Hubris and karma love to pull pranks on humans together. Case in point 👆🏼
The Shitshow Macro Weekly Prep Podcast for Monday 12.30.24 is out:
-Thank you for your patience on this one being late; had an awesome, no phone weekend with the rugrats.
Domestic Politics:
-Former President Jimmy Carter has died.
--I know we should have respect for the dead, so I’ll just mention without elucidation that along with the Iran hostage crisis, Jimmy allowed Rhodesia to be overrun by the communists and her people slaughtered by them, and also gave away the Panama Canal (that a lot of Americans died building).
-Lead DC prosecutor, the J6 rights & Brady evidence-denier Matthew Graves has resigned, according to @julie_kelly2 .
--If you still don’t understand how dirty that process has been, here’s a great article by Julie on the lead “try them in court but don’t provide them Brady evidence” Graves and his wife’s political activism:
realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/…
-Texas AG Ken Paxton has successfully blocked the Biden admin from “auctioning” off the border wall materials that Trump purchased but was blocked by the GOPe from fully building, and Biden-Harris refused to build an inch.
--Reminder that John Cornyn and Bushie GOPe Texas reps tried to impeach Paxton.
-WaPo has published a “clap back” PR rehab for Biden in the wake of the WSJ, NY Post, and other articles citing WH internal staff & sources who said he was non compos mentis for his whole presidency.
--And Bezos wonders why his trash rag gets no respect.
-Some US democrats and their media toadies (including op-eds) are suggesting that Kamabla should not certify the election and electoral college results.
--Reminder: In 2020 they called people “iNsUrReCtIoNiStS!!!” for suggesting that Mike Pence had this authority - and then re-wrote the laws to double-super ensure the VP doesn’t have this authority, that they double-dog swore the VP didn’t have in the first place (although other Constitutional professors and lawyers said he did - and they threatened & took away their law licenses for saying so).
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…
-A report out from @EpochTimes outlines how the Sinaloa Cartel has made South Africa a key hub in their network to manufacture and distribute fentanyl globally, due to its proximity to China (where the precursor chemicals come from):
theepochtimes.com/article/how-af…
-Reports started flowing out today alleging that the CCP hacked the US Treasury Department workstations.
--But remember, election machines are totally, absolutely, positively unhackable and you’re an insurrectionist if you ask to verify that claim.
-Consumer Reports has rated California as the worst of all of the states in the Union to move to.
--In other news, water is wet.
-According to @profstonge the Philly Fed has identified another 653,000 fake jobs that Biden Regime bragged about and the BLS dutifully reported.
--On top of the 818,000 fake jobs they previously identified…how is this not outright fraud?
x.com/profstonge/sta…
-This has been in the reporting for a couple weeks now, but I wanted to see if anything changed as it evolved.
--Apparently not so much, and it’s bad.
--Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing for 6 months. When someone finally decided to track her down, they found her in a memory care facility for her (alleged) dementia.
--From what I can see, “she” (her staffers) was still putting out social media posts, and it seems as if someone may have been voting in her name.
--Term limits. Congress isn’t meant to be a nursing home.
x.com/TimRunsHisMout…
-In the past 2 weeks we’ve discussed Chinese people (agents, assets) being caught in, near, or having accessed sensitive USMIL facilities (Vandenberg, Guam, and others). Now we have another on the East Coast.
--A Chinese “student’s” drone got stuck in a tree near Newport News (VA). When the FBI got ahold of it, they found pictures of multiple sensitive USMIL ship building facilities:
pilotonline.com/2024/12/27/chi…
War/Military:
-The outgoing Biden-Harris administration just announced it will be sending another $2.5bn to UKR.
-Thank you for your patience on this one being late; had an awesome, no phone weekend with the rugrats.
Domestic Politics:
-Former President Jimmy Carter has died.
--I know we should have respect for the dead, so I’ll just mention without elucidation that along with the Iran hostage crisis, Jimmy allowed Rhodesia to be overrun by the communists and her people slaughtered by them, and also gave away the Panama Canal (that a lot of Americans died building).
-Lead DC prosecutor, the J6 rights & Brady evidence-denier Matthew Graves has resigned, according to @julie_kelly2 .
--If you still don’t understand how dirty that process has been, here’s a great article by Julie on the lead “try them in court but don’t provide them Brady evidence” Graves and his wife’s political activism:
realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/…
-Texas AG Ken Paxton has successfully blocked the Biden admin from “auctioning” off the border wall materials that Trump purchased but was blocked by the GOPe from fully building, and Biden-Harris refused to build an inch.
--Reminder that John Cornyn and Bushie GOPe Texas reps tried to impeach Paxton.
-WaPo has published a “clap back” PR rehab for Biden in the wake of the WSJ, NY Post, and other articles citing WH internal staff & sources who said he was non compos mentis for his whole presidency.
--And Bezos wonders why his trash rag gets no respect.
-Some US democrats and their media toadies (including op-eds) are suggesting that Kamabla should not certify the election and electoral college results.
--Reminder: In 2020 they called people “iNsUrReCtIoNiStS!!!” for suggesting that Mike Pence had this authority - and then re-wrote the laws to double-super ensure the VP doesn’t have this authority, that they double-dog swore the VP didn’t have in the first place (although other Constitutional professors and lawyers said he did - and they threatened & took away their law licenses for saying so).
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…
-A report out from @EpochTimes outlines how the Sinaloa Cartel has made South Africa a key hub in their network to manufacture and distribute fentanyl globally, due to its proximity to China (where the precursor chemicals come from):
theepochtimes.com/article/how-af…
-Reports started flowing out today alleging that the CCP hacked the US Treasury Department workstations.
--But remember, election machines are totally, absolutely, positively unhackable and you’re an insurrectionist if you ask to verify that claim.
-Consumer Reports has rated California as the worst of all of the states in the Union to move to.
--In other news, water is wet.
-According to @profstonge the Philly Fed has identified another 653,000 fake jobs that Biden Regime bragged about and the BLS dutifully reported.
--On top of the 818,000 fake jobs they previously identified…how is this not outright fraud?
x.com/profstonge/sta…
-This has been in the reporting for a couple weeks now, but I wanted to see if anything changed as it evolved.
--Apparently not so much, and it’s bad.
--Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing for 6 months. When someone finally decided to track her down, they found her in a memory care facility for her (alleged) dementia.
--From what I can see, “she” (her staffers) was still putting out social media posts, and it seems as if someone may have been voting in her name.
--Term limits. Congress isn’t meant to be a nursing home.
x.com/TimRunsHisMout…
-In the past 2 weeks we’ve discussed Chinese people (agents, assets) being caught in, near, or having accessed sensitive USMIL facilities (Vandenberg, Guam, and others). Now we have another on the East Coast.
--A Chinese “student’s” drone got stuck in a tree near Newport News (VA). When the FBI got ahold of it, they found pictures of multiple sensitive USMIL ship building facilities:
pilotonline.com/2024/12/27/chi…
War/Military:
-The outgoing Biden-Harris administration just announced it will be sending another $2.5bn to UKR.
-The new terrorist group aligned foreign minister of Syria has vowed to “back women’s rights.”
--Spoiler: So did the Taliban after that terrorist group took Afghanistan. They just passed a law requiring that any kitchen or other windows that may show women to the outside world be bricked up.
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
-China has sanctioned 7 US companies over their Taiwan military aid.
--Insitu, Inc, Hudson Technologies Co, Saronic Technologies Inc, Raytheon Canada, Raytheon Australia, Aerkomm Inc, and Oceaneering International Inc all made the naughty list for the CCP.
sofx.com/china-sanction…
-Some are saying that a Gaza doctor who has been given op-ed publishing privileges by the NYT is actually a high-ranking member of Hamas:
x.com/MarinaMedvin/s…
-Along the same lines, the new Intel Chief for Syria Anas Hassan Khattab, former Al Qaeda commander and co-founder of al Nusra.
--So I guess he’ll fit right in with our (current) Intel chiefs.
Science/Health:
-They are really, really trying to sell the Bird Flu scare to be of the same magnitude of the Coof scare.
--Unfortunately for them, they’re using the same propagandists who lied about Coof at every stage, so nobody’s buying.
--Reminder that we previously covered a 2022 USA Today article outlining how Gain-of-Function USGOV-created Bird Flu may have escaped from a University lab.
--Not again, not gonna do it, hard pass, GFY.
-As the term “seed oils” makes its way more and more into the zeitgeist and their potential dangers being exposed by those who pay close attention to their personal health, many “normies” are still trying to figure out what exactly seed oils are, and why they are bad.
--Here’s an article from @zerohedge that may help you understand: Cooking Oil Used by Millions Linked to Cancer in Second Study in a Week:
zerohedge.com/medical/cookin…
-Many people have a hard time believing that their doctors willingly lied to them about shots, and they are probably correct more often than not (but not always).
--Many doctors were hoodwinked themselves, but got caught pushing things they had been told or sent by the “authorities” without doing any due diligence of their own.
--Case in point: From @JoshWalkos we have video of Dr. Teresa Holtrop’s testimony. She is the President of the Michigan American Academy of Pediatrics being questioned about the ingredients that are in things she vehemently defends.
--Spoiler: She doesn’t seem to know quite as much about them as one would hope given her strong support of them.
--“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain
x.com/JoshWalkos/sta…
Markets/economics:
-@Mayhem4Markets brought us some bad PMI news today in the Chicago PMI reading:
--Prior reading and forecast: 42.7
--Actual current reading: 36.9
x.com/Mayhem4Markets…
-Defaults on US credit card loans have now hit the highest levels since the 2008 GFC, according to @MacroEdgeRes
-US market and SPX technicals are flashing warning signs; we’re currently in a Bull Volatile/Bull Quiet regime, meaning it’s going up but showing shakiness in the foundation.
--52-week high vs lows, McClellan Summation Index, 10-year yield oscillator, and 3-year aggregate fund flows hitting 100% show that it’s a very good time to have your head on a swivel if you’re an investor.
-We mentioned on Monday the sovereign debt crisis that Brazil is in with progressive Lula at the helm. Their currency has been one of the worst performing in the world as well, and Brazil’s Central Bank just stepped in today (Monday) with a $1.8 billion spot sale to try to save it.
finance.yahoo.com/news/brazil-le…
-All of the US major market indices were red going into the close today (Monday), as was gold, with oil (again) being the only one trading in the green.
--European markets were also in the red, which is interesting.
--Most of the Asian markets were also in the red - also interesting.
-The USD/JPY currency pair is remaining below that $160 mark, around $157 Monday.
--Spoiler: So did the Taliban after that terrorist group took Afghanistan. They just passed a law requiring that any kitchen or other windows that may show women to the outside world be bricked up.
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
-China has sanctioned 7 US companies over their Taiwan military aid.
--Insitu, Inc, Hudson Technologies Co, Saronic Technologies Inc, Raytheon Canada, Raytheon Australia, Aerkomm Inc, and Oceaneering International Inc all made the naughty list for the CCP.
sofx.com/china-sanction…
-Some are saying that a Gaza doctor who has been given op-ed publishing privileges by the NYT is actually a high-ranking member of Hamas:
x.com/MarinaMedvin/s…
-Along the same lines, the new Intel Chief for Syria Anas Hassan Khattab, former Al Qaeda commander and co-founder of al Nusra.
--So I guess he’ll fit right in with our (current) Intel chiefs.
Science/Health:
-They are really, really trying to sell the Bird Flu scare to be of the same magnitude of the Coof scare.
--Unfortunately for them, they’re using the same propagandists who lied about Coof at every stage, so nobody’s buying.
--Reminder that we previously covered a 2022 USA Today article outlining how Gain-of-Function USGOV-created Bird Flu may have escaped from a University lab.
--Not again, not gonna do it, hard pass, GFY.
-As the term “seed oils” makes its way more and more into the zeitgeist and their potential dangers being exposed by those who pay close attention to their personal health, many “normies” are still trying to figure out what exactly seed oils are, and why they are bad.
--Here’s an article from @zerohedge that may help you understand: Cooking Oil Used by Millions Linked to Cancer in Second Study in a Week:
zerohedge.com/medical/cookin…
-Many people have a hard time believing that their doctors willingly lied to them about shots, and they are probably correct more often than not (but not always).
--Many doctors were hoodwinked themselves, but got caught pushing things they had been told or sent by the “authorities” without doing any due diligence of their own.
--Case in point: From @JoshWalkos we have video of Dr. Teresa Holtrop’s testimony. She is the President of the Michigan American Academy of Pediatrics being questioned about the ingredients that are in things she vehemently defends.
--Spoiler: She doesn’t seem to know quite as much about them as one would hope given her strong support of them.
--“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain
x.com/JoshWalkos/sta…
Markets/economics:
-@Mayhem4Markets brought us some bad PMI news today in the Chicago PMI reading:
--Prior reading and forecast: 42.7
--Actual current reading: 36.9
x.com/Mayhem4Markets…
-Defaults on US credit card loans have now hit the highest levels since the 2008 GFC, according to @MacroEdgeRes
-US market and SPX technicals are flashing warning signs; we’re currently in a Bull Volatile/Bull Quiet regime, meaning it’s going up but showing shakiness in the foundation.
--52-week high vs lows, McClellan Summation Index, 10-year yield oscillator, and 3-year aggregate fund flows hitting 100% show that it’s a very good time to have your head on a swivel if you’re an investor.
-We mentioned on Monday the sovereign debt crisis that Brazil is in with progressive Lula at the helm. Their currency has been one of the worst performing in the world as well, and Brazil’s Central Bank just stepped in today (Monday) with a $1.8 billion spot sale to try to save it.
finance.yahoo.com/news/brazil-le…
-All of the US major market indices were red going into the close today (Monday), as was gold, with oil (again) being the only one trading in the green.
--European markets were also in the red, which is interesting.
--Most of the Asian markets were also in the red - also interesting.
-The USD/JPY currency pair is remaining below that $160 mark, around $157 Monday.
-USD/CAD has been dropping, down to $1.4351 as of the time of this writing.
-Conversely, USD/MXN is mooning, up to $20.6387 as of the time of this writing.
-BTC is down to $94,299.40 as of the time of this writing.
--With +150% gains this year, some end of the year profit taking is expected in the BTC realm.
--MSTR is about to start going ham buying BTC. Not personal investment advice, but, anyone interested in buying BTC may want to be ahead of those passive inflow buys from the newly added Nasdaq crypto exposure fund.
-US Natural Gas surged 16% as warnings of an arctic blast are being given by weather forecasters.
-The US home median sale price has dropped -6.3% YoY, down to $402,600 from $429,600.
Business:
-3 more Boeing airplane malfunctions over the weekend, some serious and some not as much.
--S. Korean budget airline Jeju Air had one of their Boeing planes crash, killing 179 in the nation’s deadliest airline crash on record.
--A 2nd Boeing plane used by Jeju Air experienced landing gear malfunction, reportedly the same model plane as the first.
--A KLM plane, also made by Boeing, also had a landing gear-related incident in Oslo.
-As large companies and universities are shutting down their DEI/woke programs, and even Big Oil & Wall Street firms are backing away from ESG/Climate Cartel demands, Costco board members are urging shareholders to reject calls for the retailer to end its DEI programs:
theepochtimes.com/us/costco-boar…?
Geopolitics:
-The French-born and former French government official who resided as President of the nation of Georgia has officially left office and her populist replacement was sworn in today, despite her previous protestations that she wouldn’t leave office.
-The Canadian House of Commons is pushing for a no confidence vote for First Lady Justin Trudeau on January 7, 2025.
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…
Conspiracy-y:
A new report and interview with a CIA whistleblower from @C__Herridge claims that foreign Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) are the cause of Havana Syndrome, that the DoD and USGOV know this is the cause, and yet they refuse to acknowledge it.
How long until we can add this as another check mark on the board for the “conspiracy theorists” versus the “USGOV and DoD stenographers in the media?”
x.com/C__Herridge/st…
White Pill:
With all of the craziness going on around us, there are still people who are pushing forward no matter what. We’ve talked about the Prime Movers quite a bit, but there is another important element of people who refuse to stop, and, in my personal opinion, are just as important for the sanity of society: comedians.
On that note, I came across a video of some chucklehead doing a full rendition of Danzig’s Mother in the voice and dress of South Park’s Eric Cartman.
Thank you for sharing this, @punt_rd , you gave me a serious case of the LOLs.
x.com/punt_rd/status…
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-China hacking the US Treasury (but they totally can’t ever hack voting machines), and more Chinese nationals getting caught spying on sensitive USMIL facilities in the US. Hey, at least we didn’t offshore much of our critical manufacturing base to the CCP…oh, wait.
-Democrats went hard on saying that Pence couldn’t delay or refuse certification, rewrote the laws to ensure the VP couldn’t do so (why was that needed if they were telling the truth in the first place?), and now are nudging Kamabla to do what they previously said wasn’t legal and made anyone who tried or suggested it an insurrectionist. If it wasn’t for double standards, progressives wouldn’t have any.
-PMI keeps falling, credit and loan delinquencies keep rising, and fake job numbers that were pushed to help the Biden-Harris facade keep getting revised away. It’s going to take a lot of work to fix what has been broken.
Implications:
From Bird Flu to total war to Janet Yellen & the Philly Fed suddenly admitting the Biden-Harris Regime mucked up the economy totally, The Machine is showing its hand. We knew it was coming, and there is probably more in store.
-Conversely, USD/MXN is mooning, up to $20.6387 as of the time of this writing.
-BTC is down to $94,299.40 as of the time of this writing.
--With +150% gains this year, some end of the year profit taking is expected in the BTC realm.
--MSTR is about to start going ham buying BTC. Not personal investment advice, but, anyone interested in buying BTC may want to be ahead of those passive inflow buys from the newly added Nasdaq crypto exposure fund.
-US Natural Gas surged 16% as warnings of an arctic blast are being given by weather forecasters.
-The US home median sale price has dropped -6.3% YoY, down to $402,600 from $429,600.
Business:
-3 more Boeing airplane malfunctions over the weekend, some serious and some not as much.
--S. Korean budget airline Jeju Air had one of their Boeing planes crash, killing 179 in the nation’s deadliest airline crash on record.
--A 2nd Boeing plane used by Jeju Air experienced landing gear malfunction, reportedly the same model plane as the first.
--A KLM plane, also made by Boeing, also had a landing gear-related incident in Oslo.
-As large companies and universities are shutting down their DEI/woke programs, and even Big Oil & Wall Street firms are backing away from ESG/Climate Cartel demands, Costco board members are urging shareholders to reject calls for the retailer to end its DEI programs:
theepochtimes.com/us/costco-boar…?
Geopolitics:
-The French-born and former French government official who resided as President of the nation of Georgia has officially left office and her populist replacement was sworn in today, despite her previous protestations that she wouldn’t leave office.
-The Canadian House of Commons is pushing for a no confidence vote for First Lady Justin Trudeau on January 7, 2025.
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…
Conspiracy-y:
A new report and interview with a CIA whistleblower from @C__Herridge claims that foreign Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) are the cause of Havana Syndrome, that the DoD and USGOV know this is the cause, and yet they refuse to acknowledge it.
How long until we can add this as another check mark on the board for the “conspiracy theorists” versus the “USGOV and DoD stenographers in the media?”
x.com/C__Herridge/st…
White Pill:
With all of the craziness going on around us, there are still people who are pushing forward no matter what. We’ve talked about the Prime Movers quite a bit, but there is another important element of people who refuse to stop, and, in my personal opinion, are just as important for the sanity of society: comedians.
On that note, I came across a video of some chucklehead doing a full rendition of Danzig’s Mother in the voice and dress of South Park’s Eric Cartman.
Thank you for sharing this, @punt_rd , you gave me a serious case of the LOLs.
x.com/punt_rd/status…
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-China hacking the US Treasury (but they totally can’t ever hack voting machines), and more Chinese nationals getting caught spying on sensitive USMIL facilities in the US. Hey, at least we didn’t offshore much of our critical manufacturing base to the CCP…oh, wait.
-Democrats went hard on saying that Pence couldn’t delay or refuse certification, rewrote the laws to ensure the VP couldn’t do so (why was that needed if they were telling the truth in the first place?), and now are nudging Kamabla to do what they previously said wasn’t legal and made anyone who tried or suggested it an insurrectionist. If it wasn’t for double standards, progressives wouldn’t have any.
-PMI keeps falling, credit and loan delinquencies keep rising, and fake job numbers that were pushed to help the Biden-Harris facade keep getting revised away. It’s going to take a lot of work to fix what has been broken.
Implications:
From Bird Flu to total war to Janet Yellen & the Philly Fed suddenly admitting the Biden-Harris Regime mucked up the economy totally, The Machine is showing its hand. We knew it was coming, and there is probably more in store.
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Just understand that this is a dying animal trying to make its last grasps to hold on to power.
Stay the course.
The Weekly Read (Monday):
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything and The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field by Ervin Laszlo
amazon.com/Science-Akashi…
amazon.com/dp/1594772983
The podcast The Telepathy Tapes is blowing the minds of a lot of “normies” who hadn’t previously looked into or considered these types of phenomenon before, but there are people who have been looking into these things for a very long time.
I received the first of these books (Science and the Akashic Field) over a decade ago. It greatly influenced topics that I began to look into, like The Stone Tape Theory, The Memory of Water, The Power of Intention, and other phenomena that there was plenty of evidence for, but mainstream science (and funding) had no interest in investigating.
Each of these theories influenced my fiction writing, because I hoped readers would find them interesting and dive into them deeply on their own.
Whether you want to call it the Akashic field, “the ether,” other dimensions, or simply some people being more “sensitive” than others, there is a significant amount of evidence that the natural world around us has some way to maintain information and historical “memories” that we can neither see nor quantify, yet some humans seem to have the ability to “tap into.”
I love these books because they aren’t “hippy dippy;” they are a scientific approach to understanding and explaining the phenomena. Have a read if you are a science-minded contrarian who is interested in understanding some of the biggest questions that we currently don’t have any real answers for.
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outtro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…
Stay the course.
The Weekly Read (Monday):
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything and The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field by Ervin Laszlo
amazon.com/Science-Akashi…
amazon.com/dp/1594772983
The podcast The Telepathy Tapes is blowing the minds of a lot of “normies” who hadn’t previously looked into or considered these types of phenomenon before, but there are people who have been looking into these things for a very long time.
I received the first of these books (Science and the Akashic Field) over a decade ago. It greatly influenced topics that I began to look into, like The Stone Tape Theory, The Memory of Water, The Power of Intention, and other phenomena that there was plenty of evidence for, but mainstream science (and funding) had no interest in investigating.
Each of these theories influenced my fiction writing, because I hoped readers would find them interesting and dive into them deeply on their own.
Whether you want to call it the Akashic field, “the ether,” other dimensions, or simply some people being more “sensitive” than others, there is a significant amount of evidence that the natural world around us has some way to maintain information and historical “memories” that we can neither see nor quantify, yet some humans seem to have the ability to “tap into.”
I love these books because they aren’t “hippy dippy;” they are a scientific approach to understanding and explaining the phenomena. Have a read if you are a science-minded contrarian who is interested in understanding some of the biggest questions that we currently don’t have any real answers for.
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outtro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…