investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--A Serious Message From Chris Martenson

A Serious Message From Chris Martenson

Like a windstorm toppling a hollowed-out tree , SARS-CoV-2 didn ’ t cause the current recession so much as it exposed how rotten things already were .
Even before SARS-CoV-2 , households were struggling .
Far too many were limping along without any savings at all , one crisis away from financial ruin .
Debts at every level were at record highs before SARS-CoV-2 came along , and the Federal Reserve was already busy bailing out the US financial system before the virus hit .
The shale oil industry had failed to generate any profits for over a decade before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide wealth gap was already record levels before we were forced into lockdown .
What the coronavirus pandemic has done , though , is give the ruling authorities aircover to accelerate all of these trends to warp speed .
Billionaires have been , by far , the largest winners in this story so far .
Ditto for mega corporations .
Main Street and small and medium-sized businesses have been utterly crushed .
Where the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 could have been — and should have been — a wake-up call to operate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was used instead as an excuse to make things even worse .
No bank executives were charged or even went to jail for any crimes they played in bringing the financial system to the brink of disaster .
Accounting deceit , wire fraud , and forgery — anybody remember ‘ robosigning ’ ?
That was forgery , a felony , and not one charge was ever leveled .
Instead , the Too Big To Fail banks were bailed out and got bigger at the expense of smaller , more responsible firms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ laid bare our true value systems .
Some countries have done an admirable job of showing they care about their citizens , making public safety and health their top priority .
Other countries , such as mine ( the US ) , have demonstrated the opposite .
When it comes to making judgment , I look at actions much more than words .
What have been the actions of the US authorities so far ?
• The Federal Reserve swooped in to assure that the wealthy got even wealthier .
• The CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared or deployed until months after many other countries did .
• $ Billions and $ billions were smoothly and rapidly delivered to the largest institutions , corporations and wealthiest households .
• But only a single $ 1200 stimulus check has been sent to the poorest of American families .
Well , most of them , but many are still waiting for their stimulus checks .
Every household sandwiched between the rich and the poor has received nothing .
In other words , the Fed has made its # 1 priority the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already-rich , while the federal government has made clear that public health isn ’ t really a priority at all .
The unfairness and legal and moral wrongness of this next bit of news stunned even long-time skeptics like myself : I object strenuously to any taxpayer money , my money , being sent to any and all religious organizations ( I ’ m a big believer in the separation of church and state ) .
But to do so to help the Catholic church cover shortfalls due to payouts to victims of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s just…I ’ m out of words .
But more often than not , that ’ s the business the federal government is in : protecting the abusers , not the victims .
Thousands of hedge funds and other extremely wealthy financial firms are similarly feeding from the same trough of substantial taxpayer payouts .
But where real support is needed ?
The free money river has never been more than a trickle .
Testing for SARS-CoV-2 has been throttled back due to lack of funding .
Hospitals remain chronically short of critical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ households were unable to make last month ’ s mortgage payment .
As I said , these dots simply reveal the values and priorities of those running the show .
If I were to use a single word to sum things up , it would be : greed .
Anything and everything that funnels money from the many into the pockets of the few is being done and done swiftly .
Anything monies directed to the well-being of the masses is being done slowly , grudgingly , and sparingly ( if at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crisis go to waste ” is the motto of current crowd in charge .
I am asked all the time to decide between Covid-19 being real or this whole thing being a scam .
To which I reply , “ why not both ?
” The elites have all the power and they have no interest in sharing any of it .
They are too blinded by greed and driven by fear to do otherwise .
In this way , they pretty much have won .
They ’ ll print up however much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to themselves — after , of course , laundering it through the “ “ markets ” ” to create the appearance that fairness was actually involved .
But we all know it ’ s not .
The data is crystal clear : Wall Street ’ s mighty siphons assure that nearly all of the Fed ’ s freshly printed money goes straight into the pockets of the most well-connected players .
As I ’ ve taken pains to point out , given all the public ’ s focus on Black Lives Matter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called out for being a nearly pure-white organization whose efforts overwhelmingly funnel additional funds to white households .
Whether by design or accident , the Federal Reserve ’ s actions do more to cement racial inequality than any other entity , group , or organization in existence .
By far .
Looked at another way , Trump is soothed by the stock market hitting new all-time highs and I believe this has blunted the seriousness with which he takes SARS-CoV-2 .
In jamming the stock markets higher , I see the Federal Reserve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US response to Covid , which has already cost far too many people their lives and many more people their health .
Of course , intervening in the financial markers to push them higher during an election year is a profoundly political act .
Something the Fed has absolutely no business doing .
Put all that together and the Federal Reserve is a partisan , political organization that is costing people their lives and health while promoting racial inequality .
Yet it ’ s given a nearly free pass on all of that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ watchdog for truth .
Hardly is Fed Chair Jerome Powell ever asked a single daunting question along these lines .
Our health organizations like the CDC and the WHO are similarly compromised and complicit , too shot through with political intrigue and pharma money to be of any help .
All of which is both shameful and self-injurious , because if we ’ d like to avoid a very dark future filled with societal unraveling , then the Fed ’ s dangerous actions need to be brought to heel .
And soon .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I don ’ t see much hope of the Fed changing its ways .
It has proven it can ’ t be goaded or shamed into introspection or altering course .
All of which is my way of saying that I am bracing for impact .
I simply don ’ t know what else to do .
We are on our own .
It ’ s time to consider how you will provide your family with the basics , the very bottom layers of Maslow ’ s Hierarchy of Needs — water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health & safety — if the systems we depend on today start weakening : When people are busy moving down the Hierarchy of Needs , that means society is crumbling .
And folks are already indeed moving .
Literally .
Real estate for sale in Manhattan is piling up without takers , while more rural properties are being snapped up .
Gardens are being planted and guns are being bought .
SARS-CoV-2 has taught many lessons and revealed much .
To me , it ’ s revealed that the elites as led by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from accelerating inequity until being forced to stop .
Whether that will occur via social revolution , the destruction of the purchasing power of the US dollar , or something else , I don ’ t know .
But I do know that whatever it is , it won ’ t be the cause of all the misery that will follow .
The true culprits are the current and former managers ( not leaders ) with the Fed and within the DC beltway who failed to protect the vulnerable , set reasonable policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So my advice is to brace for impact .
There ’ s nothing any of us can do to affect national monetary policy or stop the major unraveling trends already set in motion , but we can do our best to step outside harm ’ s way and tend the welfare of ourselves and those we care about as the system falters .
In Part 2 : Brace For Impact !
I share the key indicators that have me most concerned about the nearness of the next systemic shock , as well as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now using whatever time remains available to you .
We are facing unprecedented challenges that are accelerating at a faster rate than at any other time in human history .
Every day we have left to prepare prudently is a gift .
Use the time wisely .

by Chris Martenson
Like a windstorm toppling a hollowed-out tree, SARS-CoV-2 didn’t cause the current recession so much as it exposed how rotten things already were.
Even before SARS-CoV-2, households were struggling. Far too many were limping along without any savings at all, one crisis away from financial ruin.
Debts at every level were at record highs before SARS-CoV-2 came along, and the Federal Reserve was already busy bailing out the US financial system before the virus hit.
The shale oil industry had failed to generate any profits for over a decade before anyone ever heard of Covid19.
The worldwide wealth gap was already record levels before we were forced into lockdown.
What the coronavirus pandemic has done, though, is give the ruling authorities aircover to accelerate all of these trends to warp speed.
Billionaires have been, by far, the largest winners in this story so far. Ditto for mega corporations. Main Street and small and medium-sized businesses have been utterly crushed.
Where the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 could have been — and should have been — a wake-up call to operate the system more equitably and sustainably, it was used instead as an excuse to make things even worse.
No bank executives were charged or even went to jail for any crimes they played in bringing the financial system to the brink of disaster. Accounting deceit, wire fraud, and forgery — anybody remember ‘robosigning’? That was forgery, a felony, and not one charge was ever leveled. Instead, the Too Big To Fail banks were bailed out and got bigger at the expense of smaller, more responsible firms.
My point here is that SARS-CoV-2 has laid bare our true value systems. Some countries have done an admirable job of showing they care about their citizens, making public safety and health their top priority. Other countries, such as mine (the US), have demonstrated the opposite.
When it comes to making judgment, I look at actions much more than words. What have been the actions of the US authorities so far?
The Federal Reserve swooped in to assure that the wealthy got even wealthier. The CDC couldn’t get effective test kits prepared or deployed until months after many other countries did. $Billions and $billions were smoothly and rapidly delivered to the largest institutions, corporations and wealthiest households. But only a single $1200 stimulus check has been sent to the poorest of American families. Well, most of them, but many are still waiting for their stimulus checks. Every household sandwiched between the rich and the poor has received nothing.
In other words, the Fed has made its #1 priority the preservation of the financial advantages of the already-rich, while the federal government has made clear that public health isn’t really a priority at all.
The unfairness and legal and moral wrongness of this next bit of news stunned even long-time skeptics like myself:
(Source)
I object strenuously to any taxpayer money, my money, being sent to any and all religious organizations (I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state). But to do so to help the Catholic church cover shortfalls due to payouts to victims of institutionalized pedophilia? Really, that’s just…I’m out of words.
But more often than not, that’s the business the federal government is in: protecting the abusers, not the victims.
Thousands of hedge funds and other extremely wealthy financial firms are similarly feeding from the same trough of substantial taxpayer payouts.
But where real support is needed? The free money river has never been more than a trickle. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 has been throttled back due to lack of funding. Hospitals remain chronically short of critical PPE. 30% of all US households were unable to make last month’s mortgage payment.
As I said, these dots simply reveal the values and priorities of those running the show. If I were to use a single word to sum things up, it would be: greed.
Anything and everything that funnels money from the many into the pockets of the few is being done and done swiftly. Anything monies directed to the well-being of the masses is being done slowly, grudgingly, and sparingly (if at all). “Never let a good crisis go to waste” is the motto of current crowd in charge.
I am asked all the time to decide between Covid-19 being real or this whole thing being a scam. To which I reply, “why not both?”
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The Elites Have Won
The elites have all the power and they have no interest in sharing any of it. They are too blinded by greed and driven by fear to do otherwise.
In this way, they pretty much have won.
They’ll print up however much money they desire and hand it out to themselves — after, of course, laundering it through the ““markets”” to create the appearance that fairness was actually involved.
But we all know it’s not. The data is crystal clear: Wall Street’s mighty siphons assure that nearly all of the Fed’s freshly printed money goes straight into the pockets of the most well-connected players.
As I’ve taken pains to point out, given all the public’s focus on Black Lives Matter, somehow the Federal Reserve has escaped being called out for being a nearly pure-white organization whose efforts overwhelmingly funnel additional funds to white households. Whether by design or accident, the Federal Reserve’s actions do more to cement racial inequality than any other entity, group, or organization in existence. By far.
Looked at another way, Trump is soothed by the stock market hitting new all-time highs and I believe this has blunted the seriousness with which he takes SARS-CoV-2. In jamming the stock markets higher, I see the Federal Reserve as also partly responsible for the lame US response to Covid, which has already cost far too many people their lives and many more people their health.
Of course, intervening in the financial markers to push them higher during an election year is a profoundly political act. Something the Fed has absolutely no business doing.
Put all that together and the Federal Reserve is a partisan, political organization that is costing people their lives and health while promoting racial inequality.
Yet it’s given a nearly free pass on all of that from the mainstream press, our supposed watchdog for truth. Hardly is Fed Chair Jerome Powell ever asked a single daunting question along these lines.
Our health organizations like the CDC and the WHO are similarly compromised and complicit, too shot through with political intrigue and pharma money to be of any help.
All of which is both shameful and self-injurious, because if we’d like to avoid a very dark future filled with societal unraveling, then the Fed’s dangerous actions need to be brought to heel. And soon.
However, after all that has transpired, I don’t see much hope of the Fed changing its ways. It has proven it can’t be goaded or shamed into introspection or altering course.
Conclusion
All of which is my way of saying that I am bracing for impact.
I simply don’t know what else to do. We are on our own.
It’s time to consider how you will provide your family with the basics, the very bottom layers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — water, food, shelter, resources, health & safety — if the systems we depend on today start weakening:
When people are busy moving down the Hierarchy of Needs, that means society is crumbling.
And folks are already indeed moving. Literally. Real estate for sale in Manhattan is piling up without takers, while more rural properties are being snapped up. Gardens are being planted and guns are being bought.
SARS-CoV-2 has taught many lessons and revealed much. To me, it’s revealed that the elites as led by the Federal Reserve won’t deviate from accelerating inequity until being forced to stop. Whether that will occur via social revolution, the destruction of the purchasing power of the US dollar, or something else, I don’t know.
But I do know that whatever it is, it won’t be the cause of all the misery that will follow. The true culprits are the current and former managers (not leaders) with the Fed and within the DC beltway who failed to protect the vulnerable, set reasonable policies, and conduct themselves with integrity.
So my advice is to brace for impact. There’s nothing any of us can do to affect national monetary policy or stop the major unraveling trends already set in motion, but we can do our best to step outside harm’s way and tend the welfare of ourselves and those we care about as the system falters.
In Part 2: Brace For Impact! I share the key indicators that have me most concerned about the nearness of the next systemic shock, as well as the key steps I recommend you take now using whatever time remains available to you.
We are facing unprecedented challenges that are accelerating at a faster rate than at any other time in human history. Every day we have left to prepare prudently is a gift. Use the time wisely.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Environmentalist apologizes for climate-change alarmism

An apology by climate-change activist Michael Shellenberger was originally published on Forbes website , but subsequently taken down .
Michael Shellenberger is an American author and environmental policy writer .
He is a Time Magazine “ Hero of the Environment , ” Green Book Award Winner , and the author of Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All ( Harper Collins , June 30 , 2020 ) .
Spectator USA has republished Shellenberger ’ s apology on July 7 , 2020 .
Here it is in its entirety .
I added the red bold emphasis .
An environmentalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guilty of alarmism ’ ‘ I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public ‘ On behalf of environmentalists everywhere , I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years .
Climate change is happening , it ’ s just not the end of the world .
It ’ s not even our most serious environmental problem .
I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30 , so I may seem like a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But as an energy expert asked by the US Congress to provide objective expert testimony and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) to serve as an Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report , I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public .
Here are some facts few people know : • The Amazon is not ‘ the lungs of the world ’ • Fires have declined 25 % around the world since 2003 • The amount of land we use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska • Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have declined in Britain , Germany , and France from the mid-1970s • Netherlands is becoming richer , not poorer while adapting to life below sea level • We produce 25 per cent more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter • Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are potentially larger threats to species than climate change @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people and wildlife than fossil fuels • Preventing future pandemics requires more not less ‘ industrial ’ agriculture I know that the above facts will sound like ‘ climate denialism ’ to many , but that just shows the power of climate alarmism .
In reality , the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies , including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC , the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations ( FAO ) , the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) and other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read this , they will imagine that I ’ m some right-wing anti-environmentalist .
I ’ m not .
At 17 , I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution .
At 23 , I raised money for Guatemalan women ’ s cooperatives .
In my early 20s , I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions .
At 26 , I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia .
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California .
In my 30s , I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $ 90 billion into them .
Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions .
But until last year , I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare .
Partly because I was embarrassed .
After all , I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ change as an ‘ existential ’ threat to human civilization and called it a ‘ crisis.
’ But mostly , I was scared .
I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding .
The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences .
And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public .
I even stood by as people in the White House and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist , good man , and friend of mine , Roger Pielke , Jr. , a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations .
Why did they do that ?
Because his research proves natural disasters aren ’ t getting worse .
But then , last year , things spiraled out of control .
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said , ‘ The world is going to end in twelve years if we don ’ t address climate change.
’ While Britain ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rebellion , claimed , ‘ Climate Change Kills Children.
’ The world ’ s most influential green journalist , Bill McKibben , called climate change the ‘ greatest challenge humans have ever faced ’ and said it would ‘ wipe out civilizations.
’ Mainstream journalists were repeatedly reporting the Amazon as ‘ the lungs of the world , ’ and that deforestation was akin to a nuclear bomb going off .
As a result , half of the people surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change .
Whether or not you have children , you must see how wrong this is .
I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter – after we talked about the science she was reassured .
But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus , understandably , frightened .
I thus decided I had to speak out .
I knew that writing a few articles wouldn ’ t be enough ; I needed a book to properly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book , Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All .
It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism .
At 400 pages , with 100 of them endnotes , Apocalypse Never covers climate change , deforestation , plastic waste , species extinction , industrialisation , meat , nuclear energy , and renewables .
Some highlights from the book : • Factories and modern farming are key to human liberation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for saving the environment is producing more food , particularly meat , on less land • The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium • 100 per cent renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today ’ s 0.5 pc to 50 pc • We should want cities , farms , and power plants to have higher , not lower , power densities • Vegetarianism reduces one ’ s emissions by less than 4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whales , switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did • ‘ Free-range ’ beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300 pc more emissions • The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants Why were we all so misled ?
In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial , political , and ideological motivations .
Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty ‘ sustainable.
’ While status anxiety , depression , and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism .
Once you realise just how badly misinformed we have been , often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations , it is hard not to feel duped .
Will Apocalypse Never make any difference ?
There are certainly reasons to doubt it .
Apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change have been made in the news since the late 1980s , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The ideology behind environmental alarmism — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever .
But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will , if not come to an end , have diminishing cultural power .
The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis which puts the climate ‘ crisis ’ into perspective .
Even if you think we overreacted , COVID-19 has killed nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe .
Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science – their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform .
Facts still matter , and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications .
Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from , which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables .
The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to .
My invitations from IPCC and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to new thinking about climate change and the environment .
Another has been to the response to my book from climate scientists , conservationists , and environmental scholars .
‘ Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book , ’ writes Richard Rhodes , the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb .
‘ This may be the most important book on the environment ever written , ’ says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley .
‘ We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy , Steve McCormick .
‘ But too often we are guilty of the same .
Shellenberger offers ‘ tough love : ’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid , self-defeating mindsets .
Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging , but always well-crafted , evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘ mental muscle ’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful , but an attainable , future.
’ That is all I hoped for in writing it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ far , I hope you ’ ll agree that it ’ s perhaps not so strange for a lifelong environmentalist , progressive , and climate activist to speak out against the alarmism .
I further hope that you ’ ll accept my apology .
• Green Peace co-founder now admits no scientific proof of man-made global warming • Greens really are commies : 130 UN-backed green groups call for end of capitalism • Proposed UN Tribunal of Climate Justice threatens U.S. sovereignty , while Antarctica ice is increasing , not melting • Bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forests increased 865,000 sq .
mi .
instead of decreased • 50 years of doomsday climate-change predictions that didn ’ t come true • No evidence of global warming increasing frequency of U.S. hurricanes • Swedish professor says cannibalism is a way to combat climate change • Hypocrisy on steroids : Global elite take private jets & super-yachts to Google Climate Summit • Royal hypocrite : Prince Charles says it may be too late to save the natural world • Thought crime comes to America : Obama admin is considering civil action against @ @ @ @ @

by Dr. Eowyn
An apology by climate-change activist Michael Shellenberger was originally published on Forbes website, but subsequently taken down.
Michael Shellenberger is an American author and environmental policy writer. He is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award Winner, and the author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Harper Collins, June 30, 2020).
Spectator USA has republished Shellenberger’s apology on July 7, 2020. Here it is in its entirety. I added the red bold emphasis.
‘I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public‘
By Michael Shellenberger
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening, it’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30, so I may seem like a strange person to be saying this.
But as an energy expert asked by the US Congress to provide objective expert testimony and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as an Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public.
Here are some facts few people know:
Humans are not causing a ‘sixth mass extinction’
The Amazon is not ‘the lungs of the world’
Climate change is not definitively making natural disasters worse
Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have declined in Britain, Germany, and France from the mid-1970s
and have declined in Britain, Germany, and France from the mid-1970s Netherlands is becoming richer, not poorer while adapting to life below sea level
We produce 25 per cent more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are potentially larger threats to species than climate change
Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
Preventing future pandemics requires more not less ‘industrial’ agriculture
I know that the above facts will sound like ‘climate denialism’ to many, but that just shows the power of climate alarmism.
In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies.
When some people read this, they will imagine that I’m some right-wing anti-environmentalist. I’m not. At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23, I raised money for Guatemalan women’s cooperatives. In my early 20s, I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26, I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27, I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s, I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions.
But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an ‘existential’ threat to human civilization and called it a ‘crisis.’
But mostly, I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.
But then, last year, things spiraled out of control.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, ‘The world is going to end in twelve years if we don’t address climate change.’ While Britain’s most high-profile environmental group, Extinction Rebellion, claimed, ‘Climate Change Kills Children.’
The world’s most influential green journalist, Bill McKibben, called climate change the ‘greatest challenge humans have ever faced’ and said it would ‘wipe out civilizations.’
Mainstream journalists were repeatedly reporting the Amazon as ‘the lungs of the world,’ and that deforestation was akin to a nuclear bomb going off.
As a result, half of the people surveyed around the world last year said they thought climate change would make humanity extinct. And in January, one of five British children told pollsters they were having nightmares about climate change.
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Whether or not you have children, you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter – after we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened.
I thus decided I had to speak out. I knew that writing a few articles wouldn’t be enough; I needed a book to properly lay out all of the evidence.
And so my formal apology for our fear-mongering comes in the form of my new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.
It is based on two decades of research and three decades of environmental activism. At 400 pages, with 100 of them endnotes, Apocalypse Never covers climate change, deforestation, plastic waste, species extinction, industrialisation, meat, nuclear energy, and renewables.
Some highlights from the book:
Factories and modern farming are key to human liberation and environmental progress
The most important thing for saving the environment is producing more food, particularly meat, on less land
The most important thing for reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is moving from wood to coal to petroleum to natural gas to uranium
100 per cent renewables would require increasing the land used for energy from today’s 0.5 pc to 50 pc
We should want cities, farms, and power plants to have higher, not lower, power densities
Vegetarianism reduces one’s emissions by less than 4 pc
Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did
‘Free-range’ beef would require 20 times more land and produce 300 pc more emissions
Greenpeace dogmatism worsened forest fragmentation of the Amazon
The colonialist approach to gorilla conservation in the Congo produced a backlash that may have resulted in the killing of 250 elephants
Why were we all so misled?
In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations. Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests. Groups motivated by anti-humanist beliefs forced the World Bank to stop trying to end poverty and instead make poverty ‘sustainable.’ While status anxiety, depression, and hostility to modern civilization are behind much of the alarmism.
Once you realise just how badly misinformed we have been, often by people with plainly unsavory or unhealthy motivations, it is hard not to feel duped.
Will Apocalypse Never make any difference? There are certainly reasons to doubt it.
Apocalyptic pronouncements about climate change have been made in the news since the late 1980s, and do not seem disposed to stop.
The ideology behind environmental alarmism — Malthusianism — has been repeatedly debunked for 200 years and yet is more powerful than ever. But there are also reasons to believe that environmental alarmism will, if not come to an end, have diminishing cultural power.
The coronavirus pandemic is an actual crisis which puts the climate ‘crisis’ into perspective. Even if you think we overreacted, COVID-19 has killed nearly 500,000 people and shattered economies around the globe.
Scientific institutions including WHO and IPCC have undermined their credibility through the repeated politicisation of science – their future existence and relevance depends on new leadership and serious reform.
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.
Nations are reverting openly to self-interest and away from, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables.
The evidence is overwhelming that our high-energy civilization is better for people and nature than the low-energy civilization that climate alarmists would return us to.
My invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. Another has been to the response to my book from climate scientists, conservationists, and environmental scholars. ‘Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,’ writes Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. ‘This may be the most important book on the environment ever written,’ says one of the fathers of modern climate science Tom Wigley.
‘We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias,’ wrote the former head of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. ‘But too often we are guilty of the same. Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets. Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always well-crafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.’
That is all I hoped for in writing it. If you’ve made it this far, I hope you’ll agree that it’s perhaps not so strange for a lifelong environmentalist, progressive, and climate activist to speak out against the alarmism.
I further hope that you’ll accept my apology.
See also:
~Eowyn


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Be a Trader, not a Gambler with Nick Santiago

For more than 20 years , Master Trader Nick Santiago has been beating the markets .
He ’ s made some incredible calls along the way and now he ’ s looking to spread the word .
There ’ s no reason that the average trader should be coming up short .
So now we ’ ve started a daily show to bring you up to date on the latest market developments .
Nick will be sharing trades and concepts and discussing current trends .
Today we discuss : 1 .
Options expiration for July is next Friday .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time for a lot of institutional game playing .
Tech has been the strong industry group so many of those parabolic stocks are vulnerable to declines next week .
Some pullback candidates include AAPL , AMZN , TSLA , SHOP , MSFT and many others .
2 .
Earnings season kicks off next week .
The big bank stocks will be the first to report on Tuesday .
JPM is the one stock to watch as that is really the most important .
JPM has been down-trending since June 5th , 2020 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ back , Russell 2000 up , Financials up , Energy up .
Big up Monday .
Nasdaq is positive on the year and other indexes are lagging .
4 .
Covid deaths and cases are up .
But markets are ignoring it .
The numbers are very fudged and the market ’ s not buying it .
Treatments are extremely cheap and effective .
Mass rebellion against lock downs coming .
People are done with it .
5 .
How can the market be going up when the world is collapsing ?
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wall of worry .
When markets go up on negative news , you ’ re seeing something you need to pay attention to .
Negative news can translate into positive returns .
6 .
Paul wants to give up after 20 years of losses .
Nick says , know yourself .
Learn about what makes a market move ?
You need to invest some time and effort to figure out the market .
We ’ ve been in a choppy sidewise move for the past 2 months .
Wait for the setups .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ For more info , go to www.InTheMoneyStocks.com .
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from Daily Market Wisdom with Nick Santiago
For more than 20 years, Master Trader Nick Santiago has been beating the markets. He’s made some incredible calls along the way and now he’s looking to spread the word. There’s no reason that the average trader should be coming up short. So now we’ve started a daily show to bring you up to date on the latest market developments. Nick will be sharing trades and concepts and discussing current trends. Today we discuss:
1. Options expiration for July is next Friday. This usually means that next week is a time for a lot of institutional game playing. Tech has been the strong industry group so many of those parabolic stocks are vulnerable to declines next week. Some pullback candidates include AAPL, AMZN, TSLA, SHOP, MSFT and many others.
2. Earnings season kicks off next week. The big bank stocks will be the first to report on Tuesday. JPM is the one stock to watch as that is really the most important. JPM has been down-trending since June 5th, 2020.
3. Mixed tape. Nasdaq pulling back, Russell 2000 up, Financials up, Energy up. Big up Monday. Nasdaq is positive on the year and other indexes are lagging.
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4. Covid deaths and cases are up. But markets are ignoring it. The numbers are very fudged and the market’s not buying it. Treatments are extremely cheap and effective. Mass rebellion against lock downs coming. People are done with it.
5. How can the market be going up when the world is collapsing? As the saying goes, stocks climb a wall of worry. When markets go up on negative news, you’re seeing something you need to pay attention to. Negative news can translate into positive returns.
6. Paul wants to give up after 20 years of losses. Nick says, know yourself. Learn about what makes a market move? You need to invest some time and effort to figure out the market. We’ve been in a choppy sidewise move for the past 2 months. Wait for the setups. Don’t be a punter/gambler.
For more info, go to www.InTheMoneyStocks.com.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Ghislaine Maxwell: how and why the Trump entourage has ensured Witness Protection for its nuclear we

Ghislaine Maxwell: how and why the Trump entourage has ensured Witness Protection for its nuclear weapon

The revelations on offer from Ghislaine Maxwell , if they see the light of day , will reduce the Democratic Party to rubble .
This time , Donald Trump has prepared the ground more thoroughly than he did for Jeffrey Epstein .
The Slog examines the very high stakes involved….the nature of which are almost unknown to Anglo-Saxon audiences .
Ghislaine Maxwell made her first New York courtroom appearance today – a bail hearing 99.999 % unlikely to grant her any .
She was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire .
President Trump has a better relationship with that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but all things are relative : the Donald loathes the CIA and most of its works .
The liberal WAPO-to-NY Times media axis increasingly follow a narrative suggesting that Trump is a tyrant who bullies both agencies .
The truth is that Donald Trump spends half his daily existence trying to demonstrate that the Surveillance State and the penetrated US media have persistently been in bed together in a non-stop campaign since 2016 to big up charges against him…and failed utterly to give any of them credibility – let alone make the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Presidential election give credibility to information I have received suggesting that Trump personally insisted on her arrest , and Maxwell knew it was coming .
The key factor here is Hillary Clinton in particular…and the Clinton couple ’ s odd correlation with suicides , blackmail and a “ Foundation ” which has never been properly investigated .
Donald Trump ’ s poll numbers are looking slightly sick at the moment .
This could be his opportunity ( aka last chance ) to fulfil his election promise of putting Hillary behind bars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take a lot to shift some uneasy pro-Trump Democratic voters back into the Tangerine One ’ s camp : Joe Biden ’ s performances are now getting so embarrassing , anything adding grist to the obvious reality – that the Unelected State would support a Presidential puppet called Miss Piggy if necessary – will play in favour of the President .
Don ’ t dismiss this too easily : if you go back to 1976 , recent occupants of the Oval Office have included a C-list actor developing dementia , a senior CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a human peanut , and an empty Uncle Tom suit .
Donald Trump is a maverick the élites neither expected nor wanted : the first one since Jimmy Carter – only far more street-wise .
The real White House pro-Trump mafia are reasonably sure that Biden will wind up being outed as a dummy in need of a ventriloquist anyway….but the ambition is to nail Hillary as the embodiment of pc/feminist/BLM/LGBTQ hypocrisy .
They calculate that – by supporting the CIA in its North Korea > China > Pakistan demonisation programme – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oil Alt State that he ’ s a safe pair of hands .
And when it comes to Ghislaine herself , her own depositions of Little Black Book facts are both more far-reaching and better organised than Epstein ’ s .
Remember : both she and her father were Mossad agents .
She is now incarcerated in the notorious Southern District of New York ’ s “ high security ” haha perp facility .
But think on this : the head of that area , Geoffrey Berman , was summarily dismissed by Attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Maxwell ’ s arrest .
Barr was , of course , a Trump appointee slotted into the job during 2019 .
The President has done a lot of work to ensure that , this time , there won ’ t be any unauthorised or authorised suicides .
It could well be time for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to be very , very afraid .

by John Ward
The revelations on offer from Ghislaine Maxwell, if they see the light of day, will reduce the Democratic Party to rubble. This time, Donald Trump has prepared the ground more thoroughly than he did for Jeffrey Epstein. The Slog examines the very high stakes involved….the nature of which are almost unknown to Anglo-Saxon audiences.
Ghislaine Maxwell made her first New York courtroom appearance today – a bail hearing 99.999% unlikely to grant her any.
She was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire. President Trump has a better relationship with that agency than he does with the CIA, but all things are relative: the Donald loathes the CIA and most of its works.
The liberal WAPO-to-NY Times media axis increasingly follow a narrative suggesting that Trump is a tyrant who bullies both agencies. The truth is that Donald Trump spends half his daily existence trying to demonstrate that the Surveillance State and the penetrated US media have persistently been in bed together in a non-stop campaign since 2016 to big up charges against him…and failed utterly to give any of them credibility – let alone make the accusations stick.
Developments in the lead-up to the Presidential election give credibility to information I have received suggesting that Trump personally insisted on her arrest, and Maxwell knew it was coming.
The key factor here is Hillary Clinton in particular…and the Clinton couple’s odd correlation with suicides, blackmail and a “Foundation” which has never been properly investigated.
Donald Trump’s poll numbers are looking slightly sick at the moment. This could be his opportunity (aka last chance) to fulfil his election promise of putting Hillary behind bars.
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It isn’t going to take a lot to shift some uneasy pro-Trump Democratic voters back into the Tangerine One’s camp: Joe Biden’s performances are now getting so embarrassing, anything adding grist to the obvious reality – that the Unelected State would support a Presidential puppet called Miss Piggy if necessary – will play in favour of the President.
Don’t dismiss this too easily: if you go back to 1976, recent occupants of the Oval Office have included a C-list actor developing dementia, a senior CIA operative, a multiply corrupt Arkansas Governor, a human peanut, and an empty Uncle Tom suit. Donald Trump is a maverick the élites neither expected nor wanted: the first one since Jimmy Carter – only far more street-wise.
The real White House pro-Trump mafia are reasonably sure that Biden will wind up being outed as a dummy in need of a ventriloquist anyway….but the ambition is to nail Hillary as the embodiment of pc/feminist/BLM/LGBTQ hypocrisy.
They calculate that – by supporting the CIA in its North Korea > China > Pakistan demonisation programme – the President can suggest to the Pentagon/Neocon/Texan oil Alt State that he’s a safe pair of hands.
And when it comes to Ghislaine herself, her own depositions of Little Black Book facts are both more far-reaching and better organised than Epstein’s. Remember: both she and her father were Mossad agents.
She is now incarcerated in the notorious Southern District of New York’s “high security” haha perp facility. But think on this: the head of that area, Geoffrey Berman, was summarily dismissed by Attorney General William Barr just two weeks prior to Maxwell’s arrest. Barr was, of course, a Trump appointee slotted into the job during 2019.
The President has done a lot of work to ensure that, this time, there won’t be any unauthorised or authorised suicides.
It could well be time for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to be very, very afraid.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--‘Very, very difficult’: Texas COVID-19 new cases, hospitalizations and deaths all at record high, ne

‘Very, very difficult’: Texas COVID-19 new cases, hospitalizations and deaths all at record high, nearing overwhelming level

In South Texas , a school district is turning over portable trailers to be used for hospital space .
In San Antonio and Austin , concert and convention venues are being prepped as field hospitals .
In North Texas , Medical City Healthcare opened more COVID-19 units this week , and Parkland Hospital had to request a disaster assistance team .
Texas is entering a dire new phase of the coronavirus epidemic .
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 keep climbing to record levels , and the state health department on Friday said it had no prediction for when that will stop .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have space to add more beds , but lack staff .
The state is scrambling to send them more .
Meanwhile , Gov .
Greg Abbott is warning the worst is yet to come .
The second-term Republican has now canceled elective surgeries in over 100 counties to free up more bed space .
On Friday , he hinted another statewide lockdown could be necessary but gave no indication when that might happen .
Over the last two weeks , the number of Texans hospitalized for COVID-19 has climbed every day , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to more than 10,000 on Friday .
“ We don ’ t see a leveling off happening in the immediate future , ” Parkland ’ s chief medical officer , Dr. Joe Chang , said in a statement Friday .
“ At this point , we simply don ’ t know when that will occur.
” Texas hit record highs this week in all major measures used to judge the severity of the outbreak .
The 56,000 positive cases reported this week account for almost one-quarter of the state ’ s total cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s 3,031 deaths , almost 300 were reported in the last three days .
On Friday , Texas ’ U.S. senators and three members of congress from the region called on the federal government to set up an emergency field hospital in the Rio Grande Valley .
Nine of the area ’ s 12 hospitals were unable to accept patients on Friday .
“ Unfortunately , with recent surges in COVID-19 cases over the past several weeks , our health systems have been pushed to their limits , ” said the letter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Azar .
“ COVID-19 cases in South Texas are at their highest peak since the pandemic began , with no indication that case counts will level out soon .
”

In South Texas, a school district is turning over portable trailers to be used for hospital space. In San Antonio and Austin, concert and convention venues are being prepped as field hospitals. In North Texas, Medical City Healthcare opened more COVID-19 units this week, and Parkland Hospital had to request a disaster assistance team.
Texas is entering a dire new phase of the coronavirus epidemic. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 keep climbing to record levels, and the state health department on Friday said it had no prediction for when that will stop.
As cases surge, hospitals say they have space to add more beds, but lack staff. The state is scrambling to send them more.
Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott is warning the worst is yet to come. The second-term Republican has now canceled elective surgeries in over 100 counties to free up more bed space. On Friday, he hinted another statewide lockdown could be necessary but gave no indication when that might happen.
Over the last two weeks, the number of Texans hospitalized for COVID-19 has climbed every day, from about 5,500 at the end of June to more than 10,000 on Friday.
“We don’t see a leveling off happening in the immediate future,” Parkland’s chief medical officer, Dr. Joe Chang, said in a statement Friday. “At this point, we simply don’t know when that will occur.”
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Texas hit record highs this week in all major measures used to judge the severity of the outbreak.
The 56,000 positive cases reported this week account for almost one-quarter of the state’s total cases to date. And of the state’s 3,031 deaths, almost 300 were reported in the last three days.
On Friday, Texas’ U.S. senators and three members of congress from the region called on the federal government to set up an emergency field hospital in the Rio Grande Valley. Nine of the area’s 12 hospitals were unable to accept patients on Friday.
“Unfortunately, with recent surges in COVID-19 cases over the past several weeks, our health systems have been pushed to their limits,” said the letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. “COVID-19 cases in South Texas are at their highest peak since the pandemic began, with no indication that case counts will level out soon.”
www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/07/10/very-very-difficult-texas-covid-19-hospitalizations-at-record-high-nearing-overwhelming-level/


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Sentiment Extremes Once Again — Financial mania in an economic depression.

I ’ ve been posting since 2018 when technical conditions have seemed to reach manic extremes .
In January 2018 I posted at that exact top and shortly before the “ Vixpocalpse ” – The Evidence for the Greatest Top in History .
In November 2019 – Things are about to get Fun and Scary was posted shortly after the top and before the plunge into year end .
A couple of months before the March 2020 crash I posted Closing in on the Greatest Crash in History .
So here we are again looking at mania level extremes in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ psychological condition — investors have to FEEL it .
The put/call ratio has been even lower than in February .
Small options traders have been big call buyers .
( These next couple of charts are about a month old ) .
Tech has been the focal point of the buying — now even more than ever .
The daily sentiment index is about as extreme as it gets and has reached 93 % on at least a couple of occasions .
The 30 day average is also extreme .
Financial manias typically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The level of stupidity has been so intense that even bankrupt stocks such as Hertz , Chesapeake and JCPenny got bid up .
Apart from bankrupt stocks surging in price we also have Tesla , now the most valuable automaker in the world !
Also more valuable than many of the worlds great automakers put together .
One of the indicators that this bubble era is coming to an end ( well apart from the economic depression ) is the narrowed focus on tech and certain stocks within tech .
This chart is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ P500 and S & P500 equal weight .
When it declines there is a bigger focus on larger cap stocks .
We also see a divergence in corporate credit yields .
A sign of emerging risk aversion .
This sort of divergence also occurred leading up to the 2008 crash .
Despite this divergence in bond yields investors are still throwing money at corporations .
Corporate debt issuance is at a record pace despite concern about insolvency .
Note that it is investment grade borrowing that has really blasted off into the stratosphere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still at some of the most extreme levels in history .
It might seem strange to have a financial mania in an economic depression but its the financial markets that tend to lead the economy if anything , as they did in March .
We ’ re also approaching the September/October period where historically such panics as the 1929 crash , 1987 crash and the epicenter of the 2008 crisis occurred .
Whether a panic occurs during this time frame remains to be seen but it is something to watch out for as @ @ @ @ @ @ @

by SpontaneousDisorder
Posted on Reddit
I’ve been posting since 2018 when technical conditions have seemed to reach manic extremes.
In January 2018 I posted at that exact top and shortly before the “Vixpocalpse” – The Evidence for the Greatest Top in History.
In November 2019 – Things are about to get Fun and Scary was posted shortly after the top and before the plunge into year end.
A couple of months before the March 2020 crash I posted Closing in on the Greatest Crash in History.
So here we are again looking at mania level extremes in sentiment. A sentiment extreme is a psychological condition — investors have to FEEL it.
The put/call ratio has been even lower than in February.
Small options traders have been big call buyers. (These next couple of charts are about a month old).
Red lines my own. SOURCE
But they’re not buying puts either…
Tech has been the focal point of the buying — now even more than ever. The daily sentiment index is about as extreme as it gets and has reached 93% on at least a couple of occasions. The 30 day average is also extreme.
Financial manias typically have stocks that do something insane. The level of stupidity has been so intense that even bankrupt stocks such as Hertz, Chesapeake and JCPenny got bid up. Apart from bankrupt stocks surging in price we also have Tesla, now the most valuable automaker in the world! Also more valuable than many of the worlds great automakers put together.
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One of the indicators that this bubble era is coming to an end (well apart from the economic depression) is the narrowed focus on tech and certain stocks within tech.
This chart is of the ratio between the S&P500 and S&P500 equal weight. When it declines there is a bigger focus on larger cap stocks.
We also see a divergence in corporate credit yields. A sign of emerging risk aversion.
This sort of divergence also occurred leading up to the 2008 crash.
Despite this divergence in bond yields investors are still throwing money at corporations. Corporate debt issuance is at a record pace despite concern about insolvency. Note that it is investment grade borrowing that has really blasted off into the stratosphere.
And of course stock valuations are still at some of the most extreme levels in history.
It might seem strange to have a financial mania in an economic depression but its the financial markets that tend to lead the economy if anything, as they did in March.
We’re also approaching the September/October period where historically such panics as the 1929 crash, 1987 crash and the epicenter of the 2008 crisis occurred. Whether a panic occurs during this time frame remains to be seen but it is something to watch out for as seasonally this period can be negative.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Minnesota DENIED FEDERAL EMERGENCY FUNDS!

On July 2 , Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “ major disaster ” in Minnesota in response @ @ @ @ @ infrastructure that was damaged by fires .
Teddy Tschann , a spokesman for the governor @ @ @ @ @ to KSTP the federal government denied his request for support from the Federal Emergency Management @ @ @ @ @ was “ disappointed.
” Feds deny emergency funds for Minnesota after the state government allowed @ @ @ @ @ Good work .
MN Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey let the rioters riot , @ @ @ @ @ surrendered police stations when police were running low on non-lethal ammunition because they didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ looters to get hurt .
“ It ’ s only bricks and morter , ” @ @ @ @ @ And now Feds deny Walz ’ s request for aid to rebuild after riots More @ @ @ @ @ in the unrest after George Floyd ’ s death .

On July 2, Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” in Minnesota in response to the destruction of public infrastructure that was damaged by fires. Teddy Tschann, a spokesman for the governor’s office, confirmed to KSTP the federal government denied his request for support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, adding that Walz was “disappointed.”
kstp.com/news/feds-deny-walzs-request-for-disaster-funds-to-rebuild-after-unrest/5789332/?cat=1
Feds deny emergency funds for Minnesota after the state government allowed rioters to destroy Minneapolis. Good work.
archive.is/Tqtz9
MN Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey let the rioters riot, the looter loot, and surrendered police stations when police were running low on non-lethal ammunition because they didn’t want the rioters or looters to get hurt. “It’s only bricks and morter,” Mayor Frey proudly proclamed.
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And now Feds deny Walz’s request for aid to rebuild after riots More than 1,500 buildings suffered damage in the unrest after George Floyd’s death.
archive.is/Gwsux
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investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--80 Texas counties have opted out of Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask order. Others refuse to enforce it.

When Gov .
Greg Abbott issued a statewide executive order requiring Texans to wear masks in public , he gave counties the opportunity to opt out if they have a low number of active coronavirus cases .
A week later , 78 counties have taken him up on that offer .
And a handful of other local governments have insisted that they won ’ t enforce the order even though they don ’ t qualify for the opt-out provision .
Officials cited a desire to preserve personal freedoms or concerns about enforcement .
“ I think it ’ s an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do something they should have discretion for , ” said Hugh Reed , the top administrator for rural Armstrong County , near Amarillo , which opted out .
In a press release announcing the order , Abbott said that “ wearing a face covering in public is proven to be one of the most effective ways we have to slow the spread of COVID-19.
” Public health experts broadly agree that masks slow the spread of the virus , and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend face coverings for anyone 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order came as coronavirus cases have grown quickly in the state .
As of Thursday , more than 9,600 people were hospitalized with the virus .
In order to opt out of the requirement , the counties need to have 20 or fewer active COVID-19 cases .
Given the spread of the virus in recent weeks , only counties that are sparsely populated and rural tend to qualify .
Most are in conservative areas of the state .
Rex Fields , the top elected official in Eastland County , said Abbott ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counts “ gives people some personal freedom.
” But a few local officials without that freedom are also choosing not to enforce the order .
In Montgomery County , which has a population of over 600,000 and has reported more than 2,700 coronavirus cases so far , the sheriff ’ s office said July 3 that it would not take action on the mask rule .

When Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide executive order requiring Texans to wear masks in public, he gave counties the opportunity to opt out if they have a low number of active coronavirus cases.
A week later, 78 counties have taken him up on that offer. And a handful of other local governments have insisted that they won’t enforce the order even though they don’t qualify for the opt-out provision. Officials cited a desire to preserve personal freedoms or concerns about enforcement.
“I think it’s an insult to Texans to be required to do something they should have discretion for,” said Hugh Reed, the top administrator for rural Armstrong County, near Amarillo, which opted out.
In a press release announcing the order, Abbott said that “wearing a face covering in public is proven to be one of the most effective ways we have to slow the spread of COVID-19.” Public health experts broadly agree that masks slow the spread of the virus, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend face coverings for anyone 2 or older in public settings.
The order came as coronavirus cases have grown quickly in the state. As of Thursday, more than 9,600 people were hospitalized with the virus.
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In order to opt out of the requirement, the counties need to have 20 or fewer active COVID-19 cases. Given the spread of the virus in recent weeks, only counties that are sparsely populated and rural tend to qualify. Most are in conservative areas of the state.
Rex Fields, the top elected official in Eastland County, said Abbott’s option for counties with low coronavirus case counts “gives people some personal freedom.”
But a few local officials without that freedom are also choosing not to enforce the order. In Montgomery County, which has a population of over 600,000 and has reported more than 2,700 coronavirus cases so far, the sheriff’s office said July 3 that it would not take action on the mask rule.
www.texastribune.org/2020/07/09/texas-mask-order-enforcement/


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Barack Obama Threatened to Defund Schools, and Democrats Were All

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Barack Obama Threatened to Defund Schools, and Democrats Were All For It.

On Wednesday , President Trump issued a warning to states that are considering not reopening schools .
“ In Germany , Denmark , Norway , Sweden and many other countries , SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS , ” Trump tweeted .
“ The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election , but is important for the children & families .
May cut off funding if not open !
” In Germany , Denmark , Norway , Sweden and many other countries , SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election , but is important for the children & families .
May cut off funding if not open !
The outrage mob predictably took the bait .
The media ran articles insisting Trump has no authority to cut funding .
Democrats ran to microphones claiming Trump doesn ’ t have the authority to do that .
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , for example , said “ school reopenings are a state decision .
Period .
That is the law , and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to proceed .
It ’ s not up to the president of the United States.
” But Democrats like Cuomo didn ’ t have any objection the last time a president threatened to withhold federal funding from schools four years ago .
In May of 2016 , the Obama administration declared that the Departments of Justice and Education would both “ treat a student ’ s gender identity as the student ’ s sex for purposes of enforcing Title IX , ” and issued a directive to all public school districts in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bathrooms matching their “ gender identity.
” So , if you are a boy , and you wanted to use the girls ’ bathroom , the school had to let you or risk losing Title IX funding .
If you were a boy and wanted to get a peek at girls changing in the girls ’ locker room , you could claim to identify as a girl and the school would have to oblige or risk losing their Title IX funding .
If you were a mediocre player on the boys ’ sports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ girl and get to play on their team , and potentially crush the competition , and thanks to Barack Obama , the school not wanting to risk losing their Title IX funding , would have to oblige .
The New York Times noted that the Obama administration directive “ does not have the force of law , but it contains an implicit threat : Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration ’ s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid .
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via pjmedia:
On Wednesday, President Trump issued a warning to states that are considering not reopening schools. “In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS,” Trump tweeted. “The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children & families. May cut off funding if not open!”
In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and many other countries, SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS. The Dems think it would be bad for them politically if U.S. schools open before the November Election, but is important for the children & families. May cut off funding if not open!
The outrage mob predictably took the bait. The media ran articles insisting Trump has no authority to cut funding. Democrats ran to microphones claiming Trump doesn’t have the authority to do that. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, for example, said “school reopenings are a state decision. Period. That is the law, and that is the way we’re going to proceed. It’s not up to the president of the United States.”
But Democrats like Cuomo didn’t have any objection the last time a president threatened to withhold federal funding from schools four years ago.
In May of 2016, the Obama administration declared that the Departments of Justice and Education would both “treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for purposes of enforcing Title IX,” and issued a directive to all public school districts in the country to allow students to use the bathrooms matching their “gender identity.”
So, if you are a boy, and you wanted to use the girls’ bathroom, the school had to let you or risk losing Title IX funding. If you were a boy and wanted to get a peek at girls changing in the girls’ locker room, you could claim to identify as a girl and the school would have to oblige or risk losing their Title IX funding. If you were a mediocre player on the boys’ sports team, you could identify as a girl and get to play on their team, and potentially crush the competition, and thanks to Barack Obama, the school not wanting to risk losing their Title IX funding, would have to oblige. The New York Times noted that the Obama administration directive “does not have the force of law, but it contains an implicit threat: Schools that do not abide by the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law could face lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.”


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--“I thought this was a HOAX” Patient in his 30s dies after attending Texas COVID party

SAN ANTONIO , Texas ( WOAI/KABB ) – A patient in their 30s died from the coronavirus after attending what @ @ @ @ @ “ COVID party , ” according to a San Antonio health official .
Chief Medical @ @ @ @ @ Jane Appleby said the idea of these parties is to see if the virus is @ @ @ @ @ a party held by somebody diagnosed by the COVID virus and the thought is to @ @ @ @ @ real and to see if anyone gets infected , ” Dr. Appleby said .
According @ @ @ @ @ became critically ill and had a heartbreaking statement moments before death .
“ People will @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t look so bad .
They don ’ t look really sick .
@ @ @ @ @ oxygen levels and you check their lab tests , they ’ re really sicker than @ @ @ @ @ , ” Appleby said .

SAN ANTONIO, Texas ( ) – A patient in their 30s died from the coronavirus after attending what’s being called a “COVID party,” according to a San Antonio health official.
Chief Medical Officer of Methodist Healthcare Dr. Jane Appleby said the idea of these parties is to see if the virus is real.
“This is a party held by somebody diagnosed by the COVID virus and the thought is to see if the virus is real and to see if anyone gets infected,” Dr. Appleby said.
According to Appleby, the patient became critically ill and had a heartbreaking statement moments before death.
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“People will come in initially and they don’t look so bad. They don’t look really sick. But when you check their oxygen levels and you check their lab tests, they’re really sicker than they appear on the surface,” Appleby said.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--$1M in TSLA call gains

$1M in TSLA call gains

At close today , I finally hit $ 1M in gains for my TSLA calls .
It helped that I @ @ @ @ @ for a quick 100 % gain ( that ’ s the one highlighted automatically ) @ @ @ @ @ with how to read this table ( not using RH to trade ) : – @ @ @ @ @ strike price and expiration – Next is just today ’ s gains – Next is @ @ @ @ @ current value and number of contracts – Last is how much it cost me Hopefully @ @ @ @ @ weekend .
My plan is to not close my near expiring ones til after earnings @ @ @ @ @ .
Then I have some intended for S & P500 inclusion .
My LEAPS are @ @ @ @ @ probably just hold onto those .

via Reddit:
At close today, I finally hit $1M in gains for my TSLA calls. It helped that I bought some more this morning for a quick 100% gain (that’s the one highlighted automatically). For those not familiar with how to read this table (not using RH to trade):
– The left side is the strike price and expiration
– Next is just today’s gains
– Next is total gains
– Next is current value and number of contracts
– Last is how much it cost me
i.imgur.com/1XQoRav.png
Hopefully nothing crazy happens over the weekend. My plan is to not close my near expiring ones til after earnings which I expect a profit. Then I have some intended for S&P500 inclusion. My LEAPS are a ways off so will probably just hold onto those.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--NASDAQ is up 16.7% YTD. During a pandemic, double digit unemployment and over -10% YTD GDP.

NASDAQ is up 16.7% YTD. During a pandemic, double digit unemployment and over -10% YTD GDP. — Brad Huston (@BradHuston) July 11, 2020
$TSLA will never go below $1500 in my lifetime — Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) July 11, 2020
“Wild Ride to Nowhere”: APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB Soar to New High. Rest of Stock Market is a Dud, Has Been for Years. The market has come to totally depend on the “Giant 5.” A scary out-of-whack weight on the way down.t.co/JBwmKYGAJH — Wolf Richter (@wolfofwolfst) July 11, 2020
Good morning to everyone richer than Warren Buffett — Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) July 11, 2020
I like that Elon Musk has passed Warren Buffett on the billionaire index. It's a statement that increasingly we value stock manipulating fraudsters over genial-seeming predatory monopolists. — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) July 11, 2020
This may be the most bullish thing I have seen all day 🤪🙃😳 t.co/WuFLNvVfIf — 𝕮𝖍𝖎 🛢 (@chigrl) July 11, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--The data shows us that the underlying consequences of all those peaceful protest and looting that to

The data shows us that the underlying consequences of all those peaceful protest and looting that took place , was @ @ @ @ @ pic.twitter.com/UNUGbYQxBY

The data shows us that the underlying consequences of all those peaceful protest and looting that took place, was not the best idea….. 🤫 pic.twitter.com/UNUGbYQxBY
— Lord Polemos (@LordPolemos) July 11, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--President Donald J. Trump: Obama is a Criminal

Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place .
It is the other @ @ @ @ @ including Biden and Obama , who spied on my campaign – AND GOT CAUGHT !
@ @ @ @ @ Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors , But Democrats Are Angry About Roger Stone .

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never
should have taken place. It is the other side that are
criminals, including Biden and Obama, who spied on my
campaign – AND GOT CAUGHT!
Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place. It is the other side that are criminals, including Biden and Obama, who spied on my campaign – AND GOT CAUGHT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2020
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MATT MARGOLIS: Obama Granted Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Democrats Are Angry About Roger Stone.
DON SURBER: Durham covers up Obamagate.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Very Good Possibility Maxwell Is In GTMO

Blogger does some digging and dot connecting : The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a website by which you can look up inmates .
Currently , she is showing at Brooklyn MDC .
However , I am not fully convinced she is actually in there .
I am finding a lot of holes in the reporting relative to the arrest date , the take-down as well as the supposed house she was in .
She was likely taken down the previous week and NOT July 3rd as stated .
My hunch is based on the flight activity as I saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t kill himself .
There were a flurry of flights down to close proximity “ International ” locations .
Upon researching the court documents – I find them to support this theory .
According to the court documents , it was four days earlier on the 29th in which she was taken into custody .
More than likely , the take-down would have been a very early morning op around 0300-0400 hrs ( with a near full moon on the 29th ) and teams would have come in around the entire house @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NVGs , and they would have breached , flash-banged and had her apprehended within 15-20 seconds .
They would have then exfilled her immediately with a clean-up team to gather additional evidence after she and the operators was already down the road .
According to the “ The Insider ” and Zillow , this million dollar home had an address of 338 E Washington Road , Bradford NH .
They show pictures of very nice home up on a little hill surrounded by woods .
However , looking at the Zillow listing and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sold in 8 months ago in December 2019 doesn ’ t look anything like the pictures .
The house , according to several realtor and news sources was bought by Granite Realty , LLC .
and they paid cash .
Clearly she was receiving help to stay off radar .
As for the arrest date , I have a PACER account and was able to pull the records .
According to the two case filings , she was taken into custody June 29 in New Hampshire ; and while in custody she was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order by a NYC Judge and transferred into the Southern District of New York system via a US Marshal .
These are the two cases – the one on June 29 , was unsealed because they had her in custody in New Hampshire , it was then officially filed .
While she was still in custody in New Hampshire , the NYC Judge ordered the above arrest warrant to have her transferred into New York custody – thus the July 2nd arrest and case file .
In the 18 page sealed indictment that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the file date .
This thing was ready to go , all they needed was to find her , unseal it and make the arrest .
The first filing was June 29 and the 2nd filing was July 2 as her status was changed from in custody to arrested .
Proof she was already in custody in New Hampshire on June 29th .
The June 29 date where the aircraft in question was tagged in Monmouth New Jersey – where it went VFR direct from there to Fort Lauderdale International .
That same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later .
She was under the direction and custody of New Hampshire ; but in hands of the Federal Marshals .
I am willing to bet she was exfilled immediately from New Hampshire to Monmouth via a 40 minute flight under federal protection , while the Judge in NYC issued the transfer paperwork officially to the US Marshals – who btw have no boundaries on jurisdiction .
From there she was flown directly to Fort Lauderdale under witness protection and then to GTMO where she would appear before the NYC judge via video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3:30PM EST via video .
Note the arrival time at GTMO on July 2nd – 10:34AM .
Are you tracking ?
A quick look at the NY Court Districts Rules 32 and 40 confirming the use of video conferencing .
You can also see that she knowingly waived her right to appear in court .

Blogger does some digging and dot connecting:
www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/get-maxwell-just-as-i-suspected
THE ARREST
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a website by which you can look up inmates. Currently, she is showing at Brooklyn MDC. However, I am not fully convinced she is actually in there. I am finding a lot of holes in the reporting relative to the arrest date, the take-down as well as the supposed house she was in.
She was likely taken down the previous week and NOT July 3rd as stated. My hunch is based on the flight activity as I saw very similar things happening when Epstein didn’t kill himself. There were a flurry of flights down to close proximity “International” locations. Upon researching the court documents – I find them to support this theory.
According to the court documents, it was four days earlier on the 29th in which she was taken into custody.
More than likely, the take-down would have been a very early morning op around 0300-0400 hrs (with a near full moon on the 29th) and teams would have come in around the entire house through the woods, full gear with NVGs, and they would have breached, flash-banged and had her apprehended within 15-20 seconds. They would have then exfilled her immediately with a clean-up team to gather additional evidence after she and the operators was already down the road.
THE HOUSE
According to the “The Insider” and Zillow, this million dollar home had an address of 338 E Washington Road, Bradford NH. They show pictures of very nice home up on a little hill surrounded by woods. However, looking at the Zillow listing and google maps shot, this house JUST sold in 8 months ago in December 2019 doesn’t look anything like the pictures. The house, according to several realtor and news sources was bought by Granite Realty, LLC. and they paid cash. Clearly she was receiving help to stay off radar.
COURT DOCUMENTS
As for the arrest date, I have a PACER account and was able to pull the records. According to the two case filings, she was taken into custody June 29 in New Hampshire; and while in custody she was officially arrested July 2 via a court order by a NYC Judge and transferred into the Southern District of New York system via a US Marshal.
These are the two cases – the one on June 29, was unsealed because they had her in custody in New Hampshire, it was then officially filed.
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While she was still in custody in New Hampshire, the NYC Judge ordered the above arrest warrant to have her transferred into New York custody – thus the July 2nd arrest and case file.
In the 18 page sealed indictment that was filed – note the header confirming the file date. This thing was ready to go, all they needed was to find her, unseal it and make the arrest.
The first filing was June 29 and the 2nd filing was July 2 as her status was changed from in custody to arrested. Proof she was already in custody in New Hampshire on June 29th.
THE FLIGHTS
The June 29 date where the aircraft in question was tagged in Monmouth New Jersey – where it went VFR direct from there to Fort Lauderdale International. That same aircraft went to GTMO a few days later.
She was under the direction and custody of New Hampshire; but in hands of the Federal Marshals. I am willing to bet she was exfilled immediately from New Hampshire to Monmouth via a 40 minute flight under federal protection, while the Judge in NYC issued the transfer paperwork officially to the US Marshals – who btw have no boundaries on jurisdiction.
From there she was flown directly to Fort Lauderdale under witness protection and then to GTMO where she would appear before the NYC judge via video.
Her hearing on July 2 is 3:30PM EST via video. Note the arrival time at GTMO on July 2nd – 10:34AM. Are you tracking?
A quick look at the NY Court Districts Rules 32 and 40 confirming the use of video conferencing. You can also see that she knowingly waived her right to appear in court.
www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/get-maxwell-just-as-i-suspected
h/t CrsCrpr


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Face masks will be required inside all Pa. schools

ow the hell are they going to deal with kids not wearing the masks if adults aren ’ t wearing @ @ @ @ @ t going to work .
Face masks will be required inside all Pa. schools Students @ @ @ @ @ to wear face masks when they return to school , according to new guidelines from @ @ @ @ @ .
The guidelines — issued on the heels of an executive order requiring state residents @ @ @ @ @ they leave the house — apply to all people in all school buildings who are @ @ @ @ @ , including individuals at pre-K programs , public K-12 schools , private and parochial schools @ @ @ @ @ , and career and technical centers .

ow the hell are they going to deal with kids not wearing the masks if adults aren’t wearing them.
This isn’t going to work.
Face masks will be required inside all Pa. schools
Students and staff will be required to wear face masks when they return to school, according to new guidelines from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
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The guidelines — issued on the heels of an executive order requiring state residents to wear face masks whenever they leave the house — apply to all people in all school buildings who are 2 years old and older, including individuals at pre-K programs, public K-12 schools, private and parochial schools, brick-and-mortar cyber charter schools, and career and technical centers.
whyy.org/articles/pa-coronavirus-recovery-face-masks-will-be-required-inside-all-schools/
h/t BFD


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Trump: “Something will be happening with Venezuela. We’ll be very much involved.”

BREAKING – Trump : “ Something will be happening with Venezuela .
We ’ ll be very much involved.
” @

BREAKING – Trump: “Something will be happening with Venezuela. We’ll be very much involved.”pic.twitter.com/pDQgdK9QdG
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 11, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-12--Doc warns US will suffer ‘tremendous deaths if lockdowns aren’t put back on’ as county sees another

Doc warns US will suffer ‘tremendous deaths if lockdowns aren’t put back on’ as county sees another record spike

This article is a little troubling… It can be interpreted in a few ways… The surge in coronavirus cases has @ @ @ @ @ have fast-tracked the reopening of their economies , such as California , Texas and Florida @ @ @ @ @ CBSN there will be “ tremendous deaths ” in those areas and said it was @ @ @ @ @ ” to imposed new lockdowns .
He said : “ I ’ m hoping that @ @ @ @ @ sense and close up again .
“ It comes close to irresponsible , reopening , @ @ @ @ @ that the disease is under control .
”

This article is a little troubling…
It can be interpreted in a few ways…
www.the-sun.com/news/1122348/us-suffer-tremendous-deaths-lockdowns-county-record-spike/
The surge in coronavirus cases has been driven by states that have fast-tracked the reopening of their economies, such as California, Texas and Florida.
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Dr Bob Lahita told CBSN there will be “tremendous deaths” in those areas and said it was a “very good idea” to imposed new lockdowns.
He said: “I’m hoping that the governors use some common sense and close up again.
“It comes close to irresponsible, reopening, until we have absolute proof that the disease is under control.”
h/t COVID19


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-11--Cut down unhealthy cravings with these 5 simple tools

( Natural News ) If you ’ re trying to lose weight or eat more nutritious foods , there ’ s a good chance that you ’ ve struggled against food cravings .
Unlike hunger pangs , which happen over an empty stomach , food cravings are more consuming and specific .
In addition , the cravings go beyond the need to satisfy hunger and are often limited to a particular food type .
Experts say that most food cravings tap into the hedonic , or pleasurable , aspects of dining .
“ The most palatable foods are those that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ content , ” explains Adam Drewnowski , director of the University of Washington ’ s Center for Public Health Nutrition .
“ High-fat foods , many containing sugar or salt , have an undeniable sensory appeal and are difficult to resist.
” Fortunately , you don ’ t have to be a slave to your appetite .
Here are five simple tools to help you control your food cravings .
( h/t to PsychologyToday.com ) Situation selection means avoiding places where your food temptations can be found .
Being near to foods you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of your desire .
A simple solution is to stay as far away as possible from the food you ’ re craving – the same manner that people who want to stop drinking or smoking may want to avoid places where these occur .
( Related : Smokers three times less likely to light up if they consume fruits and vegetables . )
Some situations are simply hard to avoid .
Situation modification helps people deal with these occasions , such as eating , by changing their physical or social environment .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or eating small portions of food at a time .
People trying to eat less may find this strategy useful .
“ Smaller portions lead us to eat less , even if we can refill the plate , ” writes Shahram Heshmat , a professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield who specializes in health economics , in Psychology Today .
When you ’ re craving for a particular food , you are giving that object too much attention .
Try distracting yourself by focusing on other things or keeping yourself busy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stop yourself from thinking too much of the food and instead reduce its effect on you .
Unlike the previous strategy , cognitive reframing requires you to think of your craving .
The catch is that you need to think of your craving differently .
“ Focusing on the negative consequences of consuming the food or the beneficial consequences of not consuming the food function as powerful ways of decreasing food cravings through cognitive change , ” says Heshmat .
That means reevaluating the food and your desire for it in a way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A common form of this strategy is suppression , where a person voluntarily and consciously inhibits expressing an emotion or , in this case , a food desire .
The result of this strategy , Heshmat admits , is often mixed .
It ’ s easy to buckle under intense pressure , and people tend to be impulsive given the stress of being busy .
Still , you can sit down to a plate of your most forbidden food desire and try to wrestle with the temptation .
Taking control of your cravings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you don ’ t want to overexert yourself to the point that you merely shift your obsession .
Instead , a balanced diet should always be your top priority .
Learn more ways to maintain a healthy diet at Slender.news .

by: Virgilio Marin
(Natural News) If you’re trying to lose weight or eat more nutritious foods, there’s a good chance that you’ve struggled against food cravings.
Unlike hunger pangs, which happen over an empty stomach, food cravings are more consuming and specific. In addition, the cravings go beyond the need to satisfy hunger and are often limited to a particular food type. Experts say that most food cravings tap into the hedonic, or pleasurable, aspects of dining.
“The most palatable foods are those that are both energy-dense and high in fat content,” explains Adam Drewnowski, director of the University of Washington’s Center for Public Health Nutrition. “High-fat foods, many containing sugar or salt, have an undeniable sensory appeal and are difficult to resist.”
Master food cravings with 5 simple tools
Fortunately, you don’t have to be a slave to your appetite. Here are five simple tools to help you control your food cravings. (h/t to PsychologyToday.com)
1. Situation selection
Situation selection means avoiding places where your food temptations can be found. Being near to foods you’re craving for increases the strength of your desire. A simple solution is to stay as far away as possible from the food you’re craving – the same manner that people who want to stop drinking or smoking may want to avoid places where these occur. (Related: Smokers three times less likely to light up if they consume fruits and vegetables.)
2. Situation modification
Some situations are simply hard to avoid. Situation modification helps people deal with these occasions, such as eating, by changing their physical or social environment. This means changing the size of your plate or eating small portions of food at a time. People trying to eat less may find this strategy useful.
“Smaller portions lead us to eat less, even if we can refill the plate,” writes Shahram Heshmat, a professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield who specializes in health economics, in Psychology Today.
3. Attention
When you’re craving for a particular food, you are giving that object too much attention.
Try distracting yourself by focusing on other things or keeping yourself busy. By diverting your attention, you stop yourself from thinking too much of the food and instead reduce its effect on you.
4. Reframing
Unlike the previous strategy, cognitive reframing requires you to think of your craving. The catch is that you need to think of your craving differently.
“Focusing on the negative consequences of consuming the food or the beneficial consequences of not consuming the food function as powerful ways of decreasing food cravings through cognitive change,” says Heshmat.
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That means reevaluating the food and your desire for it in a way that blunts its allure on you.
5. Response modulation
A common form of this strategy is suppression, where a person voluntarily and consciously inhibits expressing an emotion or, in this case, a food desire. The result of this strategy, Heshmat admits, is often mixed. It’s easy to buckle under intense pressure, and people tend to be impulsive given the stress of being busy.
Still, you can sit down to a plate of your most forbidden food desire and try to wrestle with the temptation.
Taking control of your cravings require work and serious concentration. But you don’t want to overexert yourself to the point that you merely shift your obsession.
Instead, a balanced diet should always be your top priority.
Learn more ways to maintain a healthy diet at Slender.news.
Sources include:
Science.HowStuffWorks.com
News.Yahoo.com
PsychologyToday.com
Journals.SagePub.com
ScienceDirect.com