Thorsten Bredberg
Aug 27, 2017 · 3 min read

I used to do what you were doing: reading several sources and if possible in different languages, in my case, english, french and german. My french is not what it used to be anymore, so I skipped that, and then I came across an article about a german journalist that exposed a strong tie between the CIA and some german newspapers, like the Frankfurter Allgemeine and the Suedeutsche Zeitung, meaning they were told how to spin their articles to favour White House politics ( this german journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, is now dead, go figure. But he’s not the only journalist to die young recently). So I skipped reading german newspapers as well and if I do, I only read non-political stuff.

Since several years I read mainly financial/ investment papers focusing on oil and gold exploration. This gives me a different approach/ view on countries like Iran, Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Venezuela, as examples.

To give you an idea:

  • when Hugo Chavez was still alive, I had already knowledge about Venezuela’s coming crisis and hyper-inflation, meaning that the current ongoing disaster was already predicted 7 years ago. So when I look back about a person having made a prediction that was 100% accurate, I tend to respect this person’s view just a tad more.
  • the same source told me about the ongoing currency manipulation in Russia, meaning the government’s successful and immense effort to devaluate the Ruble. Now why would you do that if all is well with the economy?
  • again: the same source telling me about Goldman Sachs “cooking the books” for the Greek government to appear more appealing to Europeans way before the proverbial shit hit the fan in said country.

And so forth.

But: these services cost money since they are subscription based ( you get what you pay for really seems to be true when it comes to reporting).

So basically, I don’t care when people think that in the US the left has the better arguments, that the right is more in touch with the workers ( that seems ass-backwards, doesn’t it), I think that Clinton is a warmonger or as other people put it: she never met a war she didn’t want other Americans to fight, Trump is a buffoon and always was and Obama was/is overrated. Politicians in Europe are even worse: Merkel may be the dumbest physicist alive ( she is a Lutheran), Macron is a Socialist that spends $38,500 in three month for make-up ( I’m not making this up), I think that Italy and Spain have ever so slowly descended into chaos and somebody should have shot Erdogan when they had the chance. The left is morally bankrupt ( which is axiomatic) and the Right is still arguing about abortions ( like WTF?)

The Conservatives like to convince people that religion is a force for the good which means you’d have to ignore 2000 years of recorded history of slaughter and oppression, the Liberals seriously try to undermine freedom of speech and white-wash history. I don’t know what’s worse, but here is my prediction: when they are done removing statues and monuments, book burning could be next. It would seem linear in thinking.

I’m in my 50s and have decided that I will care less about politics. Much less. Some people think that Climate Change is the biggest problem, I beg to differ: there are roughly 41 million teenagers in the US and most of them have a Smart-Phone addiction. It makes them more suicidal and less happy, or put differently: more unhappy. Suicide rates have tripled since 2012. It’s the same here in Canada and probably similar in Europe. I think it’s one of these rare occasions were you could describe the situation as endemic and epidemic.

I do like Tucker Carlson. I don’t like Sean Penn and Oliver Stone and as long as Trump is in power, I might have a chance to hit Michael Moore in the face and get away with it. So that’s what’s happening outside my front door.

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    Thorsten Bredberg

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    I grew up in the 70s - I love books, records, chess and poker - I build stuff mainly out of wood