Jean-Francois Millet Harvesters Resting1850-53
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“America is in no position to pretend to be the guardian of democracy and human rights!” Indian anchor debating with an American professor.
— Ambassade de Chine en France (@AmbassadeChine) March 25, 2022
COVID cases in the UK:
22 March 2021 – 5,342
22 March 2022 – 94,524
“Over 50 years later that gold window is still temporarily closed with fatal consequences for the US and the world.”
• All Hell Will Break Loose For Humanity (Von Greyerz)
We are now at the end of an era of economic and moral decadence in a debt infested world built on false values, fake money and abysmal leadership. All hell will break loose. The consequences will be fatal for the world. There are eras in history which have produced great leaders and thinkers. But sadly, the current era has produced nothing of that kind. The end of an economic cycle produces no great leadership or statesmanship but only incompetent leaders. Looking at the Western world, the only notable statesman in the last few decades in my view is Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. But political leaders are of course instruments of their time. Sadly times as the current don’t produce Superior Men.
As Confucius said: “The Superior Man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort.” It is the buildup of a massive debt mountain which has given the Western world a false comfort based on false values. As I have pointed out many times, the US has increased its debt every year since 1930, with a couple of minor exceptions in the 1950s and 1960s. The Clinton surpluses in the late 1990s were fake and in fact deficits. In history, when there is undue economic pressure, starting wars is popular and often felt necessary. It is convenient to blame the war for the increasing debts. The Gold Standard was an excellent method for preventing governments to spend money they didn’t have. Since money couldn’t be printed at will, deficits then had to be financed by settling debts in physical gold.
As Nixon in the late 1960s had to meet the US debts to France in gold, he decided in 1971 to close the gold window temporarily. He clearly didn’t want to hand all the US gold to de Gaulle. Over 50 years later that gold window is still temporarily closed with fatal consequences for the US and the world.
“Due to greed, corruption and unaccountability leading to the cover up of global mass-embezzlement, our current financial system is in its death-throws.”
• President Biden Chillingly Declares a New World Order (Maajid Nawaz)
That’s it. The president has confirmed something that, up until now, was laughed at as the paranoid delusions of the “weak” minded, those whose perennial curse is that they see a kaleidoscope where others only see isolated dots. This week, President Biden confirmed to business leaders that we are at an inflection point, and there will be a New World Order. For some reason, he felt the need to couple this announcement with the number of people that he believes usually die when such historic turnings occur: 60 million. It’s not rocket science. World Orders are built around the financial system. Historically, this would usually only change through war. By way of example, the end of World War II heralded the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), agreed at Bretton Woods.
This established the modern financial system by linking global currencies to the US dollar and – at least until 1971 – the US dollar to gold. “The countries that joined the IMF between 1945 and 1971 agreed to keep their exchange rates (the value of their currencies in terms of the U.S. dollar and, in the case of the United States, the value of the dollar in terms of gold) pegged at rates that could be adjusted only to correct a “fundamental disequilibrium” in the balance of payments, and only with the IMF’s agreement. This par value system—also known as the Bretton Woods system—prevailed until 1971, when the U.S. government suspended the convertibility of the dollar (and dollar reserves held by other governments) into gold.”
After 1971, and due to Nixon’s alterations, global currencies remained linked to the US dollar, but the US dollar was pegged to absolutely nothing. This is how – right up until now – the US Federal Reserve had a monopoly on global monetary policy. Due to greed, corruption and unaccountability leading to the cover up of global mass-embezzlement, our current financial system is in its death-throws. This was largely caused by boom-bust cycles, and our policy responses to them, such as ‘quantitative easing’ or money printing. But unlike after WWII, this time an alternative exists in the form of decentralised crypto currencies.
“..whenever the United States tried regime change, it didn’t turn out very well, and has never been tried with a nuclear power..”
• Suggesting Kremlin Regime Change, Biden Says Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power’ (CD)
Bucking those who warn that a push for regime change in Moscow could prolong the war in Ukraine and intensify the suffering of its people, U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to openly call for the overthrow of Russian Vladimir Putin on Saturday during a speech in Warsaw, Poland. While applauding the international unity that has mobilized to condemn and push back against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war now entering its second month, Biden suggested it has now become intolerable for Putin to remain. Near the very end of his speech, Biden declared, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
The remarks were the most explicit yet from the U.S. president that he sees no future for Putin as Russia’s head of state, but the comment also raised immediate alarm bells among those who recognized that such rhetoric could make it harder to a negotiated peace settlement to take hold or for the diplomatic strategy known as the “Golden Bridge” which would allow for a dignified exit from hostilities. In a Democracy Now! interview that aired Friday, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis explained why Putin must be given a viable exit strategy—not because he isn’t a contemptible war criminal, which Varoufakis readily admitted—but because it would be the fastest way to end the invasion and mass slaughter of innocent Ukrainian civilians.
According to Varoufakis, and others who share his concerns, the idea of a western-imposed regime change strategy aimed at the Kremlin could “be catastrophic for the people of Ukraine.” “What is exactly the aim?” asks Varoufakis during the exchange. “Is it regime change in Russia? Well, whenever the United States tried regime change, it didn’t turn out very well, and has never been tried with a nuclear power. This is like playing with fire, or nuclear fire, I should say. If it’s not regime change, what exactly is it?” In his assessment, Varoufakis said that if Biden and his NATO allies are “not leaving any room for a compromise” with Putin, then they are “effectively jeopardizing the interests of Ukrainians, because a quagmire in—an Afghanistan-like quagmire in the Ukr
“Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has “understood that NATO is not prepared to accept Ukraine.”
• On NATO Membership And ‘Core Principles,’ The US Treads On Thin Ice (Snider)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal and needs to be condemned. But the United States should also be condemned for asking Ukraine to keep its aspiration to join NATO alive while at the same time spurning that aspiration. Indeed, the United States doesn’t want Ukraine to reach a settlement with Russia that sacrifices the principle that nations have a right to determine their own alliances, a principle that the United States is not nor ever has itself recognized. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said this week that “President Zelenskyy has also made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution that does not compromise the core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.”
According to Price, those core principles at the center of this conflict are “that each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right to determine for itself with whom it will choose to associate in terms of its alliances, its partnerships, and what orientation it wishes to direct its gaze.” So the stated U.S. policy is that Ukraine can make a sovereign decision to join NATO and no country can close the door. But that is exactly what the United States has done. It has created the illusion of an open door for its international audience while closing it firmly shut. President Biden has said that “the likelihood that Ukraine is going to join NATO in the near term is not very likely.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that “the question of [Ukrainian] membership in alliances is practically not on the agenda.” He emphasized the point by adding that “is not even on the agenda.” Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has “understood that NATO is not prepared to accept Ukraine.”
So on the one hand, Price says Ukraine is free to join whatever alliances it wants, but President Biden and other NATO countries say joining the alliance isn’t going to happen. Zelensky himself has expressed his frustration with this hypocrisy. “I requested them personally to say directly that we are going to accept you into NATO in a year or two or five, just say it directly and clearly, or just say no,” he said on March 20. “And the response was very clear, you’re not going to be a NATO member, but publicly, the doors will remain open.” It is not true that any country has the right to join NATO if it chooses, nor is NATO obliged to accept anyone who wishes to join. Membership has to be at the invitation of NATO, and NATO members have to agree unanimously: any one country can say no. And NATO is under no obligation to extend an invitation to a solicitous country. The NATO treaty says only that it “may then be invited to join,” and that there is no guarantee.
One too many gaffes?
• Biden Tells US Troops They’ll Be In Ukraine In War Gaffe (NYP)
President Biden told US troops in Poland Friday that they will witness the bravery of Ukrainians fighting off Russia’s invasion “when you’re there” — making a significant gaffe after he previously said the US must stay out of the European conflict to avoid triggering “World War III.” Biden made the remark while addressing members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division after lunching on pizza and posing for selfies with dozens of paratroopers at a mess hall in Rzeszow, southeastern Poland. “You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground,’” Biden said.
JoeBiden “Digs In” to that PIZZA PIE like an ANIMAL before the Soldiers got any. In the military, the senior officer always eats LAST!
A White House official quickly clarified that Biden wasn’t changing his stance on deploying the military into Ukraine. “The president has been clear we are not sending US troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” a Biden spokesman told The Post. Biden also said during his remarks that the US was working to “keep the massacre from continuing” after more than 3.7 million Ukrainians fled their country during the month-old war. The Biden administration has supplied arms to Ukraine’s beleaguered military, but the president personally nixed a Polish proposal to transfer 28 Soviet-designed fighter jets to Ukraine with US help. Biden said that US facilitation of the transaction could trigger a new world war. Although Biden spoke as if US troops were heading into Ukraine, he repeatedly ruled out that possibility in prior public remarks.
US troops in Ukraine
Biden: We're not sending troops to Ukraine. Maybe. pic.twitter.com/fhi4e5VQiu
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) March 26, 2022
Is this what mass psychosis looks like?
“..Penn, 61, has won two Oscars and vowed to “smelt mine in public” if Zelensky is snubbed by the Academy..”
• Sean Penn Calls For Oscars Boycott If Zelensky Not Given Chance To Speak (NYP)
Sean Penn is calling on Hollywood to boycott the Academy Awards if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is denied a chance to speak at the red-carpet event. “I would encourage everyone involved to know, though it may be their moment, and I understand that, to celebrate their films, it is so much more their moment to shine and to protest and to boycott that Academy Awards,” the controversial actor said in an appearance on CNN Saturday afternoon. Penn, 61, has won two Oscars and vowed to “smelt mine in public” if Zelensky is snubbed by the Academy. The Ukrainian leader has been in talks with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make a video appearance during Sunday’s broadcast of the Oscars ceremony.
Penn met with Zelensky while in Ukraine in February, when he was filming a documentary about the nation’s tensions and now war with Russia. Oscars ceremony co-host Amy Schumer floated the idea of having Zelensky speak at the event last week, People reported. “It is my understanding that a decision has been made not to do it” Penn said of having Zelensky speak. “If the Academy has elected not to do it, if presenters have elected not to pursue the leadership in Ukraine, who are taking bullets and bombs for us, along with the Ukrainian children they are trying to protect, then I think every single one of those people and every bit of that decision will have been the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history.”
The list is long.
With the Russian operation in Ukraine alarming the populace, you might have forgotten the late Covid-19 epidemic that provoked so much public hysteria and government policy overreach. Stuff happened during those two-plus years of Covid-19, and, even with Ukraine blaring from the cable news channels, Covid-19 stuff is still happening. Vaccine mandates are still in force, in New York City, for instance — except for performers and ballplayers, who are exempted now, as announced this week by Mayor Eric Adams. If you detect any specious reasoning behind that diktat, at least you know who made it happen.
But so many other things just happened with Covid-19, rather serious things, and no one has had to answer for them, certainly not Dr. Anthony Fauci, who just days ago talked up another booster shot of his obviously defective mRNA “vaccines.” Dr. Fauci proposed that despite a raft of emerging statistics from the life insurance realm that indicate a shockingly high number of mysterious all-causes deaths for people in the prime of life. Several conditions appear to be killing them: 1) blood clotting in the capillaries of various organs, apparently caused by the “vaccine’s” main active ingredient, spike proteins; 2) heart inflammation (pericarditis and myocarditis); 3) a mystifying array of neurological afflictions; and 4) switched-off immune system toggles, including the cellular mechanism for preventing the growth of cancers.
This developing picture of a public health catastrophe, growing more robustly detailed by the week, has somehow not alerted the general public, not least because the entire public health officialdom does not want them to know about it. In fact, as averred to above, they are all still busy promoting the “vaccines” which are responsible. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC, is rather well-known — though her duties appear limited to the public impersonation of a “concerned mom” — but whoever heard of Rebecca Bunnell, PhD, Director of the CDC’s Office of Science? Does Science play any part in the emerging disaster of sharply rising all-causes deaths? It would be good to know, don’t you think? Anyone heard from Daniel Jernigan, MD, Deputy CDC Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance (DDPHSS)? You’d think he would be out there surveilling things.
How about Brian C. Moyer, PhD, Director of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. He would be in charge, presumably, of the VAERS system, which tabulates adverse vaccine events. That system evidently under-reports adverse events by a shocking amount — some say only 1 percent are ever recorded. Why is that? Because it is a website that is so notoriously ill-designed and hard to use that the CDC pledged to fix it more than ten years ago and never got around to it. Why is that, Dr. Moyer? Has anyone asked him? I don’t think so.
Kunstler
Exactly… pic.twitter.com/S9YNC0efSz
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) March 26, 2022
“This is how humankind evolved to live in the presence of pathogens.”
• Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity Is Superior (NP)
Dr. Anthony Fauci has finally admitted that natural immunity against COVID is actually far superior than any experimental jab will ever be. In an interview on March 23, 2022, Fauci finally let the following slip: “When you look at the cases they do not appear to be any more severe [than Omicron] and they do not appear to evade immune responses either from vaccine or prior infection.” Infowars.com reports: What’s critical here is not his debatable claim about vaccines but rather his offhand remark about prior infection. It was tossed off as if: “Everyone knows this.” If so, it is no thanks to him, the CDC, or WHO.
To be sure, everything we’ve known since two years ago – if not 2.5 thousand years – is that immunity from prior Covid infection is real. Vaccines have traditionally been a substitute version of exactly that. Brownstone has assembled fully 150 studies that demonstrate that immunity through infection is effective, broad, and lasting. Had that messaging been around during lockdowns, the attitude toward the virus would have been very different. We would have clearly seen the present reality from the beginning, namely that endemicity generally arrives in the case of a new virus of this sort due to exposure-induced population immunity. This is how humankind evolved to live in the presence of pathogens.
If we had widespread public awareness of this, the public-health priority would not have been locking down people who can manage exposure but rather alerting those who cannot to be careful until herd immunity in one’s own circle of contacts has been realized via meeting the virus and recovering. To those who say that is dangerous, consider that mass exposure is precisely what happened in any case, stretched out over two years rather than occurring in a single season. This delaying of the inevitable might be what allowed for variants to emerge and take hold in successive rounds, each new one hitting naive immune systems in ways that were difficult to predict. Flatten the curve amounted to “prolonging the pain,” exactly as Knut Wittkowski predicted in March 2020.
“There’s more and more evidence coming to the front that this is part of some sort of bigger grand plan.”
• Covid Vaccines Killed At Least 61,000 Americans Aged 25 – 44 In 2021 – CDC (DE)
An analysis of figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database has revealed that 61,000 people, supposedly in the prime of their life, aged 25-44, died of vaccine-related causes in the U.S. in the fall and winter of 2021. Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock portfolio manager, made the appalling revelation during the March 10 episode of “The Alex Jones Show.” According to Dowd, an investment adviser on Wall Street, an insurance industry expert who is part of his team stumbled upon the buried truth when, looking for something else, he broke down the CDC figures by age and created his own baseline death rates from there. Showing charts the actuarian plotted from the figures, Dowd pointed at chart four as the punch line.
“Basically, you see that millennials experienced 84 percent excess death in the fall and winter of 2021. So excess deaths accelerated when mandates and boosters hit,” Dowd told Jones. “And this age group is important because they’re healthy. And you can’t say that they, you know, miss their cancer screenings. This is ages 25 to 44. So this is just devastating evidence that the vaccines are causing this age group to die at an accelerating rate. “I know I showed percentages in that chart, but the actual bodies are 61,000. That’s the Vietnam War event that just occurred to the millennial generation – 58,000 died in the Vietnam War.” Dowd said he’s certain the vaccines are the culprits because the acceleration started in the summer when the mandates started hitting in August and September last year.
“And then [President Joe] Biden came out [announcing the mandates]. And boosters were also authorized and started happening. So let’s call this what it is. This is death by government mandate or democide, death by government. That’s what’s going on here.” The insurance companies have pointed at the alarming spike in vaccine-related deaths before, but the government refused to heed the warning and proceeded with the mass injections. Dowd could only speculate on why the “pyschos” in government did this. “Well, there’s two ways to look at this. Just good old-fashioned power and greed, or there was a plan hatched by some very evil people. I’m going with power and greed for now. But you know, as we roll through this very active fraud, it’s being exposed. There’s more and more evidence coming to the front that this is part of some sort of bigger grand plan.”
“Key sources of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous – important inputs into soil fertility, crop yield, and plant maintenance – have all gone vertical.”
• Farmers on the Brink (Doomberg)
While the concept of a perfect storm is often too casually assigned in popular culture, it is difficult to find a more apt description of what has been unfolding in the global agriculture markets over these past several months. The tempest caused by the European energy disaster has merged with the hurricane of consequences flowing from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, forming the genesis of a generational crisis in food that will leave few unaffected. While we’ve been warning about just such a scenario for some time, after spending the past two weeks traveling across the US Midwest and conferring with our contacts in the agricultural sector, even we are a little spooked by what we’ve learned. In a financial crash, the correlation between all asset classes converges to one.
The coming crash in global food supply will be driven by a similar phenomenon across virtually every input into farming – they are all spiking to historic highs simultaneously, supply availability is diminishing across the spectrum, and the time to reverse the worst of the upcoming consequences is rapidly running short. Other than that, things are great. We begin with the price of fertilizer, which has been soaring to record highs across the globe. Key sources of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous – important inputs into soil fertility, crop yield, and plant maintenance – have all gone vertical. Ammonia is derived directly from natural gas, and the price of natural gas outside of the US has gone vertical. It’s no surprise that the price of ammonia has tripled over the past twelve months.
Belarus is the third-largest supplier of potash in the world and its state-owned miner, Belaruskali, declared force majeure after sanctions were imposed by the US and Europe. The number two supplier of potash globally? Russia. Perhaps front-running the Russian move on Ukraine, China halted phosphate exports last fall in an effort to ensure adequate domestic supply.
“It’s a part of the ongoing mental torture that even on his happiest day they will at the last moment strike off guests on his guest list just to mess him about..”
• The Marriage of Julian Assange (Chris Hedges)
I am standing at the gates of HM Prison Belmarsh, a high security penitentiary in southeast London, with Craig Murray, who was the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was fired for exposing the CIA black sites and torture centers in that country. Inside the prison, Julian Assange and Stella Moris are being married. Craig and I were on the list of the six guests invited to the wedding, but the prison authorities, in an example of the institutional sadism that characterizes all prisons, denied us entry. Craig, who was to have been one of two witnesses, was informed that he could not enter because he would “endanger the security of the prison.”
Craig came down from Edinburgh by train. I flew over from New York. We would at least be at the entrance of the prison with the some 150 Assange supporters. Craig, dressed in full Scottish regalia —and a kilt he admitted he had to have expanded every few years to accommodate his broadening girth — made a fashion statement and perhaps a point about Scottish independence. He was outdone by Stella, who wore a flowing ice lilac A-line bridal gown, corset with plastic stays so she could pass through the four metal detectors, and veil designed and donated by fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler.
“It’s a part of the ongoing mental torture that even on his happiest day they will at the last moment strike off guests on his guest list just to mess him about, just to try and make things as unpleasant as they can possibly make them,” Craig laments. “We shouldn’t be surprised. It’s a piece of the unnecessary cruelty with which he has been kept from the start. Why on earth is he even in a maximum security prison built to house terrorists? I’m quite amused by the explanation that I endanger the security of the prison. I feel quite flattered by this. I couldn’t understand it all until today when, of course, it occurred to me that I look incredibly sexy in my kilt and they thought a prison riot might ensue.”
The day is bittersweet. Julian may never be able to live with his wife and family. Yet it is an affirmation of love and commitment and hope carried out in a small side room with folding chairs and a laminate table. The prison authorities denied Julian and Stella the use of the chapel. The ceremony was witnessed by six family members, including Julian and Stella’s two young sons, one of whom fell asleep and the other of whom was preoccupied with a paper plane and tried to turn on one of the alarms. Two guards were stationed in the room. There was no reception. There was no cake. The prison denied Julian and Stella’s request for a photographer. A guard took a few pictures, but prison authorities told Julian and Stella they could not be posted on social media or shared with the public.
They were allowed to kiss. This prompted the older boy, Gabriel, to say, the family told me, “Oh, that’s a sloppy one.” Afterwards, the Catholic chaplain, who had the foresight to bring a white tablecloth and candles, gave them his blessing. Julian and Stella were given half an hour together in a crowded visitors hall. And then Julian, prisoner A 9379AY, was escorted back to his cell to the applause of the prisoners on his tier.
Hedges
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist @ChrisLynnHedges delivers powerful speech for #JulianAssange on his wedding day. (Part 1) pic.twitter.com/7WSajdBRAz
— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) March 26, 2022
The guards have much more humanity than their “superiors”.
“The guards who conducted Stella through the jail did so as though they were the escort of a Queen.”
• Free, Enduring Love (Craig Murray)
By Stella’s side stood Julian Assange, whom she described to me as “simply the love of my life”, resplendent in a kilt, shirt, tie, and waistcoat, again specially designed by Vivienne Westwood in a purple based tartan, and featuring hand embroidery, lacing and cloisonne buttons. Unlike Stella’s dress, which she later showed us in detail, I have not seen the kilt but am told the design is relatively traditional. There was a two minute delay at the start of the ceremony as Julian had no sporran, and his brother Gabriel, resplendent in full highland dress for the first time, removed his own sporran and put it on Julian. Both Julian and Gabriel are proud of their Scottish heritage, in each case through their respective mothers. The British authorities had done everything they could firstly to prevent, and then to mess up, this wedding.
Permission to marry had first been formally requested of the prison service in 2020, and in the end was only granted by involving lawyers and threatening legal action. There followed a whole list of antagonisms on which I shall not dwell, one minor example of which was banning me from the wedding and then lying about it. But now, on the wedding day, the ordinary, working staff of the prison were delighted to be hosting such a happy event. The searches of the bride were distinctly token and friendly. At the security checks, Julian and Stella’s three year old son Max managed to tangle himself so comprehensively around the legs of one guard that he fell over, and the large guard and small boy then had a hilarious mock wrestle on the floor. The guards who conducted Stella through the jail did so as though they were the escort of a Queen.
Gates and steel doors opened before the procession and were locked again behind them, until deep in the bowels of this maximum security prison they arrived in a banal room, oppressive and completely windowless, with plain magnolia emulsioned walls. It was about twenty feet by fifteen feet, and is used as a store room for the adjoining Chaplaincy. At the back of the room were piles of Muslim prayer mats, boxes of red-jacketed Christian hymnals, stacks of cheap chairs and folded trestles. From which that one cheap trestle had been set up, and a single row of eight chairs in front of it. Present were Julian and Stella, and their permitted limit of six invited guests. These were Stella’s mother Teresa and brother Adrian, Julian’s father John, brother Gabriel, and Julian and Stella’s two children, Gabriel (4) and Max (3).
One of the torments had been that the UK Ministry of Justice insisted that the two tots counted against the six person limit, contrary to the prison’s original advice. Also in the room were the registrar who conducted the civil wedding, the Catholic chaplain and two prison guards, one for each door. Julian was able to hug and hold each of his family as they arrived, even though that was very much against the rules. That kind of physical comfort is something he will have been craving for years, and all eyes were full of tears. Julian’s father John was alarmed by his appearance. Julian was a stooped figure, and worryingly thin, even though obviously very happy in the moment.
Scott Ritter
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This is actually really depressing because how true it is. pic.twitter.com/J5R16vLq9v
— hardyhat (@hardhatludwig) March 24, 2022
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I hope you are feeling better and don’t have pain Raul. Can’t believe you are back at it.
I like this post on Left Politics as they are and why to ditch em.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/announcing-a-hostile-takeover-of?s=r
Holy shit!
You’re back already…
I hope it’s not too soon…
We’ll hold down the fort until you’re better…
Cheers and take care…
Jean-Francois Millet Harvesters Resting1850-53
Great painting…
Reminds me of the sugar-cane harvesters here in Thailand; brutal work…
Little by little becoming mechanized…
The Hardyhat vid is so spot on to today’s world…it’s utterly depressing…
Scotty! Bean me up please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is a very real technology in cutting, moving, but especially creating that haystack properly, and this knowledge is very nearly lost.
“America is in no position to pretend to be the guardian of democracy and human rights!” Indian anchor debating with an American professor.”
Why did it take them 20 (or 40) years to make fun of them to their face? I made fun of them the day after they started.
“The Superior Man thinks always of virtue,”
I think a rough pulling of this might mean, “Thinks in terms of principles.”
“the paranoid delusions of the “weak” minded,”
The same Weak-minded didn’t notice when Bush said it like 90 times, then forgot and denied he said it at all for 20 years. We can and should argue about what he MEANT by it, but not that he did say it, and knew it would be HIGHLY suspect and HIGHLY inflammatory, and said it 90 times anyway. Biden’s the same.
“Biden Says “Butcher” Putin “Cannot Remain In Power” In Call For Regime Change In Russia”
How are we not at war with Russia? We said we must do regime change and will never stop our 5G war until that happens. The End. …But we’re not at war with Russia while donating $1B and flooding the zone with tank and air weapons.
Okay, Docktor. The Point? If RUSSIA thinks we’re at war with THEM, they can take out the NE electric grid and level Atlanta. It doesn’t matter what we SAY. With mouths that burn hellfire if we ever tell the truth or touch a Bible.
Second question: How is Biden not at war? Huh? AGAINST THE PEOPLE. No gas, no food, no freedom. No health care it seems, at the rate we’re going. No drinkable water. No safe, paying jobs. No houses. 30,000 people a year dying of one weapon alone. I mean, what would a war on his own people look like? It’s a war on WE.
“Writing in the current Washington Examiner, Anne Pierce suggests that the United States is today confronted by a new “Axis of Evil” composed of Russia, China, and Iran, which poses an existential threat to U.S. security. …and Russia currently poses the greatest threat to our security.”
Cutting through, Hoooooowwwwww? Is Russia going to invade us? 12 time zones not enough land for them? Are they going to nuke us for staying home and making blue jeans? What has gone wrong with the tiny sauropod brains of these people? Were the picture books at Chicago U not big enough for you?
There are not enough men in Russia to hold occupy a hostile Ukraine, so certainly there are not enough to hold Poland, Germany, France, Austria, so they’re not even a danger to our allies, EVEN IF you call that a “danger”, which Gen. Washington would not.
“Krauthammer recognized that the unipolar moment would not last forever–that is why he used the term “moment.” …In U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic, Walter Lippmann famously wrote that the United States needed to keep its international commitments consistent with the limits of its resources. When we don’t do that, it creates a gap between commitments and resources that some later called the “Lippmann Gap.”
Or as we normal folks say: duuuuuh.
Continuing with Biden, why shouldn’t Putin call for regime change in the U.S.? Are we not the world’s largest human rights violator, starting 20 wars of aggression this century? Maybe 40 since Biden first took office and wildly promoted leveling Serbia?
Next: is the President really in power if when he speaks, everyone around him corrects him and “Says what he MEANT to say” for him? Sounds to me like you’re all making it up. Or talking both sides of your mouth. We will/won’t attack and we will/won’t use chemical weapons. Which we are well-known for using worldwide. We used White phosphorus, a war crime, cluster bombs on civilians, a war crime, and depleted uranium, a crime against humanity that includes killing our own veterans. Every day for half a lifetime and are proud of it. After firebombing and chemically-attacking Vietnam (and its Vets).
“President Zelenskyy has also made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution”
They have now ceded everything in Minsk because Russia is bogged down and Ukraine is winning? Also, as Minsk, what on EARTH would make you think they would keep their word? They haven’t once in 30 years. They’re losing, so they’re stalling, which is Anglo 101. Always lie. Show no honor. Words mean nothing. P.S. they’re so serious about a diplomatic solution that Blinken has yet to call Russia and talk to anyone.
Back to the article that’s making too much of small things – simply say that they’re open, transparent thieving, murdering liars – NATO membership isn’t allowed under their “rules” for like 3 more reasons including the lack of territorial control and sovereignty.
“ Biden Tells US Troops They’ll Be In Ukraine In War Gaffe (NYP)”
Again: why is that a “gaffe”? Are you telepathic? Does Biden not mean what he says? Why would you re-write it into “This is what he MEANT to say”?
The #Opposite is also true. Trump denounces Neo-Nazis at VA but “We all know he MEANT to say” dogwhistle blah blah MTG. Using our now-universal telepathy, where we are telepathically connected to Greene, Jones, Trump, Putin, Biden, and everyone else on earth. “They’re thinking whatever I SAY they’re thinking.” I am the arbiter of all thought, words, actions, meanings, and flags! And when I want your opinion, I’ll TELL you what it is!
“Biden: We’re not sending troops to Ukraine. Maybe.”
Forgetting in good #OppositeLand fashion, WE ALREADY SENT TROOPS TO UKRAINE. For decades. We trained every Nazi there more than we ever trained Nun-torturers in the “School of the Americas”. Our troops ARE ALSO THERE NOW. We are providing all Intel and PR support.
“Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity Is Superior (NP)”
Yes but he also says the #Opposite every day. Both are true! Everything, and it’s opposite! You can’t judge me!
“Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock portfolio manager,”
Like VPs of Pfizer, what does he know? Or insurance CEO’s, or undertakers? They just deal with it every day and are probably grifters looking to be harangued, death threatened, unemployed, discredited, and de-banked. ‘Cause that’s what self-interested social climbers do! Take the one action that can destroy their lives, pull their licenses, and end them in jail! Now when do you ever see a con artist tell people what’s popular for quick money and the easy life instead? I rest my case. If he’s aiming for jail and poverty: clearly a grifter.
“Former Goldman Banker Charged In Bitcoin Laundering Scheme Linked To Online Drug Market”
Yeah, buddy: when you launder money for Sachs, don’t include Bitcoin. Also, give us a cut, or else we have our fully-owned courts enforce for us.
“Boop” This is why I’m glad if anyone ACTS. They are doing something, learning, and changing. Not victims but participants. Even if it’s something stupid like flying to Ukr where they don’t know the language. I expect Hemingway didn’t either when he went to Spain. If you try you can course-adjust later.
“Farmers on the Brink (Doomberg) “
“The tempest caused by the European energy disaster has merged with the hurricane of consequences flowing from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, forming the genesis of a generational crisis in food that will leave few unaffected. While we’ve been warning about just such a scenario for some time, after spending the past two weeks traveling across the US Midwest and conferring with our contacts in the agricultural sector, even we are a little spooked by what we’ve learned. In a financial crash, the correlation between all asset classes converges to one. The coming crash in global food supply will be driven by a similar phenomenon across virtually every input into farming – they are all spiking to historic highs simultaneously, supply availability is diminishing across the spectrum, and the time to reverse the worst of the upcoming consequences is rapidly running short.
Other than that, things are great.”
Just a 3-fold increase in fertilizer. So far. https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1814aae2-dcf1-4bce-9d82-b4ab9c63b066_2712x1356.png
(Sorry, my webpage has not provided the usual interface with IMG tags. Maybe others see this.)
As I wrote some months ago, they CAN replace SOME of this fertilizer. …By completely erasing the present system and making orders of magnitude more local, more diverse, and adding animals. Like 1960. That’s not happening in anything under decades of expensive transition.
They point out that RoundUp is strongly needed and prices will be high. Although technically a boiler cleaner, it’s really a sort of twisted fertilizer. We can replace that too: with diesel and gas, used for weed-killing cultivation; driving every field foot by foot every 2-4 weeks.
We’ll have diesel though, just expensive. Nope. As they used natural gas (hydrogen) to remove sulfur from diesel. So we COULD just suspend that requirement and get it to the pump. What are the odds of saving our lives, growing and delivering stuff? Zero? Or slightly higher? We’re talking Congress and the EPA here. If everyone starves in America later this year, they’ll write those farmers a sternly-written letter.
Last: propane. I look at this more because it’s a fairly irreplaceable fuel for rural areas, and is unexpectedly made from petrol and not natural gas. (or sorta). However, it’s the only possible fuel likely without astonishing changes for farming. I complain about there being no railroad cars, no grain elevators? Yeah, we won’t have to worry about those. Without propane, you can’t dry the grain and shouldn’t bother to put it in the elevators where it will rot and ruin the silo anyway. Save yourself the time and trouble and dump it in the field.
Solutions? None. Get me the gas or everybody dies!
They won’t, so get you some food at your house before this happens or YOU die.
“Gods of the Copybook Headings” has been making small rounds on the Internets. If you read carefully, it closes with this:
“after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
Dedicated to Joe Biden.
Amen?
The presentation of the comments section has changed.
A word has the meaning that I chose – your favorite snob
• Suggesting Kremlin Regime Change, Biden Says Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power’ (CD)
• Biden Tells US Troops They’ll Be In Ukraine In War Gaffe (NYP)
Listen to me, “I’m open to MY diplomatic solution”
Part of the horrible tragedy that we unleashed on Iraq stemmed from the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. While another part of that horrible tragedy stemmed from the fact that when our leaders began the conflict, they had no realistic exit strategy.
As the corporate media keeps pushing the narrative that the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict is the only possible path forward, I pray that everyone is paying close attention to what our leaders are stating the “exit strategy” is this time around.
So what are our leaders saying is our exit strategy in this conflict with Russia?
Anyone?
Part of the horrible tragedy that we unleashed on Iraq stemmed from the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. While another part of that horrible tragedy stemmed from the fact that when our leaders began the conflict, they had no realistic exit strategy.
As the corporate media keeps pushing the narrative that the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict is the only possible path forward, I pray that everyone is paying close attention to what our leaders are stating the “exit strategy” is this time around.
So what are our leaders saying is our exit strategy in this conflict with Russia?
Anyone?
https://cluelesshonky.blogspot.com/2022/03/exit-strategy.html
Jean-Francois Millet Harvesters Resting
The painting of the Millet Harvesters should be re-dated to 2023-2033 cause that’s what agriculture is going to return to in the near future.
Survive by pretending that the snobs are telling the truth
• All Hell Will Break Loose For Humanity (Von Greyerz)
F1 HYPOCRICY
The F1 event in Russia was quickly cancelled after the Ukraine invasion.
This weekend F1 is in Saudi Arabia. Nearby there are hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dying of starvation due to the actions of Saudi Arabia.
This is NOT a problem for F1!
Can you revert to the previous presentation of comments?
I cannot look up other presenters or my past posts or do HTML with one click.
Yes this new format is somewhat unfamiliar….I hope we can revert to the prior style and layout
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I’ll guess that after 105,000+ comments
the format “resets” itself, perhaps?
zerosum- you can look yours up with the green link just below “leave a reply”. As for others…
I’ll see if mine goes into mine, but I notice Dr. D’s post (for example) for today is not archived. It was a REALLY nice perk, but I expect it was a big expense (?) What would you need to bring it back, Ilargi?
I hope RIM keeps the old archives and access to the old replies.
… from BMW Canada into my in-Box this sneaked in today:
EXTRAVAGANT AND LUXURIOUS.
The interior of BMW Concept XM.
Top quality materials such as leather, velvet and carbon fiber. The front area is fully driver-focused while the M Lounge rear compartment offers extravagant comfort – BMW M and an uncompromising standard of luxury combine to produce something completely new.
https://www.bmw.ca/content/dam/bmw/common/topics/fascination-bmw/concept-vehicles/XM-CONCEPT-2021/Highlights/bmw-xm-mc-interior-design-backstage-hero-desktop.jpg/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.resized.img.1680.large.time1636123481520.jpg
… the end is nigh!
F.S.
P.S.: … the exterior for those who are curious:
https://www.bmw.ca/content/dam/bmw/common/topics/fascination-bmw/concept-vehicles/XM-CONCEPT-2021/Highlights/bmw-xm-mc-m-high-performance-hero-desktop.jpg/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.resized.img.1680.large.time1636123390703.jpg
Gonzalo Lira gives a great explanation of that homicidal witch Victoria Nuland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR—YDDIQ
SURVEY for commenters, please?
Sometime in the past year or so there were a few people on here offering a review of various brands of evaporated milk. I remember Carnation being mentioned and shot down by a couple people as not the best tasting.
If y’all don’t mind, can you please provide input on brand? I don’t drink milk so don’t buy it, but sometimes 1/4 cup is needed in a recipe here and there. Working on stocking up the larder.
Thank you! (PS … the new format is throwing me off, too)
Carnation is the worst. It seems to me as much goodness has been extracted from it as possible to maximize profit. Who knows for sure.
Walmart brand was so so but an improvement.
The best brand in Canada that I found is Dairy Isle which comes from a small dairy supplied by local dairy farmers in Prince Edward Island.
In the US I would try something like Land o Lakes or try the different kinds available.
Remember mix one can of milk with one can of water. Run the water through your Brita filter or reverse osmosis. Good water is important. Also use the full strength evapourated milk reconstituted with pure water to produce whole milk
I believe the Western world has failed due to the way we have organized our society.
We are currently organized to benefit looting of society.
We should be organized to benefit improving of society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiaB4vimSPw
Michael:
See Susmarie 108’s link on Friday about an outdoor wood fired boiler!
,B>I hear on TV
Regime change has never been done by the USA.
Those regime that fell was because their system were flawed.
Sanctions do not lead/cause regime change
We must keep sending supplies and war machines to Ukraine so that they can beat Russia.
When I go and look at “recent posts” the layout/presentation of the comments are not changed
Thank you, Michael. I have a Berkey water filter and in NY we have natural water sources. Got that part covered. 😉
Well here goes my first comment in the new format!
Sean Penn is 100% CIA.
Sean was in the Ukraine scouting for his next war narrative, with Mr. Z, back in November 2021. After performing his 2022 narrative role, he was quite happy to ditch his rental car a few miles from the Polish border so he didn’t have to wait to cross the border like everybody else. He is of course special, Hollywood royalty. That means you have no morals or ethics. You willingly sold those for money a long time ago.
Sean’s current CIA narrative role is to play his royalty card on Hollywood’s Oscars. After all corrupt politics comes first! All very sick entertainment for the masses of sheep being happily lead to their slaughter.
Slow joe:
We all know slow joe eats first! When the commander-in-chief stuffs his face in front of all his vaccine injuried soldiers, it tells a soldier he is expendable! Will this soldier now fight and die? Hint: Did the Roman Legionaires fight against the barbarians when paid in worthless copper?
Joe’s 10% cut always comes first before all others get their cut. My best educated guess is Biden will be removed from power long before Putin ever is. Biden spoke the truth but for the wrong person!
If it weren’t for the best VP insurance policy ever written, Biden would be gone by now. We all know joe is completely “gone”, but the thought of kamala seems unthinkable, for now. But kamala is next. She has all of the classic makings of an excellent puppet, no morals or ethics. Plenty of blackmail evidence too, if she should ever try to cut any of her puppet strings.
RAUL: I hope your back is better after giving it the rest it needed.
If you are finding that your sore back gets kind of locked up after sleeping and it takes a while to get up in the morning, try doing this simple exercise before going to bed.
Lie down back flat on the floor. Raise one leg up 90 degrees and then place both of your hands against the knee. Gently push the raised leg up against your two hands for a few seconds, then relax. Repeat this a couple more times. Then switch to the other leg and repeat the same process. Repeat to suit.
The purpose of this simple exercise is to try and prevent your back muscles from locking up when you sleep. My brother does this in the evening before going to bed, whenever he has a sore back. If he doesn’t do this, then he can barely get out of bed in the morning.
One day off to heal seems a bit short. Hope it turns out well. Exercises work. I missed the links yesterday.
The coronavirus pandemic and the Ukraine Russian War both have the same cause – power and greed. In his dotage, Joe Biden blurted out the West’s war goals: “Butcher” Putin “Cannot Remain in Power”. The lock down of the assets from Russia’s Central Bank in the USA violates sovereign immunity and destroys the “full faith and credit” of monies deposited in America.
The strategic goal is for the resource depleted West to seize Russian resources to keep exploitative capitalism going. Since Russian is a nuclear power, a direct assault on it will destroy western civilization. The problem is all those in power who are Russophobes, believe their propaganda, and are in denial of the clear and immediate dangers of a nuclear holocaust.
The only way to avoid killing billions of humans, is to acknowledge reality; 1) Ukraine must be partitioned, 2) acknowledge this is multi-polar world again, and 3) build a DMZ along the Dnieper River North and South that separates East from West. The basic problem is that this is the Russia-China Alliance’s century if the earth is not destroyed. The West is now the poor, depleted, and sick part of the globe.
Penn is advocating US murder of women and children by failing to virtue signal when the USA massacres people. We all know that people like Penn have to pass through the casting couch to get their jobs, and maybe he is just doing as he is told, but it shows the calibre of people held up as celebrities.
Aspnaz:
We both agree Penn sold his soul to the devil. He is amoung the devil’s lowest order of scum. Fits right in with Pfizer, Fauci, etc.
We live in the age of evil incarnate, where there is no shame & anything goes…
For all practical purposes, the good, wholesome & helpful aspects of Western civilization have been rapaciously kidnapped by “The Anointed” & their CULT of mercs, quislings, apparatchiks, profiteers & pet psychopaths.
I once held out hope that U$ Empire Inc. would be repealed to restore Natural Law, I can now see that was a fantasy…
Prepare accordingly,
Gary
P.S. WordPress’ new format is terrible…
Susmarie 108:
I viewed the outdoor boiler link you provided and simply I was completely blown away by it! Controlled by your phone wifi too! My fireplaces predate wifi! Dry or wet wood!
My experience is only with the old fashioned inefficient firebox at the cottage, my Grandparents, and with a more modern fireplace insert in my home.
I had never even heard of an outdoor boiler until you mentioned it! You have done your homework!
My only question is why one would not place this boiler under some basic outdoor building with a roof, even if one side was open to the elements to provide protection from the wind and rain/snow? It will last longer. A separate outdoor building also reduces the fire hazards to the house too.
Also an outdoor building could provide a place to store a large amount of dried firewood right next to the boiler. I would also think you would want this boiler/building located near (but not touching nor upwind) to the house for convenience since you have to feed it every day plus clean out ashes ever once in a while.
These types of simple uninsulated outdoor barn like buildings were where my Grandparents stored their cut firewood. It had one open side facing away from the wind but facing the sun to help dry the wood and keep it dry from the rain/snow.
I bet you will make Michael envious!
Time to take a break from the festivities of the West’s siege against humanity, this is for the rock & rollers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbuFLUJ89Kw
Watching the Ukraine’s slow burn is puzzling many people. Russia has gone into the Ukraine with forces only 1/3 the size of Ukraine’s defending forces. This defies the traditional 3 to 1 ratio attacking forces are supposed to have.
My simple take on this is to look at basic human nature.
If you give a person overwhelming odds they tend to be more careless depending upon sheer momentum to overcome all overlooked obstacles.
However if you only give a person just barely adequate resources, then it forces that person to do a better job of planning. Just one overlooked obstacle, means instant failure.
Russian generals having less troops under their command tend to be able to control the fewer forces better and are much more reluctant to squander any of their men needlessly. Also having time on your side does wonders for being able to develop better solutions for new obstacles encountered.
I also suspect this go slow plan came as the direct result of Russia’s foreign minister’s experiences learned during his early career in the army.
Another aspect of the Russian go slow plan may come from the experiences they learned from liberating over 1,200 of their own towns and cities in WW2. It is the very powerful physiological aspects.
By going slowly the Ukrainian people will have more time to see and understand what is really happening, than if the Russians just did a shock & awe and suddenly just took everything over. The Ukrainians are seeing first hand the horrors of what the neo-nazi’s are now doing to them and their country. That means many Ukrainians will blame the neo-nazis for what happens.
This physiological aspect is very hard to see. In the 2014 Era, the neo-nazis had some degree of success getting themselves elected to parliament. However by 2019, the Ukrainians got so tired of the neo’-nazis constant war and voted Mr. Z in with 70% popular support because he ran on a peace agenda. In 2019 election, most of the neo-nazis lost their seats in parliament.
In hindsight, it now looks like this war might be the result of the neo-nazis/US making a last ditch effort to stay relevant in the Ukraine. They got their war even though most Ukrainians voted for peace.
Most Americans voted for peace too, but they got war instead.
The Russians must have noticed war was the only option and chose to strike first.
When this go slow war is over, most Ukrainians will likely be even more tired of war.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-russia-sowing-deep-hatred-052152958.html
WES, and others, Sean Penn is an example of unprincipled show-man-Hollywood striving for influence, imho.
All over the place, pretending to embrace ‘moral causes’ and so on … evil, in a way.
He made a show of being against the Iraq invasion. Bashed Bush. (iirc) Endorsed Joe Biden. So why are dumb, greedy, cluless, movie-“stars” given so much MSM press?