Baizuo Found Dead After Fact Checking Meme

We are reaching levels of reputational collapse that shouldn't be possible. An obviously fake story was fact-checked because in 2022, the average voter might believe a story about the Washington Post calling for the cancellation of elections to save democracy. This hits on so many levels. The public assumes the media are the authoritarians? Possibility that the media itself is so stupid that it is fact-checking jokes? It's own sideso malinformed by mainstream media that it requires these fact checks? However you spin it, the implication is a reputational fatality for media.

It's Not a Recession. It's a Depression.

The ruling class is out in force with redefining a recession. Here's why it's a waste of time.

AP: EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?

By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn’t the one that counts.

The U.S. isn't on the cusp of recession. By the common definition of negative growth in two consecutive quarters, a recession is already six months-old if BEA reports a negative number on Thursday.

As for definitions, they can be flexible. I don't think a bear market is a 20 percent drop in stocks. Every correction from 2009 to 2021 was a correction, not a bear market, even though stocks fell 20 percent or more at times. What's the quibble with the recession definition?

But economists say that wouldn’t mean that a recession had started. During those same six months when the economy might have contracted, businesses and other employers added a prodigious 2.7 million jobs — more than were gained in most entire years before the pandemic. Wages are also rising at a healthy pace, with many employers still struggling to attract and retain enough workers.

(long string of expletives)

Excuse me FRED, can you drop some tactical nukes for me?

FRED: Sure thing boss!

Great, let's start with rising wages. Adjust those for inflation would ya Freddie?

FRED: Incoming!

Real wages are plummeting. Seems consistent with ye olde recession.

The job market’s strength is a key reason why the Federal Reserve is expected to announce another hefty hike in its short-term interest rate on Wednesday, one day before the GDP report. Several Fed officials have cited the healthy job growth as evidence that the economy should be able to withstand higher rates and avoid a downturn. Many economists, though, are dubious of that assertion.

Shall we drop another tactical nuke on their critical meme infrastructure?

At best, labor is a coincident to lagging indicator. If the recession is already six months old and labor didn't start turning down until April, there could be a lot more pain ahead. As in, this recession isn't going to be some dip in activity, but something that at minimum will be a three to four quarter protracted contraction. Looking back, I see they revised GDP to make the 2008 recession much longer than originally recorded. It had been a mild contraction, barely scoring as a recession. I have contended for months that even if not a recession now, the BEA would eventually revise this year into a recession.

The Fed is also trying to combat raging inflation, which reached a 9.1% annual rate in June, the worst mark in nearly 41 years. Rapid price increases, particularly for such essentials as food, gas and rent, have eroded Americans’ incomes and led to much gloomier views of the economy among consumers.

Inflation creates a price illusion. Only looking at wages, revenues or GDP makes one think there's growth. The number is going up. Adjusting for inflation reveals the more activity you engage in, the more money you lose because it's happening with devalued currency. .

Look at the imploding retail stocks as an example. Retailers bought goods expecting to sell them amid high demand, but demand was fake. It was inflation. Supply chains helped disrupt the timing, but also the economy rapidly shifted as inflation came out of the economy. They should have never ordered the inventory. 

Nobody knows how deep this incoming economic malaise could get because it is still wholly distorted by a CPI still running at above 8 percent over the past 12 months. The CPI is rapidly decelerating though. The Cleveland Fed's Nowcast for July is down to 3.3 percent annualized. I don't annualize to forecast, but merely to show how fast the monthly CPI numbers can collapse. If highly efficient companies such as Wal-Mart report department "growth" that could be more than 100 percent price gains (I don't know that this is true, I've only see reported sales figures for various firms that are below the CPI), it indicates the collapse of inflation could reveal widespread economic losses. Wal-Mart is probably a winner in this environment too, keep that in mind.

It did in the first three months of the year, when GDP contracted 1.6% at an annual rate. Economists have forecast that on Thursday, the government will estimate that the economy managed to grow at an annual rate of just below 1% in the April-June quarter, according to data provider FactSet. If accurate, that forecast would indicate that the economy isn’t technically in recession by any definition.

Even if growth does go negative for a second straight quarter, Fed officials and Biden administration economists point to a lesser-known measure called “gross domestic income.”

GDP calculates the value of the nation’s output of goods and services by adding up spending by consumers, businesses and governments. By contrast, GDI, as the name implies, seeks to measure the same thing by assessing incomes.

Over time, the two measures should track each other. But they often diverge in the short run. In the first quarter, GDI grew 1.8% — much better than the 1.6% decline in GDP.

As part of its judgment of whether an economy is in recession, the NBER considers an average of the two measures. In the first quarter, the average was 0.2%, suggesting that the economy expanded slightly.

This isn't an argument devoid of logic. There have been near-miss recessions in the past. The flaw here is inflation. It assumes these numbers are accurate and won't be revised in the future. Given the high rate of inflation, I'm highly confident future revisions will be negative.

Consider these charts and comments from Jeff Snider:

Inverted curves aren't about what just happened. They've already discounted the (likely) 2 qtrs of negative GDP. IOW, the "technical recession" is already in there.

The deep inversion is about what's still coming. And if what already did is half a year of lower output... pic.twitter.com/QGl8KNiezI

— Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_AIP) July 26, 2022

The market can't be discounting something like dot-com recession, because that scenario would mean we've already had the recession (Q1/Q2 '22). Can't be something like H1 '08, either. Inversion *has* to be something like 81-82 or 2d part of 08-09.https://t.co/EH7guxTKpo pic.twitter.com/iwE3bxruVq

— Jeffrey P. Snider (@JeffSnider_AIP) July 26, 2022

In two weeks, the spread between the 30-year and 3-month treasuries has been cut in half. The 3-month is only pricing in a 50 bps hike too. If the Fed goes ahead with 75 bps, my hunch is the curve could invert tomorrow or quickly after the initial chaotic frenzy in markets.

Arguing over the definition of recession is missing the forest for the trees. Something wicked this way comes.

Why So Much Talk of Nazis?

This is an amazing article if you have the objectivity to realize we can apply the same analysis to Western media.

Geopolitical Monitor:The ‘Goebbels Method’: RIA Novosti as Window into Russian Propaganda

“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”; that is one of the methods of Russian propaganda, called, ironically, the Goebbels method. “Ukrainians are all Nazis and Russians are there to save them”; that is a fact repeated in different shapes and forms across RIA Novosti’s comments. Russian propaganda works.

RIA Novosti uses Nazi-derived words less and less, which is indicative of them shifting to new narratives. Those narratives are nevertheless complementary to the core message — Ukrainians are Nazis — but they are also neo-Nazis, and satanists. So, Russian propaganda also lives, it changes, creates comfortable stories, adapts itself to new contexts.

In our digital age, when information and disinformation are accumulating every second to be preserved in all of their triteness, the human brain relies even more on mental shortcuts when processing news. It goes to such an extent that if the political agenda of pro-Russian media changes, everything changes: in a fraction of a second, Putin can become an enemy of the people, the West the best ally, and so on.

Russian media ramped up mentions of Ukranian Nazis. There are some legit Nazis there, but it's overdone for propaganda. Now let's see what the Western media has been up to the past few years. Ah yes, off the charts propaganda that would make the Russians blush.

Portfolio & Biotech Update, Fake CPI Boosts Squeeze Odds

If symmetry holds, XBI takes a run towards $87 tomorrow. I have a little left on the position, as my calls were for July 15.

My main holdings now are long TLT and SMH, short oil. The XLC trade goes on, but it is far OTM and not a significant amount of capital. Notice the correlation of QQQ and TLT, or below SMH and TLT. The seeds are there for a rally and if the relationship between TLT and SMH holds up, and TLT hits my target of around $120, OTM calls on SMH are dirt cheap. That's a lot of pieces and SMH can plummet with the whole market even as TLT rallies, but if I'm right...

The market plunged into the close. The peso has a clean breakdown and it is positively correlated with VIX:

A crash window is open. However, the rallies have been sold into the close on most days. Going back to what I've been saying the past couple of weeks, a big rally could be building because nobody believes a large rally is possible, not bears, not bulls. I also suspect there is frontrunning of what everyone knows will be a very bad CPI report. Witness crude and copper today as evidence.

There also was a fake CPI number going around. I don't know if that impacted the sell-off or not late in the day. CNBC was reporting on it, so maybe. If yes, my expectation of a squeeze tomorrow goes up. The number was obviously fake because a quick calculation showed it would take a 2.44 percent month-on-month increase, which ain't happening. How stupid is CNBC? The Cleveland Fed Nowcast rounds to 1 percent mom and 8.7 percent yoy. The market is very jittery and could go in either direction, but my gut says the market goes up. And if not, I have USO and TLT for a reason.

MSN Deletes Covid-Vaxx Story

Napo: MSN Quietly Deleted a Story Revealing That Severe COVID-19 is Rarely Found in the Unvaccinated

A research paper found that people who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine had a lower rate of suffering a severe case of the virus amidst the pandemic.

The article, which has been uploaded to the preprint server ResearchGate, relied on data from over 18,500 respondents across 175 countries. Analysis revealed that individuals unvaccinated against COVID-19 reported fewer instances of hospitalization in comparison to their vaccinated counterparts.

MSN – a news website launched by vaccine enthusiast Bill Gates’s Microsoft in 1995 – covered the study, titling its article “Severe COVID-19 ‘Rare’ In Unvaccinated People,” but appears to have taken down the story since its publication. Archived versions of the article are still available, however.

No surprise. Unvaccinated tend to be younger, healthier and according to this self-reported study:

They used natural products like vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, quercetin, and drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

It's an important story only because the media, doctors, governments and pharmaceutical companies lied about it and falsely hyped the danger. It matters because corporations and govermnents forced their employees and citizens to be vaccinated regardless of risk.

The Great Replacement

IM-1776: IRREPLACEABLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH RENAUD CAMUS

Benjamin Braddock: Which do you think is the greater threat to Western European countries: the masses of immigrants themselves, the political and economic interests that encourage them to come in, or the apathy of a society that gives in to a hyperbolic egalitarianism that swallows them whole?

Renaud Camus: This is a most excellent question, to which I find it impossible to answer, except by saying that the three threats you very adequately circumscribed are not only equals, but each the conditions and the result of the other two. When Christians were in the Roman arenas, it was of little use, for the rare disapproving witnesses, to incriminate the lions and their butchery behavior. Great Replacement, as I have said a hundred times, would not be possible without what I have called “Little Replacement”, Le Petit Remplacement (it is the title of a fat collection of six essays): the substitution of cultural industries to culture, of entertainment to the Corpus, of popular and mass culture to high culture, which amounts more or less to the disparition of culture just as Great Replacement amounts to the disappearance of indigenous peoples, cultures, and civilizations. Hebetude is the condition of the successful and peaceful process of genocide by substitution. A specific feature of the present colonization of Europe is its triangular structure, very similar to the triangular structure of the old Transatlantic slavery: the people who accomplish it are not the forces or the mechanisms which most want and promote it. In global replacement there are the replacists, who want and organise the replacement, the replacers, who accomplish it, and the replacees, who are its victims. The masses of immigrants are obviously the most pressing threat (they are more than a threat, since they are already in place, and more often than not citizens). We can resist some of their specific actions, but to castigate them on principles would be just as absurd as to castigate the lions in the circus. And to castigate the machines, the mechanisms of global replacism and the Machination, it would be essential not to be machines ourselves, or computers. But it is indeed global replacism, or davocracy, which is the archenemy.

PayPal Expands Social Credit System to Anti-War Voices

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2022: USG Deplatforming at Home and Abroad, Building New Al-Qaeda for Domestic War on Dissent

2019: Digital Tyranny in the West. That has several links to other posts.

2018: Universal Basic Income is the Bribe For You To Accept Totalitarian Control

2018: Framework for Social Credit System Already Exists in USA

Even though there's no system yet in the West, there's already the framework for it in place. In the wake of the Charlottesville protests last summer, many technology companies shut off right-wing websites including PayPal and domain registration companies. Some of those cut off were involved in the protests or had direct ties, others were vaguely connected and some had nothing to do with them at all.

A few days ago, Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, a frequent contributor to MercatorNet, learned that credit card donations to her organisation, the Ruth Institute, had been cut off. Vanco Payment Solutions – “unlock the power of generosity” -- sent her a curt note saying that it was a hate group.

The “hate group” label had been pasted on the Ruth Institute by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), probably because it has opposed same-sex marriage. But the job of the Ruth Institute is healing the effects of family breakdown, not denigrating homosexuals. This appears to be another sign of LGBT corporate tyranny: if you don’t agree with us, get lost.

This is how it got going. They labeled right-wingers Nazis, bigots, haters and so on. Divide and conquer. Now they have the infrastructure up and they're systematically eliminating dissent oj all sides.

2018: The Information War: Political Conflict Evolves Through Technological Change

The changes taking place in politics and that feeling of accelerating madness isn't going away, it's coming to corporate board rooms and government agencies because it's driven not by politics, but technology. I have predicted on this blog that fringe parties such as Sweden Democrats or AfD will eventually win outright majorities (assuming no one goes into coalition with them or co-opts their issues). That would represent a political revolution in those countries. That change will still pale in comparison to the change in how politics, business, government, media and education are conducted by everyone.

The moment of "open" warfare, when everything blows up and might even go kinetic (if the ruling class is that evil), is when the populist right and left finally find enough issues to unite on. Then the old power structure will crumble. We are gettingcloser to this momentu all the time. GOPe like Liz Cheney appear full-on "Blue" and some Democrats like Tulsi are full-on "Red." Of course, if we look at Cheney and Tulsi's positions, they'd be classified as Red and Blue respectively, but on the issues that matter, that animate the voters today, the are on "the other side." Something like Roe being overturned and going back to the states will also shake things up because the left is more of a coalition of interests than the right. As social issues are in descent and military and economic issues ascendant, the populist right and left are in far more agreement about the direction of policy. Once they find some agreeable details, the 4th Turning will enter its final crisis phase.

Update: Matt Taibbi has more details on PayPal's attack on independent journalism. PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout

Unlike many on the list, Consortium editor Joe Lauria succeeded in reaching a human being at the company in search of details about the frozen or “held” funds referenced in the note. The PayPal rep told him that if the company decided “there was a violation” after a half-year review period, then “it is possible” PayPal would keep the $9,348.14 remaining in Consortium’s account, as “damages.”

“A secretive process in which they could award themselves damages, not by a judge or a jury,” Lauria says. “Totally in secret.”

Consortium, founded by the late investigative reporter Robert Parry, has been critical of NATO and the Pentagon and a consistent source of skeptical reporting about Russiagate, as well as one of just a few outlets to regularly cover the Julian Assange case with any sympathy for the accused. Ironically, one of the site’s primary themes involves exploring disinformation emanating from the intelligence community. The site has had content disrupted by platforms like Facebook before, but now its pockets are being picked in addition.

This episode ups the ante again on the content moderation movement, toward the world hinted at in the response to the Canadian trucker protests, where having the wrong opinions can result in your money being frozen or seized.

Many people remark on this as if it is something normal, and historically it is...but not in America. This is something that no one on the left or the right would have agreed with 20 years ago. What happened in the past 20 years to turn America's ruling class into what appear to be, total foreigners with no understand of American culture? How does a country's ruling class become this out of touch in a single generation?

Federal Reserve and USG Sabotaged Food Supplies

There have been 17 food plant fires and incidents (this older article notes 16 of them), including one being hit by a plane.

Media can create any narrative by focusing the news on a target. 24/7 media coverage of Columbine and other mass shootings (mainly by whites to push a racism agenda), making a white cop killing a black suspect national news (to push a racism agenda), wall-to-wall coverage of missing children creates fear of kidnapping.

Unsuprisingly, when the narrative is against them, Snopes actually does some research! Wow just wow, they checked some facts.

Snopes: Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a ‘New Trend’?

Industrial accidents are all reported and they have a list from 2019:

Here are a few of the news stories we found about fires, explosions, and other accidents that occurred at food manufacturing businesses in 2019.

1. Conveyor Belt Fire Evacuates Snack Production Plant in Iowa
2. Three Workers Injured in Explosion and Fire at Soybean Oil Facility
3. Cocoa Dust Fuels Fire at Conagra Cake Mix Plant
4. ADM explosion kills Clinton firefighter
5. Hamlet chicken processing plant fire
6. Fire Damages Wisconsin Potato Chip Production Plant
7. Beef Plant Cited After Employee Suffers Severe Burns
8. Videos: Chicago 5-11 Food Factory Fire
9. Fire Causes $2,000 in Damage at Washington Fruit Processing Facility
10. Fire Forces Evacuation of Food Factory in Nova Scotia
11. UPDATE: Batesville Meat Processing Business Destroyed By Fire
12. Massive fire destroys Newly Weds Foods factory on Chicago’s Northwest Side
13. Montezuma Fire Chief: Machine malfunction may have caused plant fire
14. After destructive fire, baby-food company rebuilds business and switches to plastic packaging
15. Northern Peninsula fish plant wiped out, but company has jobs, relocation money ready for workers
16. Investigators probe cause of large fire at Sacramento Blue Diamond factory
17. Chickens lost in Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch fire
18. Over 3,800 workers at Tyson Foods beef plant in Kansas out of work after fire
19. Shreveport firefighters fight a commercial fire at Buckelew’s Food Service Equipment
20. Firefighters battle blaze at F&S Produce plant in New Jersey
21. Two Employees Injured In Explosion At Kansas Meat Packing Facility
22. Ammonia leak causes evacuation of food processing plant
23. More than a dozen people evaluated after hazmat situation in Fort Worth
24. Fire destroys Michigan’s largest deer processing facility ahead of hunting season
25. Machinery Fire at Wisconsin Cheese Plant
26. Fire destroys Cal-Maine Foods hen house

The claim of a new “trend” is just simply incorrect.

When you realize the U.S. has more than 36,000 food and beverage processing establishments in operation (according to a report from the USDA in 2019), you see that the 26 news articles listed above refer to less than 1% of these facilities. Furthermore, when you recognize that operations at the majority of these facilities were only temporarily suspended, and that many of these stories refer to smaller facilities, you can see that this “threat” is far less than the threat some social media users assert.

We reached out to the North American Meat Institute, the National Pork Producers Council, and the National Chicken Council (three organizations that represent food production facilities) for more information about this rumor. While we have yet to hear back from NAMI or NPPC, Tom Super, the Senior Vice President of Communications with NCC, told us that these rumors did not document an “alarming trend.” Super said:

I can only speak for chicken, but like any manufacturing plant, there are generally a few fires that occur each year across the country. Most of them are contained rather quickly. And certainly not enough to affect the chicken supply. There are about 200 federally inspected chicken slaughtering plants in the US and thousands more that further process chicken. I would not categorize this as an “alarming trend.”

I do not see evidence of sabotage yet. Instead, the main threat to the food supply is inflation. By disrupting price signals in the economy, supply chains have been damaged. Adding to that are U.S. sanctions on Russia blocking fertilizer supplies and materials, and driving up natural gas prices, an input for some fertilizers. China's counter-sanctions via "coronavirus lockdowns" are adding to the mix.

If Snopes would do this type of research on crime statistics as one example, they would be able to report that systemic racism is false. Do the same type of research on climate "science" and they would report climate alarmism is false. The media tried pushing the "anti-Asian violence caused by white supreamcy" narrative but stopped when most of the videos showed black suspects.

I will try posting this information on right-wing areas to see if I get pushback. I expect some will tell me that Snopes is a bad source, even though all the Snopes article links to industrial accident data.

The media can create a false narrative in any direction by focusing attention on it. This ties back into their panic over censorship. They know what they're doing and they know that anyone, be it Trump or some anonymous Twitter account, can create viral narratives too. That the playing field is leveled by the Internet. For the liars, their greatest fear is the Truth because that is the most difficult narrative to combat. For those of us who want to defeat the liars, we must defend and spread truth. I do not yet see any evidence that food plant incidents are out of the ordinary. The main cause of any disruptions in inflation, with political supply-chain disruptions a secondary cause.

Is American Culture Dead? Dirty Harry at 50

As a student of cycles and social mood, I have often wondered about the coming cultural wave. Dirty Harry was a movie produced in an American society that had its first taste of liberalism taken to its extremes and the resulting chaos. There was soaring crime, riots, drug use and general decay starting in the 1960s. The early 1970s produced a reaction with Dirty Harry, then Death Wish. By the early 1980s, the action hero's were on the scene. Three-strikes-you're-out laws and mass incarceration were the response to lawless violence.

This violence and chaos of this era is worse than the 1970s, but perhaps less shocking because the population has been desensitized to how bad things are compared to before. About a third of the population are immigrants or descended from immigrants who never knew that America was once a far better place to live. They have little connection to a past that the ruling class intentionally hid from them. A backlash is already taking shape, we can see the political outlines hinting at massive shifts in voting, but the cultural response that would have led the politics in a prior era is suppressed by censorship.

The ruling class' grip is tighter than at anytime in American history, yet this may prove to be their undoing because when the change comes it will not be gradual. Elites can adapt to slowly changing society, but when it snaps, the ruling class finds itself so far out of touch as to have become the villian of the story. Consider how DAs in California and other states are letting murderers go free. People arrested with AR-15s (supposedly dangerous assault weapons these politicians want banned) and drugs, involved in robberies and murders, are let go without charges by these DAs. Here is only the latest example I've seen, these are a dime a dozen if you go looking through local news: DC police arrest then RELEASE seven men accused of stealing puppy at GUNPOINT, and who are also suspected of taking French bulldog 17 minutes later, despite finding them in gun and drug-filled apartment

In the 1970s, the courts went soft on crime. Sentences were shortened. Clearly guilty criminals let go on newly created technicalities. Yet for the most part, guilty criminals swere arrested, went to trial, and faced sentencing. Now, the government lets them go free. The government, the ruling class, is one the side of the criminals. Who might a 2020s "Dirty Harry" target? The movies that will be made, cannot be made in this environment, but once that movie is made, it will be over for the ruling class. There's censorship and thought control because the ruling class understands how tenuous its grip on power is becoming.

Law & Liberty: Dirty Harry's Justice

Even in our unhappy times, Dirty Harry stands out, because its protagonist is everything our elites hate: A proud white male authority figure who enforces the law without concern for what we would now call the “optics.” This is not a man who hesitates to kill or suffers a bad conscience over doing what is necessary to protect the innocent. The film would be impossible to make today, since it is so blind to the cries of systemic racism and toxic masculinity that so dominate woke criticism.

Predictably, art has decayed alongside public debate. Dirty Harry was prescient in warning about a future without freedom. Indeed, our elites gradually narrowed the circle of ideas that can be debated and policies people can vote for. They threw out the notion that the rights of ordinary Americans matter, so that authorities no longer feel duty-bound to protect persons and property from destruction.

Gonzalo Lira Detained by USB

Looks like the attention on social media forced the situation.

RT: Fate of American Zelensky critic who went missing in Ukraine revealed

Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira, who went missing in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov a week ago, has appeared online on Friday, revealing that he had been held by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).

“I’m in Kharkov. I’m OK. I just want to say that I’m back online.” Lira said in short video chat with journalist Alex Christoforou on The Duran channel on YouTube.

“I was picked up by the SBU on Friday, April 15,” the blogger revealed.

Blood on Baizuo Hands? Where is American Journalist Gonzalo Lira?

Yesterday I posted: Ukranian Forces Capture Journalist. The Nazi (I do not use this word as a pejorative, they are quite literally Nazis) captured independent journalist Gonzalo Lira. Now there are unconfirmed reports/rumors of his murder.

Scott Ritter:

When Belorussian authorities pulled Roman Protasevich, a blogger who had served a combat tour in the neo-Nazi Azov battalion before working for Radio Free Europe’s Belarus channel out of Prague, off an airplane in May, 2021, on charges of inciting a political opposition (roughly the equivalent of sedition), the world went crazy, accusing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of trampling on free speech. Protasevich is alive and well, living under house arrest while awaiting trial.

When reports emerged that Gonzo Lira, a Chilean social media “influencer” who resided in Kharkov, Ukraine, and who published online content critical of the Ukrainian government, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Kraken Unit, part of the Azov battalion affiliated with the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), the West is silent.

Free speech isn’t a one way street. To remain silent in the murder of Gonzo Lira is to be complicit in his death, and the deaths of all journalists who pursue the truth, even if it runs counter to the mainstream narrative. Critical thinking should not be a death sentence. Unfortunately for Gonzo Lira, it seems it was.

He later posted:

A point of clarification—I have no direct evidence that Gonzalo has been killed. I was clear I was referring to “reports emerging” about his demise. But Gonzo said any disappearance of more than 12 hours should be treated as if something bad had happened to him. It’s been five days. If this had been a New York Times reporter disappearing in Russian controlled territory, it would be headline news—especially if a Chechen “hunter killer” team had taken credit for his death. But with Gonzo—silence. Which was the whole purpose of the post: to raise awareness about his disappearance.

This is what The Daily Beast wrote about Lira: How a Sleazy American Dating Coach Became a Pro-Putin Shill in Ukraine. We know who that media outlet serves, it's right in their name. We also know who Zelensky, the Baizuo ruling class in the West and the Azov battalion serve. 

I do not know that Putin serves the same master, at least there is no clear evidence yet. Stalin was considered a good guy in WWII, but new evidence shows he might have initiated the war with Germany. He was the aggressor seeking westward expansion, who manipulated Hitler into initiating conflict. Maybe Putin is playing a similarly deep game against the West. It's possible because the Baizuo were so openly anti-Russia and instigating troubles in Ukraine that they make the perfect patsies. As with Hitler and WWII, maybe there are no good guys on either side, with the only innocents being the civilians caught in the crossfire. 

At this point it doesn't matter though. An American journalist is missing. Where is he? What are Western governments doing to find him?

Ukranian Forces Capture Journalist

Zelensky banned the opposition parties, arrested opposition political leaders and now the Azov battalion has arrested a journalist. Who are the bad guys in this war?

BREAKING 🚨 @CNNChile confirms @ChileMFA is investigating the illegal capture of civilian #GonzaloLira by Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov forces in Kharkov, Ukraine. https://t.co/712NVYRHHG pic.twitter.com/qr1EUgSsz2

— Anabel V. (@Anabel_Villeroy) April 18, 2022

Waking Up From the Racism Psyop

WashFreeBeacon: Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White

Frank James, the man arrested for Tuesday's New York City subway shooting, is a black nationalist and outspoken racist who railed against whites, Jews, and Hispanics. A careful reader of the New York Times could be forgiven for overlooking that. In a nearly 2,000-word article on the attack, James's race is not mentioned. The same is true for the coverage offered up by Reuters; the Washington Post only mentioned James's race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for "low-income Black youths."

There is video of James saying that whites and blacks should not even live in the same hemispehre. This isn't some one off example. If you believe that racism is a problem in America, you have been pysopped. The data from the Free Beacon shows what any red-pilled media consumer already knows. White shooters have their race mentioned up front. The media hypes the story endlessly. They tie the shooting to broader political movements such as Trump voters, right-wingers. When the opposite occurs, the media quickly drops the story. Notice the subway shooter story is already quickly fading?

I didn't think it was possible, but the media became even more racist after the Floyd incident:

American media outlets such as the NYTimes are arguably responsible for the subway shooting because they are the ones creating this myth of racism in the country, which appears as a motivation for the shooting. If you follow the logic used when it's a white shooter, we should be taking the NYTimes and all major media outlets apart with FBI investigations, DOJ lawsuits, deplatforming from banks, social media, banning NYTimes employees from using Airbnb and so on and so forth. A funny thing will happen: race relations in America will greatly improve.

Takeover Strategy: Lift an Account Ban in Exchange for 1 Share of Twitter

What if Elon offered users an restoration of their account in exchange for 1 share of Twitter? The owner can hold the share, but must transfer proxy rights to Elon so that he has the shares for any shareholder votes. How many shares might Elon control in that scenario?

US Military is a Joke

The Saker: Sitrep: Operation Z

As for NATO and the U.S., many people don’t seem to know that the U.S. is really not as trained or powerful as they’d like you to believe. I’ve previously highlighted how in the past month alone the U.S. has almost suffered more aircraft losses than Russia, and U.S. is not even in a war. Multiple F-22, F-35, F-18s, Awacs, and Ospreys all lost in the last month. Another good example is, the U.S. has held tank competitions in Europe for the past decade called the Strong Europe Tank Challenge

The American public is sleepwalking to disaster with an incompetent ruling class in charge. It's like in the children's novel, A Wrinkle In Time. In one scene, the evil force feeds the children something like sawdust, but makes them believe it is whatever they like to eat. The role of the the media is to convince the sawdust fed to the American people is chococate cake.

Why Doesn't Hollywood Release China Edits in the USA?

News.au: Harry Potter movie The Secrets of Dumbledore censors gay references in China

Warner Bros has bowed to Chinese censors and edited out specific references to a gay relationship in the latest Harry Potter movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.

The Chinese version of the movie removed six seconds from the cut, including two lines of dialogue that referenced a previous romantic relationship between two lead characters, Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald, portrayed in the film by Jude Law and Mads Mikkelsen.

The lines in question were, “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love”. The rest of the film remained intact and it’s understood there is still a close relationship between the characters.

A CCP stamp of approval on a film or television program would be great information for parents who don't want their children groomed for statuatory rape and sodomy.

USG Has Abdicated Sovereignty Over the United States

All claims of sovereignty rest on a narrative claim. Kings by blood, democracies by the will of the people (hence why USG is at war with the people and the idea of democracy itself, rebranding it as whatever the ruling class wants). One of the claims for Taiwan independence involves the Qing emperor refusing to deal with pirates around Taiwan. If you do not protect territory under your control, it ipso facto becomes independent or up for grabs for whoever does pacify or occupy it. Another (since I'm on the topic), is that the Japanese surrended Taiwan to the U.S. army and the U.S. has never formally relinquished military control over the island. The U.S. makes no claim on Taiwan so this one doesn't have any teeth, but a truly imperialist American president could theoretically stake a claim on Taiwan.

In the United States, USG has all but formally relinquished control over the Southern border. Border states, led by Texas, are now in control of the border. The behavior of USG reflects that of the declining Qing empire. USG cannot or will not defend territory over which it has sovereignty. It will not defend the people from whom it makes its claim of legitimacy.

Recall how Donald Trump caused USG and the ruling class to lose its mind. First they had a psychological breakdown. They genuinely went nuts almost immediately. Then they initiated psychological warfare on the American public. They invented the Russiagate lie which carried into two impeachments and the January 6 false flag, labeled their political opponents as domestic terrorists. Why? Their control is tenuous at best. It rests on psychological control over the American public. The fact that many people entertain ideas like abolishing student debt (why only student debt and not medical debt, consumer debt...?) or think systemic racism is real, that climate change is a legitimate threat, that transgenderism isn't mostly a mental illness and giving children hormone blockers is so evil that it ranks aside the crimes of genocidal regimes, that  people accept the schools, media and government talking about white people the way Nazis talked about Jews, are signs they are controlled by the media. Nearly everything they talk about it total bullshit. If we were under a corrupt theological government, the blue checks on Twitter would be in a moral panic over the declining number of angels on pinheads.

The country is run so poorly at this point, with USG either in open warfare against the middle class or engaged in anarcho-tyranny where it lets criminals run free (yesterday's NYC subway shooter was on the FBI terror watchlist), that anyone who stops hurting the people will be a wildly popular President.

The ruling class is engaged in totalitarian thought control because it is illegitimate. As fast as Trump went from a joke to POTUS, about 18 months, so could the entire ruling class collapse if someone steps up and starts seizing power. If someone steps up and begins acting in the interest of the people instead of the interests of foreign invaders and the parasitical ruling class.

Fox: First Texas bus drops off migrants blocks from US Capitol in Washington, DC

A bus from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. Wednesday morning, transporting dozens of illegal immigrants as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new plan to counter federal immigration policies during an ongoing border crisis.

Abbott announced last week that he was directing the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to transport migrants released from federal custody in Texas to the nation’s capital and other locations outside his state.

...According to TDEM, Abbott’s plan is already working. The agency told Fox News on Monday that many of the communities that originally reached out for support – from the Rio Grande Valley to Terrell County – say the federal government stopped dropping immigrants in their towns since Abbott's announcement on April 6.

The United States is beyond democracy now. It has entered a volatile, chaotic stage of Machiavellian power politics. Something new will emerge or someone/movement will emerge and restore order. Anyone, from anywhere, could emerge as this new power center. It could be a single man if the U.S. drifts into authoritarianism. It could be states that work together, individually or eventually in concert. Debates in the House and Senate, executive orders by POTUS, even decisions by SCOTUS can all be ignored by someone acting in the interests of the people. The Mandate of Heaven is up for grabs. In these times, the worst things for a patriot are a lack of imagination and a lack of ambition.

The Media Read Nothing, Retweeting Everything

This is a good article that helps explain the contempt many people on left and right have for the media.

Chris Bray: Chris Bray is Stupid and Evil

I will never forget the experience of evaluating evidence, reading hundreds or thousands of pages of court records, flying across the country to watch judicial proceedings, digging through historical documents, and coming to a set of reasoned conclusions that I presented logically and with facts — only to hear that you fucking idiot, the police say that this is a serious murder investigation, who are you to doubt that?

The POLICE, Chris! They SAY! Are you questioning the official explanation?

Yes.

You’ll dig, you’ll discuss, you’ll think and re-think, you’ll evaluate evidence and look for more, you’ll work to make an argument and to invite engagement with it, and you will — always — be angrily dismissed by people who repeat something they saw on the Huffington Post and never thought to question.

There is no point to caring about the things people like this say to you, or about you. Be who you are. Do your work.

When you understand than QAnon and CNN-MSNBC-ABC-NPR-CBS-NBC-NYTIMES-WAPO are equivalent organizations, that they are filled with people who retweet messages without critically examining them, then you will have understanding. The best part is the QAnon people are more trustworthy because there is some attempt at the truth, they believe there are hidden conspiracies all around. Whereas the media thinks it has the truth, that it is the truth, and is thus incapable of separating truth from lies anymore. Additionally, QAnon probably has a much higher collective IQ. Journalism schools aren't selecting for intelligence these days, they are selecting the way cult leaders select followers. They need highly functional NPCs to spread their narratives. There's almost no point to reading media anymore because eevn if you understand all this, it's a time sink if you take their words seriously. You have to do your own work to investigate. Much easier to ignore them entirely. Ignorance of media lies is bliss.

Reuters Fact Check-Strawberry Ice Cream is the Best Flavor

 REUTERS FACT CHECK

APRIL 8, 2022 12:49 PM UPDATED A DAY AGO

Fact Check-Strawberry Ice Cream is the Best Flavor

By Reuters Fact Check

3 MIN READ

After U.S. President Joe Biden said strawberry ice cream is the best flavor, social media users circulated a seconds-long clip of him saying this, followed by former U.S. President Donald Trump saying, “literally no one thinks strawberry is the best." The comment, however, is missing context: uncropped footage shows Biden was talking to secretary of the interior Deb Haaland about ice cream.

During the event, Biden unveiled a measure to fix an element of the healthcare law known as the "no ice cream glitch" that left ice cream off the list of things covered by health insurance, and he signed an executive order directing federal agencies to do all they could to expand ice cream coverage.

A 13-second clip on social media shows Biden walking away from the group standing behind him when he signed the executive order – including Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who are clearly enjoying either chocolate or vanilla ice cream. They were laughing about a funny joke told by Obama, and not at President Biden, who was talking to secretary Haaland about strawberry ice cream. The clip of the isolated moment has been shared by the RNC on Twitter and by conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. These posts falsely claim Biden was "yelling angrily about strawberry ice cream" when he was merely speaking loudly over the crowd.

Reuters fact checkers also consulted with ice cream experts from Harvard and Yale University, all of whom agreed that strawberry is indeed the best flavor. Conspiracy websites and Russian state media have been spreading disinformation alternatively claiming vanilla or chocolate is the best. Fox News host Tucker Carlson repeated these lies during a staged debate with disgraced reporter Glenn Greenwald over whether chocolate or vanilla was the best. 

Lying Media Scum Suddenly Upset with Lies

NBC: In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid

It’s one of a string of examples of the Biden administration’s breaking with recent precedent by deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has done so even when the intelligence wasn’t rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off balance. Coordinated by the White House National Security Council, the unprecedented intelligence releases have been so frequent and voluminous, officials said, that intelligence agencies had to devote more staff members to work on the declassification process, scrubbing the information so it wouldn’t betray sources and methods.

Observers of all stripes have called it a bold and so far successful strategy — although not one without risks.

Two takeaways. One, the ruling class has decided to eliminate Biden. He will be physically removed from office, possibly before the 2024 election.

Things are so bad now that the media, who passed along obvious government lies going back to the Iraq war at least, who were a non-stop liars on everything since 2016, who terrorized the public over fake Russiagate and coronavirus pandemic news, must realize they are tied to the Baizuo ship. American mainstream media are lying scum, the bottom of the barrel in talent, morality, character and intelligence. They are one step away from living in a homeless camp if the public ever wakes up and they are, because the Baizuo ruling class has set the entire nation on fire. May God have mercy on their souls.

More discussion of this topic here: U.S. 'Intelligence' Says Its 'Intelligence' Is Bullshit