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Days of Crisis https://www.johndayblog.com/2024/08/days-of-crisis.html

We are in a crisis-period of death throes of an established global financial and military power structure, composed at the end of World War-2, contested through the cold-war decades, then thrust to global dominance with the collapse of the USSR, and now collapsing from internal corruption consuming it like widespread cancer.

Causes leading into this include the rate of profit taking being maintained as industrial output, especially in western countries, declined for many reasons, so the profits ate healthy industries. Many industries were moved to China, where they could produce at lower costs, maintaining the profits. Those which remained in the west became weaker without productive investment, taking on loans to buy their own stocks back, maintaining "shareholder value".

Net oil production, including natural-gas-liquids and fracked-liquids, peaked in late 2018, and is on a plateau with ups and downs since then. I expect it to fall. There may be large, secret reserves in the Arctic and Antarctic, but they would take over a decade to bring online. Oil is Real Economy in the modern world.

Two days ago I posted BOE Needs World War Three https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/boe-needs-world-war-three , which makes the case that the City Of London global financial interests are badly over-extended on their failing leveraged bets, calculated to profit from the political and economic collapses of Russia and Ukraine in such a way as to asset-strip both countries for further leveraged loans, and the payment of debt-service on these large, leveraged debt-bets.

I was surprised to see that the post had garnered 14,400 views in about 6 hours, which is 10X what my typical post might get in 24 hours. I searched Substack statistics and could not tell where the views came from. Likes, comments and new-subscriptions were all stable. I immediately suspected that I had attracted the attention of some government-surveillance entity somewhere. I have not yet been invited to dine in Paris with Emmanuel Macron, and I am certain that I would decline such an offer.

We are in an epoch where all constraints have been removed from the global elites. Appearances are much less important than the retention of raw power this year as their cancerous system consumes itself. It is our life support system, also. We have longer-term interests to support. They would kill as many of us as don't comport to their plans. That is underway, with options to suddenly trip into World War Three, with emergency powers, such as were wielded by the heads of all great powers, and their financiers 80 years ago.

​ Largest in 2 decades, Israeli army launches major military operation in northern West Bank

Israeli operation in northern West Bank involves 2 army brigades, helicopters, drones, bulldozers, according to local media​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/largest-in-2-decades-israeli-army-launches-major-military-operation-in-northern-west-bank/3314912

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Day-O ! Me say Da-a-a-a-y-O !

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"Daylight come and I want to go home."

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Oh, that light at the end of the tunnel? Do I hear a train :- )

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Might be a proctoscope...

;-/

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Haha, yes. The rect-ifier :- )

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Do you know the double-indemnity song by Sir Lancelot? Great Caribbean song for cynics.

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I do now, thank you. Who can ya trust, ey? I thought the song might end with the protagonist and "lovely wife" both meeting their demise and not being able to collect. I read with interest S.L.'s reach was well beyond his native Trinidad.

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Yup. Quite the clever guy!

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Aug 31·edited Aug 31

"Refugee camp" Minnesota. For that is what Minnesota is now--a "refugee" camp. A lovely, beautiful state turned into an anti-Christian "woke" crap-hole since the 1990s. Mirrors "Tim Waltz's" time adult political life there. Also, "Waltz" (or whatever hidden hand entities he serves) just made it "illegal" to be a teacher in Minnesota if you are a practicing Christian, Muslim or Jew. No surprise there. Minnesota's demographic shift and Marxist turn is future of America. No going back. Every disagreement with their agenda is now “racism" and "far right extremism" for these "joyful" revolutionaries.

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Do you have a link for the teacher comment??

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Thank you!!

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Ya know, I really don't put much weight in what family members have to say about a candidate one way or another. Look at what RFK Jr's family has said about his position on vaccine's. As if these people are qualified to say these things. It's all politics and a family member is just as likely to make negative claims as positive.

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I agree. I think this is a bit ridiculous.

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if it really was "JUST all politics", why would Jeff Walz hesitate to put his views out there?

Do you recall the recent issues with Trump's plane? the ass@asination attempt? Walzy is now connected with some powerful and evil people.

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Why is he "announcing his hesitation?"

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They're all connected to some pretty powerful people.

That's politics.

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That's what I see, too.

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not convinced that sibling rivalry/angst over the family candidate matters all that much. trump's sister went ballistic on him in 2020 and he ended up winning the popular vote in a landslide

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Learn and enforce our Constitution! JBS.org/videos/constitution/ The power is always with the people! Learn to demand the Constitution and violations of the Oath of Office be enforced!

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Seriously we need to pray for Gods will on this earth.

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The comments are as interesting as the article. Thank you, all.

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Really! Is Walz from MN or MI? He must have been chosen for the sole purpose of getting people really mad.

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he's actually from Nebraska.

Fits the tyrant policy of moving to someplace where they don't really know you, to make one's mark in (pick your fave) politics/business/industry/arts/etc.

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They don’t want us to know about Tampon Tim’s brother, and the type of person Tim Walz really is. It is all about JOY with him and Kakala. Ironically I was thinking this morning about their chosen use of the word ‘JOY’ in their campaign now. Talk about two of the most ‘joyless’ people on the planet…it’s those two!

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Jeff Walz seems to be what Germans call ein Realpolitiker.

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On another note, I am now seeing many many people (and businesses) around me in financial chaos at the moment. It seems that some "off-the-cliff" moment looms not far off on the horizon.

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The circus just gets more and more entertaining.

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The Banana Republic Song (after a drink or two of rum). Jimmy Buffet has one too but this is my favorite

https://youtu.be/YO7M0Hx_1D8?si=krudh5IPa3M7RcNG

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I imagine a lot of the stories his brother could tell revolve around what is likely alcoholism-fueled egomania. I'd love for the country to hear those stories.

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After just reading the mean stuff the Kennedy clan is driveling out about brother Bobby, I hope Jeff Walz doesn’t get involved. Let’s face it - who is there that’s squeaky clean? The whole finger pointing nonsense is what drove me to become apolitical for most of my adult life. I only recently started to pay attention because I see a real threat in play and this isn’t time to stay quiet and apathetic. Just look at the direction these demonIcRats are taking us. When it’s looked at critically and objectively, who in their right mind would want that?

Stay away from the personal scandals and family shit. It lowers the bar even further. And if you agree please spread this around. JMHO 😔

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I agree.

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Hope he comes through at a T rally. Expose the darkness. USA!!

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