely respected Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has acknowledged the signaling power of gold’s price‚ but Jerome Powell and the current Fed are ignoring the signs of a weak economy: “The Fed says they’re data dependent. Well‚ why are they ignoring all of this data that says everything they’re saying about inflation is BS? Powell keeps saying‚ ‘yes‚ we’re confident we think inflation is going to go back down to 2%.’ Why? Why should it do that? What gives him this confidence? Just because he’s raised interest rates up to 5.25%? Big deal! That’s not a high rate of interest‚ especially when you have a big inflation problem.” Any student of history can recognize the political parallels between the inflation of the 1970s and now: “We had the Vietnam War‚ which was expensive. We had the war on poverty‚ which was also expensive. Interestingly‚ we’ve lost both of those wars. … Poverty won‚ but we spent a lot of money on both of those wars. Then we also had the space race. … So the government was running these big deficits. … Where did the government get all the money to pay for all this stuff? Well‚ it borrowed it‚ right? They ran deficits‚ and they printed a lot of money. And so naturally‚ the consequence was inflation‚ rising prices.” Peter sees a weakening dollar as the main recent driver behind gold’s price. If the dollar depreciates against other foreign currencies‚ gold could take off: “I still believe that soon we’re going to see the dollar crack against other fiat currencies. And when that happens‚ you’re going to see a much more spectacular rise in the price of gold. If you think about what’s already happened‚ we’ve seen this big jump in gold prices without a weak dollar relative to other fiat currencies. Imagine how much stronger gold would be if the dollar were also falling in relation to the euro or the Australian dollar‚ Canadian dollar‚ emerging market currencies‚ the yen.” Apparently foreign central banks can see what Powell can’t‚ and they’re stockpiling gold because of it: “Foreign central banks realize that we don’t care [about inflation]. They’re holding all these dollars‚ and they see that we’re about to create more of them. We’re going to cut rates in the face of mounting evidence that they’re ignoring that inflation is going to be moving in the opposite direction. They claim that they want it down at 2%. All the evidence shows that it’s headed higher and their response is ‘we’re going to cut rates.’ And so foreign central banks want to get out.“ With its price at record highs and foreign central banks clamoring for the yellow metal‚ gold is strengthening as a hedge against terrible monetary policy. If Peter is right about future price action‚ now is the perfect time for investors to add to their precious metal holdings. Learn Why The Globalists Are Killing Their Own Monetary System

Easy Money = Dumb Money If you asked him‚ Edward Chancellor wouldn’t say he’s particularly Austrian. Yet The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest‚ the dense book he most timely published during the height of the inflation summer of 2022‚ is as obsessed with centrally planned interest rates as your average Misesian. Like many before him‚ and many in the Austrian camp‚ Chancellor identifies the many ills that trouble the world and locates their cause in a dysfunctional interest-rate regime. In Chancellor’s own words‚ “The most important question addressed in this book is whether a capitalist economy can function properly without market-determined interest.” Most readers of these pages will automatically respond‚ no—free-market capitalism rests on an uninhibited market for capital and debt‚ and thus interest rates act as a rationing mechanism and guiding principle. The rest is just implementation‚ as Michael Malice might say. A skilled journalist and trained historian‚ Chancellor’s writing is calm and balanced‚ nuanced and well thought through. It’s littered with citations and quotes from economists and commentators both past and present. That’s also part of why making it through the three-hundred-plus carefully written pages of The Price of Time is such a hardship. It’s fascinating and engaging but dense and ultimately a bit confusing. The author gives no clues for where we’re going‚ over and above the early hint that low interest rates have all sorts of bad downstream effects on an economy and its financials. The signposts are missing. Another piece of annoyance is the frequent antimarket talking points he returns to—monopoly power‚ corporations centralizing through acquisition and control‚ debt-issuing and share buybacks to boost financial returns‚ inequality‚ and wealth concentration.Survival Shield X-3 is BACK at the Infowars Store! Get 40% OFF on the next evolution in activated nascent iodine HERE The saving grace is they all fit into a low-rates story. Much like James Grant‚ of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer‚ remarks‚ “A little-known fact about unicorns . . . is that they feed on interest rates. They like low‚ little rates—the tinier‚ the better.” The same goes for the conglomerate empire-building‚ leveraged buyouts‚ takeovers paid for with shares‚ or even the explosion of ultra-high-net-worth individuals. It wasn’t a flaw in the capitalist system that generated these perverse outcomes‚ but the Fed-manipulated‚ centrally planned rates and its money printing. He traces the long history of interest back to Mesopotamia‚ but it’s in his treatment of the last few centuries that the book really shines. He identifies John Locke as “the first writer to consider at length the potential damage produced by taking interest rates below their natural level.” He continues‚ In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008‚ central bankers slashed interest rates‚ hoping to revive economies by easing the burden of debt and boosting asset values. Their aims were remarkably similar to those espoused by the seventeenth-century advocates of easy money. Locke had already spelled out the consequences for them: “Paper wealth has multiplied while genuine wealth has stagnated.” At the bottom of all bubbles‚ continues Chancellor‚ lies “a disconnect between finance and the real world.” Low interest rates turn otherwise careful and diligent investors into financial engineers and imbue venture capitalists with a “spray-and-pray” mentality‚ like macro analyst Andreas Steno says in a piece I keep coming back to over and over‚ “Three Reasons Why Everyone‚ Zuckerberg‚ Me‚ and Their Dogs Turn into Idiots When Rates Are 0 Percent.” “Easy money‚” concludes Chancellor‚ “was dumb money.” Cue WeWork and fake meat companies‚ GameStop and zombie companies‚ the mania around environmental‚ social‚ and governance‚ and the FTX collapse. He quotes Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises with as much ease and approval as he does Jeremy Bentham or Daniel Defoe‚ and he digs up some remarkably Austrian commentary from the past. A nineteenth-century British banker‚ after one of England’s infamous midcentury panics‚ remarks‚ “As a rule‚ panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has previously been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.” “The book inclines quite strongly toward the Austrian interpretations‚” Chancellor confessed in an interview with Jeff Deist last year. Maybe that’s why so many establishment outlets didn’t touch it. Sane economic reasoning is apparently right-wing extremism. (And The New York Timesbestseller list is editorial content anyway‚ so go figure.) Case in point: Jamie Martin’s piece for the London Review of Books—which more favorably could have been titled “Don’t Slash My Precious Government Spending!”—completely missed the point of Chancellor’s well-assembled armada‚ instead rallying against austerity: “As a consequence‚ [countries cutting government spending] face the prospect of years of lost growth‚ deteriorating public services and infrastructure‚ and political instability. . . . There are no zombie countries whose destruction will make us better off.” Ugh. Toward the end of The Price of Time‚ Chancellor finds an eerie echo of our times in Lewis Carroll’s last novel Sylvie and Bruno‚ published in 1889. In it‚ emperor-mandated money printing generates wealth‚ two eggs cost less than one‚ and a loan is repaid before it is even issued. The absurdity is amusing—until central bankers a century later thought to make it a reality. “Carroll would have understood that when the price of time is set at nothing or turns negative‚ and central banks print money without limit‚ finance becomes absurd.” Accordingly‚ capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. The best way to destroy capitalism truly is to mess with its most important set of prices: the price for “hired money‚” incorporating as it does the spread between present and future goods‚ and the time value of money between the various stages of production. In the concluding chapter‚ Chancellor picks up the pace‚ throws caution to the wind‚ and turns downright radical: Each time the monetary authorities stepped forward to deal with some real and pressing problem—whether the collapsing banking system‚ the unravelling of international credit and rising unemployment in 2008‚ or Europe’s sovereign debt crisis a couple of years later—there followed secondary consequences that were never properly considered or resolved. Learn Why The Globalists Are Killing Their Own Monetary System

While a few pundits are claiming that the surge in empty commercial real estate is actually a chance for a utopian turnaround in the ashes of Covid weirdness‚ the potential for an “Urban Doop Loop” triggered by CRE is now being widely acknowledged as a possible trigger for a broader economic meltdown. Even the mainstream is starting to acknowledge the massive problem of vacant office buildings littering American cities‚ slowly turning them into post-Covid wastelands. While a few pundits are claiming (in somewhat Orwellian fashion) that the surge in empty commercial real estate is actually a chance for a utopian turnaround in the ashes of Covid weirdness‚ the potential for an “Urban Doop Loop” triggered by CRE is now being widely acknowledged as a possible trigger for a broader economic meltdown. Learn more: Economist Warns Rollout Of The Mark Of The Beast Being Prepared By Central Bank With a pre-existing problem amplified drastically by COVID-19 and then set in stone‚ the rising office vacancy rate has no real solution. The problem is slowly and steadily getting worse‚ becoming a “new normal” that simply can’t go on forever without further economic repercussions. And this time is distinct from other major downturns in that during previous shocks‚ like 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis‚ everyone more or less agreed that eventually‚ things would pick back up again. This time‚ it’s permanent. Take just a few examples:URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! New York — There’s a new record for office vacancies in Manhattan‚ which have risen above 17%‚ and show no signs of slowing down. Vacancies have grown 70% in Manhattan since Covid (growing 20% nationally in the same period)‚ with the Financial District hardest hit. Pittsburgh — Currently sitting above 20% vacant‚ or 27% if you factor in subleases‚ it’s estimated thatnearly half of the city’s commercial real estate could be empty within four years. If not reversed‚ a local crisis (at the very least) seems all but assured. Portland — With the highest office vacancy rate in the nation — a mind-melting 30% or more — Portland officials are offering desperate pleas in the form of tax credits and other incentives to fill its deserted commercial buildings. Los Angeles — Demand is so low for commercial real estate that‚ in one case‚ developers abandoned plans to build a shiny new 61-story office tower in place of an empty commercial building. Instead‚ they demolished it and installed a handful of EV charging stations. There’s no great solution. Most cities are floating quixotic proposals to turn empty offices into apartments to “fix” the crisis‚ but this is often too expensive to be practical and requires navigating lots of bureaucratic red tape‚ like changes to zoning laws. Recognizing how dependent their cities are on property taxes harvested from commercial real estate‚ getting municipal governments to change zoning laws actually might be the easiest part. Vacant office buildings equate to plummeting revenue‚ forcing cities to make up the loss by increasing taxes elsewhere or reducing spending. For one‚ New York City’s commercial real estate accounts for 20% of the property tax and 10% of overall revenue‚ with the city comptroller projecting a $1.1 billion shortfall from vacant offices in 2024. In Boston‚ property taxes on office buildings comprise a staggering 22% of total revenue. Even the most optimistic‚ desperately trying to see this crisis as an “opportunity” to start fresh‚ are being forced to acknowledge the challenges. But turning commercial spaces into residential ones and hoping for the best is one of the only few “Hail Mary” options cities have left to avoid a further implosion that bleeds into the banking sector and sets off a chain reaction. Last year's failures of Silicon Valley Bank‚ Signature Bank‚ First Republic Bank‚ and Credit Suisse showed that more progress is required in a number of areas to ensure that banks aren't too big to fail. Read our blog for more about the lessons learned. https://t.co/PFtEp1X8Ri pic.twitter.com/HBzgWsVC2f— IMF (@IMFNews) March 31‚ 2024 For the hopeful‚ such as Dana Lind of the Penn Institute for Urban Research‚ the buyer’s market in big cities provides a golden opportunity that was missed during the 2008 crisis. She hopes local buyers will use these empty buildings to invigorate cities by serving local needs‚ or that the empty offices will be bought by cities themselves and turned into vibrant community centers: “Smart investors see what is happening in American downtowns four years out from the onset of the pandemic—the business fundamentals of cities like New York‚ Boston‚ or Houston are relatively stable and could even dramatically improve. Why not buy?” Sure‚ fundamentals could improve. But will they? She goes on to say: “As commercial properties fall into foreclosure in 2024‚ cities could take steps to better shape the city they want in the future by actually investing in those properties themselves.” It all sounds lovely. Unfortunately‚ I’m less confident the CRE crisis can be contained this way‚ and that it won’t contribute to a broader meltdown. Empty offices mean fewer people visiting the surrounding stores and restaurants. As the economic damage begins to snowball‚ the domino effect eventually reaches the banking sector‚ especially smaller and mid-size banks — and thus‚ the “Doom Loop” takes form. If we are to take the recent failure of regional firms like New York Community Bancorp as evidence‚ this vicious spiral may already be beginning. CBS reported in January that office loan delinquencies were up a shocking four times compared to the previous year. In under two years‚ commercial real estate loans totaling $1.5 trillion are due to expire‚ portending disaster for the economy when the bill comes due and office owners can’t pay it. According to data from the St. Louis Fed‚ delinquency rates on commercial real estate loans have already ticked above their Covid peak: Occupancy Rate on CRE Loans (Excluding Farmland)‚ Booked in Domestic Offices‚ Q3 2019 to Q3 2023 In an industry that lives and dies by interest rates‚ the problem provides another powerful source of pressure on the Fed to cut rates this year‚ boosting the bottom line for commercial landlords and developers who are being squeezed by a high cost of borrowing and already scrambling to change the terms of their debt. A recent Moody’s podcast offers a glimmer of hope that there are enough factors to offset the challenges of CRE delinquencies. But with the rate cuts that the market hoped for last year now expected to be much less significant‚ will put further stress on a CRE market that’s addicted to rock-bottom borrowing costs. If the Fed cuts rates too low‚ inflation will spiral out of control‚ but keep them too high‚ and other things (like CRE) will continue to bend and break. Learn Why The Globalists Are Killing Their Own Monetary System

Government edicts force ranchers and farmers to liquidate their livestock to prevent bird flu epidemic. Owen Shroyer breaks down reports of livestock contracting bird flu‚ forcing farmers and ranchers to kill their animals under government directive. Is this a natural phenomenon or man-made crisis? Evidence Of Manufactured Food Supply Crisis Mounts As More Cows And Chickens Killed pic.twitter.com/JMU4NpXrT8— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 3‚ 2024

Watch The X22 Report On Video 2 video(s) found Ep 3321b – Cyber Attacks Attempts‚ Election Day‚ Nov 5th‚ Everything Is A Go‚ Biggest Day In History Ep 3321a – Oil Reserves Will Not Be Refilled‚ One Rate Cut Is Now Predicted‚ Economic Backfire Click On Picture To See Larger Picture The Biden admin are trying to force people into purchasing EVs‚ the people are rejecting them‚ the demand is not there‚ the Biden admin is now getting angry. The Fed is now predicting one rate cut. The soft landing is now more. Biden will not fill up the strategic oil reserves. The [DS] is continually destroying themselves‚ back in the day when they had control over the narrative they could easily convince the people‚ now this is not working. Trump has turned the table on the [DS] once again and is empowering the people to go vote on Nov 5. It will be the biggest day in history. The [DS] will try to stop it‚ most likely there will be cyber attack attempts. Playbook known.   Economy Pete Buttigieg Given Brutal Reality Check After Using Faulty Analogy to Mock Americans for Refusing to Buy Electric Vehicles (VIDEO) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this week used a faulty analogy on Fox News to taunt Americans for refusing to buy overpriced‚ environmentally damaging electric vehicles. But Americans on social media gave the inept and elitist Buttigieg a brutal reality check afterward. WATCH: Pete Buttigieg disparages Americans who don't want to be forced into electric vehicles: "I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever." pic.twitter.com/fnHXMOGdlu — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 2‚ 2024 Social media users quickly jumped on the flaws in Buttigieg’s arguments. There were reasons why cell phones were better than landlines‚ whereas EVs have several drawbacks compared to gas-powered cars and the only way for EVs to be “competitive” is to crack down on traditional vehicles. Moreover‚ landlines cost almost nothing compared to electric cars‚ and many Americans still use them.             Source: thegatewaypundit.com California hiked the minimum wage to $20 per hour for fast food workers this week. You'll never guess what happened next. pic.twitter.com/NVyg3hxsA0 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 2‚ 2024 NEW – Largest US fresh egg producer halts production at Texas plant after bird flu found in chickens; about 1.6 million laying hens and 337‚000 pullets were culled — NBCDFW — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 2‚ 2024 Bidenomics Failure Shows Up At Polls As Gen-Z Revolts Against Democrats   a new Gallup poll shows a growing number of Gen-Zers and millennials are becoming increasingly frustrated with the failure of ‘Bidenomics‘ as they struggle with the cost-of-living crisis. We didn’t need a poll to reveal the frustrations of youngsters working two or three jobs just to afford rent‚ auto payments‚ and avocado and toast. The writing has been on the wall‚ especially on social media feeds of TikTok and X: The new Gallup poll of 18-29-year-olds validates the Biden administration‚ which seemingly cares more about illegal aliens and the LGBTQQIP2SAA community (not sure what all those letters mean)‚ is quickly losing the young vote.  Bloomberg  Source: Bloomberg   a. Source: zerohedge.com Biden drained the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level in 40 years. Now‚ the Biden administration is CANCELLING their plans to refill it because oil is "way too expensive." pic.twitter.com/NYqEZ2Aosa — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 3‚ 2024 JUST IN: FED Atlanta president Bostic reiterates he expects only ONE rate cut this year in Q4. I agree with him. There will not be a rate cut in June. Economy is too strong. — Genevieve Roch-Decter‚ CFA (@GRDecter) April 3‚ 2024 We went from soft landing to unsustainable debt path real quick … pic.twitter.com/arCc50LbLM — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) April 3‚ 2024 Political/Rights BREAKING: Sage Steele admits that her entire interview of Biden was carefully scripted by network executives: "Every single question was scripted and gone over dozens of times by multiple editors and executives." pic.twitter.com/drXHFZNZVt — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 3‚ 2024 House GOP Probes DOJ On Possible Retaliation Against Hunter Biden Whistleblowers House Republicans are probing the Department of Justice (DOJ) about possible retaliation against whistleblowers connected to its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden‚ letters obtained by the Daily Caller Tuesday reveal. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan‚ Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith addressed letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland‚ Special Counsel David Wiess and U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Daniel Werfel on Tuesday‚ asking about potential retaliation against the whistleblowers. The letters claim that Hunter Biden‚ the president’s son and a key character in the impeachment inquiry‚ and his lawyers launched an intimidation campaign against the whistleblowers. The lawmakers demanded that the DOJ tell their respective committees if they are investigating the subjects. “Retaliation against whistleblowers is unlawful and morally repugnant‚ and if the Biden administration is doing that to these whistleblowers‚ there will be hell to pay‚” a GOP source with knowledge of the investigation told the Daily Caller in a statement. Source: dailycaller.com  TAKE A LISTEN Another day and another hoax from the Biden campaign. It's bloodbath part two. Here is the full video where Trump is clearly calling the illegal who murdered Laken Riley an animal. Does Biden think her killer is a good person and not an animal??? https://t.co/DZpSc1lusq pic.twitter.com/qcE99wYODp — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 2‚ 2024 TAKE A LISTEN Geopolitical/Police State Trump sues two Trump Media co-founders‚ seeking to void their stock in the company  Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media &; Technology Group‚ the newly public parent company of his Truth Social platform‚ arguing that they should forfeit their stock in the company because they set it up improperly. The former U.S. president’s lawsuit‚ which was filed on March 24 in Florida state court‚ follows a complaint filed in February by those co-founders‚ Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss. Their lawsuit sought to prevent Trump from taking steps the two said would sharply reduce their combined 8.6% stake in Trump Media. The pair filed their lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Trump’s lawsuit claims that Litinsky and Moss‚ who were both contestants on Trump’s reality-TV show “The Apprentice‚” mishandled an attempt to take Trump Media public several years ago‚ allegedly putting the whole project “on ice” for more than a year and a half. But it also targets the pair over their Delaware suit against Trump‚ saying that it was one of several attempts they made to block Trump Media’s ultimately successful plan to go public. Trump Media accomplished that goal by merging with a publicly traded shell company called Digital World Acquisition in March. Source: apnews.com Poland Prepares New Hate-Speech Law: 3 Years In Prison For Insulting LGBT People Poland‚ once a bastion of conservatism‚ is radically shifting gears under the new left-liberal government with a new “hate speech” law that could see offenders imprisoned for up to three years for “offensive” content against LGBT people. The left had already been pushing for stricter speech controls before the coalition government formed‚ and since it won power‚ the left is now making good on its promises. On Wednesday‚ the Polish Ministry of Justice published a draft amendment to the penal code regarding hate speech on the website of the Government Legislation Center. The new draft law is looking to expand classifications regarding hate speech to include age‚ disability‚ gender‚ sexual orientation and gender identity‚ according to Polish news outlet DoRzeczy. Poland’s new government moves to crack down on ‘hate speech’ In a strong stand against government plans to penalize what it calls “hate speech‚” Poland’s Confederation party asserts the need for free and unrestricted public discourse   Source: zerohedge.com  ‘More complaints’ were made about First Minister Humza Yousaf and his 2020 speech about ‘often being the only non-white person in the room’ than JK Rowling under new Scots hate crime law – as police receive nearly 4‚000 reports in first two days War  US Army and Air Force Call on Retirees to Return to Active Duty Amid Recruiting Shortages The United States Army and Air Force have issued calls for retirees to return to active duty. The Army’s recruitment challenges have been mounting in recent years. Recruiting has been hampered by COVID-19 vaccine requirements as well as an increasingly woke military atmosphere where trans soldiers are give special privileges while Christian soldiers are persecuted‚ bases host drag shows‚ and leaders with a history of anti-white statements are hired. According to Army Times‚ “The Army fell about 15‚000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this [2022]‚ officials confirmed Friday‚ despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist.” The current fiscal year is likely to be even worse. The shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476‚000 to 466‚000‚ but according to the War on The Rocks outlet‚ “Army officials project that active end strength could shrink by as much as 20‚000 soldiers by September‚ down to 445‚000. That means that the nation’s primary land force could plummet by as much as 7 percent in only two years — at a time when its missions are increasing in Europe and even in the Pacific‚ where the Army provides many of the critical wartime theater enablers without which the other services cannot function.“   Source: thegatewaypundit.com NOW – Trump: "We could end up in World War III with this lunatic."pic.twitter.com/HhJBRd87CY — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) April 2‚ 2024 TAKE A LISTEN Cyber Attacks False Flags CDC cries ‘wolf‚’ again! The CDC just released an ominous warning about the danger of the spread of meningococcal disease.   What should the public make of this? Today‚ the CDC is frightening the population with 143 cases of meningococcal disease‚ writing‚ “meningococcal disease has a fatality rate of 10 to 15 percent‚” while in the same sentence‚ admitting it is “rare.” What is the public more likely to take away from the official CDC release: “fatality rate” or “rare?” CDC and the entire Washington medical establishment including NIH‚ FDA‚ and the White House have lost credibility with Americans. Trust once lost cannot be restored‚ or not easily‚ and certainly not if they continue to lie. Source: americanthinker.com New Study Shows McKinsey’s Studies Promoting DEI Profitability Were Garbage A 30-page paper published in Econ Journal Watch found that studies conducted by the consulting giant in 2015‚ 2018‚ 2020‚ and 2023 could not be verified to find significant results supporting conclusions that favor corporate DEI regimes. “Our results indicated that despite the imprimatur often given to McKinsey’s 2015‚ 2018‚ 2020‚ and 2023 studies‚” researchers concluded‚ “McKinsey’s studies neither conceptually (in terms of the correct definition of causality) nor empirically (in terms of their set of large US public firms) support the argument that large US public firms can expect on average to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.” Over the past few years‚ @McKinsey has released at least 4 studies claiming a positive relationship between DEI and firm performance. A new paper published today in @EconJWatch finds these results can't be replicated. ''Our inability to [replicate] their results suggests that… pic.twitter.com/W2qKHasLRy — Chris Brunet (@realChrisBrunet) April 1‚ 2024   … they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.” Despite the flaws in McKinsey’s work‚ the U.S. military cited the 2015 diversity report from the consulting company in 2021. In the Navy’s “Task Force One” final report espousing the need to diversify the force‚ the authors wrote that “gender-diverse organizations are 15 percent more likely to outperform other organizations and diverse organizations are 35 percent more likely to outperform their non-diverse counterparts.” Local law enforcement can make major cases including conspiracy against Antifa if they have the will. Additionally more states are adding anti-rioting language to RICO statutes‚ aimed at Antifa tactics. https://t.co/XBx6GZl5Uf — Kyle Shideler (@ShidelerK) April 3‚ 2024 Happening now: Two So Cal Antifa members are on trial in San Diego County for their alleged roles in a violent 2021 conspiracy at Pacific Beach where people‚ including a woman and child‚ were beaten. Nine out of the 11 Antifa defendants have already pleaded guilty to various… pic.twitter.com/86BJciq2zc — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 2‚ 2024 violent felonies. Pictured below‚ @SDDistAtty prosecutor Makenzie Harvey presents evidence in opening statements about the Antifa aliases defendants Jeremy J. “The Antifa Soldier” White and Brian “Antifa Boy ACAB 5” Lightfoot used while communicating plans on Signal. Both are represented pro bono by far-left San Francisco attorneys. At the beginning of trial‚ defendant White suddenly pleaded he’s “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Court photos today by Ken Stone/Times of San Diego. https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-antifa-member-pleads-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-at-start-of-san-diego-antifa-felony-conspiracy-trial?utm_campaign=64470 Q Statewide Emergency Declared in Indiana Ahead of Solar Eclipse Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued the emergency declaration as a precaution ahead of the April 8 event. The Republican official said that the number of visitors to Indiana may strain the state’s communications‚ transportation‚ and emergency response systems‚ warranting the need for the declaration. Indiana includes some of the best locations in the United States to see the eclipse‚ according to a map of the path of totality. Texas EmergenciesMultiple counties in Texas declared emergencies due to the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse due to potentially heavy traffic and gridlock. Niagara FallsMeanwhile‚ last week‚ a state of emergency was declared in the Canadian Niagara Falls region‚ adjacent to the city of Niagara Falls in New York state‚ due to traffic and crowd sizes. Source: theepochtimes.com Severe Swelling’: Rep. Lauren Boebert Announces Rare Medical Diagnosis‚ Emergency Surgery Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert underwent emergency surgery after she was diagnosed with a rare vascular condition‚ her congressional campaign announced Tuesday. Boebert disclosed in a Facebook post she was diagnosed with May-Thurner Syndrome‚ which affects the body’s blood flow‚ and that she completed a surgery that addressed an “acute” blood clot and had caused “severe swelling” in her left leg. Source: dailycaller.com Yet the FBI lawyer who altered documents to get a FISA warrant and ILLEGALLY SPY ON TRUMP‚ not only didn’t get prison time‚ he got a year probation and never lost his law license. He’s practicing today! There is no justice! — T. Lee (@RfLcopter3) April 3‚ 2024 Is the Biden regime weaponizing the Social Security Administration to hand out fake/temporary social security numbers to illegals and automatically registering them to vote in key swing states? Over 2 million in TX‚ AZ‚ and PA alone in just the past 3 months – that’s insanity… https://t.co/S7ux0IBhGw — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 3‚ 2024   There needs to be a national injunction to stop this takeover before it’s too late All of these voter registrations need to be removed if they are illegal aliens Red state attorneys general need to be all over this Can someone please ask @GregAbbott_TX how 227‚077 people are registering to vote in a single week in Texas‚ many without Voter ID?! https://t.co/8S5tuHu6SQ — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 2‚ 2024 Yesterday we learned Biden has flown in tens of thousands of illegal aliens to Florida without alerting state officials Today DeSantis ripped him a new one DC is useless so we need to fight like hell at the state level to stop this invasion https://t.co/YXtP38xvKw — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 3‚ 2024   Wisconsin Voters Approve Ban on Private Money Support for Elections – Buy-Bye‚ Zuckerbucks! Wisconsin voters approved a ban on private money in elections on Tuesday night. The voters approved a constitutional amendment brought forth by Republicans in reaction to Zuckerbucks money used in Wisconsin in 2020. In 2020 Wisconsin rolled out a mobile home voting station on wheels paid for exclusively with Zuckerbucks. The Zuckerbucks money was also allegedly used to steal votes from elderly Americans in nursing homes. What a disgusting act! Wisconsin Watch reported:   Source: thegatewaypundit.com There's a poll for that: https://t.co/SIOocjLA9N pic.twitter.com/a3JC6vprFO — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 3‚ 2024 Trump Wins Republican Primary Races in New York‚ Rhode Island‚ Delaware‚ Wisconsin and Connecticut Swing-State Voters Overwhelmingly Trust Trump Over Biden On Pivotal Issues Ahead Of November Election: POLL Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden by large margins on key domestic issues across seven battleground states ahead of the November election‚ a poll released Tuesday evening found. Trump is trouncing Biden by 20 points on handling of the economy‚ border security‚ inflation and the “mental and physical fitness needed to be President‚” according to a Wall Street Journal survey among registered voters in Arizona‚ Georgia‚ Nevada‚ North Carolina‚ Michigan‚ Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Inflation and illegal immigration have surged since Biden took office in January 2021‚ and questions concerning the president’s mental fitness continue to mount. The only issues polled that Biden led Trump on were abortion and “protecting democracy.”    t. Source: dailycaller.com CURIOUS: The White House Spanish Language Social Media Account Didn’t Mention ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’   The Biden White House came under fire this week for promoting the ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ on the same day as Easter. Some people have noticed‚ however‚ that the Spanish language accounts for the White House did not mention this. Why do you suppose that is? Is it possible that team Biden knows this would have been a losing move with Spanish speakers? Are they admitting that Latino voters would have been offended by such a message? Townhall reports:   EXPOSED: The White House is deliberately pushing differing messages to its different language-speaking audiences. On the main English account‚ today they celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility. On the Spanish-language account‚ zero references to Trans Day Of Visibility.… pic.twitter.com/feeG1DqjEa — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 1‚ 2024 Source: thegatewaypundit.com  4587 Jul 17‚ 2020 5:47:13 PM EDT Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: f4dc5f No. 9991332  https://twitter.com/realAlexBaumann/status/1284240420302536705 C19 narrative kill date: ELECTION DAY +1 Prepare for zero-day [massive cyber-power] attacks [attempts] on 11.4. Q Happening Now—Departing Green Bay‚ Wisconsin…. pic.twitter.com/YVFHv6i93r — Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 3‚ 2024 42 Anonymous ID: pGukiFmX No.147591125 Nov 2 2017 01:54:29 (EST) We serve at the pleasure of the President. DJT

from Birch Gold Group: This week‚ Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: A World Bank insider explains central banks’ gold buying surge; yet another all-time high for gold’s price‚ ‚ and just how strange is the lack of price action in silver? World Bank […]