Money & Markets Report: June 12, 2025
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The Empire Wobbles
The overarching theme this week is the unstable nature of what is often termed “the empire”—a metaphor for the global financial and geopolitical heavyweight, largely driven by American fiscal influence.
John and Catherine discuss how the empire appears to be in flux, with everything from international tariffs to domestic interest rates contributing to the shaky ground. Despite the seriousness of the topics, Catherine promises a bit of comedic relief, thanks to Howard Lutnick, showcasing that even in the tremors of financial instability, laughter can still find its place.
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Can someone provide a link to Lutnick’s comment about monetizing the $500T in US assets (land, minerals, etc.)?
In the video shorts section – it has a search function
https://live.solari.com/w/do2J26qz1sRvEW1QAVF24V
So Sorry my Love Catherine! I feel your energy is off. And we are clay so I pray you will heal! I need you!
Got a bad case of something flying to the West Coast. My guess was shedding. Need to get back to Netherlands and stay stationary while I get rid of it.
Could the shedding be frequency? Wonder how Faraday clothing might help? I am sure they are turning up the knob on everything they have, including the injected right now and everybody is carry a military com device. The west coast is looking more like a microwave oven everyday. I am sharing my protection. Be safe.
I hear you Catherine. My wonderful chiropractor recently found i had shedding from the pneumonia jab !
Catherine,
Sending along wellness thoughts & prayers
for your complete & speedy recovery!
Where to find best practices to combat effects of shedding?
Look up both the FLCCC — Piere Cory and Paul Marik have worked on this since 2021
And World council of Health– Tess Lawriw and Doctors from all across the globe have pooled their combined knowledge for us.
Both Protocols are very similar.
Just wanted to add too that the main image being used to depict LA protests (“riot” ? “insurrection”?) is just too perfectly filmed and photographed …( not unlike the Trump assassination photo ) the photo of the shirtless masked model with a hollywood tan and a six pack is straight out of ( fellow aussie),George Millers Mad Max 2 …just sayin… the character in MAD MAX 2 was Wez…. I dont know about the rest of the world but MAD MAX is deeply embedded in the australian psyche and the characters are almost archeptypal, so when an image is presented like that , it represents unsafety , chaos,
and WHO will save us ? Why… Mel Gibson , Sylvester Stallone and Orange Man Good of course !! Oh and ICE barbie .
As Catherine Austin Fitts says “its theatre “.
“Vernon Wells as Wez, a mohawk,leather-clad biker who serves as Humungus’s lieutenant. Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, called Wez the “most evil of The Humungus’s followers…[a] huge brute who rides around on his bike, snarling psychotically.” In a 1985 interview with Danny Peary, George Miller said the characters of Wez and Max are near mirror images of each other. In 2011, Empire magazine listed Wez as the greatest movie henchman of all time.”
Then translate this “evil” man waving a mexican flag atop a burning car in LA in June 2025 !!!
The male model and staging was too perfect. Yes, it certainly did feel like the Butler photo.
Dear Catherine -the -Great , you are saving lives with your Service to Humanity .
I thought this excerpt of (fellow aussie) George Millers’ observations of his Mad Max creation may be of interest to those of us in this comments section are commenting on the mexican flag waving image which to me looks right out of Mad Max . Interesting that George Miller said Mad Max was inspired by a violent reaction of australian people to fuel shortages in the 70’s …these images and the Butler image of Trump perfectly spattered with blood and fist raised and american flag go directly to the collective unconscious . Very powerful manipulation and now thanks to social media, we are all ‘dreaming the same dream ‘ or nightmare. Art is imitating life! I’m not meaning to implicate George Miller at all. He is a master story teller not a master manipulator. His genius is being replicated to impress on our unconscious that we are not safe .
from an interview in 1988. https://thefilmist.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/danny-peary-on-mad-max-2the-road-warrior/
“[When we made Mad Max], I don’t think we thought very much in terms of heroes …. It was only a lot later, after we began to analyze Max’s popularity in places as diverse as Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France, the United States, and South America, that I could see that Mad Max was a rather corrupted version of hero mythology.
The film enjoyed success beyond the normal, exploitation car films because we had unwittingly, unconsciously, been ‘servants” of the collective consciousness: Mad Max was in fact another story about a lone outlaw who wandered through a dark wasteland.”
“One thing that has helped me try to put everything into context is the notion that movies are really public dreams… ( this is me adding and is social media a public dream now?)
… that we share collectively in darkened theaters. And just like dreams have functions, nightmares help us confront our dark sides. The reasons we told these post-apocalyptic allegories, these warning fables, was to help us explore the darker, more unthinkable side of ourselves. These dress rehearsals for our own deaths help us experience that part of ourselves which we are unable to deal with in normal, conscious, everyday living. And I think that’s the kind of impulse that gives rise to the violence in our storytelling. There’s obviously a need for violence in stories, as it has always been present in them, whether we’re talking about biblical stories or children’s fairy tales.”
“[When we made Mad Max], I don’t think we thought very much in terms of heroes …. It was only a lot later, after we began to analyze Max’s popularity in places as diverse as Japan, Switzerland, Australia, France, the United States, and South America, that I could see that Mad Max was a rather corrupted version of hero mythology.
The film enjoyed success beyond the
normal, exploitation car films because we had unwittingly, unconsciously, been ‘servants” of the collective consciousness: Mad Max was in fact another story about a lone outlaw who wandered through a dark wasteland.“
“One thing that has helped me try to put everything into context is the notion that movies are really public dreams… that we share collectively in darkened theaters. And just like dreams have functions, nightmares help us confront our dark sides. The reasons we told these post-apocalyptic allegories, these warning fables, was to help us explore the darker, more unthinkable side of ourselves. These dress rehearsals for our own deaths help us experience that part of ourselves which we are unable to deal with in normal, conscious, everyday living. And I think that’s the kind of impulse that gives rise to the violence in our storytelling. There’s obviously a need for violence in stories, as it has always been present in them, whether we’re talking about biblical stories or children’s fairy tales.”
This is fascinating. That picture definately made me think of Mad Max.
I do know of one Vietnamese company named Boviet (in name only it is really Chinese) moving it’s operations to the US.
Good to know. Thanks! I suspect they are not yet a Chamber member. 🙂
For many years I subscribed to The Dines Report. Jim Dines was decades ahead of the US politicians on rare earths and outcomes by not maintaing refining capacity in the United States. Research would show that the US was the leader in processing rare earths years ago, but there was very little money in rare earths. The refining was allowed to be sent to China, since it was cheaper, and becasue of the pollutants created during the refing process. Today, that doesn’t look like a very good decision.