“You gotta love this guy, he smokes Bud Light, Target, and Ford all at the same time!”
Bill’s commentary:
“Superheroes? How about not quite right in the head? I am sure the Chinese and Russians quake in their boots every time they see an American male General wearing a dress? Please send your complaints to my human resources department!”
Rachel Levine, the Assistant Secretary of Health in the United States, delivered a speech on Wednesday during an event organized by the US Department of Education.
Levine, a biological male who identifies as a woman, emphasized the importance of “gender affirming care,” which he referred to as child sex changes, stating that it is “medically necessary, safe, and effective for transgender and non-binary youth.”
“So you wanted to know the “mechanics” of how they suppress gold and silver prices?”
On March 17, 2022, the Federal Reserve began its interest rate hiking cycle, which has, thus far, evolved into 10 consecutive rate hikes, making it the fastest rate increases in 40 years. The Fed’s actions to tame inflation included four consecutive interest rate hikes of an aggressive 75 basis point hike (three quarters of one percent) on June 16, July 28, September 22, and November 3 of last year.
At that point, every trading veteran on Wall Street was scratching their head and asking themselves the same question: why aren’t we hearing about interest rate derivatives blowing up and taking down either a U.S. mega bank or its counterparty on the wrong side of the trade?
Raytheon Chief Executive Greg Hayes admitted last week that Beijing effectively has the US military’s supply chain by the balls thanks to its reliance on rare earths and other materials which come from, or are processed in, China.
“Do you see the humor in this? Or at least the irony?”
Back in 2015, Hamtramck in Michigan became the first American city to elect a Muslim-majority council. Naturally, liberals celebrated this milestone for multiculturalism, while leading media outlets hailed it as a triumphant success. “Residents in Hamtramck from different religious and cultural backgrounds coexist in harmony,” beamed the BBC.
Sadly, however, this verdict may now need to be reconsidered. Because Hamtramck’s Muslim council has just voted to ban Pride flags: the rainbow-coloured symbols of the LGBT community.
At a March 13 court hearing this year, prominent attorney, David Boies, argued in open court that the largest federally-insured bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase – which has more than 5,000 Chase bank branches holding mom and pop savings from coast to coast – had used a private jet owned by the bank’s hedge fund, Highbridge Capital, to transport girls for Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
“Censorship is the new “politically correct”. The problem is, truth is no longer the truth, it is hate speech if some warped idiot politician decides it is hate speech.”
The Irish Green Party followed many on the left around the world, including our own Democratic Party, this week and came out for censorship and speech controls. Indeed, the party went full Orwellian as its chairwoman Pauline O’Reilly called for “restricting freedom” to protect it.
“One thing Erik failed to mention is, if you cannot “catch up” to a weapon, how do you defeat it? Have you followed the hypersonic race over the past several years …and which country still has not left the starting gate?”
Bill’s commentary:
“So yes, we will soon find out what happens when interest rates go up on an over-levered system. But what’s up with the huge decline in life expectancy? Can you say elephant in the room?”
‘Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.’ Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild. (1777-1836).
Bill’s commentary:
“Have you ever seen the result when someone keeps poking a hornets nest with a stick?”
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies’ undersea communication cables given what he said was Western complicity in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts.
“Anti LGBT laws are threatening our military readiness? All I can say, if I were faced with a choice of fighting someone to the death who was wearing a skirt, makeup and falsies versus a testosterone laden male foaming at the mouth …I would much rather fight the fag. Call me whatever you’d like, but this is a no brainer. As a taxpayer, it does piss me off that our tax dollars are not being spent efficiently, nor with any common sense whatsoever!”
At a pride event held this month at the Pentagon, Space Force Chief Operating Officer Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt attacked the proliferation of over 400 state regulations which she described as “anti-LGBTQ+” and suggested that such laws were a danger to military readiness and to individual soldiers. The how and why of her claims are not as clear, though Burt appeared to insinuate that these laws would “distract” service members from their duties by preventing them from being their “true selves.”
Again, why Macron and BRICS. It is an undisputed fact that Emmanuel Macron is a Rothschild’s family messenger boy. Even WiKi gives the description of this family’s activities on its London-Paris axis.
This is a classic financial business about moving capitals, much of it being cash. As any hedge funds, Rothschild’s funds have analysts–we will omit now their quality issues–who are tasked with assessment of threats and probabilistic analysis designed to preserve and grow the capital. Macron’s asking for invitation to BRICS IS NOT an act of espionage or being a Trojan Horse, not at all, it is about trying to negotiate at the fringes of BRICS summit the fate of Rothschild’s capitals. The trajectory of the combined West is now well pronounced and the growth of volatility and radical decline are already in progress. This is a bad-bad situation for capital. Money loves stability and calm.
Evidently the truth of SMO started to trickle to those analysts and THE family and even unsophisticated observer can easily surmise now the scale of geopolitical change–it is unprecedented in modern history. It is also metaphysical–cash, even enormous amounts of it, means absolutely nothing if it does not rest on firm foundation of massive military and real economic power. We observe not just the end of the West’s hegemony, a much more profound change is in progress–the death of financial capitalism and exposure of money as merely a tool, not the substance. De-dollarization proceeds at an incredible pace. Just today’s example:
And how can you do this, people may ask? Simple–because you have the best military in the world and economy which can easily afford and supply it, while allowing the country to grow. Qaddafi didn’t have that–he was a leader of a small Arab nation with a lot of cash and minimal military and economic power. He wanted alternative to US Dollar–he got killed. You cannot do this to Russia, because those who try–they get killed in the most violent way. And that is the difference. Libya couldn’t produce modern tanks, Russia produces 1,200+ of them a year, all state-of-the-art. Evidently this fact finally “arrived” to Rothschild’s family and they desperately try to find the place to park their huge fortunes, before they evaporate due to the collapse of modern West’s civilization. Macron is merely a caretaker, nothing more. Hence, “please invite me to BRICS summit”. It is also a desperate attempt to grab Putin and Xi’s sleeves and try to be heard for a minute. Rothschild’s family fortunes want to be guarded by S-400 and T-90Ms with SU-57 instead of Patriot PAC3 and Leopard-2s. That’s it, there is nothing more to it.
“And you still wonder if the plan to tale down the United States is a planned event?”
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jared Bernstein to become chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
Senators voted 50-49 on Bernstein’s nomination to the post that Cecilia Rouse vacated in March. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was the lone Democrat to side with every present Republican.
“Mr. Bernstein’s economic philosophy is problematic as he has shown a willingness to disregard the need for all-of-the-above energy policies and necessary federal budget cuts to alleviate the skyrocketing cost of living for working families,” Manchin explained in a statement.
“I did not vote for Mr. Bernstein because we must protect America’s economic stability and energy security from radical policies such as the Green New Deal,” Manchin added.
“Great idea but precious little time left to act!”
North Carolina House Republicans want the state to use some of its savings to buy gold bullion and bury it in Texas.
A group of House Republicans filed a bill in mid-April that would have the state use $2 billion from its savings reserve to buy gold bullion. The bill sat idle in the House Appropriations Committee until Thursday, when it was sent to the Committee on State Government. It’s set for a committee hearing Wednesday.
That government is best, which governs least.’ attr. Henry David Thoreau. (1872-1962).
Bill’s commentary:
“More to come?” Yesterday, at 9:33 a.m. ET, JPMorgan Chase and the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, issued a terse joint statement indicating that they had informed Judge Jed Rakoff’s federal court in Manhattan that claims against the bank for aiding and abetting Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking of underage girls had been settled by the two sides. The settlement will require court approval.
‘We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.’ W.H. Auden. (1907-1973).
Bill’s commentary:
“For those who wonder, there is such a thing as a ‘silent majority’!”
Despite the best efforts of the media and the White House to promote a liberal agenda on issues from abortion to gender change, America has turned back to being more conservative.
Gallup’s latest Values and Beliefs Survey said that conservatives top liberals on social policies and the economy, the two biggest topics America is grappling with.
“Nearly 100 million views and counting! About the only thing he did not say, was we have turned into one giant shithole. Maybe in episode 2? I fear for this man’s life because the masses cannot be fed truth.”
“Or, they could just wait until the West is publicly bankrupted?”
Bill’s commentary:
“Cryptocurrency? In my opinion are nothing but digital air, but then again, some accuse me of being a dinosaur because I believe gold and silver are the only real ‘monies’ on the planet.”
“They sold it at a discount to 2005 prices? So the last 18 years was nothing but a mirage?”
Virginia-based REIT Park Hotels & Resorts has opted to cease payments on a $725 million loan, as the SF Business Times reports today, essentially surrendering over 2,900 hotel rooms and hospitality facilities to its lender. This includes the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square, which is San Francisco’s largest hotel, occupying an entire city block, and one of the country’s largest hotels outside of Las Vegas.
“Target supports shutting down Mt. Rushmore? I support shutting down Target! It seems they have doubled, tripled, and now quadrupled down on STUPID!”
Since the George Floyd protests and riots of 2020, Target Corporation said it ramped up its diversity, equity and inclusion work. This agenda extended far beyond enhancing representation and support of historically marginalized groups externally and in its stores, and dipped into funding organizations with far-left and blatantly political agendas.
“Do you understand what this really means? You better become your own central bank pronto!”
As we reported yesterday, Silicon Valley Bank was not even on the “Problem Bank List” maintained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) when it imploded in a span of 48 hours in March. According to testimony by the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairman for Supervision, Michael Barr, on March 28 before the Senate Banking Committee, depositors had yanked $42 billion of their deposits from the bank on March 9 and had queued up to grab another $100 billion on March 10 when it was abruptly put into FDIC receivership. Had the FDIC not stepped in, Silicon Valley Bank would have lost 85 percent of its deposits in a two-day stretch.
“The ability to refinance anything has come to end. What comes next is extremely predictable!”
As the federal government strives to contain financial market turmoil, the next risk looming over the nation’s banks is in plain sight: the $20 trillion commercial real estate market.
Some $1.5 trillion in mortgages will come due in the next two years, a potential time bomb as higher interest rates and spiraling office vacancies push down property values.
‘Capitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.’ James Grant. (1946).
Bill’s commentary:
“Maybe little green men can take the focus off of “math” that just doesn’t add up?”
A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.
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Bill’s commentary:
“More detective work from Wall Street on Parade!”
The second, third, and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history occurred this year. And yet, none of the banks that blew up were on the “Problem Bank List” that is prepared quarterly by the federal bank regulator that is supposed to be on top of these things – the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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