Debt Rattle January 6 2020
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Esther Bubley Soldiers with their girls at the Indianapolis bus station 1943 • Gold, Oil Soar, Shares Slip As US And Iran Rattle Sabers (R.) •
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 6 2020]• Iraqi PM Claims Soleimani Was On Peace Mission When Assassinated (GZ)
• Iraqi Parliament Calls For Expulsion Of Foreign Troops (AlJ)Armchair generals
This is how you put an end to war… with laughter
Nonviolence – Siege
Paintball technology is also used by military forces, law enforcement, paramilitary and security organizations to supplement military or other training.
Paintball markers can play a role in embarrassing the occupying USA military forces.
Nobody would be allowed to leave their fortified positions without being painted with paintball colors..
If they did, they and their equipment would be wearing paintball colors.
Imagine the embarrassment of the occupying forces.
Imagine becoming the laughing stock of the world.
Imagine the outrage of the world if the USA responded with lethal force.“Iraqi PM Claims Soleimani Was On Peace Mission When Assassinated (GZ)”
All the more reason it was a set-up that was meant to insure our withdrawal, even if every last person in the U.S. and West opposed it. If true, no nation or PM could tolerate this. …Aaaaaand that was the point? No way of knowing. And he does it by OBEYING Israel, one of his major funders? How much better.
“Iraqi Parliament Calls for Expulsion of Foreign Troops (AlJ)”
Not that it matters, but they already had quite a while ago. The catch was they allowed a delay until ISIS was defeated…which is why we always need five guys in a pita shop to point to, so we don’t have to leave. …As you noticed in Syria. Yet this move solves that.
“Boeing Reports “Previously Unreported Concerns” with Wiring in 737 MAX (CNN)”
Probably all planes have a few of these problems: you noticed nothing has ever happened from it. However, once you start digging you discover: gasp! The world isn’t prefect. All machines have (potential) issues!
“Why We’ll Never Get Rich by Putting Cash Away for a Rainy Day (Bell)”
Um. Point taken, but ironically, that’s the only way to get rich. Unless you want to tell me how to be rich without having any money. Capitalism means capital, which means you have to make something and save a little of it. But they are violent anti-capitalists, which means you are attacked if you save or own anything. (Except themselves, of course. Some animals are more equal than others.)
“what it will take for the U.S. central bank to withdraw from its daily liquidity operations”
Armstrong says they can never leave, one because there’s a hidden crisis which means banks can’t trust each other, and two, because cyclical rates are trying hard to rise. The Repo means the Fed & co have lost control of rates even on the short end. Bye bye. The End. Next crisis: December 2020.
“China has generated nearly five times as much debt per unit of GDP as the rest of the world”
Did they beat us in that? That sounds like our run rate.
Speaking of Armstrong, he wrote on Assange this week, the case being very like his own:
US & British Are Torturing Julian Assange With Intent to Kill Him
“Iraqi PM Claims Soleimani Was On Peace Mission When Assassinated (GZ)”
“Iraqi Parliament Calls For Expulsion Of Foreign Troops (AlJ)”Continued from yesterday… Do I think that President Trump tweeting whatever pops into his addled head at 1am is a good thing? Nope, not in the least, but I understand why he does it. It’s a very risky game when tensions in the world are this high, and the owner of said Twitter account is subject to egoic mood swings.
Even the most die-hard MAGA believer must now see that there is no 4D chess being played in the White House… not even 2D chess. Because Trump is not a principle-driven man, being virtually ungrounded, he’s moved by whomever has his ear at the moment, or the latest Tucker Carlson broadcast on Fox News. This time Bibi just happened to catch him at the right time and he pulled the trigger on General Soleimani. I imagine that bankrupting casinos is not the best preparation for understanding Middle Eastern history and culture.
I think he really stepped in it this time, putting his reelection at risk, not to mention the carnage if events spiral out of control. Most of us feel that the election of President Trump was a Hail Mary attempt at changing the course of this nation, but it’s now plain to see that the ball has been dropped.
“ US Army Tells Iraq It Is Preparing To “Move Out” : “We respect your sovereign decision to order our departure.”
We clearly disagree on this. So Trump accidentally pulled out of the middle east and therefore accidentally kept another campaign promise? While accidentally doing it in a way he can’t be blamed and Israel can’t complain? While accidentally making sure even the war-thirsty Democrats will be on board since keeping his campaign promise to Americans will be a policy “failure”?
How many of these accidents do you have to have, after knocking out 15 candidates, two parties, the media, the FBI, DoJ, CIA, 10 cabinet moles, the NeoCons, and now the MIC, before it stops being an accident? Oops, I did it again.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/01/responses.html
I would like to propose to the Iranian government that they “paint” all tankers, carrying oil paid for in $US through the Strait of Hormuz, with missile targeting radar, and announce that they won’t actually start sinking them yet.
China can start paying for oil in Yuan/Renmenbi, or even Euros.
Lloyd’s of London can say that insurance will be higher for oil bought in $US.
That will hasten the fall of the Petrobuck-Empire.Dr D said: “We clearly disagree on this. So Trump accidentally pulled out of the middle east and therefore accidentally kept another campaign promise? While accidentally doing it in a way he can’t be blamed and Israel can’t complain? While accidentally making sure even the war-thirsty Democrats will be on board since keeping his campaign promise to Americans will be a policy “failure”?
How many of these accidents do you have to have, after knocking out 15 candidates, two parties, the media, the FBI, DoJ, CIA, 10 cabinet moles, the NeoCons, and now the MIC, before it stops being an accident? Oops, I did it again.”I littered your lst post yesterday, saying the same thing, with the comment that every time one seeks to infer some intent to the Trumpster, that inference is turned upon it’s blessed=pointy-little-head in the next moment.
I do not dispute the observation, which I have also made, that Trump gracelessly executing the commands of Adelson and Netanyahu is possibly having some kind of karmic-genii-of-the-lamp or deal-with-the-devil kind of effect.
I just don’t feel that there is a good way to model WHAT is the cause of said weird effects.
Really. One should be quite broad and humble in participating in this round of history. I speak to “us”. We are also participants.
I’m not sure what The Donald is. We see what we think we see happening, but we should not be too spellbound. We all have work to do.
Grow vegetables!Okay, so you don’t like my idea. Here is another idea.
Armchair generals
This is how you put an end to war… with laughterNonviolence – Siege
Do the same that the police did to the demonstrators in Hon Kong.
Use water gun with dye on all equipment and people leaving or entering the “safe zone”.
This way, it will be easy to identify the enemies running around the country.@John Day
“I just don’t feel that there is a good way to model WHAT is the cause of said weird effects.”I’ve not seen anything like it since Inspector Clouseau.
However, once again we get old switcheroo! Wrong letter, sorry. This new one here says we are not leaving Iraq.
Cash isn’t capital. Cash is cash. It cash were capital, our mint presses/digital ledgers would be printing real forests, mines, livestock, labor, etc.
Cash is cash, and cash is almost always trash over the long haul.
Saving enough cash to purchase useful capital can be, if used shrewdly, a way to get rich.
Saving cash alone has always been a way to lose the value of cash to inflation.
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I don’t think that demanding that politicians fight in the wars they declare will end foolish war. Didn’t stop Alexander the great, to cite one enormous example. Lots of sociopaths like danger. THey typically join the military or police force. Other socios are all about manipulation and privilege, and they typically go into politics or get an MBA.
The way you stop military action as an individual is to shoot every politician who promotes war. I mean, that’s how wars are actually fought and won — through purpose-directed specific violence to either coerce or destroy. If one is to stop wars being waged by one’s own government, that’s the only way. The rest is a feel-good farce whereby we prove to each other that we’re morally superior to those beings we allow to control us as we stage protests and take exquisite cellcam footage of cops brutalizing innocent people.
One doesn’t stop war with mere politics. Politics are an extension of war. Sorry, Clausewitz. You’re wrong.) One stops war by nullifying aggressors. Politics, to quote Frank Zappa, is the entertainment division of the milindustrial complex. Politics is a pretense whereby the law (fight or flee, kill or be killed, the only law in group human conflict) is taken from one’s hands and replaced with a lousy vote stub. Everyone knows you can’t fight City Hall. Everyone knows you can’t take the law into your own hands. Everyone knows that no one can escape the long arm of the law.
Everyone knows that Donald Trump was the last person the American plebiscite wanted as president, but, seeing as how he was the only genuine person to choose from, and having been previously blinded by an endless parade of insincere phonies since we first started having elections, seeing a genuine person inclined folks to vote for him even if they couldn’t stand him or believe a word he said. Apparently, we still prefer sincerely demented deceitful human assholes to insincere robotic ass-shark humanoid remoras.
Human beings have, since 10,000 or so years ago, moved increasingly from small tribes where everyone knew who everyone was, to vast empires where no one knows anyone but everyone knows What It Means To Be An American or some shit like that. Politics is some ritual we endure to justify the gods placing incompetent deviant sheep-rapers in charge of our land, our laws, and often even our lives.
As for the Donald phenom, I will be generous and say that maybe he has had greatness thrust upon him. I’m pretty sure he didn’t want to win the election. But once he did what I believe was his aim — to show them uppity Wall Street Beltwayers that he could win if he wanted to, that he was better than them despite being blacklisted by the USA BIG Boys Clubs and forced to seek foreign (even russian) funding to sustain his weird half-assed financial goat rodeo — once he did that, others took notice and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse (see: What Epstein Knows, for starters). So he shut up long enough (a week or three, as I recall) to win the election, bowing to the teleprompters (which had to be pure hell for him, I imagine).
And then, and then, and then he found out what a buncha incompetent weasel-dweebs run the USA government, and steadily Trumpified How Things Are Done, giving everyone just enough of what they want for him to squeak through something that he could, after some polishing and lens correction, call his Own Personal Agenda.
Does the above hypothesis make any sense? Beats me. But it fits my intuitive sense of Whatthefuckery?
One thing about Trump that is deeply satisfying is that, for all the attempts to make him out as being much more schmuckier than his mainstream counterparts, the only way you can actually distinguish him from the evil cretins calling him even more evil and cretinous, is by how he does, indeed, manage to get more things done than they can or did. Some of these things seem good to me, some seem awful, but he gets them done, mostly on his own, because no one will give him a rubber-stamp.
They, his opponent counterparts, have to huddle together and blow large communal campaign bubbles to do anything: war on Terror, one-size-fits-all identity politics, whatever brand label they’re selling now. Trump, being an inherently loose and hyperactive cannon, goes about doing as he will and they can’t stop him.
Me, I can’t help but think that part of his success is that he may be the only major USA politician who actually listens to Putin and considers his advice seriously. After all, the guy’s the boss of one of the world’s older and larger empires. (After all, the 20th century was just as much the Soviet Century as the American Century.)
Raul has asked numerously in this edition, Who Gets What They Want? Only person I see getting that in any consistent manner is Vladimir Putin.
My long-term prediction: after USA has been whittled down to size, Russia will have to take on China cuz Godawmighty, they’re at least as stupid as the USA. I’ll guess that over time, a India/Iran duopoly will be the tropical counterweight to Russia’s arctic stronghold.
Lord knows what Latin America will become. Never know what them crazy indigenes will get up to.
Meanwhile, this intrigues me:
“Israel is part Russophone and considered to be the world’s only part Russophone country outside the former Soviet Union. Russian is the third most widely spoken first language in Israel, after Hebrew and Arabic, and has the third largest number of Russian speakers outside former Soviet countries, and the highest as a proportion of the total population.[2]”
“In 2011, Putin said: “Israel is, in fact, a special state to us. It is practically a Russian-speaking country. Israel is one of the few foreign countries that can be called Russian-speaking. It’s apparent that more than half of the population speaks Russian”.[26] Putin additionally claimed that Israel could be considered part of the Russian cultural world, and contended that “songs which are considered to be national Israeli songs in Israel are in fact Russian national songs”. He further stated that he regarded Russian-speaking Israeli citizens as his compatriots and part of the ‘Russian world’.[27]”
“In April 2014, Israel took a neutral stance on the Russian annexation of Crimea at the United Nations, angering U.S. State Department and White House officials.[28]”
There isn’t a single thing on America’s plate that I don’t see Russia easily stealing when the time is right.
One thing to say is that I don’t think he and his backers are geniuses, just that they’re not idiots. They’re playing a bad hand pretty well, but are also slow to learn and adjust, but once they do and find something that works — like all these indirect ‘accidents’, like the brilliant cover that Cheeto is a moron watching cartoons all day, having ‘accidents’ they stick with it. Like anyone would.
But what makes it so, so easy is that goes against the other side’s fabricated narrative, fabricated out of their mind. Maybe they know and just sell this to the public, I dunno, I mean they were best friends with him for years. But this says Cheeto doesn’t give a crap what anyone thinks of him, what anyone says, what anyone tries, so long as he’s getting closer to his goals. And this goes against the fantasy he’s a narcissist at least in the usual way, or that he has a short attention span, or no self control, or wanders around aimlessly bumping into things. How many years do we have to watch this go one before a light bulb goes on? He’s just a guy, people. Just some guy that’s been on the back benches, and with everyone else knocked out or murdered, he got lassoed into this job he didn’t like best, isn’t the best at, but at least tries to accomplish. Accomplish what? The native generals have seen the attempt to world conquest is going to utterly destroy the United States altogether if the NeoCon/NeoLibs get even one chance at bat. So they are trying to strengthen the home front, withdraw everywhere, and survive at all.
Because like Bosco say: China may not even know it yet, but when they’re powerful and we’re weak, they are going to get uppity and attack the world just like all nations do. And yet again, as some kind of perennial curse, Russia will be there to put the EAST down, just as they recently put the WEST down. Again. And maybe that would make us allies in the 2030s, But the U.S. needs to survive that long. At all. With a currency failure and a civil war that’s been groomed and staged for 50 years being hammered to start every day, that’s challenge enough, though we’ll probably pull it off.
What’s one guy in this? He’s going to do what almost anyone in his chair would do. And the forces of history are going to do what they do. That’s what makes it all so, so predictable in the big arc, the 4th Turning, the wheel of samsara. If not, how can Strauss and Howe know in the 90s he would exist? How can Armstrong pick the markets and down to the day? Because in the big picture the U.S. will either retreat or die, and any creature facing that will, quite obviously, retreat despite any jabbering rhetoric or sloppy fists thrown at them. Brennan and Clapper and Pelosi are indeed jabbering at him and us right now, as is the place they also have in history: the losers, has-beens. But we won’t, and can’t listen, right now.
So yeah, the opposition finally got their feet under them to stop the Iraq withdrawal, what did you expect? The Iraq vote itself was questionable, as the Sunni and Kurds foresee their own genocide in Iraq if they don’t have our counterweight against the Shia. That’s “democracy”, Middle Eastern style. It was going to be messy. But if it’s dangerous motion, at least it’s in motion, which hasn’t been in most of my lifetime. Watch and we’ll see, but don’t stop growing the garden; we’re not going to walk away from this.
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