I’m usually the kind of person who associates far-left protests and demonstrations with big blue cities like Chicago‚ Los Angeles‚ and New York. If people are chanting “from the river to the sea‚” my first instinct is to believe they’re from the coast or Canada — not the Midwest‚ where Americans are more concerned with the finicky weather and hunting deer than with politics. After this weekend‚ I have to concede that instinct appears to be wrong. (READ MORE: In Their Words: The Families of Hamas’ Victims) My goal on Saturday afternoon was to enjoy a nice cappuccino (Italy has made me a convert) and finish planning Christmas gifts for my family and friends. The cappuccino was quite pleasant‚ and the four-way phone call to figure out sibling gifts was reasonably productive. Feeling a little victorious‚ I left the coffee shop to make an unplanned visit to a bookstore a few doors down. The next 20 minutes took a decidedly weird turn. The bookstore was a small independent outfit more interested in advancing rainbows than good literature. So‚ after confirming that the book selection consisted of tomes by popular YouTubers-turned-authors and books banned from Florida’s public school libraries for good reason‚ I prepared to leave. (READ MORE: The Left’s Systemic Anti-Semitism: It Isn’t Just the UPenn President) My progress was interrupted by the sound of a bullhorn and chanting protesters. There were toddlers in strollers‚ women in hijabs‚ old men‚ and college students (some in masks)‚ all waving green‚ white‚ black‚ and red flags‚ carrying cardboard signs‚ and repeating slogans yelled at them like some kind of bizarre marching cadence. There was something impressively frightening and adrenaline-inducing about the kind of mob mentality on display. The protest was militant‚ but not violent — although it felt as though it could become so at the drop of a hat. I am no expert in political demonstrations. Most of the protests I’ve attended were of the pro-life persuasion‚ and those tend to be peaceful and prayerful. Take‚ for instance‚ the March for Life I covered two months ago in the same city. There were no military marching slogans‚ and most of the several hundred participants sang hymns in small‚ disjointed groups. (READ MORE: Achieving Victory in Gaza: Some Questions) The comparison is worth making because it’s important to understand that the kinds of protests being organized by anti-Israeli leftists are completely different from those conservatives are accustomed to attending. This article is an excerpt from The American Spectator’s Spectator P.M. newsletter. Subscribe today to read future letters from our staff! The post The Kind of Protests Coming to a City Near You appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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Economist warns: "I think we’re going to have a worse financial crisis than the one we had in 2008." Most mainstream pundits characterized the November jobs report as a “Goldilocks” report. Job growth was strong enough to support the “soft landing” narrative but not so strong it might scare the Fed into raising interest rates again. President Joe Biden used the report to boast about his economic achievements. But according to Peter Schiff‚ Biden doesn’t have anything to boast about. He talked about it during a recent interview on the Capitol Report on NTD News. After the jobs report came out‚ Biden released a statement bragging‚ “On my watch‚ we have achieved better growth and lower inflation than any other advanced country. A year ago‚ forecasters said it couldn’t be done.” As far as Biden taking credit for the strong economy‚ Peter said he doesn’t think there is anything for the president to take credit for. “First of all‚ the job numbers – sure‚ it was better than expected. But we’ll probably end up revising it to ‘worse than expected’ next month. That’s pretty much what they do. They come out with a number and then the following month they revise it lower.”URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! Peter pointed out that 24% of the “new jobs” were striking auto workers and motion picture workers going back to jobs they already had. That’s not really job creation.” And 82% of the remaining jobs created were in the government and healthcare sectors. These are not the productive jobs that are producing goods that we need‚ that we can consume‚ that we can export. And all these government workers have to be paid for by the private sector. That means the government has to run even bigger deficits. That means they have to create more inflation to pay their salaries. That puts more upward pressure on prices. I don’t think we have a strong labor market.” Meanwhile‚ the economy is creating a lot of part-time‚ low-wage jobs. People are taking second and third jobs because the economy is so weak that you can’t get by on one job anymore. So‚ most people need multiple jobs.” The NTD anchor noted that gold hit a record high prior to the jobs report. What does that say about the state of the economy? Peter said he thinks if people understood how bad things really are‚ and how much worse it will likely get‚ they would be buying even more gold. For one thing‚ despite Biden bragging about “lower inflation” Peter said it’s a huge problem that’s going to get worse. The talk of the Fed successfully returning inflation to 2% — that’s all talk. It’s not going to happen. The genie is out of the bottle. There’s no putting it back in.” Peter said in the meantime‚ we’re heading toward a severe recession. I think we’re going to have a worse financial crisis than the one we had in 2008. In fact‚ we’d already be in it if it wasn’t for the bailouts of the banks earlier in the year‚ back in March. But that has a short shelf-life. I think the problems underlying the banking system are building. The entire banking system is insolvent based on more than 10 years of zero percent rates. They’ve loaded up on long-term‚ low-yielding bonds. They’re underwater in those positions. Meanwhile‚ I think the real economy is weakening. The deficits are skyrocketing.” And as the national debt surges upward‚ the interest expense on the debt is rising. Interest expense rose by 23% to $879 billion in fiscal 2023. This is a fiscal time bomb that’s going to blow‚ and I think people would be buying more gold if they understood how short this fuse was.” Alex Jones Interviews Elon Musk About Humanity’s Ultimate Destiny

Those pulling the public health strings have gained enormous power and profit from Covid-19 and are focused on getting more. Like other aspects of medicine‚ public health is about dealing with life and death. In the international sphere‚ this involves big numbers. If‚ as a group‚ a few million dollars is allocated here‚ it may save thousands of lives. Actual people living rather than dying‚ or grieving. If it’s allocated there‚ it may even promote death – diverting other resources from a more useful approach or causing direct harm.  Dealing with such issues affects people’s egos. Humans are prone to think themselves important if they seem to have power over the lives of others. With international public health staff this is reinforced by people they meet‚ and the media glorifying their work. The public hears little of the high‚ often tax-free salaries or the travels and 5-star hotels that boost these egos still further‚ but instead are fed pictures of (usually brown) children lining up to be saved by people in (usually blue) vests with nice logos. It all feels good. The result‚ inevitably‚ is an international public health workforce that has a very high opinion of itself. Possessing values that it considers superior to those of others‚ it feels justified in imposing its beliefs and values on the populations who are the target of its work. As their role seems to them more important than bringing up kids in some random village or working at an airport check-in counter‚ they can feel virtuous when seeking to impose their superior opinions on others. The WHO’s insistence that countries globally embrace certain Western cultural values supporting abortion on request until time of delivery are a powerful example‚ irrespective of what one considers its ‘rightness.’ More so as the WHO also claims to support ‘decolonization.’ Things get tricky when the ultimate source of funding has its own commercial or geopolitical priorities. As an example‚ expenditure of the World Health Organization (WHO) is now over 75% specified by the funder‚ including those who stand to gain financially from such work. Large organizations that helped the WHO run its Covid-19 response‚ such as Gavi (vaccines) and CEPI (vaccines for pandemics)‚ were jointly set up by private and corporate interests who are now represented on their boards and directing them. The interface between these self-interested funding sources and the populations upon whom seek to impose their will is where the self-righteousness culture of the public health workforce becomes so important. They need enforcers whose culture renders them willing to impose harm and restrictions upon others. Apologists and sanitizers who are in a position of trust.Survival Shield X-2 is now 25% OFF! Treat your body with super high-quality nascent iodine &; enjoy one of nature's greatest essentials! A Captured but Willing Workforce If you are going to sell a product‚ you can advertise it and hope potential buyers are interested. This carries a commercial risk. If a product can be mandated – essentially force the market to buy it – then this risk is eliminated. If you can then remove any liability for harm done‚ you are simply printing money with no risk at all. This is such a ridiculous and indecent approach that it would never fly in a normal commercial context. You would need a workforce capable‚ en-masse‚ of putting aside the moral codes that prevent such practices. A shield between the people being managed and the commercial or political interests standing to gain. Historically‚ public health has often provided such a shield – a way of sanitizing vested interests that would otherwise appear repulsive to the public. In the United States‚ it implemented racist and eugenic policies to sterilize and send into decline ethnic groups it considered inferior‚ or individuals considered to have lesser mental capacity (or socially inferior).  The Johns Hopkins University psychology laboratory was founded by proponents of just such an approach. The fascists in Italy and Germany were able to extend this to active killing first of the physically ‘inferior‚’ then whole ethnic groups claimed by governments and health professions to be threats to the purity of the majority. Examples such as the Tuskegee study show that this attitude did not stop with World War Two. Most of the doctors and nurses implementing eugenics and other fascist policies will have convinced themselves that they were acting for the greater good‚ rather than demons. Medical schools told them they were superior‚ patients and the public reinforced this‚ and they convinced each other. Having the power to directly save or not save lives does that‚ while carting trash and repairing sewers (equally important to public health) does not. It enables people to tell others what to do for a perceived greater good (even sterilization or worse) and to then stand together as a profession to defend it. They will do this for those who direct them‚ as health professionals are also trained to follow guidelines and superiors. Accepting Humility The hardest thing in public health is accepting that none of the above is actually for the public’s health. It is about unleashed human ego‚ a large part of greed‚ and a trained and frequently reinforced willingness to bow to authority. Hierarchies feel good when you are near the top.  In contrast‚ health depends on mental and social well-being‚ and all the multiplicity of influences from within and without that determine whether each person experiences‚ and how they deal with‚ disease. It requires individuals to be empowered to make their own choices‚ irrespective of human rights‚ because mental and social health‚ and a large part of physical health‚ are dependent on the social capital this agency enables. Public health can advise but once it steps over the line to coerce or force‚ it ceases to be an overall positive influence. To provide sensible public health‚ you must therefore be comfortable allowing others to do what you consider to be against their physical interests or some ‘greater good.’ When you are convinced that you have superior intellect‚ this can feel wrong. It is harder again when deferring to the public means breaking ranks with‚ and losing standing with‚ peers who consider themselves superior and more virtuous. To do this‚ one has to accept that intellect has no standing when assessing human worth‚ and that each human has some intrinsic characteristic that puts them above all considerations regarding greater societal good. This is the basis of fully informed consent – a very difficult concept when considered deeply. It has its basis in the Nuremberg Code and post-1945 medical ethics and human rights‚ and is a concept with which many in our health professions and their institutions disagree. Facing Reality We are now entering one of those more extreme periods‚ where the hierarchy really becomes clear. Those pulling the public health strings have gained enormous power and profit from Covid-19 and are focused on getting more. Their chosen enforcers did their job during Covid-19‚ turning a virus outbreak that kills near an average age of 80 years and at a rate globally perhaps slightly higher than influenza into a vehicle to drive poverty and inequality. They continue to do this‚ pushing ‘boosters’ associated with rising rates of the infection they are aimed against‚ and with unusual evidence of harm‚ ignoring prior understanding of immunology and basic common sense. Now public health is moving further in response to the same masters‚ the Covid profiteers‚ promoting fear of future outbreaks. With near-total obeisance‚ they are now supporting a reordering of society and health sovereignty through amending the WHO IHR regulations and negotiating a pandemic treaty to build a permanent health technocracy to sustain concentration of wealth and power through recurrent pharmaceutical profit.  This reordering of our democracies into Pharma technocracies‚ with the public health bureaucracy being aligned to enforce it‚ will make the right to travel‚ work‚ go to school‚ or visit sick relatives dependent on compliance to health dictates passed down from a massively wealthy corporate aristocracy. Those health dictates will be enforced by people whose training was funded and careers supported by those who directly profit. The modelers who will produce the numbers needed to scare will be similarly funded‚ while a sponsored media will continue to promote this fear unquestioningly. The institutions above this‚ the WHO and the big public-private partnerships‚ take funding and direction from the same sources. The proposed pandemic regulations and treaty are just cementing all in place‚ repeating the massively harmful restrictions on human rights applied during Covid whilst ensuring that there is less room for dissent. We need legislators‚ and the public‚ to reclaim public health ethics and to return to credible concepts of health and well-being – as the WHO once did – “physical‚ mental and social.” This is what was intended when previous generations fought to overthrow dictators‚ striving for equality and for the rights of individuals over those who would control them. History tells us that public health professions tend to follow self-interest‚ taking the side of those who would be dictators. If our democracies‚ freedom‚ and health are to survive‚ we must accept reality and address this as a basic issue of individual freedom and good governance for which we are all responsible. There is too much at stake to leave this to self-interested corporatists and the notorious enforcers they control. Alex Jones Interviews Elon Musk About Humanity’s Ultimate Destiny

Grant traces the root of today’s problems back to 2008 when the Federal Reserve became “completely irrational.” In a recent interview with Forbes‚ economic commentator and historian Jim Grant warned that we haven’t fully felt the inevitable fallout from the “free money era.” “I think that the consequences of more or less 10 years of proverbially free money are going to play out in the credit markets.” Grant traces the root of today’s problems back to 2008 when the Federal Reserve became “completely irrational.” The central bank pumped trillions of liquidity into the economy with three rounds of quantitative easing. During the pandemic‚ the Fed doubled down on this extraordinary monetary policy. It also slashed interest rates to zero in 2008 and held them there for nearly a decade. This loose monetary policy caused all kinds of distortions and malinvestments in the economy and incentivized massive levels of debt. For instance‚ hundreds of “zombie corporations” stayed afloat by taking out cheap loans in the easy money era. Now these firms face the pressure of rising interest rates. Grant said‚ “Assets may face the consequences of that yet.” “It could be that the accumulation of errors in lending and an allocation of credit that were brought on by the invitation to lend indiscriminately—that is to say the 0% rate regime—was an open invitation to overdo it in credit.”URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! According to S&;P Global‚ there were 516 corporate bankruptcies through September. That was more than any full year since 2010. Almost every mainstream financial analyst believes that the Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates early in 2024‚ despite the fact Fed officials insist rates need to stay higher for longer. But Grant thinks that interest rates will stay higher for longer no matter what the Fed does‚ and he believes we are in the early stages of a generational bear market in bonds. He told Forbes he bases this on a historical reading of monetary policy. “The phrase would be higher for much‚ much‚ much‚ much longer—but we have to underscore and italicize the conditional—if past is prologue.” Grant pointed out to the Forbes interviewer that except for a few brief blips‚ interest rates continuously trended down between 1981 and 2023. But in the 40 years before that‚ they generally trended higher. “It is the historical track record‚ it is the pattern‚ that interest rates exhibit a tendency to trend over generation-long intervals. We seem to have hit some major point of demarcation with interest rates in 2020 and ‘21.” But Grant said we shouldn’t expect a straight line up. He said if a recession hits‚ there could be a “substantial” but temporary pullback in interest rates. Grant is describing a long-term trend of high inflation‚ low economic growth and high interest rates — in a nutshell — stagflation. Some argue that technological advances will have a deflationary effect and mitigate the impacts Grant worries about. He conceded that technology tends to be deflationary‚ but pointed out there have been other historical periods of rapid technological advancement and and high inflation – specifically the 1970s. “I don’t know how to compare the intensity of the technological progress of the 1930s versus the 1970s. But both were marked by terrific improvements in productive technology and one featured deflation‚ the other mighty inflation.” Grant tempered his forecast with a word of caution. “We know how rich we would all be if past were dependably and truly prologue—especially the historians who‚ as it is‚ have so little money‚” Grant told Forbes‚ adding that this means experts should “proceed cautiously” when forecasting. Alex Jones Interviews Elon Musk About Humanity’s Ultimate Destiny

The globalists will stop at nothing to continue their corrupt agenda Jack Posobiec joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the globalists’ predictive programming plan to push all-out war with Russia‚ and morally corrupt the US. Don’t forget‚ Infowars relies on YOUR SUPPORT! To continue funding this independent operation‚ we urge you to visit the Infowars Store where you can fund the battle against globalism by purchasing great products such as dietary supplements‚ air and water filters‚ books‚ t-shirts‚ survival gear and much more.

You were warned over a decade ago! In this 2009 show segment‚ Alex Jones discusses globalist documents dictating the ballooning of third-world populations to use as a weapon against The West for the greater endgame of depopulation‚ all while promoting the Satanic sacrament of abortion. Don’t forget‚ Infowars relies on YOUR SUPPORT! To continue funding this independent operation‚ we urge you to visit the Infowars Store where you can fund the battle against globalism by purchasing great products such as dietary supplements‚ air and water filters‚ books‚ t-shirts‚ survival gear and much more.

Recently released political prisoner Owen Shroyer will share his story with Carlson War Room host Owen Shroyer announces he’ll be joining Tucker Carlson for an interview that will be the first video to drop on the newly launched Tucker Carlson Network. The episode will be released Tuesday night‚ according to Shroyer’s X account. Tucker Carlson interview was fantastic! Can’t wait for it to air tonight on @TCNetwork.— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) December 12‚ 2023 Don’t forget‚ Infowars relies on YOUR SUPPORT! To continue funding this independent operation‚ we urge you to visit the Infowars Store where you can fund the battle against globalism by purchasing great products such as dietary supplements‚ air and water filters‚ books‚ t-shirts‚ survival gear and much more. URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today!

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Steve Kirsch‚ the head of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF)‚ just gave a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy (MIT) explaining the record-level data from three countries (US‚ New Zealand and the Maldives)‚ including new data released by whistleblower Barry Young‚ an Oracle database admin from the New Zealand Ministry of Health‚ showing that the Covid “vaccines” have definitely killed over 10 million worldwide. Credible estimates range from 13 million (Steve Kirsch of the VSRF) to 17 million (Professor Denis Rancourt) to 20 million+ (Peter Halligan)‚ which is significantly more than the supposed 7 million allegedly killed by “The Covid‚” which‚ itself‚ is an inflated number jacked up by PCR/Antigen tests notorious for false positives‚ relabling the seasonal flu‚ and incentives offered to hospitals to classify patients and deaths as “Covid” which ginned up the fear to trick people into injecting themselves with poison.