The Shitshow Macro Weekly Prep Podcast for Monday January 6, 2025 is out:

-The next longform Radically Changing Our Understanding of the Human Experience & Timeline is passed the halfway mark - and the first half was the heavy lifting.
–Weaving quantum mechanics, archaeology, Cymatics, anthropology, biofeedback, philosophy, Faith, and many more into one piece that is easy for all to understand “the tie that binds us” takes some work, but thankfully I have great source docs to work from.

Domestic Politics:
-A few new revelations & more questions have come out regarding the NOLA attack and Vegas event.
--So as not to muddle the front half of today’s show, we’ll dig into the “known knowns” and other oddities & questions that have arisen in the “Conspiracy-y” section.

-The January 6, 2025 certification of the electoral votes is today, and it's a bit darkly hilarious to see how many of the pro-lawfare and most ardent defenders of the official J6 2021 narrative have been making their own comments and giving talks that seem to fit their own definitions of insurrection-y.
--If it weren’t for double-standards, Marxists and Progressives would have none.
--Jamie Raskin (D-MD) had a video go semi-viral of him at a speaking event making one such comment that the “fact checkers” called a “right wing conspiracy.” Here’s the comment so that you can decide for yourself:
--“Let folks cast their votes for Trump if that’s their choice. But mark my words, we won’t be certifying the election. He might win, but we’ll ensure he doesn’t step foot in the Oval Office.”
--Lawyers in the Norm Eisen and anti-Trump lawfare orbit have a slew of their own similar comments in the public domain, some even calling for an outright blocking of the certification today.

--We went over the kerfuffle over whether Pence had the authority to grant the 7 states who had asked for more time to investigate anomalies before certifying in 2021.
--They rewrote the law in 2022 to ensure the VP doesn’t have the authority to do what they swore Pence didn’t have the authority to do.
--And yet, some are calling for Harris to do what they said Pence couldn’t, even before the law was rewritten to double-dog ensure the VP didn’t have that power.
--What will happen? We shall see. Here’s Martin Armstrong & Socrates with the history and potential forecast for the upcoming week’s tensions:
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…

-Regarding Jamie Raskin, I’m currently reading the book JFK and The Unspeakable. It’s a great read if you’re a history and “know your enemy” (the Deep State or The Unspeakable) type.
--I bring this up because Jamie Raskin’s dad, who too many Americans don’t know about, makes an appearance or two in it.
--I suggest Americans do some due diligence into Jamie’s dad, who he was, what he did, and where he came from. It may help one to understand Jamie’s hyperpartisan words and actions a bit better.

-Similar to the election certification tension, acting NY Judge Juan Merchan has ordered Trump to be in court on January 10 for his sentencing hearing in the Alvin Bragg case.
--There are many pundits on all sides with their own “takes” of what will happen. No matter what the legal “influencers” say, this is a wild card.
--Again, those of us rooted in current reality know that “the law doesn’t allow that!” is not a valid argument in our current moment, especially when politics are involved.

-President-elect Trump has made some additions to his “inner circle” in the White House CoS positions, including a lawyer who represented his closest allies (Scavino, Navarro, Nauta, and others), along with a handful of J6 defendants.
--With no personal insight into his thinking on this, it would be a wise move if one wanted people close who had spent years understanding the 5Ws of what J6 really was, and the lawfare attacks that were waged against anyone the Deep State saw as a threat or non-conformist.
theepochtimes.com/us/trump-annou…

-That being said, @JoshuaSteinman , who served on Trump’s National Security Council (NSC), voiced some concerns about the potential NSC positions that are being back-roomed for currently:
x.com/JoshuaSteinman…

-NYC has begun its “congestion pricing” in the city.
Like many progressive policies, it has been tried before in other places. And like many progressive policies, it was a failure that only led to bad outcomes. --So of course they implemented it in NYC - of course they did.
--If you want to understand the “knock on effects” of this, look into the “Blade Runners” in the UK, and what led to them coming into being.

War/Military:
-An alleged line item breakdown spreadsheet of the $446,103,076 that the Biden-Harris admin sent the Taliban in 2024, with $40mm to $80mm still being sent every week, was posted via @AGTAfghanistan this weekend.
x.com/AGTAfghanistan…

-After Toretsk and Chasov Yar fell, and the Kursk offensive has gone poorly, UKR decided to launch another offensive maneuver to try to take RUS territory.
--By all (non-NAFO) accounts this seems to have gone poorly.
--Neither I nor others can see what the envisioned strategic or tactical value in this move was - the towns they moved on had RUS forces nearby that could (and did) act as reinforcements quickly.

-There was an extremely graphic video that highlights the realities of war and the “respect of mutual combat” that has been taken away from the battlefield with drones, screens, air strikes, and other “disconnections” from the reality of what it means to take another life in combat.
--The people who most ardently call for war know nothing of actual warfighting, nor do they have any warfighting experience, nor will they, nor will their kids. ple to watch.
--Many of those are clanging the swords right now towards multiple fonts - trying to raise the flag to send you or your kids or your neighbors, but not themselves.
--If you want an immunity shot against the propaganda and war cries (that they will never heed) from the NeoCons, this video is the strongest booster you can imagine.
--It also highlights something that video games and movies don’t show you - the mutual respect between actual warriors who have danced “the final dance” together.
--Viewer discretion is advised.
sofx.com/graphic-helmet…

-Egypt has begun conducting military activity in Central Sinai. Some analysts are looking at potential fighting between Egypt and Israel - we shall see.
--Egypt has another potential mention later in today’s show regarding the NOLA attack - which is an interesting wrinkle, given this news.

Markets/economics:
-Some of you may have noticed that I’ve begun to include currency pairs in these posts/podcasts - there are a few reasons for that, which I hope at least some of you picked up on.
--If you remember, my adding the USDJPY came ahead of the “carry trade” crisis. Adding the MOVE index came ahead of the bond market crisis. This is not personal investment advice, but a bit of “foot stomping” for you to keep an eye on.
--I’ve made a few comments about the USDMXN pair (US Dollar to Mexican Peso) lately. It made a significant shift in line with their recent election of a progressive, and there may be more turbulence ahead for our southern neighbor:
armstrongeconomics.com/international-…

-The jobs report is set to be released. It seems like they are finally stopping the fudging of the numbers that were meant to pretend Bidenomics was a success and to prop up Kamabla, so I’m expecting ugliness (reality).

-As of this writing (Sunday evening), futures markets for all of the major indices, and gold, are in the red.
--Oil, however, is up.

-EUR/USD is about the same, $1.0296
-USD/GBP is as well, at $0.8051
-USD/JPY is at $157.7770
-USD/AUD is at $1.6067
-USD/CAD is at $1.4442
-USD/MXN is at $20.6240
-BTC is still pushing towards $100k, now at $98,386.18

-As of January 5th, the 10-year note yield is 4.602%.
--I will include a post (and chart in the show notes) shared by @Mayhem4Markets to help you understand why that’s a bad harbinger for the stock market:
x.com/Mayhem4Markets…

Business:
-Deutsche Bank has downgraded Lockheed Martin, citing concerns that China’s fighter tech advancement will reduce demand for the F35.
--Chalk that up to something that I never expected to see.
sofx.com/lockheed-marti…

-Italy is planning a $1.5 billion SpaceX telecom security services deal, according to Bloomberg.

-An Ohio meat processing company called Fresh Mark has agreed to pay a $3.7mm penalty for employing migrant workers (illegal immigrants) who were using the stolen identities of Americans.
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/ohio-m…

Geopolitics:
-A Canadian minister has made public comments suggesting that Canada annex California, Washington State, and Oregon in response to President-elect Trump’s comments about making Canada the 51st US state.
--So…you’re “threatening” us by offering to take some of the most progressive and worst-run states off of the chess board for us?
--Don’t threaten us with a good time.

-The UK media and their version of “influencers” have decided to focus their outrage over getting caught covering up more than a decade of “grooming gangs” allowed by the police, politicians, and media by…lashing out at Americans who say it’s a travesty.

-Despite the “receipts” being made public that a rival political party was caught running the “Russian disinformation” on TikTok for their “pied piper” strategy, a Romanian court upheld the decision to cancel that nation’s elections.
--To save democracy, of course.

-In probably related news, Romania was just added to the EU’s “Schengen Zone” (free trade), and released a video of a dog being the first to make the crossing between Hungary and Romania.
x.com/DD_Geopolitics…

Social dynamics/societal/culture war/Legal:
-There are two crucial aspects that Marxists and progressives must destroy to complete their takeover of any society: Faith and the family unit.
--Most have no idea how bad the family courts system has been/become.
--Jan Jakelnik and @AmThoughtLeader has an interview with Mark Ludwig called How the Family Court System is Fueling a Fatherless Society that can help you understand how bad it’s become:
theepochtimes.com/epochtv/how-th…

-A video mocking a medical doctor’s own video is going viral and highlights an issue that I personally feel has been a plague upon Western society.
--The doctor made her own video espousing progressive talking points - that are not based in reality at best, or blatant mistruths at worst - regarding things that she says are/are not in the US Constitution.
--There are two separate issues that this highlights, in my opinion:
--Specialists who may be experts in their field, but who don’t know anything about the world outside of their silo, or how their silo interacts with other aspects of the world.
--Political pundits and “influencers” who are either paid or incentivized to speak about things that they either have no understanding of, or who are given purposely misleading talking points.
--I also feel there’s a lot of overlap between 1 and two, in my own personal opinion.
--Here’s the video; if you know anything about the actual Constitution, it’s worth the watch:
x.com/WallStreetApes…

Conspiracy-y:
Of the 4 events that occurred on New Year’s Day, there are 2 that have garnered a lot of attention - and neither of the “official stories” add up. Let’s go through the “known knowns.”

Al Jabar (NOLA):
The immediate line from the FBI was that this was not terrorism, and they are holding to the story that he acted alone. They also covered up the flag that was on his truck, which many called an ISIS flag but is actually aligned with the flag flown by US ANTIFA members who went to Syria to train with the rebels (yes, that was real).

A media crew was allowed to waltz through his house the very next day, which we talked about Friday, and as we discussed they “just happened” to find a Hollywood-appropriate setup of what one would expect to be shown inside the guy’s house - and somehow none of which had been taken into custody as evidence.

Mmmmkay.

We also talked on Friday about how the day after the film crew gave a tour of the house, the HPD Special Response team was en route because some special type of explosives had been found there that they needed to secure.

The latest iteration is that he had traveled to Egypt and Canada before the attack, and that some sort of special explosives (not named) were in the coolers that he had with him during/for the attack. Those explosives, again which weren’t named, are being reported as having never been seen/used in North America previously.

Some are also now saying that he recorded his recon trip in advance using Meta glasses (smart glasses).

A few questions:
-If he worked alone, how did he know the hydraulic anti-vehicle barriers were down on one side of Bourbon Street?

-Who burned down his AirBnB? Was some sort of remote detonator found? Has anyone looked at phone GPS tracking or for street cameras?

-Were any type of NatSec-level satellite reconnaissance operations watching, given that it was a NYE celebration that was known to have a huge crowd during a time of heightened warnings from all domestic IC agencies?

-f he lived in a rundown trailer, who paid for his trip to Egypt and Canada? Who did he visit in both?

-What are the specialty explosives he had? How did he get them into the US?

-Facebook is known to be one of the more censorious of social media platforms with AI monitoring systems that are quick to flag conservatives - so how did those systems miss him recording a recon and making his pre-attack announcement videos without alerting anyone?

Vegas (Livelsberger):
This one has to be second, because every new bit of “information” brings a flood of new questions, things that don’t add up, mysteries, oddities, and conundrums.

To add to all of the legitimate questions, “influencers,” pundits, BlueAnon, media, and everything in between are “flooding the zone” with information chaos. Let’s try to go through what we think we know one-by-one:

Emails and “Manifesto”
While the email has received a lot of attention, the “manifesto” that LVPD released has not, and after looking at these side-by-side I feel like it’s incredibly important.

To begin with, it seems extraordinarily unlikely that both of these were written by the same person. I’ll include both in the show notes, but the “manifesto” that LVPD said that they found on his phone has multiple simple grammatical mistakes that are expected to be seen from someone for whom English is not their primary language.

Examples: In the first line “We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist.”
-best country people?

-Rally around the Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride…

-...and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans!
--the highest hegemony? Find me one American who would use that term in that way.

Besides these subtle but, IMO, important mistakes, the tone, message, and theme of the email he purportedly sent via Protonmail and this “phone manifesto” don’t align at all.

Also, if one were to believe the story given after San Bernardino (FBI’s claims that it couldn’t unlock the phone) - would one simply leave a “manifesto” on their phone and expect it to get out to the public?

In addition to the oddities of misspellings, weird grammar, total change in tone, and that it didn’t get sent out but rather “found” by the LVPD (who still hasn’t told us much about Steven Paddock), a handful of people jumped up to quickly “debunk” the first email that we discussed on Friday that was covered in the interview between Shawn Ryan and @samosaur

Protonmail Aspect of the Email
Again, let me reiterate that people feel a need to give their $0.02 on things that they may not understand in our current influencer and monetized culture online.

I’m not saying that this was the case with those who expressed their initial doubts about the emails - but a lot of monetized “influencers” ran with them as gospel truth immediately.

Protonmail is not a normal email client. It is made for encrypted emails that may be sensitive in nature. For that reason, it works very differently than other, standard email services.

If you look at the image of that first (Protonmail) email below (with the black background), some quickly saw that spell check was on and that a cursor can be seen - which are not present in an email after it is sent. Even in Proton, that’s only on the writer’s side.

Proton does, however, have a function in which one can attach a file “inline,” meaning that it’s directly in the email rather than as an attachment. You can do this with pictures, files, and other attachments.

There is a chance this was written on another machine, saved as a screenshot and then sent from a different device/machine. Doing so would make it incredibly difficult to discern the provenance of the sender and or machine/device it was sent from and initially written on.

This may be pertinent with the next aspect that we’ll cover.

Foreign Actors/Stolen Identities?
An interesting variable came out January 2nd via another Green Beret, Matt Tardio (@angertab ). Tardio says that someone claiming to be a Green Beret from his former “sister team” (an ODA in the same company that a team often does joint ops or training with) contacted him twice in December and proved they had a lot of PII for the person they claimed to be - but who they were in reality just impersonating:

x.com/angertab/statu…

From the post by Tardio linked above, it was his takeaway that this impersonator was trying to get a “SWATting” event initiated on the actual person they were impersonating - which could result in a dangerous situation for the actual person, and/or it could give away their location to a nefarious actor who didn’t already have it.

Several months ago we covered the Chechens who got caught (and one got smoked) in NC “casing” the home of an SF Colonel. Between the language mistakes in the “manifesto” and this angle, it adds a worrisome potential wrinkle here of possible foreign actors.

As some (but not all) of the public knows, the gov’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) system was hacked in the not-too-distant past. OPM is the repository of PII for anyone who has a security clearance, from the lowest to the highest, and it has pretty much every bit of info about them, their history, their families, connections, etc.

New Videos Don’t Align with the Narrative
A new video and angle was released that doesn’t align with the official narrative in multiple ways. The narrative states that Matt was shot in the head before the explosion - but the weapon was reported to be a 50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol that was found at his feet in the truck.

For one, the kickback of a DE is significant, so statistically the chances of it falling straight down rather than bouncing all over the cab aren’t high. To add to that, the new video shows the flame inside the cab pretty clearly - but there is no muzzle flash. To reiterate that point, we can see the flames from the explosion, but no muzzle flash.

Nobody reported hearing a shot from the DE - which is quite loud - and there is no exit hole from a round in the exterior of the vehicle.

The muzzle flash from a DE is significant, and there is none seen. This is pertinent because the new video shows an upright body in the driver’s seat when the car arrives at the hotel, you can see the head moving, but there is no muzzle flash before the explosion.

Elon added that the car was not in “self driving” mode when it arrived at the hotel - so this is another oddity and also conflicts with the narrative that has been proposed.

To add to it, propane is heavier than O2, which means that if propane were the accelerant, the O2 in the cab should have been pushed to the top - and would have an extreme smell and may cause nausea & difficulty breathing if enough were allowed into the cab to spark the explosion.

There is also a small initial flame that appears underneath the car before the cab is engulfed in flames - which makes it seem like the triggering device/initial combustion may have been under rather than inside the vehicle.

BlueAnon & Media Narrative (same same), and Information Chaos via Influencers
This is a story that has captured a lot of attention for many different reasons, and has “flooded the zone” with information chaos that makes it difficult to find actual information rather than “hot takes.”

There are a lot of people who don’t know anything about Green Berets who are commenting on GBs, people who know nothing about explosives adding their “take” on that angle, and numerous “experts” who don’t seem to know their asses from a hole in the ground.

One thing that popped up rather quickly were known progressive media pundits, BlueAnon crazies, and others who started running at full speed with the narrative that this meant there was a “MAGA extremist military veteran” problem in our nation that this was a result of.

There are “known” conduits through whom the craziest of the crazy progressive narratives get “seeded” into conservative and “normie” circles, and some of those who I track have already started running with this narrative as well.

There is a world in which that is the “op” in itself, but I’d put that at a very low probability. For now I attribute it as more likely being political disunion opportunists who “do what they do” and mold any narrative they can to cause political disunion, anger, and mistrust within our country.

These people do this for money, all day every day, and they are the scum of the earth.

I will close this section by saying that there certainly is a world in which foreign actors set this stage and activated their media assets to push this narrative specifically to cause friction between the gov, LE, public, and MILVETs.

Long Story Short
As I said Friday, there are so many variables, oddities, and “unknown unknowns” here than anyone who tells you they “know” what’s going on is a Grade A bullshit artist. What we do know is that the official narrative just doesn’t add up, in quite a few ways, and some of those oddities are potentially worrisome.

There are 2 former GBs who are trying to help unravel this. There are a few red herrings I personally believe they’ve been running with, but this whole thing is so weird there’s a good chance that I’m the one who’s on the wrong path of trying to untangle what this is.

If you’re interested in the perspectives of dudes who know the SF community and understand far more of this than the media and “pundits,” here are their handles and links to pertinent aspects of this:

Green Beret Nap Time (@GBNT1952 ) x.com/GBNT1952/statu…

Matt Tardio (@angertab ) and stolen PII x.com/angertab/statu…

DoD
Given the allegations presented in the email (Protonmail, black background), there are the questions about whether this is a coverup op or “limited hangout” of some sort.

Some are saying that Matt wouldn’t have SAP or sensitive info access because of his rank/time in service - but I can tell you categorically that isn’t always accurate. We’ve discussed, without specifics, some of the things that I was brought into concerning theatre and ISAF-wide intel during my time as an E6 with TS-SCI.

Also remember that the dude who leaked to Assange (Manning) was a private who had access to the intel he gave WikiLeaks. So rank/time doesn’t really matter as much as some would have you believe.

For the weirdness in the whole thing, let’s also remember that the Pentagon has been recently caught red handed using US taxpayer funds to run psychological operations against the populace via the Minerva Initiative, Graphika, and others.

Here’s a reminder of that from @MikeBenzCyber :

x.com/MikeBenzCyber/…

That’s all I’ve got for you on this for now.

White Pill:
I’ve had a thread by my friend - bookmarked to use here for several months, and I think it’s time to put it in. The thread is concerning Sir William Marshal, the first Lord Pembroke.

He served 5 different kings, was undefeated in tournaments, and helped to negotiate the Magna Carta. As I remarked in a section above, I feel like the move away from the Renaissance Man (jack of all trades) and to the “specialist” class has been a massive net-negative for the West as a whole.

I am, however, starting to see signs emerge in the greater consciousness, sentiment, and now physical examples of people beginning to show themselves to be those of many interests & talents, like “the greats” who built the world as we know it.

The current long-form post & pod that I’m working on touches a bit on “the greats and masters” of science and art who would be laughed out of the room by the “respectable consensus-building establishment” of science, academia, and art today...

Sir Issac Newton (an alchemist), Babbage (founded a paranormal research society), Madame Curie (died of radiation poisoning due to her life’s work), Galileo (put on house arrest for his ideas about heliocentrism), and Nikola Tesla (believed the energy in the air could power the world) are a few who knew there was more to the world than the one small piece that a single discipline can cover.

Likewise we have “the masters” of art like DaVinci (who had a doctor’s level understanding of anatomy & physiology), Michelangelo, Bernini, and others who blended art, architecture, sculptures, Faith, and a deep understanding of “the world as it is.”

The world is not in your cubicle, and “TPS reports” should not be the pinnacle of the Human Experience.

It seems people may be starting to understand that, and that a rabid curiosity about the world and how things work is an important part of making it a better place for all.

Let’s start with a lesson about Sir William Marshal:

x.com/EMBurlingame/s…

Macro takeaways/lessons for the week:
-Progressives have been threatening to do the very thing that they spent 4 years trying to convince the US public was the very worst thing that could ever be done. Let’s hope that sanity prevails for them - but if it doesn’t, it will likely be the final nail in their trust from the populace, given the election’s results.

-A Canadian “clap back” is threatening to taking the worst-run US states off of our hands and into their own Shitshow that Ms. Trudeau has created. I guess Canadians are too nice to know what a proper threat is made of.

-Currencies can be the “canary in the coal mine” if you know what you’re looking at and pay attention to them. These canaries are coughing already.

Implications:
There are several aspects of the NYE attack and event that are extremely worrisome and troubling, from my perspective. I’m not going to bullshit you and pretend that I “know” anything before I can assign it a very high level of probability - and right now there is nothing that comes close to fitting that bill.

The catcalls and external narratives that I’ve seen emerge are troubling in themselves; whether those were planned or simply grifting disunion-makers is yet to be seen. I don’t think it will be too long before we see someone evolving those narratives to call for yet another war, either.

The Weekly Read (Monday):
Strange as it is that it was totally unplanned, I finished my front-to-back reading of The Bible on 12/30, and moved into JFK and The Unspeakable the next day.

It’s a hefty book, and from where I am it is already enlightening. There is a part of me that feels it will be a good “foundation” for what we may see in the upcoming year, post-January 20. I have my suspicions for why the JFK Files have been withheld from the public for so long - illegally, based on a law passed by Congress - but we’ll see.

It’s not a “JFK conspiracy” book as one might imagine one, and is filled with historical aspects of the time that are good to remember. For instance, it taught me last night about when/how/why the NSC was formed, which was strangely pertinent given the thread by Joshua Steinman that I saw today.

It’s one that combines Faith (from the man who coined the phrase The Unspeakable, a Priest), Cold War history, pre-war history, and quite a few elements of JFK’s life that you may not know about.

I may add more insights as we go along, but it’s certainly on my “would recommend” list already.

Links mentioned in the show:

Intro & Outtro music: Blind by Mike Amabile and Run Over Twice
open.spotify.com/track/6SG99nL3…

10yr Yield vs S&P Historically from Mayhem4Markets
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Vegas/ML Email and “Phone Manifesto”
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“Phone Manifesto”
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Accurate.