Russia’s managing dictator, Vladimir Putin, is looking more foolish and weaker by the day. The Assad government in Syria has now fallen as Russia’s military continues to be overwhelmed in Ukraine and is unable to help its allies.
Putin is now testing the resolve of Kim Jong Un as he deploys North Korean troops to help stanch his losses in Ukraine.
The Russian economy continues to crumble under an insurmountable level of war costs. Putin is now even shilling Bitcoin as the USD replacement. Although Putin is portrayed as the West’s existential enemy, he seems to be acting like a true globalist. Why isn’t he promoting gold? The gold shills can’t even count on Putin as an ally anymore. Putin knows that a gold standard would destroy what’s left of the ruble. Despite rhetoric to the contrary in the alt-media, a gold standard would adversely impact Russia’s economy much more than any economy in the West.
Instead of looking like a master chess player, Putin is looking like a piker way in over his head and in power too long. How much time does Putin have left before he gets toppled?
I’m certain that many Russians at the top are strategizing a way forward after Putin is gone. Putin has become a huge embarrassment on the international stage.
Where is Zero Hedge throughout this unfolding catastrophe? This go-to alt-media mouthpiece, which dispenses predigested and propagandized talking points, is remarkably silent. Where are the pro-Putin shills like Brother Nathaniel, who create echo chambers for themselves and parrot Zero Hedge’s Soviet propaganda talking points? Why the silence?
For those who are foolish enough to tap away on their smartphones in the comfort of their home and support Vladimir Putin in his national suicide mission, I ask them, how would you feel if bombs were dropping in your town?
Confirmation biases die a slow death. In World War 3, they may outlive Putin’s Zero Hedge followers.
The plans goal have been made clear. It’s the Great Reset.
Reset to what? I haven’t heard any one ask this. It’s like a spell or something.
A new technological Age of Pharaoh?
New Babylon?
(Epstein Island had prominent Egyptian themes present from what I saw in a few images.)
Seems Isreal will enter into bonds yet again.
US Deficit Widens in November on Higher Health, Defense Spending
Healthcare, Social Security and defense are the three largest spending categories for the US.
(Bloomberg) — The US budget deficit widened once again in the first two months of the fiscal year, driven primarily by higher spending on health, defense and Social Security.
The gap for the two months through the end of November was $624 billion, Treasury Department data released Wednesday showed. Adjusting for calendar differences, that’s a 19% jump from the previous year.
Besides higher outlays, lower tax revenues also drove the widening gap from a year earlier. These, however, were largely due to an influx of deferred tax revenue in late 2023 thanks to filing extensions for those affected by natural disasters the prior year.
Taking into account last year’s inflated tax take and adjusting for calendar differences would leave the deficit for the first two months of this fiscal year essentially flat, a Treasury official said.
Even so, the large magnitude of the recurring deficit may pose challenges for those in the incoming administration promising to rein in US debt. The bulk of the outlays are in areas that are bound to be politically challenging to address, with healthcare, Social Security and defense being the three largest spending categories, along with debt servicing.
Interest costs, a key driver of last year’s widening in the deficit, was flat the past two months compared with the same period last year.
The weighted average interest rate for total outstanding debt by the end of November was 3.30%, at roughly 15-year highs, but down very slightly from the month before, continuing on a downward path that first started in September.
After Presiding Over Skyrocketing National Debt, Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Frets Over ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ and Says Deficit ‘Needs To Be Brought Down’
New York Sun
The outgoing treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, who has presided over a department that saw the national debt soar to a new high of $36.1 trillion, is now saying that she’s worried about “fiscal responsibility” and is suggesting that the deficit “needs to be brought down.”
When Ms. Yellen started her tenure in January of 2021, the national debt stood at $27.7 trillion.
Ms. Yellen, who will step down from her role when President-elect Trump takes office in just a few weeks, voiced her comments while speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit on Tuesday. The Journal’s chief economic commentator, Greg Ip, probed the treasury department head about the country’s debt, asking if she was “sorry” that she “couldn’t make more progress on that” in the past four years.
The treasury secretary responded by saying, “Well I am concerned about fiscal sustainability. And I am sorry that we haven’t made more progress. I believe that the deficit needs to be brought down, especially now that we’re in an environment of higher interest rates.”
President Biden’s administration, from the start of his presidency to June 2024, increased the federal deficit by $4.3 trillion, a non-partisan organization focused on fiscal policy, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, estimates. The GOP-run House Budget Committee, however, has argued that their figure grossly underestimates the administration’s impact on the deficit, placing it instead at $11.6 trillion.
The looming national debt crisis will soon be the problem of veteran hedge fund manager, Scott Bessent, who was tapped for the job by Trump. Mr. Bessent has expressed his intentions to implement what he calls a “3-3-3” strategy — cutting the budget deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product by 2028, boosting GDP annual growth to 3 percent and increasing domestic oil production by 3 million barrels per day.
Yes, I’m sure Yellen is deeply concerned! Ha!
Here’s an example of what the Federal Reserve will be up against when it lowers short-term rates below neutral. When I refer to a neutral rate, I estimate it’s about 4.25%, and when the Federal Reserve cuts rates this month, the baseline Fed funds rate will be 4.25%.
The Schwab money market fund that I use to park cash is yielding 4.40%. I just withdrew $20,000 from this money market fund and paid down one of my DSCR loans with the proceeds. The interest rate on this mortgage was 7.85%.
When the Federal Reserve cuts another 25 basis points this month, the Schwab money market fund will be yielding close to 4.15%. Once it hits that level, I will withdraw more money and pay down more of this outstanding mortgage.
What I’m trying to get at is simple here. My example is a microcosm of the economy in general. Specifically, the federal government has been financing much of its fiscal deficit spending by issuing short-term Treasuries.
There is ample demand for the short-term treasuries when yields are closer to 5%. But as yields on the short-term treasuries fall, because the central banks are anxious to cut rates to help the nation-states finance their deficits, the demand for treasuries overall will continue to fall.
I just withdrew $20,000 to pay down a higher interest rate loan, because I felt it was no longer in my best interest to park extra cash in a money market fund whose dividend yield was continually dropping.
Eventually, the Federal Reserve will have to cease its balance sheet roll off and will have to begin acquiring more Treasuries to make up for this loss in demand due to lowering overnight rates.
BRICS is largely dismissed here. But being arrogant is foolish. Rather prepare for the worst. Even if the worst does not happen, it’s smart to prepare (and not be arrogant).
Some thoughts come to mind: Where does the US get minerals? Or metals? Or oil (regardless what the US supply is)? Point is, the USA has become, over time, a place to eat and sleep. Manufacturing has all but been exported in the name of cleaning up the air. Necessities are imported. Silicon Valley has moved to Taiwan and China, or Singapore, or?? Western Digital, a customer of mine and only 50 miles south of me, has a freeze on buying equipment. Intel isn’t looking good either. Russia is a recourse rich country and I think other BRICS countries are also and they are willing to produce. Putting sanctions on Russia only helps them.
Note that in the video below they do not say BRICS will go to war with the dollar. Rather more of a backup plan. The big question for the US is will Trump and his “MAGA” help BRICS achieve their goal? Is this is why Trump was installed the second time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQJWijqGZvs
There are plenty of countries in Africa that are rich in resources and their corruption precludes them ever progressing. The same is true in Russia as their corruption and nepotism dwarf anything that occurs in the USA. The USA is the number one energy producer in the world and puts Russia to shame. It’s even much bigger of a difference than Saudi Arabia. Environmentalism keeps the United States from producing all of those rare Earth minerals.
Aren’t you eating and sleeping in the United States? With your pro-Russia stance, you should go to Russia.
Your false dichotomies are wearing thin. So many people wanted to demoralize Americans, yet eat and sleep within the confines of its borders. They wouldn’t dare move anywhere else, because it’s still the greatest nation in the world.
Who says that the BRIC Nations are dismissed here? For over 20 years, I’ve been reading about this group of Nations formulating their own currency to rival the United States. They either are spreading the propaganda for the dummies in the states to consume or their economists have no concept of Macroeconomics 101. Now Putin is shilling Bitcoin as the Great equalizer.
Why do you even bother coming to this website? Maybe you like demoralizing the few readers I have left. I think you should just stick with Zero Hedge for that special pro-Soviet confirmation bias.
The characteristics of a brick; brown, uniform, Ideal material for building a literal or figurative temple. Look at the composition of the BRICS – not a uniform brown or remotely shaped the same. Can’t build a temple from those, it will crumble. Those people hate each other as much as they hate whites, their toilet paper currency will be useful for something brown.
Bank of Canada Delivers Second Straight Half-Point Cut – Update
12/11/24 10:30 AM
OTTAWA–For the second time in a row, the Bank of Canada cut its main interest rate by a half-percentage point, saying lower rates are needed to address weaker-than-expected growth and a softening labor market.
At the same time, the central bank said it is pivoting in its approach to future rate decisions. In its policy decision Wednesday, the Bank of Canada is no longer explicitly saying further rate cuts can be expected, as it did in previous rate-policy decisions. Gov. Tiff Macklem said the Bank of Canada has deeply reduced borrowing costs since June, by a cumulative 1.75 percentage points, and the impact from those decisions have yet to work their way through the economy.
“We anticipate a more gradual approach to monetary policy if the economy evolves broadly as expected,” Macklem said, according to prepared remarks he is set to deliver at a Wednesday morning press conference. “Our decisions will be guided by incoming information and our assessment of the implications for the inflation outlook.”
In its final decision of 2024, the central bank lowered its target for the overnight rate to 3.25% from 3.75%, marking the fifth straight reduction in interest rates. The benchmark interest rate sat at 5% at the start of 2024. This also marks the first time excluding either a recession or extraordinary events — notably the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — that the central bank has delivered back-to-back half-point cuts.
Eleven of 15 economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal predicted a half-point cut.
Canada’s central bank has been at the forefront among Group of Seven monetary authorities in reversing rate hikes required to tame historically-high inflation.
Canadian growth has been tepid. Gross domestic product slowed sharply in the third quarter to 1% annualized, and is up 1.5% from a year ago. Macklem said early data suggest GDP will be weaker in the fourth quarter relative to the central bank’s forecast of a 2% annualized advance.
Households have been weighed down by their elevated levels of debt, and the prospect in the next two years of renewing their mortgages at higher rates. However, Macklem said consumer spending and existing-home sales are showing signs of a recovery, a sign lower interest rates are beginning to work.
Business investment fell in the third quarter by over 2% from a year ago, and the country’s labor productivity has declined in nine of the last 10 quarters. Macklem said President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs as high as 25% on Canadian imports represents a “major new uncertainty” for the outlook.
Fixed-income and foreign-exchange traders had already priced in the likelihood of a half-point cut prior to Wednesday’s decision. The Canadian dollar weakened and short-term bond yields fell in the aftermath of last Friday’s labor-market report that showed a sharp jump in the unemployment rate in November, to 6.8% from 6.5%.
The rise in the unemployment rate, economists said, signaled slack was building in the labor market. Macklem said Canada’s job market “is still softening,” adding it is particularly difficult for younger Canadians and immigrants to find work.
Prior to the decision, some economists expressed caution about a second outsize rate cut. They said there might be less slack in the economy than the Bank of Canada initially believed, after Statistics Canada revised GDP data indicating the level of output at the end of the second quarter was 1.5% higher than originally estimated.
Other analysts warned about fueling further weakness in the Canadian dollar, which is trading at one of its weakest levels since early 2016. The softness in the Canadian dollar reflects the fast pace of rate cuts here relative to the U.S. Macklem noted the U.S. dollar has appreciated against most other currencies, including the Canadian dollar.
Write to Paul Vieira at Paul.Vieira@wsj.com
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Stone, do you still recommend Canadians buying decently priced SFRs, especially with the rate cuts?
Tim, as you stated, Israel will be changed and I agree! I believe and that the fake state of Israel will be transformed into an international entity with Jerusalem becoming the Great City, Revelation 11:8 that the man if sin rules from. However, I suspect it won’t take that many years. Trump will have a main role in this process.
The satanic Israel and end time Babylon have now gone global. All Nations are drinking the blood of the whore.
The land of unwalled villages is America. The largest remnant of Israel resides in America. Most of them voted for Trump. I’m not saying Trump is good or bad. I’m not placing an empirical judgment on Trump. There is a reason why he won and why he won all seven swing states.
Those who know better understand the enemy better than we realize. All of the European countries have fallen in line with the whore. Even Canada to a much greater extent than the United States. The whore is having a more difficult time with the United States.
Only a force majeure and a war can change this hanging chad. The second half of 2027 is game on.
Speaking of end time Babylon, the image in the link depicts the woman standing on the crescent moon with 12 visible stars. That would be Semiramis holding Tammuz.
https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/reopening/octave-reopening/
Strnagely, the Pope was not in attendance at ND but might make it to the opening of la Sagrada Familia in 2026.
If we realize that Pope Francis hates the Catholic Church then his not attending the reopening of Notre Dame makes sense. He probably had someone burn it down the first time and didn’t want to show up at the crime scene.
Who says I can’t be a comedian? 🤣🤣🤣
I believe the church, our lady, was built on the site that once had a temple of Isis on it! What a coincidence!
Precisely!
WWIII is definitely game on by second half of 2027. Still could come sooner.
Steve, yes. Jerusalem previously was basically a ward of the U.N. Likely it will be something similar in the near future but to a world state rather than just the U.N. I don’t think it will take many years. The world is begging for Israel’s dismantling (but not the dismantling of Jewish power, which is the real problem).
The Jew whore has gone wide and the judeo-christian church and global leaders embrace it. Trump is its most ardent supporter. He will probably proclaim to the world that the upcoming Jew Antichrist is the real deal. He will instruct us to go into our little cubicles and push a button on our smartphones that will proclaim our allegiance to that image on the screen.
Things look okay to me….
Core CPI (YoY) (Nov)
Act: 3.3% Cons: 3.3% Prev: 3.3%
Core CPI (MoM) (Nov)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.3%
Core CPI Index (Nov)
Act: 322.66 Cons: 322.41 Prev: 321.67
CPI (MoM) (Nov)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.2%
CPI (YoY) (Nov)
Act: 2.7% Cons: 2.7% Prev: 2.6%
CPI Index, n.s.a. (Nov)
Act: 315.49 Cons: 315.37 Prev: 315.66
CPI Index, s.a (Nov)
Act: 316.44 Cons: Prev: 315.45
Real Earnings (MoM) (Nov)
Act: 0.3% Cons: Prev: -0.1%
Keep in mind that overall global oil demand continues to grow, it’s just that the growth rate here is falling.
OPEC Makes Deepest Cut Yet to 2024 World Oil Demand Forecast
21 minutes ago
(Bloomberg) — OPEC cut oil demand growth forecasts for this year and next for a fifth straight month, making its deepest reduction to the 2024 outlook so far after agreeing to extend its supply curbs.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries chopped projections for consumption growth in 2024 by 210,000 barrels a day to 1.6 million barrels a day, according to its monthly report. The cartel has slashed projections by 27% since July as it belatedly recognizes the deteriorating market picture.
Last week, the OPEC+ alliance led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed for a third time to delay plans to restart halted crude production, while also slowing the pace of increases once they do begin next year. The first in a scheduled series of hikes was postponed to April from January.
Oil prices have declined 17% since early July as China falters and supply from OPEC’s rivals in the Americas booms. Brent futures are trading near $73 a barrel, too low for the Saudis and many others in the coalition to cover government spending.
OPEC’s Vienna-based secretariat said the revision takes “into account recently received bearish data” for the third quarter,” including “downward revisions to OECD Americas and OECD Asia Pacific.”
Despite the slew of downgrades, OPEC’s forecasts remain significantly higher than most others in the oil industry, and at odds with actual data for consumption this year.
The alliance’s growth projections for 2024 are roughly double those of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and considerably above the International Energy Agency in Paris. They’re even significantly higher than estimates from Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Aramco.
OPEC predicts that oil consumption will average 103.82 million barrels a day this year. It lowered growth estimates for 2025 by 90,000 barrels a day to 1.4 million barrels a day.
The failure to accurately estimate oil demand this year casts further doubt on OPEC’s long-term expectation that oil consumption will keep growing to the middle of the century — a minority view even within the petroleum industry.
OPEC+ has been withholding output since 2022 in a bid to stave off a surplus and shore up prices. With last week’s decision, its plan is now to revive 2.2 million barrels a day of halted output in modest slivers between April and late 2026.
US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Would Cause Tectonic Shifts In Personal Finance, Researcher Predicts
Benzinga News
The potential creation of a strategic Bitcoin reserve by the United States could trigger a domino effect of global adoption and economic transformation, according to a recent analysis shared on X.
One of the primary effects, author Alex Wacy suggests, would be other nations following suit: “Increasingly, countries will consider establishing $BTC reserves.” Even a modest allocation of 5-10% of a nation’s treasury to Bitcoin could significantly impact its price.
Corporate adoption is another potential outcome as “major companies will start building reserves and holding funds in Bitcoin,” Wacy predicts.
This strategy would enable businesses to accept Bitcoin payments without using their own capital for purchases, potentially growing their reserves over time.
Beyond national reserves, Wacy outlines other scenarios, including businesses might build Bitcoin reserves to facilitate transactions, retaining portions of BTC payments to grow their holdings.
Individual adoption is expected to rise as well, with people building personal Bitcoin reserves as a means of preserving and potentially growing capital, particularly for long-term goals like retirement savings.
Separately, Bitcoin could become a standard medium for everyday transactions, from gaming purchases to phone top-ups.
Within five years, nations and corporations could become the largest Bitcoin holders, which could have far-reaching consequences:
Institutional Influence: Public companies might list Bitcoin holdings in financial reports, influencing their valuations.
Sanction Evasion: Bitcoin transactions could bypass sanctions, enhancing its utility and global accessibility.
Inflation Hedge: With its supply capped at 21 million coins, Bitcoin adoption could position it as a critical hedge against inflation.
This aligns with predictions from industry figures like Michael Saylor, who view constant demand for Bitcoin, generated by widespread adoption, driving significant price appreciation.
As much as I criticize Trump and lump him in with everyone else, I am very relieved that he won the election and the Republicans swept the legislature. The United States wouldn’t have been able to survive four years of Harris (four more years of racist Obama).
Texas Offers ‘Land Everywhere’ for Trump Deportation Centers
Joe Lovinger
(Bloomberg) — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is throwing the state’s vast public lands behind President-elect Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
Buckingham last month offered about 1,400 acres (567 hectares) in a border county as a potential site to build deportation facilities. Now she’s vowing to provide additional land as needed from the 13 million acres her office controls, an area almost twice the size of Belgium.
“We have land everywhere in the state,” said Buckingham, adding that her team has identified suitable properties near El Paso and has software it can use to find other sites. “We’ll just see what it is we think the Trump administration needs and how we can be helpful.”
Trump campaigned on a pledge to conduct mass deportations as part of his promise to secure the US-Mexico border. While the incoming administration hasn’t described what the deportation centers will look like or how many it will need, Buckingham said she expects quickly constructed facilities rather than brick-and-mortar buildings. She said she recently met with Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for border czar.
Buckingham calls the push the Jocelyn Initiative, named for Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl killed in the Houston area earlier this year. Two undocumented immigrants from Venezuela are facing murder charges for her death.
Echoing Trump, Buckingham emphasized her focus on helping the federal government remove undocumented immigrants who have criminal histories.
“We want to partner up with them and get these violent criminals off of our soil,”she said. “That’s going to be a pretty big project that’s going to take a while to accomplish.”
Homan recently visited the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, pledging to oversee a “mass deportation.” As Buckingham waits for details, she sees potential staging grounds across the state.
She said Texas would provide “any property that I have that they think will be useful and functional for the help of deportation,” she said, “We are happy to work out a deal and get those facilities in progress.”
The election of Trump and the Republicans have given us additional grace period. However, that does not mean chaos won’t happen. Things will still happen as we are on the march to WWIII and end times. The USA will be in a better position and the event timeline has possibly slowed. Kamel Harris is pulled by Obama. Obama’s intention was to destroy the USA and work with our enemies. Hopefully Obama will crawl into his hole and stay there.
Russians are being told America is full of useless trannies and gays who can’t fight.
Is America’s strength being carefully controlled so it only just wins, but isn’t strong enough after winning?
Syria’s fall is a bad sign. What about Jordan? They are completely encompassed in the Greater Israel map and nobody seems to care. Who’s in charge there? Are they aware of this plan? Are they doing anything about it?
As the British Empire was at the end of WW2.
‘Bond vigilante’ PIMCO trims long-term US sovereign debt holdings
December 9, 20241:17 PM EST
NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) – PIMCO said on Monday it plans to diversify its government bond exposure by buying outside the United States, where its outlook on long-term government debt is bearish due to a deteriorating fiscal profile.
The $2 trillion bond-focused asset manager said it favors short-term and intermediate U.S. Treasuries, while it has reduced allocations to long-dated U.S. government debt securities due to the potential of higher inflation as well as additional debt issuance to fund deficits.
Wall Street’s main indexes finished lower on Monday, fueled by a decline in AI leader Nvidia.
“We have become more hesitant to lend longer term given U.S. debt sustainability questions and potential inflation catalysts, such as tariffs and the effects of immigration restrictions on the labor force,” Marc Seidner, chief investment officer for non-traditional strategies, and Pramol Dhawan, portfolio manager, said in a note entitled “Thoughts from the Bond Vigilantes”.
So-called bond vigilantes – investors who punish profligate governments by selling their bonds – made a comeback last year, pushing 10-year Treasury yields to 5% for the first time in 16 years on concerns over growing U.S. debt issuance.
Treasury yields rose when President-elect Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last month as investors anticipated further tax cuts would worsen government deficits, which are funded via debt.
A resurgence of inflation because of protectionist trade policies was also seen as pushing yields higher.
However, yields have fallen back after Trump subsequently named Scott Bessent as U.S. Treasury Secretary, a move that assuaged some of the most extreme market concerns over excessive spending and aggressive tariffs.
However, this could change unexpectedly, cautioned PIMCO.
“Episodes of fiscal excess regularly give rise to questions about when these vigilantes might turn up,” said PIMCO.
“There is no organized group of vigilantes poised to act at a specific debt threshold; shifts in investor behavior typically occur at the margin and over time … we are already making incremental adjustments in response to rising U.S. deficits”.
Beyond reducing exposure to long-dated U.S. Treasuries, PIMCO said it is investing in UK and Australian bonds due to their better fiscal positions.
It also favors lending to corporates in both public and private markets that are better positioned to withstand high interest rates – a consequence of high government debt levels.
“The U.S. remains in a unique position because the dollar is the global reserve currency and Treasuries are the global reserve asset,” said PIMCO.
“But at some point, if you borrow too much, lenders may question your ability to pay it all back,” it added
Latest estimate: 3.3 percent — December 09, 2024
The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2024 is 3.3 percent on December 9, unchanged from December 5 after rounding. After recent releases from the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, a decrease in the nowcast of fourth-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth was offset by increases in the nowcasts of fourth-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth and fourth-quarter real government spending growth.
Mystery deadly ‘Disease X’ spreads in Congo as WHO struggles to trace origin
Published Dec. 9, 2024, 11:41 a.m. ET
The World Health Organization has recorded more than 400 cases of a mysterious, deadly, flu-like illness dubbed “Disease X” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is struggling to uncover its origins.
The unidentified disease has infected an estimated 406 people in the DRC since October and killed 143 of them — mostly children, according to local authorities.
The WHO has dispatched a rapid response team to unravel the mystery of “Disease X,” but officials said Sunday that the center of the outbreak is in a remote area of the Kwango province, where poor road conditions and heavy rain mean it will take at least two days to get there.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/world-news/mystery-deadly-disease-x-spreads-in-congo-as-who-struggles-to-trace-origin
Gee, I wonder if the Bill Gates Foundation had anything to do with the outbreak? He loves so called vaccines and supports many big pharma companies. Wait, the shot is supposed to prevent, not cause sickness and disease. Ha!
No better test bed for new bioweapons than the Con go. Isolated populations, the variables are easily managed, compliant political structure. Probably just a small beta test.
It’s difficult not to think about Isaiah 17 as these end time events unfold. Damascus was never ruined before, but that may change soon….
Israel bombs Damascus as 50-year peace deal ends with Assad overthrow: ‘Direct result of our forceful actions’
https://nypost.com/2024/12/08/world-news/israel-bombs-damascus-as-50-year-peace-deal-ends-with-assad-overthrow/
Very true. Damascus is one of the most historic cities on the Earth. Now we will see if Russia begins to pull out of the country, or if they will maintain their air bases, etc. Meanwhile, Fake Israel is living it up!
“Russia’s military continues to be overwhelmed in Ukraine ”
Overwhelmed with vodka, lazy easy days, and fun nights out on the town.
There isn’t a war, and never was. Russia’s economy is doing fine for the asset owners there, the so called “sanctions” actually helped out. The half ass Syrian news and hokey photos, that just showed up this week, any third grader can tell it’s not real. The old school leaders and some of the well known corporate people, especially those that were Covid celebs are being “retired” out of the public mindset, and new players are being installed. I wouldn’t be surprised if other well know people like Buffet, Gates, Fauci, even Powell “had a heart attack and suddenly died” reports in the headlines soon. Beachfront luxury in another Country is ready for them.
Headlines just reported Trump calls for immediate cease fire. He isn’t in office yet, he has no authority to do that. Putin this Putin that everywhere in the media,yet he may even be shoved into the “suddenly died” script. We know these people are actors and do not make any decisions. Expect a new leader in Russia, yet the New boss will be same as the Old boss!
Chris you have some awesome information just like Bro Nate, but you do post on Makow’s website and he’s a controlled opp, he knows the truth and needs to release more of it. I’m upset you are pumping this mainstream narrative, going against your own policy of “Take The Contra”
Although it’s difficult to get truthful information and display it, so much easier to just regurgatate the mainstream news with an opinion. Who would believe you anyway, and if even they did, after all the work doing the exposing, they would just deny it or say “wow that’s cool dude” and put the ciggy back in their mouths. No compensation for the Truth, it doesn’t sell very well. Just like when me or you post a stock that’s going to go up for sure, I just get a thumbs up sign, no respect, no hey thank yous, or buy me a coffee donations. Nothing!
Although we have seen how markets react to fake mainstream news, when nothing actually happens and it’s just words on paper or a screen. So from a trader viewpoint, we have to go along with the fakeness for the short term.
Everything is going as planned and is going good, next year could see an uptick in the markets. I do believe what you call a Force Majure is on the table around 2030, but not an invasion destructive one like everyone thinks….more of a slow population replacement, reduction and elimination of the middle class on the social status pyramid, acheiving just upper and a lower class. The enemy is already here, they own everything, including us. It’s their property. They Won along time ago.
There isn’t any organized fighting force or revolution that’s going to ride in save the day and take things back on the National level. The SOS have to make things up in the media to keep the future uncertain and the end always near.
Hey Greg,
It is difficult to navigate through the comments because I get no notifications of replies or updates. All is manual but thanks A LOT on that stock, I made some profits out it.
I got some CVX 155 Calls for Feb. Way below open interests calls for the rest of the month. Way under bought. Plenty of time. Unless they skyrocket Monday, good opportunity to still get in. Green is green
What evidence can you point to that Makow is Controlled Opposition?
He was pushing Russia was the good guy at some point multiple times in different articles and bashing the West.
The vast majority of the alternative media has been co-opted, whether wittingly or unwittingly, and pushes a pro-Russia propaganda line.
The alternative media contains some of them dumbest and most gullible I’ve ever come across. It’s either that, or they are actually infiltrators of the alternative realm and work to demoralize the enemy.
I would not be surprised at all if many of these alternative media hucksters can be traced back to the dod. They have done an amazing job in demoralizing national resistance.
Jeff Rense is probably the most ardent alt media pro Putin supporter that I have come across. He calls Putin and Lavrov geniuses and Trump and Biden psychopaths.
Here’s a piece of sobering truth. They all are psychopaths. I would not trust any of them in any capacity to speak any truth.
In the late ’90s, Donald Trump told People Magazine that if he were to run for President he would run as a Republican, because he said the Republican voters are the stupidest bunch of people he has ever met. They will believe anything he tells them.
Make America great again!
Makow was not doing that really.
He often posts links of Putin’s links with Chabad Lubavitch along with Trump’s and notes that Putin is providing the meat grinder for Zelensky to send Ukrainians into. He has posted Rebbe Menachim Scheerson’s speech from the 1990s about how Russia and Ukraine will fight until Ukraine is empty so the Jews can take it over. That appears to be happening.
Makow is not a total Putin fan as far as I know. He talks about the supposedly good side of Russia, but notes that Germany looked pretty good under Hitler too until the war started. Was it all a sham? He wonders about that.
As for bashing the west, the west SUCKS. Our “leaders” appear to be full-on Kalergists and seem to hate white people. Putin’s brain Dugin talks about wiping out white people too, and I think Henry has noted that. The West does suck, but that doesn’t mean Putin is good, of course. Putin might sound better sometimes, but that’s for western consumption possibly. The Kalergi origins of the EU have never been publicly noted by anyone except Nick Griffin as far as I know. Why is this?
Henry has posted Yossi Gervitz’s video “When Israel is Mighty” (a very true account I think) and has posted many of CJ Bjerknes’s videos too.
Henry has presented plenty of info on the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. Most people would reject everything he says and go get a booster.
I like Bobby Fisher. I like Yuri Bezmenov. Those guys said it like it is. Yuri was so depressed that nobody cared about his warnings – he gave up and died. It’s true – nobody cares. Bobby Fisher was cool. He’s my #1 A-class Jew.
I like Henry. He seems to be trying to figure it out. Sometimes he possibly misunderestimates what percentage of Jews are anti-white maniacs, but he presents massive amounts on info on what T.H.E.Y. are up to. Lots of whites (possibly most now) are antiwhite maniacs as well, so its not jew-specific anymore. That’s one thing I’d like him to address e.g. how come 1 million turned up to Rabi Ovadia “Goyim are insects” Yosef’s funeral if they are not all goy-haters. That’s a lot for a country of 5 million jews. Goyim can lose their jobs if they just say Hitler’s autobahn system was good. Jews can support absolute maniacs and nobody cares. Rabbis on youtube say the goyim have to be eliminated and nothing happens.
Apart from that, what could Henry say that would convince you he’s not controlled op? What’s he not saying that he needs to say?
We are all controlled opposition. Who’s out of control? The west is full of communists, so why are we fighting Russia again? Wasn’t it the B’Nai B’ritish that imposed communism on Russia in the first place? Weren’t Russians victims of communism too? Henry’s point, I think is not that Putin is better, it’s more that in some ways he’s not as bad as the west. Does Putin say Russia has too many Russians? That’s what the leaders in the west say about us, isn’t it? Is the west really scared of Russian communism? We seem to have enough communism already don’t we?
The US is evil. I know for a fact that it was US pressure that made my country multicultural in the 1990s. Whitey is on thin ice here too – because of America, not Russia. The US is not good either. The US and the UK and the EU (anything with the Kosher U stamped on it) deserves suspicion. Jacinda (NZ’s worst criminal ever) was basically given a knighthood. It’s mind-boggling.
All the governments have become very evil. The countries and the peoples themselves are not evil, but the Jew synagogue has made certain that they appoint only the most evil of people into their respective governments.
The American people are not “evil” per se, the Russian people aren’t evil, nor are the Europeans. They’ve all been duped and brainwashed and a great shaking needs to come, but those at the top of each of the countries are hand-picked to throw their citizens under the bus.
Most people are only as controlled as their minds allow it. Few people in the alt media are actually getting their orders from a higher source and power. In this regard, I think of Alex Jones and Zero Hedge, for example. Most of those others that we remark as being considered controlled, are only controlled by their worldview and beliefs and their lack of understanding, as well as their reliance on the controlled sources.
What is it with Whites and the pathological altruism towards the other peoples?
His people have been trying to destroy us for centuries. They hate us and God yet you defend him and want to find good in him. His people would successfully genocide our people if God doesn’t step in but not him he’s a “good” one.
1 Samuel 15 3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass
If our people had killed them all as was ordered by God Himself we would not be in the position we are in today.
What’s next sympathy for the Devil himself?
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Great argument.
Some good comments Bob. What I know of Russia – being a first gen American of White Russian origin – communism was funded/organized by American, Swiss and British banks. Jacob Schiff of the Kuhn – Loeb Co. NY contributed to groups who worked to overthrow the Czar since the early 1900s. The Jews were taking revenge on Christian Russia for treatment of the Jews (pogroms). And why was that? Because in the 19th and 20th century, Jews dominated money lending and trading – most likely to the point of pain similar to the Weimar Republic? Side note: It is said that Hitler’s dislike of Jews and communists was more directed to their money lending and general control over finance. Every action has a reaction.
The goal of communism is to destroy Christianity and make the ruling gov’t the god. Everyone and everything is property of the state. Czar Nicholas II was the last true Christian Monarch and Holy Russia was successor of the Byzantine Empire, or New Rome. The murder of the Royal Family was essential for world communism to succeed.
The Russian Monk Philotheus c. 1520 states: Two Romes have fallen, but the third stands, and a fourth there will not be. The murder of Czar Nicholas II was essential to topple the third Rome. The people of Russia blasphemed the Holy Spirit by siding with the Bolsheviks thus the fall was allowed by God to happen. Just like the fall of Old Rome when it lost the Orthodox Faith to paganism and cut itself off from the Church in the eleventh century. The fall of Constantinople (second Rome) when it was conquered by Muslims in the fifteenth century. And there will not be a fourth Christian Czardom.
Three generations of my family from both sides escaped two murdering communist regimes. My family saw first hand in China (where my parents are from) the red army coming in and rounding up people by truckload. My family witnessed churches being desecrated and burned. My dad’s dad was taken to a gulag in 1947 never to be seen again. That makes me a grandson of a slave.
So yes, the West’s hands are stained with blood of Orthodox Christians.
Every nation has its hand stained. 60 million Russians were killed during the Communist reign of terror. Russians killed them.
Creating all this double mindedness is not helping anybody. I get your confirmation bias, but it can be quite tiring.
The fall of Syria’s Assad is a significant move on the chess board. Probably one more step toward WWWIII and their ain’t nothin Trump could do.
This clearly makes Putin look like an idiot. Putin is the kind of guy like most satanists who will leave his allies flapping in the wind when the allies no longer serve his needs. Putin also left Armenia high and dry to be overrun by Azerbaijan (an ally of Israel by the way). I am sure there are some top military brass in Russia that are very angry at Putin and want to see him out after the Syria let down. He may be replaced by a war hawk.
The rebels were allowed to take down Assad, otherwise they would not be able to move this quickly. The Syrian Army could have easily stopped the rebels with backing from Russia. This is all coordinated by some high up SoS members.
It was just astounding how the Syrian Army so quickly collapsed. Most of the Syrian Army were underpaid conscripts that didn’t care to risk their lives for a despotic Assad.
The Syrian army was a paper tiger propped up by Putin’s chessmanship. Putin is being exposed for the out of touch windbag he has become.
Putin is becoming so desperate that I see him striking the land of unwalled villages by the second half of 2027. I see him desperately trying to fortify his treaty alliances of japheth remnants and Genesis 1 Chinese man.
Putin has to be panicking a bit. He is either over his head, incompetent, or playing his part as instructed. The total collapse of the Syrian army is embarrassing to say the least. This plays right into the fake state of Israelis hands. More territory for them. Once he is fully backed into the corner, like a cornered Tiger, he will be compelled to attack. The Japenese also were backed into a corner of self preservation. The anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor was just days ago. Although I don’t believe it was a surprise to the SOS and their government officials in the USA, it was excellently carried out. Why could that not happen again and sooner than later. Emphasis on sooner!
Your 2027 date is very likely, or even sooner
You’re assuming this Syria “collapse” is spontaneous. Don’t be so sure about that. Soviets have long controlled Syria. There is no indication that Russia has lost actual control over Syria. Looks like more theatrics.
Then the best part of this “Collapse” is that Putin looks like a fool. I don’t see how Russia can come out well with this in any capacity.
I wonder what other dictators around the world who rely on Russia to be their strong man ally are thinking right now. Russia is looking very weak, especially Putin.
Ezekiel 38 and 39 anytime after the second half of 2027 looks more and more definite everyday.
Whether this is all a stage or not, I don’t think it matters anymore. Everything is unfolding and coming together.
ZeroHedge:
Stocks and real estate in a bubble.
Bitcoin worth a million.
If thats what Zero Hedge claims then take the contra. Stocks and RE have much more to run. ZH was making these claims 14 years ago.
Zero Hedge presents a non sequitur. Bitcoin cannot continue moving higher if the other asset markets are moving lower. However, this mindset is popular with Zero Hedge’s feeble readers.
I suspect that most of Zero Hedge’s readers live in their parents’ basement and dream of owning a home one day. These sad sacks think that they’ll be able to buy their house during the next housing bust for a fraction of current prices. And we know all about dreams, we have to be sleeping to believe them.
Russia and China follow many of the strategies outlined in Sun Tzu’s Art of War.
“When strong, feign weakness”, is one quote that comes to mind.
You got that right.
My one concern is that Russia will get increasingly desperate as it tries to shield its potemkin village of an economy.
If Putin doesn’t like the ruble trading below 100 to the dollar he just shuts down the foreign exchange market to a trickle and manipulates the figures.
Meanwhile the Russian economy Burns and I wonder how much longer they can spend all this money and devote it to the military and war.
I watch a number of Russian YouTubers and some seem to be intimating that things aren’t going so well with the people.
The second half of 2027 is not turning out to be a good one.
Can you say Oded Yinon?
The Oded Yinon plan, a subsidiary of Soviet Balkanization, has long been achieved.
Correct, the plan was achieved long ago, it’s actioning is underway today…
Was the US invasion of Iraq part of that?
Is the US a Soviet Union?
Correct! Long term planning going way, way back!
Greater Israel is one of the goals!
Except “Greater Israel” does not have to be named “Israel” at all. That’s the trick. They can achieve a global “Israel” without naming it that. They can call it whatever they want. Dont’ get hung up on terms.
Indeed, the synagogue hijacked the name Israel. It seems that’s what the synagogue is good at doing.
The name “Israel” is a key part of the deception. Not only is that state not Israel, the vast majority of people living there are not from the tribes of Israel, as you surely know.
I take a step back and see how accurate Jesus’s testimony was. He told John that the Jews would be controlling the whole thing at the end day. He called it the synagogue of Satan and the whole Bible is a story whose ending concerns itself with this synagogue of Jews that run the entire planet.
How did Jesus know 2,000 years ago? The Jews comprised only a small number of people and they were controlled by the Romans (whose leaders were descended from the Lost tribes).
I marvel at the accuracy of Jesus’s testimony as well as the rest of the Bible. Indeed, the synagogue of Satan controls the central banks and uses all the governments as their customer service windows. They worship the devil just like Jesus said in John 8:44 and their description is fully enumerated in Scripture.
2,000 years ago, if we were thinking about the end times anyone could have said that Hindus, Chinese Confucius warriors, Buddhists, etc. could have been running it or ishmaelites or any other race of people. But Jesus warned us of these Jews who would take control of everything and create their end time Babylon. It’s a Babylon that is mirrored off the ancient Babylon that the southern Kingdom experienced in their captivity over 2,500 years ago.
Steve, key perhaps only for a temporal phase in the agenda. I see Israel as the current state being dismantled within the next 5-10 years. Jewish cosmopolitanism has always been the “greater Israel”, and that will not stop.
The Eurasian Empire appears to have subsumed the “greater Israel” plan, and there is no longer a need for the Zionist state, as it has achieved its goal of turning the world against the West (Operation SIG).
People need to start thinking outside of the box instead of relying on 1990s-era deciphering methods.