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Monday, July 21, 2025

"Economic Market Snapshot 7/2125"

"Economic Market Snapshot 7/2125"
Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...
Only the consequences are real - to you!
"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it. 
You and I are not in the Big Club."
- George Carlin
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Market Data Center, Live Updates:
Financial Stress Index

"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: creditequity valuationfunding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United Statesother advanced economies, and emerging markets."
Job cuts and much more.
Commentary, highly recommended:
"The more I see of the monied classes,
the better I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...
And now... The End Game...
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Alert! Russia Begins Moving Nukes At Night In Secret, US Deploys Nuclear Bombs To UK"

Prepper News, 7/20/25
"Alert! Russia Begins Moving Nukes At Night In Secret,
 US Deploys Nuclear Bombs To UK"
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"They’re Skipping Car Payments; That’s The Final Warning Sign"

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Michael Bordenaro, 7/20/25
"They’re Skipping Car Payments; 
That’s The Final Warning Sign"
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Jeremiah Babe, "If You Believe Everything Is Fine You Don't Live In Reality"

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Jeremiah Babe, 7/20/25
"If You Believe Everything Is Fine You Don't Live In Reality
Consumers Finance Utility Bills And Food"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Beauty and Grace"

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 2002, "Beauty and Grace"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star BD+602522. Next door, though, lives a giant molecular cloud, visible to the right. At this place in space, an irresistible force meets an immovable object in an interesting way.
The cloud is able to contain the expansion of the bubble gas, but gets blasted by the hot radiation from the bubble's central star. The radiation heats up dense regions of the molecular cloud causing it to glow. The Bubble Nebula, pictured above in scientifically mapped colors to bring up contrast, is about 10 light-years across and part of a much larger complex of stars and shells. The Bubble Nebula can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).”

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

“The Immutable Laws of Nature, and Murphy’s Other 15 Laws”

“The Immutable Laws of Nature,
 and Murphy’s Other 15 Laws”
by Peter McKenzie-Brown

• Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you’ll have to pee.
• Law of Gravity: Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place.
• Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.
• Law of Random Numbers: If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal; someone always answers.
• Law of Variable Motion: If you change traffic lanes or checkout queues, the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now.
• Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone will ring.
• Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases exponentially when you are alongside someone you don’t want to be seen with.
• Law of the Damned Thing: When you try to prove to someone that a machine or device won’t work, it will.
• Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
• Law of the Spectator: At any theatrical, musical or sporting event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, for beer, or to the toilet and who leave before the end of the performance or game. Those who occupy the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay seated beyond the end of the performance. The aisle people also are very surly folk.
• Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your partner will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
• Murphy’s Law of Lockers: When only 2 people are in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.
• Law of Plane Surfaces: The chance that a slice of marmalade toast will land face down on a floor is directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.
• Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible when you don’t know what you are talking about.
• Law of Physical Appearance: If clothes fit, they’re ugly.
• Law of Public Speaking: A closed mouth gathers no feet
• Law of Commercial Marketing: As soon as you find a product that you really like, it will cease production or the store will stop selling it.
• Law of Psychosomatic Medicine: If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to see to the doctor and by the time you get there, you’ll feel better. If you don’t make an appointment you’ll stay sick.

“Murphy’s Other 15 Laws”

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
3. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
6. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
7. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them.
10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
11. The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.
12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
14. God gave you toes as a device for finding furniture in the dark.
15. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.”

"Yet Now..."

“Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it?”
- Arthur C. Clarke, “Glide Path”

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Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Everything We Assume Is Permanent Is Actually Fragile"

"Everything We Assume 
Is Permanent Is Actually Fragile"
by Charles Hugh Smith

"The great irony of the past 75 years of expanding consumption is the belief that all these decades of success prove the system is rock-solid and future success is thus guaranteed. The irony lies in the systemic fragility that's built into the large-scale industrial production that generates endless surpluses of energy, food, fresh water, etc. and the global financial system that delivers endless surpluses of capital and credit to be distributed by public authorities and private owners of capital.

The key driver of increasing efficiencies has been scaling up production by concentrating ownership and capacity into a few quasi-monopolies/cartels. In industry after industry, where there were once dozens of companies, there are now only a handful of behemoths with outsized market and political power which they wield to retain their dominance.

For example, where there were dozens of large regional banks in the U.S. not that long ago, relentless consolidation has led to a handful of supergiant too big to fail banks which can take extraordinary risks (and undertake criminal skims) knowing that the federal government will always bail them out and leave the banks' corporate criminals untouched.

Two of these too big to fail banks recently paid fines in the billions of dollars, yet no one went to prison or even faced criminal charges. This highlights the systemic problem with concentrating capital and power in the hands of the few: too big to fail means corporate wrongdoers have a permanent get out of jail free card while the small-fry white-collar criminal will get a fiver (five-year prison sentence) for skimming a tiny fraction of the billions routinely pillaged by the too big to fail banks.

The net result is a two-tier judicial/law enforcement system: the too big to fail "essential" companies get a free hand and the citizenry get whatever "justice" they can afford, i.e. very little.

This concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few corporations is of course state-cartel socialism in which the public good has become subservient to the profits of corporate owners and insiders, and the skims paid to the state's insiders. The state enables and enforces this concentration of private wealth and power in a number of ways: regulatory capture, the polite bribery of lobbying, the revolving door between government and private industry, and so on.

The public good would best be served by competition and transparent markets and regulations, but these are precisely what's been eliminated by relentless consolidation and the paring down of the economic ecosystem to a handful of too big to fail nodes which work tirelessly to eliminate competition, transparency and meaningful public oversight.

This ruthless pursuit of efficiencies and profits has stripped the economy of redundancies and buffers. Production supply chains have been engineered to function in a narrow envelope of quality, quantity and time. Any disruption quickly leads to shortages, something that became visible when meatpacking plants were closed in the pandemic.

Supply chains are long and fragile, but this fragility is not visible as long as everything stays within the narrow envelope that's been optimized. Once the envelope is broken, the supply chain breaks down. Since redundancies and buffers have been stripped away, there are no alternatives available. Shortages mount and the entire system starts breaking down.

Quality has been stripped out as well. When markets become captive to cartels and monopolies, customers have to take what's available: if it's poor quality goods and services, tough luck, pal, there are no alternatives. There are only one or two service providers, healthcare insurers, etc., and they all provide the same minimal level of quality and service.

The moral rot in our social, political and economic orders is another source of hidden fragility. I'm constantly told by readers that corruption has been around forever, so therefore nothing has changed, but these readers are indulging in magical nostalgia: things have changed profoundly, and for the worse, as the moral rot has seeped into every nook and cranny of American life, from the top down.

There is no "public good," there is only a rapacious, obsessive self-interest that claims the mantle of "public good" as a key mechanism of the con.

As I discussed in "Everything is Staged", everyone and everything in America is now nothing more than a means to a self-interested end, and so the the entirety of American life is nothing but 100% marketing of various cons designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many. That America was a better place without endless marketing of Big Pharma meds and "vaccines", and colleges hyping their insanely costly "product" (a worthless diploma) has been largely forgotten by those indulging in magical nostalgia.

What few seem to realize is all the supposedly rock-solid permanent foundations of life are nothing more than fragile social constructs based on trust and legitimacy. Once trust and legitimacy have been lost, these constructs melt into the sands of time.

A great many things we take for granted are fragile constructs that could unravel with surprising speed: law enforcement, the courts, elections, the value of our currency -- these are all social constructs. Once legitimacy is lost, people abandon these constructs and they melt away.

It's clear to anyone who isn't indulging in magical nostalgia that trust in institutions is in a steep decline as the legitimacy of these institutions, public and private, have been eroded by incompetence, corruption, dysfunction and the rapacious self-interest of insiders.

What we've gotten very good at is masking the rot and fragility. Masking the rot and fragility is not the same thing as strength or permanence. The nation is about to discover the difference in the years ahead."

"Humanity, I Love You..."

"Humanity, I love you because when you're down
and out you pawn your intelligence for a drink." 
 - e.e. cummings

"When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It By the Throat"

"When Fate Knocks at the Door,
Take It By the Throat"
by Edward Curtin

"It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world. No one expected it to be this bad. The dogs howled like wolves.

At most they said it would hinder us, and we, wanting to believe the experts who daily warn of something to fear – overripe bananas, marginal risks of severe weather, squirrel flu, spiders in tight pants, the wrong mascara, fear of falling in loose pants – accepted. Now we are huddled against the onslaught, gasping at the fury that imprisons us.

No one can sleep with the roar and rapping all around. Dawn comes slowly and dark. We huddle around our dinguses to link us to a world we cannot see or hear. They don’t ding. We have lost power. Someone wonders if the satellites are still up, but the sky is too dark for auguries. We listen to the clatter of an eerie silence. Our silence. We are all unknowingly holding our breaths. Another says, I think our phones are wasted, it feels like digital death. The dogs nod.

It is getting harder and harder to hear. Beethoven was so young to become deaf to the world. Someone says this for some unknown reason. She is old. She then says he said, “I will take fate by the throat, it shall not overcome me... I feel that I am not made for a quiet life.” The kids laugh. The windows and roof shake, the dogs howl, I think how true. For me, at least.

Yesterday the Israelis killed 104 Palestinians in Gaza. Par for the course, a daily occurrence. Many children among them. Did those kids hear the bombs and bullets coming? Were they gasping for breath? They are no longer breathing. Did they call out to God? Do hundreds call out? Thousands call? Millions? Which God? The slaughterers made them dead on prayers to their genocidal God who lives in Tel Aviv.

God help us. How? The phones are wasted. Where is the Good God hiding? How can we call him?

The immigrant grandmother, hiding here from Trump’s masked thugs, says through her tears, do any of you remember how in Colombia 25,000 people, 8,000 children, all innocent, died, none of whom are calling out now, as the survivors did when they asked the great good God, why these savage deaths, after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted and stuffed their mouths with mud, courtesy of Vulcan, the God of fire, courtesy of God Almighty.

No one answers her. Her prayers are singed with a cynicism that she hates. We can’t answer. Most don’t remember. Who will tell her why the good God, the good Earth, their mother rose up to bury so many in mud? Who can tell the survivors’ families why Our Lady of Guadalupe rose and drowned their loved ones recently?

Who is this person called Fate who knocks at our doors? Mother Nature? Father Grinning Jackal in suit and tie with blood oozing through his fake teeth, talking casually about nuclear war and slaughtering the innocent?

An old man says, let’s listen, we must defy fate. He puts a record on the battery operated record player. The wind is howling hideously so he turns the sound up to full volume. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in C minor rocks the room, the walls shake like dice in a cup, tossing us on such swells of feeling that time is arrested in its turning. One hears the call to revolution.

Suddenly it is October 1962, a man is time-travelling. The Cuban Missile Crisis – real fear everywhere. Fate knocking on the door, obedient men propped at flashing boards, in Moscow and Washington, D.C., awaiting orders. They are still waiting.

There was a call then. A few men heard it. It was soul deep. In those days there were humans who could recite poetry, grasp the meaning of madness. We survived and have moved on. They call it progress. Technological progress. The machines have the answers to all our questions, except the important ones.

Who will answer the wailing voices seeking answers? Who can tell them why the good God, the good earth their mother rose up to bury them in mud and water? Who dare answer the 1,000,000 Pakistani dead, drowned on November 13, 1970 beneath a cyclone driven tidal wave? Or maybe it was two or three million. Who knows? Who cares to ask: Was it an act of Mother Nature, of God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth? Tell me, who the hell is responsible?

It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. We have been wasted by the phones, dinguses that will not save us from the nuclear weapons that the jackals with polished faces have prepared. Dead men sit at flashing boards awaiting orders. It is depressing but true, and while naturally we cannot stop nature from devouring her children, we can stop the human killers from their appointed task to close down the world and engender all a silent void.

Long later, hours, years – who knows when? – the unexpected storm abated, the roads out were cleared. It was still hazardous to try. The old man who played Beethoven said as we were leaving that we must take fate by the throat and hear the silent cries of all the people desperate for peace on earth."

“Oh, it is so beautiful to live – to live a thousand times. I feel that I am not made for a quiet life.”

"We Are Doomed And Challenged..."

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; 
once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged
 to seek the strength to see more, not less."
- Arthur Miller

"So Sad They Think We’re All So Stupid"

"So Sad They Think We’re All So Stupid"
by Todd Hayen

"What else could it be? The agenda and the goons running it have to believe that the people of the world are not only useless eaters, but as about as sharp as a bag of marbles. This is very sad, but there is no other explanation for it.

Remember when you were a young idiot, say around 17 or so (just assuming a few of you were like me at that age - for the most part, an adolescent, immature, idiot). And you might get involved in some cruel joke with a less fortunate fellow idiot in your class. I mean a kid who wasn’t totally together, not really bad off (you would never do this to someone really bad off, I know I didn’t), but just not as sharp as you or your cohorts. You would tease him (usually a “him”), yeah, that’s what it was, innocent “teasing.” And you and your buddies would laugh and laugh - you couldn’t believe how naive this guy was. He would believe anything, no matter how preposterous.

I always think of Anthony Fauci when this idea comes up. He must have gone home laughing every time he made one of his news briefs. “Now it might be a good idea to wear two masks!” Hilarious. “Can you believe that???” He probably exclaimed, “They bought that?” How f—ing stupid are these people?” That’s sad. Very sad. But tell me if you have a better explanation for the last five years. And before that as well. What else could it be?

I think at one time, way back when, they went through a bit of trouble to trick us. They had not yet had enough experience to know “the people” would buy, for a fact, anything they threw at them. They probably thought they had to go through some effort to make it at least somewhat believable. Look at the JFK assassination. That was a lot of trouble. Setting up Oswald like they did, making Ruby the fall guy for Oswald’s strange death. Hiding the other shooters on the grassy knoll. They must have all gotten together and discussed the whole incident, throwing out certain ideas, “No, we can’t do that, do you think the American public is stupid??” No, they must not have thought that back then.

Look at the moon landing. Another great effort on their part to make all that somewhat believable. They even bothered to get a famous movie director to shoot the “on the moon” footage. That was a lot of trouble, not to mention rather expensive. “Whew,” they said, “It looks like we pulled that one off! That wasn’t easy!”

Well, it could have been a lot easier, I’m afraid. I think by 1969 they had managed to dumb down the masses enough that they probably could have pulled that one off with a bit less care for detail. Considering how long ago it was, and how half-assed the technology was back then, it is much easier to see glaring inconsistencies today. And people still believe it was 100% real. Jeesh. (I am not saying it was all fake, but some of it must have been.)

Maybe some of this stuff was real. Kennedy did get shot. Maybe we did send men up in a rocket, maybe they even landed on the moon, but it was too much trouble to actually film it, so they faked that part. Who knows. All I do know is that they tried to pull one over on us dummies, and they succeeded.

How long have they been doing this? Good lord, who knows, but it has been a while. I would say any sort of government action that would not sit well with the general public has been subject to this sort of wool-pulling over the eyes (and we all know where wool comes from). So that means since the beginning of time.

I don’t think it has always been that easy to do, though. I do think humans in masses have gotten stupider over time. And with a good explanation. The agenda has done really well dumbing down the multitudes. The whole common-sense factor (CSF) I have written about before has been its primary target. And ya gotta give ‘em credit—they’ve done exceedingly well accomplishing their goals.

Covid was the “humdinger pull-the-sheep-wool over the sheep’s eyes” event. Never before have we seen something so ridiculously false executed as the truth on such a grand global scale. And it got crazier and crazier as time went on. Fauci and his minions were like kids in a candy store, tossing out one absurd directive after another, each time probably betting on how far they could push it before the masses blinked. “Wear a mask! No, two masks! Hell, make it three if you really care about grandma!” And we bought it, didn’t we? (Well, a lot of us did.)

They’d brief us on how cloth masks - those flimsy things you’d wear to a Halloween party - were suddenly the gold standard for stopping a virus. Meanwhile, Fauci’s own emails later showed he knew masks were about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. But he stood there, straight-faced, while we all shuffled around looking like wannabe surgeons, fogging up our glasses and breathing our own stale air. Sad, sad, sad.

Then came the social distancing nonsense - six feet, because, you know, viruses apparently carry tape measures and respect personal boundaries. They drew circles on the floor, taped off grocery store aisles, and turned us into paranoid robots dodging each other like we were in some dystopian dodgeball game. Fauci’s crew pushed this with zero evidence, just vibes, and a lot of us lapped it up. Restaurants went bankrupt, kids lost years of school, and families couldn’t hug at funerals, all because some bureaucrat decided six feet was the magic number.

They must’ve been doubled over laughing, picturing us all measuring our sidewalks with rulers, too clueless to question the math. And when someone did ask for proof, “Trust the science!” they’d bark, as if science were a deity and Fauci its high priest. Pathetic.

The vaccine was the grand finale of their circus. “Safe and effective!” they chanted, shoving it down our throats while conveniently ignoring anyone who dared mention side effects or, God forbid, natural immunity. Herd immunity? Oh, that was real until it wasn’t - Fauci flipped the script overnight, saying we’d need 90% vaccination rates, then 95%, then who-knows-what, because the goalposts moved faster than anyone could imagine. They knew the shots didn’t stop transmission - leaked documents proved it - but they still pushed mandates, ruined livelihoods, and shamed the unvaccinated like they were lepers.

All while Fauci and his pals probably toasted to their success, marvelling at how we’d line up for boosters without a peep. The audacity of it all, the sheer gall, assuming we’re too dim to see through the lies - it’s not just sad, it’s infuriating. And what were they doing all this time? Laughing hysterically, probably, while sipping wine at one of the numerous parties and get-togethers they would attend, flying their multi-million-dollar private jets to hang out with their partners in crime. All maskless, of course, all mingling together, hugging, shaking hands.

This is no joke; there are countless photographs to prove it. Smiles, laughs, and conversations like, “Did you really think these people would be this stupid?” Yes, they did, and damn it, they were right."

Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here.

"How It Really Is"

 

Desperate men do desperate deeds...

"The Enemy..."

 

Travelling with Russell, "Shopping in Russia's Newest Supermarket in 2025"

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Travelling with Russell, 7/20/25
"Shopping in Russia's Newest Supermarket in 2025"
"What does a Supermarket of the future look like in Moscow, Russia? Opened during extreme sanctions in Russia in 2025, this Phygical Supermarket is being hailed as a Supermarket of the Future. How will shopping change in Russia in the future?"
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Moscow Uncut, 7/19/25
"8 Years In Russia - My Honest Thoughts"
"After 8 years of living in what the Western media calls "Vladimir Putin's Russia", I’m finally sharing my unfiltered thoughts. In this Moscow Uncut episode, I take you on a walking tour through central Moscow while opening up about what life has really been like here as a British expat - before and after 2022. From Red Square to Tretyakovskaya and back along the Moscow River, we explore not just the streets of the city, but the political, cultural, and economic realities of life in modern-day Russia."
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Layoffs and Real Estate Scams That Will Shock You"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 7/20/25
"Layoffs and Real Estate Scams That Will Shock You"
"Nevada real estate scams are shocking and out of control! In this video, I dive into how real estate brokers in Nevada are making sneaky side deals that could cost buyers and sellers big time. From skyrocketing real estate commissions to shady agreements, the housing market is becoming a battleground for unethical practices. I also cover the rising issue of squatters in Nevada, turning it into the squatter capital of the country as the real estate downturn unfolds. But that’s not all - there’s more eye-opening business news! Trucking companies are facing massive layoffs with over 4,000 job losses in just three weeks, creating ripple effects in logistics and distribution. Big names like Del Taco are filing for bankruptcy, and even Target is making bold moves like ending price matching. Plus, I touch on shocking banking scandals involving employees stealing from customer accounts - unbelievable stuff!"
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Greg Hunter, "100% Chance of Nuclear War"

"100% Chance of Nuclear War"
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com 

"Six weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was signaling a big turn toward war. Now, Armstrong says, “The chances of war with a nuclear exchange is at 100%. Plan on it, this is coming.”

Can the world avoid nuclear war with President Trump’s 50-day deadline given to Russia to make peace in Ukraine? Armstrong says, “You do not threaten your adversary that is at your same level, publicly. If you want to say something like that, you do it privately in a phone call. Now, what will happen is Putin cannot possibly sign a peace deal. What, are you crazy, to do this in 50 days? We have staff in Germany, and I was told by my staff that a friend 60 years old was told to report to duty. I had a friend who was at the Viennia Peace Conference, and he called me when it was over and said, ‘Holy crap, this has nothing to do with peace anymore. This is all about preparing for war. Everybody should start getting ready for drafts, to start going that way.’ They want war. They are not backing off.”

Armstrong’s computer “Socrates” is signaling war as early as next month. Armstrong says, “Starting in August, this whole thing is going to be escalating up. Our computer has what we call a ‘Panic Cycle’ with our war cycles for 2026. That is not good. I don’t know what the hell Trump is smoking. My computer has been projecting war, and it is projecting war going into 2026. This is not looking good, and Europe will lose. It is as simple as that.”

The other big event that happened that will change the economic system forever is the House just passed the so-called GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins). The bill is now headed to President Trump to sign into law. Armstrong contends that US debt is being sold by big holders of Treasuries, and we have to find a new market for our huge Treasury debt or we default. Treasury bonds will supposedly backstop stablecoins that the banks will control. Armstrong says, “This is really a repeat of 1863. In the Civil War, they issued national bank notes. The banks were told to buy the bonds. They could buy bonds to fund the war, and they were allowed to issue currency backed by the bonds. This is the same exact thing. These stablecoins are the same thing as the 1863 National Bank Act.”

Stablecoins and the GENIUS Act are not good news for financial freedom or any other kind of civil liberty. Armstrong says, “The government will say we don’t like this guy, debank him. The government cannot do it directly. So, they indirectly do it the other way. I know guys that are gun dealers and bullion dealers, and they have been debanked. This is the world we are going into. They know they are losing power. Europe is far worse. Spain now says you cannot take out $3,000 without government permission. They are trying to eliminate cash. The forms of government we have today are going to collapse. Republics are the most corrupt form of government - period.” There is more in the 65-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Martin Armstrong 
who is giving a red alert for a very destructive nuclear war.

Saturday, July 19, 2025

"Alert! Internet Kill Switch! Are You Ready for the WW3 Shutdown?"

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Canadian Prepper, 7/19/25
"Alert! Internet Kill Switch! 
Are You Ready for the WW3 Shutdown?"
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"You Are About To Become A Digital Slave, CBDC's Will Destroy Your Financial Freedom"

Jeremiah Babe, 7/19/25
"You Are About To Become A Digital Slave, 
CBDC's Will Destroy Your Financial Freedom"
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Mahmood OD, "Starvation Intensifies; Resistance Escalates; Israel Fails"

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Mahmood OD, 7/19/25
"Starvation Intensifies; Resistance Escalates; Israel Fails"
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Palestine, from the river to the sea, Palestine... 
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IronWing Command, 7/19/25
"Tel Aviv in Danger? 
Iran & Russia Respond to Israeli Airstrikes in Syria"
"Israel has launched a powerful airstrike on Syrian territory, targeting Iranian military installations and weapons convoys. This bold move has triggered strong reactions from Iran and Russia, with threats of retaliation against Tel Aviv raising fears of a broader regional conflict. As tensions grow, the possibility of a multi-front war becomes more real. In this video, we break down exactly what happened during the Israeli attack, why it matters, and how Iran and Russia may respond. Stay tuned for the full analysis of the risks, strategy, and global consequences of this dangerous escalation in the Middle East."
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"This Is What Always Happens Before A Real Estate Crash"

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Michael Bordenaro, 7/19/25
"This Is What Always Happens Before A Real Estate Crash"
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"Gregory Mannarino: 'Economy Is Set To Face An Imminent COLLAPSE'"

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LifeWorthLiving, 7/19/25
"Gregory Mannarino: 
'Economy Is Set To Face An Imminent COLLAPSE'"
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Musical Interlude: Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”

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Vangelis, “Beautiful Planet Earth”

"A Look to the Heavens"

"These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as the "Mice" because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. The long tails are created by the relative difference between gravitational pulls on the near and far parts of each galaxy. Because the distances are so large, the cosmic interaction takes place in slow motion - over hundreds of millions of years. 
NGC 4676 lies about 300 million light-years away toward the constellation of Bernice's Hair (Coma Berenices) and are likely members of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies. The featured picture was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2002. These galactic mice will probably collide again and again over the next billion years so that, instead of continuing to pull each other apart, they coalesce to form a single galaxy."

"What Do You Value?"

"What Do You Value?"
by John Wilder

“I have been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries, looking for you. Diogenes, with his lamp, looking for an honest man, willing to die for all the wrong reasons. At last, my job is finished. Yours is just beginning. When the darkness comes, know this; you are the right people, in the right place, at the right time.” – "Babylon 5"

"What is the most common question asked by philosophers nowadays? “Do you want fries with that?” Diogenes is dead. When he was up and kicking around, he lived in a wine barrel at the end of town, and often was caught on the streets stark naked. Sometimes he was, um, enjoying himself. Oddly, he was also thought of as a respected philosopher. When I try to emulate him, though, all I get is a restraining order and some embarrassing YouTube® videos.

The reason we remember Diogenes is for two reasons: First, he invented the chicken nugget, but sadly was unable to invent any tasty dipping sauces. Second, he walked around making pithy little statements like this: “We sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa." It’s a very short, and very wickedly to the point piece of advice. Frankly, it points out many of the problems we are facing as a society today.

Let’s take consooming for today’s topic.Billions of dollars are spent attempting to convince people to purchase one product or another. These advertisements are hard to avoid – and they have one thing in common – a desire to get the consoomer to spend money. In some cases, the ads provide the ability to match a need with a product. If I’m cutting down trees using axes and handsaws, knowing that a thing called a chainsaw exists is providing me a real value. So, ads inform.

But ads also are used to create desire in customers, playing on emotions to drive purchase decisions for things that aren’t needs, but frivolities. I have plenty of those! I’m a sucker for some things in particular. In the sitting room (where I’m typing this now) I look around and see a map I bought as artwork a few years ago. It shows all the undersea telegraph cables in around 1871. So very cool! I walked into the store, saw it, and bought it. I consoomed. I can’t cut down a tree with it. I can’t drive it to work. It’s just... there, stuck to my wall.

Is the map of great value? No. It’s a print. It doesn’t make me better, more complete, important, or accomplished. We can look in terms of multiple ways to value things. Dollars are only one. In this case, the picture cost about what I made in about an hour or two. Was it worth an hour of my life to own that map? Yeah, I guess so. But when I start to value objects that I own, and look at how much of my life I traded for them, my equation starts to change.

If I didn’t spend that hour at work, what could I have spent that hour on? How could I have changed my life? Could I have spent more time brushing my teeth, so they were 2.3% brighter? Should I have spent that time waxing my dog? What did I overlook or not spend time on? And which of those things might have been more valuable?

I understand that money is important – those who say that money isn’t important haven’t gone without it. But money isn’t the goal, it’s what can be done with it that’s important. The true currency of our lives isn’t gold, silver, or even PEZ™. It’s time. Each of us on this planet have a finite number of hours left on this rock, and that number goes down by one each hour that we spend. It goes down by one if I spend it at a job I don’t like. It goes down if I spend it writing the best post I’ve ever written. It goes down by one if I’m sleeping. It goes down by one every hour.

Yes, I know, exercising and other positive things might extend that life, but I’m still going to die. In the endless summer of a life when I was, say, 12, I didn’t think much about time and how I spent it. Even then, though, I didn’t try to just “pass the time” since there was so much to do and see and learn in the world. Now as I’m on the back side of life, I can see that those hours I have left cannot be wasted.

They’re all I have. And learning is great, but now it has to have purpose. Will it help me write? Will it help me crack a puzzle that I can share? Will it help me with some project I’m working on? Can it help me change the world?

Again, as I get older, it ceases to be about me. It’s now about what I can do to help others, how I can help make the world a better place. Thankfully, during my career I’ve been able to do work on things that matter, and have made the world a slightly better place. If I’m trading my life for my work, I’m glad that it’s work that matters.

Diogenes? He’s still dead, but he changed the world, just a little bit. And I can, too. And so can you. Time is still all we have, but it’s up to us to make the most of it, each and every day, just like Diogenes showed us. But, I don’t recommend you do it naked. Now, I wonder how Diogenes dealt with the restraining orders?"

"The Most Real 4K HDR Video - Dolby Vision in 120fps Nature"

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8K Earth, "The Most Real 4K HDR Video - 
Dolby Vision in 120fps Nature"
"Experience the most stunning 4K HDR video with Dolby Vision in 120 FPS, featuring breathtaking nature scenes. This video is perfect for relaxation and meditation, with immersive visuals and soothing background music. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this visual masterpiece in the highest quality!"

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"Can't You See..."

"Can't you see that the courage to risk, to dare, to toss that gold coin up in the air over and over again, win or lose, is what makes humans human? They are fragile, doomed creatures, blinder than worms yet braver than the gods."
- Jennifer Donnelly, "Stepsister"