Luke Gromen told Dale Pinkert on the Forex Analytics July 22nd F.A.C.E. show that the U.S. went to China last fall and asked the Chinese to strengthen the Yuan. The Chinese said if the United States wants a weaker dollar, they need to let it go versus gold, implying that the gold market is influenced…
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2024 Echoes ‘1984’ | ZeroHedge
2024 Echoes ‘1984’
Authored by Victor Joecks via American Greatness,
The book “1984” is supposed to be a warning. Today’s leftists are using it as an instruction manual…
George Orwell’s classic novel is set in a dystopian world where Big Brother controls the population through information control and surveillance. See if any of this sounds familiar.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
During her career, especially when running for president in 2020, Kamala Harris took a number of radical positions. She praised efforts to defund the police. She once insinuated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was comparable to the KKK and suggested the agency should be rebuilt “from scratch.” She wanted to decriminalize border crossings. She co-sponsored the Green New Deal. She supported a mandatory gun buyback program, eliminating private insurance and reparations. She was in favor of banning fracking and plastic straws.
Those policies play great in San Francisco, but not in battleground states. Not to worry. She’s flip-flopped on at least five major policy positions since becoming the presumptive nominee.
Instead of exposing this duplicity, the national mainstream media is participating in it.
“Harris is calibrating her policy pitch for going to battle with Trump,” the Associated Press wrote about her reversals.
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump happened just over three weeks ago. The iconic photo of a bloodied Trump defiantly standing and pumping his fist went viral. Outside of conservative sites and social media accounts, it’s barely been seen since. The national media has largely moved on, eager to fluff up Harris.
Less than two weeks ago, pro-Hamas rioters stormed Washington, D.C., to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to Congress. They tore down U.S. flags outside of Union Station and raised Palestinian flags. They burned an American flag, vandalized monuments and assaulted park police. Charges against some of the few people arrested have already been dropped.
An easy prediction: You’ll hear less about these two stories than Trump’s out-of-context “bloodbath” remark and Jan. 6. It’s like events that would make Trump look heroic and hurt the left never happened.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten …”
You can see this happening in real time. Last week, I googled “Trump rally.” The top result was “Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta.” The same thing happened to Elon Musk and many others.
Recently, Meta AI refused to acknowledge that Trump was almost assassinated. Meta is the parent company of Facebook. It inaccurately labeled a fist-pumping photo of a bloodied Trump as “altered.” When people used Google to search for information on Trump’s attempted assassination, its auto-fill wouldn’t even suggest his name.
Both companies claim they weren’t trying to rig search results. Those excuses would be more believable if almost all mistakes like these didn’t go in the same direction.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
Illegal aliens are merely undocumented migrants. Men who claim to be women are women. People voting for Donald Trump are a threat to democracy. Ramming scissors into the skull of an 8-month-old preborn baby and sucking her brains out is health care. Israel is the oppressor for defending itself against genocidal terrorists. Diversity requires ideological conformity.
2024 looks a lot like “1984,” but you get to help write the ending. Choose wisely.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/08/2024 – 23:25
Exclusive — Trump Tells Breitbart He’ll Solve Ukraine-Russia War ‘Before I Get to the White House, After I’m President-Elect’
Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday evening that he intends to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine as President-elect before he even is sworn in as the next president of the United States.
The post Exclusive — Trump Tells Breitbart He’ll Solve Ukraine-Russia War ‘Before I Get to the White House, After I’m President-Elect’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Post-Tropical Cyclone Emilia Forecast Discussion
Issued at 800 PM PDT Thu Aug 08 2024
344 WTPZ45 KNHC 090244 TCDEP5 Post-Tropical Cyclone Emilia Discussion Number 19 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL EP052024 800 PM PDT Thu Aug 08 2024 Emilia has failed to produce much in the way of organized convection since the prior burst waned earlier this morning, aside from a small patch of -50 C cloud tops currently south of the estimated center. SAB Dvorak classifications have been too weak to classify since this afternoon, while the TAFB Final-T number is down to 2.0/30-kt which was constrained from going lower. While there might continue to be some occasional puffs of convection with Emilia over the next day or so, the cyclone has crossed the 24 C isotherm and heading towards even cooler ocean waters, and the chance of a more significant convective resurgence is low. Thus, Emilia is being declared a 30-kt post-tropical remnant low this cycle, and this will be the last NHC advisory. The system continues to move generally west-northwestward at 290/10 kt. This motion should continue for the next several days followed by a turn more westward beyond 36 h as the low continues to weaken and becomes more steered by the low-level trade wind flow. The NHC track forecast is largely an update of the previous forecast, in good agreement with the multi-model consensus aids. The latest forecast now shows the remnant low dissipating after 72 h, a bit faster than before. FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INIT 09/0300Z 22.3N 125.3W 30 KT 35 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 12H 09/1200Z 22.9N 127.0W 30 KT 35 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 24H 10/0000Z 23.5N 129.0W 25 KT 30 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 36H 10/1200Z 24.1N 131.0W 25 KT 30 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 48H 11/0000Z 24.6N 132.7W 20 KT 25 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 60H 11/1200Z 24.8N 134.5W 20 KT 25 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 72H 12/0000Z 24.7N 136.6W 20 KT 25 MPH...POST-TROP/REMNT LOW 96H 13/0000Z...DISSIPATED $$ Forecaster Papin
Post-Tropical Cyclone Emilia Wind Speed Probabilities
Issued at 0300 UTC FRI AUG 09 2024
000 FOPZ15 KNHC 090242 PWSEP5 POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE EMILIA WIND SPEED PROBABILITIES NUMBER 19 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP052024 0300 UTC FRI AUG 09 2024 AT 0300Z THE CENTER OF POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE EMILIA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 22.3 NORTH...LONGITUDE 125.3 WEST WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR 30 KTS...35 MPH...55 KM/H. Z INDICATES COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME (GREENWICH) PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (PDT)...SUBTRACT 7 HOURS FROM Z TIME HAWAIIAN STANDARD TIME (HST)...SUBTRACT 10 HOURS FROM Z TIME WIND SPEED PROBABILITY TABLE FOR SPECIFIC LOCATIONS CHANCES OF SUSTAINED (1-MINUTE AVERAGE) WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST ...34 KT (39 MPH... 63 KM/H)... ...50 KT (58 MPH... 93 KM/H)... ...64 KT (74 MPH...119 KM/H)... FOR LOCATIONS AND TIME PERIODS DURING THE NEXT 5 DAYS PROBABILITIES FOR LOCATIONS ARE GIVEN AS OP(CP) WHERE OP IS THE PROBABILITY OF THE EVENT BEGINNING DURING AN INDIVIDUAL TIME PERIOD (ONSET PROBABILITY) (CP) IS THE PROBABILITY OF THE EVENT OCCURRING BETWEEN 00Z FRI AND THE FORECAST HOUR (CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY) PROBABILITIES ARE GIVEN IN PERCENT X INDICATES PROBABILITIES LESS THAN 1 PERCENT PROBABILITIES FOR 34 KT AND 50 KT ARE SHOWN AT A GIVEN LOCATION WHEN THE 5-DAY CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY IS AT LEAST 3 PERCENT. PROBABILITIES FOR 34...50...64 KT SHOWN WHEN THE 5-DAY 64-KT CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY IS AT LEAST 1 PERCENT. - - - - WIND SPEED PROBABILITIES FOR SELECTED LOCATIONS - - - - FROM FROM FROM FROM FROM FROM FROM TIME 00Z FRI 12Z FRI 00Z SAT 12Z SAT 00Z SUN 00Z MON 00Z TUE PERIODS TO TO TO TO TO TO TO 12Z FRI 00Z SAT 12Z SAT 00Z SUN 00Z MON 00Z TUE 00Z WED FORECAST HOUR (12) (24) (36) (48) (72) (96) (120) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LOCATION KT 25N 130W 34 X 2( 2) 3( 5) X( 5) X( 5) X( 5) X( 5) 25N 135W 34 X X( X) X( X) 1( 1) 5( 6) X( 6) X( 6) $$ FORECASTER PAPIN