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Double your efforts to secure your food sources from the federal industrial human smuggler crime NGO complex.

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/17469296 ... arleroi-pa

They just shot gun murdered us last time uniparty looked the other way.

57 hospitalizations, nine deaths in 18 states since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially reported in July 19.
The CDC on Aug. 28 reported six new deaths connected to the outbreak including the first deaths in New Mexico, New York, South Carolina,
and Tennessee.

NGO smugglers replacement inserts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5311415/

https://www2.census.gov/library/publica ... 25-703.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/h ... shed-cross
thread; log3

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A recent survey by Scott Rasmussen called “Elite 1%,” which was conducted by RMG Research for the Napolitan News Service, reveals that there’s a stark divide between the viewpoints of ruling elites and the rest of the American people on a wide range of questions.

The research categorized Americans into several groups, but focused on the gap between a small subset of elites and the rest of the country, which it defined as “Main Street Americans” who represent “70-75% of the U.S. population” and have none of the attributes of those categorized into the “elite” groups.

“They do NOT have postgraduate degrees, do NOT live in densely populated urban areas, and earn LESS than $150,000 annually” is how the survey defined so-called Main Street Americans.

The elites are also far more likely to announce their pronouns when introducing themselves.

“Only 10% of voters have introduced themselves by expressing their preferred pronouns,” the polling found. “Among the Elite 1%, more than 4 out of 10 have done so. Among the Politically Active Elites, 61% have introduced themselves by expressing their preferred pronouns.”

The elites are suspicious of the Second Amendment and even the First Amendment. Those amendments to the Bill of Rights protect the right to bear arms and the freedom of speech and assembly, respectively.

The polling divide between elites and average Americans on speech is stark:

Voters, by a 59% to 34% margin, believe that letting the government decide what counts as misinformation is more dangerous than the disinformation itself. Among the Elite 1%, the numbers are reversed: by a 57% to 39% margin, they see letting the government decide as the lesser problem.

The elites don’t just want to censor speech, they want to disarm Americans, according to the polling data.

“Seventy-two percent (72%) of the Elite 1% would prefer to live in communities where guns are outlawed,” the report found. “Most voters (51%) take the opposite view and would prefer to live in communities where guns are allowed.”

The research found that 77% of the elites polled want to ban the private ownership of firearms.

On the concept of self-government, elites were far more likely to not only make arbitrary decisions for society, but also to be OK with rigging the system to ensure they stay in power.

“If their campaign team thought they could get away with cheating to win, 7% of voters would want their team to cheat,” the polling found. “Among the Elite 1%, the support for cheating rose to 35%. And, among the Politically Active Elites, 69% would want their team to cheat, rather than accept voters’ decisions.”

Perhaps most surprisingly, the polls found that most elites had no idea that their ideas were so different from those of the mainstream.

The report found that “two-thirds (65%) of the Elite 1%—and 82% of Politically Active Elites—think most voters agree with them on important issues. As has been documented throughout this report, that is far from an accurate assessment.”

The creators of the project noted that while there is nothing wrong with there being large gaps in opinions on serious questions in a society, the Elite 1% “hold tremendous institutional and media power that amplifies their voices at the expense of the American people.”

This power is enhanced, they wrote, by the alliance between the elites “and the unelected managers of the federal government.”

They concluded that the views and overwhelming influence of out-of-touch elites “may be the root cause of the political toxicity in our nation today” and that their “underlying attitudes reflect an implicit rejection of the founding ideal that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/08/ ... l-divides/

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COMMENTARY
What I Saw on My Visit to Springfield, Ohio: The BorderLine
Simon Hankinson | October 11, 2024

Simon Hankinson is a senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

Last week, I went to Springfield, Ohio, to see for myself this town that has symbolized the raging debate about mass illegal migration, which remains a top concern of voters.

Above the noise and distraction, my conclusion was that Springfield symbolizes two main issues.

First, you can’t have open borders and a welfare state.

Second, you can’t have a functioning nation if you don’t follow the rule of law. Congress has the duty and authority to legislate the process for immigration into the U.S. That includes who comes in, how, from where, under what conditions, and how long they can stay. Previous presidents have tested the limits of their executive authority in trying to push this envelope. But Joe Biden and his “border czar,” Kamala Harris, have ripped up the envelope entirely.

My first stop in Springfield was the Clark County Department of Job and Family Services. Outside, the signs were in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and English—in that order.

The drop box for documents had an additional handwritten sign in Creole and Spanish.

Inside, I saw a waiting room filled with people, a line outside the door, and more people arriving regularly. I spoke to several in French (which many Haitians speak or understand, as their Creole is a derivative of French). One family told me they had been living in Brazil for eight years but decided to come to America instead as it was closer to Haiti and culturally more comfortable for them.

The fact that they were safely settled outside Haiti in Brazil would make them ineligible for asylum in the U.S., but as with thousands like them, the Biden administration pretends they are asylum-seekers, not asylum shoppers. In other words, that they were actually fleeing persecution in their home country rather than simply looking for better economic opportunities.

I estimated that the majority of applicants in the office that morning were Haitian.

The Haitians are here thanks to a mix of dubious schemes perpetrated by this administration and possibly the illegal use of the president’s executive authority: parole, catch-and-release, Temporary Protected Status—I wrote more about these mass-migration facilitating fudges here.

In brief, the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security either allows inadmissible aliens to enter the U.S. on the assumption they will claim asylum or grants them an indefinite delay from deportation proceedings. Then, the federal government gives money—at least a billion dollars a year since 2021—to a range of nongovernmental organizations to distribute these aliens throughout the country to places like Springfield.

The first question on the SNAP application (in Creole, too) is whether you want to register to vote—and it says there is a voter registration application attached to the packet.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/11/ ... borderline

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See the underlined sections of the above two posts - they connect.

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Mark Halperin on Why He Thinks Trump Will Win and the Left’s Mental Collapse

https://youtu.be/vV_WDBqE8VI?t=6918

1:55:13
let's say Trump
1:55:21
wins um three weeks from today what happens the Democratic party
1:55:26
just I mean as you said um a lot of Democrats maybe the majority
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believe that Trump becoming president again is the worst thing that ever could happen so how do they respond to that

I say this not flippantly I think it will
1:55:39
be the cause of the greatest Mental Health crisis in the history of the country

1:56:45
it will cause the biggest mental Health crisis in the history of America and I don't think it will be kind of a passing thing that by the
1:56:51
inauguration will be fine I think it will be sustained and and unprecedented and hideous and I don't think the
1:56:57
country's ready for it

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Colorado Apartment Complexes Overrun By Migrant Gangs, Management Calls For Federal Help
JAMES KING, MPA
Published: October 17, 2024

CBZ Management, the company overseeing several apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, has confirmed that Venezuelan gangs have taken control of their properties, leaving tenants and staff in fear. The company, which took over the complexes in 2019, reported that crime and violence surged after the arrival of the Tren de Aragua gang.

One of the most alarming incidents occurred in late 2023, when a CBZ employee was brutally beaten after refusing a bribe from gang members. Since the attack, the situation has deteriorated, with illegal occupants taking over vacant apartments and threats being made against CBZ staff.

Despite reaching out to law enforcement, including the FBI and Homeland Security, CBZ says they’ve received little assistance. Federal officials confirmed the gang’s presence but told CBZ their issue was just “a blip on the radar” in the broader national landscape of gang activity.

In response to the escalating violence, many legitimate tenants have fled the properties, while CBZ has been left pleading with local officials for help. Some city leaders, instead of addressing the gang takeover, have reportedly blamed CBZ for various code violations.

Councilwoman Dani Jurinsky has been one of the few public officials to step in, assisting a tenant and compiling evidence of the gang’s presence. CBZ has criticized both the media and government for downplaying the severity of the situation, calling for immediate federal intervention to restore safety to their properties.

https://freedompress.com/colorado-apart ... eral-help/

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To make the case for the imminent collapse of global industrial civi-
lization, it is necessary to prove two things. The first is to account for
the Earth’s finite endowment of fossil fuels, metal ores, other industrial
and agricultural inputs, fresh water and fertile soil, and to demonstrate
that many of these resources are either past their all-time peak of pro-
duction or will soon achieve it. The second is to prove that, as these
resources become too scarce to allow the global industrial economy to
grow, the result will be collapse rather than a slow and steady deteriora-
tion that could continue for centuries without reaching any conclusive,
historical endpoint.
The first task has been carried out by a number of people, but a
particularly good book on the subject is Richard Heinberg’s Peak Every-
thing, which calmly lays out the facts for why the twenty-first century
is a century of declines in energy, agricultural output, stable climate and
population. While Heinberg weaves together a convincing story, Chris
Clugston, in his 2011 self-published book Scarcity, takes a more direct
approach. Clugston undertook a thorough study of US government
data on nonrenewable natural resources, focusing on the raw materials
needs and primary energy sources of industrialized economies. In his
2012 update, Clugston shows that only one essential industrial input —
bauxite for aluminum smelting —now remains sufficiently abundant
to provide for continued economic growth. Consequently, the rate of
improvement in the global material living standard (measured as per
capita GDP) has slowed from around 2 percent per year during the sec-
ond half of the twentieth century to just 0.4 percent this decade, and is
poised to turn negative. Based on Clugston’s projections, the increasing
scarcity of the nonrenewable resources required to maintain industrial
civilization will most certainly trigger a global societal collapse by mid-
century.
While the first task is a relatively simple matter of laying out the
numbers, which are available from reputable sources that are difficult
to argue against and can be grasped by anyone with a head for numbers
and a general understanding of the functioning of industrial economies,
the second task is much harder, because the only way to address it is
through mathematical models. The first of these models is the World3
model used in the 1972 book Limits to Growth. World3 is a relatively
simple model that ran on a computer less powerful than a smartphone
and included just five variables: world population, industrialization,
pollution, food production and resource depletion. This model pre-
dicted economic and societal collapse by mid-twenty-first century.
The 2004 Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update confirmed that, thirty
years later, the initial predictions are still in excellent agreement with
reality. Though your instinct may be to mistrust the predictive abilities
of mathematical models in general, this wariness should be tempered
somewhat when the model in question is shown to have been correct
decades later.
Mathematical models can be fearsomely complex, requiring many
hours of supercomputer time for a single run and able to defy anyone’s
attempt to understand them at a sitting. Such models inspire skepti-
cism by their sheer complexity: with so many formulas and parame-
ters, there has to be a mistake in there somewhere! Luckily, modeling
collapse, at the simplest and most intuitive level, does not require such
complexity, thanks to the Seneca Cliff model proposed by Professor
Ugo Bardi of the University of Florence in Italy. Bardi’s goal was to
create a “mind-sized” model that could be easily understood at a glance
by someone even slightly conversant with mathematical modeling.
Bardi got the inspiration for the name of his model from a quote by
the Roman philosopher Seneca: “It would be some consolation for the
feebleness of our selves and our works if all things should perish as
slowly as they come into being; but as it is, increases are of sluggish
growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.”
Bardi started with a very simple model of resource use and deple-
tion with just two variables: resources and capital. Resources are trans-
formed into capital at a rate that is proportional to both the amount
of remaining resources and the amount of capital. Also, capital decays
over time. This model can be run via a simple spreadsheet or by using
a very short and simple computer program, and the result is a sym-
metrical bell curve: the amount of capital, representing the size of the
economy, grows gradually, reaches a peak, and then declines just as
gradually, as the resource base is depleted. (The bell curve is ubiquitous,
serves as the basis of probability and statistics, and is also known as
the Hubbert Curve, which is used to model oil depletion.) Bardi then
added a third variable to the model, which he labeled “pollution,” and
which represents the overhead of running an industrial civilization:
not just pollution but also its infrastructure, its bureaucracy and so on.
Pollution represents all that has to exist for an industrial economy to
function but does not contribute to its productive capacity. A fraction
of capital, proportional to both the amount of capital and the size of
this third variable, is diverted to it. Just like capital, it also decays over
time. This model produces an asymmetric, lopsided curve, in which the
upward slope is gradual but the downward slope is steep and cliff-like.
In this model, capital does not gradually decay as resources run short;
it collapses.
To appreciate why this is so at an intuitive level think of the infra-
structure of industrial civilization: its highways and bridges, its oil ter-
minals, refineries and pipelines, its airports, seaports, electrical grid and
so on. As the economy expands, all of these have to expand alongside
it, and maintain reserve capacity to avoid bottlenecks, shortages, traffic
jams and blackouts. But when resource scarcity forces the economy to
start contracting, they cannot contract with it, because they have all
been built at a certain scale that cannot be reduced retroactively, and
have been designed to be efficient and realize economies of scale only
when utilized at close to full capacity. Even as they are used less, their
maintenance costs remain the same, swallowing up an ever-larger por-
tion of the economy. At some point maintenance costs become un-
bearable and maintenance is foregone. Shortly thereafter they become
nonfunctional, and with them the rest of the industrial economy.
Further insight into the mechanics of collapse can be gained by
looking at the role of finance in the day-to-day functioning of the
global economy, because it expands by systematically betting on future
growth —borrowing from the future, which is assumed to be more
prosperous than the present except for minor, temporary setbacks. This
borrowing is used not just to finance expansion but to finance all of
the shipments that make up global trade: every international shipment
starts with a letter of credit issued by a commercial bank in one country
and honored by another commercial bank in another country. If the
economy stops growing for an extended period of time, these bets on
future growth no longer pay off, a large number of loans turn into bad,
nonperforming loans and many banks become insolvent and are no
longer able to issue letters of credit, while other banks, though still sol-
vent, no longer want to take the risk of honoring their letters of credit.
Global trade stops, which in turn disrupts global supply chains, causing
shortages of components and other industrial inputs, which then halt
manufacturing processes. Before too long, the global economy passes a
point of no return beyond which there can be no recovery, because the
supply networks and trading relationships that held it together have
broken down.

The Five Stages of Collapse by Dmitry Orlov, 2013

This excerpt is well done and a good summary. I haven't read the two books he mentions (Heinberg and Clugston). Also hadn't read this excerpt until tonight.

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I don't know whether a Trump win will cause the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think not actually, but Halperin is probably in a better position to have an opinion on that than I am.

What seems possible to me, though, is that if Trump gets in and deportations are started, the half of the population that has been stomped on for 50 years by the managerial elite class won't be satisfied with just deportations of illegal aliens once they get a small taste of revenge; they are going to want more. Or let's just say there is a good possibility they will want more. The logic could be something like, "It's not the illegal aliens who were out to get us, it was the corrupt cronies who enabled the border to be overrun. Let's get them out of the country too."

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Today, the Congressional Budget Office published its annual 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook. According to the CBO’s latest estimates, in 2024 the U.S. government will pass a grim and once-unimaginable milestone. The federal debt has gotten so large that spending on interest to service that debt now exceeds federal spending on national defense.

A startling projection

What’s startling about the CBO’s latest projections is that just one year ago, the Congressional budget scorekeepers estimated that interest payments would exceed defense spending in late 2028. By 2029, the CBO then projected, we’d be spending $1,041 billion on defense and $1,071 billion on interest.

Now that threshold will be crossed this year. In 2024, CBO estimates the federal government will spend $850 billion on defense, compared to $870 billion on interest.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothec ... -spending/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comme ... 1319_2024/

Last Week in Collapse: October 13-19, 2024

More airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon, failing planetary carbon sinks, deep sea heat waves, worsening water crises, and thousands of North Korean soldiers joining the Russian War effort.

Last Week in Collapse: October 13-19, 2024

This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter compiling some of the most important, timely, useful, soul-shattering, ironic, stunning, exhausting, or otherwise must-see/can’t-look-away moments in Collapse.

This is the 147th newsletter. You can find the October 6-12 edition here if you missed it last week. You can also receive these newsletters (with images) every Sunday in your email inbox by signing up to the Substack version.

Sample from a long report covering many topics:

Estimates of U.S. children affected by Long COVID sit between 10-20%, according to one study. Difficulties with concentration and memory are the top symptoms among young children, while teenagers tend to suffer more from taste/smell problems, body aches, and low energy. A study out of Thailand estimated Long COVID rates among the general population at 32.9%, with the leading symptoms being anxiety, fatigue, and breathing problems. Other research says heart attack & stroke survivors are more likely for Long COVID—little surprise, considering Long COVID is a brain injury as well as a condition which affects the circulatory system.

Some medical schools in Europe are training doctors for dealing with tropical diseases like dengue and malaria, in advance of an expected rise in cases as the continent warms. Iran’s Ministry of Health reports that there were 7,000 cases of TB last year, aggravated by an increase in dust storms. A botulism outbreak in California killed almost 100,000 birds last week.

California recorded another human case of bird flu—its 13th so far. California—the largest milk-producing state in the U.S.—is also grappling with much higher mortality rates among its cattle: about 20%, compared with 2% in other states.

The IMF estimates public government debt will, combined, surpass $100T by the end of 2024. Poland is increasing borrowing to meet spending demands, especially as it prepares to grow its military. Unemployment rates in Gaza hit 80%...what are the other 20% doing?

Canada is trying to crack down on an Indian mob network allegedly responsible for intimidation, extortion, and assassinations of dissident Canadians.