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The Revenge Of The Illusionists At The Whim Of The Deluded
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com,
“Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep… The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves…, to others…, we are focused only on our own gain. Please understand they are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival: To keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.”
– “They Live” (1988), John Carpenter, Universal Pictures, Release date: November 4, 1988
John Carpenter’s cult classic film “They Live” foreshadowed our current time in so many ways. The story told of disguised freaks appearing human while consolidating control over the upper echelons of society. To do this, they lulled the masses to sleep via advertising and materialism. The electronic media acted as a hypnotist’s watch on lethargic plebeians as they were cajoled into a dreamlike state, treated like puppets, and surveilled – by flying drones no less.
Given our current circumstances today the movie would be considered non-fiction; except with the truth-tellers on the still-free internet acting as the good guy media hackers distributing the sunglasses in the film that allowed the freaks to be seen in all their loathsome hideousness.
In “They Live”, the media hackers and sunglasses allowed the public to see behind the curtain, so to speak, which is a phrase taken from another film, “The Wizard of Oz”. It was when Dorothy and friends could see the wizard after a curtain fell and revealing him to be just a man operating technological buttons, levers, and a microphone in order to cast illusions upon the inhabitants of Oz.
And here’s the point of these cinematic parables: The grotesque freaks from “They Live” and the wizard from the “Wizard of Oz” knew what they were doing as they purposefully deceived the citizens in their respective worlds; and the deceiving con artists did this so as to consolidate power and maintain control over whom they perceived to be dupes.
Sound familiar?
Because whenever we hear elected officials, talking heads in the media, and former and current high-ranking officials in the government pontificating regarding Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse as having found no evidence of political bias, we just know it’s a pack of lies.
They know what they are doing. And they know what they have done.
Although Horowitz gave the wizards and freaks the talking points they desired, the report was damning, to say the least, and it validated what we red-pilled denizens on the still-free internet understand happened during the 2016 Presidential Election as well as the ensuing treachery that later became the Mueller investigation.
And just as former FBI Director James Comey took to Twitter and The Washington Post to announce his vindication, both Attorney General Bill Barr and his “hand-picked US Attorney, John Durham, issued statements disagreeing with the IG’s conclusions”:
The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken…
– U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr – December 9, 2019
I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff. However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.
– U.S. Attorney John Durham – December 9, 2019
In a later NBC interview, Attorney General Barr further clarified his views on Horowitz’s consistent predilections toward blind, deaf, and dumb justice:
But Barr argued that Horowitz didn’t look very hard, and that the inspector general accepted the FBI’s explanations at face value.
“All he said was, people gave me an explanation and I didn’t find anything to contradict it … he hasn’t decided the issue of improper motive,” Barr said. “I think we have to wait until the full investigation is done.”
Barr said he stood by his assertion that the Trump campaign was spied on, noting that the FBI used confidential informants who recorded conversations with Trump campaign officials.
In his December 11, 2019 testimony tightrope act before the U.S. Senate, Horowitz said he preferred the term “surveillance” over “spying” and, to his credit, retroactively annulled former FBI Director Comey’s self-vindication with this statement:
I think the activities we found here don’t vindicate anybody who touched this FISA.
Even so, 17 violations identified in the Horowitz report of which reporter John Solomon had added some further clarification:
The Appendix identifies a total of 51 Woods procedure violations from the FISA application the FBI submitted to the court authorizing surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page starting in October 2016.
A whopping nine of those violations fell into the category called: “Supporting document shows that the factual assertion is inaccurate.”
For those who don’t speak IG parlance, it means the FBI made nine false assertions to the FISA court. In short, what the bureau said was contradicted by the evidence in its official file.
To put that in perspective, former Trump aides Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were convicted of making single false statements to the bureau. One went to jail already, and the other awaits sentencing.
The FBI made nine false statements to the court.
And, of course, all of the errors and omissions were made against Team Trump. Does that seem random to you? What were the odds?
But no political bias. Right. Got it.
To be sure, the Wizards of Obama engaged in third world tactics and the unseen freaks in the highest levels of The Establishment planned to consolidate their power under Hillary.
In describing the current narrative of this sordid tale, it would appear that Donald Trump was elected to chew bubble-gum and kick ass. And the president is out of bubble-gum.
The films “They Live” and “The Wizard of Oz” are constructive lens by which to view what’s happening in the ongoing reality TV show of American politics because they distill any psyops and narratives down to true versus false as opposed to Republican versus Democrat; even if the movies arefiction.
Is everything we are now witnessing in American politics occurring naturally? Or is there something else going on?
Regardless, like true versus false, or life versus death, perhaps conservative versus Marxist is also a valid ideological construct upon which we can depend.
To the Hive Mind, politics is survival. It’s why it so passionately politicizes everything from NFL football, to Hollywood, to the weather, to education, to pre-school children’s library readings hosted by gender-fluid freaks.
Maybe this also explains why the Marxists so often win politically in their efforts to repeatedly establish their vision of utopia on this blue orb – because they can’t afford to lose. It is, in fact, the root of Trump Derangement Syndrome, on being “triggered”, and explains snowflakedom: Their worldview is all or nothing; even if only based on delusions, color, and genitals.
It is the new religion. Or, perhaps, even an old one.
Regardless, as of now, if you look into the eyes of Pelosi, Maddow, Biden, Nadler, Schiff and crew you will see hints of desperation. And fear. It’s why Pelosi had her recent meltdown when someone asked if she hated Trump. It’s also why Biden lost it when a guy in New Hampton Iowa recently asked him about Ukraine. It’s why media activist Chuck Todd went nuclear on Senator Ted Cruz over Ukraine. And why the head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has invalidated one possible outcome of the next presidential election.
These freaks know exactly what they are doing. And they know exactly what they have done. But they would be powerless if not for the dupes.
Indeed. The recently announced articles of impeachment by congressional Democrats, the complete collapse of the corporate mainstream media into Fake News, and the cries of vindication over the Horowitz Report – all represent the revenge of the illusionists by the whim of the deluded. It’s like watching a clown car fueled by the vapid dreams of fools driving over a cliff.
A reader of my blog e-mailed me an article whereby the author phrased it thusly:
While some are waking up to this reality the vast swath of those self-described progressives and liberals are oblivious. Thus, the socialist radicals have power far beyond their numbers.
In other words, those in power and their minions know full well what they are doing and the rest of America is a bunch of f*cking idiots.
Therefore the Kavanaugh-ification of American politics will continue. And, as the nation further declines. Those on the Political Left have progressively politicized, polarized, and pulverized every institution in the United States.
And everything they touch sours.
As Horowitz has proven in his report, the DoJ and FBI were weaponized against a presidential candidate and the FISA process was undermined completely.
Of course John Durham will demonstrate that the U.S. Intelligence agencies utilized foreign agents to undermine a domestic election and, later, a U.S. president. According to Attorney General Barr, we won’t know the exact results of Durham’s investigation until late spring or early summer 2020.
The Democrats in the U.S. House have not only raped the whistleblower statute and protections, but it has turned presidential impeachment into a common political ploy.
We now know the Ukraine whistleblower was a CIA spy named Eric Ciaramella, and he was…
– an outspoken critic of Trump
– a registered Democrat
– who worked for CIA Director John Brennan
– who worked for Obama
– who worked for Joe Biden
– And one who helped to start the Russia “collusion” hoax
Yet this is the guy the wizards in the U.S. House used as the reason to launch a bogus and patently unfair impeachment charade and to “embrace the exact surveillance tactics they used to warn about”:
Today, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff not only employs the power of the surveillance state to smear his colleagues and press his political agenda, he has set a number of dangerous precedents by “unmasking” his political rivals in an effort to smear them with innuendo.
With the release of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report this week, we learned that Rudolph Giuliani and his corrupt Ukrainian pal Lev Parnas, whose metadata Schiff had legally subpoenaed, were also exchanging calls with former The Hill columnist John Solomon, ranking Intelligence Republican Devin Nunes and the president’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow.
All the while, the mainstream media spouts lie after lie after lie; U.S. elections have been undermined by falsehoods and f*ckery; and as tech giants censor and spin in ways that would cause Orwell to blush in his grave – if only because Epstein didn’t kill himself.
The freaks hide behind electronic spells as the wizards push buttons and pull levers from behind their curtains. Crossfire Hurricane, the Russian election hacking psyop, the Mueller Report, and now the 2019 Ukrainegate Impeach-a-palooza are illusions sold by wizards who know what they are doing to the dolts who have provided them with power.
It could be that history will reveal the election of President Donald J. Trump as the “bleeding of the brake lines before the big stop”. And, it doesn’t matter if he is real, being used unwittingly, or is a wizard himself because either…
1.) The U.S. economy will crash before November 3, 2020 and whatever Leftist Loon inhabits the white house will soon deliver socialist hell
Or
2.) Trump will win and the economy will implode followed by a dollar crash and the remainder of his second term will be devastated by economic hell, war, and societal breakdown.
In either scenario, the Land of Oz will be begging for a new global order, and even more powerful wizardry, by 2024.
Order out of chaos.
America is an empire of debt and slavery is rooted in economics. And the collapse of the everything bubble (i.e USD) is when the real magic will begin.
Until then, however, the technocracy thrives, convenience is monopolized and sold, and power is consolidated.
The wizards are real. They live.
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:45 Tags PoliticsTo Calm Markets, NY Fed Announces New Heads Of The Plunge Protection Team
Zoltan Pozsar "doomsday" report predicting that the Fed is about to lose control over short-term interest rates due to a reserve shortage, resulting in a repo market crisis, surging bond yields and a stock market crash, managed to do something few others have achieved: it caused a full-blown Fed panic.
The result was not only the earlier announcement that the NY Fed would inject over $500 billion in liquidity over the next month to avoid said repo crisis, which as we calculated would blow out the Fed's above $4.5 trillion to a new all time high...
... but the Fed also remembered that in order to restore confidence that it knows what it is doing to prevent a year-end funding crisis, it has to actually staff the New York Fed's Market Desk, also known as the Plunge Protection Team, which as a reminder, lost its two top traders in May when both the head of the PPT, Simon Potter, and the head of the Financial Services Group, Richard Dzina, unexpectedly quit as a result of a conflict with the new, and utterly clueless, head of the NY Fed, John Williams.
Simon Potter
And so, just minutes after the NY Fed's announcement of its gargantuan, $500BN liquidity injection, the NY Fed - in scrambling to prove to markets that it is taking the year-end panic seriously - also announced a new senior leadership for its Markets and Financial Services Groups, as follows:
Daleep Singh has been named Executive Vice President and Head of the Markets Group; Lorie K. Logan has been named Executive Vice President and Manager of the System Open Market Account (SOMA) Christopher D. Armstrong has been named Executive Vice President and Head of the Financial Services Group.“After an extensive and thorough search, we selected three great leaders to head these mission-critical functions. While quite distinct in their experience and backgrounds, the three share several essential attributes. In addition to unmatched expertise and knowledge, they are visionary and collaborative leaders who have track records of inspiring, supporting and developing outstanding teams,” said John C. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Fed.
“I have had the pleasure of working with Lorie and Chris for some time, and am deeply impressed with their professionalism and leadership. Chris stepped in as interim head of the group and quickly gained the respect of his colleagues within the New York Fed and across the System. Lorie, in her role as SOMA Manager pro tem, was steadfast during the recent period of volatility in the repo market, helping the FOMC develop and execute a highly effective plan of action. Daleep has a clear dedication to public service, a record of success, and proven leadership skills, which make him the ideal candidate for this role. I look forward to working with all three in their new roles,” Mr. Williams concluded.
So who are these new masters of the centrally-planned markets? Here are their bios:
Daleep Singh
As Head of the Markets Group, Mr. Singh will join the New York Fed in February 2020 and be responsible for the group’s entire portfolio, with a focus on bringing together policy, strategy, analysis and operational effectiveness. As a member of the Executive Committee, he will also play a key role in developing and implementing the New York Fed’s strategic direction and priorities. Mr. Singh is currently Senior Partner and Chief U.S. Economist at SPX Capital, a global investment firm. Previously, he worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2011 to 2017, serving as Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets and Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, helping to shape the Department's crisis response to Ukraine, Russia, Greece, and Puerto Rico. Mr. Singh also directed the Treasury’s Markets Room, which provided real-time and thematic analysis for senior Administration officials.
Lorie K. Logan
As SOMA Manager, effective January 1, 2020, Ms. Logan will be responsible for implementing monetary policy in accordance with the directives of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). She will continue to draw on her deep knowledge of capital markets, market operations, and related policy to provide expert analysis and advice to the FOMC. Ms. Logan has more than twenty years of experience at the New York Fed, serving since 2014 as the Deputy SOMA Manager. In that role, she helped to develop the Federal Reserve’s policy normalization tools, including the establishment of the overnight reverse repo facility, and the long-run monetary policy implementation framework. Ms. Logan played a prominent role in the development and implementation of the Federal Reserve’s crisis-era policies to mitigate systemic risks to the financial system.
Christopher D. Armstrong
As Head of the Financial Services Group, effective January 1, 2020, Mr. Armstrong will be responsible for the suite of products offered by the Wholesale Product Office, which manages the Fedwire Funds Service, the Fedwire Securities Service, and the National Settlement Service on behalf of the Federal Reserve System. He will also be responsible for the New York Fed’s Cash Operations, and serve on the Bank’s Executive Committee. Mr. Armstrong joined the New York Fed more than ten years ago as part of the Cash and Custody services team within the Financial Services Group, drawing on broad industry experience and an education in mechanical engineering to help transform financial services in the Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Armstrong worked at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, where he held several management roles.
And now traders can be comforted that between new heads of the market formerly known as "free", and the $500 billion in liquidity injected over the next 30 days, not even one red candle will be allowed well into 2020...
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:28 Tags Business FinanceTrade-Deal Rumorgasm Sparks Stock Meltup To Record Highs, Bond Bloodbath
It's a deal... again...
Oct 11: NEWS "Trump says the US has come to a substantial phase one deal with China"
Dec 12: RUMOR *TRUMP: GETTING VERY CLOSE TO A BIG DEAL WITH CHINA
Dec 12: RUMOR *U.S. NEGOTIATORS OFFER TO CANCEL NEW DEC. 15 CHINA TARIFFS: DJ
Dec 12: NEWS/RUMOR "Trump says he and China reached a 'phase one' trade deal in principle"
And that was good enough for new record highs for stocks (for a brief second, Nasdaq was back to unchanged after the early trade deal rumors faded, but that didn't last)...
After each surge, algos dragged stocks back to VWAP but the last headline barrage sparked buying into the close...
And there's only one clip that works for today...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y]
Yuan exploded nine handles higher to four-month highs...
Source: Bloomberg
Sending expectations for a trade deal soaring...
Source: Bloomberg
30Y Yields soared the most in 3 months today...
Source: Bloomberg
Since the "phase one deal" was agreed again on Oct 11th, stocks are alone in their exuberance...
Source: Bloomberg
Cyclicals, as expected, dramatically outperformed...
Source: Bloomberg
Bank stocks soared as rates spiked and the yield curve steepened...
Source: Bloomberg
VIX was clubbed back to a 13 handle...
And as Equity protection costs plunged, so did credit with HY plunging back below 300bps...
Source: Bloomberg
Bond yields smashed higher on the initial rumors - dramatically worse reactions than for gold and stocks...
Source: Bloomberg
Treasury yields exploded higher on the day - all higher on the week now...
Source: Bloomberg
Notably 30Y Yields staled at the pre-Oct-FOMC levels as a strong auction stalled the carnage
Source: Bloomberg
The yield curve steepened dramatically...
Source: Bloomberg
The Dollar ended the day marginally higher after a huge rollercoaster...
Source: Bloomberg
Investors in sterling are the most hedged since the referendum...
Source: Bloomberg
USDJPY surged...
Source: Bloomberg
Yuan's huge spike broke it back above its 200DMA...
Source: Bloomberg
Cryptos rallied on the day but remain lower on the week...
Source: Bloomberg
Copper and Crude soared on the trade rumors, PMs dumped, but silver managed to bounce back...
Source: Bloomberg
Gold was chaotic today - surging above payrolls and running stops before the trade rumors hit and it collapsed...
And while gold was down, silver managed to hold on to decent gains...
Gold also tumbled in yuan terms...
Source: Bloomberg
Finally, as the S&P 500 Index pushes to record highs, trading volume is drying up in typical fashion for the final weeks of a year...
Source: Bloomberg
As Bloomberg notes, in another sign of a slowdown, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust has seen fewer than 100 million shares traded for 42 straight days, the longest stretch since 2007.
Do you believe in miracles (and coincidences)? 2019=2013
Source: Bloomberg
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/12/2019 - 16:00 Tags Business FinanceUS Reaches Trade Deal "In Principle" With China (Again)
Update (1450ET): It appears "sell the news" is more the theme...
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The algos are loving it... again.
Bloomberg reports that U.S. negotiators have reached the terms of a phase-one trade deal with China that now awaits President Donald Trump’s approval, according to people briefed on the plans.
and the result...
S&P ripped right off of its VWAP...
And Yuan spiked to a new high for the day...
As did 30Y Yields...
Officials are meeting in The White House to get Trump's sign-off, according to people familiar.
Just one little reminder of what happened two months ago:
Oct 11: Trump says the US has come to a substantial phase one deal with China
Trade accordingly!
Tyler Durden Thu, 12/12/2019 - 15:55Rep. Tlaib Blames "White Supremacy" For Shooting Carried Out By Black Supremacist Group
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib blamed “white supremacy” for a shooting in New Jersey targeting a Jewish kosher grocery store which was carried out by a member of a black supremacist group.
Three civilians and one police officer were killed during the shooting on Tuesday, with the civilian victims later being named as members of the local Chassidic community.
The tragedy took place in a “historically black neighborhood where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community recently has taken root,” reported the Wall Street Journal.
David Anderson was subsequently named as one of the shooters, with NBC New York reporting that he had made anti-Semitic and anti-police statements online.
It's been known for 2 days that the killers were black supremacists... pic.twitter.com/51UVNrbHTA
— Scott Greer (@ScottMGreer) December 12, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsAnderson was “once associated with the Black Hebrew Israelite movement,” reports Heavy.com.
The Black Hebrew Israelite movement is described as “Groups of Black Americans who believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites.”
However, despite this information being known yesterday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib tweeted earlier today, “This is heartbreaking. White supremacy kills.”
Tlaib deleted the tweet after an immediate backlash pointing out that at least one of the shooters was a black supremacist, not a white supremacist.
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