Figmund Sreud
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Pepe Escobar just keep turning ‘em out those harangues of his!
Mariupol was battered by Ukraine’s right-wing Azov battalion well before Moscow launched its military ops. In Russian hands, this strategic steelworks port can transform into a hub of Eurasian connectivity.
How Mariupol will become a key hub of Eurasian integration
https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/8480You will pay in rubies? No?
____________________Of course, … er, Yes! The Vatican Bank used €$10 million euros to buy ₽s from the Russian Central Bank so they can pay for their gas requirements. The bank followed the instructions by the Russian government to the letter.
Shrewd ‘phuckers’, …
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Alastair Crooke latest, Geo-Politics Is Metamorphosing at Every Moment, … no longer the US will be allowed to play chess alone. Chess no longer will be a game for one!
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Canadian Mounties on “critica”l assignment!
“The RCMP is sending more officers to the International Criminal Court to help investigate claims that war crimes and crimes against humanity are taking place in Ukraine.
“It’s critical that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the regime be held to account,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
“The RCMP will support the International Criminal Court’s investigation of Russia’s alleged war crimes and undertake their own investigation under Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes [Act].”
The seven special investigators being sent to the International Criminal Court [ICC] will be in addition to the three special RCMP investigators already deployed to ICC investigation teams, a government official told CBC News on background.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said in a media statement that the additional investigators were tasked following a request from the ICC’s office of the prosecutor for additional assistance. […]
RCMP sending investigators to The Hague to probe allegations of war crimes in Ukraine
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rcmp-sending-investigators-to-the-hague-to-probe-allegations-of-war-crimes-in-ukraine/ar-AAVDyF5?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAggNb9Here we go, “Wind, solar, &…electric vehicles…represent the worst of all possible worlds: not only do they generate inferior economic returns, but they are unable to address our carbon reduction needs.”
THE DISTORTIONS OF CHEAP ENERGY
https://f.hubspotusercontent40.net/hubfs/4043042/Content%20Offers/2021.Q4%20Commentary/2021.Q4%20GR%20Market%20Commentary.pdfStill, no stoping Canada’s Justin “Socks” Trudeau, Prime Minister. His latest decree:
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault today released the government’s plan to dramatically curb greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years to meet ambitious 2030 reduction targets.
It’s a plan that leans heavily on deep cuts in the electricity, oil and gas and transportation sectors.
In an effort to slash emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, the federal government has announced some $9.1 billion in new investments that will, among other things, boost incentives for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), sweeten tax breaks for companies in the fossil fuels sector that embrace carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, and work to make Canada’s electricity grid cleaner. […]
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-2030-emissions-reduction-plan-1.6401228
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Re replacement for CF-18s: … Canada will simply buy from whoever offers to employ more Canadians, in Canada, with ancillary work and services related to this jets. It’s always been like that, … and it will never change.
I worked on few projects – coincidently – associated with CF-18’s in the early ‘80s – jet starting compressors, jet engines rebuilding test stands, manufacturing of some jet components.
Ministry of Supply and Services, procurement department for Government of Canada at that time, was only interested in how many job-years, yearly cash flow, et al would be generated by any contract, in who’s constituency (electoral district) where the work would take place? Stuff like that, …
Ideally, the best chance you had in getting a government order for anything was if you formulated your proposals in such a way that most work would be done either in electoral district of Minister of Supply and Services, or in his province, … or something even more creative.
Anyway, … as an example of relativity: Minister of Supply and Services at that time – Liberal, that represented Northern Ontario district: Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, largely a lumber producing district.You simply could not deliver to him a contract for jet starting compressors from Northern Ontario!
So, … to skin a proverbial cat, the proposal included that in lieu of manufacturing compressors somewhere else, our outfit would purchase from his district all the required packaging and crating lumber our manufacturing outfit will need for the next 5 years. And guess what? Northern Ontario district supplied lumber even for a ginormous nitric acid manufacturing compressor train that we built in West Germany and delivered to U.S.S.R.!
Btw, jet starter compressors also were manufactured in West Germany, … and were crated and packaged with lumber from Northern Ontario. Cool, eh?
Best,
F.S.
@oroboros: Andrei Martyanov’s Blog… he has a uTube channel, too, … here is his latest:
… and he is getting – by now – as unhinged as the western MSM talking heads! Listen carefully to his diatribe.
Anyway, … if he only stop ranting and raving for a minute or so and start being honest with himself, … but he won’t. Pity.
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Oh, … and when we are talking about floating plants, … here is an example of a floating nuclear power plant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station
Anyway, … Western Europe, regarding its energy supply – other than from Russia – has placed itself in a perplexing and very difficult situation for a few years, at best! Self-im·mo·la·tion, …
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Re, LNG receiving terminal: … following should give one a general idea what it takes to build such a terminal, snip:
History[edit]
Discussions about the project started in 2006. The project was originally developed by PGNiG through its subsidiary Polskie LNG S.A. In January 2008, SNC-Lavalin was chosen for the front-end engineering design.[1] The engineering, procurement and construction contract was signed with a consortium of Saipem, Techint, Snamprogetti, and PBG.[1][2] Construction started in March 2011.[3] After creation of Gaz-System and its separation from PGNiG, the newly created company took over the ownership of Polskie LNG S.A. The terminal was inaugurated by prime minister Ewa Kopacz on 12 October 2015.[4] The gas carrier has delivered the first order on 11 December 2015.[5] […]
… rest:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Świnoujście_LNG_terminal
F.S., … been there!
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The French government is in talks with energy company TotalEnergies to build a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the northern port of Le Havre, – and Red is asking, Do you suppose they will have this ready by fall?
————————————Chances of that happening are equivalent to a single snowball lasting in hell for more than 15 seconds!
Projects like that – provided regulatory approvals required to build one are secure ahead – require about a year to engineer, about a year to procure necessary materials and machinery and at least 9 – 12 months of construction and, … and about six month to commission – pass it on to the operator to finally run it full time!
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Helmer:
SIMPLETON’S PRIMER ON THE LONG WAR THE US AIMS TO WAGE AGAINST RUSSIA
SIMPLETON’S PRIMER ON THE LONG WAR THE US AIMS TO WAGE AGAINST RUSSIA
This Biden speech, … his visit to Poland, was specifically designed to incite some ”act of war by Poland, … somehow getting involved in this Ukraine/Russia war. And Poland, … just perhaps being the greatest haters of Russia, just waited patiently for such occasion. They just itched – for a clear sign that someone strong – in particular the U.S., would joined them … just as Biden declared. And so the moment just happened, …
Now, it’s simply up for Poland to start the incident, get tangled up, … and call upon the U.S. for help!
Of course, … the U.S.’s agenda is different, not the same, … but the same as it was for Ukraine: ‘You enter the war, fight the Russians and we will watch, … and – maybe – will send you some lethal equipment ‘n such as needed! Popcorn time for us ‘Muricans!
Anyway, it’s true, … the U.S. wants to destroy Russia, for sure, but they don’t want to fight Russia directly. And why not? Polaks and and the western Ukies will fight the Russians to the last Polak, … and the last Ukie! Sweet, …
… this will not end well!
F.S.
Chas Freeman, a retired senior US diplomat, analyzes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US role, and the geopolitical fallout. “Everything we are doing, rather than accelerate an end to the fighting and some compromise, seems to be aimed at prolonging the fighting,”I Freeman says.
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Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine! … Let’s not forget Afghanistan:
Following 20 long years (2011-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the U.S.-led military coalition, which ended up delivering the country to the Taliban in August 2021, 23 million Afghans now face a devastating humanitarian crisis: severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse and unbearable family indebtedness. […]
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Devastation in Postwar Afghanistan“About a third (35%) of Americans say they would favor military action…even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.”
–Pew ResearchPublic Expresses Mixed Views of U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Public Expresses Mixed Views of U.S. Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead!
Madeleine (“We think the price is worth it.”) Albright, … has died at the age of 84. Lucifer rejoices!
Interesting commentary:
Question: do you believe that Poland will send forces into the Ukraine?
No, I don’t think the US is giving conflicting instructions to Kiev. The fact is that when we are negotiating with Ukraine, we are, in fact, indirectly negotiating with the United States. Because, it is clear that we are fighting not with Zelensky, but with the United States, now, on the territory of Ukraine. The United States is at war with us to the last Ukrainian, but the United States is at war nonetheless. Therefore, when we offer surrender to Zelensky, we offer it to Zelensky, and in response, through the mouth of Zelensky, the United States offers us to surrender. They say: “Well, you withdraw troops from Ukraine, clear the Crimea and Donbass, return them to Ukraine, and then we’ll talk.” So, it is clear that Zelensky himself cannot put forward such demands, they are simply absurd. …
… rest:
https://thesaker.is/rostislav-ishchenko-on-will-poland-invade-the-western-ukraine/Why did the new media just tell us/announce that Liberals and the NDP made a power sharing agreement?
——————————————————There currently is not much of a difference between Liberals and the “Andy Pinky Party”. Leadership of both parties are Devos Crowd groupies. This fact, for practical purposes, completely marginalizes Conservatives for at least next three years. Three years is probably sufficient amount of time to mold Canada to Devos Crowd liking cast. Stand by for Building Back Better Together! campaign, …
… difficult times ahead!
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Here we go, yet another backgrounder to the current Cirque du Ukraine. This time, by a Jordanian-American professor, Joseph Massad – Columbia University, interviewed by a Lebanese-American interviewer, seated in Lebanon. It’s about an hour long. Start is not the greatest, but it gets better, and overall it’s pretty good. Content itself is great, … and there are couple of informational gems delivered by the good professor. Slant is definitely Middle Eastern.
Lend your ear to this, … it’s quite broad ranging, link:
… enjoy,
F.S.
Huh? Another Ukrainian Führerina? The only one I am aware of is Christina Freeland, Canadian non-financial Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
Anyway, … meet Führerina Olena Semenyaka:
Meet Ukraine’s Azov Figurehead Olena Semenyaka, Europe’s Female Führer
… who knew?
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From Chris Hedges piece:
“Peace has been sacrificed for U.S. global hegemony.”
Yes, … but we must accredit this, too, to U.S. helpers, enablers, groupies: Poland, Hungary, the Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania. For just a worst example look up Poland – look up Poland-Russia/Soviet Union Wars! Without those regions – their populations intense dislike of anything Russia, … just perhaps, U.S. would never attempted to even try? Dunno, … but I did spent ~17years of my life in Central Europe, and witnessed the attitude of those enablers, first hand! I mean, population at large, …
… fwiw,
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Here we go, … ‘War Never Ends’ Blinken:
“We believe China in particular has a responsibility to use its influence with President Putin and to defend the international rules and principles that it professes to support. Instead, it appears that China is moving in the opposite direction by refusing to condemn this aggression, while seeking to portray itself as a neutral arbiter.” … “We will not hesitate to impose costs.” (my emphasis)
US Recklessly Eyes China as Target in Economic War
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Party in the CIA
I moved out to Langley recently
With a plain and simple dream
Wanna infiltrate some third-world place
And topple their regime
Those men in black with their matching suitcases
Where everything’s on a need-to-know basis
Agents got that swagger
Everyone so cloak and dagger …… continues:
A confused mixture of articles on US-Russia relation at this address:
American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA)
https://usrussiaaccord.org/… fwiw,
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More from John Helmer: … on Zelensky’s meeting with the officials from Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovenia in Kiev, Ukraine (… most likely not!) Snip:
According to another Polish source, “no head of the Polish security detail would allow the PM and the Deputy PM to travel together to a theatre of military operations. Especially after the close encounters in Georgia in 2008 when [President Lech] Kaczynski blamed the Russian Army for shooting at him. And if the head of the SOP [Polish State Protection Service, Służba Ochrony Państwa], allowed it, he should be fired.”
WHAT HAPPENED – MORE EVIDENCE ON THE ZELENSKY SUMMIT MEETING
WHAT HAPPENED – MORE EVIDENCE ON THE ZELENSKY SUMMIT MEETING
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… on a financial / investment note, … via JP Morgan, a clearly bullish trend is predicted over the next two weeks:
… “[t]he question of month-end and quarter-end rebalancing flows by multi-asset investors has again been resurfacing in our client conversations given the 11% decline in global and US equities in 1Q22 to-date … We expect to see significant flows by both monthly and quarterly rebalancing funds towards the end of this month … We estimate the potential rebalancing flow for the end of March at around $230bn out of bonds and into equities from multi-asset investors such as balanced mutual funds, US defined benefit pension funds, the Norwegian oil fund, the SNB and the GPIF. Investors have become the most overweight cash since March 2020 … We believe that the pending equity rebalancing flow by US defined benefit pension fund plans into quarter-end is likely a net buying of around $126bn. In other words, US defined benefit plans would need to buy $126bn of equities towards the end of the current quarter and sell a similar amount of bonds for their allocations to revert to end-December levels.”
In short, a real potential for rising bond yields – which means lower bond prices – will lead to a massive truck loads of investable assets flowing into global equities! Rejoice, …
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If following turns out to be true, … U.S./ Russia military combat will commence.
“NATO will strengthen its military contingent in Eastern Europe. One hundred thousand soldiers of the US army plus another forty thousand soldiers from the member countries of the Alliance will be deployed in Europe, mostly in the eastern air close to the crisis area between Ukraine and Russia. The go-ahead for the deployment of the contingent will be given on March 24 in Brussels at the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Europe and NATO. The two summits are expected to be attended by the US president, Joe Biden.”
… source:
NATO Sends 140,000 Troops To Eastern Europe. Face To face with Moscow
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Most revealing! Putin’s speech to national leaders, … just one snip:
“The collective West is trying to split our society, speculating on combat losses, on the socio-economic consequences of sanctions, to provoke a civil confrontation in Russia and, using its “fifth column,” seeks to achieve its goal. And the only goal, as I have already said, is the destruction of Russia.”
… enchilada:
https://m.vk.com/@580896205-putins-must-read-speech-prior-to-the-meeting-on-measures-of
… and so the only thing I can think of is Thucydides’ Trap at this juncture. Doom, …
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“The American war aim is not to spare Ukraine, but to ruin Russia. That takes time.
The danger is that the Russians won’t be able to end this war, and the Americans will do all they can to keep it going.”
Vladimir Putin had a meeting with representatives of Russian business community. Here is what he said to his oligarchs at that meeting of February 24th:
Putin: “First, this is the main point, so that this is clear. What is happening is a forced measure. There were simply no chances left for taking a different course of action. The security risks that had been created were so high that it was impossible to respond by other means. All attempts had come to nothing. Frankly speaking, I am even surprised – there was not one iota of progress on any issue. I would like to emphasise again that this was a forced measure because risks could have created for us to the extent that it would have been impossible to conceive how our country could even exist in the future. This is the first point.
Second, all of us, including you, understand the kind of world we live in, and we have been getting ready in certain ways for the restrictions and sanctions that are being imposed on us now. Nonetheless, what I am about to say is something that I consider extremely important. I would like to respond to what President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin said.
Russia remains part of the world economy, and to the extent that it remains part, we are not going to inflict damage on the system we feel ourselves to be a part of. We are not going to damage the system of the global economy that we are in, to the extent that we are in it. So, I think our partners should understand this and should not try to force us from this system. Nonetheless, restrictions will be imposed, even for political considerations.
In this context, I would like to appeal to you to be understanding of what is going on and cooperate with the Government to find ways to support production, the economy and jobs, though bearing in mind how things are shaping up.
I believe the goal of the Government and the authorities in general in the broadest sense of this word is, of course, to provide you with good conditions and ensure more freedom. There may be only one response – to ensure greater freedom of entrepreneurship, naturally, within a certain framework so that, as our colleagues put it, there is a certain amount of predictability from the Government but we expect predictability from businesses as well.
Obviously, we cannot predict all geopolitical risks but in relations between businesses and the Government, you certainly have the right to expect clear and consistent predictability from the Government. And, the most important point, it is necessary to be in touch at all times, to respond in a nuanced way to everything that is happening and to adjust our joint work whenever necessary.
I would like to thank you for what has been done up to now, even in these rather complicated conditions, and I hope that in the new conditions – although we cannot call them entirely new – but anyway at this stage we will work with the same solidarity and no less effectively.
… anyway, John Helmer on this – his latest screed:
WHAT JOSEPH STALIN SAID TO HIMSELF WHEN RUSSIA’S SURVIVAL WAS AT STAKE
WHAT JOSEPH STALIN SAID TO HIMSELF WHEN RUSSIA’S SURVIVAL WAS AT STAKE
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“… The crisis in Ukraine is just the latest example of an opportunity to point out the wrongs committed by the U.S. and its partners. No one should shrink from doing so, not even when whataboutism is used as a pejorative instead of as the badge of honor that it is.“
In Praise of ‘Whataboutism’
… stand-by for False Flag Attack. Yes. Any time now, … by Russia, of course!
“There is significant danger that the Ukraine, the UK or the U.S. will launch a false flag attack in Ukraine.
People have started to take note of the directional fear mongering that is coming from various ‘western’ officials.
The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport – 23:36 UTC · Mar 12, 2022
Setting the scene for a false flag?
Polish President:
If Putin uses weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, NATO will have to think seriously about what to do.You would have to be sub 100 IQ not to see what is going on.
To which I responded:
Moon of Alabama @MoonofA – 17:56 UTC · Mar 13, 2022
They are indeed doing this on all channels.
IMHO an upcoming false flag attempt to get NATO into the fight.
Historian and Russia expert Gilbert Doctorow points into the same direction:Warning: it is “highly likely” the United States is now about to carry out a ‘false flag’ operation in Ukraine in which it will accuse the Russians of using chemical weapons. “
Ukraine – Officials Announce False Flag Attack – Sanctions Hit Back
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/ukraine-officials-announce-false-flag-attack.html#moreAnyway, … more carefully I read the tea leaves from my morning Dirty Chai – black tea with espresso coffee, more I see that U.S. is trying hardest to make sure the next step is a much, much wider war!
… quietus!
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Alastair Crooke latest:
“The West has taken dominance of the ‘information space’ to new heights: consolidating the media; tightening its hold on information; marginalising the few investigative journalists that remain; and nullifying scepticism as examples of appeasement, or of “Putinism”. Freedom of online thought is disallowed; selective broadcast perspectives are removed or allowed (for example, pro neo-Nazi sympathies and politically-charged violence against Russians and Russia); and a monopoly over truth is established. So that when caught in falsehoods, any errant intrusion simply is algorithmically ‘disappeared’.”F.S.
Bear will dominate from now on:
https://static.seekingalpha.com/cdn/s3/uploads/getty_images/1305769484/image_1305769484.jpg?io=getty-c-w1536… so don’t get mauled!
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Well, here we go:
… and since it’s WAR, not stopping it:
https://realinvestmentadvice.com/war-bigger-shocks-in-inflation-recession-smaller-rates-shockF.S.
No scraping it twice! Once was enough, … latest:
TC Energy Corp. said on Tuesday its Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline project to carry Canadian oil to U.S. refineries will not be revived, even as politicians on both sides of the border call for its resurrection to help replace Russian oil imports to North America.
The United States on Tuesday banned Russian oil imports in retaliation to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a decision that is expected to worsen disruptions in the global energy market.
“The Keystone XL Pipeline Project was terminated and will not proceed,” a TC Energy spokesperson said in an email.
KXL would have carried 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude from Alberta to U.S. refineries, but ran into years of regulatory delays and fierce environmental opposition before ultimately being scrapped.
