USA - Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in a New York court on Thursday. The judge gave some cartoon-like jury instructions, and many are saying that this fact alone will be grounds for reversing these convictions. How long will this take? Will there be an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court? Will they jail Trump? Will they get desperate enough to kill him? Is this the kind of thing the Democrats feel they must do if Joe Biden’s areal approval rating is just under 8%? (Yes, this is the real number, according to Martin Armstrong and another confidential source I know personally.)

USA - Back in August of 2023, precious metals expert and financial writer Bill Holter predicted there was a long list of financial trouble coming to America. “We have an election coming up, and I still believe there is less than a 40% chance that we even have an election. From a financial standpoint, you have commercial real estate that is imploding. You have bank deposits that have fled the banking system. You have the financial system really on the rocks. Somebody had better start cutting rates because just in the past six months, China’s debt growth has turned negative, and so has their money supply. That is a recipe for complete disaster in an over-leveraged system. It’s not just China, it’s the whole world. The whole system is over-levered. Somebody had better cut rates to inflate; otherwise, Richard Russell’s ‘Inflate or Die’ comes into play. This is an election year, and I think the next six months are going to be completely insane."

EUROPE - The EU’s “ill-advised” response to the Ukraine conflict has seriously damaged the bloc’s economy, and Brussels’ insistence on restricting trade with China could make the situation even worse, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. Europe is “facing serious economic difficulties, and its economy is quickly deteriorating,” Szijjarto said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday. “The situation,” he added in remarks reported by Hungarian media, “has been deteriorating since the outbreak of the war. Hungary has paid a high price for the war in the form of €10 billion more in energy bills,” he continued, explaining that “inflation in Hungary increased not because our economic strategy was flawed or because we made bad decisions, but because of the war and the sanctions response to it.”

ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel would not accept a ceasefire deal that prevented it from destroying Hamas, after US President Joe Biden presented a so-called Israeli “proposal” that allowed Hamas to survive. On Friday, Biden presented a proposal, which he claimed was made by Israel, for a ceasefire. The terms do not even mention Hamas, much less its disarmament, while they require Israel to withdraw and stop fighting. Biden repeatedly claimed that the proposal came from Israel — though former President Barack Obama weighed in, stating that the proposal had been Biden’s (and implying, to some observers, that it had actually been Obama’s).

CHINA - Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used a speech to Arab leaders on Thursday to demand the establishment of a state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and pledged $3 million in funding to a Hamas-affiliated UN agency.

USA - Donald Trump becomes the first ever former President of the United States to be convicted of a crime. A unanimous New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of illegally trying to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to stifle a sex scandal that he feared would derail his 2016 presidential campaign only days before America went to the polls. Paying the hush money was not in itself illegal but the prosecution successfully argued that it was designed to influence the outcome of the election — a violation of election laws and, argued the prosecutors, the underlying crime. This is highly contentious territory — especially since the trial heard next to nothing about campaign law violations — which is why the guilty verdict will be immediately appealed.

USA - The fault lines of the US economy are 'about ready to crack' - that is the stark warning from one of America's top CEOs Bob Nardelli. The former boss of Home Depot and Chrysler says the Biden administration's policy missteps could create significant challenges for the next president. 'What I've seen over the past three-and-a-half years is that a series of debacles and missteps have created a tremendous pressure on the fault lines of our economy, and they're about ready to crack,' Nardelli told FOX Business. 'Whoever gets the next stint in the White House is going to be hit with a wrecking ball in trying to correct the missteps and the overspending of this current administration. So we're in for a rough time, I would say.'

SPAIN - The 70th Bilderberg Meeting [took] place from 30 May – 2 June 2024 in Madrid, Spain. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media [was] invited. Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual conference designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.

USA - Dr Anthony Fauci said in congressional testimony that he reviewed no scientific evidence behind the specific recommendations for masking children or maintaining 6-foot social distancing before advocating these policies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The revelations come from the full transcript, released Friday, of Fauci’s closed-door transcribed interview session in January before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The publication comes days before the former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is slated to testify in his first public hearing since his retirement in December 2022.

USA - In January 2023, former Vice President Al Gore provided a graphic depiction during a World Economic Forum summit, informing attendees that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are “now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth. That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice, and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees,” he stated.

TURYEY - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the Islamic world to take action against Israel in response to the latest deadly strike in the Gaza Strip. Erdogan, 70, told lawmakers from his AKP party today that Israel represented a threat to 'all of humanity.' He said: 'I have some words to say to the Islamic world: what are you waiting for to take a common decision?' Erdogan, who leads a Muslim-majority country of 85 million people, told lawmakers from his AKP party. 'Israel is not just a threat to Gaza but to all of humanity,' he said. 'No state is safe as long as Israel does not follow international law and does not feel bound by international law,' Erdogan added, repeating an accusation that Israel is committing 'genocide' in Gaza.

USA - I suppose that congratulations are in order. It is no small feat to pile up a debt of $315,000,000,000,000, and we will never see a mountain of debt of this magnitude ever again after it comes crashing down. Even though delinquency rates are rising all over the world, as long as conditions remain at least somewhat relatively stable the game will be able to continue. Unfortunately, conditions won’t be relatively stable for long. Global events have started to accelerate significantly, and that is really going to shake things up in the months ahead. We are in the midst of the greatest global debt binge in the history of the world. For the moment, conditions are at least somewhat relatively stable, and so everything seems fine. But it won’t take much to push us over the edge.

USA - Will we soon see a major prophecy in the Book of Revelation be fulfilled? Global food prices have been skyrocketing and hunger has been spreading like wildfire all over the world. We desperately need 2024 to be a year of good harvests, but unfortunately weather patterns are not cooperating at all and bad news about harvest forecasts just continues to pour in from many of the planet’s most important agricultural regions. Global food supplies just keep getting tighter and tighter, and the agricultural price spikes that we are witnessing right now are definitely quite ominous. Could it be possible that the stage is now being set for the global food crisis prophecy of Revelation 6:6? In that verse, we are warned of a time when food prices will soar to absolutely frightening levels…"Then I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not harm the oil and the wine.'” We certainly haven’t reached that point yet. But are we on the way there?

USA - Since the outbreak began in 2022, a total of 92.34 million birds have been killed due to the highly pathogenic bird flu. This outbreak has affected both chickens and dairy cattle, with confirmed cases in multiple states. While the risk to the public remains low, efforts to contain the disease have led to significant poultry losses.

USA - A massive fire broke out at Farina Farms Inc in Marion County, Illinois, on Wednesday night, resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens. The farm is one of the largest free-range egg facilities in the country. The fire, which began around 6:30 pm along Highway 37, quickly escalated into a 5-alarm fire, requiring the intervention of at least 20 different fire departments from surrounding areas, according to WAND TV. This disaster comes amid a devastating outbreak of bird flu that is already decimating bird populations. Over 4 million chickens in Iowa will need to be culled after the detection of highly pathogenic bird flu at a major egg farm, the state announced on Tuesday.