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Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian man c1510 (see comments at link)

 

Bucha (Klarenberg)
New Witness Testimony About Mariupol Maternity Hospital ‘Airstrike’ (GZ)
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday (ZH)
‘Rublegas:’ The World’s New Resource-based Reserve Currency (Escobar)
Russian Ruble Relaunched, Linked To Gold & Commodities (Manly)
2 Pro-Putin Parties Win Avalanche Victories In European Elections (ZH)
Russia And Serbia Are Projected To Become The Empire’s White Colonies (Antonic)
Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing (Tucker)
NIH Admits it ‘Suppressed’ Wuhan Lab Data, Disputes ‘Deleted’ Label (ET)
Joe Biden Should Be Removed Before Putin, US Poll Says (Exp.)
Biden’s ‘Absolute’ Defense Of Hunter (Turley)
Biden Wants Attorney General Garland to Prosecute Trump (Turley)
From Maria’s Office … the Fashion Nazi (Zakharova)

 

 

 

 

Zelensky Grammys
https://twitter.com/i/status/1510799460372262917

 

 

 

 

This is an excerpt from the article right below, by Kit Klarenberg (MUST READ). I picked this part because the story of 100s of bodies on the streets of Bucha is everywhere today. Only, the photos used are straight from the Ukraine goverment, and nobody fact checked them. What we do know is that the day before, the bodies were nowhere to be seen.

The role of the “embedded” Associated Press is also interesting.

Bucha (Klarenberg)

Hours before the publication of this article, on April 2nd, claims of Russia’s most hideous alleged war crime to date erupted across social media. Footage and photos of scores of dead bodies – some with their hands tied – littering the streets of Bucha, a small city near Kiev, testified to an apparent massacre of military-aged men by Russian troops, as they retreated from the battered city two days earlier. The gruesome visuals have triggered intensified calls for direct Western military confrontation with Russia. But as with the incident at the maternity ward in Mariupol and numerous other high profile events initially portrayed by Ukrainian authorities as Russian massacres, a series of details cast doubt on the official story out of Bucha.

Within hours of Russia’s withdrawal from the Bucha on March 31st, its mayor announced that his city had been liberated from “Russian orcs,” employing a dehumanizing term widely used by Azov Battalion. An accompanying article noted the Russians had “mined civilian buildings and infrastructure,” but no mention was made of any mass killing of local citizens, let alone scores of corpses left in the street, which one might reasonably expect would be top of any news outlet’s agenda when reporting on the event. On April 2, within hours of the publication of photos and videos purporting to show victims of an alleged Russian massacre, Ukrainian media reported that specialist units had begun “clearing the area of saboteurs and accomplices of Russian troops.” Nothing was said about dead bodies in the streets.

The National Police of Ukraine announced that day that they were “cleaning the territory…from the assistants of Russian troops,” publishing video that showed no corpses in the streets of Bucha and Ukrainian forces in full control of the city.

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Staged. An attempt to start WWII. Bucha is the next stage in that attempt. False flags everywhere.

New Witness Testimony About Mariupol Maternity Hospital ‘Airstrike’ (GZ)

A key witness to the widely publicized incident at the Mariupol maternity hospital has punctured the official narrative of a Russian airstrike on the facility, and raised serious questions about Western media ethics. Meanwhile, news of a massacre in the city of Bucha contains suspicious elements. On March 9th, shocking news of a deliberate Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, began spreading widely via social media and news outlets. Fiery condemnation from Western officials, pundits, and journalists was immediate. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, claimed the act was proof of the “genocide” Russia was perpetrating against the civilian population, and urged European leaders to condemn the “war crime” and “strengthen sanctions” to stop the Kremlin’s “evil” deeds in the country.

NPR suggested the attack was part of Russia’s “terrible wartime tradition” of purposefully targeting health facilities and medics during conflicts, dating back to Chechnya. But newly released testimony from one of the incident’s main witnesses punctures the official narrative about a targeted Russian airstrike on the hospital. The witness account indicates the hospital had been turned into a base of operations by Ukrainian military forces and was not targeted in an airstrike, as Western media claimed. Her testimony also raised serious questions about whether at least some elements of the event were staged for propaganda purposes – and with the cooperation of the Associated Press.

The new testimony (watch below) comes on the heels of evidence strongly suggesting that the destruction of a dramatic theater in Mariupol on March 16 was staged by the Azov Battalion, and that nearly all civilians had evacuated a day before. And as we will see below, new reports of a Russian massacre of scores of civilians in the town of Bucha also contain suspicious details suggesting a pattern of information manipulation aimed at triggering Western military intervention. Mariana Vishegirskaya, a pregnant resident of Donetsk who was present at the maternity hospital during the widely reported incident, has evacuated from Mariupol and is now speaking out. Photos showing a bloodied Vishnevskaya fleeing the building with her personal belongings became a centerpiece of coverage of the attack, along with a photo of another woman being carried away pale and unconscious on a stretcher.

In the wake of the incident, Russian officials falsely claimed the pair were the same person, citing Vishegirskaya’s background as a blogger and Instagram personality as evidence she was a crisis actor and the incident a false flag. Though that assertion was not true, as we shall see, the hospital had been almost completely taken over by the Ukrainian military.

Zelensky Azov
https://twitter.com/i/status/1510573197804158980

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Only part of this is due to Ukraine.

German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday (ZH)

Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and sent prices even higher into the stratosphere… … on Monday, Germany will take one step toward a return of the dreaded Weimar hyperinflation, when according to the German Retail Association (HDE), consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday goods and groceries with Reuters reporting that prices at German retail chains will explode between 20 and 50%:

Even before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, prices had risen by about five per cent “across the product range” as a result of increased energy prices, HDE President Josef Sanktjohanser told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Friday. With Russia’s invasion hitting economies and the supply chain harder, yet another series of price increases is on the horizon. “The second wave of price increases is coming, and it will certainly be in double figures,” Sanktjohanser warned, cited by The Local. According to the president of the trade association, the first retail chains have already started to raise their prices in Germany – and the rest are likely to follow. “We will soon be able to see the impact of the war reflected in price labels across all the supermarkets,” said Sanktjohanser.

Recently, popular retail chains such as Aldi, Edeka and Globus announced that they would be forced to raise their prices. At Aldi, meat and butter will be “significantly more expensive” from Monday due to price hikes from its suppliers. “Since the start of the Ukraine war, there have been jumps in purchase prices that we have not experienced before,” a spokesperson for Aldi Nord announced on Friday. A fortnight ago, Aldi raised the prices of about 160 items, and a week later 20 more items became more expensive. Other supermarket brands quickly followed suit. In February, Germany’s cost of living rose at the highest level since reunification, with everyday goods increasing by an average of 7.3%. The federal statistics agency Destatis said the jump from January’s figure of 5.1 percent to February’s 7.3 percent reflected the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has sent the price of oil and gas soaring.

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“..the Americans want the war to go on indefinitely, to “bog down” Moscow as if this was Afghanistan in the 1980s, and have strictly forbidden the Ukrainian Comedian in front of a green screen somewhere – certainly not Kiev – to accept any ceasefire or peace deal.”

‘Rublegas:’ The World’s New Resource-based Reserve Currency (Escobar)

Saddam, Gaddafi, Iran, Venezuela – they all tried but couldn’t do it. But Russia is on a different level altogether. The beauty of the game-changing, gas-for-rubles, geoeconomic jujitsu applied by Moscow is its stark simplicity. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s presidential decree on new payment terms for energy products, predictably, was misunderstood by the collective west. The Russian government is not exactly demanding straightforward payment for gas in rubles. What Moscow wants is to be paid at Gazprombank in Russia, in its currency of choice, and not at a Gazprom account in any banking institution in western capitals. That’s the essence of less-is-more sophistication. Gazprombank will sell the foreign currency – dollars or euros – deposited by their customers on the Moscow Stock Exchange and credit it to different accounts in rubles within Gazprombank.

What this means in practice is that foreign currency should be sent directly to Russia, and not accumulated in a foreign bank – where it can easily be held hostage, or frozen, for that matter. All these transactions from now on should be transferred to a Russian jurisdiction – thus eliminating the risk of payments being interrupted or outright blocked. It’s no wonder the subservient European Union (EU) apparatus – actively engaged in destroying their own national economies on behalf of Washington’s interests – is intellectually unequipped to understand the complex matter of exchanging euros into rubles. Gazprom made things easier this Friday, sending official notifications to its counterparts in the west and Japan. Putin himself was forced to explain in writing to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz how it all works.

Once again, very simple: Customers open an account with Gazprombank in Russia. Payments are made in foreign currency – dollars or euros – converted into rubles according to the current exchange rate, and transferred to different Gazprom accounts. Thus it is 100 percent guaranteed that Gazprom will be paid. That’s in stark contrast to what the United States was forcing the Europeans to do: pay for Russian gas in Gazprom accounts in Europe, which would then be instantly frozen. These accounts would only be unblocked with the end of Operation Z, Russia’s military ops in Ukraine. Yet the Americans want the war to go on indefinitely, to “bog down” Moscow as if this was Afghanistan in the 1980s, and have strictly forbidden the Ukrainian Comedian in front of a green screen somewhere – certainly not Kiev – to accept any ceasefire or peace deal.

So Gazprom accounts in Europe would continue to be frozen. As Scholz was still trying to understand the obvious, his economic minions went berserk, floating the idea of nationalizing Gazprom’s subsidiaries – Gazprom Germania and Wingas – in case Russia decides to halt the gas flow. This is ridiculous. It’s as if Berlin functionaries believe that Gazprom subsidiaries produce natural gas in centrally heated offices across Germany. The new rubles-for-gas mechanism does not in any way violate existing contracts. Yet, as Putin warned, existing contracts may indeed be stopped: “If such [ruble] payments are not made, we will consider this to be the buyers’ failure to perform commitments with all ensuing implications.”

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Energy-ruble-gold.

“..if Russia begins to accept gold directly as a payment for oil, then this would be a new paradigm shift for the gold price as it would link the oil price directly to the gold price.”

Russian Ruble Relaunched, Linked To Gold & Commodities (Manly)

By offering to buy gold from Russian banks at a fixed price of 5000 rubles per gram, the Bank of Russia has both linked the ruble to gold and, since gold trades in US dollars, set a floor price for the ruble in terms of the US dollar. We can see this linkage in action since Friday 25 March when the Bank of Russia made the fixed price announcement. The ruble was trading at around 100 to the US dollar at that time, but has since strengthened and is nearing 80 to the US dollar. Why? Because gold has been trading on international markets at about US$ 62 per gram which is equivalent to (5000 / 62) = about 80.5, and markets and arbitrage traders have now taken note, driving the RUB / USD exchange rate higher.

So the ruble now has a floor to the US dollars, in terms of gold. But gold also has a floor, so to speak, because 5000 rubles per gram is 155,500 rubles per troy ounce of gold, and with a RUB / USD floor of about 80, that’s a gold price of around $1940. And if the Western paper gold markets of LBMA / COMEX try to drive the US dollar gold price lower, they will have to try to weaken the ruble as well or else the paper manipulations will be out in the open. Additionally, with the new gold to ruble linkage, if the ruble continues to strengthen (for example due to demand created by obligatory energy payments in rubles), this will also be reflected in a stronger gold price.

What does this mean for Oil? Russia is the world’s largest natural gas exporter and the world’s third largest oil exporter. We are seeing right now that Putin is demanding that foreign buyers (importers of Russian gas) must pay for this natural gas using rubles. This immediately links the price of natural gas to rubles and (because of the fixed link to gold) to the gold price. So Russian natural gas is now linked via the ruble to gold. The same can now be done with Russian oil. If Russia begins to demand payment for oil exports with rubles, there will be an immediate indirect peg to gold (via the fixed price ruble – gold connection). Then Russia could begin accepting gold directly in payment for its oil exports. In fact, this can be applied to any commodities, not just oil and natural gas.

What does this mean for the Price of Gold? By playing both sides of the equation, i.e. linking the ruble to gold and then linking energy payments to the ruble, the Bank of Russia and the Kremlin are fundamentally altering the entire working assumptions of the global trade system while accelerating change in the global monetary system. This wall of buyers in search of physical gold to pay for real commodities could certainly torpedo and blow up the paper gold markets of the LBMA and COMEX. The fixed peg between the ruble and gold puts a floor on the RUB / USD rate but also a quasi-floor on the US dollar gold price. But beyond this, the linking of gold to energy payments is the main event. While increased demand for rubles should continue to strengthen the RUB / USD rate and show up as a higher gold price, due to the fixed ruble – gold linkage, if Russia begins to accept gold directly as a payment for oil, then this would be a new paradigm shift for the gold price as it would link the oil price directly to the gold price.

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“We have such a victory it can be seen from the moon, but it’s sure that it can be seen from Brussels..”

I’d be careful about labeling them Pro-Putin. They’re just not pro-Brussels.

2 Pro-Putin Parties Win Avalanche Victories In European Elections (ZH)

In a one-two knockout punch for pro-Russia governments in Europe, on Sunday the government of Serbia’s pro-Russia president Aleksandar Vucic was headed for an avalanche victory in the country’s presidential election with nearly 60% of the vote, a big improvement to this 2017 election result… while Hungary’s Pro-Russia prime minister, Viktor Orban, was on track to clinch a fourth consecutive term, leveraging a message against being dragged into the war in neighboring Ukraine, to reassert himself as the European Union’s longest-serving premier. With roughly half of the vote counted, Orban’s Fidesz party led United for Hungary, a six-member opposition alliance, 57% to 32% in the party list contest, according to the National Election Office, with 63% of the votes counted. That would be sufficient for Fidesz to keep its two-thirds parliamentary majority.

Despite opinion polls forecasting a tighter race, Orban’s Fidesz party won comfortably across much of the country. Opposition leader Peter Marki-Zay even failed to win in his own district, where he had served as mayor. The far-right extremist Mi Hazank party won 6.3%, and was set to enter parliament, further diluting the power of the anti-Orban alliance. “We have such a victory it can be seen from the moon, but it’s sure that it can be seen from Brussels,” Orban said in his speech on Sunday night, making light of his government’s long-running tensions with EU leaders. “We will remember this victory until the end of our lives because we had to fight against a huge amount of opponents,” Orban said, citing a number of his political enemies including the Hungarian left, “bureaucrats” in Brussels, the international media, “and the Ukrainian president too — we never had so many opponents at the same time.”

The election campaign was dominated by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which put Orban’s lengthy association with Russian President Vladimir Putin under scrutiny. In his victory speech, Orban called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky one of the “opponents” he had to overcome during the campaign. Orban’s unexpectedly strong victory defied polls ahead of the vote that had predicted Orban would face the toughest challenge to re-election in his 12 years in power, according to a report from the anti-Orban Bloomberg News. It almost makes one wonder why anyone – besides liberals of course – still uses polling, which obviously can’t forecast the future and also fails at mere propaganda and influencing election turnouts.

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History lesson: “..he would frequently refer to the Russians as redskins..”

Russia And Serbia Are Projected To Become The Empire’s White Colonies (Antonic)

In this article I will present the various plans that Germany had with the Serbs and Russians after the expected victory in World War II. Why do I fall back to history? We frequently perceive Hitler and Nazism as an aberration in Western history. But Hitler was, in fact, just openly announcing that in Europe he will do what the West has already done elsewhere. As we’ll see, Hitler took the extermination of the Native Americans as a model for the colonization of Slavic lands, Russia in particular. “It would be best if Serbia just disappeared from the map” —as attested by Hermann Neubacher, that opinion was prevalent within the German leadership in 1941 (see here, p. 89). But we find the same opinion in The Manchester Guardian (as The Guardian was formerly called), in August 1914: “If it were physically possible for Servia to be towed out to sea and sunk there, the air of Europe would at once seem cleaner” (here; here, p. 53).

Actually, the only difference between Hitler and the English was Hitler’s brutally proclaiming to do—and he had done as much as he could—what others in the West were doing slower and more subtly, the things they didn’t yet dare to undertake or weren’t able to accomplish. Unlike the Kaiser, who wanted territorial expansion towards the Middle East and a redistribution of African and Asian colonies, Hitler’s primary goal was to colonize Slavic lands, from the Baltic to the Black Sea for starters and then onward to the Urals. In Mein Kampf he writes that the Kaiser was mistaken in pushing Germany southwards. “When in today’s Europe we speak of new soil and land”, he wrote, “we primarily mean only Russia and the peripheral countries subservient to her. It appears that destiny itself wants to show us the way. […]

The giant Empire in the East is ripe for its downfall.” (here; 44th unabridged German edition, p. 742-3; compare here, p. 118) By the way, Hitler had adopted many concepts from the West. As J. Q. Whitman revealed in Hitlerºs American Model (2017), race laws in the United States were the legal inspiration for the race laws in the Third Reich. In his book Hitler: The Definitive Biography (2014), John Toland showed how impressed Hitler had been with the system of Indian Reservations, the extermination of the indigenous peoples, the epidemics and starvation policies. According to Toland, when speaking to the German leaders, the Fuhrer frequently “extolled the efficacy of the American extermination of the ‘red savages’ by starvation and in unequal combat” (here, p. 802).

“As a passionate reader of Karl May’s novels”, writes John Pool in his book Hitler and His Secret Partners (1997), “he would frequently refer to the Russians as redskins. He saw a parallel between his own efforts to occupy and colonize Russia and the conquest of the American West” (p. 272). He used to say that in the European East the Germans “had one single purpose: Germanization by peopling with Germans and treating the locals as redskins”. He even encouraged military officers to read Karl May and learn about all kinds of combat with the natives.

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“Within days, everything changed.”

Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing (Tucker)

Last week, medical journalist Katherine Eban posted at Vanity Fair the results of a long and detailed investigation into the lab-leak theory of the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The subject is moving ever more to the front-and-center of efforts to find out exactly what was going on at the highest levels in early 2020 that resulted in the greatest societal, political, and economic upheaval of our lives. How precisely did we move so quickly from the “germ games” of October 2019 – when the virus was already circulating in the US – to full-scale global lockdown by March? Why did Anthony Fauci, who in early February was downplaying the seriousness of the virus, flip to the other side (which we know from emails)?

It was Fauci, according to many reporters, who tapped Deborah Birx to huddle with Trump and convince him that the only way to battle the virus was to “shut down” the economy – as if anything like that was possible much less effective for controlling a respiratory virus. For two years now, and despite endless writing and reflection, this change from the top has puzzled me. Lockdowns contradicted not only a century of public-health practice but even WHO guidelines. Even on March 2, 2020, 850 scientists signed a letter to the White House warning against lockdowns, closures, and travel restrictions. Within days, everything changed. There were hints of extreme measures in the CDC pandemic planning manuals since 2006 but the idea was hardly orthodoxy in the profession.

It’s also true that there were elite scientists who longed for the chance to try out the new theory of virus suppression. But how did Fauci and Birx, to say nothing of Jared Kushner, become converts of the idea to the point that they were able to convince Trump to betray everything he believed in? This is quite probably where the lab-leak theory comes in. It’s not so much about whether the virus was an accidental or even deliberate leak that matters so much as whether Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrrar of the UK’s Wellcome Trust believed it was possible or even likely. In that case, we have our motive. Did they deploy the chaos of lockdowns as a genuine if wildly misguided attempt to suppress the virus as a way of avoiding culpability?

Or perhaps it was deployed as a kind of smokescreen to distract from a closer examination of the Wuhan’s lab’s funding sources? Or possibly there is a third reason. We have a very long way to go before the full truth is out. But Eban’s article adds tremendous detail about the great lengths to which our Fauci-led cabal of officials worked hard to suppress dissent on the question of lab-vs-natural origin. They kept papers from being posted on preprint servers, held Zoom sessions with authors in an attempt to intimidate them, and spent tremendous energy making it clear that there would be a no-leak “united front” no matter what.

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We hide it, but don’t delete.

NIH Admits it ‘Suppressed’ Wuhan Lab Data, Disputes ‘Deleted’ Label (ET)

A National Institutes for Health (NIH) spokesperson is disputing a nonprofit watchdog group’s claim that the agency “deleted” genetic sequencing data on the CCP virus from a Chinese lab, but the same official acknowledged the data was “suppressed.” “The headline says the sequences were deleted which is inaccurate. They were not deleted. This is a really important point, and I’ve highlighted what did happen from what we provided to you earlier this week,” NIH Media Branch Chief Amanda Fine told The Epoch Times in a March 31 email. Fine was referring to a March 29 Epoch Times story headlined “NIH Deleted Info Received From Wuhan Lab on CCP Virus Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog’s FOIA Finds.” The information Fine referenced as having been provided to The Epoch Times by NIH earlier in the week was included in the published story:

“’In June 2020, in response to a request by the same [Wuhan] researcher, National Center for Biotechnology [NCBI] gave the sequence data the status of “withdrawn,” which removes sequencing data from all public means of access but does not delete them. “‘NCBI subsequently reassigned the status of the sequence data to “suppressed,” which means that sequence data are removed from the search process but can be directly found by accession number. This action to reassign the data was identified as part of NLM’s ongoing review into the matter. We are working to make more information available,’ the spokesperson said.” The biotechnology center, which is part of the institute’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the U.S. component of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration.

The Epoch Times story was prompted by a report published on March 29 by Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research (EO) that was based on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses the group received from the institute. “On June 5, 2020, a Wuhan University researcher requested that NIH retract the researcher’s submission of BioProject ID PRJNA637497 because of error. The Wuhan researcher explained ‘I’m sorry for my wrong submitting,’” Empower Oversight said in a statement (pdf) on March 29. “BioProject ID PRJNA637497 is also referred to as Submission-ID SUB7554642. Three days later, on June 8th, the NIH declined the researcher’s request, advising that it prefers to edit or replace, as opposed to delete, sequences submitted to the SRA,” EO reported. SRA refers to the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data resource made available by NCBI, and it “stores raw sequencing data.”

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“His counsellors view the Ukraine crisis as a blunt instrument that nonetheless may help the president to dig himself out of his electoral hole.”

Joe Biden Should Be Removed Before Putin, US Poll Says (Exp.)

Just a week after the US president was accused of making a gaffe calling for regime change in Russia, an exclusive poll for the Sunday Express has revealed Americans would rather see his presidency end. Asked which would be better for America, 52 per cent chose “Biden loses power in the US” over 43 per cent for “Putin loses power in Russia”. The findings, in the poll by the Washington-based Democracy Institute, show almost two-thirds of Americans (62 per cent) believe Mr Biden will not be re-elected in 2024. They also appear to confirm an expected bid by Donald Trump in 2024 will see him sweep back to power. While Boris Johnson has seen a rise in public support for his handling of the Ukraine crisis, the error prone US president has not enjoyed a similar bounce.

Of 1,500 polled, who all identify as “likely voters”, 57 per cent disapprove of his presidency, the same as a month ago, while just 39 per cent approve of it. And 70 per cent believe the US is “heading in the wrong direction”. His handling of the war is only approved by 40 per cent while 52 per cent disapprove, and his overall foreign policy has a 55 per cent disapproval rating compared to 42 per cent approval. While a Techne poll for the Sunday Express showed almost a third of UK voters had Ukraine as their top concern, in the US just eight per cent saw it as their main issue, with the key worry being inflation. If Mr Trump does run in 2024, according to the US poll results he would beat Mr Biden by 48 per cent to 43 per cent.

Patrick Basham, Director of the Democracy Institute, said: “Biden’s foreign policy debacles, highlighted by America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, have turned off voters, who mostly disapprove of his handling of America’s global role. “Biden’s political team knows economic pain will continue to weigh down the president’s ratings. So, it puts great stock in Biden’s handling of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “His counsellors view the Ukraine crisis as a blunt instrument that nonetheless may help the president to dig himself out of his electoral hole. “Should the Ukraine crisis end on terms perceived to be favourable to the Ukrainians, and should Vladimir Putin’s Russia be put back in her box, it’s possible that Biden will receive considerable credit and his ratings will improve. If that happens, his party’s candidates may also improve their positions vis-à-vis their Republican opponents.

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“While many media figures now willingly admit the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s abandoned-laptop story, they are avoiding what the emails found on that laptop actually contain.”

Biden’s ‘Absolute’ Defense Of Hunter (Turley)

“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment.” With those words, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield reaffirmed that President Biden maintains his son Hunter Biden did “nothing [that] was unethical” and never “made money” in China. Those claims appear demonstrably false — and they make the positions of both the media and Attorney General Merrick Garland absolutely untenable. For the media, the ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden by U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware has presented a growing danger of self-indictment over its prior coverage (or noncoverage). Weiss has called a long line of witnesses before a grand jury, and there is growing expectation of criminal charges against Hunter Biden. Nothing concentrates the mind as much as a looming indictment.

Thus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other media faced the embarrassing prospect of an indictment based on a story they previously suggested was either a nonstory or Russian disinformation. Suddenly, in recent days, they all rushed to declare the story legitimate, 18 months after the New York Post reported it in October 2020. What quickly emerged, though, was a new narrative: None of this implicates President Biden. On CNN, White House correspondent John Harwood declared, “There is zero evidence that Vice President Biden, or President Biden, has done anything wrong in connection with what Hunter Biden has done.” Anchor Brianna Keilar then added for emphasis that Harwood was making “an important distinction.”

It was important, but not because it was true. While many media figures now willingly admit the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s abandoned-laptop story, they are avoiding what the emails found on that laptop actually contain. Hundreds of emails appear to detail a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling enterprise by the Biden family, including Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden. Influence peddling has long been the way Washington’s elite enriches itself. This common source of political corruption involves the relatives of powerful government figures who shake down corporations or countries for access and influence. The Bidens would seem to be standouts in this common practice, engaging in a virtual family business. James Biden has been accused of marketing his connection to his brother.

And in the emails discovered on his abandoned laptop, Hunter Biden practically sold timeshares of his father by dangling meetings and dinners for investors. The key in any influence peddling scheme is to protect the principal. People apparently were told to avoid directly referring to President Biden. In one email, Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter’s, was instructed by Biden associate James Gilliar not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.” Instead, the emails apparently refer to President Biden with code names such as “Celtic” or “the big guy.” In one, “the big guy” is discussed as possibly receiving a 10 percent cut on a deal with a Chinese energy firm; other emails reportedly refer to Hunter Biden paying portions of his father’s expenses and taxes.

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But doesn’t know what for yet.

Biden Wants Attorney General Garland to Prosecute Trump (Turley)

President Joe Biden has declared the guilt of individuals or promised punishment before even the commencement of investigations. The latest such example is the leaking of Biden’s desire to have Attorney General Merrick Garland prosecute Trump. [..] Biden is now being widely reported as wanting Garland to prosecute Trump. His close associates made sure that the media reported that the President wants “Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.” This leak was made after a district court judge declared that Trump likely committed a crime, an opinion that I recently criticized over its sweeping language and spotty analysis. Various Democrats are demanding that Garland prosecute Trump, telling Garland to “step up or step out.”

Two years ago, the media heralded the statements of D.C. Attorney General Racine that he was pursuing possible charges. Yet, neither Racine nor the Biden Administration have charged Trump. Why? The reason is that there is not clear evidence of a crime. The leaking of the President’s demand puts Garland in an even more difficult position. The clear intent of the leak is to let Garland know what the President expects from him. Yet, Garland has already been criticized by some of us for refusing to appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden scandal. What is most striking, however, is the absence of any concern from the same legal experts who denounced such statements from Trump. These are statements made to aides that were then leaked to the media to get to Garland.

That allows the media to say that Biden never said it directly to Garland, but the message was delivered by the media. For Garland to yield to such pressure would constitute a troubling departure from his predecessor, Bill Barr, who refused to do so on investigations ranging from the Mueller investigation to the election investigation to the Hunter Biden investigation. Absent new evidence of direct culpability, such a prosecution would likely result in either acquittal or an appellate reversal. That would raise concerns over the Justice Department pursuing a political rather than a legal agenda — the very danger that Garland pledged to avoid when he stressed “I am not the president’s lawyer. I am the United States’ lawyer.”

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Coco Chanel. Another history lesson.

From Maria’s Office … the Fashion Nazi (Zakharova)

A few bloggers have reported today that official Chanel brand stores abroad are refusing to sell their products to Russian nationals. Allegedly, Chanel customers must sign a form saying that they will not take the items sold by the brand to the Russian Federation, as per some internal document of the boutique chain. We are a very patient and forgiving country. We have forgiven everyone for everything, turned the page and cleared the way for the future. But if the way turns out to be a ring road, we will break the vicious circle. Seems like those running the legacy of the “great Coco” have found a way to join the Russophobic “cancel Russia” campaign. Weird, right? What’s the link between Russia’s anti-Nazi operation and the French fashion house? But the link is there. We just opened a closet to find some well-preserved 80-year-old skeletons.

During World War II, Coco Chanel herself was a collaborator and a Third Reich agent. She is widely known to have had connections to the occupation authorities in France. Baron Hans Guenther Freiherr von Dincklage, an attaché of the German government in charge of the Nazi propaganda in Paris, was among her dearest friends. Coco Chanel, also known as informer F-7124 as per Abwehr records, supported the German masters of Paris so much that she took part in the attempts to organise secret negotiations between the Reich and the United Kingdom. One should say that the Germans valued Coco and had her live in a luxurious apartment at the Ritz hotel, while ordinary Parisians struggled to make ends meet under the German occupation, while the country’s economy was under enormous strain.

Moreover, the fashion designer accepted the help of the Nazis to reach her business goals. Before the war, she sold her Chanel No. 5 production facility to Jewish manufacturers. Then, she engaged the Germans to try and reclaim the rights to the perfume sale profits. After France was liberated, she was called to answer for all of that. The fashion house does not advertise it but Coco was arrested at the end of the war. She was later released as a favour to Churchill (and here is London again) and was banned from France after the occupation was over, for years, residing in the “neutral” Switzerland. The brand’s management has always emphasised that the Chanel house traditions are as strong as ever. Well, no doubt about that now. Investigative reporter Hal Vaughan wrote about the founder of the fashion house: “The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power.”

The brand was never bothered by such things as concentration camps, mass killings and war crimes perpetrated by the SS and Gestapo divisions. We are a very patient and forgiving country. We have forgiven everyone for everything, turned the page and cleared the way for the future. But if the way turns out to be a ring road, we will break the vicious circle. And the Chanel house can get back to square one and support Nazism, just like its founder did. But now everyone will know.

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  • #105489
    ezlxa1949
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    Here’s an idle thought. I’m not serious but it’s fun to play with:

    If Putin is a graduate of the WEF leadership course, then he’s in the same club as other world leaders. What if they asked and he agreed to make Russia into the international country of universal loathing and hatred by starting this war in Ukraine? The purpose is to provide a way to help destabilise, overthrow and replace the present world system. Russua becomes the big, powerful and frightening enemy of civilisation and the other empires (EU, US) must do whatever it takes to control it. The covid fracas has provided a testing ground for control measures, so now we can try for a bigger goal.

    Probably too complicated a plan to manage! And I agree with other commentators that the elites aren’t unified at all, but are a collection of squabbling factions arguing over how they will cut up the pie when dinner time comes.

    I’m so fed up with it all.

    #105490
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    ezlxa1949: I’m no expert on this, but the “elite” are, at heart, the same as everyone else. After all, they do put their pants on one leg at a time. When all other fresh meat is gone, they will turn on and eat their own before they relinquish power. Case in point: Bear Stearns.

    #105491
    Kassandra
    Participant

    @Mister Roboto thanks for your response. Yes I read JMG and I agree with you. I am not religious or an occultist but “something” bigger than us is out there, and it doesn’t seem happy.


    @upstateNYer
    thanks for sharing the work of Aaron Kheriaty, ZOT! As a fellow Anteater it’s hard to be proud of my alma mater recently, you just gave me a reason.

    #105492
    WES
    Participant

    This paying for gas in Russian Rubles thingy &is quite simple really.

    a) Europe converts Euro to Rubles, then buys gas with Rubles
    b) Europe buys gas with Euros and Russia converts Euros to Rubles

    What is the difference?

    a) can not be sanctioned
    b) can be sanctioned

    It just puts funds in a bank where the West cannot seize it!

    This 5,000 Rubles for a gram of gold thingy.
    – This current deal only applies between the Russian Central Bank and Russian banks until June 1st when the 5,000 Rubles per gram of gold price will likely change to reflect the gold market on June 1st.
    – This deal is to protect domestic Russian banks, refineries, and gold mines in case the West tries to manipulate the gold market like they did with oil in the past. Gold has remained about $1920 since.
    – There are 28.35 grams per Troy ounce of gold. So the current price of gold per ounce is 5,000 Rubles x 28.35 = 141,750 Rubles.
    – For a 80 Ruble/USD exchange rate; 141,750 Rubles ÷ 80 Rubles/USD = $1771.88 USD. At that low price no sane Russian is going to sell their gold to the Russian Central Bank!
    – So before a Russian would consider selling their $1920 USD ounce of gold to the Russian Central Bank, the Ruble’s exchange rate would have to strengthen to below 73.83 Rubles/USD. (The math; 141,750 Rubles ÷ current $1920 USD ounce of gold price = 73.83 Rubles/USD)
    – As for the London/Chicago paper gold markets, it appears to be business as usual. One does have to wonder if they have already sold future Russian gold mine supply that they are no longer going to get due to sanctions. But then again they are pretty good at selling gold they don’t have!

    #105493
    Archie
    Participant

    Picked this up from comments at The Saker. I felt like it needed to be shared here.

    Michael Hudson on April 04, 2022 · at 2:47 pm EST/EDT
    Andrei, you’ve picked up the usage of Empire of Lies, but I think a better term — or at least a parallel one — is Empire of Hate. it is hatred that enables one to feel that he or she can lie, because it is all for a “higher” purpose: working out one’s own psychodrama.
    The hatred is not only from one’s personal experience, but from long-lasting feuds. It may be the Holocaust, leading to a hatred of Germany, or of the history of one’s family’s suffering from anti-Semitism — a hatred of Russia going back via Stalinism to the tsars.
    it may be the Irish hatred of the English. Bobby Kennedy said that he loved the Irish because they were “good haters.” Herman Kahn quipped that they were one of the ten lost tribes of Israel for this quality.
    Or it may be a hatred of people who fight back when you try to rob them. Fighting back is an attack on your RIGHT to steal, to impose your mentality.
    the Neocons hate anyone who resists their self-reighteousness. it is much like the Roman Catholic hatred of Protestants in royalist France and other European countries.
    Hate is the mother of lies, their legitimizer.

    #105494
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Susmarie108

    @ V Arnold


    @zerosum

    Did your research into today’s Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian man c1510 reveal why the artist chose to position the figures in an asymmetric position from the waist down?

    I find the alignment to be interesting.

    Thoughts?

    Yes, I noticed that as well; it is interesting, but, I have no idea as to purpose…
    Nothing I read dealt with that as far as I can remember.

    #105495
    WES
    Participant

    Dora:

    Your comment about the elites needing tons of men to fight future wars verses now trying war without men.

    After WW1 France found itself to be so short of men of fighting age, verses Germany, that it seriously influenced their military thinking during the inter war period from 1919 to 1939. France’s falling birth rate during the inter war years, meant the French military could not count on births to replenish the lack of men.

    This is the main reason, I think, the French settled on a defensive war strategy for the future. In theory you need less men to defend and more men to attack. Thus building the Magnot line all along the French/German border, made sense.

    In addition to static defense, the French strategy also called for mobile armored units. The shortage of men influenced the design for 3 man tanks instead 4 or 5 man tanks. The French wanted tanks that required less men to operate.

    So even after WW1, the elites in France were already thinking of how to fight a future war using less men and more equipment! They just didn’t get it quite right, despite having mechanized the French army to a much higher degree than the Germans.

    #105496
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ Everyone

    This document originally linked by John Day explains exactly what is going on with the new world order being established, the US involvement in Ukraine, the US trade war with China, what the American elites have been trying to do and so on

    https://thesaker.is/events-like-these-only-happen-once-every-century-sergey-glazyev/

    #105497
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    John Helmer:

    In this war, “[t]he Ukrainians were set up to be used as the means to bleed the Russian military while warfare on another level was conducted against the Russian state and people. The strategy was Siegfried/Festung at the front, economic sanctions and propaganda Blitzkrieg in the rear – which is part of the front anyway. The way Ukrainian forces have been deployed and employed displays their role in the wider war against Russia — that is going to end up costing them at least half of the country to no good end.”

    HOW TO READ THE WAR IN REVERSE WITHOUT OUTSMARTING YOURSELF

    HOW TO READ THE WAR IN REVERSE WITHOUT OUTSMARTING YOURSELF

    F.S.

    #105498
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    Kassandra,
    I’ve posted previously, but not for some time. This is a Money Power Monopolist operation. Believe it or not, the Money Power is following Biblical prophecy in their quest to be crowned “Messianic Bloodline.” A Rothschild went public circa 2011 with a “disclosure.” Another word for it is “apocalypse” — they are synonyms. The Money Power takes this all very seriously, and they control the money systems, and finance the world they want, and what they want is to follow Biblical prophecy… at least the ones that favor them. Apparently, all the “love” based prophesies are discounted are discounted because they believe their ancestor put it in to make their global takeover easier. They control the money — they can be as irrational as they want.
    I posed how to search for and read that disclosure. Once I came across it, I was done reading it in a day… I think I stopped at 4::00 AM, but I didn’t want to. If I had to guess, exactly zero people here read through the whole thing! As Rothschild said, the beautiful lies are too powerful for most people… and the ugly truth too ugly.
    Anyway, Rothschild said vaccines were for “stupid humans,” and that pharma was clearly compromised by their greed for money, but, if we were stupid enough to turn over our free will to these corrupt companies, we deserve what they delivered to us. He also said that pharma products could be genetically engineered to cause havoc inside the human body… His example was HGH, but the principle applies to all pharma products.
    He also gave the solution — back in 2011. He said one must 1. KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, and 2. STAND THEIR GROUND!
    That was the exact recipe for success, when success was even in option.
    He revealed a lot more — we were idiot morons for allowing a debt-based, societal asset stripping money system to loot the nation… Check.
    He revealed the foold system was completely corrupt and toxic. He said inorganic minerals kill, and specifically highlighted iron as a toxic inorganic mineral (fortified into processed foold in accordance with Daniel 2:43, but don’t expect your local pastor to take that clear prophecy seriously, even though it has obviously been fulfilled to the “T”).
    He also highlighted copper (he didn’t say, but he was referring to ceruloplasmin-bound copper — bio-copper. Magnesium and retinoic acid are required to load those coppers into ceruloplasmin — the most sophisticated enzyme in the human body) as a KEY evolutionary component that makes them better than us.
    Funny, when asked what “blue blood” meant, he dissembled. That question hit a bit too close to home. He didn’t want to let the reader know that the whole foold system is designed to deplete their blue blood status (ceruloplasmin-bound copper status).
    Ceruloplasmin literally translates to “blue blood.”
    His countermeasures were pretty good, too. Eat real food. Get your minerals from food. Avoid toxins in processed foolds. Eat for your blood type (and unmentioned — your denutrification and toxification status — the reader has to put some work in!).
    As for CovFeFe and the cytokine storm that ended the calm — the Money Power so loves to mock us to show how stupit we are! — the virus (or whatever exactly is in play) effectively causes the sequestered iron that overloads your body to release, and it is the Operation Daniel 2:43 iron overload condition that causes the damage.
    And the Money Power blames us — after all, Daniel wrote exactly what would happen thousands of years ago, and we ignore it! Since God is obviously mad at our transgrressions and disbelief, the Money Power blames us. And they have a point — to a point
    You know the virus is damaging sequestered iron because ferritin, an INTRA-cullular iron storage protein (activate by bio-copper — blue blood status!), rises very high in the serum in the worst CovFeFe cases. Get it — Corona Virus Iron Overload… FeFe… That ferritin only gets in the serum, where it is NOT supposed to be, AFTER IT DUMPS THE IRON IT WAS SEQUESTERING INSIDE THE CELL! That iron drives the cytokine storm that ended the calm.
    CovFeFe is a much better name than Covid-19, too.
    So, why CovFeFe, and why now?
    Read Daniel 2:43-44. The Money Power have read those verses.
    Verse 43 talks about mixing iron with the seed of men, and this act destroying the ability of people to “cleave,” which Genesis says is the proper loving attitude in marriage.
    Perhaps you have problems cleaving to your husband — as many people do with their spouses (both men and women). Do you have lots of metallic iron filings from processed foolds in your maternal line? If so, now you know why… it isn’t your fault… it is the Money Power agenda everyone wants to pretend doesn’t exist. Well, not everyone, but well over 99.9% of people.
    Now read verse 44. It says the time between the mixing of iron with humans and the establishment of God’s Kingdom is less than the total lifespan of a Royal family member. It might be plural.
    So, the iron filings were added in 1941. Let’s say it take 10 years to “mix” with humanity. That’s 1951… the Bible says God’s Kingdom will be set up on Earth BEFORE all the Royals alive in 1951 (or whatever the date actually is) die.
    Again, don’t expect your programmed local pastor to be able to understand such simple verbiage. It will go over their head — they weren’t programmed to actually believe the Bible! They know how to get a paycheck!
    The Money Power have read this. They don’t believe Jesus is coming back to set up a divine Kingdom. They believe THE WINNER OF THE LAST BLOODLINE STANDING GAME is the Messianic Bloodline who God has chosen to rule the Earth… and they are on A TIME FRAME!
    Gotta get busy!
    And they are, aren’t they?
    If you want to read what this Rothschild disclosed, perhaps you can be the first on this thread to actually bother to read the whole thing all the way through…
    Go to archive.org and search it, NOT the wayback machine, for the last name Rothschild after swapping out the “TH” and replacing it with an “F”.
    I would type the name out, but it is a unique search term they created under the guise of being “hip,” and I’m not going to make it easy for them to search it.
    They need to do some work.
    BTW, they really are focused on Biblical prophecy. They believe God chose them to be the source of Biblical prophecy upon the sinning masses (us). Do you know why the US and Britain were treated so differently than every other country? It is because the Money Power believe in British Israelism.
    What you have been programmed to call Israel today is actually “Judah” — the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The LOST ten tribes of Israel, aka, Israel, are not known to the general population.
    The key is that prophecies related to “Israel” don’t necessarily apply to Judah (called Israel today, but Judah in Biblical parlance).
    Rothschild alludes to this in his disclosure.
    If you want to gauge what the Money Power are likely planning for the United States and Britain, I recommend you read a free book called The United States and Britain in Prophecy by Herbert W. Armstrong.
    Destruction — in short.
    — Rothschild Quotes —
    “You have never owned anything, because you have never paid for your “purchases”. Using the private credit notes does not extinguish a debt.
    Easy come, easy go.
    Ever wonder why the life lived in the US is so “easy” compared to the rest of the planet?
    Oh yes, I nearly forgot…you are God’s “chosen” people…not like those nasty black children in Africa who deserve what they have.
    Heathens!
    Laughing out loud!”

    “PAPER, People! You are handed PAPER!! What don’t you get?? The paper costs nothing to produce!! And has the taxpayer’s blood (read YOU) as backing! SO you provide the guarantee, at gunpoint! Keys to the KINGDOM indeed!
    Seriously, how can anyone who VOLUNTARILY participates in this system believe they can grasp higher level concepts?”

    BTW, years ago, an assistant to Ilargi posted an article of mine here called Weapons years ago, and Ilargi pulled it within in minutes and ran another article. I had told the assistant that nobody was interested in the truth, and he posted it to show me I was wrong. Ilargie showed him I was right. It weasn’t long after he left to start a Christian website, but that may have been unrelated to the event I describe here.
    I’m sure he remembers doing that — the most important article exposing the debt-based money fraud, and Ilargi pulled it in minutes. His programming is complete! lol
    He thinks he’s doing good, but he won’t touch the generator of evil… nullifying all the good he’s trying to do.
    And nothing is more important to society than exposing this debt-based money fraud that will be used to asset strip us all when the economy is collapsed, the debts called in, and our assets (homes, land, cars, etc… called in as collateral), at least short of repentance and turning to Agape Love, but Agape Love would demand demand the fraudulent money system be exposed, not hidden…

    “If you were to tell the whole world one message, what would it be?
    Quoting: artMan
    Firstly, I am not so limited! And don’t forget, one message is just one data dot upon a very large canvas! It seems to be the american experience to expect the great event…the last second miracle shot…the speech which calls a generation to arms! Reality dictates that such events do not occur in nature. If all you needed to “know” were contained in one data dot, the dot would fall upon you and crush the life out of you!!
    Laughing out loud!!
    Better stick to the small data dots humans!!
    Second, you did not provide the desired end objective of such a message! To deceive, help or taunt? Why would one issue such a message? Just to prove it could be done?
    But playing along, I would advise those so inclined to listen that their bloodlines are, today, in great danger of mass extinction! Mass number of bloodlines, that is to say.”

    “Stress comes from large deltas of differential!
    lightning, battery power, and social strife. There have to be polarities!!
    The bigger the differential, the bigger the reaction!
    At some point, the remaining bloodlines will be similar enough in power and stature to know that coexistence is the next logical evolutionary step….referred biblically as the thousand year peace. At that point, there wont be many left, at least relevant to the current population level. 500 million at most.
    THEN things get interesting!”

    Note how he added the “…at most.” 😉
    He said he was honorable and would tell the truth on the thread. I believe he did so here, but would not have done so without that “…at most.”
    I suspect their real target is significantly less, and the 500 million is just for the stupit management class to think they are at the table instead of on the plate with a fork headed for them, too.

    “Information control is “old-school”. What I am referring to is a completely new paradigm of control in a post-fiat world. Not that FIAT will cease to exist, but that the essential functions served by FIAT will be supplanted by a NEXT GENERATION MECHANISM.
    Clearer now?
    Gold is THE cosmic currency…perhaps the ultimate source of knowledge. HOW that knowledge is unlocked is an entirely other question!
    Laughing out Loud!
    You do ask a relevant question which all serious humans should address; namely “who will get food and who will starve”. Can you follow that thought thread?
    Laughing out Loud!
    Rothschild

    External subjugation/slavery
    Self subjugation/religion-morality
    The religion of FIAT
    Whats the NEXT BIG THING?
    Laughing out Loud!
    Thanks for playing!”

    #105499
    WES
    Participant

    Michael:

    The long and short of it is they are coming for us! It is all about enslaving us!

    #105500
    TheTrivium4TW
    Participant

    Is everyone here blind to the Money Power Monopolist Operation Global Economic Siege agenda?
    The war is the Money Power and their pathological money seeking minions against humanity as a whole…

    “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the [familial owners/controllers of the] banks.”
    ~Lord Acton

    “If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.”
    by: Robert Hemphill
    Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Ga.
    Source: In the foreword to a book by Irving Fisher, entitled 100% Money (1935)

    “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
    ~Napoleon Bonaparte
    “This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.…When the President signs this Act, the invisible government by the Money Power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalized.…The money power overawes the legislative and executive forces of the Nation and of the States. I have seen these forces exerted during the different stages of this bill.…
    ~Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, referring to the act which established the Federal Reserve. Congressional Record, Vol. 51, p. 1446. December 22, 1913.

    “Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientific one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation.”
    ~Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, The Economic Pinch, 1921.

    “Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom.”
    ~William Pitt, (referring to the inauguration of the first National Bank in the United States under Alexander Hamilton).

    “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
    ~William Pitt

    #105501
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    If anyone thinks that the U$ Empire’s banksters & MIC are going to just roll over, while the new allies (Russia, China, India et al.) overturn their well-oiled fascist system of global parasitism, you haven’t been paying attention & are unaware of 90 years of historical momentum the tentacled apparatus TPTB are prepared to unleash!

    Furthermore, ALL the previously used “talking head” argument points, definitions & ideologies are & always were false ~ Liberals vs. conservative, neocon vs. neolib only had an illusionary, in truth a delusionary, function based on the patently false paradigm of “America” functioning as a democratic republic. If you don’t know that to be a total falsehood now, there’s not much hope for you understanding “real reality”.

    The U$ Empire is an absolute kleptocratic pathocracy run by & for TPTB/TBTF…

    Trying to dance around Empire of Lies vs. Empire of Hate is all mental masturbation, because it’s all one & the same, only worse!

    The emergence of COVID19 & death vexes/medicine in response (all clearly planned), should be a horrific omen to all sane, just & compassionate children of the Infinite, but it hardly registered a bleat in gen pop…

    What started as a regional conflict in Ukraine, where “The Anointed” got caught their bloody hands in the cookie jar, is now a global war, economic & geopolitical for now, soon to metastasize into a nightmare that no one can predict.

    Right now, anyone that’s interested in staving off Armageddon should be obsessed with seeking common ground, a singular voice of reason, in the face of this inevitable threat…

    But no. Let’s virtual signal. Talk about pet ideologies. Impress people with our mental masturbation 🙄

    This is not a Once in a century” event. This is the reckoning humanity has been facing since Hiroshima.

    This is “the” make-or-break moment where We the People decide to stop following narcissists, criminals & psychopaths, or we’re all dead, dead, DEAD!

    Musk didn’t by controlling interest in Twitter today as an “investment”, he bought it because if normal, sane people continue to be shouted down & cancelled by psyops & propaganda (The Narrative), humanity is TOAST 😕

    #105502

    WES: a troy ounce is 31.1 grams.
    An ounce of pot is 28.3 grams, if you have an honest dealer.

    #105503
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    WES: a troy ounce is 31.1 grams. #105502

    Good catch; I caught it but got distracted and forgot… 😉

    #105504
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    It might be helpful to understand the difference between troy ounce and avoirdupois ounce.
    This from goldprice.com:
    What is a Troy Ounce?
    First-time precious metals buyers are often confused by the difference between a troy ounce (ozt) and a “regular” ounce, especially when their 100 oz silver bar actually weighs 6.85 lbs on the scale instead of 6.25 lbs. Did they receive more silver than they paid for? The answer lies in an antiquated system of measurement still used today for precious metals known as troy weights.

    But first: what exactly is a “regular” ounce? We remember from grade-school that an ounce is 1/16 of a pound, and when we visit the grocery store and ask for half-a-pound of cheese, we expect to receive eight ounces in return. This extremely common unit of measure is known as an avoirdupois ounce, and it is used for measurements not involving gold, silver, platinum, or gunpowder.

    The troy ounce was retained from the Roman system for these four commodities in order to preserve the standards previously set across time, as the two-system standard would have created problems for the monetary system of the day.

    A troy ounce is 1/12 of a troy pound (a troy pound is actually lighter than an avoirdupois pound). The troy ounce (480 grains) is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce (437.5 grains). A grain is 64.79891 milligrams (mg); therefore one troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams (g). This measures out to be about 10 percent more than the avoirdupois ounce, which is 28.349523125 g.

    1 troy ounce = 1.09714286 ounces (avoirdupois)

    Troy ounce to metric metric measurements

    As mentioned above, one troy ounce is equal to 31.1034768 grams. Therefore, one kilogram is equal to 32.1507 troy ounces.

    #105505
    WES
    Participant

    About them ounce thingys:

    Yes, I really screwed up my ounces which is embarrassing considering I have probably seen and handled more gold and silver bars than the average bear! I have even worked in an underground gold mine too. And all of the copper mines around the world I worked in, also mined some gold as a by-product too.

    Should I bend over?

    #105506
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Should I bend over?

    Oh man! Not nearly enough… 😉

    Hey, I needed a refresher on those ounce differences too…

    #105516
    Dr. D
    Participant

    we all have just experienced the greatest abuse of human rights on a global scale to date.”

    …And no one cares. Even if you tell them, no response. The “response” is emotion, that energy that makes you do things, act, think, etc. Oh well. I can’t do that for them.

    “Pete Butt-gieg to Americans: Get used to CRUSHING gas prices until we achieve ‘clean energy’ independence”

    He says this while we have no creation and no transmission of electric grid to power those cars. And no lithium. Conclusion: you won’t get one. They are for the Very Important People, like Pete. You untermensch can go die in a hole and be quick about it.

    There is a genius in the Phi, but it has to do with the base construction of the universe. You can see the 60degrees everywhere, which leads to some of the other organization like the Phi overlap (Fish symbol for secret early Christina knowledge?), and that may have to do with the 60deg bonds of carbon, but actually I expect it has to do with the angle of magnetism, which is perhaps the sole driver of the universe. “Magnetism” in a larger sense may be the angle of the atom, the tiny solar-system-type thing that looks like a toroid. We can’t see that unless billions of atoms are aligned together enough that our eyes can see patterns, like in a ‘magnet’. This is “rotating” with a specific lines of magnetic force, high and low lines in the 3D field that are certain and can be mathematically expressed. Since that’s the base angle of the Universe, it’s no wonder it radiates upward into larger objects like shells and sunflowers.

    There is a motor coil that matches this shape, invented before we had the magnets/fluid to see it so clearly. But you can see the unexpected “strong lines” and therefore between them, the null lines of force.

    Obviously, this is identical to the sunflower spiral, which is Fibonacci, and Phi. Which is why it seems “right” to us. It is matching the Tao, the Logos, the way of the universe in the most alignment and least resistance.

    “it is hatred that enables one to feel that he or she can lie, because it is all for a “higher” purpose:” Me! I’m the important one, Ego, so everything else is justified. That of course is the illusion, or delusion of separation from “other” when we are all-one god-faith.

    The Red Shields are a good example, and it’s pretty easy to understand their use of practical world and their interpretation of the Bible and prophesy.

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