From religious Jews scurrying out of New York City sewers on New Year's Day to UFO flaps over US military bases, Trump nearly being taken out by a real-life Manchurian Candidate (and then again by a recruiter of mercenaries for the CIA's wars), and now Syria being overrun by the latest iteration of Al Qaeda, none can dispute that 2024 has been a wild year.

While global events have been horrific to watch at times, they've also riveting and at times even inspirational. We were as pessimistic as anyone about Trump's chances of surviving all the lawfare being thrown at him and the expected election rigging, much less an assassin's bullet on the eve of the Republican Convention. And yet, a miracle happened. Donald Trump is going to be US president again.

What he and his 'Team Trump Avengers' can possibly achieve against the all-powerful Washington 'blob' remains to be seen, but in the meantime we have enjoyed the howling, the liberal tears and the about-turns that Trump's victory has provoked. We must also take stock of the utter mess the deranged Biden regime has left behind: a war in eastern Europe that has cost Russia and Ukraine millions in lives and livelihoods; a genocide in Gaza and a Middle East that has never looked so volatile; the de-industrialization of Germany and thus potential economic collapse in Europe; and the global promotion of so-called 'trans ideology' to children, amounting to child abuse and, often, what is effectively child sacrifice.

The inclusion of the likes of Robert Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk within Trump's 'unity government' bodes well for the re-introduction of proper science, proper intelligence and free speech in the USA (and thus the wider Western world), and offers the tantalizing possibility that good governance - that is, 'the rule of normal man' - has returned, but we strongly encourage people to temper any expectations they may have by remembering that the powerful political, bureaucratic and corporate forces 'the Avengers' are up against are deeply entrenched in all layers of society and have, as Senator Chuck Schumer warned Trump many years ago, "six ways from Sunday to get back at you." It may well be that their next 'move', or series of moves, will result in them 'overturning the chessboard' of society rather than see it reflect the will of the people.

With that caveat in mind, let us savor for a moment the fact that many ideas, 'alternative facts' and solutions to social and economic problems - which until now were only discussed on 'fringe, conspiracy' websites like ours - are now being lined up as formal policy positions of the United States government:

upending the food pyramid to favor meat and saturated fats over grains and vegetable oils,

declassifying and making publicly accessible the vast majority of government 'secret' files,

removing corruption from science by breaking regulatory capture and freeing public service agencies to actually serve the public interest,

making censorship illegal,

actually testing the efficacy of dozens of vaccines given to newborns,

drastically reducing so-called 'foreign aid',

slashing government waste and secrecy by auditing all 500 government agencies,

and... a remote possibility - but still, it has been bruited! - ending or at least overhauling the so-called Federal Reserve.

Who's the loony conspiracy theorist now? 'Cause it sure ain't us!

However, with the exception of Trump's victory, and the re-elected of both Putin and India's Modi this year, the will of the people remains artificially suppressed in most smaller, 'vassal' countries. This was seen most glaringly in the recent abrupt cancellation of the Romanian presidential election, where a novice candidate, Călin Georgescu, and one very much in the mold of patriotic populists the world over, was due to win in a landslide. The reason? "Russian interference!" Says who? Romania's intelligence services. Their source? NATO! And we all know NATO would have no interest in meddling in the election of a country that is key to its encirclement of Russia with American bases and missiles...

Followers of our monthly Earth Changes Summary videos know the weather has been increasingly extreme in recent years, but this year there seems to have been a 'phase shift' to a whole new level, with catastrophic, albeit highly localized, flooding occurring everywhere. Scientists have observed that the band of tropical rains that normally encircle the equator - the Intertropical Convergence Zone - has been steadily shifting north (and south), resulting in more deluges 'straying' from tropical zones, and producing record rainfalls in places like Spain, the Carolinas, and even the Saudi and Sahara deserts. If these 'meanderings' continue, they're going to encounter Arctic fronts and drop their 'atmospheric rivers of rain'... as snow. We are still on track for our long-term prediction that 'climate change' - a largely natural phenomenon mankind has neither the power nor intelligence to substantially effect - is leading us to 'sudden glacial rebound', i.e. ice age conditions. Those windmills and electric cars and 'green' moves to 'de-energize' civilization aren't just wrong-headed: they're a noose around society's neck.

An awakening of humanity - to everything, the corruption of government, science, entertainment, even the food supply - is underway, but for now most people remain content to being ruled by certifiably insane people. As long as there's sufficient 'bread' (however poor in quality) and sufficient 'circuses' (however shallow and crass), most minds are being absorbed by the 'fourth industrial, transhuman revolution' of the globalists, just as Israel and the American war machine - despite formal international condemnation - are still rolling over the bodies of thousands of dead children in their megalomaniac quest for global hegemony.

However, as Putin and other intelligent leaders keep pointing out, the 'rhythm of history' is "irreversible." Just as the US 'deep state' had to yield to Trump because his sheer popularity meant the US election was 'too big to rig', hegemony must yield to multipolarity because China is now the engine of the world economy and Russia has weapons no one can stop. Intransigence in the face of this Objective Reality means that great dislocations are coming - in one form or another - to the global economy: if it doesn't occur through the use of hypersonic weapons in the clashes between Israel and Iran, Russia and NATO, or China and the US over Taiwan, then it will come through 'a thousand cuts' via trade wars and crop failures from the extreme weather. It may begin with a bang or a trickle, but soon enough people will begin noticing trouble everywhere, and to many it may appear to happen 'all at once'.

This is the apocalypse, folks. It's not a sudden 'end', and it's not as depicted in the bible or Hollywood movies. It's the great transition from the Old World to the New, in the process unveiling the Truth of all that was once hidden, within people, and without in the world they inhabit. We're proud to be here to witness it, to catalogue it, to comment on it, and to have you continue supporting us.

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