Debt Rattle September 27 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 27 2022]Watch this. We won! It’s over.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dr-aseem-malhotra-promoted-covid?sd=pf
Congratulations to all of you who resisted the tyranny of coercive gene therapy injections.
Prayers for those among us who didn’t.
I’m left without any doubt that the mRNA product was a likely contributory factor in the sudden cardiac death of my father, Dr Kailash Chand Malhotra ( Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association) https://t.co/XZRw7yh6EW
— Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) September 26, 2022
10-year now 4%. It can rise faster now because in % terms its not doubling like it just did from 2% to 4% Each point is only 25%, then 20%, then 10%…
“The combined market value of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate bond index and the MSCI World index has dropped $29 trillion”
I’m sure it’s nothing. Everything will be fine. Prices will go up infinitely on a finite world and lead us all to automatic space communism.
Bill Gates has now publicly promised that the next election won’t happen, it will be contested and cause a civil war. How does he know? Like Cobra Commander, He knows! He knows! Although he has nooooothing to do with it, hasn’t heard anything, doesn’t need to call the FBI with specific information, he just knows. The election won’t go through. It will cause a civil war. (Which also doesn’t follow and doesn’t make any sense. I mean we’ve screwed elections since 2000, and half-dozen times before that.)
Well just like – was it AOC? – said “if the Democrats don’t win the midterms, it’ll mean civil war.” Sheesh, a lot of civil war around here for a half a million red hats who didn’t bring a single gun between them. And if the Republicans win, they’ll start a civil war? Because they won? I think you mean in that case the Democrats are the domestic terrorists…nevermind. Said before.
Nope, Bill Gates knows. …But doesn’t know anything specific. And he’s sure there’ll be a bad election. …Although he doesn’t have any plans or have anything to do with it.
…Just like Event201, October 2019, 60 days before it happened. Sept 20 + 60 days = Oh! I know! Nov. 20. Just when all the election lawsuits will begin.
“Sullivan Vows Decisive Response, Catastrophic Consequences If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons”
Who? Is he important? They’ll do an Ursula and sanction them again. Yeah they can tell Russia what to do because I saw they just landed 300,000 Marines at Kalingrad.
Dark Matter, yes confirming both of those allegations is very worth hearing.
“Russia Enacts Lengthy Prison Sentences for Wartime Desertion & Refusal to Serve”
15 years in prison for “voluntary” surrender, also amid reports Putin is preparing to issue travel ban for military age males.”While very common, and we have them too, I have to feel they would not be enacted unless something was driving it. Probably kids think their leaders suck and have no confidence in them worldwide. Recalibrating as the border reports remain persistent.
“‘Defund the Police’ Movement Now Suffering Horrendous Crime Wave”
Gee, I wonder why. ACAB. Shouldn’t crime go down? “FBI Misled Judge, Then Seized $86 Million In Cash From Beverly Hills Safe-Deposit Boxes” Which is amazingly even worse than the title suggests. They drilled into (and ruined) 5,000 safe deposit boxes and stole all the contents against the express orders of the judge. If you showed up as an innocent person to claim your (stolen) property, you were immediately investigated for being innocent. None of it had any premise or evidence of any crime. Because – don’t be ridiculous, we don’t start with a CRIME and then investigate, that’s so last century – we search everyone and then fabricate a crime. Against people we don’t like that have a lot of money to take.
Note in neither case do we arrest criminals, deny bail, then prosecute and jail them for theft and violence. For known crimes, and known criminals. Nothing has happened to either the FBI or the Judge.
For Ukraine, I guess we see why they withdrew, even before claiming all the provinces in question: they needed the troops for internal election security. Since generally none of us predicted this, will anyone recalibrate their view or accusations about winning/losing because of it? Since this appears to be the case, what happens when the election is over? Frozen lines, retaking to the provincial borders, or keep on plowing to Odessa in winter?
“Moscow Grants Russian Citizenship to Edward Snowden (AP)”
This was against Putin’s original wishes. Snowden is there exclusively because of US, not Russia. While in transit, the U.S. pulled his passport, making him unable to travel through any world border using normal conditions. He was therefore stranded in a Russian airport, like “The Terminal” (2004). To allow him out of the airport lobby, he was granted Permanent residency as a practicality. The U.S. never changed, so the situation has merely persisted until now. Think what you want of it, that is the official and most plausible story.
Orwell is describing the “Overton Window” in that quote. Classic narcissist control, as constant active violence really draws attention. The abused need to normalize and self-regulate their codependent behavior.
Professor of Economics Michael Hudson
Why do people listen to this guy? He’s an economist, so I do not expect much, and I get what I expect, but why has this person become an alternative news celebrity? He is as full of crap as the other economists. Sure, he can talk about debt, but having worked in finance, that is kind of the business of finance and nothing he says is news. Nothing he says enlightens me to anything.
Feel so much better/safer after watching this.
This device safely removes blood clots by using a wire that is inserted to expand and pull back the blockage pic.twitter.com/wHD9k4J0Gs
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 27, 2022
Not a word about what causes these clots these days.
“Luckily, the leaders of the time [Cuban missile crisis] – Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy – had the wisdom to step back from the brink”
Their wisdom was (partly) earned by their very personal experiences in World War II, Khrushchev for example took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. Nowadays many so called leaders (leaderesses ?) earned their only experience of war through computer games: They know that there is always a next life and blood will never splatter beyond the computer screen.@Aspnaz: Michael Hudson actually learned about global capital flows working for a bank, and barely passed an economics class he was taking at the time, because he argued facts with the professor, who only knew theory, which was wrong.
Wikipedia: “Hudson graduated from the University of Chicago (BA, 1959) and New York University (MA, 1965, PhD, 1968) and worked as a balance of payments economist in Chase Manhattan Bank (1964–1968).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)Hudson backed-into working for a bank while studying music; he wanted to be a conductor, but he had this weird ability to experience international capital flows as a symphony, to experience the whole thing and each part, all at once.
His analysis commissioned by his bank, then rejected by the US Treasury (which wanted it at first), was that the US gold balance was intact for all trade except for war funding. All the gold basically leaked out through Vietnam. He was right, of course.
He wrote “Super Imerialism” in 1972, as the US defaulted on gold, pointing out that oil was already a backing for the currency, which cost the US essentially nothing. His whole printing sold out in Washington, and Nixon/Kissinger ran to Saudi Arabia to formalize the petro-buck as policy, which was a huge success.Hudson won’t talk to economists, because they won’t look at reality, only theory, which is wrong…
Nobody disparages economists more vigorously than Michael Hudson.
China hires him to teach courses.‘Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has penned a blunt open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking guarantees that Russia will not expand beyond the Donbass and Crimea and will never “invade anyone ever again.”
Dipshit.
@TAE Summary September 27, 2022 at 6:10 am# 116959REPLY
A Tale of Two Narratives, Ukraine EditionVery good executive summary
Now, we need to know why.
The leaders of the west appears to have made their choice based on “racism/nazit/white suprematism/intolerance/emotional responses/lies/propaganda/missinformation/manipulation/ignorance
————@ aspnaz
Michael Hudson gets what is going on, has been going on and is able to communicate it in a way that even I can understand. And how things could be better arranged for greater fairness and benefit in this world
His latest book here at my side, yet to be read but there are many interviews online that are enlightening.
The Destiny of Civilization:
Financial capitalism,
Industrial capitalism,
or
SocialismMICHAEL HUDSON
Time for the annual “looming government shutdown”.
Oh, promises, promises. But maybe they really WILL shut it down this time. Hope springeth eternal.
‘The biggest madness about Net Zero is that Australia’s emissions are already at… net zero. Our forests and oceans already absorb many times what is produced by humans’
That is very clever use of words and very subtle cherry-picking to generate an entirely false narrative.
The key component of the falsehood is ‘what is produced by humans’.
What is produced by humans is a miniscule portion of the entire carbon budget. I would not like to present and exact figure because I am not privy to the entire emission profile of the Australian economy. But a reasonable guess for ‘what is produced by humans’ would be of the order of 1% of the total emissions that need to be accounted for.
Almost everything in so-called climate analysis is fakery, bullshit and legerdemain, characerised more by what is left out than what is included.
“So it goes.” -Kurt Vonnegut
And it has to be bullshit and misrepresentation, until the completely fake globalised industrial money-lender system that we endure collapses.
That collapse is clearly on the horizon. 2032 at the latest. Probably well before then.
One can see this impulse ever trying to express itself here, but no one clique gains enough dominance to effectively censor unorthodox views.
I post this with gleeful trepidation, since it’s becoming hard to deliver dire weather forecasts without stepping into some tedious old climate disruption argument.
Anyway, looks like it’s gonna be a wobbly winter.
Michael Hudson is quite good for an ‘economist’. I have been following his work for about 15 years. But he does not get what’s going on: he just gets some parts of what is going on a hell of a lot better than the vast majority of ‘economists’, who are by-and-large completely off the planet. Indeed, mainstream economists inhabit an alternative universe in which energy, the availability of resources, and the effects of pollution can be ignored, and all that matters is the movement of fake fiat currencies around the system.
It has to be that way, of course: the banksters demand it. Any economist who starts speaking too much truth to power is quickly out of a job.
Michael Hudson only goes a little way down the rabbit hole.
CHS
‘And what organizations dominate the planet? Hyper-centralized franchises, states and corporations alike. The selective pressure favors protecting the franchise from innovation, because innovation could upset the entire apple cart. So centralized organizations only support innovations that increase the power of centralized authority.
But that’s not how innovation works. As the franchise decays and the supreme leaders start believing their own PR and making catastrophically misguided decisions in an echo-chamber of cheering toadies, the whole system slips into a non-linear dynamic that ends in a dramatic phase change, the collapse of the franchise and all those who clung to it as no-risk and permanent.
Stifle decentralization and dissent and you stifle innovation. With potentially threatening loonshots safely buried, the system has only one pathway: decay and collapse.’
“Russia Enacts Lengthy Prison Sentences for Wartime Desertion & Refusal to Serve”
15 years in prison for “voluntary” surrender, also amid reports Putin is preparing to issue travel ban for military age males.”The desertion restriction is probably focused on prevent NGOs from sowing too much dissent over the war.
The travel ban is pretty much going to be de facto soon, with or without rulings. War is hard on tourism, one might say.
No voluntary surrender is actually a kindness, from what I know of Ukrainian actions in the killing fields.
I submit that Putin is also fighting to maintain sovereignty internally, hence the major dissension amid a war that is patently necessary if Russia wants to remain Russian. No more Pussy Riots for you!
In the sites I frequent that question the Russian narrative from an insider Russian perspective, the number of anti-Russian commentators (alleging to be Russian or authoritative somehow on Russian matters) has gone sky-high of late, most of them one-note Johnnies, a trait we often associate with troll-bots.
I am of course generally dismissed as a Putin apologist.
• Germany Suspects ‘Targeted Attack’ On Russian Gas Pipelines (RT)
the loss of pressure in three natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany
the Nord Stream 2 lines dropped sharply overnight, followed by the same happening to both Nord Stream 1 pipes on Monday afternoon.
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• Orban Says EU Sanctions on Russia Have ‘Backfired’ (R.)(check out the cartoons)
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’m left without any doubt that the mRNA product was a likely contributory factor in the sudden cardiac death of my father, Dr Kailash Chand Malhotra ( Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association)
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Think about it.
A civil war by those who didn’t bring a single gun
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Let’s cause a price increase/oil shortfall
Sell your reserves to China and I’ll cut my oil output
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-surges-after-russia-proposes-1-million-barrel-opec-output-cut
Oil Surges After Russia Proposes 1 Million Barrel OPEC+ Output Cut
———“Michael Hudson only goes a little way down the rabbit hole.”
Another trend I’ve noticed of late is a major increase in judgments of whose pundit is “really” real, likewise bickering over same. Not that I have any firm opinion on how far Hudson or others go down the rabbit hole. At this point, limited hangouts grow grow longer and more common everyday: then truth can’t be hidden or controlled anymore; strategic retreat via gradual acknowledgement of this fact is the only game left outside of manufacturing new problems t distract from the old.
When we get to the point where the only effective distraction is a nuclear exchange, we’ll know just how crazy or inept are those with the power to initiate such an event. We may not know it for very long, but we’ll know it. 😉
IMO, one of Dylan’s finest moments:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/italys-next-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-why-do-they-hate-her-so-much
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: Why Do They Hate Her So Much?
( sub title – Why Do They Love Her So Much?
– Why Did They Vote for Her So Much?)“Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death, no to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people.”
Do you see …. Title and sub title can apply to Trump
How to make a profit for dummies
https://www.rt.com/russia/563616-predatory-west-food-putin/Putin blasts West’s ‘predatory’ food ‘swindle’
The US and its rich allies are causing a global food crisis by draining the market, the Russian president saidPicture of Sunday morning in the shade of the pecan tree… https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/hating-humans-and-bombing-germans
Moon of Alabama (German) has perspective on the sudden, simultaneous occurrence of 3 ruptures in 3 Nordstream-1 & 2 pipes in international waters of the Baltic Sea.
Nord Stream II was created to make Germany independent from pipelines running through Poland and the Ukraine. Blocking it was the most stupid thing for Germany to do and thus chancellor Scholz did it.
In the following months Poland blocked the Yamal pipeline which also brought Russian gas to Germany. Ukraine followed up with cutting off two Russian pipelines. The main compressor stations of the Nord Stream I pipeline, which the German company Siemens had build and has the maintenance contract, failed one after the other. Sanction are prohibiting Siemens from repairing them…
..If Russia were to cut pipelines in the Baltic Sea it would damage those that bring Norwegian gas to Europe, not the pipelines it owns and which give it some leverage.
Russia thus surely has no plausible interest in sabotaging the Nord Stream system. Others though do have such interests. They likely want Germany to ‘stay in line’ with their war to Decolonize Russia. The major potential actors behind this are the U.S., the British, the Ukrainian and the Polish government or a mixture of those.
Geography, and the shallow depth of the Baltic Sea, seem to exclude that a U.S. or British submarines did the damage. Ukraine does not have access to the Baltic Sea. Poland, which had already tried to prevent or hinder the Nord Stream II construction, is the most likely actor behind this though I doubt that it would dare to act alone.
Consider this from April 2021:
The developers of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline have accused foreign naval forces of “provocative” activity in the vicinity of construction work. The controversial pipeline is about 93 percent complete, and two Russian pipelay vessels are on station and working on the project in Danish waters.
Andrei Minin, the branch director of Gazprom-run Nord Stream 2 AG, told TASS that “foreign warships and vessels were demonstrating higher activity” near the operation, and that “such actions are provocative and can lead to gas pipeline damage.” He also accused Poland of deploying a military M-28 patrol aircraft to survey the site.
”The Polish Navy is not conducting provocative operations and has been carrying out its statutory tasks in agreement with international laws,” responded the Polish Army’s central command in a social media post. “M-28B Bryza planes regularly conduct patrol flights in the Baltic Sea region.”
Poland strongly opposes the development of Nord Stream 2, which will give Gazprom a subsea alternative route for supplying natural gas to Western European customers. At present, that gas has to pass through overland pipeline networks in Poland and Ukraine, bringing in valuable transit fees and providing both nations – which do not always have cordial relations with Russia – a measure of energy security...
..On February 7 Biden stated (vid) that he would decided if Nord Stream II opens and on February 27 he sanctioned the company owning it.
Under its current rightwing leadership Poland has been extremely hostile to Germany. This month it even renewed is demand for war reparations from Germany, an issue that had been settle decades ago...
..It is high time for the German government to wake up and to recognize that a war has been launched against its country.
And no. It is not Russia that is waging it.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-war-on-germany-just-entered-its-hot-phase.html#moreThe official line lags MoA:
Nord Stream AG, the operator of the NS pipeline system, published a statement Tuesday that read, “the destruction that happened within one day at three lines of the Nord Stream pipeline system is unprecedented … and impossible now to estimate the timeframe for restoring operations of the gas shipment infrastructure.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/damage-nord-stream-pipelines-unprecedented-may-have-been-sabotagedAh, “EXPLOSIONS”: (Maybe this is what was supposed to happen Saturday?)
Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that the Swedish National Seismic Network detected two underwater explosions near the Nord Stream pipeline system on Monday.
“One of the explosions had a magnitude of 2.3, and was registered at as many as 30 measuring stations in southern Sweden,” SVT said.
Bjorn Lund, a professor in seismology and director of the Swedish National Seismic Network, said these two seismic events were explosions...
..AFP News reported the US is ‘ready to provide support’ to Europe after the Nord Stream pipeline system leaks.
There was no further information on what type of support, but one can only imagine it would involve increased LNG cargo shipments to the EU.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/damage-nord-stream-pipelines-unprecedented-may-have-been-sabotagedGerman Energy Apocalypse Update V (The situation just before the pipelines were blown up)
As the pressure builds and the first (German factory) closures begin, Germany is entering an economic recession, and there are everyday renewed cracks in the political edifice. Minister President of Saxony Michael Kretschmer (CDU) – no fringe political figure – recently remarked that Germany “cannot do without Russian gas” and acknowledged that EU sanctions are to blame for the shortage, but he stopped short of demanding that Nord Stream 2 be opened; instead, he hopes for a return to Russian gas after the Ukraine war has ended...
..Meanwhile, the head mayor of Berlin has suggested that two- or three-hour periods of load-shedding may be necessary to keep the electrical grid functional over the winter. Other experts, while downplaying the risk of uncontrolled outages, have raised the possibility load-shedding as well, confirming that these are very real contingency plans and that we’re being prepared for them. The stated concern is invariably that local or regional gas shortages will cause the widespread activation of electrical heaters and overwhelm the grid.... estimates are that up to 60 percent of German households are now committing their entire monthly income to cover the rising cost of living.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-energy-apocalypse-update-vTo strike within Russia (US/NATO have pre-approved each missile target): Ukraine Confirms Receipt Of Longer-Range Missiles It’s Long Sought From US
According to a CNN report in June, “Ukrainian officials have asked for the missile defense system, known as a NASAMS system, given the weapons can hit targets more than 100 miles away, though the Ukrainian forces will likely need to be trained on the systems, a source said.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-confirms-receipt-longer-range-missiles-its-long-sought-us Gilbert Doctorow has been living in St. Petersburg. He is fluent in Russian.
News from the home front: Russia under conditions of partial mobilization
In today’s essay, I want to direct attention first to Russian radio, in particular commenting on the national broadcaster “Business FM” which is based in Moscow but has national coverage and puts on air reports from all around this vast country that are of interest not only to stock brokers but to the general public. I listen to them daily over breakfast and their slogan “Radio not in words but in facts” is well justified by the originality of their news management. Politics and politicians are not on their agenda. The impact of new laws, regulations and government programs on the population and especially on the business community is their main interest. Sales figures, company profits, challenges in recruiting and keeping personnel: all of these subjects are dealt with by presentation of concrete facts from concrete companies and localities, and the result is a very informative mosaic...
..I can point first to the dramatic decision earlier today of the prospective Buyer of our dacha in the south of Petersburg, already under contract of deposit, to suspend the deal, first in the hope of squeezing a further discount from us due to post-mobilization uncertainties and then with demand for more time to see the fall-out of the referendums in Donbas...
..Otherwise, the assortment and pricing of meats, poultry, fruits and vegetables in the Russian stores at all market levels are unchanged from what they were some months ago…
..At the Food Court on the 4th floor, I enjoyed a couple of hamburgers in McDonald’s replacement as fast food operator ‘’Вкусно – и точка’’ (Tasty – period). Quality and price were both unchanged. Then on the ground floor I followed up with a visit to the Starbucks replacement, which is named “Star Coffee.” All the design elements remain the same as before and my coffee Americano was excellent.
All the design elements of the Apple store just opposite Star Coffee also are unchanged. To be sure, the store legend “Apple Reseller” now reads “Premium Reseller.” The product assortment seems to be unchanged...
..Finally, a personal observation about the exodus across the Finnish border. Yesterday, I tried to book tickets for our departure by bus from Petersburg to Helsinki. All seats on all buses of the two competing bus operators were sold out until October 6th, five days later than we had planned to leave. To be sure, there are only five or six buses making this trip each day, and each has only 50 seats. In fact the great majority of those crossing the border are doing so in their private cars. They are the ones suffering the seven hours of lost time spent in queues and in individual processing. Buses such as we will be using go to the head of the line and are typically processed within an hour or an hour and a half, which is a nuisance but not yet a misery.
News from the home front: Russia under conditions of partial mobilization Orban pretends it is accidental. He will ask the Hungarian people what they think in a referendum.
Hungary PM Orban Says EU Sanctions on Russia Have ‘Backfired’
”We can safely say that as a result of the sanctions, European people have become poorer, while Russia has not fallen to its knees,” Orban said. “This weapon has backfired, with the sanctions Europe has shot itself in the foot.”
”We are waiting for an answer, the entire Europe is waiting for an answer from Brussels on how long we will keep doing this,” he said, adding it was also time to discuss the sanctions with the United States.
Orban, whose government is in talks with the European Commission to secure billions of euros in EU funds blocked over rule-of-law concerns, said his government would launch a “national consultation” asking Hungarians about sanctions...
..”If the Brussels bureaucrats do not give us this money, which Hungary is eligible for, then we will get the necessary funds from other financial sources,” Orban said, adding Hungary had started talks with the EU and “other international partners”.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-09-26/hungary-pm-orban-says-eu-sanctions-on-russia-have-backfired A warning by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Brussels has tools to discipline Italy if its prospective center-right government fails to cooperate with the EU was “scandalous,” according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The remark was a wake-up call for member states, the head of the Polish government said on Sunday, as quoted by state news agency PAP.
“Is this the kind of Europe we want? Is this democracy and rule of law? That Eurocrats in Brussels decide what a government should be?” Morawiecki asked.
He was responding to von der Leyen’s suggestion that, should the new Italian government fail to meet the EU’s policy expectations, the country could be disciplined.
The top official said “whatever democratic government is willing to work with us, we’re working together,” adding that “if things go in a difficult direction, I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland, we have tools.”
https://www.rt.com/news/563545-morawiecki-leyen-italy-tools/ So much for European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen’s threats from days ago, which Italians clearly ignored as Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing bloc is celebrating its historic, if largely expected, victory and a clear majority…
..This brings us to the question of ‘why do they hate her so much’?
The below 2-minute clip of Meloni giving a prior event speech which went viral this weekend as the votes in Italy were being counted provides a glimpse of why they must be on suicide watch in Brussels. The new Italian Prime Minister describes eloquently that Italians and human beings in general are not mere identity-less consumers and economic playthings of the ivory tower technocrat class, but belong under God, country and family…
Giorgia Meloni;
”Please answer me these questions. This is about what we are doing here today. Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to be perfect consumer slaves.”
”And so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identify, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No.”
”I must be citizen x, gender x, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer.”
”That’s the reason why. That’s why we inspire so much fear. That’s why this event inspires so much fear. Because we do not want to be numbers. Will will defend the value of the human being. Every single human being. Because each of us has a unique genetic code that is unrepeatable. And like it or not, that is sacred. We will defend it. We will defend God, country and family.”
”Those things that disgust people so much. We will do it to defend our freedom, because we will never be slaves and simple consumers at the mercy of the financial speculators. That is our mission. That is why I came here today.”
”Chesterton wrote, more than a century ago… ‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four.’ Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.'”
”That time has arrived. We are ready.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/italys-next-prime-minister-giorgia-meloni-why-do-they-hate-her-so-muchUnder what specific circumstances would the US military be able to thwart a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan?
Aircraft carriers are easy targets for China. Fixed bases in Guam are too.
Arm all American bombers with long range anti-ship missiles, which might last a week with projected stockpiles. This changeover would take 2-3 years.
This is based on war games. Nuclear weapons are not addressed directly.
The USAF doesn’t want to load all those strategic bombers with anti-ship missiles.
DEFEAT CHINA’S NAVY, DEFEAT CHINA’S WAR PLAN , ROBERT HADDICK Ed Snowden (now a Russian & US citizen) looks at the CIA:
For 75 years, the American people have been unable to bend the CIA to fit the law, and so the law has been bent to fit the CIA. As Biden stood on the crimson stage, at the site where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and adopted, his words rang out like the cry of a cracked-to-hell Liberty Bell: “What’s happening in our country is not normal.”
If only that were true. One human typically runs 10 troll-bots, to keep them looking human.
Bots are flooding social media with pro-US propaganda demonizing China, Russia & Iran, studies show
Scientific studies show huge numbers of bots are spreading pro-Western disinformation on social media, demonizing China, Russia, and Iran. 90% of bots posting about the proxy war in Ukraine push pro-NATO propaganda.Bots are flooding social media with pro-US propaganda demonizing China, Russia & Iran, studies show
Investment strategist, Kyle Bass, has opened Texas real-estate as an entire investment category recently, and is investing heavily himself.
California To Ban Natural Gas Heaters By 2030
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/California-To-Ban-Natural-Gas-Heaters-By-2030.htmlYou decide on your definition of democracy
https://www.rt.com/russia/563612-eu-referendum-donbass-sanctions/EU threatens foreign observers over Donbass referendums
“There would be consequences for all people, who participate in the illegal, illegitimate referendums,” Stano warned on Tuesday, the fifth and final day of voting.
Steve Kirsch: FDA tells the vaccine injured: “Thanks for sharing”
20 vaccine injured travelled to Washington DC to meet with lawmakers and the FDA. Peter Marks was too busy to meet with them in person, so they met on a 1-hour zoom call.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/fda-tells-the-vaccine-injured-thanksFurin-cleavage-sites do not occur in coronaviruses (until 2019). They are an effective mechanism to “weaponize” a virus,. Walter Chesnut
THE PURPOSE OF THE FURIN CLEAVAGE SITE AND THE GP120 INSERT IS TO INDUCE SYSTEMIC FIBROSIS AND CANCER VIA THE ENDOTHELIUM: SPED GP120 AND FURIN. THE FURIN FEEDBACK LOOP. FIBROSIS AND ONCOGENESIS.
FURIN expression as the unifying determinant of COVID-19 and Spike Protein pathology severity and pathogenesis
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-the-furin-cleavageEdward Snowden appears to be ungrateful to the country that accepted him and sawed his life. He would return to the US given the “promise”. Being in odd with the rest of the world it is no wonder that most of Americans are incapable of living
abroad. The same bunch would be at loss if dumped in,say, Havana, given spending cash and being told that hotel and food is payed and will be picked up in two weeks – just have fuc**ng fun! That sorry existence will be clouded with the suffocating thought that they are in C-O-M-U-N-I-S-T country. Wide eyed and nail butting they would scream at the site of Che’s mural that is just about everywhere. There, I said it.NATO’s precisely limited sabotage damage to Nordstream is diabolically brilliant in one sense, and suidal (as usual) in another sense.
Here’s the brilliant part: Russia has made one hell of a lot of profit FULFILLING CONTRACTS to deliver gas to Europe through Nordstream. The only gas they get paid for, however, is the gas that actually gets delivered. They don’t get paid for any billions of cubic feet that “accidentally” get pumped out into the North Sea.
Because the pipeline is merely damaged, not utterly destroyed, it can still deliver the contracted amount of gas, regardless of the leak, just so long as Russia keeps the pumps running . . . which, by law, they are obliged to do. Of course by keeping the pumps running they are also pumping uumpty uump millions of cubic feet of their valuable natural gas into the north sea, for no return payment.
Thus, NATO pulled off a piece of brilliant economic hardball warfare. Economically speaking in the short term. Russia is being kicked hard in the crotch by that fabulously costly Nordtream leak. Financially speaking it’s like a hemorrhage of the coronary artery.
Yeah, well, so much for the “brilliant” part. Now for the drooling-on-shoes stupidity.
NATO has literally bet the farm that Russia will yield and comply with all of NATO’s demands that Russia be dismantled and removed from the world stage. That IS what the collective West is demanding. It is demanding sovereignty OVER Russia. BUT it has , by sabotaging Nordstream, removed any reason that Russia might have previously had for surrendering.
If Russia bankrupts itself by keeping the Nordstream pumps running (feeding Europe AND feeding the leak) then it is tantamount to surrender. Russia will bankrupt and the Collective West will scoop it all up via the “probate court” of the Collective West’s financial system. If Russia no longer owns and commands the affairs of Russia, then Russia as a sovereign nation is no more. It might retain the place names on maps, like they do with old half forgotten empires, but it won’t be a sovereign state.
If surrendering equals 100% certainty of death as a nation, and fighting has a 50 % chance of victory, then choosing to fights is not a difficult choice for a currently sovereign nation to make. What’s the worst that could happen, “surrender”?
Talk about the ultimate no brainer. Of course they will fight, AND ( if you look at the game board with the cold eye of unflinching reason ) they are also going to WIN the fight. Knowing that they are going to win is yet another pretty damned good reason to choose fighting over surrendering. I mean , DUH!
One way they could win (and there are many ways) is that they can simply close the pipelines for repairs. This exempts them liability for failure to fulfill contracts (Force Majeure, ya know?) , and it does not cost them even one red ruble more than the current state of affairs is costing them. In fact, they actually SAVE money by saving the gas which (because they were saved) can then be sold at some time in the future for even MORE advantageous prices.
Thank you Mr. NATO, why bother to fight when we’ve enemies like you to do it for us?
It’s all over but the hospice. And be sure to sign up early for good seating at the burying .
@Kultsommer: We found Luong Prabang, Laos to be one of the most charming places on our family bike-and-backpack expedition around the world in 2005-2006. We sold the house and cars and spent the money traveling.
We heard about Luong Prabang from some seasoned travelers.
People commented everywhere that we were unusual Americans…
(Use mosquito repellant. I got malaria, but I treated it promptly and kept going.)@DBS: This was more of an attack on Germany than on Russia, I think. Germans have been making more and more noises about needing Russian gas this winter. They are blocked by this move.
Did Poland do the deed? Poland won’t tell, and the US won’t either.
It could happen again.
The big thrust of UK policy was always to keep Germany and Russia from joining forces, and preferably at war with each other.
How can that keep working after 150 years?I feel one thing related to climate-whatever is this: anthropocentric weather disaster.
For whatever reason, we’re having our share of wild erratic weather, something that happens a lot over the small-change millennia.
We notice it much more than before because there are so many of us, living in so many places, of which many places are especially vulnerable to weather extremes, with more of the humans than not dependent on a large complex technosphere itself reliant on local, regional, national, multi-national, and even global hierarchic systems.
Paradoxically, at the same time, we gradually grow immune to reports of these disasters. Another massive flood wi[ping out most of a nation’s crop. Ho-hum. Yet we still amplify these events through our respective echo-chambers: a) See? I told you global warming was real. b) Periods of bad weather happen all the time; no big deal.
A single death is a tragedy, several million deaths is just a statistic. A single major hurricane is a disaster. A slew of them is a statistic to debate online, I guess?
Too many people too many places dependent on too many things they can’t provide for themselves creates an economic/cultural climate that can’t stand much bad weather, even if it’s “only” natural” and “only” for a decade or three.
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