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A Strange, Unidentified Smell Made Its Way Across Southern Washington Last Week

Make as many hippie jokes as you'd like, but it appears there is a strange smell making its way across the South of Washington State. 

Cowlitz County EMS started receiving 911 calls about the smell around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday of last week as it spread through South Kelso, Rose Valley, Kalama, Woodland, and Cumbia County before reaching Portland, a new report from USA Today said.

Cowlitz County said in a statement this weekend: “The source of the odor and what the odor is/was, are still unknown and under investigation."

Leading theories for the smell include “ship, train, highway transportation leak; Scappoose Bio Solids; industry; pipelines; natural gas; Mt St Helens; and ground movement.” 

The county's EMS said: “Complaints have varied from unpleasant odors to minor health issues. All agencies continue to work on the situation." 

The USA Today report said that Cowlitz County reported variable wind conditions until 6 p.m. on Tuesday, pushing the odor from Longview toward Portland.

Several county agencies responded to complaints, coordinating with local and federal authorities to identify the source. The National Weather Service also tracked the odor's path on social media.

“By tracking winds, we can estimate the path that it may have taken, briefly drifting down near Vancouver WA before southerly winds around 4AM would have pushed it back north again," EMS said. 

They called the smell “unusually very inconsistent.” 

“Descriptions have varied from, similar to natural gas, propane, burning garbage, burning rubber, ammonia, and others. As of this briefing, complaints have varied from unpleasant odors to minor health issues,” they concluded.

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Powell Pours Cold Water On Rate-Cut Euphoria; USA Sovereign Risk Ominously Surges In September

US Macro data is on a charge higher in September, surging to its strongest since late-April...

Source: Bloomberg

September markets ended on a weaker note today - after China stimulus piled on top of the super-size rate-cut sent stocks soaring in the month. European stocks ended practically unchanged on the month, US stocks up marginally and China soared...

Source: Bloomberg

All the US Majors ended the month higher, led by Nasdaq 100 (with Small Caps lagging), but overall, while the rip off the early month lows is noteworthy, the month-end gains are modest at best given the massive easing....

Source: Bloomberg

Stocks and bonds took a hit today around 1400ET when Powell said that he "doesn't feel like The Fed is in a hurry to cut quickly."

Additionally, Powell said "sometimes people pay too much attention to The Fed's SEP [Dot Plot]," noting that the SEP shows two more 25bps cuts this year (less than the market).

That sent rate-cut expectations lower (hawkishly), with less than 3 cuts now priced in for 2024...

Source: Bloomberg

Stocks tumbled and yields jumped after those comments, but they remain notably decoupled on the month (10Y yield -10bps, S&P +2%)...

Source: Bloomberg

Bond-Stock correlation has flipped negative (after over a year positive) where bond gains have helped buffer stock losses

Source: Bloomberg

“It’s wise to be on high alert,” Deutsche Bank strategist Jim Reid put it nicely in his morning commentary today. “One small shock could move things very quickly.”

Energy names were September's biggest losers while Discretionary and Utes outperformed (an unusual combination of cyclical and defensives)...

Source: Bloomberg

While all stock indices were higher, so Treasury yields were lower across the board in September (with the short-end outperforming significantly) despite a decent surge higher in rates today (2Y +10bps)...

Source: Bloomberg

The yield curve steepened dramatically in September with 2s10s dis-inverting notably (before flattening a little in the last few days)...

Source: Bloomberg

The dollar fell for the third straight month in September. Most of the pain was as inflation and payrolls data hit early in the month. Since then the dollar has oscillated sideways, amid the Fed cuts and China stimmies...

Source: Bloomberg

Gold rallied for the 7th month in the last 8 (and its best month since March)...

Source: Bloomberg

Oil prices fell for the third straight month (September was the worst month for WTI since October 2023)...

Source: Bloomberg

Bitcoin rallied in September (its best month since May)...

Source: Bloomberg

...as, finally, if M2 is to be believed, crypto is about to breakout...

Source: Bloomberg

What will The Fed do about soaring gold and crypto and USA sovereign risk spiking like Zimbabwe...

Source: Bloomberg

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this why The Fed cut rates?

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China Launches Massive Military Drills In Disputed South Sea Hours After Blinken Tries To "Reduce Regional Tensions"

China didn't just fire the proverbial stimulus bazooka targeting its markets and economy last week: it also fired a literal bazooka in preparation for the inevitable showdown with the US, which is not a matter of if just when.

On Saturday, China's military said that the country's air and naval forces are conducting manoeuvres in a disputed area of the South China Sea, just hours after the country's top diplomat discussed ways of reducing regional tension with his U.S. counterpart, confirming yet again that the world literally can not wait to make fun of Anthony Blinken.

The news, first reported by Reuters, comes after Australia and the Philippines said their militaries would hold a joint maritime activity with Japan, New Zealand and the United States in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.

The announcement of the manoeuvres came shortly after China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York for talks that covered ways to avoid conflict in the South China Sea.

In March, Blinken had assured the Philippines its defence partnership with the United States was "ironclad," after Manila accused Beijing of aggressive deployments in the South China Sea of its coast guard and fishing vessels suspected of being a maritime militia.

On Friday Wang "emphasized that China insists on resolving differences with countries directly concerned through dialogue and consultation," during the meeting, his ministry said in a statement.

While Blinken said he raised China's "dangerous and destabilizing actions" in the South China Sea and discussed improving communication between the two nations' militaries, Wang responded that "the U.S. should not always stir up trouble in the South China Sea and should not undermine the efforts of regional countries to maintain peace and stability," and launched the drill just to confirm how little it thinks of US attempts at deterrence.

The Chinese drills will include "routine" early warning and reconnaissance exercises as well as patrols around Scarborough Shoal, the Southern Theatre Command of the People's Liberation Army said in a statement, but gave no details.

"The theatre troops maintain a high degree of vigilance, resolutely defending national sovereignty, security and maritime rights and interests, (and) are firm in maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea," it said.

One of Asia's most contested features, the Scarborough Shoal is 200 km (124 miles) off the Philippines, within its exclusive economic zone.  At the same time, China also claims almost the entire South China Sea, including the atoll, coveted for its bountiful fish stocks and stunning turquoise lagoon, despite overlapping claims in the busy waterway by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. While in 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that China's sweeping claims were not supported by international law, Beijing refuses to recognise the decision. The tribunal did not determine sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, which it said was a traditional fishing ground for several countries.

In a report on Friday, a thinktank based in Beijing estimated that warships of various nations spent more than 20,000 days annually in the South China Sea, while more than 30,000 military aircraft traverse it.  U.S. navy ships spent about 1,600 days at sea in the region, said the thinktank, the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, as well as an undisclosed number of submarines.

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Massive Fire Engulfs Atlanta-Area Chemical Plant, Evacuations Underway

A massive fire broke out at a chemical plant in Conyers, Georgia, prompting local area evacuations and road closures. Footage of the blaze shared on X might remind some of the train derailment fire in East Palestine, Ohio, early last year.

The Rockdale County Sheriff's Office said the fire occurred at BioLab, a chemical plant that makes specialty pool and spa care products. They told residents near the plant to stay indoors and keep windows closed to minimize exposure to harmful chemicals, adding, "Safety measures are in place to protect the public."

Earlier, officials said the sprinkler system malfunctioned, and water came in contact with a reactive chemical, sparking the fire. Shortly after, officials called for evacuations of residential homes around the facility.

However, officials did not mention what chemicals were burning. EPA staff have been sent to the town for air sampling. 

Given BioLab's product line, as shown on its website, there's reason to suspect the plumes of dark smoke are toxic.

Local media outlet Channel 2′s Michele Newell reported that white smoke was visible from the plant, turning black and then orange. 

Here's the dramatic footage uploaded to X:

Another?

Wow.

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Silver Is Starting To Break Out. Here's What To Watch

By Jesse Colombo

Two days ago, I published a Substack piece titled “Here's When Silver Will Surge Like Gold” and followed it up with a related Twitter thread that quickly went viral. On Tuesday, China cut interest rates and unveiled an extensive stimulus package to boost its struggling economy. These announcements sparked a surge in commodities like gold, silver, and copper, bringing my bullish outlook on silver closer to fruition. I decided it was an opportune time for a quick update.

Let's start with silver’s daily chart. Since its peak in May, silver had been languishing for several months until it finally broke above a downtrend line that started in May, closing above it last Friday. In my original Substack piece, I highlighted this breakout as a promising sign of strength. On Tuesday, silver had surged 4.56%, reaching its highest level since May. Silver now needs to close above its $32.50 resistance level with strong volume to confirm that the next leg of the bull market is underway. Once silver clears the $32.50 resistance, it’s likely to surge toward $50 rapidly. I'm focusing on $50 as an intermediate-term target because it’s a significant psychological level and the peak reached during both the 1980 and 2011 rallies.

For further confirmation, I find it valuable to analyze silver priced in euros. This method removes the impact of U.S. dollar fluctuations, offering a clearer view of silver's intrinsic strength or weakness. Interestingly, silver priced in euros often respects round numbers like €26, €27, and €28, frequently establishing key support and resistance levels at these points. These levels are worth monitoring closely—take a look for yourself. On Tuesday, silver closed above both the €28 level and a downtrend line that started in May, marking a very bullish development. The final hurdle is for silver to decisively close above the €30 level on high volume, which would be the signal that silver is ready to take off.

Silver mining stocks are also important to watch for confirming silver's price movements, as they often mirror investor sentiment toward the metal. The Global X Silver Miners ETF (symbol: SIL), the most heavily traded silver mining stock ETF, has been stuck in a flat range since April. A strong, high-volume close above the $36 to $37 resistance zone would signal that both silver mining stocks and silver itself are poised for a significant breakout. After surging on Tuesday, SIL is very close to breaking out.

Similarly, the Amplify Junior Silver Miners ETF (symbol: SILJ)—a key proxy for junior silver mining shares—has been range-bound for the past five months. A decisive, high-volume close above the $13 to $13.50 resistance zone would indicate the start of a rally for both silver mining shares and silver itself. After its sharp rise on Tuesday, SILJ is very close to breaking out.

Gold, a major driver of silver prices, is generating a tailwind for silver after breaking through two key resistance levels in the past month and a half. In a recent Substack piece, I explained how gold's breakout across multiple currencies sets the stage for an imminent surge toward $3,000.

The gold-to-silver ratio is a valuable indicator for gauging silver’s price direction. A double top chart pattern appears to have formed over the past two months, indicating a likely decline in the ratio. This suggests that silver may soon start outperforming gold. A close below the 83 to 84 support zone is key to confirming the start of a silver rally and its outperformance of gold. Following silver’s strong performance on Tuesday, the ratio is starting to break below the critical 83 to 84 support zone—an unmistakable sign of strength for silver.

The price of copper is often an underappreciated factor in silver's performance. Copper's decline over the past several months has dragged silver down with it, but the copper rebound I've been anticipating following a technical breakout should significantly strengthen silver's rally.

Another potential bullish factor for silver, gold, and copper is the prospect of a weaker U.S. dollar as the Federal Reserve begins its rate-cutting cycle. Since commodities typically move inversely to the U.S. dollar, this is a critical development to monitor. The key level to watch is the 100 support on the U.S. Dollar Index. A close below this level would strongly suggest a continued decline toward the 90 support level. At the time of writing, the U.S. Dollar Index is trading at 99.95.

As silver nears a critical breakout, the convergence of multiple indicators signals a strong bullish outlook. Recent economic developments, such as the U.S. rate cut and China's stimulus measures, have fueled momentum in commodities like silver, gold, and copper. Silver's ability to break through key resistance levels, both in U.S. dollars and euros, alongside potential strength in silver mining stocks and a weakening U.S. dollar, reinforces the bullish outlook. As the gold-to-silver ratio shows signs of decline and copper rebounds, the stage is set for silver to make significant gains, with $50 as a key intermediate-term target. Investors should keep a close eye on these developments as silver's next major bull market may be just days away.

If you enjoyed this article, be sure to check out my recent piece, “Why Another Chinese Gold Mania May Be Starting.”

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DoJ Sues Alabama For Voter Roll Purge Program Targeting Noncitizens

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama, accusing the state of breaking the law with its voter roll purge program that targets individuals who are—or once were—noncitizens.

A polling place in Alabama's primary in Mountain Brook on March 5, 2024. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

The DOJ announced the legal action in a Sept. 27 press release, in which the agency contends that Alabama’s program, which targets individuals with noncitizen identification numbers, violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by removing potentially eligible voters within the federally mandated 90-day “Quiet Period” before an election.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said that Alabama’s actions risk disenfranchising eligible voters just weeks before a key federal election.

As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law,” Clarke said in a statement. “The Quiet Period Provision of federal law exists to prevent eligible voters from being removed from the rolls as a result of last-minute, error-prone efforts.”

The NVRA’s Quiet Period provision prohibits states from conducting systematic voter roll purges within 90 days of a federal election to prevent errors and ensure eligible voters are not wrongfully removed.

The legal dispute centers around a program initiated by Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that aimed to remove noncitizens registered to vote in Alabama from the state’s voter rolls.

Allen’s office announced on Aug. 13 that 3,251 individuals on the state’s voter rolls had been flagged for removal due to being issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Allen instructed the state’s 67 county boards of registrars to deactivate these voters and begin the process of removing them from the rolls.

I have been clear that I will not tolerate the participation of noncitizens in our elections,” Allen said in a statement at the time.

Allen noted that while some of those identified may have since become naturalized citizens, these individuals would need to update their status using a State of Alabama voter registration form in order to remain eligible to vote.

Allen said that due to a lack of cooperation from the federal government in providing up-to-date lists of noncitizens for the purposes of the voter roll purge, Alabama had to rely on older data that does not reflect whether the individuals flagged for removal have since gained citizenship.

The DOJ’s lawsuit said Alabama’s program could disenfranchise eligible voters, particularly naturalized citizens who were once issued noncitizen identification numbers. The department’s review found that both native-born and naturalized U.S. citizens had received letters stating that their voter records had been made inactive and that they would be removed from the rolls unless they submitted a new registration form.

The DOJ is seeking an injunction to halt the voter roll purge and reinstate the rights of eligible voters. It’s also pushing for remedial mailings to inform voters about the restoration of their rights, along with training for local officials and poll workers to address any confusion or distrust among eligible voters wrongly flagged as being noncitizens.

The Alabama Secretary of State’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the most recent DOJ lawsuit.

In an earlier statement, Allen defended the program as necessary to maintain the integrity of Alabama’s elections, while vowing to continue efforts to ensure only U.S. citizens are registered to vote.

This is not a one-time review of our voter file. We will continue to conduct such reviews to do everything possible to make sure that everyone on our file is an eligible voter,” Allen said in a statement.

“I am hopeful that in the near future the federal government will change course and be helpful to states as we work to protect our elections.”

This is not the first legal challenge Alabama has faced over its voter roll maintenance efforts.

Earlier this month, a coalition of civil rights organizations, including the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and the League of Women Voters of Alabama, filed a separate lawsuit accusing the state of targeting naturalized citizens with the purge. This lawsuit claims that many of those flagged for removal are now U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote, but are being forced to re-register.

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Maersk Halts All Bookings To Haiti As Gang Violence Shuts Down Major Container Terminal

Maersk, one of the world's largest container shipping lines, notified clients on Thursday that "recent social unrest in Haiti" has sparked disruptions at a key port in the failed Caribbean nation, prompting the shipper to suspend all new bookings immediately. 

"In the wake of the recent social unrest in Haiti, which is preventing normal operations at the terminal, it has been decided, effective immediately, to stop any new bookings from and to Haiti to prevent the accumulation of boxes at the transshipment terminals," Maersk said. 

One day earlier, Reuters reported land access to the main container terminal in Port-au-Prince, called Caribbean Port Services, a privately owned and operated company that handles the majority of the container volume in the country, was closed off due to a surge in attacks by armed gangs. 

"CPS will shut its barriers to all types of land-based traffic from Sept. 26 to Sept. 29," CPS wrote in a statement, indicating this time will allow the military troops and national police to secure the terminal.

This is insane. More from Reuters...

A shipping official told Reuters this week that ships were being shot at, preventing them from docking and unloading containers, while authorities have reported the kidnapping of two Filipino crew members from a cargo vessel in the port.

Senseless gang violence has led to the deaths of 3,661 people in the collapsed Caribbean nation in the first half of the year. 

"This situation is not just a humanitarian emergency but it is a threat to the stability of our nation," Haiti's transition council president Edgard Leblanc Fils told the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, adding, "It's never too late to act."

The number of people internally displaced by gang violence has jumped to more than 700,000, while 1.6 million face food and housing insecurities. 

Earlier this year, Haiti's main container port and international airport were shut down for three months following an eruption in violence. The chaos included a massive jailbreak, allowing thousands of prisoners to escape.

Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration has been flooding small town USA with Haitians, as seen in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania. There are reports some of these Haitians are being trafficked domestically in labor mule schemes by staffing companies. 

What a mess the West is in. 

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Gold & Crypto Rip As US Stocks Shrug Off Shanghai Money-Drop

One of these things is not like the others...

Source: Bloomberg

Chynaaah crushed it this week as Beijing unleashed the bazooka to Make China Wealthy Again after one of our best-timed calls ever...

European equities benefited more from the apparent liquidity-gasm coming from the east, but US equities were mixed on the week with Small Caps actually ending lower and Nasdaq managing only a 1% gain (well offthe 2.5% gains at the peak mid-week)...

Not exactly the kind of week the bull shad hoped for when China dropped their Headlines.

Mag7 stocks ended the week unchanged...

Source: Bloomberg

China Internet stocks soared 32% MTD, while Mag7 stocks are up just 3%...

Source: Bloomberg

'Most Shorted' stocks managed decent gains on the week (thanks to Thursday and Friday)...

Source: Bloomberg

Growth and Value were equally (mildly) impressed this week

Source: Bloomberg

Fed rate-cut expectations chopped around but were basically unchanged on the week (thanks to a dovish shift today)...

Source: Bloomberg

Treasury yields were mixed on the week and only modestly changed close-to-close on the week with the short-end outperforming (2Y -3bps, 30Y +1bps)...

Source: Bloomberg

The yield curve steepened notably to start the week, then flattened aggressively yesterday, bouncing back off unchanged on the week today...

Source: Bloomberg

The dollar weakened for the 4th straight week, closing at its lowest since Dec 2023...

Source: Bloomberg

Gold rallied for the 3rd straight week, breaking to new record highs before today's sell-off...

Source: Bloomberg

Bitcoin also rallied the 3rd straight week, breaking above $66,000 today...

Source: Bloomberg

Ethereum rallied off January lows and broke above $2700 this week...

Source: Bloomberg

Despite all the stimmies and WW3 risk, oil prices were lower on the week (of course)...

Source: Bloomberg

Finally, macro growth data is surprising to the upside, and macro inflation data is surprising to the downside...

Source: Bloomberg

Does that look like an environment that needed a 50bps rate-cut? Or that needs 75-100bps more by the end of the year?

Perhaps this is why gold and crypto is rallying hard...

Source: Bloomberg

US Sovereign risk exploding higher... did The Fed cut rates to rescue the Treasury?

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The Brave New World Of 2030: "You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy"

Authored by Robert Burrowes via Global research,

If you spend just a few minutes checking out ‘The Great Reset’ website of the World Economic Forum, starting at the page ‘Now is the time for a “great reset”’ – which includes a copy of what it calls ‘The Great Reset Transformation Map’ – and spend two minutes watching the World Economic Forum’s video ‘8 Predictions For The World In 2030’, you will quickly recognize that the WEF intends imposing profound changes to about 200 areas of human life by 2030.

If you also spend just a few hours reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – you will soon discover that the Elite program currently being imposed on us is far more onerous than anything presented in the dystopian novels written by Huxley and Orwell. Technology, after all, has advanced dramatically in ways that neither Huxley nor Orwell anticipated.

You will need to do a little further investigation, however, to discover that a range of tools – including genocides and wars, famines in some locations and serious economic dislocation in others, the Covid-19 ‘death shot’, 5G, geoengineering, Artificial Intelligence and synthetic biology – is being used by Big Brother to kill off a substantial proportion of the human population.

And, while hidden in plain sight, successively deploying a wide range of technocratic tools that are progressively imprisoning those left ‘alive’ as transhuman slaves.

In broad summary, this is being done by enclosing the Commons ‘forever’ and forcing people off their properties – for a discussion of how this is being achieved using ‘managed retreat’, see the series of articles by Kate Mason starting with ‘Managed Retreat New Zealand: Shhhh….be careful not to let the community know’ – and into a ‘Smart City’ prison.

These Smart City prisons will employ a dense network of 5G towers to facilitate communication and enable total control, where the imprisoned transhuman slaves will be geofenced to confine their movements to within 5 kilometres of where they are imprisoned.

And the detail in the Elite plan tells us exactly how it is being done.

Given that the Elite plan requires all 8 billion humans to submit, one way or another, and it is a lot easier to have people willingly submit to their death or transhuman slavery rather than contend with any resistance, the dystopian future being rolled out is being presented as a combination of necessary (to deal with various threats, including those posed by a non-existent virus and climate disruption), private (to ensure the integrity of your identity), safe and secure (from various online and other threats) to ensure maximum compliance. Of course, an avalanche of propaganda is also being used to obscure the view of what is really taking place.

Thus, initially, each surviving individual will have a Digital Identity, which will have attached to it a social credit score (determined by such factors as your personal, educational, employment and legal records and your internet search history to measure your degree of submission to Elite programs).

Traditional national currencies, which put money in your hands to spend or save as you liked, are being replaced by Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Your allotment of this ‘currency’ will be determined by your social credit score, attached to your Digital Identity and programmed so that it can only be spent within your 5km radius and only at approved locations, in approved amounts on approved products or services.

In addition, a dense network of facial recognition cameras (which take a three-dimensional image of your face thus removing any confusion between you and your identical twin, should you have one) and license plate readers will ensure that every movement (including if in a driverless car) you make is tracked and monitored by the Artificial Intelligence program controlling your sector. And the network of loud hailers (installed on 5G towers, street lights and elsewhere) will facilitate the sharing of routine directives as part of the means by which approved behaviour is elicited and enforced.

But ultimately, as Elites have known for millennia, it is food that is the ultimate weapon of control.

Our Identity as Homo Sapiens Threatened by Synthetic Biology, Humans Fiddle While Humanity Burns, Will It be Near-Term Death or Transhuman Slavery?

As former US Secretary of State articulated in 1973: ‘Who controls the food supply controls the people’.

And, as Professor George Kent eloquently explained in 2008, it is in the interest of the Elite that people are hungry. See ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’.

So any critical analysis of what is being imposed on humanity must take careful account of how food – and the farming of it – is being utterly transformed.

In essence, the Elite plan is to feed us genetically mutilated, synthesized and poisoned trash and insects, profit from our ill-health, force small farmers off their land, undermine rural communities, and utterly transform the ancient practice of farming into a corporate, technocratic operation.

If you want some of the detail, there are excellent sources that highlight the importance of buying organic/biodynamic food while organizing to grow your own, and making sure that your local trading community can defend your food sources against the advancing technocracy.

See ‘Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth’ and

‘The Future of Food’ and watch

‘The Synthetic Transformation of our Food Systems – Focus on Australia’ which is summarized here:

‘The True Extent of Biotechnology Experimentation – It’s Happening Now’.

In short, what the few examples above make clear is that we face a near-term future in which the control mechanisms will be all-pervasive.

Of course, you might still try to act outside the parameters of your social credit score – spend more money, spend it on something not approved in your case, grow your own food, travel outside your zone… – but the computer programs run by artificial intelligence will ensure that this does not happen by deactivating your ‘permission’ or, if this does not work instantly or other action is required, despatch a transhuman or technocratic police officer to intervene. If you still show signs of resisting the transhuman police officer, robot or drone sent to intercept you, it will, for example, simply fire an electromagnetic weapon to make you vomit until you comply.

See ‘Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?’

For a wider, more detailed overview of some key technocratic, economic, political and other threats, see

‘We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite’s “Great Reset”: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively?’,

and for discussions of threats that are less well known, such as those posed by geoengineering, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, see

Geoengineered Transhumanism: How the Environment Has Been Weaponized by Chemicals, Electromagnetism & Nanotechnology for Synthetic Biology and watch

‘AI Exterminating Humans Through Synthetic Biology’.

Of course, while the program has been planned by the Elite and designed by its agents, it is not actually being implemented by the Elite or its agents. The entire ‘Great Reset’ program is being implemented by people like you and me who take orders without pondering the significance of their particular order and how it fits into the wider Elite program, just like the person putting together a bullet in a factory doesn’t ponder who will be killed by it.

It is less frightening, as the residents of the Brave New World know, to follow orders without thought or reference to conscience. It is less frightening to not ask questions and just ‘go along’. In essence, it is less frightening ‘not to know’.

And that is why these two dystopian novels end the way they do: Huxley and Orwell were astute observers of their fellow humans and knew how easily they submit. After all, being submissive is far less frightening than resisting. But even if we do somehow ‘know’, we are good at concealing our cowardice behind our favourite delusion, ‘taught’ to you in early childhood: ‘I am doing what I am told and that is the right thing to do.’ Which, in essence, is why so many people got repeatedly vaxxed and even the bulk of those who didn’t prefer to complain rather than act.

See ‘The Elite’s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind is Climaxing. Can We Defeat it? (Parts 1 & 2)’.

Anyway, with changes being made to 200 areas of human life, the Elite has not left much to chance or even many gaps through which one might sneak. Which means that effective resistance now is the only realistic possibility for averting life under Big Brother or Mustapha Mond and his fellow world controllers.

Of course, as the books illustrate superbly, there is no point seeking redress by asking Big Brother or Mustapha Mond. Similarly, if we seek redress through the Elite or its agents, we will not succeed.

See ‘The Elite Coup to Kill or Enslave Us: Why Can’t Governments, Legal Actions and Protests Stop Them?’

And because the Elite program is so complex and sophisticated, if our resistance is to be effective it must be strategic. That is, we must focus on directly resisting the key foundational components of the Elite program ourselves. Otherwise, our resistance will simply be absorbed and dissipated to come to nothing.

Resisting the Brave New World of the Technocracy

The intention of the Elite’s advancing technocracy is to kill off vast numbers of humans and transhumanize and enslave the rest.

And given the sophistication and savagery of the program, defeating it will require commitment, persistence, courage and enormous strategically-focused effort by a large number of people.

‘We Are Human We Are Free’ is strategically-designed to defeat the Elite program and will succeed if enough people participate. You can read the 30 strategic goals identifying the critical points of resistance on the website with one-page flyers, identifying the minimum areas for action, available in 23 languages.

Conclusion

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were well placed to perceive trends in society and prescient enough to warn us in novels written many decades ahead of ‘crunch time’. Sadly, humanity failed to take advantage of their warnings.

This means that we must act now if we are to have any chance of averting imposition of the Elite’s technocracy, including destruction of the global economy, even as their genocidal program advances.

Time is running out.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/26/2024 - 16:20
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