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Since China launched the COVID War on Lunar New Year, The Year of the Rat, in January 2020, life has changed.
“Business as usual,” is now the new ABnormal. There is nothing “normal” about it.
Where the Trends Journal is based in historic Kingston, New York, the third Dutch settlement, at night, around 10 PM, the streets are dead. At one time the place was hopping till 3 AM.
Kingston—where there are more pre-Revolutionary stone buildings than anywhere in the U.S.—the big complaint during the day used to be that there was no parking because the town was so busy. Now you can park where you want, any time, any place.
Several once popular restaurants and bars have gone out of business, stores closed for good and dry cleaning shops are drying up.
While some areas across America and some parts of the world are thriving, for the most part it’s the same story in many nations, states and cities.
Businesses have gone and lifestyles have changed. And the line they were selling and the people were repeating when the COVID War began was, “It’ll come back”… a mind-numbing fantasy.
For example, as we detail in this Trends Journal, once bustling Manhattan has half the commuter traffic in Grand Central and Penn stations and empty storefronts are spread across the city.
In a blink of a cosmic eye hundreds of millions of lives and livelihoods were destroyed.
Let’s take a trip back 2 years ago when psychopathic, pathological lying, power-hungry politicians imposed made-up, non-scientific draconian mandates to fight the COVID War… and little Presstitute boys and girls of the mainstream media sold their crap, while denouncing those who wouldn’t swallow it as stupid conspiracy theorists.
Remember the bullshit that by locking down all businesses, except “essential” ones—the “Bigs” who control the world—and forcing people to stay at home, they would “flatten the curve”?
The only thing they flattened was the human spirit, the middle class and small businesses.
Remember when they told you to wash everything you brought into your home with sanitizer?
Remember when they told you to sanitize your hands, don’t shake hands, don’t hold hands, kiss, hug and don’t have sex?
Remember when they told you to wash down surfaces?
Remember when they told you to put up Plexiglas shields in front of cash registers?
Remember when they painted little circles one meter, two meters or six feet apart to make you stand apart?
Remember when they made you wear masks when you walked into a restaurant—whose tables were pushed six feet apart so the virus couldn’t get you—but they let you take the mask off when you ate or drank?
Remember when students in school bands had to play their instruments in little personal plastic tents to prevent them from blowing out COVID to the crowd?
Remember all this and much more stupid made-up bullshit that by the data we have provided since the COVID War broke out was wasteful, costly, worthless dictates that only fulfilled the ego of dictators that imbeciles and morons call politicians… and did nothing to stop those with pre-existing comorbidities who were most vulnerable to coronavirus?
Yet, at a time when economies and equity markets should have collapsed because of the lockdowns, economies bounced back and equities boomed from the trillions of dollars of phony money backed by nothing and printed on nothing pumped in by governments and central banksters.
As with the COVID War, a total fraud that keeps their Ponzi scheme going.
No, economies and equities have not “rebounded”, they were, and still are, artificially inflated. And, there was no authentic economic recovery.
Indeed, Gregory Mannarino makes it clear in his article in this issue, “The Fed IS The Curve, And You Are Being LIED To AGAIN.”
As we have been saying and totally agree with Mr. Mannarino, it’s a freak show played by actors.
“The narrative coming out of the mainstream media outlets is laughable, especially regarding these so-called “monetary policy mistakes” being made by the Federal Reserve, Mannarino writes.
The two main questions being proposed by mainstream media commentators/comedic actors as of late are these.
What’s next, what to expect? Read his article.
Again, as we keep noting, we are living in a new ABnormal.
And, the COVID War changed life on earth.
From COVID to Ukraine
And now, with the COVID War for the most part winding down, life on earth took a sudden and radical turn with the Ukraine War.
Go back just a few weeks ago.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Brent Crude spiked to nearly $140 per barrel!
Gold prices spiked to $2,069 per ounce.
Across the commodity product spectrum, prices broke record highs.
But that was a long time ago, about three weeks back!
The Ukraine War is a month old and still raging and the sanctions imposed upon Russia by the United States and European nations that had sharply driven up commodities prices earlier in the month have increased.
Yet, in the new ABnormal, commodity prices have fallen sharply as have precious metals while equities are moving higher.
Currently, the big reason for the falling prices is that Russia announced it had ‘drastically’ cut military activity.
Following a meeting today in Istanbul, Turkey between Russian and Ukrainian delegates, Russia’s deputy minister of defense Alexander Fomin announced that, “a decision was made to drastically, in several times, reduce the military activity on the approaches to Kiev and Chernigov.”
He said, “We expect that relevant key decisions will be taken in Kiev and the conditions for further normal work will be created,” if Ukraine were “to fully abide by the Geneva Conventions, including with regard to the humane treatment of prisoners of war.”
The reason for the pause in military action was, according to Fomin, because “negotiations on the preparation of an agreement on the neutrality and non-nuclear status of Ukraine, as well as on the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine” were at “the practical phase.”
Fomin stated that Russian forces are poised “to increase mutual trust and to create the necessary conditions for the further development of negotiations and the achievement of the ultimate goal of agreeing and signing the agreement.”