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Remember The 2008 Great Financial Crisis?  It Is FAR WORSE Today...

Every adult recalls the 2008 "Great Financial Crisis" when Bear Stearns, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and others collapsed. The Chart from FDIC shows that period above.  That was then... THIS is now:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2024/09/02/FDIC-2008-VS-NOW.png

How much longer this can go on is anyone's guess.  It seems to me, as an unqualified Layman who is not a Licensed Financial Expert, and who cannot give financial advice, that this is an utter catastrophe actually taking place.  In my personal (unqualified) opinion, when it finally causes a collapse.... the collapse is going to wipe out everything!

Now you know why they seem to be trying so hard to cause World War III.  They need it to blame the coming collapse on!

If the collapse takes place without World War 3, then THEY get (rightly) blamed instead of being able to blame their manufactured world war.

IF Russia's and China's leaders are smart, they will not take the bait.  HOWEVER.... the conundrum they now face is risk being further attacked by use of other vassal state proxies, and being called chicken, with the world assuming they will bluff, which risks calls for further escalation in their own nations.  VERY DANGEROUS TIMES.

Maybe the reason the uber-wealthy are building underground shelters for themselves is not to protect them from World War III, but instead, to protect them from the masses, who will be wiped-out when the Banker shenanigans wipes out the system and everyone loses everything.

Whatever they're going to do, it seems to me they have to do it before the election.  

I earnestly hope you have emergency food, water, medicines you need to live on, a generator, fuel for it, communications gear like CB or HAM radio, flashlights, first-aid kits, CASH MONEY stashed outside a bank in a place where YOU can get to it.  If you don't have these things, what will you do when the whole thing comes crashing down?

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/remember-the-2008-great-financial-crisis-that-was-then-this-is-now

Two young men from the lower rungs of the country's caste system - one a Dalit from the Jatav community and the other from the Other Backward Class Kewat community - were subjected to brutal torture in Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, over claims of sexual assault, the police have said.

The incident took place on June 30 in Warkhadi in the Narwar area of Shivpuri. The two young men were violently beaten, their faces blackened, forced to ingest faeces, and then humiliatingly paraded through the town.

The distressing episode was reported to the police by the Dalit victim's brother. Shivpuri district police have since charged seven members of a local minority family with the assault and have already caught six suspects, including two women.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/madhya-pradesh-men-forced-to-eat-faeces-over-false-sexual-assault-claim-4185484

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits US Government Bullies & Censors Social Media

Two years ago Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to Joe Rogan that the FBI pressured Facebook into censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Now he's participating in a Congressional investigation.

In a stunning Monday evening letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg admitted that senior Biden administration officials "repeatedly pressured" Facebook teams to suppress information related to COVID-19 that the platform would not have otherwise censored - and the administration 'expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.'

"I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it," reads the letter. "I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today."

Zuck now says that Facebook should not have compromised its standards "due to pressure from any Administration in either direction."

He's also committed and "ready to push back if something like this happens again."

Zuckerberg also said that Facebook shouldn't have censored the NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story - and said that the FBI had warned the platform "about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election."

"That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply," reads the letter. "It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story."

Speaking of demoting stories, Facebook began censoring ZeroHedge in 2019 - with links to our articles met with a popup that said "the link you tried to visit goes against our community standards."

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that states and individual plaintiffs who challenged the Biden administration's censorship complex don't have standing to sue because they cannot establish a clear link between the government's pressure and the platform's actions.

What will Jim Jordan do with this information?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-letter-congress-zuckerberg-admits-biden-harris-pressured-facebook-censor-content

BOOM! Biden Regime Planning World War III To Default On US Government Debt Before Next Election

Video below shows the United States has ground troops inside the country of Moldova, near Ukraine's western border.  Moldova's Constitution REQUIRES that country to be militarily neutral!  US Forces there mean the US is trying to create a second front for Russia, inside Ukraine.

Here is video, taken by a Farmer in one of his field in Moldova, as he encounters US Ground Troops:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/video-u-s-ground-troops-inside-moldova-near-ukraine-western-border

The farmer clearly does NOT want US troops on his property or inside his country because he knows, to an absolute certainty, when Russia finds out US troops are there, Russian soldiers may be sent and war will come to his country, too.  Why are United States military forces inside Moldova?

Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Ukraine is collapsing.  The Russians are making very significant gains in territory and Ukraine is running out of weapons and ammunition.

Deputy Chairman Chernev of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence  said publicly yesterday "Ukraine does not count on new arms supplies from the Biden administration. Kiev should focus on those who will be in the Harris administration if she wins."

Last week, Germany made clear they will not be providing more weapons to Ukraine after revelations that Ukraine was involved in the bombing of the Nordstream Pipeline.  That bombing cut-off Russian natural gas flows to Germany, which in turn, ruined Germany's Industrial production.  Skyrocketing energy costs have made it impossible for German Industry to continue, and upwards of forty percent (40%) of German Industry is now either actually Bankrupt, or heading into Bankruptcy.

Yesterday, the Minister of National Defense of Poland, stated publicly "Poland no longer has weapons that it could transfer to Ukraine."
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MULTI-POLAR GLOBAL NEWS SERIES 8/27/2024
In this new series, we don't bother talking about falling empires or insolvent corrupted failed states. We focus on the new growing international multi-polar world and trade.

De-Dollarization & Multi-polarity Plans Top Agenda For October BRICS Summit
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/de-dollarization-multipolarity-plans-top-agenda-october-brics-summit-report

40 More Nations Apply For BRICS+ Trade Union Membership
https://www.bitchute.com/video/prie2iKZCsFq [Embed]

India PM Modi Meets With Malaysia's PM Anwar Ibrahim To Discuss BRICS Trade
https://www.bitchute.com/video/u2tchfRvA66r [Embed]

Key Actor In West Asia Applies To Join BRICS Following Meeting With Russia
https://rumble.com/v5bs81v--brics-news-azerbaijan-applies-to-join-brics-bloc.html

Azerbaijan Aims to Become Key Trade and Manufacturing Hub For China
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Azerbaijan-Aims-to-Become-Key-Trade-and-Manufacturing-Hub-for-China.html

BRICS+ Invites Palestine Officials To Attend New Trade Meeting
https://www.bitchute.com/video/47QGEZp7BACl [Embed]

Saudi Arabia & China Expected To Strengthen Crude Oil Trade In Yuan
https://rumble.com/v5c9n8q--petroyuan-in-the-making-saudi-china-saudi-ties-strengthen-crude-oil-trade-.html

India & Oman Free Trade Pact Talks Advance
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/india-oman-free-trade-pact-talks-at-advanced-stage-official/articleshow/112836555.cms

The Collapse Of American Credibility And Endless War Will Seal Our Fate

There are three current hot or cold wars: on the Ukrainian border, in the regions surrounding Israel, and in the strategic space between Taiwan and mainland China.

The West faces dire consequences if the Iran-backed Houthi aggression in the southern Red Sea persists. Beyond the intermediate inflation threat caused by shipping disruptions and skyrocketing container rates due to rerouted merchant ships around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, the long-term game is even more troubling: America's "credibility and deterrence" is quickly eroding. This perceived weakness could embolden China to escalate disputes in the South China Sea, sensing a weakening West becoming increasingly entangled in multiple conflicts, including those in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Former Navy Seal and Blackwater founder Erik Prince wrote on X this weekend about the Houthi rebel missile attack on Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion about 77 nautical miles west of the Yemeni port of Hodeidah last week that eventually led to a massive explosion and potential environmental disaster.

"Where is the rightful outrage from environmentalists? Thousands of tons of crude oil will now pour into the Red Sea," Prince wrote on X, adding, "Thousands of tons of crude oil will now pour into the Red Sea."

https://twitter.com/realErikDPrince/status/1827325608415633820

To put things in perspective, Sounion is hauling 150,000 tons of crude — a little more than four times the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.

Ten months after Houthi forces in Yemen started disrupting maritime traffic in the Red Sea, global shipping companies have had to reroute merchant ships around the Cape of Good Hope. This has resulted in delays and higher container costs that will only worsen as capacity stretches thin.

Meanwhile, the US and EU have launched numerous military operations committed to ensuring freedom of navigation and maritime security in the highly contested region but have failed repeatedly.

Prince said, "This is a clear sign of the collapse of American credibility and deterrence. Letting the Iranian proxy Houthis shut off a major maritime seaway is an epic fail."

Because it projects extreme weakness for the world's former superpower, embroiled in conflicts in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Red Sea. This all exposes Biden and other far-left Western leaders who are extraordinarily weak and stupid. This could accelerate the possibility of a major US-China confrontation in the South China Sea, which would only lead to more horrific economic decline.

Have you noticed an unusual number of vehicles in the parking lots of major retailers in your area at night?  If you look closely enough, you will see that many of those vehicles actually have people sleeping in them.  At this point, millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles every night.  This is happening even though we are being told that the economy is just fine.  But of course the truth is that the system is failing all around us.  All as planned. Be prepared for an economic collapse.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/clear-sign-collapse-american-credibility-deterrence
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/quiet-storms-ukraine-gaza-and-taiwan
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/if-everything-so-great-why-are-millions-americans-sleeping-their-vehicles

BEWARE: By 2030, Living In Poo York Will Cost Residents 4 Times What It Does Now

There are a whole lot of reasons to avoid New York like the plague these days, and as sad as predictable there are even more reasons thanks to bad policy and stupid political leadership.

It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy. But the state demanded wind. Let’s discuss the amazing bottom line results.

New York state signed a contract in June to buy electricity generated by two large wind farms, Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, off the coast of Long Island. The projects are expected to begin in 2026 and 2027, with power delivered to Brooklyn (Empire) and Long Island (Sunrise). The "state" aka TAXPAYERS will pay $155 and $146 per megawatt-hour, respectively. These prices are steep, at least four times the average grid cost paid over the past year.

The offshore wind business off the East Coast is in turmoil. Operators have canceled projects from Massachusetts to Maryland that were due to be constructed in the next four years. Some have been delayed, while others have renegotiated their contracts at prices 30% to 50% higher than originally promised.

Two widely quoted sources of break-even costs are the US Energy Information Administration and Lazard, an investment bank. In its most recent estimates, the EIA suggests the average break-even cost of offshore wind farms, adjusted to 2024 prices, is $131 per megawatt-hour, not counting government subsidies, and $101 per megawatt-hour after allowing for basic tax credits. The latter figure is what matters, because every offshore wind farm expects to take advantage of investment or production tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Let’s pause right there because wind is absurd by any measure.

The cost of wind is $131 per MWH without credits and $101 with $30 in tax credits according to the EIA. A handout of $30 is an 83 percent subsidy (30/36) and the deal still is still nearly 100% per MWH in the red, losing $35 per MWH over the cost of buying energy at market rates.

The owner-operators of the two farms—Equinor for Empire and Orsted for Sunrise—are two of the top five global wind-farm investors and operators. Equinor is Norway’s state oil company, while Orsted previously was Denmark’s.

With a break even cost of $101 (thanks to subsidies), Equinor will make $54 per MWH and Orsted will make a mere $45 per MWH on something whose total cost should be $36 per MWH.

Did New York sign an agreement that allows large wind-farm operators to earn unreasonably high after-tax profits at the expense of its residents?  I believe the math speaks for itself.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-pay-155-megawatt-hour-wind-power-current-rate-36-mwh

Hungary To Send Third World Migrants To Brussels To Avenge Asylum Fine

Several years ago, Texas had a brilliant idea: take the millions of illegal immigrants that were flooding its territory as a result of policies adopted in faraway places like DC, and bus them to places like New York and DC, other so-called sanctuary cities and, best of all, Martha's Vineyard where those who run New York and DC tend to go on vacation. The result was an immediate revulsion by the false virtue-signaling NIMBY crowd, which cried foul at having to suffer the consequences of its actions.

Turns out Texas' idea was so good it is now being adopted across the Atlantic, where another illegal alien invasion has been taking place for the past decade, slowly replacing the indigenous population with millions of immigrants from northern Africa and the middle east.

Now, one European country has decided it also has had enough: Hungary suggested that it might - like Texas - start transporting migrants who show up at its border straight to Brussels, unless it can resolve a dispute with the European Union on penalties for its asylum policies, Bloomberg reported.

The European Court of Justice has slapped a €200 million ($223 million) penalty, plus an extra €1 million daily fine, on the country for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s non-compliance with the court’s earlier judgment on the protection of asylum seekers. Orban already promised retaliation in June for the ruling, one of several issues clouding the start of his stint in the rotating presidency of the EU in the second half of 2024.

Negotiations with the European Commission will start in September, Gergely Gulyas, the minister in charge of the prime minister’s office, told reporters in Budapest Thursday. Should those talks fail, Hungary will start handing migrants “one-way tickets to Brussels,” Gulyas said.

“We should find an agreement as soon as possible because we wouldn’t like to pay large amounts on a daily basis,” Gulyas said. “But if Brussels wants to take in migrants, we can help.”

Though Gulyas provided no details on how such a scheme would work, the idea echoes disputes not only among US states over migrants - like those being bused to New York from the Texas border - but also elsewhere in Europe. In the UK, socialist Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed his new Labour government would scrap predecessor Rishi Sunak’s plan to deport foreign criminals to Rwanda.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-may-send-migrants-brussels-avenge-asulym-fine

Meanwhile, a major manhunt is underway after a Friday night mass stabbing attack killed three people and wounded eight more at a "Festival of Diversity" in Germany. Living up to the event's billing, witnesses to the bloodshed in the western German city of Solingen say the attacker was Arab in appearance - a detail every major US news outlet is omitting from its coverage as our report is written.

According to the German newspaper Bild, witnesses say the knife-wielding murderer looked like a young Arab man. At around 9:45 pm, he lashed out at an apparently random assortment of victims at the Fronhof, a market square that was being used as a venue for live musical performances.

After fatally slashing three people and wounding eight more -- five seriously -- the attacker was said to have fled toward a main street and is still at large.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/festival-diversity-horror-manhunt-arab-appearing-man-after-3-killed-8-wounded-mass

Putin Follows Ronald Reagan, Allowing Refuge To Victims Under Western Communism

Like America once did during the Cold War with the Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan, Russia is now offering safe haven to any foreigners who want to escape their “neoliberal” communist-hijacked countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that Moscow would assist any foreign nationals wanting to apply for temporary residence in Russia “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history, and basic laws,” Russian state media reported Monday.

Yahoo News reports: Yes, Moscow is encouraging people from around the world to seek refuge in Russia via new three-month visas which may be available as early as in September, according to state news agency TASS.

In Russia, “traditional values reign supreme”, the report claimed – the Kremlin is known to oppose transgender-forced child abuse, promotion of homosexuality and illegal immigration.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree this week which would allow foreign nationals into the country “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws”.

Applicants may apply via a simplified, expedited system and can request residency if they reject their home countries’ “destructive neoliberal ideals”.

Those ideals “run counter to traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”, and end up “imposing unhealthy attitudes on their citizens”.

This new decree is especially surprising as Putin told the Financial Times in 2019 that it was a “cardinal mistake” for Germany to adopt a liberal approach to immigration from the Middle East.

“The liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these? Every crime must have its punishment,” he said.

He described the West as “satanic” in 2022, saying the area had rejected “moral norms” and “traditional values”.

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/putin-offers-safe-haven-to-westerners-wanting-to-escape-globalist-leftist-agenda/

China Bucks US Military Industrial Complex, Halts Exports of Metallic Antimony

China has now banned the export of metallic antimony, a critical material for military applications like high explosives, missile propellants, and infrared guidance. The US military industry heavily relies on China for its antimony supply.

Antimony is a chemical element; it has symbol Sb and atomic number 51.

A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite.

Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known by the Arabic name kohl.

China's export ban will severely impact both the US military and the Western solar industries.

Beyond military uses, antimony is essential for producing photovoltaic cells and glass, vital to the Western solar industry.

China controls 32% of global antimony reserves but dominates 80% of production.

While Bolivia and Russia also have significant reserves, it would take time and technological effort for the US to establish new production lines elsewhere. Time the USSA doesn't have given its attempts to start World War 3 over the Ukraine-Russia and the Israel-Iran conflicts.

If the neo-cons in the USSA are successful in triggering World War III, we will simply not be able to manufacture explosives and missile propellants, unable to defend our own land.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/china-halts-exports-of-metallic-antimony-critical-to-us-military-explosives-and-missiles