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garycrist

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US Mint is ready to change metals.


A little history.
After FDR stole all of our "little people's" gold @ the "fixed rate", they tried to steal all
of the silver in our pockets too!
Fortunately, the numb-skulls figured out real quickly, that the economy would come
to a stand still with no money!

Stand by for the biggest theft in history!
BTW:
Tthe official price of gold by the US government is $42.2222 per Fine Troy Ounce.

 

tigerwillow1

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Could it be related to why companies embrace ESG even though it costs them customers? Or why school systems bring down the high achievers to make the low achievers feel better? Or why Alec Baldwin walks free while a police officer who mixed up her weapons went to prison? Or why innocent Jan 6 protesters who were baited by government workers are rotting in jail? And so on...
 

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Good piece by VDH

Victor Davis Hanson: Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?
Victor Davis Hanson: Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now? | ZeroHedge

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Note how socialism despises unauthorized excellence. In our sick world, that means any singular individual who is not committed to the principles of the woke revolution. He is giving hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free Starlink satellite internet to the Ukrainians, without which they certainly would lose the war. His Teslas sparked the entire notion of a potentially viable electric car. His space projects, not NASA’s, are America’s best chance to obtain parity with the Chinese in space. He lost $40 billion to reboot Twitter into something the 1980s American Civil Liberties Union would have applauded. And yet he is despised as a leftist apostate, a crime greater than the sum of all his good left-wing deeds.

Any talent who is deemed an enemy of the socialist project by any evidence of apostasy—a Tom Brady, J.K. Rowling, or Matt Taibbi—is transmogrified from hero or genius to Leon Trotsky in a nanosecond.

A final note: the Orwellian police state is central to socialism, since the ideology is contrary to innate human nature and when fully implemented quickly ruins all that it touches and is commensurately despised in its fruition. So to force compliance is a 360 degree, 24/7 project that transcends all our institutions and culture.

That is why the woke FBI goes after counter-revolutionary parents at school board meetings or traditionalist Catholics rather than Pentagon leakers or Islamic terrorists.

That is why the FBI and the CIA respectively tried to warp the 2016 election with the phony Steele dossier and in 2020 probably did so by suppressing the truth about the “bombshell” evidence found on wayward Hunter Biden’s laptop.

That is why news disappears off Facebook and the old Twitter. That is why the order of Google search results seems bizarre. That is why Disney or Budweiser suddenly virtue signal their nihilist politics, or why Nike makes the mediocrity Colin Kaepernick a multimillionaire, or Stanford University attempts to purge vocabulary such as “citizen,” “immigrant,” and “American.”

Once socialism takes hold, every mediocrity, every ossified bureaucracy, every constipated careerist, every hack writer and nobody actor, comes out of the woodwork to find his socialist “fair share” of what he lacked in talent or accomplishment.

In the end, perhaps the best definition of socialism is simply “The endless war against merit.”
 

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Silicon Valley Stumble: Google Puts Massive Campus Construction Project on Indefinite Hold

Google’s ambitious 80-acre “Downtown West” campus project has been put on hold indefinitely as the tech giant faces its most severe cost cuts in its history, leaving San Jose’s downtown area in limbo.

CNBC reports that as Google with its most severe cost cuts in history, the internet giant’s ambitious 80-acre “Downtown West” campus project has been put on indefinite hold, leaving San Jose’s downtown area in limbo.

The construction project, which was estimated to have an economic impact of around $19 billion, has been put on hold, and there has been no communication with the contractors about when it might resume. Due to non-disclosure agreements, insiders with knowledge of the situation asked to remain anonymous. They expressed concern that the project might not reach the scope promised in the initial master plan.

According to CNBC, Google reportedly dismantled its development team for the San Jose campus. LendLease, the project’s lead developer, also fired 67 workers earlier this year, among them several senior development managers and community engagement managers. Google also took down construction updates from the project’s website.

A LendLease spokesperson stated in an emailed response that the company remains “committed in the creation of thriving mixed-use communities in the Bay Area, including the Google developments,” and still has a “significant team to aid in delivering these communities.”

Google announced in January that it would eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its workforce, in response to the worst performance of tech stocks since the 2008 financial crisis. The company is in a precarious position due to its commitment to the San Jose project, as the tech sector struggles to adjust to a post-coronavirus world that seems more hybrid and less focused on large campuses.

Silicon Valley Stumble: Google Puts Massive Campus Construction Project on Indefinite Hold (breitbart.com)

My Comment: Google went all out supporting the Biden economy and they are now paying the price. Bwahahahahahahahaha
 

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So the real question is Why would Fox get rid of their #1 audience draw (hands down highest rated in cable news ever) and most likely biggest revenue generator?
I wonder if it had to do with the Dominion suit. Was Tucker part of an undisclosed decision? Ironic the timing...
 

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Carlson was hardly the only Fox TV personality to call out Dominion... No, it was because Faux is no different than MSNBC. They can't have on air talent being honest with Americans about how pathetically corrupt our country has become.
 

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Carlson was hardly the only Fox TV personality to call out Dominion... No, it was because Faux is no different than MSNBC. They can't have on air talent being honest with Americans about how pathetically corrupt our country has become.
So I have not watched Tucker unless it was after he aired and was put on YouTube. So did Fox give him free reign, was he Live?

I am just thinking, if Dominion and all those involved with them, our Gov't, wanted to have someone go down, Tucker would be the top of their list to silenced...you never know, we have seen it Many times in our country, where is Jimmy Hoffa? We all know Big Pharma got O'Keefe fired...maybe even Tucker too. After watching your Twitter poset of Tucker going off on other Networks about Covid...


Money is not always the spoils of a lawsuit, conditions, maybe some undisclosed, take place in many cases.
 
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