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Even Peace Is Made In China (Juan Cole)
Xi’s Moscow Visit Is A Key Moment In The Struggle To End US Hegemony (Trenin)
Xi Says Deepening Ties With Moscow Is Beijing’s Strategic Choice (TASS)
Putin Tells Xi He’s “Open To Negotiating Process” On Ukraine (ZH)
The Lord of Chaos (Chris Hedges)
Orbán: ‘Europe Suffers From War Psychosis’ (RMX)
US Obsessed With Idea Of Dealing Strategic Blow To Russia – Antonov (TASS)
Ukraine Will Have Only One Shot At A Counteroffensive – Czech President (RT)
Russia Wrote Off $20 Billion Of African Nations’ Debts – Putin (TASS)
African Countries Always Been Equal Allies For Russia – Duma Speaker (TASS)
Putin Makes Prediction About Africa (RT)
This Has Got to Stop (Kunstler)
House GOP Demands Answers From Manhattan DA Over Trump Indictment (ZH)
NYPD Mobilizes 700 Riot Cops, Steel Barricades For Potential Trump Arrest (TP)
Ron DeSantis Breaks Silence On Trump’s Possible Arrest (RT)
The Financial System Is Terminally Broken (Egon von Greyerz)
US Studies How To Guarantee All $18 Trillion In US Bank Deposits (ZH)

 

 

 

 

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“Xi Jinping, upon his arrival in Moscow, uttered the most seditious words from the point of view of the West: ‘China is ready to stand together with Russia to guard the world order based on int’l law’ not on the ‘rules’ invented by someone, but on the law!” — Vladimir Kornilov

Xi Jinping: “The international community has recognized that no country is superior to others, no model of governance is universal, and no single country should dictate the international order. The common interest of all humankind is in a world that is united and peaceful, rather than divided and volatile.”

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Interview with Robert Scheer.

Even Peace Is Made In China (Juan Cole)

I think the United States still has it in its mind that it’s the world hegemon and that they can do what they want. So if they want to break treaties with Iran and put them under an economic blockade, they can do that with not very much consequence to the United States. But what they don’t realize is that, well, the U.S. has something like a $20 to 23 trillion economy annually, and China now has a $17 trillion economy annually. So the United States is just not the only game in town anymore. And that’s not been the case since the end of World War II, when the U.S. was 50% of the world economy. It’s just becoming smaller, it has a smaller proportion of world wealth and power. And it is also true that the United States, you know, is in the Middle East for particular purposes.

They want to guarantee that the oil comes out of the Persian Gulf. And so it’s very security oriented. And to the extent that they saw Iran as a spoiler, the Islamic revolution of 1979 was explicitly anti-American. It has had potentially bad effects on American investments in the Middle East. American corporations have suffered. So the U.S. sees Iran as a bad actor and wants to contain it, put it in a cage, crash its economy if it can, overthrow its government, if it’s not too much trouble, and China is not behaving that way in the Middle East, the Chinese have, for a long time, had this doctrine of harmonious development, and they just don’t want any trouble as they grow into this enormous behemoth on the world stage. And so they don’t have anything against Iran. It doesn’t say anything to them.

And they also don’t have anything against Saudi Arabia. They do trade with both and that’s their policy to do trade with everybody if they can. And so I think they can just be more evenhanded. The United States has picked winners and losers in the region and people that it wants to punish and people that it wants to help. And, you know, it has this, you mentioned, that it has this rhetoric of spreading freedom and democracy and so forth. But it’s all very hypocritical because Saudi Arabia is one of the pillars of U.S. policy in the Middle East and it’s the least democratic country you could hope to find. And it’s never criticized by the State Department for its human rights abuses in any concerted way or in a very public way, whereas Iran is a very flawed system and very dictatorial.


“We see increasing threats from China, in particular in the Indo-Pacific. We feel like we’re not moving fast enough to build a bigger Navy,” says U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher.

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Dmitry Trenin is a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Xi’s Moscow Visit Is A Key Moment In The Struggle To End US Hegemony (Trenin)

[..] the Chinese and Russian leaders certainly understand that they must wreck Washington’s plan of defeating Moscow first and then turning on Beijing. As a result, American warnings and threats to the Chinese over the assistance they can give to Russia may actually be counter-productive. The leadership will find the tone of these admonitions rude and disrespectful – particularly in conjunction with forthcoming American arms deliveries to Taipei. While China certainly cares about the US and EU markets for its goods and services, but it wonders whether it can really trust Washington and its allies, given Moscow’s experience with the Minsk agreements on Donbass which, as the former German and French leaders have admitted, were nothing but a ploy to buy time.

Thus, much more coordination between Beijing and Moscow can be expected. This does not presage a new military bloc in Eurasia, but instead a greater joint effort to help the world move faster toward multipolarity, which effectively means ending American global hegemony. One way to achieve this would be by reducing role of the US dollar in international transactions. Much of the Sino-Russian bilateral trade is already carried out in the Chinese yuan; but the yuan can also be used in dealing with third countries. Another way to help bring about the new world order is upgrading non-Western institutions, such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to set the agenda for the world in areas such as finance and technology, energy and climate, and, not least, international security.

China’s recent rise as a worldwide geopolitical – not just geo-economic – player, exemplified by its recent brokering of the Iranian-Saudi rapprochement, is welcomed in Russia as a practical step toward the new order. Moscow and Beijing can be more successful if they act jointly to reduce the economic and political dependence of many countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the US and its European allies. In the field of military security, there is much that Russia and China can benefit from through closer collaboration – beyond the existing formats. The main goal here is dissuading Washington, by deed not just word, from escalating the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and from provoking Beijing over Taiwan.

One specific area is in-depth dialogue on nuclear policies and nuclear proliferation under the present conditions of major-power confrontation and actual conflict. Even as they work on transitioning to a multipolar future, Putin and Xi bear a huge responsibility to make sure that this transition happens without a shooting war between the major powers. China and Russia cooperating more closely on security issues would make the transition safer.


10 years ago today, the newly elected Chinese President Xi Jinping came to Moscow with his wife, Peng Liyuan.

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Talked for 4.5 hours. The actual talks start only today.

Xi Says Deepening Ties With Moscow Is Beijing’s Strategic Choice (TASS)

During a Moscow meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that fostering bilateral relations was Beijing’s strategic choice, China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday. “To consolidate and develop well China-Russia relations is a strategic choice China has made on the basis of its own fundamental interests and the prevailing trends of the world,” China’s MFA said on its website, underscoring the statements Xi made during the informal meeting.


Xi also noted that China was firm in pursuing its course toward strengthening strategic cooperation with Russia. The two presidents “had an in-depth exchange” of opinions on Ukraine. According to the Chinese leader, most countries support easing tensions, stand for peace talks and oppose “adding fuel to the fire,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry added. Xi assured Putin that “China will continue to play a constructive role in promoting the political settlement of the Ukraine issue,” the Chinese MFA said.

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“we have looked at your proposals for the resolution of the Ukraine conflict” and previewed that “we will discuss this question.”

Putin Tells Xi He’s “Open To Negotiating Process” On Ukraine (ZH)

What’s being described as an initial, informal meeting between Presidents Xi and Putin is underway at the Kremlin. While the expected cordialities and expressions of closer relations were exchange, among the most notable early statements came from Putin, who said he’s “open” to peace talks with Ukraine and China’s mediation efforts. “We have a lot of joint tasks, goals,” Putin told his Chinese counterpart while also congratulating him on re-election as the head of the Chinese state for a third 5-year term. Xi in return said “Russia succeeded in promoting prosperity under Putin’s leadership.” Putin further expressed that “we will discuss your initiative [on Ukraine] which we view with respect.”

“We are open for a negotiating process on Ukraine,” the Russian leader added. He noted to Xi that “we have looked at your proposals for the resolution of the Ukraine conflict” and previewed that “we will discuss this question.” The day prior in media interviews, White House NSC spokesperson John Kirby declared that any “call for a ceasefire” in Ukraine is “unacceptable.” Likely Moscow will only be satisfied with nothing short of a full Kiev recognition of the Donbass being under Russia; however, this is the very thing Washington will condemn and seek to induce the Zelensky administration to resist.

According to state media commentary (RT), “Moscow has said that it would consider the proposal but has pointed to several factors that stand in the way of a peaceful resolution in Ukraine.” And more of Moscow’s perspective headed into more Xi meetings: “Those include the insistence of Kiev and its Western backers on inflicting a military defeat of Russia, their firm opposition to any sort of ceasefire, as well as a law enacted by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that forbids holding negotiations with Russia as long as Putin remains in office.”

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“We are trying to wish the nightmares we perpetuated in the Middle East away, burying them in a collective amnesia. “World War III Begins With Forgetting,” warns Stephen Wertheim.”

The Lord of Chaos (Chris Hedges)

The occupation of Iraq, beginning 20 years ago today, turned the Muslim world and the Global South against us. The enduring images we left behind from two decades of war include President Bush standing under a “Mission Accomplished” banner onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier barely one month after he invaded Iraq, the bodies of Iraqis in Fallujah that were burned with white phosphorus and the photos of torture by U.S. soldiers. The U.S. is desperately attempting to use Ukraine to repair its image. But the rank hypocrisy of calling for “a rules-based international order” to justify the $113 billion in arms and other aid that the U.S. has committed to send to Ukraine, won’t work. It ignores what we did. We might forget, but the victims do not. The only redemptive path is charging Bush, Cheney and the other architects of the wars in the Middle East, including Joe Biden, as war criminals in the International Criminal Court. Haul Russian President Vladimir Putin off to The Hague, but only if Bush is in the cell next to him.

Many of the apologists for the war in Iraq seek to justify their support by arguing that “mistakes” were made, that if, for example, the Iraqi civil service and army were not disbanded after the U.S. invaded, the occupation would have worked. They insist that our intentions were honorable. They ignore the hubris and lies that led to the war, the misguided belief that the U.S. could be the sole major power in a unipolar world. They ignore the massive military expenditures spent annually to achieve this fantasy. They ignore that the war in Iraq was only an episode in this demented quest. A national reckoning with the military fiascos in the Middle East would expose the self-delusion of the ruling class. But this reckoning is not taking place. We are trying to wish the nightmares we perpetuated in the Middle East away, burying them in a collective amnesia. “World War III Begins With Forgetting,” warns Stephen Wertheim.

The celebration of our national “virtue” by pumping weapons into Ukraine, by sustaining at least 750 military bases in more than 70 countries and by expanding our naval presence in the South China Sea, is meant to fuel this dream of global dominance. What the mandarins in Washington fail to grasp is that most of the globe does not believe the lie of American benevolence or support its justifications for U.S. interventions. China and Russia, rather than passively accepting U.S. hegemony, are building up their militaries and strategic alliances. China, last week, brokered an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to re-establish relations after seven years of hostility, something once expected of U.S. diplomats. The rising influence of China creates a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who call for war with Russia and China, one that will have consequences far more catastrophic than those in the Middle East.

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Hungarian FM Szijjártó: “In France, the pension law was amended without a parliamentary vote. In Germany, the electoral law was changed by a simple majority. If anyone criticizes the Hungarian rule of law after this, let us laugh together!”

Orbán: ‘Europe Suffers From War Psychosis’ (RMX)

The main issue facing Europe today is war, which puts Hungary in a difficult situation, as the effects of war are severe and immediate, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a meeting of the Organization of Turkic States summit in Ankara. The prime minister stressed that, unfortunately, Europe was suffering from a “war psychosis,” with the continent drifting further into war day by day. Orbán thanked the leaders of the Turkish states for strengthening the voice of peace. Hungary — on account of its population’s Asian origins — is an honorary member of the Organization of Turkic States. Orbán thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, he said, had so far been able to mediate successfully between the warring parties, and called on him to continue his efforts in the future.

“Only in this way can we have a chance for peace,” Orbán said. He also thanked the Turkish president for the fact that Hungary and Turkey could coordinate their work within NATO. Hungary’s geographical proximity to the war has placed the issue of pursuing peace at the top of the agenda for Hungary, according to Orbán. “Ukraine is a neighboring state, and the effects of the war are therefore severe and direct, with inflation skyrocketing and energy prices at an all-time high,” he said, adding that “many Hungarians have now died in the war because men from the Hungarian community in western Ukraine are also being conscripted into the army.” “For Hungary, the most important thing is to save human lives, and that is why we are advocating a ceasefire as soon as possible and peace negotiations.”

At the same time, the prime minister expressed the view that what is happening in Europe is more than just war, because in fact, “the whole of Europe is being reshuffled in terms of power relations,” and this will also have repercussions for Turkey. He added that Hungary is also seeing another threat: “There are processes going on in the world economy that could lead to a new global balance.” He said that the segmentation of the world economy is against Hungary’s interests, and Hungary sees its future not in segmentation, but in acting in the collective interest and improving interconnectivity. “The Turk states can play a key role in this, because here we are European, Caucasian and Central Asian countries connected to each other on the basis of mutual respect, setting a good example for the whole world,” the prime minister said in his speech.

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“In the end – it’s not up to Washington to decide..”

US Obsessed With Idea Of Dealing Strategic Blow To Russia – Antonov (TASS)

The United States has been causing the geography of the Ukrainian crisis to expand and it turns a blind eye to the corrupt Kiev regime, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Monday. Commenting on a new $350 million package of US military aid for Ukraine, he said, “Washington is obsessed with the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on our country. With its steps, the [US] administration is only pushing the Ukrainian radicals toward new terrible deeds,” the embassy quoted Antonov as saying. According to the Russian envoy, “with each delivery of military equipment, the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime feels more and more impunity. It continues to kill civilians in the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Russia with pure cynicism,” the head of the Russian diplomatic mission underscored.

“The United States does not think that by such actions they are adding fuel and provoking the expansion of the geography of the Ukrainian crisis. This policy jeopardizes the security of all of Europe, increasing the risk of a direct clash between Russia and NATO,” Antonov warned. Washington “turns a blind eye to the corruption of the Ukrainian elite. We have serious concerns that some of the defense products may end up on the black market,” he added. “Where will weapons pop up? Who will bear responsibility when it falls into the hands of some terrorist groups and criminal organizations?” he asked rhetorically.

Antonov urged the US leadership to stop fueling the conflict in Ukraine. “And even more so – to refrain from public statements about the expediency or inexpediency of entering into negotiations. In the end – it’s not up to Washington to decide,” he concluded. On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a new military assistance package for Ukraine that, among other weapons, would include ammunition for Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, HARM missiles, anti-tank weapons, and riverine boats. In all, during Joe Biden’s presidency, Washington has given more than $33.2 billion worth of military assistance to Kiev.

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“If it fails, “it will be extremely difficult to obtain funds for the next one.”

Ukraine Will Have Only One Shot At A Counteroffensive – Czech President (RT)

With the US set to refocus attention on domestic issues next year, Ukraine may not get funding for continued military action, Czech President Petr Pavel has said. The former army officer said Kiev’s armed forces may therefore have just one shot at conducting a major push against Russian troops. “The window of opportunity is open this year. After next winter, it will be extremely difficult to maintain the current level of aid,” Pavel told the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita. “Ukraine will only have one attempt to launch a major counter-offensive,” he added as quoted by the outlet on Monday. If it fails, “it will be extremely difficult to obtain funds for the next one.”

Pavel, a retired general who served as chair of the NATO Military Committee until 2018, predicted that US interest in aiding the Ukrainian army would likely dwindle in 2024. The political focus in the country will shift to the presidential campaign, and US-China relations are likely to be the top foreign policy issue. European nations will likely reduce their funding of Ukraine too, the politician predicted. He said it was up to Ukraine to decide what constitutes a victory over Russia, which Pavel assured would happen. But if it fails despite all Western help, there will be a “long war of attrition.” “You cannot pretend that the only possible solution is complete success,” he said.

Pavel’s preferred outcome for the conflict is a weakened Russia that prefers “cooperation, not aggression.” He stated that it would take a change of the “Russian regime from within” before the EU would go back to business as usual with the country. Kiev has declared full control of the territories it claims sovereignty over as the objective of its military campaign. It has refused talks with Moscow as long as President Vladimir Putin remains in office. Washington, for its part, has pledged to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia. Russia considers the hostilities in Ukraine to be part of a US-led proxy war, with Ukrainian troops being used as “cannon fodder” by Washington.

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Second Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference in Moscow. 45 African nations.

Russia Wrote Off $20 Billion Of African Nations’ Debts – Putin (TASS)

Russia has written off debts of African nations amounting to more than $20 bln, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Russia wrote off debts of African states in the amount over $20 bln,” the President said. “The mutual trade turnover is growing from year to year, which reached almost $18 bln as of the last year-end,” the Russian leader said. “The more vigorous transition to national currencies in financial settlements and the establishment of new transport and logistics chains will facilitate the development of countertrade turnovers,” Putin added.

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“Today the African continent plays an important role in solving global and regional problems. And it will only grow..”

African Countries Always Been Equal Allies For Russia – Duma Speaker (TASS)

Relations between Russia and African countries have always been built on an unselfish basis and equality, which cannot be said of the United States and Europe, which continue their colonial policy, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Monday, speaking at the plenary session of the Second Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference. “It is necessary to emphasize: Russia and African countries are equal allies and partners. Our relations have always been built on an unselfish basis, on the principles of mutual respect and non-interference in domestic affairs,” Volodin said, stressing that for Russia “the African continent has never been a subject of mercantile interest, use of labor and raw material resources.” However, according to the speaker, the US and Europe have a different approach.


“Washington and Brussels seek to take control of Russian and African natural resources. In fact, they continue their colonial policy. They go to any measures, including force and terrorist nature, for their own benefit,” the politician pointed out. “It is not for Washington to teach us how to build relationships, be friends and make plans for the future,” Volodin pointed out. The Duma speaker recalled that “despite illegal sanctions from Washington, Russia and African states are developing trade and economic cooperation.” In particular, according to the politician, the trade turnover is growing, which at the end of last year amounted to 17.9 billion dollars. “Today the African continent plays an important role in solving global and regional problems. And it will only grow,” Volodin concluded.

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“..Africa will become one of the leaders in the emerging new multipolar world order – all objective prerequisites for this exist..”

Putin Makes Prediction About Africa (RT)

Moscow is “determined to continue building a strategic partnership” with African nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, expressing confidence that the continent is set to become one of the leaders of the emerging multipolar world. The president made the remarks at the International Parliamentary Conference ‘Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World,’ which kicked off in Moscow on Monday and brought together representatives of some 40 nations. The conference comes ahead of the second Russia-Africa summit, which is scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg in July. “African nations are continuously increasing their weight and role in international affairs, and are asserting themselves more and more confidently in politics and economy. We are convinced that Africa will become one of the leaders in the emerging new multipolar world order – all objective prerequisites for this exist,” Putin stated.


Russia and African nations stand together against “the neo-colonial ideology” imposed by certain powers in the world, Putin went on. “Many states of Asia, the Middle East, and South America stand on similar positions, and together we make up the world majority,” he added. Moscow is committed to continue building a “strategic partnership” with Africa, while multiple Russian state-owned and private companies are already actively investing into the continent, Putin stressed. “We are ready to jointly shape the global agenda, work together to strengthen fair and equal interstate relations, and improve mechanisms for mutually beneficial economic cooperation,” he said, describing African nations as Russia’s “friends in the full sense of this word.”

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“..the locked-down public’s attention was galvanized by the George Floyd, BLM, and Antifa riots until the 2020 election was upon us..”

This Has Got to Stop (Kunstler)

The Covid-19 release seems to have been an act motivated by multiple players for their own reasons which, combined, amounted to crimes against humanity. Anthony Fauci, America’s infectious disease czar, apparently sought a crowning career triumph, which would have been a successful vaccine against a dangerous virus. So, he arranged to engineer the organism that he could then triumph against. Like all of Dr. Fauci’s projects over the roughly forty years that he ran the NIAID agency, the mRNA vaccines — subcontracted to the US Military and manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna — turned out to be an epic fiasco. Covid-19 also happened to be a convenient device for ridding the government of the troublesome President Trump, who threatened to disassemble major parts of the permanent US bureaucracy.

If you revisit the many videos of Mr. Trump appearing in the White House Covid crisis room in early 2020 with Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials, I’m sure you will notice his discomfort, as if he suspected he was being played (he was). And conveniently, right after that, the locked-down public’s attention was galvanized by the George Floyd, BLM, and Antifa riots until the 2020 election was upon us. (Another grotesque prank against the people, never adjudicated.) It took more than a year after the “vaccines” came out for the disturbing actuarial data to emerge from the life insurance industry that many non-elderly people were being killed and disabled by the shots’ adverse effects. (I think the censors were caught by surprise that the truth leaked out from there.)

Meanwhile, any able investigator could understand how the half-assed “vaccines,” along with the denigration of off-label early treatment medicines, the reckless use of dangerous remdesivir combined with enormous government payments to hospitals for mis-treating patients with it, the gaming and hiding of CDC statistics, and the obvious censorship of all that information in the corporate news and social media (with help from the CIA and FBI), all added up to a monstrous criminal offense against human decency. The government, now led by the career criminal “Joe Biden,” needed another distraction from intrusive reality in 2022 — including the emergence of the Biden family’s crimes — so it arranged to start a war in Ukraine by threatening to turn that country into a forward NATO base on Russia’s border. Russia was exceptionally clear and straightforward that it wouldn’t accept such an arrangement and the US proceeded anyway. Our country was exceptionally dishonest in its positioning for this conflict. (And our NATO allies were astoundingly credulous going along with it, even after we fatally damaged the EU’s economy.)

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“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office..”

House GOP Demands Answers From Manhattan DA Over Trump Indictment (ZH)

House Republicans on the Weaponization of the Federal Government subcommittee are using their new investigative powers to look into liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, over the Soros-funded DA’s reported plans to indict former President Donald Trump on felony charges this week related to hush money he allegedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels seven years ago – a charge which would normally be a misdemeanor. Bragg would also be prosecuting the case beyond the five-year statute of limitations. “You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office,” reads a Monday letter to Bragg from Reps. Jim Jordan (Judiciary Chairman), James Comer (Oversight Chairman) and Bryan Steil (House Admin Chairman).

“This indictment comes after years of your office searching for a basis – any basis – on which to bring charges, ultimately settling on a novel legal theory untested anywhere in the cuntry and one that federal authorities declined to pursue.” The letter goes on to shred the ‘untested legal theory’ underpinning Bragg’s expected indictment, and calls out former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen, Bragg’s star witness and a convicted perjurer, as having a “serious credibility problem.” The letter demands all documents and communications related to the decision. “This is the type of thing America hates, and it divides America and it is wrong,” McCarthy said this week while conferring with House Republicans in Orlando, Florida. McCarthy has accused Bragg of lowering penalties for criminals in New York while prosecuting his political opponents.

“It’s interesting to me he spent his whole time as a DA lowering felonies, not to prosecute,” said McCarthy. “I think Republicans and Democrats alike hate this type of justice.” “Republicans stopped the radical D.C. crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country,” he continued.

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“Republicans plan to use their new investigative powers in the House majority to ramp up probes into the Biden family and liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg..”

NYPD Mobilizes 700 Riot Cops, Steel Barricades For Potential Trump Arrest (TP)

The New York Police Department is preparing for civil disorder should the Manhattan District Attorney’s office order the arrest of former President Donald Trump. The NYPD has ordered the mobilization of 700 riot police and has erected steel barricades around the Manhattan Criminal Court in preparation for a potential grand jury indictment. The New York Times fantasized about the “likely indictment” and “unprecedented arrest” of Donald Trump. “He would be fingerprinted. He would be photographed. He could even be handcuffed. And if Donald J. Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in the days ahead for his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, the former president of the United States of America will be read the standard Miranda warning: He will be told that he has the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.”

“These are among the routine steps for felony arrests in New York. But the unprecedented arrest of a former commander in chief — one whose devoted supporters once staged a violent attack on the Capitol — will be anything but routine,” the story added. The Times also reported that “more than a dozen senior Police Department officials and two of the mayor’s top public safety aides held a virtual meeting to discuss security, staffing and contingency plans in the event of any protests, one person with knowledge of the meeting said.” The Times drew a parallel between New York City’s security preparations for the potential Trump indictment this week and the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. “That meeting followed a call from Mr. Trump himself, in a post on his site Truth Social on Saturday morning: ‘PROTEST,’ he exhorted his supporters. ‘TAKE OUR NATION BACK!’

“The former president’s rallying cry, with an indictment looming, conjured up memories of the Jan. 6, 2020, assault on the Capitol,” the Times added. Meanwhile, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is set to use his Congressional authority to investigate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for alleged political prosecution of the former president. “Republicans plan to use their new investigative powers in the House majority to ramp up probes into the Biden family and liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid reports that Mr. Bragg is on the verge of indicting former President Donald Trump on felony charges,” the Washington Times reported.

“An aide to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, told The Washington Times on Sunday that Mr. Jordan’s panel on the weaponization of the federal government “’is expected to respond’ to Mr. Bragg’s plans to indict Mr. Trump with an investigation and possible hearings,” the report added. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday underscored that Manhattan D.A.’s case against Trump will be investigated by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

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“I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” the governor said. “I just can’t speak to that.”

Ron DeSantis Breaks Silence On Trump’s Possible Arrest (RT)

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ripped the New York City prosecutor behind a possible criminal indictment against Donald Trump while sideswiping the former president with an apparent dig alluding to the “porn star hush money” at the center of the case. DeSantis, who is currently Trump’s top rival for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, had been pressured to comment on the New York case since Trump said over the weekend that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday. He finally weighed in when asked by a reporter on Monday about the possible indictment, arguing that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was among the US prosecutors who were using their positions to pursue a leftist political agenda after being elected with campaign funding from billionaire George Soros.

“These Soros district attorneys are a menace to society, and I’m just glad that I’m the only governor in the country who’s actually removed one from office during my tenure,” said DeSantis, referencing his firing in January of a prosecutor in Tampa, Florida. He added that Soros-backed DAs “weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.” While some prominent Republicans, such as former vice president Mike Pence, rallied to Trump’s side over his looming arrest, DeSantis said he wouldn’t get involved in the case “in any way,” suggesting that he wouldn’t try to help block the Florida resident’s extradition to New York. “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair,” the governor said. “I just can’t speak to that.”

“But what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction, and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush-money payments. That’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office.” Bragg reportedly aims to prosecute Trump over a $130,000 payment that was made to porn star Stormy Daniels to secure her silence during the 2016 presidential campaign. The DA would need to prove that the money was paid for the sole purpose of the campaign, rather than other possible motives, such as avoiding public embarrassment or keeping Trump’s wife from finding out about an affair. DeSantis has declined to push back publicly after being attacked on multiple occasions by Trump, who has nicknamed him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” A Yahoo/YouGov poll conducted last month found that voters favored DeSantis over Trump in a head-to-head race by a margin of 45%-41%.

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“No, the Death of Money means a total and final collapse of this financial system..”

The Financial System Is Terminally Broken (Egon von Greyerz)

[..] the Swiss banking system is very unsound, just like the rest of the world’s. A central bank which is bigger than the country’s GDP is extremely unsound. And a banking system which is 5x Swiss GDP makes it too big to save. Although the Fed and ECB are much smaller in relation to their countries’ GDP than the SNB, these two central banks will soon discover that their assets of around $8 trillion each are grossly overvalued. With a global banking system on the verge of a systemic failure, Central Bankers and bankers have been working around the clock this weekend to temporarily avoid the inevitable collapse of the bankrupt financial system. As I pointed out above, the main Central Banks would also be bankrupt if they valued their assets honestly. But they have a wonderful source of money that they will tap to save the system.


Yes, I am of course talking about money printing. We will in coming months and years see the most massive avalanche of money printing that has ever hit the world. For anyone who believes that we are just seeing another bank run that will quickly evaporate, they will need to take a shower in ice cold Alpine water. What we are witnessing is not just a temporary drama that will be sorted out by “the all powerful and resourceful” central banks. No, instead what we are seeing is the end phase of this financial era which started with the formation of the Fed in 1913 and in the next few years, or much sooner, will end with the death of money.

But the Death of Money doesn’t just mean that the dollar (and most currencies) will make their final move to ZERO, having already declined 98% since 1971. Currency debasement is not the cause but the effect of the banking Cabal taking control of the money for their own benefit. As Mayer Amschel Rothschild said in the late 1700s: “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws”. Sadly, as this Cassandra (me) has written about since the beginning of the century, the Death of Money is not just all currencies going to ZERO as they have throughout history. No, the Death of Money means a total and final collapse of this financial system.


No depositor must believe that the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp) in the US or similar vehicles in other countries will save their deposits. All these organisations are massively undercapitalised and in the end it will be the governments in all countries which step in. We know of course, that the government has no money. They just print whatever they need. That leaves ordinary people taking the final burden of all this money printing. But ordinary people will have no money either. Yes a few rich people will be taxed heavily to cover bank deficits and losses. Still, that will be a drop in the ocean. Instead ordinary people will be impoverished with little income, no government handouts, no pension and money which is worthless.

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“Shares of that one, First Republic Bank, tumbled an additional 47% on Monday..”

US Studies How To Guarantee All $18 Trillion In US Bank Deposits (ZH)

After repeated laments by the likes of Bill Ackman, who most recently said that “I continue to believe that the best course of action is a temporary @FDICgov deposit guarantee until an updated insurance regime is introduced” (and who just flip-flopped on his “Fed must hike with shock and awe” call from 2022 and is now urging for a Fed hiking pause), and following a Bloomberg weekend report that US mid-sized banks demanded a two-year total deposit insurance scheme from the FDIC, and warned if it doesn’t arrive, there may lots more shotgun weddings (or shotguns), moments ago Bloomberg reported that “US officials are studying ways they might temporarily expand Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage to all deposits, a move sought by a coalition of banks arguing that it’s needed to head off a potential financial crisis.” Guess our March 12 tweet was ahead of its time yet again.

The BBG report explains that “Treasury Department staff are reviewing whether federal regulators have enough emergency authority to temporarily insure deposits greater than the current $250,000 cap on most accounts” without formal consent from a deeply divided Congress, and goes on to note that “authorities don’t yet view such a move as necessary, especially after regulators took steps this month to help banks keep up with any demands for withdrawals” which is an important caveat, and is the same one that hawks are using to justify why a Fed pause would be self-defeating (“why is the Fed blowing up their last bit of inflation-fighting credibility; what do they know that we don’t): the same question can be applied to the Treasury: “what does the Treasury know that we don’t.” Most likely nothing – after all bank crises are non-linear, but as Bloomberg notes, “still, they are developing a strategy out of due diligence in case the situation worsens.”

“We will use the tools we have to support community banks,” White House spokesman Michael Kikukawa said, without directly addressing whether the measure is being studied. “Since our administration and the regulators took decisive action last weekend, we have seen deposits stabilize at regional banks throughout the country and, in some cases, outflows have modestly reversed.” Still, the report notes, the behind-the-scenes deliberations show there are concerns in Washington’s corridors of power as midsize banks call for broader government intervention after three lenders collapsed this month when uninsured depositors pulled their money, and as a fourth firm strives to avoid a similar fate. Shares of that one, First Republic Bank, tumbled an additional 47% on Monday as industry leaders tried to find a way to bolster the company’s finances.

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    Rene Magritte Memory 1948   • Even Peace Is Made In China (Juan Cole) • Xi’s Moscow Visit Is A Key Moment In The Struggle To End US Hegemony (Tre
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 21 2023]

    #131713
    Afewknowthetruth
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    This week I have been struck by how quickly central banks are devaluing the fiat currency of Airstrip Five. Two years ago I bought a brand new bike for $258. This week I saw the same model in the same store; price $401. That’s an increase of 55% in two years. Similar increases are seen with respect to groceries: a particular ‘cheap’ brand of concentrated fruit syrup was $3.90 two years ago went to $5.90 several months ago. Cans of ‘cheap’ baked beans that were 80 cents two years ago are now $1.40; that’s a 75% increase!!

    Needless to say, there are numerous items/products that I used to buy that I no longer buy. But I do wonder how people who foolishly ignored advice to get planting -repeated a thousand times over the past 20 years and studiously ignored- are managing.

    This surge in the price of food and general living costs is occurring at a time when house values are plummeting in most regions and notional savings, such as KiwiSaver, accounts are plummeting in value.

    Added to the financial and economic misery imposed on the Proles of Airstrip Five by the management of the corporation are the effects of severely overheated oceans, which are manifesting as unprecedented torrential rain events and wild swings in temperature that are playing havoc with much agricultural production. My friend, who until the recently used kumara as a staple told me he has switched to rice now that kumara is unaffordable. Most of the rice eaten on Airstrip Five is imported from Airstrip Four. And the supply could cease almost overnighht As could the supply of most consumer goods and many ‘essentials’ if Airstrips Two proceeds with its planned strategy of attacking China.

    I take solace in the fact that the predicament of the masses is far worse in many other regions of the world, even if their governments are not as thoroughly rotten as that of Airstrip Five and the other Airstrips.

    #131714
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D Rich: I’d like to know more about the medical stand you took in Fallujah. Most people don’t know that white phosporous, which kills by burning skin, eyes, mouth and luns, was widely used by the US against families of people through that tortured city. Hudreds of thousands of atrocious murders of civilians in that Iraqi city.

    #131715
    John Day
    Participant

    This looks like an important declaration by the Russian Ambassador to the US. Since when is it “not up to Washington to decide”?
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    Antonov urged the US leadership to stop fueling the conflict in Ukraine. “And even more so – to refrain from public statements about the expediency or inexpediency of entering into negotiations. In the end – it’s not up to Washington to decide,” he concluded.

    #131716
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Foresight

    Why didn’t I think of that

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    #131717
    Oroboros
    Participant

    This is what actual adult leaders look like meeting in mutual respect

    A totally bizarre concept for the Empire of Lies®

    President Xi Jinping Arrives In Moscow

    #131718
    Oroboros
    Participant

    And a speech you’ll never hear from the Presidementia of the Empire of Lies®

    Russia never colonized Africa

    Significant advantage and a leg up in the coming multipolar world order

    #131719
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Everything Everywhere All at Once: And it still doesn’t matter. Reality never matters again.

    Biden and Iraq: His son died of Cancer. Talk about borrowed valor! Borrow of his, borrowed by his father, twice removed. And all to shut up an actual veteran. Well, that’s our political class and the people who support them.

    Prosecutor Khan has his brother released from prison just before releasing a jaw-dropping political accusation. But there are no pedophiles. Nope! Not a one. They never work together and traffic together in rings to get supply and keep each other out of prison, nor have symbols and code words like other criminals. That’s just an FBI conspiracy you can read on the FBI website and find in court records worldwide.

    “”The people who have died from COVID, vaccine deaths, and early treatment denial is greater than all the world wars”

    And it still doesn’t matter. Doesn’t even register, no one’s looking or starting on it. They love death. That’s why they’re a Death Cult and thereby the definition of #Anti-Christ.

    “The Biden family may have committed over two dozen federal felonies …, that would put the Trump family or any ordinary citizen behind bars for decades.”

    Never matters. And you thought they could do anything with total impunity before? Lose a girl in a car in the bay for a DWI? Drone strike a 16-year-old American citizen? Start a slave market? You ain’t seen nothin’! This is what happens when you have Mercy and not Justice for every crime going way back. Mercy isn’t mercy to the other people, the next victim of their actions. It’s not “Justice” for them. This is also a whole generation raised without discipline and order. The first time there are consequences they are going to throw a violent, aggressive fit that attacks, harms, and destroys others – and regularly do.
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PJdmTZCWKXM Sad and disturbing. How do you fix? You lost that window now it’s impossibly hard. That’s not love to set up your children for certain failure and disaster.

    Galloway’s not wrong of course. However, China is just spying ALSO. They are oppressing a few people ALSO, as most countries do somewhere to some of their people. It’s not fair to run just a “enemy best” “homeland worst” story just as it isn’t fair to run “We’re #1!” like they do all day on all Western channels. We sometimes do this to counteract a diet of too much, but governments are governments and people are people. Where they do good we say so, and where they do bad we say so, and don’t decide ahead of time because “that’s my guy.”

    “I think the United States still has it in its mind that it’s the world hegemon and that they can do what they want.

    That’s quite true and is the best sign they’ve lost their mind.

    U.S. $20T GDP? Um, we were $15T just a few years ago and I’m pretty sure we didn’t expand by 1/3rd. So goes the money printing and false reporting that calls Government spending, “Production.”

    Every nation does this on the route to hyperinflation. It looks good initially, like the German Miracle after WWI. Then the inside nation rapidly decays with misallocation, and the misallocation or rewarding bad people decays morality widely. Then the nation is cut off from foreign investment, slowly at first, then faster. This is now as our currency and bonds are avoided. Then there is an intangible tipping point when the market – the aggregate people – realize they’re never going to get paid back and need to cash out. A small motion like SVB causes others to join in. In a few months from then, the currency is worthless and the government discredited and out of power. “Prices” go to the trillions which is really nobody wanting the currency. Cooperation breaks down and everybody dies. Some then, but many more when Napoleon or Hitler re-establishes order. “Our Guy”

    Every time.

    But I’m sure this time will be different. Any nation that can increase their GDP by 30% in just 5 years is a rocket ship of success and prosperity, right?

    Iran as a spoiler, the Islamic revolution of 1979 was explicitly anti-American.”

    Maybe. I’d consider that France was involved, and Saudi, and the result was to lock up a huge supply of oil for generations, preserved for future use. That keeps oil prices nice and high if you’re a nearby nation…selling oil. Wouldn’t want a glut or nothin’, would you? And the price was $20. Dirt floor. So tell me again how the Iranian revolution – which hundreds of anecdotes show people expected, sudden as it was – was any disadvantage to strategy. How about this for Iran, their oil, and their revolution: You don’t want to give 99% of the profits to BP and Royal Shell, don’t want to grind up your country and kill everyone for our amusement? Fine. “If I can’t have it, no one can.”

    And, as reported again yesterday, they WANTED it, and KEPT it going until after the 1980 election. But we all known for years that was Pappa Bush’s people in the CIA. The headline of course was Reagan did it personally — not a Pappa Bush in sight, no siree! Certainly no Comey, Valerie Jarrett and the gang, all amazingly and coincidentally each and every stationed/born in Iran. That’s quite a reunion that EVERY CIA member there ALL went on to be famous, ain’t it? But I do not find that to be a coincidence at all.

    Now, as I state monthly, a whole generation’s worth of oil is sitting in the Iranian oil field “bank accounts” unused, waiting to be spent. At the time of their choosing, they makey-makey nice-nice and poof! Open it up. Now WE thought we would toss Saudi under the bus and pay Iran a Billion cash-on-pallets for it, but turns out Saudi threw US under the bus and opened Iran themselves. Either way, Hey! I thought we ran out of oil!!! And here we have another generation of oil untouched! What gives??? Is the Club of Rome going to say they’re sorry and revise their book now?

    Of course not. Data has never affected their beliefs before, why start now? Malthus was wrong every year for 200 years, why stop now? That’s Science!

    Question next: Does Cuba have any oil? Because the same political events happened there.

    We feel like we’re not moving fast enough to build a bigger Navy,” says U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher.”

    To do what? Give China better target practice? Every ship on the surface of the ocean can be sunk in minutes and 375,000 men is a speed bump. Get a grip before somebody dies. We’re going to what? Station them in Hawaii? You’re kidding, right? This isn’t 1940; I can remove Hawaii with one bomb. Talk about fighting the last war, why don’t they just get some coal dreadnaughts and get it over with? It’ll match their Maxim machine guns.

    “turned the Muslim world and the Global South against us. The enduring images we left behind from two decades of war include President Bush standing under a “Mission Accomplished”

    The whole POINT was to destroy US, the U.S. military. We were too strong and needed to be ground up. We needed to lose the next war under Hillary, thus our Constitution, and to be brought equal to the level of the 3rd world, like Clinton’s Most Favored Nation with China and Bush’s NAFTA. He launched McCain’s “100 year war” of “Three World Wars” total exhaustion until as the “Mass Psychosis” video, they will accept “Their guy” just to restore order. Once launched, they had to go all the way. This is the “Mission” that Bush “Accomplished” and he was right to take accolades for it, that plan was going perfectly. The plan to destroy all of us and take over the world. McCain’s 100 year war is still going briskly 22 years later and looks to continue for some time, so that’s a win as well. Most of the Constitution is a dead letter and the people love it and want more. Another win.

    See you have to know what they WANTED to know if they’re winning or losing. Their goals are not our goals. Our goals are peace, prosperity, order, life, freedom, and so on, while theirs are the #Opposite, like to the god they worship and the weirdo religion they follow.

    They worship the “Lord of Chaos” and the “King of Lies” and it’s going quite nicely, thank you very much.

    Now our nationalists may not be saints, but they do believe in stopping chaos, returning to our borders, and trying to improve the lives of our citizens, for better or for worse, and in the messy, disconnected way we do things here. And always have. The Indians were no different.

    “In France, the pension law was amended without a parliamentary vote. In Germany, the electoral law was changed by a simple majority.”

    This is fantastic as now we know there is no democracy, no representation, and no law. Hey, if there’s no law for you, why am I following it? I’ll just do whatever I feel like too!

    Note this sounds like a win, and yes, that’s the de-legitimizing of government which is, visibly illegitimate and must be rejected. However, to actually do this is to fall into a state of chaos and disorder, the very world which THEY prosper in and daily, visibly, seek to create. You can ignore the government, yet your loyalty is to God, the higher order. And to follow HIS laws, like it not, even if you have to disobey and choose between man’s laws. Only then do you continue to have order, and a better one.

    YOU are the government. Remember. If you’re not self-regulating, nobody else can make you. Or can I not get heroin in 10 minutes if I want to.

    “If [Ukraine’s attack] fails, “it will be extremely difficult to obtain funds for the next one.”

    Again and again, it’s not the MONEY. Your money means nothing to me. They can get the “Money”, the Money is unlimited. What they can’t get is the REALITY. That is, the bullets, bombs, and men. And shortly the food, as a means of controlling the population. How can they buy your daughters unless you’re desperate? That’s just Disaster Capitalism 101, “The Fire Sale.” First, Start a fire…

    “Second Russia-Africa International Parliamentary Conference in Moscow. 45 African nations.”

    Hey, remember the U.S. Conference of the Americas? Where no one from Latin America came because they hate our guts? Good times, good times…

    “You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office..”

    That’s funny: I thought that was instantly impeachable. Even when it was for a person who wasn’t a candidate, and even when it wasn’t him but his son. And even when it wasn’t an arrest but merely an investigation. But now we can have election tampering not for a man’s son and family, but for himself? And when he’s not a prospective, only a vague, unlikely possibility, but an official declared candidate and front-runner? And not an investigation but an active arrest?

    Okay then, carry on. We see you. Never stop speaking so we know who you are.

    Things will degrade rapidly if they do that, BUT THAT’S THE POINT. They need fear, chaos, disorder, lack of rules, chaos, breaking norms and boundaries. “Deconstruction”, “Burn it all Down”, only then can they bring out “Their Guy” and “Build Back Better.” Remember: “First, start a fire”. Burn your neighbor’s house down while you stand there with a book of matches watching. Then, buy it at fire-sale prices! Tell him if he pays you $1M, you’ll put the fire out. That’s practically pure love and tolerance! Who could even be so generous?

    Sounds great to me. Go ahead.

    “• NYPD Mobilizes 700 Riot Cops, Steel Barricades For Potential Trump Arrest (TP)”

    Pay the rioters to pay the riot control. The best opposition you can buy is the one you build yourself. Think of all the Overtime! Boy, good thing we let every felon in the five boroughs go!

    As Trump says here, what this says to everyone is, “We can’t beat Trump at the ballot box. We have no good ideas and no one supports us. Otherwise we wouldn’t need to take these measures but would have no trouble knocking him out without this.” That is to say: they’re losing losers who lose. And know they’ve lost. Otherwise, why cheat? And yet they’re also so strong there’s no hope and they’re going to run us over?

    NYC is also arresting the head of a prominent, wealthy, Jewish family. What’s up with that? I thought the Jews ran everything, especially NY. I thought we were on the same side. Everyone’s a Nazi. So the Jews are Nazis and the Nazis are Jews and also the Jews are #AntiNazi and the Nazis are #AntiJews? Huh. It’s almost like that makes no sense and something else entirely is going on.

    Just like the Mueller case was bogus.”

    News review, memory hole, what happened to Mueller’s cases? He didn’t bring any against Trump. After 2 years and all the records, nothing, and also NOT this Stormy Daniels payment which came to their attention. He DID bring a case against “Russian Election Interference” to a private corporation placing ads. Whatever happened with that?

    Well, the company – which is entirely out of their jurisdiction and need never bother – showed up in court to defend the charges. Mueller immediately withdrew all allegations and ran away. That is to say, even this thin case, totally unrelated to Trump, was completely and publicly abandoned for lack of evidence.

    This is the one the Congressmen was defending and demanding Taibbi swear fealty to during the Twitter hearings. Uh: yeah, that’s pretty bogus! Two years? I could create evidence to jail a ham sandwich given two years and a million dollars but you couldn’t even find that?

    But this time those Duke Boys won’t get away! We got ‘im now!!!

    ““weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.”

    Astonishingly, this sounds like your average political rhetoric but isn’t. It’s LITERALLY the supervillain’s, the Joker’s master plan to let all the criminals out of prison to roam the streets. LITERALLY the master plan to spring anyone arrested on bail – or lack of bail – to be back out in two hours, robbing again. To go fondle women in women’s bathrooms as a camera-ready demonstration of lawlessness and disorder. Literally 80 years of this in movies, comic books, pop culture — because it’s so outrageous it’s merely fiction.

    A THIRD OF THE COUNTRY SUPPORTS THIS. They will arrest YOU for NOT letting a rapist out of prison. They’ll burn down your house and run you out of your job if you DON’T allow drug gangs and human traffickers over the border. When you say “Maybe this has gone too far” “I actually don’t prefer to be raped,” they then say YOU are the crazy one, and the wider society agrees.

    So “Weaponizing” to go after weird “political enemies” while letting violent criminals daily go free is not hyperbole. If anything, it’s become an understatement.

    So that’s why we need to give up our self-defense and beg Daddy government to help us. …Help us solve the problems they created by not doing their job. So the answer to them not doing their job is to do their job? HuhWhat? Maybe they could just do their job instead?

    “The Financial System Is Terminally Broken”

    That’s odd, since even under the most oppressive, diabolical Socialism, there remains a strong Capitalism of private property and Black Market. Since it’s self-organizing, self-generating, and eternal through all human activity, peace, wars, plagues, riots, how can it be “broken”? How can it “fail” when it is already eternal, never varying or dying?

    Oh, is that because it’s NOT Capitalism? It’s NOT a financial system? And what is going to “Fail” is merely the rigging, the exact measure of the NON-Capitalism? The bit you perched on top? And the “Breaking” of which you speak is actually the “Free market” and “Honest price discovery” reasserting itself? That is, “Fixing” not “Breaking”? Fixing = Breaking in #Oppositeland.

    Oh wait: yes!

    What they call “breaking” “collapsing” was only and ever their price-fixing to pretend things were worth something that they weren’t. What THEY own (dollars, debts, real estate) are worth millions and what YOU own (labor, food, commodity production) are worth pennies. They get every color of butt-hurt when their price-rigging scaffold collapses and reveals the truth: they are small, worthless people. Doing nothing, helping no one. Their system is only a system of violence. Capitalism is a system of VOLUNTARY exchange.

    “the Death of Money doesn’t just mean that the dollar (and most currencies) will make their final move to ZERO, having already declined 98%”

    For fun you should see the dollar in Bitcoin terms. Fallen 99.9% in only 12 years. For that matter, gold has fallen nearly as much in Bitcoin terms. Which would you buy? Just a question, no right answers.

    Calvin and Hobbes, arcana: Watch the cadence here. Some newspapers don’t have the first panel. Some don’t have the second. Some only have the panels below. So Waterson needs to fit in what are 2, 3, 4 jokes, each independent, a sort of Tetris game. This isn’t that unusual, if you know how headlines are written, you have X spaces (or you can reconfig the whole page) and therefore CAPS are worth x pica, round letters X pica, and tall letters like “I” another Pica. They all must and ever add up to your White Space, rounded to one. It’s that LIMITATION that creates he genius of headlines like “Ford to City: Drop Dead” “Axis of Weasel”, “Headless Body in Topless Bar” or [Antony] “Weiner: I’ll Stick It Out”. Without limitations, this can’t happen, there’s nothing to push against. You become shapeless, pointless jellyfish. No action, no fun.

    This is what they want for our culture: No rules. No order. No limits. And that is why they are worthless, spineless people. Without limits, there is nothing to exceed, no goals to succeed, no finish line, no prize. Losing is the same as winning. Being weak is the same as strong.

    And it’s also self-contradictory. If money is bad, why do you want $5M in reparations forever? I thought you hated rich people and capitalism. If there’s no such thing as gender, why will you fight to the death to become a man or woman you said are mental fabrications that don’t exist? How are there gay people with no genders? Doesn’t that make the straights one of your own?

    It’s the limits of the Sistine Chapel that Michelangelo filled. It’s the limits of the marble that made David. It’s the limits of the field that made Patton’s victory so grand. It’s the limits of money that give it value. And it’s the limits of death that makes life precious.

    If I hadn’t seen that goat I wouldn’t believe it. Or that the eagle could survive it.

    #131720
    Oroboros
    Participant

    China-Russia meeting; deepening economic, energy and military cooperation

    They are crushing it

    It being the Empire of Lies’ hegemony

    #131721
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Necrophiliac Cookies Nuland ‘peace is unacceptable’ polymath.

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    #131722
    zerosum
    Participant

    HEADLINE NEWS from TAE

    If we are so smart …. why can’t we have leaders that can stop the wars and have peace?
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    If we are so smart ….. why do we have leaders who will not resolve any of our problems?
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    “The common interest of all humankind is in a world that is united and peaceful, rather than divided and volatile.” – Xi Jinping

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    • Even Peace Is Made In China (Juan Cole)

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    • Xi’s Moscow Visit Is A Key Moment In The Struggle To End US Hegemony (Trenin)
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    “We are trying to wish the nightmares we perpetuated in the Middle East away, burying them in a collective amnesia. “World War III Begins With Forgetting,” warns Stephen Wertheim.”

    • The Lord of Chaos (Chris Hedges)
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    • The Financial System Is Terminally Broken (Egon von Greyerz)
    • US Studies How To Guarantee All $18 Trillion In US Bank Deposits (ZH)

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    CANADIAN INFLATION IS DOWN TO 5.2%
    Prices are still rising
    Why are You not feeling better
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    #131724
    Peter 47
    Participant
    #131725
    zerosum
    Participant

    Wonder why
    Yesterday, opium addiction was a problem in China.
    Today, Fentanyl crisis is a problem in the US.

    #131726
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    SpikeSperm

    #131727
    Dora
    Participant

    mRNA jabs and pregnancies.

    #131728
    Afewknowthetruth
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    #131729
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    #131731
    tboc
    Participant

    a modest proposal:
    if you have access to U.S. National Public Radio take a few moments during the day and listen to a few moments of several programs.
    i would have you note the tone of the speakers voices and the certainty with which they express their thoughts.

    i personally know several who gather the majority of the information they use to form their world view from NPR.

    a line from Lewis Carroll to close-
    “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Carroll

    #131732
    Germ
    Participant
    #131733
    zerosum
    Participant

    You got to look before you can see if a problem exits

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/28/early-puberty-pandemic-girls/
    Early puberty cases in girls have surged during covid, doctors say
    Doctors, parents and studies are reporting a rise in such cases, with some girls getting their periods as young as 8
    By Puja Changoiwala
    March 28, 2022 at 10:33 a.m. EDT
    ———–
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35029543/
    Sedentary lifestyle and precocious puberty in girls during the COVID-19 pandemic: an Italian experience
    2022 Feb 14
    ———
    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jpem-2021-0565/html
    Increased frequency of idiopathic central precocious puberty in girls during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary results of a tertiary center study
    Sezer Acar EMAIL logo and Behzat Özkan
    From the journal Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
    https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2021-0565
    ——–

    #131734
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Sperm has been almost entirely replaced by spike proteins” – #$@%@#%ing unreal.

    In the 90’s I recall a scifi book called Why Do Birds. It wasn’t fantastic, but wasn’t bad. A bit Vonnegut-esque.

    Humans receive an alien signal, which says hello and advises that they build a structure, all needed instructions included.

    Humans are told there is a catastrophe coming to Earth. Therefore we need to build this giant cube, load as many people onto it as we can (in suspended animation) for rescue from the catastrophe.

    The Earth goes ahead and BUILDS it. Catastrophe ensues, apparently emanating FROM the cube they built.

    Where was their skepticism? Like in The Golden Compass. The lady is told,, via her computer, that she’s talking to a Demon, therefore, having been informed, she leaps up to rush off and follow its commands where before, she was skeptical. WHAT? Like Son of Sam killing all those people because his dog told him to. What do you do when your dog tells you to kill people? Firmly say “Bad dog” and give him a rap on the snout with a rolled up newspaper. Duh.

    If a big booming voice woke me in the middle of the night telling me to sacrifice my firstborn son at the top of a mountain, my reaction would be “Your channel’s content does not correspond to my values. Unsubcribe.” and drift off back to sleep if possible. I certainly wouldn’t be in any rush to obey. I don’t get it. Is reality really like a video game with a bunch of NPC’s inhabiting it? Am I being lied to about the degree of compliance?

    Anyway, I’ve been on a little project to try to determine my own values more concretely instead of just wandering around saying “I know it when I see it.” Having noticed that every single touchstone from my childhood has been shat upon, I figured that was a decent area to review.

    Ghostbusters 2016. The first significant shot heard round the world in the current push. Why THAT?

    A bunch of working-class schlubs dressed in coveralls like mechanics, plumbers, and building maintenance men, grubby, imperfect, occasionally revolting, often funny, basically decent, save the world.

    I suppose working class people heroically/banally dragging themselves up endless flights of apt building stairs to dispose of otherworldly invaders as if they were garbagemen taking out the garbage or exterminators getting rid of pests, their imperfections endearing, would offend a spirit-cooking bahomet worshipping aristocracy as much as anything. Hey, we want creepy otherworldly invaders! Or something.

    I barely remembered A Wrinkle In Time. It was read to me before I could read, and I was reading things like The Hobbit around 6 or 7. So it must have been very early. But I recalled they (“they” whoever they are) woke-washed/crapped on it in film back in 2018, complete with the standard obligatory eradication of all redheads (why that obsession?), so I figured what the heck, there’s got to be something wholesome to it if they went after it THAT early & hard.

    Holy cow. Well worth reading.

    “Reality is meaningless. Nothing is the center.”

    “Civilization has failed… …There is no hope but extinguishment. Let us hasten it.”

    the bad guys are dedicated to “un-naming” while the good guys do “naming”

    Naming turns out to be recognizing a particular unique nature of a thing or person (including its/their imperfections) and giving it a unique name. And implicitly, love for that thing or person not only in spite of but because of their imperfections. Making distinctions, with words meaning particular things.

    Un-naming eradicates the entity, from tiny to gigantic, and the bad guys work at all levels to do so.

    I suppose un-naming efforts are recognizable as starting in earnest in the US in the late 60’s, but it was taken up a huge notch around 2016. Interesting to see it in a book written in 1962.

    the bad guys are also determined to eradicate, specifically, mitochondria. Weird, considering the injection which does not vaccinate appears to go after, amongst other things, mitochondria in a big way.

    “There are too many mitochondria in creation. There are too many stars in the heavens.” …let’s get rid of them. A bit like how there’s too many people. Each person possessing a brain with as many connections as there are stars in the sky, which L’Engle specifically points out. There is some sort of twin urge against both acknowledging imperfect reality as-is and human consciousness. Grandiosity and eradication go hand in hand, somehow.

    Madeline L’Engle doesn’t appear to have a specific manifesto. At times I can feel her reaching, intuitively getting a grasp on what matters as she is writing almost, it seems. I haven’t made an exhaustive report here on everything of value in her Time Quintet, but it’s a quick read. I’m through the first 2 books in about a day and a half.

    Interestingly, it is, in many ways, the same story as a book I think is the best scifi book in the past decade or so. Maybe the past 2 decades. There Is No Anti-Memetic Division. Published 3/26/21. One of the greatest stories told, perhaps. Over and over. I wish Joseph Campbell or Jordan Peterson could do a talk on it.

    There Is No Anti-Memetics Division

    #131735
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Isn’t it interesting that the German fascists did experiments in concentration camps to cause sterility amongst the ‘undesirables’ via injections: the idea, as far as I can tell, was to be able to force the victims to work for no pay whilst preventing them from reproducing.

    And 80 years later, the American fascists persuaded ordinary folk living in the concentration camp they manage to line up for jabs that cause sterility, multiple illnesses and sudden death, and they did so under the guise of ‘protecting health’. Ditto all the fascist businesses that people call nations which are dependent on the US dollar as ‘reserve currency’.

    Since there are no reserves and the whole globalised financial system is an elaborate scam, we have entered the most ‘interesting’ of times, with the culture of fear running wild., even as the controllers make life increasingly unsafe for everybody.

    #131736
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    You got to look before you can see if a problem exits

    Indeed. And that is why the vast majority of ‘governments’ have no policies* with respect to energy depletion, environmental meltdown and currency meltdown etc.

    *Policy being to totally ignore the factors involved and promote short-term scams that make all aspects of the multifaceted predicament worse faster.

    #131738
    WES
    Participant

    If you are wondering why the US government is considering insuring all bank deposits now, but never considered doing this before, it might have something to do with the value of US dollar.

    When the US dollar was worth something, insuring all bank deposits would have been considered too expensive to do.

    When the US dollar is nearly worthless, it is now possible to insure all bank deposits because the cost to do so, is no longer too expensive. In fact it will cost nothing, since the US dollar will be worthless!

    #131739
    jb-hb
    Participant

    This is what they want for our culture: No rules. No order. No limits. And that is why they are worthless, spineless people. Without limits, there is nothing to exceed, no goals to succeed, no finish line, no prize. Losing is the same as winning. Being weak is the same as strong.

    The climax of A Wind In The Door involves a dilemma of an entity choosing to do or not do something called “deepening”

    The dilemma is faced by a multi-stage life form that, in its early stage, is more like an animal, but in its following stage, roots and becomes something like a tree. (I guess Speaker For The Dead owes Madeline L’Engle a thank you…)

    The bad guys try to stop all these creatures from “deepening” arguing that they can dance chaotically and avoid being tied down to any specific thing so long as they refuse to take root and deepen. The good guys explain that deepening will give the creature the ability to mature, commit to BEING a particular thing and thus gain wisdom.

    So the process of maturation and progress is associated with willfully adopting limitations, symbolized by becoming rooted in one spot, while stagnation is insistence on maintaining limitless possibilities and definitions.

    Agreed – acceptance of limitation is the beginning of creativity, greatness even. I’ve had some creative endeavors in which I was absolutely stuck, alternately unable to produce anything or producing total garbage until I chose to be bounded by specific limitations. Not just a specific genre but subgenre. And then a handful of influences, 5 perhaps. And a specific set of tools. That’s the only way I’ve ever done something and then looked back and wondered, did that come from me? It’s better than me. The ONLY things I am proud of, in retrospect, are the few things I humbled myself to admit limitations and specificity on.

    Limitation, specificity, maturation, and progress are linked. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things”

    #131740
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    This is a very special presentation:

    #131741
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “We’re half awake in a fake empire”

    #131743
    citizenx
    Participant

    Thanks for the Moscow intro talks link oroboros- good stuff.

    Two genuine National Leaders composed with dignity and true Statesmanship- and then there’s the pathetic US tard Regime and it’s bitch Western minions behaving like spoiled entitled rules-based brats.

    Grown adults with serious co-operation vs retarded children from the Empire of Hate and Lies. Poke the Bear and the Dragon simultaneously with a magic wand you ‘believe in’ ? Let the US Regime bitch slapping commence. Forecast calls for Western Pain !

    Vax spike protein semen for the win !
    Why would transgenders care? Or the LGBQTXYZTARDS for that matter? Or the child raping pedophiles like Gates and Fauci ? Or the angry hostile mentally ill Liberal medicated feminists chasing abortions? This is their Death Cult, let them die never to flourish or spawn again.

    C’mon Libs- get your 5th booster fuckers and die suddenly !

    These next few years will be a spectacular “I told you so” own goal by the Covid Libtard Cult.
    Boooo Hoooo fuckers. How’s your feelings now ?

    Looking at a Summer of Death, Sickness and Misery Joey?

    #131744
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It is difficult (maybe impossible) to make a statement of truth that is both simple enough to be unambiguous and broadly understood, and yet at the same time informative enough to the listener that they gain at least one small thing new from it. The tendency is to dismiss statements that tell us what we think we already know as being overly obvious, of little use, or even as pedantically insulting.

    That’s a damn shame, because the simple fact of the matter is that serious avoidable failures (aside from random events of nature) are always and only caused by violation of simple truths and rules of conduct that either we were born knowing, or which we learned by the time we could drive a car. Some things are totally out of our control. We can’t prevent asteroid strikes. But some things are very much within our control, for example you CAN avoid deliberately stepping into the path of an asteroid that you see coming.

    That’s the case we have now. Our individual lives are being kicked around seriously because the “Western” Empire is catastrophically and injuriously falling, and it’s falling in such a way that it threatens to drag the entire world down with it. The Empire is not falling due to random events of nature. It’s falling apart at the seams because it is willfully doing things WRONG. I’m not saying wrong in the moral sense (although that is true, also, and extremely so). I am restrictively using the word, “wrong”, in the sense of “that which does not work”.

    Example: if an Empire wants to control when to start and stop a war at the time and place of its own choosing then it must possess enough money, bombs, bullets and canon fodder to CONTROL that war. It must maintain the capability of doing so (of controlling the war) for as long as is necessary in order to accomplish whatever objective it had for having a war in the first place. Involuntarily losing a war at the time and place of your enemy’s choosing is the ESSENCE of not being in control. This Empire is losing in Ukraine, Dollar Supremacy, Secrecy, Respect and several other “Theaters” of the unlimited warfare it is waging against anyone and everyone who does not just kiss its ass upon demand.

    The Empire is demonstrably NOT in control. The Empire is critically short of bullets, bombs, canon fodder and even budget to control its many wars, especially the conventional (military) ones like the one in Ukraine, but there are social and economic and political wars as well, and it’s losing those too. There is about to be almost no money in the coffers for any of it, and ALL of it requires vast flows of unlimited counterfeit money.

    If the Empire was adequately in control then there would not be any serious challenges to its plans. That’s what the Pax Romana is supposed to mean. It means that the Big dog keeps the little dogs in line, usually by dishing out pain and making them take it. Look around. Are all of those nice little doggies still quietly taking shit from the West and following orders?

    Our Empire is doing a lot of things wrong, and is observably incapable of making itself stop doing those wrong things in a wrong way. I won’t bore you with the oft repeated list, but it has to be said that there some items on the list that are existentially important. If an Empire cannot control THOSE crucial items then that particular Empire exists no more.

    One of the things that it MUST do, to exist as a hegemonic power, is to actually BE and DO proper hegemony. It calls the shots. Not anyone else. It dishes out shit and makes its subordinates take it. That’s it, no exceptions.

    That’s why every hegemonic empire MUST come to an ignominious end, because to remain an Empire it MUST do the very things that guarantee its failure. It must do wrong things the wrong way, which can only (and always does) end in collapse.

    So all of the above leads inexorably to the unavoidable punchline of Rule #1 for hegemonic empires: NEVER seek to become a hegemonic empire, because it can only and will always, deliberately destroy itself. It will continue to seek to be the Big Dog even when it is not, because ignorance of Rule #1 is what got it into trouble in the first place.

    That status of preeminent supremacy comes to an end one human being at a time, as each person individually comes to their personal realization and understanding, by their own free will, that the current so-called “Powers That Be” are wronger and thus weaker, by the hour, and thereby losing more and more control as we watch in literally stunned amazement. Each day brings a fresh debacle to remind us that the previous Big Dog is as mad as a hatter and NOT the big dog any longer.

    And that makes this a whole new dog fight.

    To the degree that a person has depended on the Big Dog (for their money, status, authority, for national and local security, for health, information or justice . . . they will NOT be able to successfully depend on it any longer for those things. A lot of people have already discovered this and are energetically taking whatever remedial steps they can. Others have not yet awakened, but they will when the chaos impacts them directly enough. For most people this is when their money is predictably threatened or actually destroyed. There are other types of wake-up events, but money tends to be the biggest one, oddly enough.

    I think that an increased understanding of why collapse is occurring helps in predicting each phase of collapse as it proceeds.

    #131745
    zerosum
    Participant

    ” …. to remain an Empire it MUST do the very things that guarantee its failure.”
    Also,
    “…. I think that an increased understanding of why collapse is occurring helps in predicting each phase of collapse as it proceeds.”

    I’m to old to see other phases.

    Add into your understanding, what Germ is looking into …. Who will be around to live the future.
    The reproduction of humans is being negatively impacted in multiple ways.

    #131746
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you only believe that the TRUTH comes only from USA, then don’t waste your time to read ….
    Joint statement of Russia and China:

    ◾️ The Russian Federation positively assesses the position of China on Ukraine, and China positively assesses the readiness of the Russian Federation to launch negotiations;

    ◾️ Russia and China are concerned about the risks associated with the creation of AUKUS and their plans to build nuclear submarines;

    ◾️ Russia and China call on AUKUS to strictly fulfill its obligations to non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

    ◾️ Russia and China are planning to strengthen a comprehensive partnership in the energy sector;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China believe that in order to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, it is necessary to prevent bloc confrontation and incitement of conflict;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China are concerned about the military-biological activities of the United States, they demand clarification on this matter;

    ◾️ Russia and China will expand scientific exchanges to ensure the technological leadership of the two countries;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China urge to avoid the degradation of the crisis in Ukraine and its transition “to an uncontrollable phase”;

    ◾️ Russia and China oppose all unilateral sanctions imposed bypassing the UN Security Council;

    ◾️ Russia and China are pushing for the US to speed up the elimination of its stockpile of chemical weapons;

    ◾️ Russia and China will strengthen cooperation in agriculture to ensure food security;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China plan to promote mutual and global energy security;

    Russia and China insist that NATO strictly observe the defensive nature of their organization and respect foreign sovereignty;

    ◾️ Russia and China oppose the formation of “closed exclusive bloc structures, bloc policies and opposing camps” in the Asia-Pacific region;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China will increase the scale and optimize the structure of trade, including through the development of electronic commerce;

    ◾️ Russia and China are going to increase the level of financial cooperation and strengthen cooperation in the financial markets;

    ◾️ The United States must take real action to address the legitimate concerns of the DPRK and create conditions for dialogue;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China are concerned about the intensification of US activities in the field of missile weapons and call for an end to undermining international security;

    ◾️ Russia and China are against attempts to use space for armed confrontation and will oppose such activity;

    ◾️ Russia and China will expand mutual access to agricultural products and strengthen investment cooperation in this area;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and the PRC are aimed at cooperation in the field of mutually beneficial supply of basic goods and mineral resources;

    ◾️ The Russian Federation and China oppose the militarization of IT, they are for multilateral, equal and transparent global governance of the Internet.

    #131747
    zerosum
    Participant

    Tomorrow is here

    https://en.topwar.ru/213279-v-rossii-razrabotan-novyj-kompleks-dalnej-teplovizionnoj-razvedki-blokpost-4t.html
    Russia has developed a new complex of long-range thermal imaging “Blokpost-4T”
    Today, 09: 58
    —————–
    Moreover, the UAV400T thermal imaging reconnaissance drone, which is mass-produced and very actively used in the NVO zone since last year, was integrated into the complex. It was also developed by the Astron Design Bureau specifically for use in a special operation, it is a quadrocopter with a Russian thermal imager installed, designed for reconnaissance.

    #131748
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Excellent musings jb-hb. Appreciate you sharing them.

    A significant step: revealing, re-evaluating, and re-prioritizing one’s VALUES (Guiding Principles). Few take the time to do it – with the focus it deserves.

    A complimentary exploration adds identifying and aligning your ROLES > with VISION, VALUES, ACTIONS/GOALS/STRATEGIES = how we generate/build/become/align with INTEGRITY.

    It’s part of a leadership course I developed for junior high students – Roadmap to Inner Brilliance (RIB) – A Guide for Engaging Potential. So fun to watch them connect…a treasure hunt for real!

    You jb-hb are an interesting cat. Anything, everything Madeline L’Engle is a worthy pursuit. There is something powerful (life changing) in her beautiful works. I know this from experience.

    LOVE You To.

    #131749
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Dr. D: TRUTH is brilliant as it always is.

    You re-linked this hunk of WISDOM yesterday. Let me do so again today, directing interested parties to the transcript. Some of us value the written word.

    Here is a great quote:

    “While one can never be sure of the prognosis of a collective madness, there are steps that can be taken to help effectuate a cure. This task, however, necessitates many different approaches, from many different people. For just as the menticidal attack is multi-pronged, so too must be the counter-attack. According to Carl Jung, for those of us who wish to help return sanity to an insane world, the first step is to bring order to our own minds, and to live in a way that provides inspiration for others to follow…”

    And yes, TAE is a PARALLEL STRUCTURE – one of many cures!

    The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis – Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?

    LOVE to Ilargi and the Contributors.

    #131750
    zerosum
    Participant

    Didn’t work. Lost face.
    Bahkmut and Avdeevka have been fortified by NATO and trained and supplied by USA, Canada, since 2014 to be an impenetrable defense line.
    ——
    Zelensky’s, been wasting precious artillery shells on civilians in Donbass for years, so this should not be a big surprise.
    ———
    The entire army that NATO trained between 2014 and 2022 in preparation for a Russian attack is dead, and recruits are being thrown into battle lines with three weeks of training.
    ———–

    #131751
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #131752
    John Day
    Participant

    “Broad Negotiations” begins with my comment here this morning. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/broad-negotiations

    ​ Some views of history may be more useful these days than others. It seems that history is going through a rapid decline of a dominant empire, as with the decline of the British Empire. Much of the functionality of the British colonial system transferred to the $US based neo-colonial system of finance, through the IMF, World Bank, western banking, and increasing military enforcement of the regime after the dissolution of the USSR. There was a unipolar-world moment where the western military-financial regime sought to solidify global power and control, in the “Global War on Terror” after 9/11/01.​ The world was paying for this by using $US, printed in Washington, and based on Saudi oil, and the establishment of global trade in $US, “Super Imperialism”, as Michael Hudson called it in 1972. Nixon and Kissinger ran to Saudi Arabia with that football.
    The actions of the western empire are more chaotic in recent years, certainly since the debacle in Afghanistan, now followed by the loss-of-face in Ukraine. The rest of the world is becoming less fearful, seeing how Syria survived with Russian help. What is the American imperial game plan?
    ​ ​The actions of the hegemon-in-rapid-decline DO MAKE SENSE in a Dick-Cheney-Energy-Policy kind of way.
    “We will take or control all of the energy resources”, was the Cheney plan.
    Oil and gas are limited in a finite world, so control it all, and put choke points in place where tribute must be paid. The countries that pump the oil and gas will grow their economies, gobble it up, and stop exporting, if we let them, so we need to suppress/destroy their economies, to protect our access-to and control-of “their” resources.
    The inefficiencies of that for most people, especially the people in the oil/gas countries, put most-people at odds with the “hegemon”. The hegemon does not serve the interests of Americans, Brits, Canadians, Germans or Japanese any more than is necessary to maintain their compliance.
    The cost of maintaining hegemony cannot be maintained, AND the project is already failing, so it makes “sense” to cut that cost quickly.
    Africa, Cuba, South and Central America, much of Asia and the “Mideast” can receive a peace-dividend for a few years, instead.
    This new cooperative, non-colonial arrangement ​might​l be much more efficient in meeting more human needs, especially the needs of the humans who have been getting bombed and starved for food, water and fuel.​ There will be the temptation, especially for China, to copy the same financial imperialist model.​
    ​ ​Those of us humans who have been getting some ​(pared-down) ​form of the American/European/etc way-of-life are going to be squeezed​ hard.​​
    We may have our houses and cars repossessed. ​Many people living on the streets of Austin these days look new to the experience.​
    Our near futures aren’t ​determined quite yet.​ It seems to me that we can still affect this new economic epoch as it forms out of the embers and ashes of the coming fire.​
    Being out of debt and able to weather low income and high bills, while maintaining necessities of life seems like the prudent approach. Do prepare to help friends and family survive, also.

    An African conference has been meeting in Moscow as Putin and Xi have been meeting in Moscow. Russia has forgiven $20 billion in African debt, and vows to deliver the same amount of free grain to Africa with or without a grain-deal with Ukraine. We will probably get more news related to this over time. At the moment, it looks like the Chinese Yuan/Renminbi will be used more in international trade. China has not desired this situation because of inherent complications.
    Putin To Xi: “We Support Chinese Yuan Use With Asia, Africa, Latin America”
    ​ ​Additionally, Russia is not alone. The Iraqi central bank announced Wednesday that, for the first time, it plans to allow trade from China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar to improve access to foreign currency.
    ​ ​At the very moment that Xi and Putin wrapped up their meeting and transitioned to their televised joint press conference, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a significant allegation, picking up on prior assertions from Washington.
    ​ ​Stoltenberg said that NATO has “seen some signs” that Russia requested lethal aid from Beijing in order to strengthen its forces in Ukraine.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japans-leader-makes-surprise-visit-ukraine-moment-xi-putin-summit

    ​ Joint Statement of the PRC and Russian Federation​ based on recent meetings. There is nothing new that I see. Ukraine peace deal specifics not presented:
    ​Short Chinese version of statement: ​https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202303/t20230322_11046088.html
    ​Long, detailed Russian statement: ​http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770

    ​ ​Moscow is “determined to continue building a strategic partnership” with African nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, expressing confidence that the continent is set to become one of the leaders of the emerging multipolar world.
    ​ ​The president made the remarks at the International Parliamentary Conference ‘Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World,’ which kicked off in Moscow on Monday and brought together representatives of some 40 nations. The conference comes ahead of the second Russia-Africa summit, which is scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg in July.
    ​ ​“African nations are continuously increasing their weight and role in international affairs, and are asserting themselves more and more confidently in politics and economy. We are convinced that Africa will become one of the leaders in the emerging new multipolar world order – all objective prerequisites for this exist,”​ ..
    ..​“We are ready to jointly shape the global agenda, work together to strengthen fair and equal interstate relations, and improve mechanisms for mutually beneficial economic cooperation,” he said, describing African nations as Russia’s “friends in the full sense of this word.”
    https://www.rt.com/africa/573294-africa-multipolar-world-leader/

    #131753
    John Day
    Participant

    The UK is openly crossing a red-line, daring Russia to come up with some counter-action, which would risk activating the NATO common-defense clause.
    ​(I personally think Russia might best retaliate against London banking, but what do I know of such things?)
    ​ ​The UK’s junior Defense Minister Annabel Goldie told Parliament on Tuesday, “Alongside our granting of a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, we will be providing ammunition including armor piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium.”
    ​ ​”Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armored vehicles.” News of Britain sending armor-piercing tank rounds for Challenger II tanks to Kiev triggered a fierce reaction from the Kremlin, with a strong-worded statement emphasizing that such a weapon will be treated as tantamount to using a nuclear dirty bomb.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-sending-depleted-uranium-shells-ukraine-tantamount-using-dirty-bomb-kremlin

    ​ Google Translate Greek War News 24/7 story on the British shipping uranium munitions to Ukraine. “The benefactors send you poison.”
    ​https://warnews247.gr/ektakto-h-bretania-paradidei-vlimata-apebloutismeno-ouranio-stin-oukrania-diplo-ochi-apo-ipa-se-katapafsi-tou-pyros/

    “Second Russian Offensive” story looks at the Russian shift away from attacks in bakhmut in recent days, leaving it surrounded, with one muddy trail out. Russia is engaging other hardened Ukrainian army positions in the Donbas, intending to take out artillery positions that shell civilians, munitions stockpiles, command centers, rail and roadway connections. They might allow Ukrainian reinforcements into Bakhmut, which has been the site of gruesome basement-to-basement infantry bloodshed. Defenses have been dug deeply since 2014. (This article is a bit bombastic, but has facts and perspective.)
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/vladimir-sharpens-cleaver-volodymyr-fattens-calf/5812795

    Saudi Arabia apparently feels that it has new protection these days, and is able to openly break from US/Israeli Mideast policy objectives.
    After playing a key role in the US-led war to topple the Syrian government, Saudi Arabia reversed course and will re-open its embassy in Damascus 12 years after the start of the war
    https://thecradle.co/article-view/22752/saudi-arabia-to-reopen-consulate-in-damascus

    ​ Charles Hugh Smith explains that if recessions are prevented, unhealthy companies persist, weakening the economy, by mis allocating resources to Zombies.
    ​We’ve Forgotten That Business-Cycle Recessions Are Essential
    https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/03/weve-forgotten-that-business-cycle.html

    #131754
    John Day
    Participant

    Organic Prepper, Daisy Luther, explains that this developing banking crisis won’t be “wasted”.
    FedNow Instant Payments Are Coming and CBDCs Will Follow

    FedNow Instant Payments Are Coming and CBDCs Will Follow

    ​ More than current COVID case-fatality rates.​ The graphs of age-group mortality over time, and shots given, are clearly correlated.
    COVID Vaccine Fatality Rates in Europe are Between 0.05% and 0.55%
    https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-vaccine-fatality-rates-in-europe

    ​ F​indings by Dr. James Thorp: “COVID-19 Vaccines: The Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes and Menstrual Function”; COVID injections are associated with a significant increase in adverse effects​:​ menstrual abnormalities, miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformation, cystic hygroma, cardiac disorders, arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, vascular malperfusion, growth abnormalities..
    https://palexander.substack.com/p/devastating-findings-by-dr-james

    ​ And all of that comes for nothing, no benefit at all: Primary Series and Boosters–No Impact on Maternal COVID-19 Test Positivity
    https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/primary-series-and-boosters-no-impact-on-maternal-covid-19-test-positivity-ca525d60

    #131755
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The video showing the eagle and the chamois has some similarities to an artwork from the 1820’s titled Eagle and Chamois by the French sculptor Antione Louis Barye.


    https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/191982

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