Interestingly, he made these comments shortly after Ontario experienced a disastrous storm that left 150,000 people without power. I am sure people would be thrilled to drop their kids off at school via bike or trek through a storm to arrive at a job that pays only enough to make ends meet with sky-high inflation. The common suggestion of politicians to buy an electric vehicle is insulting to the majority of the population who cannot afford that luxury. According to Scotia Bank, the average cost for an EV in Canada is between C$32,000 and C$160,000. The average maintenance cost is C$1,150 annually, not including charging or unexpected fees.
There is no silver lining to the energy crisis; there is no alternative option to gas at this point in history.
The Democrats say they want to stand up to the gun lobby. But the Pentagon that Joe Biden oversees is funding the same gun makers that Democrats say they want to regulate. #Biden #Texas #GunControl #Pentagon
QUESTION: After Texas, what reforms would you advise if any?
GH
ANSWER: They will be those who immediately advocate ending private gun ownership. They have no idea what they are talking about for real criminals do not buy their funds in stores. Much of the weapons the United States hands out in various countries to fight whoever ends up back in the United States on the black market. Guns they gave to Syrian Rebels, the Taliban, and even Ukrainians end up on the black market on American streets. Nobody wants to talk about that.
On August 29th, 2013, the Obama administration surprisingly announced new gun control measures. They deal with the little-known problem of re-importation of US weapons we give to rebels to fight various conflicts that go to our streets. The Obama administration began curbing the import of military surplus weapons because of the evidence from Bengasi.
With all the yelling and screaming about weapons on the streets, it is not widely understood that many actually are coming from our own sales or gifts to rebels overseas. We hand out weapons like candy for political reasons and they are arming the domestic drug trade. The story behind-the-curtain was that Stevens who was killed there played an active role in selling these weapons and that was the real reason for him being targeted.
The weapons that were flowing through Stevens were alleged to be the key to conflicts throughout the region and were flooding the streets in America as well in another secondary black market. This was a key source of weapons for Syrian rebels which was also a Neocon objective to overthrow the Syrian government. Taking out Stevens stopped that traffic in guns. That was the TRUE story behind Benghazi.
So, the weapons for war are on the street and in the hands of the drug dealers. So imposing regulations to stop the sales of assault weapons will not stop the problem. But this incident t presents a real clear and present danger. This shooter was crazy. He asked his sister to help him buy a gin and she said no. When he did get his hands on one, he killed his grandmother who probably saw mental issues in him.
So is there any Regulation That Might Work?
The problem here is he was crazy. I do not see any problem with having to prove you are of sound mind to buy ANY gun. In this case, it appeared that his family would have said NO. Perhaps it should require family consent but perhaps a mental examination as well. There should be a waiting period and perhaps a mental examination by three separate doctors in a blind test to certify that he is of sound mind.
Outlawing guns or even assault weapons will not address the issue. Someone can always get them from the black market. In this case, the shooter was clearly crazy. That type of person would more than like to try to buy a weapon at a gun store. I think the mental exam and family consent are more important than anything else. The Swiss have a militia-type system and most men must be trained and can keep their guns at home. Yet they have no real crisis in guns.
Guns do not kill – the Person Behind the Gun is the Killer
In Florida, a 10-year-old just joked about shooting up the school. Despite the fact that he did not actually possess a weapon to commit such an act. the police were notified and he was arrested. In Florida, they have a union with a task force for that purpose. In Japan, I guy killed people in a mod with a knife.
Of course, Trudeau is jumping all over this incident to ban handguns. This is the real goal because governments know that what is coming is a revolution for they cannot keep this system of endless borrowing forever. This is what the Great Reset is all about. Their quest to retain absolute power. Biden can outlaw particular types of guns, but not retroactively. He can force everyone to register their guns, and then if they fail to do so, imprison them under the same principle of a failure to file income taxes. They cannot imprison you for the failure to pay your taxes, only if you lie to them about what you owe.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on Posted May 30, 2022
Today, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new legislation to freeze gun ownership in the country and block any further ownership. [Gov Statement Here] It certainly was a short trip from confiscating and seizing the bank accounts/assets of his political opposition, to removing guns from Canadian citizens.
Trudeau held a press conference to announce the new legislative measures which include “red flag” laws, and blocks on any further handgun sales. Recap Video WATCH:
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 30, 2022 | Sundance
The installed occupant of the oval office was asked today, “Sir, do you think there is anything different in how Republicans will approach the gun reform question now, given the circumstances?” Within the response from Joe Biden {Direct Rumble Link}, he said this:
[Transcript] – “Look, when I first started doing hearings on the issue of what rational gun laws should be, it was during a period when I was a senator and the death rate was going up. Not that many more people were being shot, but the death rate was up. And when I think of — I’m not sure, I think it was (inaudible) hospital in New York — whatever the largest trauma hospital is.
And I sat with a trauma doctor, and I asked him — I said, “What’s the difference? Why are so many people…” — and not that many more people were being shot. This is now 20 years ago, or 25 years. I said, “Why are they dying?” And they showed me x-rays. He said, “A .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to get it, and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.”
So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is of — there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting. I mean, I just — and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.” (LINK) WATCH:
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 30, 2022 | Sundance
The timing is not coincidental. A 100-page report on electronic voting systems, by University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman, remains under seal in a federal court in Atlanta as an outcome of election integrity lawsuits surrounding the Dominion voting system. That report is rumored to be released soon, perhaps as early as this week.
In what appears to be a proactive move to get out ahead of identified voting system irregularities specific to the electronic voting systems, the Dept of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS-CISA), updated the election page on their website [SEE HERE] under the “Rumor Control” section. DHS made the update on May 27, 2022, last week.
The very next day, May 28, 2022, The Washington Post produces an article [SEE HERE] describing an upcoming DHS-CISA 5-page memorandum that is in the process of being sent to the states ahead of a public release.
With the WaPo being the outlet of choice for the intelligence community & security state, it appears they received an advanced copy to help establish an early response effort.
Within The Post article, “there are nine flaws affecting versions of the machine called the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X, according to a copy of an advisory prepared by CISA and obtained by The Washington Post.” The article then goes immediately to downplay the problems. “The flaws, many of which are highly technical and which mostly stem from machine design as opposed to coding errors, generally require an attacker to have physical access to the devices or other equipment used to manage the election, CISA said.”
[…] CISA’s five-page advisory is based in part on Halderman’s 100-page report, which remains under seal in a federal court in Atlanta. The advisory is expected to be released next week after officials in all 50 states are notified.
The WaPo article is filled with ‘nothing to see here, move along – move along,’ verbal engineering.
CNN then picks up the baton from the Washington Post, and they too tell their audience not to worry about any pesky evidence of election system vulnerabilities. The professionals in charge of things have assured us there’s no problems and everything is fine. After all, it would be far too difficult, and too many people would be involved, for there to be actual tampering and fraud in the use of the electronic systems.
(Via CNN) – Federal cybersecurity officials have verified there are software vulnerabilities in certain ballot-marking devices made by Dominion Voting Systems, discovered during a controversial Georgia court case, which could in theory allow a malicious actor to tamper with the devices, according to a draft analysis reviewed by CNN.
The vulnerabilities have never been exploited in an election and doing so would require physical access to voting equipment or other extraordinary criteria standard election security practices prevent, according to the analysis from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
But because the subject is Dominion voting equipment, which has been the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely claim there was large-scale fraud in the 2020 election, federal and state and local officials are bracing for election deniers to try to weaponize news of the vulnerabilities ahead of midterm elections.
“While these vulnerabilities present risks that should be promptly mitigated, CISA has no evidence that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in any elections,” reads the draft CISA advisory, which the agency shared in a briefing with state and local officials on Friday. (read more)
For a group of government bureaucrats that are so confident there’s no ‘there, there‘, they sure are putting a lot of energy into delivering all the talking points ahead of the actual election reports and state advisories.
QUESTION: Marty; the gold propaganda is increasing dramatically. They are now claiming there are five signs that say the dollar will collapse any day now.
Warning Sign #1: Russia Sanctions Prove Dollar Reserves “Aren’t Really Money”
Warning Sign #2: Rubles, Gold, and Bitcoin for Gas, Oil, and Other Commodities
Warning Sign #3: The Petrodollar System Flirts With Collapse
Warning Sign #4: Out of Control Money Printing and Record Price Increases
Warning Sign #5: Fed Chair Admits Dollar Supremacy Is Dead
My friend flew in from Brazil and they pulled her over and checked all her jewelry. I think you had said they were doing that in Italy last year. This was New York at JFK. Cryptocurrency is not currency and selling oil in Bitcoin which is crashing makes no sense when it too is not backed by anything. These are the same old claims for the last 20 years that I can remember. Their solution is always – buy, buy, buy gold. My question is if they are now pulling you over for jewelry when you travel, gold has underperformed for 30 years compared to stocks and even the dollar. Will gold even survive in this crazy world?
Thank you for always being the voice of reason
WK
ANSWER: These ideas and claims are old and never change. For years they claimed the dollar was only the reserve currency because of oil, yet oil as a percent of the world economy was at best 5%. Then the claimed Bitcoin would replace the dollar as the reserve currency. That was just another scam and based on this same old theory of the Quantity of Money that dates back to Gresham’s Law. That theory is so dead it’s crazy, but it is like one of those Zombie movies that it keeps coming back to life.
Gresham advised Queen Elizabeth based on the debasement he saw in the coinage by her father Henry VIII. He was debasing his currency because Spain was doing that and he thought it was a way to create free money. The French did that during the 13th century by altering the silver to gold ratio which blew up the financial system in Italy and ended many banking houses. Those who base their entire theory on this period TOTALLY fail to grasp the context of the period.
There was NO Reserve Currency. All the currencies of various nations traded on the first currency exchange which was Amsterdam. They traded against each other ENTIRELY on the metal content. That is what determined the value of their currency.
Coming out of the Dark Ages, the first coin to actually attain a universal acceptable which was the first stage of a reserve currency was the gold florin of Florence, Italy. This was made possible by the rise of Italian banking and the Medici there in Florence. Other countries imitated the florin for it was accepted as the standard.
Imitations of the universally accepted currency took place with the Athenian Owls, the tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, and then the Roman silver Denarius and gold Aureus. The strongest economic power saw its currency become dominant in the world so others issued coins imitating them because a Roman gold aureus carried a premium over just a plain lump of gold. Egypt never even issued coins until they were conquered by Alexander the Great yet to facilitate trade, they issued imitation silver Athenian Owls, which were really the first established world currency.
However, I have warned that analysis has two approaches. First, you start with a theory and then cherry-pick the fact to support your theory as they are doing in Climate Change. There, they ignore all the data prior to 1850 and only attribute the warming since the last Little Ice Age to the Industrial Revolution.
They took a natural cycle oscillating back up which is when economic expansion always takes place historically, They then attributed that to fossil fuels and ignored the entire natural history of the earth. This has been used solely to justify creating their one-world government because no single nation can defeat global warming.
Here we have the front cover of Time Magazine predicting climate change back to an ice age. That was dated January 31, 1977 corresponding to the sharp spike down into a negative Arctic Oscillation in 1977. In the April 28, 1975 edition of Newsweek, they actually proposed solutions for climate change that included outlawing internal combustion engines.
This is when Al Gore came to the rescue. Just like the poles flip on the sun every 11 years, Al Gore flipped the argument from manmade cooling to manmade warming to save the end goal — eliminating all fossil fuels regardless of the evidence. Who needs science when you can just make up the studies and cherry-pick the facts to support whatever you want. They have done that very same exercise with this forecast centered on gold and how the dollar will collapse all because of fiat, which every currency has been from day one when Lydia first created coins and declare their value which was always in excess of the metal content.
Even the propaganda of the Petrodollar has been mind-blowing. Unbeknownst to these people who push that theory, they are clueless about the truth behind what really took place during the 1970s. In 1976, the US and Saudi Arabia colluded to force down oil prices, which inadvertently set in motion a financial crisis in Iran that destabilized that economy and undermined the Shah’s hold on power. These facts have surfaced from declassified documents of Brent Scowcroft who worked in both the Nixon and Ford White House Administrations. Their attempt to manipulate the price of oil downward created the Iranian Revolution. The religious faction used the decline in oil and the economic recession to overthrow the Shah. OOPS!
This strange theory that the dollar is supported by oil just does not hold up. Even when we just compare the highs and lows between the dollar and oil, it does not hold up. In 2008, the dollar bottomed against the Euro but oil peaked. The dollar bottomed in 2016 but crude bottomed in 2020. The high in the dollar in 1985 coincided with the 1986 low in crude. Like global warming, they focus on just one aspect and ignore the fact that the dollar has NEVER been canceled and that it has become the world reserve currency because of that fact, plus it is the dominant economy just as Rome, Athen, and Macedonia in their times.
Emerging markets before World War I issued debt in British pounds. After World War II and all the capital fled to America because tanks were rolling down the streets in Europe, Emerging markets issue their debt in dollars – no longer British pounds. These people focus only on gold, the quantity of money, and old dead theories of Petrodollars, and totally ignore the fact that the United States has the largest consumer-based economy in the world. That is how China, Japan, and Germany have all risen from the ashes without gold reserves. They were export-oriented economies selling products to Americans. None of these theories ever mattered and that is why you have heard the same story since 1971 and everyone who followed that forecast has lost a fortune in everything else.
The definition of Fiat Currency is highly prejudiced. Investopedia says:
“Fiat money is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it. The value of fiat money is derived from the relationship between supply and demand and the stability of the issuing government, rather than the worth of a commodity backing it. Most modern paper currencies are fiat currencies, including the U.S. dollar, the euro, and other major global currencies.”
“fiat money, in a broad sense, all kinds of money that are made legal tender by a government decree or fiat. The term is, however, usually reserved for legal-tender paper money or coins that have face values far exceeding their commodity values and are not redeemable in gold or silver.”
Before coins, even the Bible stated that in Genesis 23:16: “Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.” The very first this that took place was that there was an agreement on the standardization of weight.
Therefore, it was in Lydia that the king began to stamp his symbol on these standardized denominations. He effectively took over the creation of money. The value he set was over and above the previous raw value of the metal. Thus, this became fiat which coin collectors call “seignorage” the profit over and above the metal content.
When war broke out, Lydia was the first to debase the currency maintaining the value but reducing the weight. This idea that if the money is gold somehow makes the system honest, is nothing but propaganda.
Even under a gold standard, there were periods of inflation and deflation. Read the history of the California Gold Rush. During the 1849 Gold Rush in California, the journalist for the New York Tribune, Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), arrived in San Francisco by ship during the summer of 1849. He was shocked at what he encountered and did not think that anyone would even believe what he was going to write. His dispatches about the gold rush economy in California stunned many and helped to create the 1849 Gold Rush. The average wage for a laborer in New York was about one or two dollars a day. In California, individual hotel rooms were rented to professional gamblers for upwards of $10,000 a month, which is the equivalent of about $300,000 today. The degree of inflation in terms of gold was astounding and lacks comparison in modern times. There was so much gold, that the value of goods rose even though they did not in New York. The inflation phenomenon was local.
Gold became so common; they were even striking $50 gold coins in California when $20 was the highest denomination elsewhere and $1-dollar coins down to 25 cents all in gold. Eventually, there were $1 gold coins minted in the United States for general circulation throughout the USA. Indeed, Taylor wrote:
“[One] citizen of San Francisco died insolvent to the amount of forty-one thousand dollars the previous autumn. His administrators were delayed in settling his affairs and his real estate advanced so rapidly in value meantime that after his debts were paid, his heirs had a yearly income of $40,000 [$1.2 million today].
“These facts were indubitably attested; everyone believed them, yet hearing them talked of daily, as matters of course, one at first could not help feeling as if he had been eating ‘of the insane root.’”
As far as fiat is concerned, the true definition is when the value of a currency is declared by the government which is all money even if it is made of gold or silver. Here are two silver dollars issued in 1873. The domestic silver dollar standard was taking 70 cents worth of silver and calling it one dollar with a weight of 26.73 grams. Simultaneously, that was not recognized in Asia so they issue a Trade Dollar for external use with a weight of 27.22 grams. The value of the metal is solely based upon the decree of the government. By the 1890s, the United States had flooded the world with silver which resulted in the Panic of 1893. By then, the value of the silver was perhaps 60 cents they were calling a dollar.
These people often confuse FRAUD with the monetary system. Sweden is the oldest Central Bank. That is where the fraud all began. The first true banknotes for circulation appeared in Sweden, and these were actually used by the government to support its wars with Germany. In 1661, the government established a 30-year monopoly for its Stockholm Banco to issue these banknotes known as “letters of credit” that were to be payable in Swedish copper plate money that was extremely heavy weighing almost 15 kilos. It was not very practical for these huge plates to actually be used in circulation.
However, this practice of Fraud began whereby they abused the system. They began to issue more paper notes without the copper plates in the bank. That is entirely different from fiat currency. Here they said they were backed by the copper plates, but they needed more money so they issued notes fraudulently without the purported backing. That is NOT a fiat system – it is fraud.
This FRAUD was discovered and it led to the first banking panic in 1663 when there were more obligations than copper plates to redeem the notes. The bank was forced to close in 1664.
I have told the story before that it is so CRITICAL to understand the full context of history. William Penn took the term Philadelphos in ancient Greek which meant Brotherly Love. He interpreted that in a Christian sense that I love my brother. So he named his city Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love. Well to those of us who did study ancient cultures and languages, it was always one of the funny jokes. Brotherly Love meant you married your sister.
These people interpret gold as money and fiat and all the other nonsense with petrodollars etc, they have selected what they want to support a theory that they began with. Everything they have been telling people for decades has resulted in a lot of people losing a fortune and even some losing their homes.
They are not interested in actually looking at the truth. To them, it’s all fiat money, and only a return to a gold standard will stop inflation and create the perfect world following that same dangerous path as Kark Marx.
The system is far more complex and you CAN NOT reduce everything to a single cause and effect. That is what others are doing with CO2. It’s time to wake up and smell the roses. Garbage in = Garbage Out.
I have warned that the Russian Sanctions have begun the decline and fall of NOT the dollar – but the entire world economy. Once Biden used SWIFT to remove Russia, that was the end of globalization. It has NOTHING to do with the oil or anything else. The sanctions have severed Russia from the West’s Economy and put China on alert that they are coming for them as well. China setting up its alternative to SWIFT, is not directly trying to kill the dollar. It is recognizing that the world economy is under siege and what will evolve in the future in the collapse of all governments but the single greatest threat has been the Sanctions which have altered everything – not fiat currencies and gold.
World peace is created by everyone benefiting from a global economy. Destroying globalization leads nowhere but to war for that hand no longer feeds you so go ahead and bite it.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022 | Sundance
According to multiple media reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband of 59 years, Paul Pelosi, was arrested for driving under the influence last night. It’s the driving part that’s no ok. The need for Paul Pelosi to be under the influence of something numbing, is, well, somewhat understandable.
(VIA MSM) – Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, has been arrested after allegedly driving under the influence late Saturday night. Paul Pelosi was arrested in Napa County, California at 11:44 p.m. on Saturday night, and was charged with driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or higher as well as driving under the influence of alcohol.
The arrest was first reported by TMZ. He was booked into jail at 04:13 a.m. on Sunday, and released at 7:26 a.m. according to Napa County records. Those records indicate his bail was set at $5,000.
Paul Pelosi, 82, has been married to Nancy since 1963. A spokesperson for Rep. Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she would not be commenting on the “private” matter.
“The Speaker will not be commenting on this private matter which occurred while she was on the East Coast,” the spokesperson said. (link)
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022 | Sundance
Alabama Senator Mo Brooks appeared on Fox News Sunday for his trip through the media spin cycle set on “something must be done” mode.”
The interview gets more and more contentious as the conversation takes a turn toward election integrity, and Sandra Smith is bound by contractual obligation with the corporate instructions to dispatch any claims of 2020 election fraud. WATCH:
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We all know what lies at the end of the emotionally driven “something must be done” narrative. The most obvious example is the Patriot Act. We are reminded every time we are forced to take off our shoes, undergo a pat-down and complete the required full body scan to board an airplane. The lesser obvious data collection and electronic surveillance methods not withstanding….
TSA Agent avoiding jihad from a potential terror threat
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 29, 2022
The Uvalde school shooting is the lead on every Sunday news talk show. We know the corporate media apparatus is filled with “journalists” who narrate events from a false premise, but still, they need to be called out when the baseline for conversation is important.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson appears on CBS with dramatic narrative engineer, Margaret Brennan, to discuss the Ulvalde, Texas school shooting and the aftermath. In the very first sentence of her lead-in context, Brennan makes three remarkably false assertions to frame the basis of a manipulated interview. [Transcript Here]
Notice the lead, “There was an armed officer assigned to the elementary school in Uvalde [FALSE]. And then you had a police force response [FALSE], where they did not confront the shooter who was carrying an AR-15 [FALSE].” There was no armed officer present, there was no police force response, and the shooter was not carrying an AR-15. From there the dramatic acting of Margaret Breann begins.
Notice Brennan later shifts to “AR-15 styled” weapon after making the false initial claim. Then uses the term “semi-automatic”, as if that is some description of a more deadly firearm, rather than describing a singular bullet from each pull of the trigger. …”But then there’s this AR-15 style weapon, semi automatic not that good for hunting. The bullets travel three times the speed of sound, they literally blow bodies apart. […] Why not raise the minimum age of purchase to 21 from 18?”
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