Posted on 01/31/2024 9:09:38 PM PST by ransomnote
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Former Trump official Mike Gill dead days after Washington DC carjacking: report
The New York Post ^ | 02/02/2024 | Patrick Reilly
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/update-former-trump-administration-official-mike-gill-dies/
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I can't put everything in one update. It would be way too long. Also, I could do long posts on any one of these stories but then your eyes would glaze over harder than a Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Item One:
There are rumors swirling through the PRC that Xi JinPooh has pancreatic cancer. There is evidence that Xi has lost considerable weight over the past 90 days or so. I have no direct evidence whether the rumor is true or not. There is some evidence that people mentioning this on Chinese social media have been cancelled and, in at least one case, arrested.
Item Two:
Faithful readers will remember that last fall I strongly recommended that anyone with investment exposure to China and Chinese stocks to to get rid of that exposure for whatever you could get for them. It appears that my advice was prescient.
Over the past two months, equities on the Hang Seng (Hong Kong), Shanghai, and Beijing stock markets have taken a beating. Yesterday the Shanghai market closed at a five year low. Various other markets throughout China closed down between 2.3% and 8.5% for the week. The rout on Friday was only stopped by the intervention of various state-owned investment funds. Since 2021, almost $6.5 TRILLION dollars US in market capitalization value have been wiped off the Chinese markets.
Item Three:
The China real estate bubble continues to unwind with EverGrand, the second largest developer in the PRC ordered by a Hong Kong court to liquidate. Now come heavy rumors that Country Garden, the largest developer in China is liquidating as it sells off high quality foreign assets.
Real estate sales were down 6.5% nationwide for 2023. December sales were down 17.5% year-on-year. They fell 34% year-on-year in January of this year.
This is particularly worrying to the average Chinese person as roughly 70% of private wealth in China is tied up in real estate.
Item Four:
There is no end in sight for China's economic down turn. Unemployment remains high and roughly 1/3 of all Chinese white-collar workers saw pay cuts in 2023. They are the lucky ones. Pay arrears in private companies seem to be growing and spreading to municipal and provincial government workers. When the government workers stop getting paid, things will get ugly.
Item Five:
This week the Foreign minister and Defense Minister of New Zealand traveled to Canberra for talks with Australian and United States defense officials. They expressed a keen desire to join the non-nuclear part of AukUS, a bilateral pact between the US and Australia. This is the pact that will allow Australia to build US designed nuclear submarines, a variant of the Virginia-class submarines, in Australia under US supervision.
This is worrying for the PRC as NZ has generally been more open to dealing with the PRC. AukUS was formed specifically to counter aggressive Chinese expansion in the western Pacific.
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There was something really odd about Biden’s salute. The cadence was off compared to the shots fired at other presidents’ inaugurations. See the video below for a compilation of inauguration volleys for Carter through Biden.
The cadence and arrangement for Biden doesn’t seem like either an inaugural 21 gun salute or a funeral salute.
And why did the salute take place at the cemetery? I don’t think this occurred when any other president got his salute.
That is just plain weird.
I don’t know exactly what it going on other than a lot of odd things that don’t add up
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I just realized I forgot to post the link to the video I referenced when I first posted this post.
Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94O1pSJtauE
12 mins. of different presidents’ inaugurations.
“What’s the difference between this and an assassination?”
None, unless you are a coincidence theorist.
Seth Rich was also a “botched robbery”.
especially for HippyLoggerBiker
In reference to my last post, you can hear some of the cannon fires in the background to the video. It clear sounds as if they are three seconds apart versus the nine seconds part that Joe got.
9 x 21 = 189 189 divided by 60 (seconds) = 3.15 minutes.
3.15 Ides of March?
Maybe I counted the Biden salute wrong. Maybe it was ten seconds apart, not nine. Isn’t ten seconds the interval for a foreign dignitary?
Per Fox News: “He [Mike Gill] was sitting in his vehicle when the suspect entered his car and shot him and then proceeded to run away.” That doesn’t sound like a car jacking to me.
Thanks. Sounds foreboding.
DH may have the book you refer to; I can’t remember the exact title. He’s going to look for it tomorrow. Something like “What to do when civilization breaks down.” Very detailed. Authors had excellent credentials.
There are too many anomalies.
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