Posted originally on Feb 13, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Only 10 of the 195 nations on board for the Paris Agreement have met the February 10, 2025, deadline to release their “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs). These NDCs are presented as detailed blueprints for how nations will continue cutting emissions to meet each five-year global stocktake (GST) goal. The problem is that 95% of nations have no plan in place.
The Paris Agreement began ten years and trillions of dollars ago, but no noticeable progress has been made. The United Nations admitted back in 2019 that the Paris Agreement or Accord was destined to fail. Even if every pledging nation met 100% of the UN mandates, they would still fall 2/3 short of meeting their targets. They admit that even if every country involved in those accords complied with their pledges between now and 2030, temperatures would still rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2100. It is astonishing that nations continue to buy into this agreement that is destined to fail because the targets were created with no regard for naturally occurring weather cycles.
Yet, 195 nations agreed to continue tackling this losing battle. The GST is split into three phases: data collection, technical assessment, and consideration of outputs. Governments and climate scientists have compiled over 170,000 pages spanning over 252 hours of meetings and the final advice from the United Nations is always the same – nations are failing to meet their objectives.
Of the 10 nations who complied with the latest deadline, the US and UK were the only G7 nations to submit plans. The US submitted its plan before Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement. This is yet another example of how the US has been funding globalist initiatives.
Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Switzerland, Uruguay, Andorra, Ecuador and Saint Lucia also met the deadline, but the UN has warned that the UAE, Brazil, and Switzerland have plans that are “not compatible” with meeting the 1.5C target by 2035. The UN said that the UK is potentially on the right track if it agrees to INCREASE SPENDING to help other nations meet their goals, a role formerly filled by the US.
“Without dedicated efforts to ramp up finance, you’re not going to achieve the triple [renewable] energy target, so that’s definitely something that needs to be reckoned with in the global stocktake outcome,” the Centre for Science and Environment told Carbon Brief.
Anyone can make a pledge and pander to the climate social justice warrior crowd. That does not mean they intend to follow through. The pressure is placed on the nations who can pay up and are expected to cover the costs for others. Numerous nations who have been touting their lofty climate goals like Australia and Canada plan to release their GST plans after elections as it a bargaining chip. The goal can never be achieved but that will not prevent the United Nations from squeezing every last cent out of member nations.
There is still outrage surrounding the elimination of the EPA. People do not realize just how much money this agency blew through on absolutely nothing. Biden admitted that the Inflation Reduction Act, the most expensive spending package in US history, was about CLIMATE CHANGE at its core and had nothing to do with inflation. Those at the EPA called the act “Biden’s climate law” and were eager to spend the proceeds. Efron told an undercover journalist that they were preparing to spend the money as quickly as possible right up until inauguration day.
The EPA was aware that Trump would likely eliminate their impractical agency. “We gave them [nonprofits] the money because… it was an insurance policy against Trump winning. Because they aren’t [a government agency], they’re safer from Republicans taking the money away,” he said. The EPA awarded nonprofits between $50 and $100 million EACH toward the end of Biden’s presidency.
The Biden Administration effectively permitted this agency to “throw gold bars” off the edge of the Titanic and needlessly spend public funds. All of these investigations lead to the same conclusion. The government provides nonprofits with a large sum and those agencies then funnel the money to smaller agencies, whether its related to climate change or funding terrorism. This is precisely why Trump attempted to freeze all federal funds upon taking office.
Posted originally on Feb 13, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The two states that are attracting the most investment capital and migration from the notorious Blue States of California and New York are none other that the two states without income taxes – Texas for computers and Florida for finance.
Trump’s announcement of his intention to transform the US into “the world capital of artificial intelligence (AI)” and what is now being called Stargate is said to be the largest project of its kind “by far in history” with the joint venture between tech firms OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. This is said to be investing $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years of the Trump Administration. Big tech is migrating from California and its Silicon Valley is moving brick by brick to Texas. They say 10 data centers are already under construction in the state, 10 more are on the way, and the project’s first one-million-square-foot data center will be based in Abilene in western Texas.
The flight out of New York has been underway since, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the final nail in the coffin of NYC. Wall Street executives have been shifting operations and jobs to Florida, fleeing New York City. Well over 200 financial firms have left, and some of the biggest fund managers. The shift is now over $2 trillion, showing no sign of letting up. The peak for NYC actually came in 2016, which was right on target with the 224-year cycle of political change from the founding of the New York Stock Exchange, which traces its origins to the Buttonwood Agreement signed by 24 stockbrokers on May 17, 1792.
Moreover, tax exemption for municipal debt could be chopped with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 slated to expire at year-end 2025. Tax loopholes will be high on Republicans’ legislative agenda. However, an extension or expansion of TCJA’s provisions could grow the federal budget deficit sharply. Tax-exempt municipal bonds date back to the earliest federal income tax in 1913 and have been a pillar of state and local project funding ever since. It is not that they have managed the debt efficiently. According to the National League of Cities, municipal bonds are a $4 trillion market and have financed approximately 75% of US infrastructure—with hospitals, schools, airports, water and sewer systems, public power facilities, and toll roads among the many beneficiaries.
Detroit went bankrupt in February 1933, before U.S. municipal bankruptcy laws were enacted, the city defaulted on its $350 million in outstanding debt (equal to $6.4 billion today). Many of its suburbs joined in the insolvency. On the American side of the border, Dearborn, Farmington, Pontiac and Royal Oak all defaulted; on the Canadian side, Windsor, Ont. went bankrupt. In fact, in Canada, East Windsor, Sandwich and Walkerville all were in default by 1934. A 1935 act of the Ontario provincial legislature consolidated these cities and their debts into contemporary Windsor, and the debt was slowly repaid. The tax free status in the US was also to overcome the defaults and suspension of debts during the Great Depression in addition to widespread defaults of nations in 1931 onward.
As this migration continues from the Blue States to the tax-free Red States, we will see a rash of defaults at the muni and state levels post 2026.
Posted originally on Feb 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
COMMENT #1: Marty: You are always in the middle of everything. You endorsed this young girl and look at her rising. Your daughter said you picked the triple crown winner just by looking at the TV screen, and you don’t play the horses. You have an uncanny eye.
DG
COMMENT #2: Kids, There are three areas that mum and I invariably agree on, one is child education, the second is Trump. And the third is a really good conspiracy theory. Today, a spokesman for Trump (see below), has said that a special task force has been set up to give complete disclosure on: JFK assassination RFK assassination Martin Luther King assassination USP USO Epstein client list The origins of covid 9-11
There is a category here that I never even knew existed.
USOs. This stands for unidentified submerged objects. For this even to be a category there HAS to be evidence.
Kids. We are not alone in this universe.
We might also find that the government was involved in 9-11.
I have never seen this level of transparency from any government especially not from one with so many dirty secrets to hide. I am literally giddy with anticipation.
REPLY: Oh yes. I look at the screen and they said it had been 37 years since there was a triple crown winner. I said it’s just time, and he will win this year. It was 8.6 x the half cycle 4.3 = 37. There is a cycle to everything. I do think she will give it a good shot. I know this was also close to the heart of RFK, Jr.
What we are witnessing is simply part of the cycle as we head into 2032. This will attempt to be authoritarian from 2028 into 2032. This side of the wave from 2024 into 2028 should be there from the process. This is when the corruption is exposed, and we are witnessing the self-destruction of the Democrats as they keep getting worse by the day. They think whatever it is, as long as Trump did it, they must oppose it regardless if it is right or wrong. They do not get it.
Democrats believe in flawed and manipulated economic statistics, whereas Republicans do not trust them anymore. This is the destruction of the Democratic Party, and Luna’s committee is going to be like Musk – expose the lies and corruption. The Democrats are in a bear market, but they prefer to blame the Republicans instead of reassessing their own policies.
Posted originally on the CTH on February 12, 2025 | Sundance
President Trump delivered some rather remarkable filler information today surrounding the phone calls between himself, President Putin and President Zelenskyy. The remarks, which should not be missed, come at the conclusion of the Tulsi Gabbard swearing in ceremony. [09:45 video, prompted]
The first question received was about the Russia v Ukraine conflict and the conversations with Zelenskyy and Putin. President Trump outlined that the first meeting to end the conflict will likely take place between himself and Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia as organized through the intermediary, Mohammed Bin Salman (MbS). [11:45]
President Trump noted there was unlikely to be any NATO discussion for Ukraine, and the concession of territory to Russia was generally accepted foregone conclusion. [15:10] Due to the curiously missing Zelenskyy in the response, the media asked if President Trump “sees Ukraine as an equal member in the process.” President Trump responded that it was an interesting question, but ultimately “they have to make peace.” President Trump then noted that eventually, during this ceasefire, Ukraine is going to need to conduct elections. [More than implying that Zelenskyy is irrelevant].
The general response in combination with the previously released statement from Zelenskyy seems to frame a strange dynamic. Zelenskyy never asked Trump to visit Ukraine, and the way President Trump frames the Zelenskyy perspective is as if the Ukranian President is willingly an outside observer without a genuine ability to engage without having to ask another “entity” for permission. WATCH:
The way President Trump outlines the discussion(s) further evidences the suspicions we highlighted before. [SEE HERE] The response to the Ukraine questions extends to around 22:17 of the video, where the subject changes to DOGE. There again, some really interesting remarks from President Trump.
President Trump notes the corruption being outlined is of such a massive number, “billion and billions”, that there is no way these payments do not include kickbacks, likely to politicians. Trump then turns to AG Bondi and remarks that this is something the AG will likely have to look at. “There’s a lot of things to look at Pam.”
President Trump informs the media he will likely hold a press conference tomorrow, after the reciprocal tariff announcement, where he will outline some examples of the demonstrable fraud being uncovered by DOGE.
“Nobody cares” within the system, President Trump remarks. Saying if that attitude permeates long enough the government “loses control” of the payment process. This appears to be the general finding within the DOGE review of various agencies. The “waste, fraud and abuse,” is a feature of the current process, not a flaw. It appears to be purposeful and happening by design of the runaway government created in the aftermath of Obama and Biden.
President Trump notes the judicial challenges to the DOGE review essentially, give the corrupt officials “time to cover their tracks.”
The entire content of the impromptu press remarks is really something. I strongly urge everyone to take the time to listen and decide for yourself.
Posted originally on the CTH on February 12, 2025 | Sundance
The remarks and formal swearing in ceremony are essentially uneventful; however, it is President Trump’s remarks at the conclusion of the swearing in ceremony that will catch the majority of attention from the geopolitical observers and the DC machine. We will break out that part in a different post.
In the interim, here is the swearing in ceremony for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. WATCH:
Posted originally on the CTH on February 12, 2025 | Sundance
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been conspicuously quiet since her confirmation last week. The Lawfare has raged against the Trump administration, while AG Bondi has remained silent.
However, today at 4:30pm EST, Attorney General Bondi is scheduled to hold a press conference from Washington DC. Livestream Links Below.
Posted originally on the CTH onFebruary 12, 2025 | Sundance
Deep weeds walkers can infer quite a bit from the Zelenskyy pablum, including the necessary photograph that accompanies the text written for him by the CIA. And without a scintilla of doubt, the CIA wrote the Twitter text. Remember, in order to understand the Ukraine dynamic, it’s always World War Reddit, which is high on optics and narrative.
Yes, once you fully accept that situation – then you realize President Trump is negotiating with the CIA, through the installed representative we call Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That’s the context.
Even if you find it hard to fathom, apply the analytical filter noted in the introduction. Does the Zelenskyy text and statement change in construct?
Think about a hypothetical: (1) President Trump and Vladimir Putin agree to a total cessation of hostilities, a complete pause in the fighting. (2) President Trump tells Zelenskyy that on XXX date, all fighting stops as negotiations and diplomacy begins. (3) “Oh, and by the way, this pause provides you the opportunity to hold a national election, solidifying your support, right?” (4) Then what happens?
When you are, essentially, negotiating with yourself (your own govt) in public, well, what do you say?
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