We live in a world where nothing is as it seems. The things we are told on a daily basis, are either lies, distortions, distractions, or misdirection. Of course it’s always for an agenda. Our job so to speak, is to figure out what that agenda is, and often times, it’s not nearly as easy as you’d think.
I think this has been true for decades, but in the past they did their best to at least make it plausible. Don’t forget that 40 - 50 years ago, people really only had TV, Radio and the local newspaper to try and push what ever the agenda was. People were also “smarter” in a sense, and not as easily conned.
That last sentence was not hyperbole its simply fact. If you went back 50 years and asked a first year college student who the first President of the US was, they’d instantly know the answer. Or maybe ask, which President is on the 20 dollar bill? They’d know. They might be able to tell you about his life.
But today, there’s hundreds of videos, where people will go around with a microphone and ask these very basic questions to people on the street, and it’s absolutely stunning to hear some of the answers given. They have no clue, and I find it disturbing frankly.
We live in a world where nothing is as it seems. The things we are told on a daily basis, are either lies, distortions, distractions, or misdirection. Of course it’s always for an agenda. Our job so to speak, is to figure out what that agenda is, and often times, it’s not nearly as easy as you’d think.
I think this has been true for decades, but in the past they did their best to at least make it plausible. Don’t forget that 40 - 50 years ago, people really only had TV, Radio and the local newspaper to try and push what ever the agenda was. People were also “smarter” in a sense, and not as easily conned.
That last sentence was not hyperbole its simply fact. If you went back 50 years and asked a first year college student who the first President of the US was, they’d instantly know the answer. Or maybe ask, which President is on the 20 dollar bill? They’d know. They might be able to tell you about his life.
But today, there’s hundreds of videos, where people will go around with a microphone and ask these very basic questions to people on the street, and it’s absolutely stunning to hear some of the answers given. They have no clue, and I find it disturbing frankly.
One in particular stands out to me. This guy picks random folks, generally younger people from say 17 - 25 and asks off the wall questions. Like “what state is Utah in?” and guess what? He gets answers. “Michigan?” asks one. Another says “I’ve never heard of that place.” Moving on he approaches a young woman. “Excuse me, can you tell me how many dimes would make up a dollar? Answer: uhm, like, ahhh…no I can’t.
So it isn’t surprising to me that they can make up the most egregious lies and so few question it. The public school systems have done the job their masters gave them…destroy intelligence.
We saw a perfect example of this on Friday with the jobs report. The report hit at 8:30 and instantly the DOW futures puked for 450 points. Why? Well according to the “official statement” we created 263K jobs, much higher than the estimates. Inside the report, wages rose higher than expected, etc.
The market sold off, because obviously such a “strong” employment report gives Powell free runway to keep hiking rates, right? Well that was the line given to us. “Strong” was the word preached on CNBC. But I’ll ask a question. No wait, I’ll let one of my readers ask the question….
Morning Bob, well another bu!!shit jobs number. As usual the numbers do not square up. Civilian labor force declined 186,000. Not in labor force increased by 359,000! Unemployed decreased 48,000. And now the kicker, number employed down 138,000. But they claim we added jobs? How? BD only added 14,000. What a load of crap!
Yes it was crap. Dog, bird, you name it, it doesn’t matter. They wanted to project a strong jobs market and they did just that, despite it being a bald faced lie. In fact, let me steal this from Zero-hedge:
Alas, there is only so much the Department of Labor can hide under the rug because when looking at the abovementioned gap between the Household and Establishment surveys which we have been pounding the table on since the summer, it just blew out by a whopping 401K as a result of the 263K increase in the number of nonfarm payrolls (tracked by the Household survey) offset by a perplexing plunge in the number of people actually employed which tumbled by 138K (tracked by Household survey). Furthermore, since March the number of employed workers has declined on 4 of the past 8 months, while the much more gamed nonfarm payrolls (goalseeked by the Establishment survey) have been up every single month.
What is even more perplexing, is that despite the continued rise in nonfarm payrolls, the Household survey continues to telegraph growing weakness, and as of Nov 30, the gap that opened in March has since grown to a whopping 2.7 million "workers" which may or may not exist anywhere besides the spreadsheet model of some BLS (or is that BLM) political activist?)
See my point folks? You’re being lied to in an epic, almost Biblical fashion. But now that you know the lie, the next step is trying to figure out why they’re doing it?
If somehow there’ a 2 million person discrepancy between the numbers, could the BLS have been told to boost employment numbers, to try and save Biden from yet another disastrous look? He sure did wonders for the price of oil and gas no?
Another reason very well could be that because of the recent increases in the Republicans in the House, they want to continue to make the numbers look as good as they can, showing how great the Democrats were, and then once all those new congressmen are installed after January, they start letting the real numbers out and blame it on them. Another “rumor” has it that the BLS was nudged by Biden to include undocumented people in the report.
Remember above when I said it is sometimes hard to figure out what the agenda is? Well this is a perfect example of that. Everyone wants Powell to stop hiking rates and hurting the economy. Yet they come out with a better than expected “official” report, that in NO WAY hampers Powell from continuing to hike. Think about that 0.6% month over month wage increase the BLS said they saw. Higher wages, chasing fewer products sounds like inflation to me. So obviously the agenda with these hyped up jobs numbers, is not to force Powell to stop hiking.
And, Powell knows he’s got to go with the “official” BLS numbers. He can’t throw the entire admin under the bus by saying “these numbers are BS.” He also can’t get away from saying just a week ago that he was very concerned with wage inflation. Well he just got some more.
I mentioned the other day, that after Powell’s FOMC decision and speech about rates, the market probably had a clear runway into the Dec 14th FOMC announcement and press conference. But on Monday, Powell had a slew of his fed heads out, talking down the Dovishness and saying rates still had to go convincingly higher. That took the DOW down 500 points. Then Wednesday Powell was speaking and “threaded the needle” between rate hikes, pace of hikes and not overshooting” and the market was orgasmic.
Now they don’t quite know what to do. This made up jobs report tossed them right back into the “Powell’s going to overdue it again” and by 11 am Friday the DOW had lost 450 points. Yes they battled back all day, but you get the point. They got shook and rightfully so.
Finally we have to contemplate the dark side of things. Could it be that fake “good news” has been jammed down our throats for the sole purpose of actually having the Fed hike us into depression? Don’t roll your eyes or snicker. The end game for this reset baloney is to crush the existing system, so the plebes beg for a new savior. Maybe the plan has been set, and the goal is deep pain, especially for the hated middle class.
I continue to think that we should all be erring on the side of safety. Gold is looking better. Silver of course. Land, especially raw land. Pantry items. Back up power sources, etc.
I want to leave you with this, as it sums things up pretty nicely. I saw this posted Friday morning and while I chuckled at it for its honesty, the consequences are real:
The Pentagon lost track of another $2.1 trillion, the world’s 2nd largest food producing country is having 3,000 farms closed by their govt, they’re instituting vax passports & piloting a social credit system digital currency, but sure let’s keep Ye trending.
Indeed. Good Luck out there folks.