Debt Rattle February 11 2025
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Robert Rauschenberg Buffalo II 1964 • Trump Orders 25 Percent Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum (ET) • Trump: DOGE To Analyze Pentagon Spending Aft
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 11 2025]Canada as 51st state is back on the table again? Now I open FB and have a 64 year old friend, a grandmother, whose going to get a gun and die for Canada! There really are no limits to TDS.
The fact is that the USA has never been more divided in its history. The 19th century divide was political. The 21st century divide is cultural…and that is terminal.
In the next few years it is more likely some blue states will want to become the 11th province.
Look guys: “America doesn’t grow food!” — Love, geniuses at The Atlantic.
“What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like:
The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very far from reality.” The Atlantic“How Close Is Elon Musk to Controlling a Nuclear Weapon? And is nuclear cleanup woke?” — The Verge
Inquiring minds want to know! Page three, Batboy strikes again! Actually he slipped a few in his pocket on the way out! Joke’s on him: none of our nukes are operational anyway. That takes money and we stole it all!
“Excellent summary of the game plan”
It’s been said Government is not a Business and shouldn’t be run the same way. This is entirely true. However, in that case makes this specific example BETTER. Because Government doesn’t have “Profit”, it’s all taxes. So reducing head count while keeping features is exactly a win.
“• Trump Orders 25 Percent Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum (ET)
This may be painful, but what can you do? Not sure it’s “fair” either, but it wouldn’t shock me if China were an intentional loss-leader to destroy us. They do. He needs all this right now bc there’s going to be a Reagan Recession (or far worse) on the restructuring and Steel Companies need the full four years of visibility to borrow and install this extremely expensive capital equipment.
If we don’t, however, we are entirely helpless. Which we probably are right now.
Pentagon Video: not only did she not know, she thought the very idea anyone should know or look was laughable. Impossible, risible. Probably arrestable.
“Musk, who has been appointed as a “special government employee,” is one of Trump’s key advisers”
He’s doing fine, however the Treasury Secretary isn’t allowed inside the Treasury building to look at Treasury Records. …Cause there are no problems there and everything’s Jake.
“It is the thing of legend, a Beltway monster that you told your children about around campfires late at night: An outsider who comes to town and lays waste”
They pointed out that the Democrats are taking the 20 on every 80/20 issue with the American people. Defending Federal Employees while killing American workers is just one.
“• Sen. Mike Lee Floats Ron Paul For Fed Chairman, Musk Says ‘Amazing’ Idea (JTN)
Going back, the original “America First” plan, probably as far back as 1979 was to have Ron Paul President. That’s why he was ring-fenced and protected all those years. The only clean one around. But since the Black Hats cut thousands more inroads and took far longer, delayed 20 years or more, that didn’t go off well.
“• DOGE: FEMA [Illegally] Sent $59 Million Last Week To Luxury NYC Hotels For Illegals (ZH)
Meme: “Repeat after me, DOGE has found nothing illegal! Just policies they don’t like.” Uh-huh. Okay if you mean in the non-used ultra-strict legal sense that no one has been actively convicted in court yet… It’s only been 5 days.
“• Canada ‘Not Viable’ Without US Support – Trump (RT)
Uh…I don’t think so. I think you mean “Canada is a major trading partner.” That’s an entirely different statement. As much as I believe this, USAID and everyone else is transferring Billions, I can’t believe that if the U.S. disappeared and Canada was a large island, that they wouldn’t be mostly fine after adjustment. Srsly.
“• Trump Wants Ukraine To Pay Back $500 Billion (RT)
Now that would be funny. Also since Ukraine is a fully owned subsidiary of BlackRock, we’re really pulling Half a Tril from them. Germany is in trouble this week as their election is from the German CEO of Blackrock, who then says he wants German soldiers to invade to protect Blackrock’s Ukrainian investments. Uhhh…no. (ok, de facto not literally on that)
“• Ukraine Sells US Weapons To Mexican Drug Cartels – Tucker Carlson (RT)
Not a single weapon reaches Ukrainian hands. They are all stolen and sold by oligarchs first. …Back originally, I bet 90% that Russia was buying the Soviet weapons through a 3rd party (like Turkey). Now they’re all NATO junk, who would want it?
What he’s saying is also proven: literally stamped s/n weapons have been taken at the U.S. border.
“Warfare on Lawfare
“This feels like a national exorcism.” — Charlie Kirk”Well their heads are certainly spinning around.
“Yeah, let’s start a second army. Does she represent anything other than the arms industry?
• EU’s von der Leyen Calls For Alternative To NATO (RT)Second question: is there any European production at all? French jets are nice, but I fear out of date. Clearly all tanks are 60 ton paperweights. I mean, can they make like, shells, bullets, jeeps? It would seem not or they would. So refusing to buy from us means what, be’ Lyin’? Duran also is beside themselves, out of body experience for Europe saying “Well we’re just going to do this” …and they SHOULD!! …While every budget in Europe is collapsing the the people are about to hang them on sight. So psychotic in denial of reality – apparently nobody does this better than Europe which is the reason for them begin the world epicenter for genocidal wars. They’re just like, “Well we need this, so it happened!” No. It didn’t happen. You know why? Because Reality Exists.
Nothing – and I mean NOTHING – can get through to them. Because: Europeans. Or rather, European Lords and Nobilities. Rumor has it some of the peasants fled the CONTINENT to get away from these guys.
“• EU’s Right Calls For New ‘Reconquista’ Against ‘Islamist Advance’ (RT)
Ouch. I tell you if I were Swedish I go back to Cote d’Ivorie. Even as a 2nd generation right now, I cannot see how this ends well and Sweden, Germany, are the ends of the earth at the end of History, while Africa is young, hot, and full of possibilities.
“• Trump Threatens To ‘Let Hell Break Out’ In Gaza (RT)
He’s full of crap. https://odysee.com/@cryptorich:e/halexfeb:d As Krainer said “It’s so dumb it’s impossible for it to be real” What he’s done is box in Nutsy and try to settle a genocide if not stop it. It’s extremely hard for them to move forward or do anything if Trump claims the whole area, WHILE he has to talk to every ME leader at length which runs out the clock more. They seemed clear he ambushed Nutsy with it, demanding his presence while he was still recovering from (dick) surgery. Smiling, of course. Nice guy, giving you everything you want. There’s no other read at this point, ain’t no one putting boots on the ground, by which those boots also don’t exist.
No? Okay the entire Israeli army didn’t make a dent, and our people anywhere in theatre are what? And how many? 5-10k and we’d surrender everything from Athens to India by moving them? C’mon man, use your head. This. Is. Bulls–t. It is not real. It is an ex-idea.
Trump has one, and I mean only one, pass play. He wrote about it to 100 million copies in 1990: The Big Ask. So outrageous, it baffles and resets the conversation and negotiation. He’s used it every 10 days for 50 years in a row. Media: Still surprised and baffled. Can’t figure it out.
It’s like the throwing of bologna on a baby’s head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf06VaWtg5o
Arrows ======>>> Cheese…. ===========>>>> The Idiot Media.
Does he need to get out the cat laser again, and make you all chase around. Jesus H. Christ I can’t believe what I’m seeing every day. No. this is not real. No. It never was, same as yesterday, same as every 10 days for 50 years in a row.
Confirmation stats. Each day with votes has 2 or 3 votes. This past Thursday had 12. Mostly to proceed to executive session. I think that means out of committee. Friday 0 votes. Looks like the boys and girls got a 3 day weekend out of Thursday.
Only one vote yesterday, cloture on Gabbard. I think that means the debate is closed. The definition of cloture includes 60 votes for. It never gets 60, but it is still “agreed to”? Whatever.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_119_1.htm“Because Government doesn’t have “Profit”, it’s all taxes.”
this is incorrect. governments are funded with money we purchase from private corporations.
Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829783
trumped twice! first warp sped, and now no moneys..
a level playing field.
Need 25% tariffs to pay for
“a lot” of waste, fraud and abuse.Trump Budget must be approved by March 14, 2025.
USAID is the ultimate example of a bloated agency with a high percentage of funding going to administrative costs over field operations. The State Department reportedly plans to reduce the USAID workforce from over 10,000 to less than 300.
• Trump: DOGE To Analyze Pentagon Spending After 7th Failed Audit (ZH)
Obama Judge Who Ordered Elon Musk’s Fraud Investigators To Destroy All Evidence Of Criminal Activity They Had Discovered Presented NO EVIDENCE Of Wrongdoing By DOGE In His Orders
The Judge, In His Pitifully Short Filing, Presents ZERO PROOF Of His Dangerous & Defamatory Claims Against The Trump Administration.
(In other words, If you find anything, evidence, you got to destroy it.
You cannot keep/present any evidence, proof of wrong doing.)
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• DOGE: FEMA Sent $59 Million Last Week To Luxury NYC Hotels For Illegals (ZH)
“..a “clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”
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https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/FY2025-Budget-in-Brief.pdf
The Department of Commerce – Budget in Brief – Fiscal Year 2025
Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary————
• Trump Wants Ukraine To Pay Back $500 Billion (RT)US President Donald Trump has said he wants to secure a deal with Kiev to ensure Washington gets its money back by trading aid for Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals – regardless of whether “they may be Russian someday.”
According to Forbes, around $7 trillion of Ukraine’s total mineral wealth is located in its former Donbass regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, which declared independence from Ukraine in 2014 following the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.
Most of these territories came under Russian control after Donetsk and Lugansk voted to join Russia in 2022.
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• Danger of Deep Worldwide Recession in 2025 – Ed Dowd (USAW)
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• Warfare on Lawfare (Kunstler)The injunction, comically, prevents Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from seeing what his agency doles out money for — that is, from managing anything his department does.
The suit that prompted the ruling was brought by nineteen states’ Attorneys General led by NY AG Letitia James.
So, you see how this works.
You must also imagine that the White House was prepared for these lawfare shenanigans, though they haven’t shown their hand in response so far.
This is a constitutional quarrel, of course, since it concerns who has authority between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary over agency spending and, in particular, who gets to audit it.
The actual objective by the plaintiff in these cases (the Party of Chaos) is simply to delay any corrective action.
———–@DrdRich
I was offended not hurt, and my complaint has nothing to do with whether or not you read or value what I write.If what you said about your not reading my posts is a true claim (a doubtful proposition) then your offense is doubled, not forgiven, because if you don’t even read what I say then you have absolutely no right to comment about it, or about me.
You continually allude to a misinformed characterization of me as someone with mistaken opinions about Jews.. Well, if you don’t even read my opinions how could you possibly know what my opinions about Jews even are? How could you possibly know that I wasn’t fully agreeable with your own mistaken views?
Here is what I want from you. Either read and comment rationally about my commentary, or keep your own unfounded opinions about my opinions (and me in general) to yourself. Knock off the Jew stuff unless it is to agree or disagree with something I actually wrote and that you actually read.
P.S.
It probably wouldn’t harm you at all to actually read my stuff. You might learn something.@ThoseDarnedKids
Interesting mortality stats. Even the fudged statistics prove that the killer vax killed people in droves.
I finally found the easy to read list if what the senate plans to do today.
https://www.senate.gov/committees/hearings_meetings.htm
The link appears to be atemporal. not date specific. same link every day.Order blocking doge from treasury records
One ironic part of this…
The HIPAA law creates all sorts of safeguards around personal health information. However, in practice, and according to the law, such health information is routinely viewed, accessed, shared, and even edited by a plethora of health-related individuals who have “business agreements” with the health provider with primary responsibility over the data. Essentially, the business agreement outlines that the business partner promises to honor HIPAA and safeguard the information, and that is that.It is reasonable to suppose that the same would be true of doge — the individuals in doge “super-duper promise” not violate the security of the data.
In practice, the data is too vast for it to be quantified by any individual or small group of individuals — not even Elon Musk’s brain can handle even a small part of it. There is no realistic concern about the individuals having access to the data. What is more relevant is the computer system (probably an AI of some flavor ) that has access to the data and the disposition of that data. That computer system should probably either become a perpetual part of the federal government or should, quite frankly, have the data purged from it once doge has completed its task.
Something really peculiar happened to me this morning, Through sheer dumb luck, stubbornness and an innate disinclination to cheat people, I accidentally became rich. Rich by my own modest standards at least. In other words, I went from a condition of never having quite enough money to live like an average citizen, to now having more than enough money to live out my days with no financial hardships whatever.
What a strange feeling. The funniest part of it is that I now care even less about money than I did before (which was seldom very much) and I also now have absolutely no desire to go out and buy anything that I don’t already have (I have lots and lots of the tools of my various trades, and not much else.)
In other words, almost nothing has changed, not even my mind. About the only difference is that I feel this sense of relief, and the knowledge that from now on whenever I give something away I don’t have to worry about it anymore.
Did “they” remember to keep funded people and entities in different containers? Firewalled off from each other?
…or if you find an entity that received USAID funding and then check it for OTHER funding and backtrack, what other funding sources do you find? …now that you know most things you discover receiving USAID are awful.
TWO ways of finding the subversive anti-US, anti-world, anti-human funding then. The second one being backtracking.
That’s right, and the $60 Billion USAID budget was basically just the administrative costs of fully controlling the $6T “swamp” budget. It looks and and runs like a perpetual motion machine, but in truth it takes all of it’s energy from the life blood of its victims.
Actually might just follow the Thing:
The Sushi Party
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156443349Do they have those DOGE guys in a sort of witness protection program? Cordoned off by layers of marines and secret service? Sleeping and working in a bunker?
What must the blob be throwing at those guys right now? Surely every conceivable background check. Checking their internet history to discover their kinks and launching 50-100 honeypots at them?
Just a continual DOS attack of honeypots? Attempts to snare them into any number of crimes or smears, get criminal shit downloaded to their computers? Seeing what they can do to continually low grade poison them in their Doordashes, online supplement orders, whatnot? Directed energy from vans outside, satellites? Soak everything in their hotel rooms with formaldehyde so it continually outgasses and poisons them every time they come back to sleep? Deploy the latest nanotech to slowly, over days, creep to the seat where they work? I can only imagine all the dirty tricks.
Why would the blob NOT say “fire all our shit.” What tremendous efforts must be underway to play defense for the DOGE people? Or are they being naive and we’re just waiting for the Blob to get in gear? Or what battles are occurring, unknown to anyone?
600 Million a year for sushi!
Definitely turn off the funding, but I do not believe the money went towards actual food. Maybe there was some 80/20 thing where 20% or less of it went to actual sushi.
I understand why the pathological parasites who have been living off of us are screaming so loudly in fear and anger at the actions we are taking to save our lives. The parasites are terrified because we are threatening to take away all of their food.
The USAID budget does not represent purchases of real goods and legitimate services. It represents payoffs and bribes masquerading as purchases of actual things. That way, both parties to the bribe can pretend that it isn’t simply a straight out bribe or payoff. The Japanese can pretend that they sold sushi and the Yanks can pretend they bought sushi, when the truth of the matter is that the United States paid Japan a $600.000,000 bribe to play ball and play along like they’re our friend and ally.
It’s like paying Bill Clinton half a $million to address a jerkwater graduating class, or giving some avante garde “artist” tens of millions for a spray painted trash can of second hand condoms that’s praised by other paid-off sycophants as an invaluably significant work of art.
Don’t read the labels. Look at the actual person, deed or thing.
Make the order bigger if the tariffs are put on steel and aluminum.
Canada’s new Polar Icebreaker will be the Canadian Coast Guard’s multi-role vessel and is designed with a high degree of operational flexibility to support multiple missions and will be capable of year-round operations in Canada’s Arctic waters and northern Economic Exclusion Zone. Some of these missions include Search and Rescue, Environmental Response, Marine Navigation, Icebreaking and Arctic Science. The Polar Icebreaker will also support Community and Northern Resupply missions through escort icebreaking to allow commercial fleet owners to deliver goods. The Polar Icebreaker can also deliver goods directly when commercial options aren’t available. This vessel is configured to minimize the crew and mission personnel’s exposure to extreme weather conditions, making the Polar Icebreaker a vital instrument to carrying out important Canadian Coast Guard missions in the Arctic.The existential threat to the Blob, which they are acutely aware off, is that any and all reduction in crime has a direct effect of reducing of their ability to do what they must do to stay in power.. That probably needs to be said again but in a slightly different way. The blob is organized crime (way way more organized than the tiny mob or minuscule Mafia) therefore less crime means less Blob in probably a 3 to 1 ratio (every single crime creates and funds 3 or more other, larger, crimes, in a feedback loop).
operation warp speed was funded for the nsc through dod purchasing arrangement known as “other transaction authority”.
i wonder how many usaids fit in an “ota”.
Feb 7, 2024Other Transaction Authority (OTA) is the term commonly used to refer to the (10 U.S.C. 4021) authority of the Department of Defense (DoD) to carry out certain prototypes, research, and production projects.Other Transaction (OT) authorities were created to give DoD the flexibility necessary to adopt and incorporate business practices that reflect commercial industry standards and best practices …
NEW – The Deep State's Last Stand: Sen. Schumer Reads Pre-Written Script Before the Senate Trying to Discredit Gabbard and RFK Jr. Before Confirmation Vote |
It’s evident that the establishment fears nothing more than the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.… pic.twitter.com/CWAReWtDdL
— Overton (@overton_news) February 11, 2025
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Something really peculiar happened to me this morning, Through sheer dumb luck, stubbornness and an innate disinclination to cheat people, I accidentally became rich.”Congratulations! Enjoy the sublime sensation of freedom from financial obligation.
@JustSomeRandomer
. . . freedom from financial obligation.
That’s it exactly. No wonder it feels so strange. It’s the first time I’ve experienced that in my lifetime.
I guess getting our ass kicked out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine has not been sufficient humiliation for the dying Empire. Now they want to do it again in Palestine. Trump isn’t worried about following his Master’s orders.. He reckons it’s all going to be other people dying. No skin off his own nose.
Let me ask a question to the room. Would you consider that our children killing children, and dying, for an Israeli land grab is a fair trade of value?
Just because Trump can force the King of Jordan to make promises that he can’t keep (like accepting half a million new Gazan refugees into his country which already barely manages to manage the 3 million Palestinians already uneasily there) does not mean that such a transfer can actually happen.
What will happen, instead, is that the Gazan war will spread into Jordan.
Trump has at least one part of that right. All Hell will indeed break loose if the cease fire is broken by direct US military assault.
He can control what he, and Netanyahu and King Abdullah attempt to do, but he has no control whatsoever over what Hamas and the other Islamists in the region choose to do. He’s playing the game of chicken with people who have nothing to lose and have already proven they are willing to die.
I personally believe that the forced wholesale removal of Palestinians from their ancestral land to be totally unacceptable, and I also believe that the vast majority of the people in the world believe the same thing.
It’s not reality. It’s Reality TV. The Joe Bumblefuck Show, 4 years of commie misery gets replaced by The Apprentice Golem and his trusty sidekick, geniusjew spaceboy. Don’t worry kids, we’re gonna fix all the problems we created in the first place. like magic, or printing $ from nothing. Tune in tomorrow, when jewgeniuspaceboy figures out where the missing 21 trillion went. Oy Vey! It’s on Mars. We gotta build a rocket to get the money stolen from our pocket.
Gaza was probably the price for Israel to help with internal US problems.
It is possible that, in the negotiations for that, Trump was negotiating for the Palestinians to get SOMETHING, thus his talk of making sure they land in a decent situation. Wrong to relocate the population, but IF I had a country like Israel determined to eject me from my home or kill me and possibly unstoppable in the long run, I would have mixed, rather than only negative feelings, about Trump negotiating my situation.
Saul negotiating with Tuco – BOTH of them proposing awful things…
BIS Gold Swaps:
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is the central bankers ‘s bank.
One of the BIS’s services provides ann̈onomatopoeia (never seen̈ this word before!) gold swaps.Up until June 2022, the BIS swapped 500 tons of gold a month.
Then suddenly in July 2022, BIS gold swaps fell to about 100 tons of gold per month.BIS gold swaps have remained about 100 tons of gold swaps per month up until December 2024.
In January 2025, BIS monthly gold swaps fell from 78 tons down to just 16 tons of gold.Now admittedly BIS monthly gold swaps have since July 2022, previously dropped as low as 6 tons of gold.
What is unusual about the BIS’s monthly gold swaps report for January 2025, is that it was late.So, the speculation now is, no major central bank is trying to suppress the price of gold in 2025.
Well, I will believe it, went I see it!Observations from Mid 2022:
Up until 2022 we always heard about the evil JP MORGAN’s gold manipulation efforts on behalf of the US governmen.
JP Morgan went years without a single losing day in the markets!Now the thing about evil JP Morgan, is while they were manipulating gold, they also with their daily profits, built up huge physical stockpiles of gold and silver!
Like billions of ounces!
JP Morgan’s physical hoard was so big that they were making money whether gold or silver prices went up or down!
JP Morgan no longer cared what happened to gold or silver prices because they were making money either way!It got to the point that any other banks still trying to manipulate gold or silver, ended up having to borrow gold or silver from your favorite loan shark, JP Morgan!
Then slowly but surely, we stopped hearing from these other bullion banks, as they were losing money, so they shutdown their trading departments.So since the end of 2022, we no longer heard much about gold and silver market manipulations?
Oh, it was still being manipulated, but just without the bullion bank servants!
The BIS was still actively
Like India’s import tariffs on gold going up and then down to manipulate gold prices.
The US/EU confiscating Russia’s central bank’s foreign reserves.While the above gold manipulation noises were slowly dying down, various central banks around the world started buying gold.
Seizing Russian central bank reserves really speeded up central bank gold buying.
China lead in this department, buying over 600 tons in London, of gold in 2024.But another noise started quietly popping it’s head up occasionally.
The possibility of gold being revalued by the world’s central banks.Support for some central bank gold buying efforts stems from the belief that all the world’s important central banks need to hold a certain proportion of gold, so if gold were to suddenly, on a quiet Sunday, when all the markets are closed, be devalued upwards, they would all benefit equally, maintaining the statis quo.
Yeah, you know, honor among thieves!Another conspiracy theory says the central banks are letting gold devalued gold in steps over certain time period.
More, likely just the US deciding it was time, to revalue gold!
You know, unpayable debts, back to wall, cliffs edge, and all!
Clearly the Chinese and Russians won’t be caught short of gold!Sorry. my tale has to end now, as my Wife is hungry and wants some supper!
So, now I am being turned from a gold bug, into a chef!
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