Debt Rattle June 15 2023
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Both DBS and Nancy Reagan: “Just say ‘no.’”
Walking away can be the hardest part, and the most “discouraged.”Ukronazi Supreme Commander Zaluzhnyi is being set up as the fall guy for not only the Nord Stream clusterfuck but also the current ‘offensive’ failing
How convenient, Zaluzhnyi is either badly injured or dead.
The perfect patsy for Nazilensky to shift blame to save his useless ass.
Reminds me of the Dead Chicken scene in Schindlers List where the SS officer is looking for who among the inmates stole the chicken.
Zaluzhnyi stole the chicken, case closed
The Russians love Nazilensky traveling around the world where most people are revolted and truly disgusted by him when they see him close up.
A Satanic blood drinking buttplug dwarf.
Craptastic negative diplomacy.
Meanwhile Medvedev released a statement:
“Based on the proof of western countries complicity in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, we have none, not even moral limitations left to refrain from destroying our enemies’ undersea communication cables
Oh yah
He is waiting in the wings behind Putin
Game on.
Medvedev Visits Famous Tula Ammo Factory Producing 82mm Mortar and FAB-250 Bombs
Millions and millions and millions and millions of rounds.
Doesn’t look like they are running low.
The Russian Lancet drone is really ripping the Ukronazis to shreds
Even the MSmediawhore of the west have had to notice
MSM(whores) Did A Whole Special on Russia’s Unstoppable Lancet Which is Destroying the AFU
Ouch
The NATOtards are literally training the Russians how to precisely fight a 21st century war
The Empire of Lies doesn’t have a clue
It has to remove it’s thumb from it’s ass first
@AlexanderCarpenter
Being compared to Ronnie’s Scrawnie hurts more than I should let it. I literally cringe, besides, I think you sorta missed my point. Just saying no to an enforceable command to murder ones friends strikes me as being fundamentally different from just saying no to sharing a toke with friends.
He said a little but he “learned basic math so long ago it was hard to remember that far back”
That’s not what was going on. What happened is a product of two things in our society that are certainly not the fault of the worker…
(1) use of technology, making stuff “easier” for human brains, and
(2) non-cash forms of payments. (Checks did this, too.)When someone makes change in their head, they are putting in a public “performance.” The mind does funny things in performance — we are more interested in how we will be perceived than we are customarily. We overthink aspects of what we are doing, which can distract us from the task at hand, or from the routine. When we do such performances routinely, they become routine and easy. When they are rare, we are surprised at how the performance situation disrupts our usual routine. Also, the type of thinking used in math is easy to disrupt…when I was in labor and had pre-eclampsia I was put on a magnesium drip — one of the side effects was that I couldn’t “think” math. Math thinking is easily disrupted by sudden “public performance” that we are not accustomed to.
That is most likely what happened to the young man. He said that basic math was so long ago as a means to cover up his acute embarrassment, not because of basic ineptitude in math. He is presented with cash so infrequently that he hasn’t developed the routine of handling himself calmly in this form of public performance. When I cashiered — 30 years ago — although the register could do the math for me, very often with cash a customer will present a few more coins, etc., necessitating math-in-the-head, done-on-the-fly, so I got over the performance anxiety after a few days. Next time this happens, we might show some compassion, saying: take your time, you probably don’t get presented with making change very often. This will help the cashier move through the performance anxiety, promoting better brain functioning in the future. Or, we can continue the old school method and simply give a look of disgust…. 😀
This is something that doesn’t get discussed much — a tractor saved a lot of time over a plough, and this translated to more food. The same could be said about the plough, versus cultivation by hand. But…a phone that remembers all of the numbers so that you never have to enter them by hand? — this promotes a lazy human mind. Every time an individual has to pull out an address book to look up a number it is an annoyance, and encourages the mind to remember the number. Eventually, the number is recalled without the book, which saves time, and keeps the mind functioning well. And lazy minds are not disciplined to do real research, accepting whatever fodder the fact checkers or legacy media or top search results or AI gives them.
Oroboros- That video cost waaaay more than a Hollywood blockbuster.
Who is behind the cameras? Russia gladly releases the footage?
Stupid, stupid war.”
When someone makes change in their head, they are putting in a public “performance.”
”Stupid is what stupid does.
Everyone who handles cash should be able to make change in their heads.
You are right about choking initially when performing, there should be a grace period.
But it doesn’t explain the astonishing wide spread explosion in under par behavior I see on a daily basis shopping.
I saw this stuff for years on occasion, but not on repeat visit to the same store and same cashier.
It’s like Groundhog Day sometimes.
I’ve been reading about the theory that the Clotshot has caused permanent cognitive injuries.
By the way a second friend in middle age, otherwise health had a big stroke, paralyzed on one side.
That makes two since New Years.
Mini strokes that don’t produce dramatic things like overt strokes could be occurring in large numbers and who would notice, they’re already killing people outright with excess deaths from the vax and it’s not news, why not excess cognitive injuries from the vax.
Spike protein in the brain eating away like termites.
I have not investigated auto body repair stats like Ed Dowd investigated life insurance and funeral home increases, but my hunch is that fender benders are up a lot due to cognitive dysfunction.
Hard to tell if that is an aging population of Boomers or the amazing drop in life expectancy in the Empire of Lies.
Japan’s life expectancy was 82 and rising
I think ‘Merica’s is below 76 and falling now and not all due to drug overdoses.
The drug OD thing is a red herring
The Medical Industrial Mafia has been shortening life span for awhile or at least until they milk all the assets out of their victims.
The Russian contact line has built in ‘soft spots’ designed to have less resistance and appear to the Ukronazis as places to advance.
All these soft spot are on low ground and surrounded on either side by high ground, manned by superior highly equipped, trained and experienced Russian troops.
These ‘soft spots’ have all their features mapped to strike coordinates by Russian artillery and air power.
The ‘soft spots’ are Kill Boxes
The Ukronazis advance into them, airborne mines are deployed behind them as they advance, and Voilà, no retreat back, no way forward.
The Ukronazis are proceeding without aircover, a true Death Wish if ever there was.
The Russians are trying to kill the Ukronazi War machine, not gain territory.
It is going like clock work.
A little closer, come a little closer, there, good.
Not going well for any amphibious assault either.
Trying to cross a rivewr under fire is insane
Russian Artillery Sinks Ukrainian Tug Trying to Clear Fairway in Kherson For Amphibious Assault
Michael Hudson Speaking the truth
Michael Hudson on the US Economy – Surprisingly Resilient or Potemkin Village?
@Oroboros re: fender benders
CalTrans Quick Map – enable all layers, red ‘bang’ symbols are the entertaining/important/tragic ones. Three categories in which I noticed an uptick (my percep only, no # to back it): solo guardrail or CD wrecks, motorcycle wrecks, and semi truck wrecks.
Beyond the simple brain fart wrecks, think of how many have their passions barely restrained under the best circumstances. Now drop that bar a little bit. More risk-taking, slower reaction times, etc., like ‘2 beers primed.’
[..] In 1889, Wallace published a short book “Forty-five years of Registration Statistics, proving Vaccination to be both useless and dangerous”. Much of the book reads as if it was published in 2021. It begins:
HAVING been led to enquire for myself as to the effects of Vaccination in preventing or diminishing Small-pox, I have arrived at results as unexpected as they appear to me to be conclusive. The question is one which affects our personal liberty as well as the health and even the lives of thousands; it therefore becomes a duty to endeavour to make the truth known to all, and especially to those who, on the faith of false or misleading statements, have enforced the practice of vaccination by penal laws.
Everybody seems to think (seems to fear, actually) that just because a tiny Cabal can oppress 8 billion people that the same Cabal can double or triple the level and degree of oppression and continue to get away with it just because they’re gotten away with it so far.
Do you not see the Cabal advancing, at every turn, over the last 40 years?
Oh, it’s not a “Cabal”, or some sort of Evil Secret society of Satanic blood drinking demons, it is a CULTural conspiracy, a world view/religion placing wealth, power & control at the highest order…
Nothin’ personal, just business
I marvel at the sheer ignorance of We The People, who year-after-year fail to comprehend/underestimate the import of the Ivy League/Russell Group mob, how They keep their ranks clear of patriotic citizens possessing even a modicum of guilt or shame for exploiting humanity-at-large through their CULTural iron fist control of policy & decisions affecting banking, government, judicial, journalistic, corporate input/output.
It’s a *big* club & you ain’t in it!
For almost 20 years I was embedded deep within Their CULTure, breaking bread & getting drunk with them (following 16 years as an Aerospace Eng’r.), observing & listening to Their unabashed, prideful gloating of having achieved superior status above subhuman deplorables in flyover country ~ At times I engaged them, to test their psychopathology & social norms, never ceasing to be amazed by their total adherence to Their reptilian CULTural narrative(s) 🙄
Anecdotal: During the Congressional debate about how much U$D the treasury should print to erase the bankster 2008 implosion, I witnessed several incidents (drinking after hours in WFC bars) where CNBC broadcast that Americans by-and-large were against the bailouts, eliciting groups of young Fraud St. traders to howl & declare (more or less) They were entitled to America’s largess, because without Them America would collapse economically…
To think that is the case reveals an erroneous disregard of economics, psychology, physics, spiritual faith and the ability to count.
Question: What do you think the ratio of wealth & power averages @, comparing UniParty GlobalCap comrades, to the individual constituents of We The People? 10 to 1? 50 to 1? 5000 to 1?
Reminds me of info regarding Goldman Sachs vetting process, where candidates for entry into the club where subjected to at least seven (7) interviews, including a mandatory requirement that they agree to represent Goldman in public arena of think tanks, lobbying, and other assorted government venues et al. once they become an uber rich made man.
Until you’ve rubbed elbows with the UniParty GlobalCap CULTure (e.g. senators, congress critters, governors, judges, white shoe lawyers, banksters, warfare iron mongers, trustafarians & other associated corporate riff raff), you’ll have no ability to access how far, wide, deep & pervasive the true believers are in lockstep to The Narrative…
But the evidence of their deeds is transparent for all to see, broadcast for the last 50+ years, with many of gen pop hoping their progeny would hit the lotto of inclusion into the Big Club 😐
Moreover, I believe the numbers of UniParty GlobalCap members/supporters in America is far larger than most would gander, clearly approaching a social norm in *blue* enclaves, by far the majority of the professional class in DC…
If this isn’t clear following the advents of the Russia! Russia! Russia!, 2020 plandemic, “kill shot”, & electoral shenanigans et al., words fail 🙄
Wow. Whistleblowers who could hurt high level Democrats’ political futures keep turning up dead.
Same $hit, different decade…
EOT.
Kind of disturbed that people would take this as a victory … https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/corporate-woke-boasting-gets-trimmed-back/.
We are living in global socialism/fascism, the corporates are bigger than governments, the billionaires control the governments, there is no victory until the socialism/fascism is removed.
The CEOs are the symptoms, they are not in control, they do as they are told or they lose their careers and never work again. Performance is measured in obedience points, not in profit, the owners already own everything, they do not care about profit. But the CEOs are greedy too, so they obey.
Remember when CEO pay started to rise until they were earning hundreds of times the amount the next employee was earning? That coincided with the slow removal of anti-trust enforcement and rise of monopolies: sure the laws are still there, but not the enforcement. Why would the billionaire shareholders go along with this? What was in it for them? I remember this started during the Thatcher/Reagan era.
The introduction of cheap money was key, was planned, and we have seen the results building for ages, about the 0.01% owning more than the rest and also hearing about the aims of globalists for a world government. These 0.01% do not compete, they are too big to compete, corporate monopolies have destroyed markets as the availability of cheap money has enabled consolidation of industries into a few massive corporates with huge power. Government has been helpless in defending itself against these people, the government having so many ways of being corrupted that it is inherently vulnerable. Why did national security services not stop this: they used to find Russian spies in government but somehow failed to spot corrupt politicians?
People and governments now need these monopolies to provide them with services, there are no sufficiently powerful alternatives, so the incestuous relationship boosts the socialism/fascism: these corporates are effectively part of the government (is that socialist or facist?). The government is dependent on these companies, not only for services, but for jobs etc. Covid decimated the remaining capitalist elements in the system, destroying many small business while their massive monopoly competetitors simply did not suffer in the same way during Covid (although whole industries suffered, such as airlines).
Without competition, with more wealth than many governments, what is the ambitious billionaire to do other that to protect himself by taking over control of government: Is Blackrock really taking over Ukraine?
WEF is simply one organiser of the billionaires who pull the strings, the objective appears to be to coordinate like-minded billionaires from across the globe: a sort of UN for billionaires. What are the billionaires trying to achieve? Maybe the intention is to keep their enemies closer, to prevent too much friction between them. Maybe it is to profit from coordination, such as in Ukraine. But why is WEF trying to destroy the world? My guess is that there will always be activist billionaires like Soros who can persuade the others – who are typical conservatives and don’t care – to lend a hand, just to keep the Soros, Sackler crowd quiet. Why would the billionaire world be any different to the rest of the world? Effectively the WEF has been corrupted by activists, the same as everything else.
Cheap money created this massive transfer of wealth. The billionaires are trying to protect their assets from revolting plebs. Woke is just a distraction to keep the plebs fighting each other, prevent them from focusing on the real enemy.
How best to defend your massive stolen wealth? Do what the CCP did in China, the CCP expanded and now contains ~100 million people who are the Chinese aristocracy. They earn more than the rest, get all the good jobs, etc etc. The leaders of the CCP use this huge organisation to protect themselves from threats, including threats from home-grown businesses and their owners. The WEF needs something similar, it needs to ensure that it can rule the west without the people having a chance to fight back. Create a huge organisation, give the member superior living standards, be ruthless in controlling the organisation, use it to protect the leaders, the top of the tree: WEF Global Leaders. After all, the CCP is an organisation which is primarily there to protect the leaders.
We are returning to a world of feudal landlords, except that now the landlords have nothing for the peasants to do – no land to farm – the peasants are a cost while AI does the work for free. Human nature dictates that the next phase is inevitably going to be the removal of the majority of peasants while the landlords retain their wealth using technology to do the work. This appears to be their dream, they are not there yet, but most scientific discovery these days is focused on this end goal. Even education appears to be preparing the kids to be willing accomplices in their own demise.
Take a real good look at the genocide, the destruction all around you The who, why and how are obvious, yet very few look. Programming, works very well. Figures on the cavewall still work, yes?
Boscohorowitz describes the 15 kHz carrier frequency for the horizontal oscillator circuit of the TVs we oldsters grew up with. You coud hear it at work sometimes.Vacuum tubes…
“When I was a vagrant, back in the days of electron-gun TVs that irradiated one and the house in literally hair-raising ways if you got too close to the screen, I would enter with fear the house of someone taking me in for dinner. I didn’t fear them; I feared the TV. I could literally feel it grab me at the base of the neck, a tingly sensation one imagines one would feel if a Heinlein “The Puppet Masters” mind-control slug latched onto you. Accompanied by an
ultra high pitch dog whistle I could only half hear. Ghost frequency feeling.”Vertical Deflection Circuit in TV:
The Vertical Deflection Circuit in TV include the vertical oscillator and amplifier for vertical scanning at 60 Hz and a similar horizontal arrangement for scanning at 15,750 Hz.@Oroboros: Dmitry Medvedev looks kinda like Nigel Farage in that bomb factory picture, doesn’t he?
Nobody Else Will https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/nobody-else-will
Charles Hugh Smith writes This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late
To really reduce one’s consumption of the planet’s resources, we would have to grow our own food, get around on our own feet or zero-fuel transport (motorless bicycle or skateboard or boat) and not buy / own / use large resource-consuming devices such as vehicles, aircraft, etc.
The system as currently configured makes it nearly impossible to do this. Even growing much of your own food requires delivery of fertilizers (organic or chemical, they still weigh a lot). Very few places are bike-skateboard friendly. The world is set up for large, mass-produced fueled vehicles. Outside of a few cities, public transport is incapable of getting people where they need to go in any sort of time-efficient manner…
..The only incentive that counts in our stripmined world is maximizing profits and the private gains of the entrenched and powerful. To cloak this reality, the Powers That Be promote public-relations propaganda that depicts their pillage, looting, fraud and destruction as a Hollywood story we can all consume and love, just as we love our servitude once it’s been properly packaged into a Hero / Heroine’s Journey or a Love Story.
This is why nobody will do anything until it’s too late. It’s only when we run out of essential inputs and/or essential processes decay and collapse that we’ll awaken to the fact that since the global system’s inputs and processes materially changed, the outputs we need and love all went away...
..Systems work by their own implacable rules. There are inputs and processes that generate outputs. The only way to change the outputs in a consequential fashion is to change the inputs and/or processes in a consequential fashion. Little face-saving PR tweaks are too small in scale to materially change either inputs or processes, and so the outputs won’t change and indeed, can’t possibly change, because that’s how systems work...
..I like a rousing story as much as anyone else, but systems aren’t stories, and confusing the two won’t actually fix what’s not sustainable in the current system’s configuration. [Charles grows vegetables and drove 3000 miles in an old Honda Civic last year. He makes his own bed and sleeps in it.]
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/06/this-is-why-nobody-will-do-anything.htmlHowever, to somewhat refute, or at least modify that analysis by intervening to modify some systems a bit, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fights the good fight against neoliberal capture of the Mexican government, its purse, and the resources owned collectively by the citizens of Mexico.
Christine sends this,written by an American attorney married to a Mexican AMLO supporter. It’s not all glowing. There is a lot of political mess in this slow move to replace neoliberal crony-welfare and privatisation of state-services with “nationalist developmentalist” (“Fordist”) capitalism. The path to this is to stripaway the “public-private-partnership” skims. (One naturally wonders when such a process might begin in one’s own country…)
The AMLO Project ..As a general rule, transitions from neoliberalism must take place in a structural setting shaped by neoliberalism itself: the erosion of the working class as a political agent and the dismantling of state capacity. It follows that the basic historical task of the contemporary left is the reignition of class politics and the relegitimation of the state as a social actor. We can therefore assess AMLO’s administration based on three fundamental criteria: the reinstatement of class cleavage as a primary organizer of the political field; the effort to reconcentrate the power of a state apparatus hollowed out by decades of neoliberal governance; and the break with an economic paradigm based on institutionalized corruption...
..The notion of neoliberalism as a political economy of corruption has informed AMLO’s public spending objectives. The flagship concept of his government is a counterintuitive one: austeridad republicana, or ‘republican austerity’. In practice, this means the ongoing reorganization and recentralization of public spending with the aim of ‘cutting from the top’. Since Mexican neoliberalism forged extensive links between the state and private enterprise, austerity is seen as a means of breaking such connections – casting off parasitic companies whose profits rely on government largesse.
In the long term, strict adherence to austeridad republicana may make it difficult if not impossible to create a robust welfare system. Yet, for the moment, it has succeeded in relegitimizing the state after decades of cronyism and clientelism. Fears that it would result in mass layoffs have dissipated.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-amlo-projectMichael Hudson has a new interview out, wherein he is more unbridled in some of his frank remarks about the corrupt neo-liberal/conservative world-order. Thanks Christine. He has reason to believe the damin Ukraine was attacked with an underwater explosive device, for instance. Hudson closes with this:
The West has sunk back into a kind of feudalism, financialized feudalism, neo-feudalism. You want an economy that doesn’t have a feudal rentier society, and you do this by preventing families and companies from getting rich by rent-seeking, getting rich without producing anything, but simply by exploitative means.
You want to make economic statistics that distinguish predatory exploitation from actually making a profit. You don’t want to consider what an absentee landlord gets is adding to the national product, because that’s really just siphoning off income from the renters away. You want everyone to be able to have their own property, ultimately without running into debt.
The best way to do that, instead of financing property with mortgage credit, you need a tax on rent-yielding resources. You need a land tax, a monopoly tax, a natural-resource tax and a financial tax. The tax system is absolutely critical to creating a really ‘free market’ such as the classical economists sought to create. It’s the opposite of the kind of free market that the United States and Europe talk about – that is a market free for Wall Street to do whatever it wants with the rest of the economy, free for monopolists to charge whatever they want, free for creditors to foreclose on the property of their debtors. You have a whole different concept of what a free market is, a different concept of what freedom is, a different concept of what human rights are and natural rights, and a different concept of what should be public infrastructure.
All of this is a different way of thinking about how the world evolves, and you need to develop that alternative and to share it so that other countries can realize, ‘yes, there is an alternative to the America’s bank-run economy’. This is the outline of an alternative and our governments are going to create administrative agencies and regulating principles that promote overall welfare, not simply financial welfare. The real economy, not the financial claims on the real economy.Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future
Gilbert Doctorow reports on Vladimir Putin’s recent meeting with Russian war correspondents, who asked unfiltered questions, and got informed answers.
Pepe Escobar, How the BRI train took the road to Shangri-La [If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?]
In less than a decade, China’s BRI has fundamentally transformed global geopolitics. It is already far too late for the west to compete.
The Chinese delegation at the Shangri-La totally dismissed the “so-called ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’” as a tawdry Hegemon rant.
What Shangri-La unveiled was, in fact, Beijing’s clear, concise response to all those dismissals of BRI, all that carping about “debt trap” and “economic coercion,” all that “de-risking” rhetoric, and all those mounting intimations of false flags in Taiwan leading to the “real” war that the neocons in charge of US foreign policy dream about.
Obviously, intellectually shallow Beltway types won’t get the message. Especially because Li Shangfu was as polished as a jade tiger – elegantly pouncing over an avalanche of lies. You wanna mess with us? We’re ready. The barbarians predictably will keep rattling at the gate. The jade tiger awaits.
https://thecradle.co/article-view/25792/how-the-bri-train-took-the-road-to-shangri-laEleni sent this view from Indian Diplomat Bhadrakumar, focusing on the stresses of integrating a remilitarized Japan into “NATO”.
Asia-Pacific is where China-Russia “no limits” partnership will be put to test
Arguably, in his zest to integrate Japan into the US-led “collective West”, Prime Minister Kishida overreached himself. He behaves as if he is obliged to be more loyal than the king himself. Thus, on the same day that President Xi Jinping visited Moscow in March, Kishida landed in Kiev from where he went to attend a NATO Summit and openly began lobbying for establishment of a NATO office in Tokyo.
Kishida followed up by hosting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Tokyo and giving him a platform to berate China publicly from its doorstep. There is no easy explanation for such excessive behaviour. Is it a matter of impetuous behaviour alone or is it a calculated strategy to gain legitimacy for the ascendance of revanchist elements whom Kishida represents in the Japanese power structure?
To be sure, Northeast Asia is a priority now for China and Russia, given their overlapping interests in the region. NATO expansion to Asia and the sharp rise in the US force projection bring home to the defence strategists in Beijing and Moscow that the Sea of Japan is a “communal backyard” for the two countries where their “no limits” strategic partnership ought to be optimal. The Chinese commentators no longer downplay that the Russian-Chinese military ties “serve as a powerful counterbalance to the US’ hegemonic actions.”
It is entirely conceivable that at some point in a near future, China and Russia may begin to view North Korea as a protagonist in their regional alignment. They may no longer feel committed to observe the US-led sanctions against North Korea. Indeed, if that were to happen, a host of possibilities will arise. The Russian-Iranian military ties set the precedent.Asia-Pacific is where China-Russia “no limits” partnership will be put to test
This next article suggested to me that the current stresses between Japan, China, Russia,Taiwan, Okinawa and the intervening small islands date back to Japanese imperial expansion in the late 1800s, when both Taiwan/Formosa, Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu Island Kingdom, were subsumed into the Japanese Empire, having been independent, or nominally subservient to China, which ceded Formosa to Japan in 1895. The Ryukuy kingdom finally fell to Japanin 1879. The Taiwanese and Ryukyu peoples are different from Chinese and Japanese peoples, and have suffered greatly under those imperial machines, due to their vulnerability. Japan and China, now the US, are constantly pushing for power projection, and threatening each other. The demilitarization of Taiwan, o/kinawa and all of the Ryukyu islands offers a scenario where all threats can be reduced, and commerce can flourish, with much local autonomy, and token Chinese or Japanese nationality. Just my thoughts…
Japan’s Drive for Military Greatness in the Lengthening Shadow of US-China Confrontation
Significant US military presence—approximately 26,000 US personnel, or half the total stationed in Japan—is positioned on Okinawa Island, where most attention has been focused on the hugely unpopular and still hotly contested Henoko base being built there by Japan for the US Marine Corps to replace the obsolescent Futenma. Meanwhile, Japan over the past decade has steadily expanded its own military (Self-Defence Force) presence on its lesser known islands. Under strong US pressure, it has deployed, or is in the process of deploying, missile and counter-missile units in a series of new or under-construction bases, decisively changing the character of the Ryukyu island chain that stretches from Kagoshima to Taiwan, via
Mage, area 8.5 kms2, population zero
Amami, area 306 kms2, population 73,000
Okinawa, area 1,206 kms2, population 1.4 million
Miyako, area 204 kms2, population 46,000
Ishigaki, area 239 kms2, population 48,000
Yonaguni, area 28 kms2, population 1,669
In geographical terms, a line drawn from Kagoshima City in western Japan to the northern shores of Taiwan passes through these islands, and Japan and the US believe that, when or if the need arises, they can “bottle up” and deny China access or egress to or from the Pacific Ocean that lies beyond it. Japan’s southwestern frontier islands serve as a key component in this US-Japan “first island chain” China containment strategy.
https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/japans-drive-for-military-greatness-in-the-lengthening-shadow-of-us-china-confrontation/5631671 In the latest shot fired in the growing rebellion against US dollar dominance, the nine-nation Asian Clearing Union (ACU) has agreed to use Iran’s financial messaging system as an alternative to the dollar-denominated SWIFT system that has long served as the globe’s financial nervous system.
”The secretary general of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) says Iran’s financial messaging system SEPAM will replace SWIFT, a dollar-based international system, in trade exchanges between ACU members beginning next month,” Iran’s IRNA News Agency reported.
At a Tehran summit in May, ACU members agreed to establish a SWIFT alternative within a month. The adoption of Iran’s SEPAM will be an interim measure, as the ACU will develop its own messaging system over the next several months.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/asian-central-banks-adopt-irans-swift-alternative-de-dollarization-accelerates According to sources close to The Federalist, the Bidens allegedly ‘coerced’ a foreign national – identified by individuals with knowledge of the matter as Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky – to pay them $10 million in bribes. (Shortly before he died-funny.) The Federalist has now learned the FD-1023 reported the CHS saying the Bidens “coerced” Zlochevsky to pay the bribes. Sources familiar with the investigation also explained the context of Zlochevsky’s statements, and that context further bolsters the CHS’s reporting... Zlochevsky then mentioned the 17 audio recordings of conversations with the Bidens that he kept for insurance.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-coerced-burisma-founder-pay-10-million-bribes-fbi-sourceOn Saturday America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Rita Cosby on Newsmax that he has a high-level witness who is the former chief accountant at Burisma who is willing to testify on the Biden crimes. She even has the Biden bank account transactions. She has the receipts! …
..Rudy Giuliani: There was one very extraordinary piece of evidence. We had a woman in Ukraine who was the chief accountant for Burisma, the wife of the former partner of Mycola Zlochevsky who owned Burisma and is the major crook who was paying off the Bidens. And she wanted to turn she wanted to testify, but to testify she wanted to be in the Witness Protection program. And she had four colleagues of hers who were willing to testify and support her. She claimed that over an eight year period she supervised all of the offshore illegal bank accounts. All the money laundering went through her. Monday 6/12/23 update: Burisma Energy Accountant, Who Blew Whistle on Biden Bribery Scheme, Found Dead She wanted Witness Protection
The Burisma whistleblower, who has been identified as the wife of the former Burisma owner Mykola Lisin, who also died in suspicious circumstances during the years of the Obama administration when vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter were active in Ukraine.Burisma Energy Accountant, Who Blew Whistle on Biden Bribery Scheme, Found Dead
Jury Orders Starbucks to Pay $25 Million to Manager They Fired for Being White (It’s nasty commercial coffee with artificial crap in it, too.)
In April 2018, two Black men entered a Starbucks shop in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia for a business meeting with a white man who had not yet arrived. While they waited, and before ordering, one of the two asked to use the bathroom. He was refused. Eventually, they were asked to leave. When they did not, an employee called the police.
The subsequent arrests, captured in videos viewed millions of times online, prompted accusations of racism, protests and boycott threats…
..Ms. Phillips said in the suit that Starbucks, as part of its damage-control effort after the arrests, had sought to punish her and other white employees in and around Philadelphia even if they had not been involved in the events that led to the police being called.
Ms. Phillips said she had thrown herself into the company’s efforts to restore its credibility and had sought to support hourly workers, organizing managers to staff stores and cover for employees who were scared to run a gantlet of protesters.
Amid the image-burnishing campaign, Ms. Phillips said one of her superiors, a Black woman, told her to suspend a white manager who oversaw stores in Philadelphia, though not the one in Rittenhouse Square, because of allegations that he had engaged in discriminatory conduct — allegations that Ms. Phillips said she knew to be untrue.
In contrast, Ms. Phillips said, no action was taken against the manager who oversaw the Rittenhouse Square store, a Black man who Ms. Phillips said had promoted the employee who called the police.
Ms. Phillips said she was fired not long after balking at the order to suspend the white manager. She said that she had not been previously told that she was doing a bad job and that the only explanation she was given for the firing was that “the situation is not recoverable.”
Starbucks denied in court filings that Ms. Phillips had been fired because she was white and said she was let go because she performed poorly in response to the episode that led to the arrests.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63820(Schellenberger doesn’t mention prior cases of SARS-CoV2 later identified from stored blood in the US, France and Italy from September 2019 onward.)
First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources
Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.
As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it.
When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, “100%”
https://public.substack.com/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19A lot of us were catching on well before August of 2022.,but Pfizer already had definitive reasons to stop in December 2019 before “release” of the products.
Horowitz: Confidential Pfizer document shows the company observed 1.6 million adverse events covering nearly every organ system
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-confidential-pfizer-document-shows-the-company-observed-1-6-million-adverse-events-covering-nearly-every-organ-system-2661316948.htmlWidely Used Artificial Sweetener Linked to Leukemia, Obesity, Liver Problems (Even Stevia is worse than table sugar. Give up all sweet drinks.)
Sucralose, a chemical sweetener sold under the brand name Splenda, is found in more than 6,000 food products, including many “diet” sodas.Widely Used Artificial Sweetener Linked to Leukemia, Obesity, Liver Problems
“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now admitting “a bunch of” COVID information that Facebook censored as “misinformation” was actually true, and the collusion of its so-called “fact-checkers” with government authorities who proved to be wrong on the coronavirus undermined public trust.
“Unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true,” Zuckerberg said in a lengthy interview Friday on the Lex Fridman podcast. “That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust.”
On Alfred Russell Wallace and vaccination:
“Like so many other people, till a few years back I had not a doubt as to the efficacy of vaccination. I accepted it blindly as one of the established facts of science. Having been led to look into the evidence on the subject, I was first startled by the discrepancy of the statistics of small-pox mortality with the vaccination theory, and on further inquiry I was amazed to find that the evidence in favour of vaccination was of the most shadowy kind, while there was good reason to believe that it was itself a cause of disease of the most serious nature.
“I have also been struck by the (apparent) want of honesty in the defenders of vaccination, in repeating over and over again statements which are not true, and in actually falsifying the records of small-pox mortality by entering all doubtful cases as “unvaccinated.” 1
“I have no doubt whatever that any unprejudiced person who will investigate the evidence on both sides for himself will arrive at the same conclusion as I have done, that to enforce on unwilling parents a surgical operation which they honestly believe to be injurious and as to the efficacy of which there is so great a diversity of opinion even among medical men, is a gross infraction of personal liberty entirely unjustified by any proved beneficial results.–Believe me yours very faithfully,
“Alfred R. Wallace.”
On Alfred Russell Wallace:
“The co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, found himself deeply embroiled in a range of controversies surrounding the relationship between science and spiritualism. At the heart of these controversies lay a crisis of evidence in cases of delusion or imposture. He had the chance to observe the many epistemic impasses brought about by this crisis while participating in the trial of the American medium Henry Slade, and through his exchanges with the physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter and the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. These contexts help to explain the increasing value that Wallace placed on the evidence of spirit photography.. He hoped that it could simultaneously break these impasses, while answering once and for all the interconnected questions of the unity of the psyche and the reliability of human observation.”
It took about 60 years from the time Wallace was pointing out problems with smallpox vaccination before they got it right and turned smallpox vaccination into a success story.
@VeraciousPoet
Do you not see the Cabal advancing, at every turn, over the last 40 years?”
What I see is the Cabal coming out from under cover out of sheer desperation and panic, thereby further exposing their previously well hidden motives and identities so blatantly that even folks as sheep-like, gullible and stupid as you and me now see them and reject them as the abhorrent and condemned failures that they are. Each time that happens the numbers and certitude of the awakened grows and the dying hegemony of the satanic cult shrinks. One awakening at a time. Just as it happened with you, and me, it is also happening with millions of others around the world.
This is a war and there are casualties. What would you have me do? Quit fighting because I might die? That’s not even possible. I cannot die, and I certainly don’t choose to shrink. I’ll choose truth, thank you very much, and the truth is that Light wins.
One of the things I like about the Russians is that they are good neighbours. Foreign policy does not really impact me personally, but my neighbours do, and my nicest neighbours are the Russians: married lady with her mother (only here temporarily), the lady’s husband is in France for a few months.
We turned up at their front door, about five days ago, unannounced, and brought a home brew keg and a smile. They welcomed us in, made us dinner, we left at 9:30. Today, they turned up at our doorstep, whisky in hand, and we invited them in, drank a load, they left at 9:30.
Remind me: why am I supposed to be hating Russians?
So, Blackrock has invested hugely in Ukraine. What happens to that if Russia wins? What shockwaves would that send through the western and perhaps global economies?
OK, so TPTB are planning to reduce global population by 90%. How long can civilisation last with such a reduced workforce, including scientists, technicians, mechanics, machinists, metaluurgists, mining engineers, computer designers and programmers, medical researchers, and so on and on? If this really is their agenda, then TPTB are committing slow suicide. Sure, they can coast along for a while, perhaps decades, relying on stores and stockpiles and a level of automation, but do they have any idea what the threshhold is for maintaining a comfortable civilisation?
I don’t mind dropping dead suddenly and without warning. At least then I will be beyond the reach of The System. That bit of bravado said, I do not want to leave my poor wife alone in this world. She needs my support and I need hers.
British Russophobia in 2023 is a replay of British Germanophobia in the early 1900s. Then everything and anything German was the target of hatred and vilification, and before WW1 was declared. Germania delenda est. During the war a peace conference was organised by and for women in the neutral Netherlands. Attendees came from all over. Churchill wouldn’t have it. To keep British women away from it, he stopped the cross-Channel ferries, and forbad travel anyway. Nothing new under the sun.
In Canberra Russia had a lease on land for a new embassy near Parliament House. A day or two ago Parliament passed legislation cancelling the lease. Rossiya delenda est.
Talking of mental maths, try being a shopkeeper in pre-decimal currency and pre-calculator days, having to calculate change in one’s head or hastily scribbled on a spare paper bag. Twelve pence to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound. It was of course commonly and regularly and accurately done. Cash registers could add up sums of money but couldn’t calculate change.
Another aspect of deskilling, methinks.
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