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DonutPro's avatar

Help your house, then street, block, neighborhood, city, county... 100%, you nailed it.

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Ian's avatar

You have the two right targets. It’s the intelligence-military-organized crime complex in concert with America’s (and Russia’s, btw) oldest foe: the international banking cartel based in City of London and now Wall Street. This is the key.

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Lyndon Barreto's avatar

"Help educate people you know about the things you think are important. Don’t force it on them - if they don’t want to know, they don’t want to know. You can’t help everyone. Help those you can. Do NOT drift off into extreme ideology.

Listen to people who disagree with you." 💯

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wwowwo_'s avatar

It's all good. Is mostly awful.

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M❤️'s avatar

Thank you rudy❣️ 

you have a great sense of humor.🤩🤩🤩

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Wanda Hoogerbeets's avatar

I so enjoy reading what you write. Thanks for the lift!

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Abe's avatar

thank you

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MidasMulligxn's avatar

The Yellen shirt is epic. When you were on twitter you posted a garfield shirt "you are not immune to propaganda" LMAOOO. I got it for my brother, he wears it proudly. I will be acquiring the janet yellen shirt for myself, keep it up with the awesome shirts Rudy!

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MidasMulligxn's avatar

Rudy, where does one by the yellen shirt? I've been searching the interwebs for it.

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

I don't even remember. Maybe CustomInk. I sent them the pic - which I saw somewhere on the interwebs - and they put it on a plain white t-shirt.

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The Rational Walk's avatar

I’ve always found that real people in the real world are far better than what we see online. It was bad enough before social media and has become totally dystopian in recent years. Focusing on what’s around us locally is good advice. Our government needs to be most powerful closest to the people, that is locally. We have the exact opposite. People think you’re a right wing extremist if you point to the 10th amendment to justify greater localism. I’m not optimistic this will change.

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G7Doug's avatar

Meteorologists and economists are just philosophers wanting to be scientists and Emanuel Derman is much smarter than me. Anyone using models to predict outcomes based on human actions is destined to fail and unfortunately, we're letting our leaders using these human models to spend trillions fighting the climate change boogeyman and trillions more to force us into higher interest rates when history shows you can only get there by making less capital, not more.

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Denise Armstrong's avatar

Brilliant. Similar crazy stuff here in Ireland.

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Reston6's avatar

So much of what you write is applicable to the COVID authoritarianism. If you don't agree to extreme government interventions you literally want to kill my grandparents, murderer!

TARP was about as evil corrupt as DC could get until the COVID debacle came along. Wait - don't get me started on pharma.

You better not be sponsored by Pfizer.

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peer pedersen's avatar

A quote from Philip Kerr’s great historically based fictional, detective series, set in National Socialist Germany. Bernie Gunther, the main, morally ambiguous character makes the following observation.

“When the most wicked and mendacious are in charge, truth is the one commodity this is the most valuable of all.”

I think the observation is as applicable in Germany (among other places in history) as it is today in the good old USA.

Rudy through you musings you are part of that invaluable commodity.

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Louis's avatar

Whitney Webb is one cool cat.

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

She's like 31 years old. Amazing.

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al m's avatar

"I could suggest writing to your Congressperson about some of the issues that inspire/depress you. I don’t think that would work, but you could try"

hahahahahah--made my day!

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BigOinSeattle's avatar

Awesome post! I really appreciate Michael Hudson who is pretty lefty but also has historical examples from the Bible about debt slavery, debt jubilees and when rulers were expected to have them etc. I like the distinction he makes between financial and industrial capitalism.

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