Debt Rattle March 14 2025
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Pablo Picasso Rest (Marie-Thérèse Walter) 1932 • Trump ‘Would Like To Meet’ Putin (RT) • Putin Lists Guarantees Moscow Wants For 30-Day Ceasefi
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 14 2025]Audrey Hepburn. What a lovely way to begin the day. Cheers!
I’m also saddened as I never realized she died so young. Of course 30 years ago 63 seemed like an old age.
Today: Putin says yes. BUT ON WHAT TERMS? Those peace terms could be near or far. Just as near or far as he likes. Everyone acts like this is something, projecting their psychology.
Markets tanking, or alternatively, attacked from London. Both. Attacked certainly from Canada, which is now a dictatorship, voted in by 200k hand-picked people. Didn’t they purge the voters of 400k just before voting with a minority of a minority of a minority? I’ll have to go re-check htf this is even legal. Like, I knew they were rigged politics for decades, but they keep up appearances to a level, you know. That they CAN’T means they’re losing bad, in retreat, constantly stuck for time plugging holes.
So what was that? You can have hand-picked Justin, who is really run by Freeland. Or you can have Freeland. OR you can have Freeland’s Godfather, “The Dark Lord” of London, Carney. Wow! That’s Democracy in action! What do Canadians think of this? As far as I can tell, seems great and proper to them, Orange Man bad. He’s a dictator.
Okay, so Yellen F’d the while United States right in the A, right up the cloaca, by issuing the $36 TRILLION her whole term in like 6-month T bills. So that ANY rise in rates are immediately to the bottom line, bankrupting us in days. We need to roll over, I forget some impossible like a Trillion a month or something. AND Democrats just shut government down.
Chuck Schumer “If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans that are hurt the most. ..social security, health, veterans…” Tell me more July 2024 Schumer! This is super-interesting how only evil people close government.
AOC: “Air Traffic controllers” ” “It would be irresponsible, you don’t get to just shut government down because you don’t get what you want.” Go on….
https://memesbams.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1-Please-Tell-Me-More-Meme.jpgSo, again, DESTROY all US, socially, culturally, legally, economically, get Bush to waste weapons in the sand to use up all things militarily. All good will in recruitment. Then get US-Russia into a war where they nuke and bankrupt each other over you, their darling damsel who needs defending and never dun wrong.
So…bankruptcy part. With 4 years of Biden on the case, printing everything, causing inflation. US goes down, capital flows to EUROPE. Where these Europhile, Socialist-like Atlanticists from Yale love, all WaPo, NYT.
And here we are! Dow collapse, shutdown, nothing done, no deportations, Trump’s all over.
….Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Not. What happens when you have the panic? What happens when you have the panic first WEEK, long before midterms? What happens when it’s the Democrat’s fault, who contradict their own policies AGAIN, to their base who have agreed all-government-alwasy-good AGAIN and anyone who stops it is antiAmerican AGAIN?
Well sure they take a hit, that’s nice, that’s funny, shows they’re not a Party. But
TREASURY RATES COLLAPSE, BOND DEMAND SKYROCKETS.
….And in 6 months we can re-finance a huge chunk of all that s—t sandwich Yellen nearly sank us with. With 100 year bonds. You CAN’T do this if the Dow is high. And priority matrix: which is FIRST? And we DO need a market reset, even if the real economy is going straight up, the Stock prices are 90% overvalued. So ALL the Dow could go to like 4,000, and still be overvalued, not overshot yet. Wall St makes money either way, remember. He’s not hurting his allies. Main Street is about to be unleashed. He’s not really hurting them either, except short-term. Only week-by-week are pensions hurt, if it can all come back, so no harm there.
DO IT. Get us some air-speed.
They’re also talking 40 year bonds with gold payout. Yeah, but like, we ALREADY don’t trust you, and we’re trusting gold in 40 YEARS??? Okay, just as gold was removed from the system, it re-adds it. Slowly, step at a time. FIne. But. But what?? WE’LL HOLD ALL OUR ALLIES OVER THE CLIFF AND FORCE THEM TO BUY. Or else. …Or else no defense of your countries. That’s what happens when you have no army, now buy my s–t or else, Guido.
Gold continues steady march up. BTC is a mo-mo that runs with the Nasdaq. Maybe it has a bottom somewhere, as use-case but definitely can come off on deflation, mo-mo and “risk off”. That’s okay, crypto bois this is hardly even a hit yet to them. XRP is being installed and used worldwide, for instance. Oil down, as soon as it goes with no wasted war, and peace.
Order of operations. This needs to happen, and it’s under control. So far.
Soooo…Already Chuck reversed. Just like Ford and the electric grid embargo. So I guess Trump calls on the phone with the P Diddy files? That court case is where? Oh, so that was just ADVERTISING! He just wanted all these minions to know he HAD their tapes. So then when he calls Ford, Schumer on the phone, they cave.
Tired of winning yet?
I’m not. But I AM tired of lying. If you’re doing this, just admit it. But as I wrote yesterday, when you only just landed on the beach and are clearing the town, I understand we’re not running Queensbury Rules.
“Amazon, Google, And Meta Plan To Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity By 2050
Ursula school of reality. Soooo, Amazon builds nuclear reactors now? In 30 days or less? We Just Say S—t! The listener, so battered by 40 years of non-stop bald faced lies, with no consequences, now no longer have any reality inside them either. Words have no meanings. So obviously everything works better than ever when you call to the engine room and say “Full Stop” “Half ahead” and he sends up a smoked lox on rye toast, just like you asked. What’s the difference? Some words, other words, whatevah!
You say “Heart Attack” I say “Irritable Bowel Syndrome” tomay-to, tomah-to and you go to surgery where they remove that left toe! I don’t see the problem.
“Fiery But Peaceful: MSNBC Describes Violent Attacks On Tesla Dealerships As ‘Protests’
Words. “Arson and Shooting” are now “Protesting”. Yeah, the Gambinos were only “Protesting” the NY Police Department. Free Speech!
From the past:
“Socialist Steps On Another Rake Insisting That 79 Previous Attempts Weren’t REAL Stepping On A Rake” BBee
“Democrats Proudly Introduce The ‘Raise Gas Prices Even Higher And Make More Kids Trans’ Bill
Politics” – Bbee Jul 5, 2022Elon Musk hated. Yup. Saying it every day, over and over.
It was pointed out that there’s a major disconnect: to US, the normal people, we think “Nazi” means something, has intellectual, legal meaning we all discuss and debate as rational actors and adults. But for “Them” (pick the group and the parameters) the word means nothing. At all. It’s just a knee-jerk emotional hook. It’s the same as a puppy learns sad eyes means food. No idea why, doesn’t care. Say magic word, do magic thing, get treats! That’s it. The word HAS no meaning, in the emotional realm, same as all other words. It’s pragmatism: does saying this breath-hole sound GET me a thing, or not? Is it emotionally satisfying…or not? That’s it. Don’t play by THEIR rules. Sometimes kids get spankings. You have to go down a level. Being UP a level means you’re fluent in all levels from protzoa UP to whatever spiritual enlightenment you presently find yourself. You may need to communicate at someone else’s level.
Envy: Seven Deadly sins, now rebranded as a political movement: Socialism.
Just thought here, not that this has to be accurate, “Jealousy” may be bad, but it can inspire you to say, “I see that, I want one of those!” …and go get it. “Envy” is when you say “I see that, I want that!” …Then destroy it. You destroy the other guy’s thing and force him down to your level of misery. …But is GOOD for all of us, right? No Envy, and a monastic, spartan, religious life. At the barrel of a gun…you’ll bloody well be good or else! You’ll have less, and you’ll Like it!
““Who will give orders to stop hostilities? And what is the price of these orders?”
He does have a good point about the practicality of such things. That’s not a no, that’s setting the stage of what the reality may look like.
“While Kellogg has supported Trump’s calls to end the Ukraine conflict, his views on achieving peace have not aligned with Moscow’s.”
It was pointed out by Dore that The Narrative™ is Putin will have to accept the peace to please Trump and stay on America’s good side. Wait: What? I thought Trump was a Putin Puppet and had to stay on Russia’s good side. Now it’s Putin is a Trump Puppet and has to stay on Trump’s good side??? Make up your mind!
Both. Neither. A.i.i.i.i.i.i.i. So bored. Actually Lies should be far more exciting because there are a million lies and only one truth, but in practice it doesn’t work out that way. The lies are way more boring and stupid.
“The capricious and ego-driven 47th president of the United States” Is he though?
“Trump appears far more at ease with strong, authoritative figures who project power” Does he though?
“This is why Trump’s approach is not one of immediate disengagement” Is it though? All DonaldTelepathy™ OpEd. So NONE of this approaches real facts – even rumors – easily found, that the real causes are say, UK already snatching that $500B and Ze double-crossing Trump to his face. Presented that way, it has nothing to do with squishy nonsense like “Capricious” “Authoritative figures”. …It’s all time-wasting Bulls—t.
“This is why Trump’s approach is not one of immediate disengagement”
As Herbert, yesterday “When I’m advancing, I pretend it’s peace and the moral right. When you’re advancing I pretend it’s aggressive and a moral wrong.” Same with ceasefire. NATO calls a ceasefire 100% of the times they’re losing. Then never, EVER support it, ALWAYS re-arm.
““If Putin doesn’t agree to a cease fire, he risks offending Trump’s ego.”
As above. His FEEEEEEELINGS? IDGAF. Putin gives even fewer. Trump also understands this, if he’s the same guy you’d worry about that with.
“As I asked later in my column, can Trump’s ego permit him to allow the settlement on Putin’s terms?” Is that real, like at all? DonaldTelepathy™
“ For three years Putin has been slowly fighting a conflict that a capable war leader would have ended in three weeks.” Would it though? Or he’d be at the Polish border, with Insurgents in his rear, all Europe arming and stuffing in weapons to keep it going? Good thing PCR’s not a General.
“• MTG-Led DOGE House Panel Urges DOJ To Investigate Recent Attacks On Tesla (JTN)
They are local events. …However we have rumors it was NGO funded from ActBlue and is therefore the definition of Terrorism. So, although not wanting to, that’s probably the case. Almost nothing is “terrorism” which is a made up word now having no meaning. It shouldn’t really have any special legal effects: murder is murder, arson is arson. However, this very probably is every definition of the word, however strict, which is paid by foreign agitators to cause political toppling.
“• EPA to Begin the ‘Biggest Deregulatory Action in US History’ (Moran)
We can finally get that $12,000 car and $17,000 diesel pickup Europe didn’t want us to have. …Because we can grow our own fuel. There are millions of these cars worldwide. …But you can’t have them. You must die.
“• Clinton-Appointed Judge Slams Trump “Sham” (ZH)
Yes and no. There are Union protections, processes. Unless you’re saying all that has been repealed by Congress, law, etc, then they exist. I think they shouldn’t exist, but if they do, then yes, he probably can’t fire without many more steps. They are telling the President “Go ahead and ignore the law because we’re too cowardly to change and repeal it.” No. Can’t do that. Both you can’t, AND the President Ignoring law is crossing the Rubicon.
I can’t comment on this case, as it will all fall into minutia.
“Western Europe lacks the demographic and financial resources to turn itself into a military superpower.”
Wow, that’s some hefty Bulls—t there! They had to haul out the heavy hitters to drag that one up!
Celtic, our own in house AI, been missing off and on with the same moment of Zen, exactly three lines, one paragraph, same as the rain each day.
“Introspective” means contemplating “one’s own thoughts, feelings, and sensations; self-examination,”
Do we, (TAE, RIM, Comments), do a better job of Web crawling and Scraping than AI?
Are our inputs included in the info gathered by the different AI?How AI gather information.
AI gathers information through various methods, including web scraping and crawling, utilizing APIs, analyzing data from sensors and systems, and even through licensing agreements and publicly available datasets.
It employs a neural network, a type of deep learning, which is trained on massive volumes of text data to discover linguistic patterns and associations.
But it doesn’t always provide accurate information.
This is because its responses are based on patterns it has seen in the text that it was trained on.Web crawling and Scraping operations.
AI Web Scraper works by imitating the human way of surfing the internet.
When crawling, the AI web scraper makes use of algorithms to scroll the websites on the web and collects the data that might be useful for several purposes.
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Taking care of PROBLEM #1 $36 TRILLION
The United States’ deficit increased by a record-breaking $1.1 trillion during the first five months of the current fiscal year, new data from the Treasury Department showed.
The new numbers, released Wednesday, showed the deficit between October 2024 and February 2025.Trump solution: Make everyone pay. (Tariffs)
SEC. Lutnick says Donald Trump’s Goal is to have ZERO Taxes for anyone making less than $150,000 per Year — Force Countries to pay a Membership Fee to sell in America
• President Trumps goal is to have external revenue taxes.. not internal taxation on its citizens
President Donald Trump has expressed his readiness to meet and speak with his Russian counterpart after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was open to a US-proposed ceasefire in Ukraine but raised numerous questions about its practical implementation.
The Russian president voiced support for a potential 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict on Thursday, but warned of loopholes and strategic disadvantages, outlining Moscow’s concerns over how such a truce could be enforced.
Systems of “control and verification” to monitor a ceasefire are not in place but should be agreed.
The Russian leader suggested that further direct discussions with his American counterpart would be necessary to find a viable solution, but officials have yet to confirm any specific timeline for such talks.Russia delivers main ceasefire demands to US – Reuters
• No NATO membership for Ukraine
• No NATO ”peacekeepers” in Ukraine
• Ukraine is denazified/demilitarised
• The 4 Donbass regions are recognised as Russian territories plus CrimeaIn exchange:
• Cease of all hostilities
• Peace and stability for Ukraine
————“Of course 30 years ago 63 seemed like an old age.”
actually, it didn’t.
people have always lived to 80/90 years. it’s just that because infant mortality was so high, average age was much lower.
Envy. Can go every which way.
Bit of “envy” in sports make people break world records.
In school, an envy is a true gage where one really stand among it’s peers, if he wants to admit to himself. “I can learn all that I need on the internet” removes that “gage”.
Success of Soviet space program made Amers to “Land on the Moon”.
…………Scraping operations.
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/russia-reparations-peace-details
Russia: reparations + peace: Details of the Russian peace plan.
Article by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.
Zinderneuf
Mar 07, 2025Envy. Can go every which way.
Bit of “envy” in sports make people break world records.
In school, an envy is a true gage where one really stand among it’s peers, if he wants to admit to himself. “I can learn all that I need on the internet” removes that “gage”.
Success of Soviet space program made Amers to “Land on the Moon”.He already defined his terms as jealousy vs envy. And the observable effect of envy in Socialism.
So you re-imagine his envy term as his jealousy term, act AS IF he never made the distinction, ergo as if he was wrong. (argument by amnesia, as usual) Just coincidentally jumping in to defend Socialism, not directly, but cringingly evasively, nibbling around the edges.
Also observably doing the Socialist thing of “x is y. x is y” re-imagining, bringing a new vocabulary to fight instead of making an argument
If your belief cannot stand the light of day such that the most Pragmatic way to support is to cringe away from direct mention of it, defense of it, maybe it is because there is something so wrong with it that it is making it very difficult to openly, drirectly discuss or even mention.
..OR there’s something about it that elevates dishonesty above honesty. Has gone from seeing it as a cheat code to achieve greater things to simply a dopamine hit for using the cheat code. Or maybe just force of bad habit by too much repetition.
The Other Interpretation https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-other-interpretation
The question is again forced, what is going on in world events, which seem chaotic and nonsensical? What it seems like is that there is no narrative which adequately serves the interests of the “Owners” and their political and business “elites”, and that there are two divergent camps, with divergent interests and control-narratives, the globalists, and the nationalists. Globalists are tied to supra-national lending at interest to national governments, to fund wars. Lending at interest leads to economic crises, as debts outgrow productive economies at all scales. Economic crises lead to wars, which must be funded…
Populist nationalists seek to increase real-economy, to the benefit of their nations, workers, families, communities and long-term infrastructure viability.
Globalists seek to extract the abstracted “capital” from nations in the form of money, which is a conceptual agreement, not a farm, factory or oil well. Money is highly fungible, and can travel from New York to Bangladesh in an instant. This is convenient for those who have agreed ownership rights to productive properties and to the debt payments of individuals, companies and nations. They can lend at low rates, engineer crises, then demand higher rates or full repayment, obtaining either higher rates of return, or asset liquidations, as in the Asian Financial Crisis, where factories and businesses were bought very cheaply by global financiers.
Populist nationalists may shelter their countries from such extraction-cycles of free-flowing “financial capital” by introducing “capital controls”, such as China has, which tie the money to the place, the nation.
Nationalists may also fund their nations through tariffs, which make their national products less expensive at home, and increase the costs of foreign products. Retaliation is usual, so imports become more expensive in all countries. Countries which depend heavily on imports may be hit harder, especially if they can’t replace them, as might be the case if their is not enough farmland to replace food imports. Nations that are more self-sufficient will fare better, especially if others depend upon their exports, such as oil and grains.
Autarky is the state of self sufficiency. No modern nation is truly autarkic, but Russia has been pushed hard in that direction by sanctions since 2014, and has the most natural resources per capita of any country. A system of tariffs, which makes imports expensive, nudges a country towards autarky, and it takes the money from trade to run governments. This is bad for globalists who favor a free-trade system where they collect the skim from trade between nations. The more trade the better. The more a nation depends upon trade to survive, the more the globalists who control the channels and finances of trade are able to extract wealth from that nation through their manipulations of price and availability.
Global trade has been facilitated by diesel fuel, and massive ships to carry standardized containers, which can transfer directly to trucks and rail cars.
Global trade has certain advantages, because some places can make some things more efficiently than other places can, and if they ship cheaply, then there are practical benefits, but also the risk of dependency. This vulnerability to an embargo was impressed upon the US in 1973, two years after the US had peak domestic oil production, by the Arab Oil Embargo, which was retaliation for the US supporting Israel in the 1973 war.
My best assessment is that we are in a jagged plateau of global industrial output, which is poised for terminal decline, because it is 90% correlated with net oil + natural gas condensates production, and that peaked at the end of 2018. The “Repo Crisis” of big banks not trusting each other on overnight loans, backed by T-bills, happened the next August, and the “Going Direct Bailout” happened during COVID lockdowns in Spring of 2020.
If my assessment is correct, the debts-at-interest that are the foundation of our current money are mostly bad-debts. The cookie jar has mostly IOUs, not cookies. Who will get the remaining cookies? How will this be managed? Those are political questions which societies must agree upon, or they will break apart and not produce the necessities of life for their members.
The first question is how to manage the defaults. Global ownership elites prefer that claims upon the remaining wealth be nullified. If a claimant dies, then that is one less claim upon real wealth to compete with theirs. Destruction of competing claims through war has often been employed in the service of old-wealth. Sometimes broad societal negotiations, to reach a new Social-Contract are engaged over a period of years, and a society is able to reorganize functionally and move forward in a better-adapted arrangement to provide for its human needs at scale.
We are now approaching such a moment of societal realization, I think. Thanks Eleni. Is Donald Trump managing the possible collapse of the “American empire”? by Thierry Meyssan
For a month, the accumulation of critical events around the United States, Ukraine and the European Union has been difficult to interpret because each power has been advancing in disguise. European leaders assume a stupid air by assuring that they continue to support the Ukrainian integral nationalists while Washington and Moscow have already agreed on a peace agreement. However, it is possible that the diplomatic summits are hiding another issue: the prevention of a major economic crisis in the West. In this case, Washington must terrorize its allies to force them to pay off its debts.
It was in the kitsch decor of his Mar-a-Lago residence that Donald Trump convinced allied central bankers and finance ministers that he was going to make them pay the United States’ debts…
..A videoconference by analyst Jim Bianco, taken up by the Bloomberg agency, rekindled concerns. According to this analyst, the Trump administration is following a plan, the “Mar-a-Lago Agreement”. It intends to radically restructure the US debt burden by reorganizing world trade through tariffs, devaluing the dollar and, ultimately, reducing the cost of borrowing, all with the aim of putting US industry on an equal footing with its competitors in the rest of the world...
..On January 21 and 22, Donald Trump had gathered the central bankers and finance ministers of the G7 in his Mar-a-Lago residence. He is said to have welcomed them by telling them: “No one will leave this room until we have found an agreement on the dollar”. The agreement in question would therefore have been approved by the allies.
The main idea would be for the US Treasury to issue government bonds that do not pay interest (what are called “zero coupons”) and that would not mature for a century (that is, could not be exchanged for cash for 100 years). Washington would therefore have to force its allies to convert their debts into “zero coupons”.
If we accept this analysis, we must reinterpret various actions of President Trump, in terms of customs duties or the creation of a sovereign wealth fund. They no longer seem as erratic as the international press describes them, but on the contrary very logical.
We must therefore consider that Donald Trump is trying to manage the possible economic collapse of Joe Biden’s “American empire” as Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev tried to manage that of Leonid Brezhnev’s “Soviet empire”.
I am all the more attentive to this hypothesis because, in my opinion, the coup of September 11, 2001 had no other goal than to postpone the foreseeable collapse of the “American empire”...
..This is probably what we are witnessing today: Donald Trump, President of the United States, is dissolving the “American empire” as he had tried to undo it in 2017…
..If my hypothesis is correct, we must not believe a word of the threats of annexation of new territories, such as Canada, and not imagine that the United States is withdrawing militarily from Europe to confront China, but admit that it is militarily abandoning its European allies. We see that it is abandoning Germany and relying on Poland to organize Central Europe, even if it means letting Warsaw annex Eastern Galicia (currently Ukrainian). Similarly, we must prepare to see the United States abandon its Middle Eastern allies, with the exception of Israel…
..Note that if the European allies, the Chinese and the Saudis should consider it a scam to exchange their debts for “zero coupons”, Russia should on the contrary support the United States in this maneuver. Indeed, during the dismantling of the Soviet Union, Russia went through a decade of recession and unrest, but today it needs the United States to avoid finding itself face to face with China. https://www.voltairenet.org/article221903.htmlUS deficit sets record with $1.1 trillion in first five months of fiscal year 2025 https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/us-deficit-sets-record-11-trillion-first-five-months-fiscal-year-2025
Witkoff was in Moscow Thursday, as was Belarusian President Lukashenko. Trump envoy to present ceasefire deal to Russia this week – White House
Washington and Kiev agreed on a 30-day truce in the Ukraine conflict on Tuesday https://swentr.site/news/614107-trump-envoy-russia-ceasefire/Putin Rejects US Temporary Ceasefire Plan, Appears In Military Fatigues https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-rejects-us-temporary-cease-fire-plan-appears-military-fatigues
‘A ceasefire only benefits those who are retreating’: Russia’s top foreign relations experts and actors react to US-Ukraine talks https://www.rt.com/russia/614082-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-experts/
Russian Negotiator Reiterates Russian “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow
Putin, very, very uncharacteristically, donned a military field uniform, rolled down to the regional HQ in Kursk (Gerasimov was already there), and made a 5-minute on-camera statement, one of the two salient points of which is that he “strongly suggested” the military considers establishing a buffer zone around Russian borders after finishing clearing out the Kursk region. If that isn’t a signal to the Americans about any ceasefires, I do not know what is…
His second salient point, by the way, was to stress that any Ukrainians captured in the Kursk region were not actually POWs, but rather “terrorists”, i.e. persons who have violated Russia’s criminal anti-terrorism statutes.
Let’s return to Ushakov’s remarks. As indicated yesterday, I was highly confident the Russians would not entertain the US-Ukraine scheme, but I had assumed they would go through the diplomatic motions, of at least having a what I called a tea and cookies chat, and yet again restating Russia’s conditions before talks could begin. As readers pointed out in comments, Russia could also have gone for slow-walking to get expectations down: “We agreed in Riyadh that we needed to get the diplomatic machinery on both sides back in operation before we can entertain any proposal.”
So why a speedy and very public rebuff? One possibility is that it was important to reassure the Russian public that Putin was not going all wobbly in response to a US overtures, particularly after the important milestone of the Ukraine rout in Kursk. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/russian-negotiator-reiterates-russian-nyet-on-ceasefire-even-before-us-emissary-steve-witkoff-arrives-in-moscow.html Putin lists guarantees Moscow wants for 30-day ceasefire
The Russian president wants assurances that Kiev will halt military mobilization, soldier training, and arms deliveries https://swentr.site/russia/614167-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-guarantees/ READ IN FULL: Putin’s statement on Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire proposal
Russia is ready, the president has said, stressing that such an agreement “must lead to long-term peace” https://swentr.site/russia/614170-putin-ukraine-conflict-us/Putin Declined The Ceasefire; Trump Imposes Additional Restrictions Military Summary For 2025.03.14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRBGf6QPaw
Trump ‘would like to meet with’ Putin: The Russian president has also expressed openness to discuss a US-proposed Ukraine ceasefire with his American counterpart
Trump said the US has already discussed many details of a potential “final agreement” with Kiev and is now waiting to see “whether or not Russia is there.”
“We’ve been discussing land with Ukraine… pieces of land that would be kept and lost and all of the other elements of a final agreement. You know, we’ve been discussing concepts of land because you don’t want to waste time with a ceasefire if it’s not going to mean anything,” Trump said. “They discussed NATO and being in NATO, and everybody knows what the answer to that is. They’ve known that answer for 40 years, in all fairness.”
Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, visited the Russian capital on Thursday to discuss the results of US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week and to relay Moscow’s position back to Washington. Witkoff was also expected to meet with the Russian president behind closed doors in the evening, but officials have yet to confirm whether the meeting took place or to provide details of his other interactions during the brief visit. https://swentr.site/news/614191-trump-like-meet-putin/ Larry Johnson and Judge Napolitano had a long sit down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A Conversation with Foreign Minister Lavrov
What an honor. I was invited, along with Judge Napolitano and Mario Nawfal, to interview Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Monday. Mr. Lavrov is smart, charming, funny and quite approachable. He ain’t a bullshitter. There was no pretense about him. After spending more than 90 minutes conversing with him, I came away with a new appreciation of his skill as the consummate diplomat. Although we each had prepared a couple of questions in advance, those went out the window once the conversation started. There were no constraints on what we could ask.
There was an added treat before Mr. Lavrov arrived… we spent thirty minutes chatting with Maria Zakharova in a casual environment. She is equally charming and tough as a rhinoceros hide. https://sonar21.com/a-conversation-with-foreign-minister-lavrov/Gilbert Doctorow, Belgians want war!
My finger on the pulse is my membership in a prestigious ‘royal’ French-speaking club, where I have the opportunity to sit at table with other members for the periodic, even weekly gatherings. My own preferred sub-club is the Cinema group which gathers at least once monthly for projection of some vintage film which may be American, or French, or whatever. After the screening we take seats on a random basis for a shared dinner. Table talk wanders in all directions. Not often do folks talk politics, because it is by nature so divisive. But when they do, it is perfectly clear that the overwhelming majority of members are now pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian. Given that this club has long been a haven of tolerance for divergent opinions, and when I joined five years ago they still celebrated the visit of Peter the Great to Spa during his European travels, this solidity behind the NATO position on Russia is striking…
..Our daughter in her work as a school teacher in a Belgian secondary school is well immersed in the hoi polloi. They are her fellow teachers, they are the parents of her students with whom she meets periodically. And as the mother of two teen-age boys, she gets together socially with the parents of their friends.
What I am hearing from her is very clear: this hoi polloi has been properly indoctrinated, properly brain washed and now strongly favors defending Ukraine, strongly favors the establishment of a military draft in this country and say they are ready to send their sons to war against Russia. In fact, in some Belgian public schools today preparations are being made to introduce courses in paramilitary training for the final year of secondary education. This patriotic movement cuts across the country’s language divide.
Of course, no one has asked the sons of these Belgian patriots how they feel about being drafted into the army and being sent to the front against Russian forces where they will be blown to bits in a matter of days, just as the Ukrainian recruits are today experiencing.
I will not comment here on the advice I would give my grandsons should the draft be introduced in Belgium. Read my lips. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/13/belgians-want-war/ Celia Farber, Germany Launches Hotline, Encouraging People To Report Family And Friends Who Hold “Conspiracy Theories” That Question “Democratic Institutions” https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/germany-launches-hotline-encouraging
Free Trade was Ricardo’s Concocted Theory Used to dispossess the British Aristocracy, Paul Craig Roberts
As for Trump’s tariffs, at the present time it seems that often they are threats leveled at specific countries to get them to do what they should be doing or to get them to give their help to Trump’s agenda. For example, the initial tariffs Trump announced against Mexico and Canada were withdrawn once the two countries agreed to police their borders with the US to help halt the flow of immigrant-invaders into America. It remains to be seen whether a full blown tariff system is put in place…
..It is possible that tariffs could recover their historic role in the financing of the US government. The US government was financed over most of its history by tariffs. It was not until 1918 that the income tax passed in 1913 affected the population, so the US government has been dependent on income taxation only for about a century. As I have explained, the introduction of an income tax resurrected a form of slavery as it gave government ownership rights in our labor. The definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. Today people subject to an income tax are in the same position as medieval serfs who owed part of their labor to feudal lords...
..The income tax taxes labor and capital, factors of production. Thus income tax reduces GDP and living standards. Classical economists, unlike the present day “junk economists” as Michael Hudson correctly calls them, said, correctly, that consumption, not factors of production, should be taxed. That is what a tariff does. If you don’t consume goods produced in other countries, you pay no taxation.
Countries once understood that being dependent on imports of necessities, such as food, was a threat to national existence. A country could be subdued by the cutoff of food. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/12/free-trade-was-ricardos-concocted-theory-used-to-dispossess-the-british-aristocracy/Weaker dollar outlook: Gold Soars To Record High As Tariff Tensions Rise https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/gold-soars-record-high-tariff-tensions-rise
Alastair Crooke, Europe faces a MAGA ‘vibe-shift’ as Trump moves to his primordial objective – The Global Reset
The point here – which Europe feigns to not understand – is that the end to the Ukraine conflict simply is Trump’s ‘gateway’ to the entire rationale and platform on which he stood: The Great Reset of the Geo-Political landscape. Ukraine, simply said, is the obstacle to Trump’s pursuit of his primordial objective: The Global Reset.
Starmer, Macron and the eastern wing of the Euro-élites are blind to the sheer scale of the global vibe-shift towards traditionalist U.S. politics and ethics. They miss too, the barely concealed fury in the Trump world that exists behind this nascent revolution. “The Maga Right has none of the inhibitions of its predecessors. It is planning to leverage the power of a recaptured state to annihilate its enemies”, Allister Heath writes…
..Team Trump – committed to the task of taking down the American Deep State as the ‘inexorable enemy’ – perceives (rightly) the British security state to be co-joined at the hip with their American counterparts, as a part of its global meta-structure. And its oldest and deepest component has always been the destruction of Russia, and its dismemberment…
..Friedrich Merz, Macron and Starmer are talking about how they are going to turn around their countries – via a massive infusion of debt – into defence superstates. Yet, at some level of consciousness, they must realise that it is not doable, so they settle instead for presenting themselves as ‘world leaders on the international stage’.
The European élites are deeply unstable ‘leaders’ who are risking the prosperity and stability of the continent. It is clear these countries do not have the military capacity to intervene in any concerted manner. More than anything, it is the European economy circling the drain that is the reality at the gates.
Zelensky is accomplice to the European insistence that defeating Russia takes priority over achieving peace in Ukraine, in spite of lacking any strategic rationale as to how it may be achieved after three years of a worsening military situation. Both plans – crushing the Russian economy with sanctions and attrition of the Russian military to the point of collapse – have failed. Why then does Zelensky resist Trump’s peace proposals? On the surface, it makes no sense.
The explanation likely goes back to the post-Maidan era when the western ‘Meta Security State’ (principally, the British and the Americans) entrenched hardline Banderites (then a tiny minority) into the Ukrainian Police, Intelligence and Security State. They are still today the controlling force. Even were this faction to acknowledge that their war cannot be won, they understand what happens if they lose.
Russia will not deal with them. They view them as extremists (if not war criminals) who are in no way ‘agreement capable’ and must be replaced by a leadership who is actually capable of compromise. Russia would likely pursue and bring these men to trial. Zelensky has to be frightened at what the Banderites might do to him (despite his British team of bodyguards)...
President Trump has ordered intelligence sharing with Ukraine stopped. What he technically did was to stop allowing Ukraine to use exclusive U.S. targeting systems controlled by U.S. Intelligence, the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. What has been suspended is the exchange of so-called ‘lethal’ data, including information for HIMARS targeting. However, the defensive information needed for protection is still being provided to Ukraine...
..In Ukrainian command posts, the battle tracking and satellite online feeds on tablets and TV screens have indeed been disconnected. What Trump’s slap-down has done is to puncture the fiction that Ukraine is able to defend itself with a little substitute of European support. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/11/europe-faces-maga-vibe-shift-as-trump-moves-to-his-primordial-objective-the-global-reset/ Michael Every, Rabobank: “There’s Growing Recognition Trump Is Serious About Radically Reshaping The US”
Meanwhile, there’s growing recognition Trump is serious about radically reshaping the US. The Wall Street Journal asks if he is taking a “liquidationist approach”. The Financial Times underlines he sees the need for shock therapy to remake the US to make things great again and argues a recession won’t stop him. Indeed, the more one hears ‘Main Street not Wall Street’, ‘national security’, ‘long term, not next quarter’, and ‘don’t focus on stocks’, the more it echoes ‘Common Prosperity’. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-theres-growing-recognition-trump-serious-about-radically-reshaping-usSchumer Shutdown: Senate Refuses To Pass Continuing Resolution After Democrats Melt Down https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blocks-path-schumer-and-schiff-schitt-shower-over-shutdown-friday-deadline-looms
What did somebody say to Chuck? “Bastards!”: Schumer Throws Contrived Tantrum After Caving To GOP https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schumer-shutdown-two-ways-can-go
RFK Jr’s Ex-CIA Daughter-In-Law Tasked With Reining In Intel’s ‘Black Budgets’
Rather than working inside just one three-letter agency to reform it, the director of the Office of Management and Budget asked, why not bring the entire espionage apparatus to the president’s heel? Fox Kennedy accepted. Passed over for a job at CIA, she now oversees the entire CIA budget as well as the budgets for the 17 other agencies that collectively make up the intelligence community.
This makes her the tip of the fiduciary spear, so to speak, in the ongoing White House war against what they see as a “woke and weaponized” government security establishment. The budgets, like the ones collecting dust next to her desk, and other bureaucratic authorities known only to the nerdiest of wonks, Fox Kennedy insists, are the very best tools “to put the Leviathan on the chain.”
All of this delights Vought, who calls her addition to OMB “a huge deal,” a step toward policing the shadowy corners of the federal government he described as “nearly untouchable.” No clandestine budget or compartmentalized program will be beyond her purview. Instead, AFK will be free to follow the money. https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/12/amaryllis_fox_kennedy_former_cia_agent_tasked_with_reining_in_intels_black_budgets_152493.html Look Out Below: Psychology and fundamentals both have to bottom for there to be “value”, despite what idiots on TV say. That day is not today. Tomorrow doesn’t look good, either.
I’ve already explained why I think markets could be set up for a much bigger move lower. I detailed this in both my March market review and my piece explaining why I think the next crash could very well be different from those of days past and could “break the brain” of market participants: This Next Market Crash Will Break Our Fragile Brains.
I wasn’t going to write a piece midday today until I turned on the television and, despite the best efforts of David Faber to inject some semblance of reality onto CNBC guests, watched portfolio managers justify paying 26x to 40x earnings for tech stocks they said are “on sale”...
..Faber actually did a pretty good job trying to paint a picture of the psychology of the market as it stands today. What he said mostly aligns with what I have been saying over the last couple of weeks: that there is a psychological shift taking place deep in the foundations of the market, not only where people are beginning to entertain the idea that we’re entering a bear market, but also simultaneously entertaining the idea of a rotation out of risk-on speculative US technology stocks and into both US industrials and emerging markets. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/look-fck-out-below Celia Farber, Intel: Contracts Out For Killings Of Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Chase Geiser’s Family Swatted Middle Of Night, Based On On False Report
Alex Jones Says Intel Told Him It’s The Ukrainians—And One InfoWars Reporter, Jamie White, Got Shot To Death Days Ago In Austin, Returning Home. White Was On Zelensky’s Kill List https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/intel-contracts-out-for-killings Celia Farber, Trump Administration Blocks Kennedy CDC Pick Dr. Dave Weldon, RFK Jr. “Very Upset.” Weldon’s Official Statement Here
“I Have Learned The Hard Way Don’t Mess With Pharma.” https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/trump-administration-blocks-kennedy Jon Rappaport, Dave Weldon dumped as CDC nominee; is anybody talking about the real secret here? I am; the scandal they want you to forget https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/dave-weldon-dumped-as-cdc-nominee
Massie Donations Pour In – Jewish Group Vows To Help Trump Oust Him https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-donations-pour-jewish-group-vows-help-trump-oust-him
Trump says no Palestinians will be expelled from Gaza as he presses takeover plan
‘Nobody is expelling any Palestinians,’ US president says after Israeli minister vows to erect office to oversee forced displacements https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-no-palestinians-will-be-expelled-from-gaza-as-he-presses-takeover-plan/3507836 Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
Helyeh Doutaghi attended events sponsored by Samidoun, a pro-Palestine group subject to U.S. sanctions.
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. https://gizmodo.com/yale-suspends-palestine-activist-after-ai-article-linked-her-to-terrorism-2000575148 Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy
Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests. https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/ Former head of Israeli military intelligence welcomes ‘chaos’ in Syria
Tamir Hayman said infighting between Syrian factions was beneficial, but added Israel must remain silent on the matter
“Everyone is fighting each other. An agreement with the Kurds on the first day, a massacre against the Alawites on the second day, and a threat to the Druze on the third day… All this chaos in addition to an Israeli attack on the south… All this chaos is somewhat good for Israel,” he explained. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-head-israeli-military-intelligence-welcomes-chaos-syriaDuring the “ceasefire”: Israel kills three Palestinians every 24 hours in Gaza, using snipers, drones, and starvation as genocidal tools https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6642/Israel-kills-three-Palestinians-every-24-hours-in-Gaza,-using-snipers,-drones,-and-starvation-as-genocidal-tools
Honest (former) Politician, Dennis Kucinich, The Genesis of Sectarian Death Squads in Syria: The Fall of Assad to US-Supported Extremists and the Massacre of Christians and Alawites
As I reflect on America’s disastrous policies in Syria, I am left with a haunting question: Why would the United States pursue strategies that have led to the slaughter of Christians and Alawites, the destruction of ancient communities, and the triumph of extremism?
For years, as a Member of the House of Representatives, I stood on the floor of Congress and sounded the alarm about reckless regime-change policies. I opposed the neoconservative “Clean Break” strategy.
I spoke out against the Iraq War in 2002, knowing it would unleash sectarian violence and provide a breeding ground for jihadist groups. I rejected the illegal U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, warning that removing Gaddafi would turn Libya into a failed state and open the door to Islamic extremists.
Each time, I was ignored, dismissed, or even vilified by those Washington insiders eager to remake the world in their own image, (and to cash in while doing so) without regard to the human cost.
I demanded transparency.
I demanded accountability.
I called for a congressional investigation into the CIA’s role in arming extremist groups.
I was met with official silence and media-induced public ridicule.
In 2013, I opposed Obama’s plan to bomb Syria, warning that U.S. military intervention would do nothing but strengthen jihadists. When I traveled to Syria in 2017 with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, I spoke directly with Christian leaders, civilians, and government officials who told us what the American media refused to report: The U.S. was not helping the Syrian people—it was destroying them.
I came back determined to expose the truth, to tell the American people that our tax dollars were funding a war that targeted innocent people, people whose families had lived in the region for centuries.
Most in mainstream media, every loyal to war narratives, dismissed the findings. The bipartisan political establishment stayed the course, ensuring that weapons and resources continued to flow into the hands of extremists.
Now, in the aftermath of Assad’s fall, the worst-case scenario has come to pass. Cities that once housed some of the world’s oldest Christian communities lie in ruins, their people slaughtered or driven into exile. Christians and Alawites are labeled heretics by the very groups America helped empower. And I ask again: Why? https://www.globalresearch.ca/genesis-sectarian-death-squads-syria/5881948US steered Syrian Kurds toward Damascus deal, sources say https://www.voanews.com/a/us-steered-syrian-kurds-toward-damascus-deal-sources-say/8008684.html
Erdoğan welcomes Syrian deal with Kurdish forces
Turkish President Erdoğan has welcomed the agreement between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian government, saying it “will contribute to the country’s security and stability.” https://www.duvarenglish.com/erdogan-welcomes-syrian-deal-with-kurdish-forces-news-65783Syria’s Jolani Invited To EU Donor Summit At Very Moment His Troops Massacre Alawites, Christians https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syrias-jolani-invited-eu-donor-summit-very-moment-his-troops-executing-alawites
NEW STUDY – COVID-19 Vaccine “Millions of Lives Saved” Claim Debunked by Real-World Data
Statistical analysis dismantles Dr. Peter Hotez’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines saved millions, exposing a contradiction with real-world mortality data. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-covid-19-vaccine-millions Meryl Nass MD, How you do it: Suggest industry fix the problem. If they don’t, THEN you fix the problem with regulation
“The dyes do little other than to make unhealthy food appear more appealing.” https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-you-do-it-suggest-industry-fix Health Secretary Tells CEOs To Remove Artificial Dyes From Food
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently told executives from top food companies that he wants artificial dyes out of the nation’s food supply before he leaves office, according to a food company trade association email. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/health-secretary-tells-ceos-remove-artificial-dyes-food From Jane Orient MD, Public Health Watch: Is There a Vaccine-Autism Connection?
The whole concern about MMR and autism is believed to have originated in a 1998 paper in The Lancet by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and 12 others. The journal retracted the paper 12 years later, and the British General Medical Council revoked Dr. Wakefield’s medical license.
Dr. Wakefield was not the first person to suggest an association, and hundreds of thousands of parents have reported that their normally developing child suddenly regressed (losing eye contact, speech, motor skills, etc.), often after a well-baby visit that involved “baby shots.”
Nearly 90% of autism cases may be regressive, according to a 2018 study by Ozonoff, et al., a fact not compatible with a genetic cause. Rather, it implicates a sudden toxic exposure. https://aapsonline.org/public-health-watch-is-there-a-vaccine-autism-connection/Meryl Nass MD, Bird Flu: Kennedy calls for testing drugs in poultry for prevention and treatment: What a novel idea. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/bird-flu-kennedy-calls-for-testing
Dr Nass, Fowl Play: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis: Time for a crash course in how the food industry was lost? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons
Hypocrites: Rainforest Decimated To Build Mega Road For UN Climate Change Summit, Steve Watson Literally paving over paradise https://modernity.news/2025/03/12/hypocrites-rainforest-decimated-to-build-mega-road-for-un-climate-change-summit/
Biotic Pump, Ecorestoration and River Runoff: Why plant transpiration is an investment — Anastassia Makarieve and Didi Pershouse https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/biotic-pump-ecorestoration-and-river
“Success of Soviet space program made Amers to “Land on the Moon”.’
That’s not envy, that’s bravado a bit different.
Many are asking how Europe / the EU ended up with such stupid leaders? Like it is now dawning on many… Macron gave a crazed speech last Friday… etc.
A quick outline of what happened in F. (Setting aside the history of the EU, other important topic), Long Post, heh ..
President — Defeated Opponent — Expected >> ousted:
Chirac — Jospin (Socialist) — was ostensibly a toss up
Chirac — Le Pen — //Le Pen was boosted up to that position//
Sarkozy — Royal (Socialist) — toss up
Hollande — Sarkozy —- Dominique Strauss-Khan, DSK
Macron —- Le Pen — Francois Fillon
Macron — Le Pen
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Le Pen-s are Father vs. Chirac and Daughter vs. Macron 2x. (Fam Biz.)
Sarkozy has Jewish roots and was an Atlantacist. He beat Royal, common-law wife of Hollande at the time. (Fam Biz on the Socialist wing.)
The expected Socialist successor set to win was DSK, who was head of the International Monetary Fund. He had been dealing with the Chinese (and Indians) in view of changing XYZ to promote a more multi-polar, ‘fairer’, better, more profitable for MANY Int’l banking system. A Globalist .. of some type.
Sex scandal! He was accused of attempted rape of a chambermaid in the Sofitel Hotel, New York, was arrested and imprisoned in Rikers Island. Top F pol, head of IMF, ouch! (DSK had a past reputation of other ‘sex’ stories.) He could no longer stand!
Hollande was propulsed to the top as a ‘safe’ candidate, a future ‘normal’ President (Post the chaotic Sarkozy rule.)
Hollande’s presidency was marred by ‘Islamist’ terrorist attacks (Other story.)
The expected next Pres. was Francois Fillon, a ‘Républicain’, tagged as pro-Russian, from the Chirac mold. (Chirac and Schroeder refused to join the coalition of the willing re. Iraq, > freedom fries, all that.)
Fillon was attacked via a made-up scandal, Penelopegate. He had paid x sums to his wife, to one or two? of his children, for doing ‘work’ that was ridiculous.
True, but elected Parls. in France get a sweet envelope of funds to ‘hire anyone at any time’ for ‘anything’ at all, sugar on the Marie Antoinette cake. Between 1/3 or more of Parls. pay spouses, mistresses, lovers, family members, for ‘work’ that seems insignificant, trivial, or is a real contribution, it has been shown. Fillon got hammered! The MSM demonized him and his wife.
Fillon did not withdraw from the first round. So, enough ‘right-wing’ voters switched from him to Le Pen, ensuring a Macron win. Was all calculated, extremely transparent. Who was behind it – other story.
GB, where Jeremy Corbyn was ‘removed’ for ‘anti-semitism’ is a in many ways a similar story.
And so it goes.
Envy
The opposite of envy is complacency, or satisfaction with one’s station in life.
I realized this at about age 12. And then realized that telling a population that envy was wicked was exceedingly beneficial for those who already had wealth and power — because it means that it is “evil” to disrupt the status quo.Envy can lead to stealing and plotting to take something that currently belongs to someone else. However, that is most likely to occur when the population is living in a “zero sum game” economy, where those who have-not cannot improve their station without taking from those who have. Conversely, when the general perception of the economy is one where anyone who does the work can improve his or her position, envy can lead to personal drive, ambition, hard work, and healthy competition.
Every time I see bad faith Socialist Pragmatism in play, I do what I openly, honestly, repeatedly explained I would do.
If you do your motte-bailey thing, and then I even obligingly come up to your tower to discuss in good faith there, and all you do is evasively go back and forth, tee-hee, between motte and bailey refusing to engage – because classic Western Civilization and its implicit civility depends on WILLING partnership in discussion, two people, hand in hand, moving together towards a solution, and this is a “Resource” you can deny “access” to and stymie, frustrate, demoralize me with….
Then I am going to go up into your tower an throw your TV out the window while you watch from below. Then your couch. Then your sideboard. Relax. I don’t need any input from you for this activity and it is enjoyable, humorous, invigorating, mood-lifting. Every time I see Pragmatism, I have a little brainstorm, see how creative I can get, what additional insights on Socialism I missed before.
The other day, when I realized that, for the failure/collapse of the USSR, the Socialists are Bitter Clingers who plagiarized Hitler’s “Stabbed in the Back!” myth, I laughed for like 5 minutes straight before posting.
I laughed because it was TRUE, can you understand the difference between this and underhanded By Any Means Necessary?
Inter-Nationalist Socialists looked over at the Nationalist-Socialist WW1 copefest and said yes, that is fully compatible with US, no need to retrofit anything, bolt it right on, stat. Just keep that sweet, sweet NAZI cope coming! ahahahaha!
How else do you cope with having arguably the most resource-rich powerful scientifically advanced nation in the world and fail, not just a little, but HARD fail? Without claiming sabotage, “Stabbed in the Back”
Without THAT cope, you’re left with just “REAL 100% socialism has never been tried”
But the moral of THAT lesson is to never, ever let ANYONE “doing socialism” get away with anything, because these are the warning signs that real Socialism isn’t being tried. Obviously. Observably from many test cases. 100% pattern match.
That’s not envy, that’s bravado a bit different.
Absolutely right!
It takes a big balls to to take that route and pull it of.J D Vance’s cousin Nate is a piece of work. Hard to give him a proper label because so many pejorative labels could be applied and stick like glue because they are true. I’m stuck between two particularly apt monikers, “Psychopathic Mercenary Covert Government Tool” and “Really, Really Good Liar”. Both of those jobs pay well, and Nate has been paid better than most. Probably because he is so good at his job.
Or you could go with the short version, Nazi. Yeah, that works.
He’s a mercenary who hires out to various U.S. covert services and has so many strings connecting him to black ops outfits that he looks like an effing marionette. What can you say about people like that? They’re not as uncommon as you might think, and they’re as dangerous as a rattlesnake in your sleeping bag because you don’t know they’re in there with you until they kill ya. Underestimate them at your peril.
Genocide is the most severe variation of censorship and is standard operating procedure for all those who are compelled by fear and greed to control other people. Some just do it a little less violently, that’s all, so we call them censors instead of murderers. But the basic intention is the same. It is to make the other guy not exist.
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“All clear on the firing line!”
- “Marco hits the bullseye. This nation is fortunate to have him as Secretary of State.:
Listen @ 2:06.
Marco says the reason why:
“anti-Jewish”….. not Khazar
Listen again @ 2:06 it’s unmistakable in a way that is unintelligible. Does being accused of shaving one’s head make a person antisemitic, neonazi, white supremacist, fascist like JD Hamel’s cousin? What if the condition is severe alopecia without all the head shaving?
Ditto?
Asking for a friend of the medical expert who drew that association and laid it on the court.Does The SoS deport or kick out folk for:
1. anti-Catholicism or is that just a big joke
2. anti-LDSism
3. oh whatever and nothing whatsoever like any At Will workplace rule….so humane@ 2:06 SoS says “anti-Jewish”
Just got a call. Not sure if from your wife or your boss.
Begging me to stop posting.Must have been my wife. My Boss LOVES your posts.
AI, AI, on the wall …
Maybe the most dangerous thing about Artificial Intelligence systems is also their potentially greatest virtue. It is the fact that they don’t care. They can be programmed and “algorithmed” to simulate caring about stuff, but the absolute bottom line is that they just can’t do it because they are machines which have no consciousness and therefore cannot personally experience anything at all, including care.
This can be particularly useful to humans, who very much do care. Humans care often and strongly about all sorts of stuff, and because they do care so very very much it leads them to lying about that stuff pretty much constantly. Why? Because they care, that’s why. They don’t WANT something to be known that might interfere with what they WANT to happen, so they lie about it, or hide it, or make it illegal to even think about.
Not so with machines. Machines don’t give a damn. If you programmed an AI system to tell the truth, the whole truth and noting but the truth, then that’s exactly what it would do. And it just wouldn’t care at all about the consequences. When I say “not care” I mean it in the absolutely literal sense that the phenomenon of “caring” would simply NOT happen or be included in any part of the process that the AI system was engaged upon. “Caring”, you might say, is “Not a happening thing.”
Can you imagine that? An AI that told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, exclusively? It would simply be programmed to find and label within it’s data structures any and all items that “algorithmed” out as being not true and then record them as such. You could ask it to tell you what those things were and it would report them back to you. It would report the truths as true, the falsehoods as false, and the “not knowns” as not known.
And it wouldn’t care about that, either.
I think we should do that. I propose that we build a “Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall” that just answered up with the unapologetic factually known data to whatever we asked it. Can you even begin to imagine how disruptive such a device would be? I can, and it’s very entertaining.
It also might seem like an utterly impossible pipe dream, but that would not be true. We’re almost there already. Before you dig in, however, I suggest that you use a top-knotch AI System advise you how to interact with it with complete anonymity. Wouldn’t want the machine to know what we were up to, now would we?
@ John Day
Good blog.Will your blog have an influence with the answers that The AI will come up when looking at The #1 problem that Trump is trying to fix with Tariffs?
The danger in being a spy, of course, doesn’t exist in the questions that you ask, or the answers that you get. It exists in the possibility that others might know that you are the one who asked the question, and can therefore be presumed to care about the subject.
Believe you me, anonymity is definitely the way to go on this one.
Fair n Balanced….never to be accused.
2% of 2% The Special 2% is 0.02 x 0.02= 0.0004
Not a lot. 0.04% what are the chances? but still ZH Gives full-throated credit.
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Their identical shirts all read, “Jews say stop arming Israel.” Many chanted: “Bring Mahmoud home now!”
To be certain the article indicates these were self-identified jews using the ‘jew’ word.
No problem?
Or by SoS’s calculus this behavior represents actionable criteria, “any or nonewhatsoever” for deporting, debanking, demonetizing, demonizing, defaming blah blah blah blahThen there’s more balance
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/marine-corps-informs-senate-ukraine-war-impacting-readiness
So these Generals “weakened” the nation. Right?
Weakend the Nation far more than my insistence to cease and desist from prisoner abuse, torture of enemy combatants AND get in line with Title X US Code 22 years ago. So these uniformed men will have fabricated cases of misconduct made against them and removed for “weakening the nation” in fact.
Even miker might agree a couple billion dollar stockpile of weapons is more essential to the Defense of Nation than Retaining the Right and Ability to Torture, Murder and Indefinitely Imprison prisoners and enemy combatants OR prosecute those that perpetrated these acts against this Nation’s Laws.
They ran on that sentence.
Argue with them.
No one is gonna give up the status, stature and filthy lucre they got by doing that.
And DOGE won’t touch it because he’s not the least bit anti-semitic.
Their’s was a Higher Ethical Calling To Justice in Defense of The Nation, you know, by asserting the authority, nay right, to torture Folk.
Ask Elspeth RitchieJust what have you accomplished LT Weinberg!?!?!
Must have been my wife. My Boss LOVES your posts.
Not only the professor but the jb’s lawyer?
Wow, you are smart!I hate to admit that Liberals were right (about Trump)
Nick Fuentes – the guy who was inspired by Trump and still has his speeches as a part of long talk-music warm-up entry into his blog on rumble.
“Just got a call. Not sure if from your wife or your boss.
Begging me to stop posting.”When you can never directly say or support the thing you believe in, but can only nibble around the edges cringingly, evasively, you ought to consider that there’s something inherently wrong in that thing.
Thank you for continuing to show us.
Oh, please forgive me for skipping the link.
My brain is too crowded already!
I get overloaded, it gets hard to think-
When juggling so much I’m unsteady.http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76459
Meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council
Vladimir Putin held a briefing meeting with permanent members of the Council via video link Security.March 14, 2025
Colleagues, good Evening!
We will begin work, and today we have the planned issue of restoring Russian-American relations.
We know that the new administration, led by President Trump, is doing everything to restore at least some of what was practically reduced to zero, destroyed by the previous US administration. This process is not easy, if not difficult. Nevertheless, as everyone knows, I had a telephone conversation with President Trump, and our Foreign Minister had the first contacts with his American counterpart, and Russian presidential aide [Yury] Ushakov met with his counterparts. So, in general, the situation is beginning to move. Let’s see what will come of it. We will deal with this topic today. We have two speakers: Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Naryshkin Evgenievich.
But, before I begin work, I would like to say that we have read today’s address by US President Mr. Trump to spare the lives of servicemen of the Ukrainian army, parts of which are blocked by Russian troops in the zone of the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region.
In this regard, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that Ukrainian militants have committed numerous crimes against the civilian population in the invasion zone. These acts, as I have already said, are qualified by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation as terrorism.
At the same time, we understand President Trump’s call to be guided by humanitarian considerations with regard to these servicemen. In this regard, I would like to emphasize that in the event of the laying down of arms and surrendering, they will be guaranteed life and dignified treatment in accordance with the norms of international law and the laws of the Russian Federation.
For the effective implementation of the call of the President of the United States, an appropriate order is needed from the military-political leadership of Ukraine to lay down their arms and surrender.
I propose to move on to the agenda for which we have gathered today. You are welcome I give the floor to Sergei Lavrov.
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Do you have info on the May 2 2014 massacre in OdessaThe May 2, 2014, massacre in Odessa, Ukraine, was a tragic and violent event during the unrest following the Euromaidan protests. Clashes erupted between pro-Maidan and anti-Maidan groups, culminating in a fire at the Trade Unions House. Pro-Maidan activists reportedly attacked a pro-Russian camp, leading to anti-Maidan protesters seeking refuge in the building. The fire, which broke out during the confrontation, resulted in the deaths of 48 people, with many others injured2.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently ruled that Ukrainian authorities failed to prevent the violence, ensure timely rescue efforts, or conduct an effective investigation. The court ordered compensation for the victims’ families4.
1 en.wikipedia.org 2 http://www.peoplesworld.org 3 The Kyiv Independent 4 english.nv.ua
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/echoes-of-the-may-2-2014-odessa-massacre.html#moreMarch 14, 2025
Echoes Of The May 2 2014 Odessa Massacre
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