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[Folkert Reck @folreck]

@RWApodcast https://t.co/6D1V77qJgl

[Folkert Reck @folreck]

@RWApodcast The squirrels in California have Yersinia Pestis, the bacterium that causes Plague.

[𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 @pineconemacro]

Good stuff

[Ayuso @AyusoValue]

Troim keeps buying $BORR. This lifts his position to 10.4% of shares outstanding.

You can’t say he isn’t putting his money where his mouth is. He might be early, but I doubt he’ll be wrong.

[Folkert Reck @folreck]

@PauloMacro Plague is caused by the terrible bacterium Yersinia Pestis, which has acquired no resistance to antibiotics. So, take any anti Gram negative generic antibiotics with you in the woods, it’s easy to treat these days. BS.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Unclassified documents have surfaced confirming that actually Putin is correct - NATO had promised not to move one inch eastward and that Eastern Europe was to be a buffer zone of neutrality.

NATO has been the agressor and they are NOT ever interested in peace because if there was really peace, then there is no need for NATO and all those people would lose jobs.

Of course, mainstream media just read the Neocon script and keep propelling us into World War III. They do not care about the country or the people. Investigative journalism is gasping its last breaths.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Americans are losing their minds finding out they can no longer just print with their home printers

“I'm out here looking for a job right now and I'm trying to print up my resume. My deceased father has left a printer at home and I'm like, okay, cool, I'm gonna check out the printer”

He goes through the painstaking process of having to don’t get to WiFi, create an account, download an app. Connect it all together. Then after that the printer is still connected to his dad’s account, so he spends 45 minutes on the phone with customer service to transfer the printer into his account

After all that, he gets a prompt saying he can’t print without signing up for a subscription and paying $8 per month….

“Are you serious right now? — A subscription to use the device that's already in my ***** house? — Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Ket me educate people on the HP Printers to stay away from so this never happens to you

The models are:

HP Envy 6110r
HP Envy Photo 7260r
HP OfficeJet Pro 9120r
HP Smart Tank 6001r
HP Smart Tank 7602r

All these printers require a minimum $9 monthly plan to print and they limit how much you can print. If you want to print more pages you have to pay more

The worst part is the printer isn’t even free, many of these you have to pay a month price for the printer and the plan to print. It’s insanity

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

BREAKING: Raw sugar futures surge to a one-year high as global supply concerns intensify.

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

Why Putin Is Threatening Nuclear War Over Kaliningrad - The American Conservative https://t.co/DCNrcoUXaR

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

Tankers are moving through Hormuz again, and Washington is increasingly confident that Iran's most powerful economic weapon has been neutralized. But what if the oil is moving because Tehran has decided to let it move? The difference between military control and strategic restraint could determine whether the Iran war de-escalates - or enters a far more dangerous phase.

Read "Hormuz and the Illusion of Powere", Free on Substack
https://t.co/1jS1kpXD5Z

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I was having dinner last night with a friend working in the chicken industry and I learned something that blew my mind.

Where do chicken farmers get their chickens? Most of us would say "from their existing chickens obviously, they breed and lay eggs."

That's what I thought too, but turns out I was dead wrong.

The reality is that the immense majority of meat chicken farmers in the world get their chickens from one of 2 companies: Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson Foods, or Aviagen, controlled by Germany's EW Group (the Wesjohann family).

They have a concept specific to the industry called grandparent stock: what you buy from these 2 companies is - essentially - a bunch of chickens with planned obsolescence.

The way it works is that each company keeps "pure" bloodlines on its own farms. Let's label them A, B, C and D. Those are the crown jewels - these companies' IP - and they never leave the building.

What they sell you are the "grandparents": chicks from those four lines, but each line in only one sex. You get A roosters but no A hens, B hens but no B roosters, C roosters but no C hens, D hens but no D roosters. Which means you can never breed more A, B, C or D birds yourself.

What you can do is cross them. A roosters with B hens give you the fathers, C roosters with D hens give you the mothers - these are the "parents". The parents then give you the chickens that actually end up on our plates, slaughtered at around 6 weeks.

And that's the end of the road. If you tried breeding those chickens, their chicks would be a complete genetic lottery: still chickens, sure, but without the genetic properties that make them commercially viable. They'd grow slower and less evenly, you'd have to sell them for way more than your competitors, and your business would be dead.

So you have to go back to Cobb or Aviagen for new grandparents. Forever.

Why buy grandparents at all, and raise 2 generations just to sell the third? The answer is scale. If you buy say 100 grandparents, each of them gives you around 50 parents, and each parent hen then gives you around 150 chicks: from those 100 grandparents, you have yourself some 600,000 chickens whose meat you can sell.

It makes no sense for these 2 companies to sell the final chickens directly. They'd have to hatch tens of billions of chicks a year and ship them all over the world. Much easier to simply sell the grandparents and let farmers do the multiplying and pay for the farms, the feed and the labor.

And, you knew this was coming, there is also a China angle here: as you can imagine, China isn't too pleased to be dependent on foreign companies for such a basic food item as chicken.

So China did what China does best: long-term planning. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched a plan for "national broiler genetic improvement" (2021-2035), which aims for domestically bred breeds to make up at least 60% of the domestic market by 2035 (https://t.co/INHrS7YUpD).

And, of course, they're ahead of the plan. As of 2025, homegrown breeds held more than 30% of the market: halfway to the 2035 goal in just four years (https://t.co/hF0HvB6Q5y).

Can you escape all this as a consumer? Sure, you can buy organic or Label Rouge chicken, from slower-growing breeds raised for at least 81 days instead of 6 weeks, for two to three times the price.

Except, plot twist: the genetics behind most of those slow-growing birds come from a French company called Hubbard... which has belonged to Aviagen since 2018 (https://t.co/URsRSI3gI0)😅

And even if you could truly escape, you wouldn't want everyone to: we'd need vast new swathes of farmland, both for the chickens and their feed. Ironically, advocating for organic free-range chicken for everyone is one of the worst positions one can take for the planet's resources.

If you want to minimize your environmental footprint, the counterintuitive answer is to buy the cheapest supermarket chicken - or eat less meat, of course.

As my friend was saying last night, you may not like the way this industry works but, at the end of the day, it's what puts affordable protein on the plates of billions of people, using proportionally fewer resources than any other way of raising chicken.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

How stupid do they think goyim are?

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

@AngelaBelcamino The state should never have the power to kill its own citizens. If you don’t trust the government with your money, your guns, or your freedom, why would you trust it with the irreversible power to take a life?

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

The Senate declined to direct U.S. forces out of Iran—by one vote.

But Congress never voted on whether to start it.

Under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the sole formal authority to start a war. Not the president.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

US money supply is SURGING.

Center for Financial Stability Divisia M4 grew at 7.4%/yr in August. That's up from 5.6%/yr a year ago, & ABOVE Hanke's Golden Growth Rate of 6%/yr, a rate consistent with hitting the Fed's 2% inflation target.

INFLATION STORY = MONEY SUPPLY STORY.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

This political cartoon is 22 years old

[𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨 @pineconemacro]

Old enough to remember the GOP being for markets and limited government

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

A secretive unit in Germany's Federal Ministry of Defense, dubbed a "guerrilla unit," is fast-tracking €11.5 BILLION a year in weapons to Kyiv, striking deals in as little as two weeks.

IF THIS DANGEROUS GUERRILLA UNIT KEEPS UP, GERMANY MIGHT JUST GET US INTO ANOTHER WORLD WAR.

[Marhelm @MarhelmData]

Some East Asian ports are now reporting they are short fuel oil, meaning ships can't refuel there, with issues said to take weeks to resolve