NC Renegades

At least 20 million households — or about 1 in 6 American homes — are behind on their power bills as soaring electricity prices spark what is said to be the worst-ever crisis in late utility payments, according to Bloomberg, citing data from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (Neada).

Neada said electricity prices had increased significantly since 2020 after a decade of stagnation. The steep rise has resulted in billions of dollars in overdue power bills.

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This article is not about overdue electric bills as this is just one of many signs of a failed economy operating under an illegal government. The people who still work and want a better future for their children can barely pay for food and gas. The same story has been written for cell phone bills. People are relying on credit cards to make up the deficit in their monthly budget but this is a stop gap measure with bad consequences.

Where does this leave people who want to do the right thing and just be left alone?

David DeGerolamo

I just want to state: I’m no fan of Trump. He deficit spent like no other, pressured the Federal Reserve to goose the stock and housing markets driving wealth inequality even further, gave hundreds of billions to Big Pharma to create a shitty vaccine that the subsequent administration then used to oppress and ostracize the working class, and bombed the sh_t out of the Middle East. That said, I prefer him to any of the last five presidents and believe a sitting President wielding law enforcement agencies to persecute political opponents should make everyone uneasy regardless of whom its used against. 

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While the morals of Donald Trump are questionable, I agree that he was preferable to any of the last five Presidents. The questions remain about how the Republic was overthrown, our country bankrupted and our work ethic destroyed. Do you want answers to these questions? Do you want vengeance against traitors? Do you think there is a way out of this where we can restore the Republic?

I know that anyone placing their faith in the upcoming elections is part of the problem. I know that there is no solution to saving this country except a meteor or a war. Wars solve a multitude of problems for the wrong reasons but no one wins in world. And no good candidates win in elections as we have learned the hard way. While no side truly wins in a war, I do not believe a meteor is coming our way. Pray for divine Providence so that we act morally and walk the path He intends for us.

David DeGerolamo

One of Bill Barr’s resume enhancers that contributed to the corruption of the DOJ and the FBI. The first time in our history that shoot to kill orders were issued just for being an adult at the site.

David DeGerolamo

h/t CFP

While the DOJ and FBI (and other nonsense 3 letter agencies) await their marching orders from the CIA, we can at least laugh at them and their well deserved incompetence.

David DeGerolamo

The Taliban has extensive assets in Pakistan and they are provoking a civil war in order to take control of the country. This will enable the Taliban to have nuclear missiles. Pakistan has the fifth largest population and has the second most number of Muslims based on nations.

While the government of Pakistan is banning information about these “insurrections” on the Internet, the United States also has a vested interest in suppressing the collapse of the current regime. The Taliban are using the weapons left by Biden in his Afghanistan retreat fiasco to take over Pakistan.

While a black swan event is not evident prior to its release or impact, the following triggers are known and are being suppressed:

1. The Taliban’s attempt take over Pakistan.
2. Turkey’s invasion in Syria against the Kurds to deflect Turkey’s economic collapse.
3. North Korea’s resumption of missile testing and its new alliance with Russia.
4. China’s response concerning US imperialism with Taiwan.
5. The ramifications of Europe’s energy crisis, economic collapse and drought.

NATO is falling apart as Russia controls Europe’s energy (and therefore everything else). The US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is history. Ukraine is bombing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to start WWIII. Venezuela has sided with Russia and cut off oil exports to Europe. The US is sending our energy to Europe as our costs necessarily skyrocket. And Ukraine has assassinated Darya Dugina in Russia to provoke Putin into starting WWIII.

Biden’s response: a two week vacation at the beach. I don’t know about you but I have a bad feeling that the dam is about to burst.

David DeGerolamo

Regardless of who wins the Ukrainian war, the United States will be the strategic loser. Russia will build closer relations with China and other countries on the Eurasian continent, including India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states. It will turn irrevocably away from European democracies and Washington. Just as President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger played the “China card” to isolate the Soviet Union during the Cold War, presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will play their cards in a bid to contain U.S. global leadership.

Knowing that it can no longer keep Europe as its top energy customer, Moscow has logically moved to grow its fossil fuels sales with Asia, notably China and India. Since the Ukraine invasion, Russia has become China’s top oil provider, replacing Saudi Arabia. It is true that in the short to medium term, transfer capacity will limit how much more fossil fuels Russia can sell to China. Russia currently has just one overland oil route to China, the ESPO pipeline. The only gas pipeline currently in operation is Power of Siberia. Pipeline sales of both oil and gas are supplemented by seaborne routes to mainland China. In the years ahead, China and Russia will doubtlessly make substantial investments to expand oil and gas transmission between the two countries, better enabling Russia to be the primary supplier of fossil fuels to China. The Chinese will likely be able to reduce their dependence on fossil fuel shipments from the Middle East which must pass through vulnerable naval choke points such as the Malacca Straits.

Closer energy relations between China and Russia will help to draw them closer as strategic allies with “no limits” on the Eurasian continent. By having a committed Russian energy supplier in its backyard, China will inevitably obtain more strategic flexibility for dealing with the United States and its Indo-Pacific regional allies, all to the detriment of Western democracies.

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h/t CFP