As Kevin Barrett noted, these suspected insider trades took place on March 23, April 7, April 16, April 21, and then again last Wednesday, May 6.

Although the Iranians soon explained that they weren’t actively negotiating with the Americans and they ridiculed the media reports that a peace agreement might be imminent, oil prices still sharply fell and stayed down, which seemed totally irrational.

After so many false reports of a peace agreement being almost at hand and the strait about to be reopened, I found it difficult to believe that even the most gullibly optimistic trader would accept these statements at face value, let alone that there were enough of those traders to move the markets in such dramatic fashion.

But perhaps the solution to this mystery was that these major market movements were actually due to trading by AI systems, which made their decisions mostly based upon how they expected all the other AI trading systems would react to Trump’s statements. A shrewd observer had suggested this possibility last month:

An offhand comment the other night by an MSNow commentator gives us the first insight. He mentioned that a lot of trading isn’t being done by humans but by algorithms that search the news and what’s trending on the web for clues about how the market will move the next day.

So when Trump Truths that the war with Iran is over — they’re opening the strait and have agreed to all his terms and are becoming the 51st state — the algorithm doesn’t need to believe him. It just needs to see that true or not, this statement will move stocks up and oil down. With so much trading done by algorithms, each algorithm knows stocks will rise because the other algorithms will move them.

With 70% of daily trading done by algorithms, humans have become largely irrelevant to the stock market. So it isn’t people at all moving the market.

From: Will America Be Expelled from the Middle East?

Why would silver and gold spot prices drop when the geopolitical conditions are as they are now? Why would oil futures behave as they are with such uncertainty? Why does the stock market keep rising in the face of obvious economic difficulty? I’m no financial expert, but it has seemed to me that there’s a great deal of manipulation in all the markets, Corruption and insider trading. But … perhaps it’s the algorithms after all?

The wolf never betrays his pack.

The raven never forgets a soul.

But humankind has often forgotten what honor once meant.

Between cold winds and ancient forests, animals still know the law of loyalty. No false face. No hidden word. Only instinct, truth, and connection.

The wolf stays with his pack until his last breath. The raven carries memories across time and shadows. But many people traded honor for utility and truth for comfort.

Perhaps that’s why some souls feel closer to the call of the forests than to the noise of this age.

h/t Huter der Irminsul

Caveat: This post is not intended as an attack on anyone’s religion. It is simply an alternative viewpoint for those to whom it may resonate.

Most people reading this will have grown up in a culture where Christianity was already dying, but nothing replaced it. The churches emptied, but the assumptions Christianity planted in Western civilization did not leave with the congregations. The Abrahamic worldview is universalist at its core. It teaches that all souls are equal before a single God, that tribal and ethnic identity are secondary to a universal spiritual brotherhood, and that salvation is available to all peoples on the same terms. When Christianity lost its grip on the West, this universalism did not disappear. It migrated into secular systems. Liberalism, in all its forms, inherited the Christian template: the individual abstracted from kin, land and tradition, granted universal rights under a universal framework, with particular identity treated as something to be transcended rather than cultivated. The West moved from Christian universalism to liberal universalism without ever questioning the universalism itself.

The result is the world we live in now. Identity is treated as a consumer choice rather than an inheritance. Culture is something you browse, not something you belong to. Borders—physical, spiritual, tribal—are treated as obstacles to progress rather than the structures that give life meaning. The old distinctions between peoples, between sacred and profane, between kin and stranger, have been flattened in the name of a vision of humanity that claims to include everyone but in practice leaves everyone rootless.

The consequential hyper-individualism produces loneliness on a scale our ancestors could never have imagined.

The Void

Look at the conditions honestly. People move across the country for work and never go home. They live in rented flats in cities where they know no one, eating food grown on the other side of the world, consuming entertainment made by strangers. They have hundreds of connections online, and nobody they would call at two in the morning. They have been told that freedom means the absence of obligation—no ties to place, no duties to kin, no inherited identity—and they believed it, and now they are paying the price. Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have climbed steadily for decades. Young men in particular are adrift, with no framework for understanding who they are or what they are for. The modern world offers endless choice and almost no meaning.

The spiritual void is real and specific. The problem for most people is not an oppressive church. It is the absence of anything at all. Christianity is gone for them, and what fills the gap is a shallow materialism that cannot answer the most basic questions: who am I, where do I come from, what do I owe to those who made my life possible, and what will I leave behind when I die? These are ancestral questions. They are questions our forebears had answers to. And the ancestral religion—rooted in specific peoples, specific lands, specific lineages—answers them in a way that no universal system ever can, because it starts from the particular rather than the abstract.

The Answer

Ancestral religion is the opposite of universalism. It does not claim to be for everyone. It is for us—for the descendants of the Northern European peoples whose traditions it preserves. It is tied to specific landscapes, specific bloodlines, specific histories. It honors the particular over the general, the local over the global, the inherited over the invented. This is what makes it powerful and this is what makes it threatening to the universalist order: it asserts that peoples are different, that those differences matter, and that a man severed from his roots is weaker than a man who knows where he stands.

The full essay …

From Grok:

This isn’t isolated to Macgregor or pro-Iran accounts—IRGC admissions, UAE official statements, and cross-verified reporting from Western, Gulf, and international media all corroborate it.

North Carolina is a safe haven for criminals and it will not change. We don’t have to live this way but we do. Every day.

What a strategy. Most fraud is committed by the government using stock market insider trading, kickbacks from foreign governments, NGOS and embezzlement. Arrests will give us the removal of a corrupt government and a more fiscally sound oligarchy.

We still have to address the Epstein Files.

Note: If you are or were MAGA, you’re Dissident Right. If you voted for Trump, you’re likely Dissident Right. Keep that in mind as you read. This essay discusses whether you would be best served in continuing to vote for Republicans, voting Democrat to punish the GOP, or not voting at all. Each of us must come to our own conclusions on this issue, but this essay gives one some logical points to consider in that decision.

Everybody’s line for walking away will always be different, but if you don’t have a line, then you are ensuring that you’re entirely powerless to whatever the particular force is ruling over you. It doesn’t matter if you think you have your dream job or your dream woman, if you don’t have a line in which you will simply say no and walk away, then you fundamentally cannot negotiate. Under that premise, you are being held as a slave. Maybe you happen to serve benevolent rulers, but not everyone is as lucky.

The master-slave relationship is so important to understand, especially in a political context, because it is the exact dynamic of right wing American politics. The mainstream right and the GOP are currently operating as the masters, ruling over their dissenting slaves on the dissident right.

As we’ve all collectively voiced our dismay, what has the mainstream right’s rebuttal to our accusations of treachery been? Well, they say that we should be grateful for the things we have gotten. They point to the Democrats and say ‘at least we aren’t that!’ They insist that because the border is closed, we should just be quiet and show some gratitude. All while states like Texas import legal Indian immigration that could possibly be even more damaging to the country than illegal immigration.

I also agree that if you were to merely view this situation through a lens of practicality, it probably wouldn’t make sense to vote Democrat at all. I am not even advocating for the position. I personally feel that voting is likely just window dressing at this point. The only real solution will likely have to be external.

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As we have learned, the Republic was overthrown for 30 pieces of silver. Now we reap the consequences of greed, treason, bankruptcy, loss of national security and inflation.

Remember who was and is culpable. And remember their useful idiot footsoldiers.

It’s strange to hear Trump reverse his previous decision on Chinese students (spies) attending US universities. It’s stranger that they want to send their students here after humiliating Trump with their statement of our second place status to China.

The Rise of English Civilization and Its Current Collapse

In the modern Anglosphere, large numbers of women have severed the ancient connection. They’ve ceased to see themselves as living expressions of the sovereignty goddess (Morrigan) and have instead entered into a different kind of union — with the corporation and the administrative state that corporations increasingly own and direct. The welfare state, no-fault divorce laws, corporate HR regimes, educational systems that pathologize masculinity, and cultural narratives that frame men as inherent oppressors have created powerful incentives for women to outsource their sovereignty to impersonal systems rather than invest it in peer relationships with strong, responsible men.

The consequences are measurable and accelerating:

• Declining marriage and fertility rates.
• Rising rates of single motherhood and father-absent homes.
• Educational and developmental outcomes for boys that lag dramatically.
• A generation of young men who’re neither taught nor expected to become the kind of prosperous, powerful, honorable partners the old paradigm required.
• Young women who’re no longer instructed in the Morrígan’s wisdom — that their greatest power isn’t autonomy-as-isolation, but the sovereign choice of a worthy mate and the transmission of that fire to children.

The path back isn’t through nostalgia or reaction, but through remembrance. The Morrígan was never a passive ideal; she was a demand. She demanded that the king (and by extension every man) prove worthy. She demanded that the woman recognize her own terrible and beautiful power. She taught that individual sovereignty — the only sovereignty that ultimately is real — isn’t solitary self-ownership but the hard-won capacity to enter into a true peer union: male and female, strength and sovereignty, prosperity and transmission, standing together against the chaos that is the machinations of lesser beings.

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