Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2025

The funniest thing that's happening to Donald Trump right now is that while he tries to intimidate the Fed to reduce interest rates and they do nothing, yields are soaring all by themselves

 The bond market is issuing a vote of no confidence in our elected leadership.

One branch of Republican government thinks this is the 19th century with a robust manufacturing base it needs to protect with crazy wild tariffs, and another branch of Republican government thinks it's just fine to go on spending like drunken sailors and not raise taxes to pay for any of it.

Interest payments alone on the national debt in fiscal year 2024 soared to $1.1 trillion against revenues of $4.9 trillion.

Meanwhile the most powerful military in the world can't stop a bunch of rag-headed heathen bastards from launching missiles at Israel.

These people are crackerdog.

US Treasury yields are now up a net 2.37% across the curve since last Friday.
 
Long duration is very unhappy: 10Y at 4.53 at the close yesterday, 20Y at 5.00, 30Y at 4.97.
 
VUSTX ytd total return: -0.53%.
 

 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A week before the 60-day War Powers Act deadline, the Houthis conveniently cry uncle and pledge to halt attacks on US naval forces and Red Sea shipping


 

Israel wipes out the Houthi airport, fuel supplies, and concrete factory and then they finally cry uncle? 

Something doesn't add up here.

Trump announces US will stop bombing Houthis 

... Trump, ahead of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, said the halt would start immediately. The Houthis approached the administration on Monday night indicating “they want to stop the fighting,” he said. ...

Israel escalated strikes against the Houthis on Monday night with 20 fighter jets bombing the rebel-held port city of Hodeidah. Israeli forces were responding to a ballistic missile strike against the Jerusalem airport by the group. The Trump administration also labeled the Houthis a terror group in March, changing a Biden-era policy. ... Houthi strikes against the waterway have declined significantly in recent months, and the group hasn’t targeted a commercial vessel since late December. ... 

Israel's military says it has fully disabled Yemen's main airport with strikes... 

... “We indirectly informed the Americans that the continued escalation will affect the criminal Trump’s visit to the region, and we have not informed them of anything else,” said Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi’s supreme political council, in a statement carried by the rebel-controlled SABA news agency early Wednesday. Trump is due to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next week. ...

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The US depression in road travel from COVID-19 ended in 2024 and lasted five years

 The 3.257 trillion miles of 2019 was exceeded in 2024 by 5 billion miles, on an average annual basis.

The depression in road travel from the Great Financial Crisis lasted eight years, from 2007 to 2015.

Previous to that we had similar, but smaller contractions in US road travel, from 1979 to 1982, three years, and from 1973 to 1975, two years, precipitated by the oil trade shocks of the Iranian Revolution and the Yom Kippur War respectively.

You are now free to move about the country.

 


Thursday, March 6, 2025

Paper tiger misses deadline, tells Hamas he really means it this time as he gives billions to Israel but hangs Ukraine out to dry


 

... Last month Trump called on Hamas to release the hostages by Feb. 15 or "all hell is going to breakout." That deadline came and went. This time, Trump is describing his ultimatum as the "last warning!" ...

“I have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed," Trump added. "This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance.” ...

The Trump Administration has already approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Israel, according to the State Department’s website. ...

Hamas still is holding 59 hostages in Gaza, many of whom are believed to be dead. ...

More.

Monday, November 4, 2024

A US serviceman hurt while building Joe Biden's failed Gaza Hamas-aid pier has died of his injuries

Joe's administration began with the deaths of US soldiers in the ignominious Afghanistan withdrawal, and ends with the death of a US soldier in the ignominious attempt to help the enemy which attacked America's ally Israel on October 7, 2023.

I wonder if Kamala can think of anything now that she would change.

 



Thursday, October 17, 2024

Israel stumbles onto elusive Hamas leader Sinwar in Rafah and kills him

Kamala Harris famously warned Israel of consequences from the US in March if Israel went into Rafah.

 


Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Harris-Biden messaging is in complete disarray: Kamala boasts right now about spending millions to aid Lebanon, which harbors Israel's enemies, while her own DHS Secretary is warning FEMA is running out of money for hurricanes

 And Mayorkas couldn't care less about FEMA running out of money or the suffering in the Southeast. He went clothes shopping on Saturday.

This administration excels at in-your-face bad optics in addition to doing a horrible job.





Monday, September 30, 2024

The president, who is hard of hearing, confuses Israeli Yemen strike question from a reporter with a US union strike scheduled for Tuesday

 The most interesting part of the video however is how Jill just abandons Joe to his fate with the reporters, showing that she doesn't care to cover for him anymore, you know, like Democrats have been doing since the beginning of this administration.

The reporters don't even help him.

The pathetic spectacle is here.




Thursday, September 19, 2024

Nick Fuentes: It's a trap!

Room temperature IQ:



Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Israeli ingenuity finds way to make Hezbollah pagers explode simultaneously in south Lebanon and Syria, injuring thousands of terrorist fighters, including the Iranian ambassador lol


 

 Well, why does the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon have a Hezbollah pager in the first place?

I mean, they aren't working, you know, TOGETHER, are they?

Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people – including an 8-year-old girl -- and wounding several thousand, officials said. They blamed Israel in what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack.

Among those wounded was Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon. ... The pagers that exploded had been newly acquired by Hezbollah after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using cell phones, warning they could be tracked by Israeli intelligence. A Hezbollah official told The Associated Press the pagers were a new brand the group had not used before.

At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, pagers started heating up and then exploding in the pockets and hands of those carrying them -- particularly in a southern Beirut suburb and the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a strong presence, and in Damascus, where several Hezbollah members were wounded, Lebanese security officials and a Hezbollah official said. The Hezbollah official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. ... AP photographers at area hospitals said the emergency rooms were overloaded with patients. Some had missing hands or chunks blown out of their legs near the pocket area.

More.

A fabulous success for Israel.

A bad day for Democrat appeasers of Iran, but I repeat myself.

Lots of dickless, ball-less Hezbollah, too.

Sunday, June 9, 2024

The Israeli and American hostages of Hamas are in the Palestinians' own homes and apartments in Gaza

 This one was a so-called journalist for Al-Jazeera and the US-based Palestinian Chronicle.



Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Joe Biden's stupid Gaza pier lasted 12 days until the sea took it apart

 Expert opinion says the military tried to warn him it wouldn't work in that environment, but Biden persisted.

Most of the aid which was delivered got stolen anyway.

Complete boondoggle, with one critically injured in an accident, but no fatalities as in Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

 



Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Not only did the Joos do 9/11, they did 10/7 too, AND single-handedly kept every single country in the Middle East from becoming a democracy in the post-war

 Works for the very shady Washington Post AND Fuller Seminary. Wow.

Abandon Hope All Who Enter Here.