Joe Biden granted Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan clemency. The kids did not receive the same sympathy.

Japan is cascading into a serious debt crisis. Even Japanese finance officials have come out and been shocked by the fall of the Japanese yen back to retest the lows of 1990. They have been urging the Bank of Japan to intervene in foreign exchange and are naturally blaming speculators. Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato came out and stated:

“As we are alarmed by recent currency market developments including those driven by speculators, we’ll take appropriate action against excessive moves.”

In every government, they will always blame speculators and never their own policies. The mere fact that Kato has publicly made this statement demonstrates that the currency market is rather alarming, and the government is very concerned about the collapse of the Japanese yen. Currently, the dollar is trading at the 151 level. A year-end closing above 148 will warn that the dollar can rally substantially in the 200 to 250 zone. A close BELOW 147 would imply we could see the yen consolidate into 2026, but then it would resume a decline into 2027. Japan did conduct an intervention into the FOREX market buying yen last July to support its currency after fell below 161 per dollar level.

The BOJ’s rate-setting meeting concluded, suggesting that the U.S.-Japan interest rate differentials may not narrow as fast as previously expected. They did confirm that a former employee’s theft of over 1 billion yen from customers’ deposit boxes did not help with confidence overall.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Market Talk will be postponed until we embark on the new year.

Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the bird flu. Of the 34 reported cases, 33 were working directly in farms. There is no grave danger to the public at large. This publicity stunt is merely a way for Newsom to have more power over his state ahead of Trump’s inauguration.

Newsom enjoyed endless power under COVID-19 guidelines and restrictions. I’ve met countless people who call themselves “pandemic refugees” as they were forced to flee California during the pandemic as it became one of the most oppressive states in the nation.

“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak. Building on California’s testing and monitoring system — the largest in the nation — we are committed to further protecting public health, supporting our agriculture industry, and ensuring that Californians have access to accurate, up-to-date information. While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus,” Newsom declared.

Over 600 dairy farms are under quarantine in California due to the bird flu. I explained that the USDA will begin testing ALL dairy farms across America, despite no known instance of someone becoming sick from consuming dairy. There have not been any recorded cases of person-to-person spread either.

Newsom may now issue executive orders and proclamations under the premise that this virus is not posing a risk to the public at large. He may now assume direct control over emergency management and state operations, as well as expanding current budgets. He could actually make expenditures from any state fund available for his use. There is a deeper power play ploy at hand behind these actions.

Governments are eager to spend your tax dollars on useless initiatives to save the planet from global warming. The Biden Administration spent BILLIONS on investing in EV infrastructure that never came to fruition. I spoke on how Biden approved of a $7.5 billion spending package to build EV charging stations throughout the nation, but only SEVEN were produced in over a two-year span. His most recent climate debacle that came to light rests on decarbonizing the Postal Service.

The government provided the Postal Service with funding to purchase 60,000 “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles” (NGDVs) from defense contractor Oshkosh. Oshkosh has never produced an electric truck and it is obvious why Biden avoided other more established EV manufacturers. Congress approved $3 billion to spend on this $10 billion project derived from the Inflation Reduction Act – the largest guise for climate spending in US history.

Out of that $3 BILLION, only 93 vehicles have been delivered since 2022.  Countless issues have been reported with these NGDVs from leaks to airbags. Worse, Oshkosh was never equipped to handle the production of 3,000 vehicles, and has stated that they have only been able to produce ONE truck per day. They are now working to refine their manufacturing to create 80 trucks per day. Again, there were other avenues and established factories.

Does anyone believe those small mail trucks are truly polluting the environment? Should the American people simply accept that they may not receive mail when the weather is less than ideal? “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” unless forced to drive electric!

The Western Press is nothing but propaganda, and they keep cheering death and destruction. This latest piece by the Huffington Post is just outrageous. I hope they enjoy bathing in a pool of blood, they advocate. They wrote that TASS reported that Putin said he “pointed out that ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had said at some point that Ukraine ‘needs to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian’.”

Putin added: “So this is what they are doing – fighting. They will soon run out of Ukrainians willing to fight.”

The Huffington Post then claims, “But there is no online record of Johnson saying this.” They then write: “This is part of a wider conspiracy theory – often repeated by the Kremlin – that the ex-PM had derailed potential peace talks about Ukraine and Russia during the early stages of the war. 

They have the audacity to print: “Johnson debunked these claims in The Times in January this year, saying the theory was “total nonsense” and “Russian propaganda.”

It was reported on the front page in Ukraine that Johnson did kill the peace talks. This is why my Ukrainian sources plainly say if Zelensky were on fire, they would not urinate on him until he was dead. Zelensky was even forced to claim that he could decide peace without permission from London and Washington.

It is just stunning how the Huffington Post now seeks to rewrite history. The press always claims these are Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories. We have to wonder who is pulling their chains and how much they are being paid to print outright lies.

There was a Ukrainian attempted assassination of Zelensky in May. He tried to claim it was Russians behind two Ukrainian military officers. However, Zelensky then fired his Ukrainian head of security, and now his bodyguards are Americans. He is afraid of his own people, and rightly so, for this is a stupid war that has no benefit to the Ukrainian people.

I am sorry, but I believe the Neocons, including Johnson, were all of the view that Ukraine would fight until the last man. By this fake news, they are trying to make it sound like the West can destroy and defeat Russia as they did with Iraq to get people to run to the front lines to kill Russians since they are all evil, worthless human beings.

You even have the NEOCON Lyndsey admit that the money sent to Ukraine is to kill Russians. He openly said this was the best money they had ever spent to kill Russians. What is this personal hatred all about? These people are destroying Ukraine. About one-third of the country has fled with no intention of returning.

In the first few months, I reported that 100,000 Ukrainians had already died. I got the hate mail claiming that it was Russian Propaganda. But my sources were from inside Ukraine. When Ursula repeated that same number in her speech, Zelensky made her take that out, claiming it was classified. Here is her original video and the edited version so they can keep up the pretense that Ukraine is winning.

The Ukrainian press has reported that over 1 million Ukrainians have died. Again, Zelensky ordered them to claim it was a typo. At least 6 million up to 8 million have fled Ukraine. The war does not benefit Ukraine. The United Nations wrote, “the war has shattered the Ukrainian economy, rolling back development gains made over the past years and plunging nearly 25% of the population into poverty,” according to the latest Annual Report of the United Nations in Ukraine, published in April 2024.

The Huffington Post twists statements about Putin to keep up the image of the evil empire. They wrote that “Russia currently occupies around 20% of Ukraine, and around 6 million Ukrainians live there, according to Kyiv – but Ukraine’s total population is closer to 38 million.” What they refuse to publish is that there was a Minsk Agreement that was to allow the Donbas to separate since they are ethnic Russians, just as the breakup of Yugoslavia along ethnic lines. The Huffington Post omitted to report that former Chancellor Merkel admitted that they negotiated a peace deal only to buy time for Ukraine to build an army to attack Russia.

The West has planned this war against Russia, and this will destroy Europe and their own careers of these fake journalists. I recall someone there in England once wrote,

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Putin even tried to explain to Zelensky the importance of the Minsk Agreement in avoiding war. This has been a deliberate war set in motion by the West. Putin has offered peace countless times, but the West instructed Zelensky to invade Russia with no strategic purpose rather than defend the Donbas, only to try to force Putin to attack NATO so they can claim he started World War III.

They sent Kamala to the Munich Security Conference because she was a total idiot and read the cue card she was handed, proclaiming Ukraine should join NATO just 3 days before Russia invaded to make sure Putin crossed the border. To make ensure Putin crossed the border, Zelensky, the day before, said Ukraine would rearm with nuclear weapons.

When the Washington Post discovered Zelensky knew when Putin would cross the border, they asked why he did not warn his people. This scum-bag told the Washington Post if he told the people, he would have lost $7 billion. He has declared Martial Law, so he no longer stands for election, and he has suspended debt payments defaulting on Ukrainian debt that will never be repaid. He has been a traitor to his own people and his own country and thinks that Black Rock will raise trillions to invest in Ukraine as the great European Investment of the century. Our computer warns that Ukraine will no longer exist. I pray he does not make it out of Ukraine with his handful of silver to betray his own people and come to Miami.

The News is not just FAKE – it is Treasonous!

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