by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
2026 has got to be one of the most bizarre years ever. Hundreds of gigantic wildfires are raging all across the northern hemisphere, commercial vessels are being hit by cruise missiles in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, our reserves of oil and natural gas are running extremely low, the war in Ukraine has escalated to a very dangerous level, an epic drought is drying up major rivers in Europe, global food production has been thrown into chaos by a Super El Niño, and the fastest growing Ebola outbreak in history is ripping across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But despite everything that I just mentioned, the stock market just continues to go even higher. In fact, the Dow Jones Industrial Average just soared to yet another new record high on Tuesday.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
How are we supposed to explain this?
It certainly isn’t rational.
Just about every other day, President Trump is threatening to unleash an apocalyptic attack on Iran. The following illustration was created by JBN Eddie…
That image made me smile because it makes a great point.
Sometimes I feel like I am watching a tennis match because we keep going back and forth over and over again.
Today, we are once again being told that a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz is almost done…
“I think the immediate deal, the one that there is focus on, is the Straits,” he added, referring to the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb, two key Middle Eastern energy chokepoints that have been periodically closed by Iran and its Houthi allies over the course of the war.
“The Straits are open,” Rubio said, repeating a line often touted by the Trump administration. “Nonetheless, I think that there’s a conversation and a negotiation – that we are involved in – between Oman and Iran on how more ships can be able to go through there safely in the short term as we move towards the longer-term talks about denuclearization.”
“Suffice it to say there’s been progress made in those talks but not finality yet,” he said. “We’re hoping that will happen very shortly.”
The Iranians have always said that they would open up the Strait of Hormuz if we give them everything that they want, and apparently that is precisely what this “deal” would do…
Even if we were to accept such a ridiculous deal, the Iranians will never make the nuclear concessions that Trump is seeking, and so that puts us all the way back to square one.
Iran’s nuclear program is the core issue, and that issue is not going to be resolved any time soon.
But investors don’t care.
They just keep pushing stock prices to heights that we have never seen before.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed Ebola cases and the number of confirmed Ebola deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to explode…
Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, according to data — spreading faster than health officials can track and with patient zero still unidentified.
As of Tuesday, 3,802 cases had been recorded, with 1,707 deaths, the latest government update showed.
If this thing starts spreading in the western world, we will see panic that will far surpass anything that we witnessed during the last pandemic.
Read More @ EndOfTheAmericanDream.com
