Dan, I Allegedly, "Is the Banking Crisis Back? Wells Fargo in Trouble?"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, I Allegedly, AM 7/21/25

"Is the Banking Crisis Back? Wells Fargo in Trouble?"

"Is the banking crisis back? Banking crises, digital currency fears, and the truth they’re not telling us - this video dives into it all. From Wells Fargo’s $200 billion borrowing bombshell to the unsettling rise of digital currencies, I’m breaking down the implications for your finances, freedom, and future. Is this the beginning of a bigger banking problem? I think so. We’ll also explore the growing trend of layoffs, economic shifts in major industries, and how they’re spinning these changes as “survival strategies.”

Comments here:

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Adventures with Danno, "Shocking Prices at Meijer"

Full screen recommended.

Adventures with Danno, AM 7/21/25

"Shocking Prices at Meijer"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

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Full screen recommended.

Lisa with Love, 7/20/25

"What is Russian Fast Food Really Like? 

Crazy Potato Meal!"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

"How It Really Is"

 

"The West’s Forgotten Victory: Why They Hate Vienna"

"The West’s Forgotten Victory:

 Why They Hate Vienna"

by John Wilder

"One of the things I’ve learned about history is that they skip all of the really good parts. I recall my time as a leader in that well known paramilitary organization, Boy Scouting® (back when they were boys and they were doing scouting). On occasion the boys would mention some historical event, and I’d go into more detail: the Battle of Britain, the Revolutionary War, heck, even the Romans.

We’d talk through history. Then, when the subject was done, invariably one of the scouts would say, “Man, that’s interesting! Why don’t they teach that in school?” Well, because you’re watching "Frozen" or "Shrek" instead so your teacher can sleep off a hangover and your textbooks prefer pronouns to Patton. Who knew that campfire coffee mixed so well with history?

The nice thing is that there are still subjects that I learn about. Namely, 9/11. Oh, this isn’t the story of that 9/11. This is the story of September 11, 1683. And I believe that it’s a story that the Muslim world has yet to get over.

It’s September 11, 1683. Not a date I learned in school, but it should have been. In the history of the Western world, it isn’t even that far back. Isaac Newton was busy figuring out the delicate ballet of the spheres in the heavens, and Oliver Cromwell’s head was still busy rotting on a pike in London. But this is in Vienna, the heart of the Holy Roman Empire

Vienna on this date is surrounded by 300,000 Ottoman Turks. Think illegal aliens but with scimitars and an even more unintelligible language without any Juan being able to understand it. Vienna is down to 15,000 defenders. They’re starving and outnumbered 20-to-1, so why not just give in? The Turks are promising they’ll be treated well. Thankfully, the Turks had tried this line with another city in Austria that actually did surrender. The Turks had laid siege to the town of Perchtoldsdorf (gesundheit), and promised all the inhabitants would be spared and that the city would not be sacked.

When they surrendered, the city was sacked and the vast majority of inhabitants were killed or enslaved. That’s good, because now the people at Vienna knew exactly what sort of devil they were dealing with. What sort of devil was it? It was the Ottomans, led by Kara Mustafa, who are determined to own Europe, turning cathedrals into mosques, and making the West kneel to the Turks and to their god.

Sound familiar? It’s the kind of existential threat the GloboLeft pretends never existed, because “white culture” is always the bad guy in their revisionist fairy tales. In looking at European history, this was a Very Big Deal, and yet it’s glossed over or (in my case) never even mentioned in class. I think that it’s because the story didn’t end the way the anti-Western Civilization establishment that had taken control of education wanted it to end.

The defenders didn’t yield even a square inch (3.3 millicamels) of the city of Vienna. Instead they held the walls through two months of hell. Disease, cannon fire, Ottoman sappers blowing tunnels under the city. They went through summer, and now were hungry, and they were praying for a miracle.

Enter the relief force arriving on September 11th. 47,000 Germans and Austrians with 20,000 or 30,000 Poles. Most famously, King John III Sobieski of Poland, leading the Poles, including the Winged Hussars. The Winged Hussars were an insane calvary force comprised of big, husky Poles on huge horses, wearing lion and tiger pelts over their armor with huge eagle wings and 19-foot-long lances, four pistols each, swords and war hammers. To be clear, this is exactly what I would have drawn when I was six.

On September 12, Sobieski’s cavalry charges down Kahlenberg Hill, breaking the Ottoman lines like a velociraptor in a room full of puppies. By nightfall, the Turks had abandoned everything. Everything. They were trying to get back to Istanbul before it could be re-named Constantinople. They're running, leaving 15,000 dead and the Ottoman Empire’s dreams in the dust with the single largest military defeat in their history to date.

Sobieski’s letter home after the battle is amazing, and recommended reading (LINK). Vienna is saved. Europe is saved. The West lives to fight another day. The Siege of Vienna wasn’t just a win: it was a philosophical line in the sand. Faith fueled those defenders. Faith in God, in their people, in the idea that the West was worth saving. It’s in the first lines in Sobieski’s letter to his wife: "How Praised be our Lord God forever for granting our nation such a victory and such glory as was never heard of in all times past!"

Contrast that with despair, the kind the GloboLeft peddles today: “Western culture’s evil, dismantle it because it is worse than (whatever their pet culture is today).”

Vienna’s men didn’t negotiate with Kara Mustafa; they fought. More than that, they chose to fight there. They believed in something bigger than themselves: their family, their faith, and their civilization. That’s the code that built the West, from Athens to Rome to Vienna.

The GloboLeft hates this story. They want history rewritten. Sobieski’s a “colonizer,” the Hussars are “problematic.” They’d have you believe the Ottomans were just misunderstood diversity consultants.

Hollywood™ is no help in 2025, obviously: they churn out preachers of pronouns, not legends with lances. The 1683 defenders didn’t care about your feelings; they cared about survival. That’s the difference between faith and despair, valor and cowardice. They want us to forget Vienna because it proves the West’s worth fighting for. The Siege of Vienna shows what happens when men believe in something and act.

History rhymes, and because it does Vienna is a warning and I think there is no mistake in the choice of the date for the attack on the Twin Towers, they’re still stinging from the defeat. The defenders weren’t perfect. Some were drunks, some mercenaries, but they stood together. And the relief force had a clear vision of what they were fighting for. Back to John III’s letter:

"There is a huge pile of captured flags and tents; in short, the enemy has departed with nothing whatever but his life. Let Christendom rejoice and thank the Lord our God that he has not permitted the heathen to hold us up to scorn and derision and to ask, “Where, now, is your God?” So next September 11, remember what happened on September 12."

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

"The Traitor"

 

"Treason doth never prosper: what 's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
- Sir John Harington

Bill Bonner, "The Grammar of a Scandal"

Alfred Dreyfus

"The Grammar of a Scandal"

by Bill Bonner

‘How to make an airplane totally invisible’...began a post from Elon Musk.

There followed a picture of a fighter jet with Jeffrey Epstein’s client list stuck to it.

Poitou, France - "L’Affaire Epstein refuses to die. Over the weekend came this news. USA Today: "Donald Trump is seeking $10 billion in damages in a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, its parent company, owner and two reporters claiming libel and slander for publishing an article saying the future president wrote a lewd letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday."

The Journal’s story appeared last week: "Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump." According to the WSJ, Trump’s birthday wish included a drawing of a naked woman with ‘Donald’ etched in the pubic hair. Not true, said the Donald. “I never wrote a picture in my life.”

Within hours, his denial turned out to be not true. The Independent: "The president declared, “I don’t draw pictures.” Analysts were quick to pounce on Trump’s denial, including Media Matters chief Angelo Carusone, who told MSNBC, “I can think of three [Trump sketches] off the top of my head that were auctioned.” At least five sketches from the late 1990s and early 2000s have been sold at auction."

Is this worth thinking about? Like the Dreyfus affair in France, or the Aaron Burr case in the US...Watergate Break-in? Dreyfus was a military officer accused of betraying France. He was eventually found innocent. But the accusation revealed a deep vein of antisemitism, particularly in the army, and divided public opinion.

Aaron Burr was accused of launching an insurrection against the USA. The charges were many...and varied. He too was found innocent. But patriotic mobs threatened to hang him. Later, he shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel and was forever disgraced.

The Watergate saga is well known to us all. A group of inept CIA/Republican spooks broke into the Democratic party headquarters hoping to score some useful intel. They were arrested. It would have been a minor B&E crime story, except that the press began asking questions: How far up did the planning go? What did Nixon know? “I am not a crook,” Nixon insisted, but the tide of sentiment turned against him and he resigned.

That was 1973...more than half a century ago. Since then, the nation’s ideas and attitudes have evolved. Voters and news-spinners have different hot-buttons and different no-nos. They have no nose for corruption or sex peccadillos, but they gag on even a whiff of ‘antisemitism.’

While all the public figures deny any wrongdoing, Jeffrey Epstein was up to something. Jean-Luc Brunel, one of ‘regulars’ on his ‘Lolita Express,’ committed suicide. Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year jail sentence. And Epstein was [probably] strangled. (A former occupant of the cell where Epstein died said hanging himself would have been physically ‘impossible.’) Either something pretty bad was going on...or someone owes these people a big apology.

The government says it was a sex-trafficking story. But it is like an incomplete sentence. We have the subject - the traffickers. We have the verb - the trafficking. What we lack is the predicate...notably, the indirect object; to whom were these girls trafficked? Not a single person (of the hundreds?) to whom the girls were trafficked has been charged.

And Epstein had a vast fortune, with a townhouse in Manhattan, a ranch in New Mexico, and an entire island (with a staff of 70) in the Virgin Islands. But where did the money come from? And what was the point of photographing rich and powerful men with under-aged girls?

Most likely, Tucker Carlson is right. Epstein got his money from the Israeli intelligence community. And most likely, it was an old-fashioned honey pot trap. But accusing Israel of anything is a no-fly zone for the press and the politicians. So, this will remain a sex story...and it will probably fade away…like Jennifer Flowers and Stormy Daniels. In the interest of full disclosure, our name is not on ‘the list.’ We never got an invitation!"

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"The Coup And The Silence"

"The Coup And The Silence"

by Paul Rosenberg

"Late last week, the US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released more than 100 pages of formerly-classified documents, showing that then-President of the United States, Barack Obama, ordered intelligence reports to be manufactured and to directly undermine the then President-Elect, Donald Trump.

As of this morning, July 21st, mainstream American news, as best I can tell, is almost stone-silent on the story… and that troubles me. Granted, I habitually avoid “the news,” but this morning I took a bit of time to check, and this gigantic story was simply absent from the “mainstream” feeds. Those feeds have ceased being mainstream, of course (their readership is generally old and small), but still: A former President is being accused of treason, and large portion of US intelligence agency bosses with him. And yet there is a near silence?

And so, here are just a few snips from the document release. I’ve annotated them in italics and you can (and should) download the originals here. Prior to Mr. Obama’s intervention, the “intelligence community” (IC), did not think Russia could, would or did manipulate the 2016 election:

From: -DNI-

Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 8:05 PM

"There is no DNI-indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count through cyber means."

**

From: dhs

Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 12:58 PM

To: [to 39 addresses at CIA, DNI and NSA, as well as others]

Subject: RE: Russia and the US Elections 

"Took the intent of this email to get the basic starting point regarding Russia. We agree with: Russia probably is not (and will not) trying to influence the election by using cyber means to manipulate computer-enabled election infrastructure."

**

(U) Cyber Threats to the 2016 US Presidential Election

12 September 2016

"We judge that foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks on the diverse set of information technologies and infrastructures used to support the November 2016 US presidential election."

**

For the President

14 September 2016

"We assess that foreign adversaries do not have the capability to covertly overturn the vote outcome of the coming US presidential election by executing cyber attacks on election infrastructure."

**

This one is from after the election:

From:

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 2:09 PM

To: [at least 12 addresses at DNI]

Subject: ACTION: NIOs - DNI TPs for 12/9 Restricted PC on Russia-Cyber - Due 1500 Thursday

"We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results."

**

Now, Barack Obama, POTUS, gets involved:

From: @dhs

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 3:53 PM

To: @cia; @dhs. Cc: -DNI- @dni

Subject: RE: FW: Election PDB ---

"We spoke with the NIO Cyber shop, who discussed the prospect of a NIC product in response to POTUS at their afternoon (1400) session."

**

A Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) which was prepared, but apparently pulled:

"For the President 8 December 2016 We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure."

**

Related to the briefing noted above, which would have been delivered the following morning:

From: @cia

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 3:41 PM

To: Cc: -DNI-;

Subject: RE: FW: Election PDB ============

"Just tried calling you. Did you see email to you?"

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Secure: @cia. -----Original Message-----

From: @dhs

Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 3:33 PM

To: @cia Cc: -DNI- @dni USA GOV @dhs DHS

Subject: FW: FW: Election PDB ============

"Good afternoon! This email is what my question is related to - if PASS is ok with this PDB going forward, and possibly including in the BN mention of the 4POTUS NIC tasking. Please let me know if you have any questions."

The briefing being pulled.

**

From: DHS

Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 2:22 PM

To: [50+ addresses at DNI, FBI, CIA and NSA]

Subject: RE: PDB Coordination Request - COB 8 December --- ============

"We have so far received responses from FBI, CIA/NIC, and NGA. Please provide coordination responses ASAP if you have not been able to yet. Thank you for understanding and trying to accommodate this short coordination period, to accommodate the Administration's request for this to run tomorrow."

**

-----Original Message-----

From: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 12:59 PM

To: [ addresses at DNI, FBI, NSA STATE at DNI and NGA.]

"Due to high Administration interest, this piece is now scheduled to run tomorrow. Therefore, we now ask that coordination responses be sent by 2pm, so that the production process for tomorrow can be completed."

**

A new Russian response is formulated at the White House:

Summary of Conclusions for Meeting of the Principals Committee

DATE: December 9, 2016

LOCATION: White House Situation Room TIME: 11:30 a . m. - 1:30 p.m .

Susan Rice, Neil Eggleston, James Clapper, Secretary John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, Adam Szubin, Brian McKeon, Loretta Lynch, Mary McCord, Jeh Johnson, Rob Silvers, Denis McDonough, Maher Bitar, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, Gen Joseph Dunford, Richard Ledgett, Avril Haines, Lisa Monaco, Ben Rhodes, Chris Fonzone, Caroline Tess, Brett Holmgren, Michael Daniel, Celeste Wallander. Samir Jain, Jeffrey Edmonds

A list of anti-Russia actions were ordered. And note the title is for the meeting, not from the meeting.

**

From: -DNI-

Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 6:24 PM

To: [22 addresses at DNI, plus multiple redacted addresses]

RE: POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling

Hello leadership team, I chatted with ___ tonight on our plan. Our plan is to have CIA/CCI to put together Part B.i and DHS to put together 3 (recommendations to protect). CIA/EEMC is to put together Part B.ii and B.iii. We will be the NIC firewall for those sections; our team will man the Part B.i and team will oversee Part B.ii and B.iii; as we integrate into Part B.iv by December 23.

We will also generate a draft version for Congressional briefing and an unclassified version. We will send out for coordination last week of December and first week of January for IC seniors to sign off and aim for delivery by January 9.

Note “POTUS Tasking.”

**

From: -DNI-

Sent: Friday, December 09, 2016 5:43 PM

To: [At least 22 addresses at DNI and CIA

Subject: POTUS Tasking on Russia Election Meddling

"Pursuant to the POTUS tasking at Monday’s meeting on Russia election meddling for a comprehensive assessment, the DNI broached the TPs below with Dennis McDonough and DCIA at the Russia PC this afternoon.The IC is prepared to produce an assessment per the President’s request… The goal would be to make the unclassified document publicly available.

“per the President’s request”

**

From: -DNI- Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 6:04 PM

To: [At least ten addresses at DNI]

Subject: RE: Rollout Planning for IC Report on Russian Election Meddling

"The only real direction we got was: 1) POTUS wants a comprehensive assessment, drawing from all available sources, and 2) it has to be before the end of his administration."

 **

From: -DNI- Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 5:40 PM

To: [8 addresses at DNI and others]

Subject: RE: Rollout Planning for IC Report on Russian Election Meddling

"We are working with WH and IC Leg and Comms teams, and want to make sure we’re all appropriately looped in and discussing the same things."

**

The birth of the Russia-Did-It Narrative:

"Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections ICA 2017-01 5 January 2017 Russian efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but these activities demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations.

We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in the summer of 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments based on a body of intelligence reporting and the public behavior of senior Russian officials and state-controlled media.

We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment based on sensitive information not included in this version of the assessment; NSA has moderate confidence in this judgment based on the same sensitive information.

**

There is and will be more to this story, but I want as many people as possible to see these documents, because apparently many are being kept ignorant. Calling Treason on a former President, and supporting it with direct evidence… is huge."

- freemansperspective.com

"Swiftboating America: Exposing the Russiagate Fraud, 

from the Steele Dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation"

Jim Kunstler, "Merry Pranksters on Parade"

"Merry Pranksters on Parade"

by Jim Kunstler

“The forces behind this coup have done and will do 

anything to protect their grasp on illegal & illegitimate power.” 

- Stephen Miller

"Let’s not pretend that RussiaGate was ever anything but a “treasonous conspiracy” and a “years’ long coup” as bluntly labeled by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Friday. The election prank launched by Hillary Clinton’s campaign turned into an overt sedition op led by President Barack Obama to overthrow his elected successor, Donald Trump. DNI Tulsi Gabbard went even further and proffered criminal referrals on all this to the US Attorney General. If you think this is not extremely serious, you are not paying attention.

The New York Times was not paying attention in its Sunday edition. Not a word about this historic action on the paper’s website landing page. So now you know why the Harvard law professors, the Martha’s Vineyard chardonnay widows, and all the creative class hipsters of Brooklyn persist in their personal globes of political delusion. Instead, The Times dwelt on the Epstein business, still haplessly hoping to catch the Golden Golem in its golem trap. (Mr. Trump’s lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize committee for rewarding the Time’s RussiaGate coverage is still pending, by the way.)

Meanwhile, DNI Gabbard went on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday confab and warned of more info releases coming this week. Sooner or later AG Pam Bondi will have to announce that a case based on that referral is under construction. My guess is that this is exactly what Kash Patel’s FBI has been preoccupied with for months with no leaking — you can imagine severe penalties against that. You might also note that there are no higher crimes under our law than treason, as explicitly spelled out in the DNI report. The DNI also stated flatly on Sunday, “There must be indictments.” If you think DNI Gabbard went forward without consulting some crack constitutional lawyers, you’ll be disappointed.

And also meanwhile, Deputy AG Todd Blanche has applied for release of the sealed grand jury transcripts on the 2019 Epstein case from the DOJ’s Manhattan outpost (SDNY). And consider: all that info was completely segregated from the Epstein files that former FBI Director Christopher Wray controlled for years and years, meaning it was not subject to editing and manipulation. You may finally get to see the difference between the “hoax” elements of the story and the actual evidence.

The Russian meddling and collusion story might have seemed like “a thing” to many in the early January days of 2017 before Mr. Trump’s first inauguration. But when they went after the newly appointed National Security Advisor, General Mike Flynn, for having a conversation with the Russian ambassador, you had had to know that something sketchy was afoot. As this blog asked at the time: why are ambassadors from foreign lands here, if not to speak with our government officials? The story was preposterous but, of course, the news media helped run Gen. Flynn out of office and then led the cheering for the DOJ’s malicious prosecution of him afterward in Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s DC district court.

You also have to wonder if anyone in the news media might be subject to indictment above and beyond the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press. Is there a line between that and acting as an accessory to treason? What did New York Times editor (at the time) Dean Baquet think he was doing, publishing all that patent garbage? Or the producers of CNN and other network news?

The DNI called these activities a “treasonous conspiracy” for a reason. A conspiracy charge that encompasses a skein of persons in a continuous series of crimes extends the statute of limitations to the latest criminal act for all involved. You might also wonder how wide a net the DOJ could cast. Will it include such obvious players as Senator Mark Warner, who schemed to play along on RussiaGate as Vice-chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence? Or then-Congressman Adam Schiff on the House Intel Committee when, for years, he pretended to have “proof” of (i.e., lied about) Trump-Russia collusion? Or FBI Director Wray, who hid evidence, might have tampered with evidence, and apparently lied to Congress about many of these connected matters? Or Andrew Weissmann, who virtually ran the phony Mueller Investigation as a RussiaGate cover-up op because Robert Mueller was mentally infirm? Or Lawfare Ninjas Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, and Mary McCord who appear liable for 2020 election hackery and the Jan 6 “insurrection” op (including the House J6 Committee fakery afterward) along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Or former AG William Barr, who sat on the Hunter Biden laptop during Trump Impeachment No. 1, when the device was stuffed with exculpatory evidence withheld from Mr. Trump’s lawyers? Or CIA agent Eric Ciaramella, Lt. Col Alex Vindman, and Intel Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who conspired with Rep. Adam Schiff on the “Ukraine phone call” operation that was the basis of impeachment No. 1? Or DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who botched his investigation (on purpose?) of FISA court criminal irregularities, or Judge James Boasberg who presided over those criminal irregularities and issued many of them? Or Special Counsel John Durham who took years to overlook the salient elements of the RussiaGate coup? Or many other figures involved one way or another. . . McCabe, Stzrok, Page, Pientka, Thibault, Baker, Rice, Yates, Rummler, Halper, Pompeo, Haines, Bruce and Nellie Ohr. . . .

Are they all rounded-up and sent to court together, like a Nuremberg proceding? Or do they get their own separate cases? Or will the DOJ only go after the top dogs: Obama, Brennan, Clapper, and Comey?

Finally, consider this: demonizing Vladimir Putin set the stage for the Ukraine War - which was initially kicked off in 2014 under President Obama and his State Department/CIA group led by Victoria Nuland orchestrating the Maidan revolt. The official disclosures now by the DNI should make it clear that Mr. Putin did not deserve the treatment he got for years on end, and that the overall effect of it has been catastrophic for world peace. Half the people in the USA still believing all the manufactured bullshit about Mr. Putin has made it extremely difficult for President Trump to end the war in Ukraine that has killed millions.

RussiaGate had the gravest consequences, and now there can be consequences for the merry pranksters who started it and kept it going, one way or another, for a decade."

- https://www.kunstler.com/

"Economic Market Snapshot 7/2125"

"Economic Market Snapshot 7/2125"

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Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...

Only the consequences are real - to you!

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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

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Market Data Center, Live Updates:

- https://www.marketwatch.com/market-data 

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- https://www.asktraders.com/analysis/

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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: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."

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- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

Job cuts and much more.

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"The more I see of the monied classes,

the better I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...

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And now... The End Game...

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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"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

"They’re Skipping Car Payments; That’s The Final Warning Sign"

Full screen recommended.

Michael Bordenaro, 7/20/25

"They’re Skipping Car Payments; 

That’s The Final Warning Sign"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Jeremiah Babe, "If You Believe Everything Is Fine You Don't Live In Reality"

Full screen recommended.

Jeremiah Babe, 7/20/25

"If You Believe Everything Is Fine You Don't Live In Reality; 

Consumers Finance Utility Bills And Food"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Musical Interlude: 2002, "Beauty and Grace"

Full screen recommended.

 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).”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111011.html

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.”

- http://www.24hgold.com/

"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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"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."

- https://www.zerohedge.com/

"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