Debt Rattle August 29 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 29 2022]Thank you RIM, for presenting items we would otherwise miss.
Trying to give away life jackets and waterproof thermal suits to people boarding the Titanic would have been a thankless task, inviting ridicule and insults. After all, the company brochure clearly stated that the ship was unsinkable.
From Charles Hugh Smith a couple of years ago:
‘We need to start thinking beyond pretense and PR.’
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct20/titanic-analogy10-20.html
With the third class passengers now drowning, it’s fairly clear that the ship will go under some time in the next 12 months.
Actually, I think 4 months for energy-dependent nations without a domestic oil supply and refineries etc. .
I hear whisper that America soldiers stationed in Syria may be required to fight Russians or Iranians in the near future order to keep stealing oil.
Kiwi dollar hovering around 61 cents US at the moment (72 cents US 16 months ago). And Bent oil on the way up again, it seems. Hmmm!
Yes we really actually do know the depths of Europe’s energy crisis. We know a very great deal about that space here on TAE.
It’s a tad frustrating to know the content of the writing that will soon be written on the wall – before it is even written on the damn wall.STORY AT-A-GLANCE
August 19, 2022, The New York Times (NYT) published the documentary “Superspreader,” featuring yours truly, on FX and Hulu, both of which are owned by Disney
The top institutional owners of The NYT are The Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc. Combined, they have ownership in nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms, and through their investment holdings they secretly wield monopoly control over all industries
The takeaway from the program is that my integrity is in question because I run a successful vitamin and organic food company
The same networks critical of how I fund my free information outreach with nutritional supplements and biodynamic foods advertised Hard Seltzer alcohol, Pop Tarts, Taco Bell and fad supplements, including a hair growth formula, a testosterone booster and a weight loss pill, during the program
The timing of the documentary also ended up being ironic, as just one week before the “Superspreader” program aired, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed all of its COVID-19 guidelines, thereby proving many of my positions on COVID correct.https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/08/29/superspreader-of-truth.aspx?
I’m making a request here (because my wit and analysis is not the level I would hope for) – that Dr D breakdown that Guardian shit-piece about Putin. Please. I need a laugh. How many lines of lying AND stupid must a reader endure? What a piece of garbage.
Thanks for the glimpse at “the other side” RIM as I seldom read anything out of substack and telegram posts. MSM is complete propaganda.While we are at it – this is where the aus gov is at right now on covid. FFS
For more than 18 months, our governments and the media have been telling us:
“the return to normal life will be possible thanks to the vaccine”,
“you will regain your freedom when you are vaccinated
“the non-vaccinated are responsible for the continuation of the epidemic”.
But no real-world study has provided the slightest evidence to support this pro-vaccine injection marketing propaganda.
And the analysis of official WHO data (available at WHO covid dashboard) is very disturbing.
None of the champions of vaccination have succeeded in eliminating the virus, nor in avoiding strong resurgence of the epidemic, and very few have totally liberated their vaccinated people from the supposedly health liberating measures imposed without scientific proof of their effectiveness.
What we are currently experiencing is a formulated written agenda, with which it will accumulate, yet more money and power. A gigantic act of desperation, probably the biggest that has ever occurred in the whole history of mankind. The cause of this act of desperation, in that the system to which the digital-financial system with its existence can no longer be kept alive with the previous business model. It was very close to its demise already during the world financial crisis of 2007 to 2008. If government banks, then had not mobilized huge amounts of tax money, and the central banks instructed oodles of money to be created out of nothing, the system would have collapsed there and then, but salvation was only temporary. The amount of money had to be continuously increased over a period of 12 years, and the interest rates had to be reduced several times so the system was made ever more unstable. In the long term, that could go nowhere, and last year it was to the point that the next collapse was threatening, and this collapse has been postponed through a final feat of strength, namely the reduction of interest rates to zero, and the injection of billions and billions for one final time.
With that, however, a qualitative new situation has come about. A further deferral would require interest rates to be dropped into the minus range, and this would destroy the foundation of the current banking system. Banks cannot operate long term with negative interest rates. This means that a further deferral, with the previously used approach will not be possible. In the present situation, one can inject billions and billions into the system. However, with the growing rate of inflation, it will be driven into hyperinflation.
The situation in which the digital-financial complex finds itself is between the alternatives of on one side, the final collapse, and on the other side, hyperinflation. So that means the total loss of the value of money. That means historically, we have arrived at the point in which the digital-financial complex, in the framework of the existing system still has the choice between the two various forms of collapse.
Dark Brandon
But the Democrats and the looney left are prepared to overlook grooming behaviour in order to defeat Trump. Why? Mean tweats. These people see mean tweats as worse than their children being raped.
“At one point, in the spring of 2020, the government was spending about twice as much on compensating for the lockdown as it was on the NHS.” (Lord Sumption)
Good lord.
“Tell them to fuck off.” (RIM)
We’re on it.
Appears to more evidence of the NZ Police/WEF state, desperately looking for dirt on “right wing reporters” (aka disobedient children), then just saying “fuck it, this is a police state, we will just ban them anyway” …. https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/leaked-police-begging-interpol-for-intel-on-avi-yemini
“Sweden will hold general elections on September 11, 2022. At the same time, the country is rocked by a wave of violent crime that is unprecedented in modern Scandinavian history.”
I’m sure these are all legacy Swedes, and White Supremacists. How dare they use and exhibit Swedish culture of not-grenading people.
“Your leaders think they can win that. I’m not so sure.”
I think they’ve been measuring compliance, scientifically, using all the methods of advertising honed razor-sharp for 100 years. They could be right about EuroPop compliance, or enough to make a mess. But “realizing” is not a linear function.
“A year-long supply cut-off by Russia could happen “without adverse consequences for its economy,”
This was thanks to NATO and Trump, who embargoed them (illegally) for years or decades, forcing them to be self-sustaining in every way. If only we were so prepared, but it looks like we will be as the US$ cut off.
“Whether or not Russia turns off the taps completely will be a political decision”
“Russia” has never turned off the taps. Ever. Yet. YOU turned off your OWN taps. I know lies are very common, but this is reaching the level of breathtaking. You lover comes in, puts his hands on your throat and says, “Why are you strangling me? Why??? Why are you killing me? I love you.” Gaaaa—kk This is not knowing up from down, clear psychosis, total break from reality.
“There are currently no practical replacements for oil, coal and natural gas; none. Especially not in a reasonable time frame that would spare Europeans from a full blown disaster.”
On violent psychosis, one of the things that’s equally disturbing is that they are doing nothing to mitigate this even in the short term. We hear about a shower or two. Maybe sorta having a gym open with heat or sumptin’. And then reversing with shutting off all food at the same time, raising prices when we will need all the help we can get. Since they haven’t even dusted off the War Footing, barely referring to it, we know there can be no possible conclusion except that they are actively and intentionally killing everyone. After 50 years of papers about how they need to actively and intentionally kill everyone. Not even denying it really. Another population IQ test, the Tiger and the Lady.
“You Have No Idea How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is (FP)”
Yeah, that’s pretty ominous, and why I keep harping on any delays preventing gas storage. That was before I fully recognized how big NordStream II is.
“It needs both. But as we think about this winter, there is a very real threat that there won’t be any Russian gas at all.”
Only because of your own leaders, applying active Democide for another 60M Europeans, since they loved it so much last time and voted in the same policies for decades. But I see why the player positioning now: it’s because they CAN turn on Nord I and II at the same time and save the continent. And also expel the Yanks for daring to tell them to shut it off. So there are options, which is why the game board looks like this right now. They need the people to rise up and demand it.
“Without Russia’s supply in the winter, Munton added,”
Every article, every time. WHY would you even suggest such a thing? WHY are all the sentences composed this way? RUSSIA is not shutting off the gas. RUSSIA has no intention, nor any benefit from shutting off the gas. RUSSIA – so far – is perfectly happy to fill all pipelines 100% every minute of the year. So his sentence looks like “When the snow-white star weasels come in winter from the Planet Weselton, Munton added.” Yes, that COULD happen, but it’s just fiction you’re making up wholesale.
“There’s a limit to what you can do …because there’s only so much LNG in the world,”
Yes, and the LNG terminal charging station in America just blew up. Coincidentally. So let’s see: no LNG this end; no LNG at that end, no ships in the middle… Great plan! S.N.A.F.U. I’ve got an idea! Let’s not change anything and steer into the wall!
“Germany Vows to Support Ukraine ‘For Years’ (RT)”
As breathtaking as every other thing said: Germany is not supporting Ukraine even NOW. Lie.
“The world has never recognized the annexation of 2014, which was against international law,”
Again, LIE. It was done under clear U.N. charter for self-determination, was U.N. monitored election, and IS recognized by an overwhelming portion of the world: the majority of world population. Just not in London.
“50,000 Ukrainian Refugees Face Homelessness in UK (RT)”
So does everyone in Britain thanks to BoJo the Clown.
“Putin Is Trapped And Desperate. Will His Friends in the West Rescue Him? (G.)”
HuhWhut? Lies cubed? Now that we’ve established this Russia, we cube to RussiaRussiaRussia. And PutinPuppets of Putler.
“Men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Like this journalist. Desperate clutching at writing. ProTip: News articles are not to begin with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” or “It was a sunny morning in Muncie Indiana, the birds were singing…” JHC this is journalism. Get to the point and save the bulls–t for your novels, we’re on the clock here.
“indefinite stalemate is not what he expected. He didn’t expect car bombs in Moscow”
And using his PutinTelepathy™. All reporters are issued PutinTelepathy™ upon hiring.
“it’s uncertain his generals have the capability or the stomach.”
Definitely not a war reporter. We should send him to the front from which Brits, Yanks, and Canadians are running away like little girls and he can see if his Generals have the stomach to kill man after man, mile after mile, and never get tired and like it. “Shootin’ folks is a h—l of a good time” General Maddis. And yes, this is the sort of guy you SHOULD hire as a General, being a psycho unfit for the general population.
No point line by line I could be at it all day. 1st World complaints of uninformed, useless milksops.
“At the same time, Kiev insists that it is Russian forces who are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.”
Every day I read this: Russia is in the plant, using as a base, AND ALSO shelling themselves, in their own base. HuhWhut?™ Which I now use so often, I trademark it. The West: taken leave of their senses so long ago it’s but a dim memory.
“Ukraine Relying on US-developed Blueprint to Fight Russia – CNN (RT)”
That must be why they’re losing so badly. Why would you emulate a nation that hasn’t won in 80 years, and kinda didn’t win that one? But the important people won: Daddy Warbucks and the Banks while 200,000 soldiers lost, so perfect outcome.
““It is inappropriate for Russian tourists to stroll in our cities, on our marinas,” a – COMPLETELY RACIST – senior EU official told the newspaper.” So proud. It’s not White Supremacy when I do it!
“The New York Times Editorial Board has called for the Biden administration’s Department of Justice to prosecute former President Donald Trump. The crimes of which he’s accused” …are unknown.
Do we usually prosecute a man, without a crime? This doesn’t merit any comment anymore?
Refresher: First we have a crime, only THEN do we go discover and prosecute the person who committed the crime. Oh, and they are required access to all State’s evidence, all warrants and other material.
If Mar-Lago comes up again, know that the government classifies everything. For no reason whatsoever except to feel important and prevent any oversight. Going about your workday, which would you prefer: classify everything so no one can ask and give you s—t about anything, no matter how small, OR keep all the real stuff open and on-record so people will second-guess your every move? Yeah, I thought so.
Second, once it’s classified, literally no one reviews it to see if it should be un-classified, and to call you on your s—t. First, THEY would have to be classified, and not just that, but need-to-know of THIS specific event and document. Then they would have to take extensive initiative, overrule you, and unclassify, which would annoy literally every employee in government. You’re blowing their cover, reprimanding them, making them work, and for all the outliers: getting them arrested and imprisoned.
So….these are the “Classified” records at Mar-Lago, and everywhere else in government. And why over the years, EVERYTHING we look at has slowly become classified. President’s calendar? Classified. Remember that? Anything he wrote in any meeting? Classified. So if he doodles on a Burger King napkin, it’s classified. 15 boxes of “Saw Jim on Friday” on Burger King napkins…I mean unless you want to present me with ANY evidence to the contrary. They can’t even adequately present an accusation, much less an evidence.
You see this in Turley’s article: the FBI /DoJ swore up and down they could not possibly, ever release the warrant or 100 – thousand – secret agents would be killed!!! Judge said do it and a day later Lo! It WAS possible to release the warrant. Who knewd? And the same with this Black-lined warrant: if you ordered them to un-redact another 90% of it, they could do that too and risk nothing. Because governments always start with “Make Me.” Make me do my job. Make me admit what I did. Make me permit oversight of anything. DENIED. Cut off funding and they still probably don’t care. Why on earth would they ever allow oversight or declassification?
As we know this is a constant problem with secret police and agencies, with democracies, with governments in general, and may be literally unsolvable. They always go bad given time, and they seem to only be cured with the de-facto overthrow of the government and their replacement, whether violent, partial, or complete. This is of course what the White Hats are gunning for so far, setting up the FBI like this, but remains to be seen if they can, if doing so would work, or if it would topple the government in general as every body and every thing is run by them, and visible representatives are just stand-ins.
“For hours, Mr. Trump refused to call off the mob.”
For about 15 minutes, while texts were coming in, he didn’t know there was a mob TO call off. Lies. More Lies. Lies cubed. Lies with every breath of every day. Lies,lies,lies.
If they have a crime, present and prosecute it. If they’re using innuendo, it means THEY DON’T HAVE ANY CRIME.
“Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Reveals the Government Has No Case against Trump (Brock)”
“Latest Covid Booster Shots to Be Released without Human Testing (NYP)”
I don’t remember the last time they tested things. This is Science, where the BJM and Lancet both say there is no Science, all the studies are bunk unless proven otherwise, and “Money is the Science.” If the last 100 years of watching this hasn’t clued you in.
McDonald’s pioneered the fast food drive thru
Now we have the fast food drive by.
You’ve come a long way baby.
“A further deferral would require interest rates to be dropped into the minus range, and this would destroy the foundation of the current banking system.”
Luongo is on this. Yes, Europe is flopping to a CBDC, so all banking and Central Banking, central control. They are the only money, the only issuer, previous plan was to be CO2 Carbon-backed, as desired by the Technocrats in the 30’s. However, AMERICA is run largely by the NY Commercial banks. Now they’re not the good guys, but why would they EVERY ONE KILL THEMSELVES DEAD by giving up 100% of their model and market, and handing all money and all banking to the Fed? Nope.
Europe killed themselves with negative interest rates, like Armstrong said. They prob weren’t worried since they always planned to swap to Carbon-Credit backed Central Bank Digital Currency. However, if Russia isn’t onboard, they’re screwed. They HAVE TO have the world,with no alternate system. If America also isn’t onboard, they are totally, completely, irrevocably screwed. Aaaaaaaand, we are not. Not JUST the whole, incredibly armed, vast, violent population, BUT 5 layers of most powerful lobbyists, starting with Commercial Banking, Wall St., and every human in New York.
Just adding that going to Central Issuance was the plan. And Davos vs NY is the gameplay right now.
THEY. LOST. However, a lot of guys die during the march to Berlin.
@Dr D
“At the same time, Kiev insists that it is Russian forces who are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.”
Every day I read this: Russia is in the plant, using as a base, AND ALSO shelling themselves, in their own base. HuhWhut?™ Which I now use so often, I trademark it. The West: taken leave of their senses so long ago it’s but a dim memory.
I actually had this argument with a Normie and his response was that the Russians outside the plant are shelling those inside the plant ‘Because they’re so stupid’.
How can you reason with someone who’s not only drunk that much Kool-aid but is actually doing the backstroke in it?
The £5,180 bus stop to nowhere will come in handy for this British winter.
The homeless can arm wrestle the Ukrainian refugees for them.
They can build campfires in them to heat their non existent food supply.
England as thirdworldshithole.
This will be the beginning of the UK’s Century of Humilation
They deserve it.
Civil unrest is happening …. NOW. (read the blogs …. read TAE)
I’m allowed but You are not allowed to tell lies, insult, calling name, yell or act impolite towards “your better”/your politicians. – Trudeau
(Quiet quitting, work to rule, avoiding direct confrontations, not your responsibility, loaded dice, russian roulette)
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Blind leadership ….
Not enough energy ….. not enough money …….. not enough time ….. not enough motivation to help the sheeps ….
“lack of common sense”• You Have No Idea How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is (FP)
• Britain’s Financial Support For Ukraine To Run Out By New Year – Times (RT)
• 50,000 Ukrainian Refugees Face Homelessness In UK (RT)————
Worst outcome – NATO wins against Russia
Best outcome – Russia wins against NATO
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In other words
it was not their job to think about the social or economic implications of their advice. They were right about that. The problem was it turned out to be no one else’s job. We are still paying for this negligence,
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Who is in control
https://www.medicaldaily.com/gut-bacteria-control-our-minds-get-food-they-want-how-countering-can-fight-obesity-298394
Gut Bacteria Control Our Minds To Get The Food They Want; How Countering This Can Fight Obesity
Aug 17, 2014 12:43 PM By Anthony Rivas
Microbial Mind Control
MARCH 7, 2017
———@Zerosum – pretty sure I’ve been dealing with quite a few people with microbial-level cognitive processes recently. In fact, having a committee of microbes doing their thinking for them might actually be a step up in some cases.
@aspnaz: You seem to have misconstrued m meaning when I said that energy/resource availability decline is happening, and that the-owners are contriving an energy/supply crisis just ahead of what is already in process, so as to maintain their control-narrative (propaganda).
I did not mean that their intentions were beneficent to the rest of us. Nearby I mentioned that the crisis of human political economy might be mitigated by concerted-action/killing-more-folks. Our owners seem to be working on the killing-more-folks branch of that decision-tree. It’s easier for them to conceptualize their model remaining in power.
@AFewKnowTheTruth: Hang in there, friend. We bear the message that there is urgent work for each of us to do, which will improve our near-term survival, which will be hard. This is an unpopular message. All of us seek models to understand our world and to guide our decisions into the future, but we only desire the easy-answers that come from such models, not the hard answers.
It is easier to say “everything will be ok for me”, or even to say, “we’ll all die, no matter what we do”.
We see those approaches here with variations, but they really absolve the individual of any responsibility to take difficult personal initiative.@Dr.D: The graph of CO2 levels in our planetary atmosphere over geological time does imply that life will exist on the planet with changes in CO2, even huge increases, but all of human-species existence exists in that little low spot that you point out as such. We are actually concerned with our own lives, and those of our younger family members, so the climate-change concerns are completely practical. We are always being played, against our own best0interests, and it’s really a lot right now.
Whether there is a lot of oil in the arctic, or whether it is fossil or abiotic in origin are similar intellectual debates. I think it’s not going to be made available to ordinary people in our lifetimes. Maybe I’m wrong.
As it currently stands, 90% of humans are dependent upon oil and natural gas for life, compared to 200 years ago, and more of us than that would probably die if the electric grids went dead for a few months in the industrialized world. The owners seem (to me) to be toying with their models of decreasing the human herd. They want good enough models to act upon with certainty of success. Everybody wants that. I wish them failure in their endeavors, but I think they are working on getting rid of lots of us.
We don’t know the ultimate cull rate of these genetic-code-vaccine-products upon our numbers. We don’t have an actionable model for that, do we. We can avoid them now. Some of us had enough information to avoid, to never accept the experiment as it was initially presented, to give up employment on the principle of standing with the new “untermenschen”.
Shutting down energy flows in a war-economy in EU/UK is being tried out. How much will people take before they quit cooperating? How does one not-cooperate when one needs electricity, food, water and fuel to survive, and cooperation is required to get all that?
One might need to be at the point of utter capitulation of hope. I’m not sure, myself…I wrote another essay yesterday. I thought about it while mowing the heavily overgrown and dense and wet 0.8 acre lawn in 4 sessions, totaling 7 hours, this weekend. 3 weeks of rain in Yoakum…
I just thought of a quick and easy (and fairly accurate) way to separate the three categories of humankind: good guys, bad guys and undecided.
The good guys are the people who are actually trying to make things work.
The bad guys are people who are actually trying to make things NOT work.
And the undecided do not understand what the fuck is happening and are so afraid to look that all they can manage is to go on not knowing what to do or which direction to do it in. They’re frozen, hypnotized by the fact that there is a fact shining straight into their eyeballs that they either can not or will not identify for what it plainly is. The paralysis of indecision.
If they DID that (i.e. actually SAW what they were looking at) then they would know in an instant what those headlights meant for their immediate future . . . and jump.
So, in review, the good guys are trying to get us all through this mess as best they can. The bad guys are working hard to make sure that nobody except them gets out of here alive, and the herd is frozen in the headlights. The frozen-in-their-tracks herd’s near future is either going be an eye opening experience, or it’s lights out.
How crazy is it to want something really really badly (like OBSESSIVELY) and at the very same time . . . in fact as part of the actual process of trying to get and possess that obsessively wanted item . . . to NOT WANT (to violently FORBID) all of the working and doing which MAKES that coveted item in the first place?
Yeah? Well that’s how crazy our “elite” “leaders” and their silly minions are.
The way out of this vicious circle is contained in the parable of “Little Black Sambo.” I highly recommend it. The way for the sane to survive the hungry tiger is to keep the greedy tiger running round and around the tree you’re in, chasing its own delusion until the tiger melts down into a pool of butter.
Trust And Consequences https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/trust-and-consequences
Pleasant photo in banana-shadeReading Marx the other day helped me get perspective on changes-of-system. Marx’s world was changing from the ancient feudal system to the new industrial economy. Everybody was displaced. Nobles didn’t like it, and said so. Newly-landless peasants didn’t like it, and had no say; just died young. Life expectancy in England among factory workers was 28 years. Three of Marx’s 6 kids lived to adulthood, and their lot was much above average.
Around 1848, when Marx was writing Das Kapital (which was a paid job, with content he had to include) Europe was going through revolutions to end the old monarchic system, and industrialists, and their factory outputs, drove these revolutions in Sicily, France, Germany, Italy and the Austrian Empire. Naturally, proletarian revolution, which was already underway, and the platform of the Communist Party of Germany, which commissioned wordsmith Marx, was advised. Marx didn’t feel this way later, but everybody liked the original rousing call to arms, and wondered why he didn’t go further with all that.
By the time Marx died in 1888, the productive-engine of industrial economy had created more ecological niches for humans than just owner and laborer, so the Marxian synthesis based on owner-laborer tensions became increasingly obsolete. Otto von Bismark, Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” was a master of that transition, becoming chancellor of Prussia in 1862, and remaining chancellor of united Germany until 1890. Bismark mended a lot of European economic problems.
Now, with energy resources becoming more expensive to extract, and in shorter supply, due to depleting the easy reserves first, and the same things happening with fossil-water in China and the US, and lithium, copper rare-earths, and stable patterns in the oceans and atmosphere, we need to look at everything as it is.
We need to look at ourselves, humans as we are, and the failing , corrupted global wealth-management system as it is.How do we manage to cooperate? Cooperation on big tasks, especially big tasks over an extended period of time, is our most powerful asset. Groups of people coordinate without structure when fairly small, under 150. The Romans used 100 men as a military group, with a Centurion over them. Centurions reported upwards and commanded downwards. It worked. We see that pattern everywhere. At each layer a lot of information is discarded and simplified. Commands going down multiple layers tend to get cumbersome and stupid by the time they reach the level of the people who have to carry out orders.
As systems get bigger, they need more command-and-control layers, which are expensive, and reduce task-appropriateness at ground level, when they are working optimally. They get worse over time, because the top layers are soon just giving orders to suit their selfish interests, which really degrades the functionality of the whole system to do whatever it was designed to do.
“You Are Here”, of course, as are we all.Bureaucratic systems usually have self-correction features designed-in. These are expensive, like long lists of government regulations for military parts production, but the system gets dysfunctional too quickly without these features, so it is the cost of sticking-around at that level of size and complexity.
Feudalism was a system with a command and payment hierarchy that went from King to serf and back, and mostly did nothing except trickle-up some food and work and wealth. Occasionally the king called for workers or an army. The king and nobles operated a protection racket, promising protection from other kings and nobles. There were some skilled tradesmen. This kind of system arose throughout the world with local variations. There was not necessarily “trust”, because wherever you lived, it was just the world as you knew it.
Industrialization destroyed that system, but it provided a flow of stuff, and human societies had to learn how to channel the flow of stuff. It turned out that factory-economy was unbalanced, so some balance was created by exporting weapons to un-industrialized countries, via armies that stole their stuff, made them buy the outputs of factories, and killed anybody who got in the way of that plan. World War-1 almost destroyed that colonialist model, and WW-2 did finish it off, because it was not an efficient use of human resources, natural resources, or factory outputs, compared to a financialized global economy without overt enslavement of peoples, just financial enslavement…Also following WW-2 there was further experimentation with hierarchical/totalitarian command-economy vs distributed control of economic decisions about production, consumption and trade. There is no pure system, of course. Any system has mixes of local-control and hierarchical control. Importantly, when a system collapses and reforms, its bureaucratic institutions are new and the corruptions of time have not yet set in. At the end of WW-2 the US had most of the bank-owned gold in the world, because FDR devalued the dollar against gold so that the rest of the world sent gold to the US for American factory goods. The US also had a completely unbombed factory production system, and lent to European countries for cheap so they could buy American stuff and rebuild. That made total western economy grow. Everybody in the Marshall-Plan countries liked it. The command-economies of the USSR and China did similarly well at first, but could not keep up after a decade or because of lower efficiency-at-ground-level, evidenced as making millions of left-boots and the “Cultural Revolution”.
“Winning the cold-war” encouraged the accelerated corruption of western financial-imperialism. Under the Cheney-Bush regime US/NATO sought to control all of the countries producting “easy oil” and cheap commodities through the “Global War On Terror”. This changed the equation from the benefits of “capitalism” being attractive to the fear of getting treated like Iraq and Libya got treated. It was costly to support this global military, so maximum tribute had to be extracted from all the tribute paying countries, and maximum-pressure had to be maintained to keep non-tribute-paying peoples suffering (Cuba, Venezuela, Iran).
The dominant western financial system has been internally corrupt, as evidenced in 2008, and it was not improved after that, merely made more promises of future profits and dropped more bombs. The internal-losses of gross corruption are invisible to most of us, but hinted at: “Derivatives are weapons of financial mass-destruction”. The overt costs of the western financial-imperialist system to support western military are also very high. There is no carrot, only stick, and now Europe is getting the stick to keep the corrupt system from collapsing. This is a very-short-term reactive measure, not even a medium-term can-kicking.
While the dominant global trade system, based on the $US, which is just a floating-currency, based on the ability to buy oil with it, and pay debts in it, has very high costs, maintained by fear, it is also creating a new crisis. The crisis is the shortage of food and oil. This can drive indebtedness a little farther, and can drive all of the people using this system into further austerity, or crisis-and-death. This is desperate for the system because it also reduces system-efficiency to just keep it intact.
If there was any choice other than freeze, starve or both, any rational person would take it.Rational people get to make their own personal decisions, but big decisions for nations, governments and corporations are made by “representatives”, who are subject to bribes and threats within the system. That helps keep the system working. It’s a cost of the current system. At some point, like in Sri-Lanka recently, the people come after the “representatives” of the system. The people are without any working support system at that point, and have lost all trust in representatives.
Lack of trust in representatives, and lack of trust in the system are good internal-control mechanisms to sustain the functionality of the system. Russians are purported to deeply and broadly distrust their political and economic system. Chinese are constantly trying to protect any wealth they have by getting it and some family members to manage it into other countries, though that is made very difficult by the government.
Most of us born in the west since 1924 have little recollection of anything other than the postwar Bretton-Woods based system, and the post-gold version based on the “petro-dollar”. Like the medieval-serfs, it’s the only world we have ever known, “the world”. There is not much to trust or decide about, since we know of no other option. We may have a house or mortgage, but there is a lot of “rent” payable to banks and governments with that. We have to earn money within the system or soon become homeless. More and more become homeless.
The rest of the world-of-nations now has choices forming between the corrupted and very expensive global-financial-imperialism model and a new model, the BRICS model of global trade and finance. There is a BRICS Bank. Instead of using petrodollars as the reserve currency, upon which deals are calculated and contracted, the BRICS system uses either bilateral currency swaps, or a combination-basket of currencies and commodities (wheat, oil, gas, gold, etc.). It also needs electronic security. It is bound to already be undergoing attacks. The potential long-term payoff is the efficiency of not needing to support a destructive global military threat and rapacious financial resource and wealth extraction schemes.
The short term payoff to adopting the new system, as soon as it gets a perceived “critical mass”, will be the option to repudiate existing $US debt. The group of countries that stands to benefit the most from that is the group of countries which owes 75% of that debt, North American and Western European countries. Right now, the screws are being put to Western Europe to undergo energy and financial austerity to support a regime in Ukraine that conscripts any man it can catch and sends him to a trench with a rifle to die by Russian artillery, in order to support the American military-industrial-complex and Globo-Cap, which owns it.
Humans coordinate their efforts in groups through our natural abilities, coordinated by hierarchies and bureaucracies, and based upon habit, trust, self-interest and fear. As our bureaucracies and institutions age, individuals find more and more ways to insert straws into them to suck out the flow of resources, lowering system-efficiency. As that process goes on, only fear remains as a coercive motivation, and there is the force of habit. Every four generations or so, a system collapses, usually as another, more efficient system is arising next to it, and presenting a choice, at least to some participants. The new system always has some problems to work out, but they are worth working out because of efficiency. There is usually also a sweetener. As feudalism was replaced by factories, the peasants lost their right to the land, and the new business class got a lot of it. The new business class became the new center of power. They ended up finding ways to share to keep the society from breaking down in revolutions.
At this point in history the engines of industrial production are past their peak, and will keep declining in total output. The days of making a lot of anything being the road to competitive-success are closing. The current class of global-financial-capitalist owners do not support the wellbeing of any society or nation. They extract the wealth of nations for themselves. They rely on nations to enforce their “property rights”, which are denominated in $US. That enforcement is carried out through global military threat and the control of trade routes and financial mechanisms. There is profit for fewer and fewer humans in this system, and the representatives who serve their interests are more and more obviously harming the lives of the people who elect them, and the people are noticing. This does not make the news, but awareness is growing, even as it is broadly misrepresented to control hungry and desperate people.
Trust is built up gradually over a long time, and over the course of many tests. Trust remains in the $US financial system for fewer and fewer people in even the west. The Europeans are undergoing a crisis, and the (grrr) Russian Bear keeps not biting them, as they grow hungrier and more desperate and can’t pay bills. They are told to look forward to 10 years of cold and hunger. The boy crying “Wolf” is the corrupt representatives, who are preparing for a winter of discontent, but they can’t really prepare, because that would mean changing sides. Changing sides would mean accepting what the people need from the Russian suppliers of gas and oil, as they are doing by subterfuge, already. This winter, subterfuge will not supply enough gas and oil and there will be an energy crisis in Europe, rolling blackouts.
The alternative is to give up on the Ukrainian government beating Russia, which everybody knows is impossible, and to open the Nordstream-2 pipeline.
That would cause the coming collapse of European financial institutions to come at a time when reliance upon Russian energy had been broadly accepted.
The acceptance of Russian energy as a practical part of European economic survival would mean that the progress of a financial restructuring would include this as a basis. That would mean that the $US system would not have primacy in every way. It could not be used exclusively. This would mean that Europe would use parallel financial systems. As time proceeds one financial system will be preferred every time a deal must be done. Over time, the more efficient system will be used more often. This appears to be the nascent BRICS system. As the BRICS system reaches some tipping point, the obvious solution to many problems will be to default on $US debt and eliminate the cost of debt service.Links you may or may not already have seen, pertaining to above essay:
Each of us will need to work on local efficiencies of survival this winter. The global crisis of food and fuel is already set-in-motion, even if it causes the $US global financial system to collapse sooner. That engineered crisis of hunger and desperation to support Globo-Cap is discussed here:
How “Food Shortages” & Economic Collapse Protects the Status QuoEngineered Food & Poverty Crises Secure Continued US Dominance ,Colin TodhunterHow “Food Shortages” & Economic Collapse Protects the Status Quo
Consciousness of Sheep has this complimentary essay (or audio) about “Cost Push Prices”, which looks at the current decline of cheap resource availability as raising prices after decades of globalisation lowering prices, and that there is no fix for it with tightening money supply. Money is tight already. That worked back in the days of plentiful cheap resources, when worker’s wages could just be suppressed, but it brought us to this time which is more like 1848, when workers had so little as to favor the flames of revolutionary fervor. The social contract has been broken by the owners, and killing off a bunch of folks is not going to be a path to a society that can cooperate on big projects, such as we face.
In Brief: Cost-push prices, It’s not just the price, Let’s talk about windfalls
Third try to get some links posted. I’ll break things up more and also put a dead-space in the RT links, which have appeared on TAE already, at any rate.
Not really explained here is that the countries that are “enforcing sanctions” are only “enforcing” them. The Economist is a Rothschild-owned publication.
Sanctions war isn’t going as planned – The Economist
https://www.rt. com/news/561634-sanctions-ukraine-china-economist/Whence cometh the butter for thine bread?
Only one in three UN members back new anti-Russia resolution
International support for Ukraine has dropped dramatically since March
https://www.rt. com/russia/561627-un-ukraine-resolution-support/In April, Bulgaria refused to pay for its contracted gas from Russia in Rubles, but Euros were made useless to Russia. Bulgaria quite receiving Russian gas. Bulgaria has contacted Russia in regards to reactivating that contract, presumably to pay in rubles, and to extend the terms of the contract, in order to buy the entire amount of gas, by means of extending the delivery-months lost since April into 2023.
https://www.rt. com/business/561607-bulgaria-eu-russian-gas/That worked. Here are the others:
Any “reason” counts to justify an action, necessary for survival. This moral-high-ground will be easier and easier to “hold”.
German Lawmakers Break Ranks, Demand Halt To Weapons For Ukraine Amid “Escalation Spiral”
As predicted, Europeans weary of being told to make “sacrifices” in what for them is a somewhat distant conflict on the continent’s eastern periphery will reach a point of saying enough… for some within Scholz previously pacifist Social Democratic Party, that time is now. Yet critics of the letter are already calling it “capitulation” and other denunciations which come close to essentially saying the signatories are ‘traitors’ to the German and European cause while standing up to Russian aggression.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spd-lawmakers-break-ranks-demanding-scholz-halt-ukraine-weapons-pursue-peaceCharles Hugh Smith , Economies can burn out, too, and they’re already sliding into the final stages of burnout.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug22/economies-burnout8-22.htmlThanks Germ: (“Effectiveness” is a one-way measure. “Efficacy” can be positive or negative. The vaccines have markedly negative efficacy this year.)
Increasing SARS-CoV2 cases, hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated elderly populations during the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant surge in UK
CONCLUSIONS There is no discernable vaccine effectiveness among ≥18 years of age, vaccinated third dose population since the beginning of the Omicron variant surge…
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.28.22276926v1.fullI have been on ‘vac’ but I did read in many of the prev. threads reports, stories about what ppl on TAE were doing, experiencing, thanks to all, sharing stuff with far away ppl is for me a top reason to be on the internet…I’ll give some reports from the ground here soon.
For those interested in the VAX-harm to pregnancy/live births.
In France Soir newspaper (MSM) in F, “Brutal drop in births in Germany and Switz.” Note: France is not mentioned, it happens to others who are disliked, even hated.
The charts are easy to understand, the first shows births by year, for Germany, 2016 to 2022 (in red, and very low.)
The second is births per month (Jan-May) per year 2015 – 2022, for CH, with below a comparison of no. of Vaxes and births, lined up so to speak.
https://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/chute-de-la-natalite-en-allemagne-et-en-suisse
For CH, the data presented is clearly partial, only for part of /year./ It is hard to interpret. (Personally I’m convinced a strong causal link vax -> live births down exists.)
Birth rate CH
2019 – 2020 – 2021
86.17 – 85.91 – 89.64
Lockdown (partial) in CH was on March 15, 2020. Fewer babies born in 2020 (as comp. to 2019) Why? Maybe more pregnancies than usual were terminated? Idk. Is the shift from 86.17 to 85.91 significant statistically? In view of the perpetual downtrend? Probably not.
Then we see a jump UP in 2021, the bad year of 2020 with lockdowns / covid restrictions, etc. led many couples to ‘get it on’, and pregancies begun in late March- April – May… gave rise to births in 2021. Well known phenomenon, an oft-quoted ex. is of an electricity black-out in NY, with sharp rise in births 9 months later.
A drop after an increase is to be expected. Ppl who had a baby ‘early’ or ‘by surprise’ etc. aren’t rushing to have a second. Births, in a sense, may have been pushed forward (occured earlier than usual), just as COV19 created premature deaths (thru mistreatment, older ppl died too early.)
Population nos. should be taken into account. The pop. of CH rose and rose 2019, 20, 21. Part of that growth (can’t quantify it) in 2020 was ‘returnees’ – Swiss ppl / ‘green’ carders equivalents, living and working abroad, hot footed it back home as it was obvious that CH would be a better place to live, than, say, Italy or Germany, lockdowns would not be strict, etc. I personally know 4 ppl who returned to CH in 2020 because ‘plandemic’ and not one who left. Plus, endless stories of ppl welcoming others, sleeping in living rooms, etc.
It is all very complicated and afaik (in CH) no serious analyisis is being done, or if the excess deaths are attracting any official attention, no reports to the public.
Imagine if you will a life in which from the moment of birth absolutely every needed or wanted item is provided by others, given rather than made by oneself.
Well in that case the recipient might “learn” or conclude that the only way to get something is to take it from someone else. There’s no other way to get it, is there? Can’t MAKE the thing which is needed or wanted it because that would require knowing how to make things, and that capability is missing from the skill set of someone who has never made anything at all, nor even had the notion that there was a way or means of getting things EXCEPT the way of taking the things from others. The three most popular ways of getting around this impasses is to promise payment and then not pay it, or lie about what really is going on, or threaten to harm or kill if the loot isn’t handed over (straight up armed mugger style.)
Quite a vicious circle.
And in addition to that it is also an immense, virtually impossible to solve problem as well. The problem arises from the makers of things not wanting to have their stuff taken for nothing in return. Folks who work hard and invest time, effort and resources to make stuff are understandably not too keen on the notion of having the stuff they’ve made then taken away from them without compensation, permission, or even so much as a “thank you very much for your contribution, you valuable and wonderfully skilled, generous, brilliant and noble human being .”
They are more inclined to say “No. It’s mine, you can’t take it. I won’t let you.” They tend to become particularly reluctant to be robbed when they are not even acknowledged as being the skilled , brilliant and noble SOURCE of literally EVERYTHING that gets made, but are instead reviled as being stupid, low life, deplorable useless eaters who the world would be better off without. Some of them internalize such psychological abuse and become compliantly self-abasing slaves, or derelict husks. There are others, however, who take offense at the easily disprovable slander, and these become revolutionaries of one stripe or another.
Luckily, this latter group are also the ones who actually know how to make things and how to make things work. Including revolutions.
You can see how this becomes an existential problem for the pathologically incompetent and stupid takers whose only skills are lying, cheating, stealing, killing and BREAKING shit. No wonder they get so viciously desperate when it all starts coming apart. They literally don’t know what the fuck to do about it. No big surprise there because they are, after all, the folks who have no clue about how reality really works.
They hope and think and try to believe that they know how. They even profess to know and hire experts to testify that their wacky notions are correct, but they very demonstrably do NOT know, because their solutions always fail. . . . . often in dramatically tragic fashion.
Perhaps the most tragically hilarious consequence is that they eventually (and always!) come to the brilliant conclusion that complete destruction and failure of EVERYTHING was their intended intention to begin with, and just LOOK at how successfully they are wrecking the joint! Sheer brilliance, they insist.
Sad, really, but that’s the stage they have come to. Their final solution to themselves being totally incompetent human beings, is to have no human beings at all . . . . including themselves! They shall become TRANS-humans and prevail over the Universal Reality itself! Oh my freaking gawd.
Well, I wish them bon voyage, and good luck achieving that personal goal of becoming nonexistent. I would be more than happy to help them with it.
“At the same time, Kiev insists that it is Russian forces who are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.” So I guess we are to believe that Russia wants to create a second Chernobyl on territory they soon hope to annex.
I pretty much embrace what @John Day said yesterday, i.e., “It looks to me like depletion is real and is being “managed” by inserting artificial crises and shortages just before it becomes common-knowledge, so as to maintain initiative in the control-narrative war-room.”
However, this does not necessarily mean, (nor is it likely, @aspnaz) that “the billionaires are saving us.” Rather more likely is that the artificial crises are a mechanism for avoiding elite accountability. This is necessary to avoid the dilemma posed by them saying “The world is in this mess because were either wrong or ineffective before. But trust us and do what we say now, we’re right this time!”
@John Day has his finger on the point about the CO2 graph presented by Dr. D. The range on the scale where humans were present is very small, with a geologically low CO2 level. Fairly low levels of atmospheric CO2 can be toxic (to humans, at least). I can relate my own experience from my time spent stationed on a US Navy nuclear submarine decades ago.The ship was designed to spend extended intervals submerged without coming up for air. What enabled us to do this was that we conditioned our atmosphere using Oxygen generators, Carbon Monoxide-Hydrogen burners, and CO2 scrubbers. The scrubbers were necessary to keep CO2 levels in the ship below 1%, and a few times when the scrubbers malfunctioned and the atmosphere on the ship approached that level, everyone started getting bad headaches. Going higher would have increasingly adverse medical effects.
Willem
“The scrubbers were necessary to keep CO2 levels in the ship below 1%, and a few times when the scrubbers malfunctioned and the atmosphere on the ship approached that level, everyone started getting bad headaches. ”
Let’s put this in perspective. 1% CO2 equates to 10,000 ppm. That’s over 20X higher than today.citizenX writes…
Chett- Open your mouth , stay on your knees, your masters have something they want to give you.
Fuck off you fucking retarded pos. Clear and vulgar enough for you?
Wow
TAE use to be such a nice neighborhood. Oh well, things change.
I suggest you switch to decaf.”
The victims in this play are, unfortunately, the average people, who simply hope to have a decent life. They will be caught unawares and unable to even understand what has occurred, let alone take action to save themselves. Those who have not spent the previous years educating themselves and preparing an alternative life will suffer most greatly.
”Thanks Michael Reid, for the Doug Casey article, but I don’t think getting a second passport will be the right route to enhanced survival, as Mr. Casey recommends. I think the changes will be everywhere, and becoming a refugee will be a bad plan, myself. Shelter in place, but pick your place wisely.
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