NC Renegades

People tend to fool themselves. It makes what passes for their reality more palatable. It also makes it easy to exploit them.

As an example, the government is composed of two diametrically opposed political parties which seemingly do a dance with the people to switch which party is in power. The reality is that there is only one political party composed of a ruling elite class.

People living in a state of normalcy bias will not acknowledge that a problem even exists: everything will work out. People who understand that something is wrong have several options. I will not pretend to know which option is the best for someone else; I look to God for guidance for my path.

I encourage everyone to discuss their own options and build communities. I do not encourage people to continue to vote for the lesser of two evils which is still evil. I believe that the politicians who have destroyed our country have no intention of fixing what they have wrought. I understand that people do not want to leave their comfort zone and stand up. I understand that people want to be led. These are not the qualities that created our country and they will not restore our country or free our children. 

Whenever I am asked by someone for my opinion on whom they should vote for, I consistently give the following answer: Continue reading →

The signs of regime change are everywhere. From embarrassment by Russia’s success in Syria to China’s creation of its own ‘World Bank’ and SWIFT alternative, the trend of de-empirization are growing, but tonight’s news that Washington will sell oil from its strategic reserve in order to meet budget constraints and avoid default (as China takes advantage of low prices to build its own reserves) is simply stunning in its analogy of the shifting world order.

As CNN reports,

Bipartisan congressional leaders and the White House struck a major fiscal deal in principle Monday that would raise the debt ceiling and lift budget caps on both defense and domestic programs, according to congressional sources familiar with the deal.

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This deal would avoid a potential debt default on November 3, and it would reduce the chances of a government shutdown on December 11.

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The deal includes $80 billion in increased defense and domestic spending over two years‎, a senior House source told CNN.

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That new spending would be offset by sales from the strategic petroleum oil reserve, use of public airwaves for telecommunications companies and changes to the crop insurance program — among other measures. Moreover, the deal would spread out increases in Medicare premiums over time so beneficiaries don’t feel them acutely. It would also aim to preserve the Social Security disability trust fund, sources said.

 

So, to summarize, ‘Murica – the world’s reserve currency superpower and “cleanest dirty sheet in a brothel” economy is about to sell its “strategic” petroleum reserves at multi-year low prices in order to meet an ever-expanding welfare state’s needs…

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For anyone who might still be somehow unaware, the US is currently in a superpower staring match with both Russia and China. The conflict in Syria has put Moscow back on the geopolitical map (so to speak), creating an enormous amount of tension with Washington whose regional allies have been left to look on in horror as Russian airstrikes and an Iranian ground incursion dash hopes of ousting President Bashar al-Assad.

Meanwhile, in The South China Sea, Beijing has built 3,000 acres of new sovereign territory atop reefs in the Spratlys and although the reclamation effort itself isn’t unique, the scope of it most certainly is and Washington’s friends in the South Pacific are crying foul.

Beijing has continually insisted that it doesn’t intend to use the islands as military outposts, but the construction of runways and ports seems to tell a different story and so, Washington felt compelled to check things out over the summer by sending a Poseidon spy plane complete with a CNN crew to the area. Once the PLA spotted the plane the situation escalated quickly with the Chinese Navy telling US pilots to “Go Now!”

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