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12 Parallel Economy Businesses You Can Start Today

Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2022

Business Ideas to Free People from Corrupt Institutions

The Daily Bell

Millions of people are quickly realizing that they cannot trust the institutions they rely on daily.

Inflation threatens your savings, drives up costs, and puts the dollar’s powerful status at risk.

Crime is skyrocketing, with local authorities unable or unwilling to respond—while the FBI focuses its efforts on angry parents who want a say in their children’s education.

If you question the public health officials or demand basic human rights, you’re considered a domestic terrorist. You could be cut off from your bank account and banned from communicating online. They might even turn off your power and water.

If we want to continue to live in a functioning modern society then it is time to take matters into our own hands.

Every level of government, big tech, big pharma, the corporate media, and the faceless nameless “experts” cannot be trusted to provide the goods and services that keep society running.

In fact, they have become the biggest threats to your freedom and security.

But even if we depend on what these legacy institutions provide, we don’t have to be dependent on the institutions themselves.

It’s time to take back control, by rebuilding the foundations of the economy and society at the local (and backyard) level, from the ground up.

This is what it means to build a parallel economy.

Below is a list of 12 ideas to get you thinking about the types of businesses that will help build this parallel economy.

It is far from exhaustive. As you read, it may spark other ideas of services and products you could offer, to give people alternatives, and make money in the process.

1.   Teach Classes that Offer Independence

Help people build skills and become more independent by offering training in your area of expertise.

There are many people who don’t want to rely on banks, grocery stores, or the power grid.

Training in anything from growing the maximum calories on the smallest land, building solar and rainwater systems, or using DeFi (Decentralized Finance) tools to maintain custody over your own funds should be in high demand.

You want to market to your customers by showing them the benefit they will receive.

For example, don’t say How to Use Cold Storage Crypto Wallets, offer How to Securely Save Money Without Banks.

It’s not: How to Grow the Most Calorie Intensive Crops. It’s: Never Worry About Empty Grocery Stores Again.

2.   Job Training and College Alternatives

Lots of people are thinking about how to work for themselves, or at least NOT work for a large corporation which doesn’t even respect their basic bodily autonomy.

Can you teach people how to start a certain business, or a skill that could allow them to freelance?

Think about any expertise you have which could help others boost their job or income prospects.

If you are training people to become part of the parallel economy, even better.

But even just providing people with skills to work from home increases individual independence, and therefore increases population-wide resilience, thus strengthening the parallel economy.

In fact, after you establish any parallel economy business, you might earn side income by training people to create something similar.

Or you may run training courses to recruit new talent, and offer the best students a chance to work for you.

This figures into the type of parallel economy business I am working on…

Most universities are just overpriced propaganda factories where Marxist professors indoctrinate young impressionable adults into believing harmful, destructive ideologies.

They no longer provide training that will help students succeed in the modern economy, and it’s becoming harder to meet lifelong friends and valuable connections amid the woke censorship.

My college alternative will allow young people to come together to live in a campus atmosphere to work on a self-determined project, paired with successful mentors who can guide them in their specific fields.

This self-directed learning coupled with expert guidance will be much less expensive, while providing more exposure to skills which matter today.

You’ll be hearing much more on this topic from me soon.

3.    Mutual Aid Societies

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Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Exposes Foolishness of Interventionism

Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2022

By Ron Paul, MD

Ron Paul Institute

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/august/08/pelosi-s-taiwan-trip-exposes-foolishness-of-interventionism/

The US fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi provoking China nearly to the point of war over Taiwan is meant to show the world how tough we are. In reality, it demonstrates the opposite. The drunken man in a bar challenging everyone to a fight is not tough. He’s foolish.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “surprise” trip to Taiwan last week should be “Exhibit A” as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb. Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the stopover achieved nothing of the sort. It was a pointless gesture that brought us closer to military conflict with zero benefits.

As Col. Doug Macgregor said of Pelosi’s trip on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, “statesmanship involves advancing American interests at the least cost to the American people. None of that is in play here. … Posturing is not statesmanship.”

Pelosi’s trip was no outlier. Such counterproductive posturing is much celebrated by both parties in Washington. Neoconservative Senators Bob Menendez and Lindsey Graham were thrilled with Pelosi’s stop in Taipei and used it as a springboard to push for new legislation that would essentially declare war on China by declaring Taiwan a “major non-NATO ally.”

The “one China” policy that, while perhaps not perfect, has kept the peace for more than 40 years is to be scrapped and replaced with one sure to provoke a war. Who benefits?

Foolishly taking the US to the brink of war with Russia over Ukraine is evidently not enough for Washington’s bipartisan warmongering class. Risking a nuclear war on two fronts, with both Russia and China, is apparently the only way for Washington to show the rest of the world it’s serious.

The Washington Post’s neoconservative columnist Josh Rogin accurately captures the mindset in Washington DC with a recent article titled, “The skeptics are wrong: The US can confront both China and Russia.”

For Washington’s foreign policy “experts,” those of us who don’t believe a war with both Russia and China is a great idea are written off as “skeptics.” Count me as one of the skeptics!

During the Cold War there were times of heightened tension, but even in the darkest days the idea that nuclear war with China and the Soviet Union could be a solution was held only by only a few madmen. Now, with the ideological struggles of the Cold War a decades-old memory, such an argument makes even less sense. Yet this is what Washington is selling.

The US fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi provoking China nearly to the point of war over Taiwan is meant to show the world how tough we are. In reality, it demonstrates the opposite. The drunken man in a bar challenging everyone to a fight is not tough. He’s foolish. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose from his display of bravado.

That is interventionism at its core: a foolish policy that provokes nothing but anger overseas, benefits no one in the US except the special interests, and leaves the rest of us much poorer and worse off.

There may be plenty to criticize about China’s government and policies. They are far from perfect, particularly in protection of civil liberties. But have we already forgotten that our own government shut down the country for two years over a virus, and then forced a huge number of Americans to take an experimental shot that is proving to be as worthless as it is dangerous? Let’s look at the log in our own eye before we start lobbing missiles overseas.


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Germany Can Save Itself, and Possibly the World, by Abandoning Four Failed Policies

Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2022

Conclusion: What’s Good for Germany Is Good for the World

https://mises.org/wire/germany-can-save-itself-and-possibly-world-abandoning-four-failed-policies

Patrick Barron

The following is a plea to Germany—the war is over and has been for three-quarters of a century. It’s time to stop prostrating yourself for the supposed “good” of Europe. It’s time to take complete control of your domestic and foreign policy, without interference from haughty, busybody world elites, and do what is best for yourself. You will be pleasantly surprised that what is good for yourself is also good for your neighbors and the world.

Here are four failed policies that must be ended:

  1. The green energy projects.
  2. Membership in the European Monetary Union (EMU).
  3. Membership in the European Union.
  4. Membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and economic sanctions against Russia.

None of these policies are working. As American humorist and political sage Will Rogers said, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

  1. End the green energy projects. This is a good place to start, since your hardworking citizens are likely to freeze this winter. The green energy project, born of the global warming / climate change hysteria, will never power Germany or any other country, that matter. It has failed and cannot succeed. Simply scrap all the publicly funded green energy projects, end all “green energy” subsidies, and wish the private ones well. Sure, maybe there’s a niche here and there for wind and solar, but the national goal to replace fossil fuels must be abandoned. You cannot heat your homes and run an industrial economy on green energy.
  2. Abandon the euro and reinstate the deutschmark. If ever there were a competition for the world’s most foolish currency bloc, the European Monetary Union (EMU) would win all the prizes. As Claudio Grass explained recently, the euro is worse than even a state-sponsored fiat currency. It has no one national owner but nineteen, and a majority want to print more euros. It is the tragedy of the commons applied to currency.  See the rest here

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The B61-12 Mini-nukes “Made in America” to be Used in “A Nuclear First Strike”. Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands.

Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2022

Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-b61-12-mini-nukes-made-in-america-to-be-used-in-a-nuclear-first-strike-coming-soon-to-italy-belgium-germany-netherlands/5786765

By Manlio Dinucci

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First published on July 15, 2022

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“Production of the B61-12 nuclear bomb begins,” Sandia National Laboratories announced from the United States. The B61-12, which replaces the previous B61 deployed by the U.S. at Aviano and Ghedi and other European bases, is a new type of weapon. It has a nuclear warhead with four power options, selectable depending on the target to be destroyed. It is not dropped vertically, but at a distance from the target on which it is directed guided by a satellite system. It can penetrate underground, exploding deep to destroy command center bunkers in a nuclear first strike.

The B61-12s, classified as “non-strategic nuclear weapons,” are deployed in Europe — in Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and probably other countries — at distances far enough to strike Russia. They thus have offensive capabilities similar to those of strategic weapons.

Another nuclear weapon system, which the United States is preparing to install in Europe against Russia, is ground-based intermediate-range missiles. They can also be launched from “anti-missile shield” installations, deployed by the U.S. at bases in Deveselu in Romania and Redzikowo in Poland, and aboard five warships cruising in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic Sea close to Russia.

That such installations have offensive capabilities is confirmed by Lockheed Martin itself. Outlining the characteristics of the Mk 41 vertical launch system, used in both land and naval installations, it specifies that it is capable of launching “missiles for all missions, both defense and long-range attack, including Tomahawk cruise missiles.” These can be armed with nuclear warheads.

Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.

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The Cult of Globalism: The Great Reset and Its “Final Solution” for “Useless People”

Posted by M. C. on August 9, 2022

By Timothy Alexander Guzman

Klaus Schwab’s protégé, Yuval Noah Harari

Harari is saying that under a scientific, technocratic world order, the state will be your sole provider for everything, so basically, he says that families are not needed in this new world they are creating for us, in other words, having a family will be a thing of the past:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/cult-globalism-great-reset-final-solution-useless-people/5784969

The idea of the Great Reset derives from the New World Order which is still alive in the minds of the establishment or who we can call the globalists from people like Henry Kissinger to the current US president, Joe Biden.  Of course there are many others on the top levels of the pyramid whose ideas range from establishing a police state, to implanting microchips the day we are born to track and trace us, to depopulating the planet.  I know it all sounds insane but that’s what the globalists have planned for us for a very long time.  

Klaus Schwab’s protégé, Yuval Noah Harari, is an Israeli born intellectual who authored a popular bestseller titled ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ and is also a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Harari once asked a disturbing question, “what to do with all these useless people?”  Harari is an intelligent man, there is no doubt about that, but his intelligence has led him to the level of insanity. 

Harari is an influential member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) who supports the idea of creating a dystopian society managed by a handful of globalists who will rule over every human being on earth from the day they are born.  According to Harari, planet earth is overpopulated:  

Again, I think the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people? The problem is more boredom and how what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life, when they are basically meaningless, worthless?

My best guess, at present is a combination of drugs and computer games as a solution for [most]. It’s already happening…In under different titles, different headings you see more and more people spending more and more time or solving the inner problems with the drugs and computer games both legal drugs and illegal drugs…

They also want people to stay home connected to the Metaverse world, a virtual reality simulation and at the same time get them addicted to all sorts of drugs.  The kind of world they are trying to create for us is pure lunacy. Wired, a monthly magazine describes the metaverses as a combination of the digital and physical worlds that creates a virtual reality as in the Hollywood film, ‘Ready Player One,’ The article ‘What is the Metaverse, Exactly?’ answers that question, 

“Broadly speaking, the technologies companies refer to when they talk about “the metaverse” can include virtual reality—characterized by persistent virtual worlds that continue to exist even when you’re not playing—as well as augmented reality that combines aspects of the digital and physical worlds.”

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Armed Robbery: Anti-Inflation Bill To Unleash Massive IRS Army

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

The laughably-named “Inflation Reduction Act” will double the size of the IRS – making it larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol…combined! And that will save money? Also today: under (government?) pressure, CBS censors its own report on US weapons to Ukraine. And…is the end of “woke” entertainment on the horizon?

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ANARCHO‐​CAPITALISM

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

Anarchism is a theory of society without the state in which the market provides all public goods and services, such as law and order. Although most anarchists oppose all large institutions, public or private, anarcho‐​capitalists oppose the state, but not private actors with significant market power. For evidence that this system is workable, anarchocapitalists point to the 19th‐​century American West, medieval Iceland, and Anglo‐​Saxon England.

Because anarcho‐​capitalism is predicated on a capitalist economic system, it requires markets, property, and the rule of law. (Many anarchists reject one or more of these elements. Some of those objections are discussed later.) Anarcho‐​capitalists believe that private entities will provide those goods and services necessary for society to function in peace and good order without the existence of a state that coerces individuals into paying for or obeying legal institutions.

https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/anarcho-capitalism

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Now they’re targeting the food supply

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

Over the past several decades (until just before 2020), the number of people living in what economists called “extreme poverty” has been cut in half. This is an astonishing achievement (though almost nobody even knows about it).

And here’s Dave’s point: the campaign against fossil fuels means those people go right back into extreme poverty. Possibly even death. That’s not even debatable. That’s what it means.

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/food?e=fa1aba8cd8

These days we’re hearing stories from around the world of governments making food production much more challenging — even, for some farmers, no longer doable — in the name of fighting “climate change.”

(I covered the uprising among farmers in the Netherlands in episode #2159 of the Tom Woods Show.)

Now Canada’s Justin Trudeau is jumping on board, and other places are following suit.

Trudeau is asking for levels of fertilizer reduction that will obviously lead to much less food output, and at a particularly inauspicious moment at that.

Never forget: the “climate change” fight is an elite project. No normal person in a poor country is demanding “climate action.”

In a recent episode of his Part of the Problem podcast, Dave Smith made the kind of point almost nobody ever makes, and which the kids of people who push “climate change” policy prefer we not hear.

Over the past several decades (until just before 2020), the number of people living in what economists called “extreme poverty” has been cut in half. This is an astonishing achievement (though almost nobody even knows about it).

And here’s Dave’s point: the campaign against fossil fuels means those people go right back into extreme poverty. Possibly even death. That’s not even debatable. That’s what it means.

We keep hearing “conspiracy theorists” telling us that the elites want to whittle down the Earth’s population. All I can say is, if that isn’t what they want, they have an extremely strange way of showing it.

(I might add, by the way, that climate-related deaths declined by about 98 percent over the past century — in large measure thanks to fossil-fueled solutions.)

Some people look at our situation and conclude that it’s hopeless. The odds are stacked too highly against us. The elites will win, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

I’m sure you know someone like this. It’s all defeatism, all the time.

I don’t know about you, but I refuse to live like that.

In the vein of Harry Browne, I intend to find freedom in an unfree world — for myself, and for my children.

I invite you to join me (but in 48 hours the doors close):http://www.TomSchoolOfLife.comTom Woods

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The lies they expect us to live by

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

And you’d better be sure that HR doesn’t catch you thinking the wrong thing.

These are infants, as you can see from their dates of birth. And yet the report refuses to identify them as girls. All we’re told is that their pronouns are “she/her.”

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/thelies?e=fa1aba8cd8

Another day in America, 2022.

First, this item from Oregon, shared in my Tom Woods Show Elite group:These are infants, as you can see from their dates of birth. And yet the report refuses to identify them as girls. All we’re told is that their pronouns are “she/her.”

Then this:You read that right. “Children as young as 2 recognize their trans identity.” Therefore we must protest the unthinkable injustice of nurseries teaching “a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.”

Ten years ago not a single, solitary soul gave such a thing a moment’s thought, but today they have invented special demon words for you if you don’t wholeheartedly embrace it.

And you’d better be sure that HR doesn’t catch you thinking the wrong thing.

In one area of life after another, we are expected to live by lies. We are expected to believe — or at least to profess our belief in — things we know to be false.

Some lies are more inane than others. But without breaking a sweat I could make a list of a dozen lies we’re all expected to believe as truth.

Keep your head down, keep your mouth shut, stay out of trouble.

That’s how you and I have been living.

But it eats away at your soul to live by lies rather than the truth.

I cannot change the minds of those who would push lies on me, and demonize me if I do not accept them.

What I can do: help my readers, my community, my tribe — however you want to put it — escape the lies, and live fearlessly in the truth.
 I invite you to join me (the doors close tomorrow):http://www.TomSchoolOfLife.comTom Woods

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr Exposes Big Pharma’s Covid Plot To Destroy Us

Posted by M. C. on August 8, 2022

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

To the contrary, there is abundant evidence that mass vaccination had only very brief efficacy against COVID, including the now-undeniable fact, summarized in the February issue of the European Journal of Epidemiology, that ‘Countries with a higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.’ [Data based on CDC COVID Tracker and the New York Times Interactive Tracking the Coronavirus.] Consistent with this global pattern, US deaths attributed to COVID in 2022 were—after mass vaccination—higher than they were in 2020, before vaccination. Aegon Insurance reported a 2021 third-quarter rise of 40% in US COVID-19 deaths among people under 65 years old, ‘the highest percentage in any quarter since the pandemic began.’ 

In November 2021, Robert Kennedy Jr. released his epochal The Real Antony Fauci, the definitive exposé of how the monster Fauci has for decades been plotting to impose vaccine tyranny not only on America but throughout the world. The Covid-“vaccine” hoax is only the latest episode in this plot, and I summarized the vital core of Kennedy’s case in a review that appeared on LRC.

One thing about Kennedy’s magnificent crusade may have surprised many LRC readers. Kennedy is and remains a liberal Democrat, and few people of that political persuasion oppose Covid tyranny. To the contrary, they say that “science” requires everybody to be masked and vaccinated, and the more lockdowns the better. Kennedy discovered this to his cost. The name “Kennedy” is one of honor among Democrats, but this did not stop the cancel culture elite from denouncing him and trying to block his access to the media.

Kennedy has responded to the campaign against him by his former political allies with exemplary courage. He has distilled the essence of his research over many years into vaccine tyranny and the evil forces behind it in a short book that you can read in a couple of hours: A Letter to Liberals from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Censorship and Covid: An Attack on Science and American Ideals. You can download it for free here.

Kennedy says this about the efforts to destroy dissent from Covid Tyranny: “According to an August 18, 2021, Pew Research Center Survey, 65% of Democrats currently support government censorship of unauthorized opinions. That astonishing result suggests that Democrats have lost their faith not only in their party traditions, but also in democracy. The majority of Democrats appear to believe that the Demos—the people—can no longer be trusted to govern themselves and that it is, therefore, permissible for elites to manipulate the public with propaganda, and even to censor information that might infect the population with dangerous thoughts. Liberals have long agreed that censorship of dissent is the emblem of totalitarian systems. The new strategy of silencing government critics like myself is therefore repugnant to liberalism’s foundational values and is clearly offensive to the American Constitution’s guarantee of free speech. . . the ‘Lockdown Left’ has abandoned the discipline of evidence-based medicine. Instead of scientific citation, they rely on appeals to often undeserving authorities who have manufactured ‘scientific consensus’ by cherry-picking data to support a pre-determined policy. Sanctimonious bromides to ‘follow the science,’ ‘trust the experts,’ most often mean blind dogmatic trust in the official—and often whimsical—pronouncements of amoral pharmaceutical companies and their venal government vassals at captive agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH, and WHO. Unable to defend the scientific underpinnings of their ideology in debate, liberals rely on book bans and an arsenal of coercive muzzling strategies including deplatforming, delicensing, doxxing, gaslighting, defunding, retracting, marginalizing, and vilifying scientists, physicians, journalists, and vaccine-injured Americans who complied but now refuse to toe the official line. The hallmark of Lockdown Liberalism is a bullying form of censorship called ‘cancel culture,’ which disappears not just the heretical language, but also the heretic who uttered it.” As you can see, Kennedy doesn’t pull his punches.

What has Kennedy discovered that the Left wants silenced? For one thing, the Covid “vaccine” doesn’t cure people: It kills them. “With the rising unpopularity of mandates, governments are rushing to declare the pandemic ended, often assigning credit to mass vaccination. However, there is meager scientific evidence that vaccines reduced COVID infections or deaths. 

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