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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle March 12 2022 #104034
    John Day
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    I’ll try again to suggest that All-Y’all look at the Vineyard of the Saker blog from 3/11/22 under this heading. I cannot get a post with the link to stick, nor would it post last night: The Russian statement is very good, and notes weaponization work on Plague and Tularemia, among others…

    Sitrep: UNSC on biolabs in the Ukraine + Russia Transcript

    @Formerly T-Bear: Gold might work better than $US as an exchange reference, after fluctuations calm down, right? Like in the olden days…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 11 2022 #104003
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    All of the medical and scientific concerns we had in 2020 have been born out. The “vaccines” cause excess deaths in people, just like they did in lab animals.COVID-19 Deep Dive Part II: Vaccine Complications (Exhaustive scientific detail and well organized analysis)
    Our governments are compelling us to inject poison into our bodies
    ICENI Bulletins
    COVID-19 Deep Dive Part II: Vaccine Complications
    The Historical Failure of SARS Vaccines Ever since SARS-CoV was discovered, vaccine researchers have attempted to develop a SARS vaccine. For two decades, this research has failed to produce any results. One SARS vaccine study dated to 2012 shows the results of employing an inactivated whole virus or virus-like particle vaccine in a murine model. The anim…
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    2 days ago · 49 likes · 20 comments · Spartacus

    I figured they would have to scrap it when they set the timeline for March, back in late 2021, when Omicron was already circulating and Delta was declining.
    Austria Scraps Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Law

    Austria Scraps Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Law

    ​The “WAR!”​ control narrative allows for any change in policy by any government. It is the BEST control narrative, until the pressure has to be maintained by, actual war… Germany reactivates coal power plants amid Russian gas supply threats https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/germany-reactivates-coal-power-plants-amid-russian-gas-supply-threats/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 11 2022 #104002
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    Lynx:
    ​Oopsie on the very last part of this professional think-tank analysis.​

    How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”​

    ​According to their analysts, Russia remains a powerful adversary for the United States in certain fundamental sectors. To handle this opposition, the USA and their allies will have to pursue a joint long-term strategy which exploits Russia’s vulnerabilities. So Rand analyses the various means with which to unbalance Russia, indicating for each the probabilities of success, the benefits, the cost, and the risks for the USA.
    ​ ​Rand analysts estimate that Russia’s greatest vulnerability is that of its economy, due to its heavy dependency on oil and gas exports. The income from these exports can be reduced by strengthening sanctions and increasing the energy exports of the United States. The goal is to oblige Europe to diminish its importation of Russian natural gas, and replace it by liquefied natural gas transported by sea from other countries.
    ​ ​Another way of destabilising the Russian economy in the long run is to encourage the emigration of qualified personnel, particularly young Russians with a high level of education.
    ​ ​In the ideological and information sectors, it would be necessary to encourage internal contestation and at the same time, to undermine Russia’s image on the exterior, by excluding it from international forums and boycotting the international sporting events that it organizes.
    ​ ​In the geopolitical sector, arming Ukraine would enable the USA to exploit the central point of Russia’s exterior vulnerability, but this would have to be carefully calculated in order to hold Russia under pressure without slipping into a major conflict, which it would win. https://www.globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia/5678456

    ​War documents, “grain of salt”, but supported by findings ofUkrainian/Azov troop concentrations and supply preparations in Mariupol…​UKRAINIAN NATIONAL GUARD WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK DONBASS – THE SECRET DOCUMENTS FOUND BY THE RUSSIAN MOD

    Ukrainian National Guard Was About To Attack Donbass – The Secret Documents Found By The Russian MoD

    ​Oopsie on the very last part of this professional think-tank analysis.​
    How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”​
    ​According to their analysts, Russia remains a powerful adversary for the United States in certain fundamental sectors. To handle this opposition, the USA and their allies will have to pursue a joint long-term strategy which exploits Russia’s vulnerabilities. So Rand analyses the various means with which to unbalance Russia, indicating for each the probabilities of success, the benefits, the cost, and the risks for the USA.
    ​ ​Rand analysts estimate that Russia’s greatest vulnerability is that of its economy, due to its heavy dependency on oil and gas exports. The income from these exports can be reduced by strengthening sanctions and increasing the energy exports of the United States. The goal is to oblige Europe to diminish its importation of Russian natural gas, and replace it by liquefied natural gas transported by sea from other countries.
    ​ ​Another way of destabilising the Russian economy in the long run is to encourage the emigration of qualified personnel, particularly young Russians with a high level of education.
    ​ ​In the ideological and information sectors, it would be necessary to encourage internal contestation and at the same time, to undermine Russia’s image on the exterior, by excluding it from international forums and boycotting the international sporting events that it organises.
    ​ ​In the geopolitical sector, arming Ukraine would enable the USA to exploit the central point of Russia’s exterior vulnerability, but this would have to be carefully calculated in order to hold Russia under pressure without slipping into a major conflict, which it would win. https://www.globalresearch.ca/rand-corp-how-destroy-russia/5678456

    ​War documents, “grain of salt”, but supported by findings ofUkrainian/Azov troop concentrations and supply preparations in Mariupol…​UKRAINIAN NATIONAL GUARD WAS ABOUT TO ATTACK DONBASS – THE SECRET DOCUMENTS FOUND BY THE RUSSIAN MOD

    Ukrainian National Guard Was About To Attack Donbass – The Secret Documents Found By The Russian MoD

    “Always Look On The Bright Side Of…”The Upside of a Crushing Recession , Charles Hugh Smith​  ​Only recessions which defy the usual tricks of monetary easing (create trillions of new dollars) and fiscal stimulus (give away a few of those new trillions) have the power to cleanse a system clogged with dysfunction, waste, fraud, corruption and financial zombies that soak of resources while doing little more than enriching the few at the expense of the many. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar22/recession3-22.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 11 2022 #104000
    John Day
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    No new picture today: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/vulnerable-lifelines?s=w

    Cutting and choking supply lines has become the preferred means of warfare recently. It is less risky to use than bombers and tanks, and cheaper, too, but it loses effectiveness over time, due to work-around solutions to get supplies.

    Controlling and threatening to cut supply lines is much preferred in the long run, and it’s what the Petrobuck-Empire has long done in places like the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama Canal. The Petrobuck transaction system has assured that the world would trade goods-and-services for conjured petrobucks, and recycle profits into US government IOUs (T.bills). This kept the flow of “free” goods and services coming to Washington and New York. It paid for the US military global-currency-regime enforcers (Hi Iraq! Hi Libya! Hi Venezuela!)

    The Petrobuck system not only paid for America-the-Globocop, but it simultaneously fed “Globo-Cap” for free, since Globo-Cop was already paying for the system.

    Globo-Cap made the $US system even more expensive for global users by exploiting cycles of debt to lend-cheap in $US, then raise interest rates, collapse markets, and buy assets in tributary countries in bankruptcy for pennies on the lent-dollar. Countries like China and Thailand had to pay more for insurance of various forms against this predation, and/or become predators when they could.

    So the Petrobuck financial system gleaned something on the money side from every international trade across global supply lines, and the American Globo-Cop military

    across the globe enforced the continuity of the system without successful challenge (see Iraq, Libya; Venezuela).

    Te answer to this sucess was to extract more and more vigorously, and without end, and to bomb countries into the stone age if they sold oil for anything but $US, or threatened the Petrobuck-extraction-system in any other substantial way.

    The tribute from the empire made manufacturing in America too expensive by comparison, except for F-35s and nuclear aircraft carriers and subs. American Industry got shipped to China, which was good for Globo-Cap profits and Chinese industrialization

    Russia, China and Iran got tired of being milked in this scheme, and insulted for their efforts. So did other countries, but quietly. The rampant hubris of global imperialism was unchecked for decades, until it just could not subdue “The Graveyard Of Empires”, Afghanistan. Afghanistan had done nothing to insult the Petrobuck-Empire after helping Americans end the Soviet Empire, but got falsely accused of helping an American CIA asset from Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden, who said he had nothing to do with 9/11, drop the WTC on that day of magic (see WTC-7 freefall at 5:20 PM).

    Afghanistan finally bade the empire farewell in September 2021, as the empire left parting gifts of planes, vehicles, weapons and money.

    Like any long-corrupted financial regime, especially one that requires exponential growth to remain stable, the Petrobuck regime has been very unstable at all levels since September 2008, managed on an increasing IV drip of faith-based-money from the Federal Reserve Banks.

    “Repo window” of overnight lending between big banks started to fail in September 2019, because they could not trust each other for a few hours on the good-collateral of T-bills. The Fed took it over. That means that faith-in-the-Fed is holding the global financial system together.

    Making sure that no alternative arises has been a big part of the defense of the system, but there are nascent systems in use between Russia, China, Iran and probably India, and they are being refined with use. At some point, some system will be a better choice, especially for a country that might someday disagree with Imperial policy.

    Some countries passed that point long ago. Russia just passed that point definitively, and China has her toe in the water…

    The problem now faced by Globo-Cop and Globo-Cap is that the legacy global financial system has lost the carrot, is all-stick and looks like it has fallen-and-can’t-get-up. The economic threats of being cut off from the system are being applied as an act of war to a critical mass of system participants, who have been making alternative arrangements for well over a decade, and have started using them. The crashing of the global financial system by these acts of war invites the activation of the existing alternative arrangements much more widely. https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/by-enforcing-sanctions-on-russia-swift-may-commit-suicide/

    Globo-Cap will no longer have the nations of the world backing the Petrobuck global financial regime, and assuring it’s cost-free (except bribes) skimming operation.

    This operation has also relied on cheap supply lines, long, complex, cheap, efficient supply lines across borders with shipping, trucks and rail. All of those require monetary coordination, governmental coordination, cheap fuel, ships, trains and trucks, and competent workers at all levels.

    Italian truck drivers will strike as high fuel costs make them unable to fulfill contracts. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italian-truckers-declare-force-majeure-over-gas-pains-halt-deliveries-starting-monday

    Maximizing global profits has cut investments and resiliency in these chains. Oops!

    War is shocking oil prices, which have been climbing inexorably for 18 months, anyway.

    50 years ago most people ate things grown in their area, and staples like rice, beans and wheat, which stored and transported well. Cheapening of global supply chains led to competition from farmers thousands of miles away, even for fresh fruit. Globo-Cap profited, not the distant peasant-farmers. Meanwhile, factory-farmed wheat and corn from Kansas put small Mexican farmers out of business and they had to sell their farms (to Globo-Cap). Russia has had to become more self sufficient in the past 8 years of significant US and EU sanctions. Russia appears to have become the most self-sufficient country in the world, as the US was in WW-2.

    This remains bad for Globo-Cap. Globo-Cap keeps trying to break Russia and accidentally inducing Russia to become immune to it’s attacks.

    Now that global supply chains are weaponized in global-financial-warfare, Globalism is losing its luster. It always had a lot of hidden costs, born by others, especially national governments, supported by taxpaying workers/consumers. Those costs are now apparent as inavailability of necessities, due to broken global supply chains.

    Since Russia has become the most resilient country against global supply chain interdictions, Russia becomes the natural example to follow, but it could have been 1930s America, just as well. Nationalism, where national governments control border flows of goods, and collect tariffs, and make deals with other nations, reduces profits for Globo-Cap and increases local economic solutions to supply of the necessities of life.

    Currently, weaponization of the $US and weaponization of global-supply-chain vulnerabilities seem to mark the end days of the global Petrobuck empire and the resurgence of national, regional and local self-sufficiency as the antidote, which will allow for survival. There are inefficiencies and parasitic extraction introduced with each hierarchical layer of control. Local economy is more efficient without distant regulation and extraction. The need to get some things from afar will continue, and has to be dealt with, but that tail should not wag the dog of supplying humans with food, shelter, water, clothing and fuel, the necessities.

    We can do our part to meet our needs and the needs of friends, family and neighbors.

    Grow some vegetables. Do some favors.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 11 2022 #103995
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    @Chooch: Hindu Machine is ubiquitous and nobody knows anything about it, except people I talk to have seen it at work in the world, in the oddest places, like US-occupied Iraq.
    Most discreet.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_India

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 11 2022 #103976
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    @Ilargi: The $US is “at the end of it’s rope”, but not off the end yet. Grip weakening; slipping…
    Russia, China, Iran and Turkey can arrange something else, can’t they?
    They have it set up. They need to further-implement and debug it.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/enforcing-sanctions-russia-swift-may-commit-suicide

    @Dr. D. Rich: Time will tell about Tulsi Gabbard. She was right-on with me, maintaining complete eye-to-eye focus 3/2/20, when I explained to her at her Austin campaign stop about HCQ doses needed to treat Americans for COVID.

    I have been following her since 2010, when I became aware of her as an exceptional politician while working in Hawaii. I have watched closely. She is consistent so far.
    This is very hard to fake, almost impossible.

    The risk is that she advances politically and is then captured and turned.
    I am worried about the influence of “The Hindu Machine”, which is a thing in the world, though Americans don’t know it.
    Her security at the campaign stop appeared to be 100% competent, low-key, Hindu machine Indian guys, like you would see in Delhi.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103920
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    ​Get the picture yet? It’s a new picture.; a different world order.

    ​ ​First, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declined to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then, India followed suit – as the Modi government attempted to balance its historic ties with Moscow and its strategic partnership with Washington.
    ​ ​Now, Saudi and UAE leaders are refusing to take Biden’s calls as the US president tries to contain surging oil prices, according to the Wall Street Journal, which adds that the Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled “they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere.”
    ​ ​”There was some expectation of a phone call, but it didn’t happen,” said one US official of a planned discussion between Biden and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “It was part of turning on the spigot [of Saudi oil].”
    ​ ​The U.A.E.’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan also ghosted Biden in recent weeks according to Middle East and US officials
    ​ ​Yet, both Prince Mohammed and Sheikh Mohammed took phone calls from Russian President Vladimir Putin after declining to speak with Biden, according to the WSJ. They also spoke with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/saudis-uae-refuse-speak-biden-over-ukraine-situation

    ​The Pentagram is openly afraid to provoke Russia by providing old Soviet era fighter jets to Ukraine.​
    ​ ​On Tuesday, Poland announced that it was ready to deploy “immediately and free of charge” its fleet of MiG-29 jets to a NATO base in Germany and hand them over to the US military. In return, Washington would have provided Warsaw with “used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities” to backfill its fleet.​..
    ​“We do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one,” the official noted, adding that Washington would continue to discuss the issue with Poland and other NATO member-states. At the same time, he said that Poland was in its right to give its own warplanes to Ukraine, adding that the decision was “ultimately one for the Polish government.”
    https://www.rt.com/news/551512-pentagon-poland-fighter-jets/

    ​CONTROL-NARRATIVE PIVOT ALERT:​

    The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that includes $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine and European allies, and would fund the federal government through to Sept. 30.
    Hours earlier, Democratic lawmakers scrapped the bill’s initial $15.6 billion COVID-19 aid provision, marking a major setback for the Biden administration who had pushed for weeks to have the additional funds approved.
    “We’ve got a war going on in Ukraine,” Pelosi told reporters…
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-passes-15-trillion-spending-bill-136-billion-ukraine

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103919
    John Day
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    Another picture of slow cabinet-grade-wall progress
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/just-passed-it?s=w

    Moon of Alabama Germany), and other sites call out the disinformation about Russian bombing of a maternity hospital.
    It was recently repurposed as a military installation, and the moms, staff and babies had to go elsewhere.
    On March 7 some time after 20:00 UTC the maternity hospital #1 in Mariupol was mention at a UNSC meeting as being occupied by the Ukrainian military.
    On March 7 21:01 UTC Lenta.ru published a report from a reporter in Donbas who had interviewed someone who said that the hospital was occupied by possibly Azov or other military forces.
    On March 9 about 15:30 UTC the hospital gets bombed and completely destroyed but with astonishing few alleged casualties none of which are documented despite video records taken on the scene shortly after the incident.
    Shortly thereafter President Zelensky uses the bombing to publicly press for a ‘western’ enforced ‘no-fly zone’ over Ukraine. (There is currently a Russian enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine.)
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/disarming-ukraine-day-15-a-curious-hospital-bombing-and-no-fly-zone-pressure.html#more

    Moon of Alabama has a fairly comprehensive overview of the broader political and economic war, excerpted here:
    The Sanction Backlash Will Push The ‘West’ To Accept Russia’s Demands
    ​In a move that must have been quite humiliating for the White House the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE declined to take calls from the U.S. president. They want the U.S. to designate the Houthi movement in Yemen, which they have been unsuccessful to suppress, a terrorist group:

    ​ ​One hopes that the Biden administration does not fall for these disgusting bribery schemes but he has backed himself into a corner, cutting off Russian oil to punish Putin for a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, with no alternative but to horsetrade with autocrats over the fate of Yemenis a half a world away. If this is geopolitics, heaven forgive us.
    ​ ​I don’t think that the above is the only request the Saudis and UAE leaders will have. They are now in a situation in which they can demand ever more.
    Likewise humiliating is the administration’s opening of talks with Venezuela which it had sanctioned all around in its attempt to regime change the country. Caracas has released two U.S. nationals from prison. It is willing to talk. But before providing oil to the U.S. market it will demand the lifting of all sanctions and the return of all its assets the U.S. and UK have confiscated. Biden will have difficulties to find a Congress majority in support of such steps.
    ​ ​The return of the nuclear deal with Iran, which would enable more oil output, hangs in balance as Russia demands sanction exemptions for its trade with Iran.
    ​ ​The U.S. had attempted to press Poland to deliver its old Mig-29 fighter jets to the Ukraine. In Russia’s eyes that would have been a direct Polish aggression against it. Warsaw found a smart way to avoid that. It offered to deliver the jets to a U.S. airbase in Germany. The tar baby would thereby stick to the U.S. itself. The Pentagon declined to accept that. The jet transfer is now most likely dead.
    ​ ​The U.S. and Europe are only starting to feel the secondary consequences of the all out economic war they hastily initiated against Russia. The war will cause recessions not only in Russia but also all over the ‘west’. This while Russia has yet to announce its counter sanctions. There are many steps Russia could take to hurt the ‘west’ by withholding this or that resource. It is likely to start slowly to then increase the pressure step by step.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/the-sanction-backlash-will-push-the-west-to-accept-russias-demands.html#more

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103909
    John Day
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    Nate Hagens sent me that video yesterday, too.

    Hi Nate!

    Grow vegetables, Store rice, beans, salt, fuel, water and cooking oil.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103908
    John Day
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    The Curtis Yarvin piece from Boscohorowitz goes really well with the Show your pride, get vaccinated, support Ukraine image up near the top of today’s stack.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103907
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    CONTROL NARRATIVE PIVOT:

    “This is the beast that Putin is,” Pelosi said.

    • Dems Drop Covid-19 Funds, Clear Way For OK Of $13.6b Ukraine Aid (AP)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 10 2022 #103906
    John Day
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    From far, far away Boscohorowitz recommended this article, which is a lot like CJ Hopkins, but longer, more subtile and maybe more erudite and learned.

    https://graymirror.substack.com/p/enjoying-your-russian-civil-war?s=r
    The paradox of US foreign policy is that US foreign policy is best modeled as if it was made first, for the benefit of the US foreign-policy establishment; second, for the entertainment of the US media audience; third, for the benefit of foreigners; and fourth, for the benefit of Americans. Once we see that anything that benefits the establishment and delights the viewers will happen, a key has turned in a lock.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 9 2022 #103856
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    I am able to access The Saker Blog now, in rural Yoakum Tx. This may just be on-again/off-again, and it’s the same Google Chrome on the same laptop.
    This rapidly spoken-in-Russian 8 minute video, from somebody with friends and family on both sides of the civil war is worth watching, mainly because he says what I say, so I respect him a lot.

    Ukrainian Front – strategy without tactics (MUST SEE)

    🙂

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 9 2022 #103840
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    @Ilargi, regarding the “illusion warfare” link.
    What does “33” imply or denote?
    The reference eludes me.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 9 2022 #103839
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    Google chrome won’t let me on the Saker blog today.
    “Privacy Error”
    https://thesaker.is/latest-articles/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 8 2022 #103807
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    Pepe Escobar begins the big-picture financial-regime-war discussion:

    …a decree on “foreign exchange obligations to foreign creditors” which allows Russian companies to settle their debts in rubles is already an eye-opener.
    Economist Yevgeny Yushchuk defined it as a “nuclear retaliatory landmine”.
    It all revolves around a new presidential decree, signed last Saturday: “On Temporary Order of Obligations to Certain Foreign Creditors”.
    It works like this: to pay for loans obtained from a sanctioning country exceeding 10 million rubles a month, a Russian company does not have to make a transfer. They ask for a Russian bank to open a correspondent account in rubles under the creditor’s name. Then the company transfers rubles to this account at the current exchange rate, and it’s all perfectly legal.
    Payments in foreign currency only go through the Central Bank on a case-by-case basis. They must receive special permission from the Government Commission for the Control of Foreign Investment.
    As I discussed with Michael Hudson, what this means in practice is that the bulk of the $478 billion or so in Russian foreign debt may “disappear” from the balance sheets of Western banks. The equivalent in rubles will be deposited somewhere, in Russian banks, but Western banks, as it stands, can’t access it..

    [Russians can buy from international sites on their credit cards, with this new Chinese-finance modification]

    Sberbank confirmed it will issue Mir cards co-badged with China’s UnionPay. Alfa-Bank – the largest private bank in Russia – will also issue UnionPay credit and debit cards. 40% of Russians already have a Mir card for domestic use. Now they will also be able to use it internationally – via UnionPay’s enormous network.

    [Escobar also talks about the JCPOA negotiations, set to reopen global markets to Iranin oil, but Iran’s free trade with Russia is critical to that finalization, written into it long ago. The US can’t sanction signatory countries, which impairs the deal. The US, after cursing, starving, attacking and attempting regime change in Venezuela, now sends a delegation to Caracas to discuss reducing the beatings in return for Venezuelain oil, until the US gts things back to “normal”. Venezuela will want her gold back from London, and may want restitution for tankers taken by the American navy, and other little things, maybe some written guarantees.]

    Oil and gas markets, meanwhile, are in total panic. No Western trader wants to buy Russian gas; and that has nothing to do with Gazprom, which continues to duly supply customers that signed contracts with fixed tariffs, from $100 to $300 (others are paying over $3,000 in the spot market).
    European banks are less and less willing to grant loans for energy trade with Russia because of the sanctions hysteria…
    ..Europe imports roughly 400 billion cubic meters of gas a year, with Russia responsible for 200 billion. There’s no way Europe can find $200 billion anywhere else to replace Russia – be it in Algeria, Qatar or Turkmenistan. Not to mention its lack of necessary LNG terminals.
    ..So obviously the top beneficiary of all the mess will be the US…

    ​..​The Russophobic all-out attack on Russian exports also targets palladium – vital for electronics, from laptops to aircraft systems. Prices are skyrocketing. Russia controls 50% of the market. Then there are noble gases – neon, helium, argon, xenon – essential for production of microchips. Titanium has risen by a quarter and both Boeing – by a third – and Airbus – by two thirds – rely on titanium from Russia.
    ​ ​Oil, food, fertilizers, strategic metals, neon gas for semiconductors: all burning at the stake, at the feet of Witch Russia.​..

    ​..The key issue for the whole Global South to digest is that the “West” is not committing suicide. What we have here, essentially, is the Empire of Lies willfully destroying German industry and the European economy.​

    Russian judo tears the West apart

    ​Michael Hudson disagrees with Pepe by a shade… ​The American Empire self-destructs

    ​ ​Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion…

    …During the half-century since the United States went off gold in 1971, the world’s central banks have operated on the Dollar Standard, holding their international monetary reserves in the form of U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. bank deposits and U.S. stocks and bonds. The resulting Treasury-bill Standard has enabled America to finance its foreign military spending and investment takeover of other countries simply by creating dollar IOUs. U.S. balance-of-payments deficits end up in the central banks of payments-surplus countries as their reserves, while Global South debtors need dollars to pay their bondholders and conduct their foreign trade.
    ​ ​This monetary privilege – dollar seignorage – has enabled U.S. diplomacy to impose neoliberal policies on the rest of the world, without having to use much military force of its own except to grab Near Eastern oil.

    ​ ​The recent escalation of U.S. sanctions blocking Europe, Asia and other countries from trade and investment with Russia, Iran and China has imposed enormous opportunity costs – the cost of lost opportunities – on U.S. allies. And the recent confiscation of the gold and foreign reserves of Venezuela, Afghanistan and now Russia,[1] along with the targeted grabbing of bank accounts of wealthy foreigners (hoping to win their hearts and minds, enticed by the hope for the return of their sequestered accounts), has ended the idea that dollar holdings – or now also assets in sterling and euro NATO satellites of the dollar – are a safe investment haven when world economic conditions become shaky.​..

    ..​But U.S. officials are forcing Russia, China and other nations not locked into the U.S. orbit to see the writing on the wall and overcome whatever hesitancy they had to de-dollarize.​..

    (But WHY?)​ ..​U.S. diplomats themselves have chosen to end international dollarization, while helping Russia build up its own means of self-reliant agricultural and industrial production. This global fracture process actually has been going on for some years, starting with the sanctions blocking America’s NATO allies and other economic satellites from trading with Russia. For Russia, these sanctions had the same effect that protective tariffs would have had.​..

    ..By imposing sanctions on the richest Russians closest to Putin, U.S. officials hoped to induce them to oppose his breakaway from the West, and thus to serve effectively as NATO agents-of-influence. But for Russian billionaires, their own country is starting to look safest.
    ​ ​For many decades now, the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury have fought against gold recovering its role in international reserves. But how will India and Saudi Arabia view their dollar holdings as Biden and Blinken try to strong-arm them into following the U.S. “rules-based order” instead of their own national self-interest? The recent U.S. dictates have left little alternative but to start protecting their own political autonomy by converting dollar and euro holdings into gold….

    ..The consequences were anticipated. The neocons in control of U.S. foreign policy simply didn’t care….

    ..​What foreign countries have not done for themselves to replace the IMF, World Bank and other strongarms of U.S. diplomacy, American politicians are forcing them to do. Instead of European, Near Eastern and Global South countries breaking away as they calculate their own long-term economic interests, America is driving them away, as it has done with Russia and China.​..

    ..The energy and food price squeeze is hitting Global South countries especially hard, coinciding with their own Covid-19 problems and the looming dollarized debt service coming due. Something must give. How long will these countries impose austerity to pay foreign bondholders?
    ​ ​How will the U.S. and European economies cope in the face of their sanctions against imports of Russian gas and oil, cobalt, aluminum, palladium and other basic materials​?​American diplomats have made a list of raw materials that their economy desperately needs and which therefore are exempt from the trade sanctions being imposed. This provides Mr. Putin a handy list of U.S. pressure points..​.

    ..​But the final breakaway from NATO’s adventurism must come from within the United States itself. As this year’s midterm elections approach, politicians will find a fertile ground in showing U.S. voters that the price inflation led by gasoline and energy is a policy byproduct of the Biden Administration’s blocking of Russian oil and gas exports. (Bad news for owners of big SUV gas guzzlers!)

    ​https://thesaker.is/america-shoots-its-own-dollar-empire-in-economic-attack-on-russia/

    ​ ​Within hours of Joe Biden announcing a far-reaching ban on all US imports of Russian oil – while warning Americans that gas prices are about to “go up further” – Vladimir Putin is reported to have signed his own counter-measure decree.
    ​ ​Russia’s RIA news agency is reporting that the new decree blocks all exports and raw materials from Russia “of certain materials” – with state media reports noting the specific list will be made public in two days.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/putin-signs-countermeasure-decree-limiting-russian-exports-after-bidens-russian-oil-import

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 8 2022 #103806
    John Day
    Participant

    There’s another picture of the cabinet-plywood walls progressing in the living-dining area
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/financial-biological-and-nuclear?s=w

    Financial, Biological And Nuclear Weapons
    Going for Broke, and Getting There

    Gilbert Doctorow has a lot of points about the war in Ukraine which you won’t hear from CNN. “You Won’t Know What Hit You”

    ​ ​ Russia has received documentation from Ukrainian health authorities on the production of biological weapons (anthrax, Siberian plague and much more) by Ukrainian labs in Kharkiv and elsewhere in cooperation with the United States. Stocks of such weapons were being stored in direct violation of international conventions. On 24 February, in advance of the start of Russia’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, the Ukrainian health authorities destroyed these illicit biological weapons. However, Russia has obtained the official documentation certifying this destruction of what should never have been there. Moscow is now studying this documentation, which indicates United States participation in the development of the biological weapons and will publish the incriminating documents, starting from yesterday.
    ​ ​Russia has also obtained documentation proving that Ukraine, in cooperation with the United States, was since the presidency of Petro Petrushenko, actively developing nuclear weapons, including “dirty” nuclear devices using readily available fuel from its reactors. Such activity was going on in the Zaporozhye nuclear plants, and it is very likely that the fire reported at a ‘training unit’ adjacent to an active reactor two days ago related to destruction of incriminating papers, if it was not otherwise a ‘false flag’ operation to allege a Russian attack on the power station, in violation of international law.
    ​ ​From this list, the most threatening to European peace in the immediate days ahead is point 2, regarding Ukrainian aircraft based outside of Ukraine and being assigned missions to fly back into Ukrainian air space to thwart Russia’s ongoing military offensive. This bears directly on the patently insane plans of Secretary of State Blinken to allow the Poles to transfer to Kiev, its stock of Soviet era MIGs for missions into Ukraine.

    You won’t know what hit you and why

    ​From Polish News: ​(The ball’s in your court, Joe…, Joe? Hey Joe!)

    “The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations with the President and the Government of the Republic of Poland, are ready to immediately and free of charge transfer all their MIG-29 planes to the base in Ramstein and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America” – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

    “At the same time, Poland is asking the United States of America to provide it with used aircraft with similar operational capabilities. Poland is ready to immediately agree on the terms of the purchase of these machines,” ​…

    ​https://polishnews.co.uk/russias-attack-on-ukraine-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-polish-authorities-are-ready-to-hand-over-the-mig-29-planes-to-the-us/#google_vignette

    ​SouthFront says Russian and DPR forces have kettled Mariupol and have started “mopping up” operations. (The Saker confirms this.)

    ​https://southfront.org/ldglfdlg098986/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 7 2022 #103716
    John Day
    Participant

    Michael Hudson has a piece on the Western financial regime’s suicide by attacking Russia on N.C.

    America Shoots Its Own Dollar Empire in Economic Attack on Russia

    Gold, too. Russian GOLD is no good anymore.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russian-gold-barred-worlds-largest-gold-market

    Gold has always been accepted, even during world wars, by the other side…

    Who is writing this script. It is very bad for the US/NATO interests.
    Perfidy…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 7 2022 #103701
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ This article looks into the abyss of a world which suddenly finds itself more threatened by a revocable-dollar as reserve currency, and may soon have better options​.
    Russia’s central bank had $US 630 billion in reserves a week ago, then suddenly, the US revoked those reserves, revoked the validity of those IOUs, made the dollars cease to exist in that moment. Only the US can decide to reinstate those promises, but why should it do so? It’s like Google cancelling you for an unspecified “violation”. You find that you do not have something that you own, even though you gave up a lot that you did seem to own, in the deal to “own” it.
    Which countries are moving to something else, or about to do so? Saudi Arabia is on the list…
    On the Cusp of an Economic Singularity
    https://doomberg.substack.com/p/on-the-cusp-of-an-economic-singularity?s=r

    The War on Humanity
    The Empire doesn’t care about the Ukrainians anymore than they care about the people in their own countries. It is about maintaining control over humanity.

    The War on Humanity…

    ​Steve Kirsch, ​ License to kill
    There’s no doubt about it: the vaccine companies have a license to kill. They can kill as many people as they want and nobody in America is going to stop them. It’s all perfectly legal.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/license-to-kill?s=r

    In December 2020 two engineers with Moderna leaked information that Moderna mRNA gene-therapy “vaccines” were having batches of secret ingredients added manually and not documented in the process, as a matter of course, due to “secret ingredients in adjuvants”. the engineers found these to be insertions for a gene that would promote cancer, which lipid micelles would target the liver, and recessive genes, to target the ovaries, which would lead to female infertility, especially in subsequent generations. Recent findings confirm these allegations. Thanks Luc.
    https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/lasting-legacy-of-trojan-horses?s=r

    Judge Unseals 400 Pages of Evidence, Clears Way for Pfizer Whistleblower Lawsuit
    A whistleblower lawsuit alleging fraud during Pfizer’s COVID vaccine trials is moving forward, after a district court judge unsealed the complaint, including 400 pages of exhibits.
    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/judge-evidence-pfizer-whistleblower-lawsuit/?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 7 2022 #103698
    John Day
    Participant

    Beans sprouting in garden, transitioning to spring
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/extralegal-proceedings?s=w

    What is going on in Ukraine is puzzling when compared to the US invasion of Iraq, “shock and awe”, destroying all of the infrastructure and using explosives against anything that moved or didn’t move. It’s different.

    It’s less difficult to comprehend with a little shift of perspective. If the Russian goals actually are to intervene in the Ukrainian civil war, on the side that has been attacked for 8 years, after declaring independence, and to rid Ukraine of the NATO/US backed nazi forces attacking them, to the benefit of the rest of the people of Ukraine and Russia, then it makes more sense.

    Ukrainian forces dug-in deeply in Mariupol won’t let civilians leave, but are shelling other Ukrainian civilians in the region, inviting counterattacks, which will kill Ukrainian civilians, which is good for who?

    The Russian and Donbass separatist forces are being very patient and selective, and are avoiding damage to cities. Water and electricity are still working in most cities, and gas is flowing through pipelines.

    The narrative in the west has been sold very well to most populations, but inquiring minds still want to know. Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, who is careful and very conservative, but not a sycophant has tried very hard to get at what the facts may be and has come up with a remarkably similar perspective to mine, with the same motivation. Moon of Alabama, a German blogger, has raised that point. An important factor in Zelensky-the-peace-with-Russia-candidate’s transformation may be that he met the Azov battalion, who would not take orders from him, and threatened his life if he acted against what their stated goals for the nation were, repeatedly, consistently. Yarosh: if Zelensky betrays Ukraine, he will lose not his position, but his life

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/zelensky-and-the-fascists-he-will-hang-on-some-tree-on-khreshchatyk.html

    When I see Zelensky saying that “he won’t negotiate with a gun to his head” and also say that “the only route to peace is through a direct negotiation between him and the Russians”, I think I understand his meaning. If he can be separated from those with a gun to his head, he can then negotiate for peace.

    Andrei at Vineyard of the Saker is battle fatigued at this point, being a Russian in the west, but explains in more detail the Russian objectives, as I just did, and how the events on the ground make sense, as I just did, but in more and better detail. Importantly, the Russian forces much prefer patience to harming civilians, or allowing civilians to be harmed. We Americans might be this kindly disposed to Canadians in a similar situation. Day #10 of War, update with perspective.

    Day 10 of the Russian special operation in Banderastan

    Moon of Alabama had a piece yesterday, updating the glacial tightening of Russian military encirclements and some special actions, but also the ethnic and religious differences of different parts of “Ukraine”, which are good tags for the hostilities seen between groups thrown together in a “country”, which could not work together to become a nation. This is an old imperial policy. Modern Ukraine was pieced together to serve German, and then Soviet interests beginning in WW-1, through to the USSR days of Khrushchev, who added Crimea to help a political deal work. The old religious boundaries reflect multiple different perceptions of nationality within the country. Galicia is important.

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/disarming-ukraine-day-9-europe-increases-its-own-losses.html#more

    Again, to understand the inscrutable Russian, you have to listen to them… They kept saying the same thing, politely, for a long time. Turns out they meant it.

    Scott Ritter says the Russian president is working from a 2007 playbook, when he warned European leaders of the need for a new security framework to replace the system built by the U.S. and NATO.

    Putin: Crazy Like a Fox

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 6 2022 #103653
    John Day
    Participant

    @D.Benton Smith: I have been reading what you have been writing, and so has “deflationista”, who seems to attack you in multiple posts for it.

    If this participant, who I postulate to be a hybrid entity for hire, within an operation to influence public perceptions through the internet, attacks your evidence that MK-Ultra was real and is still in existence and is potentially linked to “pizzagate”, then it seems worthy of more attention, no?

    You may be hitting a nerve with the deep-snakes,.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 4 2022 #103503
    John Day
    Participant

    @D.Benton Smith: Thanks. I agree.

    Going back out to plant 2 varieties of pinto beans in 2 different rows and see how they perform.
    It’s a competition.
    I pruned the rest of the fruit trees, pulled a lot of weeds, went by the gravel place about the driveway and parking area sub-project, and brought more cabinet plywood down from Austin, and set it inside.

    I may not get any finishing work done today, but the downstairs space is already starting to have a better feel and look to it.

    Any format we could have for communication would be electronic, and would not be private, as far as I can tell, including radio-telephony

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 4 2022 #103497
    John Day
    Participant

    Zelensky does appear to be under th influence of drugs OF COURSE.
    He is exhausted by this war.
    He needs to be incisive and to the point, so he needs stimulants. His nose does not twitch, so I doubt cocaine.
    He needs to be spontaneous, and to emote, and not look jumpy At The Same Time…

    Xanax is added to the mix, which gives the effect you see.
    Could it be other, similar drugs? Of course, a stimulant and a benzodiazepine is what he looks like he’s on in that video, which is just what HIS doctor ordered for the man on that occasion.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 4 2022 #103482
    John Day
    Participant

    @D.BentonSmith, who wrote: “So the NY Times, Washington Post and other “mainstream media” are insinuating (or flat-out saying) that PizzaGate can not be true because things such as real (&/or simulated) Satanist cannibalism ritual murder of children are just too too TOO totally off-the-wall unbelievably batshit crazy ?”

    A few years ago you were inclined to “tell me more”, but decided not to do so, commented that I “knew enough”. Lately, I have posted a bit about the club of elite sociopaths, and alluded to initiation/weeding rites.

    What you left out of the MK Ultra story was the “ritual abuse” and “multiple personality” experimentation on children. I became interested when I had a multiple-personality patient on a psych ward at a rural Teas state hospital. The core personality was sane and lucid, as were some of the others, but they were very different people, and with different skills and body movement patters, barely recognizable on the ward, despite having the same body.

    I presume that you became aware. Pizzagate could be rhyming with that, because,
    the-thrill-of-absolute-power , which also provides a shared mortal-secret for group cohesion..

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 3 2022 #103425
    John Day
    Participant

    Well, there’s a lot more, but it won’t upload… https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/pay-later?s=w

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 3 2022 #103422
    John Day
    Participant

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/pay-later?s=w

      The old control narrative of the Divine Right of Kings lasted a long time. It was simple and direct, but the rise of other economic actors, “nobles” and their banding together to contest the king, produced the Magna Carta. The “Liberal Democracy” model has fared well since WW-2, though it has been corrupted whenever possible. The promises of future wealth and retirement for contributing into the system today has been persuasive. Supporting necessary wars , but not with your son’d lives, became acceptable, but the corrupted system cannot actually support the baby boomers retiring. there are not really any “savings”. It was always a Ponzi scheme, though that was a good thing 40 years ago, good for almost everybody.  My assertion is that “World Wars” are the mechanism by which the social-contracts of the world can be reset. The owners want more than is ever possible, and everybody else wants a decent living and a basically fair system.  The COVID-Pandemic control-narrative made a lot of progress, but stalled out, and the facts are not treating it well at all.  The new global control narrative of a war in Europe, which can require any sacrifice named, and places the blame on Russia, not the WEF, NATO, Global Finance or other owner-factions or instruments, gives the owners and their creative-workers free rein to paint history, but if they “win” they still lose, because they need a vigorous global economy. The gradual decay of the corrupted economy is inevitable, even without the corruption. It’s a finite world, with finite resources and problems add up.  What’s the alternative narrative? Stewardship of life on Earth will serve. How do we get there from here? 
    Don’t look to experts or authorities.

    Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are underway.
    Of Zelensky’s statements, I am most interested in the last one, and I agree with it. I don’t think it will be allowed by US/NATO.   The second round of Ukraine-Russia talks are underway, with a “ceasefire” possibility on the table – however this is unlikely given what both sides communicated to Macron prior to the meeting as to their demands. On the one hand Zelensky has said he will not negotiate with “a gun to his head” – and on the other Putin has reaffirmed his military objectives of the “neutralization” and “demilitarization” of Ukraine. Macron expressed dismay after the 90-minute phone call, saying Russia’s objectives appear to be a complete takeover of the country. “The Russian delegation was led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who said that the Russian delegation was ready to speak with the Ukrainian side for as long as it may take to reach agreements,” according to state-run TASS. While talks were underway, President Zelensky issued a statement saying that he’s willing to sit down to direct talks with Putin. He called this “the only way to stop the war,” according to AFP.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-forces-lay-siege-ukrainian-seaports-2nd-round-ceasefire-talks-start

    After Abstaining In UN Vote, China Blames US & NATO For Ukraine War  What was dubbed a ‘special emergency session’ was a very rare one – considering it was only the 11th in the UN’s history. Such sessions are typically called when on pressing issues of war and peace at times the Security Council can’t reach unanimous consensus – and obviously Russia has veto power when it comes to UNSC resolutions.
      The resolution condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine was overwhelming:
    141 in favor
    five opposed
    35 abstentions
      The “no” votes included the following countries:
    Russia
    North Korea
    Eritrea
    Syria
    Belarus    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/after-deafening-silence-un-vote-china-blames-us-nato-ukraine-war

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 2 2022 #103329
    John Day
    Participant

    @D.Benton Smith: Another aspect of the value of cannibalistic and pedophilic group acts to elite psychopaths is that, when performed together, these provide the shared need for group secrecy. How do psychopaths trust each other? They must form more than bonds. They must assure the deaths of traitors. If you have done these deeds, you cannot blow-the-whistle on the others.
    I have seen a particular tale of psychopathic group induction, which I cannot validate, where certain evidences of psychopathic traits are elicited involuntarily, and those not exhibiting ghem are suddenly killed.
    There must be mechanisms…. This is an effective working group, as we see.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 1 2022 #103226
    John Day
    Participant

    Yeah, it looks like the Hudson piece (on The Saker blog) is what is getting blocked. I’ll try this war news from South Front.

    Positions in the Ukraine ground war are not moving much at this point, at least as far as information is available to assess. A lot of preparations for the next phase are being made inside and outside of cities. In this “brotherly war”, it remains undecided how the cities will be negotiated. It will likely be on a case by case basis, as it has been so far.

    The west wants Russia to be caught in a quagmire in Ukraine. Russia wants to arrest nazis, agree on a friendly government, trade pieces of Ukraine to appease Poland, declare the coastlines to be independent countries, and get out.
    That’s a lot. The first 2 will do for the moment, I suspect,
    DPR FORCES VOW TO FULLY ENCIRCLE MARIUPOL TODAY. BATTLE FOR KHARKOV CONTINUES

    DPR Forces Vow To Fully Encircle Mariupol Today. Battle For Kharkov Continues (Video)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 1 2022 #103224
    John Day
    Participant

    Trying in vain to post this morning, reducing to less and less:

    Empire of Rent https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/empire-of-rent?utm_source=url

    Please see the Michael Hudson lead piece.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 1 2022 #103212
    John Day
    Participant

    Noirette and others who sent Zelenko-dancing videos:
    He takes choreography very well. His face is also choreographed, and his movements are precise.
    He appears to take ANY choreography well.
    This is a professional male dancer (sometimes with homoerotic stiletto heels and butt-bumps).

    This is the well-rehearsed entertainer who the owners installed, but he is also a human, so also unpredictable at some point, at some critical juncture.

    in reply to: Spartacus Returns #103210
    John Day
    Participant

    Scroll down to:
    What do DARPA want with our brains?

    Y’all know the rest, already.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 28 2022 #103168
    John Day
    Participant

    including. winter garden homestead photo
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/financial-and-information-warfare?utm_source=url

    There is a restriction of information about troop positions in Ukraine. The maps today are the same maps from 48 hours ago. Negotiations are finally underway between Ukrainian and Russian teams in Belarus. Last Friday, Russian forces slowed their advances and softened their attacks, ahead of negotiations, which Ukraine (directed by Washington) decided not to attend. Russian, Crimean and Donbass troop advances were reported Saturday morning, and Ukrainian Armed Forces defenses and counter-attacks, but good information stopped, replaced by social media feeds, which are shaped by all parties, to support their narratives.

    Following the money is now the better strategy in these early days of WW-3. Great global wars are fought to adjust global financial regimes which have become terminally unstable, in my view (which is not only my view). I think this qualifies as WW-3 now, because that is quickly being put into place. The $US is the tool of extraction of global wealth, but has also been used as a punishing weapon for the past decade, which is a factor in it’s declining use in global financial transactions, which is now under 50%. In Friday’s UNSC vote on sanctioning Russia for invading Ukraine, Russia exercised veto power, but Saudi Arabia and UAE failed to vote the US stance, in favor of sanctions. https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sc14808.doc.htm

    China buys more of their oil, and China abstained, too. The “Petro-Dollar” is not on firm footing any more…

    John Helmer, at Dances With Bears, has this view of the financial war from inside Russia, from a very senior Russian Finance Minister , Sergei Glayzev, with views in opposition to the Russian Central Bank Policy, yet he has remained since the 1980s, because of the value of his views.

    Russian assets in the West are being “frozen”, which is confiscation. In return, Russia can cease payment on all debts, and could later seize foreign-owned assets within Russia, which would imply a fairly permanent break from $US finance. The west might permanently seize Russian assets, while declaring all Russian debts payable at interest. Russia might have to wait this out, wait for the $US regime to decay.

    China would initially benefit. Europe would be harmed, and the US would also be harmed, which harm would be progressive, as international trade moved more rapidly out of $US. Russia is certainly placed in a tight spot, and Russian savings have already been much reduced by attacks on the Ruble.

    BLACK BOX DEFENCE FOR THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – DOLLAR DEBT REPAYMENTS BLOCKED; GAS AND OIL DELIVERIES TO GERMANY STOPPED; OLIGARCH ASSETS NATIONALIZED

    It seems to me that the world might soon split into 2 trading blocks, with some non-aligned nations, as in the old cold war days.

    China might find the most advantageous position in this, but will need to be very careful to be able to maintain trade with all parties.

    Moon of Alabama (German) calls this Day #1 of “Money War on Russia”: (Money is a form of “information”.)

    The U.S. and its proxies in the EU and elsewhere have put up very harsh sanctions on Russia to damage its economy.
    The final intent of this economic war is regime change in Russia.
    The likely consequence will be regime change in many other countries.
    This war is waged at a financial size that is unprecedented. The consequences in all markets will be very significant to extreme. But experience from Iran shows that such financial wars have their limits as the targeted country learns to survive. Moreover Russia is in a much stronger position than Iran ever was and is better prepared for the consequences.

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-5-economic-war-on-russia-day-1.html#more

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 27 2022 #103123
    John Day
    Participant

    Another room electrified
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-sunday-night?utm_source=url

    I found this in the comments section of moon of Alabama today. The Russians sure were trolling Biden about “When’s our invasion?”
    There’s a lot more in there after the headline. No wonder Biden couldn’t say where he got the intelligence from.
    War Plans Were Leaked On Purpose By Russia 4 Months Ago — and that is why Dems kept predicting war​
    ​4 months ago, Oct 2021, a war was predicted for February 2022 by none other than the king of the cancelled himself, Alex Jones. He had been out to dinner with a person who was very wealthy and very politically connected, and who told him to expect war in February 2022 because his political contacts told him so!​ …
    ​ ​We now know that Putin had already devised a plan to invade Ukraine in case the US elites and NATO didn’t agree to his terms. Someone told Alex Jones who then told us in October. Clearly the Russians let it be known so their plan for war would reach the political and media elite of the west — and that is why for the last few months the Biden administration has been so adamant and certain about a coming invasion of Ukraine. People on social media were laughing at the Biden people for repeatedly warning of an invasion in a week, or a few days, or tomorrow. They had obviously been told the same thing as the friend of Alex Jones by Russians leaking on purpose so that US elites would take Putin seriously.
    https://pamho.medium.com/war-plans-were-leaked-on-purpose-by-russia-4-months-ago-and-that-is-why-dems-kept-predicting-war-edaedd6b4bc5

    Ukrainian and Russian delegations are to start negotiations (maybe).

    Ukrainian And Russian Delegations To Start Negotiations

    ​The Saker has the news that the Russian pincer movements have effectively restricted the Ukrainian armed forces in Donbass, unless they want to come under heavy fire. By the time of this writing, the pincer movement may be more complete. Russian, Cimean, and Donbass forces hold most of Ukraine’s ​coast.

    Quick interlude with a few quick comments

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 27 2022 #103080
    John Day
    Participant

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-sunday-morning?utm_source=url
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/ukraine-war-sunday-morning.html

    The context of what is happening is important for us, even though we are not yet “combatants” in war. This may be WW-3, or WW-4 as some might classify it.
    We should assume “Rational Actors” in the acts of nations, armies and rulers, not “mad dogs”.

    Moon of Alabama has this:
    In war, truth is the first casualty.
    Gilbert Doctorow:
    The Russian Way of War
    Yesterday anyone watching Euronews on one screen and Russian state television on another would have been perplexed by the totally contradictory coverage of both with respect to the fate of the armed detachment of Ukrainian border guards on one island in the southeast of Ukraine. Euronews carried the address of President Zelensky awarding posthumous designation as Heroes of Ukraine to the entire detachment, which reportedly resisted the attacking Russian forces and were slaughtered. Meanwhile Russian news showed those same border guards seated at tables and signing sworn statements that they voluntarily lay down their arms and awaited repatriation to their homes and families.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-4.html

    John Ward looks at those American bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and specifically at the development of graphene as a bioweapons technology, but also as a critical technology in creation of transhuman (Terminator?) cyborg warriors with super-powers, a very concerning avenue of military exploration.
    ​ ​It is at this point in my analysis that the reader should be clear about just how interconnected and revolutionary the applications of graphene nanotechnology and biowarfare are.
    ​ ​*It is a bioweapon in its ability to cause serious and probably mortal danger to human beings. Think Wuhan, Covid19 and vaccines that aren’t vaccines.
    ​ ​*It arrives at a crucial point in physics where reduced mass can enable the beginning of interstellar travel, because it is only one atom thick. (See previous Slogpost on this – scroll down to final item)
    ​ ​*It can effectively turn a fragile 3D human soldier into an invisibly indestructible transhuman killing machine. Think Davos and its nightmare futures.
    ​ ​Ultimately, however, what most observers have failed to grasp is that graphene nanotechnology and transhuman development are interdependent: “vaccination” debris has shown conclusively that graphene is a bioweapon in its own right, but it is also vital for transhuman brain development, skin grafting and the 2D “invisibility” that makes a “humbot” hard to kill in battle, and hard to see during espionage ops.
    UKRAINE EXCLUSIVE: INVASION OR ESPIONAGE MISSION?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 26 2022 #103023
    John Day
    Participant

    Rural electrification image: https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/ukraine-war-day-3.html
    War creates a compelling control narrative which elite owners need in rapidly shifting economic times. There is fear and urgency. Anybody who raises rational questions about the war narrative can be quickly labeled as an “enemy”, silenced and disappeared.

    My read of history is that global financial economy is breaking down because of corruption, more expensive fuel and mined ores, and promises of retirements and investment returns from a big , empty cookie jar, which is about to break open and reveal the truth.

    The loss of faith in the corrupted system suddenly kills it completely. A command-economy, like under Stalin, Hitler or even FDR , can step into this gap, but it will always be ugly and inefficient, and usually corrupt. I expect the corruption to be a sustaining theme, at least until smaller groups of people create self-sustaining local economic arrangements. Growing vegetable gardens in wartime has always been one of these adaptations.

    I am looking at the dissipation of the COVID-global-pandemic narrative at the same time that global supply chains and local supply chains are all breaking down.
    I don’t see some force of trust or technology to right this listing Titanic. I do see a lot of groups of elites standing by lifeboats with machine guns, though.
    That is the worldview within which I analyze events, so you may know this about me, and compensate as you might see fit.

    Russia seeks to nullify the threat on its border permanently, which means an end to neo-nazi political power, American bioweapons facilities, NATO military infrastructure and training, and installation of friendly politicians. Ukraine will likely be divided up yet again, but this time made smaller. Neighboring countries might acquire parts of Ukraine for better or for worse. It seems that Russia will control all of Ukraine’s coasts , then negotiate with other entities for pieces of coast.
    Russia will need to secure the nuclear reactors, but does not need to own them. I have seen a report that Russian and Ukrainian soldiers are peacefully co-patrolling the Chernobyl site with no shot ever fired between them. This is a model for constructive engagement, but the western-Ukrainian neo-nazis have installed political officers throughout the Ukrainian military to assure compliance. Putin has encouraged Ukrainian military officers to mutiny from this command structure. Some of that has likely happened in pockets. I sure don’t know what will happen going forward.
    The Ukrainian neo-nazis in control are surrounding themselves with human shields in every way possible, which makes sense. It is their best short-term defense, as Russia does not want to slaughter civilians. It is not a long term strategy. The city of Mariupol is in “Novorussia” with a lot of civilian identification as “Russian”, but a large military contingent of Ukrainian military, with a lot of Azov-Batallion neo-nazis in command. This is set-up as a heroic last-stand for the neo-nazis, with the ability to take a lot of Russian sympathizers and Russians down with them, and to give Russia a shameful black-eye for killing civilians, their own people.
    The Russians are trying to “kettle” the massed Ukrainian military in Novorussia, as that army tries to avoid the pincer movements and gain an escape route. One of the alternative options is to take Donetsk City, and gain all of the human shields/hostages there, if an actual escape cannot be made. This is reported in one of the stories. Donetsk is receiving intense artillery and rocket bombardment.
    Voktor Orban of Hungary offered Hungary as a safe location for negotiations between Zelensky and Putin/Lavrov, and Russia rested its advancing military for some hours in anticipation (overnight). It appears that Washington nixed negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Only Washington can negotiate with Russia. I am not making this up.
    Zelensky is staying and posing with automatic weapons on the streets of Kiev. The neo-nazis will presumably let him live while he does this for the cameras.
    He probably would like to negotiate a peace, but he is an important hostage at this point.
    Russia is advancing again, with a goal to surround the Ukrainian military, cut them off and negotiate patiently, except when the Ukrainian forces are inflicting massive casualties on Russians or civilians. This is from the Russian experience in Chechnya. Shelling cities is bad. House to house fighting is bad.
    Poland and Hungary have prepared for an influx of refugees. They have Ukrainian populations already. They do not want this to last very long.

    Central banks are finally making noises about cutting Russia out of the SWIFT electronic financial settlement system. Russia is prepared. Even Germany now sounds prepared.
    This should hasten the demise of the $US as global reserve currency.
    Who benefits? whose idea is this. The US will not benefit. I’m not sure who will directly benefit, but China might presumably benefit fairly soon. Russia and China are prepared. Iranians and Venezuelans might take dark pleasure in this… Some financial elites must have plans for global electronic digital currency, linked to identity, which will give them complete control, but that cat is also out of the bag, after recent actions in Canadian banking without any warning or due process.
    A trustworthy financial system will be sought. Bitcoin uses too much electricity. Things that need the internet will be subject to more and more outages. Spanish “pieces of eight” worked for a long time, but pirates murdered for them. Problems of no-trust are at every turn.
    https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcb96738-0fe0-4d50-b353-3048e25106db_1536x924.png

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 25 2022 #102932
    John Day
    Participant

    Gas flows through Ukraine are UP and EU prices are DOWN today.
    Russian charm offensive?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/european-natgas-prices-plunge-russian-flows-ukraine-soar

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 25 2022 #102928
    John Day
    Participant

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-and-covid-narrative-failures?utm_source=url
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/ukraine-war-covid-narrative-failures.html
    Excerpts:
    On negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Can they happen now?
    ​ ​Russia’s main gain will be that in geopolitical terms, Ukraine regains its sovereignty and ceases to be a de facto American colony. Russia calculates that a neutral Ukraine will de facto take the Ukraine matrix to its priori history before the 2014 coup.
    ​ ​What is of crucial importance will be that Zelensky is somehow enabled to navigate his path toward dialogue with Putin. The good part is that Russian military operations will throw radical nationalists into disarray…​
    ​https://www.indianpunchline.com/ukraines-hybrid-war-is-mutating/

    Trudeau Reversal Motive Surfaces: Canadian Banking Association Was Approved by World Economic Forum to Lead the Digital ID Creation​
    ​When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced they would use the Emergency Act declaration to target the financial support systems, banks and accounts of the people who were protesting against COVID mandates, they not only undermined the integrity of the Canadian banking system – but they also inadvertently stuck a wrench into the plans of the World Economic Forum and the collaborative use of the Canadian Bankers Association to create a digital ID.
    ​ ​If the Canadian government can arbitrarily block citizen access to their banking institution without any due process, what does that say about the system the Canadian Banking Association (CBA) was putting into place as part of their Digital ID network?
    ​ ​If the CBA digital identity were in place, the same people targeted by Trudeau’s use of the Emergency Act would have their entire identity blocked by the same government measures. The realization of the issue, reflected by a severe undermining of faith in the banking system, is a dramatic problem for those working to create and promote the Digital ID.
    ​ ​It is not coincidental the financial targeting mechanism deployed by Trudeau/Freeland, the Canadian banking system, is the same system being used to create the digital identity. As a result of the government targeting bank accounts, Finance Minister Freeland just created a reference point for those who would argue against allowing the creation of a comprehensive digital identity.

    Boom! Trudeau Reversal Motive Surfaces: Canadian Banking Association Was Approved by World Economic Forum to Lead the Digital ID Creation

    ​Professor Anthony Hall has a broad look at the Canadian power struggle. [The Senate may not have ratified the Act as the House of Commons had.]
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revoked the Emergency Act he had instituted on Valentine’s Day, 2022. Instead of waiting for Parliamentary authorization of the replacement to the War Measures Act, Trudeau directed federal, provincial and municipal police forces to link up. On Feb. 17 he directed the amalgamated force to violently dislodge truckers and their parked rigs. The combined police forces took their direction from a Prime Minister who acted through the office of an unapproved interim Ottawa Police Chief.
    In plain view of the cameras, the Emergency Act police force committed atrocities directed at peaceful protesters. Police charged towards those they targeted with clubs, trampled them with horses, bludgeoned the resisters with rifle butts and sought to traumatize them with stun grenades and toxic chemical sprays. About two hundred people were arrested including some of the truckers whose rigs were seized and taken into police custody. Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson wants to sell the trucks and thereby edify his slush funds with the revenues
    ​One Feb. 23 Trudeau announced that “the immediate emergency situation is over.” He added, however, “the issue itself will not go away.” Trudeau did not clarify what issue he had in mind…​

    ​With the flash of a stun grenade we are met by Trudeau’s spurious claim that he was able to meet the Charter’s requirements when he put Canada under the authority of the Emergency Act. Canada’s Emergency Act was used for the first time since its creation in 1988.

    ​ ​The importance of adhering to the Charter in enforcing the Emergency Act has been emphasized by Senator Marc Gold in introducing to his colleagues the Liberal/NDP Bill. He explained,
    ​ ​“Compared to the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act has reduced powers, added significant Parliamentary review, and was created in part to support and uphold the Charter….The Charter applies to the Emergencies Act and to all actions taken pursuant to the act. There is no temporary suspension of rights or freedoms as there was under the old War Measures Act. Furthermore, all acts must be consistent with our international human rights obligations.”​ …
    ​Chrystia Freeland, who is Canada’s Finance Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and a leading Trustee of the World Economic Forum, is the Darth Vader of this saga of economic warfare…
    ​ Freeland fails to explain how reconstituting Canada’s financial institutions, including banks, as integral partners in police sting operations, will increase confidence in the soundness of the Canadian economy. The resulting breakdown in public trust became immediately manifest in the banking runs as many people domestically and throughout the world felt compelled to pull their money from our now-suspect financial institutions.
    Although Freeland claims that some of the seized accounts have been restored to their owners with the dropping of the Emergency Act, she also indicated, “other accounts remain frozen under the regular authority of the courts, law enforcement, and financial institutions”.

    Who Are the True Insurrectionists That Illegally Took Over Ottawa?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 25 2022 #102927
    John Day
    Participant

    About the Russian paratroopers at the airport near Kiev in 200 choppers.
    Sputnik says they did fine.
    https://sputniknews.com/20220225/russian-military-sucessfully-conducts-landing-operation-at-gostomel-airfield-outside-kiev—mod-1093367608.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 25 2022 #102909
    John Day
    Participant

    @Tinfoilhatted Canuck: My wife also absorbs a lot of MSM, which also made communication more difficult last night, but at least she sees that I see things, big picture and details, and that I am sincere.
    She will step down from the “big-easy” MSM narrative and admit that things are complicated.
    People want to think in “countries”, but that’s misleading these days…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 25 2022 #102906
    John Day
    Participant

    @Mr. Roboto: I also saw reports yesterday that Ukrainian forces had retaken the airport from Russian air-cavalry, but the reports this morning are that tanks and transport planes from Russia are now getting to that airport, that Russia held it.

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