Debt Rattle March 5 2019
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Vincent van Gogh Weaver 1884 • China Warns Of ‘Tough Struggle’, Cuts Growth Target To Lowest Since 1990 (G.) • China’s Largest Property Develop
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 5 2019]Vincent van Gogh Weaver 1884
A wonderful painting; back in the early 70’s I rented a loom much like the one pictured. I didn’t amount to much as a weaver but, certainly earned my respect for those proficient in that art.On another note; Ivan Kramskoy’s ‘Christ in the Desert’ was featured in a Russia Insider article.
Very well done with a lot of information/history of that painting.
I thought you might enjoy it Ilargi since you have featured that very painting in the recent past.
Here’s the link:
https://russia-insider.com/en/culture/unusual-story-behind-russias-most-famous-painting-christ-ivan-kramskoys-christ-desertVenezuela comes after Libya. It’s not doing like Libya did… http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/03/human-factors.html
Juan Guaidó, the random guy who claims to be ‘interim president’ of Venezuela, just arrived back in Caracas. He was not arrested. It seems that President Maduro’s strategy is to simply ignore Guaidó and to wait until the guy campaign runs out of steam…
Maduro can sit this out. Guaidó’s claims to the presidency are clearly illegal. He has failed to gain support at every step of his way. The army stands strongly behind the government. No human waves appeared to carry the ‘humanitarian aid’ across the border. The opposition does not know what to do next.
All neighboring countries spoke out against a military intervention. Russia and China will prevent negative steps at the UN. While the U.S. wages an economic siege against the country, others are willing to help. Sanctions alone hardly ever bring a government down.
Maduro can simply let Guaidó clown around in Caracas or wherever he wants to go. The guy seems unable to deliver results. The longer his campaign takes the less support will he have. In a few month the whole thing may well fizzle out.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/venezuela-random-guyaid%C3%B3-returns-to-be-ignored.html#moreWhy the Venezuelan army didn’t defect.
The Venezuelan military remembers things like Salvador Allende being fairly elected and then overthrown, or the Contras mass murdering civilians. They know that this type of behavior doesn’t end when the US wins. They know Pinochet threw labor leaders, socialists, and anyone who opposed his trash neoliberalism from helicopters after taking power. They know the Contras and other death squads were bayoneting toddlers to prove a point to scared farmers, often while not even actually engaging whatever force they were ostensibly fighting even a single time.
https://geopoliticsalert.com/venezuelan-military-coupRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday that Moscow is ready for talks with Washington on Venezuela, but only in strict compliance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The conversation, held at the US request, focused on the Venezuela crisis, the ministry said.
“In connection with Washington’s proposal to hold bilateral consultations on Venezuela, it was pointed out that we were ready for them but only in strict accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, since only the people of Venezuela have the right to determine their future,” the foreign ministry said.http://tass.com/politics/1047204V. Arnold,
It’s at least kind of funny, given Kramskoy’s lofty ideals, long journey and profound thoughts about the painting, that in the article it is spelled twice as “Christ in the Dessert”, which in me evokes images that, though they’re plenty lively, are entirely different from what he had in mind.
Jesus in Jello
“Never since the second world war has Europe been so essential. Yet never has Europe been in such danger.”
Hey moron: Europe is a continent and a people. There will be neither ‘less’ or ‘more’ of it. It’s been there yesterday, and it will be there tomorrow, unlike you. The only danger is your own. The only thing you’re protecting is yourself.
P.S. Russia is in Europe and European. So is Ukraine. So are Greece and Hungary. Are you planning on having “Europe” for them sometime, or just when it suits you?
“Europe … needs to introduce a social shield for all workers, guaranteeing the same pay for the same work,”
I’m pretty sure there’s already a law that has equal pay for equal workers and there is already a social shield for all workers, even a socialized medical system hroughout Europe. These are failing and going bankrupt, along with the whole nation, due to your bad policies. That predicted failure is exactly why Britain wants out.
“zero carbon by 2050 and pesticides halved by 2025 “
Zero carbon that fast would kill everyone as Greenpeace has said, and you’re going to halve pesticides, a) without lowering yields and killing millions b) without dropping corporate sales and c) while the EU commission on pesticides is this very moment illegally promoting and protecting them from their own deadly, criminal acts. This is the “independent scientific assessment” which is being subverted in the EU courts as we speak.
“a European Climate Bank”
So when Europe is at risk and the world is ending, your go-to solution is to start a bank? Kind of like the first thing ISIS did when it took over Libya? That wouldn’t have international taxing power with CO2 credits would it? You know, the unregulated ones that can be printed at will, have dark, unregulated derivatives with multi-billion dollar taxpayer profits through Goldman Sachs? Yes, I’ve been reading your white papers.
“This imperative needs to guide all our action: from the Central Bank to the European commission, from the European budget to the Investment Plan for Europe,”
Supporting these centralized, unaccountable, international agencies are his primary concern. A real man of the people.
Other major hits in the further article:
“Europe is… a historic success: the reconciliation of a devastated continent”
He needs to talk to Greece.
“Who can claim to be sovereign, on their own, in the face of the digital giants?”
Um, you can. You can shut them down in your country tomorrow. Interestingly, the EU cannot, as it would require the coordination of 18 EU countries and the unaccountable central bureaucracy. So if we’re going to cede sovereignty to the digital giants, aren’t you saying they are now more powerful than you are and they are in charge? Glad to know corporations run nations now; there’s a name for that, and not a pretty one. Ask Mussolini.
“How would we resist the crises of financial capitalism without the euro, which is a force for the entire EU?”
Same way you did for the previous 5,000 years. Except Italy and Spain would not be the victim of the Euro’s financial extortion, the force of the EU resting on their throats.
“Peace, can never be taken for granted. I pursue it tirelessly on behalf of France,”
By having jack-booted assault teams shoot my citizens in the eye with explosives.
“We are at a pivotal moment … when together we need to politically and culturally reinvent the shape of our civilisation”
If Europe’s values such as democracy and the Enlightenment are good, why would we need to re-invent and replace them? If you plan to radically transform Europe’s culture, how do you claim to defend ‘Europe’, that thing you are replacing?
“We should have European rules banishing incitement to hatred and violence from the internet,”
How will it transform? By erasing open debate and free speech in Europe, following the elimination of public protests.
“no community can create a sense of belonging if it does not have protected territorial limits.”
He wants borders? No. He wants borders by allowing full open Schengen and yet having no external borders at all, viz, a “single asylum policy”.
“We can’t let nationalists with no solutions exploit people’s anger.”
Their solution is to get rid of your bad, anti-European ideas.
“This conference will need to engage with citizens’ panels,”
The ones you call thugs and refuse to talk to for 18 weeks.
“everywhere, people are standing up to be part of that change.”
While you shoot them in the face.
And I thought listening to Merkel was bad. Tell us why we should join again?
“the information that’s available suggests that broadcasting — has a decisive influence on American politics.”
Like yesterday, I hope they didn’t spend too much on this study. If they didn’t, why would I own one? The only reason to own such an unprofitable turkey is exclusively to lie and influence, i.e. buy politics for profits elsewhere. Right Bezos?
“Without Fox, in other words, the GOP’s only popular vote win since the 1980s would have been reversed and the 2008 election would have been an extinction-level landslide.”
I disagree. Like InfoWars, Fox is controlled opposition. The purpose is to control, subvert, and mitigate the desire for real conservative viewpoints while making them seem as kooky as possible. It’s to sell that same neo-LIBERAL policies like big government and the Gulf War to conservatives who would otherwise resist. Has been since day one and still is today. Murdoch is not a Conservative, he his life-long empire was to run tabloids willing to say anything in the most liberal nations in the world. Just that the Far-left and Very-Very-Far-Left slots were already taken by CNN and MSNBC, leaving ideas that only a few years ago were Blue-dog Business Democrat as the only open space. However, as Vox notes, they were unable to control, subvert, and destroy adequately and it has backfired on them. Although CIA director Casey still won as “our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is a lie” nevertheless, the utter failure to “Fundamentally transform the United States’” basic character has been spectacular, as is usually the case in Hubris v. History. Vox, BuzzFeed, CNN, the NYTimes and all their lying TDS brethren are utterly collapsing and being destroyed as a result. The Media is now less trusted than Congress, whose approval is under 17%. ….Aaaaaand this Vox article shows why: “If only we’d been less objective and more political, we could have forced the U.S. people to do what we, as Vox reporters, tell them to.” No. You wouldn’t. They would find another, perhaps worse outlet. This was the best you could do. Learn to code.
“Perhaps the biggest takeaway today is that China is failing to increase domestic demand, long predicted to be the country’s saving grace.”
Well, they either need to pay the consumers more or those shadow banks better start pumping out consumer debt.
It’s not that hard. 😏
Chris, as Japan has shown very convincingly (and still does), the more you try to make people spend, the more frightened they get and do the opposite.
Trump has Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S. Currently owning or operating a total of 193 outlets across the country in 89 markets. The stations are affiliates of various television networks including ABC, CBS, NBC & Fox. Sinclair employs “must run” content to its stations. It has retransmission agreements with providers such as Comcast, Time Warner, Mediacom, and DirecTV.
Sinclair has required “must run” segments, of Stolen Honor, Wounds that Never Heal, a film promoted by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Sinclair promoted a special called Breaking Point, 25 Minutes that will Change America an infomercial sponsored by the Republican National Trust Political Action Committee creating misinformation about Obama. On December 16, 2016, Jared Kushner, son-in-law of then-President-elect Donald Trump, stated that it had reached deals with Sinclair to give the company extended access to the Trump campaign.
There is considerably more but alas I have no more time for this today. Perhaps tomorrow I will go into the effect of Conservative Talk Radio and its influence on the public mind set.
PlanetCiti,
I hear ya, things are complex. But let’s be clear: Trump doesn’t ‘have’ ABC, CBS, NBC, the latter least of all. That leaves just Fox nationwide. he doesn’t ‘have’ any of the major papers either. That he still ‘has’ Twitter is due only to Jack being too scared to throw him out, but even more to Jack realizing the same as (the rest of) the MSM: the big money is in Trump.
I’m sure that there are elites, all over the world, that are regretting allowing women to vote. Also, now the elites are also regretting that they allowed women to run for office and get elected.
Those new young elected women are saying all kinds of “unregulated” opinions.
I say, “keep it up. Let the discussions begin. Let the light shine.”
Will our social/economic system be able to survive
Secrets ….
Lies ….
Illusions ….
deception ….
pretense ….The incompetence of the UK government is astonishing. Try to unravel this. How did a bin scavenger come upon a cellophane wrapped unopened boxed spray bottle of perfume laced with a highly toxic nerve agent? He gave it to his girlfriend who later sprayed it on her wrist and became the only fatality in the Salisbury Poisoning Incident? Likewise, the British prepared the Steele Dossier that trashed Donald Trump to no effect. And, commenced the exit of the EU unprepared. American and French politicians should take heed but won’t. Western democracies and corporate media in their headlong rush to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the working middle class have lost all common sense and their legitimacy.
It’s at least kind of funny, given Kramskoy’s lofty ideals, long journey and profound thoughts about the painting, that in the article it is spelled twice as “Christ in the Dessert”, which in me evokes images that, though they’re plenty lively, are entirely different from what he had in mind.
Jesus in Jello
LOL; I chalked it up to non-native speakers of English.
But yours is rather humorous take…the Fed doesn’t make grand policy errors, it simply protects its clients with public money. Since it does that by killing off price discovery, let’s stop talking about ‘markets’.
Why are we all tempted to read a sea of printers’ ink leaders and (hopefully) long-winded confusing and distorted filler pieces over and over when one simple cluster of truthful words tells us all we really need to know? MSM as Satanic Mammonist angel.
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