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    Paul Cézanne Village derrière des arbres, Île-de-France 1879   • The Prighozin File: Twilight of the Gods or Maskirovka? (Pepe Escobar) • Wagner
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 8 2023]

    #134826
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “JFK saying in September 1963 that he’s going to withdraw from Vietnam.”

    Yes but that was for reasons so strange, so hard to gather, that it took decades to understand it.

    …Everybody KNEW there were no “Dominoes of Democracy” and that the whole thing was a useless joke. Just like today, some bought the PR and some didn’t. Back then who was a billionaire-eating shill was the Right, not the Left. (although: Johnson). But the REASON they needed Vietnam WAS to bankrupt the United States. The End. It was a money play. The money interests planned and forced it on us, against all resistance. Because then THEY would be in power, or more, UNLIMITED power, printing money for nothing. The war, even big as it was, was a footnote to the real war, between “oligarch” interests, in this case, U.S. national and sovereignty vs globalist and banker.

    What happened immediately after? No silver. Also Guns n Butter. Also Welfare, that appear to have increased poverty, drugs, and despair 10x while also vaporizing the American family. Exactly as everyone knew and said at the time, having seen it tested on Indian Reservations and elsewhere.

    “[John Lennon] earnestly socialist men I’ve ever met in my life.”

    This I can understand and value, even though it will still kill everybody. They actually have a real humanity and real goal in helping people and creating a better world, however naive. The “naive” means you can actually engage with them on HOW, and therefore present your concerns for solving (what has never once been solved) and get wheels turning. This is contrasted with today where you’ll be punched and arrested, which is of course super-humanitarian love.

    “Man Who Accidentally Left 300,000 guns for Known Murderers” also is America’s 2nd best gun salesman, after Obama. The NRA or somebody actually mailed him a plaque. His policies have doubled that, now being the best gun salesmen to registered Democrats, a whole new market opened up for the gun lobby. Thanks, Joe.

    “completely corrupt bureaucratic gang right at the very top of the MoD, all the way to Shoigu,”

    …In every military ever, including or especially the U.S. during and after WWII. But this matters, and it’s on a gradient. Is it a Maskarovka? Yes, but all the best lies are true. He/they know that the CIA has Kompromat on Russian generals – why wouldn’t you? — and that they are also stiff, self-serving bastards. Thus the name: “General”? And “Russia” knows they must clean them up to get anything done, long-term. We know that here in America too about our own Pentagon. Question is: can you DO it? And as in all good Intel – misdirection or no – that’s the question.

    “a combined Anglo-Saxon neocon provocation – has offered Moscow the perfect gift: an unmistakable casus belli.”

    Yes, THIS was the point. And/or to get Russia mad at Putin, didn’t work to have them mad that Putin got them in a War and overthrow him. Therefore they only way to make them mad now is Putin isn’t in the war ENOUGH, as much as the general Russian would like, and overthrow him.

    …Cue Chooch and Redneck on this one, since I think their prognosis was the war had no Russian support and all the citizens were fleeing. That’s not to make fun, but recall that moment in time back then and the narrative that was supported then. How do they flip-flop so easily without us saying, “Errrrr……whut??” So you want to take the “L” for then, or for now? Because clearly both #Opposites can’t be true.

    Britain, Europe, WANT everybody dead. Billions in fact, they’ve said so openly for years just like Mein Kampf. Are they lying? Shouldn’t we believe them? Nope! Reality a la carte. They say it but I know ahead of time when not to believe them. So since they have bunkers THEY think they will survive and could care less: only the annoying, useless people will die, leaving all their yummy stuff to whoever survives. WE don’t think like that, so it’s hard for us to credit/visualize it. But they WANT a war. They want a WORLD war. They want a NUCLEAR war. They are trying to CAUSE it, and both they and the other side (Russia) by their actions show they believe if they had this nuclear war, Russia would “lose” in every meaningful sense, so therefore both Russia, China, and the Pentagon White Hats have refused and prevented war, and done terrifically well at it. (Viz. North Korea)

    The financial system needs to go down WITHOUT the narrative cover of a “War”. That EXPOSES them this time. And unlike centuries previous, all sides recognize it’s the MONEY problem, and we all have the same common enemy. Therefore we are all – generally – united in not having a war. Which is super-frustrating for them, as they’re glue-sniffing idiots who think we’re all violent morons, and this has always worked before. You can see why looking at the news every day now: it SHOULD be working. But it isn’t.

    That’s why the video of Bakhmut is the world’s most boring battle.

    “• US Anti-Russia Actions Push Humanity Towards World War, Malaysia ex-PM”

    Here’s another world leader openly saying they want and are trying to cause WWIII. It’s not a secret!!! Is he lying? Should we not believe him, with access to nation’s top records? London and Davos want WWIII. The End. That means the Biden Admin + 2/3rds of the U.S. Bureaucracy want WWIII. I can’t guess but +1/2 the Pentagon wants WWIII. Absolutely all the media + NPR want WWIII, or at least another genocide. They’ve been already running that genocide in Chicago and Baltimore for 30+ years.

    • EU Defenseless Against China – Berlusconi (RT)

    Kind of. But what? Are they going to attack and occupy Spain? With what? Marching 500,000 men across all of Russia, Turkey, etc? If they’re not near you, they’re essentially no threat to you, which is why you should leave them alone, Europe, and the U.S. in the China Sea. You’re drunk: go home.

    “artificial intelligence initiative in partnership with leading companies”

    Again, merger of corporation and State? And this never sets alarm bells for anyone? Nope, because they love and trust the State with all their hearts. “The FBI and all policemen are involved in a daily genocide against Trans and Black people all day since forever, but that’s why we know they’re good, and love and trust everything they say!”

    Decades now, and I’m still at a loss of how these two facts coexist in their minds. Merger of corporation and State: like saying “we must arrest all reporters in order to prevent Fascism” (AOC), Merging the two every day, in every way, with unlimited blank checks, fights corporations and fascism! The more money the government gives to Amazon and Bezos, the less fascist we are! …I’m sorry, having said it so many times, I can’t come up with an insult that works here. All words have lost meaning.

    “Hugging Face,”

    An AI called “Face Hugger”. What could go wrong?

    “• Close to 190 US Banks Could Collapse, According To Study (USAT)

    Yes, but it’s hard to know what they mean by this. Remember, we have no Capitalism anywhere in the United States. No bankruptcy, and haven’t since ‘08 but certainly decades before then for special people. The Fed can, and has, take over all things, everywhere, in a perfect merger of Corporation and State, insuring everything. This is most probably also completely illegal, and no one cares since we have no Justice system either.

    However, you can re-NAME reality, but reality still exists. They can shift all the bankruptcies to the currency, and that will only bankrupt the United States. Your choice. But math exists and God is not mocked.

    So 190 Banks, yes? And it matters, yes? But don’t confuse yourself that it’s 1979 and there is a market anywhere, stock and bondholders, and consequences. Those are all completely at The Party’s discretion. The Party owns and controls the means of Production, i.e. all corporations, at will, and daily designates all winners and losers. And you sir, are not in the Club.

    ““What will generate a credit crunch is the destruction of capital in the asset base of most lenders.”

    That’s for sure. We have the fastest – and only – M2 plunge in 100 years. No money although again I’m shocked at the lack of response and effect. But the ASSETS are also worthless, (eg Corporate RE and Treasuries) even before this.

    [China] They invested those savings into US bonds and other assets.”

    Yes, but it’s been 15 years since they dumped all Fannie Mae and also went short-term duration. Too soon? Didn’t notice things as inconsequential as the ‘08 housing collapse, bankruptcy of Fannie Mae, and Operation Twist? We’re WAY beyond that.

    MSM Doesn’t Care That the CIA May Have Helped Cause 9/11 (Marcetic)

    Speaking of 20 year old news. They also didn’t want to know how a 40-story building that’s not on fire collapsed in broad daylight, or why a jet that hit only the Pentagon criminal investigation records room had no engines or wings and is not on camera anywhere.

    “..he still cannot believe that the US was able to pull off the feat, but is now unable to..”

    Again, these GIANT Apollo rockets did take off. If they didn’t go to the moon, what were they for?

    How Civil Wars Start Book Review: Leftists Are Idiots

    Apart from the title, sadly perhaps too saucy to be posted in an official “Debt Rattle,” this article reviews the Book “How Civil Wars Start (And How to Stop Them) “by Barbara F. Walter 2022. This is from someone who’s a certified idiot (a PhD), however, the data they provide, via “Getting the Memo” as a professor, is the 25-point checklist for causing a Civil War. This review of course doesn’t list them all, but they, Government, and the Left (but I repeat myself) have methodically gone down the list in force-installed every one of them, and, as the Right won’t take them up on the Planned, Designated Civil War, down to the very most tiniest, irritating pointless ones, like screwing with names, statues, and national holidays.

    Creation of factions – this one took a long time, esp after they found out race doesn’t work well.
    Flip-excude former factions out of power so they have grievance.
    Make sure they’re aware they will be kept out of power by (illegal) force, so they have no alternative to violence.
    Weaken social cohesion.
    Erase societies guardrails.
    Constant social and economic tension.
    Causing partisanship and group identification instead of identifying, e.g. as an “American”.
    Group tension, in a limp government, increases odds of Civil War 30x.
    Ethnic division plus religion or geography increases Civil War by 12x.
    Key pivot to synthesize a Civil War out of nothing, the “Sons of the Soil” thesis:

    “[Who] no longer has a chance of winning, no access to government, no access to political power, that tension is formed.  It’s even larger if that group used to be in control and lost power”:

    They lived on territory they conquered or settled
    • They consider themselves “native” and the rightful heirs
    • They were or had been the majority
    This group is likely to rebel at twice the rate of others, and are generally a much more capable foe.”
    “What sets these Sons of the Soil off?  They see their:
    • Culture,
    • Language,
    • Holidays, and
    • Religion replaced.

    Now you see why they SPECIFICALLY go after these things which are most antagonizing, even if, like holidays, completely pointless. However, America hasn’t followed any of their Plans™ or we’d be in a Civil War already, probably in the 90s when Clinton did Ruby Ridge and Waco to try to get something started. (I was there and all the “militia” — actually just country people — said it was a scam and don’t fall for it, so, they didn’t.) I think mostly this is a combination of our Christianity which is very blah and non-specific, non-denominational, our widespread multi-racial heritage, our immense size, and our basis as a 99.99% amalgam of immigrants. Regardless of what country they studied, Serbia for instance, none of them have these things. So who you gonna fight? People just like you?

    Now you see why I say “They’ve been trying to start a Civil War, that Civil War is long planned and well-funded, and comes from the top. Since at least Rush Limbaugh, 1990.” This is EXTREMELY SERIOUS, but luckily they’re glue-sniffing morons from generations of idiot inbreeding with a complete absence of all work and learning, like “W”, so we have a pretty good chance of whupping them. And seem to be.

    #134827
    Red
    Participant
    #134828
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Finance = Uncle Sam wants you brain dead

    News = Uncle Sam wants you brain dead

    Entertainment = Uncle Sam wants you brain dead

    Culture = Uncle Sam wants you brain dead

    Foreign Policy = Uncle Sam wants you brain dead

    Medicine = Uncle Sam wants you dead

    .

    #134829
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I didn’t know reptiles had a sense irony

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    #134830
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Catching up:

    I think yes, Left and Right are extremely problematic as a means to describing Parties, or indeed what’s going on. As I pointed out, they have not only one lie embedded in them, but are broadly cross-lied. So what seems okay plausible at first just vaporizes into nonsense on any inspection, yet the words and ideas are still used, and worse, we have no others. (In common use at least)

    We’ve got some interest from Arndt, because aside from all other questions, we have to wonder, “was he even correct”? It’s not easy to tell what’s going on, even in it, or even after. Look at today. He says there are no “Parties” even as we list 100 of them. Legit question, I sense that his meaning here is correct. The Parties were then not Parties, but “Movements”, not knowing how to define either. Problem. Then we have the last major election, which was Nazis vs Communists. Both willing to burn each other in the streets. That of course makes us at this distant time think they must have been opposites, not realizing like in France or elsewhere, it’s always the Far Left vs Center Left, or some similar, with the “Right” of the National Front being always sidelined. In this case, the “monarchic” interests, the “Let’s support the German government” interest was being sidelined. On purpose. How are you going to destroy your rival (to London) or attack Russia with somebody else’s army unless you do this?? …And back to the point, that’s even IF you think France’s N.F. IS “Far-Right” or e.g. Macron ISN’T, both of which are wide open to debate, and probably both false.

    So to me we have the International Communists, which as his quote says, are very Marx and Class-based approach, (Soviet-style) versus the National Communists, which allow for not a “Brotherhood of Workers,” but “German” workers first (whoever they are. New problem: do you mean Austrians? How about German-speaking Poles and Russians? How about if they were once German, intermarried, and no longer speak German. …Nevermind: whatever gives me power is the answer.)(Nazi-style)

    This National Communist vs International Communist debate is still going on today, with the “Right” (actually Liberty and Libertarians) being again, almost completely sidelined as they do not work to capture and enlarge the State and use the massive central state and its spoils to attack and punish their enemies. …That’s why they’re the only “Good Guys”, such as it is. We call those groups “Globalists”, which is now an amalgam of Government and Billionaires, so it has a strange confluence of “Capitalists” and anti-Capitalists, because we’re all directed to the wrong definitions all the time. There was once a subset of, e.g. largely (Kennedy) Democrats here who were National Communists, wanting redistribution and social programs but within the context of the United States, (Blue Unions); however, all those people are essentially gone. Replaced by Woke. That leaves only pan-Globalists and Nationalists on the field, with Global Communists being like 2/3, and Nationalists in disarray at 1/3 as they are still digesting the adoption of all the former National Communists (aka, “Blue Workers” + people alarmed at crime, social extremes, etc, “Blue Suburbs”.)

    Such is the problem with using any words or idea derived from Marxism, as 99% of all Economists, Sociologists, and we society at large, do.

    Is recovering the Nation possible? Meh. I’m telling you what has to happen, not whether it’s possible. Like I can say “You have to get rid of cancer” without naming any odds of that being at all possible.

    Will it? Yes. We will win. However at this point the nation after will be so different it’s hard to describe. We didn’t “Win” to get it back to something recognizable or some status quo from 1930-1990. And that’s okay. So long as the PRINCIPLES are re-established of Justice, representation, independence, self-reliance and self-determination, etc. We weren’t like 1930-1990 before either. We weren’t in Wave 1 out of the Revolution, and we weren’t like that in Wave 2 through Jackson and as it slowly closed in on us after the Civil War. We were very different. But we were still America. This happens, and this is one of those times.

    Trump did not go full retard like the Dims”

    No, he went full half-retard, and continues today. But stupid is as stupid does.

    So its our own fault, we’re on a kosher plantation”

    Kind of. But as I said above, the solution has become violence, and that is the solution they encourage and desire. We CAN take them out using violence, but SHOULD we, right now? At the moment we are still trying all the other things, and in fact may win without it. So morally we should and must, even if that’s extremely irritating and costly.

    #134831
    WES
    Participant

    Regarding James Comer saying wait until Wednesday, I think the CTH has it correct.

    What happens on Wednesday? Yeah a million people will pour over the US/Mexican border!

    So Biden needs a big “squirrel” distraction! So the uniparty’s Republicans will provide the necessary distraction that Hunter Biden is (not) under investigation!

    #134832
    Oroboros
    Participant

    NEWS FLASH

    Pedophile President invents :

    The Foreign Malign Influence Center:

    Government Disinfo in the Name of Fighting Disinfo

    A Styxhexenhammer666 production for Monday morning

    #134833
    John Day
    Participant

    Last night, Aspnaz said to Celticbiker: “Know Your Enemy.”

    It’s funny. That happens to be the name of a book that my Grandfather, Robert H. Williams wrote.
    It’s still available on line and it was never available online when he wrote it, because Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet yet.
    Even though my Grandfather was in both world wars, the FBI had this long file on him, which is also on the internet now. He was an observer-gunner in a Spad, and radio operator in WW-1 and was in OSS counter-intelligence in WW-2. Between the wars he attended the Sorbonne, Harvard grad school, Arabia on a tramp steamer, raised a family and built them a house with his hands.
    He came to Texas in a covered wagon as a little boy.

    #134834
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Natasha Wright answers Dr. D

    Natasha writes in praise of robbing banks. I mean, that’s where the money is. And I think, Ms./Mr. (w)Right believes the Credit Suisse’s nazi depositors deserve to have their deposits, er ah I meant, “assets” acquired by USB or was she intentionally not writing UBS. So, Natasha clarified the (((real))) cause of the (((banking))) crisis. Can you imagine an (((ombudsman))) and Simon Wiesenthal Center has the ((power))) to manipulate the Senate Banking Committee into forcing the fire sale of Switzerland major bank?

    Something Is Rotten in Schmutzig Switzerland

    #134835
    zerosum
    Participant

    Vancouver, Grouse Grinde, heart, rescued.
    ——————–
    “I had a lalalland dream”
    Sadly, I’m now awake to something different, reality.

    ———-
    Ukraine fortified, for the wrong war, since 2014, and lost, ( “Battle of Bakhmut”:) distance/overwhelming warfare, (drones, missiles and artillery)
    ———-
    Here comes the “Savior” of the system/the rich
    • Close to 190 US Banks Could Collapse, According To Study (USAT)
    • A Credit Crunch Is Inevitable (Lacalle)
    ————-
    The most obvious tool of depopulation is war.

    #134836
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Swiss were not invaded by the Nazis in return for being the Nazis Piggy Bank®, before, during, and AFTER the war.

    #134837
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @Oroboros

    Indeed. One does not start a fight with one’s banker.

    #134838
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Feisty chick
    It looks to be between 1 and 2 weeks old. I think that it is facing off against an older chick — one between 4 and 6 weeks old. I have seen older chicks bully younger chicks. I have NEVER seen a chick attack like that — VERY unusual.

    #134839
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I am grateful that the Old Order is collapsing into the footprints of its absurd conspiracies. Allowed to continue, we would soon be hearing of “racial/ethnic reassignment” via genetic therapy and maybe a bit of plastic surgery. Lip collagen for aspiring wiggers; nose shaving for aspiring ‘high yallers’.

    The Struggle To Be You and Me (the new DNC campaign anthem)

    ***

    In the Midnight Moonlight

    #134840
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Dr D
    Creation of factions – this one took a long time, esp after they found out race doesn’t work well

    It is interesting to note that the current set in power who are gunning for ever-increasing totalitarian control have been specifically fomenting division between “races.” Why? Due to the fact that nazism was birthed from racist sentiment that grew out from colonialism (Europeans tended to believe that their culture was superior to the native cultures of their colonies) and nativist sentiments stoked by all of the displaced peoples throughout Europe who were impoverished and had no place to go (original people to an area were discomfited by the displaced people in their midst, especially during a period of economic hardship), it is often believed that racism and totalitarianism go together, like hand and glove. I’m not convinced that this is the case — it seems to me that what is endemic to totalitarianism is the “in-group” vs. “out-groups,” not specifically race. I sometimes wonder if the rhetoric dividing “white” and “brown” people has been specifically crafted to try to create a public sentiment in the US similar to that of Europe between the world wars. However…that sentiment is not likely to take hold in the US in the same way as it did in that European era, because the US public has been spending the last 6 decades learning to appreciate the descendants of African slaves, and the unique contributions that they have been making to US culture, music, sports, etc. However, a wave of migrants during an economic downturn IS likely to cause strife, as people scramble for scarce resources. It is possible that the migrants may play an important social role, however, as there will be great need for hands to take care of all of those injured by the vaccines. Migrants who are criminals or who are here to do the bidding of the Chinese government are a potential real concern. Regardless, I suspect that the migrants are not going to be as sympathetic to the a Democratic Party as the leadership of that party may expect them to be.

    #134841
    John Day
    Participant

    File Under: “Can’t hurt to ask, rght?”
    Turkey Angrily Rejects US Request To Give Ukraine S-400 Air Defense System
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-angrily-rejects-us-request-give-ukraine-s-400-air-defense-system

    #134842
    John Day
    Participant

    Where is that “feisty chick” today?
    A little red rooster, perhaps?

    #134843
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It will come as no surprise to anyone here that this year’s big surprise was the just released publication of the FIRST full autopsy on a covid vaccine death. You might also be unsurprised by the surprising facts revealed therein. https://www.youtube.com/live/pdjZAvxzm98?feature=share

    What surprises me is that a crime of this literally unprecedented magnitude both continues, and continues to go unpunished. Premeditated ongoing genocide. Ho hum.

    I presume that when ordinary sheep are led to the slaughter they are unaware of where they are going or why, and are thus unworried and easily led.

    But what do you call it when victims know, and go anyway? I had previously thought that we humans were more cantankerous than that. Obviously not.

    Apparently our herdsmen are more skillful than I had thought them to be. I would like to think otherwise, but you just can’t argue with results, and so far the results speak for themselves. The bastards are getting away with it.

    So far.

    Ho hum?

    #134844
    John Day
    Participant

    In Austin, Texas, it’s the illegal migrants that do most of the construction, ditch digging, cleaning of homes and businesses, plumbing, and so on. When I was in college here from 1976 to 1982 white and black people did al those things. I could get a job doing things like that in less than a week any summer.
    Now I see an occasional older black or white guy operating a crane or backhoe, or being a foreman. Everybody else moves like they grew up speaking Spanish in the countryside, where farmers can’t make a living any more. They’ll meet your eyes and smile back, too.

    #134845
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS: I also feel like there is something fundamental about humanity that I have been misunderstanding until recently, or maybe just never grokked…

    #134846
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Perhaps it would be better if Kamala Harris was REPLACED by an AI!

    #134848
    John Day
    Participant

    @anticlimactic: Incompetent evil vs. Chat GPT evil.

    Hmmmm…

    #134849
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    I would be very interested to know some more about what those fundamentals are about, because I’m a little bit stumped by all of the rampant passivity going on all over the place.

    #134850
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The winners of wars get to run the system of their choice, and the system they choose always seems to be the one that puts them in charge of the wars (and the money, and law, and info and so on.)

    #134851

    Maybe they upped the amount of fluoride in the water. It’s not like they would tell us they had done so.

    #134852
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The latest from Bud Lite/Anheuser Busch/inBev:

    The CEO of AB says their troubles are due to online Misinformation and Disinformation

    This reminds me of Disney’s take on the eve of the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story – the longed-for movie about Han Solo constantly, bewilderedly, asking everyone else what is going on while being beaten up and schooled by women while having mundane traits such as the particular blaster he had in the cantina and the stripes on the pants he wore in the cantina “explained” in as boring a way as possible.

    Disney said that negativity surrounding Star Wars was being caused by… Online Russian Trolls.

    See? There’s only a small minority of people that don’t like Disney Star Wars plus some Russian Trolls and Bots. Then the movie bombed and lost money. Where’d all the people go, Disney?

    But they fixed that – well, someone fixed it – when Captain Marvel came out, purchasing all those empty theatre seats and declaring a 1 Billion gross victory.

    Seems that the damage control for CIA led Budweiser (check the CEO’s resume) is the same as Disney’s was — see if they can piggyback off an existing psyop.

    And this is over a BEER. Nothing is too petty.

    I’ve been brainstorming how Budweiser can recover without apologizing

    Lobby massively to lower drinking age to 13 – this will allow them to sell to Dylan Mulvaney’s follower demographic.

    What goes together better than Pizza and Beer? The Obamas already got Pizza approved for public schools based on the tomato sauce being a vegetable. Carbohydrates are part of the food pyramid, aren’t they? Get beer approved for school lunches – paid for by the taxpayer! Winwinwin!

    How else can we get Bud bought by taxpayer money instead of customer money? Sell it to public libraries, state owned elder care facilities, the military, serve it at the DMV, the cafeterias of government offices at the city, county, state, and federal level. Get it sent as aid to Ukraine. MAKE the deplorables buy Bud Lite whether they want to or not, via taxes/deficit spending!

    #134853
    zerosum
    Participant

    Depopulation
    Secret …. Surprise … spring offensive …. slaughter for who

    #134854
    chooch
    Participant

    Dr. D,

    In December, Russia passed laws to fine/arrest anyone found discrediting the military. Therefore Russia milbloggers and citizens went quiet on social media. This guy provides a weekly podcast, seems like a rational assessment.

    Russian Milblogger on telegram

    https://t.me/DmitriySteshin/7680

    [translation]

    “I couldn’t watch Prigozhin’s video with the dead “Wagnerites” in full. Yesterday I met a militia friend, still the first wave. He says they stopped gathering for the holidays. Any gatherings turn into a feast for dead comrades, and then smoothly flow into a scandal on the topic – “what are we doing / did wrong.” It is unbearable. My personal martyrology will not fit into the form for submitting a post to the TG, so I just try not to think about it. I can’t change anything, getting into the same martyrology is easy. Let everything go as it is, God will manage. And Prigogine’s words are also a translation of God’s will. And there will be a harvest, there will be the first May thunderstorm, and those who are purer and more righteous will win.”

    #134855
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I don’t get why Russia would be launching all these reported spoiling attacks especially in the south.

    You’d think, since big arrow movements by Russia are impossible due to NATO surveillance/intelligence, the next closest thing would be a major river crossing by Ukraine.

    Maybe this is just experience playing Hearts of Iron talking, but I think I’d WANT a major commitment by the enemy putting their backs against a river.

    Unless these are semi-ineffectual spoiling attacks – oh no, don’t cross the lower Dnieper /s – it suggests they COULD NOT handle such a river crossing effort, so nix it before it begins. If they COULD handle it, you’d think it would be better to allow it.

    #134856
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #134857
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Read that article, was covid an economic crisis or an actual pandemic?

    #134858
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Also apparently everyone going to food banks is a disabled mother

    #134859
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Give Bud Lite to the food banks for disabled mothers and their children!!! Charity write-off for Bud/AB/inBev!!!!!

    #134860
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Oroboros

    Due process isn’t made to happen until a cause of action is made to happen.
    And neither due process nor cause of action happen without lots of money and not just the promise of money.

    So one certain ((group)) shook down the Law , the Banks and Congress to get their money under the ((guise)) of a banking crisis.
    “Roiled the markets”…christ the euphemisms that lobotomized people.

    I see a pattern emerging…..emerged.
    Certain groups receive collective punishment by selective justice while other ((groups)) administer justice under the Mask of pandemics, wars, financial crises

    #134861
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Alistair Crooke, … his summa summarum at the end of his latest article:

    To repeat: Biden is in a ‘bind’ and his Team is floundering. It is hugely premature for the White House to call ‘mission accomplished’ on Ukraine – but what else can they do? War with China will not be with China alone, but likely will be with Russia too. This surely was the essence of the Chinese Defence Minister’s four-day visit to Moscow (including a personal session with Putin). The message was clear enough: China and Russia are ‘joining hands militarily’. This will portend a strategic paradigm change that may well force a U.S. re-consideration of the way ahead – or not.

    … and the article:

    Decent Into Débâcle: Pyrrhic Victories, Lies and Strategic Miscalculations

    F.S.

    #134862
    Rover
    Participant

    The Reagan years saw ketchup classified as a vegetable for school lunches in public schools🤯
    I was there😐

    #134863
    John Day
    Participant

    DBS and I keep wondering about how to correctly understand humanity:
    “I would be very interested to know some more about what those ‘fundamentals’ are about, because I’m a little bit stumped by all of the rampant passivity going on all over the place.”

    We can agree that some people see mass killing of other people as a “solution” looking for problems.

    What if a lot of people are so deeply inclined to stay with the herd that they subconsciously accept being slaughtered, while denying any such threat, so as to avoid cognitive-dissonance?

    You see that I only have a question, not an answer, and I’m neither of those kinds of human, so I have to keep looking at history unfolding again, along ancient patterns of population-overshooting-resources, and do my best to mitigate the situation.
    Elites and most of the herd deny what I see everywhere.

    #134864
    John Day
    Participant

    “Emerging Modified Consensus” starts with the latest Surplus Energy Economics article.
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/emerging-modified-consensus

    Dr. Tim Morgan at Surplus Energy Economics presents: The emerging ‘modified consensus’, Inching towards acceptance?
    As you may know, the interpretation long set out here is that the underlying ‘real’ or physical economy of products and services has deteriorated, via stagnation, into contraction. Partly because of a mistaken belief that monetary gimmickry can promote material expansion, a huge gulf now yawns between the ‘real economy’ and its ‘financial economy’ proxy. The financial system itself, understood as an aggregate stock of monetary ‘claims’ on the real economy of the future, is poised to fall into this chasm…
    ..A perennial question about this situation concerns how much ‘they’ – meaning decision-makers, or ‘the powers that be’ – know about these trends, as they are understood here.
    A much better question, though, is ‘what would they do if they did understand it?’ The one thing of which we can be sure is that, if the situation was indeed understood, nobody in a position of authority could possibly come out and say so. To do this would be to precipitate a market crash, itself a prelude for the onset of generalised chaos.
    In this situation, the only realistic course of action for the authorities would be a gradual retreat from over-sanguine assumptions around economic growth. They would need to manage expectations downwards, and this would require the crafting of a modified consensus. The authorities would not, and could not, say that economic growth has ceased, let alone that it has gone into reverse, and neither would any practical purpose be served by doing so. Instead, they would seek to steer expectations towards successively, but gradually, lower levels.
    The view set out here is that this modified consensus has started to emerge. [It’s weird, but everything that happens these days just makes people poorer.]

    #255: The emerging ‘modified consensus’

    4 US Banks Crash in 2 Months: Banking Crisis Explained by Economist Michael Hudson [Interview excerpted] Thanks Christine.
    Hudson: And the reason the banks are insolvent now is because of President Obama’s program and his Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, who appointed the current Federal Reserve President, Powell.
    When President Obama decided to bail out the banks, instead of writing down the bank loans to what would have been reasonable levels, instead of saving the junk mortgage victims from their houses, he decided to go along with his boss, Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, and save Citibank and the other big banks that were the most troubled banks of all.
    And they’re still the most troubled banks of all, except they have a government guarantee, just like Obama gave them, that no matter how much they lose, they will not lose the money. No matter how much the banks lose in negative net worth, the economy will lose, not the banks.
    All of that became implicit when the Federal Reserve decided to help the banks that were insolvent in 2008 and 2009, to help them recover their net worth by quantitative easing.
    That is creating $9 trillion worth of Federal Reserve balance sheet support of the banks to enable the banks to drive down interest rates to near zero…
    ..And the banks used all of this increasing liquidity. What were they going to do with the [liquidity]?
    Well, they lent them out largely to private capital firms. In other words, they lent them out to operators on Wall Street who borrowed from the banks to buy out companies and take them private.
    Then they would have the companies borrow money from the banks for billions of dollars of money and pay this money out as special dividends to the private capital companies that had bought them out, leaving companies as bankrupt shells, such as Bed Bath & Beyond…
    ..What happened then was that the Federal Reserve, under the lawyer, Mr. Powell, he’s not an economist, he’s a lawyer, serving his clients, which are Chase Manhattan, Citibank, and the big banks, to decide, well, there’s a danger of wages rising and we’ve got to keep wages down in order to maintain the profit of the stocks that are fueling the stock market gains.
    The Federal Reserve decided and announced that it was going to begin raising interest rates from 0% to 4%…
    ..Everyone I knew moved into short-term government bonds, that is, Treasury bills, three-month Treasury bills, or maybe two-year Treasury notes, because they didn’t want to take the loss that occurred if you’re holding a 30-year bond.
    And holding a 30-year mortgage is just like holding a 30-year bond. All of a sudden, interest rates are going up, but you’re holding a security, a mortgage or a bond that pays a very low interest rate and whose price has fallen by 30%, maybe even 40%.
    Now, that means that if you’re a bank and you have depositors and your assets are reduced in market price by 40%, what are you going to do if your deposits aren’t reduced? You have negative equity.
    Well, just about every bank in the country moved into a negative equity position, because all the banks have made fairly long-term loans…
    ..Now, after Silicon Valley Bank went under, for instance, Yves Smith on Naked Capitalism … said, — Well, Silicon Valley Bank just hopelessly mismanaged their portfolio in holding on to these long-term government bonds. Why did they do it?
    Well, here’s why they did it. Imagine what would have happened if Silicon Valley Bank or any bank in America would have acted just like the private individuals who move their personal retirement accounts or their personal financial accounts into short-term treasuries.
    They all would have begun to sell their 30-year mortgages or other long-term mortgages. This by itself would have crashed the price of 30-year mortgages…
    ..Well, the act of selling them would have caused the prices to decline to a point where indeed, right away, they would have been yielding this 4%. Obviously, there’s very little they could do…
    ..In other words, nobody wants to lose any money. And the fact is, whoever held these long-term securities was going to lose money.
    Well, this is exactly what happened to the savings and loan institutions in the 1970s, in the 1980s. There was nothing the banks could do…
    ..The banks said, — Well, there’s only one way that we can avoid facing the fact that our assets are much less than our liabilities by just keeping the deposits there. Let’s keep paying the depositors what we were paying all along, 0.2%…
    ..Now, I know many people, friends of mine, who’ve taken their money out of the bank and invested in two-year government notes or short-term money market funds, and they’re getting 4%. Why on earth would they leave the money in the banks? …
    ..So the Federal Reserve had painted itself into a corner during quantitative easing. By lowering interest rates to just about zero, the Fed has guaranteed that if you ever move out of this position, if you ever go beyond the Obama policy of saving the banks by inflating the capital markets, then you’re going to drive the capital markets bankrupt, insolvent.
    So we’re now finally facing the insolvency that Obama and Trump and Biden early on were able to avoid. And it’s just a seventh-grader, well, maybe an eighth-grader, could have done the arithmetic…
    ..And of course they’re moving it into banks like Chase Manhattan or Citibank, which indeed, as Pam Martens said, are serial abusers and violators of regulations.
    Of course they’re moving there because the government says, — No bank depositor, no financial investor will lose any money. We promise you that the economy will lose money, not the banks, not the financial sector.
    We promise you that if we have to pay more money to support the financial sector, we’re willing to cut back Social Security. We’re willing to get rid of Medicaid and Medicare.
    We’re going to get rid of social spending because the economy needs the banks not to lose any money, because that’s, to us politicians, they’re our campaign contributors. They’re who we’re really working for. They’re who we’re protecting. That’s our job as politicians…
    ..And the government and the media are not confronting the fact that the existing debt overhead of the banking system and the financial system and the private capital, that all of this is unsustainable, and we’ve reached the point of unsustainability.
    Well, if eighth graders can see that the banks are insolvent, even investors and even some economists can do the mathematics and see how insolvent they are and realize that we’d better take our money and run.
    So you’re now having the wealthiest 1% of the country taking their money and running, and that’s what’s causing this problem.
    You can expect the wealthiest 1% to contribute very heavily to the 2024 presidential campaign…
    ..I think you’re missing the point to put the blame on the regulators. The problem’s not that the banks control the regulators and regulatory capture. They’ve captured the government. And it’s the government that appoints the regulators…
    ..The regulators can only regulate within the existing legal system and the existing political system. They can’t change the political system. And the problem is systemic itself…
    ..So the government has basically announced, if you want to keep your money safe, move it to one of the five big systemically important banks. “Systemically important” means, it’s a bank that controls government policy of the financial sector in its own favor…
    ..So the bottom line is, the whole U.S. economy is being sacrificed to banks that have made bets, and they’ve been bad bets.
    Their bets have gone wrong, and they’re bailed out by the Treasury, saying, — Even if you make bad bets, no matter what, we’re going to rescue you, no matter what it takes for the economy at large…
    ..Pam Martens herself could look at the banks and say, this bank has negative equity, and the government can immediately take it over into the public domain.
    But the government won’t do that because they’ll say that’s socialism. And socialism, which we used to call democracy, but now they’ve [renamed] democracy socialism because they think it’s a bad term.
    And they say, no, we have to let private enterprise rule. And private enterprise is gambling.
    Most banks have not made money, as much money in interest as they’ve made in capital gains. And the biggest capital gains have been derivatives and short sales and options.
    So the financial sector isn’t about making loans to industrialists to build factories and employ labor to produce more goods.
    It’s made to make loans to gamblers, because that’s where most of the money is made. That’s what the financial system is. And to characterize the system as if it’s part of the economy is the sort of mythology of our time.
    The financial system is external to the economy. It’s like a parasite on the economy, using the government as a means of extracting money from the economy or using its own money-creation abilities to make sure that it creates enough money to make sure that the wealthy financial institutions cannot lose…
    ..But for the bank depositors and for the public to be quiescent, they have to be stupid. And that’s the role of The New York Times and The Washington Post and the other media…
    ..Don’t look at debt problems. They don’t look at balance sheet problems. None of the problems that are occurring today appear in the economic curriculum that people have to learn in order to see how the economy works.
    It’s all a mythology. It’s a fairytale. And you could say it’s sort of the superstition of our time. I won’t dignify it by calling it a religion, even though many banks look like the ancient Greek and Roman temples.
    It’s really just a superstition that the financial system works to help the economy instead of, how can we make money from the economy by taking over the government and capturing the whole government, not only the regulators.

    4 US Banks Crash in 2 Months: Banking Crisis Explained by Economist Michael Hudson

    #134865
    John Day
    Participant

    There is lots of information about Carlson’s news reports here, just as there were a lot of sincere actions by JFK that got him assassinated. Powerful enemies.
    Was This What Got Tucker Carlson Fired?

    Was This What Got Tucker Carlson Fired?

    Tucker Carlson Preparing For “War” Against Fox News
    Popular host is locked into a contract until January 2025.
    Carlson has not technically been fired since he has still not been released from his $20 million per year deal, which forbids him from working elsewhere in the industry for another 20 months.
    That means the popular host would be completely frozen out of being able to actively cover the 2024 presidential election.
    “His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom,” a close friend told Axios, adding that Carlson had previously said he wanted to “get this done quiet and clean” but his team was now “going from peacetime to Defcon 1.”

    Tucker Carlson Preparing For “War” Against Fox News

    A New Version of an Old Story
    Consciousness of Sheep looks at how Hansel and Gretel were abandoned in the woods by their parents during a severe famine, and implications for the epoch we have now entered. Thanks Red.
    In reality, and only for a brief period, a relatively small fraction of the human population has been able to pretend that we had somehow transcended the horrors of famine and war. And – as always happens – growing affluence allowed us to pretend that our good fortune was entirely of our own making. Even today, with a large part of the western population seeing its living standards decline, most of us find it inconceivable that we might once again be on the cusp of a new age in which hunger and famine become commonplace…
    ..For the time being, for the affluent sections of the population at least, food shortages have amounted to little more than a reversion to the seasonal availability of foods that was the norm prior to the spread of the supermarkets in the mid-1980s. In the UK this winter, for example, shortages of salad vegetables like cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes were blamed by the establishment media on poor weather in Spain and Morocco… mostly neglecting to mention that the reason supermarkets had been forced to import in the first place was because the cost of imported gas and fertiliser for the hydroponic farms in England and the Netherlands had risen so high that farmers couldn’t afford to grow winter crops – a problem that is unlikely to go away any time soon.
    In any case, in a market economy, the first signs of shortage – which were visible to anyone paying attention in the wake of the 2008 crash – are not to be found in empty shelves, but rather in those at the bottom of the income distribution no longer being able to afford increasingly expensive food. That is, the spectacular growth of foodbanks across the UK, along with the more recent shoplifting epidemic, is an indication of the growing number of people no longer able to maintain an adequate diet.
    Over the winter, even working households on relatively good incomes have resorted to foodbanks in the face of a 20 percent or more year-on-year increase in the prices of staples like bread, milk, and eggs.

    A new version of an old story

    BBC: Climate change too important to be left to personal choice [More “consensus modification”.]
    The ultra-low carbon lifestyle isn’t just for the eco-minded, it has to be for everybody. Or it isn’t going to work (“work” being defined as controlling the planet’s climate decades out). “What do truly low-carbon lifestyles look like – and can they really be achieved by personal choice alone?“ the article laments.
    Well if the answer is “no” then that means the ultra-low CO2 lifestyle has to be for everybody. How we do that is a matter of “both individual and systems change”. By systems change is meant that “with the right policies, infrastructure and technology in place to enable changes to our lifestyles and behaviour, we can reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions substantially by 2050…
    In richer countries, this means moving towards a far lower carbon lifestyle for most people (excluding homeless citizens).

    BBC: Climate change too important to be left to personal choice

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