Debt Rattle April 18 2025
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Salvador Dali The knight of death 1934 • China Is In Much Deeper Trouble Than Most Realize (Strom) • US Expects Ukraine Ceasefire Within Weeks
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 18 2025]“Not gonna lie, China trolling the White House is hilarious.”
That is funny, is it really from China or are they just showing the “knock off” that’s from China.“the progeny of Nazi war criminals govern, and Kiev, where the unrepentant followers of Stepan Bandera rule. The Soviet Union saved the world”
Uhhhh. I guess this is where I always say, History is Complicated. Saved the world by killing 150M, so they’re the bad guys, and the good guys killed 60M? But the U.S. is the Good Guys. …Because they nuked two civilian cities for no military reason. …I’ll go back to bed now.
“MARYLAND MAN HOAX,Seeming right way to frame it, problem being of course the people who need to hear this won’t, and are inoculated against it. There are 100 levels, and depends on details and timing, but essentially he was illegal. We sent him to his home country. That’s his HOME. Where he lives. And we did it for FREE! Not us but THEM, THEY said he was wanted for serious crimes in his homeland and imprisoned him. So we’re the non-extradition nation for every felon running from crimes back home?
Now we want to invade another nation, empty their prisons of their convicted criminals and bring them here? Wouldn’t that make us an Empire, that our law matters and theirs we don’t even think exists? Their law, people, rulers are of no thought whatsoever?
Why do they hate Brown People so much?
If you commit crimes in your home country, that speaks for itself, much less here. Again, if I were the GOP and had all their Manila Files, I would order them to do this. Demonstrate this, now with DNC Congressmen all negotiating Foreign Policy instead of the President, in defiance of the Logan Act. …And yet, makes no difference. Like ONE of 330 Million people wake up per day. So like 30 million years to go.
Anyway, on the good side, apparently all 18-24yo now vote Right.
“Collectively, these stories tell a tale: Donald Trump may have bitten off more than he can chew in his economic war with China.”
That’s the narrative. They’re Elated! Yeah, man! So dumb! Galloway, Sachs, everyone. Why? …Uhhh, the Feelz, actually. Okay, we’ve been discussing for a week, what facts, why? The Feelz, actually.
Um, I don’t think that strategy means what you think it means.
My guess is – and I got nothin’ – that Trump and Xi both know what they’re doing and not talking about it. They’re in on it together in that sense. But what? To chop up Europe between them? Trade to support BRIICS, become multipolar, but he has to play along that there’s stress and drama? As I said before, that China really does have to swap to internal consumption and blame Trump? Something. Their actions are bluster covering … X … They are actually calm. Their mouths are shouting in WWE, but their feet, of a boxer, aren’t positioned, aren’t tense or mobile.
My take.
“Their regime is under threat because their hand is much, much weaker. Weaker than Trump’s and weaker than people think.”
Trump is also weaker than people think. In a certain way: Dow is 90% overvalued, and although DOGE, Tariffs may be good things, they are all things that work and pay over TIME. Right now we have a transition and
nothinglittle to mitigate it with. No IRS – guess what, COMPANIES will gain big on that and locate here. $5,000 rebate if things slow. Powell will print, double our sheet again. It’s not nothing, but…“• US Expects Ukraine Ceasefire Within Weeks – Bloomberg (RT)
He’s saying Russia will take the last lines and face Kiev across the river? Cause there’s no earthly reason for Russia to stop shooting and they’ve said so.
“The officials also told the NYT that their US counterparts are primarily focused on fulfilling the president’s wishes, “
I’ve seen this elsewhere. Because they’re supposed to be fulfilling EUROPE’s wishes instead? Whut? They’re “Loyalists” to Trump? As opposed to the Traitors they should be? Whut? They don’t realize they’re saying what they’re saying, it’s their meta-reality.
“• Meloni’s White House Trip Paves Way For European Union Rapprochement
But he hates women. That’s why he ignores Ursula and Kallas. That’s why his whole staff seems to be female and he’s happy to talk to Meloni and make her spokeswoman. BothNeitherAi.
Look at the other side: he’s got the SOUTH. They’re all trapped in the North with Russia. Awwwww.
“Basically…the EU is actually a US project to destroy nation states,”He’s not wrong but WHO? Who SPECIFICALLY? Well they say the EU is a CIA project. Okay, mostly, fine. BUT THE CIA IS NOT AMERICAN. They’re Anti-American and have been since they were the (British) OSS. Start Day one, Truman, Ike, JFK. Like Hoover and the FBI that’s like Day One.
So the CIA are ANTI-American Globalists. Nazis if you like, as they imported and installed all their brethren.
So the CIA/Bilderberg installed the EU, agreed. And Trump, the American people, heck, Congress, are their ENEMY. They, we, have no control over EU, BilderBerg, WEF, heck almost none over NATO, the Nazi army.
“EU doesn’t decide its own fate, a reality demonstrated by Washington’s success in decoupling the bloc from Russia’s cheap, plentiful energy resources,”
I wouldn’t say so. That’s just a baseline double-cross. He’s re-writing history here. Europe clapped like seals when NordStream went down and are still clapping today. …Even as yesterday, German Chemical went to Merz and said “We’re closing everything, you will have no chemicals, nothing for war. Without Russian gas.” Which I’m sure they said before. Mez ignored them, like a Ayn Rand novel, he said “We’ll just make railroads without steel that’s all: figure it out.” Uhhh.
“What makes this pushback so satisfying is how it exposes the left’s double standard.”
Yes but they don’t notice and don’t care. Make Me. This is Alinsky in a nut. Use, abuse every good thing, every good will, every good man, mercilessly because the only thing that matters is POWER. Because you’re so smart they’ll never figure it out and turn on you or nothin’.
“• Convicted FBI Lawyer Clinesmith Was Spared From Prison By Boasberg (JTN)
That’s PRESIDENT Boasberg to you.
“Clinesmith told the court that “I am deeply remorseful for any effect my actions may have had”
Oh, he’s SORRY! Oh well in that case, only 10 years instead of 20.
“• REPORT: President Trump Opposed Israeli Strikes on Iran Nuclear Sites
They’re all over this constantly. All of this is no fun at all, but TURKEY owns Syria. Israel “can’t” get air-flight anywhere to do everything stupid as they’re desperate to. They’re shut down and contained even though it looks like they’re not. We can’t stop them in Gaza yet, but they’ve lost there already. For you JDSyndrome people, he got Nutsy up on the stage next him when he released this news. Ah, the look on his face is priceless!
“Unfortunately, the CIA does not want the issues within Ukraine solved, doesn’t want Trump and Putin coordinating and certainly doesn’t want Trump and Putin to work out a new strategic global map that does not contain useful conflict. Again, Israel and the CIA are in alignment.”
Uh-huh. Is there ANY read where the CIA are not direct traitors to all America since 1949? They are “Colluding with foreign nations” to “Cause war and undermine the United States” with Israel, just for one. What level of Treason does it take?
Well, since they are essentially their own self-funding government… K.O.A.S. Hail Hydra. And what is the U.S., President supposed to do? Say “Oh yeah, by the way, the U.S. actually has no control over our CIA and some military, they’re just running around blowing up s—t and destabilizing you against our express orders.” Yeah, that means the U.S. doesn’t exist, is a failed state. Bonds: SellSellSell. No. You need to get them back, whatever that takes. So we’ve shut off their drug money, levels of trafficking money, now Cartel money, USAID money. One by one by one.
Bondi: her job is to be the head and do media but I have to wonder how she gets anything done.
“Maine claims that keeping guys out of girls’ private rooms is “politically motivated”. Huh?”
We must, MUST have those girls in hospitals by sundown! I will die on this hill!
Again, if I were running their blackmail files, I’d make them do this. …Aaaaaaaand the Left still doesn’t notice. Not enough women dead yet.
“Marco Rubio just announced that he has terminated the office, which was operating under a different name”
All Socialism, all the time. We just “Rename” things, then they don’t exist! They’re totally, totally different! Like those NYT expose on Ukraine: We just call them Not-Missiles, then the Not-Missiles, Not-Blowing up 1994 Russia they can’t be mad about! What? What? Every minute. Every day. That is why we have RULES, rules AT ALL, and why if you BREAK the rules, we look like the bad guy, arresting and removing you. Because if you start somewhere – like 80% of school papers are from ChatGPT now – then eventually, like 60 seconds later, you’re doing this. No. Daddy’s home, NO.
And the Not-Vax, which as mandated, but also not, which works but also doesn’t.
“experts believe it may lose even the technical capacity to manage its nuclear weapons without US support.”
Mystery to us, as this couldn’t be more simple: you need those guys, and they exist now, so you repeat them. You need an economy to make that happen, so you get one. They can’t. Having an economy or anything working or functional at all is against their religion. Certainly all the British people are trying to get this, against their own leaders.
“• China Replacing US Oil With Canadian – Bloomberg (RT)
Symbolism. Except small exploits, all oil on earth is pumped, then all oil on earth is burned. Is doesn’t really matter by who, you can trade any for any other. Same with food. We grow it all, then we eat it all. So?
“EU will buy US LNG. Lots of it.
• Trump Tariffs Could Cost EU $1.25 Trillion (RT)Great, but we don’t HAVE it. The gas NOR the ships, NOR the compression ports. A beautiful fantasy. You see we SAID we have it, now it exists, right? Like windmills.
“German Anti-Russia Propaganda Is Reaching Nazi-era Levels (Amar)
They say they won’t do it. Maybe you won’t: you’re old. You’re not the target. Ukraine wasn’t either, they voted Russia, then voted Peace. Now 1.2 Million are dead. They need to kill your CHILDREN, who are 14 now and soldiers in 4 years.
“• Court Rules Google Illegally Holds “Monopoly Power” In Online Ad Tech (ZH)
So took 20 years to state the obvious? And isn’t that illegal? Sherman? No kidding! And that’s why we don’t have a merger of corporation and STATE. Same with Wall St who acted, bought up insurers before it was legal, then back-legalized it, over and over and over. P.S. Savage them. Maul them until they’re unrecognizable. This is one of the remaining CIA power centers.
“K2-18b is potentially habitable super-Earth about 2.6 times the size of our planet”
Sure. You’d all be dead if you go there. Assume all of 1,000 things the same, the gravity alone will kill you, and breathing air like syrup.
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously” –GK Chesterton
Luckily nobody’s that dumb to take them seriously.
China bad.
China weak.
China dependent.Nazis bad but freedom loving Israelis and plucky Zelensky-led Ukrainians are good, a sentiment that changes 180 degrees on a whim, with the wind or upon the arbitrary deliberation of the current administration.
So tiresome.Sounds more like lousy businessmen, namely Treasurer Scott Bessent are too lazy and ineffective to compete. Maybe George Soros can bailout Scott and Key Group again, but just not in a Socialist or Communist sort of way. No you can’t have that when Scott Ritter’s opponents, The Nazis still bestride the Earth.
Redux
“Blind ruthless uncomprehending Lust”…
….isn’t Alan Watts condensation of Freud’s “blind urges” perfectly encapsulated in the skin covered bag of bones called Scott Bessent?
We’re suppose to trust or alternately marvel in awe at Scott’s viciousness founded on his Huguenot roots still oppressed I suppose by The French Catholic. Take note! Bessent will never be subjected to the RFK, Jack Murtha or Jack Kennedy treatment no matter how many wealth funds Scott “Scottie” Bessent reduces in “assets from $5.1 billion to $0.577 billion and an investor decline from 180 to 20 over the same period.”
Bessent “managed” to keep $521 million despite those dubious successes AND now He Is The Treasurer par excellence.
Success breeds more success.Jesus! Holy week!
That’s even more impressive since Scott’s Key Group received a $2 billion anchor investment from George Soros..
Does Soros’s donation to the Scott Personal Wealth Fund qualify as Welfare or Socialism to The Locals fighting the good fight against The Yellow Peril, China?“anchor investment”
Thiel for Veep creep JD Vance Hamel Bowman.
Soros for Bessent The Gothic Revivalist Parishioner.
My God!!!Gothic Revival Church!?!?
What.
Thee.
F*ck!Peter Manigault once The Richest and Easily Most Vicious Man in North America is “buried” at Scott’s church and I suppose given the former’s industrial-grade Inhumanity to Mankind the guy on whom Scott Bessent models his behavior or perhaps Manigault’s reincarnated embodiment.
Didn’t Hollywood make a movie already about Scott Bessent and his Weird Charleston South Carolina weirdo shit?
Scott and his wife have two children. Nope.
Scott and his wife GOT two childrenNah, even D and M.Reid might agree neither Scott nor his man-wife could ever HAVE a baby, right?
As stated different paths for each.
I’m 67 and not off grid. My wife and I use approx 450 kWh/ month. Numbers don’t jive to disconnect from grid…yet.
My ongoing task is to make life easier as I age. Better beds and compost preparation. Small farm animals Vs large. Shifting thru my multiple wrong choices of equipment and getting most useful, efficient equipment. Pond and water control for irrigation.
Stronger community relationships. For instance I sit on local library board, a thankless task for a world that has no use for books.
And throw in as much joy as is possible: last yr a month long car camping trip to east coast, this year a month to go west, following yrs continuation of canoe trips. Said car a Honda Fit. Like I said, making do with less. We can travel for under $100/day. That’s the Canadian peso btw.
That’s my retirement plan, and there’s far too much to do and plan for.
So, issues: not a warrior, unsure how that pans out. Healthy today, who knows what the future holds. Expecting a healthcare system when it does is optimistic. Govt decisions that suck: excessive taxes, CBDC, or whatever cockamamie plan they come up with. Excessive climate chaos making growing difficult (already dealing with last AVG frost June 15 and first labor day weekend). Influx of “southerners”. Extreme duress of folks around me. Ongoing local health issues from COWED 1984 amongst the naive. Etc.
The future is not clear, but staying healthy, active, eating what I grow and keeping my head up, doing what I can vs respond to the cacophony of nonsense of which I have no control is my choice. I don’t like the alternative of condo living, golfing, pickle ball and resort/RV vacations. I’ve noticed there isn’t a large contingent of people who listen to anything I think worthy of note. Have given up on that and now choose to quietly lead by example.
For what it’s worth, my mother turns 92 this yr, she still gardens, has her marbles and is mostly in good shape. My observation is that those who do make 90, garden and are busy folks who don’t sit at the keyboard.From what psychological state does JD Hamel Blanton Bowman Vance “skewer”? Corporals don’t easily get to display their “power (none) and ruthlessness (promotable)” but when they do, watch out because Hitler might re-emerge.
Scott Bessent “skewers” China from a foundation of Huguenot predatory viciousness transferred from Peter Manigault’s corpse entombed in Scott’s weirdo Gothic Revival Church. Let’s not forget $2 billion dollars of corporate welfare George Soros bestowed on Scott “my man-wife has two children” Bessent.
Clearly Dems don’t oppose Republicans and DEI definitely isn’t DEAd in The Trump Administration while Bessent still celebrates being openly gay.
James Donald Blanton Hamel Vance “skewers” European Leaders from his non-Appalachia roots and after reading ten books between USMC Combat Correspondent and Yale notwithstanding “the seed money” bestowed on James by Peter Thiel and Peter’s sidekick founder at Palantir.
I see a pattern.
Self-ascribed self-made men striking out at others with whom they have no discernible familiarity or relationship, Vance at Europe and Bessent at the Yellow Peril. Ordinarily, society would straight-jacket, medicate and lock up these guys, but we’ve found a way to identify, promote, enrich and empower them even beyond both their megalomaniacal imaginations.They both want more.
You can smell it on both guys a mile away.
Acquisitiveness’s tell-tale sign.$100 million will do that to you if you weren’t dealt those psychological traits at birth. Imagine what another zero will do to that ego state.
Masters of Projective Identification
Hardly Spellbinders eitherBluster sounds good, but it hides a stark reality.
Diversions, from +$36T, bonds, supply line. diminishing assets.WWIII, Tariff war, Trade wars, Energy War
———–U.S. officials plan to use negotiations with more than 70 nations to ask them to disallow China from shipping goods through their countries, prevent Chinese firms from locating in their territories to avoid U.S. tariffs, and not absorb China’s cheap industrial goods into their economies.
These measures are meant to put a dent in China’s already rickety economy and force Beijing to the negotiating table with less leverage ahead of potential talks between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The exact demands could vary widely by nation, given their degree of involvement with the Chinese economy.
China’s strategy of growing its economic power and influence depends on a river of money with its headwaters in the United States.
And its ability to make deals in countries not hostile to the United States is only possible because the US tolerates its moves and is committed to using only modest soft power to oppose the moves.
———-This shit reads like Monty Python intermixed with D-isms, you know, self-contradictory stuff.
Looks like Trump is losing The CSM
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undergirded
I’m certain they meant “undergarmented (word!) since the publication was writing about The Huguenot Abomination from Charleston South Carolina
See, read for yo’self.
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Bessent, who is “married” to a man and has children via surrogacy, lives in direct contradiction to the biblical definition of marriage and family. His prominent role, coupled with ties to Soros — a figure known for advancing progressive and anti-Christian agendas — has led many to question whether those leading the nation are aligned with the values that once undergirded America’s strength and blessing.
Ah, yes, the illusion of conflict reemerges amongst America’s Uber Rich under the cover of Trumpian 1.5 Dimensionalist Chess. They don’t want to confuse the nurses because they’ll get ya 6 ways from Sunday like a CIA agent.
There is no common sense logic in the west because the owners, rulers are collapsing it, I guess
Anything that can be built can be unbuilt (collapsed), and no one knows that better than the guys who built it, so if anyone knows how to do a controlled demolition it would be them.
Any doubts about Donald Trump’s true intentions vis-a-vis the “Blob” need only read Scott Bissent’s resume’. You would be hard pressed to find a slimier slug, or one more firmly attached to the Donald.
Ilargi you really owe it your readers to dig a little deeper on the climate science. Sure it has been amped by some advocates who want to see action. But it has also been weaponized by the people you quote here to fight off any such attempt that’s serious. If you actually surfed the news media daily you would find climate news. In the meantime go to climateandeconomy.com for 20 concise headlines every other day on climate. From a wide range of outlets, reporting on the ground events.
The big big picture likely cannot be conveyed better than the documentary JFK to 911: Everything is a rich man’s trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niTwvtokYf0
I read you every day, but really the focus is narrow and the selection uneven. The unfounded balderdash on climatic events is lamentable. For instance see Ugo Bardi’s recent review on CO2 and his commentary on AI peer review by DeepSearch.
Key PointsResearch suggests CO2 is not just a climate change driver but also a pollutant affecting health and ecosystems.
It seems likely that rising CO2 levels harm human cognition and disrupt biosphere stability, with mixed effects on plant growth.
The evidence leans toward needing urgent action to reduce CO2 emissions, as geoengineering solutions may fall short.
There’s some controversy over speculative claims, like links to cognitive decline, due to limited direct evidence.
Overview
The paper “Carbon Dioxide as a Pollutant. The Risks on Human Health and the Stability of the Biosphere” by Ugo Bardi et al., published in 2024, explores how rising CO2 levels impact more than just climate—it affects human health and ecosystems in complex ways. It argues that CO2, often seen as a greenhouse gas, is also a pollutant with biochemical effects on photosynthesis, respiration, and biosphere stability. This analysis is based on a review of existing research, highlighting both benefits and risks, and calls for urgent emission reductions.
Yours truly,
IG
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it’s called “common sense”, not “ruler sense”. it’s always the same, everywhere, from then until now – rulers dumb AND greedy.
plus c’est change, plus c’est le best meme choice.
What is your option?
Too many people, especially those with near-terminal TDS, are seeing what they want to see.
The facts are very simple — the US is undeniably on the path to disaster, after the last 50 years of Democrat and RINOcrat mis-rule.
No country can exist forever running unsustainable Budget Deficits and crushing Trade Deficits.
A de-industrialized, under-educated, divided country has been heading toward an inevitable crisis — a crisis that long pre-dated Trump.
Two options – let’s call one the Kamala option: just keep whistling and playing the markets to enrich yourselves until some external factor inevitably initiates the crisis which destroys the US — women & minorities hardest hit.Option Two — the Trump option: slam on the brakes, pull hard on the steering wheel … and pray. Best case outcome is that over the next 25-50 years,
the US re-industrializes, the trade imbalance settles down, and FedGov budgets are brought into line through increased tax revenues generated by a more productive economy; painful, but with a good long-term outcome for future generations.
Worst case outcome — we get the Kamala option collapse this year rather than next year or the year after, with total devastation … especially to the poor.Posted by: Gavin Longmuir | Apr 18 2025
Massive U.S. Army convoys withdraw from Syria, heading toward Iraq.
The first phase of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria saw around 600 troops pulled out, bringing total troop numbers down to about 1,400.
Three U.S. bases in northeastern Syria were closed, including one near the Conoco gas field in Deir ez-Zor.
Some U.S. Army commanders support keeping at least 500 troops in Syria.
US Offers Russia Sanctions Relief For Peace, But Warns Trump Could ‘Move On’
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Rubio: “We need to determine very quickly now, & I’m talking about a matter of days… If it is, we’re in. If it’s not, then we have other priorities.”Oh, no! An AFKTT wannabe is stepping up with more counter-factual “reasonable” fear-mongering nonsense about CO2. What will it take to get even semi-sensible people to learn to distinguish actual science-based facts from politicized pseudo-science that has been explicitly and definitely falsified?
It isn’t obscure rocket science. It isn’t even mRNA “safe and effective” propaganda. It’s just physics and chemistry, but I reckon the CRT and DIE generations weren’t paying attention to “science” while they were figuring out that they were being lied-to across the spectrum of social engagement. That may diversify to include becoming able to calibrate the lies better, and step back and recognize the sweeping extent and depth of all the little lies adding up to the Giant Lie that underpins their whole belief-structure. Any port in a storm…https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-exposes-alarming-biden-era-domestic-terrorism-strategy
Tulsi Gabbard Exposes Alarming Biden-Era ‘Domestic Terrorism’ StrategyDubbed the “Strategic Implementation Plan” (SIP), the 15-page-long document details the Biden administration’s findings and action plan to counter an alleged increase in homegrown domestic terrorism.
Powell Warns of Stagflation
Britain Ensuring It Will Join the European Great Depression into 2028
Britain Ensuring It Will Join the European Great Depression into 2028
Europe & Coming False Flag
Scams:
It is really hard to believe their are people out there who still believe in the fake government promoted scams, like climate change and covid vaccines, etc. despite being hoodwinked over and over again.
They never ever seem to learn!Transgender male in girls sports…oh, dear, language is *really* getting mixed up here!
The right calls the bio males trying to participate in women’s sports “transgender males”
The left calls the bio males trying to participate in women’s sports “transgender women”
Lol
I’m beginning to feel my head spin like the crazy possessed girl in the exorcist.Well should engage with the facts and not just handwaving, ad hominem, and appeal to authority.
So…CO2 is such a terrible plant poison that they pay unbelievable sums to pump it into air-tight greenhouses. Explain?And our usual, since you read every day: MANY times the earth was warmer, even in the Medieval Warming period. It was ALWAYS better for people, with the Bronze Age period being legendary. It was ALWAYS worse to be colder. Climate never ran away.
That’s with CO2 being +3x today’s level for a million years at a pop.
We could only DREAM of it being higher, and gas pumps willing, I do my part.
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