Debt Rattle April 6 2023
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You may not think that turds can speak, but Airstrip Five has a turd as a minister of government.
This particular turd smelt so bad it could not get itself elected in the city if grew up in, so it took the alternative route and managed to get its hands on the levers of power via The Party list. Big Brother’s Party, that is.
Being a turd, this thing was a complete failure at every appointment given to it…Minister of ‘Justice’, Minister of ‘Health’, Minister of Blah, Blah Blah…
Yes, the turd does have a name: Littleman. Little in intelligence and even littler in moral fibre, despised in its home city (New Plymouth) and practically despised wherever it turns up.
We’d like someone to scoop up this turd and fling it to a sewage processing facility where it could be shredded into small pieces and processed into compost. But this turd is so well protected by Big Brother it continues to float around the political scene, stinking out and contaminating every sector it is assigned to.
‘Pretty serious’: Defence Force personnel leaving in droves
Andrew Little has walked straight into his first battle as Defence Minister – keeping personnel.
Nearly 3000 regular force and civilian staff have resigned in the past 18 months from the Defence Force.
The Beehive is in a battle of its own – stopping the flow of personnel leaving the Defence Force.
New Defence Minister Andrew Little said retaining personnel “is my number one priority.”
Briefings to the new Minister highlight the “unsustainable” problem of attrition.
More than 2000 regular force personnel and nearly 700 civilian staff have left over the past year and a half.
P.S.
I had personal dealings with Andrew Little over a period of time before he managed to get his snout into the public feeding trough and found him to be unreliable, cowardly, deceitful and dishonest: all the prerequisites to become a politician in New Zealand and make it to the top.
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@D Benton Smith
Ha ha ha!
You’ve been there….you know!We don’t need RFKjr’s martyrdom on-the-way-to sainthood at all. We need Bob the “pipe hitting homey” to avenge the aforementioned and 16yo Jonathan Zhao. RFKjr’s first target ought to be Fauci, but I’d nominate, if he consults me, The Antichrist himself, Scott Gottlieb.
It seems likely that there will be a lot of blown-up NATOstan tanks in the battle zone soon.
“Before the beginning on May we are going to see something very big.”
This is huge. Russian warships invited into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. And moves underway to bring Syria back into the fold.
phoenixvoice,
Okay, so you said a Socialist declared that, as an Expert, after doing a Study they found NO parallels between the Socialism of 30/s40’s Germany and generally in-use Socialism…
I suppose that you also side with the French nobles and leaders of the military who brutally suppressed the fledgling Paris Commune?
I suppose I would HAVE to be a guy who sides with despotic 1800’s Catholic French noble old dead dudes if I give you a 4+ hour bibliographied video showing the parallels between 30’s/40’s German national socialism and Socialism generally, cause you sure aren’t dispelling any parallels.
“Socialism” has been turned into a “bad word” used to label “bad things”
Every time I check with the outside world current-day, I see the exact opposite. Like, actively vehemently opposite to that assertion. Saturatingly so. Via a multitude of mediums, institutions, etc. Such that practically anyone age 14-35 appears to believe socialism is the best system.
The roots of socialism are the stories of oppressed people yearning for freedom.
And how has that turned out for them, by and large? The feelings of the oppressed deserve respect. But Socialism doesn’t OWN oppression nor feelings. Socialism isn’t the inevitable mathematical product of some sort of oppression-feeling calculation.
The Paris Commune was just experimenting?
Capturing the heavy weapons of the national arsenal as an early goal. Attacking the government with an army with a view to replacing them. Summarily beating to death officials that show up and ask “hey what are you doing, what is going on” Rounding up dissidents and executing them. Banning of newspapers that didn’t agree with them.
Interesting parallels with similar events in history, such as a loan from the Rothschilds even.
Use of red flags. Forming of councils to root out enemies. (“Soviet” is Russian for council…)
Smashing statues related to national pride. (It was voted on 12 April by the Executive Committee of the Commune, which declared that the column was “a monument of barbarism” and a “symbol of brute force and false pride.”)
They “…called for a new column, made of melted-down German cannons, “The Column of Peoples, the column of Germany and France, forever federated.”
Huh. Internationalist. Who was a fan of internationalist federation? Cosmic Coincidence.
Even so, I would like Socialism to work. Truly, honestly, I would love for that to happen. I’m in favor of socialistic policies. I’m not an Ayn Rand anarchocapitalist or anything. I’m not a Republican. But then, Republicans just stayed normal assholes while the Democrats and Socialists etc went #%&ing nuts, so I’m kind of distracted from criticizing conservatives at the moment.
Communism is defined as pure Socialism. What happens when you run things ONLY on socialist principles.
Therefore I have a question for Socialists. At what point do you have too much Socialism? Where’s your line in the sand, the hill you die on where you say NOT A STEP FURTHER? Because – and I suspect Communists would agree here – if “too much socialism” isn’t a thing to you as a Socialist, then Socialists are just cowardly Communists, for whom Communists say the quiet parts out loud.
And how much time do you spend arguing against the ubiquitous current-year Marxism that came from the European continent via the Frankfurt School and Western Academia? Vs arguing with apparent anti-Marxists? (anyone alarmed at current year marxism) What’s with being quiet as church mice, as a group, with the current year Marxists but speaking up if an “anti-communist” appears?
(strangely, I’m not even anti communist per se, it’s just based on their track record, I can no longer trust them to not punch themselves in the face, not shoot themselves in the foot, or not kill 150 million people. At least Marx was working the problem – if Capitalism has something internal or external that ends the good times and brings the bad times, that matters. But instead of going back to basics and coming up with something awesome, they made a stupid new Mystery Religion. So now it’ll take another 70 years – not to admit their next failure, but simply experience it. I’ll be dead before the next time they even take another look. Fucking fuckers.)
Celente and Napolitano on top-down oppression and tyranny by the government (including Covid oppression, toking devaluation of money and undeclared wars).
“You decide what goes into your own body. The Congress doesn’t decide. And the President doesn’t decide.”
People were not allowed to say goodbye close relatives dying. This is what the government did to us! And most of the people behaved like sheep!
“Freedom and democracy at the point of a gun, George W Bush.”
No real freedom in the fascist police states of the West, of course.
Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus forced former French President Francois Hollande to tell the truth
“Pretending to be the former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the pranksters Vovan and Lexus contacted the ex-President of France Francois Hollande.
“Poroshenko” discussed with Hollande how together they managed to remove Yanukovych and how the Minsk Agreements were just a way to pump weapons to #UkraineWillWin.
“Everyone thought it was Putin who was playing for time. No, we were playing for time to strengthen Ukraine,” Hollande said.
Hollande is such a douche-baguette
Hahahaha!
To no one in particular except you know who you are:
“The only thing any of us should want to kill is the lies, and killing liars does not kill lies.”
Corollary:
1. If I learn to balance this tack hammer on my head, then I can defeat my foe with a balanced attack. credit: Mystery Men
2. Colonel Jessup said “You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.” There are bad, murderous folk out there and they have no inhibitions. However, the most sophisticated monsters are cowards who convince proxies to carry out those malignant deeds. The latter the world calls Leadership, the kind devoid of gallantry, chivalry and restraint.“You never hate outsider-enemies as much as you hate your internal apostates.”
Corollary:
1. Internal apostates are interchangeable with The Antithesis in Eric Berne’s Alcoholic Games practiced the world over. As in, The Antithesis, he who refuses to drink or play the game is accorded the most horrific treatment, even worse than the Drunk/Alcoholic or his whiny Persecutor. Berne describes the Antithesis’s horrific mistreatment as usually one of three outcomes: a. Court/trial b. Emergency room for treatment c. Morgue2. Apostate is also interchangeable with Prophet. As in, a prophet is not without honor except in his own town.
Btw, does anyone remember the Moskva now that one this site’s commenters observed a Russian ship in Saudi Arabia?
Well, doesn’t it appear a chess piece has been moved that IS casus belli for U.S. military “intervention” against MBS’s impudence in particular and the Arabian peninsula in general?
The Russian ship in the Saudi port is a ‘calling card’ directed at the Empire of Lies®.
It’s says inside the card, “You feeling lucky Punk?”
Signed,
Vladimirthe Empire of Lies®. will never chance ever putting a carrier group in either the Sea of Aden, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman or the Arabian Sea.
Not having hypersonic missiles, or more importantly, not having any defense against hypersonic missiles, the Empire of Lies® is not only a Lame Duck but a Sitting Duck in that part of the world.
The roots of socialism are the stories of oppressed people yearning for freedom.
This made me laugh: socialism is people wanting government to look after them. It is an abdication of their own responsibilities and transferring them to the state. Yearning for freedom? More like yearning for Mum and Dad. Health care of children is a good example. Rich and poor alike both abdicate their child welfare responsibilities to the state and support that system. Socialism is the infantilisation of adults, the result being that in the west the state is now telling the infants what they can and cannot think, an inevitable result of infantilisation. Caring for the poor has nothing to do with socialism, most socialists are middle class NIMBYs and would not want poor people anywhere near their at-home reality.
It’s worth the time to check out TCT’s post on Xi and Macron.
Btw the Chinese seriously bitch [epic panda] slapped Vonder Leyen (all apologies to the ladies and you too noirette)Neither Russia nor China are going to defend Saudi Arabia from the United States because Xi and Putin definitely don’t take orders from the same Overlords directing the stupidity from these United States. Hell, even Dr. D recognizes the latter.
Dr D Rich said
It’s worth the time to check out TCT’s post on Xi and Macron.
That table covered in blue cloth says it all: neither Macron of von Hitler have space to put their legs under the table, they are having to cope with the discomfort and look awkward, hence Macron is on the front of his chair. I am sure everything was fine for Xi.
Looks like the US bankers are 100% behind the WEF oligarchs, calling for confiscation of land in order to expand wind farms.
Kennedy Vs. Death 2024 is up, and I’m not optimistic https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/kennedy-vs-death-2024
RFK Jr. is Running For President , and why this matters, A Midwestern Doctor (also Meryl Nass MD, Peter McCulough MD, and myself)
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-running-for-president
Robert F Kennedy Jr, “Bobby” has headed up a Hudson River environmentalist group, “Riverkeeper” for 33 years. They have gotten the Hudson cleaned up by reporting pollution violators and bringing them to court. They have done a good job.
Mercury pollution was one of the problems, and mothers of mercury-containing-vaccine injured children kept showing up at Bobby’s events, seeking to alert him to the mercury-preservative-neurotoxicity that disabled their children. He eventually read the medical papers, or the firs 6 inches of the 18 inch stack, was convinced, and began to assess vaccine-injuries to children, forming Children’s Health Defense in 2011, initially as the World Mercury Project.
Wikipedia credits them with being “one of the main sources of misinformation on vaccines”.
That pre-positioning, on the “wrong side” of a powerful and well funded lobby, which just went too far, has put Bobby Kennedy Jr. in a unique position.
Liability-exempt vaccine manufacturing companies, fulfilling special “bioweapon countermeasure prototype” contracts with the Department of Defense, are trying to double-down on “safety and efficacy” of the variously mandatory experimental injections which fail to reduce COVID infections, seem to increase them, cause sudden deaths from strokes and heart attacks, myocarditis, autoimmune disease, loss of cancer-protections, and a rise in “excess mortality” in employed and unemployed alike. Over the past 2 years there has been growing awareness of injuries to children, their deaths, in and out of sports, and the extension of this to sports celebrities, other celebrities, family members and nice people that we all know.
Meanwhile, in courts of law, Pfizer maintains that they never produced vaccine, just countermeasure-prototypes for the Department of Defense, and that no fraud was involved, because the DoD was aware of their falsification of documents, was fine with that, and kept paying them. The courts have completely accepted that defense, but people are generally unaware of those facts.
I have called “Kennedy for President” since 10/25/2020 https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/10/kennedy-for-president.html
If you Google RFK Jr. Substack, you get Bobby’s Substack first, but #2 is a link entitled “RFK Jr is Controlled Opposition”. The comments in the MD blogs about RFK Jr’s candidacy have about 3 kinds of comments: those which are hopeful, those which are hopeless, and those who think he is “controlled opposition”.
The main complaint is that Bobby signs-on to Anthropogenic Global Warming, and that this is a WEF agenda to reduce human population, and remove human freedoms, based on Agenda 2030 https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
In 2007 Bobby supported moving away from fossil-fuels and transitioning to renewables, and saw that markets could work with that, and that it could be good. I thought that was good, too, but I doubted how far it could go so late in the game. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-the-climate-crisis-what-must-be-done-192191/
In January of 2020, just pre-COVID, Bobby talked about wildfires in Australia, those that threatened his California home, “our addiction to coal and oil” and his advocacy of “market mechanisms, like carbon taxes and the elimination of subsidies”. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-climate-change
Climate One website carries this RFK Jr. quote, “Our deadly addiction to carbon is the principal enemy to America’s prosperity, to our leadership, to our national security, to the values that makes us proud to be part of this country, and to the historic role that my family always believed in of America as an exemplary nation”. https://www.climateone.org/people/robert-f-kennedy-jr
Reality is more complicated than that. We are “addicted” to food, and to running water, electricity, natural gas, cars to drive to grocery stores, refrigerated food at low prices, and the lifestyle provided by our life support system, our “political economy”. Some of us have had the opportunity to travel to places where people subsist more as our rural ancestors did a century or more ago. Trekking in the Himalayas, Jenny and I were careful to carry our own filtered water, but I still had Giardia for the whole 3 weeks of the trek, having gotten it from incompletely cooked spinach crepes in Kathmandu, I think. This was an instructive exercise in trotting to the edge of town each morning at dawn to urgently relieve the gas and stool. We lost weight and ate lentils and rice, occasionally an egg, which seemed like a luxury, when available. It was a good exercise, followed by the heat of India in late May, with the monsoons late to arrive, then the comfort of a room with air conditioning in Thailand, where we rested and rehydrated for a few days, before continuing our travels.
We, in the US and similar countries, use about 100 times the energy that our own bodies use each day. We can adapt to using less when we travel, because everybody else knows how to do it, and shows us. These answers are not going to come from Goldman Sachs selling carbon credits, or from buying a Prius or Tesla, since those have more embedded energy and pollution over their lifetimes than does a Toyota Matrix, for example. We cannot spend our way out of this impasse.
We can adapt. All of us adapt regularly. We are the descendants of those who successfully adapted. Growing a vegetable garden and riding your bike are a start into the process of discovering the path. We have to work this problem together. Jimmy Carter tried to say that in his “sweater speech”; remember? https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/jimmy-carter-and-the-malaise-speech
Professor Nate Hagens (previously of The Oil Drum) talked to grad students at The Center For Homeland Defense And Security recently (Thanks Rick).
[I had to look it up. That’s a Naval Academy Grad. School.] He presented an almost hour long lecture on the familiar theme that we are peaking or have just peaked, in a one-time carbon-pulse of energy inheritance, which we thought was a steady flow, but was really a lump-sum that we are about half finished with already. The first 12 minutes is his basic lead-in. The presentation gets more substantive after about 22 minutes, and he closes with the difficult point in time that will arrive in the next financial crisis, brought on by the inability to service exponentially expanding debt, in a finite economy, which is beginning to contract. He gives 2025 as a hypothetical time, but I think it could well be this year or next. He calls on these Naval Academy grad students to consider how they might serve their country in these coming times by providing stability. He has not gotten that worked out yet, but the first steps are to see the problem approaching, and to want to help.
Consciousness of Sheep again points out that the complexities of real economy are blithely misunderstood, particularly by economists, but looking the other way does not slow their approach down at all.
Missed by most of us – at least prior to the 2008 crash – was the fact that economists were entirely unaware of what currency is and where it comes from. As Steve Keen was to explain:
“It may astonish non-economists to learn that conventionally trained economists ignore the role of credit and private debt in the economy – and frankly, it is astonishing. But it is the truth. Even today, only a handful of the most rebellious of mainstream ‘neoclassical’ economists – people like Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman – pay any attention to the role of private debt in the economy, and even they do so from the perspective of an economic theory in which money and debt play no intrinsic role. An economic theory that ignores the role of money and debt in a market economy cannot possibly make sense of the complex, monetary, credit-based economy in which we live. Yet that is the theory that has dominated economics for the last half-century.”
Currency then, a mere representation of the real economy – initially using precious metals, but today no more than an interconnected series of electronic bank ledger books – does not factor into the mathematically exquisite but entirely ungrounded econometric models – the simulacrum of a simulacrum – used by economists. And it is upon these models that both common-sense understanding – as delivered by the establishment media – and economic policy – the tertiary simulacrum – have been built.
This is one reason why, for example, having undermined global supply chains and driven up the cost of energy to the European economies, politicians and central bankers are left blaming the ensuing crises on such things as people retiring too early, workers asking for pay rises, and businesses attempting to cover their rising costs. It is also why, despite growing currency shortages, central bankers are still committed to interest rate rises which are likely to trigger a collapse far greater and far more widespread than the 2008 version.
Unfortunately, as we discovered during and in the aftermath from the pandemic, even natural sciences have become politicised to an extent which forces us to mistrust even that research published in scientific journals. Nevertheless, the requirement for objective research at least forces a degree of contact with the real world. The same cannot be said of economics, which is based solely on models of a financial economy which is merely a simulacrum – often a seriously distorted one – of the real economy… a real economy which is increasingly coming back to bite us for the erroneous decisions we have been making on the back of those detached economic models.
As I ruefully suggested in The Consciousness of Sheep, with access to a seemingly infinite supply of cheap energy and resources during some 300 years of industrial civilisation, like the adherents of some obscure religion, economists could come up with whatever nonsense they wanted to, and people in the real world would find a way of making it work. But now that energy is no longer cheap, and the resources available to us are depleting rapidly, the need to unthink economics is becoming existential. Rather than the current simulacrum, we desperately need a new science of the economy, properly grounded in the real world of energy, resources and physical limits. Instead, as we shall see in Part Three, the ruling technocracy is bent upon a further flight into the realms of utopian technofantasy – seeking to replace Planet Earth itself with a hyperreal digital simulacrum.Jim Rickards points out that all risk in the $US system has been transferred onto the system itself, as a solution, since 2008. Currency crisis is now possible.
By the way, this is not really a banking crisis even though it plays out in the form of bank failures. What’s going on is a crisis caused by a shortage of Treasury bill collateral to support derivatives positions and shrinking balance sheets as a consequence of the collateral shortage.
Why doesn’t the Treasury just issue, say, $2 trillion of new T-bills and let the primary dealers and Fed underwrite them with as much printed money as needed? One reason is that neither Jay Powell nor Janet Yellen understands what we just described.
The other reason is that we’re up against the X-Date when the Treasury runs out of cash and can’t borrow more because of the debt ceiling. Is Congress ready to raise the debt ceiling? Nope. It’s the usual Democrat versus Republican game of chicken with no resolution in sight.
https://dailyreckoning.com/why-the-panic-is-just-beginning/Charles Hugh Smith: Global Bankruptcy Already Baked In
Scrape away the complexity and every economic crisis and crash boils down to the precarious asymmetry between collateral and the debt secured by that collateral collapsing.
It’s really that simple.
https://dailyreckoning.com/global-bankruptcy-already-baked-in/ This is not an acceptable position to the US State Department. Will reality prevail? Who has the authority to negotiate peace?
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is visiting Poland to prepare a “diplomatic coalition” for eventual peace talks with Russia, retired Polish general Waldemar Skrzypczak has claimed. He argued that Kiev cannot achieve its aims on the battlefield, and will need Western support for negotiations with Moscow.
Skrzypczak was speaking to the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Wednesday, as Zelensky arrived in Warsaw to meet senior officials. The former commander of the Polish Land Forces rejected the idea that Ukraine should use Western weapons for a last-ditch offensive against Russia – a scenario reportedly being pressed upon Kiev by its foreign backers.
“Pushing the Ukrainians into an offensive is unjustified at the moment, because they are not ready for it. Now it’s time for politicians,” Skrzypczak argued. https://www.rt.com/news/574223-zelensky-poland-offensive-unjustified/Zelensky vows ‘no borders’ between Ukraine and Poland (Smiles look fake to me.)
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on Wednesday, during his first official visit to Poland since the beginning of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022.“You have stood shoulder to shoulder with us, and we are grateful for it,” Zelensky stated during the meeting, pledging “no borders in political, economic and – especially important – in historical terms” between the two countries.
The Polish president, for his part, promised to continue supporting Kiev in the conflict, revealing that Warsaw was ready to send all its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine “in the future.” Poland has previously pledged 14 of its Soviet-made jets...
..On Tuesday, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, claimed that Poland’s military assistance to Ukraine was actually part of a secret land grab plan aimed at certain territories that historically belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which today are part of Ukraine.
“Seizing control of the western territories of modern Ukraine, the so-called Kresy [‘borderlands’ in Polish], is the coveted dream of the Polish nationalists,” Naryshkin said, adding that Warsaw sees “the collapse of Ukrainian statehood after a military defeat as a condition for implementing this idea.”
Over the course of the ongoing conflict, Naryshkin has repeatedly warned of the alleged Polish designs on Ukraine’s territory. Warsaw, however, has denied such claims, dismissing them as an information warfare operation. (RT)
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/zelensky-vows-no-borders-between-ukraine-and-poland/ Russian Analyst , Gilbert Doktorow looks at French President Macron’s 3 day trip to China with Ursula von der Leyen and 50 business executive who sign deals with China, and surprisingly claims that it is about business, not preaching to China about global citizenship. France is making non-dollar deals. Any French and EU preachiness is not targeted at Xi Jinping, but may be necessary for some of those watching from afar. Thnks Christine.
I got to the end and saw that the ever conservative Doktorow wrote this:
At the conclusion of my time on air, I brought up another major event of the past month which also was blacked out by our broadcasters, namely the destruction of an underground bunker near the Western Ukraine city of Liviv by a Russian hypersonic missile Kinzhal, which cost the lives of more than 200 NATO generals and other high military officers, including about 20 Americans. That event, which first was announced very discreetly on Russian news tickers immediately following its execution, was again quietly and briefly mentioned on the Yandex ticker yesterday with respect to the “shipment in crates” of the recovered remains of those officers killed to their home countries in the West.
Macron in China: is this about reading lectures to his Chinese hosts or about promoting French business deals?1968 was the year that French student protests brought down the government, RFK and MLK were assassinated, LBJ decided not to run for another term, and the Democratic convention was disrupted by street protests against the Vietnam war, and the assassination of the anti war leaders. 2023 echoes 1968.
French trade unions called for record turnout at protests on Thursday, after negotiations with the government over a controversial pension reform bill broke down. France has been consumed by protests and riots since President Emmanuel Macron’s government hiked the retirement age without a vote in parliament.
Union representatives met with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday, warning beforehand that they would walk out if Borne refused to entertain the idea of bringing the retirement age for most workers back to 62 from 64. Borne refused, and the union representatives walked out, calling for strikes and mass demonstrations the following day.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/france-braces-for-further-protests/President Macron was a Rothschild banker not long before being thrust into his current political role.
French Pension Protesters Storm Paris BlackRock Headquarters
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-pension-protests-ignite-again-after-union-talks-prime-minster-fail M.K. Bhadrakumar at Indian Punchline OPEC: Saudis aren’t afraid of US anymore
All that the Western leaders can complain about is that the OPEC+ cut in oil output has come at an inappropriate time. But the woes of Western economies cannot be laid at the door of OPEC+ as there are inherent problems which are now coming to the surface. For instance, the large scale protests in France against pension reform or the widespread strikes in Britain for higher wages show that there are deep structural problems in these economies, and the governments seem helpless in tackling them.
In geopolitical terms, the OPEC+ move came after a meeting between Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman in Riyadh on March 16 that focused on oil market cooperation. Therefore, it is widely seen as the tightening of the bond between Russia and Saudi Arabia. In fact, in May, as the largest members of OPEC join Russia in its unilateral reduction, the balance of quotas and the ratio of market shares between and amongst the participants in the OPEC + deal will return to the level set when it was concluded in April 2020.
The big question is, how Moscow might profit from the OPEC+ decision. The rise in crude oil prices particularly benefits Russia. Simply put, the production cuts will tighten up the oil market and thus help Russia to secure better prices for the crude oil it sells. Second, the new cuts also confirm that Russia is still an integral and important part of the group of oil producing countries, despite the western attempts to isolate it.“No Reason” For Malaysia To Rely On US Dollar, PM Warns As Yuan Influence Grows
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-reason-malaysia-rely-us-dollar-pm-warns-yuan-influence-growsDon’t jump to be first in line for this… Long-awaited Fed digital payment system to launch in July
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/long-awaited-fed-digital-payment-system-to-launch-in-july.htmlSenate Leaves 2001 AUMF For Secret Wars In Force, Rejects Paul and Hawley Proposals. Why is the world not afraid of the Global War on Terror now?
Senate Leaves 2001 AUMF For Secret Wars In Force, Rejects Paul and Hawley Proposals.
Peter McCulough MD, one of the most published physicians in Cardiology and Epidemiology
Authors Conclude “Relatively Safe” as Dozens of Children Die after COVID-19 Vaccination
Published Reports Whitewashing Fatal Complications
As an author and editor, I have always lived by a principle of medical publication that the conclusions must be supported by the data presented. Many have asked me why to do doctors still support COVID-19 vaccination with all safety data systems reporting record mortality after injection—many cases occurring on the same day or in the next few days after administration? The reason may be what doctors are concluding from the data in peer-reviewed manuscripts does not match the information disclosed.
Villa-Zapata and coworkers published a report from VAERS on “safety” of COVID-19 vaccination in children age 5 to 17 and in the data table there are 56 deaths! Also listed are other potentially fatal complications such as anaphylaxis and myocarditis.
The authors concluded that COVID-19 vaccination in children is “relatively safe.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/authors-conclude-relatively-safe“Work till you die or leave the country to retire.:
Some very interesting thoughts here, as it all turns to crap (as expected).
Vive la France
Sweet, Blackrock in flames
Paris, France… Citizens have stormed the headquarters of BlackRock
RESIST 🔥🔥🔥
— Pelham (@Resist_05) April 6, 2023
Maybe you noticed today Trump going up and down the courthouse stairs without falling. pic.twitter.com/Gg1NQHXzCl
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) April 4, 2023
Nothing important.
The petrodollar conceptt is kind of outdated these days. First the US no longer buys very much oil from the Saudis, ever since the fracking revolution began in the US.
Now the US fracking revolution largely depended upon free money from the Fed. With the era of free money fast disappearing, don’t be surprised if the fracking boom starts going bust.
If you look around the world, you will also notice there is very little franking going on outside of the US due to the lack of free money. Europe did see some franking.
So far no Russian has collected the rewards for destroying the first Lepard tank. They will have to wait until the Ukrainians get permission to use these western tanks at or behind the frontlines.
The west has given the Ukrainians these tanks with the strict understanding that they can’t be used anywhere near the frontlines. The Ukrainians are busy trying to eliminate these restrictions on western tanks usage. So the Russians have to wait.
This winter the called up 300K experienced Russian reserves have so far remained in reserve continuing their training. None of these forces have yet been committed.
All of the fighting this winter has been from the previous 90K Russian forces committed in February 2022. Only new Russian volunteer forces and new Wagner forces have seen any heavy fighting this winter.
This is verified by looking at the Russian casualty figures. Regular Russian army casualties has dropped dramatically over the winter months while the Wagner casualties have sky rocketed this winter. On a good day Wagner only looses 20 men. On a bad day they lose 50 men.
This winter Russia has clearly shifted to waging war on a more economical basis. Shell usage has dropped from 60K to 10K per day, so the Russians can rebuild their stockpiles for use by their 300K reserves. Russian shell production is being raised from 3.5 to 7 million per year.
Russia has tremendous stockpiles of old dumb 500kg – 1,000kg – 1,500kg bombs for which they are now adding gliding kits which allow their airplanes to release the gliding bombs at high altitudes safely well behind their frontline’s air defense systems. Gliding distances depend upon the release height from 30 km up to 70 km.
It is estimated one of these bombs replaces about 200 – 300 artillery shells. Dozens of these gliding bombs are now launched every day now. The Russians are now usingover 1 meter long laser guided 120 mm mortar shells again greatly reducing the use of dumb mortar shells.
So one could argue the Russians have not really reduced their shelling down to 10K shells per day. They have simply switched to more deadly guided and efficient ammunition.
I have heard you can now buy a train ticket in Rubles at the Bukhmut train station. The wait for the next train might be rather long though!
My reply did not go through so here it is again:
@hb-jbkultsommer, what point are you making though?
My puzzlement with your obsession with the Marx/comm taking over the US would be a good start.
All former socialist countries in Europe by now pretty much adopted Western capitalist system.
They dealt or may be still dealing with the remnants of an old system obligations like pensions. Transfer of former government owned production facilities was usually associated with shady privatization deals. New owners are pretty much in full sync with the Western oligarchs so, all in all, the new system is not socialist/communist any longer.
Now, if you or Dr D would stand at the street corner somewhere in the Budapest, Prague, Belgrade… and start giving a speech how the Marxists and communist, just like in the US, are taking over their countries you would not end up in the gulag but would definitely be institutionalized in mental health facility.https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/the-ukrainian-diasporas-influence-on-canadian-foreign-policy-decisions
The Ukrainian diaspora’s influence on Canadian foreign policy decisions
Valeriy KrylkoKultsommer:
Your comment about “a communist standing on a street corner being institutionalized” made me chuckle&!
This brought back memories of way back in 1983, when I was serving, a 6 month sentence of hard labor, in a Siberian coal mine. One evening we invited our woman interpreters to view a video with us. The movie was “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” about a mental asylum.
Well to say our Russian interpreters were totally confused was an understatement! They could not understand why we were laughing so hard. This movie proved to them that everything the communist government had told them was indeed true!
If you drew a flow-chart style diagram of how Capitalism works you would quickly deduce that it works just like any other machine and, like them, abides by the First Law of Thermodynamics “Energy cannot be created or destroyed” , meaning that you can’t get more out of closed system then you put into it. Or, in other words, there really IS no such thing as a free lunch.
So who the hell ever got the idea that the production class (who give WAY more than they get) could magically ALL become the Middle Class (who try like madmen to “make a profit” on their “trading and investments” , i.e. get WAY more than they give, by being clever cheats). And who in their right mind could possibly believe that the elite, the ownership class (who take whatever they want without asking and give nothing back but contempt and the insistence that even more be given, for free) are EVER going to permit EITHER of those types of underlings (the underpaid makers or overpaid middlemen) to stop sending goods and services to the elite ownership class, and be allowed instead to join the ranks of the superior and enjoy getting everything they want for nothing and never have to give anything back except orders to give more, and severe punishment for any lackeys who disobeys orders or slows the flow of free goodies.
It’s a MACHINE fer chrissake! What did expect it to do? You CAN’T have more arriving at the top than was sent up from the bottom! EVERYBODY can’t get everything for free if NOBODY is giving it away for peanuts. How the fuck can everybody be the “Master” if nobody is a slave? Duh! Capitalism REQUIRES slavery, you dumb fucks! There are no elites without them. There are no Middlemen profiteers without them. There is no such damn things as “profit” in a closed thermodynamic system! Hey, it it may be a marvelous fantasy but but it just ain’t fucking true! It is i-m-p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e . Give it a REST “business” people. Please!
If I hear one more pundit advise me how to cut my losses of counterfeit money by sticking it to some poor greater fool or other innocent victim I might just go strangle that pundit with my bare hands on live TV!
When I hear “wannabe profiteers” bemoaning the “injustices” that threaten their free ride I just gotta hang my head in despair, and think to myself, “These guys are so blind to their own participation in the scam that’s killing them that they don’t even see that those “injustices” they complain about so much are nothing but chickens coming home to roost. Anyone who has materially enjoyed more than they have materially produced, has directly or indirectly STOLEN that “profit” from someone who made the item or did the work or provided the service and didn’t get properly paid for it.
Well I hate to be the one who breaks the news, BUT THOSE STOLEN GOODS HAVE TO BE GIVEN BACK. One way or the other, brother, that is what’s happening. That “profit” is going back to where it came from, because Capitalism is, by its very definition, a violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics, and is for that same reason IMPOSSIBLE (in THIS world, anyway) to operate without slavery. The immutable laws of reality do not allow it. The balance is enforced, not negotiated. That’s why it’s called a law, and not a disclaimer.
Of course something very much LIKE Capitalism and profiteering might work. The first cousin to Capitalism would work just fine if it were balanced by fair play and voluntarily acceptance (true free will) of a tolerable amount of loss in the form of giving a bit more than getting. But first, ACTUAL profit would have to be removed from the system because the concept of a real and actual “profit” would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics, and that NEVER happens because it cannot.
To insist on a real and actual profit (that is, getting back more than was given) means that there are going to be those who must involuntarily give away something without pay. In other words, slaves. If it’s a profit then it came from a slave. A lot of people try to dodge this inescapable fact by figuring out a way to somehow personally evade becoming enslaved. Remarkably, some people manage to “kind of” pull that off, in a self-deluding way. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be any slaves. It just means that those who are willing to turn a blind eye to crime and just comply with orders to work the slaves for a profit can personally evade worse slavery by being the “semi-slaves” (i.e. Middleclass) who administer and administrate the orders (sent down from the elite ownership class) upon those poor slobs lower on down the slave chain than they are. That blind eye and compliance is, of course, just another thinly disguised form of slavedom, but the gaslighted and self deluded don’t allow themselves to know that in their fore-brain. (it’s just a little secret between me and my conscience)
A tolerably decent civilization IS possible, but ONLY by adhering to certain immutable laws that have been proven to be true through uncountable millennia. All of the rules can be violated, of course, because free will allows it, but when they are then the inevitable consequences DO happen. Foremost of these Laws of Successful Human Society (that are also guidelines and advice) is that this world will either be consciously acknowledged as God’s work, or it will consequently become a hellish disaster in which practically nothing works. The second law is that there must be NO SLAVES, which means NO PROFITEERS, which in turn means no lying stealing, cheating, or unnecessary killing either. Ultimately this absolute rejection of all forms of slavery is simply the recognition that everybody actually does have free will, and that trying to operate on the basis that they don’t it is simply WRONG (I mean wrong as in Not True, and also as in Bad). Bad faith and usury are utterly forbidden, punishable by the laws of Nature itself.
Hey, feel free to do anything you fucking want to, but my firm advice is to WANT to straighten up and fly right. Discover, assimilate and follow those rules. Until then, the beatings will continue.
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