Hyper novelty, the rapid rate of change outpacing human adaptation, is making us sick across all domains and scales, necessitating a reining in of this process for our survival.
Cultural evolution allows humans to adapt faster without genetic change, with religion and mythology serving as evolutionary advantages through Dawkins’ concept of memes.
The memetic layer (culture) has a high error rate but also a high extinction rate for unsuccessful adaptations, with successful cultural traits persisting for thousands of years before becoming widespread.
Private property rights are essential for rewarding the productive and penalizing the parasitical, serving as the only implementation of the right to life.
Money printing by centralized powers creates a vicious cycle that incentivizes keeping the public uninformed about its consequences, enabling the manufacturing of consent and media narratives.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have the potential to supplant the Federal Reserve by providing a stable, non-inflatable currency, but face challenges in ease of use and value fluctuations.
While global warming may not be an emergency, ocean damage is severe, with fish diversity, size, and species mix dropping at an alarming rate according to experts.
Factory ships with virtual slave crews are strip-mining oceans for fish, creating an unsustainable situation that could be addressed through tariffs and international treaties.
mRNA vaccines cause the immune system to destroy heart cells producing foreign proteins, leading to permanent damage and scarring without the ability to feel it.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is largely a private trade organization for pharma, fueled by pharma money, and should be disbanded and investigated for its role during COVID.
Libertarianism and freedom maximalism aim to maximize liberty while balancing competing concerns, serving as the only self-limiting principle that respects others’ freedom.
The Five Eyes Alliance (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) violates citizens’ rights by trading intelligence to bypass constitutional protections against foreign governments.
Freedom of speech allows ideas to be debated and scrutinized without fear, enabling the identification of truth and the limits of government intervention in areas like environmental protection and national defense.
The FED’s claim of independence is a myth, as it has been influenced by the White House, banking cartel, and previously had the Secretary of the Treasury and Comptroller of the Currency on its board.
The FED’s supposed independence primarily serves the banker class, ensuring bailouts and promoting competition-restricting regulations against alternatives like cryptocurrency.
The FED’s dual mandate of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices is used as justification for inflationary policies, without demanding fiscal responsibility from the government.
The FED’s unrestrained actions, such as lowering interest rates and buying assets, allow it to manipulate markets without accountability.
The FED aggressively defends its power base and position against elected officials, promoting the myth of independence to protect its interests rather than promote responsible economic policy.
The economy is likely at or near the top of the business cycle, with aggregate activity starting to decline and many experiencing a personal recession in terms of inflation-adjusted incomes.
Job openings have declined from a peak of 12.2 million in March 2022 to 7.4 million, while average weekly hours in the private sector have been at or below normal since March 2023.
Credit card debt has surged 50% from the COVID period, with interest rates rising from under 15% to almost 22%, and delinquency rates sharply increasing.
Auto loan delinquencies have reached a 13-year high, putting significant pressure on consumer spending.
The video attributes recent price inflation primarily to Federal Reserve policies and budget deficits, including those from the Trump Administration, rather than the Biden Administration.
The US government’s fiscal irresponsibility is worsening, with annual debt servicing costs of $1.5-2 trillion and projections that 100% of tax revenue will go towards debt and entitlements by 2030.
Deutsche Bank’s forecast of $44,000 gold by 2029 is considered conservative, as Trump’s presidency may lead to higher tariffs, deeper debt, and more spending.
The bullion market may benefit from Trump’s presidency, while the firearms industry could experience a “Trump slump” similar to the effect of Obama’s support.
Banks are reportedly short on gold and silver, with the LBMA using current market conditions to lower prices, creating a buying opportunity for countries like China and Russia.
The 2024 presidential election results, with Republicans expected to control both the House and Senate, could potentially benefit the gold market more than a partisan deadlock.
Trump’s presidency offers hope to regain America’s conservative values and culture that have been “whitewashed away” over the last four years, according to Andy Schectman.
The global economy is undergoing the largest correction in recorded history, masked by distractions like the 2020 US election, with key indicators such as interbanking, bond markets, and commercial real estate revealing underlying issues.
Peak oil has passed, with the industry resorting to inefficient methods to maintain production, while natural gas liquids and biofuels are being explored as alternatives.
The 1971 decoupling of the dollar from gold created an illusion of improved living standards, as average energy consumption hasn’t increased proportionally, leading to a system attempting to thermodynamically correct through money printing.
The Bricks Nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) control 77.9% of oil reserves, 64% of production, and 48% of consumption, challenging the Petro Dollar Empire and planning their own economic system.
China is experiencing a structural meltdown with 30-40 civil unrests per month, massive commercial real estate collapse, and bank runs, while preparing for potential conflict and aiming to control global industrial assets.
The Purple Transition plan aims to reinvent transport, promote degrowth, and simplify supply chains, merging with the Venus Project to create Promethean Nexus, an innovation hub for unorthodox ideas and pilot-scale demonstrations of industrial systems.
A proposed spine rail system combines monorails and shipping containers for efficient transport, reducing road vehicles and designing industrial networks around the route.
A hybrid economic system balancing a resource-based economy with free market consumption is proposed for a small community of 10,000 people to navigate through economic volatility.
The US is heading for $25 trillion more debt over the next decade under current policy, with Trump proposing $10 trillion and Harris $7 trillion more, on top of the current $36 trillion debt.
Total US public and private debt has reached $100 trillion (350% of GDP), up from $300 billion in 1970 (150% of GDP), leading to $60 trillion in excess debt.
The era of massive debt monetization by the Fed (1987-2022) is over, potentially leading to a 30-50% market correction as yields rise and prices fall.
The 16% trimmed mean CPI, a better measure of inflation, is running at 3.7% year-over-year, compared to the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
The bond market is signaling the end of the Fed’s rate-cutting cycle, with the 10-year Treasury yield expected to rise significantly, causing a major downward adjustment in asset prices.
A corporate refinancing wave in 2025-2026, combined with higher interest rates, will lead to a massive liquidity drain from the market as companies refinance debt at much higher rates.
Short-term government securities (1-3 year) will provide a 4-5% yield with low risk, making them a good option for investors seeking returns without significant principal loss.
TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) and precious metals like gold are recommended as safe assets to protect against inflation, offering a fixed real return and store of value, respectively.
Kamala Harris received 13 million fewer votes than Biden in 2024, with 60 million compared to Biden’s 81 million in 2020, raising questions about Democratic voter turnout.
Trump won the 2024 election with 74 billion votes, matching his 2020 performance, while implementing a strategy of 230,000 poll observers and 5 attorneys in each battleground state.
Kamala’s concession speech reportedly featured a “beloved squirrel” instead of her usual supporters, interpreted as a symbolic message to Democrats about the “squirrel community’s” resistance.
RFK Jr’s involvement in Trump’s team is said to be making “three-letter agencies” nervous, with plans to address issues at corporately captured government agencies.
The unexplained 20 million extra Democratic votes in 2020 compared to 2016 and 2024 remains a point of contention and speculation.
The 60/40 industrial vs. precious metal split for silver has shifted from a previous 50/50 balance, with industrial demand gaining prominence, though investment demand can quickly rebalance this ratio.
A significant supply-demand imbalance exists in the silver market, with 1.2 billion oz demand versus 1 billion oz mining supply, resulting in a 20% annual deficit for the past three years.
Only 25% of silver supply comes from primary silver mines, while 75% is a byproduct of gold, copper, lead, and zinc mining, with primary silver supply expected to peak in 2026.
The anticipated Fed rate cutting cycle could trigger a recession in Q1 2023, potentially causing short-term silver weakness but presenting a long-term buying opportunity.
Smaller, single-asset and multi-asset silver producers like Endeavour, Guanajuato, Sierra Madre, and New Pacific may outperform larger producers during a strong silver price upswing due to their leverage and lower costs.
Bolivia and Argentina are becoming more attractive for silver mining investments, with positive mining laws and new government policies benefiting companies like New Pacific Metals and Argenta Silver Corp.
Narcissism is fundamentally characterized by excess self-admiration and a lack of empathy, with narcissists viewing others as tools for their own desires rather than individuals with valid feelings.
Narcissists require constant “narcissistic supply” (undue attention, admiration, and praise) to maintain their inflated self-image and unstable self-esteem.
At its core, narcissism is rooted in psychological pain, particularly shame, which narcissists desperately flee from through the creation of a grandiose self-image.
Narcissists’ disconnection from their own emotions and impaired ability to feel leads to ruthless, exploitative, and sadistic behavior towards others, often leaving a trail of suffering.
Social media and a debt-based economy exacerbate narcissistic tendencies by promoting the curation of flattering profiles and allowing people to project false images of wealth and success.
China’s exports to the global South and BRICS countries reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.6 trillion in March, nearly four times its exports to the U.S., rendering tariffs ineffective as a punitive measure against China.
The U.S. has become a financial powerhouse but has de-industrialized, focusing on finance over manufacturing, which has harmed the middle class and necessitates a shift towards energy and high-end manufacturing to regain economic leadership.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor is heavily invested in cash, gold, and Bitcoin as a hedge against potential economic collapse, viewing the current debt load and situation as “virgin territory” with unpredictable consequences.
An effective U.S. president should have expertise in economics, finance, international trade, the American military establishment, and domestic politics, as identified by Dwight Eisenhower.
Promises to bring in figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk to reform bureaucracy and health systems are deemed unrealistic due to the entrenched power of monopolistic corporations in these sectors.
The U.S. is heading towards a major conflict with Iran, potentially involving Russia and China, driven by the Israel Lobby’s control over U.S. Middle East policy and the current administration’s “autopilot” approach.
To prevent World War III, Americans must collectively signal to the incoming president their opposition to involvement in regional or global wars in the Middle East or Eastern Europe.
The U.S. military, currently absorbing $1 trillion annually, needs severe reduction in size and expenditure, but requires a president who understands its workings to implement changes against Washington’s resistance.
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