Debt Rattle April 4 2023
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Which country is happier depends on who’s doing the poll. Survey results were published recently from three different sources.
According to Ipsos, “a prominent market research firm with head offices in Paris,” China comes in with a top rating of 91 percent in the overall happiness index. To choose a few other nations by way of comparison, Mexico scores 81 percent, the U.S. 76 percent, Japan and Poland register 60 percent and 58 percent respectively.
Edelman, the Chicago public relations firm, has just produced another such report… and came up with roughly similar results by way of China’s scores relative to others…. Here’s something interesting to ponder: Respondents in 24 of the 28 nations surveyed scored record lows in response to the statement, “My family and I will be better off in five years.” China was the only one to show an uptick in expectations since the previous survey…
The U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network has just released its World Happiness Report 2023… The Finns win the prize for the jolliest people on earth, as measured in the Average Life Evaluation section of Chapter 2. The Nordics, indeed, do well all around: Denmark is No. 2, Iceland No. 3, and Sweden and Norway Nos. 6 and 7. The U.S. is ranked the 15th happiest nation on earth, and no, thanks, I’m not in the market for bridges to Brooklyn. What of China, you are wondering. It comes in 64th in this ranking.
“I am no statistician and no demographer or any such expert, but I do find it remarkable that of the happiest nations by the U.N.’s reckoning the first several dozen are either Western or client states of the West or former Soviet republics or not very nice places that have abundant reserves of oil. You have to get to No. 40, Nicaragua, to find a nation on Washington’s enemies list that gets any kind of smile emoji from the U.N.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/04/patrick-lawrence-the-happiness-of-others/
2022 is when the vaccines should have taken effect. But their effect seems to have been the opposite. According to this matrix made strictly with official data, the higher the vaccination at the beginning of 2022, the higher the Covid deaths after 12 months. pic.twitter.com/6oNhn8oz64
— JOSE GEFAELL (@ChGefaell) April 4, 2023
TVASFDemocide works!
Shorter life expectancy gives UK pensions an unexpected windfall
“Up to £30bn could be wiped from UK corporate pension scheme liabilities owing to one of the biggest falls in life expectancy in a decade, according to industry experts.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8af4e821-1e14-4c6a-a98c-1b670851b38c
TVASF
“Taking Initiative” https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/taking-initiative
Japan has taken an independent energy policy pathway, though reservedly so, since last summer. Japan cannot accept the order to fall upon her sword.
Anti-Russia Alliance Splinters As Japan Buys Russian Oil At Price Above Cap; Others To Follow
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anti-russia-alliance-splinters-japan-buys-russian-oil-price-above-cap-others-follow 50,000 North Korean Special Forces troops are reportedly staged to leave for Ukraine, to bolster Russian forces there. (Google translate from Greek)
Gilbert Doctorow has part 2 of his assessment of the implications of Russia’s new foreign policy position paper. He discusses a lot of subtleties and implications, though it clearly reflects what Russians have been saying for 15 years. This paper looks at the implications for russian domestic politics, which he sees as pulling together and consolidating power in this strong wave of conservative populist Russian nationalism. Thanks Christine.
Russia’s New Foreign Relations Concept will usher in a fundamental change in the balance of its domestic politicsAndrew Korybko also assesses the Russian foreign policy paper, specifically as it regards Latin America. Korybko looks at Russia’s reliable relationships with the traditional left in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia. Brazil, under Lula, is more new-left, with identity politics, and good relations between Lula, Biden and Soros, as per Korybko’s recent piece in Yesterday’s post. Still, Russian policy does not require ideological alignment, but just the respect of sovereign equals.
Multipolar conservative-sovereigntists (MCS) respect every country’s sovereign right to develop according to whichever models they’d like while unipolar liberal-globalists (ULG) want to force everyone to apply Western models. For the most part, the Sino-Russo Entente and the Global South embrace MCS while the US-led West’s Golden Billion and its vassals promote ULG. There are a few notable exceptions, but this insight represents the simplified geopolitical-ideational fault lines of the New Cold War.Alastair Crooke, The Crucial Ideological Transformation of Our Time , Thanks F.S.
The White House is angry, ostensibly at the ‘threat to liberal democracy’, but more tellingly, because Team Biden fears Israel is tilting towards Russia, thus rupturing western ‘unity’ versus Russia. Team Biden fears that Netanyahu’s Israel will triangulate, pitting the U.S. against Russia. This anxiety, in its backhanded way, reveals the fear of the ‘Rules-Order’ and dollar hegemony fragmentation to the thrall of the Russian and Chinese vision of sovereign societies structured around legacy moral precepts.
To be very plain, the western liberal cultural revolution’s shift from being merely adversarial to a project not aimed just at rejecting previous cultural forms, but in erasing them altogether is what is being globally rejected and collapsing. A new moral-cultural sensibility is rising, even as formal institutions of religion have ebbed. It is that which is articulated by Presidents Xi and Putin.
Again simply put, Russia’s quiet, background revival of Orthodoxy and China’s of Taoist and Confucian values as the possible framework against which the regulation of modern technological society can be set – in no small part – has opened the path to metamorphosis and the inflection gripping much of the world.
Sunni Islam in the late 19th century tried to merge Islam and modernity, but with little success. What the Russo-Sino model seems to offer is a way to bring traditional meanings back into an otherwise hollow modernity, but without creating a separate, stand alone, religious regulatory structure.
Again, this shift is happening in the U.S.; it is happening in Israel; so why not across the Middle East?
The transformative effect of the Chinese-Russian entente on global politics affirms this crucial ideological transformation of our time. It brings to an end a long cycle of (sometimes enforced) westernisation of non-western societies dating back to Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg in 1703. A new cycle of cultural consciousness is in the process of forming.
This month, China struck an accord for a new regional security architecture by bringing together Saudi Arabia and Iran. Also in March, President Assad – long a pariah for the West – could be seen making a State Visit to Moscow – with full honours; and days later, was visiting the UAE. At the same time, Iraq and Iran signed a security co-operation agreement designed to end the U.S.-inspired Kurdish insurgency strikes into Iran. And President Raisi has been invited to Riyadh by King Salman, after Eid.
Could we have entertained such a concatenation of events, even one year ago? No!
Israel today is displaying what a society looks like when it is so riven that it hovers at the cusp of breakdown. The scope for any resolution is fleetingly small; the contradictions are too great. And to be clear, Israel is not alone in this plight whence the normal means of defusing conflicts are gone. France, Germany and the UK are mired in country-wide protests. More European states may follow. Patrick Lawrence, French Streets and American Sofas (Not mentioned are the guys in black who break and burn stuff, government agents again?)
Direct action. Loud and unruly direct action. A popular mandate. Bringing down a government: What is it about the French that they are ready to take to the streets in behalf of the society they stand for when the society they stand for is challenged by an imperious figure such as Emmanuel Macron? If you think this a good question, here is another: What is it about Americans that, as the sad record indicates, nothing rouses them from their quite amazing stupor such that they get off their sofas and.. and act, act in behalf of… of anything?
To take these questions in order, the French retain an idea of themselves as members of a community. However frayed this community and however fractured their idea of shared interests, this still has the power to motivate them. Related to this, their civic selves remain alive. The French treasure their private lives, certainly: One way to consider these demonstrations is as a defense of private life. But whether you are a schoolteacher or a steamfitter or a shopkeeper, if you are French, you also have a public self that extends beyond the private self.
Not least and maybe most of all, the French share an idea of the present as a passage in history and of themselves as forces in history. I am not at all surprised the French Revolution is so often mentioned in the better media coverage of events these days. The Revolution was an attack on the vestiges of divine right, the notion that a monarch’s authority was God-given. It was about humanity, not the heavens, as the agent of its destiny. And it was class-conscious. There were no illusions in 1789 as to the nature of power. The fate of the French is in the hands of the French: This was the core thought then and it is the core thought now.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/30/patrick-lawrence-french-streets-and-american-sofas/ Diana Johnstone looks at Kafkaesque interpretation of German postwar law, whereby a position for peace, against German involvement in war, becomes the crime of “aiding the enemy”. Protest for peace, go to jail.
Anti-War Views Criminalized in Germany
Article 5 of the Basic Law grants individuals the right to express opinions, but there are numerous limitations in the Criminal Code, with punishment for “inciting hatred,” racism, anti-Semitism and prison terms for Holocaust denial. Also prohibited are propaganda or symbols of “unconstitutional” organizations, disparagement of the State and its symbols, blasphemy against established religions and especially failure to respect “human dignity.”
Of course, what matters in all these laws is how they are interpreted. The ban on “rewarding and approving crimes” (Section 140), that was originally intended to apply to convictions for violent civil crimes, has now been extended to the geopolitical sphere, namely, outlawing “approval or support” of what it terms “aggressive war.”
Antiwar activist Heinrich Bücker’s speech in Berlin last June 22 calling for good relations with Russia on the anniversary of the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was condemned by a Berlin court for “approving Russia’s crime of invasion.” In practice, any effort to clarify the Russian position by referring to NATO expansion and Kiev regime attacks on Donbass since 2014 can be interpreted as such “approval or support.”Threats and retribution for embarrassing US intel by publishing CIA files, released by Ed Snowden, without first consulting MI-5/MI-6 and self-censoring.
HOW THE UK SECURITY SERVICES NEUTRALISED THE COUNTRY’S LEADING LIBERAL NEWSPAPER
The UK security services targeted The Guardian after the newspaper started publishing the contents of secret US government documents leaked by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in June 2013.
Snowden’s bombshell revelations continued for months and were the largest-ever leak of classified material covering the NSA and its UK equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters. They revealed programmes of mass surveillance operated by both agencies.
According to minutes of meetings of the UK’s Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee, the revelations caused alarm in the British security services and Ministry of Defence.
“This event was very concerning because at the outset The Guardian avoided engaging with the [committee] before publishing the first tranche of information,” state minutes of a 7 November 2013 meeting at the MOD.How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper
I really only knew a little bit of this, and I did much more research than most doctors.
How the FDA Buried the Dangers of Antidepressants , A Midwestern Doctor, guest posted by Pierre Kory MD
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/how-the-fda-buried-the-dangers-ofThe Judge says this was all DoD “Other Transaction Authority” purchase of “bioweapon countermeasure prototypes”, so the FDA had no standing, and neither does the whistleblower against Pfizer’s clinical-trial fraud and misrepresentation. It is irrelevant for these military contracts.
Brook Jackson’s case dismissed by Judge Truncale.
Judge sides with Pfizer’s lawyers and DOJ, as expected
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/brook-jacksons-case-dismissed-by More on that court decision that it’s not fraud if the government is ok with it:
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Whistleblower Case Dismissed by Judge
The Harvest of Deception (AI, smartphones, GMOs, your “food”, weight gain and poor health. Next up, Great Reset sells tranches of human-commodities.)
We are living in a game that we did not realize had been designed for us. Our non-fitness standards (mind, body, spirit) have become our new fitness standards. We are being profiled in a way that has never been achieved before, and much of the data mining and analysis being done on a personal level is a new frontier. Our food consumption in the United States is killing us, and it’s being done with world-class marketing and the power of the fiat dollar, with expert data mining and analysis. Our government, global corporations, and investment firms are designing this form of game theory. We are being profiled by our food consumption and our desire for taste, convenience, and comfort.
As we try to survive, the new survival guide relies on mass consumption of processed and nutrient-weak food, operating together with a pharmaceutical industry that keeps designing and pumping out medicines and pills that create dependency and addiction, rather than a cure that leads to better health. With this data-driven preference form of living, our health industry has become reactive rather than proactive.
We have moved into the digital and virtual world, and willingly inserted a form of surveillance into our personal property. We carry smartphones that are transmitting who we are every second of every day, creating a profile about us that knows us better than we know ourselves. Our homes have become broadcast networks of our personal lives. This type of lifestyle has allowed us to drown out our suffering and gives us a false sense of empowerment and luxury, all in the name of convenience and comfort.As we create data with every step we take, we are being profiled in a way that is not fully understood and has never been achieved before. Most of the Al algorithms being used are front- running any decision-making abilities of the engineers and scientists that created them. The smart grid we are participating in has created an information cloud around us that is then monitized and weaponized to create tools that shape our environment, thoughts and emotions.
But now we as a society are not allowed to say anything. There is no angle available to use to try to inform others that there is an issue- all information has become controlled and weaponized. You are a game character in a game you didn’t choose to play, but were snatched out of your current reality and formulated to be led down a path in which has created a false reality.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-harvest-of-deceptionAt Kunstler’s blog, at comments, one is asking Jim to provide him with PO Box address so he can send him postal money order as a support and appreciation for his bi-weekly writings. The way he explained, he does not want the domestic spy agencies to associate him as a supporter of host’s potentially controversial writings.
At replies to that trembling post nobody was appalled, yet. I was not sure weather to laugh or cry.Iain Davis: They’re Keeping the System on Life Support Until They Can Bring in CBDCs
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Iain Davis discusses the global governance policies that are set regardless of who occupies any office and how we are steadily moving forward on their trajectory. Accelerationists like Peter Thiel are leading the way in building the new utopia/dystopia. The U.S. financial system is insolvent and they’re keeping it on life support until they bring CBDCs online. The key to CBDCs is their interoperability and instant international settlement. Everything (e.g. pandemic, war) is leading up to this transition of the international monetary system. We have never faced a control system as all-pervasive and totalitarian in scope as what is coming. We also discuss multipolarity.
”Iain Davis: They’re Keeping the System on Life Support Until They Can Bring in CBDCs
Doc Robinson documents non-reproducibility of national happiness indices.
(Somebody may be lying, or under duress, or delivering a product under contract.)GERM ‘The bodies are dropping all around us’.
These incidents are being reported ad infinitim in the UK media.
It’s as if ‘they’ are confident the constant stream of death headlines is becoming accepted as the norm by society. – There are people dying, and you better get used to it….. And now the latest on the countdown to the coronation.France: Patrick Lawrence
Another brilliant take on France. Thanks RIM.
‘The French retain an idea of themselves as members of a community’
They are united in opposition to tyranny.
Dr D: ‘ – like they want France and western governments to be discredited and fall’.
People are being downtrodden like ants. It’s terrible, but also inspiring, to follow any evidence that can miraculously be gleaned of the French doing their damndest to stand up to their oppressors. Again, Vive La France!Sanna Marin
‘She did her job’.And sold out her country, as did Ardern. No wonder she came all the way down to visit the scorpion in NZ. They even look alike.
AFWKTT: NZ
‘Hard to think of anything they have not FUBARed’.
😐 You won’t find anything.The colourful creatures are amazing.
In the Ukraine’s new spring offensive against Russia, Ukrainian forces brillantly staged a western breakthrough in downtown Bukhmut, thus cutting off Wagner forces from being able to retreat eastward.
In other Ukrainian news, reporters are no longer allowed to mention the Bukhmut “meat grinder” due to it’s negative tone. To save money and thus increase it’s chances of winning the war lottery, the Ukrainian government is cutting bonuses to it’s soldiers fighting on the front lines. Soldiers back of the front line will now no longer get any bonuses at all. This is expected to greatly increase sagging moral amoung those fighting.
Ukrainian food companies, contracted with supplying food to the soldiers have reach new highs in corruption. Thinner soldiers are harder to shoot. Starving soldiers fight harder. Why waste food on a soldier who will die tomorrow?
To save even more money all dead Ukrainian soldiers are now classified by the Ukrainian government as missing, so no pensions needs to be paid. To obtain a pension, the dead soldier’s family has to provide an eye witness who saw the soldier die. All eye witnesses are repeatedly sent back to the front line until they die.
The Ukrainian government, not wanting to waste a good crisis, is shutting down the Russian Orthodox Church as part of it’s ethnic cleansing of all things Russian. Their is a lot of very valuable church treasure, authorities are eager to seized too.
Soros is in the middle of purging all of Ukraine’s existing judges and prosecutors. These judges are being replaced by politically correct judges. Just like in the US because Soros’s new woke model works so well.
The striking Russian lady, bearing a gifted bomb to a Russian blogger in a restaurant owned by the Wagner head, finally figured out after the bomb exploded, that she had been setup and was also considered expendable by those who used her. She was supposed to have been killed by the shaped charge. Somehow she survived the explosion without a scratch! With her hair cut shorter, she does not look nearly as pretty as she did in her Hollywood videos. She was used big time by her ruthless handlers. Sadly she will suffer dearly for it too.
Shock move: Reserve Bank hikes OCR by more than expected to highest level since ’08
The Reserve Bank (RBNZ) has raised interest rates by another 50 basis points to highs not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis.
It’s set the official cash rate at 5.25 percent, with the central bank’s aggressive policy tightening continuing to try and tame sky-high inflation.
RBNZ had earlier expected the OCR to peak at 5.5 percent this year but the peak would now depend on the extent of the “moderation in core inflation and inflation expectations”, according to its monetary policy statement.
Nice joke. And poor English.
Looking for a place to escape the madness and meet happy people?
This utterly weird country may be just the place.
Not at all what most of us think.
But what happens if the US State Department decides to trigger another colour revolution?
Methinks this country is right i the middle of the new silk road China is working on.
How long can happiness remain?
A fascinating escape from what is happening throughout most of the world.
The open discussion on the existence and nature of God is appearing in ordinary public forums across the boards. It spans all religions and atheisms and even the innumerable layers of agnosticisms, too.
I’m saying this as a simple announcement of a plain fact, not as a promotion of it. I think my unshakabale bias on that issue has been made quite clear. I am totally in favor of the public discussion of the fact that the world exists as the work of God, and that radical materialism is a one way ticket on the agony train to Oblivion, as is now being painfully dramatized in the impending wholesale collapse of civilization.
So, it’s a pretty important discussion. Is the world a purely material phenomenon that is dis-related to any and all influence by a supreme being, or is the world the work of an immaterial conscious Creator whose rules must be followed in order to have life worth living?
If you get that question resolved correctly then you will begin making choices based on that correct fact and values that it requires. If you answer it wrong then your choices will reflect that mistake and produce results that are not to your liking, and will consequently therefore have to fixed by making more choices. Clearly and obviously this will result in either a spiral upward or a spiral downward, determined by whether you CORRECTLY answered the question of is there is God, or is there not God.
So, yeah (getting back to the point) this discussion is going to be smack dab in the center of Overton’s Window, and be conversed everywhere both in the media and in private.
Interesting times indeed.
There are two fundamental ways to make a decision. The first way is to presume that The Creator of the Universe and everything in it does in fact know best and to seek what that might be, and then attempt to implement whatever it turns out to be as best you can. The second way is to assume that one already knows more and better then God does, and insist upon doing it your own way, anyway, regardless. It’s essentially just that old egoistic Luciferian Declaration of Independence, “Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
Lucifer style thinking fails to take into consideration that such a notion is contrary to what the Universe actually is and how it therefore actually does work. Predictably, things just go south from there.
How FAR south is a sight to see. Men cutting their dicks off and prancing around like demented women. Doctors prescribing death. Compulsory poisoning of children. You name it. Hell’s the limit.
So who’s your Daddy?
The concentrated wealth of the civilization’s elite are acting in concert to kill anyone and everyone who defies their power to do so. Those puppet masters’ actions have consequences and those consequences will, too. Such “consequentiality” is one of the rules of the Universe, and there ain’t one damned thing anyone can do about that. The ONLY thing one can do is to learn what those rules are, and then follow them as best one can. And for THAT you’re going to have to find a way to talk to the guy who made them. Don’t sweat the boss being able to communicate back to you, He’s quite the experienced expert.
Reportedly there are an infinite number of ways to accomplish such a conversation. Talking about it among ourselves is one of those ways.
If you’ve been befuddled by the transgender thing over the past decade, then here is a wonderfully concise and yet documented primer. It’s a tad long (40 minutes) but a good investment of time because it will save you from days or weeks of mostly wasted time spent figuring and speculating. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/tLXdoqXbC6k
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