What's it gonna take?

Intervene or just come clean.

Lots of links below. This format takes me back to something I used to do before the twitter - send friends daily emails of whatever caught my eye. Some even liked it. I will try to keep these shorter, because Substack doesn’t seem to like a lot of clutter.

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Realtor.com April Rental Report: National Rents Hit their 14th Straight Month of Record-Highs

Meanwhile, at the BLS, rents are apparently not even up 5% year-over-year:

Just tell your landlord you’d like the same deal the math-wizards at the BLS get. I mean, who ya gonna believe, the BLS or your lying eyes? Those guys are really good at gaslighting us. They’ve been doing it for decades.

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Today in “Nothing to see here!”: The NHS just edited their Monkeypox page…to make it scarier.

One thing is for certain: there is no stopping it; the monkeypox will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new viral overlords.

You know, I’d feel better if there hadn’t been a Munich Security Conference in November 2021 with an “exercise scenario [that] portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox[!!!] virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.”

WEF apparatchik and Club of Rome promoter Dennis Meadows must approve, but likely thinks 270 million is not nearly enough.

Of course this wouldn’t be the first time weird things like changing the meanings of words to fit a narrative has happened. And then there’s this.

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From the not-terrible Naked Capitalism website: Why Is America Polarized? The Answer May Surprise You. Well, I have sort of an theory, here.

And here:

I mean, come on