Posted originally on Aug 4, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
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Do Not Invest Anything in Ukraine
Posted originally on Aug 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
I have been warned that our computer does NOT show that Ukraine will survive. You should NOT send anything to Ukraine, and you certainly should NOT invest in any nonsense to rebuild Ukraine. The nation with the MOST corrupt politicians, all with hidden offshore accounts, has always been Ukraine. As I have said, we had two employees in Ukraine – one in Kiev and the other in Donestk; the latter translated the move of the Forecaster into Russia so it could be shown in Russia. The two would never even talk to each other.
Our computer has forecasted that Ukraine has gone FLAT LINE, like a brainwave of a person in emergency care at a hospital. DO NOT INVEST ANYTHING in Ukraine – you will NEVER get anything back –EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More funds always go missing in Ukraine. There is NEVER any accountability. Ukraine is the MOST corrupt society on the face of the planet – PERIOD. Even Forbes has said Ukraine owes it to itself to clean up corruption. This is why Zelensky has a core of American bodyguards because what I hear from Ukrainians is that if he was on fire, they would not urinate on him until he was dead. Even CNN, which is a cheerleader for World War III, has had to report on the corruption in Ukraine. Even the more respected Foreign Policy magazine reported that Ukraine’s ongoing corruption issues have had on U.S. congressional Republican support for the country.
The Ukrainian people need to rise up and save their country from total annihilation. Ukraine remains the most corrupt government in the world, and they are selling the Ukrainian people for personal wealth and greed with ZERO remorse for their nation or their people. Ukrainian politicians topped all other countries for corruption. Even in the Pandora Papers, 38 Ukrainian politicians have to hide cash offshore – the largest number of corrupt politicians in any other country. Zelenskyy’s office tried to justify his use of offshore companies for himself as protecting him against pro-Russian forces, following leaked revelations in the Pandora Papers.
Zelensky signed a new law on August 1st that suspended all public debt payments until October. He suspended debt before. The Zelensky now has the authority to postpone payments on external public debt until restructuring negotiations are seen through. Zelensky has suspended elections because he knows the people would throw him out of office so fast – he has sought to maintain a total dictatorship.
Zelensky’s “bodyguard” is far more dark than people understand. Maksym Donets was appointed as his chief bodyguard, provided by the very oligarch who funded his campaign, the tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky, who also just happened to hire Biden’s son for the board of his company Barisa. This appointment not only underscores the deep links between Zelensky and Kolomoisky, but there is yet another layer of invisible protection from the people who really want to assassinate Zelensky – Ukrainians, not Russians.
In December 2020, Biden acknowledged in a statement that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his taxes. NBC News was first to report that an ex-business partner had warned Biden he should amend his tax returns to disclose $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian firm, Burisma. Even the US State Department eventually barred Ihor Kolomoisky from the USA, saying he “undermined the rule of law” in Ukraine after ensuring Zelensky won.
While Maksym Donets appeared to be the face of Zelensky’s bodyguard, sources have stated that the core of the bodyguard is American because they do not trust Ukrainians. On the exact day of the turning point of May 7th, two Ukrainian military officers were arrested for conspiring to kill Zelensky, and he immediately claimed it was a Russian plot. Sorry – it was Ukrainian.
WARNING: DO NOT INVEST ANYTHING IN UKRAINE!!!!!
Car Repos Rise 23% YoY
Posted originally on Aug 2, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The private debt crisis is becoming apparent in America after car repossessions jumped 23% during the first half of 2024. Data shows that 1.6 million Americans will have their car repossessed by the bank before the end of the year, a slight increase from the 1.5 million autos repossessed in 2023 and a drastic upturn from the 1.1 million in 2021.
Obviously, the cost of purchasing a car have drastically risen with inflation, interest hikes, and supply chain shortages. Americans simply cannot afford new autos and car dealerships can do nothing to entice purchases. New car inventory in the US rose 36% this year, close to February 2021 levels before the supply chain crisis put a dent in imports. Yet, the average list price of a new car is $49,096 and far more than the average American can afford. The average new vehicle will sit in a dealer’s lot for 65 days, a 41% annual increase.
Dealerships are hardly asking for a downpayment these days unless someone has horrid credit. Even putting a few grand down will only take off about $20 per monthly payment. The average new car costs about $735 monthly based on data from Experian, and $523 monthly on used models. The average American simply is not educated in finance. Autos are behind mortgages in the largest share of personal household debt and there is a portion of the population who do not understand what they can actually afford.
The average American now borrows around $40,634 for new vehicles and $26,073 for used vehicles. About 9.2% of all consumer debt is through autos alone.
There was that viral story from April of a woman purchasing a Chevy Tahoe for $80,000 – without factoring in the interest on all household vehicles. Her husband purchased 2020 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4 for $78,000 in August 2022 and she simply could not understand why the payments on the truck were more than on the Tahoe. Well, the husband’s 14% rate on the vehicle placed their monthly payment or the truck $1,600. I recalled reading comments suggesting the family simply let the bank repo one of the cars as if that could be a valid option for personal finance.
Cox Automotive believes the trend of repossessing cars will increase into 2025 when they anticipate. 1.7 million cars being repossessed. As of Q1 2024, US household debt stood at $1.77 trillion; $12.44 trillion held in mortgage debt, $1.62 trillion in autos, $1.12 trillion in credit card debt, and $543 billion in other forms. Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others recently reported a stunning $4,139,000,000 loss in unrecoverable debt.
The banks will come after their assets if a payment is missed, with some only waiting 30 days after a missed payment to seize property. They may then ask for full payment to return the car which is simply not happening in these situations. While there are some who cannot compute their monthly payment, others are now living paycheck-to-paycheck and are one large bill or missed paycheck away from losing their shirts. Then we have agencies telling the public across Build Back Better nations that they will soon need to purchase an EV to adhere to the climate emergency. Cheaper alternatives from China have been slapped with 100% tariffs, and there are no alternatives. Governments are do nothing to assist this growing problem as the ultimate goal is to eliminate private car ownership under the premise of the Great Reset.
Counter-Sniper Predicts Another Assassination Attempt is Coming & Exposes the Corrupt Secret Service
Posted originally on Rumble By Charlie Kirk show on: July 31, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST
Kelly: New USSS Acting Director Made Secret Service Look Worse During Senate Hearings
Posted originally on Rumble By Bannons War Room on: July 30, 2024 at 07:00 pm EST
Senators Hawley, Cruz and Johnson Question Secret Service Director and Deputy FBI Director
Posted originally on the CTH on July 30, 2024 | Sundance
In the interests of reader time, here’s a few key excerpts from Senate questioning of Acting Director of the Secret Service Ronald Rowe Jr. and Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate.
Senator Josh Hawley focuses on “accountability”:
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An ancillary point that just keeps nagging me.
DATAPOINT: Everyone knows, literally prior to this event – everyone knew, that Secret Service protection had been continually denied to Robert F Kennedy Jr, by the people behind Joe Biden. Not only did everyone know this, but RFK Jr and every pundit on the right-side of the spectrum, continually reminded everyone of this.
CONTEXT: Using hindsight as a review of political narrative assembly and knowing how the IC operates within the dark arts of Machiavellian schemes, a question surfaces.
QUESTION: Was the office of the presidency (that’s Biden) prepositioned, by intent or coincidence, to receive the political fallout from an assassination of his political opposition? Was the RFK Jr security refusal, entirely purposeful and prepositioned for the political intents of a planned event?
Take out Trump with a bullet. Take out Biden with the consequence.
Back to the questioning. Next up, Senator Ted Cruz:
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Senator Ron Johnson:
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Trump Assassination Attempt – Senate Homeland Security Committee Questions FBI and Secret Service – 10:00am EDT Livestream
Posted originally on the CTH on July 30, 2024 | Sundance
The American public want to know what happened, how it happened and the context for how an assassin was so easily able to get within 150 yards of President Donald Trump and take several shots, killing one and wounding several others – including President Trump.
Today, the Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing at 10:00 am EDT with U.S. Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe and FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, to ask questions about the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
In previous House testimony given by FBI Director Chris Wray, he was curiously willing to answer specific questions about the ongoing investigation and the discoveries therein. A substantive change in approach against the backdrop of his years of obfuscation. That said, Wray’s responses were not always factually accurate. Acting Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate have not yet answered questions and specific lines of congressional inquiry.
The senate hearing begins at 10:00am with livestream links below:
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[Via PBS} – […] FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last week that on July 6, the day Crooks registered to attend the Trump rally, he googled: “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?” That’s a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooter who killed President John F. Kennedy from a sniper’s perch in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
New details, meanwhile, were emerging about law enforcement security lapses and missed communications that preceded the shooting.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, released text messages from members of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit that showed how local officers had communicated with each other about a suspicious-behaving man who turned out to be Crooks lurking around more than an hour before the shooting.
One text just before 4:30 p.m. describes a man “sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit.”
In another text at 5:38 p.m., an officer tells other counter-snipers: “Kid learning around building we are in. AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.” Photographs of Crooks circulated among the group.
AGR is a reference to a complex of buildings that form AGR International Inc, a supplier of automation equipment for the glass and plastic packaging industry. Crooks scaled the roof of one of the buildings of the compound and is believed to have fired eight shots at the rally stage with an AR-style rifle that was purchased legally by his father years earlier.
The shots were fired at 6:12 p.m., according to a Beaver County after-action report.
Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” and he appeared in the days later with a bandage on the ear. One rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, was killed, and two others were injured. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper.
In an interview with ABC News, a Beaver County officer who sounded the alarm said that after sending a text alerting others to Crooks, “I assumed that there would be somebody coming out to speak with this individual or find out what’s going on.”
Another officer told ABC News that the group was supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service counter-snipers but that that never happened.
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Preparing Against Putin – Team Behind Joe Biden Announce Expanded Nuclear Weapon Deployment for UK and Europe
Posted originally on the CTH on July 29, 2024 | Sundance
The tit-for-tat will take place in the open, yet few will pay attention. We do.
You have to take this announcement in full context: (1) Sanctions against Russia failed. (2) NATO expanded, creating more provocation. (3) NATO pledged Ukraine NATO membership. (4) Biden then pledged new long-range missiles will be located in Germany in 2026 able to reach all of Russia. (5) Russia sailed a nuclear submarine into Cuba; and (6) Yesterday, Vladimir Putin pledged to put nuclear weapons close to the USA (likely Cuba) if Biden puts long-range missiles in Germany.
OK, that’s the escalation timeline. That’s the lead up to this next announcement.
The people behind Joe Biden just told congress they are expanding the nuclear weapon arsenal in the U.K and Europe [White House Announcement]; presumably for use against Russia. Now ask yourself what you think Vladimir Putin will do next.
WHITE HOUSE – […] The Amendment’s revisions to Article II(B) of the 1958 Agreement clarify that these same types of information may be exchanged related to atomic weapons, including special nuclear materials properties and production or processing technology, as is determined necessary to improve the recipient’s atomic weapon design, development, or fabrication capability.
[…] The provisions of the 1958 Agreement, as amended by the Amendment, are consistent in every respect with United States commitments to the United Kingdom regarding the development and deployment of the United Kingdom TRIDENT Strategic Weapon System, continued cooperation in nuclear propulsion programs, and support for the United Kingdom atomic weapon and nuclear threat reduction programs.
I have concluded it is in the national interest of the United States to continue to assist the United Kingdom in maintaining a credible nuclear deterrent, which will further improve our mutual defense posture and support our collective interests under NATO. (read more)
God help us….
This is already bananas.
Unfortunately, we are the baddies.
Somewhere along this path of progression, is a predictable process where the USA invades Cuba as a preventative measure to protect our interests from the geopolitical threat that Russia would present in this hemisphere. Cuba has a lot of valuable beach front for the WEF/International/USA bankers to exploit.
Of course, everyone in the Western “pro-war” media, will avoid noticing that it’s us putting longer range missiles, and now expanded atomic weapons, on/around the geographic borders with Russia. In order to advance a specific ideological policy, the professional left must always pretend not to know things.
Vote Trump – Vote Peace!
CHECK DATE:
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Joe Biden says House Speaker Mike Johnson is “Dead on Arrival”
Posted originally on the CTH on July 29, 2024 | Sundance
Against the backdrop of a recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump, during remarks to the press pool in Austin, Texas, Joe Biden says House Speaker Mike Johnson is “dead on arrival.” [White House Transcript]
It sounds like the team behind Joe Biden have another target.
Q Speaker Johnson said it’s “dead on arrival.”
BIDEN: I think that’s what he is.
Q That he is?
BIDEN: That he is — dead on arrival.
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I’m sure the media would just brush this off if the scenario was reversed and President Trump said this. /sarc
Nice Cover Story – Biden Holds Meeting of Ballot Coordinators During AF1 Flight to Austin
Posted originally on the CTH on July 30, 2024 | Sundance
We are not going to play the insufferable game of pretending. The stakes are just too high. Today, the White House deployed a cover story for the assembly that accompanied Joe Biden to Austin, Texas.
As the story is told, the event was rescheduled from July 15th until today. However, the untold part is the major medical incident, the fall in Las Vegas, actually being the disruption covered by the COVID diagnosis.
That said, and in the interests of our upcoming election the second part of the cover-story is even more pertinent. MEDIA: “Joe Biden travels to Austin, Texas, for an appearance at the LBJ Presidential Library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.” NON-PRETENDING AMERICANS: Uh, huh. An anniversary (key word) celebration that can be postponed willy nilly, causing the venue to stop the event, send everyone home, and reschedule just for Biden. Get it?
So, what was this cover-story for? Well, check out the AirForce1 attendees:
Al Sharpton (MSNBC), James Clyburn (SC), Chris Coons (DE), Raphael Warnock (GA) and Steven Horsford (NV). A coalition of allies in the 2024 ballot assembly and scanning system. Additionally, Alex Padilla (CA), Chuck Robb (VA), Nanette Barragan (CA-44) and Veronica Escobar (TX-16). If you want a citation on the media presentation – SEE HERE (scroll read).
Intellectually honest political followers can clearly see the race-based political assembly was a meeting to discuss 2024 ballot harvesting and precinct ballot scanning operations, using the “civil rights” trip as a cover for their assembly.
By my back of the checkbook math, in combination with the previous activity by the Clyburn AME ballot scanning operation, I would predict for 2024 the ballot operation has around 300,000 to 500,000 potential ballot scans per the 17 regions that Clyburn is covering. That means somewhere around 5.1 million to 8.5 million fraudulent ballots should be anticipated.
If the operation, using the leverage of Barack Obama and the media, can create the illusion of more support, they might be able to increase the harvest/scan number. The Brat’s VP will be a contingency in this aspect. That’s why Barack Obama and Eric Holder are in charge of that dynamic.
At current polling and manufactured illusion levels, the roughly 5 to 9 million fraudulent ballots would be plausible. If they can manufacture more optical support, then they might be able to go higher. However, now in the 17 regions the 9 million number looks like the ceiling. That’s essentially what the conversation on the plane would entail.
The Obama network, in close coordination with the DNC has organized the online social media influence operation. As the reports are now showing [SEE HERE], the TikTok and Instagram influencers are already being paid to push Kamala “Brat” Harris messaging. This is to support the Clyburn ballot scanning operation.
I noticed yesterday that a very pleased James Carville was very specific on the Harris roadmap, saying there was no way for the Brat to achieve victory without Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. [CITATION HERE] So, if I was focusing my effort to intercept the fraudulent ballot operations [Note to CE] I would target the Clyburn regions in those three states first. [Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink, Say-no-More.]
If we avoid the shiny things, stop pretending, identify the activity of the players in-real-time as it takes place, then we have the best opportunity to continue awakening people to how the ballots -vs- votes process is operating.
I’m organizing a trip to Wisconsin to track the “7 regions” in that state that South Carolina Representative Clyburn visited this month. There is Wisconsin public information on a few of his stops; but Clyburn let it slip in a CBS interview that he visited seven. I’ll find them.
If Carville is correct, Obama might choose a PA (Shapiro) or Michigan (Whitmer) Vice-President for Kamala. However, my gut instinct still says Mark Kelly due to the Brat’s Achilles heel with the “Border Czar” label and the obvious border crisis.
The issue with selecting Mark Kelly from Arizona is giving up a Senate seat to republicans, that’s where the AZ ballot operation becomes even more important (Clyburn again). So, it’s a little challenging to accurately predict who Obama/Holder will select. [Walz is a possibility (MN), but Cooper (NC) and Beshear (KY) are shiny distractions.]
The 2024 U.S. presidential election is going to come down to whether the American public remain gullible to the constructs of the “fundamental change” crew. Unfortunately, there are many, even some on the right-leaning conservative side, who do not see how the Kamala “BRAT” operation is simply the end game in a process that started back in 2020. [SEE HERE]
So that’s the update on the Democrat plan, as it appears, with citations and references.
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