Debt Rattle March 21 2024
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Govert Flinck Landscape With An Obelisk 1638 Stolen from Gardner Museum March 18 1990, the single largest art theft in the world. Never recovered.
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 21 2024]German Children ‘Must Be Prepared For War’ – Minister (RT)
German children should be made to prepare for war to boost “resilience,” Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger stated on Saturday
. She said kids should be taught what to do in the event of conflict and suggested introducing “civil defense” drills in schools so that youngsters will be prepared for the years ahead. “Society as a whole must prepare well for crises, from a pandemic to natural disasters to war. Civil defense is immensely important, and it also belongs in schools. The goal must be to strengthen our resilience,” Stark-Watzinger said in an interview with the Funke media group. She also called for a “relaxed relationship” to be fostered between schoolchildren and the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), suggesting that military officers should visit schools to explain what “the Bundeswehr does for our security.” President of the German Teachers’ Association, Stefan Dull, told Bild last week that the minister’s proposal “makes sense.”
“Speaker Johnson Mulls Inviting Netanyahu To Address Congress After Schumer’s Blistering Words
Republicans seek show of solidarity for Israel’s sovereignty.”Rally round the really important people: The citizens of foreign countries. GOP for me!
Israel Furious After Canada Votes To Halt Arms Exports To Tel Aviv: undermines Israel’s right to self-defense”
I didn’t know both giving you a free gun AND helping you hunt the guys down, was a human “right”. I thought you had to do that on your own. Clearly nobody’s stopping you but you’re STILL mad and entitled.
“Netanyahu Suggests ‘New US-Built Port Could Help Deport Palestinians’
Aaaaaand there you have it. Predicted and Bingo card in five days.
“Watch: CBS Reporter Horrified When Black Former Democrats Say They Will Vote Trump: Trump’s support among black voters is up 500% in the past 6 months…”
There’s only one explanation for this: All Black people are racist.
“America was IN FACT, a wholly owned corporation until it was dissolved in 2018-19.”
Maybe. But what does that MEAN? It was a government before, it’s a government now. They behaved badly before, they behave badly now. They trampled the people before, they trample them now. That’s like “Sovereign Citizen” rhetoric or that the IRS amendment is incorrect: So? The Sheriff will come and take you away, which is the only thing that matters. This is the Right’s version of mixing the Map and the Territory.
Glad to hear it! When will it matter? If it was dissolved, many, many, many years ago…like 7…then when can I expect to see the very first clue? Usually when corporations “Cease to exist” they stop operating in 5 days? 3 months? Too soon?
Put it this way: Stupid is as Stupid does. The proof is in the pudding. If it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck..Now is the EMPHASIS he’s trying to bring up here, real? Probably in the vaguest sense. We know Powell had AmRev2.0 to finally un-link us from British Colonization. And they, London, learned to colonize and extract via banking. Once proven here, they released and converted the rest of empire, e.g. India to the U.S. model. How do we know it’s them? U.S. banking was still entirely merged with and based on LIBOR rates. And the London Gold Fix, although that passed slightly faster. WHO sets the top-down steering committee and Central Planning that can make and break nations by pulling some levers. Set up a billion dollar Soros or erase a Trump at will? These levers. So when U.S. Banking insulates themselves, like surgically dividing a Siamese Twin, then hands off the most central lever of power, LIBOR rates, it matters. …But it hasn’t mattered yet, that will happen and be proven in the next crisis.
“Children are dying of starvation while the rules-based order is watching and doing nothing.”
The Rule is: We kill children! As many as we can! Humans are a virus and we hate them, write that we hate them, pass laws that show that we hate them, and both promise to, and actually do, kill as many as we humanly can.
Can we care about the kids in Ohio? How about Long Island where they’re chopping people up and wandering around without bail? Daughters’ suicide rates have gone up, what, 10x since smartphones? Can we care about their deaths, or don’t they matter?
A PalestiniTonne of kids are dying each day. An EAST PalestiniTonne.
“the United States Senate approved a U.S. $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.”
Yes, but read your own writing. That’s $30B/pc and may not be in 1 minute but 5 years. That’s not enough to buy a plane. By dividing it, you guarantee to LOSE all three wars, and win none, especially when $2,000 Billion wasn’t enough to defeat 12-year old goat herders with AKs, which we ran away from in shame, having been beaten soundly in utter, disorderly retreat.
“While the 1990s was a golden period for the
West,top 10% apparatchiks it was a nightmare forRussiansAll Americans including all 90% of counties in FlyoverLand. The economy collapsed and society disintegrated with truly horrific consequences..” Viz, see: “Roger and Me” 1989. Yeah moving from making $60/hr to raising rabbits in a hutch in your living room was a true “Golden Era.” Wow, who didn’t love those times except for 40 states?Okay who SPECIFICALLY destroyed and liquidated Russia? NeoLiberal Neocons. Who SPECIFICALLY destroyed 95% of all counties in America, and like 250 million lives? NeoLiberal Neocons. Now why is Putin also popular here, more popular than either candidate? Can’t understand, although “White, Rural Rage” lines it out in great detail and is read by the whole Left.
“• Ukraine Lost Over 71,000 Troops Since Start of 2024 – Shoigu (Sp.)So it was 500,000, and now it’s 600,000.
“Germany will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly alter Ukraine’s borders or impose the terms of peace, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed”
You and whose army? Make Me.
“German Children ‘Must Be Prepared For War’ – Minister (RT)
Starting with the Children, the Hitler Youth, meaning they intend to re-attack in six years. If Attacking right now and they would talk to adults, Longer than that and they’d have focused elsewhere. They’re coming for your children. They want them all dead. They write so and act so daily: you just don’t believe them.
“Civil defense is immensely important, and it also belongs in schools. The goal must be to strengthen our resilience,”
You are quite correct, and we’ve been saying this since YOU, the self-same people, DISMANTLED every Civil Defense ever made, which was being run at virtually no cost, Free. Now there are no designated shelters, structures, no food, water, blankets, and we are entirely helpless everywhere, even as you talk about “Carrington” “EMP” and “Kim Jong”. Every day in every way you work tirelessly, late into the night, to exhaustion feverishly making us more unready.
So excuse me if I’m a little skeptical or even suspicious here. Have you booked up even ONE barrel of water yet? No? Have you re-centralized or removed from 24/7 Internet even ONE aspect of critical modern life, let’s say Medical Records? No? GFY. You can’t have my kids. I’M training them. And I am training them to shoot YOU. What was that Napoleon said about how we needed to “figure it out.”?
Btw, that’s not outrageous or even illegal. That’s written in the first American Documents and the first American law, the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Federalist. I’m the only one following the law while they refuse it.
““Earlier in March, Robert Fico stressed that he was “not convinced of the sincerity of the West to achieve peace in Ukraine.”
Gosh, what tipped him off? Germany vowing to attack in 6 years?
“a full load of fresh eggs to be transported to the nearly starving civilians who still remain in Avdeyevka. Ten eggs cost the equivalent of a dollar and forty cents.”Gosh, WHY can’t we live in Avdiivka? Prices like that are a wonderland compared to here. And also not poisoned.
“Each building in every street is at least partially destroyed.”
This is what military masterminds like PCR had in mind for all Ukraine: door to door fighting = door by door shelling. All 600,000km2 worth. How about INSTEAD we sit and drink tea and let the Nazis run face-first into a minefield so that ONLY a few cities like Avdiivka are leveled to moonscape, meaning we don’t have to rebuild the rest of the country, every barn and water tower. More civilians survive? No? Bad idea? Explain to me, Paul?
“Boeing might sell at least two of its defense unit businesses to improve its finances”
They can’t do that; then they wouldn’t be a monopoly. And Capitalism = no competition.
“United Launch Alliance (ULA), the rocket-launch joint venture co-owned with Lockheed Martin.”
The epitome and apex of monopoly. Yeah we’re sort of pretending there are two companies, but actually we merged them too.
“[FAA] failed the aircraft maker on 33 out of 89 product audits” …And then nothing happened. 10 years in a row. Because that was “regulation” and “the law.” The point of regulation is to stop YOU, not them. As the SEC with ETH this week. They’ve ALREADY ruled on all the issues in the ETH ETF, but are slow-walking, opposing, and stalling their own arguments. Why? To do press-releases that will jack the market back and forth for BlackRock’s insider trading. The SEC is not only overlooking insider trading, including all Congress’ and buybacks, but are literally CAUSING it. For years. Openly.
THAT is the true and only purpose of regulators. No? If they use the entire Federal Budget on lawyers to stop YOU from having freedom, options, owning stuff, using your own money, how are you going to stop them? Only a “good faith” argument and impulse restrains them. Who’s going to make them? Republicans won’t even impeach Hunter Biden who refuses to show up whenever he feels like ‘coz he was busy having lunch with “The f-ing Chinese Spy Head”.
“• House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Obstruction (ET)
They might but they won’t. The know they intentionally tampered with, then deleted evidence, but that’s not a crime. Because: Republicans. More of an obstacle and enemy than even the Democrats are.
The evidence they tampered with are germaine and open to multiple defendants as a matter of Civil Rights Law. Don’t care: Republicans helping. Prosecution must provide and share all evidence. Don’t care, Republicans are the ones holding all the J6 prisoners. On their watch. Helping. With allies like that, we could remove the Democrats altogether and still be in equal danger. Wot. A. Shock. Nope, never saw that coming. So. Surprised. Muchly Wow.
“A federal appeals court overruled the Supreme Court?!”Uh, yeah, still trying to figure that out. Like Joe Biden, what happens if the USSC rules you can’t student loan and he does it anyway? Changes one word and does it anyway? And the Lower courts? Do it anyway. Clearly no Republican will ever impeach, so why not?
Democrats didn’t win the field; Republicans abdicated, surrendered it all to them and left. Is it their fault they took it? If I leave my house and throw the keys at you on the way down the street, what are you supposed to think?
“• RFK Jr. Destroys His Candidacy With VP Pick? (Roger Simon)
Yes. And I no longer have a clue. Trump people I talk to now are like, “We don’t trust anyone.” That is, they don’t trust TRUMP. MAGA, Republicans, as above. No One. THIS IS A GOOD THING:
—— You’re not supposed to trust them, they’re not supposed to save you. ——-
YOU are the government, YOU make them. They, MAGA, are not SUPPOSED to exist. There’s not SUPPOSED to be a Federal level beyond a Navy and a Post Office. All this just drills in, nobody’s coming to save you. You’ll have to save yourself.
“• DOJ Mulling Plea Deal For Assange: He Could Finally Walk Free (ZH)
Like I said, why do you take it as a done deal America is worse than London? When has that ever been true? Belmarsh is a Country Club and he’ll be much worse off here? It remains to be seen, but if you want London to ever let him go, you have to pretend you’ll kill him. You’ll have to convince London you think he’s Public Enemy #1 and you’ll hang him for sure. ONLY THEN will they transfer the prisoner.
Airline: America sure looks small compared to Quebec.
Phoenix, it turned into a “HereLetMeGoogleThatForYou.com”, complete with fake and many misrepresented photos, but https://wheninyourstate.com/arizona/its-so-hot-right-now-in-arizona-that-people-are-sharing-photos-of-things-melting/
Some of these are probably real. The Blue car with the side trim off it seems to be the same thing in Italy at 37c. As you know, not very hot, only to the British press that published it. You know living there that even 120F heat alone won’t take out a bumper or a wall. It’s only in the sun. If not, we can take a car part, put it in the oven, and check. Again, anecdotal is me. I am the test, and so is Dr. Day. Decades outside biking let you know what a reasonable baseline is in all conditions. Even in winter if the sun can hit directly, it’s hot. And the color, so I suspect you can see that yourself, but you’ll have to have a strong memory.
Don’t know why I bother to do these, my own sanity I guess:
“Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing:
She is remembered in history as the first woman to make a living by writing in English, all the way back in the 1600s“ –Literary HubExcept for all the women who were spies, wrote for an independent living in the 17th century, there weren’t any women writing or spying in the 17th century. Because they couldn’t have bank accounts for 300 more years.
Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing
As they say n the article, they can’t be sure because spies don’t go advertising their work, duh. So we are certain this DIDN’T happen more or less all the time. Because Science is always proving a negative like that. But other than Caesar’s whole female families for 400 years, the Borgia’s who include Popes, Sigrid Queen of Denmark and Sweden, Elanor of Aquitaine, Mercy Otis Warren (also a playwright), Harriet Tubman, Mata Hari (miss MacLeod, also divorced at a time there-was-no-divorce), Hedy Lamarr, Virginia Hall, Josephine Baker (also black), Noor Inayat Khan (also Indian), Julia Child (also very tall), There were no women who made their living by writing and intrigue. And certainly no WIFE ever wrote letters for or without their husbands knowledge. Just ask them! They were illiterate, barefoot, and not allowed pens! Slaves! Cattle!
We all know that, ‘coz, 50’s, right? All those 50s housewives in pink. (Who only just left the factories last year, and whose mothers were ladanum-sucking jazz flappers, shooting .22 rifles at 12 years old, like Annie Oakley and Amelia Erhardt.) Yup yup. And their mothers never broke sod or horses in Nebraska and Wyoming, never sold cows for money, never worked on no farm, never wrote no books. Not Ingalls Wilder, no!
Nope, Literary Hub. This is an anomaly of all those things that just never happened. “It’s an exception 100% of the time”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early-modern_British_women_playwrights
Jeez, that’s weird: I see +20 woman authors in the 17th century in just this short, official list on Wikipedia. But who can trust Wikipedia?
Remember kids: “Data isn’t data if if conflicts with my theories.” That’s your dose of sarcasm poisoning for the day.
“It’s Not About Trump”: American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort
Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense. He has a scary message for Americans
https://www.racket.news/p/its-not-about-trump-american-cj-hopkinsThanks Dr. D. I’ll let all-y’all know when my skin starts cringing this year. Not yet.
Point of Order: War weakens and impairs all those who pass through it and live.
Avoiding War is “resilient”.
Preparing children for war is planning for horrible societal dysfunction and pathology.”
U.S. Stands on Cusp of Fascistic AutocracyJeffrey E. Paul discusses the deep history, roots, and trajectory of how it came to be that the United States is now on the verge of becoming a “fascistic autocracy” and one-party state. The origins emanate from 19th century Germany and its autocratic collectivist mindset which permeated American academia and government in the late 1800s. These German authoritarian ideologues were the same who later went on to mentor Hitler and the Nazi regime. The clock is fast running out on the American experiment.
”Germ’s “solution” is better than mine, which is to declare 3 identical matches to “be a match”.
Hi Germ!
😀Complexity
Path to Peacehttps: //strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/20/silver-bullet-against-barbarian-invasions-of-west-de-dollarization-of-international-system/
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the energy that feeds the United States machine of violence in different parts of the world (as such as the militarization in the South China Sea, the hot war in Ukraine, or even the genocide in Gaza) comes from a leading source of supply: the disproportionate financing and spending capacity of the United States, derived from the position of its currency in the global monetary hierarchy and the way the international economic system has been in operation since the end of the Cold War. In this way, the world, by continuing to absorb, without apparent limit, American public debt bonds, finances the violence perpetrated by Washington, however contradictory that may seem.
Therefore, the de-dollarization of the international system has become a “silver bullet” to dismantle an essential part of this war machine without military confrontation. For this reason, de-dollarization is urgent not only as a first-order geopolitical objective for the so-called Global South but also as an ethical and humanitarian imperative against the barbaric invasions of the West.
March 20, 2024
Mauricio METRI
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Failed Political interferences
https: //sputnikglobe.com/20240320/ukraines-military-losses-amount-to-over-71000-people-since-start-of-2024—shoigu-1117448767.htmlRussian air defenses struck down 419 drones and 67 missiles that were launched by Ukrainian troops against Russian targets during the three days of presidential voting, Shoigu said.
The Ukrainian armed forces targeted polling places across Russia during last week’s presidential election with tacit approval of their Western military advisers, Sergei Shoigu said.
“They intentionally targeted polling places and government institutions while civilians were present there. Both the command of the Ukrainian armed forces and their Western advisers knew it,” Shoigu told a ministerial meeting in Moscow.
At the same time, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of the actions of the groups covering the state border for eight days of hostilities amounted to more than 3,500, or rather 3,501 people, of which 790 were killed,” Shoigu said at the board ministerial meeting.
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blackmail, cohesion, hush money · extortion · shakedown · payoff · tribute.
https: //sputnikglobe.com/20240320/split-over-ukraine-aid-prompts-unprecedented-czech-slovak-rupture-1117444378.html
Split Over Ukraine Aid Prompts ‘Unprecedented’ Czech-Slovak Rupture
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The people have spoken/voted for peace.https: //sputnikglobe.com/20240320/donetsk-avdeyevka-mariupol-on-the-road-in-electoral-donbass-1117443687.html
Pepe Escobar: Donetsk, Avdeyevka, Mariupol – on the Road in Electoral Donbass
They have waited 10 long, suffering years to vote in this election. And vote they did, in massive numbers, certifying a landslide reelection for the political leader who brought them back to Mother Russia. VVP may now be widely referred to as Mr. 87%. In Donetsk, turnout was even higher: 88,17%. And no less than 95% voted for him.
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“..working people of all shades and colors are much more interested in maintaining their livelihoods/peace than railing against wokeism..”
Read more …
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=======Celia Farber:
Migrant Influencer Tells Other Migrants In Viral Video: “I Found Out That There Is A Law That Says If A House Is Not Inhabited We Can Seize It”
Worst Part Is The Look In His Eyes. Just Don’t Call It “Communism”
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/migrant-influencer-tells-other-migrantsWhat distinguishes “capitalism” from “socialism” in a fractional-reserve-lending banking system with “government” creation of money?
More on that later…Da-doot, do-doot, do doodle-dee-doot.
Da-doot, do-doot, do dooo-do.
Da-doot, do-doot, do doodle-dee- doot.
Pop! goes theThat’s about where we are now, hot war-wise.
Hey, Germ!
Do they still teach foreign languages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeralsGorilla Radio
Ken Stone and fighting for peace in the Middle East from Canada. John Helmer and Europe’s mental quagmire in the second half.
https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-ken-cec
F.S.
Phoenix it’s not about getting a sunburn, it’s a feeling to myself that’s like a tingling on the surface of my skin as the sun hits regardless of ambient temperature. As for sunburn, if I have to work in the sun most of the day I will tan through my tee shirt I’m usually in a white tee, well mostly white except for the paint splatters. This at 45 north, I can’t remember that happening even ten years back. I have had plenty of sunburns over my lifetime but don’t ever recall a physical feeling from the rays, beyond a feeling of warmth such as I’m now noticing. There just seems to be more energy hitting the ground and it’s not infra red.
re: “That lets the man play Chess and Civilization VI online, making his life much more fun.”
That is just f#(<ing amazing. Samuel R Delany story, Nova (1968), has some characters wired up to mining equipment, industrial machinery, etc.
Civ VI is a puke-inducing greenwash. The whole tech tree ushers you in to AGW, and the other NPCs won’t shut up about it. I played 2 games, and just stopped.
Civ 6 is Civilization For Retard Snowflakes. Maybe the chip made him stupid and unable to play a real Civ game like anything 1-5. Preferably, what, Civ II?
Idunno why nobody just makes a computer version of the original 1980 Civilization board game, except that current-year people would start instantly crying and shitting themselves over a game, like when they pull the Civil War card, lose half their empire, which starts attacking them. That’s just life, buttercup.
(same people who can’t just roll 3d6 for each stat in D&D and then just play the character they rolled – good way to filter out wokies from your group, who won’t psychologically be able to play through on a character that rolled a 3 for idunno, Dex, Str, or whatever, which would be ACTUAL incorporation of disabilities into D&D – no, it involves having a “battle wheelchair” while being super awesome and special… better than anyone, really)
I also could not make it through more than 2 games of Civ 6. Went back to Civ 5. Then Civ 3. Then Civ 2.
Sid Meier’s 1999 Alpha Centauri was far, FAR more palatable and enjoyable with an environmentalist theme.
The world of business & politics, money & power, is SWIFTLY coming to the conclusion that the West (Anglo-Saxon America in particular) is going to lose. That’s a really big change, and I mean really REALLY big, because up until quite recently the sum-total opinion worldwide was that the West held all the cards, and it’s pragmatically foolish to ignore the compelling reality of siding with the winner, and dumping the loser. That discomforting political fact explains about 90% of why countries and blocs were still backing the West even though they actually hated the Anglo-Saxon-American Empire’s guts.
As various groups and nations become ever more certain that THE WEST IS GOING TO LOSE, those self same nations will do what they have to do if they are in any way capable of doing it. What they are going to do is to side with the winner and dump the loser.
That shock is yet to be felt, but the ax is falling as we speak and is at best maybe a few months away from our collective neck. The Anglo-Saxon American Great Western Empire of Lies and Murder better prepare to have a lot fewer friends than it thought it had. Even false ones.
blackmail, cohesion, hush money · extortion · shakedown · payoff · tribute.
I have learned new word/ways, tools, that our society uses to steal.
Ex. Russian assets, Trump assets,ACTUAL Anglo-Saxon culture:
–loyalty extends STRONGLY both upward AND downward – loyalty TO your sworn man
–the greatest king must ask permission even from the lowest free man to enter his home
–the king is subject to the law
–you can only be tried by your peers“The West” is a weird blob thing that hates Western European Civilization with the heat of a million suns.
@jb-hb re: loyalty, fealty, branches of spirituality
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight – This is a translation, but has the original (??) text along-side. It’s quite engaging, but a slog.
Thanks. Bookmarked for later reading.
I absorbed some of my Anglo-Saxon culture knowledge through Parke Godwin, another bookish Englishman, writing fantasy history for Britain like Tolkien. His books on Arthurian legend: Firelord and Beloved Exile, as well as his Robin Hood books – Sherwood and Robin And The King – are excellent. I especially recommend Firelord. Magical, horrific, wonderful.
https://archive.org/details/firelord00godw
So many good fantasy novels have the best times as a fallen beforehand. The Lord Of The Rings has a mostly depopulated middle earth with the Elves not able to oppose evil the way they did in previous ages, a fallen Northern Kingdom, a diminished Gondor, a dispirited Rohan, etc. Narnia books repeatedly start with everything ruined, IN ruins, fallen, before our heroes get to even TRY anything. Firelord is of course in the ruins of the Roman empire, with greatness in the rear view mirror.
Wes,
Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded, raising questions for solar physics
News
By Monisha Ravisetti
published August 6, 2023
https://www.space.com/sun-blasts-highest-energy-radiation-ever-recorded-raising-questions-solar-physicsContrary to standard issue conspiracy theory that the FEMA Camps were built to round up us citizens when the time came, I wonder if FEMA built all that housing for migrants (our replacement population, especially for military and policing jobs), and that using the camps for large scale migrant staging and deployment was the explicit plan all along. If so, it suggests a far longer and much more detail specific planning and preparation than was earlier assumed.
There probably isn’t a square foot of livable land anywhere in the world that wasn’t at one point in history invaded by a conqueror who displace, killed and subjugated the original inhabitants. We ALL have been born onto stolen land. It’s gone back and forth between these two populations pretty much nonstop for millennia. You may not have personally conquered, displaced or killed anyone, but the dirt you’re standing on and call your own once belonged to someone else who at the time that it was forcibly taken from them felt about their land about the same way that you think and feel about “your own” home now.
The point is that (through no fault of our own) we’re all here now, so we need to learn how to get along without all this conquering and killing and subjugating stuff. It just doesn’t work.
False Dichotomy https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/false-dichotomy
Alex Krainer (who grew up in Communist Yugoslavia, has thrived as a hedge-fund manager and financial advisor), Untangling the “socialism” vs. “capitalism” dichotomy
Few ideological dichotomies polarize opinions as readily and as completely as that between “socialism” and “capitalism.” Those who embrace socialism tend to blame capitalism for everything that’s wrong with our world today. Those who embrace capitalism harbor a seething contempt for socialists, but both camps base their views on ideology with only vague notions about the true nature of either system.
The “socialists” think of capitalism as a rapacious system of exploitation that favors a few at the detriment of many. There is some truth in that. The “capitalists” think of socialism as a system that gives free stuff to the lazy and undeserving, choking society’s progress. There’s some truth in that too, but having lived in both systems and having experienced the ideological brainwash from both sides, I find neither side convincing.
Both systems’ ideological foundations amount to marketing, the intellectual gloss on the cover of their respective sales brochures. But the gloss never captures the essence of either system – an omission that is so egregious that it is almost certainly deliberate…
..I’d rejected the Marxist ideology already as a teenager, not because I had any deep understanding of the economic and socio-political issues we faced but because the system wasn’t delivering as advertised… But the more I learned about the “capitalist” system, the more I became convinced that the same seed of doom that made “socialism” unsustainable was also baked into the foundation of the “capitalist” system.
For starters, in both systems we had the familiar old fiat currency with fractional reserve lending. This one element guarantees the collapse of both systems: over time it reliably corrodes the democratic framework of society, suffocates free market economy, kills entrepreneurship and innovation, and guarantees that government sector of the economy will gradually displace more and more private enterprise. It does this due to an economic effect called the deflationary gap...
..[Deflationary Gap explanation paragraphs] …
..The system can be balanced either by lowering the supply and prices of goods, by enhancing its total purchasing power, or a combination of both. Lowering prices and production of goods will stabilize the economic system at a low level of economic activity [Nixon tried this]. Increasing the purchasing power in the system will stabilize it on a higher level of activity.
Left to itself and without intervention, a modern economic system would fall into what we call a self-reinforcing deflationary depression: the deflationary gap would lead to falling prices and output, decline of income and rising unemployment. Furthermore, in recessions and depressions, the level of investment typically declines even more rapidly than savings. To avert this, government intervention is necessary.
Without government intervention, the economy would stabilize when the level of savings declined to the level of investments which would be at a depression level of activity. This is an anathema in all modern economies, and governments invariably pursue the imperative of economic growth. To generate growth, they must inject new purchasing power into the system. This cannot be done through taxation since taxation doesn’t create new purchasing power: taxes only transfer money from those who earn it to the government.
This is why governments have no alternative but to continuously engage in deficit spending [when money is debt-based, or mining more gold & silver, or printing more bills], adding debt in excess of their tax receipts. This is why virtually all governments in the world today run budget deficits and chronically grow public debt. In spite of all the incessant talk about balancing the budget, paying down debts or imposing debt ceilings, the debts only keep rising at rates that predictably accelerate over time. It doesn’t matter whether we call the system “socialist” or “capitalist,” they both necessitate an ever growing role of government in the economy [when economic growth is desired].
Today, in many of the “capitalist” nations, government spending accounts for almost half of the GDP and in some cases significantly more. In the UK, the mothership of capitalism, the government’s share of GDP is 44%. In France it’s over 58%.…
..There’s no point railing against “socialism” and dreaming about a small government, private capital utopia which doesn’t, and cannot exist so long as our economies are based on fiat currencies with fractional reserve lending. Even if we start with zero public debt, the pursuit of economic growth will lead to the same outcomes. With fullness of time, the government sector will progressively crowd out private enterprise: it’s a mathematical certainty...
..With that, we can address the false dichotomy between “socialist” and “capitalist” economies as they’re commonly discussed. Namely, in what we call “capitalist” economies, a larger proportion of government-injected purchasing power flows top-down. In what we call “socialist” economies, it flows bottom-up.
Capitalist governments splurge their largesse on large private corporations in the form of subsidies and generous government contracts. Socialist governments splurge on social welfare programs like low-cost or free health care, education, generous unemployment benefits and pension plans, and programs that maintain full employment even where jobs couldn’t be justified by private enterprise…
..The idea that the state would splurge on the lazy and undeserving free-loaders is understandably revolting. However, all those undeserving free-loaders might also be your customers, so even the hard-core entrepreneurial types benefit if the lazy bums have money to spend.
The alternative in governments splurging on large corporations is far more dangerous. If purchasing power is distributed bottom up, the decisions about how to spend that purchasing power are up to the ordinary people. As such, they’ll tend to benefit ordinary businesses that produce consumer goods and services: bakers, apparel makers, restaurants, coffee shops, musicians, tour guides, bicycle repairmen, etc.
By contrast, if the state spends top-down, it runs the moral hazard of determining the winners and losers in the supposedly free market competition. The winners will tend to be those corporations and groups that can “invest” the most in political lobbying efforts. As a result, we get the TBTF banking behemoths, big Ag, big Pharma, big Media, big Tech and a massively bloated military-industrial complex. Ultimately, this favors the emergence of ”corporatism”, as Benito Mussolini characterized fascism. Today we prefer the sanitized term, “private-public partnership.”
These are the musings that get me labelled “communist,” but, whatever. If we want to fix what’s wrong in the world today it is essential that our analysis goes past the handy but misleading labels of “socialism” vs. “capitalism,” or left vs. right, and that we deconstruct our challenges down to their essential building blocks... Labels only perpetuate our problems and make it difficult to transcend the dysfunctional elements in our system and evolve toward better social arrangements.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/untangling-the-socialism-vs-capitalism De-dollarization is urgent as an ethical and humanitarian imperative against the barbaric invasions of the West, Mauricio Metri
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the energy that feeds the United States machine of violence in different parts of the world (as such as the militarization in the South China Sea, the hot war in Ukraine, or even the genocide in Gaza) comes from a leading source of supply: the disproportionate financing and spending capacity of the United States, derived from the position of its currency in the global monetary hierarchy and the way the international economic system has been in operation since the end of the Cold War. In this way, the world, by continuing to absorb, without apparent limit, American public debt bonds, finances the violence perpetrated by Washington, however contradictory that may seem.
Therefore, the de-dollarization of the international system has become a “silver bullet” to dismantle an essential part of this war machine without military confrontation. For this reason, de-dollarization is urgent not only as a first-order geopolitical objective for the so-called Global South but also as an ethical and humanitarian imperative against the barbaric invasions of the West. Pepe Escobar: Donetsk, Avdeyevka, Mariupol – on the Road in Electoral Donbass
At Yasinovata, very close to Avdeyevka, we visit the MBOU, or school number 7, impeccably rebuilt after non-stop shelling. The director, Ludmilla Leonova, an extraordinary strong woman, takes me on a guided tour of the school and its brand new classrooms for chemistry and biology, a quaint Soviet alphabet decorating the classroom for Russian language. Classes, hopefully, will resume in the Fall.
Close to the school a refugee center for those who have been brought from Avdeyevka has been set up. Everything is spotlessly clean. People are processed, entered into the system, then wait for proper papers. Everyone wants to obtain a Russian passport as soon as possible.
For the moment, they stay in dormitories, around 10 people in each room. Some came from Avdeyevka, miraculously, in their own cars: there are a few Ukrainian license plates around. Invariably, the overall expectation is to return to Avdeyevka, when reconstruction starts, to rebuild their lives in their own town.
Then, it’s on the road to Avdeyevka. Nothing, absolutely nothing prepares us to confront total devastation. In my nearly 40 years as a foreign correspondent, I’ve never seen anything like it – even Iraq. At the unofficial entry to Avdeyevka, beside the skeleton of a bombed building and the remains of a tank turret, the flags of all military battalions which took part in the liberation flutter in the wind.
FPVs loiter overheard – detected by a handheld device, and our military escort is on full alert. We find out that as we enter a ground floor apartment which is being kept as a sort of mini food depot – housing donations from Yasinovata or from the military – that very same room, in the morning, had been converted into a polling station. That’s where the very few remaining Avdeyevka residents actually voted.
A nearly blind man with his dog explains why he can’t leave: he lives in the same street, and his apartment is still functional – even though he has no water or electricity. He explains how the Ukrainians were occupying each apartment block – with residents turned into refugees or hostages in the basements – and then, pressed by the Russians, relocated to nearby schools and hospitals until finally fleeing.
The basements are a nightmare. Virtually no light. The temperature is at least 10 degrees Celsius lower than at street level. It’s impossible to imagine how they survived. Another resident nonchalantly strolls by in his bicycle, surrounded by derelict concrete skeletons. The loud booms – mostly outgoing – are incessant.
Then, standing amidst total devastation, a vision: the elegant silhouette of the Church of Mary Magdalen, immaculately preserved. Dmitry, the caretaker, takes me around; it’s a beautiful church, the paintings on the roof still gleaming under the pale sunlight, a gorgeous chandelier and the inner chamber virtually intact.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240320/donetsk-avdeyevka-mariupol-on-the-road-in-electoral-donbass-1117443687.htmlJohn Helmer, WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE UKRAINIAN “SANITARY ZONE” TO BE SANITARY?
In his election victory speech on Sunday night, President Vladimir Putin has accepted the 87% Russian voter mandate to finish the war by securing the Novorussian territories east of the Dnieper River, and converting western Ukraine into “a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.”
In military terms, this zone extends westward from the Dnieper to the full 500-kilometre range of NATO missiles supplied to the Ukrainian forces; and to the 900-km range of the drones in the current Ukrainian inventory. With direct flight distance from Odessa to Lvov at 630 kms, and between Kharkov and Lvov of 975 kms, this means that all of the “territories subordinated to the Kiev regime” will become a sanitary zone, demilitarized to the Polish Border… “I do not exclude that, bearing in mind the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point – when we deem it appropriate — to create a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.” The president did not specify how soon is “appropriate”, or how deep the demilitarized or sanitary zone will be, except that in calculating the depth and taking Russian control of it, the range of weapons includes “first of all, of course, [weapons] of foreign production.” …
..Now, with the conclusion of the election, Russian military bloggers have begun to voice open criticism of the performance of the military in preventing drone and missile attacks from striking civilians in Belgorod, as well as oil refinery targets up to 900 kms from the border...
..Military sources in Moscow have been discreetly acknowledging that the decisions on how far the Russian military operation should extend westwards were postponed during the election campaign. During this time, the sources have also been warning, the Ukrainians were able to construct extensive surface fortifications and command-and-control bunkers north of Chernigov facing an expected offensive drive of Russian forces toward Kiev; and around Odessa to block a Russian offensive in the south. These lines are reportedly manned by fresh and well-supplied Ukrainian reserves, who are being held out of the meat-grinder battles along the line of contact, like Bakhmut and Avdeyevka.
Threats to reinforce these new fortified lines with a French-led “coalition” have come from President Emmanuel Macron. In parallel, detailed planning by the German Luftwaffe, backed by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, of long-range Taurus missile attacks, launched from aircraft based outside the Ukraine, has become public knowledge.
In response, a well-informed Moscow source believes the parameters of Russian strategy are becoming clearer “now that Putin is waving the green flag. It’s clear, for example, that although there will not be battles inside cities like Odessa, Kharkov, and Kiev, there cannot be a military outcome for the General Staff and the Kremlin which will allow terrorism against Russia forever from inside those cities, or from whatever remains of the Ukraine. So there must be regime change in Kiev– and a form of Russian occupation that will be surprising.”
“I am not ready to talk about what, how, and when,” Putin said on Sunday. Likewise, no Russian military source is ready. There is, however, frustration at the delay in the operational decision-making.WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE UKRAINIAN “SANITARY ZONE” TO BE SANITARY?
Putin responds to Ukraine attacking Russia: ‘We have our plans’
Speaking about attacks “on civilian infrastructure and on all other objects of this type,” Putin said that Russia could respond in kind, but would not do so.
“We have our own views and plans on this matter. We will follow what we have planned,” Putin said.
At a meeting with trusted officials in the Kremlin on March 20, Putin said that the authorities would work to “increase the security of residents” of regions bordering Ukraine and promised that all those affected by Ukrainian strikes, including entrepreneurs who lost their property, would receive support. “Of course, we will do everything to support people,” Putin said. At the same time, he called the methods of ensuring security difficult.
https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/159191-putin-ukraine-shelling/ Paris can send up to 20 thousand military personnel with aviation and artillery to Ukraine [French convoys reportedly spotted moving north through Romania.]
The introduction of troops of the French Foreign Legion into Ukraine could interfere with a possible operation of units of Russia and Belarus to advance through the western Ukrainian regions into Transnistria.
Also alarming are the words of French Army Colonel Vincent Arbaretier on the LCI TV channel that the number of military personnel being transferred to Ukraine could reach 20 thousand people. It is expected that the group will deploy in the Odessa region, on the right bank of the Dnieper and along the border of Ukraine with Belarus.
https://en.topcor.ru/45549-parizh-mozhet-vvesti-na-ukrainu-do-20-tys-voennosluzhaschih-s-aviaciej-i-artilleriej.html Washington expects to transfer Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems from Japan to Kyiv, as the US’s own arsenal is depleted of new supplies. Military Watch Magazine writes about the acute shortage of air defense systems in Ukraine after a series of defeats of various air defense systems by Russian missiles.
MW reports that Tokyo approved the transfer of Patriot air defense systems and missiles to the United States for their subsequent transfer to Ukraine, despite a warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
https://en.topcor.ru/45579-mw-tokio-peredast-vashingtonu-svoi-zrk-patriot-dlja-otpravki-na-ukrainu-poskolku-arsenaly-ssha-istoscheny.html Split Over Ukraine Aid Prompts ‘Unprecedented’ Czech-Slovak Rupture
Robert Fico rode to his fourth term as prime minister in Slovakia in 2023 on a wave of discontent over EU support for Ukraine in the NATO proxy conflict against Russia. Like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Fico has been against sending weapons to Kiev, and urged for maintaining good relations with Russia...
..The government in Prague, led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, is fervidly pro-Kiev, while Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico has been adamantly against sending weapons to Ukraine, Kiev’s potential NATO membership, and sanctions on Russia.
There had never been “open rhetorical confrontation” between the two governments until NATO’s proxy conflict against Russia in Ukraine, it was stressed.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240320/split-over-ukraine-aid-prompts-unprecedented-czech-slovak-rupture-1117444378.html German children ‘must be prepared for war’ – minister
Military officers should visit schools to build “relaxed” relations with students, Bettina Stark-Watzinger has suggested
https://swentr.site/news/594550-germany-chidren-prepare-war/ In the West, Israel never initiates violence, it only ‘retaliates’
One of the remarkable things about western support for settler-colonialism in Palestine is its insistence that the Zionist act of colonisation is legitimate and does not constitute aggression against the indigenous Palestinians.
On the other hand, it views the resistance that the Palestinians mount against settler-colonialism as illegitimate.
This is why the massive repression that Jewish colonists visit upon the Palestinian natives is invariably identified by Israel, western governments, think tanks, and the obsequious western press as “retaliations” or “reprisals”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west-israel-never-initiates-violence-it-only-retaliates ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 167: Israel has killed over 100 aid workers in Gaza in the last week
Israel has killed over 100 aid workers in Gaza over the past week as its military siege of al-Shifa Hospital continues. Meanwhile, the Netanyahu government continues planning for an invasion of Rafah.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-167-israel-has-killed-over-100-aid-workers-in-gaza-in-the-last-week/ The real reason Israel stormed al-Shifa Hospital yet again
Israel’s latest attack on al-Shifa Hospital and the successful delivery of food aid to northern Gaza are connected. Here’s how.
People flocking to the UNRWA warehouse in Jabalia refugee camp to receive the aid stood in uncharacteristically orderly lines and patiently waited for the handouts of flour, rice, and other foodstuffs. Many could be seen cheering once the aid arrived, a scene captured by Al Jazeera’s coverage.
But what few people know is that this successful delivery of sorely needed food aid to northern Gaza is what led the Israeli army to launch its deadly raid on al-Shifa Hospital the next day.
The connection between these two events can only be explained by understanding who Israel was targeting in the raid — the now-martyred Faiq Mabhouh.
Mabhouh was the Director of Operations of the Gaza police force, a part of the Gaza government’s civilian administration. Unlike Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, Mabhouh did not operate clandestinely at the start of the war, because he didn’t have to — he was in charge of civil law enforcement. Hamas released a statement after his death confirming that he “engaged in purely civil and humanitarian activity.”…
..The true significance of the attack lies not in its desire to empty northern Gaza’s largest civilian refuge, which houses 30,000 people, but in foiling Faiq Mabhouh’s pivotal role in coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid to starving civilians in Gaza while restoring a semblance of social order to the north.The United States had submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza in return for the release of hostages held by Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-submits-draft-resolution-calling-immediate-ceasefire-gaza-blinken A top Israeli official was quoted in Bloomberg as saying the military is going to invade Rafah and defeat Hamas “even if the entire world turns on Israel, including the United States.” Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, issued the words in a podcast interview.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-invade-rafah-no-matter-what-us-says-top-official A group of more than 100 Democratic donors sent a letter to President Biden this week warning him that his “unconditional support” for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza could cost him the election to former President Trump.
The letter said that likely Biden voters “are now questioning whether the Democratic Party shares their values. If they stay home or vote for a third-party candidate, there is the very real danger that President Biden will be defeated in November.”
The New York Times obtained the letter and said a handful of its signatories had donated six-figure sums to President Biden’s 2020 and 2024 campaigns.Biden Donors Warn ‘Unconditional Support’ for Israel Could Cost Election
Politically invisible genocide? Anti-UNRWA funding agreement on track to become law
The United States would decrease money for UNRWA as part of a budget agreement that is expected to become law soon, sources familiar reported to The New York Times.
The ban, which is part of a major budget plan negotiated by legislators and the White House and anticipated to pass Congress this weekend, would result in a deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars for UNRWA.
UNRWA offers educational, healthcare, and humanitarian assistance to approximately 5.7 million registered Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. The United States, “Israel’s” staunch ally and its main backer in the genocide in Gaza, has been the largest contributor to UNRWA’s $1.4 billion annual budget.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/anti-unrwa-funding-agreement-on-track-to-become-law–nyt “It’s Not About Trump”: American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort , Matt Taibbi
Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense.
“I’m looking at things like the Supreme Court case from a non-U.S. perspective. I’m outside of it. I’m watching the legislation that’s getting rolled out in Ireland and the UK and what’s happening to me here and what’s going on in the States, and it’s so obviously much broader than just a red-blue political story in the US. This is happening throughout the Western democratic countries.
I’m just desperate to get that across to people. I think it’s so easy for people to get locked into what’s going on in their own country and not see the bigger picture.”
https://www.racket.news/p/its-not-about-trump-american-cj-hopkins FBI Has To Face Lawsuit Over ‘No-Fly List:’ Supreme Court
The FBI must face a lawsuit filed by a Muslim man who has since been removed from the bureau’s “no-fly list,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 19.
“The government has failed to demonstrate that this case is moot,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a unanimous ruling. “While the government’s representation that it will not relist Mr. Fikre may mean that his past conduct is not enough to warrant relisting, that does not speak to whether the government might relist him if he engages in the same or similar conduct in the future,” he added later.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-has-face-lawsuit-over-no-fly-list-supreme-court This case focuses on at least COVID medical treatment trials of hydroxychloroquine, employing doses far above the usual, known to be potentially fatal, and they were.
Can Scientific Misconduct Be Criminally Prosecuted? Pierre Kory MD
MP Andrew Bridgen is convening a group of experts to present evidence of criminal corruption during Covid to the Royal Police. I want a seat at that table. Oxford’s trial authors should be nervous.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/can-scientific-misconduct-be-criminally Steve Kirsch, US geriatric practice reports that COVID vaccines increased mortality by nearly 5X
We were told that the COVID vaccine saves lives. But I haven’t found a single medical practice where that was true. I did, however, find a medical practice with a 5X mortality increase!!
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/us-geriatric-practice-reports-that He’s not guilty. Julian Assange is a hero. DOJ Mulling Plea Deal For Assange: WikiLeaks Founder Could Finally Walk Free
The Wednesday WSJ report says, “The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter, opening the possibility of a deal that would end a lengthy legal saga triggered by one of the biggest classified intelligence leaks in American history.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-mulling-plea-deal-assange-wikileaks-founder-could-finally-walk-freehttps://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/untangling-the-socialism-vs-capitalism
That’s fascinating and at least a good argument, but it’s entirely wrong.“ Left to itself and without intervention, a modern economic system would fall into what we call a self-reinforcing deflationary depression: the deflationary gap would lead to falling prices and output, decline of income and rising unemployment.”
What intervention would he mean? “We” do something more than “We” do? To have an intervention you have to have a system…and a committee of master controllers, outside the system. All powerful and all knowing. Philosopher kings in fact. That’s ME. — I – am smarter, wiser, and stronger than the entire system combined. That’s why I get jam, yachts, and your daughters, and you don’t. ‘Cause you just WORKED and Created them. So how dare you?
“taxation doesn’t create new purchasing power: taxes only transfer money from those who earn it to the government.
This is why governments have no alternative but to continuously engage in deficit spending”You JUST SAID that stealing money in taxes is not a solution. I didn’t say that: YOU said that. And partially because they are not all-knowing philosopher kings who know what best to do everywhere, but ALSO because they’re not ADDING wealth, they’re removing it.
But if you remove wealth using INFLATION it’s good, but removing wealth with taxation is bad.
Okay, cut through all this. Were there any steady state economies in human history? Yes, most. For thousands of years at a pop. But they don’t have fiat basis, nor expensive central planners running it all while taking vacations to Vanuatu.
“This is why virtually all governments in the world today run budget deficits and chronically grow public debt.”
Golly gee I didn’t WANT to buy those new solid gold door handles for the Palace Elysee, or 10 new 5-star chefs, but it was for the Public Good! You understand… And we jsut HAD to go in debt for them! Debt + You = Bad. Debt + Me = Good!
“It doesn’t matter whether we call the system “socialist” or “capitalist,” they both necessitate an ever growing role of government in the economy”
No, that is LITERALLY the #Opposite of Capitalism. You need government to enforce safety and property disputes. After that, how do they expand? How? Regulating fairie dust and moonbeams? No, by interfering in the economy to make winners and losers. That is to say, crushing competition and ending free markets. “The government controls the means of production.”
“Today, in many of the “capitalist” nations, government spending accounts for almost half of the GDP “
Yeah, I know: that’s why they’re not Capitalist, as I say at the top of my lungs. They are a hybrid, which he mentions above, a hybrid of oligarchs, just like Socialism, but they’re so, so far away from the foundational requirements of Capitalism, they can’t reasonably be called so. Just as modern China cannot possibly be defined as “Communist.”
“.There’s no point railing against “socialism” and dreaming about a small government, private capital utopia which doesn’t, and cannot exist so long as our economies are based on fiat currencies with fractional reserve lending.”
Um yeah, that’s exactly everybody’s point. But fiat currencies with GOVERNMENT backstopped fractional lending are BOTH not Capitalist. It’s being a “Little Pregnant”. They are “Controlling the means of production”, interfering in eveyr private contract between every person in their jurisdiction. Rigging every contract made — just a little — is the DEFINITION of “Not free market.”
“Even if we start with zero public debt, the pursuit of economic growth will lead to the same outcomes. With fullness of time, the government sector will progressively crowd out private enterprise: it’s a mathematical certainty...”
“There’s no point railing against “socialism”No, it is not. Because we can stop it whenever we like. Is there human action, human will involved? Then it’s not “mathematical” in the slightest. It’s voluntary. Don’t do it. Un-sign the law and dispense with it. Now if you’re saying there are certain evil people who will MURDER you to prevent the loss of your power, that’s a different issue. …Which is also entirely un-mathematical, and deeply un-inevitable. That’s like saying “Taking drugs is inevitable.” No, it’s not: Don’t do it.
“However, all those undeserving free-loaders might also be your customers, so even the hard-core entrepreneurial types benefit if the lazy bums have money to spend.”
That’s odd: WHY don’t they have money? Do they do “work”? Really? They work like slaves, worse than ever? AND their jobs were stolen with 0% loans that bought capital equipment? And their work was stolen via inflation and prices rose via inflation – both from government, thus not “Capitalism” — and that’s why they’re bums who need the dole to make rent? Gee, what was a house, a car, a meal, a wage in 1810, 1910, 1950, and 2010? If a car still cost $300 think I could afford one? If it doesn’t cost that, who moved my cheese? Ford Motor company? No: GOVERNMENT. The reason THEY need to give the dole is because THEY stole all the money in the first place. THEY didn’t make wealth, they transferred it. Make THEM stop by erasing fiat, and poof! It vanishes again. Like every other time in history.
…But human will and human choices don’t exist. They are not options. TINA. “It’s inevitable, Mr. Anderson.”
“if the state spends top-down, it runs the moral hazard of determining the winners and losers in the supposedly free market competition.”
He says himself right there: it’s LITERALLY no longer free-market and therefore LITERALLY no longer Capitalism. It’s not a
“hazard”: doing that is the definition of ending competition, and any reasonable claim to it, or yourself as a free or “capitalist” country. I’m sorry people are so delusional they call England the “Mothership of Capitalism” but some people believe they are a horse, and some think they are made of beetles, or are Jesus Christ, and they are all also definitionally insane humans as well. Sorry to hear Krainer is one of them, seems a smart fellow, but a smart fellow using entirely erroneous, shifting definitions, one moment to the next. THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY.Anyway, does the “Socialist” side LOOK like everyone is getting rich? That every time the dole increases, Poverty in the U.S. DROPS, and new Volvos are sold? No? ??? That’s odd, why not? That’s literally what he’s saying here. We’re spending far in excess of $8,000 for every man woman and child in the U.S. I’m sure that’s gone up 10x while poverty has risen faster. How can that be? Doesn’t it seem like if you just didn’t steal it in the first place, to say nothing of wasting +50% in administration, then the median wage of like $20,000 at poverty, would become a median wage of $28,000, of the lower middle class? Hey! Isn’t that exactly where we came from? In 1950, above? Huh. Weird.
So the $8,000 stolen is? Exactly as he says in one definition before he reverses it again: that Government doesn’t make wealth, it takes it. “Incendium gloria culpam, etcetera, etcetera…”,
Wear a MAGA hat, get pre-dawn raided at home and killed by multiple gunshots to the head. https://www.kark.com/crime/family-of-bryan-malinowski-releases-statement-after-his-death/
Ever wonder what the inside of an Abrams tank looks like?
Russian special forces reached the destroyed Abrams tank near the village of Berdychi
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