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    Salvador Dali Remorse, or Sphinx Embedded In Sand 1931   • Destroying the “Mother of All Proxy Armies” in Ukraine (Will Schryver) • The ‘Rape Rus
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 11 2022]

    #111327
    Red
    Participant

    “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36)

    The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and protections.

    IMF ‘structural adjustment’ policies have resulted in 52% of Africans lacking access to healthcare and 83% having no safety nets to fall back on if they lose their job or become sick. Even the IMF has shown that neoliberal policies fuel poverty and inequality.

    In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. The world’s poorest countries are due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.

    Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) have also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion over the next five years.

    According to Prof Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Research on Globalization, the closure of the world economy (March 11, 2020 Lockdown imposed on more than 190 countries) has triggered an unprecedented process of global indebtedness. Governments are now under the control of global creditors in the post-COVID era.

    What we are seeing is a de facto privatisation of the state as governments capitulate to the needs of Western financial institutions.

    Moreover, these debts are largely dollar-denominated, helping to strengthen the US dollar and US leverage over countries.

    It raises the question: what was COVID really about?

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-capitalism-friedrich-boris/5785964

    #111328
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Every time I read something about Hunter Biden in the media, I’m like, “How the blazes does somebody end up being like that???”

    #111329

    “How the blazes does somebody end up being like that???”

    Having an extremely weak minded father goes a long way.

    #111331
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Posting broken again. Vanishes, then says it’s posted.

    “Army General Suspended Over Tweet To Jill Biden: “Glad You Finally Know What A Woman Is”

    They say this is “mocking.” Huh? How do they know he wasn’t being serious. I mean, I’m being serious. Is it normal for people to not know, then know, then not know things? Pretty odd. I’m not kidding at all, I’m dead serious: so you know what a woman is now, one day after not knowing? I’m curious and interested how that is, not mocking you at all.

    “’Rationality Itself Is Under Attack’: CEO of the Babylon Bee”

    Is that a joke? Because they keep fact checking the Babylon Bee. If so, I presume CNN and the fact checkers believe it’s a real news site.

    “New York Times announced another crash. In a story entitled, “Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic,” –Taibbi

    Yay! Bitcoin Obits, 12 years in a row. Yup, now that it’s the national currency in two (three?) places, and settles trade for Russia, Uruguay, and Iran; now that it’s trading on the Comex, Samsung is a billion into Theta, and Microsoft is several billion dollars deep in ETH programming, and XRP is owned and programmed by the major Western banks, NOW it’s going away. Cuz: “this time it’s different!”

    NY Times: “Trust me! When have we ever been wrong?”

    “Coinbase is the largest cryptocurrency trading platform in the United States. When a customer stores cryptocurrency in a Coinbase wallet, those funds in theory can only be accessed with a cryptography-protected key, making it, again in theory, the unique property of the customer.” –Taibbi

    You are kidding, right? Like bank account and stock account, those coins are obviously property of the exchange. That’s not shady or unusual. It’s the most usual. Just like gold in your possession vs gold in a Swiss bank. They do different things, and one of the two things involves trust and lawsuits in case of bankruptcy.

    “This type of protection is supposedly what’s at the heart of the crypto revolution”

    Yet everyday smart people like Taibbi, Shiff, Holter say these things without asking, or presumably being told many times, without listening. It’s not that it isn’t a problem, but let’s just be honest about what tools can do and don’t do. Let me say it again: GET YOUR OWN COINS. DO YOUR TRANSACTIONS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN.

    Expert level: SO FAR ALL STABLECOINS ARE A SCAM.

    PersecuteProsecute
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    Leave Joe Biden Alone!

    Chert
    https://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image001-1.jpg
    Is that why they won’t leave him alone?

    “How can doctors be so sure they are safe over the long-term since they are novel EUA with no long-term followup studies?”

    Magic! I mean, Science! What do you mean they’re not the same thing? Is the sale of Fauci candles down this week?

    The ‘Rape Russia’ Plan Backfires (Vilches) The war in the Ukraine will be short, not long.”

    It’s over already, which is why I’ve turned to looking at Europe, the winter, and the next step. NATO-Russia part II? Financial collapse?

    It’s been floated that the present example isn’t the 70s or 30s, it’s a much unknown Panic of 1893. Wiki has a very poor, almost useless article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
    What are the keys? No rule of law. Relentless, unstable stock and business expansion, until bubbled beyond any plausible support, in railways, for instance. At that point of immense over-leverage, Barings Bank invested in Argentina. However, poor crops meant they didn’t come through. As forever in history, Barings then attempted a political coup but this also failed. Anyone want to ask why/how banks get to arrange coups and pick governments for hundreds of years? And why we deny this happens even now in an age with the IMF and “Economic Hit Man” published widely?

    What else? The bubble depended on high commodity prices, and that changed to low. The money depended on high silver prices, and that changed to low. Wizard of Oz and the Cross of Gold. These were being held up with sheer force of governments, in the U.S., forcing the national purchase of silver to levitate prices and make a few miners rich.

    In this structure, the “Panic” was not on stocks as the article says. Yes stocks failed, businesses failed, commodities failed causing immense hardship in a farming-mining-steelworking economy. But the failure was really confidence in National Governments. Why? Because like Sri Lanka, the national government had used all their power holding back the tide. They were stopping the cycles of history. Commodities high? Are you nuts? In 1870 sure, there were fields left to plant, and only rough means to get it to market. But you’re going to keep it high with railroads in every town, agri-tech increasing yields and production for decades? Silver is high? Sure, but what happens if as happened, we find more silver mines than the Incas, and have mined enough coinage to support the nation for 30 years? Do you go find another planet to mint coins for?

    Does this sound familiar? because it’s the same/mirror of today. All planet now requires LOW commodities — especially oil — or the entire economic system blows up. The governments have stopped the normal tide from a decade back and refuse to allow them to rise – because of the explosion – and artificially low prices = no production = worldwide shortages. Silver’s price is approaching zero, and like 1890 has been held so for decades. Gold is double the 1980 high, silver is half that, a 4x difference. All other commodities are many multiples of these two, as you can tell from any trip to WalMart. Wouldn’t you love houses, cars, eggs, steak to be ONLY 2x the 1980 price? Bacon, $1.69, Milk, $1.59, Margarine and Bread, 50c. Pork and Bean, 40c. Do you see how ridiculous this is?

    Not only is silver possibly the most undervalued commodity in world history, in mirror of 1893, there isn’t any. None. There are essentially zero silver-only mines, and almost all silver is a byproduct, usually of copper. Copper was $1 or half that in 1980, it’s $3.50 now. Not only that, silver is used in everything. All our modern batteries, electronics, solar panels.

    Now WHY is it so low, constantly below production costs? Like other commodities, wheat, milk, to make cities happy, the government – the Silver Users Group – have paid government to rig the prices down. So simple cartel bribery to commit ceaseless felonies. This has been charged, admitted, and paid many times – as much as a Billion dollars last time – but the felonies continue larger each week.

    So what can break it? Or what would breaking it mean? Since the full force of government is placed on these few actions: commodities, silver, then breaking it means breaking government control. And vice versa, IF it were to break, it would mean that (Western) Governments have generally LOST control. In a world where that control is the foundation of all national currencies, I.e, the dollar. That is, then the dollar would “collapse” and have to be replaced. In 1893, that was DEFLATION, not inflation. That can still happen, as it’s the “Synthetic Dollar Short Position” — not us, but the whole WORLD needs US$ to pay debts. If not, the debts default, Depression. If people die, Deflation. If housing falls because it’s 10x income, Deflation.

    Anything else?

    This was the height of the Gilded Age. Idiotic shows of wealth and income disparities were at a world high, never surpassed until 2008. The party was the Republicans, leading this prosperity. The collapse happened immediately on the Democrats taking power, and the backlash was such that they lost all government for 40 years.

    And the collapse which spread worldwide happened when the “West”, that is, London, the Anglos, and their banks, attempted to increase their power to forestall their collapse by instigating a coup and conquest in an otherwise non-vital country. Just like Ukraine.

    Now can you see why this is similar, and if you were a White Hat of Republican leaning you might browse the history books for a template that would win?

    I don’t see how commodities can be prevented from rising this time. I mean, they have, but only to cause government-collapsing shortages and government-collapsing discrediting of Parliaments. It’s hard to see, in a world where governments lose confidence, that national currency could possibly stay stable and not inflate. With 150% Debt-to-Income ratios and no Industries. And inflate against what? Silver and gold. All the gold mined is probably somewhere, but silver? If silver rises, and therefore the people buy into it having no other trading market going up, how do you fill the demand? They themselves shut down every silver mine on earth and we still need it for industry. Government currencies it seems would find a loss of faith and people would rotate into something non-government, and with too-high stocks, non-stock and possibly non-real estate too.

    That’s what a “Panic” is.

    In good news, the economy, being an ecosystem not a machine, has little trouble creating a new equilibrium in just 4 years. However, it ruins and chucks out everyone made rich by the previous structure and leaves scorched ground for the new. Because they are powerless, and new power isn’t built yet, they people aren’t being sapped and enslaved for a bit and this is a boom for the people and their ideas, inventions, and improvements, as it was from 1890-1929, probably the highest point for humanity on earth so far.

    It’s a structure, and you can feel the shadows arranging for it. But will it actually happen? No one knows.

    #111332
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine Military Used Nursing Home Residents as Human Shields (CTH)”

    We don’t use them as shields. We just kill nursing home residents daily for spending money in the United States. Everyone is fine with it, so it’s little wonder when we train others they would murder civilians and nursing home residents for some actual reason elsewhere.

    “the Ukraine military, intentionally and with purposeful forethought, using civilian locations to embed their military units,”

    Yes. However, note these are industrial buildings with parking and facilities. You expected they should take up in a 2-bedroom house or a garden shed? If like the hospital they close it and remove the civilians, the papers and UN should be honest about it. But there is no truth in them. If they didn’t lie, it would probably burn their mouths.

    “Uber Broke Laws, Duped Police and Secretly Lobbied Governments (G.)”

    We know it. It’s been reported hundreds of times, but neither the people nor the governments care, loving corruption too much. Or too widespread. Or atm, too powerful, so no matter if you catch a top pedophile selling girls to princes and presidents, nothing happens. Protecting every list, every insider, every corporation, every secret, the old “rally round” of “The secret handshake and the old school tie.”

    “When one voice rules the nation
    Just because they’re top of the pile
    Doesn’t mean their vision is the clearest
    The voices of the people
    Are falling on deaf ears
    Our politicians all become careerists

    They must declare their interests
    But not their company cars
    Is there more to a seat in parliament
    Than sitting on your arse
    And the best of all this bad bunch
    Is shouting to be heard
    Above the sound of ideologies clashing

    Outside the patient millions
    Who put them into power
    Expect a little more back for their taxes
    Like school books, beds in hospitals
    And peace in our bloody time
    All they get is old men grinding axes

    Who’ve built their private fortunes
    On the things they can rely
    The courts, the secret handshake
    The Stock Exchange and the old school tie
    For God and Queen and Country
    All things they justify
    Above the sound of ideologies clashing

    God bless the civil service
    The nations saving grace
    While we expect democracy
    They’re laughing in our face
    And although our cries get louder
    The laughter gets louder still
    Above the sound of ideologies clashing” – Billy Bragg, 40 years ago.
    Special shout out to Boris on this one.

    “the Oath Keepers came to Washington to commit an armed insurrection.”

    By bringing no arms? How long does this nonsense, idiocy, and mental illness go on? No arms ≠ Arms. There’s a difference between armed people and unarmed people, as the DNC daily tells us. If being unarmed is the same as being armed, why not scrap all the gun laws? And the OathKeepers own 5 guns apiece, so NOT bringing them is quite a statement of intent.

    When you reach the level of women = not women = woman, and gun = not gun = gun, seamlessly flipping back and forth without even being able to recognize it, you’re dealing with the seriously and chronically mentally ill and there is no longer debate or discussion to be had, only action and ignoring. Which is exactly Russia’s position concerning us.

    “•EU Climate Change Goals Will Reduce Farm Production (CTH)”

    In postwar Germany, the Anglos had the bright idea to totally destroy Germany and murder all the German citizens by erasing German industry and returning them to the level of Chinese agriculture. It was called the Morganthau Plan and I’m glad to see Germany has finally installed it for us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

    Goes to show propaganda, the pen, really is mightier than the sword. If you work long enough, and get all the kids young enough, you really CAN teach them all to murder themselves and save you the mess and trouble of it. And the kids are gung-ho slap-happy to do it. “What does Greta want? Murder. When does she want it? Now.” “Save the Planet: Go Kill Yourself” Slogans and posters hung in every school. Hey, why child suicide rate so high? Why them dying their hair blue and stabbing themselves with razors, have to be drugged all day like mental patients? Can’t figure it out.

    “The New York Times and Washington Post suddenly discover that Biden is old and frail on the exact same day.”

    And then what? I ask. They might need Kamala in until February to giver her two terms, but she can’t even work two days much less two terms. They hide her in the basement for her and everybody’s safety. Most popular vice President in world history, 80 million votes. 10% more votes for her than voters!

    4chan Users Claim Hack of Hunter Biden’s iCloud Account (JTN)”

    Good timing. But there’s no White Hats out there. You’re all alone. And this could have been avoided if they admitted it in 2020. Or 2008 and not run him then. Or 2000. Or told him to cool it or cut him out of the party in 1990. 1980. 1973. I mean, he’s against Roe v Wade, and FOR imprisoning the whole black community, how did he get in there? (A: Ceaseless, tireless, roving, Media lies). So, the Media runs things? Because Joe sure doesn’t. Who runs the media?

    “Follow the Science that follows the money.” Same thing for media.

    #111333

    And now a human trafficking ring?!

    #111334
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Fox News anchor: “What are zheezh zhuzhpizhious reportzh?”

    #111335
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Two and 3-year-old kids with seizures is “the new normal”

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/two-and-3-year-old-kids-with-seizures?r=o7iqo&s=w

    I’m getting multiple reports from my nurse friends about kids 2 and 3 years old having seizures. It is ONLY happening on vaccinated kids, and symptoms start 2 to 5 days after the COVID vaccine.

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    Doctors are mystified by a rash of seizures, rashes, etc. happening to 2 and 3-year-old kids.

    The only thing these kids have in common is that they were given the COVID vaccine just days earlier (two to five days earlier).

    The doctors cannot figure out what is causing the seizures (since it couldn’t be the vaccine since those are safe and effective). The medical staff is not permitted to talk about the cases to the press or on social media or they will be fired.

    One nurse posted something to the effect of “how is this legal????” I had to paraphrase to protect the poster.

    This is why you are hearing these reports from me. They can’t fire me.

    There is nothing on the mainstream media about this since the nurses and doctors aren’t allowed to talk about it.

    This will all come out some day, but for now, everyone is keeping quiet about it and the doctors are instructed to convince the parents that it isn’t vaccine related and that they are the only ones having the problem.

    Because that’s how science works.

    #111336
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Salvador Dali Remorse 1931

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    #111337
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control ….. un-funded liabilities and un-payable debts …… over leveraging ………. jubilee ….
    (In Roman Catholic tradition, a Jubilee is a year of remission of sins and also the punishment due to sin.)

    Objective ….. the fight for hearts and minds helps to ensure the continued flow of billions of dollars in Western military and humanitarian aid.

    Tool …. diversion
    (discreetly courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons.)
    ———–
    The war is not over. The war continues in Europe, and around the world
    There are still victims.
    (a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action:)
    ————
    They even supported Biden for president.
    They never stopped going after Trump for winning the presidency
    ———

    #111338
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/558768-himars-stikes-western-ammo/
    11 Jul, 2022 12:22

    Stocks of Western-supplied missiles destroyed in Ukraine – Moscow
    Depots packed with US-made shells and rockets in Ukraine have been hit by missile strikes, Russia says

    Russian warships have destroyed stocks of US-supplied ammunition, by striking arms depots in Ukraine’s central Dnepropetrovsk Region with Kalibr cruise missiles, the defense ministry said on Monday.

    “Stores of ammunition for US-delivered HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and M772 howitzers, as well as for 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns have been destroyed,” Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said during his daily press briefing.

    Konashenkov added that Russian aircraft hit the bases of “nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries” in the eastern city of Kharkov, killing around 250 fighters and destroying up to 25 military vehicles.

    The US promised this month to supply Kiev with four additional HIMARS launchers, bringing the total number sent to Ukraine to 12. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov called them a “game-changer” on the battlefield.

    Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that it had wiped out two HIMARS launchers and two ammunition depots. The Ukrainian military dismissed the report as “fake,” insisting that the US-made launchers were inflicting “colossal” damage and casualties on the “occupying forces.”

    #111339
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dr Northrup lays it out on the subject of vaxes and fertility.


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    Abortion will be a moot point soon. Just finding someone able to conceive will be a miracle.

    #111340
    willem
    Participant

    Does anyone know which country the picture of the Zelensky parade float is from?

    #111341
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    #111342
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Russia offers fast-track citizenship to all Ukrainians

    https://www.rt.com/russia/558783-ukraine-citizens-fast-track-citizenship/

    #111343
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Guilty are Now Hiding Humanitarian Catastrophe – Dr. Pierre Kory

    https://rumble.com/v1bp4ez-guilty-are-now-hiding-humanitarian-catastrophe-dr.-perrie-kory.html

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    #111344
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/natural-immunity-97-percent-effective-against-severe-covid-19-after-14-months-study
    Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
    Natural Immunity 97% Effective Against Severe COVID-19 After 14 Months: Study
    The protection against severe illness from so-called natural immunity remains superior to the protection bestowed by COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study.
    That percentage is higher than the protection from COVID-19 vaccines, according to other studies and real-world data.

    1. Swedish researchers, for instance, found in May that two doses of a vaccine were just 54 percent effective against the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

    2. South African scientists, meanwhile, found the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines peaked at 88 percent, and quickly dropped to 70 percent or lower.

    3. The Qatar group found natural immunity for over 14 months after a person’s first infection “remains very strong, with no evidence for waning, irrespective of variant.”

    ——-
    Duration of immune protection of SARS-CoV-2 natural infection against reinfection in Qatar
    Posted July 07, 2022.
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.06.22277306v1.full-text

    Pre-Omicron Reinfection Study
    Omicron Reinfection Study
    COVID-19 Severity Reinfection Study

    #111345

    Anyone have trouble connecting to today’s post?

    #111346
    willem
    Participant

    No trouble from here (California via VPN), but I’m having a few issues with a couple of other websites today.

    #111347

    It’s working for me. (I have some local outages that affect all browsers- but hey, it’s Comcast!)
    Whoever your tech is, they’re good.

    #111348
    Bishko
    Participant

    If these vaccine induced non-fertility claims are true we should soon see lots of data showing severe declining birth rates everywhere. They shouldn’t be able to hide that.

    #111349
    Curlene48
    Participant

    In answer to Raúl’s question #111345 — No problems today, but was unable to get yesterday’s post (July 10) the entire day. It would load partially, then stop.

    Red — I appreciate your comments.
    Germ — Thanks so much for all the medical links.
    Others — Thanks as well for the information you share here.

    #111350
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Doctors are mystified by a rash of seizures, rashes, etc. happening to 2 and 3-year-old kids.

    The only thing these kids have in common is that they were given the COVID vaccine just days earlier…

    One nurse posted something to the effect of “how is this legal????” I had to paraphrase to protect the poster ~ There is nothing on the mainstream media about this since the nurses and doctors aren’t allowed to talk about it.

    #111351
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #111352
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #111353
    Germ
    Participant

    Bear in mind that, at the time this interview was conducted, Geert’s predictions of leaky vaccines driving variants (and his rationale for the evolution more virulent variants) was not considered by Prof. Steele.

    In any event – his statements are astounding!

    https://metatron.substack.com/p/why-dont-the-vaccines-work

    #111354
    christine
    Participant

    That gas chart by country isn’t so useful in some regards. I live in Mexico and Mexico has excellent bus service out to most of the little settlements out of town, not to mention excellent service between cities, with a choice of classes (up to Executive class and very nice bus interiors). For instance, the bus from San Miguel de Allende to my little community about 8 miles out of the Centro, runs every two hours and makes many stops. I still have my old Ford pickup from Colorado, but only fill it up once a month….make one trip in a week…$40/mo. In Colorado, I would have had to fill it up every week to make the 40 mile trip to Durango form the country where I lived. No bus service. Once I took a bus to the US and when we crossed to San Antonio had to change…horrified by both the stations and the buses and the problems. Third world.

    #111357
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Armed robberies have gotten so common aboard buses in Mexico City that commuters have come up with a clever if disheartening solution: Many are buying fake cellphones, to hand over to thieves instead of their real smartphones.

    The scene is repeated over and over again, courtesy of the cameras that many buses now carry that record the assaults, often late at night or in the early morning: Sleepy passengers are seen bouncing along in the jitneys when one or two of the men aboard suddenly pull masks over their faces. One will pull out a gun while his accomplice passes down the aisle, often with his own gun, demanding valuables.

    “You’re all screwed now! Don’t move or you’re dead! Cellphones and wallets!” barks a thief in one recent video. Time and again, those who resist or refuse are hit in the head with a pistol, or simply shot and left to bleed on the floor of the bus.

    https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/mexico-city-bus-muggings-fake-cellphones

    Two public transport vehicles were robbed and then set ablaze in Mexico City due to the failure of workers to pay extortion fees, illustrating how public transport workers and their passengers are on the frontlines of extortion-related violence in Mexico.

    The announcements follow a sharp uptick in violent attacks on public transit in Mexico City. The capital is currently averaging 28 assaults per day on public transportation, nearly triple the amount seen in January of 2018, according to the National Public Security System…

    Risks for Mexico’s Public Transport Workers Growing in 2019

    #111358
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    We Finally Know How 43 Students on a Bus Vanished Into Thin Air

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-finally-know-how-43-ayotzinapa-students-on-a-bus-vanished-into-thin-air

    Highway robbery reached annual high in August
    México state saw almost 50% of the country’s highway robberies last month…

    Six of every seven robberies involved violence, the SNSP said.

    This year’s numbers are slightly better than last year, when 815 incidents were recorded during the month.

    Summer appears to be a profitable season for highway thieves: August usurped June, when 746 such robberies were recorded; May, which saw 719 incidents, and July when there were 711 robberies

    Highway robbery reached annual high in August

    I have an…um…interesting Mexican cultural experience to report. Yes, it has finally happened to me. My bus was hijacked and robbed by highway banditos!

    I was riding the Pacific coast highway of Oaxaca on the night bus from puerto escondido down to Tapachula 10 days ago…

    https://www.peoplesguide.com/1pages/chapts/pubtran/bus/bus-robbery.html

    Mexico gang members allegedly paid in meth to torch buses, cars in Juárez attack spree

    https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/juarez/2019/11/08/mexico-gang-members-paid-meth-burn-buses-cars-juarez/2520180001

    #111359
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Mexico Homicides Remained at High Levels Despite Pandemic…

    The most authoritative count of homicides in Mexico shows that killings remain essentially unchanged at 36,579 in 2020. (That were actually recorded, many aren’t 😕 )

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-07-27/mexico-homicides-remained-at-high-levels-despite-pandemic

    #111360
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #111362
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #111363
    Redneck
    Participant

    I had no problem opening TAE today but yesterday there was blank space , nothing at all after the first article and nothing was clickable.
    Re the Uber thing, no surprise here about that , only read the headline , that is how shit is now , everywhere and all the time.
    I think after the war and because of the Cold War the middle class was allowed to grow as a bulwark against the Soviets. As a kid I remember watching propaganda on TV where we would see Americans driving huge cars, their house wife’s had washing machine and people were flying around the country in planes. They wore sunglasses and blue jeans too.
    The Soviets were always shown standing in lines in shabby clothes waiting to buy bread.
    After the USSR disassembled itself that bulwark against the commie threat was not needed. So the WEF of the time decided to send the manufacturing that supported the middle class here to China which produced a handsome dividend to the corporations and we got to have a service economy where I mowed your lawn and you cut my hair.
    Debt replaced the wealth created by real production and the bonus was that my lawnmower and your scissors were also made in China too, perfect. So just stir and skim and add war , apply more and more leverage and monetary easing to keep the whirlpool going.
    I have been expecting the economic collapse from the nineties or earlier and thought that 2008 was it ….wrong again , the Greenspan put was just leveraged up to a level I had never imagined.
    So no more expectations even now that the great reckoning is nigh , just wake me up when the bread lines are here are as long as the ones I saw on TV in 1956.

    #111364
    chettt
    Participant

    I cannot turn on “Reader” mode on my iphone for the TAE site today. Is anyone else reporting this?

    #111366
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    No problems in my part of Australia with loading TAE. RT is still available.

    #111367
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks for the perspective, Redneck.

    I do think it’s happening now.
    Charles Hugh Smith and I both spotted it in February 2020.
    This is IT.

    Vladimir Putin keeps announcing it, but nobody over here believes him…

    #111368
    John Day
    Participant

    Russian Ninja Gas Virus , with picture of garden/gardener in daily 105F heat (feels like 137 in the sun)
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/russian-ninja-gas-virus

    The US and NATO can not begin to make up the massive losses of those 8 years of military build up in Ukraine, which is largely destroyed. The western industrial base cannot keep up with Ukrainian artillery usage. Russia is increasing stockpiles of munitions while shelling like mad day after day.
    I’ll only include this extremely clear quote from V. Putin:
    ​..​”This is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world based not on self-serving rules made up by someone for their own needs, behind which there is nothing but striving for hegemony, not on hypocritical double standards, but on international law and the genuine sovereignty of nations and civilisations, on their will to live their historical destiny, with their own values and traditions, and to align cooperation on the basis of democracy, justice and equality.
    ​ ​Everyone should understand that this process cannot be stopped. The course of history is inexorable, and the collective West’s attempts to impose its new world order on the rest of the world are doomed.”
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/drinking-the-kool-aid-on-the-war-in-ukraine.html

    ​The fancy, expensive, longer range boutique weapons need expensive missiles and shells.​
    ​ ​Russian warships have destroyed stocks of US-supplied ammunition, by striking arms depots in Ukraine’s central Dnepropetrovsk Region with Kalibr cruise missiles, the defense ministry stated on Monday.
    ​ ​“Stores of ammunition for US-delivered HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and M772 howitzers, as well as for 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns have been destroyed,” Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov said during his daily press briefing.
    https://www.rt.com/russia/558768-himars-stikes-western-ammo/

    When sanctions backfire: The EU doesn’t have a plan for life without cheap Russia energy, so what happens next?
    https://www.rt.com/russia/558497-european-industry-future-deficit/

    ​Russia says they will get Nordstream-1 back online, on schedule, when this turbine pump is returned to back in during maintenance, now underway.
    ​In Pipeline Poker, Canada Folds: Will Release Sanctioned Russian Gas Turbine
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pipeline-poker-canada-folds-will-release-sanctioned-russian-gas-turbine

    #111369
    John Day
    Participant

    How do you “prepare” to freeze, starve and die?
    French, German Leaders Warn Populations “Prepare For Total Cut-Off Of Russian Gas” As Social Unrest Looms
    https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/french-german-leaders-warn-populations-prepare-total-cut-russian-gas-social-unrest-looms

    Russia is shelving plans for natural gas pipelines to India and Japan, due to high vulnerability to attacks (of various sorts).
    https://www.seetao.com/details/86540.html

    BA.5: “Ninja” COVID is the latest fear-porn marketing exercise.
    It is the most transmissible yet, but much milder than all pre-Omicron strains, though considerably worse for “vaccinated” and especially “boosted” of all ages. Most people are having 2-5 days of mild to moderate illness, but not “boosted” Dr. Fauci…
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/i-see-we-have-entered-the-ninja-level

    From December 23, when Delta reached out and touched our household, and still relevant:
    OTC Rxs for Omicron https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/otc-covid-rxs-for-omicron.html

    Steve Kirsch documents over 40 specific pieces of evidence refuting/shredding the mantra-like “safe and effective” lie:
    The “safe and effective” narrative is falling apart
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-safe-and-effective-narrative

    #111370
    John Day
    Participant

    ​It has nothing to do with protection from legal liability once a vaccine is approved for routine pediatric use; nothing…​
    ​ ​Vaccinated toddlers in Pfizer’s trial were more likely to get severely ill with COVID-19 than those who received a placebo. Most children who developed multiple infections during the trial were vaccinated.
    ​ ​“FDA granted the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for toddlers an emergency-use authorization allowing the agency to expedite access for products that ‘prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions,’” wrote Finley.
    ​ ​“While adult COVID vaccines clearly met this standard in late 2020, the toddler vaccines don’t.”
    ​ ​As to why the FDA “rushed” and “bent its standards,” Finley suggested, “perhaps [the FDA] felt pressure from the White House as well as anxious parents.”

    ‘Why the Rush for Toddler Vaccines?’ Asks Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member

    ​Really and truly. This is the defense, and it is a strong one. “The government knew, and still paid us, so it is not “material”‘.​
    ​ ​In an interview with The Defender, the lawyer representing whistleblower Brook Jackson said Pfizer is arguing the court should dismiss Jackson’s lawsuit alleging fraud in Pfizer’s COVID-19 clinical trials because the U.S. government knew about the wrongdoings but continued to do business with the vaccine maker.

    Pfizer Asks Court to Dismiss Whistleblower Lawsuit Because Government Was Aware of Fraud

    URUGUAY JUDGE DEMANDS GOVERNMENT, PFIZER TURN OVER DOCUMENTS AS COURT CONSIDERS REQUEST TO HALT COVID VACCINES FOR KIDS https://WWW.GLOBALRESEARCH.CA/URUGUAYAN-JUDGE-DEMANDS-GOVERNMENT-PFIZER-TURN-OVER-DOCUMENTS-COURT-CONSIDERS-REQUEST-HALT-COVID-VACCINES-KIDS/5785933
    What Happens when the Majority of a Nation’s Citizens Decide Not to Comply with Tyrannical Edicts? Tanzania May Provide an Answer​ (Thanks Luc)
    (..alleged first hand account of what happened in Tanzania after former President John Magufuli died under suspicious circumstances after opposing COVID-19 vaccines and other COVID measures.)
    ​ ​President John Magufuli was one of the most popular African leaders of recent history. His support base amongst ordinary people was real and enormous, due to his genuine warmth, his determination to put the people first and to rid his country of corruption, fat cats and government idleness.​..​​
    .. ​Within a few weeks of President Magufuli’s murder, his replacement, Samia Suluhu Hassan, a female World Economic Forum attendee, set about installing the Cabal’s COVID agenda. It was a thoroughly depressing experience. I know. I was there to see it.
    ​ ​Gone forever were Magufuli’s maskless smile and palpable warmth, replaced now by daily images of a cold, insentient president and her entire entourage all muzzled, as per the Cabal’s orders…
    ..But then, after just one week, something happened. Something truly remarkable…
    After just one week of all the fear and insanity, the people of Tanzania had had enough.
    Call it the legacy of Magufuli, call it divine intervention, or perhaps just plain old common sense, but it is a fact that within just seven days, great cracks began to appear in the COVID narrative in Tanzania.
    First it was the police. Working in the tropical heat, they quickly realised that they were suffocating behind their masks, so they threw them where they belonged – in the bin.
    So, when you see that the police themselves are questioning the narrative and distancing themselves from the nonsense, what happens?
    Everyone else follows.​..
    ​.​.Quietly, THE WHOLE OF TANZANIA STOPPED COMPLYING..
    https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/what-happens-when-the-majority-of-a-nations-citizens-decide-not-to-comply-with-tyrannical-edicts-tanzania-may-provide-an-answer/

    ​It’s RENT (and this includes rent paid to banks and rent paid as taxes). It’s almost all High Rent in “expensive” cities.
    Cost of Living Is Really All About Housing
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-21/cost-of-living-is-really-all-about-housing

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