the DON JONES
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GAINS POSTED in GREEN LOSSES POSTED in RED
12/23/24... 14,832.55
12/16/24... 14,845.23 |
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6/27/13… 15,000.00 |
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(THE DOW JONES INDEX: 12/23/24...
42,992.21; 12/16/24... 42,840.24; 6/27/13… 15,000.00) |
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LESSON for DECEMBER
THIRTIETH, 2024
“THERE GOES 2024! (“This is the End, beautiful friend...”)”
Christmas has come, and gone and, by all
accounts it was a good season for business.
The Jones family forgot (or repressed) all their anxieties and went
shopping – the big box stores profited, the smaller, local businesses... not so
much. But most survived, and survival
is, as the movie people say, Paramount
On towards the New Year, as begins Wednesday,
and this particular two-part lesson, concerning the predictions of experts and
not-so-experts as to what 2025 will bring.
We’ll update Wednesday, as the first lesson of the new year, and, for
the moment, everybody will be equal in prospect until reality begins to
separate the seers from the pluckers. And the suckers from their money.
And a final, tho’ expected, strike from
the dark at Don Jones, the family and America... yesterday marked the passing
of (very) ol’ 36, James Earl Carter, who made it to 100 and dunked his bucket
list by voting for Kamala Harris in November.
Politically he was, like Harris, a failure, but redeemed himself in the
after-Presidency afterlife and was, by almost universal acclaimed, considered a
paragon of decency, something that languished afterwards and may well die out
in 2025.
Back in the Eisenhower administration
(another decent, as well as competent man whose only failure was in his Veep selection),
our Managing Editor, as a child, especially enjoyed the Sunday newspaper (which
he would eventually work for, a decade later) and above even the news and
sports and “funnies” like Smokey Stover and Mark Train was always a weekly
column: “Criswell Predicts” by the then-dominant psychic of a pre-Kreskin, pre-Criss, pre-Marianne epoch: Jeron
Criswell King, known to his followers as Criswell (1907 – 1982).
Criswell
was a versatile fellow – in addition to his predicting business, he was a news
reporter, vitamin mercher and Hollywood... well...
personality (“star” is perhaps an extreme tribute). A new generation of bad film fans (the films,
not the fans) know and revere him as one of the stars of the incomprehensible
Ed Wood’s magnus possum “Plan Nine
from Outer Space” alongside Tor Johnson, Vampira,
Dudley Manlove and a down-at-the-heels dope fiend...
Bela Lugosi.
The SeverinFilms
review on X called it “a cracked masterpiece.”
His Wikibio
calls Criswell “flamboyant” with “spit – curled hair, a stentorian style
of speaking, and a sequined tuxedo.”
He owned a coffin in which he claimed to sleep; having grown
up in a troubled family in Indiana with relatives who owned a funeral
home, he frequently explained that he’d become comfortable “sleeping in caskets
in the storeroom.”
Migrating to the City of Angels,
he began his predicting career to sell vitamins and fell into an interesting
circle of friends including statuesque Mae West, Jack Paar
(of the pre-Johnny, pre-Jimmy “Tonight Show” – on which he guested frequently)
and another Hollywood mystic, Korla Pandit (with whom
he, no doubt, swapped prophecies and predictions). His weekly syndicated newspaper predictions
began on September 6, 1951, supplemented by three books, an LP record,
contributions to Spaceway magazine
(February 1955, April 1955, and June 1955) and a nationally syndicated
television show on KLAC Channel 13 (now KCOP-13) in Los Angeles. “His announcer was Bob Shields, who later
played the judge on The Judge,” Wiki reported, and “Criswell wore
heavy makeup in public after his live program was broadcast in Los
Angeles.”
West used Criswell as her
personal psychic; he once predicted her rise to President of the United
States, whereupon she, Criswell and George Liberace, brother of
showman Liberace, would take a rocket to the Moon.
Criswell and Mae were great friends and she would lavish him with
home-cooked food which she had delivered to the studio that he shared
with Maila Nurmi ("Vampira").
“West was known to sell Criswell
her old luxury cars for $5. For her 1955 album The Fabulous Mae West, she
recorded a song about the psychic, titled, appropriately enough, "Criswell Predicts". (Attachment One from
criswellpredicts.com)
He claimed that 87%
of his predictions had come true... the ones that cemented his reputation were
the “amazing forecast” that
“President Kennedy will not run for reelection in 1964, because of something
that will happen to him in November 1963" and that “Ronald Reagan would be
California's next Governor.”
His most disturbing book of
predictions included 1968's “Criswell Predicts: From Now to the Year
2000” – so called because he “claimed
that Denver, Colorado, would be struck by a ray from space that would cause
all metal to adopt the qualities of rubber, leading to horrific accidents at amusement
parks. He predicted mass cannibalism and the end of planet Earth, which he set
as happening on August 18, 1999 (which would have been his 92nd birthday).
Criswell married an eccentric
former speak-easy dancer, named Halo Meadows (she appeared on an episode of
"You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx). His wife spent a great deal
of time sunbathing; she also had a poodle named "Buttercup" which she
was convinced was the reincarnation of her cousin Thomas.
But according to biographer Edwin
Lee Canfield (whose compilation of predictions is onsale
at Headpress.com (Attachment Two) Criswell was “a member of the hidden
Hollywood gay community” and “a married closeted bisexual.”
The bio includes many of
Criswell’s own predictions, from bed bugs in Boston, through global nudism and
up until the end of the world in 1999; fortunately, it was one of his misses.
A more contemporary movie review
site, “Rotten Tomatoes” gave Plan Nine a middlin’ 65%
rank, but its comments were far from middlin’.
“This is a bad film — the sets
look really cheap, the dialogue and special effects are cheesy, the acting is
wooden, the plot is absurd, and the editing is weird,” wrote one fan in a
review on Rotten Tomatoes. “Worst sci-fi flick ever made and because of that I
loved it,” wrote another “Brilliantly terrible or terribly terrible depending
on your viewpoint." (Forbes, Attachment
Three) They
also noted that Wood, in
1980, was posthumously “awarded” two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director
and Worst Film. And, of course,
Tim Burton’s biopic starring Johnny Depp (and Jeffrey Jones as Criswell) made
perhaps several thousand times more money in its opening release.
Our twenty-first century children don’t have
that sort of Criswell/Ed Wood mind candy to improve (or rot) their minds; there
is still a lot of astrology (tho’ not so much as
thirty years ago), and the November elections proved that almost all of the
liberal pundits had their certainties and all of them were wrong, for reasons
they now hasten to explain.
Canfield, in fact, ultimately
terms Criswell to have been a danger to America and the creature most
responsible for the indwelling of MAGA... perhaps the first such demon of our
modern era. A willingness to “make
things up”, pass them off as the truth and proclaim himself a success, is ‘fun’
but “may be considered the origins of harmful, unrestrained fake news and
conspiracy theories” the biographer warns.
Calling Criswell the “antidote” to
the blurring of news and entertainment fiction in the late-twentieth century he
nonetheless points to the psychic as the father of twenty-first century mis-
and dis- information whom those who see dark shadows see as causing the end of
America and, perhaps, the world.
The queer seer’s glitter has
somewhat worn off with time, but there is a new, old (dead) contender for a
prophet of the end times... after all, 1999 ended with some apprehension among techsters, but no turning of the world to rubber, no
apocalypse.
But wait!... connoisseurs of The
End!... 2025 brings in the blind Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga who devotees
(including a lot of nuclear-minded Russians) see as being the voice, if not
vision of the future,
Channelling the sixteenth century progenitor
of prophecy-for-profit, Business Today (Attachment Four, four days before
Halloween) growled: “both Nostradamus and Baba Vanga
foresee 2025 as a year of war and catastrophe.
Are we prepared?” the businesspeople asked.
Nostradamus’s 1555 writings warned
of “cruel wars” involving “those from the lands of Europe.” He ominously added
that “the ancient plague will be worse than enemies,” implying severe, possibly
biological, threats on a scale previously unknown.
Baba Vanga, who passed in 1996,
made similar predictions, foretelling an escalating conflict in mainland Europe
in 2025 that would result in dire consequences. Known for her apocalyptic
visions, she predicted these events could catalyze global devastation.
Additionally, noted the BT, “she foresaw unusual phenomena, including potential
contact with extraterrestrial beings and the development of telepathy within
humanity, signaling a new era of technological and supernatural advancement” in
addition to the disasters which... unlike Criswell’s... would kill a lot of
people and destroy a lot of property, but leave the planet to stumble on until
the final reckoning – in either 3797, nearly eight centuries after a tumultuous
war with Mars, or 5079 which will really
be the End.
Both Nostradamus and Baba Vanga are
renowned for their past predictions that seem to have accurately foreshadowed
significant events. Nostradamus is credited with predicting Hitler’s rise, the
assassination of JFK, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Baba Vanga, meanwhile, is
often associated with foretelling the Chernobyl disaster, Princess Diana’s
death, and the 9/11 attacks.
Among the many mystics hanging out shingles
in strip malls or the beaten-down streets of old neighborhoods in declining
cities, Varga has drawn special attention because of
her uncompromising and extremely unpromising forcast
for humanity’s final year – and as the saying goes, “if it bleeds, it leads.”
Can you picture – what will be?...
Euronews (last Thursday, Attachment Five)
acknowledged that 2024 hasn’t exactly been a year of “smooth sailing” but,
compared to the blind Bulgarian’s 2025, it’ll be a walk in Central Park amidst
the dead bears and immigrant stranglers and stabbers. “Just wait for what next year apparently has in store for us,” those
death-culture foreigners giggled and gloated.
“Spoiler: It’s not great. Apocalypse-triggering, in fact.”
For those of you who have never
heard of her, the Euros declaim, “Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova,
popularly known as Baba Vanga or “Nostradamus of the Balkans”, was born in 1911
and had alleged prophetic abilities...
Blind since childhood, the
Bulgarian clairvoyant apparently was able to see into the future,
"powers" she attributed to the tornado that left her blind. These
abilities first brought her to public attention in the midst of World War
II, “and individuals like Bulgarian Tsar Boris III and Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev reportedly consulted her in person.”
She died in 1996 and has since
become a cult figure among believers of soothsaying – and, as you can imagine,
conspiracy theorists.
Apparently, many of her
predictions have come true long after her death. “For instance, Baba Vanga is
said to have foretold the death of Princess Diana (above), the sinking of
the Russian submarine Kursk, and the 9/11 terror attacks. She even allegedly
foresaw her own death on 11 August 1996 at the age of 85.”
Euronews introduced, to us, a directory of
Vanga’s “best of” calamitous predictions for the three thousand and change
years now allotted to humanity.
For 2025, catastrophic natural
events, including volcanic eruptions, massive floods and an earthquake along
the US west coast will bedevil Don Jones.
It’s not all bad... she also
predicted breakthroughs in lab-grown organs (no pigs need apply!) for
transplants as well as a possible cancer cure.
Battered, but unbowed, “(h)umans will begin to explore Venus as an energy source”, and
make alien contact – thereby confirming that The X Files were right all along.” The relationship will sour, though not for
nine centuries, with the War on Mars beginning in 3005, and eight centuries
after that, “the Earth will no longer be able to support life, meaning the
humans that have survived the Martian war will have to vacate the Earth because
it has become uninhabitable.”
The actual end of the world will
occur thirteen centuries later.
The Daily Mail U.K. (yesterday,
Attachment Six) focused on the bad news for England, but tossed in a few of the
colonies’ woes – including huge political
upheavals (check!) but also featuring
a series of triumphs in sport and the arts, the rival Sun
reported.
Among them, Donald
Trump is
predicted to be “in for a turbulent 2025 filled with a series of legal
entanglements and even a health scare.”
An AI extension of Baba Vanga “said
the conclusion of one of his high-profile court cases will cause a wave of
division across the US and potentially the world.” With three of his four
criminal prosecutions in ruins, that means Stormy’s
return to glory.
“Russian president Vladimir Putin
is also in for a year marred by isolation and health concerns, according to AI
Baba Vanga.
“He is expected to retreat further
inside the Kremlin and play a smaller role on the world stage.
Thi comes following a series of
speculations about Putin's declining health including rumours
that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease. AI Baba Vanga also
contradicted numerous human intelligence documenteers
predicting a Russian conquest of Ukraine and a moving on to Moldova, the
Baltics... eventually Germany, the U.K. and finally America (unless the Chinese
conquer us first)... by predicting that Ukraine would gain a “significant
victory” although the war would drag on for the rest of the year.
The Daily Mail also reported on
Vanga’s more notable successes and failures of the Twenty First Century
including China’s rise to superpower status, tsunamis in the Far East and, as
noted above, the Nine Eleven. But she
also had serious misses... that Communism would mount a comeback, Islam would
take over Europe... and some maybe-misses (European dissolution – Brexit hurt
but didn’t kill), Putin’s re-election (pending) and that America’s 44th
President “would be the last one” (that prediction updated due to Trump’s
second term).
Her AI app was particularly harsh
on UK PM Keir Starmer would be attacked from both the
right and left, but that England’s football (soccer) team would avenge their
2024 defeat in the final round of the Euros.
Her predicted 'great Muslim war' in Europe “has obviously not
materialized,” charged the DM’s Olivia Christie.
Not yet.
Christie, not unlike the American
critics of Criswell, ultimately dismissed Vanga, like other soothsages,
as frauds... dating back to the Pythia of Delphi and “the myth of the Trojan
princess Cassandra, fated to deliver true prophecies never to be believed.”
There’s
nothing to add upon this from Criswell, because he believed that the world...
and his influence... would cease to exist in 1999.
So
maybe “Plan Nine” isn’t the Hollywood ending we were fearing... instead, we’re
all just a bunch of bumbling, stumbling zombies like the rotting ghouls out of
“Night of the Living Dead”. The next
four years, it seems, may be revelatory, may be revolutionary... but, we can be
assured, they’ll be entertaining!
That
was The End.
Our Lesson:
December Twenty Third through December Twenty Ninth, 2024 (updated Wednesday
for Jan. 1, 2025. |
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Monday,
December 23, 2024 Dow: 42,906.95 |
President Joe gives an early Christmas gift to 37 of the 40 prisoners
on Federal Death Row... their lives.
Against the howling and snarling of Donald Trump and the lawn order
majority, Biden commuted their sentences to life in prison without parole...
only the Boston Massacre Joker Tsarnaev, synagogue shooter Robert Bowers and
neo-Nazi Dylan Roof will face the hangman (or Needleman) and sooner, rather
than later, the President/President Elect (PPE) promises. There will be plenty of new
faces on death row... yet another illegal immigrant set a woman on fire on a
Brooklyn subway train, just because... well, just because. Citizens are going bererk
too... a deranged Dad in Sacramento beheaded his year old son, fitness
influencer Miguel Acosta died three months after being shot in a robbery and
evil scammers were caught ripping off grieving relatives in funeral streaming
scam. (Not a capital offense, but
should be!) Banker killer Mangione is
becoming a celebrity to leftists and impressionable girls who throng his perp
walk and open their purses to finance his lawyers – who say he can’t get a
fair trial in New York City. Awaiting Jan. 20th
and his Restoration, Djonald UnPatient
floats a plan on Truth Social to buy Greenland (as a place to send liberals
to?) and invade and conquer Panama, because of the high fees being charged to
use the Panama Canal. Father/son interactions have
more pleasant results as Charlie Woods (Tiger’s boy) scores his first
hole-in-one, Bronny James inspires LeBron to retire
and hand over the ball next year while Bill Belichek’s
sons Steve and Brian join him as defensive coordinator and safeties coach. |
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Tuesday,
December 24, 2024 Dow: 43,297.03 |
Wide and wild White Christmas forecast for Northeast, Great Lakes and
Rockies. Deep freeze blows out train
traffic between New York and Philadelphia, ski lift failures in Colorado and
Nevada prompt perilous rescues and, on the warm California coast, heavy surf
destroys the Santa Cruz pier. American Airlines grounds
all planes for “technical issues”.
Also up in the air, Swiss-American flight attendants and TSA catch a
woman smuggling 82 fireworks in her bag.
On the water, two Florida boats explode and burn while the road
traffic is heavy as expected. House Ethics Committee finds
evidence of nominee Gaetz’ sex and drugs, releasing a report that runs to
1,400 pages and 24 interviews. |
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Wednesday,
December 25, 2024 Dow: Closed |
It’s Christmas... and, in a rare coincidence, the first day of Haunkkah. Pope Frank kicks off the
Catholic Jubilee Year (every 25) with his “Urbi et Orbi” speech at St. Peter’s (see text in Wednesday’s
update). In other holiday
celebrations, the French gather at newly restored Cathedral of Notre Dame,
King Charles delivers his Christmas address with a special thanks to the
doctors treating him and Kate for cancer. Nearly half the passengers
on an Azeri jet bound for Russia survive crash that is blamed on “bird
strikes”. Russians tweak this, saying
Ukraine is (somehow) responsible but the West counters with their counter
claim that Putin’s gangsters shot down a plane from an ostensible ally for
some dark and devious motive (possible) or simple incompetence (more
likely). In Bedlam, nee Bethleham,
Israeli air strikes pounded hospitals and mangers into rubble – occasioning
eponymous vistas of the Christ child amidst debris; a singular and sober
state of the nations for 2024. |
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Thursday,
December 26, 2024 Dow: Closed |
This being
the rare year that Christmas and Hanukkah coincided, today was also Kwanzaa,
for the black folk, and also National Candy Cane Day, for the saccharinists and their escort, Mister Tooth Decay. The Northeast, Great Lakes and Rockies all
enjoyed (or endured) a White Christmas.
The West Coast had a Wet Christmas and Texas had its usual tornadoes
(although... for the holiday miracle... nobody was killed this year). Americans went back to their task of
killing one another off... some of the December murders included mass
shooters at an Indianapolis shopping mall, four shot at the Phoenix airport,
seven more in Macon, GA; a pizza delivery driver in Florida stabbing a
pregnant customer fourteen times over his low $2 tip and, in and around Times
Square, New York, while the great sign was being prepped for its last view
before retiring, a taxicab driver with a medical emergency ran over six in
front of Macy’s. There were more clashing bodies and
bashing head on a banner week for basketball, pro and college football and
other athletic competitions, but the buzz of the hive was on Beyonce and her
cowgirl halftime show at the Baltimore – KC-Pittsburgh contest set a record
for streaming and will be reprised on Netflix while, in Lockland, Ohio, a
pregnant ewe brought forth for the Christmas manger scene gave birth to the
last twin lambs of 2024. |
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Friday,
December 27, 2024 Dow: 42,992.21 |
President
Trump demonstrated that he will be in command of not only America but the
world once he takes office; to his promise to invade and conquer Panama over
the high fees they charge Canal shipping and pledge to buy Greenland trumped by his contention that Canada
should become our 51st state.
Smart fellow... big state, only two (likely blue) Senators. Not like Panama, which should simply be
destroyed, then given to the Venezuelans.
Take a hint from the Israelis, who waited until the head of the World
Health Organization came to the Yemenese airport to
inspect dis and dat – then bombed the holy hell out
of it. Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus ran for
his life... unfortunately, for Bibi, successfully. Yeeshush! Americans wake up long enough between
Christmas and New Years to shop for sales on unwanted merch and return unpleasant
gifts. While Queen B was buzzing Baltimore, Jay Z
was sinking deeper and deeper into the Diddy Pool when a “Jane Doe” claimed
he’d raped her when she was thirteen at a Diddy Party. (And what parent lets a 13 year old girl go
to a Diddy Party unless... well... was it all about the cash?) A generous fellow was arrested,
unfortunately, for pouring whiskey into the Christmas holy water bowl in
Maryland. |
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Like the
sayings say, we’re holding out compilation of Indices until the New Year
begins Wednesday. |
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THE DON JONES INDEX CHART
of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000 (REFLECTING…
approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013) Gains in indices as
improved are noted in GREEN. Negative/harmful indices in RED as are their designation. (Note – some of the indices where the total
went up created a realm where their value went down... and vice versa.) See a
further explanation of categories here… |
ECONOMIC INDICES
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(60%) |
NOTE:
Indices will be updated for the 1/1/25 DJI on Wednesday. |
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CATEGORY |
VALUE |
BASE |
RESULTS by PERCENTAGE |
SCORE |
OUR SOURCES and COMMENTS |
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INCOME |
(24%) |
6/17/13 revised 1/1/22 |
LAST |
CHANGE |
NEXT |
LAST WEEK |
THIS WEEK |
THE WEEK’S CLOSING STATS... (12/23) |
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Wages (hrly. Per cap) |
9% |
1350 points |
12/2/24 |
+0.49% |
12/24 |
1,545.00 |
1,545.00 |
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Median Inc. (yearly) |
4% |
600 |
12/16/24 |
+0.028% |
12/30/24 |
678.54 |
678.54 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 39,826 836 847
858 |
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Unempl. (BLS – in mi) |
4% |
600 |
12/9/24 |
-2.38% |
1/25 |
543.13 |
543.13 |
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000/ 4.1 nc 4.2 |
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Official (DC – in mi) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-0.14% |
12/30/24 |
228.27 |
228.27 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
7,033 043 053 063 |
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Unofficl. (DC – in mi) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-0.31% |
12/30/24 |
251.93 |
251.93 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 12,602
635 668 708 |
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Workforce Participation Number Percent |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-0.0031%
-0.0065% |
12/30/24 |
299.58 |
299.58 |
In 161,515 520 524 527 Out 100,889 906 923 940
Total: 262,404 426 467 61.552 548
544 |
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WP % (ycharts)* |
1% |
150 |
12/16/24 |
-0.16% |
12/24 |
151.19 |
151.19 |
https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate 62.60 |
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OUTGO |
(15%) |
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Total Inflation |
7% |
1050 |
12/24 |
+0.3% |
12/24 |
952.88 |
952.88 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.2
3 |
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Food |
2% |
300 |
12/24 |
+0.4% |
12/24 |
270.53 |
270.53 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.2
4 |
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Gasoline |
2% |
300 |
12/24 |
+0.6% |
12/24 |
251.55 |
251.55 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm -0.9 6 |
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Medical Costs |
2% |
300 |
12/24 |
+0.3% |
12/24 |
285.19 |
285.19 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.4 3 |
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Shelter |
2% |
300 |
12/24 |
+0.4% |
12/24 |
258.18 |
258.18 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.4 4 |
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WEALTH |
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Dow Jones Index |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-1.825% |
12/30/24 |
353.26 |
353.26 |
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/ 44,642.52
43,828.06 |
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Home (Sales) (Valuation) |
1% 1% |
150 150 |
12/2/24 |
+3.125% +0.67% |
12/24 |
128.32 286.52 |
128.32 286.52 |
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M):
3.96 Valuations (K): 407.2 |
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Debt (Personal) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-0.026% |
12/30/24 |
263.40 |
263.40 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 76,132
153 173 193 |
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GOVERNMENT |
(10%) |
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Revenue (trilns.) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
+0.197% |
12/30/24 |
434.08
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434.08
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debtclock.org/
5,063 073 083 093 |
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Expenditures (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
+0.224% |
12/30/24 |
288.30 |
288.30 |
debtclock.org/ 7,116
132 148 164 |
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National Debt tr.) |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
+0.07% |
12/30/24 |
371.09 |
371.09 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 36,122
207 232 256 |
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Aggregate Debt (tr.) |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
+0.074% |
12/30/24 |
384.52 |
384.52 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 102,812
890 969 3,045 |
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TRADE |
(5%) |
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Foreign Debt (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
+0.25% |
12/30/24 |
270.61 |
270.61 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 8,874
896 919 940 |
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Exports (in billions) |
1% |
150 |
12/9/24 |
+0.828% |
12/24 |
169.06 |
169.06 |
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 267.9 265.7 |
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Imports (in billions)) |
1% |
150 |
12/9/24 |
-3.74% |
12/24 |
160.58 |
160.58 |
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 352.3 339.6 |
|
|
Trade Surplus/Deficit (blns.) |
1% |
150 |
12/9/24 |
+14.36%
|
12/24 |
285.97 |
285.97 |
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 84.4 73.8 |
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SOCIAL INDICES
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(40%) |
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ACTS of MAN |
(12%) |
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indices – to be completed and calibrated on Wednesday |
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World Affairs |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
nc |
12/30/24 |
473.50 |
473.50 |
Pope Frank
calls for peace (see next week), King Charles thanks his cancer doctors while
Netanyahu gets his prostate removed.
Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi plan merger to compete with Toyota and
Tesla, |
|
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War and terrorism |
2% |
300 |
12/16/24 |
-0.3% |
12/30/24 |
292.43 |
292.43 |
President
Zelenskyy claims 3,000 NoKo soldiers killed in
Ukraine. Taxi rams pedestrians in
front of NYC Macy’s – cops blame sick driver, not madman. |
|
|
Politics |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
nc |
12/30/24 |
479.49 |
479.49 |
Lara Trump
decides she doesn’t want Marco
Rubio’s Senate seat. Unfit for a
Princess! NY State investigating 14
prison guards who beat an inmate to death.
MAGA civil war erupting between immigration hard liners and techy
Musky employers who want to allow skilled ones in. |
|
|
Economics |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
-0.7% |
12/30/24 |
438.80 |
438.80 |
SecTres Yellin going out with a bang... govt.
shutdown fix only partial so it will shut down later this month, not in
March. Presidential chaos
predicted. Mortgate
rates hit 6.85% - highest since July.
Ritzy Nordstrom sold to... Mexicans! |
|
|
Crime |
1% |
150 |
12/16/24 |
-0.2% |
12/30/24 |
220.80 |
220.80 |
2024 goes
out with a bang, literally, as SwissAir police bust
a woman with 82 fireworks in her bag. And with a swish and a slash, an illiberal illegal immigrant who waited
until after the election sets a sleeping homeless woman on fire, unknown
copycat torches another, a mad dad beheads his unruly one year old, cop
killed in NC, shopper shot in SC Food Lion, South American home invaders
target more away game athletes while AI scams proliferate. |
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ACTS of GOD |
(6%) |
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Environment/Weather |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
+0.3% |
12/30/24 |
371.82 |
371.82 |
White
Christmases for northeast, great lakes and Rockies. It’s freezing some places, flooding in
others and from Texas... of course... to the Carolinas, Don Jones hides from
tornadoes that kill four. And Hawaii’s
Kilauea volcano erupts (again). |
|
|
Disasters |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
-0.3% |
12/30/24 |
412.42 |
412.42 |
Airplanes
go down: Azerbaijan, SoKo, Halifax and four shot at
Phoenix airport. Experts blame birds –
partisans blame Ukes, NoKos and rival cults. Dead man discovered in Houston police
car... police say they forgot to roll down the windows while leaving him to
expire of heat. Where it’s cold, paid
and unpaid Samaritans rescue blizzarded snowboarders and snowmobile drivers,
ski lift accident victims, and where it’s warm – two Florida boats explode, a
train and firetruck crash and disaster drones fall from the sky and injure
child in Orlando. Two Sasquatch
hunters in Oregon and four English Channel challenges meet their makers. |
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LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX |
(15%) |
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Science, Tech, Education |
4% |
600 |
12/16/24 |
-0.1% |
12/30/24 |
622.05 |
622.05 |
AI geeks
duplicate dead Bulgarian witch (above) who tells them that the world will
end. Scammers using AI voice fixes
robbing relatives of “family” members who “tell” them they need money.NASA sends a rocket to the sun. |
|
|
Equality (econ/social) |
4% |
600 |
12/16/24 |
-0.1% |
12/30/24 |
658.51 |
658.51 |
HUD says
homelessness rose 18% in 2024, will go even higher in 2025 as jailings rise even faster. The newest twerk is setting them on fire. |
|
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Health |
4% |
600 |
12/16/24 |
+0.1% |
12/30/24 |
443.89 |
443.89 |
Costco
recalls organic eggs for organic listeria.
Northwest Natural cat food recalled after killing cats with retributional Bird Flu.
Chickens at Tyson processing plant explode, kill a plucker,
injure several. |
|
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Freedom and Justice |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
+0.1% |
12/30/24 |
479.72 |
479.72 |
The girls
all love Mangione, showering him with money while his lawyer says he can’t
get a fair trial in NYC. President Joe
pardons 37 of the 40 Fed Death Row inmates, MAGA worries he’ll give himself,
Kamala, Hillary and 6,132,884 Bad Democrats pre-emptive pardons. Pivoting Trump now wants SCOTUS to stop
Jan. 19th Tik Tok ban until he can take office on the 20th
and cut a deal. |
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CULTURAL and MISCELLANEOUS
INCIDENTS |
(6%) |
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Cultural incidents |
3% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
nc |
12/30/24 |
544.82 |
544.82 |
Celebrities,
corporations and commoners take sides in Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni
feud. NCAA and NFL football teams
being pared down to finalists, women’s volleyball team at Penn State wins 8th
natl. championship. RIP: Actresses Olivia “Juliet” Hussey and
Linda “Alice” Lavin, Time/Warner CEO Richard Parsons, former Hamas hostage
Hannah Katzir, CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel, ABC
photojournalist Tony Hiroshi and last Pearl Harbor survivor at 105. Plus, of course, Jimmy Carter. |
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Misc. incidents |
4% |
450 |
12/16/24 |
-0.1% |
12/30/24 |
530.27 |
530.27 |
New York
to retire 117 year old Times Square ball after this year’s last drop. Lucky lotto winner claims 1.13B Powerball
prize. |
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The
Don Jones Index for the week of December 16, 2024 through December 22, 2024 was
DOWN 12.78 points
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ATTACHMENT ONE – FROM
CRISWELLPREDICTS.COM
WHO WAS CRISWELL?
Known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, he was famous
for his wildly inaccurate predictions. Criswell, was born Jeron
Charles Criswell King, on Sunday, August 18th, 1907, in Princeton, Indiana. Criswell went to high school, and did some
newspaper work for the local paper; later he attended the University of
Cincinnati, studying at the Conservatory of Music. Criswell returned to
newspaper work, and made more and more predictions, having his forecasts
printed in more and more papers. Over the years, an ever-increasing number of
people followed his syndicated columns. Here is a rare scan of one of his columns - courtesy
of Jacob Allan Chapman (AMysticSeer). Criswell married an eccentric former
speak-easy dancer, named Halo Meadows (she appeared on an episode of
"You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx). His wife spent a great deal
of time sunbathing; she also had a poodle named "Buttercup" which
she was convinced was the reincarnation of her cousin Thomas. Criswell was longtime friends with actress
Mae West, once predicting her impending rise to the position of President of
the United States, whereupon she, Criswell and George Liberace, the brother
of showman Liberace, would ride a rocket to the moon. West used Criswell as
her personal psychic, as well as lavishing him with gifts of home-cooked
food, dropped off via chauffeur. Additionally, West was known to sell
Criswell her old luxury cars for $5. For her 1955 album The Fabulous
Mae West, she recorded a song about the psychic, titled,
appropriately enough, "Criswell
Predicts". Criswell was a flamboyant figure, best
remembered for his spit-curled hair, his stentorian speaking style, and his
sequined tuxedo. He was the possessor of a coffin, in which he claimed to
sleep. 87%
of Criswell's predictions have come true! (The ones he reminds
you of.) Whereas
it is true Criswell made the amazing forecast (on the Jack Paar TV special, March 10, 1963): "I predict that
President Kennedy will not run for reelection in 1964, because of something
that will happen to him in November 1963" -- Criswell also predicted...
the destruction of Denver, shifting polar caps, Castro's assassination, and
the End of the World. As Criswell's fame grew, he appeared a
number of times on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show"; on December 31,
1965, Criswell predicted
that Ronald Reagan would be California's next Governor. Criswell's predictions were nationally
syndicated. Additionally, the psychic appeared on the television show Criswell
Predicts on KCOP Channel 13 in Los Angeles, as well as being
kinescoped for syndication on other television stations. Criswell's announcer,
Bob Shields, would eventually be the announcer on Divorce Court. Criswell
was notorious for wearing his heavy pancake makeup outside the studio. Criswell was almost 50 when he associated
with Ed Wood, however this did not (as some believe) do much to further his
reputation. Criswell played "Himself" in Ed's movie "Plan 9 from Outer
Space" providing predictions at the beginning and end of the
movie and narration; however, even though the movie was filmed in 1956, it wasn't released until 1958.
His next venture with Ed Wood fared even worse; even though Criswell had a
bigger part in "Night of the Ghouls" (1959), Ed Wood was so broke
he couldn't pay the lab to develop his film-- it wasn't until 1983 (after
both Criswell and Ed were dead) that entrepreneur Wade Williams paid a
24-year-old lab bill, and the movie was finally released. Criswell's
3rd movie with Ed Wood, "Orgy of the Dead" (1965), saw Criswell play the "Emperor of
the Dead". This movie provided Criswell with the most screen time,
and the film was actually released. In
1968, Criswell wrote his first book: "Criswell Predicts: From Now To The Year 2000!"; this book was Criswell's
"Journal of the Future". It contained hundreds of predictions
covering the next 30 years. Readers were asked to "keep score" on
the accuracy of his predictions-- until, as Criswell predicted, August 1999,
"after which it
will not matter." Click here to
see some of his predictions from this book. His second book "Criswell
Predicts Your Next Ten Years!" was released in
1969. "Why should you feel lonely when you have a trillion
counterparts?" Criswell admonishes the reader in his foreword to Your
Next Ten Years. "Do the other trillion feel as lonely as you? Are
you fair to them?" This work is a combination of fashion tips,
financial forecasts, amazing labor-saving devices, spicy gossip and gloomy
tales of impending social collapse. In 1972 Criswell released his 3rd and final
book "Criswell's Forbidden Predictions: Based on Nostradamus and
the Tarot". Read the book release article - courtesy of Jacob
Allan Chapman (AMysticSeer). Around 1970 Criswell released "The
Legendary Criswell Predicts! Your Incredible Future" from Horoscope
records. This rare vinyl record album contained many scarifying
predictions. Including: "I predict the day of severity in dress
will soon be at hand, almost Puritanical in style, with no beads, no jangles,
no bracelets. Men and women will wear exactly the same makeup, the same style
of hair dress, and, if required, the same type of wig. I was not allowed to
say on television, radio, or have it appear in my column, as the advertisers
would clomp down on me, and clomp very heavily." He was portrayed by actor Jeffrey Jones in
the biopic Ed Wood (1994), in which it is suggested that
Criswell was simply a showman and never claimed to be a real psychic.
However, those who knew him, such as actress and fellow Plan 9 alumna
Maila Nurmi ("Vampira"),
have disputed this. Also, according to writer Charles A. Coulombe, whose
family rented an apartment from the psychic, Criswell told Coulombe's father
"[I] had the gift, but … lost it when I started taking money for
it." Whereas the End of the World did not occur
in 1999 as he had predicted, Criswell left our world at age 75 on Monday, October 4, 1982.
He had no known survivors besides his estranged wife Halo Meadows.
He was cremated October 7th, and interred at Pierce Brothers Valhalla
Memorial Park, North Hollywood, in the Niches of Remembrance, F-10, Space
2. Click here to view his death
certificate (new scan courtesy of Jacob Allan Chapman
(still, AMysticSeer). |
ATTACHMENT
TWO – FROM HEADPRESS.COM
“WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE FOR THAT
IS WHERE YOU AND I ARE GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIVES, WHETHER WE WANT TO
OR NOT!”
Jeron Charles Criswell King, better known
simply as Criswell, can rightfully be described as one of the first pop
celebrity psychics. His bizarre predications — 87 per cent of which came true,
he claimed — appeared from the 1950s through the 1970s in newspapers and
magazines, while the flamboyant showman hosted his own Los Angeles television
show, guested on national TV and in Ed Wood movies, including Plan 9
from Outer Space, alongside Vampira and Bela
Lugosi. Unsuccessful attempts to find fame on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley did
not prevent him from co-authoring three books on how to succeed in these
fields.
A member of the hidden Hollywood
gay community, the story of Criswell, his triumphs and defeats, is one of fame
and hope.
FACT, FICTIONS, AND THE FORBIDDEN
PREDICTIONS OF THE AMAZING CRISWELL is the first full-length biography of
Criswell. It is the result of 20 years of research by number one fan, Edwin
Canfield, and includes interviews, new information, and many startling
predictions.
“The world as we know it will
cease to exist on August 18, 1999!”
Further
Infomation
·
Book cover art by Mitch O’Connell, “the world’s best
artist”;
·
Criswell’s career touches many bases, from the occult,
outsider artists, cult filmmaker Ed Wood and ‘camp’ stars Vampira, Mae West, Bela Lugosi;
·
LGBT interest — Criswell was a married, closeted
bisexual, and member of the hidden Hollywood gay community;
·
Includes many of Criswell’s own predictions, from bed
bugs in Boston, through global nudism and the end of the world in 1999;
·
Television has created an army of celebrities who are
“famous for being famous” — Criswell has the dubious honour
of being one of the first;
·
Criswell was fearless in putting himself in the line of
ridicule;
·
Sheds light on the American dream and aspirations that
most people share;
·
Criswell’s story asks, explores, but cannot answer the
eternal question: What is the true measure of success?
·
A willingness to “make things up”, pass them off as the
truth and proclaim himself a success, is ‘fun’ but may be considered the
origins of harmful, unrestrained fake news and conspiracy theories;
·
Criswell is the antidote to the blurring of news and
entertainment fiction in the late-twentieth century.
ATTACHMENT THREE –
FROM FORBES
‘PLAN
9 FROM OUTER SPACE’ TURNS 65: A CLASSIC MOVIE CLINKER FLASHBACK
By Marc
Berman Jul 22,
2024,07:57am EDT
(It)
was so bad it was good. This is the common observation for Plan 9 From Outer
Space, which is known as the “worst film in cinema history.” Today we
“celebrate” 65 years to the day that this unintentionally comedic horror film
opened nationally in movie theaters.
At a
time when “B” level (and below) horror flicks were running rampant — The Killer
Shrews, The Living Coffin, The Manster, The Giant
Gila Monster, The Tingler, and Beast from Haunted Cave, to name a few — the
arrival of Plan 9 From Outer Space on July 22, 1959 was yet another attempt to
elicit fear in the audience for entertainment purposes. The good news: there
was indeed an audience. The bad news: They were likely laughing throughout the
entire movie.
Per
the storyline, residents of California's San Fernando Valley are under attack
by flying saucers from outer space. The aliens, led by Eros (Dudley Manlove) and his assistant, Tanna
(Joanna Lee), intend to conquer the planet by resurrecting corpses in a
Hollywood cemetery. This includes a cape-wearing ghoul (the legendary Bela
Lugosi, who died before the film was finished), a vampire (Malia Nurmi, aka “Vampira”), and a slow-footed cop (Tor Johnson), who stalk
curious individuals wandering into the cemetery looking for evidence of the
UFOs.
Directed
by Ed Wood (and originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space in an earlier
preview), Plan 9 From Outer Space looks like it was designed by a group of
youngsters putting on a school play. The acting is beyond atrocious, particularly
in the lengthy chat-filled scenes, where the dialogue is either tediously
repetitive or unintentionally hilarious. The costumes appear to have been
bought on sale from the old “John’s Bargain Store” chain. And what was intended
to be overly dramatic is marred by unplanned laughter. Yet, 65 years later,
Plan 9 From Outer Space is remembered as a "campy, cult masterpiece,”
according to some.
“This
is a bad film — the sets look really cheap, the dialogue and special effects
are cheesy, the acting is wooden, the plot is absurd, and the editing is
weird,” wrote one fan in a review on Rotten Tomatoes. “Yet, this film is
entertaining.”
In
pop culture, fans of sitcom Seinfeld will recall when Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld),
Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George (Jason Alexander) stopped for a quick
Chinese dinner before seeing Plan 9 From Outer Space, but circumstances at the
restaurant made them miss the movie.
In
1980, Ed Wood was posthumously “awarded” two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst
Director and Worst Film. And, in 2009, filmmaker Ernie Fosselius
(of Hardware Wars fame) created the short film Plan 9.1 from Outer Space, which
featured hand-carved wooden puppets of the characters from the film. The
puppets acted out the scenes along with the edited soundtrack of the original
film.
In
2015, meanwhile, another partial remake, Plan 9, was released by Darkstone Entertainment, written and directed by John
Johnson.
The
moral of this story: Chances of future projects paying homage to Plan 9 From
Outer Space will probably surface. But, let’s face it, nothing can ever be as
“good” as the original.
“Worst
sci-fi flick ever made and because of that I loved it,” wrote one fan on Rotten
Tomatoes. “Brilliantly terrible or terribly terrible depending on your
viewpoint."
ATTACHMENT FOUR –
FROM BUSINESS TODAY
BOTH NOSTRADAMUS AND BABA VANGA FORESEE 2025 AS A YEAR OF WAR AND
CATASTROPHE. ARE WE PREPARED?
Nostradamus’s
1555 writings warned of “cruel wars” involving “those from the lands of
Europe.” He ominously added that “the ancient plague will be worse than enemies,”
implying severe, possibly biological, threats on a scale previously unknown
Baba Vanga, who passed in 1996,
made similar predictions, foretelling an escalating conflict in mainland Europe
in 2025 that would result in dire consequences.
Legendary mystics Nostradamus and
Baba Vanga, separated by centuries, have both issued chilling predictions for
2025. Foreseeing widespread conflict, disaster, and potential extraterrestrial
encounters, their visions point to an unsettling future that has captured global
attention. Both Nostradamus, the 16th-century French astrologer, and Baba
Vanga, the blind Bulgarian mystic, foresee a war erupting in Europe that could
have devastating global repercussions.
Nostradamus’s 1555 writings warned
of “cruel wars” involving “those from the lands of Europe.” He ominously added
that “the ancient plague will be worse than enemies,” implying severe, possibly
biological, threats on a scale previously unknown. Many believe this may be
connected to Europe’s current geopolitical tensions, potentially including the
ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict or broader European unrest.
Baba Vanga, who passed in 1996,
made similar predictions, foretelling an escalating conflict in mainland Europe
in 2025 that would result in dire consequences. Known for her apocalyptic
visions, she predicted these events could catalyze global devastation.
Additionally, she foresaw unusual phenomena, including potential contact with
extraterrestrial beings and the development of telepathy within humanity,
signaling a new era of technological and supernatural advancement.
Beyond war and supernatural
events, both mystics’ predictions touch on natural disasters and climate
crises. Nostradamus described the emergence of an “Aquatic Empire,” in which
powerful floods would devastate cities, particularly mentioning volcanic
activity and severe flooding in Brazil. Such events would bring significant
turmoil and could disrupt the social and political structures of affected
regions.
Baba Vanga’s visions were
similarly multifaceted. She hinted at an extraterrestrial encounter at a
prominent global event, possibly during a sporting event like the Olympics or
Super Bowl, capturing the world’s attention. She also spoke of a potential
"Martian war," suggesting the possibility of conflict with alien
beings, which, if true, would represent an unprecedented shift in human
history.
Both Nostradamus and Baba Vanga
are renowned for their past predictions that seem to have accurately
foreshadowed significant events. Nostradamus is credited with predicting
Hitler’s rise, the assassination of JFK, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Baba Vanga,
meanwhile, is often associated with foretelling the Chernobyl disaster,
Princess Diana’s death, and the 9/11 attacks.
Despite skepticism, the accuracy
of their past predictions keeps the legacies of Nostradamus and Baba Vanga
alive. Their forecasts for 2025—from wars and environmental disasters to alien
encounters—leave people pondering what the future may hold, and whether these
predictions will come to pass or remain in the realm of speculation.
ATTACHMENT FIVE –
FROM EURONEWS
END TIMES: LEGENDARY ORACLE BABA VANGA'S SCARY PREDICTIONS FOR 2025
By David Mouriquand Published on 26/12/2024 - 15:02 GMT+1
Baba Vanga, the blind mystic who
supposedly wrote her premonitions up to the year 5079, is said to have foreseen
what's to come in 2025. And it doesn’t look too good...
It’s nearly the end of 2024, and
the year hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing...
Just wait for what next year
apparently has in store for us. Spoiler: It’s not great. Apocalypse-triggering,
in fact.
Legendary blind soothsayer Baba Vanga has
reportedly revealed that the end times will commence in 2025. More
specifically, that the start of our destruction will begin next year with a
conflict in Europe that will devastate the continent’s population. It will be
the kickstarting of events that will ultimately culminate in our doom.
Wonderful.
Distressingly, Baba Vanga’s 2025
prediction mirrors that of legendary seer Nostradamus, who also predicted war
in Europe next year.
For those of you who have never
heard of her, Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova, popularly
known as Baba Vanga or “Nostradamus of the Balkans”, was born in 1911 and had
alleged prophetic abilities.
Blind since childhood, the
Bulgarian clairvoyant apparently was able to see into the future,
"powers" she attributed to a tornado that left her blind. These
abilities first brought her to public attention in the midst of World War
II, and individuals like Bulgarian Tsar Boris III and Soviet leader Leonid
Brezhnev reportedly consulted her in person.
She died in 1996 and has since
become a cult figure among believers of soothsaying – and, as you can imagine,
conspiracy theorists.
Apparently, many of her
predictions have come true long after her death. For instance, Baba Vanga is
said to have foretold the death of Princess Diana, the sinking of the
Russian submarine Kursk, and the 9/11 terror attacks. She even allegedly
foresaw her own death on 11 August 1996 at the age of 85.
Of course, not many of the
predictions attributed to her can be authenticated, as they are based on
second-hand accounts. Skeptics argue that her visions are too vague to be
verified or refuted. Additionally, post-event analysis can lend statements an
air of accuracy, leading to skeptics cautioning against treating these predictions
as genuine foresight.
Even though the mystic is no more,
she made predictions for every year up until 5079.
Here are the famous blind mystic’s
predictions for 2025, as well as her timeline for our demise:
2025
A devastating war in
Europe
The event that will spark
humanity's demise will be an unspecified conflict in Europe which will decimate
the continent's population.
The rise of Russia’s
influence
Baba Vanga predicted that Vladimir
Putin will be re-elected as Russia’s leader, solidifying the country’s
dominance and continuing to shape the geopolitical landscape.
Natural disasters
2025 is expected to witness catastrophic
natural events, including the eruption of dormant volcanoes. Massive floods
will also wreak havoc, and the oracle specifically mentioned an earthquake
along the US west coast. These events will result in loss of life as well as
mass displacement.
Scientific breakthroughs
Because it can’t be all
disastrous, Baba Vanga also foretold that scientists will make a breakthrough
when it comes to lab-grown organs, which will revolutionise
transplants. Additionally, she anticipated advancements in cancer treatment in
2025 - possibly even a cure.
Future
predictions
2028: The exploration of
Venus
Humans will begin to explore Venus
as an energy source. (It's worth noting that the second planet from the Sun is
inhospitable and nothing can grow there.)
2033: Melting of the ice
caps
Baba Vanga reportedly foresaw that
the polar ice caps will melt, raising sea levels to drastic heights worldwide.
2043: Europe under Muslim
governance
The soothsayer stated that
European governance will be dominated by Muslim rule by 2043.
2076: The return of
Communism
Communism will spread to countries
across the world.
2130: First contact
Humans will supposedly make alien
contact – thereby confirming that The X Files were
right all along.
2170: Global drought
Climate change will continue to
ravage the planet and a drought will devastate much of the world.
3005: The Martian
war
Earth will go to war with a
civilization on Mars. There’s no further information on who kicked things off, but
we’re betting it’s probably us and not the Martians. We’re not the friendliest
of species, let’s face facts.
3797: The end of the world – Part
I
The Earth will no longer be able
to support life, meaning the humans that have survived the Martian war will
have to vacate the Earth because it has become uninhabitable.
5079: The end of the world – Part
II (For real this time)
The end of everything. The grand
finale. The world ends.
There we have it.
As previously mentioned, not many
of the predictions attributed to her can be authenticated, and Vanga was far
from infallible. So take all of this with a fistful of salt.
She did get some right, but she
did also predict that a major nuclear power plant was supposed to explode last
year and that the Earth would be hit by a devasting solar storm... So we
dodged those catastrophies.
It’s also worth mentioning that
when it comes to predictions on our future, Vanga is not alone. The Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists also announces a yearly estimation with its Doomsday Clock, which was
this year set to 90 seconds to midnight.
For the second year in a row. It’s the closest it’s ever been to midnight in
the history of the clock.
Not very reassuring, is it?
All we can do now is hope that
Baba Vanga’s doomsday visions are skewed, that we finally focus on what unites
us rather than divides us. And not piss off any Martians, naturally.
Failing that, brace yourselves for
a terrifying sounding 2025.
ATTACHMENT SIX –
FROM THE DAILY MAIL
AI VERSION OF LATE MYSTIC BABA VANGA MAKES STARTLING 2025 PREDICTIONS -
AND IT'S BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP AND STARMER
By OLIVIA CHRISTIE Published: 09:12
EST, 28 December 2024 | Updated: 09:17
EST, 28 December 2024
An AI version
of renowned oracle Baba Vanga has unveiled a series of chilling predictions for
2025 and it's bad news for some of the world's most
powerful leaders.
The late Bulgarian mystic passed
away in 1996 but earned fame for her eerily accurate predictions.
While she left a series of
prophecies for the 21st century before she died, her virtual doppelganger has
now offered its own unsettling glimpse of what lies ahead.
These predictions include huge
political upheavals but also feature a series of triumphs in sport and the
arts, The Sun has reported.
Among them, Donald
Trump is predicted to be in for a turbulent 2025 filled with a
series of legal entanglements and even a health scare.
AI Baba Vanga said the conclusion
of one of his high-profile court cases will cause a wave of division across the
US and potentially the world.
The tech version of the late
mystic has also suggested Trump could turn his hand to building his own media
empire next year to reach his followers worldwide.
It comes as Trump has been
strengthening his relationship with X CEO and the world's richest man Elon Musk.
However, AI Baba Vanga has also
implied that the president elect, who will take office in January, could also
suffer a health scare that will briefly force him to move away from the public
eye.
Trump is nevertheless expected to overcome
this challenge just like he saw off the assassination attempt at a rally in
Butler, Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Russian president Vladimir Putin
is also in for a year marred by isolation and health concerns, according to AI
Baba Vanga.
He is expected to retreat further
inside the Kremlin and play a smaller role on the world stage.
It comes following a series of
speculations about Putin's declining health including rumours
that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease.
Baba Vanga's virtual doppelganger
has suggested that a major health crisis could strike the Russia president in
the coming year.
It has also been predicted that
Putin could suffer a series of setbacks in the Ukraine war with AI Baba Vanga
considering 2025 as a 'turning point' in the conflict.
Ukraine will launch a large-scale
offensive by mid-way through the year and claim a significant victory.
The AI version of the Bulgarian
mystic said this would infuriate Russia and give Ukraine the ability to secure
long term aid and security from Western powers.
The made-up mystic also foresees
the symbolic rebirth of a city devastated by the fighting perhaps Mariupol
or Bakhmut.
It is predicted that world leaders
will come together to rebuild the hub as a symbol of Ukraine's historic victory.
How good is
Baba Vanga's record?
2019: DOOM FOR TRUMP AND
PUTIN
Prediction: Baba Vanga's 2019 forecasts were
very similar to her 2020 and 2021 predictions, foreseeing illness for Trump and
an assassination attempt against Putin. She also predicted a European economic
collapse.
Result: Trump and Putin have both
survived although Trump did catch coronavirus in October 2020. Europe's economy
has taken a huge hit due to Covid this year.
2018: RISE OF CHINA
Prediction: China would become the next
great superpower and a new form of energy would emerge on Venus.
Result: China's status as a global power
has risen since Baba Vanga's death, but there is no reason to single out 2018.
There was no major discovery on Venus.
2017: THE END OF AMERICA
Prediction: America's 44th president would
be the last one. According to some versions, she also predicted he would be
black.
Result: Barack Obama was indeed the
first African-American president. But Donald Trump became the 45th president in
January 2017.
2016: THE END OF EUROPE
Prediction: The mystic pointed to 2016 as
the year that Europe would 'cease to exist', making a dire prediction of 'empty
spaces and wasteland, nearly devoid of any form of life'.
Result: Europe was rattled by the 2016
Brexit result but 'cease to exist' is an extreme interpretation.
2004: BOXING DAY TSUNAMI
Prediction: 'A huge wave will cover a big coast
covered with people and towns, and everything will disappear beneath the
water. Everything will melt, just like ice.'
Result: The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami
brought devastation to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other
countries, killing more than 230,000.
2001: 9/11 ATTACKS
Prediction: Baba Vanga predicted 'horror'
for the US, warning in 1989 that 'the American brethren will fall after being
attacked by the steel birds'.
Result: Four hijacked planes brought
terror to America on 9/11, killing nearly 3,000 people. 'Steel birds' could be
read as a reference to the jets.
1979: RISE OF RUSSIA
Prediction: In 1979, Baba Vanga predicted a
future Russian dominance under 'Vladimir's glory' in which the country would
become 'lord of the world'.
Result: Russia does have a strongman
leader called Vladimir, but Moscow has lost its status as a superpower since
1979.
Sir Keir Starmer
is another world leader who is in for a challenging year, AI Baba Vanga has
predicted.
It has been implied that the Labour leader's centrist policies will become increasingly
unpopular as he faces mounting criticism.
It comes as Chancellor Rachel
Reeves faced backlash this autumn, particularly from farmers, as she unveiled a
series of policies in The Budget.
Meanwhile in sports, AI Baba Vanga
has predicted a good year for England's football team.
In 2024, the Three Lions once
again were unable to 'bring it home' losing to Spain in the final of the
Euros.
A young striker from northern
England is expected to be heralded as the heralded as the next great
talent as they claim football glory.
The real Baba Vanga, who was born
in 1911 as Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova,
wrote before she died that 2025 would see earthquakes ravage the world.
She also predicted that the planet
would be rocked by a devastating war which bears some resemblance to the AI
prophecies.
Russia will not only survive,' she
wrote. 'It will dominate the world.'
She also saw that next year
would see Putin re-elected as Russia's leader.
Putin was re-elected earlier this
year, and Russia is not due another presidential election until 2030.
She also predicted a devastating
war in Europe that would decimate the continent's population, and more
catastrophic natural events, including the eruption of dormant volcanoes.
Specifically, she mentioned an
earthquake along the west coast of the United States.
California has experienced strong
tremors in the past, including a 7.1 magnitude quake in 2019. None died.
Perhaps most intriguingly, Baba
claimed that humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life during a
major sporting event.
Her record is patchy. This year,
she predicted a worldwide economic crisis, environmental meltdown and major
medical advances in cancer and Alzheimer's treatment.
One of her significant predictions
for 2024 was the use of biological weapons by a powerful country.
Her supposed predictions run until
the year 5079 when she believes the world will come to an end.
The mystic previously claimed the
American president would suffer deafness and mortal illness in 2021, while
Europe braced for a chemical attack from Muslim extremists.
Her predicted 'great Muslim war'
in Europe has obviously not materialised.
The strange obsession extended to claims
Europe would be dominated by Muslim rule by 2043, and that Communism would
spread around the world in 2076.
By 2028, she expects that humans
will begin to explore Venus as an energy source.
The second planet from the Sun has
a surface temperature of 465C and is uninhabitable.
Baba, who died at the age of 85 in
1996, was also known as the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans.'
She mysteriously lost her eyesight
at the age of 12 during a massive storm.
Her family allegedly found her
several days later on death's door – with her eyes sealed shut and covered with
dirt.
She later claimed to have
experienced her first vision when she was missing and believed she had been
given the power to predict the future and heal others.
Believers claim that Baba
even foretold the 9/11 attacks in 2001, saying 'two steel birds' would attack
'American brethren'.
She said: 'Horror, horror! The
American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves
will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.'
The claim is vague enough that any
number of disasters could be seen to fulfil the prophecy, but the 'accuracy' of
her prediction has helped to give her a cult status.
There is no authoritative source
on her predictions and experts say many of them are passed on through social
media in Russia.
Among the less successful
predictions attributed to her was that Barack Obama would be the 'last American
president'. Donald Trump proved her wrong on January 20, 2017.
Oracles proclaiming to have
supernatural foresight have existed for thousands of years.
Fascination with the vague
statements of Greek oracles, anticipating the direction of war and plague, have
been carried down in folk stories and mythology ever since.
The Pythia of Delphi claimed her
oracular powers came from vapours from the Kerna spring waters running under the temple.
The Greeks also warned against
sceptics in the myth of the Trojan princess Cassandra, fated to deliver true
prophecies never to be believed.
ATTACHMENT SEVEN –
FROM CRISWELL PREDICTS
In 1968, Criswell wrote his first
book: "Criswell Predicts: From Now To The Year
2000!" (T)his book was Criswell's
"Journal of the Future". It contained hundreds of predictions covering
the next 30 years. Readers were asked to "keep score" on the accuracy
of his predictions-- until, as Criswell predicted, August 1999, "after which it will not
matter." Click here to
see some of his predictions from this book.