It's Monday. Welcome To Chaos!
So far. As I wrote yesterday, so many moving geostrategic and geopolitical parts. Somebody appears to be steering the US toward war, so they had to bring Kama Sutra back from her alleged campaigning to “brief” her on the “Iran threat”. IOW, finally tell her whose instructions to follow—it’s not Zhou. The US military, meanwhile, continues its major buildup in the Middle East. Russia has sent Sergey Shoigu to Teheran to discuss “regional security”. Shoigu is on the Russian Security Council, Russia’s kinda like cabinet level consultative policy making body (Putin is Chairman, Dmitry Medvedev is the Deputy). That’s a big deal.
Unsurprisingly, the markets are apprehensive, as everyone is Waiting for Iran. But, of course, everyone knows that it’s not really Iran calling the shots—at least, not in the sense that they brought this crisis about. This is looking to be the culmination of a crisis that was sought by the Anglo-Zionist Empire, but was delayed by Trump. Yes, of course, Trump allowed a pretty free hand to the Anglo-Zionists, but he had independent ideas as far as starting actual wars go. Now it’s getting late in the game, and desperate measures are called for. The markets sense this, and they know that big changes could happen quickly. They also obviously sense that there may be no turning back:
Megatron @Megatron_ron
BREAKING:
 The US is facing a recession
A war between Israel and Iran will burst the bubble inflated by printing dollars without cover.
Iran is doing massive damage just by waiting.
Market selloff: "We have never been down 1,000+ points ever, not even intraday on the Nasdaq."
8:46 AM · Aug 5, 2024
There’s more going on in the Money Wars, which are a key to what’s going on—because King Dollar is all that ultimately keeps the Anglo-Zionist Empire in its current state of world hegemon. Tom Luongo called the coming chaos (cf. DDB also: All Hell Breaks Loose) a few days ago, when he pointed to Japan’s change in monetary policy—an era ending event as he describes it. Friday Tom and CryptoRich did a video on this. These developments are kinda what I was alluding to when I wrote yesterday that, Who believes the Fed fiddling with interest rates can cure a system that is dangerously out of whack? Listen (follow the link) and tell me what you think:
Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728
MONEY WARS! RATES RISING! STOCKS CRASHING
Hint. It is not the fed’s fault. Hello Japan
https://odysee.com/@cryptorich:e/money-wars!-rates-rising!-stocks:e… #Odysee via @OdyseeTeam
From odysee.com
Q: What's going on with the markets? Who did it and why?
The Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance is the short answer.
The reason it's the Bank of Japan. For months and years I've been saying that Japan would be the catalyst for whatever came next. I said that because Japan was moving against the trend [by maintaining a loose monetary policy]. They were the last ones to start tightening monetary policy. Japan has been the source of global liquidity--through what we know as 'carry trades', where you're long one currency and short another. Or someone else's bonds. You front run the loose monetary policy of one central bank and then collect the spread against a tigher central bank, and you can collect the interest rate spread. Japan has been the funding currency of choice--they put themselves in that position since the early 1990s. It's been that way for 30 years.
It's not that Japan hasn't altered monetary policy during that time frame--they have. But in general it has been manipulating the Yen and the price of the Japanese government bond market in order to ensure that they continue to export at the rate that they need to. This is how they've been managing their economy. ... Japan has, at the same time, been 'the Fed's wingman.' Japan is independent, but it's also a colony of the US, so if the Fed wants to do X then Japan will alter its monetary policy to support that as needed. Contrast that with the ECB and the Fed, which have not coordinated in that way--except when globalists like Bernanke and Yellen have been in charge of the Fed. The globalist coordination (Fed, ECB, SNB, BOE, BOJ) was particularly clear in the Yellen - Draghi years.
What happened this week? Slowly but surely the Japanese have recognized that the world is entering a new era of monetary policy and they brought in Ueda to run the BOJ, and tighten monetary policy.
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So, an era ending event.
BOJ Ueda raised the overnight rate to an astronomical 0% to 0.1% 1/10 of 1% interest on a $1 million dollar loan is $1,000, and the Western global financial system convulses and dumps. That's because trillions and trillions of debt are built on the yen/USD, yen/euro carry trade.
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Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728
Aug 2
This isn't about the employment data, folks. Today's meltdown is a secondary aftershock of Japan finally deciding to crush the yen carry trade. @DavidBCollum you are getting your reversion to the mean thanks to the BoJ finally removing the last leg of support.
Add to that the revelation this past week:
Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT
What is happening behind the scenes, where we don't look, where the big #money is, where the Chinese continue to drain the West of its #gold reserves …
And this:
Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_
Chinese authorities and resolution experts have been managing down the real estate bubble for over four years. The IMF is frustrated that they can’t collapse China today as they collapsed Japan in 1990. Japan never recovered. China is avoiding that trap skilfully. Growth at 5% is stable.
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Kyle @KyleTrainEmoji
Aug 2
The International Monetary Fund: hey, you guys wanna spend a trillion dollars to bail out private real estate corporations??
China: nah not really
The King Dollar regime is losing its hegemony in plain view. Our hyper financialized economies are facing a reckoning. Powell’s not stupid. He understands these things, and what he wants to continue doing is setting the Dollar on a sound basis again. You can imagine that that is absolutely NOT what the Anglo-Zionist Empire wants. They prefer a war to maintain the status quo.
With all this going on, who thinks we’ll have politics as has become usual in the West. Check out the riots in England, the unrest throughout Europe. Think about the SCOTUS attacking the Admin State. Is the assassination of Trump really unrelated to these developments? There are many reason to doubt that.
Now consider this indicator that politics as has appeared to be usual is ending, and place it in this context of Kama Sutra flying back to DC to be briefed on who really runs the country: The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 
Kamala Harris Spends Flight Looking For Cloud Where Her Data Is Stored
Can you say, Useful Idiot? Well, how useful remains very much to be seen. Would you trust her to follow a script? Probably too lazy to memorize here lines.
Anyway. This is how republics end:
Jim Rickards @JamesGRickards
Kamala just got the Democratic nomination. Did she run in any primaries in 2020 or 2024? No. Did she get one single vote from a real voter? No. Has the convention happened? No. Stop asking. Remember, Trump is the threat to "democracy."
This is wild. Does it look to you like the Deep State circling the wagons, after the failed assassination of Trump?
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE - Federal Air Marshall whistleblowers have come forward to Sonya Lobosco and the Air Martial National Council with information that @TulsiGabbard is currently being surveilled under “Quiet Skies” program. See next post.
EXCLUSIVE - Federal Air Marshall Whistleblowers Report Tulsi Gabbard Actively Under Surveillance...
More from that thread, which you may wish to check out for more details:
“Quiet Skies is a TSA surveillance program with its own compartmentalized suspected terrorist watchlist. It is the same program being weaponized against J6 defendants and their families. Quiet Skies is allegedly used to protect traveling Americans from suspected domestic terrorists.”
This information comes from @LaboscoSonya and @FAMS_AMNC - an organization dedicated to representing federal agents before Congress, etc.
According to https://x.com/BreannaMorello/status/1820243062280593712 [video], Tulsi is currently being followed at airports and on flights by three federal air marshalls, two explosive detection canine teams, one TSA plain clothes supervisor, and one TSA explosives specialist.
What caused this?
Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike
If what the whistleblowers are alleging is true, and they have evidence to prove that Gabbard was targeted for surveillance right after this interview, this is going blow up into a major national scandal
Kamala Harris is not knowledgeable or strong enough to stand up to potential adversaries, or just as importantly the unelected warmongers — i.e. the Military Industrial Complex which profits from war, and the National Security State which uses these wars as a pretext to further clamp down on our freedom. Like Biden, she will simply be their puppet. We need a Commander-in-Chief strong enough to take charge. Trump will not be anyone’s puppet. That’s why the Deep State will do everything possible to keep him out of the Oval Office.
[Video highly recommended]
https://x.com/i/status/1815697038371397993
Confirming what was just written about Iran delaying--who are these people who are convinced that Iranians and Russians and Chinese are all dummies?
The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly
IRAN INFORMS THE UK THEIR ATTACK ON ISRAEL TO COME “NO LATER THAN” WEDNESDAY
Who believes Iran would do that?
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
What some people refuse to see here - the threatening but delaying of the next step causes brutal damage to the stock market and of course Israeli economy.
So the Hit was done already.
Very nice summary:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/markets-down-risks-up.html
Five days ago the Bank of Japan finally increased its interest rate from 0 to 0.25 percent. The famous carry trade, borrowing in Yen for near zero interest to invest in well paying U.S. dollar 'assets', started to unravel.
Worse than expected U.S. economic data, the Fed's unwillingness to lower interest rates and an escalating crisis in the Middle East, added to the insecurity.
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Geopolitical risk has increased too. The 'West' is losing its proxy war in Ukraine. There is no chance for it to unsettle a Russia which is steadily gaining strength.
The conflict in the Middle East is threatening to develop into an escalating spiral of retaliation strikes and counter-strikes designed in part to pull the U.S. in: