Let’s keep the racket going

Friday, 1 October 2021 — Baltimore, Maryland

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Yes, Dear Reader, them versus us…left versus right…Democrat versus Republican — it’s all a fraud. It diverts the masses, while the elite pick their pockets and kick their butts.

Stagey…fake…full of sound and fury — the battle over the debt ceiling is just the most recent example.

It’s another ‘emergency’, says the elite press. Here, sounding the alarm…loud, clear, and phony…is The Hill:

‘A government default on credit is worse than the most terrifying disaster movies you’ve ever seen. It means the government won’t pay its debts when they’re owed. It means the total loss of trust and confidence in the United States by other governments and foreign financial markets.

‘In three words, it will be “a catastrophic blow.”’

Bossed around

War is politics. Politics is war. The only difference is that in war, people are killed. In politics, they are only robbed…and bossed around.

Both are dead ends. They produce no wealth (nothing that people really want, except the pleasure…for a few…of ripping others off).

There are only two ways to get what you want: either honestly…or dishonestly. You either make it…or you take it.

How do you take it? You can rob a liquor store. You can sell a fake crypto coin. Or you can go into politics.

We’ve seen how the COVID-19 virus has become a political issue. According to news reports, top officials from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have resigned because they feel they are being pressured to approve the booster shots and other things.

Apparently, ‘the science’ is not as sure and settled as we were told. And politics prevailed.

What credibility?

Then yesterday, the debt ceiling came front and centre, with almost everyone saying what a catastrophe it would be if the politicians can’t continue to spend more than they take in.

But slowing the engines of the Titanic wouldn’t have been such a bad idea. And cutting back the feds’ spending to the 2014 level (so current spending matches current tax receipts, as we suggested yesterday) wouldn’t be a disaster at all.

And here’s The Hill (member in good standing of the Ruling Elite) using the same idiotic, scary language for the debt ceiling as the feds use to sell their shooting wars: ‘Debt ceiling games endanger US fiscal credibility — again’.

Really?

How much fiscal credibility can a nation have when it spends US$3 trillion more than it can afford…on ‘investments’ that never pay off…and runs up US$29 trillion in national debt…and rigs interest rates to keep its debt costs low?

Keep the racket going

And what real harm would be done by admitting the truth — that it can’t pay its bills? It’s obvious it can neither tax enough…nor borrow enough (on the open market) to keep up with the bills.

It can only keep this racket going by printing more and more money. That is, by resorting to the shadiest kind of ‘politics’, cheating the public with inflation, rather than taxing them directly.

Which is precisely why the debt ceiling brouhaha is a fraud. Both Republicans and Democrats (all of them members in good standing of the Ruling Elite) share the same overriding desire — to keep the jig up.

And while they jump and dance for the media fiddlers, neither wants an honest budget. Neither wants honest money or honest interest rates…or an honest, win-win economy.

Instead, they are all committed to war and politics…to taking, rather than making.

Partial truce

CBS News reported last night that a partial truce had been negotiated:

‘Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday night that an agreement to keep the government funded and prevent a government shutdown has been reached.

‘The short-term government funding bill would keep federal agencies operating through December 3, but it does not address the looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling to avoid U.S. default.’

One way or another, the debt ceiling will be smashed…the reckless spending will go on…the Republicans and the Democrats will keep entertaining us with their mock battles…

…and the decline of the US empire will continue.

More to come…

Regards,

Bill Bonner,
For The Rum Rebellion

You have to hand it to the United Nations.

They use words in such a way as to make the objectionable seem acceptable or even positive.

That is actually a common characteristic of the left. Think ‘safe schools’, the red Marxists known as ‘Greens’, and the fascists who call themselves anti-fascists.

Now there’s a new agenda hiding under an innocuous banner.

It’s known as Strong Cities Network (SCN) and according to their website the SCN was:

‘...launched in 2015 at the UN General Assembly to mount a city-led response against hate, polarisation and extremism in all its forms.’

They claim to be driven by a number of fundamental principles:

It all sounds so fabulous. The UN will help stamp out violence, racism, and extremism in cities across the board.

The only problem is they only seem to do so by associating violent extremism with particular nationalities and ethnic groups.

Oddly, this association isn’t the one that most regular people think of.

You see, SCN seems to be almost exclusively focused on excusing the violent criminals in our cities and blaming their actions on ‘ethnocentric ideas that fail to reflect the ethnically diverse reality.’

The website seems to have a very large focus on the events of 9/11 and the global reaction as a cause of societal problems. No blame is found on the terrorists who launched the heinous attack or the ideology they (and many others) use to justify it.

The SCN even have a rehabilitation plan for the brides if ISIS while blaming the United States for forcing them to run away to join a bunch of butchers as their chattel.

In places like Nigeria, the SCN see Islamic group Boko Haram as a product of a lack of job and educational opportunities rather than the hate-filled book that serves as their informative texts.

It’s worth noting that Boko Haram don’t support women’s education and only want men’s knowledge to extend as far as the Quran.

But in the eyes of the UN, it’s all someone else’s fault.

This garbage is being promulgated all around the world...including here in Australia.

Unsurprisingly, the only Australian government to sign up to this tosh is the state of Victoria, which is listed as a founding member. The SCN says they:

‘Supported the State Government of Victoria (Australia) to identify, analyse and map online anti-Muslim narratives.’

No mention is made of the terror attacks carried out by Islamic extremists, nor of the gangs that caused mayhem in the state leading to Greg Hunt saying ‘African gang crime in some areas in particular is clearly out of control.’

This ‘whitewashing’ of extremism and violence is all too common among agencies of the UN and their allies in the media and government.

It’s the same in groups like BLM and others.

They all want to paint a picture that the majority population is the cause of whatever problem they identify as needing to be fixed.

The facts don’t matter when pushing a narrative that is so easily swallowed by the indoctrinated, the ignorant, and those behind the restructure of civilisation as we know it.

Best,

Cory Bernardi,
For The Rum Rebellion

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