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    René Magritte Meditation 1936   • Depression, Debt, Default & Destruction in 2025 -Martin Armstrong (USAW) • Inaction Over Ukraine Would Have Bee
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 23 2024]

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    “Ukrainians will need to revolt.”-RIM
    headline caption of the year
    After ten years of unequivocal support
    “Ukrainians will need to revolt.”-RIM

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    2025 Bigger Things Are Afoot

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    Reaching Back in Time for the Wisdom of the Ages

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    2024 Year in Review

    Let’s give 2024 a hearty Thumbs Up all around!

    For that special holiday gift for someone who has everything

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    tboc
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    jb-hb reference your post 177574 yesterday that started with a reference to a missing person

    democratized corruption is the description i offer you
    for a starting point – the arrival of the charming couple from Arkansas in 1993 followed nine years later with Greenspans observation of “Infectious Greed”
    the social networking for advancement purposes had the advantage of the revolution in communication
    the savings and loan adventure, “White rock?” – Enron, the store was open
    Clinton’s NATO adventures sealed the situation as lawless
    self-aggrandizement has undergone a narrative upgrade and became self-realization and self-fulfillment

    all bills and resolutions are produced by interested parties
    at every level, seen and unseen, selling a contact for personal profit is the network
    this is not a minority position, this is a vote of the majority thusly engaged

    back to your earlier post. no one filed a missing persons report and no one knew the persons location
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    John McCain and H.W. Bush are national heroes

    you and i just have no idea of what is being done, but it is being done very puposefully and quite well

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    Oroboros
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    A Nation Demoralized and Soon to Be Depressed Big Time

    Even the vending machine lost their Mojo

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    John Day
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    @Oroboros, from last night:
    My bread isn’t shaped like that, but like this:
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    Oroboros
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    Empire of Lies just gotta do it’s thing….

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    Oroboros
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    @John Day

    Fabulous lookin’ bread!

    A work of art!

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    AI is going to Mind Phuck the World

    I asked Grok to create a picture of Demonrats “helping” western North Carolina after the hurricane:

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    MCEscher 1933 Phosphorescent sea

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    Dr. D
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    “New Ethics Inquiry Details More Trips by Clarence Thomas Paid for by Wealthy Benefactors” The Guardian

    Still at it. Why do they hate strong black men so much? Is it that the British are hard-core racists, or what?

    “The Earliest Known ‘Country’ Recording Has Been Found. The Singer? A Black Man.
    An 1891 song by Louis Vasnier deepens what we know about the genre’s origins.” The Washington Post

    “No one was allowed to record when black except all the people who were allowed to record and get famous.” There were never any black people in country except all those who were. There were no black billionaires except all the Black female billionaires who lived up the road from JD Rockefeller in 1920. Yup, another day. Every day, year after year, my whole life with this. Yet tomorrow it’s the same: Black/Gay/Women never did…super spy code-cracking math work…except for the hundreds or thousands who did. Nothing happened except for all the everythings that happened. BothNeitherAii.

    SuperStateThanksForAsking

    “How the Right Claimed ‘Crunchy’ : Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”The New York Times

    That’s easy: you guys are now billionaire, war mongering, PMC, clown-painted cube hamsters. Anyone who isn’t terrified of germs and hides under the bed from chickens is a Republican.

    “7 Chinese Nationals Arrested On Guam For Illegal Entry During Key Missile Test

    We know this kind of thing is going on. Can you at least be normal and not let them play on “Easy” mode? Same with letting them own the land around, and run drones from, every Base in the whole U.S.. Mr. Congress.

    “Senate To Be Replaced With Room Full Of Monkeys Throwing Feces” –BBee

    “why did he spend $44 billion on Twitter? Because he knows things you don’t – like the many things, books full of things.”

    My point exactly. And also Trump. He’s read all the Top Secret documents, plus on every Congressman and CEO, but Chad at Facebook says he’s stupid and doesn’t know what Chad knows. Uh-huh. I‘d say ESPECIALLY when everything is a total lie “Knowledge is Power”. But that goes with something else: when your whole society is lies, then your whole society is powerless. Wasting all its time and energy punching at shadows.

    Dems Suggest Elon, Not Trump Leading”…Says Party where Biden isn’t leading.

    “I’m sorry, Trump is not going to have a blissful administration, and he’s not going to prevent the economic decline.’”

    In a way, yes of course. There is only “Let’s Scuttle the Ship”. That was put in motion in 1971 or 1979. There’s no fixing a direction and concerted actions of 50 years.

    “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency” — Mises

    And BOTH sides want it collapsed: unless the money is fixed, the bad guys stay in power. Everything, all sacrifices are pointless then. The only question is:

    WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THE REBOOT.

    WHOSE vision is “Built Back Better”? I think we’ve already seen a lockdown/constant vaccination by class, location, and political party/CBC/Eat Ze Bugs vision they have in mind is not the one we want. That’s what we’re fighting for at this time unless you want to get the other 80% of the people off their -sses and reestablish the Constitution and rule of Law. I’m down with that but it’s called “work” and nobody else will.

    ““Yes, cash, physical paper money. We just had two hurricanes here in Florida. This idea of Bitcoin and CBDCs are very nice, but what’s the reality? The internet was down for 10 days. A credit card did not work. You wanted something, it was cash only.”

    Armstrong and these other guys! C’mon, be an “Expert” and don’t ask, don’t keep up with anything, your own expertise: Money. No, My Sir, that is totally false. I can transfer money instantly on any cell phone and I guarantee you they were not out. This is an advertisement for how much BETTER Crypto is than Credit cards. Also – you JimmyHat – YOU CAN’T USE CASH REGISTERS EITHER. They run on the same d—n system, so what’s the difference? They are all hard-core mainframe PCs that have to be directly connected to the Internet home office. Are you high? No one is taking cash either, you fool. Or not Kroger’s, not Home Depot. Joe’s FenceCo can for a few days, but that’s not much, the whole system would need to change. (Largely the need to mainframe is GOVERNMENT, by design, as it exists exclusively to enforce expensive tax compliance. THEY are causing the high expense and fragility.).

    Anyway, he says this constantly, which means he’s never talked to anyone. C’mon you’re smarter than that, it’s frustrating. All old guys are talking their book. When young guys say something, they handwave and ignore, delighted in their foolishness.

    Aren’t cell phones even more high-tech, expensive, and fragile? Yes, but only in a way. If you were in the NC flood, a single drop of water can take one out. There are only spotty towers that if go down, get full, lock out the area. Yeah, well, it only takes ONE car, one 12v charger to keep a phone up, too. There are few towers, so their attention is riveted on getting that one thing fixed and on a generator, not every wire in the whole county. Is that better or worse than copper lines on mudslides? Well, we’ve seen Cell Phones DO work, never go down, and are everywhere because it’s a key #1 Disaster repair device. I can put one in my pocket and go up the mountain, have grandma call home and also list out, call the hardware store and see if we have XYZ before driving there on a missing bridge.

    Okay, now note you can put your money on that too, and not Apple Pay, but direct person-to-person. Not that I would, for my cousin Juan, I would use cash, but the Hardware store and gas station is inoperable until the fiber optics come back up and this can fill the 3-day gap. Anyone who’s goofed around with a single Crypto account once – on exchange or off – knows this.

    “• Western Aid Covers Nearly 90% of Ukraine’s Spending in 2022-2024 (Sp.)

    Free healthcare for everyone! And lavish pensions too! As long as you’re not American, the sky’s the limit!

    ““..Moscow could immediately declare a ceasefire and start peace talks as soon as Ukraine leaves all Russian territory, including Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions.”

    Possibly, but why would they? Then NATO wins only HALF of Ukraine, and waits for next year.

    “• Trump Threatens To Take Back Panama Canal (ZH

    Well I don’t understand any of this. Why we gave it – simply gave it – to China in the first place, and now on what premise we think we’ll “Just Take” it back. Whatever. The Law is just a suggestion these days. It’s pretty crazy. In the big sense, what is the U.S. doing? As Trump says of McKinley? We’re on the Monroe Doctrine, and it’s been tarred, but what is it supposed to mean? Europe don’t set up rival puppet states in the West to topple us. Uh, USSR in Communist revolutions. But that’s a generation past now. Now the WEF is using the UN (EUROPE) NGOs to invade and conquer. Sound similar? Okay, and Panama? Yeah, we built it because it’s the only viable way to link our East and West coasts. THAT is why it exists. Sound slightly more reasonable now? Now I’m not for puppet regimes, if you want it, make it the 51st state, but can we all get on the same page of why it matters?

    “• Trump Resurrects Idea Of Buying Greenland (RT)

    Meh. Why not? We’re printing the money right now anyway – might as well get something for it a day before we default. But maybe Denmark will send out their army and stop us.

    ““Led by the bumbling, malapropism-prone Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the Greens act like the German branch of the Biden State Department.”

    Yes, and the Biden State Department acts like the fist of Klaus Schwab.

    “(AfD), the conservative upstart party now polling at 20% of the national vote. In a more recent poll, 68% of AfD members said they would defend their country “with a weapon in their hand”

    But I thought it was 68% would defend RUSSIA? Surely this is a misprint, Der Spiegel, Die Walt.

    “compared to just 22% of Green Party supporters.”

    Like greens everywhere. TAKE stuff, do nothing. And PS plant no trees, CUT them instead. As Green as Poland and Eastern Europe under the Soviets.

    “Forty-thousand Ukrainians have been killed or wounded defending an incursion into Russian territory near Kursk, according to NATO intelligence”

    That can’t be right, Ukraine says they’ve only lost 40k ALTOGETHER, not in just one battle in 6 months. You must be mistaken, everyone assures us practically no one has died in this war where 1,000 drones are in the air at a time, each one of which can take out a platoon.

    But over 3 years and 1,000km front, they lost less than this.

    ““Germany is not merely in a mess; it also has a dysfunctional non-elite that is in total denial about how to fix that mess..”

    I’m sorry, I thought they said “American Elites”

    “With regard to Europe’s Sick Man on the Spree (there is another one on the Seine, of course),”

    And also on the Thames, worse than either. So I guess the wealthy, well-oiled and powerful nations are Portugal and Greece now?

    “Europe’s former economic locomotive and political first-among-not-so-equals is now a very unhappy country, economically in severe, persistent decline and politically – to put it kindly – badly disoriented.”

    That’s because they’ve been back-takeover by the EUSSR. Socialism always has the exact same effect, no matter how often you abuse and redefine the WORDS. But I said this a decade ago: Germany was an economic powerhouse? Hahahahaha! They gave REAL goods in exchange for GREEK IOUs. Who’s the dummy now???? That is to say, they haven’t been rich since the day the EU began. They increasingly traded real payment for illusions, and the wages of VW workers reflected this. Because unlike Baerbock Green, flying private charter and eating Tokyo Waigu, the wages of workers are tied to “Reality”. Politicians are not.

    “A motion to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is unlikely to move forward,”

    I’d ask if this is legal but nevermind: like Alice, we do 10 illegal things before breakfast usually.

    “AfD actually putting forward motions for direct democracy in the country”

    Very smart, that’s pretty hard to counter. If you have the will of the country, it’s easy to rule this way.

    ““If I lose 5 percent of my generated revenue by going to Europe, I will not go to Europe… I’m not bluffing..”
    • Qatar Warns EU That Tough New Regulations Put Gas Supplies at Risk (Sp.)

    This is very odd and convoluted, but this was literally how Europe thought they were going to rule the planet: by nagging and scolding and shunning people. This process of “Access to European Market” was going to keep them in the Colonial Superposition, even with the U.S. and China. I mean, in a way, yes, I understand that, but in another way, Jesus that’s so thin and so complicated, why would it ever work? And thus it hasn’t. One guy stands up and tells the truth and the whole Colonial Empire pops.

    “”Oh dear,” says God, “I hadn’t thought of that,” and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. “Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.” ― Douglas Adams
    Black was always White, don’t you know? See WaPo, above.

    “Soldiers are quitting by the thousands despite a 6% pay raise. Europe has no serious armies left.
    • British Armed Forces Shrinking – Telegraph (RT)

    Yes but only for 50 years in a row. Let’s not be hasty. And 6%? I think that might be after a 50 year decay of wages that puts every man on food stamps. How about a FIFTY percent raise? Just to get somewhere in the zone of average wages?

    “• Has Disney Finally Learned What ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ Means? (Sp.)

    Nah. Critical Drinker (Scots) brought this up, with some charity. 100% of all comments said “No way: Disney just goes to the edge, and as soon as there’s resistance, pulls back and waits there.” They will never “Stop”. NEVER. They’re mentally ill. And no one trusts them. You’d have to fire EVERY EMPLOYEE, remember.

    They had a great idea though: have a “Disney Twink” (Actually, “Disney Glitter”) that provides all of these shows, on a second studio name, structure, like Touchstone, 1984. They are free to be as gay as they want to be, and to win or lose by the revenues they receive. Oh wait – what’s that? They’d be bankrupt in 10 seconds because there’s no audience for that stuff? Yeah, we know, now why are you sapping the host like some vicious parasite? YOU KNOW this is true or YOU would do it. But you don’t WANT to do it, you want to Steal Disney’s money and name to do it, and wear them like a skin suit so you can horrifyingly slip inside American Homes to touch their children.

    Capitalism. So if it WORKS – even to a minority audience, which it might – they are free to win, lose, complete, NOBODY’S STOPPING YOU. Do it! Live your dreams! As BPD Mentally Ill, they cannot distinguish between DOING things, and STEALING things. All objects are really MINE. Like children. I don’t care how, I want it now! Since to make my own movie, get my own money for my movie takes work, why not steal yours? Then even better, you’re too broke to make movies people like! Win-Win!

    She was a Bad Egg.

    Again: MAKE YOUR OWN STUFF. No one’s stopping you. If you want Socialism, buy 50 acres, do Socialism with all your friends and tell me how it goes for you. If you want a gay book for yourself or your 4-year-old, go ahead. I can’t and DGAF to stop you all the time. That’s Free Will. But stop making me PAY for it. And ruining all MY books and movies.

    Yeah, no, they will never-ever stop. Ever. If they are so shattered there is but one tiny bit left of the original 100 year old IP, 50 years from now, maybe all this will be forgotten, but not ‘til then.

    ““The petitioners, illegal border crossers from El Salvador, India and Mexico, demanded they had rights to stay despite court orders requiring their deportation..”

    Totally baffled as to how that works. And apparently USSC is too. If you are a CITIZEN of another country, you have rights in THEIR country. Any rights or privileges we give you are completely voluntary. That’s what “Sovereignty” means. If not, the only logic is that ALL the planet are really American citizens, which is indeed how they act. But they can all vote, so I don’t see why not. You already pay us taxes tribute.

    “a federal district court dismissed the case, arguing federal courts don’t have jurisdiction over certain discretionary agency decisions.”

    So you’re saying a Bureaucrat can do anything they like but a Court can’t do anything about it if it’s illegal. Riiiiiiiight. Yeah, that’s like Exxon ruling to the moon. No. If anything the #Opposite of that. So since we’re in #OppositeLand everyday, I guess that makes sense, BizarroMan.

    EveryDay

    “The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump hopes to pull the country out of the World Health Organization (WHO) the first day of the new administration”

    Um, Me guess you couldn’t be arsed to PASS A LAW that would put the WHO IN A TREATY. So now the President can just leave because you didn’t follow any legal, moral, procedural, or judicial rules to put us there? Am I warm?

    Yeah and Roe V Wade too. Let’s not ever pass that even when the USSC tells you to.

    Calvin and Hobbes:
    Male Logic. This may have something to do with why we have Female input on such things.

    Those are the nicest hornets I’ve every seen. That hive is still alive. BTW, ground bees do the same thing. Underground. Pretty amazing.

    “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — C. S. Lewis

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    Today is tomorrow!
    Counting money that doesn’t exist.

    Depression, Debt, Default & Destruction in 2025 -Martin Armstrong


    Depression, Debt, Default & Destruction in 2025 -Martin Armstrong
    By Greg Hunter On December 21, 2024

    “Our computer has been projecting that we are going into a depression in some areas and a recession in other areas.
    A depression most likely in Europe and a recession in the United States up until 2028. . . .

    “We have a serious, serious problem on a global scale. . . .
    The sovereign debt crisis is really going to start percolating in 2025.
    So, if the government goes into a sovereign default, what happens?
    You wipe out the banking system and the pensions.”
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    When you say “restore the country,” restore what? The realities on the ground.
    Gaza … Ukraine …

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    Illusions, Dreamers, Bulling, MAGA, Trump Proofing the USA
    Hehehehe
    “I can proudly proclaim that the Golden Age of America is upon us,” Trump said.

    Trump pledged that his “dream team Cabinet” would deliver a booming economy, seal U.S. borders and quickly settle wars in the Middle East and Ukraine

    We will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question.”.
    • Trump Resurrects Idea Of Buying Greenland (RT)
    Make “The state of Canada with Trudeau as governor.”

    “For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world.”
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