| By Bill Bonner Tuesday, May 26, 2020 – Week 11 of the Quarantine SAN MARTIN, ARGENTINA – There are Indian ruins up there,” say the locals. “Almost no one still alive has ever seen them.” We were determined to get up to the top of the mesa and find out for ourselves. Trouble was, nobody knew how to get up there. We tried twice… riding around, looking for a way up the sheer cliff. A rock climber might be able to get up. But if we have a superpower, it doesn’t involve climbing up cliffs. “There is a secret path. But nobody remembers where it is,” said our foreman. “But I know where it is,” said Martha, the cook. “My uncle had the puesto (herding station) near there. He showed me the path. It was many years ago. But I think I remember where it is.” On Saturday, we tried again… but that story will have to wait until tomorrow. | Recommended Link | Tom’s Portfolio Closes at Midnight Tonight Until midnight tonight, you can claim $1,500 off Tom’s Portfolio, plus a $2,500 bonus… and try it with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. It’s Tom Dyson’s brand-new product, showing you how he’s allocated $1 million of his own money. And how you could make 10 times your money by following his portfolio… outside of regular stocks... beginning immediately. The last time Tom was this excited about an opportunity, he got into bitcoin, just before it rose 302,000%. Just remember: This charter offer expires at midnight tonight. After that, you’ll be too late, and this opportunity will expire. | | | - | Cynical Amusements One of the charms of a late, degenerate empire is that it gives you an assortment of cynical amusements. There are so many laws, regulations, and edicts… each day, reading the news is like choosing from a buffet of buffooneries. You only have to decide which to laugh at first. Over the weekend, for example, POTUS defied the laws and customs of the city of Baltimore. Mayor Young had declared meetings of any sort, for any purpose, anathema to public health. Yet, there was The Donald drawing a crowd, celebrating Memorial Day in the city that gave us Francis Scott Key and the “Star-Spangled Banner.” It was not the first clash between Baltimore’s leaders and the federales. During the War Between the States, for example, President Lincoln had Key’s grandson arrested without a warrant. Key was the editor of a Baltimore newspaper that was critical of the president. Lincoln even tried to arrest the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court – also a Marylander. But at least that attempt at lawlessness failed. In an era of disease, this "new cure" could be one of the most powerful medical technologies of our time. We used to know the mayors of Baltimore personally. Schaefer, O’Malley… But now, the mayors go to jail before we have a chance to meet them. It is a shame. Otherwise, we might have gotten on the phone to Mayor Young with some advice. He should have sent the boys in blue to arrest the president and everyone in attendance. The president could have retaliated by sending in the National Guard to protect citizens’ rights to peacefully assemble. He might have even taken a page from the book of Dwight D. Eisenhower and ordered the National Guard to reopen the schools all over the nation. Not that any of this would have served any useful purpose. But it would have made the occasion more entertaining. And it might have helped to clarify the imbecilities in conflict. On the one hand, Baltimore has imposed a lockdown that is almost certainly unconstitutional. On the other, the scofflaw president was participating in a festival of sacred claptrap. Credit Where It’s Due The Memorial Day holiday is meant to be an occasion for Americans to pay homage to their fallen heroes. And this year, Donald Trump went to Baltimore and read his lines… saying the same empty-headed things presidents always say on Memorial Day, thanking our soldiers… our “warriors”… for saving our freedom. And our lives. We do not dispute the need to remember the fallen. We just think it should be done with fewer lies and more candor. And today, in the spirit of public mischief, we offer a recommendation for how to make Memorial Day more meaningful. | Recommended Link | | The Tech Boom Hidden in Executive Order 13859
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But it also empowered a new master. Now, the feds were in charge, no matter what it said in the Declaration of Independence. Amazing 17-Second Video Reveals Key to Tech Fortune… Apart from the War Between the States, when at least there was something at stake, America’s military history is mostly sordid, clownish, and futile. Never was there any real danger of invasion by a foreign power. Never were Americans’ liberties at risk – except from their own government, as it used the cover of “war” to increase its power over its own population. In a recent editorial, American author Max Boot criticizes the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, saying that if it had been in charge during World War II, “we’d all be speaking German.” But he is just being ironic. Or stupid. Greater Enemy In the first place, there’s nothing wrong with German; we might all benefit from learning a few declensions. But there was no chance – none – that even the most unprofessional U.S. bumbling during the war would have led to a U.S. defeat and occupation by the Germans. The Wehrmacht was already reeling from the loss of its Sixth Army at Stalingrad. And Hitler’s bad strategies doomed millions more of his own troops – even before U.S. troops landed in Normandy. And even if, by some miracle, Germany had managed to escape defeat at the hands of the Soviets, there was no way it would have found the ships, planes, and soldiers to cross the Atlantic. The real danger, then as now, was not the foreign invader… but the domestic bamboozler. In World War II, the U.S. government put 112,000 of its own citizens in concentration camps. And today, it has locked up nearly a million prisoners of war – in state and federal gulags – in its 50-year-long “War on Drugs.” There are also more than three million people on parole for drug “crimes.” Add to those numbers the millions of people under “house arrest” in its war on COVID-19… and you have the measure of an enemy far greater than the Jap, the gook, or the hun. | Recommended Link | | "NOT TYPICAL" Jeff Brown recently made an investment recommendation that went up so big… and helped his readers make so much money that… One woman, Angela M., wrote in to say "I just made six months’ pay in two months"… "I made over $70,000 in just five weeks," chimed in Kenneth S. And one retired CPA added that he "banked me a profit of $74,300 before breakfast!" You have to see this for yourself! Now obviously, however, the investment results described in these testimonials are NOT TYPICAL! Investing in securities carries a high degree of risk. And you may lose some or all of your investment. However, based on what Jeff just uncovered, there is very good reason to believe that "lightning will soon strike twice"… | | | -- | Fake Wars Government operates like a protection racket. It stirs up enemies… and then offers protection from them. Even so, at reasonable rates… with reasonable protections (the Bill of Rights, for example) from the feds themselves… the racket is tolerable and actually welcome, for most people. But after World War II, the atomic bomb and the threat of “mutual assured destruction” made real wars too risky. So the U.S. turned to fake wars… against enemies who posed no real threat – Vietnam, Grenada, Honduras, Iraq, Panama, Afghanistan – and to wars against drugs, poverty, terrorism, and now… a protein molecule. Memorial Day should pay homage to all the victims… not just the poor soldiers who were fed into the military maul. It should include the millions of civilians, too – mostly foreigners – who died as “collateral damage”… and the millions of poor people turned into welfare addicts by the War on Poverty… and the millions who died from drug overdoses… or who spent years behind bars… And surely, the highlight of today’s Memorial Day festivities should be the president’s visit to Arlington Cemetery. There, with the solemnity worthy of the occasion… he should lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown COVID-19 Victim – perhaps one of the 10,000 people driven to such despair by the feds’ war on the molecule… that he blew his brains out. Tune in tomorrow… for our trip to the Lost World… Regards, Bill Like what you’re reading? Send your thoughts to feedback@rogueeconomics.com. The Feds Will Blame the Depression on Coronavirus
Bill’s longtime colleague and friend Doug Casey thinks the coronavirus is a “manufactured scam”... and the economic recession is the fault of the U.S. government. Read on for the rest of his analysis… MAILBAG In today’s mailbag… a medical professional’s opinion of COVID-19 lockdowns… Trump’s handling of the pandemic… and the state of the U.S. dollar… Gadzooks! As a medical professional, I have been following my colleagues (both doctors and nurses) through listservs with their observations, trials for changing processes, and policies in their institutions. We all agree that quarantine of the general population is a false plan doing more harm than good. Isolation of those with symptoms and the virus in hospitals and in-home is the preferred method – if we all have that choice. Therefore, I agree that our – and many other countries’ – political systems are in the business of controlling the population. I’m not a lemming, nor have I ever been one. Right now, I’m just sad to see that not everyone is making their own choice on a day-to-day basis. My motto has always been: Love is more powerful than fear. – Margie F. I doubt that Trump has looked at history, but if you see the movies of Germany in the 1930’s it seems Trump is following Hitler’s script very closely. Get rid of anyone that is not in lockstep with what you are doing and blame everyone else for any mistake (and whine about it). Like his best friends, Kim, Putin, and Xi, he wants a big military parade. He started last fourth of July at the Lincoln Memorial by blocking off the public and inviting his own friends to sit around him and bring in a few military vehicles. The economy was in bad shape before the lockdown and COVID-19 was just the pin that popped the balloon. I hope the Trump train gets derailed in November. I worry that there is a plan that Trump’s people and family are cooking up to change the election in November. – Paul L. FINALLY, you wrote something that I can disagree with… I’d been waiting so long!! While everything that you wrote about Volker is true, he did not save the fake-money system. Kissinger did that with his deal with the House of Saud. The “Pero Dollar” deal made the U.S. dollar the world’s reserve currency, and people have died to keep it that way. The only weapon of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had was the fact that he traded oil without using U.S. dollars. Ghadaffi was an ally of the U.S. until he began trading oil without using the USD. Donald Trump promised to get the U.S. out of our relationship Saudi Arabia… until he got into office and was educated on the simple fact that the U.S. economy, and by extension, the world economy, is dependent on that relationship. As long as we can create a false “demand” for the USD, it will remain “money.” The second that stops, the USD dies. – Joe J. Are political systems in the business of controlling people, as Margie believes? Was COVID-19 the “pin that popped the [economic] balloon,” like Paul says? Write us at feedback@rogueeconomics.com. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… All this Hype about 5G is Pointless. Here's Why By now you've heard big promises about 5G. 5G will make you rich… 5G will change your life… 5G will usher in the new Industrial Revolution. You've seen the Super Bowl commercials. And every one touting the next big 5G stock. But here's the hard truth the pundits will never say… All the hype about 5G is useless. Without the technology of this one tiny company, there will be no 5G rollout across America. That's why Facebook, Lockheed Martin, L3, Sprint, T-Mobile, China Satcom, and dozens of networks are banging on this company's door. And for the first time, this tiny $8 company is about to roll out this long-awaited technology. To be one of the first to get in on this big stock market opportunity… Check out this research briefing now. 
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