Chris
Martenson publiceerde op Peak Prosperity (door mij overgenomen
van Zero Hedge) een artikel waarin hij niet alleen wijst op de reacties
die de moord op George Floyd losmaakten, maar dat die reacties ook worden
gevoed door de grote achterstand van gekleurden in de VS, die zelfs
door te trekken is naar de arme witte onderlaag in de VS en naar andere landen
waar men het niet langer pikt dat geld vooral naar de grote bedrijven
en de welgestelden gaat, neem de protesten van vorig jaar in Chili en
de Gele Hesjesbeweging in Frankrijk (die zich overigens ook heeft
verspreid naar andere landen).

Martenson
haalt ook Hongkong aan, echter daar begaat hij een denkfout, immers
de protesten gaan daar bepaald niet over ongelijkheid in inkomen,
maar over politiek, waar China meer grip wenst op Hongkong, nadat
bepaalde groepen zich met grof geweld (zelfs tegenstanders in brand
steken) hebben verzet tegen de invloed van China……Ofwel met deze
agressie hebben deze gewelddadige protesten het aan zichzelf te danken
dat China ingrijpt….. Hoe ongelofelijk dom kan je zijn? Overigens
houden de reguliere westerse (massa-) media dit geweld zoveel mogelijk
uit de berichtgeving…

Juist de arme gekleurde minderheid in de VS wordt hard getroffen door het Coronavirus, logisch daar arme burgers in de VS amper of geen geld hebben voor gezonde voeding….. Zo is in de VS ‘eten’ van ketens als MacDonalds goedkoper dan gezonde, vers groente en fruit uit de supermarkt…. Voor deze mensen is een veganistisch ‘dieet’ (intussen heel uitgebreid en met meer smaak dan zuivel en vlees) al helemaal geen optie daar dit veel te kostbaar is…… (zuivel en vlees worden dan ook gesubsidieerd….)

Als je
ziet hoeveel geld de Trump administratie sinds de Coronacrisis in grote
bedrijven heeft gestoken en financiele maatregelen heeft genomen die alleen de welgestelden ten goede
komen, zakt je broek van de bips, terwijl vele miljoenen arbeiders
werkloos zijn geworden, die na de fooi van Trump ook op persoonlijk
niveau failliet zijn gegaan en nu hun huis moeten verlaten of dat al hebben gedaan (dan heeft men daar
nog het geluk dat je gewoon de deur achter je dicht mag trekken,
zonder eerst alles kwijt te zijn geraakt….)

Vergelijk het voorgaande maar met
Nederland waar hare D66 kwaadaardigheid Ollongren weigert de huren te
bevriezen, terwijl de huurders al meer betalen dan kopers en hun
jaarlijkse huurverhoging is gebaseerd op de prijsstijgingen in het
voorafgaande jaar, die gvd voor het grootste deel zijn gebaseerd op de
huurverhoging van dat vorige jaar!! Hoe smerig en misdadig kan je mensen
dubbel besodemieteren???!!!!! 

Ook nadat de bankencrisis in 2008 in alle hevigheid losbarstte bleef men huurverhogingen doorvoeren, ofwel ook toen geen bevriezing van de huren, terwijl de koophuizenprijs fiks onderuitging….. Vergeet daarbij niet dat de hoge huurprijs tevens was en is gebaseerd op de achterlijk hoge huizenprijs, ofwel zelfs een fikse verlaging van die huizenprijs heeft niet geleid tot een huurverlaging, integendeel, zoals gezegd: de huurprijs bleef jaar na jaar stijgen…… Een meer dan schandalig onrecht en totaal inhumaan!!! (en dan steelt de regering jaar na jaar door huurders gespaarde gelden middels de belachelijke verhuurdersbelasting >> leg die belasting maar op aan de schoften die voor een postzegel aan ruimte meer dan € 1.000,– per jaar durven te vragen…..)

Wellicht
dat de situatie in de VS een vonk produceert die over een groot deel
van de wereld mensen in opstand zal brengen tegen hun
‘volksvertegenwoordigingen’ die niets anders doen dan de belangen
behartigen van grote bedrijven en de welgestelden, i.p.v. die van het
volk waarvoor ze werden gekozen…… Wat dat betreft zijn de demonstraties tegen het discrimineren van gekleurden in veel andere landen hoopgevend!

As
The World Burns…

by
Tyler Durden

Sat,
05/30/2020 – 23:30

Authored
by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,

Personal
safety & security are quickly becoming more important in this era
of growing social rage

Decades
of unfairness are now boiling over in the United States in the form
of protests, riots, burning buildings and violence.

Minneapolis is on fire
– literally – and the unrest has spread to numerous other major
cities.

Last year (2019) The
Yellow Vest protesters in France dealt with enormous amount of police
violence and intimidation as they put life and limb on the line to
try and wrest better economic and living conditions for themselves.

The people of Hong
Kong are back out in force again now that the Coronavirus threat has
abated, seeking greater autonomy and control over their own lives.
Last year (2019) Chileans also protested, seeking better wages and
living conditions.

While the specific
demands of each of these movements are unique, they all share common
causes.

Our analysis at Peak
Prosperity is this: the days of constant exponential growth on a
finite planet are drawing to a close. All of the systems that govern
the sharing of resources among humans – political, economic and
especially financial – are designed to concentrate, not share,
wealth.

Taken
together, we have an economic pie that is no longer growing but is
subject to a set of laws and financial predation that guarantee the
wealthy get more than their fair share of what remains.

This leads to
increasingly visible, palpable unfairness.

Primates hate that:

(walgelijk om zelfs voor zo’n onderzoek dieren te meisbruiken, wilde aanvankelijk deze video niet overnemen, echter dan zou ik toch een extra link moeten toevoegen…)

In today’s
world, it’s grapes for the elites and cucumbers for the rest of us
(if we’re even that lucky).

That’s been the
model for a long time, but lately it’s been both accelerating and
exposed for all to see.

Team Elite™ is busy
gorging on grapes. It has granted itself $trillions of freshly
printed dollars from the US Federal Reserve in order to prop up
‘their fair share of things’ like bonds, stocks, and derivatives.

That leads to these
sorts of jarring headline juxtapositions:

(Source and source)

Without any question
whatsoever, the Federal Reserve has been printing up money like crazy
and stuffing it into every crevice of the US financial markets in a
bid to…well, drive up financial asset prices.

They’ve been
extremely tone deaf the entire way while pretending that their aim
isn’t to make the rich richer, or deliver fatter profits to banks.
Of course, both of those things are indeed happening as a direct
result of the Fed’s policies and anybody with eyes can see that —
yet the media refuses to acknowledge this.

Really, it’s
extremely easy to identify. Here’s what ‘grapes for the wealthy!’
looks like — see that $3 trillion spike since April?

All
of that printing leads to some stocks now being at their priciest
ratio to earnings ever:

That means that those
holding them are being rewarded like never before. And don’t forget
that the
richest 10% of Americans own over 84% of all stocks

We also see the same
price-goosing with bonds. Corporate bonds are now once again
approaching historically low yields which means, in the see-saw
language of bonds, they are almost as pricey as they’ve ever
been. In
history:

Who received the
benefits of that gigantic cluster of grapes that the Fed has lavished
upon the bond markets?

Well, the owners of
all those bonds of course, and the major corporations now able to
borrow at rock bottom costs even as small and medium sized
enterprises are being wiped out.

As I often say, the
Fed doesn’t actually create wealth, it redistributes wealth. 
While doing that it is both directly and indirectly picking winners
and losers.

The above chart of
corporate bond yields says the Fed is picking large corporations and
the wealthy elite  over small companies and Main Street folks.

Of course, there are
no grapes quite as sweet as the ‘special interest’ varietals that
are served to only the wealthiest of real estate investors:

The only thing that
could make this worse would be for some White House official to
condescendingly insult all us regular people by referring to us in
non-human terms.

Oops:

(Source)

I have dozens
more such examples. But I trust you get the point: the vast
unfairness of the US system is now exposed for all to see.
And that inequity has become even more predatory
in our hour of need during the Covid-19 pandemic. Which is why social
frustration and angst are now in the process of boiling over.

The reason why is as
old as civilization itself, showing up ever since the first group of
humans organized themselves into a cultural pyramid:

People often
ask me why I shake my angry monkey-fist at the Federal Reserve so
often. It’s because of the above quote. I’m the sort that prefers
to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering. The Federal Reserve seems to
be institutionally ignorant of the above fatal ailment.

]What the Fed is doing
is wholly unnecessary and manifestly unfair. It will lead to tears
yet, regrettably, it is completely avoidable. Grapes for Wall Street,
and cucumbers (or worse) for everyone else. It’s just how they’re
wired. They literally cannot help themselves,. So things are certain
to get worse before they get better.

It
All Boils Over

The institutional
failures of the Federal Reserve aside, there are also the obvious
failures of management (I can’t bring myself to call them
‘leadership’ anymore) at our major health institutions,
politicians who are far quicker to the rescue of major corporations
than constituents, politicized and even falsified ‘science’
coming from formerly respected institutions, the list goes on and on.

Every one of
these breaches of public trust undermines our collective safety and
security. Beyond some incalculable level the foundation gives way.

The lowest level of
management in this story are the police. For decades many police
departments have been heavily militarized and trained often by
Israelis who’ve done a remarkable job embedding the mindset of
occupying forces into US policing.

Toss in some
unresolved racial biases and animosity, civil asset forfeiture,
no-knock raids for petty reasons that routinely result in innocent
lives being violently taken, and you’ve got a tinder pile waiting
for a spark.

George Floyd was that
spark. A particularly callous officer with a long string of
unpunished claims of excessive force and violence lodged against him,
knelt on George’s neck until he was dead while 3 other officers
stood by and casually watched.  Against the backdrop outlined
above, this was one flagrant abuse too many.

Editorially,
the person now being vetted as a possible VP for the Biden campaign,
Amy Klobuchar was the prosecutor in Minneapolis for many years who
could have delivered justice to the lower classes. Let’s check her
record:

Sadly, this is
a record that can be found in hundreds of other cities. It’s
neither an uncommon nor a defensible record. As a reminder, in the
aftermath of the Michael Brown killing and riots in Ferguson MO
(2014) the justice department came in and discovered that in a city
of 20,000 mostly poor people there were 16,000 outstanding arrest
warrants.  Think about that for a second.

Many for infractions
like ‘impeding pedestrian flow’ (a.k.a. standing on the
sidewalk). The humans were little more that ATM livestock for the
police and court machinery to exploit.

And so, with the
killing of George Floyd, Minneapolis exploded.

There’s
More Unrest On The Way. Get Prepared.

Welcome everyone to
these turbulent times.

We all want to live in
a just, fair, and safe world. Some people are born into peaceful
times. 

Others aren’t so lucky. History goes through its turnings.

Well, here we
are, smack in the middle of a whopper of a fourth
turning. So let’s make the most of it.

I take the safety and
security of myself and the people around me very seriously. Because
it’s my responsibility I train, and I plan, and I think things
through.

My home is in a town I
judge to be very safe, and I’m not the fearful sort, so I really
have to push myself to prioritize the other steps. Which I am doing
because it has to be done.

The calm days
are over. There’s a new future coming, one that promises to be a
lot more interesting as
the old Chinese saying goes.

I wish I believed that
the worst of the social unrest was behind us. I don’t. Given the
actions of the Fed and Plutarch’s quote, and the total lack of any
pushback from the media on these matters, I am anticipating grapes
for the elites and worse-than-cucumbers for everyone else for many
years to come.

Which means
it’s time for you to more seriously consider your approach to
personal security, especially if you live in or near a city. I
certainly am.

As a true mark of the
turning, a growing number of my friends who would never have
considered owning a gun before are now thinking about doing so. All
sorts of formerly ‘hard’ decisions suddenly become up for grabs
when folks start feeling more physically vulnerable.

But personal
security is far more than ‘owning a gun.’ It’s a mindset as
well as a behavior set. And above all, it’s about avoiding trouble
in the first place.

It includes taking
sensible steps to protect your home from being an easy target for
crime. It means having a plan and well-practiced skills in place to
keep yourself and your loved ones safe from violence. It means
aligning with neighbors to watch each others’ backs. It means
practicing with whatever tools or systems you adopt so that they are
second nature to you if you ever have to use them.

For those without
extensive experience and training (which I assume is just about
everyone reading this), the best presentation I’ve ever seen
covering the practical essentials you need to know to maximize your
odds of staying safe is this
video from
Peak Prosperity member Tom C., a 19-year veteran inner city police
sergeant, given at our most recent annual seminar:

Here’s a brief
3-minute clip from it in which Tom is fielding Q&A on the
audience’s top concerns:

Tom’s full
seminar presentation is 48 minutes long and addresses key safety &
security issues including how to reduce your threat risk profile,
situational awareness, what to do (both mindset and actions) if in
danger, how to create “layers” of defenses, as well as good home
security options. Peak Prosperity’s premium members can watch
it in full here.

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Zie wat betreft het politiegeweld in de VS (en Nederland):

‘Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog‘  

‘Obama en ‘change’ n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord‘  

‘Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!!‘

‘Trump
poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof
geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen‘

‘Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef‘

‘Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘

‘Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zetten aan tot geweld‘ 

‘George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden…..‘

‘Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger’

Zie wat betreft het Coronavirus:

‘RIVM mag locatiegegevens van smartphones inzien i.v.m. het Coronavirus en deze gegevens een jaar lang bewaren‘ 

‘Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘

‘CDC
: COVID-19 testen kloppen in de helft van de gevallen niet: het virus
is minder dodelijk dan gedacht ondanks de angszaaierij in de media‘ 

‘Rutte 3 wil ongrondwettelijke noodmaatregelen legitimeren met spoedwet‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer zaken over aantasting van burgerrechten ‘in de strijd tegen het Coronavirus’)

The Science of Fear: How The Elitists Use it to Control Us & How to Break Free

‘Terras
open: Wanda de Kanter (longarts) heeft geen probleem met auto’s en
scooters langs terrassen, nee roken moet worden verboden‘ (terrassen open na de ‘intelligente lockdown’ vanwege het Cornavirus)

‘Rutte’s
VVD zou nu 44% van de stemmen winnen in verkiezingen, ondanks de enorme
‘Coronablunders’, waar 70% van de Nederlanders dit wanbeleid zou
steunen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over het Coronavirus)