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Another great read Rudy. I think America is too corrupt to be saved. Maybe RFK can do it. Who knows though. For me I’ll be staying down under. Might move to Tassie to get further from it all. Get back to nature escape the debt prison and inflation by growing my own food and raising my own livestock.

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By Tassie I assume you mean Tasmania? I imagine it to be amazing. Never been. I might votr for RFK Jr. but he isn't my savior.

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Yep Tasmania, island the size of Ireland with only 500k people. About as remote as it gets besides Alaska. True that, no politician can be our saviour. But maybe just maybe he can make a difference. I’ll probably vote in absentee for him. If nothing else but to put a middle finger up to the establishment. We’ll see if he hires all the ex gold men types for his admin after it like trump did.

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Hookers and blow (and Viagara ®) galore at the BIS. What a life!

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Just imagine being in a room with 100 random Americans and 8 of them trust congress. Wow.

For those who like seeing tax free banker salaries in US dollars, the first number quoted comes to $889,668.69 at today's exchange rate.

🎶 It's nice work if you can get it

And you can get it if you try...

Such much prostitution

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Inside Job is an excellent documentary; one I need to go back and watch again.

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It just makes me mad every time I watch it.

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Reminds me of the old joke: many Americans only learn about other nations/cultures by deploying to them with rifles.

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I listened to the TFTC with Marty and Dowd the other day. Pretty harrowing what Dowd is saying

about the effects of the vaxes (in general). Some batches were clearly more harmful than others, and some seem to have been placebos - I looked my batches up recently. I'd gotten two shots... after I got the alpha strain.

...Got the shots because I had no clue about natural immunity and no reason, that I knew of at the time, not to trust what I was being told. And I was in NYC at the time and my 'for the greater good' friends were very pro-vax. A lot of lessons learned there.

But because of all that, I've been learning a lot about my health over the past couple years. RFK's Fauci book was part of it. Also Mercola's book on covid. Also McCullough and Malone- I started with their banned Rogan pods. I'd gotten just hammered by the virus - went from starting a business, going to post grad classes, and doing hot yoga a couple times a week to feeling so taxed that months later I was barely able to run a lap around a track. Because it was such a shift, I decided to start researching. Glad I did.

Marty's Rip with Balaji also very good. Felt like a 1/2 hour even though it was 4 hrs.

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Thanks for your comments. I got two Pfizer shots in April 2021 to protect - I thought - vulnerable people in my life. Otherwise I would not have. No boosters.

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No boosters here, either. Happy to offer my future boosters to the CNN anchors.

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Re Kyle Bass, excellent interview but he might reflect that had the US/NATO not spent the best part of the last 30 years treating Russia as the enemy, we’d be working with them today as an ally against China. In fact had we changed tack even 3 years ago when Putin was pleading for empathy, we’d be doing the same. Instead we’ve managed to force them into each others arms. A shotgun marriage made in hell.

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I hear ya. I wish we were allies with Russia. We could be, but no.

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Awesome!!!

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Green grass and high tides forever. You are a connoisseur.

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BIS, TBTF and HB...the 3 Untouchables.

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Very interesting and pertinent information, as always. The current state of the US. equity markets strike me as eerily similar to what happened during the summers of 2000 and 2007: low volatility, rising interest rates, declining trading volumes, bad market breadth, etc. It’s only a matter of time until Powell, et al, reinstates the “helicopter money.”

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People forget Fed started cutting in Aug. 2007, before SPX even topped. Clear skies.

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what's the source of that Orwell citation?

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It's from a Malcolm Muggeridge biography. A letter from Orwell. I don't have that particular book but it is referred to in other books about Orwell.

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Thanks, I thought I knew Orwell pretty well, but could not place that particular quote...not that it was not very Orwellian.

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Same but I am 90% sure it's real - mentioned in multiple books. I just always want to find original source. Libertarian back then meant something a little different than today. I will try to dig up the Muggeridge book.

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