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Stock Markets, Housing Debt – Don’t Get Caught in the TRAP!

Posted on by Helena

The Stock Market Beating is a massive re-allocation.   And ALL The King’s Horses Told ALL The King’s Men what Not to Buy Ever Again!

Just as everyone got whipped into a frenzy, Ukraine’s president, Zelensky, suddenly puts the breaks on and declares, “Hey why is everyone so panicked?   Russia isn’t going to attack us, there is no imminent invasion…”   WHO declares the emergency status of CoVid is over despite Fauci claiming it will ‘never end’.   And the Border vaccine mandate for truckers crossing between the US and Canada was suddenly lifted, as in ‘void’.

The FBI has released its crime stats for 2020 with 17% of jurisdictions ‘not reporting’.   So like everything else in this brooha of science and facts – they ‘estimate’.   Murder rose almost 30% and aggravated assault rose roughly 12% – ‘guesstimate’.   Of course none of the violence in the big city chaos fires and lootings and destruction are counted in the statistic because no one was technically arrested – they all walked.  Therefore the numbers are ridiculously LOW.

Even worse is the statement that robbery declined.   Given California, New York, Minneapolis, etc… the hubs of robbery were given a pass for each individual involved if the theft of less than $900 – they don’t count in the FBI statistic any longer…   So the statistics that used to be quantitative math have now been eclipsed by fake numbers.  And comparing them to past statistics is a feeble exercise in infidelity…

Hillary has gone into hiding given the polls, businesses, media, and just about everybody from every party scoffs at the idea of a reboot 2024 as ridiculous.  She is as past tense as shoulder pads.

Even Obama is being ridiculed as “Biden’s First Lady”.   Could it be because Psaki and Kamaltoes accidentally declared that they report to Obama? And Obama doesn’t want the legacy of breaking the back of America?   Dastardly.

Or are they running scared given that Newt Gingrich statement that once the Republicans take control, there will be a whole lot of people going to gitmo-Jail?

On a Dime – The World Turns.

Switching to The Economist, the purveyor of crystal ball predictions, they assert that Europe would be just fine without Putin’s gas transit… Odd, as a bon voyage gift, Germany’s Merkel gave out flyers detailing what citizens should do in the event gas is no more.   Apparently people were given such anecdotal advice, the flyers were ultimately trashed – and burned for fuel.   “Do jumping-jacks”, “Wear multiple layers of woolies”, Hug your dog”… I’m sure they were all greatly comforted by this advice.

One year ago EU natural gas was 16.23 euros per megawatt.   Today it advanced as high as 96.9, down from its extreme high of 180.27. And with the exception of Lithium, commodities were down.   But that is down from their highs – and still reflects a one year surcharge of 100% to 200% increase – just during the Handler Administration.

Of course none of the inflated commodities are included in the value of inflation which is still pegged at a measly 6-7%.

So what the heck just happened?   In the end, what all this fear mongering appears to have accomplished is a selloff of certain tech stocks that left the smaller investors sitting on huge losses, while the Hedge Funds – reallocated and made massive gains.  SURPRISE!

The biggest gainers today were ‘retail’ and China Evergrande, you remember, the debt dividend defaulted worthless Evergrande.

Lest we be Alarmed, Markets are on the edge of a supercharged technology that could defeat the purpose of trading shares.

AI is being exclaimed as a game changer in market intelligence predictions.   But if everybody has the same AI intelligence, technically, no one will profit or lose because AI will be the per second predictor – a continually circular band wagon.

Imagine your hedge fund stock data is uploaded to a frequency of percentages and every AI trade is initiated simultaneously on a minute by minute basis.   Traders become obsolete.   Wall Street is unnecessary.   The Commodities market operates on a shoestring of employees.   And there is no more tremendous gains – it is only increments.

It is interesting that as all the founder CEO’s of the major tech industry were excommunicated and replaced by puppets, the stocks of their companies have been radically hit 15% to 20%+.   A planned event.   Thus timing dictated that Hedge Funds should bail.   It will be some time before their investment share changes are made public, but given they all follow the same top ten – we shouldn’t be surprised.

It is somewhat aligned with real estate.

We have watched real estate prices climb 50% or more over the last 2 years.   There will be a planned 20% correction before they swoop down for vulture buys.  People will freak and sell low.    The last vestige before the Great RESET>   Those most heavily mortgaged will have the worst pain. Don’t a victim of debt.  

And those without real estate will be cattled into 200 sq foot Company Town apartments and trailers.  If you don’t understand the plan, The Great RESET, you won’t properly secure your wealth.   Pay Attention.

GERMANY – Natural Gas is Bad, People Freezing is Good

Posted on by Helena

ALAS ALAS.   Germany’s Deutsche Welle has just posted an article inspired by Climate Analytics which claims that Natural Gas is NOT a green source of energy and must be poo-pooed given it is actually more harmful than – coal. Never mind that it’s carbon emissions are 50% lower than coal, never mind it is plentiful, and never mind the NordStream II project which would provide Germany with cheap energy remains uncertified while Germans are freezing!   Why?   Because Climate Analytics said so.

Apparently, the pipelines are the problem.   Because pipeline infrastructure destroys the environment adding an additional carbon footprint.   Ah! It gets even prettier:   “Geopolitics is another problem: Just look at the delays getting the Nord Stream 2 Russia to Germany gas pipe connected amid escalating threats of war in Ukraine. It’s ready to go but can’t flow. Gas prices skyrocket as supply ebbs.”

Who wrote this drivel?   Apparently an anonymous person at Deutsche Welle who is afraid of getting pilloried for the … um drivel.

With a quaint picture in the background showing a windmill circa 1800 or so, the hideous monolith of a metal that is the new and improved windmill, and an old man on a bicycle, the idea is that we should all go back in time whereby we grind our own grain, saw wood, and transportation is a sailboat and a bicycle.

At some point the Cheshire Cat will reveal himself and we can all have a grand laugh!   If pipelines are the factor, then what next?   Roads?   Railways?   Houses?   ALL buildings?   Because they all degrade land and consume power in their production.  Ultimately, why not just rid the planet of people, then the planet would be carbon free! Right?

Actually – NO!

The largest natural source of carbon dioxide is the ocean. Oceans absorb carbon to feed the all living organisms that live there.  Without carbon the ocean and all that lives in it would not survive.   In fact, if there were no carbon in the ocean it would freeze solid.

“Carbon dioxide plays an important part in vital plant and animal process, such as photosynthesis and respiration. Plants and animals, in turn, convert the food compounds by combining it with oxygen to release energy for growth and other life activities. This is the respiration process, the reverse of photosynthesis.”

The cells in our body make carbon dioxide as part of their job, flowing thru the respiratory system and exhaling it when we breathe. When excess carbon is produced, it rises into the atmosphere and is absorbed into the oceans making them more acidic. An acidic ocean can harm shellfish and coral – like when a persons bones becoming softer. In a person, the effect is demineralization – loss of calcium and minerals that support bone health.

Remember ‘acid rain’?

The means of deterring the effect back in the 1970’s was to mediate pollution and deforestation. And then people got lazy.   Or maybe there simply wasn’t enough money to be made in recycling… I’m all in for completely stopping ocean pollution and getting rid of the arsonists!   But for some reason our esteemed governments want to get rid of our current energy sources without an alternative already in place!

Sometimes it seems theses mitigations are about as helpful as asphalt roads…   It’s cheaper than concrete, but within one year it requires repaving and/or filling all the cracks and potholes.  What it does achieve is a steady line of employees.

The idiocy of converting to wind power is the same – windmills die at age 18 and are buried in mass graves – somewhere. Meanwhile steel factories are busily firing their coal plants to make the windmills to preserve our environment.   At the last ‘climate summit’ in Germany, the wind had stopped – and Merkel was forced to fire up coal in order to provide the necessary energy so all the government representatives were ‘comfortable’.  Windmills are grand when its windy, but what happens when it’s not?

A Swedish Company has been dabbling for the past decade in using hydrogen instead of coal in the process of making steel.   Still in its infancy, a small amount has been made and sent to Volvo for testing in the making of trucks. The biggest problem with hydrogen is that it can embrittle metal making it more prone to break apart.

The production process of this hydrogen requires methane and water.   Today Methane Is Produced from “Natural Gas”. In the US 95% of hydrogen is produced using natural gas – the same gas that Climate Analytics has declared is more pervasive in environmental degradation than coal.  The same gas Germany refuses to accept in the NardStream pipeline to make German citizens more ‘comfortable’.

The National Resource Council has determined that a transitional use of hydrogen could be in place by 2037.   Fifteen YEARS from now.   At that point they estimate 60 billion kg of hydrogen will be produced annually at a water cost of “19-69 trillion gallons of water”!

“This would account for a 27-97% increase from the 195 billion gallons per day (72 trillion gallons annually) used today by the thermoelectric power sector to generate about 90% of the electricity in the US.”   Water our most precious resource for sustaining ALL LIFE.

Electrolysis of water is still being studied as a means for reducing that water usage which is primarily a part of the cooling process.   But this has yet to happen.

In the end, I doubt anyone would argue against reducing emissions if the hypocrisy were eliminated 100%. If the water usage was significantly reduced.   IF its value for the environment in all it’s creation/production did actually perform better, more efficiently, and with less impact on our natural resources than our present sources.

Today we aren’t there.   Until we are it makes absolutely no sense to freeze people to death, deprive them of low cost fuel and guilt them as being hazards to our globe.

But then Climate Analytics wouldn’t even exist because what they do is parade about analyses regarding all the harm – without any consideration to ‘The Flow”.

Climate Analytics supports climate-vulnerable countries in strengthening their roles and voices in international climate negotiations.

And evaluate the risks to sustainable development.

In a 2017, the Federal GAO found that of the $13.2 billion in climate change funding that year among the non-transparent organizations receiving the money all they actually accomplished was the creation of ‘talking points’. Hundreds of Billions spent across thousands upon thousands of organizations across the globe burning through the money to produce ‘talking points’ and articles.

As of 2018, US taxpayers had doled out $154 billion for talking. Not for science, not for the development of alternatives, but for more ‘talking’.   Including Climate Analytics.

In the meantime Germany has shuttered 3 of its 6 nuclear facilities and shuttered the NordStream II pipeline until next year… maybe.   Because now natural gas – is bad.   And freezing is good.

The South Sea of China; At The Helm of The Art of Diplomacy

Posted on by Helena

China is dredging waters off it’s coast and expanding its land mass. The US is nervous because they believe it is a ‘ploy’ to create a greater military presence over the waters which the US claims are international.

So that’s the story, but what does it all mean?

The South China Sea is more of an inlet that is bordered by China, Vietnam, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Brunei. The area is home to vast oil and gas reserves. While the Chinese government demarcated a dotted line of territory sometime in 1949, it only came under dispute in the 1970’s when The Philippines and Malaysia wanted a fair share. Given that the strait is not just a potential for oil and gas but also serves as a fishing center and a major shipping territory, the dispute heightened. By the 1990’s Brunei and Vietnam also made a claim to the waters.

An agreement was signed between Vietnam and China. But just two months later India stated that Vietnam had sold to it rights to engage in oil and gas exploration within areas that had been retained by China. That didn’t go over well.

In the meantime, Vietnam, Malaysia, The Philippines and Taiwan have quietly been building their own maritime defensives in the sea. Nothing was said. But China was tired of the games and out-sized them all building land masses that dwarfed their neighbors. Everyone became miffed because China’s aggression was bigger and better.

Enter McCain. McCain has a penchant for stoking aggression. He also has a penchant for butting into regime change agendas. Granted that will never happen in China, but coup disruption has plagued Malaysia of late, Thailand, and a failed coup in The Philippines within just the last year. So McCain’s solution is to allow for the US exchange of weapons to Vietnam, a communist Marxist regime, for the purpose of standing up against China. Really? Sort of reminds me of the Arab swordsman wielding an over-sized scimitar while fiercely challenging Indian Jones to his death only to be swiftly peeled away with one shot from his pistol.

US interference has absolutely no positive gain. If the US determines it has the right to step in as the divier of rights, much like the Israel and Palestine agenda, the US will not prevail. Adding tension to tension does not make for peace. But McCain has an ulterior agenda. Malaysia news makes no mention of the China dredging. In Vietnam, the US is pressuring their government to halt ‘wave erosion’ land reclamation. And while The Philippines news only makes reference to the concerns pressed by the US, it would seem that the Asian countries really haven’t much issue and that the issue is a US creation.

Perhaps the true concern is that the Asian countries will form an alliance that makes these waters restricted from US shipping. One third of the world’s liquified natural gas passes through the South China Sea. The bulk of it originates in the Persian Gulf. In 1994, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was ratified by most Asian countries in the maritime area. It defined rights and uses of natural resources in the area. The US did not sign the agreement. Unfortunately, by definition the rights that allow for a 200 nautical mile entitlement – overlap. Another oops factor of the UN.

Bottom line – we, the US do not have a lick of upper hand in this dispute. We do not have any legal rights whatsoever as we are not a party to the maritime treaty. What we do have is the ability to politely bow in deference to some countries who simply refuse to be policed by the US. Instigating further animosity with China will not be in our best interest – ever. Sometimes, it is simply best to remove ourselves from a situation that can not and will not have a positive outcome and pocket our ego.

In 1959 the art of diplomacy was over shadowed by the release of a game by the same name. It’s stated objective was:

“Luck plays no part in Diplomacy. Cunning and cleverness honesty and perfectly-timed betrayal are the tools needed to outwit your fellow players. The most skillful negotiator will climb to victory over the backs of both enemies and friends. Who do you trust?”