Debt Rattle October 19 2022
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Salvador Dali Self-portrait in the studio 1919 • People Who Resisted Covid Jabs Are ‘Superheroes’ (Blanchon) • Russian General In Charge Of Ukr
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 19 2022]‘Russians are not Americans who spray the bushes with machine gun bullets and the trees with Agent Orange, or who blast Hamburg and Dresden off the map like the British.’
I recently referred to the bombing of Dresden and quoted the commonly accepted casualty figure of 300,000..
This report suggests that actual casualty figure was around 10% of that, i.e. around 25,000.
Irrespective of the actual death toll, this report suggests that what was considered normal or ‘acceptable’ in WW2 would be regarded as a war crime these days.
Well, the acceptability would depend on who was doing the killing, and who got killed, I suppose. We know that the 14,000 ethnic Russians killed in the Donbas get no recognition by NATOstan nations. But 3 people killed in Kiev by a Russian drone or missile because they were close to a legitimate target causes outrage.
By the same hypocritical standards, the 3 million Koreans killed by NATOstan nations in the early 1950s were soon forgotten. Similarly the 3 million Vietnamese murdred by the Americans and their allies, and the half a million Iraqi children.
Thankfully, it’s all coming to an end soon.
I see the Mississippi is at an all time low, and barges cannot be used to move grains and beans. Could end up rotting in piles.
‘Interesting times’ get ever more ‘interesting’.
Ultra-low Mississippi link
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/portion-mississippi-river-closes-again-drought-crisis-worsens
But interestingly, Lake Mead is filling. No news on that, maybe there shouldn’t be.
https://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a.jpgJust amazed: no one can take anything seriously. Not even war. Not even their own death. Spirit of #AntiLogos, that is of AntiChrist, walks the land.
“”Operation Lone Star” in Texas Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill Every American”
Nope! No response. Keep that border open! Keep those million potential drug mules flying in. We’ll shut down every small business on earth to save one life, but stop drug flows that could poison every human being on the planet? Surely you jest.
“First Images of Blown Up Nord Stream Reveals 50 Meter Missing Section of Pipeline”
Must have cleaned up all the “Made by NATO™” branded debris. …Whoops looks like I’m not first to suggest this.
Rumor: these glue-sniffing inbreds have screwed the pooch. They blew up the pipes in four PLACES, but in good Ukrainian fashion, attacked only 3 pipes. That is, one pipe is untouched and ready to go. At 4x volume of the tiny Baltic/Polish pipe. Rumor has it. Nobody wants to admit it because then Germany could STILL revolt and change sides and then the self-attack by allies is even dumber, more egregious, and more hostile than if they succeeded. That is, now Germany and all Europe knows what they’re willing to do, but the patient survived and is not against the wall: they can take revenge.
Cait Johnstone: “Of all the face-meltingly stupid narratives that have been circulated about the US proxy war in Ukraine, the dumbest so far has got to be the increasingly common claim that aggressively escalating nuclear brinkmanship is safety and de-escalation is danger.
Headline: “ “Putin’s nuclear threats are pushing people like Trump and Elon Musk to press for a Ukraine peace deal. A nuclear expert warns that’s ‘dangerous.’”Simple, Cait: “War is Peace.” Any questions? “Ignorance is our Strength” and we’re proud of it. We have a whole month for pride, and the other 11 for avarice.
Astonished Maher is not only allowing guests, but he himself defending…intelligence. Discussion. Doesn’t make me happy though, since it just demonstrates how they’ll get away with it. No reward for being right. No discredit or disgrace for being wrong. No reprimand for being violent or intolerant.
They get a pat on the back. “Good job, Brownie!” “You’re a Zero Hero.” Do I get restoration for my g-d d—d losses? How about punitive and restitution for theft, murder, and civil rights abuses? Maybe doctors promoting murder would be removed so I don’t risk seeing a murderer on my yearly checkup? Go fly a kite.
“[NATO] is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River, as well as launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on Kherson itself.”
That’s why they evacuated the city, not because they’re retreating. It’s because they believe when this starts, the city won’t exist. So they need to get Slavs out, like it or not.
Ritter: yes, the “Russia Bad” story is terrible, but the “Russia Super” narrative is as well.
“Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island – in jeopardy. These states have limited pipeline capacity”
And 40 years to build more pipelines or more electric transmission to compensate. NIMBY. Hey, if you WANT to go New England Yankee: one wood stove and the rest of the house cold enough to see your breath, I heartily recommend it. Small, antique houses, green everywhere. But you can’t have it both ways. Concrete jungle, nothing “New England” left, and cold winters.
P.S. can we dump the Jones Act, which was a lobby payoff to a Union/Industry that literally no longer exists? It’s as embarrassing as yearly payouts to the Cooper oak barrel industry, another thing we do 100 years after it stopped existing. But I guess we have to keep the town shipbuilder and cooper in business, because we all know so many of them.
Government: they’ll subsidize submarines, then pay men to pour buckets of water on them when they’re stranded in the desert. Just. Stop.
“Lawmakers Seek Emergency Powers for Pentagon’s Ukraine War Contracting (DN)”
You mean the war we’re not in? Never declared, deny being a party to? Yeah, why bother: words have no meaning to these people. Or the population. Thus logic has no meaning to them either.
“The Pentagon is considering paying for Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network in war-torn Ukraine,”
Paying for things we use. NOPE! That’s not Socialism, which is our religion and form of government. We TAKE things “From each according to their ability.” And give them to ME, insider Party Members. Thanks! Worker solidarity! Keep working for my glory, Comrade!
Why don’t they pay? EU said “Money’s not an object”, so send the bill to him. Orrrrr…perhaps money IS an object, but only when I’M paying? When YOU’RE paying money is no object.
““By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC [..] will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government..”
You can’t transfer open fraud and bribery, but if no one prosecutes it even when it’s openly admitted, I guess you can.
“which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
This may not have the effect they want it to: already school enrollment has plummeted. State Schools are a primary plank of the Communist Manifesto. And they’re working to reverse it? 100 years of total indoctrinal success? No. Don’t. Stop.
“Joe Biden KNEW of Hunter’s Shady Business Dealings: Whistleblowers (PM)”
Christ on a pogo stick: they shared a BANK ACCOUNT. I don’t need whistleblowers to tell me anything, it’s a waste of their time. So: everyone knew, it was impossible not to know, it’s open bribery where he’s on tape multiple times saying so, and where are the prosecutions?
Aluminum: aluminum is highly flammable to oxidize. It also stresses or kills trees. Have we seen any of that? Draw your own conclusions. I say human CO2 has caused global warming that transmorgified the carbon into aluminum on mountaintops. That’s Science. The other Science is that we will never look or ask questions. Unbound aluminum: doesn’t exist in nature, anywhere. Yet here it is everywhere. Well, must be time for a coffee break, that is not suspicious at all.
But, but the outlooks didn’t mention any of this as a probability.
https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/tea-volumes-at-mombasa-auction-dip-3989062
Must be climate change
Magician who starred in Spanish version of BGT dies after collapsing on stage – The Mirror
https://apple.news/A0nslF057Q7mn_vSX5_6N5gNormal everyday happenings…
Singer Mikaben dies aged 41 after collapsing during a performance on stage – The Mirror
https://apple.news/AhMVD9mDqSHOrljHDwk7J9gThat cockatoo we call a Gallah and they always pop by looking for a nest site. Just gotta wait another 150 years for hollows first. Coppiced forest from gold mining
Let’s start by just unloading them all, in compact form, each point to be briefly unpacked in what follows. Some of the points essentially follow from previous ones, but are powerful (jarring) enough to deserve their own statement.
Humans are not the reason for all of creation: not the end point or goal in this universe.
A human life is no more sacred than that of a wolf (as just one example).
Our civilization is not any sort of destiny: not he only or best way to organize ourselves on this planet.
We are not building civilization—brick by brick—according to some master plan aiming toward a “better” end: no paradise/salvation awaits on the current path.
Technology and innovation are slowing, not accelerating.
Technology (ahem; renewable energy) will not solve our big problems.
Space colonization is an infantile fantasy that is not part of our future.
Growth is destined to end: we have hitched ourselves to a losing wagon.
Monetary valuations badly miss the mark by orders-of-magnitude, so that decisions based on money (i.e., most societal decisions) will be bad ones.
Malthus was wrong only in his optimism that population will saturate and stabilize.WRT “People who resisted Covid jabs are superheroes” panegyric: I recall that when a video of a newscaster-type person reading this text on a Canadian broadcast was posted to JMG’s Covid thread last week, a few people immediately responded that they were very suspicious of such effusively mellifluous words. This was because it felt to them like some sort of attempt to manipulate in order to co-opt the unvaxxed for some sort of unsavory agenda. I am not so sure I would automatically think that, but that sounds like it should be kept in mind as a possibility, as flatterers more often than not do have one or another agenda.
@MisterRoboto To be wary of flattery is good advice. On the other hand, accepting praise when it is due is also good advice.
I like Ms. Olive Oyle’s response when Popeye praised her great beauty, “Flatterer! You’re just saying that because it’s true!”
The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.
1. Covid vaccine is not a vaccine
2. Covid vaccine do not give immunization
3. Gov./Leaders imposing their power/control by making it mandatory for kids to attend school
4. Playing Russian roulette/gambling with the health of your child
5. Only the “rich” can escape the control.Just in case
Namely, Ukraine is preparing a massive strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, located on the Dnieper River, as well as launching massive rocket and artillery attacks on Kherson itself. “These actions can lead to the destruction of the infrastructure of this large industrial center and massive casualties among the civilian population,” Surovikin said.Avoid shortage problems, food, heat, gas, water, housing, destroyed public service.
We will help Immigrate, evacuate, move out, supply transport, supply housing, supply work, to a better place. Surovikin said.Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate would grant the Pentagon wartime procurement powers, allowing it to buy massive amounts high-priority munitions using multi-year contracts to help Ukraine fight Russia and to refill U.S. stockpiles.
Shameless theft, but who will make these weapons, where will they get the resources? China?
https://www.rt.com/russia/564930-kherson-region-civilians-fighting/
Civilians to be relocated from Kherson – governor
The Russian region will move its citizens away from the right bank of the Dnieper River amid the ongoing fightinghttps://www.rt.com/russia/564948-energodar-ukraine-amphibious-attack/
19 Oct, 2022 07:29Ukrainian attack on nuclear plant repelled – Russian official
The amphibious operation in Zaporozhye Region involved 30 boats and followed artillery shelling, according to Vladimir Rogov
Ukrainian commandos used around 30 speed boats overnight to cross the Dnieper River, targeting the city of Energodar, Vladimir Rogov claimed.“After artillery shelling of the city, they attempted to land, including to capture the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. The fighting continued for several hours, at least three or three and a half. The assault was fended off,” he said.
Earlier in the day the city administration reported Ukrainian artillery attacks on several key facilities in Energodar, including the city administration building, an access road, and a transformer station crucial for its power supply. The latter was disabled, causing a blackout, the head of the city administration, Aleksandr Volga, said.
Later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the number of troops involved in the Ukrainian operation comprised up to two companies and that a total of 37 boats of various types were used. The military claimed that Kiev lost over 90 soldiers and 14 boats in the botched operation, while its remaining forces were dispersed by Russian artillery fire.
Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region said they plan to evacuate about 50,000 to 60,000 civilians due to Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
“We are expecting to evacuate between 50,000 and 60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper,” pro-Kremlin official Vladimir Saldo said on Telegram.
“[W]hen I arrived at the river port I saw that the boats were waiting and are already loaded with people ready to go to the left bank of the Dnipro,” Saldo said, adding that the situation “is getting tense”.
Saldo estimates that 10,000 people a day would be moved over the next six days and that some regions in Russia were prepared to accept people.
Hypocrites
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/10/19/russia-ukraine-live-news-tense-military-situtation-in-kherson
Attacks on critical infrastructure amount to war crimes: EU president
Missile and drone attacks on power stations and other infrastructure are “acts of pure terror” that amount to war crimes, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.“Yesterday we saw again Russia’s targeted attacks against civilian infrastructure. This is marking another chapter in an already very cruel war. The international order is very clear. These are war crimes,” von der Leyen said in a speech to politicians in the European Parliament.
“Targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure with the clear aim to cut off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with the winter coming, these are acts of pure terror and we have to call it as such.”
zerosum said
These are war crimes,” von der Leyen said in a speech to politicians in the European Parliament.
Are they worse than Von Hitler’s corruption crimes?
BASICS
How can we know that this is going to happen? The answers lie, not in the ebb and flow of market sentiment or, for that matter, of policy, but in the fundamentals.
The effective interpretation of economic processes requires some straightforward foundation principles.
The first of these is that the economy is an energy system, because nothing that has any economic utility whatsoever can be supplied without the use of energy. This applies, not just to products and services, but to the entirety of the economy. The creation and maintenance of infrastructure and capacity is entirely reliant on the availability of energy. Access to raw materials – ranging from minerals, chemicals and plastics to food, fertilizers and water – is a function of the energy required to supply them.
The second principle is that energy is never ‘free’. Whenever energy is accessed for our use, some of that energy is always consumed in the access process. This ‘consumed in access’ component is known here as the Energy Cost of Energy. This is the principle of ECoE.
Oil isn’t ‘free’ because it exists beneath your land – you still need wells, pipelines, refineries and the rest of the supply system. Solar and wind power aren’t ‘free’ just because the sun shines and the wind blows – we still need solar panels, wind turbines and distribution systems, with the added complication of storage capacity to offset intermittency. None of this infrastructure can be built or maintained without the use of energy.
The third foundation principle is that money has no intrinsic worth. Rather, it commands value only as a ‘claim’ on the output of the material economy. This is the principle of money as claim.
From these principles, two conclusions naturally follow.
First, material prosperity is a function of the surplus energy which remains after ECoE has been deducted from total supply.
Second, the economy, as presented financially, is a representation or proxy of the underlying material economy determined by the supply, value and cost of energy.
This wouldn’t be a problem if conventional financial notation was an accurate representation of the material economy.
Unfortunately, though, it is not. We have to take a brief journey into history to see why.
Goddam right!
In a word, formidable.“I … ADMIRE the unvaccinated for standing up to the greatest pressure I have ever seen, including from spouses, parents, children, friends, colleagues, and doctors. People who have been capable of such personality, courage, and such critical ability undoubtedly embody the best of humanity. They are found everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, countries, and opinions. They are of a particular kind; these are the soldiers that any army of light wishes to have in its ranks.
THEY ARE THE PARENTS THAT EVERY CHILD WISHES TO HAVE AND THEY ARE THE CHILDREN EVERY PARENT DREAMS OF HAVING.
They are beings above the average of their societies; they are the essence of the peoples who have built all cultures and conquered horizons.
They are there, by your side, they seem normal, but they are superheroes. They did what others could not do; they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination, and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone and believed they were alone”
They also cannot buy US-produced LNG due to the Jones Act, which bans the movement of ships between US ports.
Of course they can use these ships. The Act disallows foreign bottoms from US port to Us port travel. That is why foreign flagged ships stop in Mexico for a day between passengers getting on the ship in California, and off the ship in Hawaii.
I call BS on this.
And absolutely agree the Act was a gift to MMP and MEBA unions.
@ Aspnaz (“Reading Kamala Harris makes me think of Josep Borrell, maybe they are related.”).
As Positive Dennis said a few comments above: Harris did not say that. Someone put it up as a spoof on Facebook and people started passing it around.
DAMN! Why’s my Fentanyl so expensive this week? At least gas didn’t go back up again…
The standard Fentanyl shipment size is now “enough to kill every American”.Jones act, wazzat? Gotta’ buy American ships and ship with American crews to Hawaii? Oh. No toilet paper without American ships? Maybe air-freight? https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2016/03/what-is-the-jones-act/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwL6aBhBlEiwADycBIG9UzArbrHqzKIo8NakBK67yfa0CiA10BbWBofU80N8kEBDxQR9S2BoC6jQQAvD_BwE
It’s that aluminum chorhydrate anti-perspirant in the atmosphere, getting up into the Mount Shasta snow, or maybe it’s just those old chemtrails… The government should study this.
Again, public comments against recommending COVID shots as routine for kids, can be entered here:
https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/cdc-comments-due-oct-20?e=3c2cb96855Meryl Nass MD will be live-blogging the ACIP meeting here:
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/acip-meeting-covid-19-injections-the-childhood-immunization-schedule-liveblog-by-meryl-nass-m-dI gotta’ agree that the effuse praise of the “unvaccinated” now is pretty suspicious.
I’m still an unemployed untermensch working on my “dream house” and gardening, blogging more…
“Hero-doctor” pays nothing, zilch, nada.
Thanks Red. This is in my inbox today, too.
First, material prosperity is a function of the surplus energy which remains after ECoE has been deducted from total supply.
Second, the economy, as presented financially, is a representation or proxy of the underlying material economy determined by the supply, value and cost of energy.
#242. The dynamics of global re-pricing
I have lived in my present location for over thirty years and have noticed that ALL the hydrangeas in the area are now pink. You should be able to control the color by acidifying the soil which changes them to blue- the favored color 30 years ago. Is it that everybody now only likes pink ones?
Rhododendrons used to be wildly popular in this area- now the few bushes left are tiny and sickly.
Soil Ph is rising in this area.
On a slightly different note, frost to frost this year was shortened by 22 days. The harvest of peppers and tomatillos was a third of last year’s crops.If you love HOT peppers, try my “chili-quila”- your favorite tequila with a skewered habanero (or ghost or scorpion…). Draw the skewer back and forth in the submerged pepper until you achieve the heat level you prefer. Great with oysters!
Harris did not say that. Someone put it up as a spoof on Facebook and people started passing it around.
How do we know?
Anyone who wants to watch “The Real Anthony Fauci” can also find it on Bitchute, no registration required.
@chettt: Thanks for the George Friedman article yesterday. An interesting alternative take on the geopolitical situation.I saw that “unvaccinated heroes” thing a while back and thought: don’t think we’re done with this yet- our “heroism” (or simple self-preservation) will be tested again. And again and again and again….
RFK jr- Roger Ailes should have had the courage to tell Pfizer to go suck a flu-infested egg. When advertisers control the news the news is nothing but advertising.
@John Day
Effuse praise?
it’s the best we’re gonna get and by the way I’m tired of being humiliated by RNs, techs and hospital administrators.Were you expecting to be afforded the same treatment as that ever-execrable trio, namely Tony “Tiny” Fauci, Rochelle “Lips” Walensky and Scott “antichrist” Gottlieb MD?
The CDC is about to add the Covid vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school. pic.twitter.com/Ga0EJZIVbI
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 19, 2022
Interesting that on the right hand side of this tweet, under “Relevant People”, Tucker Carlson, blue-checked, is shown as “fully vaccinated” and with personal pronouns (I guess?) as “she/her”? WTF?
Dude, you’re joking, right?
http://lakemead.water-data.com/
“filling” — umm, sure. wake me when it fills to the same level as last year on same date.
smh
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