Awaken With JP Published originally on Rumble on December 3, 2022
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Category U. S. WOKE Culture
Imagine That – Wall Street Journal Finally Admits Energy Inflation Will Keep Retail Food Prices High, Regardless of Commodity Price Market
Posted originally on the CTH on December 2, 2022 | Sundance
A slight drop in the overall national pretending index is noted today; actually, more like a twitch toward the reality side of the meter.
CTH has been outlining the supply side inflation issue in the highly consumable goods sector, specifically the foods sector, for almost two years now. Mainstream and financial pundits have denied its existence.
According to the Friedman view of traditional economics, only monetary policy drives inflation. However, Friedman never lived in -nor fathomed- an era when the collective western governments would intentionally shrink the economy in order to save the planet via climate change.
The intentional diminishment of energy production is the #1 source of increasing consumer prices. Inflation is not an issue of high demand for the subsequent goods produced. Raising interest rates diminishes demand for durable goods but has zero impact on the increasingly higher prices of intentionally scare resources like oil, coal and natural gas.
While maintaining the pretending due to the alignment with multinational and corporate interests, the Wall Street Journal starts admitting today that prices are not likely to drop, regardless of commodity prices. Even with abundant harvests, strong grain & soybean production, abundant pork and beef commodities, the costs associated with the production of food products will stop any downward price pressure.
(WSJ) Global prices for commodities such as wheat and sugar have fallen back to where they were a year ago, but consumers are still likely to feel the pinch at the checkout.
[…] Higher energy and power costs are also fueling food-price inflation. “That product on the shelf has a lot of the oil price built in,” said Kathy Kriskey, a commodity strategist at Invesco.
Costlier energy means it costs more to transport and package food, while supermarkets are paying more to power their stores. Higher gas prices also lead to increased fertilizer costs, while wage bills are also rising rapidly.
Supermarkets have more incentive to freeze than to lower prices, Ms. Kriskey added, since that gives them more flexibility if other input costs such as energy rise further in the coming months. (read more)
Now think about the inflation dynamic from a source origination position.
If the variable of abundance/scarcity is removed from the equation and yet high consumer prices remain – then what was the primary originating cost pressure on the end product?
The globalists can keep pretending, which they certainly are, and yet the answer to that question is obvious.
Our current level of inflation is not an outcome of consumer demand and/or monetary supply. The current level of inflation is a direct outcome of lowering traditional energy development, raising the cost of energy production, making oil, coal and natural gas more expensive, and then watching prices rise from the supply side origination.
The scale of inflation is a direct outcome of the scale of energy price increase. As long as energy prices remain high, regardless of the abundance of the commodity the price for the foodstuff will remain high. Food inflation has nothing to do with food scarcity and everything to do with increases in the costs to produce food.
We are in a price plateau right now, waiting to see how much further energy production will be restricted.
This is what western political leaders call “managing the transition”. Put another way, they are managing the overall decline of western civilization.
Labor Report Shows 263,000 Jobs Added in November, Combined with Significant Wage Growth 0.6% For Month
Posted originally on the CTH on December 2, 2022 | Sundance
There’s a disconnect in the Main Street data that is perplexing from the standpoint of traditional economic and labor analysis.
There have been significant layoffs in the labor market as the result of diminished consumer spending activity. However, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) is reporting a hotter than expected 263,000 new jobs in November [DATA HERE].
There were declines in jobs within the retail sector [-30,000 in Nov, -62,000 since August] and declines in warehousing and transportation [-15, 000 in November, -30,000 since July], which would indicate the outcome of lowered consumer spending on goods, or at least a change in consumer spending priorities.
Simultaneously, there were significant increases in jobs for leisure and hospitality [+88,000 in Nov], with the majority of those gains in food service and drinking. However, that sector is still lower than the pre-pandemic by -980,000 jobs. Also note people are not attending events with high ticket costs, the performing arts and spectator sports segment dropped 7,000 jobs [Table B-1]
Overall, if you were to look at the macro level jobs report, anything attached to the traditional spending of durable goods (retail stores) is declining. However, the jobs related to the service or life experience are growing. Oddly, and perhaps creepily, this dynamic falls in line with the ‘you will own nothing and be happy‘ cliche’ that has been oft spoken about the new post pandemic ‘Build Back Better‘ economy as espoused by the World Economic Forum.
Job gains in the infrastructure of life such as, building and construction, as well as the labor sector associated with skilled domestic service trades like plumbing, electricians, maintenance, etc are continuing to hold stable. The major shift in the labor market surrounds the buying of durable goods which has disappeared along with the disappearance of discretionary income. Which brings us to the wage portion of the BLS report.
Wage growth was a very high 0.6% for November and brings the annual rate of wage growth to 5.1%. This outcome is almost certainly an outcome of workers demanding higher pay to cope with inflation, and employers needing to raise their wage rates in order to retain employees.
We also see an increase in the number of workers holding multiple jobs, as individuals are taking second jobs to cope with massive price increases in housing, food, fuel and energy. As noted within the BLS data:
“In November, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 hour to 34.4 hours. In manufacturing, the average workweek for all employees decreased by 0.2 hour to 40.2 hours, and overtime declined by 0.1 hour to 3.1 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 33.9 hours.”
Fewer people are working, but more jobs are being worked – with lowered hours.
Higher wages are good; however, higher wages lead to higher prices for goods and services; which drives inflation higher, which creates the need for higher wages. It’s an upward pressure spiral.
The supply side pressure on inflation, almost exclusively created by the BBB energy policy, shows absolutely no sign of lessening, despite the drop in demand for domestically produced finished consumer goods which has lowered overall industrial demand for energy.
The Build Back Better energy driven policy changes are creating very weird economic outcomes.
Prices are rising. Consumers are squeezed. Jobs attached to spending on goods are declining. Jobs attached to life experience and services expanding.
Ex.1 If you are working two jobs, now you might not have time to mow your grass – so you hire a lawn service. The lawn service guys are charging more because the gasoline and business costs are higher…. which means you need to work a little longer at the second job to pay for the lawn service you don’t have time to do on your own because you need to work the second job. That’s the dynamic we are seeing in the quantification of labor and job growth.
Ex.2 If you are working two jobs, you might not be cooking as much at home. So, you grab dinner/lunch away from home. The restaurants are charging more because the business costs are higher…. which means you need to work a little longer, ask for higher wages, in order to offset the time you don’t have to eat lunch/dinner at home.
This conflicting duality is what I always called the “serfesque driven economy.” It is an outcome of erosion of the middle-class. A status of individuality where your desires for life experience determine the need for your income.
You don’t own a car, you Uber. You don’t own a house, you rent. You don’t need a kitchen, you eat out. Things seem ok, but you eventually become a serf to the people who control transportation costs, housing costs, food costs, etc. Ultimately you have no control over the time you want to spend in enjoyment, because you don’t own the mechanisms of your life and need to work in order to afford maintaining the costs. It’s a weird mental exercise.
There is a real outcome in this dynamic where the wealth gap increases.
Another Appeals Court Rejects Biden Administration Student Loan Cancellation Program – Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case in February
Posted originally on the CTH on December 1, 2022 | Sundance
Federal education loan payments have been suspended ever since early 2020 when COVID was used as a justification to delay payments. The current extension on the delay, a pre midterm bribe for young adults, runs through June 2023 and then people with the loans have to start paying again.
In the interim, Joe Biden had a plan to relieve up to $10,000 in federal student loans for low-to-middle-income borrowers and up to $20,000 for qualifying Pell Grant recipients. However, that arbitrary Biden decree encountered multiple legal setbacks including rejection by a federal court in St. Louis and another in Texas.
Earlier today, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again rejected the Biden administration’s request to pause the Texas order vacating the $400 billion student debt relief program in a lawsuit pursued by a conservative advocacy group. {LINK} The Texas ruling from U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman was one of two decisions that prevented the Department of Education from moving forward.
The St Louis case, also lost on appeal and based on a similar finding that Biden cannot subvert congress for this spending, has now travelled to the Supreme Court who have agreed to hear oral arguments in February but will not intervene to stop the lower court rulings.
Washington — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will take up a court fight between the Biden administration and a coalition of six Republican-led states challenging the legality of the president’s student loan forgiveness program.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court last month to lift an injunction from a federal appeals court that blocked implementation of the plan, but told the court that if it denied relief, it should agree to consider the merits of the case instead.
The court said in a brief order that it will hear arguments in February but will keep the program on hold for now. Last week, President Biden extended his pause on federal student loan payments until June 30, 2023, to give the court time to consider the dispute.
“We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case on our student debt relief plan for middle- and working-class borrowers this February,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “This program is necessary to help over 40 million eligible Americans struggling under the burden of student loan debt recover from the pandemic and move forward with their lives. The program is also legal, supported by careful analysis from administration lawyers.” (more)
In response to the decision from the Texas court, the Biden administration announced it had stopped accepting applications for the debt relief program.
Non-Binary Nuclear Waste Official Arrested for Stealing Womans Luggage and Clothes
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 28, 2022 | Sundance
Hire weird and sketchy clowns and don’t be surprised when the office turns into a circus. Dept of Energy Nuclear Waste official Sam Brinton made headlines months ago for being an odd duck hired into a senior DoE position.
His resume’ included teaching a “Kink 101” workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and his qualifications included several degrees from MIT and a non-binary gender fluid identity. However, stories are now surfacing of Mr/Ms Brinton stealing luggage containing women’s clothing from the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport.
(New York Post) – […] Brinton — who serves as the DOE’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition — allegedly took a Vera Bradley suitcase worth $2,325 from the luggage carousel at the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport (MSP) on Sept. 16, according to a criminal complaint filed on Oct. 26 in Minnesota state court and obtained by Fox News Digital. Brinton had traveled from Washington, DC, to MSP that day.
After the suitcase’s owner alerted police, officers reviewed video surveillance of the carousel and identified Brinton taking the luggage before removing its tag identifying the owner, the court filings stated. Law enforcement observed Brinton using the luggage during at least two other trips to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18 and Oct. 9. (read more)
A good accounting of the entire sequence of events is also AVAILABLE HERE.
Farm Bureau Calculates Thanksgiving Dinner Price Jumps 20% Over Last Year
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 21, 2022 | Sundance
The American Farm Bureau price estimation for the Thanksgiving Day basic foodstuffs seems underestimated every year. However, this year with grocery store prices jumping dramatically the basic Thanksgiving Dinner as calculated is up 20% [Data Here]
(AFB) – Spending time with family and friends at Thanksgiving remains important for many Americans and this year the cost of the meal is also top of mind. Farm Bureau’s 37th annual survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of this year’s classic Thanksgiving feast for 10, which is $64.05 or less than $6.50 per person. This is a $10.74 or 20% increase from last year’s average of $53.31.
The centerpiece on most Thanksgiving tables – the turkey – costs more than last year, at $28.96 for a 16-pound bird. That’s $1.81 per pound, up 21% from last year, due to several factors beyond general inflation. (read more)
On the positive side of things, we note two points: #1) the third wave of food inflation should crest the beginning of December; and #2) a lot of readers here were proactive and purchased holiday ingredients long before the massive price increases showed up. Great job.
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Although, as WeeWeed has noticed, this year is making everyone a little spicy…
Idaho Investigators Have Identified Sketchy Food Truck Lurker and Is Reported to Be Cooperating with Police
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 19, 2022 | Sundance
Many people have been following the story of the four Idaho University college students who were murdered last weekend. In part of a video released by police a person of material interest was noted, and police asked for help with identifying him.
The person has now been identified and is reportedly cooperating with police.
(Via Dail Mail) – The man who was filmed with two of the four murdered Idaho students in their last hours has been ‘identified’ and is ‘cooperating with police,’ according to one of the victims’ sisters.
The young man’s name has not yet been made public but he was he was filmed walking up to a food truck with Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves on Sunday at 1.45am – less than two hours before they were murdered in their home.
He was filmed standing near the girls but not speaking to them as they waited for their food from the truck. Once they were handed their order, the girls – who staff said appeared to be slightly intoxicated – walked off together, leaving him behind.
On Thursday night, Kaylee’s sister told Chris Cuomo on his NewsNation show that the boy had been identified. ‘I think a lot of people were curious about that person. We were able to identify him.
” What everybody is talking about now is not knowing why police are saying we don’t have to panic. Nobody is panicking necessarily… but no one is walking around at night either.” “And as far as I know, he has cooperated with the police. And that’s all that I know about that,’ she said. (link)
NBC2 Bay Area Confirms From Police Body Cam Footage Same Pelosi Attack Details as NBC Report by Miguel Almaguer That Led to His Suspension
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 17, 2022 | Sundance
NBC journalist Miquel Almaguer reported on The Today Show {Direct Rumble Link} that Paul Pelosi opened the door, didn’t declare an emergency….. and then walked back to his attacker and was attacked. The report by Almaguer contradicted the FBI probable cause statement as written. NBC immediately scrubbed the Almaguer report after broadcast and then suspended journalist Miquel Almaguer.
However, now that the midterm election is over, NBC Bay Area reporter Bigad Shaban did some further research, talking directly to police sources who reviewed the body cam footage. Mr. Shaban confirmed the details of the original NBC reporting by Miguel Almaguer on November 4th that led to his suspension. Something sketchy is going on here.
(Via NBC) – […] Police body camera video that captured the attack on Paul Pelosi, and the moments leading up to it, contradict one of the details included in the Department of Justice’s account of what happened that evening, according to a source familiar with the Pelosi investigation who personally viewed the body camera footage and spoke to the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.
In recent days, the Department of Justice and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office have outlined differing accounts of who opened the door when police responded to Pelosi’s 911 call. (read more with video report)
The facts as described in the FBI report are not accurate.
NBC corporate suspended journalist Miquel Almaguer for reporting the correct facts.
NBC2 Bay Area, Bigad Shaban, confirms the Almaguer report with the police after the midterms.
This FBI report is false:
Suspect Responsible for Horrific Murder of Four University of Idaho Students Is Still Unknown
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 17, 2022 | Sundance
Nerves are on edge as the police in/around Moscow, Idaho, admit today the person or persons who murdered four University of Idaho students is still unknown.
In the early morning hours of Sunday four students were stabbed to death in their off-campus residence. Media descriptions of the scene are gruesome in the extreme as blood was reported to be oozing from the floor and building.
The victims (pictured left) are Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, who police say were attacked with an “edged weapon” likely a knife.
All four victims were killed by stabbing. There were two other people in the house who did not hear anything and are not suspects.
According to Fox news, Police have not recovered a weapon or publicly identified a suspect in the quadruple homicide, which has shaken the small town of 25,000 people. (more)
Dear God, bring these grieving parents and families to Your throne of comfort. Their pain is unimaginable as they anguish the loss of their children and loved ones. Father of mercy and comfort wrap Your loving arms around them. Help them to breathe and overcome the choking knot of despair in their throat. Please provide strength for their continued faith in You even through this unfathomable pain. Lavish them with Your love and fill the void in their crushed and broken hearts.
In Jesus’ powerful name, I believe and pray.
Amen.
Republicans Take the House
Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 16, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
The Republican has won the House. It took more than a week for the Associated Press to determine the GOP had won the 218 seats necessary to control the chamber. Never in my entire life have I ever witnessed an election take this long to find out who won. This is all the paper absentee ballots where my own staff could right a national voting program in less than one month and you do not need the paper nonsense. Dead people will not be able to vote and there will be no harvesting of ballots.
While the press wants to portray this as an underwhelming performance for the Republicans when they should have won hands-down considering the national decline in confidence in Biden that normally would have worked to their advantage, the corruption in the election process has been itself unprecedented.
Our computer was correct – there would be no red wave. The report ($14.95) provided our Timing Arrays forecasting politics out for 12 years. The Republicans would take the House but not the Senate for this would be an extremely tight election due to the corruption. The whole point of the press calling for a red tidal wave was to make sure Republicans felt their vote was not needed so why bother? That was a strategy to keep that up in the press. I saw the same tactic was used to get Jimmie Carter elected. I remember that well for even I concluded it was so overwhelming I did not vote – they didn’t need me. Then you woke up with a surprise nobody expected.
This will now contribute to 2023 where we see rising civil unrest and the Republicans will bring impeachment proceedings against Biden and dive into the Hunter Laptop like never before. The Democrats are about to find out what goes around – comes around. All civility in politics has been tossed out the window.
This is the decline and fall of America. The country is now so divided, there is simply no possible way to ever bring it back to the middle. The Democrats still hate Trump and will push to discredit all Republicans using Trump. The hateful way politics has emerged ensures there is absolutely NOBODY on a white horse who will save the day. It will be soon to just turn out the lights.
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