Wade Shepard

Author of Ghost Cities of China. Documentary filmmaker at Real Life Cinema. Journalist. Bylines: The Guardian, Forbes, etc. Traveling since 1999, 90 countries.

[Buffalo Hockey Moments @SabresPlays]

Before the @BuffaloBlade were born, there was another group of hooligans from South Buffalo who stole the zamboni from Cazenovia ice rink and drove down to the local bar with full hockey gear on. The police escorted them back to the rink . This runs through our blood (sometime in the 90s)

#LetsGoBuffalo #NHLBruins

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

It’s funny that I was concerned that the China ghost city topic could die way back when I was writing the book in 2014 / 2015 but the narrative is still alive and well. Got a mention in the Sun today:

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

@JJWatt You tip for service. If there is none then no tip.

[Dion Dawkins @DDawkins66]

@JetBlue makes no sense for security. I spent 10k to give my family an experience and put them all on first class @JetBlue Mint from LA to Fort Lauderdale And employees steal my fiancés Jewlery out of her bag. Rolex Watches

[Jaye 🐝Ⓜ️ @jayebeeem]

https://t.co/HvY7SvwS4P

[Real Life Cinema @RealLifeCine]

Trailer for Deadwind, our new documentary web series about the impacts of offshore wind development.

[Nate Geary @NateGearySports]

Why what happened?

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

Bills fans continuing to watch the NFL after last week’s game is good proof for the existence of Stockholm Syndrome. #boycottsuperbowl

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

Had to represent the @buffalobills on Netflix. 🦬

Tune in now! #PaulTyson

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Who else is tired of seeing Big Pharma ads dominate every other commercial?

America is truly SICK from it.

We’re committed to cleaning up our airwaves and transforming our food system for a healthier future.

MAGA +MAHA

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

Holy crap…

Joel Salatin, an expert on regenerative agriculture has been contacted and accepted a position in the USDA

We’re really doing it people.

Cows are making a huge comeback

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

@amazon wtf? I can’t complete my Whole Foods order because I keep getting sent to a never ending scroll of a page trying to sell me more crap. Please fix.

[Meat Head @markeatsmeat]

Wow.

Joel Salatin, a farmer and regenerative agriculture advocate, has been offered a position within the USDA.

He will advise Thomas Massie who’s agreed to be Secretary of Agriculture.

Here’s the full message posted to his website today:

“The deplorables and garbage people won again.  Can you believe it? 

I've been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA and have accepted one of the six "Advisor to the Secretary" spots.  My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture.

He's been the sponsor of the PRIME ACT, which, if pushed through, would be the biggest shot across the bow of the entrenched industrial meat processing system we've seen in a century.  Let liberty ring.  Wouldn't that be a change of fortune for Big Ag? 

If RFK Jr. goes in as Sec. of Health and Human Services, everything will be inverted.  Talk about the coolest turn about.  He'd be the boss of the Faucis and Francis Collins--the whole covid anti-science crowd.  Wouldn't that be a change of fortune for Big Pharma?

And if Elon Musk goes in as a Government Waste Czar, do you think he could possibly find something?   

Here's an interesting tidbit.  All the income taxes in the U.S. are $2 trillion a year.  Government spending and borrowing are so out of control that if we eliminated $2 trillion from the budget, it would only set us back to 2020.  Does anyone think returning to government spending in 2020 would destroy things?  Of course not.  So all we have to do is cut federal spending to 2020 levels and we can eliminate income tax.  Period.  Done.  How would that make you feel?

Most people don't know enough history to know that the federal government was to be financed entirely from tariffs and excise taxes.  In fact, as a nation we operated just fine for nearly 150 years without an income tax.  The only president who eliminated the national debt was Andrew Jackson, and he did it by eliminating the second bank of the U.S.  Nearly 100 years later we got the third bank, known as the Federal Reserve, plus the income tax. 

During that time, tariffs averaged 40-50 percent.  After the income tax, tariffs dropped to an average of about 7 percent, where they remain today.  If we went back to 40 percent, like we had for nearly 150 years, we would bring production home and free our citizens from impoverishing taxes. 

Dear folks, this is a watershed moment to take a creative and serious look at the sacred cows in our nation and fry some serious burgers. We don't know history.  We don't know liberty.  We don't know earthworms or aquifers or immune systems.  I'm hoping this election is an opening to discovery.  Perhaps we could even figure out how to put negative occurrences like jails, pollution, and cancer on the nation's balance sheet, as a liability rather than an asset (Gross Domestic Product--more jails?  wonderful, pour more concrete and make more jobs).  

Perhaps we'll eliminate federal involvement in education, from kindergarten to college.  Make every teacher accountable to performance.  Eliminate ALL federal intervention in the food system, in farming, in energy.  The Constitution (read it) doesn't allow for any of this and it's time to examine all of it.  Shut down foreign military bases; bring them all home.  Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID to military aid.  Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 

I think whatever taxes we pay should be able to be designated to certain departments.  That way we the people could support or defund departments directly.  The reason we have K street is because all our freedoms are for sale.  Eliminate government manipulation and the lobbyists all go home.  These are simple things.  Let's do it.”

https://t.co/Xkuf556E6d

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

@AdamNMayer Right on!

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

We have a film coming out about this now.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The media say Trump lied when he told Joe Rogan that industrial wind turbines are killing whales, but he didn't. In fact, it's worse than Trump said. If the wind industry continues with its boats, noise, and vibrations, it will make the North Atlantic right whale extinct.

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

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[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

A film that I shot some of makes its theater debut today!

[Real Life Cinema @RealLifeCine]

64 Days — a film that I shot some of about the upheavals between Election Day 2020 and J6th — begins its theater run today. Playing at Cinema Village in NYC with more to come.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

A funny thing happened as the WaPo tried to map out half a billion years of global temperatures and the "disaster of global warming"

[Wade Shepard @WadeShepard]

@newdadgrumbling @NFL Same here. Can’t even log in