Day: January 26, 2023

Walmart-owned Sam’s Club plans to open about 30 new stores over next five years – Melissa Repko – CNBC

Nasdaq closes 1.7% higher as Tesla pops, Dow adds 200 points – Samantha Subin – Alex Harring – CNBC

Does anyone with a brain really think that our economy, or the global economy, is crashing into a recession? We keep getting told that it is, to “prepare for hard times”, “get ready for hardship”, “major food and goods shortages are coming”.

The only thing causing shortages that I can see are all the arson attacks and bird flu infections going on at chicken farms. That and the artificial beef shortage caused by the artificial feed shortage caused by the artificial fertilizer shortage. What’s made the most impact is the sudden high price of eggs, but chickens go from chick to laying hen in 6 months and to meat birds in 4 months. The beef shortage hasn’t hit yet because cattle raisers have been culling their herds due to the feed shortage, so beef is actually cheaper than it was months ago.

You never hear a word now about the global shipping “backlog” of ships backed up for months at ports. The “Global Shipping Disaster” seems to have silently faded away. The supposed lack of truckers has gone along with the diesel fuel shortage.

What should we make of all this? The Walmart people are no fools and they see prosperity ahead. Sams Clubs are like Costco, they’re Members Only, big discount stores that sell a huge variety of stuff at a near-wholesale discount, and Walmart is looking to open 30 of them. That’s a huge investment.

Tesla Motors has been dropping the prices on it’s cars and trucks with the result that sales have increased and its stock value has gone back up. Tesla cars have been priced out of the range of the majority of us but with lower prices they’ll sell a lot more cars.

New discount stores and discounted car prices indicate to me that less people are expected to make high wages now and in the future and that merchants are going to start appealing to the less affluent for sales. That means that there will be more products coming from China, not less, and that China will have to take less profit and pay lower wages. They may do more business but they’ll make less money.

Shipping from the Far East is expensive, which is why those container ships are so huge. The greater the volume the less cost per each. Even so, once they get here they have to be unloaded, loaded on a waiting truck there at the port exclusively for one particular container out of thousands, by huge, extremely expensive machinery, then driven hundreds of miles to their destinations, then the container must be returned….. It’s an expensive process, which encourages factories here to start up production again, which creates more jobs. Factory assembly line jobs, the kind that pay minimum wage.

The whole general drift of all this is that average wages have gone down and are expected to stay low compared to the Pre-Covid Lockdowns Era, but that the shortages our MSM and Great Leaders have been trying to terrorize us with are not going to happen unless they hit us with the occasional fake one to maintain a level of uncertainty and panic among the sheep.

Meanwhile, our population will steadily decline as they keep injecting and infecting us with their latest poisons and mutated diseases. We’re not going to be subjected to a massive depression with soup and bread lines. That was a disaster for the rich back in 1929 which they have no intention of ever seeing repeated. They’re going to continue to enjoy their great wealth as they steadily reduce our numbers, in a very regulated way.

I hope the first large group to be eradicated is The Homeless. Those people are the bottom rung of a 20 foot ladder standing 10 feet deep in shit. No doubt their elimination from the cities will be tied to another Constitutional Rights removal that we will accept as the price for clean streets once again, under the principle of never letting a good crisis go to waste.

No guarantee this will actually happen, of course, it’s just my hope that this human trash is first to go but Big Brother may prefer to let them remain as an aid in keeping us producing citizens down and controlled. Don’t want us getting too prosperous again, after all.

There’s a lot of agitation within Turkey to leave NATO as well as a lot of NATO members wanting to kick Turkey out because of the constant problems they keep causing.

Not the least of these was their refusal to purchase our anti-aircraft missile systems with the purchase of our fighter jets. They insisted on buying the Russian system instead, which would require giving the Russians secret information about our aircraft. They did this because the Russians told them to, and they have allied with Russia as well as with NATO, which is enemies with Russia. The end result was they bought the Russian system and we refused to sell them our aircraft.

Now we have Sweden and Finland wanting to join NATO and approved by all members except Turkey, which has been making demands of those countries that go against their constitutions and cannot be met.

This is Turkey’s self-appointed dictator Recep Erdogan’s flexing his ego and testing his power against the NATO nations and the reason many are calling for Turkey’s ouster from NATO.

The reasons Turkey hasn’t been ousted yet are because Turkey joined in 1952, long before Erdogan came along, and may be easier to live with after he’s gone. That’s one, and the fact that we are using part of their Tikrit air force base to house some of our military aircraft and to deploy, re-arm and refuel them from there in military actions. Tikrit is very strategically important to us and NATO and if Turkey leaves NATO we lose access to Tikrit.

Erdogan is a Muslim arab and they’re all into manipulating and double-dealing, intrigue and backstabbing, agreeing and then reneging. Dealing with these people is always a fucking nightmare because they never do anything straight up.

The very latest on this is that Turkey may stop blocking Sweden and Finland and get some F-16s, instead of leaving or being kicked out of NATO. More as it happens.

Can’t resist a Chinese-y title for this post, since China is so involved in what it’s about.

Senator Ted Cruz sent a bill to Congress to stop FuckJoe Biden from selling any more of our strategic oil reserves to Communist China and it passed 331 to 97. Cruz is a Republican but 119 Democrats signed onto his bill.

Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, sold her Google stocks right before the Department of Justice announced an anti-trust lawsuit against them. Obviously, someone in the DoJ told her that the lawsuit was coming, and doing so is a serious crime.

We are sending our top of the line Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine because FuckJoe Biden “changed his mind”.

What does all this tell me? The same thing I’ve said here before, that the real force and power running America is hidden, and all these politicians are just jockeying for a piece of the action. It’s a block party, they’re all broken up into little power blocs that are all out for themselves and fuck the rest of us powerless citizens,

Biden is a puppet, he’s not governing, he’s not in charge, he does what he’s told. Why would he sell off our oil to China? Because he and his son Hunter are profiting from those sales and he’s being allowed to do it by the “Hidden Tiger”, who I suspect is essentially a committee formed by the WEF members, CIA, FBI, and top Pentagon brass. Just my opinion.

Only now another power bloc is out to stop any further oil sales because those sales damage their own interests. Probably because all those voting with Ted Cruz are invested in oil stocks and want to see more oil going back into the Strategic Reserve instead of to China. In fact it’s possible we may see gas prices at the pump go back down some to boost the economy and the politicians wealth.

Of course, the Globalist WEF will have a say in that, so who knows? But this is my other point in writing this, that there’s no real cohesion or mutual agreement in the blocs that currently comprise what we call a government, and our future is in a state of flux. There’s no way of knowing which of these blocs are going to do what next and we’re already living in a convoluted, contrary mess.