The dogs of war is a phrase spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3 of English playwright William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.  The dogs of war are snarling louder as Israel's leadership is moved to desperate measures.

Israel approves battle plans for Hezbollah, edging closer to war

Are Israel And Lebanon's Hezbollah On The Brink Of War?

Hezbollah chief says nowhere in Israel will be spared in case of full-blown war

IDF spokesman says Hamas can’t be destroyed, drawing retort from PM: β€˜That’s war’s goal’  Hagari calls Hamas β€˜an idea rooted in the hearts of the people,’ also says it will stay in Gaza unless alternative found; PM reiterates war aims, amid divisions with defense brass

          Fruits & Nuts

 interest payments on US national debt will overtake defense spending in 2024

Woah - here's another big piece of the puzzle: consumer spending went negative in Apr after adjusting for inflation

Where's Greta when you need her?

Possibly one of the strangest aerial phenomena I’ve seen recorded (and there’s been a lot recently!)

The Coming 'Mark'
JAMIE WALDEN

While many are fixated on the endless speculations of the "Mark of the Beast", we should only ever be concerned with one mark and with one seal: The "Mark of God"

Intel Chiefs Warn
β€œIncreasingly Fragile World Order”

China "may attempt to influence the U.S. elections in 2024 at some level because of its desire to sideline critics of China and magnify US societal divisions,"

Hypersonic and directed-energy weapons

Who has them, and who’s winning the race in the Asia-Pacific?

A poem by Major Michael Davis O'Donnel
-Vietnam1969

    If you are able,/save them a place/inside of you/and save one backward glance when you are leaving/for the places they can/no longer go.
     Be not ashamed to say/you loved them,/though you may/or may not have always.
     Take what they have left/and what they have taught you/with their dying/and keep it with your own.
     And in that time/when men decide and feel safe/to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace/those gentle heroes/you left behind

The Rise of the Machines
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 Bots & Ai Page

  Everyone who has been paying attention knows the people's gold was collectivized during the 1930s under Roosevelt. However, few recognize that at the same time the credit of the people was also collectivized and collectivized credit restricts capitol formation, keeping the sheeple firmly in the grip of the master elite. Collectivized credit is an implementation of the fifth plank of the communist manifesto.
   According to the Economist there is still 1 trillion in unspent Covid relief money supporting consumer spending right now, but, that may soon run out.  Commercial real estate loans have decimated large bank balance sheets and if not for modern accounting slight of hand the next great depression would be upon us.  "In Europe and America business bankruptcies are already rising; even companies that locked in low rates by issuing long-term debt will in time have to face higher financing costs. House prices will fall, at least in inflation-adjusted terms, as they respond to dearer mortgages."
  What's a poor family to do? Try asking the simple immigrants flooding across our borders. Trust in God, work hard and put together some hard assets: business property, gold, silver, diamonds, land., fine art etc..  Insulate your family from the tribal warfare to come or join the ranks of uncle Joe Biden and Colonel Xi's slaves. 
- Mel 


Failed Banks In The U.S. β€” An Analysis By Year, Size And More -Forbes

Fascinating, You are the deer in their headlights.  Click Here To Watch The Debt Clock Run.  Birds don't fly to the moon. There are limits to everything and right now the economic consensus is trending hard toward near term disaster.  Duck and cover, if you can.

As of July 2023, M2 money supply was 3.69% below the all-time high recorded in July 2022. This marks the first time since the Great Depression that we've witnessed a meaningful decline in U.S. money supply.

The Money Supply Continues its Biggest Collapse Since the Great Depression  - Mises Wire

Barrons:  M2 Money Supply Is Getting Hammered. What It Means for the Fed, Economy, and Inflation.
Also See :  The Money Supply and the Housing Market Are Joined at the Hi

The War on the Dollar

    Last year Mel brought up the possibility of Germany & other NATO states aligning with the East. Tyler Durden, writing in Zerohedge reports: Germany Open To Idea West Behind Nord Stream Sabotage With "Aim Of Blaming It On Russia" What is responsible for the apparent erosion of trust in the US? The BRICS axis, which is often described as a powerful grouping of the world's leading emerging market economies, stands at the door ready to exploit the power vacuum created by the Biden administration's bumbling leftist socioeconomic chaos. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has stated that β€˜over a dozen’ countries have formally applied to join the BRICS grouping... If accepted, the new proposed BRICS members would create an entity with a GDP 30% larger than the United States, over 50% of the global population and in control of 60% of global gas reserves.
     In the past we got our bang for our bucks watching the greenback rule the world. But no more: enter Ukraine. The Ukraine war is not a military battle as much as a money war between the Dollar & the Russian/ Chinese commodity linked confidence package. Gas and gold are real. Biden promissory notes are becoming ethereal products of Biden's increasing dementia and profligate spending. The BRICS are building and the dollar is drowning. The debt clock still hasn't figured out the conversion to dollars on three major commodities still showing zero because if they let the algorithm loose the curtain might part and the flailing wiz would show his hand... Compare the western alliance’s fiat currency, deficit spending with the Russian-Chinese axis’s planned industrial revolution for some 3.8 billion people including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) family. China has a remarkable savings rate, which will underpin investment capital for a rapid increase in Asian industrialization with little inflationary consequence. Chess Master Putin Is Moving Closer To Destroying The US Dollar

. Pray for healing of the American mind and the unmasking of the totalitarian dragon . -Mel

  "Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle..." Washington Post
  Massive draw downs occurred when  hurricane Katrina shut down Gulf coast area refineries and again for Operation Desert Storm. Yet the Bidens have chosen not to replenish the supply 

Selling Your Oil To China
The Biden Administration hasn’t bought back any of the 266 million barrels of oil that have been removed from the SPR - Forbes


Realty is: China probably would have collapsed if Trump were elected. The Chinese economy is literally being propped up by the Biden regime at the expense of the Americanconsumer.