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World’s Billionaires Watch $1.4 Trillion in Wealth Swirl Down the Crapper Amid Market Turmoil

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 16th, 2022

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, A daily ranking of the world’s richest individuals, shows a vast amount of wealth disintegrating this year as the Federal Reserve’s blunders -intentional or not– have triggered cross-asset implosions.

The 500 wealthiest people -on the books at least- lost a shocking $1.4 trillion this year alone. On Monday’s stock market rout, billionaires lost $206 billion.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao experienced the steepest losses amid the crypto meltdown. Bloomberg’s data shows he lost a whopping $85.6 billion as of Tuesday. His total net worth is now only $10.2 billion.

Only $10 billion? He might as well file for bankruptcy!

Jeff Bezos is next on the list, losing $66.8 billion this year, with a total net worth of $125.5 billion. Mark Zuckerberg lost $64.4 billion, now only worth $60.9 billion. Elon Musk lost $61.6 billion but still secured a solid $208.7 billion stockpile of wealth as the world’s richest person. Doesn’t your heart just ache for these guys?

Bezos, Musk, Bernard Arnault (top luxury designer and CEO of luxury goods company LVMH), Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates round out the top five spots for the world’s wealthiest people. 

In contrast, the largest gainers of net wealth this year include Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Dubai-based Swiss billionaire entrepreneur Guillaume Pousaz. 

In a separate report via Capgemini World Wealth we see the monetary response by global central banks increased the world’s population of high-net-worth individuals jumped 8% in 2021. It showed that the US, Japan, China, and Germany are home to 64% of the world’s billionaires. 

Gains in net worth first began to reverse in late 2021 when the Federal Reserve and other central banks started to communicate to markets about how an inflation problem (now a stagflation caca-storm) would be met with hawkishness or rate hikes. Global stocks reversed in late December and have been spiraling lower ever since.

It will only take a few oversized rate hikes by the Fed this summer to get recession fears to flourish and market participants to start pricing in the next round of easing — that will be the moment when billionaires get richer. 

Corporate-Sponsored, Transhumanist ‘Feminism’: The X-Factor in the Baby Formula Shortage

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Ben Bartee,
June 16th, 2022

From the 10,000-foot view, corporate-sponsored Third Wave feminism is a much under-appreciated — but by no means the only — causal reason that American mothers can’t find the Chinese factory-produced GMO “baby formula”* feed that so many families rely on.

(*Clarification on the definition of “baby formula”: The commercially-produced stuff is mostly GMO corn and soy protein with a few industrial poorly-bioavailable “nutrients” sprinkled in. In the before-times, “baby formula” was called “breast milk.” In a better world, actually nutritious “baby formula” would also be possible to synthesize artificially.)

Yes, some women have legitimate medical reasons (not sociocultural ones, which are far more likely and which we’ll discuss here) that prevent them from breastfeeding. They need food desperately, and now can’t get it. No one should minimize that, or victim-blame.

And, yes, supply-chain disruptions induced by draconian COVID lockdowns — ironically and sadistically marketed as “Public Health©” measures — partially triggered the discrepancy in supply and demand. So did a shutdown of one of only a handful of formula-producing US factories by the FDA because they were allegedly producing toxic baby feed.

All granted.

But those factors alone don’t tell the whole story.

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In her teary farewell performance, outgoing WH Spokescreature Jen Psaki talked as little as possible about the inability of Americans to feed their children with the GMO puree they depend on. In a sane world, with a functional government, making sure babies don’t starve to death would be priority #1 for the executive branch.

The ostensible purpose of the executive branch is to execute effective public policy. In other words, to set the necessary conditions that allow for material subsistence.

Psaki, though, preferred to deliver an Oscars-style speech thanking her sponsors for her position, and her new, even more lucrative position on MSNBC:

“You know, this is my last briefing… And I wanted to start with a series of thank yous. And I promised myself I wasn’t going to get emotional. Whew. Okay.”

Mothers in America can’t buy basic materials to feed their children and this shameless narcissist has the gall to take time out of her official briefing to congratulate herself on her “integrity” and “civility.”

When pressed gently on the baby formula crisis, Psaki offered a novel solution. Americans don’t actually need more baby food – they need to get it rationed to limit the filthy eaters from grubbing up too much sustenance:

“As it relates to baby formula, what we know is that we are certainly seeing, and we have seen, hoarding happen… That’s an issue where if there’s caps — and this is something we have been working to institute — on the number of containers that can be purchased, that will help.”
-WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 13, 2022

We’ve reached literal Hunger Games-tier Kabuki Theater.

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How did this happen? As previously acknowledged, the two immediate and most obvious causal effects are supply chain breakdown and a Michigan factory – reliant, by the way, on trans-Pacific Chinese GMO agri-slop to operate — turning off the spigot.

But that’s a short-sighted assessment.

Third-wave corporate “intersectional” feminism contributes to millions of American mothers’ dependency on “baby formula.”

Feminism per se doesn’t have to be as toxic as its current manifestation.

Women should probably be allowed to vote if voting is how public decisions get made. Done. That was the First Wave.

And, okay, women should be able to work productively for decent pay without worrying about their bosses getting handsy with them. Sure. That, in a nutshell, was the Second Wave. Now employers have to pay women commensurately with men and they can’t fondle them next to the water cooler. Those are positive developments.

In these regards, Western institutions have done more to accommodate the desires of women for greater social power than any civilization in history.

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Of course, the “Social Progress©” didn’t stop there.

The corporate-sponsored Third Wave is not about equal rights for women. Its sole agenda, under the guise of “human rights,” is destroying the same Western society that nurtured earlier versions of the feminism movement. And not just annihilating Western society – but the essence of human biology itself.

Having a stable family is branded as something dirty, and harmful.

Childlessness, or dereliction of maternal duties, in contrast, is marketed as liberating and ultra-trendy. The model of virtue for women of the Western world is now intersectional Rosie the Riveter, jackhammering the Patriarchy into submission.

Careerism is celebrated and motherhood is denigrated.

As a consequence, fully one-fifth of American newborns get fed “formula” straightaway. Almost half are on “formula” after six months. That’s not accommodation for women with a medical or rare logistical issue who can’t breastfeed – that’s a social trend, a lifestyle.

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Cheerleading single parenthood — with mothers working dead-end near-minimum-wage jobs while the baby is God-knows-where in the back of some dank government care facility learning about preferred pronouns and sucking down Chinese GMO corn feed — doesn’t make women happier or more fulfilled.

All it does is further destabilize the foundational social structure of the West, drive intergenerational increases in mental illness, and bankroll the $55 billion “baby formula” industry.

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This baby formula thing didn’t have to become a national crisis. It’s, again, the culmination of decades of anti-human social engineering undertaken under the guise of “Progress©”.

If the social engineers could, at this current moment, rip babies from their mothers’ custody straight out of the womb to be programmed in government centers – or better yet, mechanically produced altogether absent human involvement Brave New World-style — they would.

At present, they understand that going full techno-fascist in the reproductive sphere would destabilize their social engineering project to turn a man into a machine.

But never conflate their current inability to execute their goals with their long-term commitment to meeting that vision.

Bill Gates and Co. are hard at work rendering biological motherhood, and, ultimately, biology itself, obsolete.

Electric Car Investors/Insiders are Leading Biden Electric Vehicle Agenda

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 15th, 2022

President Biden’s Secretary of Energy and former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, is the latest Democrat to suggest the solution to high gas prices is to buy a $60,000 electric vehicle.

A tweet from the RNC on Tuesday shows Granholm making a case for “going electric” as a way to avoid skyrocketing gas prices.

“If you filled up your EV [electric vehicle] and you filled up your gas tank with gasoline, you would save $60 per fill-up by going electric rather than using gasoline… it’s a very compelling case, but again, we want to bring down the price at the point of purchase,” Granholm said.

Of course, Granholm neglects to mention the glaring hypocrisy and environmental drawbacks associated with Lithium-Ion batteries or where the energy to power said batteries really comes from.

The comments by Granholm follow the record-setting surge in gas prices, which have now pushed over $5 per gallon. 

According to Fox News, Granholm made similar points in a White House press briefing in May 2021.

“If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you,” she said during the briefing. 

According to Forbes, Granholm is worth roughly $8 million, but here’s where it gets interesting.

Granholm recently served as the director of an electric car company called Proterra. In May, she exercised stock options in the company, pocketing about $1.6 million from the transaction, according to an energy department spokesperson.

Environmentalism is an admiral cause, but as with most things, discernment is required to ensure you are actually contributing to a cleaner world and not just lining somebody’s pocket.

The Inappropriate Relationship Between the FBI and the Mainstream Media

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 15th, 2022

A report from the Washington Free Beacon has revealed that the FBI’s top national security official had dozens of improper meetings with journalists, something that has historically been seen as “dangerous”.

The FBI Official in question, Michael Steinbach, met regularly with a cadre of select mainstream “reporters” regularly between the years 2014 to 2017. Upon his retirement, Steinbach was granted a cushy position as the head of fraud prevention at Citi, but kept in close contact with the circle of establishment media personnel.

According to an FBI inspector general’s report obtained by the Beacon, Steinbach had “at least 27 in-person meetings with seven media members outside of FBI headquarters” between April 2014 and February 2017. 

The FBI is supposed to prevent its employees from accepting gifts from “prohibited sources”, without prior authorization from the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA).

In the report, an OPA representative says that Steinbach’s meetings and the events he attended with the press were not approved and would likely not have been approved. “You’re putting people into positions that are untenable. You know, nobody from OPA is there to chaperone. Nobody is there to set the ground rules. You never know what can be said. You don’t know under what conditions it can be said. So it can lead to a lot of problems,” the unidentified OPA officer said.

Unfortunately, the FBI had lost its credibility well before this most recent expose. There is no shortage of instances where the FBI has blatantly violated its sacred duty. 

A few examples worth recalling here include:

  •  Former Director James Comey constantly injected himself into the 2016 election through a ceaseless stream of editorializing his then-ongoing investigation into then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
  • During Robert Mueller’s special investigation, the FBI implausibly claimed it had no idea how requested information on FBI cellphones mysteriously disappeared.
  • Under Comey’s directorship, the FBI submitted inaccurate requests for warrants to a FISA court. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith forged elements of an affidavit to surveil Trump supporter Carter Page; he later pleaded guilty to a felony.
  • The FBI hired the disreputable ex-British spy Christopher Steele as a contractor while he was peddling his fantasy — the Clinton-bought dossier — to Obama government officials and the media. 
  • Comey flagrantly leaked to the media on many occasions, including confidential memos detailing private meetings with President Donald Trump. 
  • Inspector General Horowitz reviewed 29 random FISA applications and found that the FBI was “not meeting the expectations of its own protocols.”

To learn more about how the FBI has no oversight ensuring that the Bureau operates in the best interest of the American People and not as a personal police force for the corpo/political elite, read our article: No Oversight: Who Does the FBI Really Work For?

OpEd: Now That the CDC Got Caught Abusing Sacred Navajo Indigenous Peoples of Color© Privacy Rights, Maybe the Left Will Care

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Ben Bartee

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

The corporate left and their legion of lobotomized NPC robots cheerlead when legacy MAGA Americans get caught in the crosshairs of the Deep State surveillance state.

That’s liberal and loving. Because those are Our Values©. Running roughshod over the Constitutional rights of “white nationalists” (leftist code for “whoever disagrees with us”) is, of course, how Democracy© works.

Here’s an excerpt from a Signal conversation with an otherwise intelligent and empathetic SF-based friend concerning the recent advent of the Department of Homeland Security’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ — the Empire’s new technological terror project to subvert Constitutional protections of free speech.

 

(I have to supply my friend with CNN articles because Bill Gates-funded fact-checking scams have convinced him that those are the only “authoritative” sources of information. Otherwise, he won’t even read information I relay on the grounds that it’s a Russian disinformation psy-op or whatever.)

Somewhat surprisingly, my friend hadn’t even heard of the ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ – even after its creation had dominated corporate media headlines for over a week.

Despite being totally team DNC, he’s usually better informed about stuff going on, especially when it saturates social media to the extent that corporate media is forced to cover it.

Here was his reply.

 

“If it’s pissing off right-wingers, it must be good.”

This is now a near-universal knee-jerk reaction to abuse of government power among overeducated coastal elites.

For brevity’s sake, we’ll only mention in passing the glaring fact, which I pointed out, that the US government is the biggest misinformer in recorded history.

That’s the entire job of the State Department.

 

US Secretary of State Colin Powell displays to the world rock-solid evidence of Saddam’s non-existent WMD program so start a war, Feb 5, 2003

Maybe, though – just maybe — the mindless leftist NPCs might be a little more sympathetic to civil liberties proponents once they learn of the dystopian surveillance grid enacted upon the native sacred Persons of Color© in addition to MAGA.

Via VICE:

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by Motherboard.”

It’s a sad state of affairs — and it says a lot about far Western civilization has fallen — but the only way to convince anyone on the “left” to stand up for civil liberties anymore is to try to make a connection, however tangential, to grievance-based identity politics.

The American Civil Liberties Union, for one, isn’t riding in on a white horse. That organization is now far more interested in promoting fascistic vaccine mandates while claiming they somehow “further civil liberties” and congratulating themselves for hiring racial tokens to leadership positions than protecting Americans’ civil liberties.

 

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.