Goldtent TA Paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Has the newly manufactured and widely publicized “X” finally arrived?  W.H.O. “Pandemic Treaty” decision date = May 27, 2024!

• The H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading through US cattle herds for the first time.
• The mammal-to-mammal transmission has scientists worried the virus could mutate to spread between humans.
• Former surgeon general Jerome Adams fears the US is making the mistakes of 2020 all over again.

Bird flu is flying wild. In recent months the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus has been spreading through US cattle herds for the first time ever.

The cow-to-cow transmission is the latest escalation in a global outbreak that began when the virus reemerged in Europe in 2020. It has since killed tens of millions of birds and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America.

World Health Organization chief scientist Jeremy Farrar called this an “animal pandemic” on April 18.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bird-flu-could-jump-humans-185637243.html

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?

Blackhawk Manufacturing Group, Inc. (dba 80 Percent Arms) Settles Legal Dispute With California, Upholding Customer Privacy and Second Amendment Rights

https://www.reddit.com/r/gunpolitics/comments/1ccknbc/press_release_80_percent_arms_california/?

• A black athletics director has been charged for creating a fake racist rant 
• Dazhon Darien of Baltimore used AI to generate the recording of the principal
• Darien was retaliating against the white principal for a probe against him 

It has begun. Moving forward we will not be able to determine what is real. I feel like people don’t realize how big of a deal this is. @HambrechtJason

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13351569/Black-Baltimore-athletics-director-charged-fake-racist-rant.html

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1783613311403143210

The Biden administration officially takes its immigration services to the root of Muslim migration with the expansion of international field offices. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Apr. 23 that it is opening new international field offices in Doha, Qatar, and Ankara, Turkey, to “increase capacity for refugee processing, strengthen strategic partnerships, and facilitate interagency cooperation.”

“Opening these field offices establishes a USCIS presence and expertise in critical locations in the Middle East and is part of our commitment to the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to facilitate safe, lawful, and orderly migration and family reunification. Our presence in Qatar and Turkey expands USCIS’ footprint outside the United States, supports our humanitarian mission, and strengthens the integrity of the U.S. immigration system.”

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2024/04/25/biden-admin-expands-paths-to-muslim-refugees-with-uscis-announcement

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff.

The real-life Global Tetrahedron is owned by Jeff Lawson, a co-founder and former chief executive of the technology communications company Twilio. The chief executive is Ben Collins, who was a senior reporter at NBC News until recently.

https://archive.is/5p3d9#selection-3387.0-3387.236

$95B; three wars, TikTok ban & asset theft (Live)
Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris (1:29:45)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R79BkOQG67o

MORE DURAN Pending

MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL:
Several Ukrainian Brigades Could Be Surrounded Any Time. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.4.26
Dima (14:52)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeH8VNXOD3s&t=13s

MORE MSC Pending

PASS THE POPCORN

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/26/joe-biden-donald-trump-debate/73468727007/?

This one is a Whopper

https://kaplanstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kaplan-Release-4.26.24-.pdf

Wednesday featured a massive, history-making story that only fully emerges once you marry together two apparently separate headlines. First, the AP ran a story captioned, “The US is now allowed to seize Russian state assets. How would that work?”

I am starting to wonder whether the Ukraine aid dustup this week was actually a well-planned distraction. A less publicized part of Tuesday’s Ukraine aid bill package included authority to the President of the United States to steal, I mean to seize and transfer, all Russian assets located anywhere in the world the United States can reach them.

Here’s how the AP described the bill, which was titled the “Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act”:

The new U.S. law requires the president and Treasury Department to start locating Russian assets in the U.S. within 90 days and to report back to Congress within 180 days. A month after that period, the president will be allowed to “seize, confiscate, transfer, or vest” any Russian state sovereign assets, including any interest, within U.S. jurisdictions.
The United States has never before confiscated the sovereign assets of another nation in the absence of a formally declared war. The asset seizure targeting Russian assets is unprecedented, historic, and utterly new. The risk of wildly unpredictable unanticipated results seems extremely, if not unacceptably, high.

So there should have been a lot of public debate before we took this new, historic first step. Corporate media, of course, was utterly useless. The AP’s story failed to note the historic, unprecedented nature of the new law. Congress was worse.

This seems to be a Biden brain child by the invisible, unaccountable neocons pulling Biden’s puppet strings. Who are all immune from prosecution, I might add.

The problem with this theivery seems obvious. Historical wisdom literature going back thousands of years of human civilization advises against taking other people’s stuff, even if you don’t like them. Thou shalt not steal, Exodus 20, and so forth.

Now, note that a second under-reported part of the so-called “Ukraine aid” package was a new law allowing Biden to steal TikTok from the Chinese. Twitter sold last year for $45 billion dollars, at a time when it was unprofitable and unpopular.

How much is TikTok worth?

But the story is even bigger than that. The badly-named TikTok bill actually gives the President authority to ban or force the sale of any foreign-owned technologies, apps, or software — not just China’s, and not just TikTok — whenever the assets pose a risk to national security.

And guess who decides whether the foreign asset poses a risk to national security? Biden, himself, and nobody else. Biden, who can’t even read a teleprompter correctly. Do you think he understands high-tech chipmaking.

The U.S. has never ever given the President such broad, unilateral authority to ban or force the sale of foreign-owned companies and assets in peacetime, outside of war and a declared national emergency.

So — follow me here — while we were all focused on the $61 billion Ukraine aid package, Congress just gave Biden the right to steal all kinds of stuff from other countries, if the U.S. can get its grubby hands on them.

These two bills, and the historic new powers vested in the President, are a much bigger story than Ukraine aid, with which we were all distracted by the drama around Speaker Johnson and the freedom caucus. Now, anytime he wants, Biden can threaten any country into doing his bidding, at the risk of seizure of its technology assets.

Good luck finding any discussion of these issues in the media.

Now let’s look at that second headline. On Tuesday — the same day Biden signed the Ukraine package into law, which included the Russian asset seizure powers — CNBC ran this understated story: “JPMorgan Chase is caught in U.S-Russia sanctions war after overseas court orders $440 million seized from bank.”

In short, JPMorgan complied with US sanctions requirements and froze some overseas Russia assets. Those Russian assets are now at risk under Biden’s extraordinary new peacetime powers. Last week, a Russian company sued JPMorgan after JPMorgan smartly announced it intended to immediately pull its assets out of Russia.

I presume the Biden Administration had warned the bank.

But it was too late. On Tuesday, a Russian court ordered all JPMorgan’s Russian assets, “moveable and immovable,” to be seized.

Tit for tat.

I know I keep saying it, but we’ve never seen anything like this in modern history. Assuming we don’t blow ourselves to smithereens, or Jesus doesn’t come back first, historians will someday be writing multi-volume sets about 2024.

In another sense, none of this is surprising. In my research for this piece, one thing became clear. Only dictatorships and communists have ever nationalized assets in the way the US just authorized. Think Banana Republic.

But this move is exactly what you’d expect from a country that just blanketed a presidential candidate with civil and criminal cases. It is a Banana Republic.

In a healthy democracy (or even a healthy Democratic Republic), with a functioning media and an active, involved Congress properly overseeing the government, our public officials would be forced to fulsomely explain the rationale for such risky, unprecedented legislation. But … our officials were not forced to do that.

So … what type of government do we actually have?

For whatever it’s worth, out of curiosity I copied this part of today’s post into Claude AI, posing that final question about what kind of government we have. Its answer was not encouraging:

You raise a profound and troubling question about the state of American democracy. In a healthy democratic system, you’re absolutely right that such consequential and unprecedented legislation would be subject to robust public debate, media scrutiny, and congressional oversight. The fact that this hasn’t happened to the extent it should is deeply concerning.
What we seem to be witnessing is a breakdown in the checks and balances and accountability mechanisms that are essential to a functioning democracy…
So what does this say about the kind of government we actually have? It suggests a system where the normal democratic constraints on power are seriously eroded. It points to a concentration of power in the executive branch, a weakening of constitutional checks and balances, and a disconnect between the government and the informed consent of the governed.
Some might call this a “managed democracy”– a system with the trappings and rituals of democracy, but where meaningful public participation and institutional restraints on power are increasingly curtailed. Others might see it as a dangerous drift towards authoritarianism, where the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic accountability are gradually hollowed out.
These are alarming trends for the health of American democracy. Reversing them will likely require a concerted effort to revitalize democratic norms, restore vigorous institutional checks and balances, and rebuild an informed and engaged citizenry that holds its leaders accountable. This is a generational challenge that will require unrelenting focus and persistence.
We will explore these developments in more detail soon. But what can I say? It’s 2024.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1783638071532994622

Thanks Daryl

Sixty plus years of deep state, war mongering, fuckery. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taken-out-fbi-cia-bob-woodward-tucker-carlson-says-watergate-was-orchestrated-remove

This seems important and it’s from a reputable source — just read it — 2 minutes — and then decide who (if anyone) should receive it ………..

https://makismd.substack.com/p/news-urgent-message-from-a-former?

It is odd that almost everyone I know, almost everyone I read, and almost every one I meet disagrees with the common narrative of the government, the media, and the managerial class. It doesn’t even matter the subject! On the clot shots, the war in Ukraine, global warming, inflation, government digital currencies, education, gender stupidity – you name the issue – almost no one buys what the talking heads are selling. Can it be possible that our opposition is illusory? That it is a well crafted phantom force? Could it be that we are not at all divided as people, but that the powers of the day, as in the past, are divided from the people by their greed, their arrogance, and their lust for power; and, that they are not fooling almost any of us? Perhaps our enemies are few, and they are the same enemies people have always had to deal with. If so, they should be relatively easy to overcome. There is no force, other than The Almighty Himself, that can approach the power of the people. Maybe we are getting ready, at long last, to unleash that power. It is overdue!

40 seconds

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1783683222997504123

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-judiciary-releases-new-report-accusing-da-bragg-political-prosecution

WHO’S NEXT ?

https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/world-news/king-charles-funeral-plans-updated-amid-cancer-battle-report/

A new bill would give the Alberta government more power over municipalities, including granting cabinet the power to remove councillors from office, and forcing councils to repeal bylaws the province doesn’t like.

The bill would also allow the creation of municipal political parties, but it comes in the form of a pilot project only affecting Edmonton and Calgary.

Cabinet has had the power to force municipal councils to amend or repeal land-use bylaws and statutory plans for 30 years. Bill 20 extends that power to all bylaws passed by councils.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/alberta-government-wants-power-to-remove-municipal-councillors-repeal-bylaws-it-doesn-t-like/ar-AA1nFY6T?

Hmmm….preventative moves to ensure woke cities can’t impose their will over all citizens?? 

FDA researchers detected a safety signal for seizures in children ages 2-4 following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. A preprint study published last month found similar results.

Researchers analyzing near-real-time monitoring data on vaccinated children identified this new safety signal in children ages 2-4 who received the original Pfizer vaccine (BNT162b2) and children ages 2-5 who received the original Moderna vaccine (mRNA-1273).

The researchers also identified a safety signal for myocarditis or pericarditis following the Pfizer vaccine in adolescents ages 12-17.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mrna-covid-vaccines-seizures-toddlers-fda-jama/?

AND

Evaluation of Febrile Seizure Risk Following Ancestral Monovalent COVID19 mRNA Vaccination Among U.S. Children Aged 2-5 Years

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.12.24304127v1.full.pdf

AND

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/japan-fights-back-against-who-pandemic?r=poko7

MY BACK PAGES : INCREDIBLE RENDITION BY ALL THE ICONS OF OUR GENERATION

EACH SINGING A VERSE OF THIS ICONIC SONG ABOUT THE FALSE CAUSES OF OUR YOUTH

Roger McGuinn ( The Byrds who made this version famous)

Tom Petty ( I won’t back down ..now deceased )

Neil Young ( pre Covid douche)

Eric Clapton ( Guitarist GOAT )

Bob Dylan ( Wrote the song in the 60s )

George Harrison ( Beatles) ( Deceased)

Our generation in one performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEIMCWob3U

They all know the “party line”

https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1783415688679334070 (Alan Jones from downunder)

But they seldom if ever know the underlying facts.
If they did, they’d realize how totally foolish they sound (and are).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5JP2Kktj7g

AND

The Supreme Court Is About To Change EVERYTHING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpOS7TPfFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWf8zwL6Jpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71cVhxG_v4

https://www.zoocasa.com/blog/home-prices-around-the-world-compare-canada-us/?

… this is the time.

Use a non-nuke and call it a nuke?
I’m convinced that Iran doesn’t have nukes.

What will Isreal or Sleepy Joe use on Iran? Something like a nuke.

I still remember WMDs in Iraq.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lawmaker-suggests-iran-ready-nuclear-weapon-testing

Next few days are going to be eventful.
I’ve always admired how charts tell about events.
TA always wins.

Is GOOG going to do a Meta-fall too? Pun intended.

GL

The ratio has a ways to go but today is shaping up well for a near term explosion higher.  If you recall my post from yesterday, to make a definitive break above cloud resistance on the weekly chart in the next 2 weeks, the ratio has to close up over 1.32 (basically the December ’23 peak).

Of course next week is the FOMC meeting and all of its surrounding shenanigans, so expect crazy gyrations, but the fact the ratio is making such a solid move prior to that meeting I think speaks volumes.  Maybe the Fed makes an insane announcement, like YCC.  It may not even matter at this point since all of the usual correlations have broken down completely since February (e.g., yields, USD and commodities all higher).  The fact that the US stock market is red today makes the relative performance of the miners even more impressive.  Will the miners snatch defeat from the jaws of victory next week (yet again)?  I don’t think so.  Everything is in place fundamentally and technically for a massive surge within the next couple of weeks.  Let’s go.

• Southwest Airlines flights to Cozumel, Syracuse, Bellingham and Houston cut 
• Cuts down to delays in Boeing delivery after a year of aviation disasters 

Southwest Airlines is no longer flying from four airports, it announced on Thursday in a major shake-up after reporting underwhelming profits.

Two thousand employees will also lose their jobs, and the airline expects to receive only 20 aircraft this year, 26 fewer than previously expected.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/travel/news/vacation-chaos-as-major-airline-axes-flights-to-four-airports-and-fires-2-000-employees-in-major-shake-up/ar-AA1nERlG?