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Stock Down

"Germany Is In Really Big Trouble": Perfect Storm Of Terrible Trends Paints "Bleak" Picture As "Distress Is Spreading To Other Sectors"

German Central bank
A confluence of economic stagnation, higher energy prices (due to anti-nuclear idiocy), and the highest corporate distress rates in Europe suggest Deutschland is in for a sharp contraction - a sentiment shared among fund managers, credit traders and crestfallen German executives moping around Davos last month, according to Bloomberg.
The bad news is continuing to pile up. After the economy shrank in the final quarter of last year, downbeat early surveys for 2024 signal there's little respite ahead.

Demand from borrowers for investment in the likes of machinery, factories and technology has fallen, creating a risk that domestic growth is impeded in the longer term as companies focus on getting through the current struggle. And now there's growing concern about some lenders' exposure to the shaky US corporate real estate market. -Bloomberg



Comment: High energy prices mainly due to no cheap gas from Russia though also due to the nuclear policy.


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Attention

Beware of the philanthropaths

I think this made up word in the meme below perfectly captures the tyrannical billionaire psychopaths who seem to have gained control of the world using their billions, while portraying themselves as the saviors of humanity. Whenever I see the term Foundation related to one of these psychopaths, I know that Foundation is nothing more than a front to achieve their evil agenda. And if ever their was a poster boy for philanthropaths across the world, it would be Mister depopulation/vaccine pusher/farmer Bill Gates and his Gates Foundation.

Philanthropath
© The Burning Platform
Gates, Soros, Bloomberg and the Clintons represent the evil forces in this world, using their wealth, power, and control of the regime media to push their agenda of chaos, death, destruction, and depopulation. They all use their "Charitable" Foundations as a means to their evil ends, while being portrayed by the media they have bought off, as generous philanthropists improving the lives of the poor and downtrodden. It is all a ruse, easily revealed to anyone willing to dig just below the surface of these Potemkin foundations.

Brain

Think about it

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© RGB Council on Foreign Relations/KJNGetting to the bottom of things...
"It's not enough to be against globalism or the WEF, we have to also be for something better."
— Tom Luongo, Gold, Goats 'n Guns
Mr. Luongo makes an important point. I want you to think about this: there is a reason that the WEF-Globalist cabal is losing the battle to control and dominate the rest of us. They are trying to power straight into the opposing currents of reality. Above all, they seek to centralize power and decision-making. But the world is moving in the opposite direction. All of the WEF's aims founder on the macro trends unspooling in history.

The rising rule for human affairs now is that anything organized at the giant scale is going to wobble and fail. There will not be any world government run by the creatures of Davos or Brussels, or Washington DC, or any other place that the grandiose imagine would be their seat of global power. It's not going to happen so you can stop worrying about it. But you'd better prepare for what is happening: everything in our world wants to get smaller, slower, finer, and more local. Anything that opposes these trends is pissing into the wind.

Since every activity we humans practice has to move in that direction, we are seeing colossal industries, institutions, and arrangements crack up: everything from national government to long-distance supply chains to giant retailing outfits to worldwide business networks to overgrown universities and high schools to transport matrices to metroplex cities to mega-farms to political parties.

Where the rot is probably greatest, but more veiled for the moment, is in the operations of organized capital, the banks and money systems, including financial markets. When these monsters blow, as they must, all the others will shake, rattle, and roll. They have to blow because the fuel tank is emptying.

Russian Flag

US Defense Sec Lloyd Austin goes into intensive care due to 'bladder problems'

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
© AP Photo / Manuel Balce CenetaUS Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been moved to critical care unit after being hospitalized with a bladder issue, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said on Monday, adding that it is unclear now when the Pentagon chief will return to his duties.

On Sunday night, the Pentagon said that Austin was again hospitalized for medical examination due to bladder problems. Later, the department said that Austin transferred his powers to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks.

"Tonight, after a series of tests and evaluations, the Secretary was admitted into the critical care unit at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for supportive care and close monitoring," Dr. John Maddox and Dr. Gregory Chesnut said in a statement.

Comment: As detailed in the most recent SOTT radio show, it seems more likely that Austin is suffering a serious injury incurred during a visit to Ukraine, during which he was greeted by Russian weaponry: NewsReal: USA's Terrorist Proxy War Substitute For Actual War Against Iran

See also: Russia releases names of French mercenaries in Ukraine, includes son of a General of France's Armed Forces




Star of David

Here's why you shouldn't trust the 'declining' Gaza death toll narrative

Gaza mass grave
© GettyDrone footage of a mass grave in Khan Younis, November 22, 2023
Distorting casualty counts, failing to critically analyze statistics and misrepresenting facts, Western media is exposing its anti-Palestinian bias

Shortly before the International Court of Justice's highly anticipated decision to pursue South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide, the New York Times released a report titled 'The Decline of Death in Gaza'.

The article attributed this alleged decline to a change in Israel's battle strategy in Gaza, yet the piece omitted key data that contradicted its claims. Then, in the aftermath of the ICJ preliminary ruling, the NYT became the first news outlet to receive and publish information from an Israeli dossier that accused UNRWA staff of complicity in the armed activities of Hamas.

Comment: The number is likely much higher and is likely to increase as Israel seems hellbent on the ethnic cleansing of the whole Gaza strip, which has been levelled one piece at the time until now where there is only the city of Rafah left.

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Alarm Clock

Egypt's ominous threat to suspend peace deal over Rafah offensive should be taken seriously by Israel - Sky News

Palestinian girl Mosque
© DPPA/APA Palestinian girl carries a book from the ruins of the Al-Huda Mosque in Rafah. Two officials said Egypt has threatened to suspend a landmark peace agreement with Israel, should the latter launch a ground offensive in Rafah. Cairo may only be bluffing, but the region and much of the rest of the world have had enough of this war.
Israel's worst-ever security disaster happened on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's watch on October 7.

He may now preside over one of the most grave diplomatic setbacks in its history.

The Egyptian-Israeli peace deal forged between sworn enemies in 1978 has survived decades of war, intifadas and revolution - but Egypt is now threatening to suspend it over Israel's offensive in Gaza.

The agreement, sealed at Camp David, Maryland in September 1978, stunned the world.

Comment: Considering this is a report by Sky News, the statement in red is quite significant.




Quenelle - Golden

Cold feet? Macron scraps Ukraine visit due to 'security issues'

Macron and Zelensky
French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky

French President Emmanuel Macron has postponed his planned visit to Ukraine due to security concerns, the French magazine Challenges reported on Sunday.

According to the report, the trip was scheduled for February 13-14. Macron was expected to visit Odessa - Ukraine's largest Black Sea port - and later arrive in Kiev. The French government has not commented on the reported delay.

The exact dates of foreign leaders' trips to Ukraine are typically not revealed in advance.

Macron last visited Kiev in June 2022, four months after Russia launched its military operation. The new French foreign minister, Stephane Sejourne, made a visit to the Ukrainian capital in January, where he met with President Vladimir Zelensky and promised more support.

Macron announced last month that France would provide 40 additional SALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles and "hundreds of bombs." He said he would "finalize" the bilateral security agreement during an upcoming trip Ukraine.


Comment: Did France get cold feet about supporting Ukraine and share in the fate of that country?


Comment: Perhaps Macron saw the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin and realized that it might be better to negotiate a peace deal rather than throw money at a black hole. Especially as the French farmers are slowly starting to be fed up with Ukraine getting all the attention while problems in France are left unattended.

That Ukraine called on the French farmers to stop the protests didn't quite bring joy to the farmers.




Putin

SOTT Focus: On President Putin's Interview With Tucker Carlson...

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East meets West
Something somewhat historical happened just two days ago, though it is unclear how many Americans will understand its significance...

Tucker Carlson traveled to Moscow for a 2 hour, unedited, unfiltered, interview with President Putin.

This is already unprecedented.

It is unprecedented in that several million Americans will be actually listening to President Putin expressing his thoughts (not to mention several millions more of the western world).

Let us be honest with ourselves here, most Americans have not actually heard President Putin speak a full thought. Rather the internet is bombarded with diluted and villainized impressions - with no shortage of unflattering photos taken of him in mid-speech like this is to serve as some sort of replacement for actually listening to what he has to say.

The majority of Americans have a bit of a bad habit of desiring to make quick judgements and impressions of things without taking too much time to understand what it is they are looking at. The whole world looks at Americans this way, as a fast consumerist society that treats its politics not too differently from its fast food choices. If Americans do not like this characterization of themselves, then the best way to counteract this is to actually have the attention span to watch this interview and engage in a serious discussion about it. Since what President Putin thinks, whether Americans like it or not, clearly also affects the welfare of American lives at this point, let alone the economy of the United States.

Bullseye

Putin clarifies 'denazification' to Tucker Carlson

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© TCM / Sputnik / POOLPresident Vladimir Putin in conversation with Tucker Carlson, February 8, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained to Tucker Carlson what he means by "denazification" when referring to the objectives of the special military operation.
"You say Hitler has been dead for so many years, 80 years. But, his example lives on. The people who exterminated Jews, Russians or Poles are alive. And the president, the current president of today's Ukraine, applauds him in the Canadian Parliament, gives [him, 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka] a standing ovation. Can we say that we have completely uprooted this ideology, If what we see is happening today? That's what denazification is in our understanding. We have to get rid of those people who maintain this concept, and support this practice and try to preserve it. That is what denazification is, that is what we mean," Putin said during an exclusive interview with the American journalist that was released Thursday.

Comment: It's not like this is a new thing on Russia's part. They've been warning about the neonazi cancer overtaking Ukraine for over a decade. No one cared. So now Russia will solve the matter to its own satisfaction.


Blue Pill

NATO-Russia confrontation 'could last decades' - Stoltenberg

Jens St.
© Virginia Mayo/APNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg • NATO headquarters • Brussels, Belgium • February 7, 2024. Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged that the use of western-supplied arms to strike targets in Russia had long been a point of contention among Ukraine's allies.
The US-led bloc urgently needs to increase production of ammunition, the secretary-general has said...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called on the bloc's members to increase defense production in anticipation of "a confrontation" with Russia "that could last decades." Stoltenberg has repeatedly warned that Western economies are ill-prepared for such a conflict.

With Ukraine's counteroffensive fizzled out and Russian forces poised to capture the key Donbass stronghold of Avdeevka, media reports have for weeks highlighted the worsening shortage of men and ammunition facing Kiev. Amid warnings of "a cascading collapse along the front," Stoltenberg told Germany's Die Welt newspaper that NATO members must increase arms production to meet Ukraine's demand.
"We need to restore and expand our industrial base more quickly so that we can increase supplies to Ukraine and replenish our own stocks. That means switching from slow production in times of peace to fast production, as is necessary in conflicts."

Comment: This is one more war fantasy to be set in motion and doomed to fail dramatically...a global distraction to mask a global agenda.


Comment: As far as Russia is concerned, NATO is irrelevant.