Debt Rattle June 20 2022
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Henri Matisse Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi 1902 • Boris Urges World Leaders To Hold Their Nerve For A Long War In Ukraine (DM) • Prepare To
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 20 2022]Gonzalo Lira – A message for Americans
Very painful to watch; and spot on; remember to duck and cover…hahahahahahahahahahah………
Someone should let Putin know “Davos genetic poison” is in Sputnik V, a Davos Trojan horse horse attack on Russia.
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After several weeks of passive-aggressive bickering, Russia and the WHO are unfortunately still “an item” and they may even take their calamitous relationship to the next level: clot-shot certification. Gross.
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EU for Ukraine?
– Western media are generally agreed that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet
– It is largely controlled by oligarchs and Nazis [and more recently the US]
– I read that it has the nastiest criminals on the planet, which seems plausible
– Zelensky has banned all opposition parties and arrested the leader of the main opposition party
– Zelensky shut down any TV/Radio/Newspaper who were critical
– Ukraine has spent the past 8 years murdering its own citizensIs this REALLY the kind of country the EU wants?
Not sure what Turkey will think if the Ukraine is accepted!
Big guns are being positioned on both sides. The timing of Ukraine’s talked about” counter offensive has been moving out to September. Discussing such things is either open denial of how bad it is or misdirection.
A train carrying MLRS and 152mm howitzers arrived in Belgorod (not far from Kharkiv) arrived a couple days ago. That train left Irkutsk on the 9th. Things have been picking up in this region. Kharkiv to likely to become the next Mariupol.
Also, The Russian army seems to be preparing a large-scale offensive kitchen sink style (T-62s and middle aged conscripts) to capture Luhansk region. Occupants have thrown all their reserves into the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions, trying to establish full control over the regional center and to “cut off” the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway once and for all.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1535682460817793024?s=20&t=YBn3201ikBBMe9SBDZ7f-Q
“Pfizer study used just THREE children to prove it works..”
The children…THE FUCKING CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE’RE DEFINITELY BACK AT NUREMBERG; ONLY WORSE!!!!!!
WE SHOULD’VE KNOWN BETTER…………………BUT WE DON’T; ALL THESE DECADES LATER…
iS THIS OUR FUTURE?This caught my eye inn a Dutch outlet that I can’t link to just now, from Ukraine Defense minister Reznikov, who keep vowing Ukraine will reconquer all lost territory, including Crimea:
Ukraine plans to display destroyed Russian tanks in Europe. The idea behind the tour of European countries is to keep the public’s attention on the war in Ukraine
“We will help Russian tanks to visit Europe, but as wrecks,” Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told the Polish channel Polsat. The minister states that Moscow is looking for area expansion and Russian generals want to go all the way to Portugal.
Cuckoo!
Gonzalo Lira strikes again: “Baltic EU/NATO member Lithuania has implemented a ban on all rail transit goods going to Russia’s far-western exclave of Kaliningrad,”
And also all air traffic, as shown in the whole air corridor to Serbia.
Yup, NATO starting WWIII in the Baltics. Because that’s been going so well for them. …And now we’ll read that Russia “didn’t expect” this. I’m guessing that like Ukraine, there was a VERY SPECIFIC treaty that prevents this and has just been recklessly violated. Like this:
“the EU enforcement measure being implemented from Vilnius marks a complete break in a three decade long treaty”
The EU/West breaks every treaty. Every time. To them, they’re not even suggestions. They are “Not Agreement Capable”, what they write down doesn’t exist. Now you see why Russia still holds almost all soldiers in reserve.
Shootin’ for WWIII: “Russia Attacks US-Backed Fighters in Syria at American Outpost”
That would be completely illegal, war-crimes occupation of the 1/3 oil-rich side of a brown country. Stunning and brave. Vote DNC, do not pull out of foreign wars like that sissy Donald wants.
How are they gonna pay for the war? “Russia meanwhile earned a record €93 billion (US$97 billion) from energy exports during the first 100 days of the war, a Finnish study concluded.”
Unlike the U.S. in Iraq (and the other 20 wars we’re in) the Ukraine war is self-funding.
“ Boris Urges World Leaders to Hold Their Nerve for a Long War in Ukraine (DM)”
Whose war, Boris? Yours? Europe and NATO attacking Russia until one of them no longer stands?
“Everything will depend on whether Ukraine can strengthen its ability to defend its soil faster than Russia can renew its capacity to attack.”
It cannot because there are no men. That’s it. But these maniacs give men a Zero value, and material stuff like money an Infinity value. It’s not their “nerve” that is failing.
“make sure the Ukrainians are not encouraged to go for a bad peace,”
BoJo is maskness orgies, eating 5-stars, and demanding more war as there are a few Ukrainian women still alive. Must have more war. So Britain runs this sovereign nation now? Or is it vice-versa? Is this “our” war or isn’t it?
“calm but quietly menacing warning.” “Putin menaces” “The Russian President sat quietly, considering”
You’re fired. Reporters are to write “He said.” With the facts who what where when why. Be a novelist on your own time. P.S. also don’t care about your personal life or experiences, or what the weather was that day. Time is money, get to the point and don’t waste our readers’ time, and don’t insult them: they can draw their own conclusions and make up their own minds.
“Russia’s New Rules (Luongo)”
Conclusion from this: RUSSIA WILL NOT NEGOTIATE. What would be the point? They are going to do whatever they like, for as long as they like.
“Russia and the WHO are unfortunately still “an item”
You just do the opposite of here: Write on paper that the vaccine is X for the WHO, but then “Oopsie!” poor Russian production standards has most of the vials non-working. I suspect they did the opposite here, saying “We’re producing X” which was bad enough, but also made batches that were Y, Z, A, B, and C, tossing in anything they ever wanted to do Ukrainian mental-patient medical experiments on. I can probably prove it, but it would take a bit. For them it’s good: the more muddied the symptoms, the better. Doctors start with the totally unfounded, unprovable premise that they got the “Pfizer” or the “J&J” shot. Really? Which one of 300 flavors? Only Pfizer would know, as we saw with the 10x fatalities of the “##A” list the other month?
Only if you’re untrusting and can add the possibility that death is the goal does the puzzle become instantly clear.
“19” Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oho9KaoxI-4
Back when people had the sense to be antiwar and fear nuclear war. They were already forgetting when this song came out.“.most airlines are simply not going to be able to realize their capacity plans because there simply aren’t enough pilots,” the airline said.
Really? Why? The U.S. has the exact number of pilots they had two years ago, and produces more pilots every year. Or do they? If we have the same number of pilots in good condition, where are they? If they’re not around, what happened? Nobody asks.
Powell: “We see job growth slowing, but it’s still at quite robust levels. We see the economy slowing a bit, but there are still healthy levels of growth… There’s no sign of a broader slowdown”
“Subprime is contained.” There is no Recession…he says as all his own regional Fed Banks record a Recession. …And we’re 1/3rd(?) the level of previous employment, etc.
Either they will put you down in NeoFeudal technocratic Dictatorship, or they will lose and be annihilated. They refuse to add more choices. So be it. The market is tanking now, and with it, their power.
Excellent Gonzalo Lira piece. It will be like a return to Kingston, Jamaica 1973 – Frazier v Foreman. I can hear Howard Cosell: “NATO IS DOWN! NATO IS DOWN! NATO IS DOWN!”
I don’t agree with the end result being nuclear war. Working with the Democratic party, the WEF is doing everything it can do to destroy the USA. The one world government plan has failed(thanks to Russia & China) however Davos ruling the entire western world is still in play.
Starting a war with Russia makes sense if the goal to get NATO shredded and destroy DC credibility. Which, they hope, leads to America becoming a failed state.
Well the world changed for me today TAE had a swizz beats and lil’ wayne track in the feed!
I’m happy. The Indian dancing was cute too.
The British lost their Empire then they lost their shit.
Someone described England as an American aircraft carrier in dry dock for repairs.
I think it’s an run aground rust bucket waiting for the scrap heap.
They have no alternative to Boris Bat-them-off
The depth of British ‘leadership’ to replace him wouldn’t fill a tea cup.
“Russia is done with the West”
Eurotardistan will become a third world butt plug without Russian commodities and energy.
Germany cannot compete on the world stage paying inflated energy prices.
China will eat it’s lunch and spit out the bones.
China gets to buy discounted Russian energy, Germany will have to pay a premium.
Energy is still the Master Resource.
• Ukraine’s EU Accession Plan Is a Suicide Pill for Desperate EU
Eurotardistan phucked over Turkey for 30 thirty years over EU membership
Turkey is going to get it’s pound of flesh through it’s NATO VETO.
Just watch and pass the popcorn.
Russia loves it too
Old news
The enemy is Peace.
The enemy is independence
The enemy is freewill.
Freedom depends on your gated community. (see wall of China)
Its my ball, its my rules, or I’m going home with my ball
———–Old news
‘Nothing Will Be As Before’
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By Batiushka for the Saker BlogThe Controlled Demolition of the Economy
“In case you haven’t noticed, the wheels are falling off the global economy right now.”
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-controlled-demolition-of-the
Making efforts to avoid re-posting items already posted on TAE.
Pictue of “cold-tolerant” avocado seedlings faring differently. the biggest 2 handled winter the best.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/non-wef-alliancesMichael Hudson’s recent interview is largely on the history of western economics as a study, updated to current trends.
Economic Rent and Exploitation:
..Patten cited public roads and canals to lower the cost of doing business. He also noted that every time you build a road or railroad, you’re going to raise the land value along these routes – and lower land prices for areas replaced by the now-more-accessible producers. You can simply self-finance the cost of these by taxing the rent.
You also need public education, and that should be free so that you don’t have like today, to earn enough money to pay an enormous student debt – and receive a high salary to afford to pay that…..So the movement towards public infrastructure towards government spending was led by the industrialists. It was they themselves who wanted strong government. The common denominator of politics from Adam Smith through all of the 19th century was to free economies from the unnecessary economic rent, to free them from unearned income, from the free lunch. To do that, you have to have a government strong enough to take on the vested interests – first the landlord class in the House of Lords, and then the financial class behind it…
..Government infrastructure is a fourth means of production. But what makes it different from profits and wages is that if you’re a wage earner, you want to make as high a wage as possible. If you’re a capitalist, you want to make as high a profit as possible. But the job of public investment is not to make an income, not to do what was done under Thatcher and Tony Blair, not to treat public utilities, education and health as profit making opportunities. Instead, Patten said, you should measure their productivity by how much they lower the cost of doing business and the cost of living for the economy at large…
..Protectionists in America said the way to minimise costs – and it may seem an oxymoron to you – the way you minimise costs is to have high-wage labour. You raise the wages of labour, or more specifically, you want to raise the living standards, because highly paid labour, highly educated labour, well fed labour, well rested labour is more productive than pauper labour. So they said explicitly, America’s going to be a high wage economy. We’re not like Europe. Our higher wages are going to provide high enough living standards to provide high labour productivity. And our higher labour productivity, shorter working day, better working conditions, healthy working conditions, public health, well educated labor will undersell that of countries that don’t have an active public sector…
..Needless to say, the fight for the kind of democracy that will free economies from economic rent was not easy. By the late 1880s, and especially the 1890s, you had the rentiers fighting back. In America the fight was led by John Bates Clark. There was a movement, which today is called neoliberalism, to deny the entire thrust of classical economics. Clarke said that there is no such thing is unearned income. That meant that economic rent does not exist. Whatever a businessman makes, he is said to earn. Whatever a landlord makes, he earns – so there was no unearned income…
On difficulties with big government and small government:
..In the 19th century, in order to tax the land rent, you had to take on the most powerful vested interests of all: the real estate interests and the financial interests. But Henry George was a libertarian. He was for small government. He broke with the socialists, because he warned that socialism had a potential for authoritarianism. Well, we know that he was right in that warning, because we saw what happened in Stalinist Russia. But obviously, what you want is a government that is strong and democratic, and with enough authority to tax and regulate the vested interests. (That term is Veblen’s, by the way.) That was the ideal in America, but it needed a strong enough government so that Teddy Roosevelt could come in and be able to bust the trusts.....The government was strong enough in 1913-14 to impose an American income tax that fell just on 1% of the population, almost entirely on economic rent, on land rent, mineral rent on monopoly rent of the big corporations. If you’re a libertarian, your government is too small to take on these vested interests. And you’ll never win…
..I find little interest in today’s socialist movement or the socialist movement 50 years ago about land rent. They are more concerned about international issues, about war, about almost everything except land rent. And today I find the greatest interest in rent theory as a guide to a tax system in the context of an overall economic system to be in China. So that’s really where the debate over how to keep the price of housing down by keeping the financial sector from trying to capitalise the land rent into a bank loan…
..Russia could have been a low-cost economy. It could have kept the oil and gas, Yukos, GazProm, nickel and platinum resources all in the public domain to finance investment in re-industrialization, to become independent of the West. But as we all know, Ted and the people that Fred Harrison bought were completely overwhelmed by the billions of dollars that U.S. diplomats spent on promoting kleptocracy and shock therapy in Russia. Its officials andinsiders worked for themselves, not Russia…
..The National Income and Product Accounts treat rent as a product, not a subtrahend
A byproduct of this value-free doctrine is how countries calculate their national income and product accounts. And if you look at the GDP accounts for the United States (and I’ve published a number of articles on my website and in major economic journals), rent is counted as part of GDP...
..A classical economic accounting format would show how much of the prices for what our society produces is actually necessary, and how much is a subtrahend. Classical economists treat the land rent that you pay, interest charges and monopoly prices as a rake-off. So not all of your income is income equals “product,” because only a portion of that income represents a real product.
In America, the head of Goldman Sachs a few years ago said Goldman Sachs partners – a financial management firm – make more money than almost anyone else in America, because they’re the most productive. If you make a lot of money, by definition, you make it by being productive. That’s the false identity…..A precondition for what you call an economist, especially a Nobel Prize winning economist, is not to understand how the economy works. Because if you understand that, you’re going to threaten the vested interests that are getting the free lunch. You have to say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, everybody earns whatever they can get. Robbers and criminals like that idea. “Yeah, we stole it fair and square!”..
…So the way that the economy works today is no longer industrial capitalism; it is finance capitalism. Instead of Industrial Engineering, making society produce more with all of the environmental protection cost included, you have financial engineering, making wealth by increasing stock-market prices. Wealth is not achieved by earning it. You don’t save up your earnings and get wealthy. I think half of Americans are unable to raise $400 In an emergency. They have no savings at all..
...Under Reagan’s 1981 tax “reform” you could pretend that if you buy a big commercial building, you can write off 1/7 of the entire costs every single year as tax deductible income. At the end of seven years, you change your ownership from one name to another name, and you start all over again. The same building can be re depreciated again and again and again… But nowhere in the national income statistics is a report of how much income real estate owners actually claim as depreciation. They haven’t done that because if they showed this, people would think, ‘Wait a minute, this is a giveaway. This is utterly unrealistic.”…
..The purpose of industrial capitalism was to free economies from the legacy of feudalism. And the legacy of feudalism was the landlord-warrior class collecting hereditary rent and the predatory banks that were not making loans for industry. None of the industrialists got their money to invest from banks. The inventors of the steam engine couldn’t get loans except by mortgaging their houses. Banks don’t lend money to create capital, only for the right to foreclose on it…
..Until 1971, countries running a balance of payments deficit would have to settle it either in gold or by selling off their industry to investors in the payments-surplus countries. Well, beginning with the war in Korea in 1950-1951, the U.S. balance of payments moved into deficit. The entire U.S. balance of payments deficit from the Korean War to the 1970s was a result of its foreign military spending.
By the time the Vietnam war was ending, the Americans had to sell its gold every month. Vietnam had been a French colony, so the banks there were French. As America spent more dollars in Southeast Asia, these dollars were sent from local French bank branches to their head offices in Paris. The Paris bank would turn over these dollars to the central bank for francs, and the central bank, under General de Gaulle, would cash in these dollars for gold.
Germany was doing the same thing, using its export proceeds that were paid in dollars to buy gold…..My job at Chase was to analyse basically the balance of payments of Third World countries and then of the oil industry. I had to develop an accounting format to find how much does the oil industry actually makes in the rest of the world. I had to calculate natural-resource rent, and how large it was. I did that from 1964 till October 1967. Then I had to quit to finish my dissertation to get the PhD. And then I developed the system of balance-of-payments analysis that actually was the way it had been calculated before GDP analysis.
I went to work for Arthur Andersen and spent a year calculating the whole U.S. balance of payments. That’s where I found that it was all military in character, and I began to write in popular magazines like Ramparts, warning that America’s foreign wars were forcing it to run out of gold. That was the price that America was paying for its military spending abroad.
I realised as soon as it went off gold in 1971 that America now had a cost-free means of military spending. Suppose you were to go to the grocery store and just pay in IOUs. You could just keep spending If you could convince the owner, the grocer to use the IOU to pay the farmers and the dairy people for their products. What if everybody else used these IOUs as money? You would continue to get your groceries for free.
That’s how the United States economy works under the dollar standard, at least until the present…..Just about everybody thought that it would take many years for China, Russia, Iran, India, Indonesia and other countries to get their act together and create an alternative. But this year the Biden administration itself destroyed America’s free ride for the dollar. First the United States grabbed Venezuela’s foreign exchange, then Biden grabbed all of the foreign exchange of Afghanistan, just confiscated it. And then a month ago he confiscated $300 billion of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves. He said, in effect, that we are the leading democracy in the world, and global democracy means that America’s military gets to appoint foreign presidents…
..Europe has committed economic suicide, United States offered its leaders a lot of money in their offshore accounts, and made sure that their kids got free education in the United States. But in return, they would have to represent the United States, not Germany, France or other countries. The Americans have been meddling in European politics for years. European politicians do not represent their own countries. They represent the American State Department and American diplomacy. And they were told to lock their countries into the U.S. economy…
..America said that you Europeans are bothering them by trying to stop global warming. That’s a direct attack on a major arm of U.S. diplomacy, the oil industry. American companies control almost all the world’s oil trade. It’s the highest rent-yielding sector in the world. And it’s income-tax free. It’s politically powerful, and as long as America can control the oil trade, it can talk to Latin American countries or African countries and say if they elect a leader that U.S. officials don’t like, it can impose sanctions and stop exporting oil to them to freeze them out. They won’t get fertilizer, so the U.S. can starve you out. It can put a sanction on their food trade. Agriculture is Americans biggest trade surplus…Regarding the developing alternate world trade block:
They’re going to hold each other’s currencies. Especially now that Russia is denominating its exports, in roubles instead of dollars. The American banks have lost the trade financing of the world oil trade, certainly Russian oil and agricultural trade. Instead of holding dollars, countries will hold rouble reserves to stabilise their currencies via the rouble, China is holding rouble reserves, and Russia is holding Chinese yuan reserves.
The balance will be held more in gold and some kind of assets without a liability attached to them. I think the logical direction in which this is moving is that the non-dollar countries will create their own version of the International Monetary Fund, their own World Bank, their own trade organization…..If American Europe is left with its current foreign policy, biowarfare and atomic bombs, NATO will be shunned by the civilised world. As Rosa Luxemburg said a century ago, the choice is between socialism or barbarism. NATO, Europe and America represent the new barbarism. The alternative is socialism. That is how the world seemed to be developing in Europe and America until World War I untracked everything. The rest of the world now has a chance to get back on track. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the West. https://thesaker.is/economic-rent-and-exploitation-michael-hudson-shepheard-walwyn/
Russian warships have destroyed a Ukrainian command center with Kalibr cruise missiles, killing dozens officers, Moscow’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday. “More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed,” the statement outline. The strike took place near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in Dnepropetrovsk Region. It hit a compound where commanders of several Ukrainian units had gathered for a meeting, according to Moscow. The ministry added that Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy 10 M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored vehicles that were recently delivered from the West, and had been stored inside a factory building in the southern city of Nikolayev. https://www.rt.com/russia/557428-50-ukrainian-generals-officers-killed-russia/
Moscow will throw its full support toward helping the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics revive their war-torn economies, Russia’s trade and industry minister, Denis Manturov, told RT on Friday.
“We have met with the heads of both republics for detailed talks over plans for economic reconstruction,” …
The Construction Ministry said it would also help rebuild and manage critical infrastructure and prepare for the winter.
Schools, hospitals and daycare centers, as well as housing, will be the priorities.
The Donbass republics have already signed cooperation agreements with several Russian regions. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has recently announced that 300 specialists from the city are already working to restore the water supply in Donetsk.
Meanwhile, DPR leader Denis Pushilin said on Friday that a deal had been signed to buy food and building materials from Iran. He added that Donetsk plans to sell metal, cast iron, mining equipment, fertilizer, and other goods to the Islamic Republic.
https://www.rt.com/business/557387-russia-rebuild-donbass-trade-minister/KURDISH, PRO-GOVERNMENT & IRANIAN-BACKED FORCES SET UP JOINT OPERATION ROOM IN SYRIA’S ALEPPO (This is an allied joint command.)
Kurdish, pro-government and Iranian-backed formations had established a joint operations room called the “North Thunderbolt” in Syria’s Aleppo to coordinate against Turkey, the Al-Monitor reported on June 19.
The operations room, which was established on May 25, is headquartered at a Russian base in the village of Hardatnin in the northern countryside of Aleppo...
..Two Russian officers, three officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, three Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leaders and two leaders from the pro-government forces are reportedly present at the operations room, which commands some 600 fighters.Kurdish, Pro-Government & Iranian-Backed Forces Set Up Joint Operation Room In Syria’s Aleppo
Medical Vitamin-D expert, David Grimes MD has been sorting through Canadian government health statistics, which are cumulative.
He substacted the totals from the week of 4/10/22 from the week of 4/17/22 and found this information about COVID deaths for that week.
Covid-19 deaths among the unvaccinated increased from 9511 to 9512, an increase during the week of just one.
Only 1 of the 227 Covid-19 deaths was a person who had not been vaccinated. Let this true but unpublicised fact sink in.
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/Dr D, just want to follow up briefly on your response to me yesterday. I moved in 2020 from a somewhat undesirable area of the inner SF Bay Area (“bad schools” you see) but was a family friendly and safe area 20 years ago. We were a couple miles from one of the worst neighborhoods in the Bay Area. By 2020 there were shootings and all our neighbors were being robbed regularly. Home invasions where sometimes elderly people were beaten. I worked in Berkeley and in the SF Financial District. Over the 20 years things in “nice” neighborhoods and on BART became more and more dangerous. Random attacks. Shootings on freeways. A student murdered walking down the street in Berkeley. I lived what you are talking about, as a young person in Los Angeles growing up, and an adult in SF. There’s no escape anymore in those areas, no matter how much money you have. I’m now not in a city, because of all the things you brought up. I’m 2 hours from the closest interstate, surrounded by farmland. And there’s not a single neighborhood or area I would be scared to walk through anywhere near me, besides some areas of woods during hunting season I suppose.
I’m of the opinion that in the coming times if you don’t own a plane of your own and a supply of fuel, you don’t want to be in a place you may need to escape in any sort of hurry.
to borrow from the work of Quora contributor, Spencer McDaniel (avid reader of John Milton’s Paradise Lost)
“The famous saying “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” comes from a monologue delivered by the character of Satan in Book I, lines 242 through 270 of the epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (lived 1608 – 1674) and originally published in 1667. This saying in particular comes from line 263.When the epic begins, Satan and his legions of fallen angels have already been defeated by the angelic hosts and they have been cast into the depths of Tartarus, which is described as horrible, dark, fiery place full of pain and suffering. It is not the sort of place anyone in their right mind would want to rule.”
The variously described Great Reset New World Order cabal which is currently screwing up the Great Western Empire of Lies would be well advised to read up on their Milton, especially that line about preferring to rule over Hell. Seems like they’re getting what they wished for. No one in their right might would want to rule ( or live in ! ) the transhumanist starving slaves of the world that these WEF guys (and their Masters !) wish to create and rule.
Looks like an extremely serious case of needing to be careful about what ya wish for.
Does anyone still conscious enough to read or observe see that trend turning around and going the other direction any time soon?
[this quotation was clipped from a California newspaper report about the truly terrible conditions in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, circa June 10, 2022. San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is a barely survivable hell of crime and bad conditions , ruled with a bloody hand by the Cartels and their enablers.]
(quote) “Everyone knows what’s going on. The cops, mayor, and D.A.,” said Tom Wolf, a recovering addict. “Everyone knows it’s organized and cartel-backed. They just don’t think it’s worth it to stop it, because nothing’s going to change anyway. They’ve surrendered.” (end quote)Hiding within that quoted factoid lurks the second biggest secret in the world. The secret is that the people who we willingly select and accept and trust as “official” authorities mostly think that the awful shit that we suffer as a consequence of their management is just fine with them, as long as they keep on getting more of what THEY want.
Because those “official” authorities (pretty much all of them) are the ones who are DOING the shit to us that we don’t like. it makes no sense at all to ask those same brigands for their help in setting any of it right. They are the gatekeepers who decide who gets locked outside the gates.
Right now the folks in charge see benefit in things being as they are, and so they proactively WANT things to be as the are (i.e the gates closing and soon to be sealed shut). This eviction and closure is not by accident or by mistake. It is, transparently, very very much on purpose.
So don’t expect any gatekeepers to allow you to get more of what YOU want if that would in any way result in the Officially Authorized Gatekeepers not getting more of what THEY want ( or even . . . . perish the thought . . . . maybe LESS than what they want.) That’s the whole idea. Each “layer” authorizes and pays the layer beneath it to do what will be good for the superior layer at the expense of the inferior layer. Shit flows downhill.
The view from below is interesting, too. It seems that every subservient layer in the inferior positions then BRIBES the layer above them by means of BUYING (with cash, services and protection) the “authority” to enable doing what the subservient layer wants to do. Two-Way-Pay-To-Play. As they say in the Life, “sweet!” It’s all so tidy and efficient.
That might seem like an extremely dark and pessimistic view to take on how things work around here, but before you hang me as the world’s most depressing Doomer please allow me to remind you of one more thing, one that strikes me as a potentially much better deal : We do, in fact, ALSO have the option of simply wanting things that actually ARE better. I mean “better” in the sense of more “good”.
You can have either one (aspire either to good or to bad ). Whichever the choice, it will take some time to advance by stages to more effective levels of ability. But getting started is easy. All that’s required is to start wanting it. Simple as that.
But before you decide that . . . . . before deciding to want good because it is better . . . . you better remind yourself that the PRICE of believing something to be true and good is that you SHALL believe it. In other words, you will believe it so implicitly that there will be roughly zero chance of you changing your mind about it. If your choice was to want ‘good’ (which I sure do hope it was) then that’s just the way this whole thing is gonna roll. Say no more. Let’s get to work and see if we can do some good.
Those who made the wrong choice (i.e. the choice to want “bad”) create thereby a bit of a problem. I believe that these miscreants should be rescued when it is judged to be good and acceptably safe to do so. But beware of throwing away something good in that effort. It is usually very tricky and difficult to accomplish.
Those who are not rescued will reduce themselves, by steps and stages, to eventually reach zero awareness (of self or of anything else, either) and will thereby remove themselves from the playing field completely. They will literally and by their own choice simply be no more. Thus the end point (regardless of how gruesome it initially sounds) contains no awareness whatsoever , and thus no suffering. On the way down, however, these fools cause one hell of a lot of wreckage and suffering indeed.
If there is a better way to run things rather than this “guided trial and error” method of existence then I would sure like to know what it is. I would use it and encourage others to do the same. Otherwise what’s going to continue transpiring in the very real events of our day-to-day lives (such as those detailed and discussed routinely in this forum) is that the human race is going to either gain sufficient wisdom to manage the enormous lethal power it has organized, or it will fail to adequately manage that unprecedented level of power and be damaged (as an entire species) down to stage of operational capacity where it no longer possesses the power to eliminate itself. In other words, to survive as a species we must and therefor we shall either gain wisdom or lose power. And it’s being played out right now.
I’m willing to negotiate my surrender. Sure hope that the boss still is.
D Benton Smith said:
“In other words, to survive as a species we must and therefor we shall either gain wisdom or lose power. And it’s being played out right now.
I’m willing to negotiate my surrender. Sure hope that the boss still is.”That’s my assessment, too, and it may be jittery, in fits and starts, so I’m trying to go on ahead, do my best, and not be roadkill.
Dr. Day thanks for the link to Dr. Grimes. I always forget about him until you bring him up. I assiduously email his work to my government representatives plus health bureaus and my state University medical research department. A little research money thrown Dr. Grimes way would do a world of good on the cheap. You did your part on advocating D3 as have a few others. I’m surrounded with educated people with 2-4 vaxes and infected with Covid multiple times. I’m viewed as a heretic by suggesting D3. You’re living my dream. In my heaven I would be surrounded by an avocado orchard with olive oil, a salt shaker, black pepper, lemon juice and garlic in hand.
RegardsA lighter, historical “catch-up” video to share with those newly awakening to the blossoming U$ Empire LLP nightmare, offered by no other than Ray Dalio:
Both Russia and the West are ruled by oligarchs — plutocracies. It is just the degree of their control over what is left of government. Democratic republics are long gone. The militaries have been privatized. This is why the proxy world war is starting out just the same as WWI. Though a century has passed, the ruling aristocracy hasn’t changed a bit. There is no public health, public education or public safety left for one basic reason — they are profitless. The USA is #1 and Russia #4 with total COVID deaths.
It is not a coincidence that the ultra right is similar in the USA or Russia. Humans revert to old beliefs when under stress. Actually, the rational political left and right are approach similar positions; everyone else is crazy. This is just like WWI, incompetent leadership on all sides; artillery trench warfare. If the proxy world war escalates and last four years, the Western and Russian Empires will collapse. If China isn’t destroyed by nuclear weapons, it will be the last human civilization left on a polluted depleted earth.
Anecdotal:
I’m a long time musician & founding member (2002) of The Gear Page…
One of the reasons is it’s flourished into the premier guitar gear site (the others are all dead & gone) is the heavily moderated control that keeps the focus on music + gear, -0- politics was allowed, with almost 300k members & millions of anon views looking for legit info.
Last year during the roll-out of the vexes, it seemed the overwhelming consensus was pro-vax, but since the end of last year the discussion (in the non-public pub section) totally dried up & blew away…
Last Friday someone started a thread Things are never going to get better… in the pub (where most of us rarely visit) & it’s gotten almost 20k unique views + 455 responses so far, weirdly trending towards top thread ~ I only clicked into it today & the content I read on page one would have gotten several banned + the thread locked just a couple of years ago.
Things are definitely heating up out there in sheeple flyover country, here’s a sample of the conscientiousness emerging/thread vibe:
Hey there, faceless pawn.
The 24 hour news cycle sucking you dry? Desperately seeking something to fill the crushing void in your soul?
Look no further than Arbys Value Menu.
Eat Arbys!
VietnamVet,
Unfortunately, that scenario seems likely in the moment. This caught my eye the other day in a Batiuska article linked at TAE
China may soon launch an Operation in Taiwan to free the ethnic Chinese there from the Nazism of its US-appointed elite.
Whether this will be the angle or the pent up hate the Japanese and Chinese have for each other will be leveraged to precipitate the invasion of Taiwan remains a question.
One thing that puzzles me, and is certainly debatable, is the slow progress that Russia is making despite their local advantages. This provides a window for modern Western equipment to be deployed and prolong the fight.
Hopefully, the combined exhaustion of Ukraine’s forces, the impatience of its supporters, and the spreading impact of this war on the global economy and food supplies, will lead to a deal that turns these conquests into a permanent part of Russia.
Or as Andrew Anglin (total nazi) put it,
I’m Glad They’re Ignoring Kissinger, Because I Want to See This Entire Fake Civilization Wiped Out with Chinese Nukes.
Arbys has an off menu item that you can order called the meat mountain. Costs about $10 bucks in the Midwest.
Michael, before the Meat Mountain, Moore getting his argument capsized & not learning a thing (like a true proglodyte):
@chooch said
One thing that puzzles me, and is certainly debatable, is the slow progress that Russia is making despite their local advantages.
Install more memory. I have seen a variety of people explain this to you on this comment board, you must have discarded that data and are now caught in a loop, chasing your tail.
Another great article from Alastair Crooke. I think we should make him an honorary member of TAE because he thinks just like we do:
@viet “I was just following orders” vet
If the proxy world war escalates and last four years, the Western and Russian Empires will collapse.
BS again, America is the only Empire, not RF. Can you count military bases between the two?
The only Empire that needs to be destroyed is the murdering West- whether it is destroyed by force or collapses under its own sickness, the sooner the better. Did you learn anything following orders in Vietnam from your masters? You can think freely now after all these years or still indoctrinated? How many more genocidal Vietnams led by your own murdering govt do you want to see?
@ Choo Choo
you’ve been beating your meat here for months playing “putins bad” retard- is this the type of “ass kickin” wars you beat your meat over?
Civilians being shelled by ukr nazis via Lancaster reporting-
Hopefully you will be cowering in a basement soon being shelled and shot at by your very own govt. It’s all fun and games for you fuckface.
citizenx
@ Choo Chooyou’ve been beating your meat here for months playing “putins bad” retard- is this the type of “ass kickin” wars you beat your meat over?
Boy oh boy; tou are one nasty son-of-a-bitch!!!!
Go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Benton (DBS) posted:
Does anyone still conscious enough to read or observe see that trend turning around and going the other direction any time soon?
re link. https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/rawmaterials.jpeg
No. Though we may see some swingy moves within the upward trend 😉
As we are talking economics, what is also happening is that *inflation* is being used as a fany blanket term, for ‘higher prices’ (for all kinds of stuff, from pancakes to gas, to lithium..) without distinguishing, a) afaik in English what is called cost-push inflation?, e.g., the pancake maker needs to buy basic foodstuffs, energy for cooking, fancy fruit, etc., he has to pay his staff, etc. and passes those ++ costs onto the consumer – who may then not be able to pay for the pancakes and eat stale crackers instead. (So Pancake Man goes under.)
And, b) de-regulation of the money control apparatus, over-printing, and throwing money (credit) at various entities hoping that their use of more power for exchange will solve some problems / help along a limping sector / be good for the community ultimately / mask some scams / etc.
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