After Apple announced that their sales during the first quarter are going to be much, much lower than previously anticipated, Apple’s stock price started shooting down like a rocket and by the end of the session on Wednesday the company had lost 75 billion dollars in market capitalization. Meanwhile, “flash crashes” caused some of the most violent swings that we have ever seen in the foreign exchange markets… It took seven minutes for the yen to surge through levels that have held through almost a decade.

In those wild minutes from about 9:30 am Sydney, the yen jumped almost 8 percent against the Australian dollar to its strongest since 2009, and surged 10 percent versus the Turkish lira. The Japanese currency rose at least 1 percent versus all its Group-of-10 peers, bursting through the 72 per Aussie level that has held through a trade war, a stock rout, Italy’s budget dispute and Federal Reserve rate hikes.

This is the kind of chaos that we only see during a financial crisis. There will be good days and there will be bad days in 2019. There will be ups and there will be downs. But it has become exceedingly clear that the downturn that so many have been anticipating has finally arrived, and the financial crisis of 2019 looks like it is going to be a doozy.

There’s so much evidence in support of 9/11 being an inside job, yet it’s still brushed off as a ‘conspiracy theory’ by many. Despite the mainstream narrative, so many people have come forward to share their truth regarding what happened that day including academics, scientists, architects, and engineers. Even family members of multiple victims and firefighters who were in the building that day have spoken out, yet somehow all of these statements have gone completely ignored by the US government. Perhaps in Trump’s presidency, things will change…

The European Court of Justice remains sovereign, as repeatedly stipulated. Perhaps most damagingly of all, we agree to sign away the rights we would have, under international law, to unilaterally walk away. Again, what follows relates (in most part) for the “transition” period. But the language is consistent with the E.U. imagining that this will be the final deal.

The top 40 horrors:

1. From the offset, we should note that this is an EU text, not a UK or international text. This has one source. The Brexit agreement is written in Brussels.

2. [Mrs] May says her deal means the UK leaves the EU next March. The Withdrawal Agreement makes a mockery of this. “All references to Member States and competent authorities of Member States… shall be read as including the United Kingdom.” (Art 6). Not quite what most people understand by Brexit. It goes on to spell out that the UK will be in the EU but without any MEPs, a commissioner or ECJ judges. We are effectively a Member State, but we are excused – or, more accurately, excluded – from attending summits (Article 7).

3. The European Court of Justice is decreed to be our highest court, governing the entire Agreement. Article 4 stipulates that both citizens and resident companies can use it. Article 4.2 orders our courts to recognise this. “If the European Commission considers that the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil an obligation under the Treaties or under Part Four of this Agreement before the end of the transition period, the European Commission may, within 4 years after the end of the transition period, bring the matter before the Court of Justice of the European Union” (Article 87).

4. The jurisdiction of the ECJ will last until eight years after the end of the transition period (Article 158).

5. The UK will still be bound by any future changes to EU law in which it will have no say, not to mention having to comply with current law (Article 6(2)).

6. Any disputes under the Agreement will be decided by EU law only – one of the most dangerous provisions (Article 168). This cuts the UK off from International Law, something we’d never do with any foreign body. Arbitration will be governed by the existing procedural rules of the EU law – this is not arbitration as we would commonly understand it (ie between two independent parties) (Article 174).

7. “UNDERLINING that this Agreement is founded on an overall balance of benefits, rights and obligations for the Union and the United Kingdom” No, it should be based upon the binding legal obligations upon the EU contained within Article 50. It is wrong to suggest otherwise.

8. The tampon tax clause: We obey EU laws on VAT, with no chance of losing the tampon tax even if we agree a better deal in December 2020 because we hereby agree to obey other EU VAT rules for **five years** after the transition period. Current EU rules prohibit 0-rated VAT on products (like tampons) that did not have such exemptions before the country joined the EU.

9. Several problems with the EU’s definitions: “Union law” is too widely defined and “United Kingdom national” is defined by the Lisbon Treaty: we should [never have] given away our right to define our citizens. The “goods” and the term “services” we are promised in the deal are not defined – or, rather, will be defined however the EU wishes them to be. Thus far, this a non-defined term so far. This agreement fails to define it.

10. The Mandelson Pension Clause: The UK must promise never to tax former EU officials based here – such as Peter Mandelson or Neil Kinnock – on their EU pensions, or tax any current Brussels bureaucrats on their salaries. The EU and its employees are to be immune to our tax laws (Article 104).

11. Furthermore, the UK agrees not to prosecute EU employees who are, or who might be deemed in future, criminals (Article 101).

12. The GDPR clause. The General Data Protection Regulation – the EU’s stupidest law ever? – is to be bound into UK law (Articles 71 to 73). There had been an expectation in some quarters that the UK could get out of it.

13. The UK establishes a ‘Joint Committee’ with EU representatives to guarantee ‘the implementation and application of this Agreement’. This does not sound like a withdrawal agreement – if it was, why would it need to be subject to continued monitoring (Article 164)? This Joint Committee will have subcommittees with jurisdiction over: (a) citizens’ rights; (b) “other separation provisions”; (c) Ireland/Northern Ireland; (d) Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus; (e) Gibraltar; and (f) financial provisions (Article 165).

14. The Lifetime clause: the agreement will last as long as the country’s youngest baby lives. “the persons covered by this Part shall enjoy the rights provided for in the relevant Titles of this Part for their lifetime” (Article 39).

15. The UK is shut out of all EU networks and databases for security – yet no such provision exists to shut the EU out of ours (Article 8).

16. The UK will be tied to EU foreign policy, “bound by the obligations stemming from the international agreements concluded by the Union” but unable to influence such decisions (Article 124).

17. All EU citizens must be given permanent right of residence after five years – but what counts as residence? This will be decided by the EU, rather than UK rules (Articles 15-16).

18. Britain is granted the power to send a civil servant to Brussels to watch them pass stupid laws which will hurt our economy (Article 34).

19. The UK agrees to spend taxpayers’ money telling everyone how wonderful the agreement is (Article 37).

20. Art 40 defines Goods. It seems to includes Services and Agriculture. We may come to discover that actually ‘goods’ means everything.

21. Articles 40-49 practically mandate the UK’s ongoing membership of the Customs Union in all but name.

22. The UK will be charged to receive the data/information we need in order to comply with EU law (Article 50).

23. The EU will continue to set rules for UK intellectual property law (Article 54 to 61).

24. The UK will effectively be bound by a non-disclosure agreement swearing us to secrecy regarding any EU developments we have paid to be part of. This is not mutual. The EU is not bound by such measures (Article 74).

25. The UK is bound by EU rules on procurement – which effectively forbids us from seeking better deals elsewhere (Articles 75 to 78).

26. We give up all rights to any data the EU made with our money (Article 103).

27. The EU decide capital projects (too broadly defined) the UK is liable for (Article 144).

28. The UK is bound by EU state aid laws until future agreement – even in the event of an agreement, this must wait four years to be valid (Article 93).

29. Similar advantages and immunities are extended to all former MEPs and to former EU officials more generally (Articles 106-116).

30. The UK is forbidden from revealing anything the EU told us or tells us about the finer points of the deal and its operation (Article 105).

31. Any powers the UK parliament might have had to mitigate EU law are officially removed (Article 128).

32. The UK shall be liable for any “outstanding commitments” after 2022 (Article 142(2) expressly mentions pensions, which gives us an idea as to who probably negotiated this). The amount owed will be calculated by the EU (Articles 140-142).

33. The UK will be liable for future EU lending. As anyone familiar with the EU’s financials knows, this is not good (Article143).

34. The UK will remain liable for capital projects approved by the European Investment Bank (Article 150).

35. The UK will remain a ‘party’ (ie cough up money) for the European Development Fund (Articles 152-154).

36. And the EU continues to calculate how much money the UK should pay it. So thank goodness Brussels does not have any accountancy issues.

37. The UK will remain bound (ie coughing up money) to the European Union Emergency Trust Fund – which deals with irregular migration (ie refugees) and displaced persons heading to Europe. (Article 155).

38. The agreement will be policed by ‘the Authority’ – a new UK-based body with ‘powers equivalent to those of the European Commission’ (Article 159).

39. The EU admits, in Article 184, that it is in breach of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which oblige it to “conclude an agreement” of the terms of UK leaving the EU. We must now, it seems, “negotiate expeditiously the agreements governing their future relationship.” And if the EU does not? We settle down to this Agreement.

40. And, of course, the UK will agree to pay £40 billion to receive all of these ‘privileges’ (Article 138).

But the 2008 financial crisis, which left severely damaged the euro, and the Greek debt crisis of 2010 has left a sour taste in the mouth of some experts, many of whom believe the faltering currency will one day completely collapse. Richard Wellings, deputy research director at the free-market think-tank the Institute of economic affairs, said: “The euro has become a symbol of the EU’s economic malaise and internal divisions.

“The EU elite put the drive towards ever-closer union above the interests of citizens. One size fits all doesn’t work and the best policy now would be an orderly break up of the Eurozone.” Steve Keen, a professor of economics at Kingston University, said: “The Euro has brought low growth, economic instability, and political discord to Europe. Yet Europe’s unaccountable leaders spin it as an unbridled positive, at a time when ordinary citizens of Europe are donning Yellow Vests and bemoaning their plight.”

Pieter Cleppe, of the think-tank Open Europe, also believes the euro could one day collapse with national currencies being the preferred options. He said: “That’s not to say national currencies are ideal but as least the evil governments manipulating money to fund spending is more decentralised. The central bank of Greece would have never managed to burden citizens with so much debt without the euro. The ideal: private currencies. Will the euro collapse? I think so, at [some] point.”

Steel Dinosaurs? The United States’ enormous aircraft carriers are considered the centrepieces of its navy and highly visible embodiments of that nation’s power. At $US 8.5 billion ($A12 billion) each, they’re also a huge economic investment. And questions have been growing over their continued relevance to modern warfare.

As with the ‘gunboat diplomacy’ of huge armoured and heavily gunned battleships before World War II, some military analysts’ technological advances have made these ships obsolete. Both China and Russia have claimed they are rapidly bringing into service a new generation of hypersonic weapons which simply move too fast to counteract.

#10. Time Magazine cover shows illegally-cropped photo of Trump facing off with little seven-year-old migrant girl at the border. Turns out the kid was NEVER separated from her parents, the family was NOT fleeing violence, and the mother was previously deported from the US.

#9. MSM claims no illegal aliens are ever infected with diseases. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants are sure enough carrying deadly diseases with them, including strains of tuberculosis (strain XDR-TB that has no remedy), malaria, Hepatitis, pathogens, parasites, lice, HIV and AIDS.

#8. National Geographic sounds the alarms that “everywhere on Earth” ice is melting and soon the oceans will swallow us all whole.

#7. The fake news rag “WaPo” claims US border patrol responsible for death of migrant boy.

#6. Democrat Elizabeth Warren gets DNA test to prove she’s an American Indian, only to find out she’s lied for years and illegally defrauded institutions.

#5. CNN and MSNBC blame Republicans for the Steele Dossier that the Deep State illegally created and used to spy on Trump and propagate the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

#4. NBC’s Fake News Queen Andrea Mitchell claims disgraced Florida election official is a Republican.

#3. MSM claims Trump called the FBI a “cancer”.

#2. CNN claims the real news media “doctored” then spread an edited version of the video of Jim Acosta accosting a female White House intern.

#1. CNN, New York Times, and WashPo relentlessly spread false accusations propaganda about Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh before his confirmation.

After being dispersed throughout the world for two millennia, Jews are continuing to return to Israel – a process that began in 1948 when the State of Israel was reestablished – while archeological discoveries, the rebuilding of the Temple Mount and other indications show that the End Times, as prophesied in the Bible, are already upon us.

"We live in historic times,” Netanyahu impressed in the video. “The ancient prophecies are being realized. The people of Israel have ingathered their exiles, come back to the Promised Land, built Zion, reunited our eternal capital, Jerusalem."

Merkel condemned any notion that Germany should join a fast-growing number of nations pulling out of the migration agreement. Even Australia pulled out of the UN migration agreement. She said that “there were [politicians] who believed that they could decide when these agreements are no longer valid because they are representing The People”. What is interesting is how she is splitting a democratic form of government which represents the people and one of an anti-democratic position because politicians know better than the people.

She continued to remark that “the people are individuals who are living in a country, they are not a group who define themselves as the [German] people.” She holds the position that migration is inevitable, necessary and desirable. She refuses to admit that allowing in the refugees was a mistake.

Her reasoning states that nationalism “is not patriotism, because patriotism is when you include others in German interests and accept win-win situations.” The fact that is an anti-democratic position behind the curtain is evidenced by the fact that the French President Emmanuel Macron, also recently stated that “patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism [because] nationalism is treason”.

What is going on here is a tag-team. Merkel and Macron are advocating the surrender of sovereignty because they then can blame Brussels and not shoulder the responsibility for the economic disaster Europe is heading into for 2020/2021. We have two politicians whose days are numbered advocating the federalization of Europe that they previously swore would never happen.