Greetings my fellow Flea Marketeers. My what a last few months! So much drama, so much noise, and the impossibility of knowing which way the current events and winds of war are blowing. It seems that there is nothing like a fresh war to spook consumer sentiment, whether that be at your favorite, local Main Street small business, Southern California vintage flea markets or investor sentiment on the stock/futures markets as demonstrated by it’s mid level volatility, most notably since the Iran/Israel/US war began! Caution continues to be lurking in the shadows as Trump’s ClownCom continues to keep us guessing and giving us all even more reasons to distrust our elected Oaf-Ficials, un-elected bureaucrats and our misinfo generating, mainstream media. At least there is some consensus amongst the majority of economists and investment analysts… the ONLY thing that’s certain is a VERY uncertain future! Those countries that currently hold the top positions in the global deck of power cards are likely to find their positions re-shuffled in the power hierarchy over the next two to three years.

These past several months since Bibi and his obedient “Bitch”, our zionist compliant president Trump, began their joint effort to unsuccessfully blow Iran to smithereens is just about the time sales began slowing for myself and many of my fellow vintage vendors at the So Cal flea and vinyl markets, most likely due to the real and imagined consequences of regularly inflating costs for life’s necessities like gas, food, utilities and vintage vinyl sucking up much of our customers disposable income. The supply chain uncertainty and the inflation that always seems to go along with that makes an uncertain future even more uncertain especially now that the phrase “tactical nuclear” seems to be making a comeback amongst the intell and military analysts monitoring the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine events. Yikes!

Mr. Market and citizen consumers love economic stability. Political, economic and now war related uncertainty, not so much. The upcoming, post midterm elections, Thanksgiving and Xmas holiday season, Ho Ho Humbug? Even though the smoke seems to be settling just a bit, at this point, personal opinion, all bets are off on economic stability resuming anytime soon. Varying degrees of rationing will likely be part of daily life in many northern hemisphere counties, including the USA, as winter settles in. Unless, of course… 

In 1776, American Colonists freedom from England became the official law of the land! In 2026, two hundred and fifty years later, America First’s pissed off United States citizens declare freedom from Zionism Inc and it’s Corp of Carpet Bagging Hate Mongers?! Sign me up!!

I’ve got to admit it was lovely for me to see X-MAGA, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie in front of some congressional committee back in June demanding an investigation into Israel’s 1967 lethal attack on the USS Liberty a few months after I mentioned the subject in my April post “America First… or Israel First”. Massie’s presentation finally brought overdue attention to the reality of our “good buddy” Israel (LBJ), being the lying, double-crossing sack of camel dung that it’s been over the last several decades. The unseen movement of ripples in the matrix never ceases to amaze me!

The in our face, perfectly timed irony of America’s 250th celebration of declaring it’s independence from being under the thumb of the English crown and it’s leader King George back in 1776, bears such a similar stink, 250 years later, to the growing realization by We the U.S. citizenry, from Social Democrats to MAGA’s and X-MAGA’s, centrist Repubs and Dems, that our country is once again under the thumb of an even more aggressive, even more oppressive, even more cut-throat, back-stabbing and this time hateful foreign entity – Zionism Inc and it’s Master of Hate, the Anti-Christ himself (*), Bibi “What a Yahoo!”, er, uh, Netanyahu. Eyes are opening! This is extremely encouraging!

As the midterms approach, the big question for me affecting the economic outlook going forward, and I’m sure I speak for a few million others, will We the Voting People of America seize this most historical of historical moments and kick the hate filled Zionist carpetbaggers to the curb and evict them, their lobbyists and their money out of the US political system once and for all so that We, the full spectrum of American People, can truly get back on track, put our differences aside, and focus on putting “America First”, so that we can all work towards making America great again? That would be a game changer! 

Take a moment to imagine where America would be as a society and a more egalitarian (?!!) global power had it not been for Israel’s parasitic takeover and influence of many of our bureaucratic and government institutions as well as hijacking our American Dream mindset and quietly replacing it with it’s “Greater Israel” mindset. Hmmm, is it possible that the United States began its decline from “Great” just about the time Israel began to officially attach itself to Washington DC and raiding out Tax Payer funded U.S. Treasury in the 1960’s? There are decades worth of Zionist/Israeli bullshit that desperately needs to be undone, as well as so much that needs to be done to restore Main Street America to its previous American Dream greatness. Right now, this appears to be America’s greatest challenge. The question is, are we up for it? Do we have the patriotic stamina to shove this foreign parasite out of America once and for all?

As we consider who we will vote for in the midterms, let’s start by looking into which candidates are gladly taking contributions from Zionism Inc, Israel, and their sleazy stooges, and call them out via word of mouth and social media, and make damn sure these hate mongers and their enablers do not get any seats in our city, county, state or federal government bodies. America First ain’t gonna happen till that happens. Period. The entites tracking AIPAC’s zionist supported candidates can be found here.

OK, pull up a chair, make yourself comfy… Today’s Hot Topics in order of appearance – Part 1, Trump’s “No War”/Iran War betrayal of MAGA; the upcoming BRICS challenge to the US Petro-Dollar as the global reserve currency. Part 2 (early next week), the inevitable crash coming in the US housing market; the Midterm Elections with focus on the California governors race, and some ending food for future thought about HHS/MAHA, etc.

Alas, T.A.C.O. Trump, the “No War” president, betrays his MAGA base, betrays America First. “Operation Epic Fury” turns into “Operation Epic Oops!” Can it get any worse? Yes it can. The MAGA Mutiny I forecast back in … 2025?!

“Hey baby, when I write I’m the hero of my shit”, Charles Bukowski. 

“All we have is bad options, worse options, and catastrophic options.” X-Dept of War, Joe Kent w Mario Nawfal

For the near term Q4 and most likely throughout the rest of trump’s term thru Jan 2028, those who support and profit from unending war, those who make guns, rockets and bombs, those who make drones, those who make the (now obsolete) armored vehicles, ships, space and aircraft, etc… the Military Industrial Complex, will have nice financial tailwinds for the foreseeable future as the Pentagon is now forced to play catch up with the Iranian’s superior weapons, as will the tech freaks who write the ultimate code to integrate all things human and all things digital into one big Brave New World social engineered, trans-human, A.I. nightmare. Who’d a thunk? 

In the land of lying sack of shitness, to America’s “hero” Trump, “no war” means “pro war”. “America First” means Trump, Field Marshall Miller, Sergeant Soros Bessent  and ClownCom will be first and foremost to exploit the financial opportunities as the war unfolds. “Got it, Pee-On? Good!” Main Street America and MAGA can fuck off and die as far as they are concerned, hoping that we will slowly wither and die over the next two/several years as the economic pressures on our population continue to increase while the resulting stress that typically accompanies that pressure contributes to the ongoing decline in America’s health and population. By design?! Less pee-ons means easier pee-on management! Bureaucratic Math 101! They are only in this for the power and the money and to advance their Neo and techno-Feudalist’s agenda, as per previous WEForum and a multitude of globalist entity agreements – Full Neo-Feudalist Control of the Western World! Just ask Yanis!

The MAGA-loids that still remain Trump’s truest believers, unfortunately, appear to be the most willfully ignorant and absolute sloooooow-est to learn, and those who are most likely to be burned big time by their trust in Betrayer Trump. And I suspect they are the ones most likely to get the angriest and want vengeance when the reality of how much Trump has fkd them breaks through their cognitive dissonance. Ladies and Gentlemen, Donald Trump will not go down in history as the “hero” he thinks he is, he will go down as the ZERO he actually is!

As far as the world is concerned, Trump’s political capital is currently below ZERO. His credibility, and by association, America’s credibility, is now negative (the US dollar soon to follow? Next section!). Just ask the Iranians whom he has deceived and stabbed in the back with promises of “diplomacy” and wanting to make “a deal” before going 180 and assassinating Iran’s and Islam’s Supreme Leader to satisfy the wet dream of the psychopath and HATE monger in chief, the prophesied Anti-Christ (*) himself, NutAndYahoo, as the United States is dragged along for the bloody ride.

From a very sober discussion between Marine Corps Intell Officer, Major Scott Ritter (the Iraq nuke and WMD inspector under Bush Sr) and Judge Napolitano (big time current events attention on YouTube!) as the war with Iran escalated in March (21:45”), “and once again, we’ve committed an act of perfidy (betrayal), hiding behind a white flag of diplomacy in order to shield a surprise attack, a stab in the back. This is a regime change operation that was promulgated on lies, the lies of an Iranian nuclear threat”. Ritter continues (26:45’), “We have lost all credibility. We have zero credibility. We can’t be trusted in anything. This is what Donald Trump has done… this is an insane man who has created a cult of personality… And that’s what makes him very dangerous, because he has surrounded himself with sycophants and people who are more loyal to the state of Israel than they are to the American Constitution.” Huh? “More loyal to Israel” than to America?!! Like Commandate Marco Rubio? Like Field Marshall Stephen Miller? Like the Caveman Crusader, Pete Hegseth??!! Isn’t it obvious? Zionism Inc has attempted to subvert America First?! Yeah, sounds about right. I think only the dyed in the wool Zionist’s who haven’t fled back to Israel (yet) would disagree with Ritter’s assessment.

The perfidy Ritter mentions, the blatant, repeated deception by Trump to the Iranians, reminds me of the infamous Peanut’s Charlie Brown practicing field goal kicks with his sadistic team mate, Lucy; Charlie trusting Lucy for the umpteenth time to hold the foot ball so he can kick it to a field goal that wins the game, only to have Sadistic Lucy pull the ball away at the last second while Charlie Brown’s kick momentum sends him flying through the air. Ha! Summersaults! Face Plant! Funny!…  Well, only until Charlie wakes up and decides to out sadistic Lucy by rushing towards the football Lucy is holding and at the critical moment, just as Sadistic Lucy is about to pull the ball away again, WHAM! Charlie Brown puts that swift kick foot right into the back of Sadistic Lucy’s unsuspecting head and… “Whoa!! Field Goal!! Yay, Charley Brown!!!” Is Peanuts syndicated in Iran? It seems Iran is now well aware of sadistic Trump’s “Lucy” deception and is now militarily ready to give Trump and obedient (as of now) ClownCom a swift boot to the head, when it is needed. 

As for nuclear war possibilities initiated by USA and/or Israel, Col. Larry Wilkerson, who has much much Middle East experience and who seems to me to be cut from wisest Eisenhower cloth, had this to say with Mario Nawfal back in July, (9:25’) “We’re confronting two theaters of war right now (Iran and Russia/Ukraine), both of which have the potential to spin out of control at almost any moment, and both of which have the potential for the use of nuclear weapons…” No sirree, Bob, the atomic elephant cloud back in the room doesn’t get much bigger than that!

How in the hell is an economist, whether Main St flea market me or any of the corporate/academic/media economists supposed to make a quarterly or annual forecast with so much nuclear, etc uncertainty in the air? The answer – ya can’t! The worst part of this is, Trump still has just over two years before termed out (pending boot to the head). He and his ClownCom administration can continue to do as they please, thoroughly enjoying the Moral Hazard benefits that go along with his presidential position. He doesn’t have to give a flying fk about congress, the supreme court, his MAGA base, about anything… all that is effectively meaningless to him at this point no matter which way the midterms go. State legislated corruption can be a lovely thing for those who know how to navigate it and buy time. From now on, their biggest concern will be how to best exploit and profit from the created chaos and get the fk out of dodge before the betrayed MAGA’s and the newly elected Congress come looking for mutiny and impeachment revenge! “President Trump, Citizen Trump, Fugitive Trump?” anyone? What I had forecast for Trump waaaaay back in 2021 as his first term ended, may still come to pass.

The final word in this segment goes to the very controversial lightning rod Nick Fuentes, who’s was a rabid early advocate for Trump’s promotion of “America First” during Trump’s first term and also one of the first MAGA’s to go X-MAGA, before Marjorie, before Tucker, before Kent, when he realized Trump was actually in full service to Israel, the Yahu and the Zionist Inc, “Greater Israel” agenda and that Trump had absolutely no intention of putting Main Street “America First” in his second term. A bitter, bitter betrayal. Charlie Kirk (RIP) also had a front row seat to the zionist’s deceit.

As I had forecast back in 2025, the inevitable MAGA Mutiny has begun!! Sayeth Mr. Fuentes mid March before ICE went full over reaction, (26:60) “You were voted in to stop this war and deport the illegals. You’re doing neither. Now I want you to suffer. I want you to pay a price… I want you to be impeached. I want you investigated. I want you thrown out… I don’t want you to have a political future because you fucked us.” It’s refreshing to see that that sentiment has become much more universal amongst MAGA’s. Nick continues at 29:10, “Well, I hate the republicans now. So I’m voting for the other guy.” I have no idea how much influence he has with his followers now or who his “other guy” of choice will be for the 2028 election, but I know he still has a lot of influence. Watch that man! Watch his followers. We can’t have a true “America First” when foreigners and a foreign ideology rob our treasury with the help of our corrupt and zionist compromised elected and un-elected OAF-icials! Zionism Inc has its work cut out for it. May it FAIL horribly in it’s endeavor!!

Say buddy, can you spare a BRICS? No? How about an SCO?

‘When people think the dollar is going to collapse soon, I generally assume they haven’t traveled much and/or haven’t studied other currencies. Things can go a lot further than people think and still be semi-functional.” Author of “Dirty Money”, Lyn Alden, Investment Adviser, 6/25

Yes indeed, post ClownCom, the next several years are most likely to remain many shades of “semi-functional” as far as the US Dollar goes despite the threats from CBDC’s, Wall Street’s and big tech’s continuing “War on Cash”, and peeking just over the horizon thanks to Trump’s sanctions on Iran, just a little more urgency into creating an alternative financial system and competing reserve currency just out of America’s reach. 

So what does one do when the #1 economy on the planet, as of now, the United (?) States of America, who loves to be a fiscal, monetary and military bully, has lost much credibility, shows itself to be militarily over-rated and can no longer be trusted due to leadership that constantly says one thing but does another two seconds later? At what point does that lack of trust migrate to its reserve currency and begin to degrade its value? Well, if you are a sovereign nation that’s been targeted for economic sanctions due to disagreements with the American bully for the last several years, or several decades, you start looking for work arounds to their enforcement tools of choice, one of the biggest being the SWIFT international payments system. And those work arounds might just include looking into building a parallel international payments system totally independent of the bully’s gravitational pull! 

“We’re going to have to have a whole new global financial system and a whole new global economic system if we’re all going to make it through this period of time,” (45’) remarked Col. Larry Wilkerson on the 8/28 broadcast of Dialogue Works. The Col. has deep, deep military and political experience with the middle east going back more than a couple decades.

By way of one of my favorite econo’s, Yanis Varoufakis circa 2025, BEFORE the Iran/US war officially began (and before Youtube “removed” his some of his videos!! WTF?!), “we are looking at the beginning of a genuine alternative to the petro-dollar system. The economic implications are staggering.… what we are witnessing isn’t just about Venezuela, it’s about the rules of the global economic system being rewritten through confrontation rather than negotiation and that process, no matter how it resolves in this particular case, will define the economic landscape for decades to come.” Please to note, “confrontation rather than negotiation”! It looks to me that our confrontation with Iran, on widdle Israel’s behalf, and Trump/ClownCom’s gross under estimation of Iran’s will and ability to fight back, is exactly the kind of event now forcing the rewriting of the “rules of the global economic system” and is currently re-defining “the economic landscape for decades to come.” Oops!! Iran, “an official member of the BRICS economic bloc” (google), might want to give Trump some credit for his unintentionally forcing the BRICS agenda of disengagement with the U.S. dollar, finance system and domineering western mindset, while adding to the ongoing list of his policy failures. 

Two major economic meetings that have been discussing some work arounds happened during the quieter part of the US/Iran/Israel war this past summer where the subject of US/Scott Bessent “D-Day” imposed economic sanctions on Iran was one of the hottest topics due to it’s impact on many of the countries attending; the 26th meeting of the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization/SCO Plus, held in Russia (for the last 26 years?! Huh? new to me!) and the more familiar, 18th BRICS Summit held in India. By way of Reuters, “BRICS has expanded to include Iran, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates beyond an original membership of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa two decades ago that aimed to transform a world order dominated by the United States.” You don’t say?

America’s bully inclination to insist on a “do as I say, not as I do” policy of economic intimidation by means of tariffs and sanctions with sovereign nations appears to be reaching a breaking point, and now a point of no return due to secondary sanctions placed on neighboring countries doing business with Israel’s mortal enemy, Iran, as per economic “D-Day” demands by Treasury Secretary Bessent. If military might doesn’t work, Plan B, switch to Monetary Might! But, it appears that Russia and China have no intention of going along with Trump’s and Bessent’s sanctions threats. “What’cha gonna do now, baby?” The mighty eagle, the US Dollar, if it’s not careful, may eventually find its position as the reserve currency of choice being challenged by a BRICS alternative. (Shhh. It’s just a matter of time!)

X-CIA intell, Larry Johnson, recently had this to say on Transition Protocol, a well connected intell entity watching Middle East mischief very very closely, “I think we’re moving increasingly towards the day, where we’re going to see the unity of SCO plus BRICS where they will merge. At the same time we’re seeing the creation of a new international, financial architecture. And accompanying that financial architecture is the new Geo economic political architecture.” In an earlier Dialogue Works interview he mentioned (51:20’), “The focus on BRICS will be how do the BRICS nations secure their independence from the western financial system?” Despite the intention currently at a high point, with so many cooks/countries in the BRICS/SCO kitchen’s, that might be difficult to pull off.

It seems the days of the US Dollar/Petro-Dollar being the global reserve currency are likely coming to an end thanks to America’s, and now Trump’s, ongoing economic warfare by means of trade tariffs and financial sanctions. The Iran/US war seems to have had the surprise effect (?) of accelerating the move of the BRICS member nations to finalize (?) the loose ends and separate themselves from the US dollar, the SWIFT payment system and anything else that keeps them tethered to the US and European banking and finance orbits, despite internal frictions. America is now being forced to get over its superiority complex and will continue to kick and scream like the spoiled brat it is until it finally learns to play nice with it’s fellow sovereign nations and accept the fact that “My way or the Highway”, and more recently, “We negotiate with BOMBS!”,  is a very ineffective means of global diplomacy. Hmmm, Trump, Hegseth… diplomacy?! Hoo-Haw!!

And most importantly, there’s the matter of the new Iran economic reality. Concerning the Memorandum of Understanding that Trump signed with the Iranians, listing the essentials demanded for ending the hostilities, Scott Ritter had this to say about the potential effects of lifting the sanctions on Iran that began in 1979 with the seizure of $8 billion in assets. (12:35’) “Iran is emerging with a clean slate… for the first time in the history of the Islamic republic, Iran will be in complete control of its economy and of its economic future. The Iranian people are going to reap the benefit of getting oil on the market at fair market value.” Hey, wasn’t that what the newly elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh was trying to do for the Iranian people waaaaay back in 1951 because the UK oil companies they were doing business with were fkng them and refused to renegotiate the oil proceeds, necessitating the “need” for the USA/CIA to intervene/overthrow on the UK’s behalf in 1953?! Now that’s a topic America’s intell, right wing and Zionism Inc would prefer to keep locked up tight in the Memory Hole of time. All this shit started in 1979? ABSOLUTELY 100% BULL SHIT!!!! It started in 1953, pinheads, with the help of the USA!!! Iran’s hatred of America goes back a bit further than is currently being reported, and it appears to be justified!

“The SCO members are in a position to describe what’s going to replace the US order, and I think that’s really the key.” Prof/economist Michael Hudson recently said on Dialogue Works. During the interview it was also mentioned that at the recent SCO meeting, it ended with the signing of the “Bishkek Declaration”, a 10 nation stand down, strong suggestion to the USA/Trump to vacate the war in Iran!! Wouldn’t it be interesting if these BD countries decided to tit the Trump/Bessent tat and impose sanctions on the USA for non-compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding Trump signed with Iran in June?! If the game can be played between countries with tariffs, why not sanctions?

The bottom line… Col. Wilkerson, in a moment of looking past the current chaos and drama and towards the bigger picture asks the zillion dollar question’ “How do we craft a new world and make it, in essence, a new world that’s manageable?” (39:20) Ha! Similar to the core “Fair for All” economic question/riddle I was asking in my “about the FMEconomist” page back in 2020. Will we wake up or will we blow up?

Yes kids, going forward, the global power players with their competing finance, economic and political systems are having their deck chairs seriously reshuffled on the global stage as we speak. Now that Iran is showing it’s previously smothered economic, intellectual and military potential to be one of the major players in the middle east in maybe the next five years, the economic and finance world as we know it built on a western economic mindset looks like it’s going to be forced to adjust to the shifting of gears that go with a more sober, dare I say “managed”, eastern/islamic economic mindset that might take us un-regulated, free market indoctrinated, westerners some getting used to. Some of my fellow Flea Marketeers might bitch and whine when the Rose Bowl international shoppers start pulling out wads of BRICS or SCO currency instead of US Dollars, asking if we can make change. (Sorry, sport! At the Rose Bowl Flea, U.S. Cash is King! There’s a currency exchange machine at the entrance…) You can also be sure that the Wall Street and London speculation boys are going to be frantically scrambling to update their carry trade algorithms on a regular basis to not only stay ahead of the herd, but to also avoid having a few surprise BRICS thrown through their ivory tower windows. This is going to be interesting, to say the least.

Next up in Part 2 of the FME Q4 Forecast – The Upcoming U.S. Real Estate/Housing Crash, the ripples from the Midterm Elections/California governor’s race, and the likelihood of HHS/MAHA finally flexing it’s muscles post midterms  and beginning to reverse our current iatrogenic medical model that has steadily increased chronic disease in America for at least the last forty years! Oh Boy!!

(*) Bibi Netanyahu as the “Anti-Christ”, HATE Monger, etc prophesized in Revelation. If I’m correct, the Jewish rabbi Jesus the Christ’s message/mission was spreading a Gospel of Love. Hate is the polar opposite of love, yes? Bibi HATES the Palestinians. Bibi HATES his Arab neighbors and the Islamic Persian nation, Iran. Bibi’s Gospel of Hate, the polar opposite of the Gospel of Love, to me, makes him the perfect candidate for the personification and biblical fullfillment of the Anti-Christ now in our very midst. “Bibi Anti-Christ” merch coming soon!!!

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