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-Regardless of whatever Trump does, the prospects of the force majeure continue coming together.
-Conservatives are wishing on the monkey’s paw. It seems that every action Trump takes to placate his supporters comes with a twisted outcome.
-The three major blocs are quickly forming.
-Where is Trump getting his orders?
https://youtube.com/shorts/n1OJ64bmGho?si=kITFYlYwoqQ20Kkx china further confirms war
Trump Team Is Pivoting to No Pain, No Gain as Economic Message
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to cure what he said was an ailing US economy. Little more than a month into his second term, he’s starting to hint that the treatment might hurt.
The administration is still lavishing Americans with visions of a golden age to come. Yet in the course of a madcap week – which saw a flurry of tariffs and reversals, sparking a global trade war and a sharp stock-market decline – the tone changed a bit.
“There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re OK with that,” Trump told Congress on Tuesday, defending his plans to throw up a protectionist barrier around the US with the biggest tariff increases in almost a century. By Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was arguing that the world’s biggest economy needed some “detox” to wean it off dependence on public spending.
As Trump barrels forward with his agenda, he’s facing some cold realities that didn’t look so troublesome not long ago. Inflation won’t be easy to quell, especially as the president is determined to pile on new tariffs even as he walks back some of the early ones. Consumers and investors are getting anxious, and the economy appears vulnerable to a slowdown.
A president who once measured his performance by the stock market is now brushing aside such worries. Hours before his address to Congress, the S&P 500 Index hit a post-election low as Trump’s threats of trade wars with Canada and Mexico turned into reality. It closed even lower on Friday. Treasury bonds declined on the week too, though a drop in oil prices – holding out hope for cheaper gasoline – was a brighter spot.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-pivoting-no-pain-120000646.html
As Russia continues attacking inside Ukraine, reportedly killing multiple civilians overnight, Trump said Friday he was considering new sanctions on Moscow—but then said he understands why Vladimir Putin would continue bombing Ukrainian towns and cities. Trump, 78, has been trying to push Ukraine into a ceasefire deal, and Putin is now making noises about a ceasefire, too, though in both cases with conditions likely to include the Kremlin retaining control of Ukraine lands.
Trump’s comments came as America continues to undercut Ukraine’s defense capabilities. Having stopped military assistance and ended some intelligence access, Trump has reportedly cut off satellite access to Kyiv’s forces, too. And despite talk of new sanctions, his aides have been working on a plan to possibly lift sanctions against Russia—including the oil price cap—if there’s progress in ceasefire talks. In less than two months, the US has gone from Ukraine’s staunchest ally to something else entirely. And on Friday, news came that one of Ukraine’s few remaining bargaining chips may be slipping away.
Reuters Exclusive-US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
It is unclear whether U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has long promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in the planned CDC study or how it would be carried out. The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services were not immediately available for comment.
The CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks the U.S. has seen in the past decade, with more than 200 cases and two deaths in Texas and New Mexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining vaccination rates in parts of the United States where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.
Kennedy, whose role includes authority over the CDC, has long sowed doubt over the safety of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In a cabinet meeting last week, Kennedy initially downplayed news that a school-aged child had died of measles in Texas, the first such death in a decade, calling such outbreaks ordinary and failing to mention the role of vaccination to prevent measles.
Over the weekend, Kennedy published an opinion piece on Fox News that promoted the role of vaccination, but also told parents vaccination was a personal choice and urged them to consult with their physician.
Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Donald Trump’s nominee for CDC director, Dr. Dave Weldon, is set for a U.S. Senate committee hearing next week. Some senators have expressed concerns over Weldon’s views on vaccines. Weldon declined to comment.
Dr. Wilbur Chen, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and former member of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, said the existence of such a study, conducted by the federal government, is itself enough to raise doubts about vaccines among some in the general public.
“It sends the signal that there is something there that is worth investigating, so that means there must be something going on between vaccines and autism,” Chen said.
Autism diagnoses in the United States have increased significantly since 2000, intensifying public concern.
Many researchers attribute the rise in diagnoses to more widespread screening and the inclusion of a broader range of behaviors to describe the condition. But some public figures have popularized the idea that vaccines are to blame, an idea stemming from a since-debunked study from British researcher Andrew Wakefield in the late 1990s that connected a rise in autism diagnoses with widespread use of the MMR shot.
The causes of autism are unclear. No rigorous studies have found links between autism and vaccines or medications, or their components such as thimerosal or formaldehyde.
There is widespread speculation among scientists that its neurological characteristics may develop in utero, when the fetal brain is being wired. Studies have linked autism to maternal factors in pregnancy, and some research suggests a link to birth complications and timing.
Trump, in an address to Congress this week, cited the rise in autism among children.
“So, we’re going to find out what it is, and there’s nobody better than Bobby and all of the people that are working with you,” Trump said, referring to Kennedy.
The White House had no immediate comment on the planned CDC study.
Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views have drawn concern among some Republicans. During Kennedy’s confirmation hearing Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and physician, suggested that the nominee disavow any links between vaccines and autism.
Kennedy denied that he was anti-vaccine, but did not acknowledge that such a link had been debunked.
This week Cassidy questioned Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, over his stance on investigating a potential link between autism and childhood vaccinations.
“I don’t generally believe there is a link, based on my reading of the literature,” Bhattacharya said. “But we do have a sharp rise in autism rates, and I don’t think any scientist really knows the cause of it. I would support a broad scientific agenda based on data to get an answer to that.”
Excerpt of state dept. use of A.I. to go after “pro hamas” students.
State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’
The effort will comb through social media accounts using AI in a major crackdown on the speech of foreign students
by Dave DeCamp March 6, 2025 at 8:32 pm ET CategoriesNewsTagsIsrael, Palestine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-driven effort to revoke the visas of foreigners in the US who “appear pro-Hamas” in a crackdown targeting pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, Axios reported on Thursday.
The report said the effort will involve AI-assisted reviews of social media accounts of tens of thousands of foreign students in the US on visas that will look for “evidence of alleged terrorist sympathies expressed after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.”
The language in the report suggests that any foreign students who attend pro-Palestine demonstrations or express sympathy for Palestinians online could be swept up in the crackdown since opponents of the Israeli siege on Gaza or US military support for Israel are often labeled “pro-Hamas.”
Stone,
I finally got some time to listen to the Podcast. I really appreciate the way you cut through the political biases and say things as they really are. I will say that Trump is the lesser of the evil compared to a Kamel presidency, but nevertheless he is following a script made out by the synagogue of satan. The democrats would follow a slow but steady deterioration by adding rotten apples one at a time until the cart is full of rotten apples, while Trump is really overturning the apple cart.
You are so correct that Joan Rivers got murdered. I remember when she poked at Barry Obama being gay and Michelle( who is really Michael) being a tranny. She soon died under mysterious circumstances a couple of weeks later.
Ask Larry Sinclair what he thinks of Barack Hussein Obama.
It may not mean anything, but Trump, during some of his rallies, came out to the theme of the wrestler ‘The Undertaker,’ whose theme is titled ‘Rest In Peace.’ This could be a subliminal message that WW3 will be under his watch or he’s hinting something would rest in peace under his presidency.
He’s kayfabe. He reminds me of the Terry Crews character as the US President in the movie, Idiocracy.
What I find so interesting is that most of what Donald Trump stands for makes sense to the typical American, country loving citizen. His platform basically represents what an American should seek from its government. In so doing, he makes his adversaries and the Democrat Party look like the American-hating Marxists they really are.
Maybe we’ll see Trump in the back of a pickup truck driving down Pennsylvania avenue, shooting two machine guns into the air while the Undertaker theme blasts on the loudspeakers.
Just watch a few videos of Trump and McMahon do their stuff at an old wrestling event.
The show man is just in a different venue now!
Employment data largely as expected. Yields up a tick.
Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Feb)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.4%
Average Hourly Earnings (YoY) (YoY) (Feb)
Act: 4.0% Cons: 4.1% Prev: 3.9%
Average Weekly Hours (Feb)
Act: 34.1 Cons: 34.2 Prev: 34.1
Government Payrolls (Feb)
Act: 11.0K Cons: Prev: 44.0K
Manufacturing Payrolls (Feb)
Act: 10K Cons: 5K Prev: -5K
Nonfarm Payrolls (Feb)
Act: 151K Cons: 159K Prev: 125K
Participation Rate (Feb)
Act: 62.4% Cons: Prev: 62.6%
Private Nonfarm Payrolls (Feb)
Act: 140K Cons: 142K Prev: 81K
U6 Unemployment Rate (Feb)
Act: 8.0% Cons: Prev: 7.5%
Unemployment Rate (Feb)
Act: 4.1% Cons: 4.0% Prev: 4.0%
Household survey looks a lot weaker. Bonds are digesting the household data and it likes what it sees….
Civilian Labor Force: -385k
Total Employed: -588k
Unemployed: +203k
Labor participation rate: 62.4%, a drop of 0.2%
Unemployment Rate: 4.1%
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
For those screaming of a real estate collapse, especially in Florida, I present you with a real life story.
Yesterday, my wife told me that her Uncle just sold his Florida house for cash above ask. Her uncle, who is in his mid-80s and got injected, has medical issues and needs to go to a home, so that he can be drained of his wealth before checking out.
To wit, he was getting ready to sell his home, but a buyer in his community heard about it and offered $3 million cash, as is, for the property, so the buyer’s children could have a place to live. Supposedly, this was well above the proposed offer price.
Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Real estate is collapsing everywhere – I’m getting nonstop ads from realtors – I guess trying to drum up business.
Stone what do you think the “Force Majeure” will be? I’ve been expecting something to happen. I just don’t know what.
A military take out of the US as we know it.
Speaking of military, American troops from Germany being redeployed to Eastern Europe or that’s the rumor.
For those in the alt-media who are Putin loyalists, I present you Exhibit A. The Soviet puppets are full of bravado and the former Soviet Union is full of shit. Former KGB colonel, Putin, couldn’t even back up his favorite foreign dictator…..
Dozens killed in clashes between Syria’s security forces and al-Assad loyalists
Kieran Guilbert
More than 70 people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes between Syrian security forces and fighters linked to the toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a war monitor.
Syria’s new authorities sent major security reinforcements overnight to the cities of Latakia and Tartus in the country’s northwest in a bid to get the situation under control, state media reported. The coastal region is the heart of al-Assad’s minority Alawite sect, and it remains a base of support for the country’s former president.
The violence on Thursday was the worst since al-Assad was removed from power in early December by insurgent groups led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 35 members of state forces, 32 fighters loyal to al-Assad and four civilians were killed, with dozens of others wounded. The death toll could not be independently verified by Euronews.
The clashes started when government forces were ambushed by several groups of al-Assad aligned militias during a security operation in Latakia, according to the province’s chief of security, Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kunaifati.
Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, a member of the defence ministry, delivered a warning to al-Assad loyalists in Latakia.
“Thousands have chosen to surrender their weapons and return to their families, while some insist on fleeing and dying in defence of murderers and criminals,” he told state media “The choice is clear: lay down your weapons or face your inevitable fate.”
Since al-Assad’s ouster, there have been some attacks against members of the Alawite sect, although the new transitional government — led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa — has said it is against the collective punishment or sectarian vengeance.
Members of the minority had held top posts in the country — mainly in the military and security agencies — until al-Assad’s fall.
The government in Damascus has blamed al-Assad loyalists for carrying out attacks over the past weeks against security forces.
On Friday morning, large numbers of government troops were deployed in Latakia, where a curfew has been imposed in the city and other coastal areas.
Security forces said there were some clashes in one neighbourhood but that most of the city was calm and under government control.
Nearby in the coastal region, the outskirts of the towns of Baniyas and Jableh are still under the control of al-Assad loyalists, said Rami Abdurrahman, chief of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The former president’s hometown of Qardaha and several Alawite villages nearby are also outside government control, he added.
Syria’s new rulers also face a security challenge in the south of the country, with authorities there reporting that at least 15 people were killed in violent clashes between government forces and armed groups earlier this week.
Good podcast! Tariffs aren’t answer. Like you say, it’s kayfabe.
On Thursday, Donald Trump signed a few more executive orders. Among the scores he’s churned out since taking office, these were unique, since they partially reversed orders from just two days ago.
It was the latest backpedal by the White House in the face of furious fallout both at home and abroad to his 25% sanctions against Canada and Mexico. With markets plummeting, automakers yowling and Canada pounding its chest, Trump announced he would exempt some goods from both countries, but only for a month. If that sounds familiar, it’s because this is the second month-long delay Trump granted on his own tariffs.
Today’s announcement came after Trump spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has sought to negotiate with the 78-year-old president while Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau struck a more strident tone. The Trump administration did take pains to say its other threatened tariffs would move forward as planned in the coming weeks and months, but after weeks of threats, little follow through and now reversals, Wall Street has apparently decided the only safe thing to do is sell. The S&P 500 fell to a four-month low.
‘Russia Must Mobilize Millions’ – Chechen Commander Warns of Total War With Europe
Kyiv Post
Russia should consider mobilizing several million men for a war against Europe, Apti Alaudinov, commander of the “Akhmat” special forces unit, said in his Telegram channel on Thursday.
The volunteer unit “Akhmat” was formed in the Chechen Republic under the leadership of its head, Ramzan Kadyrov, at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to participate in combat.
In a video address, Alaudinov stated that if necessary, a general mobilization should be announced, and a Russian army of at least a few million troops should be created in order to, as he put it, place the Kremlin’s enemies in a hopeless position, as reported by The Moscow Times.
Alaudinov said that the war against Ukraine could enter a new phase in which all types of weaponry would be used, leading to the Kremlin’s ultimate goal – a final victory over Europe and the collapse of NATO.
“The time has come: Either NATO will fall apart, and we will finish off Europe, or they will stop and agree to any conditions just to make peace with us,” he said.
Alaudinov said that in the event of a confrontation with Russia, Europe and most European countries will cease to exist as independent players: “United Europe has already done everything it could,” and Russia will achieve victory under any circumstances.
He dismissed the potential formation of European military forces, stating that even if Europe gathers 20,000–30,000 troops, they would be no better than the Ukrainians that Russia has already been fighting.
Alaudinov emphasized that Russia cannot be defeated on the battlefield and added that Ukrainians are “spiritually stronger than all the armies of the world combined.”
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https://www.kyivpost.com/post/48414
Notice that all world leaders from USA, China, Europe, Russia are talking war. Not to mention the middle east. Its like getting ready for a Symphony concert and every is warming up!
Ezekiel 38 and 39 draws closer.