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    Vincent van Gogh Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin 1887   • Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Raised it to $40B (Gree
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 11 2022]

    #107741
    V. Arnold
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    Vincent van Gogh Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin 1887

    An interesting looking woman; she also ran the Café du Tambourin.
    A well known model for many well known artists as well…
    It’s also interesting to note how much our concept of female beauty has changed over the generations…
    In my nearly 2 decades living in S.E. Asia, my own concept of female beauty has changed greatly…

    #107742
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    As a matter of interest; Agostina Segatori was an Italian woman (which should have been obvious), but I missed that detail…

    #107743
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Where’s Dr. D today?

    #107745
    Red
    Participant

    “Ukraine diverts some Russian gas flows, claims battlefield gains”
    Not much about the gas there. Not surprisingly since the “story” was posted at 5a.m. ADT only mid morning in Ukraine. It’s a propaganda piece about all the military successes the nazi’s are having at the expense of the Russian forces. I’d guess this hit piece was written up yesterday afternoon as a way to finish out someones work day. I note the disclaimer of having no one on the ground to verify any of it.
    “Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports of fighting.”
    Because they won’t spend the coin to do it properly. I doubt if they could even get close if they were there on the azov side. A bit too dangerous for those cupcakes, as well as too much anti thesis for their gaslighting to continue.

    #107746
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ransomware Attack Drives US College To Close Doors For Good After 157 Years”

    Complete failure of the DHS, FBI, and hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. wastes on cybersecurity. We should just remove from their budget the exact amount to make (Black) Lincoln College whole as a good lesson to them. To stop yanking on their pull ropes and work for the people.

    “Nonprofit Watchdog Uncovers $350 Million In Secret Payments To Fauci, Collins, Others At NIH”

    Whoops, there’s all the money they need, in yesterday’s news. No one is investigating, no arrests expected.

    Pat Buchanon. Antiwar. https://buchanan.org/blog/is-ukraines-war-now-americas-war-159368

    I don’t explain it, I just report it. And his report is that Pelosi and Biden are chewing on their arms, veins in their teeth prowar. “This is America’s War” “America is in this to win it.” “We cannot let this man remain in power.” Plus $40B dollars. Pretty clear. Pat just says, “When you claim YOU sunk the Moskva, YOU killed the generals, aren’t you diminishing all the fighting of the Ukrainians? Like they don’t matter, don’t exist, aren’t a real military force? And you preclude us from brokering the peace. Why would you do that?”

    Never thought I’d be quoting Pat Buchanan, yet here we are. If he’s antiwar, there has to be some good in him.

    “Biden Wanted $33B More for Ukraine. Congress Raised It to $40B (Greenwald)”

    Buchanan points out that we have now completely justified Russia. By doing this and being obvious about it, they, and the Global South, can clearly see that NATO IS attacking, and the West DOES want the total annihilation of Russia forever, to harvest them for resources. Our denials now mean nothing, and thus so do all our words.

    Other articles on the late-stage empires, Thucydides Trap. This is nonsense and nothing could be easier than the United States just behaving morally and rationally in relation to other countries, which may or may not have China rise, but would solve the war-transition problem. The only reason they can’t is that empire, power, makes you mad. It drives not only the leaders insane, but to a lesser degree the people too. They, we, cannot do the simplest action nor make the simplest choice correctly because due to previous power we believe that “We create reality” i.e. “we are God”, which is the HALLMARK of insanity. This is the usual American “Power of Positive Thinking” “New Age” love and light taken to an irrational and ultimate extreme that Americans are well-known and even respected for. Nobody takes things so much too far as we do, and often that works out, like in Desert southwest, in inventions, and so on. But it regularly has us take economics or slavery or prisons to extremes as well.

    Anyway, I would bet the $40B isn’t for nuttin’. I mean, yes it’s for the war, but actually too much. What it’s really for is to bail out the EU national defaults that are beginning, because they can blame Russia and the war. So they can delay the total cascading financial collapse just 30 more days. One more day. Just not have the collapse at 9am tomorrow. I think we’ve already seen this in that the budget is for “nations”. That’s it. Nations who are friends who are in Europe that we want to give it to if they play ball. It’s a AIG/Sachs/DeutscheBank bank bailout.

    There is a tragic and obvious downside to every WEF enhancement. The brain is 100x more compact data than anything today and they think we will add Bill Gates to it and “exponentially” improve it? Not WEF: WTF. And that will “Increase security”. Whut? Am I in danger of having my brain hacked now? No. Not in the hundreds of ways possible then. Add Bill Gates and it’s MORE secure? Whut? Do their minds work at all? Patients have monitoring chips? Well that’s not new, they have EKGs and bed monitors, whatever now. But listen closely: “So they can work remotely.” W – TF would they “work remotely”??? That’s the one and only thing nurses do is be there directly. Doctors can work remotely, nurses have to grab your arms and turn your butt.

    Whhhhy? Because they already have this. They are trying to have remote monitor nurses cover not 5 beds, whatever, but 25, 50 beds. On camera. And then if something happens? A miracle if you notice since “noticing” is often very subtle, touchy stuff about the quality of breathing, skin tone, but then, just like all other Security Booths, they’ll point and say, “Hey look. Somebody is being robbed/dying on camera, but alas I am far too far away to stop it. Oh well, I guess I’ll push this button and record their death in this notebook.” Siiiiip coffee latte. Go back to Netflix. Killin’ some folks.

    Oh yes, they are trying this already. Remember that robotic nurse? Genius! And who watches the camera of the nurse robot? A: A nurse! So we’ve replaced one nurse with one nurse, but we make it up on the volume. And added $10,000 by having the robot, complete with Windows 11, hacked, out of batteries, and disabled most of the time. But wait! There’s more! The robot is so incompetent, it can’t touch anything, lift anybody, take blood pressure, and needs a SECOND, human nurse beside it to open doors, keep it from running into cords and tubes, and do the work. Se we get one nurse for the price of two!!!

    Yes, so a WEF nurse can work “remotely.” That’s like the next thing the WEF is installing now: you can EAT remotely. We show you pictures of food and other people eating, and you put the pictures in your mouth. Because you own nothing, which means certainly not the food.

    Like I said, takes 5x the time to comment than they can schitzo on you with word-salad, and being mentally ill, they never get tired and schitzo delusions and attacks 24 hours a day their whole lives through. The only practical thing to do is recognize and diagnose their mental illness, do not do the things they say, and remove them from society so they can no longer kill people.

    Lookin’ at you, Billy-Boi. Who only today said Covid is a cold, only hurts the elderly, and was not banned for “misinformation”. Either for saying that now, or for saying the #Opposite for two years before now. Is he conceding on this because his airborne Ebola is ready for launch? Or did he get that smallpox he said was coming and we immediately found in a lab?

    That’s how depopulation is done in a civil way. You have to admit: having a legally voluntary, lottery system to kill people, that mostly includes even the rich, doctors, congressmen, IS in fact the most civil way imaginable. And I have to admit it is not #Eugenics as such. I’ve said before that they believe there is an upcoming Ice Age, or just “Climate Change” and all “Society” (meaning them) will collapse as has happened regularly in history. The darkened skies and 200 years of rainy, failing weather of 400AD comes to mind. Human civilization barely survived. “How the Irish Saved History” Who wants all our “advances” to be lost? But I’m not going to kill everyone to achieve my ends. Have they been in some way unclear about it?

    FDA: Youngest Kids Vaccine Won’t Need to Hit 50% Efficacy Mark (EP)”

    Remember the sci-fi movies where kids are sterile unless they take a pill or procedure to have children, if allowed at all by the State? Yes, not a pill for, but you will need IVF or something – something expensive – to do what all* humans have as a birthright of being. (*Including men, of course. They have uteruses. But I was thinking of infertile women, we’re just noting the majority trend of humans)

    “BBC Climate Editor Made False Claims on Global Warming (DM)”

    This is the stealing so they are for it, regardless of truth, false, or data. However that’s not to say it’s not going to happen, and isn’t changing dramatically now, which it is. The sun is dangerously more hot, and the seasons and zones are changed and unreliable going back to 1989 or so here.

    This is where you have AOC, newly arrived and just read the internal Congressional documents on the upcoming change, the lack of food, the chaos and collapse and hanging of young female Congresswomen in the streets that will cause, and so on. So she is panicked and urgent, and perhaps rightfully so. But: 1) if you have such documents, how are you going to get the people to buy in, or vote accurately if you withhold all the evidence and won’t tell them. Which leads to 2) All I have to do is PRETEND this is happening, or add and remove and tamper with data, a CIA specialty, to steer all of Congress, the military, and everybody else to your conclusion and final resting point. That is, to utterly destroy the American experiment, all human rights, the whole enlightenment, and replace it with oligarchic Neo-feudalism. Scientific dictatorship. And because no open data, no discussion, no one can identify and decide. The information-keepers are the deciders. And the information-keepers say 25M dead and no human births without permission. It’s like a sci-fi Dr. Who episode, with a crashed ship, everyone having forgotten who they are and where they came from.

    This lawsuit is trying to break that.

    “ Priti Patel, Julian Assange Must Not Be Handed over to the US (G.)”

    They won’t hand him over so we can get him before Congress unless they think Biden has a lock on government. I remember saying the same thing years ago now. They’re hoping he will accidentally die. Of being accidentally in solitary confinement for decades.

    All one big accident. No one plans anything or is responsible at all.

    #107748
    Red
    Participant

    An example of a talking head getting in over his head.

    Sky news
    https://t.me/ostashkonews/11001

    #107749
    Red
    Participant

    “We show you pictures of food and other people eating, and you put the pictures in your mouth.”
    A bit of traffic on the way to the keyboard today Dr. D? Love that line, reminded me of a line my father used to say way back when we lived in caves; What’s for supper? Bread and point, have a piece of bread and point to pics of what you would like to be eating in the good house keeping mag. That’s supper! Bread and point or maybe cake and point. ;-).

    #107750
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The war and money going to Ukraine is definitely covering shitty banks. I wonder if that oil field south of Crimea is super-duper big though. Like significant to hegemony going forward type big. The US and the neocons smell oil. They like oil like sharks like blood and circle and devour.

    Just thinking. Does anyone have intelligence on this?

    #107751
    EoinW
    Participant

    Yes, I admit it. I’ve always been a big Pat Buchanan fan. Guilty as charged. He was the best reason for watching The McLaughlin Group. Little did I know at the time but the insanity of Eleanor Clift was just tip of the iceberg stuff. Rather low key compared to today’s Left.

    I suspect some here would be uncomfortable with Buchanan’s Christianity and conservatism. I do think the modern left has vindicated most of the positions Buchanan held – like outsourcing manufacturing jobs and unlimited immigration.

    #107752
    zerosum
    Participant

    Falling off the back of the truck ….
    Therefore, Follow the money

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-wanted-33b-more-for-ukraine?s=r
    Who Benefits?
    “eager to empty the coffers of the U.S. Treasury and transfer it to the weapons industry while their constituents suffer. Surely the U.S. government should be prioritizing the ability of its own citizens to live above the poverty line, have health insurance, send their kids to college, and buy insulin and baby formula.”
    Hemorrhaging, (of money), is a cause of death. (except for the politician, the med., and the mil. industry)
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    Surprise attack

    • Ukraine Halts Some Russian Gas Flows, Claims Battlefield Gains (R.)
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    Money continues to be the root of all evil . The world is full of evil right now .
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    Meanwhile, the legal system, (lawyers), while you were distracted, are also stuffing money in their mattress, that keeps falling of the truck.
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    #107753
    EoinW
    Participant

    That’s a very interesting point I’d not considered. I thought it was all a big fund raiser for MIC. Money to prop up EU banks wouldn’t surprise me. Throw another 40 billion into the incinerator. Someone is bound to get high from the smell of burning cash.

    #107754
    zerosum
    Participant

    Why are most of the politicians lawyers?
    dhuuu
    Follow the money

    #107755
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Word of the Day from Mr Rogers

    Expodentially

    The lack of law enforcement for all things criminal in a large lumbering sense. is increasing expodentially.

    Nothing even incrementally improves until prosecutors and judges pull their thumbs out of their asses.

    Which is not going to happen.

    Screw civil cases, those can be dragged out over decades until both the good guys and bad guys are senile or dead.

    Criminal cases have to be started by public prosecutors.

    What motivates prosecutors to do their job?

    Using their positions to leverage their personal sociopathic desire to climb the greasy pole of political office by showing they ‘care’ about public health and safety.

    Years ago a friend used to refer to lawyers and prosecutors as Master Debaters and Eager Fellatiors.

    Not much has changed except at least half the ‘profession’ is women now. Welcome to the club ladies.

    The open violation of harassing Supreme Clown judges at their homes goes unprosecuted.

    That shows how impotent judges are now, even Supreme Clowns are eunuchs in black dresses, it make them look slimmer.

    They are all cowards and crooks and glue sniffing Sophists.

    Judges can’t even protect their own homes from the mob, pitiful dickless slugs.

    So where’s the power now, with Bernays PR flacks busy creating ‘Reality’ in hollowed out mediawhore flophouses like CNN and MSNBC?

    Seems so.

    Justice for Just Us?

    In the 19th century, you know who got more ink on paper than Jesus?

    Napoleon, or Napoleone di Buonaparte.

    His name was de-Italianized to seem more ‘french’, seeing how historically Corsica was part of the Republic of Genoa for centuries.

    Know how Napoleon got his break and was noticed during the twilight days of the French Revolution?

    He put down a street mob of royalists by firing grapeshot point blank from a bank of army cannons into the crowd.

    Grapeshot is many small iron balls, like a giant shotgun, but sometimes it’s whatever is at hand, broken glass, pieces of chain, nails, rocks, etc. It make a bloody mess.

    He killed about 1400 of them just like that.

    His comment later on was that he gave the crowd ‘a taste of grapeshot’, like it was just a taste of Merlot.

    The “powers that were” were very impressed, they liked what they saw. They gave him the keys to the kingdom.

    And the rest is history.

    A decade of slaughter all over Europe and they still revered a brandy by naming it after him, not bad!

    The Empire of Big Lies and Chaos
    is waiting for it’s Napoleon to appear.

    Aside from Putin and Viktor Orbán and maybe Xi, there are no ‘leaders’ currently in the world, just packs of jackals and wild dogs and fluctuating power centers, and you know how that ends.

    There goes the neighborhood

    ..

    #107756
    zerosum
    Participant

    Inflation 8.54%
    Remember when a house was affordable for blue collar workers
    and less than
    3X a years income,
    8X a years income
    20X a years income

    #107757
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #107758
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i bet he’s listening to dr. clippy..

    #107759
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @those darned kids

    Israel is probably the most vaccinated country on earth and it’s looking like a Nazi medical experiment gone sideways, how ironic they did it to themselves.

    #107760
    zerosum
    Participant

    Superhuman
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman
    In history
    Nazi Germany
    Further information: master race and Nazism
    The Nietzschean notion of bettering one’s self as an individual was expanded within the philosophy of Nazism to apply to whole groups and nations. Nazi racialist thinkers proposed perfecting the Aryan race through controlled breeding and coercive eugenics (including the murder of those deemed unfit) as a way of improving their racial stock and purifying their society.[12] They intended to create a herrenvolk (race of masters) wherein the Germanic “Übermenschen” would rule over so-called inferior “untermenschen” such as Slavs and West Asians.[13]

    #107761

    Quick! Get Mr. Gates on a respirator! Give him Remdesivir- lots and lots of Remdesivir!!

    #107762
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    “…that help your brain make better choices.”

    Ri-i-ight. Like, being impervious to “misinformation,” i.e. information that falls outside of the mainstream, official narrative. Oh, that doesn’t sound sinister at all….

    #107763
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Club of Rome guy — equates liberty with high consumption.
    Ironic…we are told that free market capitalism is very efficient. Does he have data that shows otherwise?
    Is a dictatorship or depopulation the ONLY way to bring down high consumption?

    Regardless, in our current iteration of capitalism corporations spend outrageous sums on marketing campaigns that are designed to exploit human psychology to induce us to consume more goods and services. In addition, they employ techniques such as “planned obsolescence” and a desire to adjust products each year so that their costs go down by a set figure — I’ve heard by 5%. These techniques cause many products to be frail and prone to breakage, keeping the cycle of consumption going. (Only part of it is a cycle — the part where the consumer runs round and round. It’s a straight line with a loop, starting with raw materials, factories, transportation, stores or Amazon warehouses, then the consumption loop for the consumers, and the tail where most products end up in the landfill. I mention this because nature uses cycles constantly, and we want our systems to be true cycles as well, or to fit within the earth’s extant cycles.)

    IF we didn’t have an entire system in place designed to induce humans to “consume, consume, consume!” would consumption by free people be so high? (Are we truly free when our psychology is being used against us in order to get us to play this consumption game?)

    OR, in my hypothecated situation, would humans place more emphasis on relationships with family and friends (especially face-to-face interactions) than in consumption, as humans have always done in the past?

    #107764
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ phoenixvoice
    You forgot to include war in your cycles of consumption. (Also, the 3 horsemen)

    #107765
    Red
    Participant

    TDK “i bet he’s listening to dr. clippy.” I’ll bet he doesn’t even have it! Just more PR from clown world.

    #107766
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i dunno..

    mr. gates is definitely software, and like any gates software, must be prone to viruses.

    #107767
    Susan C
    Participant

    Club of Rome guy is Dennis Meadows, co-author of 1972’s Limits to Growth.

    https://greattransition.org/contributor/dennis-meadows

    #107768
    Bishko
    Participant

    $40 Billion for Ukraine, that’s about $115 from every “person” in the US. But luckily none from me.

    #107769
    Mr. House
    Participant

    @MrRoboto

    Was buying a bag of shredded cheddar cheese the other day. Buy it at least once every two weeks or so. Price jumped from 8.99 to 10.69. Eggs have doubled in price for a jumbo pack of 18. Seems like you can’t leave the grocery store with only one bag of stuff without spending 45 bucks.

    #107770
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • Covid Vaccines Safe For Pregnant Women, Cut Stillbirth Risk – Review (G.)

    That’s based on an article published yesterday in Nature, which warned that there were so many limitations (problems) with the stillbirth data (“the observational nature of the original studies, significant statistical heterogeneity observed in the results and other probable confounders”) that the reader should “not interpret these results as causal.

    So, of course, The Guardian (and other mainstream media) interprets the results as causal.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30052-w

    #107771
    John Day
    Participant
    #107772
    John Day
    Participant

    Good, the blog link upload worked today. That is today’s blog post.
    Much of it will be familiar here, but there’s another nice snapshot taken at the homestead.
    We are “progressin”. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/club-members?s=w

    I apologize: The story about the Pfizer VP arrested for fraud was “satire”. My fault. I had seen a headline about “Pfizer CEO arrested” debunked for a couple of days, then saw this story at a good site, and thought it was new and valid. It was not.

    Links including my newer blog drjohnsblog.substack.com would not upload to Caitlin Johnstone’s site or the Automatic Earth blog 3 days ago, but things uploaded with the Google blog version http://www.johndayblog.com . This may reflect new censorship of Substack, since it does not self-censor. I don’t think it is content-driven exactly, since the 2 blogs are mirrors for now (except some posts removed by Google).

    I have opined that the factor which creates a “world war” is that it resets the global financial arrangement. That still seems apt to me.

    Capitalism Requires World War: (Debt-based money is terminally strung-out)
    ​ ​Power is more important than money. If you’re rich and weak you get robbed. Russia provides illustrating stories of such: Gorbachev had received a promise from George HW Bush that the US would pay Russia approximately $400 billion over10 years as a “peace dividend” and as a tool to be utilized in the conversion of their state run to a market based economic system. The Russians believe the head of the CIA at the time, George Tenet, essentially killed the deal based on the idea that “letting the country fall apart will destroy Russia as a future military threat”. The country fell apart in 1992. Its natural assets were plundered which raised the rate of profit in the 90’s until President Putin put a stop to the robbery.
    ​ ​In the last analysis, the current framework of Capitalism results in labour redundancy, a falling rate of profit and ingrained trading imbalances caused by excess capacity. Under our current monopoly state capitalism a number of temporary preventive measures have evolved, including the expansion of university, military, and prison systems to warehouse new generations of labour.
    ​ ​Our problem is how to retain the “expected return rate” for us, the dominant class. Ultimately, there are only two large-scale solutions, which are intertwined. One is expansion of state debt to keep “the markets” moving and transfer wealth from future generations of labour to the present dominant class. The other is war, the consumer of last resort. Wars can burn up excess capacity, shift global markets, generate monopoly rents, and return future labour to a state of helplessness and reduced expectations. The Spanish flu killed 50-100 million people in 1918. As if this was not enough, it also took two World Wars across the 20th century and some 96 million dead to reduce unemployment and stabilize the “labour problem.”
    ​ ​Capitalism requires World War because Capitalism requires profit and cannot afford the unemployed. The point is capitalism could afford social democracy after the rate of profit was restored thanks to the depression of the 1930’s and the physical destruction of capital during WW2. Capitalism only produces for profit and social democracy was funded by taxing profits after WW2.
    https://thesaker.is/capitalism-requires-world-war/

    ​ Brandon Smith writes for capitalists, but he sees the same thing as a threat to his particular $US interests.​ The “new currency” arrangements are not settled yet.
    Economic World War, Who Benefits (and how much time is left?)
    ​ ​If a global economic crisis is the catalyst as it appears to be, then several years would be required to let the collapse play out – along with the introduction of a “solution” to the problem. This means that the economic war will have to accelerate quickly going into the next year.
    ​ ​Today we are already seeing 40 year highs in inflation, along with considerable supply chain disruptions. Multiple globalist foundations are “predicting” food shortages around the world in the next 3-6 months. I believe the war itself will expand rapidly within a year to include China, and most of the damage will be done by the end of 2024. This will all depend on how fast exporters (mainly China) dump the dollar; the dollar dump will be the primary trigger.
    ​ ​A significant part of the WEF’s Great Reset agenda and the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights global digital currency initiative require the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This is a process the globalists have been talking about openly for some time. It’s not “conspiracy theory,” it is conspiracy reality. The IMF has argued on many occasions that the global currency framework must be “managed” by a centralized entity that can prevent national governments from exploiting currency trade for their own ends, and this includes digital currencies.
    ​ ​The stage is already set for this narrative. The U.S. will be painted as an example of why nationalism is a “path to disaster” and why no single nation should be trusted with so much power in the form of a world reserve currency. That kind of power tempts governments not only into excessive money creation and debt-financed spending sprees. New money is fabricated to pay for old debts, thus debasing and degrading the dollar’s purchasing power worldwide (also known as inflation).
    ​ ​Thus, it is only “logical” that a global central authority with no national loyalties be put in control of an “international” reserve currency, right? Maybe a multi-currency-based basket system, or, perhaps, a single world currency to prevent any future tragedies and abuses of power from ever happening again. Wouldn’t that make you feel safe?
    https://alt-market.us/economic-world-war-who-benefits-and-how-much-time-is-left/

    ​ Doug Casey has “5 Warning Signs” that the end of $US hegemony is near. (The oil, gold and commodity based regime being arranged by the Eurasian Economic Union looks promising to me, but I have no special knowledge.)
    Here’s the bottom line.
    Saudi Arabia—the linchpin of the petrodollar system—is flirting in the open with China about selling its oil in yuan. One way or another—and probably soon—the Chinese will find a way to compel the Saudis to accept the yuan.
    The sheer size of the Chinese market makes it impossible for Saudi Arabia—and other oil exporters—to ignore China’s demands to pay in yuan indefinitely. Moreover, using the INE to exchange oil for gold further sweetens the deal for oil exporters.
    Sometime soon, there will be a lot of extra dollars floating around suddenly looking for a home now that they are not needed to purchase oil.
    It signals an imminent and enormous change for anyone holding US dollars. It would be incredibly foolish to ignore this giant red warning sign.

    Five Warning Signs the End of Dollar Hegemony Is Near… Here’s What Happens Next

    #107773
    John Day
    Participant

    Charles Hugh Smith on The Problem With Money​
    ​ ​I​​’m simply pointing out “money” isn’t simple, and “backing money with X” leads to questions about the nature of “money,” collateral and the fluidity and complexity of the social construct we call “money.”
    ​ ​The problem with money is it isn’t just one thing. We think it’s one thing because we use it to buy things, but it’s actually a bunch of different things. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay22/money5-22.html

    ​ ​The current 100 WEF full members (“Strategic Partners”) are basically drawn from the largest corporations in the world, together with their owners and managers, who are often referred to as “Davos Man”. The list of corporations, owners and managers that control the WEF is not disclosed and membership can only be inferred indirectly. However, the WEF members do not act alone, but have developed various groups of globally distributed trainees who generally act in accordance with the detailed policies and positions developed and distributed by WEF leadership. In general, these training programs have been operating for over three decades, resulting in placement, distribution and rapid advancement of many thousands of WEF-trained operatives throughout the world. As hyperlinked above, WEF chairman Klaus Schwab has famously claimed that these operatives have been strategically inserted into key positions in various governments, as well influential positions in important industries such as media, finance, and technology.
    ​ ​WHO IS DAVOS MAN?
    ​ ​“Davos Man” is a term coined by former Harvard University Director of the Center for International Affairs Professor Dr. Samuel Huntington (1927-2008) to define what was then an emerging group of economic elites who are members of a social caste which has “little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that are thankfully vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations.”
    https://maloneinstitute.org/wef

    ​It has been a muck-raking week against this financial inner-sanctum of the “Davos Men”. Lots of stories summarized with headlines… Look, WAR!
    ​The Covid Vaccine Boomeran​g​ , A New Whirl Odor​ , Maajid Nawaz​
    https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/the-covid-vaccine-boomerang?s=r

    #107774
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Moon of Alabama (German): ​Ukraine – Putin on Why The War Started, Failed Attempts On Snake Island, Other Issues
    ​ ​The use of ‘pre-emptive strike’ is somewhat misleading. In fact the Ukraine started the war on Wednesday, February 16 2022, when its forces near the Donbas republics began preparatory artillery strikes for an all out ground attack on the Donbas republics.
    ​ ​The February 15 report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded some 41 explosions in the ceasefire areas. This increased to 76 explosions on Feb 16, 316 on Feb 17, 654 on Feb 18, 1413 on Feb 19, a total of 2026 of Feb 20 and 21 and 1484 on Feb 22.
    ​ ​The OSCE mission reports showed that the great majority of impact explosions of the artillery were on the separatist side of the ceasefire line.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-putin-on-why-the-war-started-failed-attempts-on-snake-island-other-issues-.html#more

    (Just extremely prescient about the threat developing 8 years in the future, and preparing to win when it erupted unprovoked.)
    IN VIDEO: JOHN KIRBY CONFIRMS US INSTIGATED WAR IN UKRAINE​ ​” One, the Biden administration was flowing in weapons well before the invasion. The first billion dollars that the president committed to Ukraine did include lethal assistance. And that was before Putin decided to move in. Plus, we were very open and honest about what we were seeing the Russians do. And then the last point, which I don’t think we keep in mind as much as we should, Neil, is the training and effort that went into getting the Ukrainians ready for this kind of war over the last eight years. The United States, Canada, Britain, other allies really helped train the Ukrainians in small unit leadership, command and control, operational maneuver.” – John Kirby claimed in his interview.

    In Video: John Kirby Confirms US Instigated War In Ukraine

    ​ ​Supporting the current global power and financial structure requires a lot of cash without oversight, because it will have to be moved quickly and decisively to friends.
    ​Greenwald fails to go far enough to infer that this is good for FINANCE, not just Raytheon.​
    Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?
    Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.
    ..It is difficult to put into context how enormous these expenditures are — particularly since the war is only ten weeks old, and U.S. officials predict/hope that this war will last not months but years. That ensures that the ultimate amounts will be significantly higher still.
    ​ ​The amounts allocated thus far — the new Biden request of $33 billion combined with the $14 billion already spent — already exceed the average annual amount the U.S. spent for its own war in Afghanistan ($46 billion).​..
    ​..Even more amazingly, the total amount spent by the U.S. on the Russia/Ukraine war in less than three months is close to Russia’s total military budget for the entire year ($65.9 billion)…
    ..Indeed, by transferring so much military equipment to Ukraine, the U.S. has depleted its own stockpiles, necessitating their replenishment with mass government purchases..
    …Chomsky himself caused controversy last week when he said that there is only one statesman of any stature in the West urging a diplomatic solution “and his name is Donald J. Trump.”… (Poor Noam must have choked on spit-up, saying this.)
    ​..​Typically, what we see in such situations is what we are seeing now: the establishment wings of both parties are in complete lockstep unity, always breathlessly supporting the new proposed U.S. role in any new war, eager to empty the coffers of the U.S. Treasury and transfer it to the weapons industry while their constituents suffer.
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-wanted-33b-more-for-ukraine?s=r

    Behind-the-scenes national negotiations are underway… (Retake Galicia for Poland; share the risks in NATO)
    ​Poland Will Formally Propose Sending NATO Troops to Ukraine at Summit This Thursday
    Poland on Tuesday called for a Nato peace mission “protected by armed forces” to help Ukraine.
    “This cannot be an unarmed mission,” Vice Premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski was quoted as saying by the Polish news agency PAP during a visit to Kyiv.
    “It must seek to provide humanitarian and peaceful aid to Ukraine.”
    “I think that we need a peacekeeping mission from Nato, or even possibly from a larger international structure, but a mission that will be able to defend itself and that will operate on Ukrainian territory, which will be in this country with the agreement of the president and the government of Ukraine and it will not be a defenseless mission,” Kaczynski said.
    ​ ​It “will strive for peace, to provide humanitarian aid, but at the same time it will be protected by appropriate forces, armed forces,” added Kaczynski, who is also the leader of the ruling conservative party in Poland and is considered the main strategist of government policy.

    Poland Will Formally Propose Sending NATO Troops to Ukraine at Summit This Thursday

    #107775
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Ukraine War update:
    WAR IN UKRAINE DAY 76: ADVANCE IN DONBASS CONTINUES. RUSSIA REVEALS NEW DETAILS ON CLASHES FOR ZMEINIY ISLAND
    ​https://southfront.org/war-in-ukraine-day-76-advance-in-donbass-continues-russia-reveals-new-details-on-clashes-for-zmeiniy-island/

    Germany’s third-largest gas importer, VNG, has agreed to Moscow’s new ruble-based gas payment scheme and opened the necessary accounts with Russia’s Gazprombank to transfer payments…
    “We will pay the invoice amount, which will continue to be denominated in euros, into the accounts at Gazprombank in accordance with the planned procedure, so that timely payment to our supplier is ensured on our part,”
    https://www.rt.com/business/555242-germany-vng-russian-ruble-gas/

    ​All of that gas to Europe, transiting Ukraine, now goes through ONE vulnerable pipeline. (False-flag attack time?)​
    Kiev cites “force majeure” to halt a third of Russian transited gas flow to Europe, while Gazprom says there have been no issues that would justify the move
    https://www.rt.com/russia/555265-gazprom-gas-ukraine-europe/

    (​An attack on this pipeline would be blamed on Russia, but the threat of that attack most realistically comes from desperate Ukrainian forces.​)
    There are only two entry points, which means all natgas would be diverted to the second entry point.
    Ukraine’s Gas Transmission System Operator said it would no longer accept Russian gas transit via Sokhranivka beginning at 0700 local time on Wednesday. Mainly because it “repeatedly informed Gazprom about threats of transit due to the actions of the Russian-controlled occupation forces and demanded an end to interference in the operation of the facilities, but these appeals were ignored.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/eu-gas-futures-jump-ukraines-grid-operator-halt-flows-key-entry-point

    #107776
    John Day
    Participant

    On the vital importance to members of lying for the “club”. When something is being covered up by the club, it’s more likely to be true.
    The Ethical Skeptic’s Razor – The Antiwisdom of Crowds: Among competing alternatives, all other things being equal, prefer the one for which discussion or research is embargoed.

    Lying is an art form which ranks among the greatest of the humanities – bearing parity with such human affairs as mercy, semantics, history, love, literature, or war. The Paul Ekman Group, which teaches methodologies useful in spotting lies, has identified nine key reasons as to why people lie.1 Within this essay, we seek to extrapolate beyond this body of work, and identify a chain of principle regarding the lie of the syndicate in particular – a foible-in-common which further then leverages the amplification gain to be had through collective humanity: the antiwisdom of the crowd. https://theethicalskeptic.com/2022/05/07/the-ethical-skeptics-razor-the-antiwisdom-of-crowds/

    2000 Mules movie for free on Bitchute, about the election rigging machine and all those people who worked so hard for it; their untold stories.

    Igor Chudov: Israel: Chronic Covid Persists in Guts and Immune CD8 Cells, like AIDS
    Delta Variant seen Massively in Wastewater long after Omicron took over!
    Authors show that
    Omicron completely took over and was found in the vast majority of Israel’s positive nasal swabs
    The Delta variant practically disappeared from nasal swab results
    Despite that, Delta variant RNA was massively present in Israel’s wastewater long after it disappeared from nasal swabs.
    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/israel-chronic-covid-persists-in?s=r

    ​ ​Preventable Deaths and D3​ , Robert Malone MD , MS​
    We had an inexpensive life-saving solution both before and during the pandemic…
    The inconvenient truth is that even at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a very simple, inexpensive and effective treatment was available that could have saved the majority of lives lost (1-3). All that the WHO and public health bureaucracy had to do was to recommend and support people taking sufficient Vitamin D3.
    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/preventable-deaths-and-d3?s=r

    #107777
    zerosum
    Participant

    Here is a definition that you can all agree.
    An economic elite who is members of a social caste – Snob, The Chosen, the Nazi, the Ruler, the Enabler, the Influencer, the Manipulator, The Gatekeeper, The Law Maker, The Boss, The White Hats, The Suits, The Counter, The Time Keeper, The Record Keeper,

    #107778
    willem
    Participant

    @John Day: That Anti-Empire article is dated March 19.

    #107779
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #107780
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    As if the vaccine deaths aren’t enough; the U.S. has a record number of drug overdose deaths topping 107,000…
    https://www.rt.com/news/555335-overdoses-record-setting-opioids-us/

    #107781
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Us vs Them

    The whole sense of the phrase depends on which cohort you think of as “us”, doesn’t it?

    In fact, the conceptualized scene and the human values within it do a nauseating, morally disorienting, brain wrenching, 180 degree U-Turn by simply switching the identity of who the hell “us” is.

    At this moment the “us” that I think of as my team does NOT seem to be the “us” that’s running pretty much everything even remotely in charge of governance, officialdom or Authority. Some OTHER “us” (i.e. what looks to me like some sort of “them”) seems to be in the wheelhouse. Whoever it is, it sure ain’t the folks I always thought of as “us”.

    Somehow or other (and it’s no big mystery how, really) the owning, ruling and governing population has determined itself to be different than the people I’ve always thought of as “us” . And that owning, ruling and governing population (who I’m quite sure think of THEMSELVES and cohort as the only legitimate “us” worthy of being in the world) has come to the apparently unshakable conclusion that most everyone else are deadwood, useless eaters not worthy of life . . . and must therefore be eliminated. The “us” (the elite in this particular case) has concluded that democide of the “them” (the plebes in this particular case) is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

    Yelling at these so-called ruling elites to stop destroying the world because governance exclusively of by and for the owners/rulers/governments is causing injustice, loss, disease, famine, and death, etc. is equivalent to a herd of deer yelling at the hunters to stop shooting because it’s causing too many venison dinners.

    In other words, all of the complaining by plebes is not telling the owners (and goombah loyalist cohort) anything they don’t already know. In fact, it isn’t just known. It’s known, loved and whole heartedly approved of. Democide, after all, is not some kind of passive criminal negligence. It tends to be on purpose.

    Indeed, democide reflects the MOST earnest and sincere criticism of which humans are capable. It isn’t done lightly. It’s done because the perpetrating “us” deeply believe that it is crucially and vitally important that the targeted “them” cease to exist. The elite/owner/ruler/governing “We” which is so intent upon mass murder on the grandest scale believes that the world can only properly exist when the vile sub-human “them” is utterly and forever removed from it.

    Preventing that removal, at some point PRIOR to its accomplishment , would probably be a good idea for all persons currently on the list.

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