Debt Rattle March 5 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 5 2022]Death by vaccine
There has been various claims about how the vaccines can cause illness and death, all with very different outcomes in term of numbers.
My question is why aren’t there more deaths? Why isn’t VAIDS affecting ALL of those vaccinated. Is it just a matter of time or is it purely random? If it is random what determines the outcome?
It does not help that every country seems to be hiding deaths and other problems from vaccination, but there is a limit to that.
Population reduction by forced sterilization
The numbers to look for are not mortality rates, but the fertility rates, miscarriages and stillborn numbers occurring in the countries with female vaccination rates above 50% in the 16 to 40 years old tier.
“Johnstone: Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship: …almost like this has nothing to do with freedom, or truth, or democracy.”
I can’t add anything to that.
They hate us for our freedoms? While they protest Putin, while we arrest Ottawa and ring-fence D.C. with the National Guard? Pull your licenses, demand a mental health review, give protestors a year in solitary for trespassing? Sure takes a lot of police state to be as free as we are.
“Italian Authorities Seize $70 Million Yacht Belonging to Russian Billionaire”
There’s a lot of this going on. What I don’t understand is how the assets of private individuals suddenly become repossessions of the National State. Like, if I go to France will they steal my phone and sell it because of the Iraq war? What did I have to do with any of this? I was against it.
Of course we are doing the same thing, or expressly, exclusively NEVER attacking the Russian military, but ONLY attacking the Russian civilians. Like we did to the million Iraqi children and said “It was worth it.” Shut off movies, iPhones, PlayStations, credit cards, shopping. …Of PRIVATE citizens. I think if you hate Russia, moved to NYC, but aren’t yet a citizen, THEY ATTACKED AND DEPERSONED YOU. An ordinary Sacha, just driving a cab and watching Disney at home. I mean seriously, WTF? Not only had a Red Scare, literal McCarthy purges, but now literally attacking Russian citizens – expats – and ONLY the citizens, everywhere in the world. While not ONE man is sent to the Russian front.
And this helps how? It’s a cult. Because it’s mindless hate that has no methods and no goals, no review, only adherence. Well if there’s a Black List, I want to be on it. And I’ll use the other drinking fountain too.
In the practical world what do Russian STOCKS have to do with anything? So the Greenapple KY 4H Sheep Club scholarship fund that happens to own a few shares gets robbed? You forced them to zero: That’s what happens when you allow only sells and no buys. But waitaminit here!!! There can BE no sales without a buy! There is always one buyer and one seller! Oh so SACHS was the only AUTHORIZED buyer. BlackRock was the only one PERMITTED to buy. After every other market participant was disallowed, and – SURPRISE!!! – prices fell. So BLACKROCK is the one that stole the stock FROM the Greenapple 4H Scholarship fund, that is to say: YOU. Aaaaaaan Russia was where in this? Russia didn’t steal nothin’ in these stocks: THEY did. Russia got robbed along WITH us.
Wot a lot of Bastards. Lying, thieving, ruining bastards. Oh and honest price discovery in free markets there too, pal.
Where did Fauci go? Same place as Cuomo, the hero, “presidential material.” February 17th? 2/17?
Food, fertilizer: this is what Hugh Smith said, that since we have only one tool, we will keep winning until we find a situation printing money doesn’t solve. …And if the world plays along, sadly that’s most. But what situation is that? Shortages, skyrocketing prices. Money doesn’t solve that.
Money is the REPRESENTATION of goods, it doesn’t CREATE the actual goods. Work does that. YOUR work. …You know, the work they are STEALING with the money printing.
Maybe they will at last learn that, but I don’t think so. The reality will just go around them, leaving them behind. #Science progresses one funeral at a time. The #”Science” of #”Economics”.
“”China is facing a complete food cycle collapse…”
Uh, whut? China is the only place NOT facing a food cycle collapse. Since thanks to Europe, China is the only place Russia can legally sell wheat to. EUROPE is facing a complete food cycle collapse then. You idiots. I swear to God. What is it plants crave?
“ Ukraine’s NATO Membership ‘Will Not Take Place’: German Chancellor (ET)”
Hahahaahahhahahaaha! Except Germany has proven themselves “Not Agreement Capable.” I wouldn’t believe a word they’ve said after 30 years of chances! Certainly Russia won’t. They are taking matters in hand instead, as you have to if all your neighbors are murderers, thieves, and liars.
“Zelensky on Friday slammed NATO”
I thought NATO wasn’t involved in Ukraine? Or – I think I got distracted yesterday – D.C., when the first and only person Ze calls about a house fire in Ukraine is Biden. I thought the United States wasn’t IN Ukraine, over there interfering? We have nothing to do with it, innocent as babes. If so, why does he have a direct line to the President as his only response?
Thoughts: since the U.S. Military is against all this even with the latest ethnic/religious purges, Biden can’t send the Army there or they’d JOIN UP WITH RUSSIA, clean up Ukraine’s corruption, and go home. Clearly Hunter NEEDS the corruption, and how is the CIA going to run their drugs and launder their money without Ukee? F-Stan was suddenly shut off, and with it, all da money. Remember the U.N. report saying “Drug money flows are the only thing holding up the world banking system”?
Chart: 45% of Americans are idiots who would immediately start WWIII if they could. Then wonder what happened.
“How Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace with Neo-Nazis (GZ)”
We heard he didn’t. They told him to go f– himself, they’d do whatever they wanted, and like Justin, he put his tail between his legs and let them. Translation then: THEY are running the country, since Ze is not in control of them, has no power over them, won’t enforce laws over them, or bring them to heel. And not much surprise since Azov is funded directly by the CIA/U.S. and they only use the normal government of Ukee to cover it up and hide their Nazi support, dreams, and tactics. It’s no different: I’m sure there was a normal resistance government in Syria meeting with the U.N. while ISIS was controlling the ground.
“I’m not a loser.” Zelensky said. Spoken like a true winner. I kinda like Zelensky. But that cannot stand. Resign if that’s the situation. Hand it suddenly to a Ukrainian Putin hiding in the shadows who will do what’s right for the country, and crack some heads.
P.S. Hitler was “Jewish” too. …According to the rather strict rules used by the Reich to determine these things. So wtf nonsense is coming out of y’all pie-hole? The Reich wasn’t really anti-Jewish, like ol’ Whoopie I-stole-your-racist-jewish-name Goldberg said? But they’re all white!
“Kaleniuk is not just a journalist, but a member of the WEF”
Armstrong warned be careful with this. Some were nominated for maybe going. Others actually went, completed, and approved. Obviously Klaus would be most happy with 100% of all leaders worldwide going, so everybody is nominated if they could be. Same as “Nominated” for a Nobel Prize. Virtually anyone can nominate for any reason. Only a few win.
I don’t know which he is but isn’t this the modern version of “cannot accept titles of nobility” in the Constitution? That is, because you have divided loyalties.
“ Bill Clinton Relaunching Clinton Global Initiative (Fox)”
Is that their charity that was totally illegal and outside their mandate, has no open books as required by law, and has only built like 5 houses in Haiti, once? Wait, hold that: the houses were all “CGI”. Har.
“The existential threat of climate change grows every day as Obama buys yet another beach house. Democracy is under assault around the world, but especially in D.C. and Ottawa, who neither allow discussion nor protest. Meanwhile, provoking the invasion has put millions of NATO lives in danger, but mostly through food prices that will kill you later this year. Donate today!”
“The Soviet Union ended in 1991.” –Roger Waters.
…The fact that he even has to SAY this. Or I have to say it, every day. And STILL nothing gets through. 60 seconds later: Goldfish! It’s StalinPutinHitler, restarting the Soviet Communism…that we all support and love as Democratic Socialists? Or something? As Stalin, Putin, and Hitler are all #Opposites, roughly? Or we hate them because they’re NeoLibs oligarchic corporatists like we are, instead? And need to fight them so…they are…aren’t…like we are? So they will become more…less…like we are instead? Or something?
And they wonder why I can’t stop making fun of them. If I kept saying FDRWilsonReagan, would it make sense then? And referring to the whole area west of the Mississippi as a “monarchy” owned by France?
But Waters, trying to have brains, still walks right into “Required Propaganda II”: “Russia is an unadulterated neoliberal capitalist gangster’s paradise.” You mean like your own country, the U.K. is? Or the U.S. is? It’s CLEARLY “adulterated” at this point, as it’s CLEARLY 1,000 miles from what it was when Hermitage was looting it and murdering all ordinary Russians under Clinton. Life expectancy fell 10 YEARS. That’s unprecedented in the world outside a war zone so far. So…that’s a lie, plus a lie.
“I would have voted … condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine”
Okay great. And probably he would have voted not to put 1st strike nukes in the hands of Nazis, 10min from Moscow too. BUT HE DOESN’T SAY THAT. He holds to the propaganda even at his great age, attention, and insight. That’s all the Warmongers need from him. Good men do nothing. They “Forget to mention”. Like Wolf said yesterday, “I Ain’t Brave, You’re Just a P—-y” (P.S. the article was stuffed with the required gendering and dividing that cripples all resistance and thus supports with bad strategy all the Cheney-loving warmongers)
“stand shoulder to shoulder with all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of race, religion, or nationality,”
Unless they’re RUSSIAN. And have been illegally embargoed as an open act of war for 20 years now. Because they won’t allow Clinton, Biden, BoJo, in to loot their yummy oil. Then we don’t stand with them. We attack the Russian citizens and ONLY the Russian common men and citizens, and nobody else. Attack Raytheon and Rolls Royce jet division for a change, will ya? Ya bore me.
…And he’s the GOOD guy. Image how f’d up the uncaring and rotten thinkers are. Another constant agitator of best intent, Russell Brand, says the same things: “We (unequivocally) stand with the people of Ukraine.” But. But what? And not with the people of Russia? What does that mean “stand with”, when you’re going to actually DO f-all? Is that the citizen’s version of “Good job Brownie”? And because he adheres to the violent, erroneous propaganda, or feels he has to in order to say anything without being arrested (probably true), he then lines up shoulder to shoulder pro-war, pro BoJo, anti-Russia, even by default, by omission, and how is that peace? If we blot out how we got here, we blot out 10 years of Putin/Lavrov speeches, blot out NATO, blot out Iraq, Syria, Libya, THEN start talking, you’re doing 99% of MI6’s and HSBC’s job for them.
Not great. Both trying to do right and resist, but with tactics certain to lose and permit all atrocities required. Just tell the truth. That’s all.
“Commodity fetishism” Wtf is this but just framing normal processes in pejorative words? “Consumers drive production”? Congratulations, genius, you just said, “Hey, if I want to OWN stuff, I have to make it first! Now where’s my Nobel Prize?” Then this guy comes along behind and says, “Oooooh, but MAKING stuff is baaaaad. Us bougie writer folks don’t MAKE stuff. That’s for the underclass not the schmarty-schmartz like we is.”
“delusional expression of collective utopian fantasies and longings.”
Yes, things like “Not dying”. “Getting chickens in a pot.” “Wearing clothes.” “Affording a doctor.” Damn them!!! Damn them all to heck-fire with a spoon for their longings for clean clothes and warm houses!!! We hates it forever and ever!!!”
You know WHY people live in cities, work in factories, and make packaged goods, and not on a scratch farm killing their own chickens on a stump with a hammer? BECAUSE IT’S MORE EFFICIENT. More gets done. More gets saved. More gets shared. More gets made. Now that’s not one-way, efficiency is the enemy of resiliency, but Dorothy left the farm in Kansas because working in a factory she can have heat in the house and afford a new dress. There are a lot of downsides, but how much up is there if it’s STILL more worth it to leave town and family and leave the dirt-ranch behind?
Desires are infinite, that’s why free stuff doesn’t work. But what that means is, they don’t HAVE to make artificial need and planned obsolescence, they CHOOSE to. That is, they make your 2008 Chrysler break early rather than creating a hoverboard and a maglev train. Because they are in the CAR business and not the new-invented hoverboard business that would disrupt them. That is to say, they’re a protected monopoly, using illegal means to stop all competition. And is Pfizer, his example ALSO known for that?
Capitalism! Yay, only when there are violently protected government monopolies and no price discovery, no free markets, and universal subsidies, where they legally require you to make certain products only a certain way, then are legally required to buy them! Identical to the Socialist and Soviet systems. Freedom!!!
So. They doin’ the bank holiday this weekend or what?
Come to think of it, this is 100% identical to WWII. Back then, the oligarchs, England, Ford Motors, everyone picked up a useless bundle of weirdos and their little Austrian leader, and funded them into a party that would attack Russia and execute MacKinder. …That he first them attacked EUROPE, — Western Europe of course, who cares about Eastern Europe whose people aren’t human — is history’s little joke.
But those 1933 Nazis did eventually attack Russia as the Anglos arranged and planned. And it DID destroy them both as hoped. With 60M? Casualties? Yay!!!!
So here we is again, the Anglos, CIA/MI6 funding some basement weirdos, turning them into a party that can then control a state, a state that has 3000 anti-air missiles and eventually nukes, and specifically point them at Russia, to support MacKinder… Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Now why would Russia, who took 2/3rds of the casualties of WWII while the U.S. sat home got rich, and was barely involved, be alarmed by that? I can’t understand Putin’s just an unhinged madman I guess.
You decide
There is no penalty for making a wrong guessMisinformation is not from gov. approved new update release
Misinformation is from everybody else1. A Ukrainian family that managed to escape from the city of Mariupol, where nationalist units have been blocking exit roads to prevent civilians from leaving, explains how the Ukrainian armed forces were shelling their own people to later blame it on Russia.
2. Why would you trust a government (ours) and its captive news media after years of their blatant lying and tyrannical over-reach? These parties appear to be at war against their own people, that is, against us — certainly more than Russia is. Especially in the historic moment when all our mendacious “narratives” are being exposed as false? Russian Collusion? Indictments underway and more to follow. Covid-19?
3. • How Ukraine’s Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis (GZ)
Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side.4. • Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders For War (Cook)
It is inconceivable, of course, that Britain would ever send arms to help, for example, Gaza liberate itself. For that reason, the media will never have the opportunity to exercise their vocal chords in outrage at such a development.5. freedom-loving, law-abiding anti-war activists to stand shoulder to shoulder with all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of race, religion, or nationality, in pursuit of elusive peace. That, of course means standing with the Russian people and the Ukrainian people, the Palestinian people, the Syrian people, the Lebanese people, the Kurds, African Americans, Mexicans, Ecuadorian rainforest dwellers, South African miners, Armenians, Greeks, the Inuit, the Mapuche and my neighbors the Shinnecock, to name but a few.
If its built in USA, will you have enough money to buy it?
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-you-want-to-build-back-better.html
Missing from the “low, low price” on the tag:
1. The degradation of quality and durability due to planned obsolescence and reliance on shoddy components.
2. The environmental degradation in the developing-world autocracies which welcomed the poisoning of their water, soil and air as “growth.”
3. The inherent fragility of long, sole-source supply chains
4. Two generations of wage suppression as American workers were forced to compete with a billion workers willing to work for low, insecure wages as “better than nothing.’
5. Soaring wealth and income inequality as the “winners” of dependency skimmed trillions in profits as the quality of goods and services plummeted and wages stagnated.
No worries, pal, here’s a minimum wage job on my $100 million yacht.
6. The cost of depending on distant sources for essentials.
“….Come to think of it, this is 100% identical to WWII. Back then, the oligarchs, England…”
Flying Aircraft Carriers this time. Britannia rules the Skies!
Advise to all generals who want to win,
Remember Afghanistan – go home now – not fighting is the only winning solution.Whitney Webb:
Ukraine And The New Al QaedaThe eruption of war between Russia and Ukraine appears to have given the CIA the pretext to launch a long-planned insurgency in the country, one poised to spread far beyond Ukraine’s borders with major implications for Biden’s “War on Domestic Terror”
As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world’s attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is particularly true given that former CIA officials and a former Secretary of State are now openly saying that the CIA is following the “models” of past CIA-backed insurgencies in Afghanistan and Syria for its plans in Ukraine. Given that those countries have been ravaged by war as a direct result of those insurgencies, this bodes poorly for Ukraine.
Yet, this insurgency is poised to have consequences that reach far beyond Ukraine. […]
F.S.
Putin Will Declare War On Any Country Creating A Ukraine No-Fly Zone “That Very Second”
Well, the jelly kneed spineless Western Ponces like Turdeau, Bo-jo and Old White Joe probably had to pass gas when they heard a real leader speak.
“A no-fly-zone would spell war for any third party who tries to enforce one over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has said.
Speaking at a meeting with female pilots on Saturday, Putin said Russia would view “any move in this direction” as an intervention that “will pose a threat to our service members.”
“That very second, we will view them as participants of the military conflict, and it would not matter what members they are,” the Russian president said.”
“Bill Clinton Relaunching Clinton Global Initiative”
The best confirmation yet that Hillary intends to run again in 2024. The biggest reason the CGI went inactive in 2017 is that it could no longer attract contributors once it became obvious that there was no longer any possibility of any quid pro quo. Now, incredibly, HRC has been making the rounds again, and dusting off the CGI gives all those “supporters” somewhere to send their money (on a wing and a prayer).
@Dr. D: appreciate today’s contribution.You are getting through. Please keep it coming.
Your description of “mindless hate” perfectly explains the un-explainable and simultaneously pierces the un-pierceable bubble. Add my name to the Black List with yours.
“And this helps how? It’s a cult. Because it’s mindless hate that has no methods and no goals, no review, only adherence.”
This is the only plausible explanation for several friends who are deeply embedded and vested in the stories/themes of Obama/Russia_Russia_Russia/T-rump/Covid_vax_mask/Ukraine. They have no awareness of the box that they are in.
Dr D:
“ BECAUSE IT’S MORE EFFICIENT. More gets done. More gets saved. More gets shared. More gets made. Now that’s not one-way, efficiency is the enemy of resiliency, but Dorothy left the farm in Kansas because working in a factory she can have heat in the house and afford a new dress. There are a lot of downsides, but how much up is there if it’s STILL more worth it to leave town and family and leave the dirt-ranch behind?”It’s interesting how framing and perspective can lead us to one conclusion or another.
Many frequent commenters here have “homesteads” of some sort where they are busily engaged in growing food, doing for themselves, being resilient, and Dr Day is building a house. I am expanding my gardens and my partner is finishing up on the workshop he is building in the backyard.We don’t do these farm type things because they are inefficient. The efficiency of city life often leaves out of the picture any elements of traditional rural life that are not easily quantifiable in dollars. Doing for oneself brings personal satisfaction. Resiliency is an antidote to fear. Learning can be fun for the middle-aged and able-minded elders, not just the young.
The press of people in cities can cause us to have “social overload” where we cope by limiting our social circle and end up not even getting to know our closest neighbors all that well. In cities we tend to be heavily dependent upon “the system” to fulfill our needs and wants — the lack of doing for ourselves can lead to an emptiness that many seek to fill with consumerism or addictions. Our dependence leads to fear because we have little effective control over our own lives — our lives are subject to the whims of elites.
(This divide isn’t clearly on city vs. rural mindsets; those are just tendencies. Rural folks may be thoroughly plugged into the system, and there are city-dwellers who practice resiliency.)
Many elements of traditional rural life fulfill multiple human needs at once — not just the needs, such as food, that are easily dollarized.
From MoA for today:
Zelensky And The Fascists: “He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/zelensky-and-the-fascists-he-will-hang-on-some-tree-on-khreshchatyk.html#moreSome irrelevant stuff at the beginning, … so a suggested start from: … Now back to Ukraine.
Best,
F.S.
… some most current noise from Polish social media: … Zelensky no longer in Kyiv, … was just seen at the U.S. Embassy in Poland!
F.S.
It seems to me that Mr. Zelensky is merely playing a role for some powerful faction’s benefit,
just as Mr. Trump has been (imo) doing so usefully since 2016. The “comic” element seems
important in both cases.What entities can one trust ?
Bill7
The usual advice is to trust no one.
Or as Muhammad said “Trust in God but tie up your camel”Links not posting at the moment
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This update/interview is the best thing I’ve seen so far on the conflict in Ukraine.
Last night, while listening to music, I was busy sorting out the filler material by hand from the rabbit food for my daughter’s Dutch dawrf pet rabbit, Moki. She won’t eat the filler. Neither will her friends, the mice and chipmunks. There are lots of sunflower seeds in the rabbit food mix.
Earlier I had read that 50% of the world’s supply of sunflower seeds come from the Ukraine and another 20% from Russia. Good thing I bought a big bag of sunflower seeds early in 2022.
The sunflower seeds reminded me of a story my Father, who grew up during the 1930s depression in Saskatchewan, told me. When he was at school, many of the students were Ukrainians who lived on the local farms.
They ate sunflower seeds all day long in class and spit the empty sunflower shells on the classroom floor. The teachers did not like this but there was little they could do to stop this. First the kids were hungry and sunflower seeds were all they had to eat. Second, the Ukrainian boys were bigger and tougher than the tiny women teachers. After school was over the teachers would sweep up the empty sunflower shells on the classroom floor.
Yeah, the not so good, good olde days!
I flipped on Faux’s Tucker show for a few minutes yesterday, the temp host gleefully advertised that loyal viewers should watch a Ukraine special today (SAT), stating “I’m sure the viewers will find it very entertaining”…
That’s all that legacy media is for the “mindless” sheeple ~ A daily “fix” for their entertainment addiction.
Chart: 45% of Americans are idiots who would immediately start WWIII if they could. Then wonder what happened.
Approximately the same gratuitous portion of “Americans” that would vote to call into existence the “Purge” (it’s a horror movie) if it was polled…
Which is what BLM/AntiFa was trying to construct in “real reality”, on behalf of the party of chaos 😐
Desires are infinite, that’s why free stuff doesn’t work.
Without detachment from #Anti-Spirit child EGO this is 100% true, but for those that choose to live in the Now, sharing the Infinite’s Healing, Loving, Creative real reality, it is not.
“Free stuff” holds no sway for Us, except as a tool to help others…
And this helps how? It’s a cult. Because it’s mindless hate that has no methods and no goals, no review, only adherence.
What would you expect from NPD mass psychotics?
This is the predatory, inhuman tribal culture (DEATH CULT) they were indoctrinated into ~ Where introspective reflection/thinking is TABOO, compassion is for losers…
Besides, they’re bored 24/7 & require entertainment to appease the toxic EGO that is the core of their existence 😐
Do you actually think there’s any hope, at all, for these murdering savages? Asking of a friend…
Not raining on your parade, just trying to add “perspective” 😉
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said that while Russia is a threat, “China is Russia times 1,000” due to its larger economy, stronger military, and influence through “American companies and their CEOs who are basically lobbyists for the Chinese government’s position” on a variety of issues.
This week I’ve been reflecting on the Russia/China “friendship” that extends back to Stalin & Mao…
Starting with Nixon/Kissinger playing footsie with Mao, ie opening China up as a resource to be exploited, the Han have no doubt been playing the long game with the Gweilo…
While Americans think/act only in terms of just-in-time instant gratification, the Chinese culture strategy is patient, long-term, where no doubt historically they view the Gweilo as rapacious thugs never to be trusted (see Opium Wars for historical perspective).
While Putin cleans up the mess on Russia’s western border, the CCP are preparing to expand the “permanent revolution” into Taiwan ~ All the PLA is waiting for is the “mindless idiots” in western civ to engage in Ukraine & create the “two front” stratagem that western civ is ill-prepared to engage…
With U$ Empire Inc. .MIL growing weaker & weaker & WEAKER by the hour, it’s a winning hand ~ Putin/Xi are playing four dimensional chess while Slo’ Joe is fumbling around on the checker board.
As hobbled as Trump was by his vanity, I believe the undermining of the 2020 election + the #derp-swamp going full retard from 2016 on has driven the “West” over the proverbial Rubicon, into a future that will be unsurvivable for 90+% of ALL life on earth…
God help us all,
Gary
We know Russia has banned Nitrogen exports, one of the main ingredients of fertilizer. This means we are also having a food war. Fertilizer is usually made up of varying amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, commonly know as NPK. (Disclaimer: In a previous life, I worked in phosphate mines in Morroco and Jordan.)
In the US the 4 major crops are corn (maize), soybeans, wheat, and cotton, using about 60% of all commercial fertilizer. Corn (about 80 million acres) and soybeans (about 90 million acres) are by far the largest crops by acreage. Corn uses about 40% of all commercial fertilizer while soybeans use only 10%.
Soybeans being legumes can fix their own nitrogen. Corn however cannot sequester it’s own nitrogen. Also during harvesting most of the corn plant is removed. For soybeans much of the plant is returned to the soil. So corn needs about 4 times the fertilizer that soybeans require. For corn, the ratio of nitrogen in it’s fertilizer is much higher.
So what did Russia just ban? Why yes, only 2/3rds of the world’s “exported” supply of nitrogen!
O.K. You are a farmer, US, European, 3rd world. You are loqoking at rapidly rising fertilizer costs that are a moving target. Your suppliers can’t tell you how much you might be able to buy nor at what price, before planting your spring crops. Fertilizer prices have increased so much that you may not have enough cash on hand to buy all the fertilizer you need. Since crop prices are so volatile you don’t know if you could even breakeven between fertilizer costs now and crop receipts 6 months from now.
So what crop, if any, are you going to plant? Corn gives you the worst high fertilizer cost exposure. Not only that but half of corn crops are sold in the US to make ethanol to put in gas, probably at pre-fixed prices. So does the US ethanol industry go boom or bust? Who knows what Biden and Congress will do in an election year? So would you plant soybeans instead, even knowing that your fellow farmers are likely to do so too resulting in a surplus of soybeans thus driving soybean prices much lower?
World governments are already banning exports of all grains simply because they don’t know what will happen any more than their own farmers do!
Maybe Biden will emphasize food production instead. Naw, I forgot they want higher energy and food prices for their build back green narrative. That isexactly why they started that not so little war over in far away Ukraine! Elections however can be easily fixed at the ballot box!
In an interesting twist of fate, many ordinary Russians are queuing at Russian border crossings into countries like Finland, so they can get access to their money deposited in foreign banks, blocked by SWIFT!
So we have both Ukrainians and Russians both trying to leave their countries at the same time!
You know it has been very quiet here in the TAE comments section this past week. Bosco is gone. I am doing my best to keep things going with my useless and off-the-wall irrelevant comments!
Even our very own troll Defate has been missing, busy fighting and losing the info war in the Ukraine! I just wonder if Deflate’s superiors ordered him to volunteer for their “boots on the ground” program in the Ukraine? Maybe Deflate is now amoung those classified as “missing in action”?
Not exactly Chernobyl
Dmitry Orlov
The Empire of Lies faux story on the reactor in the Ukraine.
Interesting view on Russia basically confiscating 500 Airbus jets that they are currently leasing.
Ya, that’s right, Russia can’t pay the leases because SWIFT is not available, and with the West’s hysterical meltdown deciding to freeze Russia assets, hey, that’s a TWO WAY STREET bitchz.
A sound bite from the comment section
“The “sanctions from Hell” actually seem to be increasing Russian profits; they have increased the price of gas and wheat, which Russia exports. They also encourage Russia to develop its own production. For these reasons, Russia might want to avoid counter-sanctions, because that could discourage this “punishment”.”
Hahahahaha! too sweet
Addendum: Besides “America” transforming into a fascist pathocracy & weakening internally into warring tribal factions, the “mindless idiots” transferred the bulk of western civilization’s TECH/MFG. to China, bringing them out of the iron age & into modernity ~ In effect, the “mindless idiots” gave China/Russia the rope they’ll employ to hang western civ with…
I thought western civ had 10+ years before weakening to this critical juncture, but stupid is, as stupid does!
Moreover, while the Party of Chaos (D) was busy flooding “America” with huddled masses to shore up their base, the CCP/PLA infiltrated western civ from top-to-bottom, buying apparatchiks, academics, CEOs et al. with U$T funny money ~ Who knows how far it goes, obviously the Biden crime family is at the top of the list 😐
By the time a Red Dawn actually happens (it will), U$ Empire Inc. will be in shambles & “citizens” will be so hammered from within that the PLA will be viewed as liberators, at first…
If the fascist pathocracy doesn’t nuke the human race into ashes, survival will be on par with the animal kingdom, or worse.
There also the little know real reality that China’s people haven’t had their DNA altered with mRNA experimental pharma, where a tailored bio-weapon could wreak havoc on the vexed “mindless idiots” without firing a shot…
There will be -0- virtue signalling when the PRC mobile execution units are rolling around like ice cream trucks, for those still around…
I wonder if U$ Empire Intelligentsia has ever ran these scenarios across their feral synapses 😐
Perhaps that’s why thus far U$/UK/NATO has left Ukraine swinging in the wind?
With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it’s time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born plaque in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal.
Yeah, it’s the one with the “huddled masses” bit. There are good reasons for it to be removed, too — above and beyond the fact that our whole nation is being turned into a huddled mass.
@WES You lamented ( at least I’m pretty sure it was a sort of lament) that ” You know it has been very quiet here in the TAE comments section this past week. ”
Don’t worry. The Storm & Strife of healthily annoying argument and commentary will pick back up. Even War Horses need time to graze . . . especially during “End Times”. TEOTWAWKI is hard work. Rome did not fall in a day (or something along those lines.)
On a slightly more serious note, I think the quietude is not so much folks running out things to say, as it is a matter of needing to take a breather. The real world is getting a whole lot realer, more than most had reckoned on, and therefore probably a good time to reassess the battlefield before charging back in.
@ generic, thank you for the two hour plus video regarding the Ukraine conflict and like you it is the best thing that I have seen so far.
The video is 2 hours 8 minutes long and having watched it I can say the impact on me has been significant.
The Russian intervention in Ukraine is now one week old and the situation on the ground is subject to an information war that makes it hard to assess what is happening. Western media is saying that things are going badly for Russia, while Russian President Vladimir Putin says things are going according to plan. But what that plan is, is not entirely certain. Putin said the object of the intervention is to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. How that is to be achieved is only slowly emerging.
Western media reports say Russia is purposely targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, which Russia denies. Video and photographic evidence appear to show destruction to civilian targets, but it is not clear if this was intentional or return fire to populated areas where Moscow says extremists are operating from.
Russia says it has no intentions of occupying Ukraine, but it’s unclear how long Russia forces would have to remain to pacify the country. Will the continuing arming of Ukraine, and C.I.A. training of guerrilla units mean the U.S. is intending to bog Russia down in a quagmire? Is the U.S. intention to give Russia its “Vietnam”, the way the U.S. gave the Soviet Union its “Vietnam” in Afghanistan?
There are open calls from Western capitals for regime change in Moscow. In the past week, the economic war against Russia has intensified, with the sanctioning of its central bank and the removal of many Russian banks from the SWIFT international banking system. What impact will the sanctions that have on the Russian and world economies?
Meanwhile Western governments have shut down English-language Russian media, while the BBC continues to broadcast in Russia. The Moscow Times, critical of Putin, continues to publish, but the radio station Echo of Moscow has been shut down by Russian authorities.
Our guests are Mark Sleboda, a former U.S. Navy nuclear engineer, political analyst and raido host. He joins us from Moscow. And Scott Ritter, a former U.S. Marines counterintelligence officer and U.N. weapons inspector. He is in upstate New York.
There are some audio issues at times and it takes a while for the conservation to start and improves as we get to the end.
1 hour 41 minutes
Regarding the Ukraine situation, the hardcore reality is the west has committed suicide. (covid is not the only way to die)1 hour 54 minutes
American superiority -> none of that is true1 hour 57 minutes
Ukraine does not factor into any American geopolitical strategy other than that designed to diminish Russia2 hour 00 minutes
These economic sanctions are going to be crippling (no fertilizer, wheat, oil, gas) (supply chain destruction)2 hour 02 minutes
An economic apocalypse.
This is a watershed moment in history.2 hour 04 minutes
Since 2014 there has been 8 years of war there in Ukraine against Donbas.
This is a war that Russia has ended and NOT started.
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