Debt Rattle October 21 2022
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Salvador Dali Llane Beach, Cadaques 1919 • US May End Aid To Ukraine After Midterms – Axios (RT) • Berlusconi Trashes NATO Narrative On Ukraine
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 21 2022]Listen and weep.
“Suzanna Newell went from triathlons, long distance biking, a full time job in Corporate America to needing a walker or a wheelchair to go more than 2 blocks after her second Pfizer shot. Since then she has been advocating for research of reactions and support for the vaccine injured with Minnesota Team Humanity and React19.”
NZ has announced the terms of reference for an ‘energy strategy’, with aspirations for 2030 and 2050.
https://www.interest.co.nz/sites/default/files/2022-10/terms-of-reference-nz-energy-strategy.pdf
It’s all total bollocks, of course, promoted by disconnected-from-reality-economists, bureaucrats, lawyers and public relations consultants. The aspirations are completely detached from reality and the laws of physics and chemistry.
I doubt anyone involved in the planning process has any idea what energy is. And the whole ‘planning’ process will undoubtedly be carefully managed to ensure that no one with any knowledge of energy gets anywhere near the ‘planning’ process.
Perhaps the most amusing aspect is that the global economic-financial system will have completely collapsed long before any strategy gets implemented; indeed, I suspect collapse will occur long before the ‘consultation process’ is completed.
Everything I am seeing indicates major economic/financial jolts before Christmas [2022], with many coming before the end of October.
Once one realises that NATOstan governments are simply gangs of criminals and clowns, everything they do falls into perspective, including the Johnson-Truss circus that has yet to come to its natural conclusion of collapse of the UK.
Let’s face it, the days are long gone when Britian and its partners in crime could steal anything they liked from almost anywhere they liked. The current attempt to do so from Russia will surely be their final undoing.
I’ve said it before and will say it again; if sane energy policies had been adopted in the late-60s to early-70s, there may have been some chance of avoiding meltdown we are now witnessing. But greedy psychopaths and sociopaths are not known for their sanity.
Pillars of Creation, known from Hubble, now captured by Webb telescope. Each pillar is about 3 light-years (over 27 trillion km) in width.
How does one comprehend that?
I think we don’t; not really, comprehend that imensity of distance…
…but it’s a great conundrum presented to our intellect; to forever confound and tease us for possibilities…Italy is an important member of the US-led alliance and anyone who disagrees with this position will be excluded from government, Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy party, pledged on Wednesday evening, as quoted by the newspaper La Repubblica.
Many of us voiced our doubts that Meloni was going to be something new. We talked about giving her the benefit of the doubt, to wait and see what she does. Our suspicions were justified, she is yet another empire supporter, although apparently representing people who are not empire supporters. Western politics is dead, the people will have to assert their own wishes through violence as even the alternative politicians are corrupted deep state. Sure, many will say that she is doing this because otherwise she will be removed, I don’t buy that, anybody in her position knows that she has a strong hand.
“Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose”
Being an American is tough
Statement by my Chinese wife after seeing the CDC decision to kill more kids and the adoption of those vaccination rules by most states and hence most government schools. Let’s hope that Florida can lead the way.
Liz Truss is going to do wonders to British confidence and authority, especially for the young. Perception is: she exists merely to get in and insider trade, made a million for her and her cadre, clocked the time to steal another million in her pension, then left DGAF. And Britain, Parliament, House of Lords, let her and approve of it, don’t bother to hide a thing since they all do the same.
And they’re not going to quiet quit and stand back to let the system fall when they’re called upon? Why: bless me, they are going to do just what Miss Truss has done! Show up, do nothing, and quietly quit.
“Biden still refuses to help”
Help? He and his handlers are the cause. Besides, although he can “help”, his policies, or 30 years of like policies have put us in the same situation. Only our constant, tireless rebellion and agitation forestalled it. …That resistance you in Europe ridiculed us for every minute of every day of every year for 30 years. So yeah, we can send 2-3 food ships and a bag of fertilizer, but what do you think we can do when you’re committing voluntary national…international…suicide? YOU did this: help your own darn selves. Russia has the gas a-waitin’.
“[GOP] May End Aid to Ukraine after Midterms – Axios (RT)”
Yes, but strangely this is just a Democratic election slogan: that the GOP won’t want world war and won’t give as much money to war billionaires and kill enough foreigners. No joke. And the part that’s disturbing is, it works. They – Old time Hippie Liberals and Fresh new college rebels – really will vote in the Democrats in order to support eternal war. Or whatever latest thing.
It’s the Left version of this: “Man Becomes Missionary to Remote African Village So He Doesn’t Have to Share Gospel with Coworker Brad” –BBee
Why fix near-endless problems at home when you can think you’re winning by (making other people) blowing up people by race overseas? Clearly that’s a no-brainer. When it all goes badly, it’s their fault!
“people who do not share a pro-NATO stance would have no place in her coalition.”
Italian version of the same thing: “…so long as Italy never has to pay NATO % of GDP or send soldiers.”
“birthday gift may have violated EU sanctions, Der Spiegel reported”
Wow. Okay then. Maybe we should compare to this:
“Some poser hands me cake at a birthday party
What you want me to do with this? Eat it?
So I threw it on the GROUND!!!
Happy Birthday to the GROUND!
I threw the rest of the cake too!!!
Welcome to the real world, jack-ss.” –SNLYeah, they’re about that level. Un-parodyable, like Soviet was before they fell. South Park doesn’t bother. There’s nothing they can say more stupid than our actual leaders and apparatchiks.
“How much longer will Italy support NATO and its Ukraine attack?”
Forever, or until the fake Meloni falls like the fake Truss did. When do pensions vest in the Italian system?
“Zelensky Denies Kiev’s Role in Crimean Bridge Blast (RT)”
Russia blew up their OWN bridge, just like they shell all their own bases. No…he’s probably right. As an actor, he’s not in charge of, nor decides anything. He’s too busy doing coke with the photographers from Vogue. MI6 worked with Kolomoisky to do it. …But using Ukrainian manpower.
“Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead – Transformation or Collapse (Nafeez Ahmed)”
Transformation? But nobody’s ever thought of such a thing! Whatever shall we do?
“From central bankers to prominent members of various think tanks to political leaders, it seems that the vanguard of the Western unipolar model accept the inevitability of that system’s replacement. Curiously, many of the same people, in responding to the war in Ukraine, have made decisions and advocated polices that are hastening the transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. Again, probably mere coincidence.
A central tenet of the suggested multipolar world order is to strengthen adherence to the Charter of the UN, thereby establishing genuine global governance. Globalist oligarchs have long advocated exactly the same approach and so do the claimed leaders of the multipolar world order.“[The] WEF’s Great Reset and the ambition of the Club of Rome and the ambition of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ambition of the BRICS, is, and always has been, global governance. Mere coincidence, yes?
That is, “The One True Solution” as presented by Klaus, the WEF, and all “Right thinking people”, is exactly what they all wanted already: world government. No democracy. Run by the exact same people who oversee or even created all the problems and failures we have right now.
Total coincidence! They’ve all completely changed, and now to go Green live in bark huts, wear loincloths, and eat termites for dinner. Oh wait, they live in 5,000ft mansions, fly to Davos, and eat imported wagu steak and Norwegian lobster?
“Same thing we do every night Binky: Try to Take Over the World!”
So Britain’s transformation? Reverse Brexit at a higher level and erase the UK altogether. Trample the British people and remove their sovereignty to… well, anywhere else actually. UN, WEF, Sachs’ carbon Credits, to Kiev, to Beijing, I don’t care, anywhere at all so long as the British people have no options and no self-determination. Or anybody else either.
Jamie Dimon does not seem on board with this. Nor Powell. I wonder why. Somehow the Americans don’t really support being slaves to pinheads from Europe who treat them like coolies.
“Xi Gets Ready for the Final Countdown (Escobar)”
We have essentially declared war on China, and skillfully opened a second front in a war we were already losing. But that’s the GOAL: the U.S. needs to be brought to 3rd world status and lose the war so they can erase the annoying Constitution. Americans need to be so desperate they’ll tolerate anything. As does the German middle class, so starving they’ll sign up to any stupid passport or currency chip you sell them. Unless they are destroyed, you can’t “Build Back Better”.
We’ll see if Xi plays along. I can’t see Xi either trusting WEF, nor for the uber-racists in Davos to even PRETEND to let Xi run their little clown circus. So now that they’ve created a One Ring to grasp, they are all stabbing each other over it. Morons.
“the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), BRICS+, and Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) – are all proposing peaceful development.”
No wonder they’ve run smack into the West. Peace is the only thing you can get banned and arrested for here, too.
“Biden Admin Weighs Blocking Twitter Deal on “National Security” Grounds (ZH)”
Yes, because Twitter is run by the letter agencies, it’s literally impossible for them to allow. The funding, the plan, the purpose for existing, is to have “government” control of the people by destroying or more accurately corrupting free speech. Without that and CIA money, they have no profit, no funding, no business plan, and no purpose.
“US officials have grown uncomfortable over Musk’s recent threat to stop supplying the Starlink satellite service to Ukraine”
Threat? To stop donating $2M/month for free? Into an aggressive ethnic war? They have strange ideas about what threats are. And also strange ideas about ownership and property. It’s almost as if they think THEY own everything, and you’re just managing it on behalf of government. What political system is it where the Government owns the means of production? And audits, arrests, and imprisons anyone who disagrees with them?
But what can I say? They hate African Americans.
“PayPal Faces House Inquiry on $2,500 ‘Misinformation’ Fine Controversy (JTN)”
I’m fine either way. Either it was 1) True in which case it’s illegal and their company will cease to exist because of customer repudiation, or 2) It was a mistake in which case the billions in losses both by the stock AND by the business disruption leaves them open to bankrupting lawsuits. So which is it? A mistake? Or not?
A: Actually the RE-posting of that policy was the same as the “mistake”; they just added some more weasel words to confuse it.
Next question: WHY do they feel the need to steal $2k/pop? With zero parameters and rules as to WHO. It’s because business for PayPal is collapsing and they’re actually bankrupt, isn’t it? Because the “rules” will expand and contract with how much money you need to steal that month to stay solvent, a “Rules-based order.” So 3) they cease to exist because of organic bankruptcy outside of their “mistake”.
“The strong USD is crippling the word, and that world, as we’ve written numerous times, will be de-dollarizing at a steady and irreversible pace.”
Dollar-short theory. Great for us! …Just before the dollar collapses and ceases to exist, or at least merely returns to domestic-currency status. End of Empire. End of Pentagon therefore. Support!
“7 year old boy”
Doctors now see this regularly and support it. Participate in it. And cover it up. States don’t have to participate in the mass-murder, nor do schools, nor do parents who are removing their kid and collapsing the schools. So. Fine. The CDC and FDA have now ceased to exist and cannot be resurrected.
They blamed Europe, immigrants, asylum seekers, Muslims and ethnic minorities for Britain’s intractable social and economic crises.
Have a look at British government and count the white faces. London mayor is a moslem … do we even know what an Englishman looks like any more? Is English a racial group or are we anglo-saxons or maybe white man bad? The UK has hate speech laws, anti-semitism laws etc all aimed at protecting immigrants. Then there are the various western countries that will jail you for denying the holocaust scam. Whether this is cause or correlation, the fact is that the UK is now made up of a different set of people, a shit load of immigrants have been injected into government by wealthy backers. They may now be the cause but they are definitely a symptom of the destruction being wrought in the west.
That said, I left the west (UK/NZ) a long time ago, the reason being that I could no longer bear the English and, to a lesser extent, the New Zealanders (many of whom started off as English). I knew I could not change anything so I left them to their decline, while I found a better world.
Was that record timing for Meloni selling out? Why would anyone think we can fix this by voting when it was our “democratic” system which gave us this corrupt political class in the first place?
I hope the government succeeds in blocking the Twitter deal. If governments lose the propaganda of Twittter, FaceBook etc… then the internet will cease to be of value to them. Guess what then gets shut down?
I like the current situation. They actually believe all their own lies, so they think Big Tech still influences how people think. The fact is, only the most useless citizens believe any of the lies now. Those people have already been poisoned and will have zero long term impact on society.
We need to follow the Russia lead: stand back and allow our political class to destroy itself. Tweet away boys! Each lie is more ridiculous than the previous one.
“Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead – Transformation or Collapse”
by Nafeez AhmedI live in the UK.
Shit is falling apart real fast now.“At a time when one in five civil servants are using food banks and 35% have skipped meals because they have no food, …”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/21/liz-truss-entitlement-ex-prime-ministers-yearly-grant-sparks-furyShit life England! 🤣🤣🤣
My wife and I are soon off to Mexico for a few years.
Getting out of the blast zone,This is a far cry from the UK:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mazunte+mexico&iax=images&ia=imagesZelensky: ““We definitely did not order that, as far as I know,”
Why would he have to know if it’s easier for him to deny if he was out of the loop?
“Redneck” seems to mean different things to different people.
I have observed that isolated rural peoples in the world get videos first, before plumbing.
There are lots of reasons for that.
Polemos waxed poetic in a tasty and vast philosophical word-salad last night.
Not everybody liked it. May I suggest the dinner rolls?
I see different personalities and viewpoints recently, but not trolls.I saw Liz Truss’ job as “breaking it”, and she “got ‘er done” in record time.
She was the right man for that job. Whoever comes next is also disposable.
Some people in rural Wales are known to grow vegetables…
How about “collapse” AND “transformation”?
The UK won’t be alone in that.Thank God there are people like Mick Wallace.
https://t.me/robinmg/24161The UK government is hiring:
There is a very simple and easily understood reason that more people don’t think logically, rationally and critically.
The reason is that it hurts.
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The Azerbaijan pipeline runs from Russia’s largest natural gas supplier Lukoil and feeds energy to southern Europe through Italy. And Italy is to have a new Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who is not a fan nor a friend of the Davos crowd.
”Nord Stream Pipelines Blown Off… Who Did It and What’s Next?
“[The] WEF’s Great Reset and the ambition of the Club of Rome and the ambition of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ambition of the BRICS, is, and always has been, global governance. Mere coincidence, yes?
Unlikely as you say Dr.D they all want to take over the world. Putin spent more than a little time with the Davos crowd. Mere coincidence? I think not.
Iran is now getting sanctioned for selling drones to Russia, an act that is being denied by both Russia and Iran. More to the point is that even if it is true, it is laughable for the West to be sanctioning Iran for the same behavior they are themselves indulging in by supplying the other party to this military action (i.e., Ukraine). And the West isn’t even charging for most of what they are supplying.
From germ’s offering “ Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose”
due to weak demand for COVID vaccines, which meant vaccine makers would need to hike prices to meet revenue forecasts for 2023 and beyond.
Um…I only ever took one formal class in economics, and that was the required one in high school. But the last time I checked, weak demand usually leads to a *lowering* — not raising — of the price of a commodity. It seems that Pfizer has basic economics backwards, because they are forecasting their revenue and then setting prices based on achieving that forecast…and this is only possible *because* of the way that the convoluted medical insurance system interacts with the government’s (so-called) public health protocols regarding vaccines.
@Phoenixvoice: Pfizer is not selling vaccines into a market, but into a government-arrangement of “cost plus” payment, right?
John Day, what stands out to me is that Redneck isn’t thinking and processing and writing like the rednecks I work alongside and listen to and have lived among as a Georgia boy and young man. I’m the son of a genuine redneck who farmed and struggled and keeps to his garden still, while my mom, his wife, also tells me stories of her life on a rice patty, sitting on dirt floors waiting on adult men to eat their meals first, though today she’s more suburban and classist in narcissistic denial of the poverty and humiliaiton that shaped her traumatic life. They threw me into the public schools, so I retreated into the libraries while climbing trees and leaving my body to travel amongst the clouds and the caves and the rambling, incoherent adventures of stuffed bears with their friendly piglets.
@ John Day
*sigh*
The health insurance system was the first system that I started thinking about and analyzing over 20 years ago. I was too old to be on my parents’ medical insurance and — just out of college — uncomfortable with spending too much money each month on health insurance, while at the same time understanding the concepts of risk and insurance against the risk, as well as feeling young and healthy.
There are benefits to pooled-cost systems such as insurance —> large, rare costs are borne more easily by the group, rather than by the individual, and socializing the costs of preventive care helps reduce the large, rare costs, by framing preventive care as a “benefit” of group membership rather than a cost whose value may or may not pan out to the individual. The problem arises when unscrupulous (immoral) actors realize that the pooled resources can be manipulated for their personal (or small group) aggrandizement and subsequently corrupt the system for personal gain. Yin and yang, I suppose.Humans being what they are, there is no “perfect system” — whether the system is focused on the group, the individual, or a hybrid there are always means for corruption and always a small subset of the population lacking in empathy that will corrupt the system for their own gain. It seems the best we can hope for is transparency in the system, open lines of communication, and a citizenry that is alert enough to what is going on to serve as “watch dogs” over the details. Well, that, and we need a culture that respects ethics and morality and open debates on what “ethics and morality” are or should be — when a culture becomes too jaded, rejecting ethics and morality as “unrealistic,” or “out of touch,” or “old fashioned,” or “impractical,” and/or reject open debate about ethics and morality — this is a sign that corruption is eating away at the pillars of our society’s institutions and difficult days are already here or will be here soon.
I read that minimum wage in Holland will rise by 10.15% on Jan 1 2023, to €12.40 per hour. That’s €446.40 per week, about €1,800 per month.
Greece: For general workers, from €29.62 to €31.85 per day and €663.00 to €713.00 per month.
I wonder what the situation is where all of you live.
It’s insane, because supermarket prices are not very different between the two. I know from experience. Anyway, shoot. Minimum wages where you are.
https://dol.georgia.gov/minimum-wage
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
Incremental changes were as follows:
Effective July 24, 2007, the federal minimum wage increased to $5.85 per hour.
Effective July 24, 2008, the federal minimum wage increased to $6.55 per hour.
Effective July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage increased to $7.25 per hour.
Georgia’s minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, however, with some limited exceptions, the federal minimum wage rate applies.Georgia’s minimum wage law can be found in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.) at Title 34-Chapter 4-Section 3 (O.C.G.A. 34-4-3) and the Fair Labor Standards Act, generally and at 29 U.S.C. 203, 206, 213, and 214.
Jobs in the area are hiring for around a minimum $12/hr (office work, light manual labor) and the majority expressing an “up to” $19–22/hr (landscaping, driving trucks, factory line work). I don’t visit franchise burger joints, but in this area, a local decent diner hamburger is about $6.00 and a local great diner hamburger is $10 and a restaurant burger $9–15 with sides. (I don’t eat red meat anymore, though.) An organic honeycrisp apple is now $2.50/lb, and organic Hass avocados are $2.50/each. Inorganic, about $1.50/lb and $1/lb respectively. A 5oz tin of storebrand tuna is $.70/each on sale and regularly $1/each, but I get the “safe catch” brand and it’s wildly, embarrasingly more expensive. A medium pizza and a large Greek salad (no drinks) from the local pizzeria is about $40, including a 15% tip.
I checked on xe.com and it’s saying the exchange rate is $1 ↔ €1.0166.
I walked the Haute Route from Chamonix to Zurmat in Switzerland this summer.
Couldn’t understand why things seemed soooo expensive.
Then I found out that the minimum wage there was 23CHF an hour = $23 !!
You’d be shocked what 18-20 year olds earn in the UK.
https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates“Shit Life England”
Minnesota minimum wage is $10 and change per hour- about $21,000/yr. It differs some by size of company, age, and location. US poverty level (2022) is $13,590 for one; $27,750 for a family of 4.
US minimum wage is $7.25/hr.Some bold claims are being made about 8th November being the end of the Biden gang’s reign of terror.
@Polemos: I want to clarify that I like and value your writing. I held my tongue, because people present pictures as “rednecks”, which are not that hard-working-in-the-sun-farmer’s-tan image that it evokes in my consciousness. As a military brat during Vietnam, I lived in a variety of urban and rural settings across the US, including North Carolina 1968-1971.
Some of the images presented appear to be “PWT”, which is somewhat explained by this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZr2Vq825E@Phoenixvoice: Hi, It’s nice to see more of your writing again. I think you had a busy spell for a while.
I think the corrupted western financial system will have to reset when the dollar-regime has to negotiate peace with the rest of the world. Lotsa injustice until then, I presume.
Sorry…The NZ minimum wage is $21.20 per hour. Multiply by 0.57 for notional US equivalent. Euro and pound conversions are not significantly different.
NZ is a relatively high-cost society, particularly with respect to housing, compliance with idiotic government regulations, dental care etc. and relatively low cost with respect to energy, firewood, water, fresh fruits and vegetables etc.
People shift to Oz for higher wages, and then find the cost of living is much higher.
International comparisons are fraught with danger because no one freezes to death in winter most locations in NZ, whereas they -especially inactive elderly people- are likely to in midwinter many other parts of the world.
The high levels of waste indicate people in NZ are not suffering enough to revolt yet.
Give it another few months of squandering of resources and general misleading by the self-serving liars and sociopaths at the top of the financial-political pyramid, and then things will begin to change politically.
Rupturing of the financial system -already underway- over the next few weeks would bring forward the timeframe for revolt, of course.
“Our Very Lives” post is up, with one last glamorous view of the glossy oak floor I installed.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/our-very-livesMy inbox just asked me, “What scares you more, COVID-19 or nuclear war?” My mind quickly responded that it’s not either-or, but it’s both.
We can be afraid of both the chimeric Boston COVID with the 80% kill rate that attacks the brain AND a nuclear false-flag attack to blame Russia (then goes horribly-wrong despite all the best planning). https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/what-scares-you-moreOur owners-and-masters are searching hard for the right fear-narrative or narratives to optimally control all of us as we proceed into the further breakage of the global-economic life-support system, which allows so very many of us to live today.
We should be paying attention to the very real mortal threats. They don’t mind killing a few billion of us for a good cause. However, the only route out of this in any elite plans for any of us, is as a slave, preferably a completely controlled slave with electronic brain implants and fully electronic money so that we make all the best choices, or no choices at all.
We should also do what humans have always done, which is to grow some food and save what harvest we can for winter, most literally, and also allegorically.
Vegetable gardens, “victory gardens”( Liberty Garden https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html ) have always helped people survive privation in times of war and economic depression. None of us can truly be “self-sufficient”. We are not lone-wolves, but social, communal, cooperative creatures, which is our big advantage, what got us so far on this planet.
Human societies have collapsed or died-back many times in history. This is controversial, and picking fault in this theme is a psychological defense mechanism against mental anguish, “cognitive dissonance”. The Black Death, Bubonic Plague, spread by fleas on rats, in human cities and agricultural communities, was one of those die-backs. The concentration of humans, and the abundance of rats and fleas, opened an environmental niche for the bacterium, Yersinia Pestis, to spread along trade routes from China to Europe in the 1300s. It was promptly used as a weapon of war, catapulting infected corpses into the besieged city of Kaffa, by an army which was dying of it. Populations were concentrated and weakened by poor nutrition and hygiene. Die off were fractions of each city or town and came in wave after wave.
The Maya collapsed from bad weather hitting their optimized agriculture for an extended period of time. There was a lot of raiding of nearby villages and sacrificing of prisoners to the angry sun god. It went on for a really long time. I have come to think that hungry people go along with killing other hungry people if they are given an excuse that most people can agree with.
It worked again for Hitler, and it almost just worked against “the unvaccinated”, but not quite. Not yet.
I also think that the Mayan priests who were cutting out those beating hearts were running the scam to keep themselves in control of the degrading situation, to wait out the return of better harvests, and to take credit for them. They could well have believed the scam. It would make it even easier to run.
Our owners these days have so much more knowledge of history, science, technology, and expert consultants to help them manage billions of people, and their perceptions of “reality”. Smart-phones, personalized AI-shaping of data-streams and Google-ads help. The main thing that the owners need is to stay in possession of property and “long term interests”, which means arrangements which keep paying them unearned tributary income.
The owners, elites, nobles-and-royalty of old, serve the societal role of killing a lot of people and making it seem perfectly normal and unavoidable. Hitler and the Mayan priests both did it, and their unified societies rallied around them. The characteristics which define the elites are the drive to power and a sort of smiling ruthlessness when it comes to the practicalities of throat cutting and back stabbing without remorse.
In good times, these qualities are little-needed in our world, and are discouraged by affluent societies, but in bad times, times of poor crops and declining resources, there is some intuitive wave which runs through a nation, calling their hearts to follow a leader who will give them the rich lands and harvests of those decadent neighbors, who stole it from their grandparents, anyway.
Not everybody is subject to that call of the Pied-Piper. I’ve never liked the exhilaration of thousands of sports fans in a stadium. (Creepy to me. Lemme outta here!) You might or might not be prone to getting that lynch-mob feeling, yourself. What we taught our children in Dachau and Tuol Sleng is that you have to be on the lookout for the creation of sub-humans, because that is the first and essential step. Fight it if you can, or get away before it marks you as a target.
I fought the “unvaccinated-sub-human” meme from even before it was identifiable as a trend this time. I got fired, but I’m not dead. Enough of us accepted firing in enough places to halt its advance. It may be withering. It is sure withering in Texas and Florida. A holding-action was helpful this time, since vaccine-deaths and “negative efficacy” did not get swept under the rug. More and more people are more and more aware. Omicron took the mortal threat out of COVID, also, which magnified the relative threat of the gene-therapy vaccine products, put those harms in a spotlight.
It looks like “Nuclear-War” is the control-narrative which is waiting next in line. Those of us who have never personally known war, never survived through war, still have an abstract concept that we should all avoid nuclear war. It stands perfectly to reason for all people, everywhere.
The universality of apprehension regarding nuclear war is a desirable quality in a control narrative. It works everywhere, for everybody. The culling-elites will have secured their bunkers and underground holdouts, but they also know that only helps with immediate survival, not the next 30 years of living in a wasteland, nor of the risks of betrayal by other elite survivors.
The uncertainty with the threat of nuclear war is the uncertainty of not truly knowing how rational the opponent is, nor exactly how desperate, nor exactly how well secured the perceived interests of the opponent are, against the threat. Does the opponent really have a whole modern world under the Denver airport?
All of that analysis is superficial and unprincipled. It does not take into account the deep and sustaining convictions of a rare group of leaders, including Charles deGaulle, John Kennedy, and probably Nikita Khrushchev when he was sober. Khrushchev was pretty sober during the Cuban Missile Crisis.I’m a surface-dweller. I have no way around that, nor would I choose to have a bunker in the Rocky Mountains. Our homestead in Yoakum is either in a green or a red zone for nuclear fallout, depending on the winds that day. It’s the best we can do. I sure hope the 5 military bases in San Antonio don’t get nuked, but that just means that I hope there is no nuclear war.
We can’t expect our sociopathic owners to change. They are what they are. They are not going to develop compassion and humanistic insight, though they may often see the value in pretending to. The one thing they excel at is the normalization of killing a lot of people, and getting large groups of people on-board with that. Timing seems to be everything.
The owners seem to have jumped-the-gun with COVID, which might have just leaked out a little too soon, but was an opportunity which they could not ignore.
Are we now “immunized” against the next round of creation of sub-human scapegoats? Who might they be?
Could be anybody, right? I never expected to be in one of those target-groups, but here I am.Jessica Rose Ph.D. looks at the clear and explicit evidence of the laboratory creation of SARS-CoV-2, which was already explained in early 2020 by Luc Montagnier MD, who got a Nobel Prize for describing the AIDS virus. It is still as clear and convincing. The “fingerprints” of lab manipulation are unmistakable.
Dr. Rose goes on to discuss some of the parts-swapping that viruses can do. There are some functional HIV parts in the spike-protein of the original Wuhan virus, for instance. the new, chimeric Boston lab COVID has the Omicron spike protein and the rest of it is Wuhan-COVID. It kills 80% of humanized lab mice, often by attacking their brains, a new viral super-power. She goes into a lot of detail about parts swapping between AIDS and COVID in human hosts, like AIDS-patients with COVID. She notes that there was a big and ongoing push for AIDS testing concurrent with the COVID pandemic and ongoing. Is it to track another viral super-power? The mRNA COVID c=vaccine products profoundly suppress interleukin-based immunity to viruses, which increases COVID infection rates for 2 weeks after injection as a known baseline. There is a lot more to explore about immune suppression. She explores some.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/phenotypic-mixing-tropism-enhancementNafeez Ahmed, Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead, Transformation or Collapse (Again, why not both? Ahmed thinks wind and solar are able to replace fossil fuels with some adjustments. I think not, but we individuals still need to make personal adjustments while we can. People in rural Wales grow vegetables, I hear.)
Five years ago, I warned in a study that Europe faces an increasing risk of state failure due to the escalation of interlinked environmental, energy and economic crises – and I found an intriguing pattern: states begin to fail within 15 years of losing their main sources of energy and economic revenue.
Escalating crisis drives social polarisation, undermining national cohesion and resulting in outbreaks of civil unrest. Without a change of course, these outbreaks coalesce to undermine the functioning of key state institutions. At worst, they can lead to total government collapse and a state of permanent warfare.
Gripped by multiple crises, Britain now appears to be following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure. Pepe Escobar presents a further analysis of what China is offering the neo-colonized “developing world”, which is self-determination (Woodrow wilson’s big hit) and the ability to nationally re-invest, rather than being strip-mined by globalist neoliberal finance. It’s a good deal.they will dive-in when the sharks appear to have left the beach. (As we know from history. deals change over time.) ‘Peaceful modernization’: China’s offering to the Global South
‘Peaceful modernization’: China’s offering to the Global South
Saudi Arabia and Argentina want to join the BRICS, which will be addressed at the 2023 BRICS summit, hosted by South Africa, some time next summer.
Saudi oil has been a foundation of the American petrodollar since Nixon/Kissinger, and somewhat so since FDR. Argentina keeps defaulting on debt, and could make a fresh start, but mechanisms to avoid another default would need to be in place.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Saudi-Arabia-is-Interested-in-Joining-the-BRICS-20221019-0006.html
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