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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
"Thousands of Bankers Just Got Fired From JP Morgan Chase"
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Market Gains, 2/19/25
"Thousands of Bankers Just Got Fired From JP Morgan Chase"
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Market Gains, 2/19/25
"Meta Is Firing Everyone as 150,000 Tech Jobs Disappear"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Here Comes Massive Fraud - Huge Scandal"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 2/19/25
"Here Comes Massive Fraud - Huge Scandal"
"California’s INSANE insurance scandal is making waves! In this video, I break down the shocking new policy that forces insurance companies to cut checks for 100% property coverage - no itemization required. This wild move could lead to MASSIVE fraud and skyrocketing premiums for everyone. What’s going on in California’s insurance world, and how will it impact homeowners, renters, and you? Plus, we’ll touch on the state’s $50M fund for fire debris removal, the fallout from these fires, and what this means for the future of insurance in the Golden State. Buckle up - this is a must-watch!"
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"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
John Wilder, "Bad Luck, Diversity, And Bank Robbers"
"Bad Luck, Diversity, And Bank Robbers"
by John Wilder
"There is such a thing as bad luck. A neighbor of mine told me a story of when he was a kid. He and his friends were throwing dirt clods at another group of kids. Now, I remember doing exactly that. Dirt clods were perfect for throwing because when they hit the ground, they exploded in a puff of dirt that I pretended was a grenade. Pretending I was blowing up my friends. Huh, sounds like a Unabomber childhood when I put it that way, doesn’t it?
Regardless, my neighbor said that one of the other kids got a dirt clod in the eye. Who threw it? I don’t think they ever figured that out, but my friend was the only one sued. Why? His dad owned a bank. As I recall from the story, his dad’s insurance company ended up settling the claim. No one said, “Oh, bad luck.” There certainly doesn’t seem to be a place for bad luck in our world, but sometimes bad luck really does happen. I mean, once upon a time a fortune teller that I would have to suffer with eight years of bad luck.
“And then things get better?” “No, you stop suffering because you get used to it.” To me, this seems unfair, but remember Law School Lesson 101: never sue poor people. It’s a variation of the Willie Sutton school of law, when he responded to the question of why he robbed banks with the answer of “Because that’s where the money is.”
That’s one part of the equation, but the second part makes it really rough: massive damage awards. Ask Alex Jones about the nonsensical $1 billion jury award against him. Why not a trillion? It’s not like Alex Jones has a billion dollars, and it’s not like they can strip being “Alex Jones” from Alex Jones, so if they take Infowars™, well, he’ll be in business the next day with a new company. And if they take that, yet a new company.
Poor people are lawsuit-proof because they don’t have money. Alex Jones is lawsuit-proof because (like James O’Keefe) his company is him. Since most companies can’t hide behind the idea of being Alex Jones, they have to have a defense. The defense? Standards.
If a company does the same thing the same way all of the time, and if every other company does that exact same thing the same way every time, it’s now a Standard. While a company can certainly be sued if they screw up, it’s a pretty good defense to say what Ma Wilder described as a weak excuse, “Well, everybody else is doing it.”
So, if you ask Proctor and Gamble™ if they would jump off a cliff if everyone else was doing it, the answer is probably something like: “If that would help us actualize projected profits in the near term and help build organic growth in the sector, that would be a strategy we would engage with.” Or, in human terms, yes, yes they would jump off a cliff if everyone does it. Sadly, this throttles innovative products.
This also leads to a herd mentality in large companies. “Does Disney™ have DEI? Well, looks like we need DEI, too.” These companies realize that there is safety in numbers. Sure, they want to be different, but they all want to be different in the exact same legally non-actionable way.
This (in part) has led to the extreme pliability of the companies to Woke propaganda, and their quick rebound once Trump was elected. Was Google© all in for Kamala? You bet. Has Google™ swapped their maps to “Gulf of America” at the same time removing Black History Month©, Pride Month™ and scrapped targets to not hire white guys? Yes, yes they have.
This surprised me. I was expecting these companies to keep being part of the ResISTanCe since they actively opposed Trump during his first term. Either they were neutered during and by the pandemic, or they’re horribly afraid of Trump and Elon. Or they’re worried about the inevitable wrath of Barron when he reaches his full height of 6'5" feet (1 kiloliter).
In the end, there really is “bad luck”. Now, I don’t think that everything is bad luck, I mean, when that double amputee tried to rob a bank? That wasn’t bad luck. After all, he wasn’t even armed."
Bill Bonner, "How Many Divisions Does Elon Have?"
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference,
January 1945,
"How Many Divisions Does Elon Have?"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "The question was framed, according to some historians, by Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference. Winston Churchill had suggested that the Pope might be brought in to provide moral backing to the Allies’ campaigns against Hitler. Stalin must have wondered how morality would hold up against Panzer tanks. "How many divisions does the Pope have?” he allegedly asked. We wish we could be in the room when the question comes again.
Of all the bloated bureaucracies…among all the corrupt and self-serving federales… and all their boondoggle programs - the military stands out. It fails every audit. It spends trillions, and claims not to know where the money goes. But it goes somewhere. And those who get it know where it went. They’ve bought and paid for almost every member of the House and the Senate. They’ve put on countless half-time shows…and granted ‘access’ only to toady journalists. They expect to get their money’s worth.
In ancient Egypt, the surplus production of the Nile Valley was spent building monuments to dead rulers. In China, under the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, much of the surplus output was spent building a Terracotta Army of more than 8,000 soldiers, intended to protect him in the afterlife.
And in America, circa 2025, ‘national defense’ is a sacred myth. Having US troops all over the world…meddling in one foreign conflict after another…trying to replace independent leaders with puppets - all in, it costs over a trillion dollars a year…and almost surely makes Americans less safe.
But now, the US firepower industry may be coming under attack. According to the Washington Post, Musk’s shock troops have crossed the Potomac: "The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week, according to five people familiar with the matter.
The directive coincides with the arrival at the Pentagon of personnel from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, which has overseen the firing of thousands of probationary employees in other federal agencies and coordinated the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“Uh… you want to see our records?” the brass will ask…stunned and confused as Elon and his band of callow nerds arrive at the Pentagon. “That’s classified,” they will reply. “We’re here to root out waste,” Elon will explain. “No useless aircraft? No easily sunk ships? Close unnecessary bases? Stop useless weapons development? Fire some of the three million people who get our paychecks? Tighten our belts? Cancel our beach-house plans?”
“Yeah… that’s right,” Elon might reply. “What about our enemies?” they’ll ask. “What enemies?” Elon will reply. “You know perfectly well that there is no country on earth capable of crossing the ocean with a viable armada. They’d be wiped out by missiles and bombers before even leaving port.” “Uh… what about Russia… China… terrorists?” “Are you kidding? Russia has a tiny economy. China’s economy depends on selling stuff to Americans, not attacking them. And terrorists have never been anything more than a fake enemy.””
But it’s one thing to reduce spending by USAID. It’s another to reduce it for the US Army, Navy and Air Force. The last time the Pentagon had to cut its budget was after WWII. The troops came home. Soldiers were ‘de-mobed.’ Eisenhower (who knew more about the military than any president since) peeled nearly 30% off the Department of Defense outlays. That was then…before firepower became the nation’s defining industry, with effective control over both political parties. Today, for appearances sake, the warfighters are likely to shed a few ‘probationary’ employees. Maybe they’ll sacrifice some weapons that they never wanted anyway.
But why should the world’s ‘most lethal’ fighting force take its orders from an immigrant from Africa? Sooner or later, whether voiced or tacit, the question is bound to come up: “And how many divisions do you have, Elon?”
"Central Banks Are About To Enter A New Phase Of World Debt Expansion On A Massive Scale"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 2/19/25
"Central Banks Are About To Enter A New Phase
Of World Debt Expansion On A Massive Scale"
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Gregory Mannarino, PM 2/19/25
"Expect A Rapid Slowing Of The Economy
Starting Now, And Worsening"
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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the Big Club."
- George Carlin
Adventures With Danno, "Spilling My Guts About Disney"
Adventures With Danno, 2/19/25
"Spilling My Guts About Disney"
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Travelling With Russell, 2/19/25
"Russian Typical Electronics &
Home Appliance Store in 2025"
"What does a Russian typical electronics store in Moscow, Russia look like? Join me on a tour of M-Video. Russia's most well-known and popular home appliance and electronics store. What brands will we find? What sort of prices are being offered on phones, televisions and fridges."
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Canadian Prepper, "It's All Falling Apart! Ukraine Panics, False Flag Incoming!"
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Canadian Prepper, 2/18/25
"It's All Falling Apart! Ukraine Panics, False Flag Incoming!"
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"Walking Through The Retail Apocalypse - Thousands Of Stores Closing - Grocery Prices Soar"
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Jeremiah Babe, 2/18/25
"Walking Through The Retail Apocalypse -
Thousands Of Stores Closing - Grocery Prices Soar"
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Gerald Celente, "Money Is Power. We Run The World. Shut Up And Do What You're Told!"
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Gerald Celente, 2/18/25
"Money Is Power. We Run The World.
Shut Up And Do What You're Told!"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Musical Interlude: "Bad Moon Rising"
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
"Bad Moon Rising"
Look around, doesn't that describe now?
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse's large 19th century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsontown. Assembled from 51 exposures recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 20th and 21st centuries, with additional data from ground based telescopes, this mosaic spans about 40,000 light-years across the central region of M101 in one of the highest definition spiral galaxy portraits ever released from Hubble.
The sharp image shows stunning features of the galaxy's face-on disk of stars and dust along with background galaxies, some visible right through M101 itself. Also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 lies within the boundaries of the northern constellation Ursa Major, about 25 million light-years away.”
The Poet: Wendell Berry, "The Circles Of Our Lives"
"The Circles Of Our Lives"
"Within the circles of our lives
we dance the circles of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon,
within the circles of the seasons,
the circles of our reasons
within the cycles of the moon.
Again, again we come and go,
changed, changing. Hands
join, unjoin in love and fear,
grief and joy. The circles turn,
each giving into each, into all.
Only music keeps us here,
each by all the others held.
In the hold of hands and eyes
we turn in pairs, that joining
joining each to all again.
And then we turn aside, alone,
out of the sunlight gone
into the darker circles of return,
Within the circles of our lives..."
- Wendell Berry
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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,
swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of Infinity.
Life is Eternal.
We have stopped for a moment to encounter
each other, to meet, to love, to share.
This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in Eternity.”
- Paulo Coelho
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"We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses and it ain't names, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars... Everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you'd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being."
- Thornton Wilder
"The Prophet: On Good and Evil "
"The Prophet: On Good and Evil "
"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves,
and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among
perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
For when you strive for gain you are but a root
that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast.
Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,
Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.
For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root.
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech,
Yet you are not evil when you sleep
while your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift,
see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
You are good in countless ways,
and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness:
and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea,
carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and
bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
Wherefore are you slow and halting?
For the truly good ask not the naked,
Where is your garment?
nor the houseless, What has befallen your house?"
- Kahlil Gibran
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"That's Where It All Begins..."
"That's where it all begins. That's where we all get screwed big time as we grow up. They tell us to think, but they don't really mean it. They only want us to think within the boundaries they define. The moment you start thinking for yourself - really thinking - so many things stop making any sense. And if you keep thinking, the whole world just falls apart. Nothing makes sense anymore. All rules, traditions, expectations - they all start looking so fake, so made up. You want to just get rid of all this stuff and make things right. But the moment you say it, they tell you to shut up and be respectful. And eventually you understand that nobody wants you to really think for yourself."
- Ray N. Kuili, "Awakening"
"I Don't Pretend..."
“I don't pretend we have all the answers.
But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”
- Arthur C. Clarke
"DOGE Finds $4.7 Trillion In Virtually Untraceable Treasury Payments"
"DOGE Finds $4.7 Trillion In
Virtually Untraceable Treasury Payments"
by Tyler Durden
"The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using of tracking codes when dishing out money.
Mind you, it's not as if such a federal tracking system wasn't already in place - it simply went casually unused for all sorts of payouts adding up to an almost unfathomable $4.7 trillion. Without Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) identification codes associated with those payouts, there's little hope in figuring out where all that money went.
"$4.7 trillion of OUR money went into a government blackhole. It isn't traceable. It's gone, into the abyss." - Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 17, 2025
"In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible," DOGE announced via its X account. Thanks to DOGE, those "optional" days are over. “As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going," DOGE added.
Musk celebrated the move. "Major improvement in Treasury payment integrity going live!" he tweeted. "This was a combined effort of DOGE, USTreasury and FederalReserve. Nice work by all." DOGE's scrutiny of various government agencies is eliciting high-pitched shrieks from nearly every leftist in America, from establishment politicians who don't want the curtain that hides their hijinks and grifting torn down, to your liberal sister-in-law who thinks the government has an endless supply of money and that it spends it all virtuously.
"The US Treasury just tossed $4.7 Trillion of our tax dollars right out of the window. This is why they hate DOGE for exposing them."
pic.twitter.com/K0eY2ninDD - Real Joshua Macias (@RealJoshMacias) February 18, 2025
Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed back on portrayals of DOGE employees as reckless rogues. "These are highly trained professionals," he told Bloomberg. "This is not some roving band going around doing things. This is methodical and it is going to yield big savings."
In the wake of the latest revelation that makes normal people glad that DOGE teams are scouring the federal government, Democrats desperately tried to find a way to make it sound bad that DOGE exposed trillions in untraceable payouts and promptly instituted tighter accounting discipline. Here's Wisconsin Rep Mark Pocan's lame attempt:
"For Trump & Musk, it’s not about waste, fraud or abuse. It’s about finding the $4.7 trillion they need to fund the tax cuts for the wealthiest - including themselves. It’s never about the middle class. They’re robbing programs you benefit from to enrich themselves. Corruption."
- Mark Pocan (@MarkPocan) February 17, 2025
Meanwhile, leftists have also been foaming at the mouth over news that DOGE staffers are looking into the Social Security Administration's (SSA) books, as if they were going to start rerouting funds to Tesla. Considering Social Security is careening toward mandatory benefit cuts as soon as 2033, everyone should welcome a team of financial professionals making sure the system isn't being drained by improper payments.
Of course, that appears to be exactly what's been happening. On Sunday night, Musk said DOGE might be on the trail of "the biggest fraud in history," as SSA data appears to show that 20.789 million Americans over the age of 100 are collecting Social Security retirement benefits. That includes 12 million who are purportedly over 120 years old.
Bent on derailing DOGE, Democrats have sued to prevent the organization from accessing federal data associated with the Office of Personnel Management, and the Health and Human Services, Education, Energy, Transportation, Labor and Commerce departments. On Monday, the federal judge handling the request for a restraining order expressed skepticism over Democrats' challenge, noting that their "evidence" was largely media speculation about potential harms springing from DOGE's activities: "The courts can’t act based on media reports. We can’t do that."
"A ruling is expected Tuesday. Here's looking forward to DOGE proceeding to uncover a relentless string of scandals for months and months to come."
"Thank you DOGE!" pic.twitter.com/KS3f6E4yUg - Chuck's (Currently Sneed) (@CharlesChuckTam) February 17, 2025
We need some new, very large prisons. A lot of them...
on a large volcanic island in the middle of the ocean.
"200,000 Workers Just Got Laid Off and You Might Be Next..."
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Market Gains, 2/18/25
"200,000 Workers Just Got Laid Off
and You Might Be Next..."
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"Market Gains, 2/18/25 Just Fired 2,000 Workers Today"
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"The Curse of Interesting Times"
"The Curse of Interesting Times"
Things are the most interesting they've been
in 80 years, 250 years, and, well, ever.
by Contemplations on the Tree of Woe
"The Chinese curse their enemies with the phrase “may you live in interesting times.” Or, rather, Americans think that Chinese curse their enemies like that; according to Infogalactic, “despite being widely attributed as a Chinese curse, there is no equivalent expression in Chinese.”
Fortunately, there’s an actual Chinese phrase that’s much more interesting. It’s found in a 1627 short story collection by Feng Menglong called "Stories to Awaken the World," and it states "better to be a dog in a peaceful time, than to be a human in a chaotic times.” And to be a dog in 17th China didn’t mean being a beloved fur baby with your own YouTube channel. It meant being a workbeast that got eaten when times were lean. The Chinese still have an annual dog meat festival.
Whichever adage you prefer, our times are both chaotic and interesting. In fact, they are monumentally interesting - they are so interesting as to beggar coherent description, to put to shame historical comparison, so remarkable that every single one of us would be justified in screaming from the rooftops in shock and awe. And yet we don’t. We keep calm and carry on, sturdily gripped by our bias for normalcy, by our human ability to adapt to even the most bizarre circumstances. It’ll be fine, we tell ourselves. This is fine.
But what if we put aside our normalcy bias for a moment and look at how just how “interesting” our times really are? What do we see then?
Once Every 80 Years…Once every 80 years, a country enters a crisis. That is, at least, the assertion of Strauss-Howe Generational Theory. According to Strauss and Howe, human history is organized into repeating patterns marked by four “turnings”: the High, the Awakening, the Unraveling, and the Crisis. Each turning is approximately 20 years long, and an entire cycle of four turnings is therefore about 80 years long. According to Strauss and Howe, American history looks something like this:
○ American Revolutionary Crisis, 1765 - 1785
○ American Civil War Crisis, 1855 - 1875
○ Great Depression and World War II Crisis, 1930 - 1950
○ You Are Here, 2010 - 2030
If we believe Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, we are in the midst of what they call a Fourth Turning - a moment of Crisis.
Are we in a Fourth Turning? I certainly believe so. As I documented in "Running on Empty," the United States now stands at a financial precipice. US inflation is at its worst in 40 years because the monetary system we established under Truman and rejuvenated under Nixon is now collapsing. With that crisis have come challenges from a resurgent Russia and burgeoning China that could lead to a Third World War or, at best, a post-American world order. The Thucydides Trap has never been so close to springing. It’s no wonder then that US fears of nuclear war have surged to levels not seen since the Cold War. But unlike the Cold War, no one wants to ‘ask what they can do for their country’ anymore. US Army recruitment is at its worst in 50 years. And why would they want to serve? Our nation is divided into warring camps. US partisan distrust of the opposing party is at its worst in 30 years.
All right. That all sounds bad. But if Strauss-Howe Generational Theory is true, the Fourth Turning will be over in about 5-10 years and we’ll move into the next Turning, the High. And those are awesome! But what if we won’t be heading into another high?"
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Bill Bonner, "Monkey Business"
"Monkey Business"
As an empire degenerates, civilian authorities become less competent and
more corrupt, with too many groups competing for power and money.
Elected assemblies become like the monkey cage at the zoo.
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "There’s Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). And there’s also Trump-o-philia (ToP). One man hates him. Another loves him. Which one sees most clearly? “It feels like Christmas, every day. He’s really getting the economy going. And getting rid of all those freeloaders.”
A local real estate agent - a strong Trump supporter - came to visit. She watches the news… and is delighted. Trump attacks the pretensions, waste and balderdash of the Democratic elites. He and his sidekicks, Elon Musk and J.D. Vance, are on the rampage, she believes. They gut agencies…uncover billions in fraud…and talk tough to foreigners. Europe has lost its way, Vance tells the Old World. You’ll have to spend more to protect yourselves, Trump adds. “You’re fired,” says Elon…and we’ll “get rich” from tariffs, Trump promises. What fun!
“I’m heavily invested in [a crypto currency]. I’ve been following them for years. If they keep going up, I’ll have enough to buy a family compound.” Alas, the young woman might be a little short on cynicalism. Good luck to her. But we have our doubts.
“Do you know that that foreign aid group was sending millions of dollars to Chelsea Clinton?” said our realtor friend. “They fund the Clinton Foundation… and other groups that she is part of… on the board… a director… something… they have contracts for $84 million. The whole thing was such a scam. It’s a pleasure to see Trump and Musk doing something about it.” The fact-checkers claim it is not true. Also on the internet, Chelsea’s net worth is reportedly $70 million - which is a lot of scratch for someone who works for non-profits.
What to believe? We don’t know. But compared to the MIC budget, whatever Chelsea gets is peanuts. In order to avoid a financial catastrophe - chaos… inflation… default - the US needs to cut deeper.
Not by a few billion… but by trillions [more on Social Security and Medicare fraud later this week]. And to do that, it needs to trim its ‘transfer’ payments and put its firepower industry back on the leash. That’s the real challenge. And neither TDS nor ToP has anything to do with it. But Bloomberg reports: "GOP Defense Leaders Pushing Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budget. Rogers, Wicker want defense spending to be close to 5% of GDP. Congress has been wrestling with how the US should prepare for possible future conflict with China and address weaknesses in the defense industrial base supply chain exposed by wars in Ukraine and the Middle East." That’s right; they’re planning to spend more, not less. Is China readying an attack on California? No? Then why would US policymakers want to spend more money to prepare for it?
Typically, as an empire degenerates, its civilian authorities become less competent and more corrupt, with too many groups competing for power and money. Elected assemblies become like the monkey cage in the zoo, each member dancing a jig for whomever hands out the bananas. Then, democracy - grown too big, with a growing hodge-podge of fraud and contradictions - awaits its ‘strong man.’ He says something such as “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” recently posted on Truth Social by Donald J. Trump. Claiming to ‘save his country’ he thinks he can do almost anything.
And he’s right. The institutions that might have stopped him have been twisted or strangled - the Constitution, the Courts, Congress…along with the public’s sense of right and wrong. In the 9/11 panic, people learned to get in line to be patted down at airports. Then, the Covid hysteria had them going along with lockdowns…whether they were at any real risk or not. The universities and the press do their parts too - ‘schooling’ or exiling anyone with alternative points of view. They were paid to do it. Asia Times:
How much of USAID’s US$40 billion annual spending and the budgets of the National Endowment for Democracy and other government agencies bought the cooperation of journalists worldwide? The nearly $270 million in payoffs to “independent media” in the 2025 federal budget – a staggering sum compared to the editorial budgets of the world’s news organizations – may be a small fraction of the total subsidy once payments to so-called charitable foundations are tallied up. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations and other private entities subsidized the same media, bringing the grand total into the billions.
The big man comes like a breath of fresh air to the many ToP sufferers. Those afflicted most severely with TDS will resist. But that is where the MIC - including muscled-up local police and dumbed down civilians - will come in handy."
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Seller’s Panic in Washington DC - Real Estate is Crashing"
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Dan, I Allegedly 2/18/25
"Seller’s Panic in Washington DC -
Real Estate is Crashing"
"The D.C. real estate market has taken a shocking turn! In just 7 days, home prices plummeted by a staggering 36.5%, leaving homeowners and buyers scrambling. With nearly 15,000 new listings flooding the market in one week, this unexpected glut has sent shockwaves through the housing industry. Banks are even considering calling in loans as some homeowners find themselves upside down overnight. Could this crisis spread to other cities like Los Angeles? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
We also touch on how bureaucracy in L.A. is slowing down rebuilding efforts, the car industry's production struggles, and even the latest surprising food recalls. Plus, we discuss the growing warnings from major companies about the fragility of the stock market. There’s so much happening, and it's more important than ever to stay informed."
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Adventures With Danno, "Amazing Grocery Deals At Meijer This Week"
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Adventures With Danno, 2/18/25
"Amazing Grocery Deals At Meijer This Week"
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Travelling With Russia, 2/18/25
"Russian Typical Liquor & Alcohol Shops:
4 of the Best!"
"What does a Russian typical liquor store look like inside? Join me as I tour 4 different Russian liquor stores in Moscow, Russia. Did Western brands leave Russia? Can you still buy foreign brands in Russia in 2025?"
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Monday, February 17, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "WTF? 8.7 Million 130 Year Olds Getting Social Security Checks; DOGE Victims Fear Being Exposed"
Jeremiah Babe, 2/17/25
"WTF? 8.7 Million 130 Year Olds Getting Social Security Checks;
DOGE Victims Fear Being Exposed"
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Musical Interlude: Liquid Mind I: "Ambience Minimus"
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Liquid Mind I: "Ambience Minimus"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"The first identified compact galaxy group, Stephan's Quintet is featured in this eye-catching image constructed with data drawn from the extensive Hubble Legacy Archive. About 300 million light-years away, only four of these five galaxies are actually locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. The odd man out is easy to spot, though. The interacting galaxies, NGC 7319, 7318A, 7318B, and 7317 have an overall yellowish cast. They also tend to have distorted loops and tails, grown under the influence of disruptive gravitational tides. But the predominantly bluish galaxy, NGC 7320, is closer, just 40 million light-years distant, and isn't part of the interacting group.
Stephan's Quintet lies within the boundaries of the high flying constellation Pegasus. At the estimated distance of the quartet of interacting galaxies, this field of view spans about 500,000 light-years. But moving just beyond this field, up and to the right, astronomers can identify another galaxy, NGC 7320C, that is also 300 million light-years distant. Including it would bring the interacting quartet back up to quintet status."
“6 Steps to Release Your Fear and Feel Peaceful”
“6 Steps to Release Your Fear and Feel Peaceful”
by Nicolas Perrin
“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
“It was a balmy spring morning and I started my day as per usual, but I soon realized that my mind was entertaining fearful thoughts about my financial insecurity. With many new ventures within the seedling stage, my income flow was erratic and unpredictable, while my financial responsibilities were consistent and guaranteed. At the time I ignored these thoughts as “petty,” like a parent dismissing a crying child after a mild fall on the pavement.
What I didn’t realize was that my mind wanted to entertain these fear-based thoughts like a Hollywood blockbuster, and as you may know, what you focus on expands. Before I knew it, my body was in a state of complete anxiety and fear. I literally felt my cognitive and creative centers shutting down. I felt completely powerless, a hostage to my own mind. My body felt paralyzed, and I felt disconnected from my talents and gifts. I felt separate, isolated, and vulnerable. I became a victim of the fear. In this moment I realized the powerful impact thoughts can have on how we feel, mentally and physically. Here is what unfolded through me, and the lessons I treasured from this experience.
Fear is a closed energy, referred to as inverted faith. Fear exists when we do not trust our connection to the infinite part of who we are and buy into a story about what’s unfolding in our life. The emotions we feel are created from the thoughts that we choose to focus on, consciously or unconsciously. The emotions act as markers to let us know if we are focusing on expansive, empowering thoughts or fearful, limiting thoughts.
If I were to relate this in a story, it may be like a pilot believing he no longer had any guidance or support from the airport control tower in a large storm, and no instruments on board to detect if he was on a collision course with another airplane. If the control tower represents the infinite part of who we are, which always knows what’s best for us, it can be understandable why the pilot with no other guidance except for his own eye sight would be fearful of the situation at hand. An alarm on the plane beeping at the pilot would represent the emotions. The alarm’s purpose is to get the attention of the pilot so he can focus and realize he is off the path. Once our emotions start to take a grip of our physical body, what can we do to move from a state of limitation and fear into an open, tranquil, peaceful state?
1. Come back to the present moment. The first step is to bring your awareness to the present moment. To do this, take three deep breaths through your nose and exhale through your mouth. After the air has filled your lungs and you’ve felt your stomach rise, exhale through your mouth by forcing the air through your teeth, as if you were hissing out loud. This detoxifies your body from the heavy emotions you’re experiencing and brings you back into the present moment. When I do this, I place my awareness into my feet so I am in a feeling space within my body, rather than being in my mind, entertaining the stories that swirl around with vigor, like a dangerous hurricane. Imagine that all your emotions are in a large sludge bucket. This breathing technique will empty the bucket out so you are empty and free.
2. Put things in perspective. Now that you are present, acknowledge the experience and ask yourself this question: “What is the worst case scenario that can happen to me?” Once we can accept this and realize we will be okay if that happens, we are free from the fear. When I realized I’d blown things out of proportion with my fears, I was able to detach from the story and put things into perspective. I like to imagine that in every moment I have two wolves I can feed (per the Native American myth): the fear wolf or the love wolf. The one that gets stronger and wins is the one I feed.
3. Become an observer of your thoughts. What has served me well in moments like this is to say, “I’m not these thoughts. I’m not these emotions. I’m not this body. I’m an infinite being having a human experience.” In saying this, we immediately detach from the story and allow ourselves the choice of suffering or to become the observer. Imagine that your life is represented in a book, and the story you are living out comes from the words on the page. We can change the words of the story at any point in time.
4. Change your experience. The fourth step is to place your awareness and your right hand on the heart center, which is located near the sternum. Close your eyes, take three deep breaths, and make the following command: “I am now connected to the infinite part of who I am, which already knows how to be whole and complete. I take full responsibility and accountability for this creation, I recognize how it has served me, and I am now ready to let it go. I command that the fear energy be transmuted into unconditional love now. Thank you. It is now done.” This process is incredibly empowering. We allow ourselves the opportunity to experience being our own inner master and a co-creator of our reality.
5. Prevent your mind from sabotaging you. Visualize a stone being thrown into a pond. Observe the ripples it creates when it enters the water. This is to simply distract your mind and allow the process to unfold without doubt or self-sabotage. It is only our mind that can interfere with our own healing.
6. Be grateful. Express gratitude and appreciation for the integration and healing you have received. The key to happiness is awareness. When we become aware that our mind is wandering, we can gently bring it back to the present moment. It’s only in the present moment that we are empowered and can consciously choose the thoughts we engage with. The thoughts we focus on will determine where our energy flows, and thus what is created in our life. Each thought has a vibration, which is reflected by the feeling we experience in our body. To be able to move from a fear-based experience to an open, peaceful experience we must first take full responsibility and accountability that on some level we created the experience, and nobody else is to blame. The choice is truly ours. Do we choose to experience a fearful, limited life or do we choose a happy joyful life?"
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