For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentS Paul loved his fellow Jews, his 'kinsmen' and believed "the gifts and call of God are irrevocable". He believed that at the End, those among them who had rejected Christ would be brought in to the chosen people. He believed that they were like olive branches which had been cut off so that the Gentiles, wild olive branches, could be grafted in. But, when the fulness of the Gentiles had entered Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentLex orandi lex credendi. I have been examining the Two Covenant Dogma: the fashionable error that God's First Covenant, with the Jews, is still fully and salvifically valid, so that the call to saving faith in Christ Jesus is not made to them. The 'New' Covenant, it is claimed, is now only for Gentiles. I want to draw attention at this point to the witness of the post-Conciliar Magisterium of theFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com13
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentWe have seen that the Two Covenant Theory, the idea that Jewry alone is guaranteed Salvation without any need to convert to Christ, is repugnant to Scripture, to the Fathers, even to the post-Conciliar liturgy of the Catholic Church. It is also subversive of the basic grammar of the relationship between the Old and the New Testaments. Throughout two millennia, in Scripture, in Liturgy, in her Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com7
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentThe sort of people who would violently reject the points I am making are the sort of people who would not be impressed by the the Council of Florence. So I am going to confine myself to the Magisterium from the time of Pius XII ... since it is increasingly coming to be realised that the continuum of processes which we associate with the Conciliar and post-Conciliar period was already in operationFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentIn 1980, addressing a Jewish gathering in Germany, B John Paul II said (I extract this from a long sentence): " ... dialogue; that is, the meeting between the people of the Old Covenant (never revoked by God, cf Romans 11:29) and that of the New Covenant, is at the same time ..." In 2013, Pope Francis, in the course of his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, also referred to the Old Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com10
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Site: Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentSince the Council, an idea has been spreading that Judaism is not superseded by the New Covenant of Jesus Christ; that Jews still have available to them the Covenant of the old Law, by which they can be saved. It is therefore unnecessary for them to turn to Christ; unnecessary for anybody to convert them to faith in Christ. Indeed, attempting to do so is an act of aggression not dissimilar to theFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com11
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Site: 4Christum@MattGaspersAccording to Vatican insider and Francis biographer @austeni: • “… Prevost and Francis used to meet for two hours every Saturday morning in the Casa Santa Marta, where Francis lived.” •“Arthur Roche, the English cardinal [and archnemesis of the TLM] who heads the Dicastery for Divine Worship, told me that Prevost was without doubt Francis’s ‘closest collaborator’ in the Vatican during the past two years.”• Pope Leo “has made clear that he will continue to build the synodal Church of which Francis dreamed, while likely reformulating some of the themes of Francis’s pontificate in more Augustinian terms.”
Bergoglio hypocritically warned priests against the "plague" of "careerism" in the Church.Prevost's accelerated careerism:David Smuts@DavidSmutsAnd the sheeple think Prevost was elected in a conclave! He was only made popabile on 5 Feb 2025 when he was elevated to Cardinal-Bishop. A few months later he's pope. This was all planned -
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“His whole ethical system lies smugly in his favorite aphorism—’IT IS GOOD TO BE SHIFTY IN A NEW COUNTRY’. . .”
Johnson Jones Hooper, Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels (1858)*
Historical consciousness begins with appreciation of the mutability of morality and words. Just as geological consciousness knows that hills are evanescent as clouds, historical consciousness knows that the meaning of acts and utterances shifts like the sands. Even the word “shifty” furnishes evidence that this is so.
You may have noted that, when applied to a man, the words “shifty” and “shiftless” are both today terms of disapprobation. We say a man is “shifty” when his manner inspires the opposite of trust. We say a man is “shiftless” when he will not work. So it may surprise you learn that “shifty” was once a compliment and “shiftless” was not precisely a synonym for sloth.
One hundred and more years ago, a man was said to be “shifty” when he was adaptable and enterprising. A man was “shifty” when he could “roll with the punches” and take advantage of a new opportunities. If he failed at one thing, a “shifty man” shifted his efforts to something else. If he perceived a new and more profitable use of his time, he shifted his efforts to that.
Speaking of Ebenezer Webster, father of Daniel, the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker wrote.
“He was a shifty man of many functions—a farmer, a saw-miller, ‘something of a blacksmith,’ a captain on the early part of the Revolutionary War, a colonel of militia, representative and senator in the New Hampshire legislature, and finally Judge of the Court of Common Pleas . . .”
In another place Parker expressed his confidence that Americans would discard the outdated institution of slavery because Americans are a “shifty” breed.
“Do you believe that shifty Americans will always use the poor, rude instrument of the savage! They love riches too well.”***
Here is one last example in which Jerome B. Annis, a versatile Arkansas preacher, is commended as a “shifty man.”
“When the gold excitement in California broke out, he like many, tried his fortune there. He was a shifty man, and although he did not succeed in making a ‘pile,’ he did not lose.”†
“Shifts” were the contrivances to which a man was put by embarrassments, financial and otherwise. And not every contrivance to which an embarrassed man shifted was worthy of praise. When an embarrassed man was forced to defend his conduct with desperate rationalizations, it was said he was “put to shifts.” A man was also “put to shifts” by financial embarrassment. Indeed, since history began, many an impecunious man has contrived to improve his financial position through deception and fraud.
Thus the word “shifty” acquired its modern pejorative meaning of a manner that inspires mistrust. This sort of “shifty” man appears to be enterprising in some devious and despicable way. He gives off the odor of a crook. Raymond Chandler described men put to desperate shifts in mid-twentieth-century Los Angles, and more narrowly the haunts of these shifty crooks, the boarding houses of Bunker Hill.
“Bunker Hill is old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town. Once, very long ago, it was the choice residential district of the city . . . . They are all rooming houses now . . . . In the tall rooms haggard landladies bicker with shifty tenants. On the wide cool front porches . . . sit old men with faces like lost battles.”††
The shifty tenants of those Bunker Hill boarding houses were also what most of use would describe as “shiftless,” a word that takes its meaning from the older definition of “shifty” and means grossly deficient in initiative, ambition, pluck, and enterprise. A shiftless man is very often disinclined to movement, perhaps even movement of a finger, but the essence of his shiftlessness is that he has been knocked down by life and will not get up. He has “thrown in the towel” and this is why his face and a lost battle look so much alike.
Here is an excellent quote that illustrates this usage (along with such choice Americanisms as “took my pigs to a poor market” and “a drinking shack” [i.e. wreck]).
“When I married him, we hadn’t anything ter make a nice home out’n, and everybody said Dan Turner’d be a shiftless feller, and I’d took my pigs ter a poor market . . . . I wanted ter incourage him . . . . Ef I hadn’t done jist as I did, he’d a gone ter town a foot every day, instead of workin’ and getting’ a start, and it’s my solemn belief, he’d a been only a drinken shack afore he was twenty-five years old.”†††
Let me wind this up with a remark on my epigraph and the “ethical system” of Simon Suggs, a fictional Alabama grifter born in the imagination of the American humorist Johnson Jones Hooper. Suggs’ ethical system (and favorite aphorism) is
“IT IS GOOD TO BE SHIFTY IN A NEW COUNTRY”
The reason Suggs believes this is that, in a New Country, everything is up for grabs. Thus, a New Country richly rewards the spirit of enterprise, be it the enterprise of entrepreneurs or crooks. It is good to be shifty in a New Country because a New Country puts everyone “to shifts.” And also because it leaves shiftless men as food for birds on life’s battlefield.
*) Johnson Jones Hooper, Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1858), p. 12.
**) Theodore Parker, Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, two vols. (Boston: Little Brown, 1855), vol. 2, p. 160.
***) Parker, Speeches, vol. 2, p. 373.
†) Horace Jewell, History of Methodism in Arkansas (Little Rock: Press Printing, 1892), p. 102.
††) Raymond Chandler, The High Window (1942), chap. 8.
†††) H. M. Tracy Cutler, Phillipia (Dwight, Il: The Author, 1886), p. 82. -
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Site: Catholic ConclaveWomen's Federation Removes "Catholic" from NameThe delegates of the Swiss Catholic Women's Federation voted by a clear majority to remove the term "Catholic" from their name. The national umbrella organization is now called "Frauenbund Schweiz."Katherina Jost Graf one of the co-presidentsThe Swiss Catholic Women's Federation is now called "Frauenbund Schweiz." The name includes the slogan "Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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We recently learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared details of impending drone strikes on Yemen in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal attorney. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it comes just weeks after national security leaders—including Hegseth—accidentally added Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat.
The outrage is understandable. Why were military plans shared on an unsecured channel? Were U.S. personnel put at risk? Why did the president not respond strongly to this apparent breach? And of course, the attempted cover-up is making headlines, too.
Something else strikes me. Few seem angry that the government conducts offensive military operations in a country with which we are not formally at war. Headline after headline emphasizes the leaking of war plans—not the “war” itself.
I’ve studied conflict for over a decade. From terrorism and counterterrorism to the development of drone technology and how foreign intervention alters domestic institutions, I know what war does. It kills. It destroys property and devastates economies. It enables people to do the unthinkable—to rape, torture, maim children, and use them as soldiers. War destroys.
Yet, our secretary of defense tells his brother about coming strikes with the same gravity as he’d relay his grocery list.
What’s equally jarring is the public reaction. People aren’t aghast that U.S. drones are killing people in Yemen. People aren’t batting an eye over officials bypassing Congress’s war powers.
We are more concerned about the data leak than about what the data contains.
This indifference isn’t new. In my research, I’ve documented how Americans have become desensitized to war. We’ve been in some state of conflict for more than 93 percent of the calendar years between 1775 and 2018.
I’ve studied how the typical American is constantly exposed to pro-military, pro-U.S. foreign policy messaging. For example, television shows and movies are often subject to editorial review by the Department of Defense in exchange for using military hardware and personnel. We see that messaging in sports, too. In football, we have “bombs,” “blitzes” and “trenches” around the line of scrimmage. We “blow away” the opposing team. We have military homecomings on the pitcher’s mound or centerfield and celebrate without ever asking why our military personnel are deployed in the first place.
Meanwhile, modern technology allows us to easily wash our hands of misgivings.
Drone technology lets officials sell us on the supposed—and false—“surgical precision” of drone strikes, effectively sanitizing the violence. We “eliminate” or “neutralize” “high-value targets” and “combatants.” Never mind that intelligence failures are common and that many of those “combatants” were labeled as such because they happened to be “military-aged males,” or MAM. In other words, they were males aged 14-65 in a strike zone. And what of the civilians, the women and the children? Unfortunate “collateral damage.”
As a result, most of us don’t recognize America’s massive military boot print. How many Americans know the United States operates 750 military bases in more than 70 countries? How many know about the U.S. drone strikes conducted in the last five years in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and across Africa? Hundreds of civilians were killed.
For too long, we’ve failed to ask policymakers and ourselves the hard questions. We don’t need to ask about the leaks; we need to ask about the normalization of perpetual war. We need to ask about the moral costs of our government’s actions and about whether our proactive, military-forward policy is truly in our best interests.
Reprinted with permission from Independent Institute.
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Back in 2016, I wrote
“[Hillary Clinton] is being chosen to preside over a system whose character is already fixed, one that can operate without her input under the impetus of a thousand zealots and career civil servants, that will giver her orders rather than vice versa. If Mrs. Clinton were to die tomorrow and continue to be carried around by her handlers, “Weekend at Bernie’s” style, she would be the perfect liberal president. The nationalists, on the other hand, have put their hopes on Trump actually ruling and not only presiding, ruling against the wishes of the state’s current agents, as if such a thing were done any more, as if any mortal could possibly be up to such a task.”
I’m irritated by all this performative hand-wringing by men of the Right concerning how the Democrats conspired to have a senile old man serve as figurehead president, about how frightful it supposedly is that a world crisis might have emerged with the USA led by a mental incompetent. We all know that most of the time people vote for a party, not for an individual. We all know that the Democratic candidate is a figurehead of the professional/managarial class. Democrats who voted for Joe Biden got the sort of policies they voted for. They have no reason to feel ill-used by how they were governed, and they don’t feel ill-used about it. Had there been a world crisis (one more acute than the ones that actually occurred), whoever was making decision for Biden would have made the sort of decisions Democratic voters and the professional class would have approved. What people care about is being ruled by their side, and an incompetent ally is always preferable to a competent enemy. If Republicans were in an analogous situation, it would be sensible for them to behave in an analogous way. In fact, if Donald Trump were a dementia patient being secretly controlled by a cabal of intelligent conservatives, that might be a preferable situation to what we have.
I have no objection to criticizing Democrats, but let’s not invent fake concerns and pretend we don’t know how government works.
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It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In my article last week I discussed the reports that there has been a serious rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exemplified by Trump’s unwillingness to talk to the Israeli leader followed by his failure to visit Israel on his recent Middle East trip. Sources attributed the break to Trump’s perception that he was being “manipulated” by the Israeli, which was completely plausible though something that should have been recognized and warned against by Trump’s foreign policy advisers when he first ascended to the presidency in 2017. Israel always manipulates opinion on the United States through its lobby’s control of the media and corruption of the politicians.
I opined that the reports of the disenchantment with “America’s best friend” were credible possibly linked to spying involving National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, though I also observed that many of my contacts were skeptical, warning that the whole thing might be a set-up possibly engineered by Trump’s Zionist roving negotiator Steve Witkoff and specifically designed to benefit Israel. That means that the US was feigning a “breakup” with Netanyahu to enable it to reach an agreement with all the leading Arab countries of the Middle East in order to confirm Israel’s security while Netanyahu is completely wiping the Palestinians off the face of the earth. Trump has in fact said that his policies and the Mideast trip were “very good for Israel.”
In a follow up to my article I advised during an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano that it pays to be skeptical as Trump has done absolutely nothing to change Israel’s behavior, quite the contrary, even though he had an opportunity to support Palestinian statehood in the context of UN membership and also to demand an end to the genocide taking place in Gaza. The truth behind whether there was in fact a serious rupture in the personal relationship of the two leaders should be measured in light of the presence or absence of consequences when Israel pursues policies damaging to US interests.
Indeed, Netanyahu has personally confirmed that all is well with the United States. He said at a press conference last Wednesday that President Trump had assured him that the US and his administration were completely committed to Israel despite the series of media reports that have said there’s a problem between the two leaders. “Let me give you some details that perhaps haven’t been made public. A few days ago — I think around 10 days ago, maybe a little more — I spoke on the phone with President Trump. And he said to me, literally: ‘Bibi, I want you to know — I have absolute commitment to you. I have absolute commitment to the State of Israel.’”
Netanyahu also spoke with Vice President JD Vance, who, along with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, had also avoided a visit to Israel. “[Vance] said to me… ‘Listen, don’t pay attention to all these fake news spins about this rupture between us… He said: It’s all spin. This isn’t the truth, you know it’s not true, and I’m telling you, from our side, it’s not true.” Netanyahu also said that Israel wants to carry out “Trump’s plan” for Gaza to include the permanent removal of the Palestinian population to create a US managed seafront resort over the ruins of the strip. Per Netanyahu, the Israelis have now included the creation of “Trump Gaza” as one of the redline conditions to permit an end of the war against Hamas.
The Israeli and Middle Eastern media have been reporting extensively and critically on the genocide and the various players involved in dealing with the Netanyahu agenda. A recent piece discussed the 29 mostly European Union (EU) countries led by the UK, France and Canada that have now called on Israel to moderate its behavior or face both sanctions and a suspension of the EU Israel trade arrangements, which greatly benefit the Jewish state. The EU declared that Israel’s announcement of letting some aid in was “wholly inadequate. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response” the leaders’ statement said. Netanyahu responded to the threat by declaring absurdly that “You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history.” But as the saying goes, unfortunately, talk is cheap, either from Netanyahu or from Israel’s newly minted critics. Diplomatic announcements and threatened sanctions mean always dancing around the awful truth. Israel is committing some of the worst war crimes humanity has ever witnessed and the Europeans and the Americans give every impression that they will certainly back off, deferring to Israel and persisting in doing absolutely nothing that will bring the suffering to an end.
The European gesture in particular is an attempt to make up somewhat for its support for 19 months of genocide. The completely contemptible Prime Minister of the UK Keir Starmer, confronted by a British public that has swung strongly anti-Israeli, has made a big show about taking action against Israel and the Israelis cooperated with him by playing their part, expressing outrage over the temerity of anyone telling them how to deal with their neighbors. Indeed, there was some corroboration from informed Israeli sources that the threats and responses from the two sides were little more than a bit of Kabuki. A senior Israeli official even explained to the media why European leaders have bothered to shift positions after 19 months of silence about the murderous Gaza genocide, to instead feign instant outrage. It was all coordinated with Israel in advance. He said that “The past 24 hours were all part of a planned ambush we knew about. This was a coordinated sequence of moves ahead of the EU meeting in Brussels – and thanks to joint efforts by our ambassadors and the foreign minister, we managed to moderate the outcome.”
The current outrage is as orchestrated as was the earlier silence. Israel’s extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained why Israel would be maintaining a balancing act between outright killing all the Palestinian and keeping western support by allowing absolutely minimum food to enter Gaza: “We need our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Tribunal, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory.” He also has said that his plan for the West Bank and Gaza includes giving the Palestinians the choice between subjugation, emigration, and death. Smotrich has repeatedly advocated for lethal force to be used against Palestinian children lest they grow up to be terrorists. On Wednesday the Israeli army doubled down on that message and to show how little it cares to coddle meddling foreigners when it fired on 31 European diplomats representing 29 countries who were visiting the Palestinian settlement Jenin on the West Bank in what was presumed to be in 100% Palestinian administered territory.
The fact is that no one in the European and American governments really cares about the Palestinians or their extermination. The only concern by the rulers is how their posturing looks to the rest of the world and to the voters in their own countries. Israel lies so enthusiastically in making its case and providing false evidence to back up its behavior that there is a tendency to be suspicious of anything it does. Last week’s assassination of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington DC by a man who just happened to yell “Free Palestine!” was good news for the Jewish state in that it creates sympathy for a country that has featured as bad news for well over a year. It is already being whispered in intelligence circles that it was a “false flag” attack contrived by Mossad to create a favorable news cycle as Israel secretly cranks up for an imminent attack on Iran. Iran phobia features regularly in the Israeli media to include a recent Israeli claim that Iran is hiding its nuclear enrichment facilities, which is true but designed the keep the Israelis from blowing them up. The “favorable news cycle” has included Jewish Congressman Randy Fine of Florida calling for the use of nuclear weapons to destroy Gaza and kill its remaining inhabitants just like “Japan at the end of World War 2.”
And to make sure Iran gets to feel the sharp point of the sword, presidential emissary Witkoff has now declared that the nuclear monitoring arrangement being negotiated with Iran must include zero enrichment of uranium, something that was not on the table when the talks started, so they will go nowhere guaranteed. Per Witkoff “We cannot allow even one percent of an enrichment capability. Enrichment enables weaponization.” Where did that demand come from? From a secretly nuclear armed Israel by way of treasonous Israel Firster Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, no doubt. And if one follows that line of thinking, one can assume that Donald Trump is also on board, standing in line to pull out Netanyahu’s chair and bowing to him and then raising his mighty clenched fist before sending in the Yanks to finish the destruction of Persia. And if Iran responds effectively with force, Israel also has around 200 nukes that it will no doubt not hesitate to use as part of its “Samson Option” war plan. And Trump will undoubtedly say something like “Hey, what a big beautiful explosion! Nothing wrong with that! We used similar weapons to end the First World War!”
Reprinted with permission from Unz Review.
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Site: Mises InstituteWhy do cultures degenerate? Robin Hanson cites biological factors, but Mises and the Austrians point directly to purposeful choices.
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Site: Mises InstituteFrance is facing critical shortages of a number of drugs, and one need look no further for a cause than a price control regime.
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Site: Mises InstituteWhy do cultures degenerate? At the recent Natal Conference, Robin Hanson cites biological and evolutionary factors. However, if one looks to Mises and the Austrians, we look squarely at human action that begins with the human mind and purposeful action.
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Site: Mises InstituteFrance is facing critical shortages of a number of drugs, and one need look no further for a cause than a price control regime. Naturally, the French media and government blame capitalism and look to double down on the intervention that has causes this crisis.
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Site: Novus Motus LiturgicusThis is the fourth installment of a series on the thirteen papal namesakes of our new Holy Father Leo XIV; click these links to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. The church of Rome and the papacy have usually been late-comers to the great movements of reform and renewal in the Church, and have just as often been themselves in dire need of reform and renewal. But eventually Our Lord’s prayer that Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0
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"The traumatic nature of sexual abuse imposed, as my Masonic pedophile grandfather said, when the child is "the younger the better, because then they won't talk" is THE core element of Satanic Ritual Abuse and mind control. Intimate sexual violation of the body is SO Fundamentally Wrong that as an innate survival defense against such violation, the mind "splits", a "trauma wall" is created behind which the horrible experience becomes compartmentalized, and effectively hidden to the "normal", socially presentable persona."by Anonymous(henrymakow.com)The hideous sexual abuse of young boys in a sadistic, mind control medical procedure at the age of 8 days, known as "circumcision" has pervaded the satanic Jewish culture for thousands of years. This profoundly damaging violation and abuse is also imposed upon infant gentile boys to signify their subservient position as "shabez goy", animal slave to the Jewish race.It is less understood that this ancient satanic ritual is similarly hidden, deeply embedded in black African culture and is intended to destroy the essential, fundamental sacred nature of African black women, cause extreme pain, suffering, guilt and confusion, and similarly declare those so damaged to be "chattel", "slaves", "subservient animals".The following testimony of this Somali Miss Universe contestant exposes this buried reality. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MXziyRjLJ/
(Epstein abuse center matches prayer shawl above)This insanity is not intended to exist on what was created to be a sacred planet. All such profoundly sadistic insanity has emerged through the past 20,000 years of "Fallen" dysfunction, during which those who historically and currently lead this rebellion against Life Itself discovered, and descended into ever more perverse methods of trying to exercise control over any other than themselves.This is also where anal rape came from, "buggery". The following video explains in some detail how rape, violation of the anus and anal sphincter causes homosexuality and lesbianism. Abuse Turns Kids Queer | Maxime BariteauThe traumatic nature of sexual abuse imposed, as my Masonic pedophile grandfather said, when the child is "the younger the better, because then they won't talk" is THE core element of Satanic Ritual Abuse and mind control. Intimate sexual violation of the body is SO Fundamentally Wrong that as an innate survival defense against such violation, the mind "splits", a "trauma wall" is created behind which the horrible experience becomes compartmentalized, and effectively hidden to the "normal", socially presentable persona.
Eustace Mullins adds valuable insight to this consideration in his book The Curse of Canaan, beginning pg. 14:"The book of Zohar (Cabala) stresses the talmudic legend that demons originated in sexual congress between humans and demonic powers. .... While they were wandering in the desert, the Jewish tribes worshipped demons and monsters. Satan ruled over all demons on earth. He was also known as the Prince of Evil, Belial. ...The Canaanites themselves ... became the greatest curse upon humanity, and so they remain today. Not only did they originate the practices of demon-worship, occult rites, child sacrifice, and cannibalism, but as they went abroad they brought these obscene practices into every land which they entered. Not only did they bring their demonic cult to Egypt, but, known by their later name, the Phoenicians, as they were called after 1200 B.C., they became the demonizers of civilization through successive 89 epochs, being known in medieval history as the Venetians, who destroyed the great Byzantine Christian civilization, and later as 'the black nobility' which infiltrated the nations of Europe and gradually assumed power through trickery, revolution and financial legerdemain...In the history of mankind, Nimrod stands unequalled for his symbolism of evil and Satanic practices. He is credited for having founded Freemasonry and for building the legendary Tower of Babel, in defiance of God's will. [Nimrod figures in some very early versions of the history of Freemasonry, where he was said to have been one of the fraternity's founders.According to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions refers to Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry. Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: "At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons." However, he does not figure in the current rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod]The legendary symbol for Nimrod is 'X', a symbol always denoting witchcraft.
When 'X' is used as a shortened form meaning Christmas, it actually means to celebrate the feast of Nimrod. A double X, which has always meant to double-cross or betray, in its fundamental meaning indicates one's betrayal into the hands of Satan. Nimrod became the first man to rule the whole world. He indulged that power by launching excesses and horrors which have never been equalled. Nimrod also introduced the practice of genocide to the world.Ham, having consorted with other races and brought children of mixed race into the world was persuaded by his consort, the evil Naamah, to practice ritual murder and cannibalism. She informed Ham that by killing and eating fair-skinned people, his descendants could regain their superior qualities. Throughout the ensuing centuries, the fair-skinned descendants of Shem, Noah's oldest son, have ritually been slaughtered by the darker descendants of Ham and Nimrod, in the world's most persistent campaign of racial and religious persecution.Not only did Nimrod kill and eat the fair-skinned descendants of Shem, he often burned them alive. The type of human sacrifice involving the eating of the slaughtered human victims derived its name from the combined names of his uncle, Canaan, and the demon god Baal, the two names being combined to form the word 'cannibal'.The records of the genocide against the people of Shem [Shemite, Semite] are apparent throughout the archives of history, but there is not a school or university whose faculty will apprise its students of this simple fact. The reason for this odd development is that the descendants of Ham traditionally have usurped the educational process ... of even greater interest is that not a single school of theology anywhere in the world takes note of this central fact of history, a red (blood stained) thread which runs continuously through the record of events.- excerpted from The Real History of the Earth. Why in Hell All This is Happening Again! : Anonymous : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive pg. 88-90. (More extensive overview continues to pg. 95) -
Site: Mises InstituteThis week, interest rates spiked as Trump's spending problem convinced investors they want higher yields for trillions of new federal debt.
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Site: 4ChristumTraditional Catholics Continue to be Persecuted Under Pope Leo – Charlotte Bishop Cancels TLMTraditional Mass is persecuted under the Bergoglian regime of Francis II.
Michael Thomas Martin Episcopal apostate Lineage / Apostate Succession:
Apostate Wilton Daniel Gregory (1983)
Atlanta, Georgia
Apostate Joseph Louis Bernardin † (1966)
Chicago, IllinoisU.S. Bishop Shuts Down Thriving Latin Masses – One Allowed in Former Protestant Temple – Gloria.tv
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Site: AsiaNews.itThe Madras High Court issues a controversial ruling that strips a woman of her rights as a member of a historically marginalised group because she married a Christian man while remaining Hindu. For Fr Santhanam, a Jesuit and a lawyer, this is a serious violation of the rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution. It is paradoxical that a principle recognised in Canon Law for mixed couples is disregarded by a court in the 21st century.
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Site: non veni pacemArcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò @CarloMViganoIt is normal and humanly understandable that more than a decade of open persecution of Catholics by the one who presented himself as their Pope would lead many of us to desire a truce, hoping that Our Lord would give His Church – if not a new Pius X – at least another Benedict XVI.But this legitimate desire – certainly animated by good feelings and love for the Church – cannot transform itself into a virtual reality in which, even against all evidence, everything must necessarily be read as a confirmation of what we would like, and not of what is really happening. We cannot build for ourselves a “virtual church” with a “virtual papacy” that we love and serve in a consoling but unreal fiction.The confirmation of a notorious heretic to the Cathedra of Saint Gallen in Switzerland; the appointment of a nun as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, in line with the appointment of a Prefectess by Bergoglio; the repeated references to the heretical documents of his predecessor and to Vatican II; the declarations on ecumenism and synodality, and finally the acceptance of climate fraud; all place Robert Francis Prevost in evident and disturbing continuity with his predecessor, and it will certainly not be the stole and mozzetta that will change reality.May looking at reality with supernatural eyes help us to recognize the deceptions of the Evil One and push us, today more than ever, to place all our hope in Christ the King and Pontiff, so that He may help and protect His Church. May He who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life be our guide in a rebellious world doomed to perdition, lies, and death.11.7K
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Site: Zero HedgeMore POWs Swapped Amid Russian Missiles On Kiev OvernightTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 11:05
Early Saturday Russia and Ukraine completed their second round of a large-scale prisoner swap that was agreed to in Istanbul talks last week.
The deal will see 1,000 POWs exchanged for 1,000 POWs but has to be completed in phases given the logistics and sheer size of the swap, with the first round of hundreds freed having taken place Friday along the Belarus-Ukraine border. The Saturday exchange involved each side bringing home 307 soldiers.
Scenes of a prior prisoner swap, illustrative file image.
But despite this 'good faith' gesture of a successful ongoing prisoner exchange, the war is still raging, with an aerial war ramping up, given the hundreds of drones sent across both borders over the last week.
This continued overnight, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky early Saturday condemning Russian strikes on several oblasts, including in the capital Kyiv.
Zelensky identified in a social media statement that the fresh aerial assault targeted the Odesa, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv and Dnipro regions. He alleged that Russian drones and missiles "targeted" civilians. At least 15 were wounded in these attacks.
"There are fatalities. My condolences to the families and loved ones," he wrote on X. "With each such attack, the world becomes more certain that the cause of prolonging the war lies in Moscow."
"Ukraine has proposed a ceasefire many times — both a full one and one in the skies. It all has been ignored," the Ukrainian leader added in reference to the 30-day unconditional ceasefire that Kiev has recently been pushing.
Moscow has rejected it on the basis that Ukraine's military would simply use the pause to rearm and reenforce its frontlines, at a moment Western arms have continued flowing in.
As for the Saturday morning prisoner exchange, Zelensky detailed that "Among those who returned today are warriors from our Armed Forces, the State Border Guard Service, the National Guard of Ukraine" and he thanked all those officials engaged in the process to make it happen.
The Kremlin has acknowledged the fresh attacks on the Ukrainian capital, and has rejected the notion that it is using disproportionate force.
"After massive UAV raids on our country and its capital on the eve of the Victory Day to intimidate foreign guests, there was a grave silence in the European centers. After 500 drones that were launched at civilian targets in Russia in recent days to intimidate our people, there is silence again," Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has stated.
Now, he continued, Western officials "in Paris, Berlin and London will raise a wild squeal about the disproportionate use of force, the urgent need for a 30-day truce and new sanctions against Russia."
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Site: Zero HedgeNew Nuclear Power Could Meet 10% Of Projected Data Center Demand Increase By 2035Tyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 10:30
By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive
Summary:
- New nuclear power capacity could meet about 10% of the projected increase in data center electricity demand by 2035, Deloitte said in an April 9 report.
- Deloitte expects data centers to consume about 30%, or 11 GW to 19 GW, of the estimated 35 GW to 65 GW of new nuclear capacity added over the next decade through a combination of power uprates at operational plants, restarts of recently-retired reactors, and new reactor deployments at greenfield and existing power plant sites.
- Existing nuclear power plants and retired or retiring coal power plant sites will support the vast majority of new nuclear capacity interconnection, with respective contributions ranging from 10 GW to 20 GW and 20 GW to 30 GW, Deloitte said.
Deloitte expects total U.S. data center electricity demand to increase five-fold from 33 GW in 2024 to as much as 176 GW in 2035, based on its analysis of recent projections from DC Byte, Wells Fargo and others, it said in the report.
Along with transportation electrification, data center growth will drive an expected 50% increase in U.S. electricity demand through 2050, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association said earlier this month in a separate report.
Deloitte’s forecast is sensitive to changes in the rate and scale of data center deployment, but nuclear has inherent advantages — reliability, high capacity factor, low emissions, compact physical footprint and competitive energy costs over assets’ multi-decade operational lives — that make it attractive across a range of scenarios, the consultancy said.
“We think you’re going to see people looking at existing nuclear infrastructure and adding capacity through those assets, then placing bets on technology development,” said Martin Stansbury, report co-author and principal in Deloitte’s Energy, Resources & Industrials practice.
The tech-giant “hyperscalers” driving the data center boom have already done both. In September, Microsoft and Constellation Energy announced a 20-year power purchase agreement that would enable the undamaged, 835-MW reactor at Constellation’s Three Mile Island plant to resume operations by 2028. The reopening of the Pennsylvania plant, since renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, is ahead of schedule, Constellation said earlier this year.
Also last fall, Amazon, Google and Meta each announced significant efforts to meet future energy demand with new nuclear capacity. Amazon could deploy more than 5 GW of new capacity by 2039 using X-energy’s small modular reactor technology, Google tapped Kairos Power to provide 500 MW of SMR capacity by 2035, and Meta issued a request for proposals for up to 4 GW of new nuclear deployments beginning in the early 2030s.
Despite those long lead times and recent Trump administration efforts to prop up the U.S. coal industry, new nuclear is likely to find a niche as a reliable source of increasingly cost-competitive baseload power, Stansbury said.
“SMRs have a major role to play in future grid reliability,” he said.
SMRs have additional benefits for data centers in particular, including more secure fuel forms, self-starting and grid “islanding” capabilities, and the ability to operate continuously for long periods of time, Deloitte said.
Existing nuclear and coal-fired power plants could support much of the new generation capacity the U.S. data center industry needs in the coming decade. The U.S. Department of Energy projected last year that U.S. nuclear and coal power sites could host up to 269 GWe of new nuclear, and at least 11 states have expressed interest in supporting coal-to-nuclear conversions, Deloitte said.
But with 2024 construction costs ranging from $6,417/kW to $12,681/kW, compared with $1,290/kW for new gas-fired power plants, nuclear developers have a lot of work to do to bring down costs in the coming years, Deloitte said. To scale, the industry needs to invest in advanced project management processes, design innovations like digital twinning, and further improvements in modular construction, it said.
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Site: AsiaNews.itThe main opposition party – but also the military and the international community – are urging the interim head of government to set a clear 'roadmap' for elections in December. After threatening to resign, in a country in a deep crisis, Yunus will meet all political groups in what promises to be a crucial step in the post-Hasina period.
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Site: Zero HedgeX Is Back After Morning OutageTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 10:14
Update (1014ET):
X is back online after an hour of outages across parts of the U.S.
The big question: Was this early Saturday morning outage just another glitch—or a sign of a broader system overhaul? Time will tell, but it’s clear the platform has been unusually glitchy this past week.
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For all the early risers rolling over in bed on Saturday morning, reaching for their smartphones on the nightstand to fire up the X app and check if anything insane happened overnight — bad news: outage tracker Downdetector is reporting a surge in X outages across the U.S.
Downdetector reports a massive spike in X outages occurred around 0830 ET and persisted at 0930 ET.
The majority of the outages are being reported in the eastern half of the U.S., maybe because it's still super early on the West Coast.
Most outages have been reported on X's app (69%).
On the desktop version, we have received multiple errors, including this:
"We are having trouble connecting right now. Changes you make may not be saved."
The X app has had similar issues for the last several days, but the X team resolved everything very quickly. If anyone else has noticed, X embeds have been challenging to extract HTML code over the last month. Perhaps this is something for the X team to read.
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Site: Steyn OnlineHollywood was never a Bohemia, but movie people consider themselves artists and love to tell stories set in some Bohemia in the near or distant past...
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Site: Zero HedgeGovernment-Assisted Suicide Is Spreading Across The Western WorldTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 09:55
Is it humanitarian empathy, or a nihilistic death cult that desires a legal rationale for population control? The legislative push for government assisted euthanasia in the western world is one of the most guarded topics in establishment media. Nothing negative or critical can be said and all concerns are dismissed as "conspiracy theory". The government run suicide apparatus is a pure and loving function of progressive society...and how dare you suggest otherwise.
This month officials in England, Wales and Scotland will be considering legislation to legalize government assisted euthanasia (End Of Life bills), with laws similar to those passed in Canada in 2016.
The legislation proposes letting terminally ill people end their life if they:
- Are over 18, live in England or Wales, and have been registered with a GP for at least 12 months.
- Have the mental capacity to make the choice and be deemed to have expressed a clear, settled and informed wish, free from coercion or pressure.
- Be expected to die within six months.
- Make two separate declarations, witnessed and signed, about their wish to die.
- Satisfy two independent doctors that they are eligible with at least seven days between each assessment.
This type of legalized suicide should be treated as distinct from the "physician assisted suicide" made available in the US in ten different states. There is a stark difference between an individual going out on their own to seek a doctor to help them commit suicide while suffering a terminal condition, versus the government actively encouraging the public to commit suicide and helping them do it using your tax dollars.
There is plenty of room for debate in both cases, but without a doubt no government should be in the business of mass euthanizing the population. There is far too much temptation for the practice to be expanded beyond people who are already dying.
Case in point: Canada's euthanasia system has been in place for less than a decade and already the government is expanding suicide guidelines for people simply in need of treatment as well as people with mental health issues. This is well beyond the scope of terminal illness.
Keep in mind that the original argument for government euthanasia in 2016 was that it would only happen in very rare cases and only for people with severe illness and suffering great pain. By 2017 after the first government suicide programs were put in place, officials were already arguing for wider application of the program, asserting that euthanasia could save their socialist medical system over $130 million per year in costs (this is one reason why socialist medicine is a bad idea). In other words, killing people is much cheaper than trying to save them.
By extension, it's also expensive to treat people for mental illness and mental illness could, technically, qualify as terminal suffering. So why not offer them suicide options as well? Canada has made mental illness legal grounds for government aided suicide, but the law does not go into effect until 2027. That said, there are multiple reports of such measures being offered already, including accounts by Canadian military veterans with PTSD being told they could qualify for euthanasia.
But it doesn't stop there. Canadian lobby groups are calling for the legalization of government euthanasia for children; people they refer to as "Mature Minors". Such programs are currently in place in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands and there are efforts to do the same in Canada. In 2022, the federally funded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada paid for a study which argued in favor of MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) for "mature minors", or children over the age of 12 that were deemed mature enough to make personal medical decisions.
In other words, MAID programs start out as suicide for the terminally ill, then quietly tip-toe out to the mentally ill, and then children who are ill, and no doubt they will eventually apply to mentally ill children.
We've seen this kind of Orwellian tip-toe before, but this is a highly sensitive and explosive topic. For decades now, establishment elites have argued for carbon emissions controls and medical treatment controls in the name of supporting socialized medicine. Government funded euthanasia is a natural consequence of these agendas.
Of course, the carbon pollution and climate change narratives are a farce (there is zero concrete evidence of causation between carbon emissions and climate change), and if socialist medicine requires a shrinking population in order to function then socialized medicine is a failed project that needs to be abandoned.
In terms of mental illness, it seems as though governments are taking advantage of people in moments of weakness and confusion and offering them an easy way out instead of a way to get better. They don't want the public to get better, they want you dead.
It's interesting that the activism around legalizing suicide for minors coincides with the activism to give children medical independence without parental oversight. The transgender issue and the suicide issue appear to intersect when it comes to medical emancipation.
Should Britain and the rest of the UK adopt government suicide programs like Canada, expect them to also exploit healthcare costs and mental health problems as reasons for more death. As of 2024, 1 out of every 20 deaths in Canada was a government assisted suicide. If they bring children and people dealing with mental illness into the equation, that ratio will skyrocket even further. This is not a rare procedure, it's a social mainstay.
If the west continues on this path, forget about trying to reverse the decline in population growth. Get ready instead for a swift population collapse.
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Site: Zero HedgeOh Canada: Teslas Banned From International Car ShowTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 09:20
If you go to the Vancouver International Auto Show, you can see all the new models. However, if you want to see a Tesla, you must go down the road to check out a car without a political litmus test. The organizers are just the latest group to join the mob retaliating against Elon Musk for working with the Trump Administration to remove waste and fraud in government through his DOGE program. What was most striking was the pathetic rationalization of the organization for engaging in political retaliation.
According to the Canadian Auto Dealer, the organizers claimed a common rationalization for political discrimination: security. As we have seen on college campuses for years, where conservative speakers are barred due to security concerns, the Canadians claimed that they could not protect innocent parties if a single Tesla was allowed on the floor. Furthermore, they blamed Tesla, insisting the company was given “multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw.”
In other words, we only cancelled Musk when he refused to cancel himself.
Tesla already had a booth set up and had to take it down.
So, the solution to extremists is to give them precisely what they demand.
After all, some on the left are committing political violence and claiming that they were triggered by the mere appearance of Teslas or other symbols. This week, another person wearing a MAGA hit was assaulted. The woman was triggered by the hat on the head of a 72-year-old man so she attacked him.
The Canadians appear willing collaborators in this retaliation. Rather than simply posting proper security, they banished the victim of the political violence. By blaming it on Tesla, they can throw up their hands and say “we tried” but Tesla was unreasonable.
It is the same rationalization heard from those arrested for political violence.
For example, Natasha Cohen, 46, is a New York therapist, was arrested for vandalizing Teslas and explained that she is “living in terror every day.” It is a familiar refrain as the rise in political violence becomes undeniable. On Friday, New York Times Chief White House Correspondent and MSNBC Political Analyst Peter Baker came under fire for admitting that leftist violence is on the rise, but noting that Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric “might excite people to take action.”
Cohen explained that it is all Elon’s fault:
“Every time I see those cars, I see Elon Musk saluting the country as a Nazi…I made a mistake because I’m basically living in terror every day that the country is turning into Nazi Germany. I’m truly terrified, because Elon was unelected and they’re deporting migrants without a trial.”
However, people like Cohen are now safe from being triggered at the Vancouver International Auto Show. The organizers are only banning those who refuse to ban themselves.
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Site: Fr. Z's BlogThis morning the sun was on time to rise at 5:40. The sun was similarly punctual in setting at 20:35. We don’t know about the Ave Maria Bell for the Curia, since they don’t ring it, but it ought to … Read More →
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Site: Catholic ConclavePope Leo XIV places Francis in HeavenThe Conciliar popes have accustomed us to "canonizing" their conciliar predecessors, as if being the Supreme Pastor of souls automatically opened the gates of Heaven. Pope Leo XIV is no exception.Extreme sentimentalityIn a message posted on X, the new pontiff elevates Francis to Heaven, which theologically means that his predecessor is a saint. Santo subito!Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: OnePeterFive
For this 5th Sunday after Easter we are still moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James. Liturgically, we are very close now to the Ascension of the Lord, on Thursday, when the High Priest, the Risen Savior, entered the heavenly temple where He continuously renews His once for all time Sacrifice to the Father. Our Lord in the Discourse draws our…
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Site: Saint Louis Catholic
As most of you know, the cruel hireling of the Diocese of Charlotte, NC just banned the TLM from all parishes.
It looks bad because it is bad.
Traditional Catholic priests and faithful aren’t going to put up with this crap. There is a space of time, quickly passing, for the pope to reestablish the conditions for liturgical peace, one that allows the novus ordo to die an eventual and natural death, sparing the dulled liturgical and doctrinal sense of those forced to endure it.
The alternative is to try to brutally crush the ancient Mass, putting the faithful Catholic to a choice of allegiance to Christ or to men. That will end badly for the modernists, as the TLM cannot and will not be suppressed. Catholics will endure and triumph in the end. The pansified, Episcopal-lite sect that they may call the Catholic church will not last.
The hierarchy, starting at the top, has a choice: free the TLM or try to crush it. Calm the waters or poke the bear.
Either way, the novus ordo is going away.
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Site: AsiaNews.itToday we celebrate the Day of Prayer for Christians in China, instituted by Benedict XVI on the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan. This is an opportunity to celebrate communion with the Church in China but also to remember its sufferings. Speaking to AsiaNews, an underground priest explains the actual problems involved in joining the Patriotic Association that Beijing is trying to impose with increasing harshness in the wake of the 2018 Agreement with the Holy See.
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Site: Catholic ConclaveSAINT ANNE, O GOOD MOTHER,OUR SONGS RISE TO YOU,HEAR OUR PRAYER AND BLESS YOUR CHILDREN.This place, where your presence turns our hearts to God, fills us with hope by showing us the heavens.Chosen by God the Father to give us Mary, may your example enlighten the hearts that supplicate you.Faithful to his promise, your God, your creator, in all his wisdom, looked upon your heart.Your faith, O Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: AsiaNews.itToday's headlines: Pro-Iranian Palestinian factions have left Damascus under pressure from Syria's new authorities (and the US). Leo XIV met with one of the families of the victims of the Itaewon tragedy in South Korea who are demanding justice. Vietnam will block Telegram on 2 June. China and Uzbekistan agree to allow bilateral visa-free entry for their citizens.
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Site: Zero HedgeWill Russia's Latest Buffer Zone Plan Be More Successful Than The Last?Tyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 08:10
Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,
Putin warned in March 2024 that Russia might set up a “security zone” inside Ukraine in response to cross-border strikes and raids, which it then began to do two months later that May after Russian troops made a fresh push into Kharkov Region at the time. Regrettably, the incursion didn’t penetrate too deeply, and later that summer Ukraine launched a sneak attack against Russia’s Kursk Region. It was only earlier this year that Russia finally expelled all Ukrainian troops from there with North Korean assistance.
Nevertheless, Putin just announced late last week that “a decision has been made to create a buffer security zone along the Russian border” with Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk Regions, thus meaning inside the corresponding Ukrainian regions of Kharkov (once again), Sumy, and Chernigov. Unlike last year’s attempt, this latest one might be more successful due to the very different context within which it’s being pursued, particularly as regards the conflict’s new diplomatic and military dynamics.
Regarding the first, “The Devil’s In The Details As Trump Announced ‘Immediate’ Russian-Ukrainian Ceasefire Talks” right after his latest call with Putin, the details of which readers can learn more about from the preceding hyperlinked analysis. Its relevance to Putin’s newly announced buffer zone plan is that his declaration might initially be intended as a form of pressure upon Zelensky to coerce him into having Ukraine finally comply with Russia’s demanded concessions for politically resolving the conflict.
As for the second, it was assessed in mid-March that “Russia Might Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, And/Or Kharkov Regions”, with Dniepropetrovsk being mentioned instead of Chernigov since Russian forces are approaching its border from Donbass after going around Pokrovsk. Crossing that administrative frontier into a region that Russia doesn’t (yet?) claim as its own could circumvent Ukraine’s formidable defenses in central Zaporozhye and lead to that region’s swift capture.
In connection with these dynamics, RT chief Margarita Simonyan clarified that the Russian delegation in Istanbul didn’t threaten that their country would claim an additional Ukrainian region if Ukraine doesn’t withdraw from the four disputed ones, but four more for a total of eight regions (not counting Crimea). These could conceivably be all or part of Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, and Dniepropetrovsk Regions given Russia’s latest buffer zone plan unless Ukraine agrees to its demanded concessions before then.
With that plan in mind and seeing as how those four regions, Kiev, Cherkassy, and Poltava are either entirely or partially east of the Dnieper, Russia might add to its list of demands by calling for the creation of a totally demilitarized “Trans-Dnieper” region controlled by non-Western peacekeepers. This could either complement its original demand for demilitarizing the entirety of Ukraine or be presented as a compromise in exchange for letting Ukraine do whatever it wants on the other side of the river.
Regardless of whether that proposal is put forth, Putin’s newly announced buffer zone plan shows that Russia is expanding its goals, which makes sense considering that it’s winning and that Ukraine still refuses to comply with its demanded concessions for politically resolving the conflict. The longer that Ukraine refuses to agree to peace on Russia’s terms, the more land that it stands to lose, which might ultimately be much more than anyone expects if the US soon abandons Ukraine in order to cut its losses.
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Site: Catholic ConclaveAlbano titular bishopric for Cardinal TagleAlso on Saturday, Pope Leo XIV assigned the Filipino Cardinal Tagle his own previous titular bishopric of Albano, south-east of Rome. Before the recent conclave, Tagle was seen as a possible candidate for a continuation of the open approach to the Catholic Church begun under Pope Francis.As a so-called suburbicarian diocese, Albano is reserved for a Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Catholic ConclaveSwitzerland: New Bishop of St. Gallen to be consecrated on July 5Beat Grögli: "I am convinced that the Christian message is good for the world"The new diocesan bishop of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Beat Grögli, will be consecrated bishop at 10:30 a.m. on July 5 in St. Gallen Cathedral. Pope Leo XIV appointed the 54-year-old former cathedral priest as bishop on Thursday, thereby confirming the Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Zero HedgeBritish Airways Extends Suspension Of Israel Flights As More Houthi Missiles Target AirportTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 07:35
Another ballistic missile fired from Yemen has targeted Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on Friday, in reportedly the third such attack on Israel within 24 hours.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced the fresh attack in a televised statement, saying "The Houthi forces targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a hypersonic ballistic missile" and that the attack "successfully achieved its goal."
Source: Anadolu Agency
While the Houthis have repeatedly claimed "hypersonic" missile attacks over several weeks, there's as yet no evidence that they possess this advanced technology. Still, it has become clear that Israel's advanced air defense systems at time have trouble intercepting the inbound projectiles, as a May 4th attack demonstrated.
The Houthis spokesman claimed of this new Friday attack that it caused "millions of Zionist settlers to flee to shelters and halted airport operations."
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged an inbound missile, which set off warning sirens in central Israel, but did not indicate any ground strikes or damage:
Early on Friday morning, sirens blared across Tel Aviv as a result of the Yemeni missile. The Israeli army said in a statement that it intercepted the missile.
A Yemeni missile was also intercepted by Israeli air defenses on Thursday afternoon, following an earlier missile attack, which Tel Aviv also said it intercepted.
The Houthis have been stepping up attacks on Israel in recent weeks, and after a few major waves of Israeli strikes on Yemen, which destroyed the international airport in Sanaa.
While such Israeli retaliation has clearly caused much damage and death inside Yemen, the constant Houthi fire is also impacting Israel - at least on an economic and logistical level.
Times of Israel reports Friday on more foreign carriers suspending operations at Israeli airports:
British Airways joins the growing list of companies extending their cancellation of flights to and from Israel following the Houthi missile strike near Ben Gurion Airport at the beginning of the month.
Hebrew media reports that British Airways has extended its suspension until the end of July.
Below is a montage of images from the May 4th ballistic missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport:
Via TOI
The fact that the US military is drawing down its Red Sea anti-Houthi operations, after the Trump-proclaimed ceasefire earlier this month, appears to have freed up the Houthis' ability to focus more firepower directly on Israel.
Last Friday the Israeli government announced an expansion of Gaza operations - so these missile attacks out of Yemen will likely only grow. The Houthis have further said they have added Haifa port to its target bank.
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Site: Catholic ConclaveAppointment of special envoy to the liturgical celebrations on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of Saint Anne to the Breton peasant Yvon NicolazicThe Holy Father has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as his special envoy to preside over the liturgical celebrations to Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
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Site: Zero Hedge1 In 4 People In Germany Now Has Migrant Background, Data ShowsTyler Durden Sat, 05/24/2025 - 07:00
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,
Germany’s migrant population is surging, with new data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) revealing that more than one in four people now living in the country has a migration background.
In 2024, the number of residents with an immigration background rose by 4 percent, or 873,000 people, compared to the previous year, reaching a record 21.2 million. This represents 25.6 percent of the total population, up from 24.7 percent in 2023.
The term “migration background” includes both those who have immigrated themselves (first-generation migrants) and those born in Germany to two immigrant parents (second-generation). Nearly 16.1 million people — 19.4 percent of the population — were immigrants themselves, while an additional 5.2 million, or 6.3 percent, were born in Germany to two foreign-born parents.
In contrast, the native-born population without any migration history fell by 1 percent (734,000 people) to 57.4 million, now comprising 69.3 percent of the country.
The youth of Germany’s migrant population stands out. Among people aged 20 to 39, more than one in three (34 percent) had a migration background in 2024. Among those over 65, that figure drops to 14 percent. The average age of someone with a migration background is 38.2 years, nearly a decade younger than those without one, who average 47.4 years. Those with only one immigrant parent had the youngest average age of all groups at 25.1.
Migration since 2015 has played a major role in these shifts, with nearly 6.5 million people living in Germany in 2024 immigrating after 2015.
Between 2015 and 2021, the largest groups came from Syria (716,000), Romania (300,000), and Poland (230,000). From 2022 to 2024, Ukraine dominated the figures, with 843,000 arrivals, followed by Syria (124,000) and Turkey (112,000).
The main reasons cited for migrating to Germany since 2015 were to seek asylum (31 percent), employment (23 percent), and family reunification (21 percent). Among women, family reunification was especially significant, cited by 26 percent alongside 30 percent who cited flight. Among men, 32 percent cited flight and 28 percent employment.
The new figures confirm that Germany’s migrant population is growing rapidly, leading to demographic pressures and concerns over integration.
Furthermore, the common claim among left-wing politicians that migration is fuelling Germany’s workforce does not stand up to scrutiny, with fewer than a quarter of newcomers citing employment as their reason for the move.
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Site: AsiaNews.itLeo XIV, the first American pope, has somewhat overshadowed the popularity of the American emperor in Russia, acting in some ways as an alternative in the image of the "Anglo-Saxon" West so reviled by the Kremlin. After all, today the Russian Church has split from almost all the other Orthodox Churches, starting with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, while dialogue with Rome has never been interrupted.
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Site: Saint Louis Catholic
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Site: Real Investment Advice
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Even Trump Can't Kill The Rally
Last week, we discussed how the rally had repaired much of the previous damage following the correction. As we noted:
"This past week, the market continued its advance. There is little reason to be bearish with key overhead resistance levels broken. However, as shown, the markets are reaching decently overbought levels after being extremely oversold. This suggests that at least for now, the "easy money" has been made. With the market above the 200, and above the 50 and 20-DMA, pullbacks should be between 5600 and 5800. Investors can use such a pullback to increase portfolio equity exposures and reduce hedges accordingly. Conversely, 5000 to 5200 becomes the next critical target if those lower supports are violated. Notably, such would require some unexpected event to unfold."
Several times this past week, we discussed that the market was due for a corrective pullback after reaching more overbought conditions. On Friday, the market gave way early in the morning on fresh comments by President Trump instituting 25% tariffs on Apple (AAPL) on any product not manufactured in the U.S. and 50% tariffs on the EU, as trade talks are not going well. As is always the case, amid a bull run, sellers are still unwilling to sell over fear of "missing out" on rising asset prices. It takes some "event" to bring sellers into the market, which we saw early on Friday.
However, by late afternoon, markets bounced off the 200-DMA and clawed their way higher as comments from Scott Bessent took the sting out of Trump's announcements. Most importantly, he made two significant statements to alleviate concerns over the recent yield rise. First, he expects the US budget deficit "to be something with a 3% in front of it by 2028," with revenue from tariffs to be used to solve the deficit. This is crucial as the CBO projections of never-ending deficits do not consider the effects of policy changes that can lead to economic growth. Tax cuts, deregulation, the coming productivity boost from Artificial Intelligence, or the infrastructure demand for power can significantly impact future growth rates.
Secondly, he specifically mentioned the SLR. The Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR) is a rule imposed after the 2008 financial crisis that increased bank capital requirements. This is particularly interesting to the bond market, where reversing that requirement will allow banks to purchase more Treasury Bonds. Bessent noted in his interview that the Treasury is close to "moving the SLR requirement and could see that move by the summer." That shift in the SLR requirement is very bond-friendly and will work to bring rates lower. (For more, read our Daily Market Commentary from last week.)
Technically Speaking
Even with Bessent's comments, that market remains overbought short-term, and a further consolidation process is likely into next week. At the end of this week, we removed our short-market hedge, added to bonds, and reduced equity exposure. If the market is going to consolidate, we can allow cash to act as the primary hedge. However, if the 200-DMA is violated, the 50-DMA will become the next critical support. From a bullish perspective, the 20 and 50-DMAs are now sloping positively, which should provide rising support levels. Overall, we suspect that the market will stabilize. Of course, there are always risks to be aware of, so increased cash levels are essential now.
We are not "bearish" on the market because buybacks remain a powerful market influence over the next month. The recent surge has been the largest since the October 2022 market lows. However, those will begin to fade in the middle of June, which could weigh on markets into the Q2 earnings reports.
For now, this seems to be an "unstoppable" bull market, and investor spirits have become substantially more bullish. However, all rallies eventually end. That doesn't mean a "crash" is coming, and as noted last week, the market is holding the 200-DMA for now. This suggests the previous correction phase is likely complete with support gathering at slightly lower levels. However, there is never a guarantee, so we have taken some recent gains and raised cash levels. We will be patient for a much better entry point soon.
With that said, let's discuss how to navigate a seemingly "unstoppable" bull market.
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Retail Buyers Go "All In"
Last week, we started the market update by analogy between the COVID pandemic decline and this year's correction. As we noted:
"It is worth remembering that there are many competing differences between the current macroeconomic backdrop and 2020."
"However, as we discussed in that previous analysis, even a "unstoppable bull market" gives those who can be patient better risk/reward opportunities to increase equity exposures. For example, after the initial rally off the March 2020 lows, the market pulled back and consolidated briefly before rallying further. Then, another longer consolidation process that year provided another entry point for bullish investors."
"The weekly Technical Gauge we produce each week in this newsletter below follows the same path as 2020. While not yet back to bullish technical extremes, it is moving quickly higher to more elevated levels. When those readings reached 80, the market went through a longer consolidation process in 2020."
Most interesting is that retail investors have been fueling the market's advance. As noted in our #DailyMarketCommentary:
"Monday was a record-setting day. Stocks opened down 1% on news that Moody’s downgraded the US credit rating to AA. While some perceived the downgrade as problematic, retail investors, aka individuals, bought stocks at the highest rate ever. Per JP Morgan, retail investors purchased a net of $4.1 billion of US stocks in the first three hours of trading. As their graph below shows, Monday’s retail buying stampede dwarfs prior instances"
While the retail net inflow was quite impressive, it does leave the bulls and bears with a consideration. We should ask ourselves who the retail investors bought the stock from. The answer, by default, is institutional investors. This trend of retail buying from institutional investors has been ongoing. As we wrote in "Smart Money or Dumb Money: Who Will be Right?"
Smart money (institutions and hedge funds) is aggressively selling this market while individual investors, aka dumb money, are aggressively buying. The difference in opinions is stunning.
The data below confirms that view, with the recent stretch of Hedge Fund short selling remaining unprecedented and reflective of some skeptics. Over the past 3 COT reports, Hedge Fund shorts surged ~$25bn - the largest amount for at least the past 10 years.
Viewed through another lens, Hedge Fund shorts as a percentage of total open interest reached 41% - the max dating back to February of 2021.
Typically, institutional investors tend to be right. However, in the short term, particularly over the last few years, retail investors have been heavy buyers of corrections. The only question is whether retail investors run out of money before institutions are forced to cover?
Valuations Take A Back Seat
That said, the rally so far seems unstoppable. Every time the market opens lower, as on Friday following Trump's tariff increase, buyers step in. As such, the patience needed to wait for a correction has been hard to come by. As noted previously, we remain bullishly biased but expect a pullback.
“We must remember that market advances can only go so far before an eventual correction occurs. My best guess is that if the markets are to reach all-time highs this year, we will likely have a correction to reset some of the more extreme overbought conditions, as shown below. Any pullback to the 50-DMA is likely a good entry point to increase exposure on a better risk/reward basis.”
The bull market that started in October 2022 has surprised many, given the number of traditionally more bearish indicators, such as inverted yield curves, leading economic indicators, and rising interest rates. For many individuals, trading a rising stock market is difficult because they expect the inevitable resumption of the “bear market.” However, as the market continues to rise, investors are pressured to buy equities, creating more demand, thereby pushing asset prices even higher.
The bullish bias is evident in the long-term relationship between stocks and bonds. The ratio of stocks to bonds has far exceeded that of the "Financial Crisis," and is now on par with the “Dot.com” bubble peak, with a similar sharp slope higher.
Does that mean the market is about to “crash?” No, but there is an apparent correlation between the detachment of stocks to bonds and historical valuation metrics. However, in the short term, all that matters is price. As discussed in “Technical Measures,“ valuations are a terrible market timing tool. Valuations only measure when prices are moving faster or slower than earnings. In the short term, valuations are just a measure of psychology. To wit:
“Valuation metrics are just that – a measure of current valuation. More importantly, when valuation metrics are excessive, it is a better measure of ‘investor psychology’ and the manifestation of the ‘greater fool theory.’ As shown, there is a high correlation between our composite consumer confidence index and trailing 1-year S&P 500 valuations.”
The chart indeed suggests that investors should sell everything immediately. However, given that this is monthly data, these turns can and do take much longer than expected. This “lag” leads investors in the short term to believe that “valuations” no longer matter. Such is a dangerous assumption that investors paid dearly for in the past. Valuations do matter, and they matter a lot, just not today.
Therefore, when investors are caught in an "unstoppable" bull market, we must revert to price analysis and trading rules to navigate the markets.
Navigating An Unstoppable Bull Market
There are millions of ways to approach technical analysis, and investors use millions of combinations of technical indicators to decipher market movements.
I am only going to discuss how we do it with you.
Notably, technical analysis does NOT predict the future. It is the study of historical price action, which is the purest representation of the psychology of market participants. From that study, we can make statistical observations about the behavior of market participants in the past. Those assumptions can help form a “guess,” assuming similar variables, about how they may act in the near term.
For our portfolio management needs, we keep our analysis very simple. We use one indicator to indicate if prices are overbought or oversold, two moving averages to determine the trend of prices, and Bollinger bands to warn of significant deviations from those moving averages. I show the technical setup in the sample chart below from SimpleVisor.com.
When markets rise, we look for “warning signs” that stocks could be due for a short—or intermediate-term corrective period. Conversely, during market declines, we look for indications that markets are oversold and ready to advance. Currently, we are dealing with the former.
Historically, when prices move toward the upper bands of 2- or 3-standard deviations above the 50-day moving average (dma), the Williams %R is overbought, and the MACD is crossing lower from a high level, stock prices generally correct to some degree. Such is the potential environment we will likely deal with in the next few weeks as earnings season concludes and the corporate buyback window closes. This is also why we have suggested holding off trading portfolios and increasing cash levels until some of these more overbought conditions are corrected.
But that is difficult to do in an "unstoppable" market advance.
Trading An Unstoppable Market
It's not as hard as you think, once you conquer the emotional side of the equation.
Commandment #1: “Thou Shall Not Trade Against the Trend.” – James P. Arthur Huprich
Let me be very clear. We are discussing risk management. You must understand the market’s overall trend and when it is changing. The negative price trend of 2022 is now over, and since then, the market has continued to trend positively. While you can argue, fight, and provide all the reasons why "the game is rigged," the fact is that the market continues to push higher. Those participating are building wealth, those who aren't...well...aren't. You have a choice.
We are in a “bull market.". As such, we want to maintain our exposure to equity risk. However, this does not mean we should ignore what the market tells us and let the ebbs and flows wash over us. Eventually, another “ebb” will come, and we will want to reduce risk accordingly. That does not mean selling everything and going to cash.
“In a bull market, you can be either long or neutral. In a bear market, you can only be neutral or short.” – Dennis Gartman
The market will eventually pull back, and likely soon. During that correction, prices will likely remain confined to the 50-dma, as noted above. Could a correction be larger? Yes. The market is currently overbought and extended, so we suggest that investors manage risk and remain cautious about committing cash reserves to the market. However, we will want to use corrections that reverse those overbought and extended conditions as an opportunity to increase equity exposure.
“Willingness and ability to hold funds uninvested while awaiting real opportunities is a key to success in the battle for investment survival.” – Gerald Loeb
How We Are Trading It
The following chart uses weekly data, so it moves more slowly. This makes it less valuable for daily trading but provides better analysis for intermediate-term risk management. Since the "Financial Crisis," the consistent call has been for the demise of the markets due to debt, deficits, the demise of the dollar, and many other reasons. Instead, investors who consistently maintained exposure to equities in good times and bought in the bad have been consistently rewarded. This also explains why retail investors are eager to "buy dips" after being repeatedly trained.
Speaking of "unstoppable," the upper part of the chart shows the ongoing bull market trend from the 2009 market lows. You can see when markets surged above the long-term trend channel following the flood of liquidity from both monetary and fiscal stimulus. The correction in 2022 merely reverted the excess of that advance and returned the bull market to its running trend.
The bottom two panels are longer-term Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicators. You can also see the surge of that stimulus in the price indicators, which elevated the oscillators to levels never seen historically. Due to the massive extension, the subsequent reversion was more significant than during the 2008 financial crisis. These indicators have now returned to levels previously associated with market lows. Critically, neither of the indicators is warning of a bigger correction that would warrant a bigger reduction of equity risk in portfolios.
While there are many reasons to remain concerned about the "unstoppable" rally over the last month, we must remember that markets can remain irrational much longer than you think. With both technical and sentiment readings suggesting the short-term market risks are elevated, it is likely wise that investors use the current frenzy to rebalance portfolio risks accordingly.
Continue to follow the rules and stick to your discipline. (Read our article on “What Is Risk” for a complete list of rules)
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Relative Performance Analysis
Last week, we stated that "It is unlikely the market will be able to push much further without a short-term correction or consolidation to relieve some of that overbought condition. Take some profits, rebalance risks, and look for a pullback to reduce hedges and add exposures." Such was indeed the case this week as the market pulled back slightly and began to reduce the more extreme overbought condition. While that correction has been mild so far, there is still more work to do over the next week as we wrap up the month and head into the seasonally weak period of June. Raise some cash and rebalance equity risk until the next oversold opportunity presents itself.
Technical Composite
The technical overbought/sold gauge comprises several price indicators (R.S.I., Williams %R, etc.), measured using “weekly” closing price data. Readings above “80” are considered overbought, and below “20” are oversold. The market peaks when those readings are 80 or above, suggesting prudent profit-taking and risk management. The best buying opportunities exist when those readings are 20 or below.
The current reading is 57.57 out of a possible 100.
Portfolio Positioning “Fear / Greed” Gauge
The “Fear/Greed” gauge is how individual and professional investors are “positioning” themselves in the market based on their equity exposure. From a contrarian position, the higher the allocation to equities, the more likely the market is to be closer to a correction than not. The gauge uses weekly closing data.
NOTE: The Fear/Greed Index measures risk from 0 to 100. It is a rarity that it reaches levels above 90.
The current reading is 68.48 out of a possible 100.
Relative Sector Analysis
Most Oversold Sector Analysis
Sector Model Analysis & Risk Ranges
How To Read This Table
- The table compares the relative performance of each sector and market to the S&P 500 index.
- “MA XVER” (Moving Average Crossover) is determined by the short-term weekly moving average crossing positively or negatively with the long-term weekly moving average.
- The risk range is a function of the month-end closing price and the “beta” of the sector or market. (Ranges reset on the 1st of each month)
- The table shows the price deviation above and below the weekly moving averages.
Last week, we noted that "the 'relentless rally' continued this past week and has pushed most markets and sectors well above their normal risk ranges. Given the more extreme short-term overbought conditions, investors should look for a correction over the next week or two to relieve some of that pressure." Such was the case this week, and several markets and sectors are now below their normal risk ranges. One primary concern is the number of markets and sectors with bearish weekly signals. Such is historically only seen during more protracted corrections and bear markets, which suggests that we may be stuck in this back-and-forth market for a while longer. Continue to trade cautiously and hold higher-than-normal levels of cash.
Weekly SimpleVisor Stock Screens
We provide three stock screens each week from SimpleVisor.
This week, we are searching for the Top 20:
- Relative Strength Stocks
- Momentum Stocks
- Technical Strength W/ Dividends
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RSI Screen
Momentum Screen
Technically Strong With Dividends
SimpleVisor Portfolio Changes
We post all of our portfolio changes as they occur at SimpleVisor:
May 22nd
"In both models, we are removing the short S&P 500 index position (SH) as market internals have healed considerably. We will raise cash levels somewhat next week and allow reduced equity exposure, positioning, and cash to hedge the portfolio for now.
After previously reducing the Vanguard Extended Duration ETF (EDV), we added to the position today, given the more extreme technical oversold condition. We are going to trade that position for a reflexive rally, take profits, and reduce weighting once again. Read today’s Daily Market Commentary for more on what’s happening with rates and why a decent trade set is occurring."
Both Models
- Sell 100% of SH
- Increase EDV to 10% of the portfolio.
May 23rd
"This morning, following President Trump’s renewed ire against Apple (APPL) and the EU, the recent rally from the lows is now threatened. As we have stated previously, we needed an “event” of some sort to trigger sellers back into the market. As such, we are taking profits after the recent runup and reducing positions back to target portfolio weights.
We are selling the entire Apple (AAPL) stake in the portfolio to make room for a swap into META (META) later. Apple is no longer a growth company in terms of earnings, while Meta is not only strongly growing earnings but is also an advantage in our Artificial Intelligence (AI) thesis going forward. Over the last year, we have accumulated companies that will participate in that story, from Utilities (DUK, GEV) to companies like PANW, PLTR, and NVDA. These actions also increase our cash holdings to hedge portfolios against near-term correction risks."
Equity Model
- Sell 100% of Apple (AAPL)
- Reduce MSFT (4%), GOOG (4%), PLTR (3.5%), and NVDA (2.5%) to listed target portfolio weights.
ETF Model
- Reduce XLK to 10% of the portfolio and MGK to 6%.
Lance Roberts, C.I.O., RIA Advisors
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