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West Must Be Ready For Unfavorable Outcome In Ukraine – Czech President (RT)
Ukraine To Celebrate Europe Day Instead Of Victory Day (TASS)
Ukraine Cancels Traditional Holiday Celebrating Defeat Of Nazis (RT)
Kremlin Calls Ukraine’s Words On Readiness To Kill Russians “Monstrous” (TASS)
EU Plans To Punish China For Trade With Russia – FT (RT)
China Threatens EU With Countermeasures Over Possible Sanctions (TASS)
Türkiye Reiterates Stance On Russia Sanctions (RT)
Russia’s Deal With West Is Key To Ukraine Conflict End – Erdogan Aide (RT)
The EU’s ‘New’ Eastern Members Have Taken Control Of The Bloc (Sushentsov)
Eastern Europe’s Grain Producers Face A Perfect Storm (Az.)
New Weapon ‘Changing Course’ Of Ukraine Conflict – Telegraph (RT)
Something Is Rotten in Schmutzig Switzerland (Wright)
The Next Big Thing (Jim Kunstler)
Joe Biden Bribery Allegations First Brought To DOJ In 2018 (Devine)
‘Crazy thing’ – Lula Criticizes Imprisonment Of Assange (RT)

 

 

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“..chairman of the NATO Military Committee between 2015 and 2018..“

West Must Be Ready For Unfavorable Outcome In Ukraine – Czech President (RT)

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine may not end in victory for Kiev, and its Western backers should prepare for such an outcome, Czech President Petr Pavel has told The Guardian newspaper. “I think we should do anything… at our disposal to encourage Ukrainians and to support them to be successful. But internally, we should also be ready for other contingencies,” said Pavel, who was in London for the coronation of King Charles III. A lot will depend on the outcome of Ukraine’s planned spring counteroffensive, explained the Czech leader, who has a background in intelligence and served as chairman of the NATO Military Committee between 2015 and 2018. Kiev shouldn’t “underestimate the Russians because they have enough manpower, they still have enough equipment,” he added.

“And of course, being in defense makes it easier for them because Ukraine will have suffered terrible losses, even if they are well prepared. So attacking an enemy like Russia will be difficult and Russians will not be caught by surprise.” The Czech president, who visited Kiev with his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Caputova in late April, said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had been asking them for ammunition. Those in Kiev believe they still don’t have everything they need to launch the counteroffensive, he added. There “might be a temptation to push them, for some, to demonstrate some results,” but the Ukrainians must be allowed to fully prepare for the assault on Russian lines, Pavel warned. “It will be extremely harmful to Ukraine if this counteroffensive fails, because they will not have another chance, at least not this year,” he stated.

In late April, Zelensky assured foreign journalists that the “counteroffensive will happen” and expressed hope that it would be successful. Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov also said Kiev’s troops were “generally ready for the push” and were only awaiting orders from senior officials. However, a report by Politico a few weeks ago claimed that Ukraine’s prime backer, the US, had concerns that the impact of the counteroffensive could fall short of expectations. Russia, which has been building fortifications along the frontline for the past six months, has been saying that it’s ready to repel the attack. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin warned last week that the counteroffensive would have “deplorable consequences” for Kiev.

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Shameful because:

• Russia liberated Ukraine too.

1.6 million Jews were executed in Ukraine

Ukraine To Celebrate Europe Day Instead Of Victory Day (TASS)

On Monday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on celebrating Europe Day on May 9 in the country. “[Hereby to] establish Europe Day in Ukraine, which is celebrated annually on May 9 together with the states of the European Union,” the text of the decree, published on the website of the Ukrainian head of state, says. In Zelensky’s video message, published on his Telegram channel, he also indicated that from tomorrow, Europe Day will be celebrated annually in Ukraine. On May 8, Zelensky proposes to celebrate the Day of Remembrance and victory over Nazism in World War II. For many years, the Ukrainian authorities have tried to eradicate the celebration of Victory Day.


Until today, on May 9, Ukraine celebrated the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II, which replaced the Day of Victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and on May 8, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. These changes were approved by the Verkhovna Rada in 2015 as part of the implementation of the decommunization policy. Since that time, the red poppy has become a symbol of victory for the Ukrainians in the European manner. Although May 9 remains a day off, the Ukrainian authorities do their best to prevent the celebration of Victory Day. For the St. George ribbon, citizens face criminal or administrative liability. Last year, Zelensky and the Ukrainian Defense Ministry published a congratulation on May 9, attaching to it a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with an emblem similar to the symbol of the SS Totenkopf division.

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“..Maria Zakharova branding Zelensky a “traitor” and the “new incarnation of Judas in the 21st century.”

Ukraine Cancels Traditional Holiday Celebrating Defeat Of Nazis (RT)

Ukraine may break the Soviet tradition of celebrating Victory Day on May 9 after President Vladimir Zelensky suggested holding commemorative ceremonies on May 8 instead. The idea was quickly slammed by officials in Moscow. In a message on his Telegram channel on Monday, Zelensky explained that his proposal was based on the fact that it was “on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis.” He added that the German Third Reich’s unconditional surrender was signed on that day. Zelensky said he had submitted a bill to the country’s parliament which, if passed, would officially designate May 8 as the ‘Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945’.

As for May 9, which is when Victory Day was traditionally celebrated in the Soviet Union, Zelensky declared this would now be observed as Europe Day, as it is in the European Union. He expressed confidence that the changes would help align Ukraine with Europe and return to “honest history without ideological admixtures to our state.” According to the proposed bill, May 9 would cease to be a public holiday, while May 8 would become one. The Ukrainian President also compared modern day Russia to Nazi Germany, saying it represented a “similar evil” and insisting Ukraine would prevail in its conflict against Moscow in the end. Lawmakers in the Verkhovna Rada have already indicated their readiness to quickly adopt the new piece of legislation promptly.

The head of the ruling party’s parliamentary group, David Arakhamia, wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday that he and his colleagues would begin working to “speedily adopt” the bill. The move has been condemned in Russia, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova branding Zelensky a “traitor” and the “new incarnation of Judas in the 21st century.” In a post on her Telegram channel, the official argued that the Ukrainian president had “forever betrayed his ancestors,” who fought against the Nazis. “Fascist collaborator 80 years later,” she concluded. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, said he believed May 9 would remain a sacred day for many Ukrainians no matter what.

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“This statement by Mr. Budanov once again confirms the correctness of President Putin’s decision to launch a special military operation..”

Kremlin Calls Ukraine’s Words On Readiness To Kill Russians “Monstrous” (TASS)

Statements by the Ukrainian authorities about their readiness to “kill Russians around the world” indicate that Kiev has become not just a sponsor, but an immediate organizer of terrorist acts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. He was commenting on the corresponding statement of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov. “This is a truly monstrous statement. This statement, and what Mr. Budanov said, is a direct confirmation that the Kiev regime is not just sponsoring terrorist activity, but is an immediate organizer of this activity. This statement gives another very important characteristic of the Kiev regime,” the Kremlin spokesman said.


He stressed that Russia strongly condemns such statements. “We have special services that will do everything they must amid such statements. No one should have any doubts about this,” the Kremlin spokesman warned. Kremlin believes that the West should not disregard such statements. “Today we will closely monitor the reaction of European capitals, as well as Washington – especially Washington – because it is very difficult to imagine that such terrorist statements from Kiev can remain without condemnation. Therefore, today we will wait for these condemnations,” Peskov said. “This statement by Mr. Budanov once again confirms the correctness of President Putin’s decision to launch a special military operation,” he added.

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More sanctions. They haven’t learned a thing.

EU Plans To Punish China For Trade With Russia – FT (RT)

The European Union is seeking to tighten the economic screws on Russia by sanctioning Chinese companies that conduct trade with Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Seven Chinese businesses have been named in a new package of restrictions that the EU member states will discuss this week, the report says, citing a copy of the sanctions list seen by the paper. According to the FT, the list includes two mainland Chinese companies, 3HC Semiconductors and King-Pai Technology, and five from Hong Kong, including Sinno Electronics, Sigma Technology, Asia Pacific Links, Tordan Industry, and Alpha Trading Investments.

The businesses have reportedly been accused of selling equipment that could be used by Moscow in weapons manufacturing. Some of these companies have already been placed under sanctions by the US. The European Commission believes it is “appropriate” to target certain entities “in third countries involved in the circumvention of trade restrictions” against Russia, the FT quoted the sanctions proposal as saying. To take effect, the new sanctions need to be unanimously approved by all 27 EU member states. Until now, the FT noted, the EU has avoided targeting China, saying there was no evidence that Beijing was directly providing weapons to Moscow. The EU has so far imposed 10 rounds of economic sanctions against Russia over its military operation in Ukraine.

The EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted last month that the bloc had nearly exhausted its options for punitive measures against Moscow. Since then, it has been reported that EU lawmakers are considering targeting third countries that re-export goods to Russia, thus helping Moscow to circumvent trade restrictions. China is insisting on a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict, and proposed a 12-point peace plan in February, calling for the security concerns of each side to be addressed. Josep Borrell dismissed Beijing’s proposals last week as “wishful thinking” and insisted that any peace plan must be based on Kiev’s demands.

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“..Beijing will be forced to resolutely protect its rationally justified legal rights.”

China Threatens EU With Countermeasures Over Possible Sanctions (TASS)

China will protect its interests in the event of EU sanctions against seven Chinese technology companies due to their supply of equipment to Russia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Wang Wenbin announced on Monday. “If media reports turn out to be true, <…> such actions by the European side will seriously undermine mutual trust and cooperation between the EU and China,” he stressed at a briefing. When asked to comment on the information that seven Chinese companies could soon come under EU sanctions due to the supply of equipment to Russia he replied: “The European side should not make a mistake, otherwise Beijing will be forced to resolutely protect its rationally justified legal rights.”.

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“We are not going to join the unilateral sanctions imposed against Russia by the US and the EU. Our own benefit and prosperity come first..”

Türkiye Reiterates Stance On Russia Sanctions (RT)

Ankara has no plans to support the Western economic restrictions against Russia, foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Monday. Türkiye’s top diplomat made the comments to the Lider Haber TV channel in the run-up to the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections, due to take place on Sunday. “We are not going to join the unilateral sanctions imposed against Russia by the US and the EU. Our own benefit and prosperity come first,” Cavusoglu explained, as quoted by the TASS news agency. The minister also criticized the opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who has said he would give priority to developing ties with the West. According to Cavusoglu, the rival to incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shown himself to be inconsistent in his statements; at one rally, Kilicdaroglu reportedly said that nothing would endanger the relationship between Türkiye and Russia.

Reports emerged in March of Türkiye blocking some transit shipments destined for Russia, in response to recent pledges by Brussels and Washington to enforce anti-Russian sanctions and to stop the supply of sanctioned products via third parties. Türkiye’s Ministry of Trade provided no official confirmation of the move. It was later reported that Ankara had resumed the transit to Russia of some sanctioned goods of European origin. The EU has repeatedly voiced concern about the country’s refusal to participate in Western sanctions against Russia, and accused the Middle Eastern state of becoming a ‘transit hub’ for Russia, thus enabling the economic blockade to be circumvented.

Ankara is one of Moscow’s main trading partners, with both sides having pledged to deepen economic cooperation and expand bilateral trade. Last year, Türkiye and Russia signed a roadmap for economic cooperation that envisages bringing bilateral trade turnover to $100 billion a year. The two have also agreed to introduce the Russian ruble as a settlement currency for bilateral trade, including for Russian natural-gas supply. Data shows that, around this time last year, Türkiye became one of the top five exporters to Russia. In 2021, it ranked 11th, ahead of the US, France, Japan, Poland and Italy.

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“This war will not end with positional gains, but with a new security agreement between the two global blocs..”

“This war is not between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and the Western bloc. Cold War 2.0..”

Russia’s Deal With West Is Key To Ukraine Conflict End – Erdogan Aide (RT)

The conflict between Moscow and Kiev is effectively a conflict between Russia and the collective West and so it can be resolved only by reaching a “strategic agreement,” Ibrahim Kalin, a top Turkish presidential adviser on foreign policy, believes. “This war will not end with positional gains, but with a new security agreement between the two global blocs,” Kalin said during an interview with Haberturk TV on Sunday. The official said he discussed the issue and Moscow’s stance on it with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his recent visit to Russia. While Türkiye itself has been working towards reaching the “perspective” of such an agreement, the current “international climate is in favor of war rather than peace,” Kalin admitted. “The great powers want this war to continue,” he added, without naming the purported pro-war actors.

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has become a “hot” episode of a broader conflict between Moscow and the collective West, Kalin explained, describing the standoff as the“Cold War 2.0.” While Russia apparently tried to avoid hostilities when it tabled a comprehensive security agreement shortly before the conflict broke out, the West rejected it, Kalin noted. “This war is not between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and the Western bloc. Cold War 2.0,” he stressed. The position voiced by Kalin appeared to be reminiscent of statements repeatedly made by Russia’s top officials, who repeatedly described the ongoing hostilities as a proxy war between Russia and the West, merely waged at the hands of Ukrainians.

The stance was reiterated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday, with the top diplomat stating that any negotiations would not be held “with [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky, who is a puppet in the hands of the West, but directly with his masters.” Amid the broader conflict between Russia and the West, Türkiye has asserted itself as a mediator, with Ankara hosting peace talks between Russia and Ukraine early into the ongoing hostilities. While the diplomatic effort ultimately flopped, Türkiye continued its efforts, repeatedly urging both sides to return to negotiations, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stating that “even the worst peace will be better than war.”

Turkey S-400

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One member: Poland.

The EU’s ‘New’ Eastern Members Have Taken Control Of The Bloc (Sushentsov)

The Ukrainian crisis is giving rise to new strategic shifts. Alongside the shift away from a US-dominated world order, the conflict shows the emergence of a new balance of power in Europe that eludes the comprehension of Western analysts. At the heart of the new strategic situation in Europe is an “inflation of the influence” of Eastern European states that was unimaginable thirty years ago. In its current form, the European Union, whose development – both economic and political – has been driven for almost eighty years by the countries of Western Europe, has essentially lost its sovereignty. At the beginning of the 1990s, at the height of post-Cold War integration plans, there was a real possibility of forming a full European confederation: Western European countries were thinking about their own defense policy, separate from the US, and were planning to go down the road of creating some form of United States of Europe.

This would have greatly strengthened Western European autonomy, not only vis-à-vis the Americans but also in regards to Russia and China. This unique opportunity was never seized. On the contrary, Western Europe was tempted to expand virtually to the borders of Russia. And when this expansion took place, it suddenly became clear that the old European core had been eroded. In this context, the situation of Germany, one of the strategic drivers of Europe in the outgoing era, is revealing. Berlin has lost the initiative in foreign policy. German industry and German citizens have been condemned to spend three times more on energy than before. And this is combined with the fact that the Germans have long delayed real-wage growth in their economy. In reality, it was cheap Russian energy that made the German economy the main beneficiary of EU integration.

Now these foundations are under threat, because it’s no longer available. And so, soon it will no longer be possible to keep wages down. They will have to be raised to avoid a massive rise in social discontent. And this calls into question the viability of the German economic model. The Ukrainian crisis has led to a situation where the voice of Eastern European countries, and Poland in particular, is beginning to define Western European foreign-policy priorities. This situation is unique in modern history. Many historians have defined Eastern Europe as ‘Europe’s crossroads,’ making it a permanent battleground for competing empires. Today, the countries of Eastern Europe are not only gaining strategic influence but are moving to the forefront of European politics. Warsaw’s current priority is to transform itself into the EU’s largest military and to create a major counterweight to Russia on Polish territory in the event of Ukraine’s defeat.

Poland is creating points of tension for Russia all along its borders: military exercises on the border with the Kaliningrad region and maneuvers near the border with Belarus. All this shows that Warsaw wants to take the strategic initiative in the EU and could potentially become its main actor if the conflict goes beyond the territory of Ukraine. The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus is a joint move by Moscow and Minsk that has a deterrent character and is intended to dispel illusions in Warsaw that Russia is not determined to maintain a balance of threats. It is possible that in the future the current crisis with the West will begin to resemble the mature years of the Cold War, with its system of mutual military deterrence.

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“If the grain corridor due to expire this month were to collapse, Ukrainian farmers would have little option but to send all their grain exports through eastern Europe.”

Eastern Europe’s Grain Producers Face A Perfect Storm (Az.)

When global grain prices started falling last year after a spike in the first months of the war in Ukraine, Poland’s then agriculture minister urged farmers to hang onto their harvests in the hope of a rebound and better returns.
The bet backfired badly for some. Nearly a year later, Polish farmer Artur Konarski still has about 150 tonnes of grain stuck in storage and he says some of his competitors in the European Union’s third-biggest wheat producer have even bigger stocks of crops languishing in silos. Farmers in Poland and other eastern European countries who held out for higher prices have been hit by a perfect storm. A jump in exports from Brazil and Russia helped to drive global grain prices lower while the EU opened its borders to tariff-free Ukrainian grain imports in a show of solidarity after Russia blocked the country’s Black Sea ports.

While the EU’s aim was to give Ukrainian farmers an outlet to ship grain and oilseeds to their traditional markets in Africa, the Middle East and Asia – and help ease a global food crisis – much has remained in Eastern Europe. With a dearth of local produce in Poland, millers and livestock producers desperate for grain turned instead to a flood of imports from Ukraine ferried into the EU by trucks and trains, grain traders and farmers said. Eastern Europe’s governments have pointed the finger of blame for its farmers’ woes at Ukraine, but Adrian Wawrzyniak, spokesman for the Polish Trade Union of Individual Farmers, said some of the region’s troubles were self-inflicted because farmers, encouraged by politicians, had hoarded crops. “This led to lower sales during the harvest and storage of cereals by farmers, the consequence of which they are paying for today with a reduction in income from the sale of cereals,” he said.

Local buyers had plenty of alternative supplies. After opening its borders to Ukrainian grain, Poland imported 2.08 million tonnes of maize and 579,315 tonnes of wheat last year, up from just 6,269 tonnes of maize and 3,033 tonnes of wheat in 2021. “Since the farmers did not sell, (feed and flour mills) just bought Ukrainian grain to have raw materials for current production,” said a Polish grain trader who declined to be named because he is not authorised to talk to the media. Despite being a staunch ally of Ukraine, Poland banned Ukrainian grain imports in April in response to furious complaints from farmers in its rural heartlands where support for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) Party is strong. Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria quickly followed Poland’s lead, sparking a row with Brussels over trade policy and demands for compensation for their angry farmers from EU funds.

The unilateral import bans were lifted last week but only after the European Commission agreed to block sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seed within those four member states and Romania from May 2 until June 5. But the issue is unlikely to go away. Negotiations with Russia to extend a deal allowing some grain exports through three of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to alleviate a global food crisis are hanging in the balance. If the grain corridor due to expire this month were to collapse, Ukrainian farmers would have little option but to send all their grain exports through eastern Europe.

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“..bombs fitted with wings..”

New Weapon ‘Changing Course’ Of Ukraine Conflict – Telegraph (RT)

Russia is using bombs fitted with wings to bypass Ukraine’s air defenses and pummel forces assembling for the much-heralded spring offensive, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. Kiev is citing this new development to once again demand F-16 fighters from the West. “Russia’s newest weapon is changing the course of Ukraine war,” the Telegraph headline proclaimed, referring to glide bombs such as the FAB-500. Kiev officials have estimated that the Russian Air Force is using at least 20 such bombs per day. Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yury Ignat said the weapon has been used “intensely” for the past month, and described it as a “serious threat.” According to Ignat, the use of glide bombs means Moscow is “running low” on cruise missiles after “failing to take control of the skies over Ukraine.”

The Telegraph explained that the bombs outrange Ukrainian tactical air defenses, which have been moved to the frontline to support the much-anticipated offensive. Ignat told reporters last week that Kiev was powerless to stop the bombs and pleaded for the US and its allies to send F-16 fighters. He repeated that plea to The Telegraph on Sunday. “Just one or two would be enough to deter them, because the Russians would see that a couple of these things are in the air and they would avoid approaching,” he said. For several days in a row now, Russia has used cruise missiles and drones in waves of strikes on Ukrainian railheads, fuel and ammunition depots, and troop concentration areas for several days. Tactical drones have also been reported picking off Ukrainian air defenses along the frontline. Several US military experts have also noted the increased use of glide bombs recently, predicting increased Russian aerial superiority as Ukraine’s air defenses continue to deteriorate.

This poses a challenge to Kiev’s plans for a spring offensive, according to Justin Crump of the British intelligence consultancy company Sibylline. The troops and tanks brought up to the front line for the anticipated attack need to be scattered to avoid damage from the airstrikes, but would have to assemble very quickly once it is time to advance. “Dispersion and rapid concentration of force is vital in this environment,” Crump told the Telegraph. According to Western officials, Ukraine has put together at least nine NATO-trained brigades and several hundred armored vehicles provided by the US, UK, Germany and France, in preparation for a massive attack, speculated to be aimed at Crimea. Kiev has repeatedly postponed the offensive, however, citing weather concerns and equipment shortages, while Western governments have sought to manage expectations in case of its failure.

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“..had more than $100 billions in its assets so its financial balance was rather sound and particularly because it had more than $500 billion in passive capital such as real estate. Yet, recently it was sold for an obscenely low amount at about $3.7 billion..”

Something Is Rotten in Schmutzig Switzerland (Wright)

In a ‘business deal of the century’ brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland’s largest bank and its financial pride and joy was acquired by its smaller rival USB for a meagre $3.2 billion. The current affairs sections of the leading news agencies have recently been populated by the breaking news that Credit Suisse had to be sold but to the lowest bidder this time or so it seems. Though this takeover deal, brokered in such a frantic haste over the course of just a few days by the Swiss government stands in silent testimony of this colossal collapse, there is a question hovering in mid air, why did Credit Suisse have to be sold so suddenly ‘at such short (banking) notice’, given that the giant bank has existed for 166 years with a superb banking tradition among other cutting-edge world banks?

If we want to answer this question, we need to bear in mind that the bank at the moment of its acquisition had more than $100 billions in its assets so its financial balance was rather sound and particularly because it had more than $500 billion in passive capital such as real estate. Yet, recently it was sold for an obscenely low amount at about $3,7 billion. But the real reason appears to have been the heavy pressure that the U.S. government exerted on the government of Switzerland that Credit Suisse, this steam engine of credit and paragon of superb banking reputation, had to be sold inexplicably urgently, sending shockwaves across the financial sector. A direct cause for this seemingly sudden decision was the previous collapse of two other banks: Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank (oddly enough, not many ordinary people had heard of those before their collapse) and an additional reason: a financial turmoil in the U.S. stock exchange.

Suddenly, a saying comes to my mind: ‘for everything there is a good reason and a real reason’. The real reason for the Credit Suisse collapse was found out a few weeks ago. Namely, the U.S. Senate Budget Committee was in session recently and one of the topics was Credit Suisse Bank. A layperson may wonder how come Credit Suisse has been (was?) targeted by the Budget Committee in the U.S. Senate? And why one part of the report adopted at the Senate Committee which the media managed to get hold of was literally blurred on the verge of illegibility. Apparently, the reason was the obstruction of the Credit Suisse Bank surrounding the investigation of the financial funds which had been deposited by the Nazis (yes, you’ve heard well, the ‘bad’ old Nazis) after the Second World War into the bank accounts of Credit Suisse and its legal predecessors: die Schweizerische Kreditanstalt and a number of other banks or smaller scale financial institutions.

However, this unyielding search for the Nazi money, the part of which originates from the property and gold which belonged to the Jews brutally murdered in the concentration camps during the Second World War, has lasted for quite a while. The investigation in question was first conducted by Volzker’s Commission, and then Bergier’s Commission and then from March 2020 by the already well known Simon Wiesenthal Centre, famous for hunting down the Nazis. Namely, only now have the broader public found out that in 2020 a full-blown administrative war of small proportions was waged behind the proverbial curtains between the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on one side and Credit Suisse Bank on the other, mediated by the independent ombudsperson and an independent advisor. The ombudsperson and the independent advisor were both appointed upon the insistence on the part of the Credit Suisse Bank.

The position of ombudsperson was given to Neil Barofsky, the former public prosecutor of the State of New York. Ira Forman, a special U.S. government envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism was appointed to be the investigation advisor. The agreement between these two sides was kept in absolute secrecy related to the thorough and complete investigation of the Nazi funds allegedly deposited in Credit Suisse. But on the 21st November 2022, Credit Suisse flatly refused to cooperate further and definitely ceased collaboration with the Investigative Committee. In response to that decision, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre determined to come out into the public and expose the nefarious activities by Credit Suisse. Shortly afterwards, in April this year both the ombudsperson and the advisor submitted a report to the U.S. Senate Budget Committee.

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“..the president personally empathizes and identifies with the dead, encourages more Americans to become dead, offers cash incentives to hospitals that expedite death, and makes pharmaceuticals available — both legal and illegal — for inducing efficient transitions to the bliss of non-being.”

The Next Big Thing (Jim Kunstler)

Now that the charm has worn off the transsexual craze — the idea that a person’s emotional distress can be cured by identifying as the opposite sex — we await the next ploy out of the Woke Transhumanist game-plan to destabilize the human project on earth. People-of-color, brown, indigenous, Pacific Islander, gay, lesbian, plus-size, differently-abled, all women (of course), have taken their turn in the batting order of intersectional oppressed minority groups, and each has walked off with a participation trophy. Who’s left now? The dead! Their needs have not received sufficient attention. Inclusion has not come to them… yet. They are systematically kept out of all current activities and ceremonies. They are segregated in ghettos of grass and granite. The legal system stigmatizes them. Numerically, through human history, they are by far the largest demographic. Yet, they are routinely ignored, overlooked, disrespected. If anyone deserves to be Woked-up from the sleep of oppression, it’s them.

Don’t despair, a great grooming is underway. The next new thing will be for most of us to transition into the dead. Do you think it’s an accident that Hollywood has churned out zombie movies by morgue-full in recent years? Obviously, more and more Americans have come to identify as the walking dead. (And, judging by the behavior in our land, a lot of people’s brains have been eaten.) Even our businesses and banks have a walking dead kind of look to them. Our project in Ukraine has been a tremendous grooming aid in preparing people to become dead. But that experiment is nearly complete now. Hence, we must seek a much bigger global project for transitioning humanity into the satisfactions of being dead. A war with China would be the ideal grooming opportunity. They outnumber us about ten to one. They’ve developed hypersonic missiles that can deliver nuclear payloads anywhere in our country, with the potential of transitioning millions of Americans at a time.

And when they’re done with that, they can send an army over here to work the luckless survivors to death out in the soybean fields and the corn rows. Perhaps in anticipation of this, America elected (so they say) a president in mid-transition to being dead. “Joe Biden” is celebrated for staying mostly out-of-sight, underground, for speaking a dead language that resembles 20th century American vernacular English, for lurching one way and another, zombie-like, on his way off-stage in fleeting public appearances, and for taking large sums of money from Chinese officials who support America’s transitioning program. Best of all, the president personally empathizes and identifies with the dead, encourages more Americans to become dead, offers cash incentives to hospitals that expedite death, and makes pharmaceuticals available — both legal and illegal — for inducing efficient transitions to the bliss of non-being.

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“perverse that you report an allegation of a pretty serious crime and they don’t investigate [it] but they were investigating you.”

Joe Biden Bribery Allegations First Brought To DOJ In 2018 (Devine)

Explosive bribery allegations involving Joe Biden and foreign nationals were brought to the Department of Justice as early as 2018, two years before similar allegations against the president were made by the whistleblower now talking to the House Oversight Committee. Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.” In the email obtained by John Solomon’s Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two “John Doe” witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.

But Berman never responded to the email. Instead, in a move Cummins says seemed like “retaliation,” on Dec. 9, 2019, in the middle of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors secretly obtained data from Cummins’ iPhone with a grand jury subpoena to Apple. “I can’t really imagine a legitimate reason for the DOJ not to follow up on an offer like that. I felt like it was stonewalled,” said Cummins, formerly Arkansas’ chief federal prosecutor under President George W. Bush. “It doesn’t make much sense to investigate the guy who brings you the allegation rather than the allegation,” he said. When he received a notice from Apple last October telling him that his data had been accessed three years earlier, he said he found it “perverse that you report an allegation of a pretty serious crime and they don’t investigate [it] but they were investigating you.”

Cummins’ report was just one of a number of red flags raised with the DOJ between 2016 and 2020 about the Biden family influence-peddling scheme. The FBI has had Hunter’s abandoned laptop in its possession since December 2019, and Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski handed over the contents of his three devices and provided evidence of then-candidate Biden’s involvement in his son’s overseas business deals during a five-hour interview with the FBI days before the 2020 election.

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“It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing..”

‘Crazy thing’ – Lula Criticizes Imprisonment Of Assange (RT)

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has criticized the UK for its treatment of Julian Assange. He said the WikiLeaks founder has been imprisoned for his professional activities as a journalist and called on the government to release him. “It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” Lula told journalists after attending the coronation of King Charles III in London on Saturday. He also told reporters that Assange’s is a case of freedom of expression, adding that the Australian national is behind bars merely “because he denounced wrongdoing.” Lula also lambasted the media for failing to back their colleague.

Meanwhile, speaking to Australia’s ABC broadcaster from London on Thursday, the country’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, argued that “there is nothing to be served” by keeping Assange behind bars. “This needs to be brought to a conclusion,” he stated, adding that Canberra is “working through diplomatic channels, we’re making very clear what our position is on Mr. Assange’s case.” Albanese, who has previously denounced Assange’s imprisonment on several occasions, acknowledged that the process is “frustrating.” On Friday, the WikiLeaks founder, who has been languishing in London’s Belmarsh high security prison since 2019, wrote a letter to King Charles III. Among other things, he invited the monarch to visit the facility. “As a political prisoner, held at Your Majesty’s pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign, I am honored to reside within the walls of this world-class institution,” the journalist wrote.

Assange was arrested by British authorities after Ecuador revoked his asylum status and allowed the UK police to remove him from the country’s embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder had been sheltering in the diplomatic mission’s premises since 2012. On the day of his arrest, the US Department of Justice served Assange with 17 charges under the Espionage Act, which could potentially put him behind bars for 175 years. His defense team is currently fighting a US extradition request. The charges stem from his publication of classified material obtained by whistleblowers, including classified documents alleging US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Assange did not personally hack these materials, he was still charged for his role in publishing them.

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    Willem de Kooning Woman 1969   • West Must Be Ready For Unfavorable Outcome In Ukraine – Czech President (RT) • Ukraine To Celebrate Europe Day I
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 9 2023]

    #134883
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “BBC: Climate Change Too Important To Be Left To Personal Choice”
    Everyone will have to ratchet down their standard of living by over 75%…

    Wow, I said that only yesterday. John Kerry is in constant hot water for jetsetting perhaps more than any human being ever. So he’s going to cut private air flights by 75%, right? Joe is going to cut his security detail of 5-ton armored cars by 75%, right? That Jimmy Hat who’s so irrelevant no one even bothers to learn his name as British Prime Minister is going to cut his food and mansion budget 75% right?

    No? Only bad, naughty people, who aren’t Party Members and Friends of the Very Important People have to cut 75%? Oh I get it now. If I MAKE the food you eat, make the steaks you import, drill and pipe the gas you use, hang the power lines you charge your car with while I shovel brown coal into the plant that runs it, — I – have to cut 75%. But if you DON’T do any of that work, you DON’T have to cut.

    “”Bitcoin Is Not Under Attack” – BTC Maxis Allay Fears Of A DoS Offensive”

    Actually, they are, by the NY Times. A paper that has cut more trees and leveled more forests, burned more gas, poisoned more rivers than 1,000x Bitcoin networks. Stop the Madness!! End the NY Times now! Why does the NY Times hate the earth so much?

    “RFK Jr.: CIA “Definitely Involved In The Murder” Of JFK”

    Holy cow, I guess the CIA is really on the ropes. Can I start the funeral arrangements?

    Italy, networking: Yes, it’s called “being human” and it’s systemically ground out and persecuted methodically everywhere in America, or the Anglo world. That’s a side effect of being run by a Death Cult. He calls it ‘privilege’ but in America the immigrants are the only ones with this ‘privilege’. Because as bad as their countries are (that’s why they came here) the centralized worldwide Death Cult didn’t have quite as much control there.

    “Somehow some marketing genius convinced you…” Say no more. And also convinced all women to abandon their families and live for corporations instead. And we know this happened. Start with Edward Bernays, move forward to today.
    Paid for, on purpose, Death Cult.

    “In late April, Zelensky assured foreign journalists that the “counteroffensive will happen”

    Well it’s May. No sign yet. So February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, and May. Still waiting! Any time now.

    “U.S. Government used threats”

    Yes, but the “government”, so therefore “threats” to everyone, everywhere, at all times. The only question here is “which threat did you mean?” and “How serious are they about it right now?” We put legal threats on cereal boxes. Garland enforces them.

    • Ukraine Cancels Traditional Holiday Celebrating Defeat Of Nazis (RT)”

    There we go. See? It was personal for them.

    “Zelensky vows that Russian forces will be defeated in Ukraine”

    France vows that England will be defeated in France, just like Wellington defeated Napoleon in France in 1815.” See how that works? How astonishingly, mentally-ill obvious, #Opposite that is?
    P.S. “We will do this to make the world safe for the nation that killed 1.6 of the 6 million Jews.”

    Joe Biden: “Ukraine is the lighthouse of Democracy.” But only now that they’ve shelled all their people, outlawed all their parties, and arrested all their journalists. You know, like we do!

    “• EU Plans To Punish China For Trade With Russia – FT (RT)”

    As they are now shooting themselves, Yay! Never stop. I support Europe’s right to shoot themselves anytime they want to. Why would I stop them? It’s a free country.

    “• EU Plans To Punish China For Trade With Russia – FT (RT) “

    Stopping the Petro/EuroDollar system and forcing China to get out of it and collapse Davos and the Davos minions in America and the Fed. Sold! Do that thing!

    “Russia and the Western bloc. Cold War 2.0..”

    By definition not a Cold War. It’s a Hot War. Remember that and maybe you’ll account for NY being nuked or tsunami-droned.

    “there was a real possibility of forming a full European confederation” “United States of Europe”

    As Armstrong said, they lost because they were power-hungry psychos dishonest to the core and the people could smell it. They never got political buy-in, losing referendums and like Bud Light, telling their people to STFU and never asking why, and then did the Economic union without them instead. This guarantees it will blow sky-high as with German-Greek transfers, North-South bond rates, where they can either deal with that, or control the currency but not both. Without honesty why SHOULD anyone in all Europe sacrifice for their area or currency? It’s all going to a few thong-bearing psychos who daily say they’re trying to kill you. It’s almost like you should riot in the street.

    Speaking of: BlackROck is their world control center, but thanks to losing the Fed, Powell is detonating their buying up all American real estate coast to coast with high interest rates. To Save the Dreadnaught from sinking Macron gave them the entire French Pension fund to blow. Fine. Here’s the thing: when U.S. BANKS went down this week, their BUYER was BlackRock. Buying them would make BlackRock a BANK. And a Trillion-dollar, systemically-protected one the Fed, or rather the Treasury, would have legal requirements to pay trillions to and bail out.

    Powell stopped this thing, this purchase, by bankrupting and bailing them instead. Which do you prefer? Do you see what’s happening?

    That also means BlackRock, being so large, is going bankrupt in a black hole the size of major nations every day. Tick tock.

    “powerless to stop the bombs and pleaded for the US and its allies to send F-16 fighters.”

    To do what? Shoot live bombs out of the sky? They can’t do that and it would be too expensive if they could. To fly into Russian air-defense territory to stop them from being launched? They can’t do that either and it would be a real short week. So why have these dribbling, idiotic words come out of your mouth? To divert the blame to others, like all minions and evil societies.

    BTW this isn’t new, we were mocking these Russian bombs for decades as they don’t use the fragile, expensive, easily-destroyed GPS satellite system, but calculate trajectories on board passively. This was part of why “we’re so much better than their 1970 technology” and Ukraine/NATO will defeat them in two weeks.

    Credit Suisse: want to go down this rabbit hole? Okay then. So you’re Nazi Germany and the walls are closing in. You move all your gold, etc to Argentina, into basements which then pops up again after the war to start up/buy out BlackRock and the Capitalist corporations system, thereby back-controlling the (non)Victors like the U.S., who helpfully import all your smartest people right into their central brain structure in the CIA. But! There’s all this Nazi money that escaped! How do we, the Nazis, get control of it? Well we just say “That’s Nazi money, I want it back.” No kidding, that’s what they said. “That’s Nazi money and on behalf of the (checks clipboard) the Jews, we need to be in direct control of it, who gets it, and where it goes.” Idiot Governments and their people: “Sold! Shut up and take this money, whoever you are.” I want YOU, children of every known Nazi, like Schwab and Freeland, we demand that YOU invest it using 1950s version of ESG, into all your Nazi friends like BASF Bayer who weren’t bombed for some strange reason during the war. Israel: “Yes we totally agree, give it to us for safekeeping, we’ll never buy off all your Senators, take over your policy and army on behalf of the Nazi Creed”.

    Uh-huh. Now I don’t WANT the money. I don’t need it. But also can’t let YOU get hold of it and kill me with it, so that’s responsibility. So…point being, they used the “Stolen from the Jeeeewwwss” as a means to Steal it for themselvessssssss….. Who are the same guys who killed and stole it from the Jews in the first place. And you let them, and still believe it. Don’t worry about all that in the past. Can we place the money into good, responsible, life-affirming hands now?

    “It doesn’t make much sense to investigate the guy who brings you the allegation rather than the allegation,”

    What planet does this guy live on? ‘Cause it’s not Earth since 1920. I dream of a day I can be this naive.

    “• ‘Crazy thing’ – Lula Criticizes Imprisonment Of Assange (RT)

    Lula seems to be making quite a mess. Who owns his file? Bolsonaro? Cheeto?

    #134884
    aspnaz
    Participant

    CNN said

    Facts don’t matter anymore

    CNN wouldn’t know a fact if it hit it in the face: the rest of us do, but we are not Marxists.

    #134885
    kultsommer
    Participant

    “Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid”
    -Ernest Hemingway, 1942

    I was to say something…..but newer mind!

    Last week, Wednesday, in Serbia:
    First was school shooting where 13 y/o killed eight students and security guard. Six wounded.
    Second mass shooting, eight killed and fourteen injured.

    #134887
    zerosum
    Participant

    Think about it.
    Remembrance.

    Freedom of speech.
    From the greatest mind that have ever lived.
    You have been presented, on TAE,
    Gems of wisdoms, secrets, truth, lies, illusions, facts, fiction, propaganda, history, and religion.
    Has it made a difference?
    It didn’t change the future in the pass
    Where are our social/economic/political systems/organizations still going?
    More of the same.
    Births/Life and death.
    ————–
    Depopulation
    • The Next Big Thing (Jim Kunstler)
    ————-

    #134888
    Red
    Participant

    Once Trust Has Been Lost, There’s No Going Back
    May 8, 2023

    Now that the overlapping crises are upon us and the banquet of consequences is being served, we’ll see just who our elites and leadership really are.

    https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay23/trust5-23.html

    #134889
    Red
    Participant

    Ahh JMG:
    The recent hullaballoo about artificial intelligence is helping to amplify the same trend. Behind the chatbots are programs called large language models (LLMs), which are very good at imitating the more predictable uses of human language. A very large number of office jobs these days spend most of their time producing texts that fall into that category: contracts, legal briefs, press releases, media stories and so on. Those jobs are going away. Computer coding is even more amenable to LLM production, so you can kiss a great many software jobs goodbye as well. Any other form of economic activity that involves assembling predictable sequences of symbols is facing the same crunch. A recent paper by Goldman Sachs estimates that something like 300 million jobs across the industrial world will be wholly or partly replaced by LLMs in the years immediately ahead.

    Another technology with similar results is CGI image creation. Levi’s announced not long ago that all its future catalogues and advertising will use CGI images instead of highly-paid models and photographers. Expect the same thing to spread generally. Oh, and Hollywood’s next. We’re not too far from the point at which a program can harvest all the footage of Marilyn Monroe from her films, and use that to generate new Marilyn Monroe movies for a tiny fraction of what it costs to hire living actors, camera crews and the rest. The result will be a drastic decrease in high-paying jobs across a broad swathe of the economy.

    https://unherd.com/2023/04/americas-empire-is-bankrupt/

    #134890
    zerosum
    Participant

    I remember, 20 years ago, the introduction of an A.I. in a blog/comment discussion. It was too primitive. It was quicky unmasked by all.

    #134891
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Dr. D

    Hesu crisco!! So as not to offend.

    Next thing you’ll be saying is ‘Putin is a Jew looking to bring Russia down from the inside out’
    😎

    So, “in the year 2525, if man is still alive…” the Slavs, Irish and Palestinians will have the opportunity to call in our chits (navy term).

    Again, where’s the due process and precipitating ’cause of action’ required of all God’s chosen people?
    It’s the pseudonymous Natash Wright’s premise not mine that a chosen people can so easily motivate 3rd party actors to reacquire what is so easily verified to be their’s and their’s having been acquired by legitimate means, but so far in the past as to exceed the strong-armed reach of a non-biased ombudsman and The U.S Senate Banking Committee.
    I guess volk back in nazi times weren’t yet aware of a thing called money laundering or spoliating evidence. Certain trails are always so fresh and vivid and easily discernible when there’s a will. Other trails we’ll dismiss as simply down-the-rabbit-hole, conspiracy theorist conjecturing.

    #134892
    Red
    Participant

    In the article it says:
    “global shortfall would be around 8.7 million tons,”

    and then goes on to say:
    ” CNBC provides a breakdown of why rice supplies are strained.
    There’s a short supply of rice as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as bad weather in rice-producing economies like China and Pakistan.”
    towards the end:

    “The takeaway is that a tight global rice market will raise food inflation for major rice importers such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Africa. Elevated food inflation is dangerous for governments because it increases social instability risks.

    I’m sure the 50,000 tons that is credited to Ukraine is the difference here. If only there was a way to get that 50,000 tons to the Asia Pacific!

    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/global-rice-shortage-looms-set-be-biggest-decades

    #134893
    Dora
    Participant

    Vigilant Fox.

    #134894
    Dora
    Participant

    Andrew Bridgen

    #134896
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #134897
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    However, the existence of property taxes raises some important, fundamental questions.

    Do you really own something if someone forces you to make never-ending (and ever-increasing) payments on it?

    Clearly, the answer is “no.”

    The Disturbing Truth About the Home You Think You Own

    #134898
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    We are therefore seeing not only the initial stages of an economic collapse but the concurrent events, such as an almost total corruption of the political structure, a move toward totalitarian rule, the destruction of currencies, and a loss of faith in leadership across the board. Along the way, we’re also experiencing a decline in logic and morality and an eroding sense of humanity.

    Where Not to Be in a Crisis

    #134899
    Dora
    Participant

    Ivor Cummins. Insight from Nick Hudson.

    #134900
    zerosum
    Participant

    depopulation with impunity

    #134901
    zerosum
    Participant

    Vancouver has a depopulation problem with the geese.

    #134902
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    Sometimes the national news shows an interesting local angle:

    FTX executive who donated to Democratic Party of Oregon pleads guilty to federal fraud charge

    Of course, Oregon’s entire executive branch, including the those who regulate and investigate campaign contributions, are Democrats one and all, so this will quietly get buried. We don’t want anyone asking embarrassing questions about where half a million dollars ultimately came from before being laundered through FTX, now do we?

    #134903
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Rototillerman

    “We don’t want anyone asking embarrassing questions about where half a million dollars ultimately came from before being laundered through FTX, now do we?”

    Sure we do. As long as we got enough street cred with the Senate Banking committee and dirty nazi fingerprints adorn the filthy lucre, then all questions can be asked and all answers welcomed.

    #134904
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    Critics are sounding the alarm that a new federal office to shield U.S. public opinion from purported threats of foreign disinformation is a thinly veiled reboot under a new name of the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, the Homeland Security Department office abandoned after being defined in the public mind as an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”

    Housed in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the new Foreign Malign Influence Center was launched with little public notice but is already provoking fears that it will use overstated foreign threats as a pretext to interfere in domestic political debate or will duplicate other federal efforts, especially a controversial State Department unit that tries to squelch populism abroad.

    Disinfo Governance Board 2.0? New intel office targets ‘foreign influence’ to shield U.S. ‘opinion’

    #134905
    John Day
    Participant

    The Next Big Thing https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-next-big-thing

    We all maintain contextual filters for the information which comes into our consciousness. We categorize it, then decide how much attention it gets, then how highly it is valued in the stack of its information category. Sometimes there is something different, out of context, or which would change our baseline view of the world.
    In early 1974, when I was in 10th grade inYokohama Japan, our Sociology teacher devoted a class period to explaining the book The Limits To Growth to us.
    The Arab Oil Embargo had commenced in the US after the Yom Kippur war the previous fall. It seemed self-evident that oil was going to run out someday, and these guys had calculated when that would be, and other big-picture things like how bad pollution would get, and how many people there would be before the food supply fell short, and when all of those things might happen. Some of us hung around and talked about it after school. 2023 was a distant future back then.
    The proposition that the earth undergoes cyclic catastrophes, about every 12,000 years, due to orderly waves of a galactic magnetic and current sheet passing across our solar system, is that kind of a proposition, but more-so. I became aware of and interested in “Electric Universe” models around 2007. Ben Davidson is the most visible proponent of this field to the lay public, and he works hard at it. Ben is sharply opinionated in defense of his positions, not a bland intellectual. I allow for this, myself, because what he presents is coherent as a theory, as far as I can tell. I have a good scientific education, including 4 semesters of college physics, which I enjoyed.
    Our solar system is magnetically coupled, including the sun and the planets. Our planetary magnetic fields have been weakening since 1850, and weakening at an accelerating rate. NASA has withheld that field strength data since 2010. The poles are wandering more rapidly, undergoing “polar excursion”. This model posits that the wave of the galactic current sheet passes across solar systems and induces changes in the stars and planets. Observationally, the systems near to us have recently and sequentially undergone these changes. This is not a shock wave with sudden onset, but a more gradual wave. By this model the earth should undergo a 90 degree polar shift somewhere around 2030 or 2042, based upon the interaction with our sun’s 12 year cycles of solar maximum and minimum. We are currently in a solar maximum. These dramatic rotational shifts are modeled to occur at a minimum. Our zenith of this peak should be next year, so the highest risk for polar reversal or flip would be 6 years or 18 years later. In this model, the increased current flow through our planet causes resistive heating of the mantle layer, making it more fluid beneath the tectonic plates, which are then freer to move. The magnetic polar excursion already underway may not reverse pole for pole, and the rotation of the earth may also flip 90 degrees, with one new pole in the Bay of Bengal and one off the coast of South America. That is catastrophic, and causes flooding of many areas, echoing ancient tales of Genesis and Atlantis…
    Here, in a well organized 16 minutes and 45 seconds, Ben Davidson presents his model of this cyclic catastrophe for your consideration.

    #134908
    John Day
    Participant

    I am putting spaces between “dot” and “com” to try to get these links to upload.

    Tucker Carlson will move his show to Twitter. There may be repercussions and legal challenges. We shall see.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-back-tucker-carlson-moves-show-twitter

    RFK Jr. interviews Colonel (US Army Ret.) Douglas Macgregor about the US involvement in the Ukraine war and the difficulty in getting truthful information about it. Bobby Jr. is a good interviewer, brings focus to several points, but mostly lets Colonel Macgregor explain the big picture. (33 min.) Thanks Cat.
    https://www.bitchute. com/video/zGqmc3kJjpMW/

    China is not selling weapons to Russia. China is a sovereign nation. The EU is running out of its own feet to shoot. The EU is not acting in European interests.
    ​ ​China threatens EU with countermeasures over possible sanctions against its companies
    According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Wang Wenbin, “the European side should not make a mistake, otherwise Beijing will be forced to resolutely protect its rationally justified legal rights”
    https://tass. com/world/1614809

    ​ ​Türkiye won’t toe Western line on Russia sanctions – FM​ [Turkish elections are May 14. This reflects the national mood.]
    ​ ​Ankara is putting its own economic interests first, the country’s top diplomat has explained
    ​ ​Last year, Türkiye and Russia signed a roadmap for economic cooperation that envisages bringing bilateral trade turnover to $100 billion a year. The two have also agreed to introduce the Russian ruble as a settlement currency for bilateral trade, including for Russian natural-gas supply.
    https://www.rt. com/business/575953-turkiye-stance-russia-sanctions/

    ​ ​The conflict between Moscow and Kiev is effectively a conflict between Russia and the collective West and so it can be resolved only by reaching a “strategic agreement,” Ibrahim Kalin, a top Turkish presidential adviser on foreign policy, believes.
    “This war will not end with positional gains, but with a new security agreement between the two global blocs,” Kalin said during an interview with Haberturk TV on Sunday. The official said he discussed the issue and Moscow’s stance on it with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his recent visit to the country…
    ..“The great powers want this war to continue,” he added, without naming the purported pro-war actors…
    ​..​“This war is not between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia and the Western bloc. Cold War 2.0,” he stressed.
    https://www.rt. com/news/575970-ukraine-russia-cold-war/

    #134910
    John Day
    Participant

    Mega-not-upload problems, … sigh…
    Yes, I ripped off Kunstler’s title, but I got double use out of it.

    ​Steve Kirsch: ​The COVID vaccines have an estimated death rate >1,000 higher than the acceptable safe limit
    But nobody at the FDA or the CDC cares about that. The real story is that an estimated 80% or more of the vaccines examined in this study are too deadly to be used. Here’s the data showing that
    [image]
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-covid-vaccines-have-an-estimated

    ​Meryl Nass MD posts slides from her recent COVID-Conference presentation. Here is the first one.
    ​[image]
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-entire-day-may-3-of-the-international

    ​Jim Kunstler has a paradigm-shifting epiphany.
    ​ Now that the charm has worn off the transsexual craze — the idea that a person’s emotional distress can be cured by identifying as the opposite sex — we await the next ploy out of the Woke Transhumanist game-plan to destabilize the human project on earth. People-of-color, brown, indigenous, Pacific Islander, gay, lesbian, plus-size, differently-abled, all women (of course), have taken their turn in the batting order of intersectional oppressed minority groups, and each has walked off with a participation trophy. Who’s left now? ….
    ..Don’t despair, a great grooming is underway. The next new thing will be for most of us to transition into the dead. Do you think it’s an accident that Hollywood has churned out zombie movies by the morgue-full in recent years? Obviously, more and more Americans have come to identify as the walking dead. (And, judging by the behavior in our land, a lot of people’s brains have been eaten.) Even our businesses and banks have a walking dead kind of look to them…
    ..As the people go, so goes the nation. The USA is transitioning from a dynamic system of economic liberty, endeavor, and law into an entropic dystopia of chaos, corruption, and inertia. As suits a country of the walking dead, nothing works: telephone calls go dead, the bank won’t give you any money, your duties on-the-job have been eliminated, your food store has closed down, there are no parts available for your broken things, your flights are cancelled, your Facebook archive has been erased, your opinion is not wanted, your vote is meaningless, your children no longer need your permission to do anything, and, final insult, a martini now costs fifteen dollars.
    Death is everywhere in America now, hovering over everything we do. Don’t fight it — celebrate it! Foster it wherever you go, among all you consort with! Welcome it as you slough off all the annoyances of being here and rise to your blessed platform in the perfect gnostic Elysium promised by the theurgists of Wokery. Become the dead you long to be!

    The Next Big Thing

    #134911
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #134912
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Man Ends His Life After an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ Him to Sacrifice Himself to Stop Climate Change

    https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate-

    Darwin Award Spoiler

    I guess life really is survival of the fittest.

    ” A Belgian man reportedly decided to end his life after having conversations about the future of the planet with an AI chatbot named Eliza.

    A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.”

    Six weeks, long conversation.

    .

    #134913
    WES
    Participant

    So the Russians are stealing our North Pole! Are they hidding it in Siberia?

    Yeah, a word about those game changing US Himar rockets. Being so AI sofisicated, these rockets use signals from GPS to hit their targets. If you put an apple on the top of your head, the Himar rocket would nicely split the apple in half for you!

    These rockets work everywhere in the world, except in the Ukraine, for some strange reason. Maybe these US Himar rockets are allergic to Russians?

    Yes, it is those dam Russians again! When the Himar rocket is launched, it frequently updates it’s current new position. But when a Himar rocket launch is detected, the ungrateful Russians start jamming the GPS signal! Now the Himar rocket only has the initial launch GPS signals, with which to work with. Naturally the Himar rocket misses it intended target, so the apple on top of your head doesn’t get nicely split in half. Sorry you will have to cut the apple in half yourself!

    Tomorrow morning, a million strong army, will invade the US from Mexico! (And yes, Republican James Comey will jump up and down in Washington, DC to try and distract you with a squirrel named Hunter Biden!)

    The people in this massive army will be very well armed! Yes all of them will be carrying at least two strong arms! Since the US army isn’t nearly as well armed, defeat is a given fact. To avoid a certain and embrassing defeat, the US army has gone into hidding as it might reduce MIC’s world wide military sales!

    Kamala is in hiding because someone told her some Canadian truckers were planning to visit her! Justin has kindly offered her a safe hiding place!

    #134914
    WES
    Participant

    The Ukrainians have been sowing small 80 mg pedal mines using their artillery. This creates an instant minefield. Russian sappers are kept busy rounding up all of these pedal mines.

    However after they clear an area of mines, later the Russians have been finding more pedal mines in the cleared area. They have discoved that the Ukrainian crows like to pick up these pedal mines and fly away with them, then dropping them when they get tired of carrying them, or when they want to play with them some more!

    Clearly these must be some kind of US Bio warfare crows that enjoy playing Russian roulette!

    #134915
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
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    #134917
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @Michael Reid
    However, the existence of property taxes raises some important, fundamental questions.
    Do you really own something if someone forces you to make never-ending (and ever-increasing) payments on it?
    Clearly, the answer is “no.”

    I brought this up here years ago…crickets…

    Here in LoS one owns their home after paying for it; no property taxes or any other fees; one owns their home lock, stock, and barrel…….
    Our mortgage has been paid off for 10 years now…being debt free is true freedom….

    #134918
    John Day
    Participant

    i had to Google “LoS, Thailand”.
    “Land of Smiles” is slang for Thailand amongst some “farang”

    #134919
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    “Land of Smiles” is slang for Thailand amongst some “farang”

    Yes, correct. Farang is a coloquial term for white foreigner; interestingly farang is also the Thai word for guava.
    In the Thai language both are spelled identically…

    #134920
    citizenx
    Participant

    Choooo Choooo – agitprop

    In December, Russia passed laws to fine/arrest anyone found discrediting the military.

    Can you say “Assange” ? How about “Snow-Den” ?

    Let’s try another- How about TAE’s very own admirable “JOHN Day” ?

    Ring any bells in your retarded brain asshole? Hmmm- ones in prison being tortured as a journalist for reporting U$A war crimes. Ones in exodus as a high level whistle blower for revealing guess what? – U$A Constiutional Crimes… psst your Govt spying on YOU. Oh and the other lost his job and possible medical license becauseeee ? Hmmm, something about poison experimental mandates by that War Criminal pedo scum by the name of Biden whose son was making lots of money where? OH UKRONAZIKRAINE.

    Any of that worth your attention? NO- didn’t think so. So you fully support Bidens War (every Pres has ‘their war” don’t ya know?). Have you forgotten and moved on from Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and Yemen and Libya and…. etc ? MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED for you?

    Hey Chooooo Chooooo- did you notice any censuring, medical tyranny, loss of jobs, medical licences, banning on social media, “fake news” from you govt, media, pharma co’s, corporations? You are a U$A citizen right? Notice ANY abuse from your overlord Govt and rulers? Not worth your time eh scumfuck?

    Strange how you obsess with Russia bad/ Putin bad- but somehow just seem to ignore the massive corruption, abuses, tyranny and endless wars from your own Govt- you just can’t be bothered to straighten your own shithole Nation and Govt out- but you call Liras apt a shithole…

    Therefore Russia milbloggers and citizens went quiet on social media.

    I see you did not take college level Logic now did ya? Your very own Govt bans, censures, fires, imprisons any factual and true reporting… you’re kinda quiet on that shit for brains. Nothing? Just support the “new war” for Team America huh?

    You remind me of a children raping Preacher, obsessed with your neighbors lawn while you preach morals picking out your next rape victim. You are just another retarded war loving American hypocrite, oblivious of your own crimes while you wave your fat slimy butt hole smelling fingers at others-

    Pssst, was anyone in the USA punished for speaking out against the U$A criminal Wars of aggression. Think real hard… JFK? MLK? RFK? It may not be too late for you to get vaxxed and boosted up ya f’n twat. Or buy yourself a one way ticket to UkroNazi land and “do your part” ya fucking coward.

    Intellectual, Spiritual, Moral coward- thats you bitch.

    Oh hey- did you catch the part about RF saying fuck off to woke rainbow retards? Good for them. Real Men, Real Women- totally out of your league fag.

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