Debt Rattle May 5 2022

We needed a 2,000 point interest rate hike. Jerry gave us 50. I’m sure that’ll be fine. Good show old chum. Nice try.

If Russia left the lights on the and the bridges intact, so peachy-safe that all of Congress and every PM is vacationing in Kiev, then when NATO sends weapons and gets all those places bombed, isn’t it NATO attacking and destroying Ukraine?

“The U.S. will have approved 2/3rds of the whole Russian military budget”

…And still not only lost, but barely took the field. As usual. It’s F’ing embarrassing. If you want to fail, I can give that to you at 1/10th of the cost and save a lot of bother.

“Twitter Launches New Purge of Covid Contrarians (JTN)”

Repeating the CDC info, legally listed on the bottle of the drug, is “Disinformation” and purged. This is why the very existence of the word “Disinformation” is dangerous. What is it? WHATEVER I SAY IT IS, now SHUT UP!!! Same with “Nazi”. Centrist Right are Nazis, Centrist Left are Nazis, Bernie is a Nazi, people further left then Bernie are Nazis, ACTUAL Nazis, wearing Nazi insignias, flags, handshakes, holidays, rules, histories, portraits, shooting ACTUAL civilians in an ethnic purge of the same people as the Nazi Reich? Not Nazis. Heroes of Peace and Democracy. BECAUSE I SAY SO now SHUT UP!!! Saying Nazis are Nazis when they Nazi up and down Europe in a Third World War is “Disinformation.”

Paul Craig Roberts pointed out yesterday that warning CONSTANT, TERRIBLE, CEASELESS existential provocations to Russia will lead to a Third World War and quite possibly a deadly nuclear exchange…is considered disinformation. Warning people of safety, against the end of the world and death of millions, that that might be a bad thing we shouldn’t do? Disinformation. Banna-hamma’

Allowing everyone freedom of speech, including minorities and the vulnerable “be a direct threat to public safety…among those already most vulnerable and marginalized” Yes, if you run a system that depends on lies and suppression of free discourse, then exposing that oppressive system, the merger of corporation and government, WOULD cause dangerous unrest, and possibly a threat to that oppressive but orderly system.

Speaking of, that’s the Nationalization of German Energy industry, and others. The White Papers now all say “We can only respond to this energy challenge with a merger of corporation and state, working together…” Uh-huh. Corporation and State, enfolding and demanding the unity of thought among the people. And when has a merger of corporation and state, under a religious and moral imperative with emergency war powers ever gone wrong?

So I guess we’re at Step Z: This is the last step of a long plan. Corporations will run the nations without the possibility of accountability or competition. …I’m pretty sure that’s not Capitalism but there IS a widely-used name for such a system and such people.

“Elon Musk Turns to Old Financial Backers for $44b Twitter Buyout (NYP)”

Pointing out that Musk is a front operation, engineered by the White Hats (for now) or the banks would never allow him to raise or move the money. It’s a big thing, suggesting they are winning far more behind the scenes than one might think from all the sturm und drang. Think about it: literally Musk could have wanted to buy it and been completely prevented. Prevented even from selling his own stock, raising money, by using the same methods of cancel culture, just at Morgan and Citi, NYSE levels. Addendum, the things they clearly own or have theleverage to arm-twist without comment are the nuclear core of the Black Hats, inside their headquarters and power base. Can we tell this is not a sham, a show? Yes, because the BlackRock wing of evil, Coke, Nike, Disney, are still onboard with a boycott that can only hurt themselves.

“Washington Post’s Moscow sources had quickly shot down as “bullshit” and “impossible,”

There are lots of “Impossible”. Remember how Cohen traveled to I dunno, Prague to sit on a park bench and swap dossiers like out of a cheap movie? Except his passport had no action, never stamped and he lever left the country, but they reported it anyway? Yes, that kind of “Impossible”, and the original narrative was drenched in it. I think the pee tape was the same, like he wasn’t in Moscow at those dates and didn’t stay in that hotel. Total kindergarten stuff, same as just creating a text file that had the “Russian Phone” pings on it the CIA took one look at and said was fake. The story was so bad even BuzzFeed wouldn’t touch it, had no traction, and took months to get someone crazy enough to print. Translation: Impossible. But we’re now “To Impossible, and Beyond!!!” Or “Through Mental illness, and beyond!”

Disney falls $63Billion. That’s a lot of money, and it is caused by their actions, but remember it’s also against the entire market collapsing too.

“Watch: Dave Chappelle Attacked on Stage by Armed Man”

As expected: shutting down free speech and dissent by arranging for the public to attack and kill them personally. Punch a Nazi. Stochastic terrorism. And everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi. Now at the Supreme Court. Need their home address? Call Taylor Lorenz. She was just saying Drudge was non-stop harassing her, wouldn’t leave her alone, was going to press charges. Drudge called this WaPo editor? Yeah…she was only kidding! Exactly zero of it ever happened. Again. Gooooooo WaPo! Fakest Evah! BUt to be fair, they have a hiring quota for super-rich mentally ill snowflakes.

Btw: is Assault illegal? Even at the Hollywood Bowl? Is it also illegal to hit cops at a protest? If it’s illegal how are people doing these illegal things?

And protests for Roe. Sigh. In California. I’m sorry people are so incredibly, violently, painfully ignorant. Listen: what happens if Roe is overturned in S.F., in California? Nothing. In fact, as the issue falls back to the State Legislatures, they could arguably be MORE lax than now. So L.A. Leftists are beating Hollywood cops to make a point about Alabama? No. They’re just incredibly dumb, misled, lied to, and believe everything. Why, I cannot possibly imagine considering the President was the spearhead of the Black-imprisoning ‘94 Crime Bill. But they are. Need to protect the right of death? Burn down your own neighborhood, that’ll larn ’em.

Biden: “I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.”

A) How did it become the law of the land? No Legislature passed it. Isn’t that our correct and legal method? B) does the “fundamental right to choose” include at-birth abortions as they now say? Post Birth even, as the VA governor said? C) It cannot be overturned by the same people who (perhaps illegally) created it? So law and authority only go one way? My way, regardless of who is seated or what happens ever after? Even 50 years later? D) When it is overturned, it’s still in force. It just needs to be passed honestly and correctly, by actual legislatures in the States.

Pretty clearly part of throwing the midterms, more evidence pours in hourly. What was that about Trump “Erasing all legal norms”? Is the first USSC leak EVER, to throw an election, something similar to that? And not even to prevent Trump, but just average Joes in Congress. Downside: the rhetoric plays exclusively to the most far-left, radical base. That is, they’re talking to themselves and not persuading any swing voters.

Seeing some comments on “Hitler’s Jewish blood”. I’m sorry: is that NOT true this morning all of a sudden? Is it because it’s an even-numbered day, or is that the sort of new, invented reality that will stick? …Asking for a friend. Lord knows I won’t care. Science trending because made up on TikTok isn’t really evidence to me.

“Gen. Milley Warns Congress: Chances Of War Among Great Powers “Increasing, Not Decreasing”
…Pentagon leaders repeated that Russian use of chemical weapons would likely trigger a “reaction from the international community”

Translation: We’re losing so we’re going to go full-war. By adding $33B in heavy weaponry maybe? Shutting down all discussion of consequences like a world-wide nuclear exchange? And we’re going to do that by faking a chemical attack. Got it, thanks. Your cooperation is appreciated. Dore follows this long, in that they are “We are losing the war on disinformation in Ukraine!!!” Unless Ukraine is the 51st state and this is already “our war” why would I ever care? Ah, but you see, it is. They’ve been very clear that the U.S. owns Ukraine and are going to get as many Ukrainians killed as they want to, see-if-we-won’t.

They’ve already given Ukraine more moneys in one month than any of the 50 states all year. I don’t remember voting on any of this, nor any acts, laws, etc about it. Because: Law. We do NOT follow law that has been passed, while we DO follow law not-passed by the Executive and Supreme Court. Must be a Thursday, somewhere in the hazy 200-odd years we’ve been doing this.

Well, there was a huge rate-hike from the Fed relatively speaking, and yet the financial markets went all steroidal anyway. You would really have to have your head in the sand at this point to maintain that the Plunge Protection Team is not very actively involved in keeping these markets propped up.

@Oroboros: I think Palpy makes better use of contrast, for sure.

Update May 05 2022 Same as
March 4, 2022
Update: Ukraine Crystal ball story – siege
Mass Evacuation/immigration
Food insecurity
Energy shortfall (pipe line repairs/maintenance)
Control of water, electricity supply
Ukraine – Empty/firing range/waste land/empty/destroyed factories
MSM Armchair Generals still ignorant and wearing blinkers
World recession blamed on Russia
World Inflation blamed on Russia
Snobs still control the narrative –
TAE a beacon of Truth

World high energy cost blamed on Russia
Diversion discussion – resurrection/bring back abortion conflict
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Nothing against the guy, but I read it as “Clown Prince Mohammed bin Salman”.
For another view of the Czar of Lies, and how she got her wish, go over to rense. The top video features Jankowicz singing a pretty song about becoming rich, famous, and powerful.

So, let me get this straight, Ukraine is celebrating a glorious victory in rescuing civilian hostages who were being held as human shields by Ukraine’s own troops?

Huh?

Roe v. Wade. I have no idea why this comes up now in the US, there might be many reasons, distraction, idk.

A constant. When Gvmt. + Corporate + MSM control rise steeply (a form of neo-fascism, another discussion) ppl gradually or abruptly lose rights to move around, to travel (interior passports are implemented), to choose, opt in or out, of their health care, and it becomes mandatory (see COV19 vaxxes, central control of medecines, etc.)

The control arm stretches to procreation which becomes managed, by allowing / banning / regulating: abortion, IV pregnancies, aid(s) to pregnant women like maternity leave, number of children that can get Gvmt. aid, etc. etc.

Note that banning abortion always affects the poor as rich ppl can obtain abortions whenever they want. So it is the poor who are forced to sacrifice to the hilt to bring up a person to serviceable age (say, 15 – earlier for other purposes) while the rich can choose how/when they have children.

See for ex. the UK’s rules penalising poor parent(s) who have a third child. (Just 2 links, not an analysis.)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claiming-benefits-for-2-or-more-children

https://workingfamilies.org.uk/articles/tax-credits-and-universal-credit-if-you-have-more-than-two-children/

To add, children of the poor (plus lower middle class..) are subject to a slew of contradictory views, dodgy principles, laws, rules, social policies.

Variously, attitudes from the PTB:

A. They are useless eaters, trash, a waste of time and money. Gvmt support should not be offered (see my links GB above, other ex. one child policy in China, now cancelled.)

B. They are useful, as they keep parents out of any political action, as they need to work to earn money to feed the kiddos, so two children per parent(s) is good. Some support can be offered, to keep the parents tied into ‘horrid’ jobs and terrified of radical politics, crossing any lines, etc.

C. One or two children is OK, the onus for bringing them up is the parents, then we can recruit, channel.

D. All this guff about kiddos is a waste of time, immigration can make up for the lack of children / youth, immigrants (e.g. from Syria, see Merkel) aged 15 – 25, fed and educated by others, now here to ‘work’ is a *good* deal.

All these positions are not public and clash in many ways, leading to confused, hesitant, sometimes contradictory policies.

@my Parents Said Know:
1) You are not supposed to look over the fence at Rense.com .
2) Yeah, I already saw the first part of the video until I turned it off suddenly in a protective reflex.

The entire article “When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions” By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead – linked above, is excellent. The wide-angle view is helpful. Here are a few closing points:

“Like clockwork, we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of yet another political circus that could get scary, ugly and overwhelming really fast.

Before you get too distracted by this conveniently timed diversion that has everyone forgetting about spiking gas prices, inflation, housing shortages, and warring empires, remind yourself that no matter how the Supreme Court rules in Dobbs, it will not resolve the problem of a culture that values life based on a sliding scale. Nor will it help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific minefields that await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to a point of singularity.

Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a whole new frontier when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what it means to be a human being. As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around how present-day legal debates over bodily autonomy, privacy, vaccine mandates, the death penalty, and abortion play into future discussions about singularity, artificial intelligence, cloning, and the privacy rights of the individual in the face of increasingly invasive, intrusive and unavoidable government technologies.

Yet here is what I know.

Life is an inalienable right.

By allowing the government to decide who or what is deserving of rights, it shifts the entire discussion from one in which we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” (that of life, liberty property and the pursuit of happiness) to one in which only those favored by the government get to enjoy such rights.

If all people are created equal, then all lives should be equally worthy of protection.”

In response to the message (man on the space highway pic) above: Nearly everyday I wonder what I am doing here on this planet, inquire about my purpose, evaluate my progress, and then do something. My guess is that many of you do the same?

@oxy who expressed this yesterday: “There is a light that never goes out and I intend to find that light and share it.” Please do!

LOVE to All.

You have to practical about abortion, it’s a matter of public health. It’s better for women to do it in a licensed facility which have to abide by safety standards than for them to fund illegal activity.

Sure, no need to go as far as 3rd trimester unless there’s serious health problems at stake.

De-criminalisation of abortion leads to less abortions because there is a period of reflection and the women are followed by a psychologist.

The only problem I have is that the father is not allowed to deny the abortion.

John Day- Teehee! I don’t just look over fences, I climb them.
I only got part way through the video, as well- far enough for her to sing the naughty word. 🙂

Well, it would appear that the reason for that big infusion the PPT did into the financial markets yesterday afternoon was to act as a cushion for today’s carnage. For, despite a multi-percent drop in all three major indexes, the DIJA managed to stay out of correction. I am once again inclined to think that the powers that be very seriously don’t want the Dow to go into correction. This is probably because if it does, a full-on bear-market in the Dow and the S&P won’t be far behind that event, and when that happens, the floodgates that all the central-bank money printing of the past six or so years have been keeping closed will be flung open, and then the games, as they say, will be very much on.

A few hundred dollars and a closet will supply you with food for a year. Soon it will be much more expensive. That and a garden will keep you going for a long time. Get storing and get planting. Regret is coming. If you can’t opt out, you will be told what to do. The writing on the wall is too loud to ignore anymore. If you have direction, you have everything you need.

Doug Casey
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We’re confronted by economic depression, looming financial chaos, serious currency inflation, onerous taxation, crippling regulation, a developing police state, and, worst of all, the prospect of a major war. It seems almost unbelievable that all these things could affect the U.S., which historically has been the land of the free.
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The New American Nightmare

I’d like to point out gin the problem faced by my hospitalized patient around 1986, the one whose boyfriend told her that if she killed his baby, he would kill her. She believed it. We kept the incidental finding of pregnancy off her hospital bill and summary, and we hoped her termination went ok and was not discovered.

There is often a predator-prey relationship between males and females in the reproductive realm. Once a female is impregnated, all of the costs and risks can be dumped on her by the male. It works, sometimes for men, and it is a low cost investment. Some men are such bad investments for a woman, that this is their standard approach, with variations.

If a woman retains a later-termination option, she has a defense against this predatory mating.
Predatory mating is really common in the world where I live, maybe not your world, perhaps…

(The deeper understanding of our purpose in this universe)

Code of Ur-Nammu (circa XXII-XXI centuries BCE)
Code of Hammurabi (circa XVIII century BCE)

We have been breaking laws (almost) since day one.
Natural laws, religious laws, fair laws, secular laws, haphazard laws, unreasonable laws, local laws, you name it: we try to break ’em all. We break laws while they are being written down.
Why?
What for?
We don’t know.
Maybe it’s that thingy/tool of mass destruction some of us call “free will” and feel so proud of.

The “gift” which was bestowed upon us, the human “super power”, is to be thoughtless lawbreakers: we march against the Universe, we rebel against God, and yet we don’t know why; not our merit, not our fault.

René Magritte Personal values 1952

The tortoise shell comb is beautifully rendered…

Wow! Dr Roger Hodkinson

Wow indeed; straight to the truth regarding science and medicine…
With those so corrupted we’re indeed lost…

The US is bragging about sinking that Russian ship.

That is not true. They wouldn’t dare to do/say that…
What they did say is that they “helped” Ukraine to target the Moskva with Ukrainian AS missiles…

Lets be careful about information when commenting…no?

Mr House, I used to read Steve Ludlum (economic undertow blog). Idk why no more posts, he never gave a public reason (afaik.) The person to ask might be Kunstler, who quoted him a lot, and had him on for chats or whatever (I don’t recall exactly.) He was really good.