47 Comments

1. Might be a good idea to review what is going on with Japan/yen carry trade soon.

   1. Yes. Will touch on in M&M – the yield on the Japanese 10 year is one of the charts.

      1. Thanks. I do wonder who the losers are in the carry trade – besides the Japanese?

      2. Thank you very much for discussing. What is the figure your team concluded is the magnitude in USD of carry trade value? I’d always assumed leverage was applied to the borrowed JPY.

2. Sorry to hear that “Subscriber Input ” has been closed so I am posting this bit of news here.
   General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the French defense staff, has told the French people to be prepared to lose their children to fight a war against the Russian “regime”.
   https://old.bitchute.com/video/XPpuXdnXy7GK/

   1. Is this why French company Olana purchased the uranium mines in Tennessee in 2024? Do they have dreams of neutron bombing their nemesis, Russia?

3. Please pray for Canada in the next couple of weeks. We are fighting a few bills introduced in parliament (C9, C8, C12) that will criminalize not only religious expression and opinions but religious thought (C9) while while removing the requirement for the Attorney General’s consent to initiate proceeding for hate offences under the Criminal Code of Canada, privacy violations (C8) which allows the gov’t broad powers to issue orders to telecommunication service providers with little oversight or judicial review, and immigration (C12) which calls for maintaining an enforcement-first approach and containing measures that could block refugee hearings, impose arbitrary one-year bars, and give the Minister mass immigration status-cancellation powers. We are fighting this tooth and nail but could use so many prayers, thoughts, and voices lifted up.

4. Blood type is protected health information. It can be used for law enforcement when there is demonstrated need. Circulating Lakanwal’s ID card on social media without blood type redacted, seems to serve no purpose than demeaning him.

5. Some thoughts on Japan/Taiwan/China.

   Always believed that China’s plan to absorb Taiwan is long term, non-military, subversion of the culture as is their standard practice. Geography of Taiwan is a major factor for a number of reasons: the straits are quite wide to stage a successful amphibious invasion. Most of the population and infrastructure of Taiwan is on a rather thin strip of land facing the Chinese mainland. The interior is mountainous and reportedly still contains networks of tunnels built during Japanese occupation. Difficult to invade and occupy without significant risk of casualties and destruction of industry. Almost a guaranteed failure one way or another at this time.

   China and Japan have deep historical enmity. Surprisingly, the business culture of Taiwan developed with closer ties to Japan than China and this manifests in Taiwan’s very successful electronics, computer chip foundry and other precision manufacturing industries. China has made a lot of progress in recent decades but the business cultural and performance discrepancy with Taiwan still exists as it is of multigenerational duration.

   Japan is very dependent on oil imports which mostly come in from the south/Persian Gulf via shipping lanes around Taiwan – at risk now when confronting a more aggressive and militarily capable China. Hence the turn to Russia for some diversification in supply while working on military buildup to better defend the sea lanes.

   If, as I believe, the US is re-orienting from global hegemon into a regional power posture and thus looking to other great powers to assume a more prominent regional role, Japan should be expected to take charge of its destiny more actively. That’s a major reason behind Japan’s assertiveness now on energy supply and sea lane defense in my view. A major risk, of course, is in the details of how far Japan will go in arming up. Might this destabilize the region as the US draws back? Will Japan develop and deploy nuclear weapons?

   1. Hi Andrew Lawrisuk,

      As a non-American I see America + allies as an empire of vampiric wealth extraction worldwide never seen before for the last 100 years. The more technological, the more extraction possabilities ofcourse. Today, America is sucking all its socalled allies dry with the help of traitorous politicians because fun times of extracting wealth without impunity worldwide as a well oiled pilliging consortium is in peril. The pie has shrunk to include pilliging their own citizens and allies and all westeners are sufforing greatly now. The American empire is fighting for all the marbles no matter the cost, not becoming something regional!

      I do think all westeners should stop projecting because our societies voted for powerfull creatures without much integrity for our little pittance cheque. When will humanity worldwide reflect on this “red button problem” and stand still if the price of voting for inscrutable power players are worth it?

      I think which country can become the next “emperor of an empire” is more of a ruse for the little guy. The whole of humanity is on the cusp of becoming slaves, does it matter much under who’s banner? Banding together with other high integrity people and having access to clean water / food and thwarting technological terror will be where its at. After that, hopefully, societies will concentrate on wealth building insted on solely extraction!

      1. Thank you Alexandra. I believe you are based in Europe? I lived in Germany for a total of almost 4 years so have that as part of life experience. There is much truth in what you write yet I have a somewhat different perspective on certain points.

         The American “Empire of Debt” is now unaffordable. So some changes have to be made to bring the ledger into better alignment. This means a return to production, self sufficiency rather than extraction via use of global reserve currency backed by force of arms. This means sourcing all necessary inputs regionally if at all possible. This means ejecting foes from the near region while exerting greater control of same. This means dropping expensive and unproductive foreign entanglements. This entails trying to emplace durable security arrangements in both Europe and East Asia.

         From a “rival mafia” perspective, there is a lot of shifting going on. My take is that it is mostly related to the above agenda. The most extractive empire of history was arguably the British, following and expanding on a path set out by the Dutch. The residual effects of this are a large part what is being rearranged today. And admittedly, it is very tough to discern any rational strategy through all of the apparent “adhocracy” of the current US Administration.

         Oligarchs are going to act like oligarchs. That is true forevermore, amen. Our own oligarchs feel entitled to take some compensation for their trouble in the rearranging. Of course this is morally objectionable. But it is not surprising.

         There are some with aspirations to absolute power that are under the delusion that technology will finally enable their age-old desires. They will fail ultimately because their agenda is so anti-human. But the path through this is likely to be very difficult, messy, and ugly.

         1. Excellent points Andrew. Thanks for sharing. When I was a student of International Relations in the mid to late1970’s, there was already talk of regional power zones on the global front. It was already understood back then that Bretton Woods was not going to be the permanent solution to global finance…and rather than an American thirst for power and global control, I truly appreciate Catherine for her explanation of the elite class which controls and that class is global, with many capitulating in Europe, It was Europe’s wars which prompted the Royal Families there to borrow from the bankers! That was a major force in beginning to get the ball rolling with the power shift to the banks…and in the City of London the framework or “spiderweb” eventually hatched and evolved….

            1. Thank you both Cathleen and Andrew. Staying on target and out of the blame game is certainly one of Catherine’s strenghs. I sometimes still trip up and get caught in the web of deceit.

6. Under links:

   The “2025 why the washington dc shooting looks like a false flag” (https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/why-the-washington-dc-shooting-looks-like-a-false-flag/) goes to “404 page not found”.

   1. I got the same. Here is another source saying the same thing, but omitting the shooter’s CIA connection. Commenters mentioned it, however.
      https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/false-flag-thanksgiving-eve-dc-shooting-highly-suspicious-heres-why/

7. Nothing is happening by accident. Quote from John Titus!

Comments are closed.