The Shitshow Macro Weekly Prep Podcast for Monday January 13, 2025 is out:
-The next longform Radically Changing Our Understanding of the Human Experience & Timeline went up at the end of last week.
--The long-form post will likely come out from behind the paywall (free for all to read) on Tuesday, and the podcast on Wednesday.
Domestic Politics:
-It’s bad enough that the Palisades Reservoir was empty when the fires hit. It’s worse that the CA politicians and media are lying about it. Despite those things, the whole story is even worse.
--It’s not just water - the full reservoirs are needed to ensure the pressure exists for maximum output capacity when they are needed…like in a fire.
--The article below from @zerohedge explains:
zerohedge.com/political/why-…
-Speaking of unforced errors by California politicians, it began to surface today (Sunday) that The Pentagon had made 500 Marines and 10 helos available to help Thursday - but the needed request has not been made to utilize them yet.
--Here’s a video of the “why” response, and it’s maddening. Consider this when you see the stories of looters and arsonists and how 500 Marines may be a bit helpful in that regard.
--Video shared by @TheChiefNerd :
x.com/TheChiefNerd/s…
-Jack Smith unceremoniously resigned from the DOJ in shame on Friday.
-We all know the US media is full of dumb, lazy, and nefarious people…but just how dumb, lazy, and nefarious are they?
--An online shitposter wanted to test this question by offering a bit of anti-Elon chum to a “journalist” for Fortune and Business Insider.
--If what he alleges is true, well, you can read for yourself:
zerohedge.com/political/they…
-Oklahoma Senator Lankford, who lied about the BS border bill that he tried to push last year, dropped another lie on Meet the Press today (Sunday).
--Lankford claimed Section 702 doesn’t affect Americans. This is a lie - 702 affects Americans specifically. FISA is “supposed to be” pointed at non-Americans, although in reality it has also been used (a lot) to spy on Americans (illegally, unconstitutionally) as well:
x.com/TheLastRefuge2…
--If you don’t know the difference between FISA and 702, I outlined those differences in Masks Off Part 3: Castles Built on Bullshit:
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
-The FBI is still hiding and redacting its involvement and “predicate” for Spygate:
realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/…
-Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger ) shared a chart on X that is important for people to understand just how much BS the media, Newsom, et al are shoveling when they blame the fires on climate change.
--California has, and has always had, a “chaparral” climate. There are years with exceptionally heavy rainfall, which leads to heavy snowpack, which leads to awesome skiing, but is also, always, followed by years with lower rainfall.
--This is why many of us who know how the world works and understand pattern recognition felt something bad was going to happen when Sacramento (i.e. Newsom and his virtue signaling minions) allowed the last large snowpack melt to flow back into the ocean (a year ago):
x.com/shellenberger/…
--I will include the chart in the show notes because this is important, Day 1 stuff.
War/Military:
-We’ve discussed previously how the USMIL leadership ignored a DARPA study that showed the shots were likely to be net-zero benefit at best, and harmful at worst.
--A new report shows they may have also ignored reports that the military had likely achieved “herd immunity” by June 2021 - and decided to issue the mandate anyway.
wnd.com/2025/01/defens…
-It has become public that the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) is investigating the elite Special Boat Service (SBS) for the death of a suspected terrorist in Libya during one of its ops.
--As a testimony to why JAG officers run amok destroy militaries (which the USMIL saw begin under Obama), the investigation is because a pencil pusher thinks they could have arrested rather than kill the target they had been sent after.
-The next longform Radically Changing Our Understanding of the Human Experience & Timeline went up at the end of last week.
--The long-form post will likely come out from behind the paywall (free for all to read) on Tuesday, and the podcast on Wednesday.
Domestic Politics:
-It’s bad enough that the Palisades Reservoir was empty when the fires hit. It’s worse that the CA politicians and media are lying about it. Despite those things, the whole story is even worse.
--It’s not just water - the full reservoirs are needed to ensure the pressure exists for maximum output capacity when they are needed…like in a fire.
--The article below from @zerohedge explains:
zerohedge.com/political/why-…
-Speaking of unforced errors by California politicians, it began to surface today (Sunday) that The Pentagon had made 500 Marines and 10 helos available to help Thursday - but the needed request has not been made to utilize them yet.
--Here’s a video of the “why” response, and it’s maddening. Consider this when you see the stories of looters and arsonists and how 500 Marines may be a bit helpful in that regard.
--Video shared by @TheChiefNerd :
x.com/TheChiefNerd/s…
-Jack Smith unceremoniously resigned from the DOJ in shame on Friday.
-We all know the US media is full of dumb, lazy, and nefarious people…but just how dumb, lazy, and nefarious are they?
--An online shitposter wanted to test this question by offering a bit of anti-Elon chum to a “journalist” for Fortune and Business Insider.
--If what he alleges is true, well, you can read for yourself:
zerohedge.com/political/they…
-Oklahoma Senator Lankford, who lied about the BS border bill that he tried to push last year, dropped another lie on Meet the Press today (Sunday).
--Lankford claimed Section 702 doesn’t affect Americans. This is a lie - 702 affects Americans specifically. FISA is “supposed to be” pointed at non-Americans, although in reality it has also been used (a lot) to spy on Americans (illegally, unconstitutionally) as well:
x.com/TheLastRefuge2…
--If you don’t know the difference between FISA and 702, I outlined those differences in Masks Off Part 3: Castles Built on Bullshit:
open.substack.com/pub/robertplew…
-The FBI is still hiding and redacting its involvement and “predicate” for Spygate:
realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/…
-Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger ) shared a chart on X that is important for people to understand just how much BS the media, Newsom, et al are shoveling when they blame the fires on climate change.
--California has, and has always had, a “chaparral” climate. There are years with exceptionally heavy rainfall, which leads to heavy snowpack, which leads to awesome skiing, but is also, always, followed by years with lower rainfall.
--This is why many of us who know how the world works and understand pattern recognition felt something bad was going to happen when Sacramento (i.e. Newsom and his virtue signaling minions) allowed the last large snowpack melt to flow back into the ocean (a year ago):
x.com/shellenberger/…
--I will include the chart in the show notes because this is important, Day 1 stuff.
War/Military:
-We’ve discussed previously how the USMIL leadership ignored a DARPA study that showed the shots were likely to be net-zero benefit at best, and harmful at worst.
--A new report shows they may have also ignored reports that the military had likely achieved “herd immunity” by June 2021 - and decided to issue the mandate anyway.
wnd.com/2025/01/defens…
-It has become public that the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) is investigating the elite Special Boat Service (SBS) for the death of a suspected terrorist in Libya during one of its ops.
--As a testimony to why JAG officers run amok destroy militaries (which the USMIL saw begin under Obama), the investigation is because a pencil pusher thinks they could have arrested rather than kill the target they had been sent after.
Zerohedge
404 | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
--Why didn’t they simply send police then, if that is considered a problem?
--Note to JAGs and politicians: don’t send men to war and expect patty cake.
sofx.com/uk-special-boa…
-Videos have surfaced that alleged the current justice minister in Syria may have been involved in overseeing the execution of two women for “corruption and prostitution” in Idlib in 2015.
--I wonder if Germany’s finance minister Analeena asked about that during her recent visit.
sofx.com/syrian-justice…
-The UN will not respond to nor investigate the report (and plenty of evidence that we’ve seen) of UNWRA leadership and employees being members of or working with Hamas.
--Thanks for sharing the screen grab, @EYakoby . Reason 5,432,793 the UN is a total joke:
x.com/EYakoby/status…
Science/Health:
-The FDA has mandated that 2 of the RSV vaccines include warnings about possible nerve damage from taking them.
--Good to see the FDA cares about potential harm now:
zerohedge.com/medical/fda-ma…
Religion:
Joe Rogan going deep with Christian guests:
-Mel Gibson (highly recommend)
open.spotify.com/episode/5BubXI…
-Wesley Huff ( @WesleyLHuff ) - also highly recommend
open.spotify.com/episode/0alzUZ…
Markets/economics:
-This week is set to bring economic reports on inflation (Tues and Wed), housing activity, and retail sales.
-To that point, an article in Zero Hedge asks a question that many have been asking. This time it’s in reference to the “hot” jobs report (that was higher than nearly every estimate) that saw the market tumble: what if nobody believes the official data anymore?
zerohedge.com/markets/jobs-r…
-Oil has hit a 4-month high, at $78.28 as of this writing (Sunday evening).
-Natural gas is up another 6% Sunday evening.
Market futures markets opened lower but pushed higher Sunday evening, save for the Russell 2000 which started and stayed in the red, as of this writing.
-The currency pairs that we have been tracking are all staying within their recent sideways movements, for now.
Business:
-This week will also see quarterly financial reports from the big banks (JP Morgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley) as well as Taiwan Semiconductor Company.
Social dynamics/societal/culture war/Legal:
-Over in Fulton, “Big” Fani Willis has been ordered by a judge to pay the attorney’s fees for the open records requests concerning her involvement with the J6 Cmte:
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/n…
-This article is a long one, but important. The “competence crisis” is bad enough on its face. It gets far worse when you realize that none of the catastrophes that we are seeing due to incompetence occurs in a vacuum.
--IMO, we have only begun to see the reverberations of crises and catastrophes due to moving away from meritocracy in all forms of society:
palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/com…
-It is being reported that BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors had 2 of her 3 mansions burn down in the Palisades fire.
Conspiracy-y:
Does anyone else find it odd that after it was confirmed that the questions about both NOLA and Vegas from 1/1 have completely fallen off of the radar? A lot of people attacked Shawn Ryan & Samosaur saying the emails they released were fake, but then it was confirmed they were real, and the discussion disappeared.
Weird, right?
Let’s go back to another episode that has a lot of weirdness yet still no answers: Butler, PA and the attempt on Trump.
@JD_cashless seems to be the only one still interested in figuring out what in the world happened in Butler that day. Here is a list of the strange “firsts” that all occurred that day:
The July 13 Trump rally had many firsts:
-It was the first time Secret Service's Myosoty Perez oversaw site security for an outdoor rally.
-It was the first time Chase Clowser served as the Protective Intelligence agent -- responsible for gathering intel about threats in the area.
-It was the first time an unidentified agent worked as the counter-sniper response agent -- the counterpart on the ground for the snipers on the rooftop.
--Note to JAGs and politicians: don’t send men to war and expect patty cake.
sofx.com/uk-special-boa…
-Videos have surfaced that alleged the current justice minister in Syria may have been involved in overseeing the execution of two women for “corruption and prostitution” in Idlib in 2015.
--I wonder if Germany’s finance minister Analeena asked about that during her recent visit.
sofx.com/syrian-justice…
-The UN will not respond to nor investigate the report (and plenty of evidence that we’ve seen) of UNWRA leadership and employees being members of or working with Hamas.
--Thanks for sharing the screen grab, @EYakoby . Reason 5,432,793 the UN is a total joke:
x.com/EYakoby/status…
Science/Health:
-The FDA has mandated that 2 of the RSV vaccines include warnings about possible nerve damage from taking them.
--Good to see the FDA cares about potential harm now:
zerohedge.com/medical/fda-ma…
Religion:
Joe Rogan going deep with Christian guests:
-Mel Gibson (highly recommend)
open.spotify.com/episode/5BubXI…
-Wesley Huff ( @WesleyLHuff ) - also highly recommend
open.spotify.com/episode/0alzUZ…
Markets/economics:
-This week is set to bring economic reports on inflation (Tues and Wed), housing activity, and retail sales.
-To that point, an article in Zero Hedge asks a question that many have been asking. This time it’s in reference to the “hot” jobs report (that was higher than nearly every estimate) that saw the market tumble: what if nobody believes the official data anymore?
zerohedge.com/markets/jobs-r…
-Oil has hit a 4-month high, at $78.28 as of this writing (Sunday evening).
-Natural gas is up another 6% Sunday evening.
Market futures markets opened lower but pushed higher Sunday evening, save for the Russell 2000 which started and stayed in the red, as of this writing.
-The currency pairs that we have been tracking are all staying within their recent sideways movements, for now.
Business:
-This week will also see quarterly financial reports from the big banks (JP Morgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley) as well as Taiwan Semiconductor Company.
Social dynamics/societal/culture war/Legal:
-Over in Fulton, “Big” Fani Willis has been ordered by a judge to pay the attorney’s fees for the open records requests concerning her involvement with the J6 Cmte:
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/n…
-This article is a long one, but important. The “competence crisis” is bad enough on its face. It gets far worse when you realize that none of the catastrophes that we are seeing due to incompetence occurs in a vacuum.
--IMO, we have only begun to see the reverberations of crises and catastrophes due to moving away from meritocracy in all forms of society:
palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/com…
-It is being reported that BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors had 2 of her 3 mansions burn down in the Palisades fire.
Conspiracy-y:
Does anyone else find it odd that after it was confirmed that the questions about both NOLA and Vegas from 1/1 have completely fallen off of the radar? A lot of people attacked Shawn Ryan & Samosaur saying the emails they released were fake, but then it was confirmed they were real, and the discussion disappeared.
Weird, right?
Let’s go back to another episode that has a lot of weirdness yet still no answers: Butler, PA and the attempt on Trump.
@JD_cashless seems to be the only one still interested in figuring out what in the world happened in Butler that day. Here is a list of the strange “firsts” that all occurred that day:
The July 13 Trump rally had many firsts:
-It was the first time Secret Service's Myosoty Perez oversaw site security for an outdoor rally.
-It was the first time Chase Clowser served as the Protective Intelligence agent -- responsible for gathering intel about threats in the area.
-It was the first time an unidentified agent worked as the counter-sniper response agent -- the counterpart on the ground for the snipers on the rooftop.
SOFX
UK Special Boat Service Soldiers Face Investigation for Libya Operation
Elite soldiers from the U.K.’s Special Boat Service (SBS) are under investigation for the death of a suspected terrorist during
-It was the first time counter-snipers were sent to a former POTUS event.
-It was the first time for most officers working at an event with segregated local and federal command posts.
-It was the first time the CUAS agent had his drone-detection system malfunction.
I will briefly mention on the podcast how this list of firsts "weirdly" aligns with an anecdote in the book I'm currently reading, JFK and the Unspeakable
x.com/JD_Cashless/st…
White Pill:
While the “if it bleeds, it leads” news and videos seem to take center stage in the media and on social media, there are still good and heroic people among us.
We’ve seen many versions of brave men battling the fires in California, and those men will enjoy rich lives from this point forward for being given the opportunity to do what they were built to do, trained to do, and signed up to do (step into the face of danger and win).
Every so often we see heroism of another form - someone who isn’t doing what they were trained to do, but step up at a moment’s notice when needed. A good society with a chance at survival will help and reward those who do so - as they will those in the first category (first responders).
Here’s a video of one such instance - a man jumping into a freezing lake to save a dog, with strangers rushing to warm them both when they emerge from the water.
Things like this and those stepping into the fray to battle the fires show us that humanity remains, heroes are still among us (in many forms), and we’re gonna make it:
x.com/CNviolations/s…
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-They say that there are only 3 sureties in life (life, death, and taxes), but lying politicians should be added to that list. From Democrats using the fires to push people to ActBlue to Lankford lying about laws again, this cannot continue. A functioning Republic requires an enlightened populace, and grifting politicos love gaslighting the low-info parts of the population.
-With the latest herd immunity report revelation regarding forced shots in the military, we need unvarnished answers on the 5Ws on how in the world that was ever allowed to go forward (mandates) and accountability needs to be had. If you want the recruitment crisis reversed, accountability at all levels is a first, vital, step.
-Joe Rogan went from a pretty outspoken atheist to entertaining the idea that God is the universe (The Absolute), to now having significant Christian voices on the largest platform in the world. In the end, God wins.
Implications:
I hate to be “that guy,” but it deserves saying…if one really studies and understands the great cycles of history, things have to get very ugly before serious changes are made and reformations are to occur.
Yes, it is an unfortunate aspect of “the human condition” that most would rather stay asleep and pretend that everything is fine. The part of The Matrix describing those who will fight you in order to remain asleep was one of the more realistic lines delivered in the entire movie.
Have we hit full ejection speed for the cancerous tumor that is progressivism to be excised from the public as virtuous yet? As the wise man once said, “we shall see.”
The Weekly Read (Monday):
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Entangled Reality by Dean Radin, PhD
amazon.com/Entangled-Mind…
The latest long-form post & podcast for Shitshow Macro covered a host of topics (both metaphysical and physical) that I’ve been interested in and looking into for over a decade. Many of the books, videos, links, memos, white papers, and other “receipts” included things that I’d already found, read, and watched over the years.
This new book by Radin was one that I had not previously read, and it’s a good addition for those who “don’t believe in this stuff.” Radin works for the Institute for Noetic Sciences, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell after he experienced the “overview effect” while looking down on the earth from space. He wasn’t able to shake the feeling that there is more to life & the universe than materialist science can quantify.
-It was the first time for most officers working at an event with segregated local and federal command posts.
-It was the first time the CUAS agent had his drone-detection system malfunction.
I will briefly mention on the podcast how this list of firsts "weirdly" aligns with an anecdote in the book I'm currently reading, JFK and the Unspeakable
x.com/JD_Cashless/st…
White Pill:
While the “if it bleeds, it leads” news and videos seem to take center stage in the media and on social media, there are still good and heroic people among us.
We’ve seen many versions of brave men battling the fires in California, and those men will enjoy rich lives from this point forward for being given the opportunity to do what they were built to do, trained to do, and signed up to do (step into the face of danger and win).
Every so often we see heroism of another form - someone who isn’t doing what they were trained to do, but step up at a moment’s notice when needed. A good society with a chance at survival will help and reward those who do so - as they will those in the first category (first responders).
Here’s a video of one such instance - a man jumping into a freezing lake to save a dog, with strangers rushing to warm them both when they emerge from the water.
Things like this and those stepping into the fray to battle the fires show us that humanity remains, heroes are still among us (in many forms), and we’re gonna make it:
x.com/CNviolations/s…
Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-They say that there are only 3 sureties in life (life, death, and taxes), but lying politicians should be added to that list. From Democrats using the fires to push people to ActBlue to Lankford lying about laws again, this cannot continue. A functioning Republic requires an enlightened populace, and grifting politicos love gaslighting the low-info parts of the population.
-With the latest herd immunity report revelation regarding forced shots in the military, we need unvarnished answers on the 5Ws on how in the world that was ever allowed to go forward (mandates) and accountability needs to be had. If you want the recruitment crisis reversed, accountability at all levels is a first, vital, step.
-Joe Rogan went from a pretty outspoken atheist to entertaining the idea that God is the universe (The Absolute), to now having significant Christian voices on the largest platform in the world. In the end, God wins.
Implications:
I hate to be “that guy,” but it deserves saying…if one really studies and understands the great cycles of history, things have to get very ugly before serious changes are made and reformations are to occur.
Yes, it is an unfortunate aspect of “the human condition” that most would rather stay asleep and pretend that everything is fine. The part of The Matrix describing those who will fight you in order to remain asleep was one of the more realistic lines delivered in the entire movie.
Have we hit full ejection speed for the cancerous tumor that is progressivism to be excised from the public as virtuous yet? As the wise man once said, “we shall see.”
The Weekly Read (Monday):
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Entangled Reality by Dean Radin, PhD
amazon.com/Entangled-Mind…
The latest long-form post & podcast for Shitshow Macro covered a host of topics (both metaphysical and physical) that I’ve been interested in and looking into for over a decade. Many of the books, videos, links, memos, white papers, and other “receipts” included things that I’d already found, read, and watched over the years.
This new book by Radin was one that I had not previously read, and it’s a good addition for those who “don’t believe in this stuff.” Radin works for the Institute for Noetic Sciences, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell after he experienced the “overview effect” while looking down on the earth from space. He wasn’t able to shake the feeling that there is more to life & the universe than materialist science can quantify.
Radin, his experiments, his data, and his book offer a scientific approach and evidence that there is something to this world and “the human experience” that we still aren’t quite able to quantify. It’s certainly worth a read if this is all new to you.
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…
California Rainfall Patterns Chart
(image won't display on X but is in the post on Sub - link in my X header and below in the comments)
Links mentioned in the show:
Intro & Outro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…
California Rainfall Patterns Chart
(image won't display on X but is in the post on Sub - link in my X header and below in the comments)