MAHA? or ….

Izabella Kaminska@izakaminska 23m
FT reports Reeves is to press case for global free trade in US talks.

Key concessions the U.S. is seeking relate to Europe and Britain dropping food safety standards.
This seems an insanely stupid demand IMHO. The U.S. would benefit from converging to higher European standards.

Izabella Kaminska@izakaminska 15m
To be honest if RFK Jr is serious about “Making America Healthy Again” he should be screaming and shouting at Trump to elevate US food standards to EU norms not the other way around. Achieving food standard equivalence at a higher quality level would still be a pathway to free trade, but one with positive externalities for American consumers.

Pretty amazing.

I’m gonna take over Fully’s jinks role momentarily and point out that we have breached $3400 in the futures

Popular car dealer’s anecdotes about parallels in the used car market with 2008 GFC.

Banks are changing tactics for getting (any) $ out of their repo inventory.  The downward slope is steepening and worth paying attention to.  14 minutes.

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China has installed gold ATMs.

You can deposit gold, the machine melts the gold, determine its weight and fineness in 3 minutes, and then transfer money to your account.

The entire process takes about 30 minutes.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1914030770999484693

15 seconds

White Fibrous Clots from CV19 Vax, Contagious or Infectious – Tom Haviland – Greg Hunter – USA Watchdog.com

Retired Airforce Major Tom Haviland says the more CV19 shots you get, the more prone you are to these fibrous clots. “The crucial step is are these clots a special set of amyloid protein that is actually prion in nature? It’s actually infectious. It’s a misfolded protein that can make other proteins around it, that are perfectly healthy, misfold as well.”

“Here’s the scary part. For the last four years, embalmers have been seeing this in their embalming rooms. They have been pulling these white fibrous clots out that can be contagious. The blood that is coming off the corpse is draining down the embalming table and down into the sewers. Doctors that work in catheter labs or regular operating rooms and vascular surgeons have been pulling these clots out of living people in the last four years. They may have inadvertently infected themselves or the nursing staff with these infectious prions. Also, we know for the last four years people have been donating blood who have had the CV19 vaccines, and they could have infected blood prion, and that blood supply could be tainted. So, this has all kinds of ramifications to it.”

https://usawatchdog.com/white-fibrous-clots-from-cv19-vax-contagious-tom-haviland/

45 minutes

Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs bill allowing gold to be used as a transactional currency

Sanders’ signature comes just days after the Arkansas state Senate unanimously passed the bill in a 33-0 vote. A similar bill passed the Utah legislature, but was vetoed by Gov. Spencer Cox last week. Arkansas became the first state in the country to formally allow state and local governments to accept payments in gold or silver as legal tender if desired.

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/sarah-huckabee-sanders-signs-bill-allowing-gold-be-used-transactional?

Boston mayor Michelle Wu accepted $300,000 from confirmed CCP Intel agent.

Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Leader’s Campaign Bankrolled By Dem Power Broker Tied To Chinese Intel Agency

Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official. Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government.

“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/04/14/exclusive-anti-trump-resistance-leaders-campaign-bankrolled-by-dem-power-broker-tied-to-chinese-intel-agency/

Transgenders deface 7 statues, declare biological women have no right to ‘safe and separate spaces.’ Transgender women publicly call for murder of women.

Transgenders call for public hanging of JK Rowling, vandalize statue of Nelson Mandela. Sculptures of Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli and Millicent Fawcett also defaced by protesters during Parliament Square rally.

It’s time for Labour to stop being on the side of these extremists and start defending women.”

https://archive.is/RHoIZ#selection-3405.197-3405.291    The Telegraph

A falling knife of a different type – Dow/Gold ratio 100 yr currently at 11.78 (log + inflation adj)

Credit Macrotrends.net

LUONGO

The anxiety is rising in all corners as the Trump Administration as Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth is under real fire in the hope of getting Trump to bomb Iran and start WWIII for reals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJn9ODkpI0k

MEANWHILE

The Dark Truth about Medicaid buried in the fine print

See 1st comment………….

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1914066294745477336

EASTER SUNDAY — ALL-OUT COORDINATED ASSAULT ON SECDEF PETE HEGSETH…

5PM, NYT: “Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat”

*2 HOURS LATER,* POLITICO: “Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson”

Interesting timing there…

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1914104489293816013

Six vaccines in one…..And they inject this into newborns. Let that sink in. (Vaxelis)

No placebo test—just compared to other shots.

319 micrograms of aluminum.

https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1914016838251659387

2 minutes

If Trump is going to save this nation from the enemy within, it’s going to require some unprecedented action.

How are we supposed to win a war playing by the rules, when our enemy does not?

The enemy covertly weaponized all branches of government and the private sector.

They selectively refuse to enforce laws they don’t like, and implement policy without legislation. They violate the Constitution without consequence. They surveil, censor, and propagandize the American People. They refused to secure our border, allowed violent criminals to terrorize our communities, allowed human sex-traffickers to operate freely across our border, and handed our tax dollars over to illegals while our People suffer. They unleashed a biological weapon on us, shut down the global economy, and WITTINGLY infringed on our liberties, under the guise of “public safety”. They drove us to the brink of WW3…

The American People saw all this happening, and chose to elect Trump in order to rectify this dire situation, but rogue elements within our government are actively obstructing the will of The People. This is TREASON!

.CLANDESTINE

AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAM ALITO GOES SCHORTCHED EARTH ON THE UNPRESCIDENTED MIDNIGHT ILLEGAL SUPREME COURT ACTION

Justice Alito’s dissent is wild.

Essentially, Alito calls out the other Justices for political weaponization, procedural misconduct, and abusing their positions to obstruct the Trump administration.

We have a rogue judiciary obstructing the will of The People.

CLANDESTINE

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NAYIB BUKELE’S SOLUTION NEEDS TO BE IMPLIMENTED

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1914009166034645193?

Now, tens of thousands Chinese people are becoming homeless. ——Because they are Blacklisted by Social Credit System.

Once you are blacklisted, immediately authorities freeze your bank account and Digital wallet WeChat, which makes it hard for you to find a job.

https://x.com/songpinganq/status/1913984946575999127

30 seconds

Legacy Media won’t ever report the current persecution of Christians across The World because it doesn’t suit their Globalist Narrative.

https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1914016913208008868

2 minutes

The CBC just revealed that Carney’s platform was written by Trudeau’s team well before Carney became Liberal leader.

The narrative that Carney is an ‘outsider’ and a change from Trudeau completely fell apart today.

Canada is being hoodwinked once again.

https://x.com/DrJacobsRad/status/1914024935778930900

15seconds

ICE arrests Tren De Araguan gang member at the home of New Mexico judge..

https://x.com/ExxAlerts/status/1914036867764216204

 

Two for the price of one takedown……..

The Duran

France believes it can defeat Russia
Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris (16 min)

https://rumble.com/v6sbv41-france-believes-it-can-defeat-russia.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

Putin, Easter ceasefire. Elensky, extend ceasefire. CNN, Witkoff to pitch Kellogg FREEZE to Moscow
Alex Christoforou (29 min)

https://rumble.com/v6sc9vn-putin-easter-ceasefire.-elensky-extend-ceasefire.-cnn-witkoff-to-pitch-kell.html?e9s=src_v1_upp

MILITARY SUMMARY:
A Major Diplomatic Victory – Parties Struggle Yet Uphold Easter Truce – Military Summary 2025.04.20
Dima (10 min)

https://rumble.com/v6sbvyd-a-major-diplomatic-victory-parties-struggle-yet-uphold-easter-trucemilitary.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

MORE – IF AVAILABLE

HHS Stops Funding For Next-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has stopped funding for a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine that received an award during the Biden administration, the company making the vaccine said on April 16.

Georgia-based Geovax said that the stop-work order from HHS went into effect on April 11 and affected an award of some $24.3 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), an HHS component that was placed in charge of the Biden administration’s Project NextGen.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hhs-stops-funding-next-generation-covid-19-vaccine

Gold ETF Dismal

From ZH

And look who is back looking for another shit kicking

Germany has activated its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II, establishing a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania. This decision follows Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ announcement in 2023 to bolster troop presence on NATO‘s eastern flank in response to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War.

Trump vs Powell – New Gold-Backed Sound Money Plan Revealed | Judy Shelton

Judy Shelton on Soar Financially discussed a potential gold-backed Treasury bond as a solution to economic woes and a check on the Fed’s power.

In a recent interview with Soar Financially, former economic advisor to President Trump, Dr. Judy Shelton, illuminated a potential path towards a “sound money” system, hinting at a clash between the former president’s agenda and the current Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell. The discussion saw Shelton, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, delve into the intricacies of the US economy, the role of the Federal Reserve, and the potential for a gold-backed Treasury bond to reshape the nation’s financial future.

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/precious-metals/article-850692

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1By_XSde6Qk

50 minutes

Russian MoD confirms Ukraine VIOLATING Easter truce, civilians KILLED and wounded by shelling

48 drone attacks on Russia overnight

444 attacks on Russian army positions, 900 drone strikes

Says all Russian troops STRICTLY observed truce as soon as it began

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1913885534264463654

AND

Easter truce violations by Ukraine STILL going on — Russian Ambassador at-large Miroshnik

‘Ukraine, having violated the Easter truce, demonstrates that it’s not capable of ceasing fire even for 30 hours

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1913877848026214415

Illinois defies federal order, allows biological males to play girls sports.

Illinois has become the latest blue state to ensure transgender athletes can play girls sports. Republicans in the state are aggressively trying to change that.

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) announced it will not comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep trans athletes out of girls and women’s sports.

In a public letter to state GOP lawmakers, the IHSA said Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and the Illinois Department of Human Rights have declared that state law requires that transgender athletes be allowed to participate based on gender identity.

https://www.aol.com/illinois-trans-athlete-policy-brewing-220746797.html?

 

Civil war brewing or FAFO?

Nationwide Trump protests were massive embarrassment for Democrats — Predicted 11 million, turnout closer to 10,000.

Known as “50501”, for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement”, the demonstrations were intended to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjn0410e3zo

 

USAID had no money to pay protestors??? Antifa having to deal with a new sherrif in town???  Saturday shopping???

Faith is rising — Happy Easter!

This piece from the Washington Examiner is Paywalled

It looks so Interesting and Important ( from the Title and first free paragraphs ) that I subscribed

Sacrificed US $15 for all of YOU on this day of Reflection 🙂

Fully Disclosure …I’m not a Christian and likely never will be…but I strongly approve of this message .

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Christianity’s decline in American life was presented as a foregone conclusion by the late 2010s. A group of prominent thinkers known as the New Atheists propelled anti-Christian polemics into mainstream discussion with mega-bestsellers and popular speaking tours. The ascendant woke movement ripped through America’s cultural institutions, denouncing traditional Christian teaching and values as bigoted, “canceling” people who persisted in public displays of those beliefs.

Meanwhile, church attendance declined, cultural norms related to sex (bogusly referred to as gender), sexuality, and marriage departed from Christian teaching, and the percentage of people who had no religion, commonly known as the “nones,” surged to new heights, reaching 29% in 2021.

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At a time when organized religion in America faces scrutiny and skepticism, a new Barna study as part of the State of the Church 2025 initiative shows a groundswell of commitment to Jesus over the last four years.

According to Barna’s latest data, 66 percent of all U.S. adults say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus that is still important in their life today. That marks a 12-percentage-point increase since 2021, when commitment levels reached their lowest in more than three decades of Barna tracking.

This shift is not only statistically significant—it may be the clearest indication of meaningful spiritual renewal in the United States. Commitment to Jesus was lowest in 2021 and 2022, when it bottomed out at 54 percent. Since then, the research shows a steady, year-over-year increase in the key indicator.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/

Posted In the Comments Section .

Stand By

Trump Versus The Meteor

Each day brings horror stories of specific victims allegedly caught in Trump’s dastardly web: the wrongfully deported migrant, the African child whose life-saving medicine is threatened, the promising young bureaucrat felled by Elon Musk’s axe. But their stories are also a cynical strategy deployed by those who seek to derail Trump’s reforms by trumpeting the ”tragedy” of isolated individuals. The same crocodile tears crowd that dismissed struggling Americans’ concerns about crushing inflation, the victims of sexual violence and human trafficking of children brought about by Joe Biden’s border policies, and massive job losses as mere “statistics.”

Trump’s reform efforts hinge on the blindingly obvious premise that tomorrow’s pain will be far worse and more widespread if we do not act today. He is a doctor addressing a sick patient; his opponents seem happy to let the grave illness metastasize. Irony doesn’t quite capture the commitment of those who see existential threats around every corner and then ignore the clear and present dangers to our country.

Pay me now, or pay me later – but pay me you will. This isn’t politics, it’s math.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-versus-meteor

An Easter Essay …from Jeff Childers

WHATEVER YOU RELIGIOUS PERSUASION OR LACK THEREOF….THIS IS A MESSAGE WE CAN ALL EMBRACE…ONWARD PILGRIMS

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“Among other things, Easter is a timeless monument to hope, an epic poem of success against all odds, arriving just after all appears lost, snatching victory from the bloodstreaked fangs of defeat. So it’s natural that, during the difficult days of 2020-2024, when we needed hope more than ever, we also celebrated more passionately than we had done before.

Last year, Easter’s C&C post included this truly insane Medical News Today headline: “Switching arms for vaccines could help boost your immunity, study finds.” It almost defies belief, no? Three years ago, in 2022, Easter’s top story discussed Elon Musk’s battle to buy Twitter— a prospect that then seemed uncertain, if not downright unlikely.

Behold, how far we’ve traveled, in such a short time. In 2022, Musk’s takeover attempt felt like a moonshot. Now, in 2025, the vaccine skeptic-in-chief leads the largest health agency in human history. The improbable became inevitable—fast.

In historical terms, it has been but the blink of an eye. But it felt like centuries.

As I perused those aging posts, so unmistakably different in tone and character from this year’s— it felt like they could have been written a hundred years ago during the First World War. And it dawned on me that this is the first Easter since I started blogging where readers don’t require reassurance and comfort so much as encouragement to surge forward.

So, that’s one huge thing for which to be grateful on this blessed day of days.

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? Of course, Easter is about much more than hope of liberation from creeping dystopia or even a dramatic, Hollywood-style rescue from certain death. The Biblical story is far bigger than that: literally everyone on the planet, including everyone who was born or who would ever be born, has all been rescued from death’s clutches.

Our souls may shed these imperfect bodies, but we’re promised perfect, ageless, and indestructible replacements.

Nor are we asked to accept that unlikely sounding promise on faith alone; God came to Earth and proved the concept. Jesus’ existence as a historical figure is widely accepted as fact, and his crucifixion and resurrection are the most well-attested events in the ancient period. So well attested, in fact, that many secular historians prefer speculating about absurd possibilities like Jesus only looked dead but was just comatose rather than trying to deny it actually happened.

At that particular time in history —the height of the Roman Empire’s global power— the sudden appearance and flourishing of a new monotheistic religion was nearly as improbable as the resurrection itself. It wasn’t like today, where a little wrongthink might get your Facebook page shut down. Back then, they punished monotheistic heretics by burning them alive, forcing them to fight angry wildlife, or just chopping them into convenient bite-sized bits.

The point is, in the First Century, defying the Approved Narrative could get you slowly and painfully erased. Evidently, picking that risky path required a pretty solid rationale. Thus, it seems more likely that, for some reason, First Century folk actually believed the Bible’s Resurrection story in a sufficiently convincing way that they’d undertake a great deal of discrimination and unpleasantness.

I doubt a clay pamphlet could do it.

They say history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Again we are at war. If I (and many others) are right, the Third World War —a hybrid war— has raged since at least 2014, and surmounted a critical inflection point in March, 2020, as a manmade biological weapon was unleashed on the entire world. A great deal of martial law, sudden death, and general all-around unpleasantness ensued. A world at war.

You, me— we are all veterans of a great conflict, a war for civilization itself, a blurry battle against chimeric leftwing ideologies that hardly even recognize themselves anymore. But last November, with the world clinging to scraps of hope, the tide turned and Gandalf crested the hill at sunrise with reinforcements, and the horns of Rohan blaring across the horizon.

Now we must secure the victory.

After experiencing the crushing false hope of Trump’s first election, folks understand how far we remain from any ultimate success in which we can finally rest. Even in conquest —if that is what’s happening— we must yet thread a perilous needle between triumphalism and tyranny, between vengeance and virtue, between zeal and wisdom.

As we humbly celebrate today’s Resurrection Day, focused correctly on its eternal promise of hope and redemption, here in the Earthly realm, we also recognize we’re celebrating in wartime, with appropriate prayers for relief and recovery. We pray today for peace, that it would be our final wartime Easter until that day when swords become plowshares, every tear is wiped away, and war is remembered no more.

From our home to yours, may this Resurrection Day bring both joy and fire for the road ahead.”