In 2020, Rainbow Burrito in the Ala Moana food court had a burrito plate for $9.95.  Price went up in early 2021 to $13.95. Today it's 18.95.  That bowl is not worth $20.

News stated $18-$20 plate lunches are coming soon.  I could sure use some mean tweets.

I am already seeing 30% increase in fresh food prices in my grocery stores and smaller packages for the same price at Costco. I have not seen much of a price increase at restaurants yet but they all have signs up saying to expect price increases.

I am already seeing 30% increase in fresh food prices in my grocery stores and smaller packages for the same price at Costco. I have not seen much of a price increase at restaurants yet but they all have signs up saying to expect price increases.

When we were in Vegas at Trader Joes, I was shocked to see that a bag of Avocado's (about 8 inside) was like $4.  Here in HI, 1 Avocado is like $2. 

Everything is becoming so expensive because Brandon thinks money grows on trees.  And he likes to hand out freebies to illegal immigrants.  So he uses our tax money on these illegals.

Because, you know, that's his voter base. 

joe biden should attend more baseball games.  I heard they are cheering him on......

Actually they are all cheering for him at games, on the radio, and even on this forum!!!

Because, you know, for all the "wonderful" things he has done so far.  To what's left of our country.

Everything is becoming so expensive because Brandon thinks money grows on trees.  And he likes to hand out freebies to illegal immigrants.  So he uses our tax money on these illegals.

Because, you know, that's his voter base. 

joe biden should attend more baseball games.  I heard they are cheering him on......

Actually they are all cheering for him at games, on the radio, and even on this forum!!!

Because, you know, for all the "wonderful" things he has done so far.  To what's left of our country.

Gotta pay for the $450k per illegals to reunite with their families. . .

Time to take a serious look at the household budget and figure out where you can trim some fat for a rainy day.

Even if you don’t grow your own food there’s plenty of ways to cook for yourself on the cheap. You can make coffee at home, pack your own lunch, ditch redundant streaming subs.

Now is the time to look much more closely at The Great Reset, a fake Utopia being sold to us by charlatans
30 Oct, 2021 16:52
© Pixabay / Andreas Poznanski
Brendan Heard is an author, op-ed writer, painter, blogger, and designer who has worked in international media. Follow him on Twitter @Trad_West_Art
As we exit the pandemic, expect to hear much more about The Great Reset and building back better. Far from resulting in a low-carbon dream life, though, it’s a cartoonish fantasy that will hand the global elite even more power.
‘The Great Reset’ is a term that has been bandied about quite readily by most Western neo-liberal politicians. So often, in fact, and without proper explanation, that it strikes the prudent observer as a kind of paid advertisement.
But what is it exactly? The term rose to prominence at the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in June 2020. It was initially launched by the Prince of Wales, before being absorbed into the philosophy of the sartorially dystopian sci-fi villain Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF.
The Great Reset refers to a plan to rebuild the world’s infrastructure ‘in a sustainable way’ following the economic ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic and to establish a global treaty to prevent future pandemics, or as it is described more formally, to “build a more robust international health architecture that will protect future generations.” If you ever hear people talking about “building back better,” they are referring to The Great Reset.
Probably the most disturbing part of The Great Reset is how much it strongly resembles business-as-usual, only with EXTRA globalism. Most of the plan’s outlines include a further weakening of national boundaries and individual national autonomy, in favour of a more ‘universal governance.’ As usual, it is the rapidly vanishing Western middle class which must shoulder this burden, as their freedoms are further curtailed to meet the quotas of corporate-media-fuelled activism.
Regardless, many world leaders, no doubt charmed into acquiescence by Schwab’s commandingly sinister Blofeld-esque wardrobe, agreed to the Great Reset, including Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mark Rutte, Pedro Sánchez, Erna Solberg and Volodymyr Zelensky. According to John Kerry, Joe Biden’s administration is on board, too.
But the general agreement of the Western leaders is absolutely typical of any agenda which is espoused by NATO, the UN, or the WEF. If an emotionally charged, politically vague and ultimately ineffectual edict or bill is proposed by one of these entities – each resembling a shabby, globe-trotting team of insurance salesmen – our effete politicians line up to show the most fervent compliance.
In their own words, “No single government or multilateral agency can address this (pandemic) threat alone. Together, we must be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly co-ordinated fashion.”
There are many other sweeping sentiments expressed by Schwab and his acolytes which can seem either trite or threatening. Consider “the gulf between what markets value and what people value will close” and “we want more attention paid to scientific experts. No one can “self-isolate” from climate change so we all need to “act in advance and in solidarity.” There is much talk of the pursuit of “fairer and equitable outcomes.”
International treaties always tend to be about concentrating power. It’s one of those rules of life, for realists, as there is no escaping power dynamics in human affairs. Real problems don’t often have feel-good solutions. Often, they require ‘solutions that sound mean’, that don’t sound good on a corporate goals bulletin. Initiatives like The Great Reset all entail the gradual loss of the autonomy of individual nations, as their decision-making power is transferred to an international, disembodied rule-maker.
It has been, without a doubt, a globalist fantasy for a long time, but the key question is: do they realise what they are doing or not?
As far as their amazing coordinated pandemic response goes, this appears to be nothing more than forced world-wide vaccinations for EVERYBODY. According to Klaus Schwab himself: “As long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.” To which the attendant neo-liberal world leaders nodded in re-affirming unison, repeating in unison their mantra: “Global public good.”

.@wef Founder, @ProfKlausSchwab speaks on the importance of mutual interdependence in the effort to vaccinate against #Covid19, during the #DavosAgenda session, "Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism".@CNN@JDefteriosCNNWatch the session in full: https://t.co/e1fWQH1XpKpic.twitter.com/vcpbpfsIyt

— World Economic Forum (@wef) January 26, 2021
Schwab, despite appearing like an immortal brothel-keeper at Kublai Khan’s Xanadu, is really cut from the same cloth as your typical EU technocrat. His ideas are not creative, they are quite staid and pedestrian, and research of his career shows they have been unchanged since the 1970s. He has consistently been preaching the very same thing, like a broken record.

Schwab believes we can achieve environmental solutions without altering capitalism in the slightest, by creating treaties of “mutual accountability and shared responsibility, transparency and co-operation within the international system.” His idea involves ‘ethical capitalism’ – where the excesses of capitalism will somehow be held at bay by ‘ethical stakeholders,’ to whom the corporations will be held accountable, while (conveniently) the elites and systems already in place will continue as they are. This is the master plan of the World Economic Forum, largely unchanged for 40 years.
The result? A green technocracy, one assumes, with a WEF-mandated ‘ethical stakeholder’ apparatus, a worldwide spiderweb organisation ruling by the threatened fears of pandemic and carbon doom. No section of society would be exempt from edicts of ‘the new treaty.’
The Great Reset website appears to be little more than an advertisement for modern pod-living. It seems to style itself as a low-carbon dream-life (without loss of modern convenience) to effeminate hipsters. One can see slovenly-looking neo-liberal youths, frequent references to LGBTQ+ values, and an overall urgency about carbon footprints.
There is a hint of Adbusters about the website, creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Despite the fact that the WEF and Davos and all associated entities are entirely elite institutions, the website styles itself on grassroots urban activism. There is much cringeworthy symbology in its white papers, such as a green and rainbow flag-combination with fey slogans like ‘we salute you, zoom queen!’
In this grab-bag of magical advances, he lists, “fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage and quantum computing.”
This sounds like cartoonish optimism, as many of these technologies are anything but clean and don’t seem to de facto relate to side-stepping out of industrialism or anything else. On top of that, fewer than 9% of companies use the machine learning, robotics, touch screens and other advanced technologies listed as somehow ‘changing everything.’ Stakeholder capitalism, as a concept, does not explain itself as foolproof, and will no doubt be freely interpreted by the likes of Silicon Valley or supply chain conglomerates.
The jewel in the crown of Great Reset optimism has to be the belief that the advent of AI will alter everything positively, again without specifics, to somehow create a low-carbon new world.
It appears at best to be all be smoke and mirrors, a childish corporate fantasy manufactured by isolated bean counters. At worst, it is an intentional power-grab by unaccountable international agencies and hidden oligarchs.
Either way, it is a fake utopia at the price of privacy and autonomy, sold to us by used-car salesmen who think they are princes.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/538751-great-reset-fake-utopia/

Now is the time to look much more closely at The Great Reset, a fake Utopia being sold to us by charlatans
30 Oct, 2021 16:52
© Pixabay / Andreas Poznanski
Brendan Heard is an author, op-ed writer, painter, blogger, and designer who has worked in international media. Follow him on Twitter @Trad_West_Art
As we exit the pandemic, expect to hear much more about The Great Reset and building back better. Far from resulting in a low-carbon dream life, though, it’s a cartoonish fantasy that will hand the global elite even more power.
‘The Great Reset’ is a term that has been bandied about quite readily by most Western neo-liberal politicians. So often, in fact, and without proper explanation, that it strikes the prudent observer as a kind of paid advertisement.
But what is it exactly? The term rose to prominence at the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in June 2020. It was initially launched by the Prince of Wales, before being absorbed into the philosophy of the sartorially dystopian sci-fi villain Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF.
The Great Reset refers to a plan to rebuild the world’s infrastructure ‘in a sustainable way’ following the economic ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic and to establish a global treaty to prevent future pandemics, or as it is described more formally, to “build a more robust international health architecture that will protect future generations.” If you ever hear people talking about “building back better,” they are referring to The Great Reset.
Probably the most disturbing part of The Great Reset is how much it strongly resembles business-as-usual, only with EXTRA globalism. Most of the plan’s outlines include a further weakening of national boundaries and individual national autonomy, in favour of a more ‘universal governance.’ As usual, it is the rapidly vanishing Western middle class which must shoulder this burden, as their freedoms are further curtailed to meet the quotas of corporate-media-fuelled activism.
Regardless, many world leaders, no doubt charmed into acquiescence by Schwab’s commandingly sinister Blofeld-esque wardrobe, agreed to the Great Reset, including Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mark Rutte, Pedro Sánchez, Erna Solberg and Volodymyr Zelensky. According to John Kerry, Joe Biden’s administration is on board, too.
But the general agreement of the Western leaders is absolutely typical of any agenda which is espoused by NATO, the UN, or the WEF. If an emotionally charged, politically vague and ultimately ineffectual edict or bill is proposed by one of these entities – each resembling a shabby, globe-trotting team of insurance salesmen – our effete politicians line up to show the most fervent compliance.
In their own words, “No single government or multilateral agency can address this (pandemic) threat alone. Together, we must be better prepared to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond to pandemics in a highly co-ordinated fashion.”
There are many other sweeping sentiments expressed by Schwab and his acolytes which can seem either trite or threatening. Consider “the gulf between what markets value and what people value will close” and “we want more attention paid to scientific experts. No one can “self-isolate” from climate change so we all need to “act in advance and in solidarity.” There is much talk of the pursuit of “fairer and equitable outcomes.”
International treaties always tend to be about concentrating power. It’s one of those rules of life, for realists, as there is no escaping power dynamics in human affairs. Real problems don’t often have feel-good solutions. Often, they require ‘solutions that sound mean’, that don’t sound good on a corporate goals bulletin. Initiatives like The Great Reset all entail the gradual loss of the autonomy of individual nations, as their decision-making power is transferred to an international, disembodied rule-maker.
It has been, without a doubt, a globalist fantasy for a long time, but the key question is: do they realise what they are doing or not?
As far as their amazing coordinated pandemic response goes, this appears to be nothing more than forced world-wide vaccinations for EVERYBODY. According to Klaus Schwab himself: “As long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe.” To which the attendant neo-liberal world leaders nodded in re-affirming unison, repeating in unison their mantra: “Global public good.”

.@wef Founder, @ProfKlausSchwab speaks on the importance of mutual interdependence in the effort to vaccinate against #Covid19, during the #DavosAgenda session, "Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism".@CNN@JDefteriosCNNWatch the session in full: https://t.co/e1fWQH1XpKpic.twitter.com/vcpbpfsIyt

— World Economic Forum (@wef) January 26, 2021
Schwab, despite appearing like an immortal brothel-keeper at Kublai Khan’s Xanadu, is really cut from the same cloth as your typical EU technocrat. His ideas are not creative, they are quite staid and pedestrian, and research of his career shows they have been unchanged since the 1970s. He has consistently been preaching the very same thing, like a broken record.

Schwab believes we can achieve environmental solutions without altering capitalism in the slightest, by creating treaties of “mutual accountability and shared responsibility, transparency and co-operation within the international system.” His idea involves ‘ethical capitalism’ – where the excesses of capitalism will somehow be held at bay by ‘ethical stakeholders,’ to whom the corporations will be held accountable, while (conveniently) the elites and systems already in place will continue as they are. This is the master plan of the World Economic Forum, largely unchanged for 40 years.
The result? A green technocracy, one assumes, with a WEF-mandated ‘ethical stakeholder’ apparatus, a worldwide spiderweb organisation ruling by the threatened fears of pandemic and carbon doom. No section of society would be exempt from edicts of ‘the new treaty.’
The Great Reset website appears to be little more than an advertisement for modern pod-living. It seems to style itself as a low-carbon dream-life (without loss of modern convenience) to effeminate hipsters. One can see slovenly-looking neo-liberal youths, frequent references to LGBTQ+ values, and an overall urgency about carbon footprints.
There is a hint of Adbusters about the website, creator of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Despite the fact that the WEF and Davos and all associated entities are entirely elite institutions, the website styles itself on grassroots urban activism. There is much cringeworthy symbology in its white papers, such as a green and rainbow flag-combination with fey slogans like ‘we salute you, zoom queen!’
In this grab-bag of magical advances, he lists, “fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage and quantum computing.”
This sounds like cartoonish optimism, as many of these technologies are anything but clean and don’t seem to de facto relate to side-stepping out of industrialism or anything else. On top of that, fewer than 9% of companies use the machine learning, robotics, touch screens and other advanced technologies listed as somehow ‘changing everything.’ Stakeholder capitalism, as a concept, does not explain itself as foolproof, and will no doubt be freely interpreted by the likes of Silicon Valley or supply chain conglomerates.
The jewel in the crown of Great Reset optimism has to be the belief that the advent of AI will alter everything positively, again without specifics, to somehow create a low-carbon new world.
It appears at best to be all be smoke and mirrors, a childish corporate fantasy manufactured by isolated bean counters. At worst, it is an intentional power-grab by unaccountable international agencies and hidden oligarchs.
Either way, it is a fake utopia at the price of privacy and autonomy, sold to us by used-car salesmen who think they are princes.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/538751-great-reset-fake-utopia/

In case you didn’t know we started a discussion here: But its at least a year old and didn’t go very far. https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=38825.msg349155#msg349155

Gotta pay for the $450k per illegals to reunite with their families. . .

That $450K is for them to pay the cartels to bring their family members over.

Gas went up from 4.29 for the past 3 weeks to 4.39. 87 octane.

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I have been on a family personal business trip for almost 3 weeks now.
I've had the opportunity to see AK, WA, OR, CA, NV, and ID.
Fortunately,  as I stayed with Family, I didn't eat out much.
So I can't comment on restaurants, although the ones I went to
anecdotally haven't increased prices much and I'm pretty certain, that if
they did raise prices, you'll see a dramatic change in that industry.
Like the high-end restaurant being a Taco bell as in the movie "Demolition man".
Gas is pretty uniformly up about 1$ per gallon across the board only because the
Democrats wanted and allowed it.  You get what you vote for.  Highest I paid was $4.79
on I-5 three hours out of Los Angeles, most prices outside CA were $3.59 - $4.09.
I saw evidence of new construction of homes, and large industrial buildings just
about everywhere.  Three members of my family are getting ready to sell and relocate to cheaper
digs. Ready to retire and want to escape the traffic, crime,taxes, and GOVERNMENT!
Los Angeles and Long beach Harbor are at what looks like a standstill.
Thousands of containers stacked on the docks and in storage areas, full ships at the docks, but
the cranes are silent, and the only containers I saw moving out were on trains.
That CA Democrat party bill AB5,  killed off most all non-union trucking in CA.  That basically shuts downs two of the largest ports
in Western America
You Hawaii Democrats can eat that fact while you starve.  Democrats and unions, a match made in Hell,
for the rest of the world.
This entire inflation/supply/education problem is manufactured by Democrats taking advantage of Republican's
inability to react properly to rabid animals
and greed on the parts of both sides.
Greed is OK as long as you don't kill the golden goose.  In the USA, today that Goose is pretty ill.

Get out of Debt, fuck the government anyway you can, deprive them of tax moneys and cooperation,
don't support ANY Democrat leaning organization, and use the system to bring the Democrat social system to a halt.
Don't break any laws,  but don't see or say anything.  Democrats are in this for themselves.  We Americans are in it for us and our people,
the Americans.
 

Sometimes I feel like Neo looking for glitches in the Matrix.  Where can I save money?  How can I lower my tax burden?  How can I keep my wife off my ass?  The system was already set up to keep you hand to mouth or worse assuming you started from zero and have kids, a mortgage, student loans, and a car payment.  My findings are as follows:

Dire's Top 3 tips for surviving inflation and thriving in modern society:
1.  Black coffee (it's about the destination, not the journey.)
2.  Having kids is a waste of money.
3.  Don't marry a huge bitch.

Bonus:  Consumer debt is for suckers.

Pleeze no make keeds unless you going take kea of dem.

Two manny keeds nomo faddah and maddah.

Welfare is broke and that fackah Brandon keep printing money like da ting grow on trees.

So no make keeds.

Poot rubbah if yoo like poke.

I bought some teriyaki spam today. The sale price was $3.29 plus tax.
The regular price for Libby Corned beef is over $6.
Geeze no mo cheap canned meat and this is only the beginning.   

I filled my tank on Monday. It was $3.16 for 87 at Costco and $3.46 outside of Costco. Already seeing smaller packages of TP and PT at Costco. Same price, just smaller amounts. Locally grown products are still the same price. But certain food staples are going up like meat and chicken, tortillas, pasta and canned goods. These items are up around 30% out here already.

I bought some teriyaki spam today. The sale price was $3.29 plus tax.
The regular price for Libby Corned beef is over $6.
Geeze no mo cheap canned meat and this is only the beginning.   

And lately the shelves for canned goods are all wiped out.

And lately the shelves for canned goods are all wiped out.

Last week, Costco in Waipio must have received a huge shipment.  All the shelves were well stocked.  In fact, they must have still been restocking, because I didn't see everything I wanted on Wed, then went back Friday and found what I was missing -- one in particular was the 3-pack of cold cuts: Ham, Roast Beet and Chicken Breast.

I did the grocery shopping today. I usually get a pound of mesquite smoked turkey sliced for sandwiches. It used to be $6/lb. Then it was $8 and I bought a couple of pounds so I have not had to buy it for a while. Today it was $15/pound. Some of the canned goods were gone. But other than that the shelves were pretty well stocked. Especially all the Christmas stuff and leftover Halloween candy. In the pharmacy area there were a lot of missing cold and flu remedies. I didn’t need anything from Costco today.

My mistake, the gas for 87 was not $4.39.  It is $4.34.  So a $0.05 increase since 2 days ago.

My mistake, the gas for 87 was not $4.39.  It is $4.34.  So a $0.05 increase since 2 days ago.

4 and 9 i guess are similar shapes, if hand written. . .

#notsoreputable

4 and 9 i guess are similar shapes, if hand written. . .

#notsoreputable

I'd blame it on the 9 tenths of a cent they always tack onto the price per gallon.

$4.34 would end in a 9 -- $4.349 --, so it's easy to get the actual price wrong.