As soon as I saw the settlement I knew this was fake news...Did YOU??

 FOX vs Dominion

Ultimate Fake News!

Miles Mathis

Today it is being reported that FOX News settled with Dominion, agreeing to pay almost $800 million AND admitting it lied. Which is all you need to know to know it was faked.

This is legal news for the legally impaired. Settlements don't work like this. You settle so that you don't have to admit guilt. Remember all those other cases you have read about in the news, where one side agreed to settle, and they say “all terms of the settlement are private. Party X admits no guilt”.

So you should be asking what Fox got in this “settlement”. You will say it avoided going to court, but Fox would have wanted to avoid going to court why? To avoid having to pay a huge settlement and to avoid admitting it was wrong. But now we are supposed to believe it did both. Doesn't fit the definition of a settlement, does it? It fits the definition of fake news, managed by both sides here to make Dominion look innocent, give legitimacy to a voting system no one believes in anymore, and scare everyone else off from criticizing Dominion.

As with the Jim Fetzer and Alex Jones trials on Sandy Hook, this is supposed to scare private researchers off from posting their findings. It is aimed, in part, directly at people like me. I am supposed to be bluffed by this fake court case from attacking Dominion or any other of the big dogs, due to fear I will be raked over the coals by some slanted judge and have to pay millions in court costs, legal fees, and judgments. Unfortunately that isn't working for them in my case, since I have no assets and am not bluffable anyway. I know all these court cases are fake, so they don't scare me. They shouldn't scare you either. You should still feel free to say whatever you like. The First Amendment is still in effect in all real courts. The Constitution has not been overturned or sunsetted.

So why, you may ask, would Fox and Murdoch agree to a fake settlement here? It seems all bad for them. 

Except you are forgetting this is fake, so Fox isn't actually paying anyone anything. They are just saying they are: 

not the same thing.

How do I know they aren't paying? Well, let me flip that: how do you know they are? Do you have access to the bank accounts of Fox or Dominion? No, you are just taking their word for it. Why would you do that? After all that you know, why would you believe Fox, Dominion, or the news? They have lied to you millions of times about every last thing, so why are you still biting on these fake court cases?

But the answer to the first question is, Fox and Murdoch agreed to this because they were ordered to.

This is a national security issue, since, as I said, the integrity of the voting system and of the election outcomes depends on you believing elections are fair and that entities like Dominion are not rigging the whole thing.

So from the point of view of the US Government, Dominion HAD to win this. There was no chance Dominion would be allowed to lose this, in any scenario, because that would be to admit elections were being rigged. If elections are being rigged, our entire system is a fraud, from the ground up.

However, no matter the outcome of this fake trial, almost everyone already knows that elections are being rigged by computers, and in other ways. It is common knowledge on both sides of the aisle. Big polls admitted it after the 2020 election, when a sizable percentage of Dems responded that they too thought the election had been stolen, even though it was stolen in their favor. You would have to be a complete moron to believe elections are free of nefarious interference. Many people have gone to jail for election tampering, and that number rises every year. 

So to claim, as places like CNN do, that elections are all above board, is just fantasy. Nobody believes it, not even their own viewers. Not even their own anchors.

Which is why this fake settlement with Fox won't make any difference. The only ones crowing about it are the talking heads on TV, but no one believes those bozos regardless.

Not only is the trust in elections gone, the trust in news is even more gone. No real person is going to read this headline and go, “Oh, that's good, Dominion must be totally honest.” Just as no sane person trusts Monsanto, Meta, Google, the WEF, WHO, or the CDC, no sane person trusts Dominion. These big companies are past the point where they can fool us into trusting them by faking some big court case.

 Decline

Of the U.S. Dollar

DYI:  From WWII moving through decade to decade culminating the U.S. inside job 9/11 were the growth years of the American Empire.  That peak was maintained until the over the top COVID scam and the Russian Ukraine war.  The too big to invade countries – Russia, China and Brazil are moving away systematically from the U.S. dollar.  Saudi Arabia has stated they will use multiple currencies and no longer rely upon the dollar exclusively.  It will not be too long before news reports regarding some of the mid size countries such as Argentina or South Africa moving baby steps away from U.S. Empire.

 Archdruid, John Michael Greer talks about the late decay of empire, specifically the American Empire, but other empires as well.    

​..​​Roughly five per cent of the human race currently live in the United States of America. That very small fraction of humanity, until quite recently, got to enjoy about a third of the world’s energy resources and manufactured products and about a quarter of its raw materials... It happened because as the world’s dominant nation, the United States imposed unbalanced patterns of exchange on the rest of the world, and these funneled a disproportionate share of the planet’s wealth to this one nation.​.. America’s empire came into being in the wake of the collapse of the British Empire during the fratricidal European wars of the early twentieth century...

..The ascendancy of one empire simply guarantees that other aspirants for the same status will begin sharpening their knives.  They’ll get to use them, too, because empires invariably wreck themselves: over time, the economic and social consequences of empire destroy the conditions that make empire possible. That can happen quickly or slowly, depending on the mechanism that each empire uses to extract wealth from its subject nations...

​  ​The mechanism the United States used for this latter purpose was ingenious but even more short-term than most. In simple terms, the US imposed a series of arrangements on most other nations that guaranteed that the lion’s share of international trade would use US dollars as the medium of exchange, and saw to it that an ever-expanding share of world economic activity required international trade. (That’s what all that gabble about “globalization” meant in practice.) This allowed the US government to manufacture dollars out of thin air by way of gargantuan budget deficits, so that US interests could use those dollars to buy up vast amounts of the world’s wealth.  Since the excess dollars got scooped up by overseas central banks and business firms, which needed them for their own foreign trade, inflation stayed under control while the wealthy classes in the US profited mightily from the scheme...

..The problem with this scheme is the same difficulty faced by all Ponzi schemes, which is that sooner or later you run out of suckers to draw in...

​..​Fast forward to last year. When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States and its allies responded not with military force but with punitive economic sanctions, which were expected to cripple the Russian economy and force Russia to its knees. Apparently nobody in Washington DC considered the possibility that other nations with an interest in undercutting the US empire might have something to say about that. Of course that’s what happened. China, which has the largest economy on Earth in purchasing-power terms, extended a middle finger in the direction of Washington DC and upped its imports of Russian oil,  gas, grain, and other products. So did India, currently the third largest economy on Earth in the same terms; so did more than a hundred other countries.​..

​..At this point the sanctions are hurting the United States and Europe, not Russia, but the US leadership has wedged itself into a position from which it can’t back down. This may go a long way toward explaining why the Russian campaign in Ukraine has been so leisurely. The Russians have no reason to hurry. They know that time is not on the side of the United States...

..For many decades now, the threat of being cut out of international trade by US sanctions was the big stick Washington DC used to threaten unruly nations that weren’t small enough for a US invasion or fragile enough for a CIA-backed regime change operation. Over the last year, that big stick turned out to be made of balsa wood, and snapped off in Joe Biden’s hand.  As a result, all over the world, nations that thought they had no choice but to use dollars in their foreign trade are switching over to their own currencies, or to the currencies of rising powers.  The US dollar’s day as the global medium of exchange is thus ending.​..

..When the British pound lost a similar role in the early years of the Great Depression, no other currency was ready to take on its role either.  It wasn’t until 1970 or so that the US dollar finished settling into place as the currency of global trade. In the interval, international trade lurched along awkwardly using whatever currencies or commodity swaps the trading partners could settle on: that is to say, the same situation that’s taking shape around us in the free-for-all of global trade that will define the post-dollar era...

..The United States of America is bankrupt. Our governments from the federal level on down, our big corporations, and a very large number of our well-off citizens have run up gargantuan debts, which can only be serviced given direct or indirect access to the flows of unearned wealth the United States extracted from the rest of the planet. Those debts cannot be paid off, and many of them can’t even be serviced for much longer. The only options are defaulting on them or inflating them out of existence, and in either case, arrangements based on familiar levels of expenditure will no longer be possible. Since the arrangements in question include most of what counts as an ordinary lifestyle in today’s United States, the impact of their dissolution will be one for the record books.

​  ​In effect, the five per cent of us in this country are going to have to go back to living on about five per cent of the planet’s wealth, the way we did before 1945. If we still had the factories, the trained work force, the abundant natural resources, and the thrifty habits we had back then, that would have been a wrenching transition but not a debacle. The difficulty, of course, is that we don’t have those things any more.​..

​..The good news is that there’s a solution to all this. The bad news is that it’s going to take a couple of decades of serious turmoil to get there. The solution is that the US economy will retool itself to produce earned wealth in the form of real goods and nonfinancial services. That’ll happen inevitably as the flows of unearned wealth falter, foreign goods become unaffordable to most Americans, and it becomes profitable to produce things here in the United States again.  The difficulty, of course, is that most of a century of economic and political choices meant to support our former imperial project are going to have to be undone.

​..​The most obvious example?  The metastatic bloat of government, corporate, and nonprofit managerial jobs in American life...

​..​What will happen ... is that the middle and upper middle classes in the United States, and in many other countries, will face the same kind of slow demolition that swept over the working classes of those same countries in the late twentieth century...

..All the businesses that make money catering to these same classes will lose their incomes as well, a piece at a time. Communities will hollow out the way the factory towns of America’s Rust Belt and the English Midlands did half a century ago, but this time it will be the turn of upscale suburbs and fashionable urban neighborhoods to collapse as the income streams that supported them go away.

​  ​I want to stress that this is not going to be a fast process.  The US dollar is losing its place as the universal medium of foreign trade, but it will still be used by some countries for years to come. 

The unraveling of the arrangements that direct unearned wealth to the United States will go a little faster, but that will still take time.

  The collapse of the cubicle class and the gutting of the suburbs will unfold over decades.  That’s the way changes of this kind play out.​..We are dancing, we Americans, on the brink of a long slippery slope into an unwelcome new reality. 

 Phoenician

Controlled

CIA

Miles Mathis

First published April 4, 2023

 I think this is the first Gateway Pundit article I have linked my readers to directly. It tells us that BLM and the Democratic Party itself are being funded above 50% by untraceable small donations allegedly from unemployed retired people. The Pundit points out that is impossible, indicating these donations are fake and are hiding another large source of funding. Of course the Pundit suggests China is funding the Democratic Party, which is ridiculous. My readers should know who it is.

 Russia? No.

 George Soros? No.

 Satan? No.

 It is your old friend the CIA again.

And who funds them? You do. The taxpayer. So taxpayers are funding all this fake mayhem, and it isn't just the Democratic Party. It is the Republican Party as well. BOTH parties are CIA fronts, funded by you without your knowledge, to be used against you. Like everything else.

I will be told the funding is coming from the big Foundations: Rockefeller, Carnegie, Guggenheim, Ford, etc. But it is even worse than that. Yes, these Foundations are involved, since they and the families behind them are behind the CIA and the rest of government, but although they have almost infinite resources, they prefer using your tax dollars to fund these things as much as possible. They find it amusing, of course, that you are funding your own propaganda. They would do it no other way.

Regardless, the entire government, military, and media is just a gigantic psyop. As a matter of news and information, your entire life is one big theater production. Absolutely none of it is true, down to the yoga magazines and cereal box literature. In that sense, you are living in a simulation, and always have been. That is what The Matrix was telling you, you know. You aren't living in a computer simulation, like a brain in a tank. This world is not a hologram. But otherwise you ARE living in a simulation, since nearly all information that comes to you is manufactured and scripted. Noam Chomsky was wrong: they aren't just manufacturing your consent. They are manufacturing your entire mental life. They have taken near-complete control of history, literature, art, politics, news, economics, sociology, and everything else.

And if you think they are benevolent overlords, think again. This control grid is a vicious psychological war against you. It benefits only them, the ruling class. Its main purpose is to keep you stupid and poor so that you cannot compete with them. They want you Dazed and Confused. They want you drugged, fluoridated, vaccinated, aerosoled, autized, propagandized, misinformed, and mentally and physically deformed, so that they can take everything for themselves. If they want you alive at all, it is only as their crawling slaves.

The rulers have always been like this, but they switched methods many centuries ago. At first they achieved this two-level master/serf society by physical force, with murders, beatings and starving's. But that was always unappealing to them, since it meant they had to get their hands dirty. Eventually they discovered that psychological warfare was just as successful as physical warfare, if not more so, and that it was far cleaner. Rather than kill the serfs, they fooled them into killing themselves or each other. Rather than oppress the serfs, they fooled them into oppressing themselves. Religion was great for that for thousands of years, but eventually an even better method was discovered: state propaganda. Once state propaganda was perfected the old religions were no longer needed, which is why they have been trying to phase them out for two hundred years. The old morality now just gets in the way of the merchants.

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U.S. stocks remain vastly overvalued; Lt. bonds overvalued yet nearing their historical mean; Gold [Dow/Gold Ratio] is near their historical average as well! 

Updated Monthly

AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO - ACTIVE ALLOCATION - 4/1/23

Active Allocation Bands (excluding cash) 0% to 50%

37% - Cash -Short Term Bond Index - VBIRX

49% -Gold- Global Capital Cycles Fund - VGPMX **

 14% -Lt. Bonds- Long Term Bond Index - VBLTX

 0% -Stocks- Total Stock Market Index - VTSAX

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Margin of Safety!

Central Concept of Investment for the purchase of Common Stocks.

"The danger to investors lies in concentrating their purchases in the upper levels of the market..."

Stocks compared to bonds:

Earnings Yield Coverage Ratio - [EYC Ratio]

Lump Sum any amount greater than yearly salary.

PE10  .........29.35
Bond Rate...4.93%

EYC Ratio = 1/PE10 x 100 x 1.1 / Bond Rate

1.75 plus: Safe for large lump sums & DCA

1.30 Plus: Safe for DCA

1.29 or less: Mid-Point - Hold stocks and purchase bonds.

1.00 or less: Sell stocks - Purchase Bonds

Current EYC Ratio: 0.76(rounded)

As of  4-1-23
Updated Monthly

PE10 as report by Multpl.com

Bond Rate is the rate as reported by

Vanguard Long-Term Investment-Grade Fund Investor Shares (VWESX)

DCA is Dollar Cost Averaging.

Lump Sum is any dollar amount greater than one year salary.

Over a ten-year period the typical excess of stock earnings power over bond interest may aggregate 4/3 of the price paid. This figure is sufficient to provide a very real margin of safety--which, under favorable conditions, will prevent or minimize a loss...If the purchases are made at the average level of the market over a span of years, the prices paid should carry with them assurance of an adequate margin of safety.  The danger to investors lies in concentrating their purchases in the upper levels of the market.....

Common Sense Investing:
The Papers of Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham

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%
Stocks & Bonds

Allocation Formula

4-1-23
Updated Monthly

% Allocation = 100 x (Current PE10 – Avg. PE10 / 4)  /  (Avg.PE10 x 2 – Avg. PE10 / 2)]

Formula's answer determines bond allocation.

Current PE10.....29.35

Avg. PE10...........17.01

% Stock Allocation    2% (rounded)
% Bond Allocation  98% (rounded) 

Logic behind this approach:

--As the stock market becomes more expensive, a conservative investor's stock allocation should go down. The rationale recognizes the reduced expected future returns for stocks, and the increasing risk. 

--The formula acknowledges the increased likelihood of the market falling from current levels based on historical valuation levels and regression to the mean, rather than from volatility. Many agree this is the key to value investing.  

Please note there is controversy regarding the divisor (Avg. PE10).  The average since 1881 as reported by Multpl.com is 16.70.  However, Larry Swedroe and others believe that using a revised Shiller P/E mean of 19.6 , the number since 1960 ( a 53-year period), reflects more modern accounting procedures.

DYI adheres to the long view where over time the legacy (prior 1959) values will be absorbed into the average.  Also it can be said with just as much vigor the last 25 years corporate America has been noted for accounting irregularities.  So....If you use the higher or lower number, or average them, you'll be within the guide posts of value.

Please note:  I changed the formula when the Shiller PE10 is trading at it's mean - stocks and bonds will be at 50% - 50% representing Ben Graham's Defensive investor starting point; only deviating from that norm as valuations rise or fall.        

  

DYI

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The Formula.

A value based allocation strategy

February 19, 2010 by John Kingham