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Bill;

I must agree with some of your discussions on the transfer of money from the people to the elites. as before I must disagree with your improper discussion of the Israeli-Hamas war. The Israeli military does not target Palestenians; its target is Hamas. If Palestenians are killed in this war it is mostly because Hamas using its people as shields; if some Palestenians are killed it is by collateral damage. There isn’t one country in the world that sends leaflets to the people where they plan to bomb. AP

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Bill regularly shits the bed with his compulsive need to void his colon of antisemitic propaganda. Commenting every time the old man drops another lump is futile. It’s a compulsion and a sickness.

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It's baked (sadly) in the cake, so to speak, but it wasn't a feature of today's column, so I focussed on the primary lesson: the scam of inflation to fleece the masses. And it's true. Best always. PM

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If U haven't noticed the Doublespeak isn't working any longer. While the blatant hypocrisy, arrogance, hubris, and chutzpah iremains off the charts.

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Hard to directly notice others delusions, but it is possible to notice the products of the vicarious peristaltic contractions in the Flying Monkeys when Bill voids another load.

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Mr. Porter, I agree. It’s as if Bill has Multiple Personality Disorder based on the bizarre first part of his essay and the excellent second part. Or it’s a case of Bill being too old to write most of these essays, and two of his assistants write them on occasion; e.g., for this essay, a leftist writing the first part and a conservative writing the second part.

In the first part he gets the senseless bloodshed and waste of money in the Russia-Ukraine conflict correct, then cherry-picks things in order to once again nonsensically shoehorn in criticism of Pres. Trump and PM Netanyahu. A typical leftist tactic. And he only superficially analyzes the problem with Pentagon spending; or, govt. spending in general, by seeming to believe that all the spending goes into the pockets of DC elites and contractor heads, when he knows full well that they only skim off the cream. There is no way trillions of dollars each year go to these people. It’s awful enough these folks skim several billion. But the overwhelming majority of real- and debt-spending goes for jobs and generous benefits for employees in the public and semi-private sectors. I call this nonsense debt-for-jobs. The private sector has run up trillions in debt as well this young century to keep millions of private sector workers employed. This debt-for jobs outrage is a 21st Century creation of which the Fed is the main culprit here. And, of course, he doesn’t provide answers about how to deal with this lunacy.

In the second part, he (or a conservative assistant) gets back on track by returning to his wheelhouse by advocating the building of true wealth via win-win deals, and showing how this, as well as peace in the period between the Civil War and WWI, resulted in tremendous wealth-building in the U.S. (I contend that much of the 20th Century also saw lots of wealth-building because of win-win deals and technical innovation, combined with using very little debt to prop up jobs.)

He concludes by indicating he will give DOGE a chance to do some good, which stunned me the way he goes after Pres. Trump. (And I wonder if he would give an Israeli DOGE a chance as well?) And maybe this will force Bill to provide some alternative solutions for a change when he doesn’t agree with some DOGE recommendations to Pres. Trump and Congress that are bound to begin coming out sometime as early as Summer 2025.

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"Debt for Jobs" - yeah that's a new one. Excellent extrapolation there, Frank W. !

There's two examples of what I personally found interesting about how suddenly the USG refound itself in a proxy war scenario with Ukraine right after the steal:

1. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, seemed to be the Biden handler's favorite point regardless of the facts.

2. Anthony Blinken actually spilled the beans and admitted in a press conference about the fact that they're borrowing & spending billions on supporting Ukraine and Israel - "creates American Jobs."

[Extremely sickening.]

Yikes! Bill is right on the money here.

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I too certainly don’t understand Bill’s position on Israel. He seems eager to spout what Israel is doing but mute on why they are doing it.

As for deficits … you can only run them if a third party is prepared to lend to you … and lenders seem to have run out. All other methods of funding result in inflation - and here I understand Bill clearly… it’s ‘just a way to transfer wealth from the people to the insiders and elite.’

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Here's a hypothetical response from a disenfranchised Palestinian living in Gaza: "Thanks for the leaflet; now what the fuck do I do pray tell. I'm stuck in this shitty open air prison with no escape. Don't preach to me about voting for these SOBs, you can't even run a clean election in your USSA."

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the delusion is strong in this shabbos, hasbara goy !!

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We’ll said

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“What has changed?”

That is in fact the right question to ask for the United States in the 21st century. The short answer is that our government was taken over by enemies of the state, leading to a coup in 2020. In the twin films Agenda and The Enemies Within, filmmakers Curtis Bowers and Trevor Loudon outline exactly what happened and how it happened. How, for example, did Red states overwhelmingly end up with Blue governments while their populations remained overwhelmingly Red? How could this go on for decades while the people remained in the dark? The answer is that there was an infiltration strategy to run Democratuc candidates as Republicans, to fool the public with Talking Point Politics to make candidates sound more conservative than they actually were, to make it sound like they would support policies that the people would support. It worked. This was followed by opaque administrations and government by legerdemain. And the people? They were too busy with their lives and too uninterested in government to even pull the curtain back and take a hard look. Meanwhile Washington DC filled up with enemies of America using the same techniques to fool the people. To this was added the systemic corruption of electoral politics where lying and fooling the people was not enough. Finally, the centralization of power in DC was accomplished by bribing the states with massive and ongoing payouts to go along. They did.

This is what has “changed” and most but not all of it happened in this century.

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The government was taken over by enemies of the State. Yes.

Where were we, the people, when that was happening? The failure resides with us. We have the blueprint; all we had to do was use and follow it. Did we? Best always. PM

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"By way of deception (((we))) shall make war".

Reportedly the genocidal, zio-IDF's M.O. /motto.

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Brilliant dedication, Brien. Thank you for reinforcing what I personally thought about the - wtf, why and how. Mark Kelly had plenty to do with the blue balling of local head's of states across the country whilst masquerading with Gabby Gifford behind the gun reform campaigns. Ugh.

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The Israel and Ukraine promoters constantly tell us that there's an American mandate for their projects. If so, it should be a slam dunk to fund these projects with a Go-Fund-Me campaign rather than draining the public coffers. Fact of the matter is most American's couldn't even locate these countries on a map. You'd be hard pressed to convince American's to donate blood to these countries. Asking American's to go risk their lives in support of these projects is risible. We shouldn't for a minute underestimate the generational damage done by the "weapons of mass destruction" lie. You think a paraplegic veteran lying in bed watching the Afghanistan withdrawal on the idiot box didn't have second thoughts about indulging in that Kool-Aide. That we're even discussing these projects when we're at the precipice of a credit crisis tells you everything you need to know.

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"Big ‘defense’ budgets — 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 — were recycled back into lobbying and politics, yielding even bigger ‘defense’ budgets."

Would that have made any difference?

PS - "𝙒𝙚’𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙖𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙢𝙮, 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙."

What's this? A compliment for two America-Firsters and glimpse of the shadow of Hope??

You're slipping, Bill...

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Well put i'm surprised through the first appointment out. A possible compliment for the budget cutting elites? If they do nothing else, I hope they melt the rubber stamp of spending.

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Perhaps you've not been paying attention .... The (((two))) [did you mean to write ... 'fisters'] are both publicly declared, ... Isn'treali Firsters ... MIGA !!!!

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Yawn.

Y'all need a new schtick. Maybe go back to the Rothschilds, or even the British Monarchy?

Yeah, I know - I'm blind and refuse to see what is REALLY going on.

Yawn...

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An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people is the definition of massacre. Why do you continue to lie? You have spent too much in antisemitic Ireland.

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Y'know - reading these two comments, I personally tend to agree with Abe. The sad part is - I'm not sure which side Mr. Braunstein is referring to, while it could be argued that he means both.

What a world...

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Israel just announced an additional evacuation for civilians. Does that sound like a massacre?

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Israel often calls the targets before they attack to cut down on civilian casualties. I am sure that hamas and hezbollah do too, right Bill?The sad part is that harris/biden or the pentagon are not notified until seconds before or not at all because they would leak it out.

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Truth, Mr. Gmitter.

Interestingly (at least to me), is how does that FACT square up with the widely-held "opinion" that Israel "owns" our politicians and government? Hmmmmm.

The math ain't mathin'...

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Pausible denial, is a feature of Newspeak that works on/for the dumbed-down.

Almost, ... 'every single time'.

Don't the crazed Iranians give hours advanced notices to all parties involved?

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That is another antisemitic lie and has nothing to do with the issue

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Reading Comprehension ain’t your thing, eh?

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If it is done to know where the 'targets' are expected to go, to be eliminated ... then you inadvertently clued us in.

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Yes , when they then bomb the evacuees .

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I am sure you have the proof right. You do not so why did you say it.?

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Whatever your opinions are on climate change and the carbon tax, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the least convincing, worst imaginable representative for these (or any other) causes.

Trudeau hopped on a plane to fly 8,280 km to take the stage at the Global Citizen Now Event at the G20 Leaders’ Summit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to lecture the audience and Canadians about our country’s role in saving the entire planet. NATIONAL POST- Terry Newman

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Vanity, vanity, all is vanity, sayeth the preacher...Ecclesiates I, 2. These guys are who they are and do as they do, because they are self-entitled egomaniacs. Bet always. PM

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Yeah, word on the street is that climate change "extreme" - isn't. But world domination "$atan"- is.

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I find the comments ridiculous. BPR is an investment newsletter/ Stack, yet the comments are either directly from the MAGA playbook, or religious BS.

Tom wrote a very useful analysis of energy demands from fuel/oil/gas over the next decade, which links directly to BPR’s Trade of the Decade, yet no one seems to think this it’s worth commenting on. Thanks, Tom

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I'm happy to comment on it. What investment grade information do we get on the daily posts? I'm heavily invested in the trade of the decade.I'm still hanging on to some of those container stocks and i'm buying platinum and raw uranium. I run several portfolios of my own. And frankly theirs have not done well. A commenter a few weeks ago.Ask if we could get a heads up when they dump as fuck because if we act quickly it's already tanked. That's why I have some of them still. Not worth the lost good long term potential perhaps. And we all love to see the chateau and the gypsy wagon. I would like.

An update on my way again..

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Tom just posts what he is doing not investment advice. Everyone is free to do whatever they want. BPR is not an investment newsletter/Stack.

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Like the Gadarenes, we in the West

Found Christ’s presence too much of a test.

So we asked Him to go

And He kindly did, so

We can slide down the slope like the rest.

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That Deism is possibly a "thing" is a conclusion to which I am coming. Best always. PM

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Good to see Bonner back on track today. Best always. PM

P.S. Note to all of my compatriot friends here who questioned yesterday my remarks about Ukraine and our role in same: I will respond. Many thanks. PM

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"God stood by as the Germans massacred the Jews..."

Derp.

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Worse still, he stood by while we slaughtered 50 million infants in the womb, or even out of the womb. Best always. PM

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The concept of free will is alive and well. Man's inhumanity to man goes back to cavery man. Those who forsake god are doomed to that path. I'm not even religious.

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Derp, indeed.

Bill is not above using "Righteousness" as a cudgel if it falsely helps him achieve his end - whatever that may be...

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There's a reason personal finance is no longer taught in public education. The elites don't want the masses figuring out where the value in their money went.

Saving money and budgeting are both dirty words, to the elites, these lead to the following negative ideas: limited use of credit, gold, silver, high interest bearing accounts, passive income, trusts, over funding universal life insurance, self employment.

Positive ideas are as follows, college degree, good job, jumbo mortgage, both parents working, child daycare, credit cards, 401k, obey, comply, vote.

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God didn't standby while the Nazi's murdered 6 million. We nor can the Jews lay the blame on God. Yahowah is the name of the God of Abraham, and Moseh. He'd like to be the God and Father protector of the descendants of Abraham again. The Jews are to blame for the pain they have experienced at hands of the gentiles.

Yahowah made if very clear to His children, choose to live set apart within the covenant agreement He made with Abraham or choose not to. The right choice will include peace, prosperity, and eternal life, the second choice will bring hardship, and strife.

Read Tanakh, every time the Jews strayed into religion their God intervened through His prophets warning them to return, sadly they rarely never did so. Their propensity to stray into religion became so intolerable Yahowah was unable to find a single Jew to communicate His message through. Malaki was the last prophet Yahowah has gone silent through the Jews.

The promises made Abraham are eternal, Yahowah has been calling out to His people. He was unable to find a single Jew up to the task leaving Him to communicate through a gentile.

This might sound like another cult seeking followers to fleece and control. Alas there is no donate button, no collection or sign in to collect user information. The site is free, all 35 books on the shelf are able to be downloaded or read on the site, there is no App. No one will ever contact you, unless you contact the author via email.

If you're religious this might not be the site for you the bookshelf includes 3 books wherein the evidence against Christianity, Islam, and Rabbinical Judaism is incontrovertible all three were created to control and fleece their victims.

God did not offer Abraham a religion, the covenant is a familial relationship. A relationship open to the entire world but there are terms and conditions which include living set apart from the ways of mankind. Politics, religion, and militarism are not welcome within God's home, It's very easy to understand why most all people would reject God's terms and conditions. Yahowah set the number at one in a million persons Mathematically a thousand is one in a million.

Exodus 20:6 I will genuinely act and actually engage to prepare, perform, and produce unfailing mercy, unearned favor, and genuine kindness, even actual forgiveness, developing a friendly and affectionate relationship on behalf of thousands who move toward Me and love Me, forming a close and familial relationship with Me, caring enough to know Me, approaching Me by closely examining and carefully considering My instructions and directions, the terms and conditions which uphold My Covenant.

https://yadayah.com/Books/An-Introduction-to-God/Volume-2/Chapter01.html?nonav&jmp=pnum178

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So you wake up this morning with news that Israel and Ukraine have been bombed back to the stone ages. Here's the reaction from your typical American: "Bummer. Babe what's for breakfast." The promoters don't want to hear this, but nobody cares and no one wants to pay for it. Just another cold hard fact of life for the ideologues.

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No one pays attention, and no one changes until he pays a stiff price, and maybe that over and over. This is the problem with the LeftyLibs, and this is the problem with post-1960 America. Best always. PM

"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." -- Paul Simon

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Paul - you are spot on as is Paul Simon. Israel is now murdering Palestinians by the thousands and continues with the delusions. Israel has become Germany and the Jews have become Palestinians. The delusional Israelis can't seem to clearly see that. They - like the Nazis did blindly - continue the mass murders. Just unbelievable. And, so tiring. I am firmly in Bill's camp. He sees and speaks clearly but most comments here just can't get their minds around the truth. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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You can't have a rational conversation with an ideologue. When one becomes an ideologue they must ditch their logical deductive reasoning capabilities. The last administration was chock full of ideologues. This dumpster fire shouldn't surprise anyone paying attention.

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Did ....Heels-up Kamaltoe, suddenly become 'burdened' by her past, again?

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Now she says fight fight fight! Oh my gosh.Could that be another idea stolen from Trumps shout as he was bleeding from the ear? I can't BB did not point that out.

I said I do appreciate mister Bonner's input. He's quietly laughing at us as we speak about him as he pulls our chains. When I was college aged I used to pet friends that I could have every one of these people in this large group speaking about whatever..... One was squirrels or gophers or hot air balloons. It is so incredibly easy to direct group conversations. Seriously, I made good money doing it. Check it out at your Thanksgiving dinner perhaps. Iguanas might be a good subject. ... Everybody likes a cruise or equatorial countries. Start off with warm weather..... See how easy.

It is. Comment later with your great stories , bet all have a big smile .

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Mr. Bill, I agree. Sometimes I think Bill gets bored working on his (non-Argentinian) properties around the world or attending some boring get-togethers he feels obligated to attend; or, maybe his daughter and son-in-law have inadvertently pushed him aside in Argentina with their excellent management of the property there, where he seemed to have an awfully good time compared to his stints in the U.S. and other countries. So to spice up his life in his mid-seventies, he writes some very provocative things just to get many of his subscribers worked up; i.e., to spice up his life a bit. It's like the famous The New Yorker cartoon, where two very bored pilots are piloting a jet liner in calm, partly-cloudy skies. They suddenly look at each other mischievously, then flip the plane upside down, and moments later, flip it back up in place, smiling contentedly at each other.

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Just because you can, Bill, don't mean that you should... comes to mind regarding that technique. Keep using that skill set for the "good". That's a mulligan since you were still in college, though. ;⁠-⁠)

I hear Kamelion Harass is getting put up for that open slot in the Supreme Court. Whilst her "supporters" are going bat-chit crazy over being gaslit.

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Make an a parley. Go from iguanas to moon to asphalt driveways... Tell a trusted person. No politics.. They're the easiest to shepherd. It can be a bad place after you succeed.

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“BPR is not an investment newsletter…”….Brother, you got THAT right! At this point, too late for FOMO. All that’s left is DOMO: Disappoint Of Missing Out

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Bill

Fascinating, as always.

I like the definition of deficit spending, as being "really just a way to transfer wealth from ‘the People’ to the insiders and the elites".

Speaking from the UK, it is slightly wider than that, in that it includes the various client groups of the elites, "victims" of one sort or another, and those causes that make them look good to other elites!

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