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[tim]

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

“This was just another way to divide the country,” warns Ed Dowd, Wall Street veteran and bestselling author of Cause Unknown, referring to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Dowd explains how the event signals deeper fractures in the U.S. economy and society, driven by wealth disparity, market instability, and deliberate political polarization.

He highlights the looming housing crisis, noting an overbuilt multifamily market and rising affordability gaps, calling it the “canary in the coal mine” for the broader economic downturn. “Once housing really rolls, it’ll affect GDP because housing all in is 20% of the economy,” Doud says. At the same time, he points to unprecedented AI stock speculation and the potential collapse of municipal bonds, warning that systemic risk is mounting across financial markets. Watch the video to learn how to prepare in these turbulent times.

[Navigator]

It is about time!

The US Dept. of Justice is going to start investigating the Soros funded "Open Society Foundation". I am sure that they will find that they are funding all kinds of things that are way past "political advocacy".

While the funding of extreme left wing politicians, most notably the big city District Attorneys who have decided to not prosecute criminals and allow them to go free without bail, is entirely legal, I am confident that they have gone past that in funding Antifa and other similar violent leftist extremists.

We are being set up by Soros and the CCP to have to wage a serious internal campaign against insurgents on our own soil when China decides to finally "pull the pin" on open world wide warfare.

[Trevor]

Over the last couple weeks, I've been shocked at just how many people have been celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. These aren't political fanatics, but ordinary men and women convinced that he got what he deserved, that those who disagree should be silenced by force and murder.

The difference between political violence today and what we saw in the 1960s-1970s is the degree to which people support it. We had little difficulty condemning it back then; liberals denounced left-wing violence, conservatives denounced right-wing violence. The left isn't unique in committing violence, but they're a lot more likely to justify and minimize it. I haven't forgotten how it was excused and even celebrated in 2020, talking about how riots were a good thing.

Studies that state political violence is overwhelmingly one-sided tends to be skewed. I noticed that in 2020, none of the rioting deaths and injuries counted. Where I live, around 20 years ago, we had a police officer assassinated by a young man who went to college and became radicalized. I've never seen it counted in any study of left-wing violence.

I still don't think a civil war is likely, but I fear the possibility. I'm fairly liberal and I've still had people cut me out of their lives because I don't loathe Trump and the GOP with the passion of a thousand suns.

[Navigator]

Most studies on Political Violence are carried out by left wing organizations and Universities.

Any killing related to a motorcycle gang or similar, for whatever reason, is labeled as "Right Wing Violence".

Left wing murders, such as the Health Care CEO killing, are conveniently given other interpretations and not counted.

And, as you mentioned, left wing mob attacks are somehow swept under the rug.

It is the left that consistently kills the opposition whenever they are able to take over completely.

To emphasize this, the following is a quote from MSNBC of all places:

In the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, some Democrats are citing questionable studies to lend credence to their claims that right-wing violence is more commonly occurring in the United States than violent crime committed by far-left ideologues.

These studies, which are rife with dubious data points, cherry-pick cases of political violence, misrepresent motives, and exclude key events — in effect, fudging the numbers and underplaying the prevalence of radical-left extremism in America.

[tim]

Over the last couple weeks, I've been shocked at just how many people have been celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. These aren't political fanatics, but ordinary men and women convinced that he got what he deserved, that those who disagree should be silenced by force and murder.

From a generational perspective, it would be unusual for this not to be happening.

We are 80 years away from the end of the last crisis war.

From a human perspective its disturbing.

We are either going to be united in a galvanizing event against an external enemy (China) or we will end up in a civil war.

[Navigator]

I want to post my thoughts on the attack on the Church in Michigan yesterday.

I had no sooner posted a couple of times on Left-Wing violence when this happened. And it was obviously Right-Wing violence. The left doesn’t have a monopoly; it just has the lion’s share of it.

What happened in Michigan Sunday is the manifestation of religious violence that came from what could be called Conservative Thinking from the Dark Ages. The time when people were burned at the stake for being a different religion. Or even in such events such as the Spanish Civil War, where the Franco forces were motivated by deep Catholic religiosity and feared (rightly so it turns out) that the Communists were going to persecute them. (Of course, this does NOT justify Spanish Franconistas murder of enemy communists or sympathizers during and after the war. Or any similar event).

In the case on Sunday, the perpetrator was a believer in the lie that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the formal name of the church, which I will hereafter refer to as the LDS Church, and its members as LDS) are not Christians.

Here are three of the Articles of Faith (there are a total of 13) that describe the beliefs of the LDS Church.
#1. We believe in God the Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
#3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be Saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
#4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

These beliefs are, IMHO, mainstream CHRISTIAN beliefs. LDS members worship God the Father and his son Jesus Christ as diety. NO-ONE ELSE.
I have fully described my LDS beliefs on this forum in another thread. Here is the link to the first of those posts (just scroll down through the thread if you want to read them all):
viewtopic.php?p=67300#p67300
Or just do a search of my posts on this forum and focus on the posts in the Theology Thread

I lived in Texas when I first started hearing about non-LDS preachers telling their church members that LDS members were not Christian. I spoke with an LDS church leader who had met with leaders from other faiths. These other leaders were confronted about telling people that LDS were non-Christian, and they admitted that they knew it wasn’t true, but that it was effective in stopping their congregants from talking with LDS members, so they were going to keep saying it.

The reason, I believe, that these other church leaders spread this lie is due to one thing. Money. The LDS faith does not have a professional clergy. All church functions are handled by lay people, outside of the staff and leadership at the church headquarters in Salt Lake City.

Almost all other faiths have paid clergy. When they lose congregants to the LDS church, they lose the donations that literally fund their paychecks. And, unfortunately, most people will do or say almost anything to stop the loss of income.

There are of course others with other anti-LDS beliefs and motivations, but the bit about LDS being non-Christian is an outright lie.

So this poor guy, with PTSD to boot, starts hearing this anti-LDS message and buys into it without even attempting to find out if it is true or not. Worried that an LDS member might get elected to some local political office, he instead decides to drive into the nearest LDS church and shoot and kill as many LDS members as possible.

The miracle is that law enforcement was on the scene within 30 seconds of the 911 call, and they quickly eliminated him, greatly reducing the loss of life that he could have otherwise inflicted.

LDS do missionary work to explain their beliefs and invite others to join them. But we view everyone’s choice as their own. No one is ever Forced to be or remain LDS. If someone doesn’t want to believe what LDS believe, then we are fine with that.

I think that maybe the Michigan perpetrator may have seen snippets about the Charlie Kirk assassin, who was raised LDS (as was his gay trans lover). Both, BTW, would have been excommunicated from the LDS church for homosexual behavior had they been called to account and failed to repent.

Killing someone (Murder) is about as bad a thing as you can do in this life. Be it shooting someone because of his anti-Trans beliefs (Charlie Kirk) or because of their LDS beliefs. Both will put you in a situation for eternity that you don’t want to contemplate due to the judgements of God.

[tim]

https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon- ... war-report

Pentagon orders arms makers to ‘quadruple’ missile production amid push for war: Report

The US has been increasingly concerned that its stockpiles are not ready for a potential confrontation with China

The US Defense Department has ordered suppliers to double or “even quadruple” production rates on a “breakneck” schedule over fears about a depletion of stockpiles and a potential confrontation with China in the future, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

According to WSJ, “Military leaders are urging defense contractors to increase assembly of 12 critical weapons.”

The list includes Patriot interceptor missiles, long-range anti-ship missiles, Standard Missile-6 missiles, Precision Strike missiles, and Joint Air-to-Surface Missiles. Patriot is a particular priority, given Lockheed Martin's efforts to keep up with growing global demand.

Informed sources said there have been a series of recent high-level meetings between Pentagon officials and representatives of missile manufacturing companies.

US Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg is taking a direct role in this effort – called the Munitions Production Acceleration Council – and is calling company executives weekly to discuss the matter, according to the sources.

The Defense Department invited major missile suppliers to a roundtable meeting at the Pentagon in June to launch this effort.

The meeting was attended by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Keane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It included executives from several weapons manufacturers.

However, the report notes that stakeholders fear Washington’s goals are “unrealistic,” and that questions are arising about the funding needed to accelerate production.

Some suppliers have struggled to meet the new demands and are wary of overbuying orders that have not yet been funded by the government.

The WSJ report comes a few days after the Washington Post said an “unusual” meeting of hundreds of top US military leaders has been ordered by Hegseth.

“The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military's top commanders worldwide,” the newspaper wrote, citing more than a dozen people familiar with the matter.

The announcement comes months after Hegseth revealed plans to carry out a major consolidation of top military commands.

Hegseth's abrupt call for such an emergency meeting has led to concerns of a coming conflict.

A senior Pentagon official said, “In my 30 years in the US military, I have never seen anything like this. We might be on the brink of war.”

Monday’s report is not the first to note official concerns over low stockpiles.

During this year’s US campaign against Yemen, which ended in May, Washington burned through at least $1 billion in munitions. This raised concerns in the defense community that the US military would be left unprepared and would face “real operational problems” if a conflict with China were to erupt, according to the New York Times (NYT).

Analysts have also recently suggested the possibility of a new war between Israel and Iran, which Tel Aviv is likely to involve Washington in.

Israel was close to running out of interceptors during the 12-day war with Iran in June, which was mentioned in several reports. According to a WSJ report from June, Washington feared it would burn through its own interceptors while replenishing Israel’s stockpiles.

[tim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... nt-signals

Wave Of US Air Tankers Deploy To Europe

OSINT-focused X accounts cite flight tracking data that shows a wave of U.S. air tankers deploying to Europe. The timing coincides with President Trump's scheduled last-minute meeting with senior military leadership in northern Virginia on Tuesday. Historical precedent is very notable here: the last comparable mass tanker deployment (read report) preceded U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure by five days.

Notable and most credible X accounts have reported an immediate deployment of U.S. air tankers to Europe.

"Roughly a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T "Stratotanker" Aerial-Refueling Tankers are currently up from a number of airbases across the United States, heading northeast and preparing to cross the Atlantic towards Europe, with several appearing to be enroute to RAF Mildenhall in England," X account OSINTdefender said. The X user appears to have sourced Flight

[FullMoon]

Tankers last movement was before the strikes on Iran?
The top brass pep rally today seems pretty disconcerting.
In a time of maximum danger in this crisis period, what kind of decision-making are we getting. Many of us had hopes that Trump would be the grey champion and we'd come out of this better than before.

[Bob Butler]

Tankers last movement was before the strikes on Iran?
The top brass pep rally today seems pretty disconcerting.

Agreed, Trump likely advocated something or other. As China decides whether a Pacific war kicks off and China is doing well with the Tariff remake of the international economy, the Pacific does not seem an immediate threat.

In a time of maximum danger in this crisis period, what kind of decision-making are we getting. Many of us had hopes that Trump would be the grey champion and we'd come out of this better than before.

Ha. Trump is badly mistaken on how tariffs work and as a result is making all sorts of economic mistakes. Looks like we'll see an economic shutdown during the hurricane season, and just before the mid terms.

It looks to me like Trump, Putin, Xi and Netinyahu are going to step into the roles of Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Conservative stay the same policies - aggression, favoring the wealthy over the people and racism - are not the way to go in recent crises. A crisis is how major enhancements are inserted in a culture, and stay the same conservative policies just do not do well. We'll see how obvious this becomes.