NC Renegades

h/t Ken Gullo

Concerning my article on war being our only option:

Concerning optics:

If you have not yet watched this weasel, I recommend it: you have to know your enemy. Every time Mr. Sund said his men (the Capitol police) were having their asses handed to them by unarmed protesters, I wondered how many other lies he was telling to sell his book. His refrain of not understanding why the National Guard was not deployed at the Capitol fedsurrection was pitiful. Pelosi and McConnell wanted the fedsurrection to secure Biden’s false ascension to the Presidency. They did not want the National Guard being deployed and joining with the people who were being instigated and attacked by the Capitol Police. Remember the treatment of our military who were deployed to “protect” the Capital?

Guard in DC forced to sleep in garages, sparking outcry

I do not want war but the government does. Any and every war. The more people who die, the better it is in their evil minds. Here is the government’s theme song praising their master:

Sane people do not want war. Sane people also know when the only option left is to fight. For anyone who has a better analysis, please comment below with a cogent response. Keep in mind that if wishes were horses, dreamers would ride.

I suspect Biden’s days are numbered as he has outlived his usefulness to the powers that be. I will give Biden credit for one thing: picking Kamala for VP. This decision has prolonged his life as even the powers that be do not want a Harris administration.

David DeGerolamo

India’s consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation rose sharply to 7.44 per cent in July, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics  and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Monday. This is considerably higher than 4.87 per cent in June.

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What about the United States?

The CPI for all food increased 0.1 percent from May 2023 to June 2023, and food prices were 5.7 percent higher than in June 2022.

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Consumer inflation eases grip on U.S. households

Food prices, which have pressured Americans’ budgets for more than two years, rose a mild 0.2% from June to July. Eggs, meat, beer and dairy products all declined in price, though food is still up 4.9% over the past 12 months.

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We are told that inflation is falling so the Federal Reserve will not raise their discount rate. This “fact” also put negative pressure on the prices of gold and silver. What is the truth? We have to go no further than the grocery store or gas station to see what is true.

Here is a perfect example of government propaganda:

Not So Fast With The CPI Celebrations: Rents Are Surging Again And Back To Record Highs

The good news is that as the CPI report continues to lag the actual economic data with its traditional 12-month lag, rents have continued to slide, and in fact the latest Apartment List data showed that the “rental market hit a big milestone this month, as national rent growth is finally negative year-over-year.”

This means that on average across the nation, apartments today are renting for less than they did one year ago. This marks a major deceleration from recent years, when annual rent growth neared 18% nationally and soared to over 40% in a handful of popular cities.

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While Apartment List’s rent index may itself be lagging the price data by a few months due to compilation and calculation delays, that of real estate brokerage RedFin appears to be even more accurate and “real-time”, and has found that after rising since the start of the year, the median US asking rent in July was $2,038, just $16 below the record high set in August 2022.

In other words, not only is the YoY rental print about to turn positive again, it will do so just as rents print a new all time high!

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The government uses smoke and mirrors to hide a collapsing economy. Just in time for a world war where the US has depleted its energy reserves (I wonder who got the money from the strategic oil reserve), no ammunition (sent to Ukraine), a woke military and an illegal government that wants to rule over the ashes of the nation.

Keep your eyes on the truth that is clearly discerned. Keep your faith by following the path set out for you by the Lord. Be vigilant and maintain operational security or you may end up like Jim Stone.

David DeGerolamo

he Taliban government in Afghanistan – the nation that until recently produced 90% of the world’s heroin – has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country. Western sources estimate an up to 99% reduction in some provinces. This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years. And, as global heroin supplies dry up, experts tell MintPress News that they fear this could spark the growing use of fentanyl – a drug dozens of times stronger than heroin that already kills more than 100,000 Americans yearly.

It has already been called “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.” Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, cutting down Afghanistan’s poppy fields.

In April of last year, the ruling Taliban government announced the prohibition of poppy farming, citing both their strong religious beliefs and the extremely harmful social costs that heroin and other opioids – derived from the sap of the poppy plant – have wrought across Afghanistan.

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h/t A Sleeping Giant

The AFU did not succeed in the counteroffensive, but still “Ukraine defeats Russia”

The Times comes to such a contradictory conclusion.

The publication says that “Ukraine has now largely abandoned bold promises of imminent victories. Instead, we are talking about individual villages taken, about company-level efforts achieved or thwarted.”

In general, the authors of the article come to the conclusion that Kiev’s victory should not be expected by Christmas.

The date for holiday was changed in vain (https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng/4164).

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SIGAR provides independent and objective oversight of the $147.06 billion the U.S. has provided to implement reconstruction programs in Afghanistan. SIGAR’s core value of excellence, independence, and integrity guide its audits, investigations, and inspections. 

Meet the Inspector General and His Leadership Team

John F. Sopko was sworn in as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction on July 2, 2012. Mr. Sopko, appointed to the post by President Obama , has more than 30 years of experience in oversight and investigations as a prosecutor, congressional counsel, and senior federal government advisor.

His senior leadership team includes individuals with extensive experience in:

• Military and foreign policy issues.
• Congressional affairs.
• Executive branch service.

They are committed to fair and aggressive oversight during the critical transition period in Afghanistan.

SIGAR is the U.S. government’s leading agency on Afghanistan reconstruction. SIGAR staff are committed to uncovering fraud, waste and abuse – and to providing policymakers with the independent analysis they need to make informed decisions on one of the complex foreign policy issues facing the United States.

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How is this working out for the United States?

Biden administration has given $2.35 BILLION to the Taliban since the withdrawal

Since the fall of Afghanistan, the U.S. has forked over funds to groups under the brutal Taliban regime to the tune of $2.35 billion. 

That’s according to a new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), released to the public on Tuesday. 

Another $1.7 billion ‘remained available for possible disbursement’ at the time of the report, dated July 30.

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How much of this money went to 10% for the big guy?

David DeGerolamo

Botach is having a back to school sale:

BattleSteel Backpack Armor Panels & Plates

https://botach.com/battlesteel-backpack-armor-panels-plates/

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Who is to blame for putting our children’s lives at risk? The answer is the government and law enforcement. Unsecured borders, gender perversion brainwashing, poor teachers and a federal department of education dictating policy that is a state’s right have all contributed to a brain dead populace. What do we get for “educating” our children in public schools? Not much.

Public education spending in the United States falls short of global benchmarks and lags behind economic growth; K-12 schools spend $666.9 billion or $13,185 per pupil annually.

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Imagine twenty students per classroom. That is $263,700 spent per class. In 2022, the average public school teacher salary was $66,397, an increase of $1,104 or 1.69% from 2021. Where does the other $197,000 per class go. Keep in mind that is per classroom; multiply that figure by the US average of 18.6 classrooms leaves $3.7 million annually per school for infrastructure, maintenance and administrative costs. And that does not include the Department of Education’s budget.

SUMMARY OF THE 2023 BUDGET REQUEST

The fiscal year 2023 Budget Request continues to make good on President Biden’s commitment to reverse years of underinvestment in Federal education programs and, building on the fiscal year 2022 Budget Request and investments in the American Rescue Plan, continues to address the significant inequities that millions of students—disproportionately students of color—families, and educators confront every day in underserved schools and colleges across America. While the main challenge over the past two years has been safely re-opening schools for in-person instruction, the COVID-19 pandemic has also changed the
education landscape moving forward. The fiscal year 2023 President’s Budget for the Department of Education would make historic investments in the Nation’s future prosperity including by increasing aid for schools with high-poverty rates; helping meet the needs of students with disabilities; and expanding access to higher education and increasing college completion.

Overall, the fiscal year 2023 Budget requests $88.3 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Education, a $15.3 billion or 20.9 percent increase from the 2021 enacted level (less rescissions). The President is also committed to working with Congress to enact his plan to lower costs for American families and expand the productive capacity of the American economy. This plan includes proposals to cut college costs, including through tuition-free community college and expanded support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and support families with access to free, high-quality preschool.

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Most people do not know that our prison system is based on making money. More prisoners means more profit. It appears that the educational system is based on the same model except our children have no security in their government sponsored daycare. As the plandemic proved, our children are not learning much in school other than propaganda.

What is a valid course of action? Take your children out of public schools, edify their religious foundation and take away their social media interfaces and television. Or you can buy a back to school armor plated backpack.

David DeGerolamo

via WRSA

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I laughed at the above tweet. But then I wondered why she wanted to see pictures of babies.

David DeGerolamo

Additional laugh from WRSA:

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This message concerns posting information on the movie “Sound of Freedom”.

Is Jim C part of it – possibly. Is Glenn Beck part of it possibly. Look at Tim Ballard’s background it fits perfectly for deception and when you weave in other tells such as LDS, adopting lots of kids, lies, lawsuits, strange reports on filming for Sounds of Freedom and so much more the smoke indicates a fire not to be trusted. Please research anyone you are saying to donate your money to. I”ve given this many my time and money and he’s creating quite the front that I now know to be a facade. I also believe Glenn Beck is part of this and why he’s has recently gotten involved with Tim. They are securing their own pipelines. Nothing is as it seems. I know you need material for your show but you’re pimping the devil.

Since I do not do a show, I suspect she is referring to a WRSA radio post on NCRenegade. However, I did see the movie which is based on real life events. I have never seen anything that would make me consider Tim Ballard’s work anything other than the work of the Lord. What kind of person would make an accusation that this means “pimping the devil”?

David DeGerolamo

From a comment on NCRenegade:

Name one country that has achieved peace and harmony after a civil war.

Let us define the term civil war:

a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country

I will name one country: the united States of America. I used the proper spelling as was written in the Declaration of Independence. The founding fathers understood the problems of a strong central federal government (federacy) vs. the power of the people organized into strong states’ overseeing the central government (confederacy). This is why they used “u” instead of “U” in the Declaration of Independence.

We have three options to consider “remediating” tyranny in the United States:

1. Alien invasion.
2. Earth shifting on its axis.
3. War

I am a practical man so obviously options 1 and 2 will not be discussed further. Option 3 is either a civil war or a world war. The traitors who overthrew the Republic are pushing a world war. We can only speculate why they want a scorched earth option of our country. Civil war or world war both require blood and treasure. In the case of a civil war, there will be more blood than treasure (not that there is much treasure left to our bankrupt country).

I am not trying to marginalize the comment. I do not want to fight. I did not buy my first firearm until I was 53 years old. Now I am a registered NRA instructor with a firing range at the community center. The peace that we all seek will only come at the barrel of a gun because Communists rule the country.

People can discuss our options at great length or on a keyboard BUT we all know what is coming (or already here). Apathy, propaganda and greed allowed our Liberty to be stolen. George Washington was in a meeting before the Revolutionary War where the principals were deciding on whether to petition King George again for redress of grievances. He replied “The time for petitions is over”. We do not even petition our usurpers in Washington, D.C. in our surrender.

I wrote an article in 2012 asking why we were not out in the streets. At that time, our national debt was $15.5 trillion or half of what it currently is ($32.69 trillion). I cannot quantify our loss in Liberty since 2012 as we no longer have a Republic. I will not provide a list of grievances or any options to petition traitors.

I will make a statement that will offend many people (something that I seem to do regularly). There is no option to restore Liberty that does not include bloodshed. The amount of patriot blood that will be shed is much more than what would have been shed in 2012. Unfortunately, the evil that we must fight may be insurmountable at this time. Blood shed will not necessarily restore Liberty. It may restore some of our nation’s Sacred Honor but if we lose, that will be a pyrrhic victory.

I do not think it is a breach of operational security to tell those of us who have honor and a firm reliance on Divine Providence that we have no choice other than to fight evil.

David DeGerolamo

h/t Dan Morgan

Doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a lawyer representing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week.

“FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

The case was brought by three doctors who allege the FDA unlawfully interfered with their practice of medicine with the statements.

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A federal judge dismissed the case in 2022, prompting an appeal.

“The fundamental issue in this case is straightforward. After the FDA approves the human drug for sale, does it then have the authority to interfere with how that drug is used within the doctor-patient relationship? The answer is no,” Jared Kelson, representing the doctors, told the appeals court.

The FDA on Aug. 21, 2021, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: 

“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

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